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Re: New Malaria Vaccine and its Side-effects by befurther ..... Vaccination Debate Forum

Date:   10/24/2011 10:46:06 AM ( 14 y ago)
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A quick look at the study results, which have been published in the New England Journal of Medicine, explain that children in the "control" group received a "non-malaria comparator vaccine" (http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.105...). Those five to 17 months of age got a rabies vaccine (VeroRab, Sanofi-Pasteur), and younger children six to 12 weeks of age received a meningococcal serogroup C conjugate vaccine (Menjugate, Novartis).

Both of these vaccines carry with them their own list of side effects, which means they really do not qualify as a legitimate study of "controls." But hardly anyone is paying much attention to this because they are too busy lauding praise on GSK for developing the vaccine and allegedly expecting to make no profit from it.

It all sounds so wonderful and humanitarian, but the fact of the matter is that nearly 18 percent of children in the older vaccinated group suffered serious adverse events from the vaccine, while more than 13 percent in the youngest group suffered the same. And more than 150 children from both groups died during the study (http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.105...).

"Getting RTS,S to African infants who need it will take a concerted effort from international funders such as the Gates Foundation, which helped pay for the research. Health experts have said it must be cheap enough to be cost-effective."
 
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/10/18/malaria-vaccine-gsk-idUSL5E7LI4O020...

 

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