Major swine-flu vaccine causes sleeping disorder
A health
alert has been issued for the world’s major swine-flu vaccine—although it has
already been given to 31 million people around the world.
The
European Medicines Agency (EMA) has discovered that Pandemrix increases the
risk of the sleeping disorder narcolepsy by up to 13 times, especially in
children and adolescents.
People
suffering from narcolepsy fall asleep suddenly, regardless of whatever they are
doing at the time.
The Agency
issued the warning after receiving reports from Finland, Sweden, Iceland and
the UK. Remaining stocks of the vaccine are slated to be destroyed this autumn,
says manufacturer GlaxoSmithKline—although 31 million people have already been
given the vaccine against the H1N1 virus, including six million in the UK alone
(www.ema.europa.eu/docs/en_GB/document_library/ Press_
release/2011/07/WC500109182.pdf).