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Several cases of narcolepsy - scientists perplexed
The relationship between narcolepsy and the flu vaccine continues confound scientists. Now, even Norway found 23 cases of sleeping sickness.
Link between vaccine and narcolepsy
Not long after the mass vaccination of swine flu hit several in Sweden - mainly children - the sleeping sickness narcolepsy. Overall, it was reported on 81 cases of narcolepsy between 1 January 2009 and 31 December 2010. MPA has been able to demonstrate a clear link between the vaccine Pandemrix and swine flu. And Now Norway has also received several cases of narcolepsy. 23 people reported to have been affected, including 19 children.
To survey the situation
"Public Health Institute takes very seriously the reports from Finland, Sweden and Norway on a possible connection between Pandemrix-vaccination against H1N1 influenza, and narcolepsy in children," writes FHI, according Dagbladet.no. Now there are several studies in Norway to survey the situation and To get more on the context. - Serious adverse events after vaccination are very rare. Rare side effects can only come to light when many people get vaccinated, said Geir Stene-Larsen, director of the National Public Health Institute.