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U.S. federal health authorities recommended … that doctors suspend using Rotarix, one of two vaccines licensed in the U.S. against rotavirus, saying the vaccine is contaminated with material from a pig virus,” CNN reports.
The Rotarix vaccine, which is made by GlaxoSmithKline and was approved by the FDA in 2008, has already been given to about 1 million U.S. children along with 30 million worldwide. The vaccine was found to contain DNA from porcine circovirus 1.
The FDA learned about the contamination after an academic research team using a novel technique to look for viruses in a range of vaccines found the material in GlaxoSmithKline's product and told the company,” FDA Commissioner Dr. Margaret Hamburg told CNN.
It's not an easy call and we spent many long hours debating the pros and cons but, because we have an alternative product and because the background rates of this disease are not so severe in this country, we felt that the judicious thing to do was to take a pause, to really ask the critical questions about what this material was doing in the vaccine, how it got there."
Originally posted by grantbeed
Wow, if this is true, its crazy. Lots of us have been talking of this sort of thing for a long time and my god, this is just nuts.
Originally posted by RestingInPieces
Originally posted by grantbeed
Wow, if this is true, its crazy. Lots of us have been talking of this sort of thing for a long time and my god, this is just nuts.
Hah... and it usually involves the FDA being part of the infamous plot to do something bad to the population.
I guess this is just the FDA's plausible deniability tactic!!
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Parents who are concerned about exposing their children to thimerosal can be confident that this vaccine has no thimerosal -- not even trace amounts
The United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has recommended that Rotarix not be used, at least temporarily, since DNA from porcine circovirus type 1 (PCV1) has been found in the vaccine. This means that DNA from a virus found in pigs has been found in the vaccine.
This particular virus is not known to cause any diseases in humans, and there is no evidence that this finding poses any safety risk. However, as a precaution, the FDA has recommended that the use of Rotarix be temporarily suspended. Children who started the vaccine series with Rotarix can finish the series with RotaTeq. No similar problems have been found with RotaTeq.