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Default Children Suffering Convulsions after Merck Vac

We'll probably be treated to a Snake-oil Festival here ... Vac Flacks
tripping over themselves to miniize this study and maximize their
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How many seizures are being caused by the various expensive drugs
being shot into our children???
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080228/.../merck_vaccine



By MIKE STOBBE, AP Medical Writer Wed Feb 27, 8:28 PM ET

ATLANTA - Children suffered higher rates of fever-related convulsions
when they got a Merck & Co. combination vaccine instead of two
separate shots, according to a new study presented Wednesday.



The results prompted a federal advisory panel on vaccines to water
down their preference for the combo vaccine ProQuad, which protects
against measles, mumps and rubella as well as chickenpox.

In the study of children ages 12 months through 23 months, the rate of
seizures was twice as high in toddlers who got ProQuad, compared with
those who got one shot for chickenpox and one for the three other
diseases.

The risk translates to about one extra case of convulsion for every
2,000 doses of ProQuad given said Dr. Nicola Klein, who lead the
federally funded study. She presented the data at a meeting of the
Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices.

The study focused on children who develop fevers and then go into
convulsions — an occurrence that frightens parents but usually has no
lingering consequences. There were no deaths in the new study.

ProQuad was licensed in 2005. It's been in extremely short supply
since last year, when Merck suspended production because of
manufacturing problems. The company expects to resume ProQuad
production next year.

The panel had previously taken a position that they preferred doctors
give children as few needlesticks as possible, and that ProQuad is
preferable to giving separate shots.

It voted Wednesday to amend that, to say they're no longer voicing a
preference for ProQuad over the separate shots.

"Safety, shortages, delivery issues — lots of reasons not to state
such a strong preference," said member panel Patsy Stinchfield, an
infectious disease expert at Children's Hospitals and Clinics of
Minnesota.

Merck officials said their own research, though preliminary, also
showed a doubling of the risk in children within five to 12 days of
vaccination. However, the occurrence was low — about 5 cases in
10,000, Merck officials said.

They said there was five times more chickenpox antigen, the key
ingredient, in the ProQuad shot than in the stand-alone chickenpox
shot. But they said it's not clear that would explain the difference
in seizure rates.

For some reason, the difference disappears when comparing rates for 30
days, Merck officials added.

Klein's research checked seizure rates only at seven to 10 days after
vaccination, and looked at about 43,000 kids who got ProQuad and
315,000 who got the two other shots together. It found fever-related
seizures occurred at a rate of 9 per 10,000 children vaccinated with
ProQuad, compared with 4 per 10,000 for those who got separate shots.

Klein is co-director of Kaiser Permanente Vaccine Study Center in
Oakland, Calif., one of seven sites in the study. Her work was funded
by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

ProQuad costs $124 per dose, about the same as the two other shots
combined.
 




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