Immunisation factfile launched to promote 5-in-1 jab

[Guest guest]

I think I'm off to have a quick look at this....

Love, light and peace,

Sue

" Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make

them all yourself. " - Luther

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http://www.pharmafocus.com/cda/focusH/1,2109,21-0-0-OCT_2004-focus_news_deta

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Immunisation factfile launched to promote 5-in-1 jab

Wednesday, October 13, 2004

Aventis Pasteur MSD has collaborated with public health bodies in producing

a Factfile in support of the company's new 5-in-1 vaccine for children.

The government is promoting Pediacel as a safer and more convenient

vaccination, protecting children against diphtheria, tetanus, whooping cough

and polio, as well as providing the Hib jab but are wary of a similar

controversy to the one that surrounded the MMR jab.

The latest MMR immunisation statistics show the number of children receiving

the jab has still not recovered following the 1998 scare, and has in fact

continued to fall, coverage standing at 80% in 2003/4 compared to peak

coverage of 92% in 1995/6.

The 5-in-1 vaccine has been introduced after government experts recommended

the discontinuation of the oral polio vaccine, which can cause the

development of paralytic polio, albeit in a very small number of cases.

Another advantage to the inactivated polio vaccine (IPV) element in the new

5-in-1 combination is that it does not contain thiomersal, a mercury-based

preservative which has remained a source of controversy despite strong

evidence that it is safe.

Professor Adam Finn, professor of paediatrics at the University of Bristol,

said: " The switch to 'a cellular' whooping cough vaccine and inactivated

polio vaccine is a really important step forward for the UK vaccine schedule

for infants.

" We are going to see reductions to even lower rates of side effects, like

fever and swollen arms, and a final disappearance of the last few cases of

polio. "

There has been some concern among campaigners that the 5-in-1 jab would

'overload' children's immune system, but this was denied by the Department

of Health.

Dr Salisbury, head of immunisations at the DH, said: " We will actually

be giving children far fewer ingredients, not more, so all the mumblings

that have been going on about overloading the immune system are the wrong

way round. "

Developed with an educational grant from Aventis Pasteur MSD, an updated

version of the Childhood Vaccination Factfile has been published to coincide

with the new vaccine to help practice nurses, health visitors and other

healthcare professionals.

Dr Nick Kitchin, medical director at Aventis Pasteur MSD, said: " There's an

awful lot of misinformation in the public domain about vaccines and

vaccination and the Factfile gives those [healthcare professionals] who talk

to parents and children on a day-to-day basis ready access to information to

help them answer the sort of questions they will face. "

First published in 1999, shortly after the MMR combined vaccination scare,

the Factfile was jointly put together by the Royal College of Nursing (RCN)

and the Community Practitioners' and Health Visitors' Association (CPHVA).

Sara s, vice-chair of the RCN Practice Nurse Association and one of

the authors of the Factfile, said: " This type of educational information, in

this format, is long overdue: the Childhood Vaccination Factfile will

provide a convenient, credible, accurate and consistent resource for

practice nurses and health visitors.

Copies of the Childhood Vaccination Factfile will be available from Aventis

Pasteur MSD sales representatives and can be found online at:

www.amicus-cphva.org or www.rcn.org.

[Guest guest]

Suffice it to say that Sheri's and 's websites aren't recommended

internet reading!! This factfile has made me cringe...but I'd be interested

in others' opinions?

Sue

>

> Copies of the Childhood Vaccination Factfile will be available

> from Aventis

> Pasteur MSD sales representatives and can be found online at:

> www.amicus-cphva.org or www.rcn.org.

[Guest guest]

We're obviously supposed to be jumping up and down that we're one of

the last countries to switch to the opv after years of refusal of

any need, and that theres less parental choice now over singles.

" We are going to see reductions to even lower rates of side effects,

like fever and swollen arms, and a final disappearance of the last

few cases of polio. "

How do they know? Maybe if they record them to Canadas 72hr limit

yes.

Oh, apart from the ones in the warfare lab they mean.

But lets give out millions of vaccines anyway, for the few remaining

cases.

Whoopie, less recording of minor site reactions and more serious

side effects?!

Not quite sure about that, UK has been polio free as has the whole

of Europe since June 2002 (HPA & WHO).

Also " At 2,3, and 4 months there is little difference in side

effects between whole-cell and acellular pertussis vaccines "

(HPA :from Bedford/Elliman, immunisation the facts, 2001)

So as usual, clear as mud.

BTW, Am waiting to get accosted over the veggie burger freezer in my

supermarket if anyone in the city gets measles as no doubt it's my

personal fault, even if we've not had it LOL. If Blair licenced the

singles there wouldn't be so much fuss.

[Guest guest]

Hey is Sheri famous now? lol, well done Sheri! I'll have a look at

the file. Bet they don't give details of the official compensation

body for vaccine reactions or details of pay outs even in it.

A

In Vaccinations , " Mum2mishka " <mum2mishka@t...>

wrote:

> Suffice it to say that Sheri's and 's websites aren't

recommended

> internet reading!! This factfile has made me cringe...but I'd be

interested

> in others' opinions?

>

> Sue

>

> >

> > Copies of the Childhood Vaccination Factfile will be available

> > from Aventis

> > Pasteur MSD sales representatives and can be found online at:

> > www.amicus-cphva.org or www.rcn.org.