Feds checking out post-flu shot seizures in young children

[mcgee]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/01/20/vaccine-seizures-feds-checking-post-flu-shot_n_811756.htmlhttp://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/01/20/vaccine-seizures-feds-checking-post-flu-shot_n_811756.html

[BeckyBird]

Good for the FDA for investigating this. I am not a fan of the FDA, but I must give the organization credit when they are doing something good!

[bbrandonsmom]

 I figured this was going to happen-not the investigation, but the seizures.  Here is an article from last summer  on the importation of vaccines, in preparation for this winter season.  Some curious info, especially if you read between the lines.  It doesn't take much to put one and one together here. Of course, no one is going to admit that, and I'm sure the study will probably come out that the vaccine is safe, and there was something else going on.  Or, they messed up which vaccine to give, or they may actually admit their mistake.  Who knows.

 http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSN3019609820100730

[mcgee]

Originally Posted by bbrandonsmom 

 I figured this was going to happen-not the investigation, but the seizures.  Here is an article from last summer  on the importation of vaccines, in preparation for this winter season.  Some curious info, especially if you read between the lines.  It doesn't take much to put one and one together here. Of course, no one is going to admit that, and I'm sure the study will probably come out that the vaccine is safe, and there was something else going on.  Or, they messed up which vaccine to give, or they may actually admit their mistake.  Who knows.

 http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSN3019609820100730

Is the flu shot given in Australia the exact same one given in the US? I recall spending a lot of time on a flu-related site in 2009 when everyone was panicking over H1N1, and there were members there who worked in public health in the UK who explained that the UK version of the flu shot had adjuvants in it like squalene, while the US version did not.