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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Vaccination Programme: Discussion (11 May 2017)

...have very careful pre-licence and post-licence monitoring to detect signals that might say there is a problem. Ireland, as a country and a community, cannot shy aware from problems. For example, narcolepsy has been associated with the pandemic flu vaccine. When a problem occurs it is investigated, acknowledged and then appropriate actions are taken. If we contrast that with the current...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Vaccination Programme: Discussion (11 May 2017)

Billy Kelleher: ...we could end up condemning 40 women to certain death. Pandemrix was manufactured by GlaxoSmithKline around 2009 as a swine flu vaccination and there issues arising from it with regard to narcolepsy. It is accepted there were side effects and this is sometimes used by the people who campaign against the human papillomavirus, Gardasil. Were the checks and balances, including an...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Vaccination Programme: Discussion (11 May 2017)

...on a weekly basis on any new data or any new adverse effects that were appearing. The immunisation programme here in Ireland ended at the end of March 2010. The first signal that came on narcolepsy was from the Finnish agency in August 2010 and nobody could have predicted it. There was no rush to judgment. In fact, as soon as Finland brought that to attention, a European-wide referral...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Vaccination Programme: Discussion (11 May 2017)

...conducted a study here in Ireland that actually replicated what had happened in Scandinavia and showed that there was an explicit link between the vaccine and those, predominantly children, who got narcolepsy. We were part of that process, as Dr. Gilvarry has said. Dr. O'Flanagan carried out the study which showed very clearly that there was a link. That has formed part of our process...

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