Recall of Common Kids' Vaccine Could Cause Shortage
Recall of Common Kids' Vaccine Could Cause Shortage
Excerpt:
The recall of a routine vaccine for babies due to contamination risks could trigger a shortage and likely will alarm parents, but officials said there is no known health threat.
The recall announced Wednesday covers roughly 1.2 million doses of the vaccine against Hib, which causes meningitis, pneumonia and other serious infections, and a combination vaccine for Hib and hepatitis B. The Hib vaccine is recommended for all children under 5 and is usually given in a three-shot series, starting at 2 months old.
Drugmaker Merck & Co. produces about half of the nation's annual supply of 14 million doses of Hib vaccine.
Merck recalled the lots after this week identifying a sterility problem in a Pennsylvania factory. It said sample vials from the recalled lots, tested before shipment, were not contaminated but the company could not assure sterility of the entire lots.
"The potential for contamination of any individual vaccine is low," said Kelley Dougherty, a spokeswoman for the Whitehouse Station-based company.
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Makes this mandate that New Jersey wants to implement so comforting (sarc)
Mandatory Vaccine Plan for Jersey Preschoolers Move Forward
Jersey could soon become the first State in the nation to require all preschoolers to be vaccinated for influenza and pneumonia - much to the dismay of some parents.
As expected, the State Public Health Council followed the lead of the Health Department, and voted in favor of the proposal.
Sue Collins, a co-founder of the New Jersey Alliance for Informed Choice in Vaccination, says "parents should have a say in what toxins are injected into their children - if any…we are just bombarding our kids immune systems now with more and more shots, and we don't know what the long term effect is going to be of all this in their bodies."
She adds "right now in Jersey we have one in sixty boys diagnosed with autism - the highest autistic rate in the country - and no one can tell us what it is."
State Epidemiologist Dr. Eddy Bresnitz says a number of internationally renowned health organizations and groups have studied the issue, and no link between vaccinations and autism has been found.
"I don't think there's any basis for that" he says, "they're certainly entitled to their opinion and their hypothesis, but it's not based on any facts…vaccines save lives, minimize hospitalizations, reduce serious illness, and protect children."
The Jersey Health Commissioner could approve the mandatory vaccine plan in the next week or so. If he does, it would take effect next fall.
Excerpt:
The recall of a routine vaccine for babies due to contamination risks could trigger a shortage and likely will alarm parents, but officials said there is no known health threat.
The recall announced Wednesday covers roughly 1.2 million doses of the vaccine against Hib, which causes meningitis, pneumonia and other serious infections, and a combination vaccine for Hib and hepatitis B. The Hib vaccine is recommended for all children under 5 and is usually given in a three-shot series, starting at 2 months old.
Drugmaker Merck & Co. produces about half of the nation's annual supply of 14 million doses of Hib vaccine.
Merck recalled the lots after this week identifying a sterility problem in a Pennsylvania factory. It said sample vials from the recalled lots, tested before shipment, were not contaminated but the company could not assure sterility of the entire lots.
"The potential for contamination of any individual vaccine is low," said Kelley Dougherty, a spokeswoman for the Whitehouse Station-based company.
/excerpt
Makes this mandate that New Jersey wants to implement so comforting (sarc)
Mandatory Vaccine Plan for Jersey Preschoolers Move Forward
Jersey could soon become the first State in the nation to require all preschoolers to be vaccinated for influenza and pneumonia - much to the dismay of some parents.
As expected, the State Public Health Council followed the lead of the Health Department, and voted in favor of the proposal.
Sue Collins, a co-founder of the New Jersey Alliance for Informed Choice in Vaccination, says "parents should have a say in what toxins are injected into their children - if any…we are just bombarding our kids immune systems now with more and more shots, and we don't know what the long term effect is going to be of all this in their bodies."
She adds "right now in Jersey we have one in sixty boys diagnosed with autism - the highest autistic rate in the country - and no one can tell us what it is."
State Epidemiologist Dr. Eddy Bresnitz says a number of internationally renowned health organizations and groups have studied the issue, and no link between vaccinations and autism has been found.
"I don't think there's any basis for that" he says, "they're certainly entitled to their opinion and their hypothesis, but it's not based on any facts…vaccines save lives, minimize hospitalizations, reduce serious illness, and protect children."
The Jersey Health Commissioner could approve the mandatory vaccine plan in the next week or so. If he does, it would take effect next fall.
Posted by Defend Our Freedoms at 12/13/2007 9:48 AM 
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