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http://www.smp.se/nyheter/kronoberg/klart-samband-mellan-vaccin-och-narkolepsi(2842252).gm
Swedish to English translation
Clear link between the vaccine and narcolepsy
KRONOBERG today 06:45 | Updated today 06:47
The MPA is now pointing to a clear link between the vaccine Pandemrix and narcolepsy in children and adolescents.
- Hopefully that will lead to intensified research, says Karin Andersson, whose son is affected.
Karin Andersson.
Pandemrix was the vaccine that was given against the flu in an extensive vaccination campaign that began in 2009th Following immunization revealed that a number of children and young people affected by narcolepsy, a kind of sleeping sickness. In 2009 and 2010 were reported on 81 cases. 67 of these had been flu vaccine.
The MPA has since been known as a case study inventory. Records have been reviewed by experts. The report, unveiled yesterday, shows that for children and adolescents under 19 years the risk was almost seven times higher to suffer from narcolepsy if one took the vaccine compared with unvaccinated.
Narcolepsy is a rare, neurological disorder that manifests itself in sleep onset, numbness and sudden relaxed muscles.
For the affected families will NAM report confirms the earlier suspicions.
- This means a lot to us. We hope for more research in this area and to find drugs that may help affected individuals, explains Karin Andersson, in V?xj?, which has a 17-year-old son who got sick of narcolepsy.
With the help of medications can her son Adam schooling nicely. He goes on a natural science programs and studies are tough.
- Grades valleys and he's working maybe three times as hard now to fix the school, says Karin Andersson.
Karin Andersson thinks that the MPA will take the issue seriously by this report. But she is disappointed with the pharmaceutical companies, Glaxo Smith Klein, who developed the vaccine.
- It will soon be two years and it does not seem to care. They have not been in touch with any contact, she says.
Why Pandemrix vaccine increases the risk of narcolepsy is unknown.
The MPA, together with the European Medicines Agency EMA attempt to investigate the issue.
Swedish to English translation
Clear link between the vaccine and narcolepsy
KRONOBERG today 06:45 | Updated today 06:47
The MPA is now pointing to a clear link between the vaccine Pandemrix and narcolepsy in children and adolescents.
- Hopefully that will lead to intensified research, says Karin Andersson, whose son is affected.
Karin Andersson.
Pandemrix was the vaccine that was given against the flu in an extensive vaccination campaign that began in 2009th Following immunization revealed that a number of children and young people affected by narcolepsy, a kind of sleeping sickness. In 2009 and 2010 were reported on 81 cases. 67 of these had been flu vaccine.
The MPA has since been known as a case study inventory. Records have been reviewed by experts. The report, unveiled yesterday, shows that for children and adolescents under 19 years the risk was almost seven times higher to suffer from narcolepsy if one took the vaccine compared with unvaccinated.
Narcolepsy is a rare, neurological disorder that manifests itself in sleep onset, numbness and sudden relaxed muscles.
For the affected families will NAM report confirms the earlier suspicions.
- This means a lot to us. We hope for more research in this area and to find drugs that may help affected individuals, explains Karin Andersson, in V?xj?, which has a 17-year-old son who got sick of narcolepsy.
With the help of medications can her son Adam schooling nicely. He goes on a natural science programs and studies are tough.
- Grades valleys and he's working maybe three times as hard now to fix the school, says Karin Andersson.
Karin Andersson thinks that the MPA will take the issue seriously by this report. But she is disappointed with the pharmaceutical companies, Glaxo Smith Klein, who developed the vaccine.
- It will soon be two years and it does not seem to care. They have not been in touch with any contact, she says.
Why Pandemrix vaccine increases the risk of narcolepsy is unknown.
The MPA, together with the European Medicines Agency EMA attempt to investigate the issue.