The Economic Times, Delhi edition dated Sep 18, 2008 (Page Number 26) carried news about Drug Action Forum of Karnataka (DAF-K) open letter to World Health Organisation (WHO) regarding the pneumococcal conjugate vaccine.
GLOBAL pharma major Wyeth’s vaccine Prevenar is caught in dispute as the Drug Action Forum of Karnataka (DAF-K), a member of All India Drug Action Network (AIDAN), has asked the World Health Organisation (WHO) to withdraw its support for the pneumococcal conjugate vaccine.
NGO asks WHO not to support Wyeth’s anti-pneumonia vaccine
In an open letter to WHO, the Karnataka-based forum said a recent study revealed that the vaccine does not reduce clinical pneumonia and is likely to cause asthma in children. “It has been found through studies that the vaccine reduces a rare type of pneumonia called radiological pneumonia and only about 4 cases are prevented for every 1,000 children immunised and what is even more dangerous is that for every four in whom pneumonia is prevented, two children develop asthma because of the vaccine,” DAF-K president Dr Gopal Dabade said. Prevenar is the only licensed…. To read more, click here
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I have bring all these vaccine issues /including closing of public vaccine manufacturing unit during a presentation in IMA Wynad meet – Kerala
Dr Jayakrishnan.T
Community medicine
Medical college
Calicut.Kerala