NEW HANOVER COUNTY, NC (WECT) – Health departments had a difficult time ordering enough flu vaccinations for the demand during the 2009-2010 season, but this year there’s a surplus of the immunizations sitting on the shelves. Ordering the flu vaccine is a guessing game, and this year it didn’t go quite as planned. They paid […]
Feds Check Post-Vaccine Seizures In Young Kids
USDA: Seizures Occurred 1 Day After Getting Shot By MIKE STOBBE, AP Medical Writer ATLANTA — Government officials are investigating an apparent increase in fever-related seizures in young children after they got a flu shot. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Thursday said there have been 36 confirmed reports of seizures this flu season […]
VAERS reports increased number of febrile seizures after flu vaccine
By Law Offices of Sedaka Associates According to the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) and Web Md, there have been a higher than usual number of febrile seizures reported to the system. The VAERS, which was created as a method of collecting suspected vaccine reaction related data can be used by both physicians and […]
HSE changes flu policy for pregnant women
By Muris Houston, The Irish Times 19 January 2011 IN A SIGNIFICANT change to national influenza vaccine policy, family doctors have been asked to recall pregnant women who have been given the swine flu vaccine so that they can also be immunised with the seasonal flu vaccine. Following a meeting of the National Immunisation Advisory […]
Flu Vaccine: Infant Febrile Seizures
But FDA Says Early Reports of Seizures Does Not Mean Vaccine is Unsafe By Daniel J. DeNoon, WebMD Health News Jan. 20, 2011 — The FDA and CDC are investigating reports linking febrile seizure in infants to the Sanofi Fluzone flu vaccine. The reports come from the FDA/CDC Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS). It’s […]
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