Momtezuma Tuatara
25-08-09, 10:10 AM
http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/health/2783322/ACC-pays-out-in-53-flu-jab-cases (http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/health/2783322/ACC-pays-out-in-53-flu-jab-cases)
By RUTH HILL - The Dominion Post
25/08/2009
A woman paralysed after a flu jab is one of 53 people to get ACC payouts for injuries related to the seasonal flu vaccine in the past four years.
Sxity-two claims were rejected.
The Christchurch woman in her 60s was struck down with the life-threatening condition Guillain-Barre Syndrome, or GBS, after receiving a seasonal flu inoculation.
Within a couple of days, she began suffering neurological symptoms and was admitted to hospital, where she spent three weeks in intensive care.
GBS Society spokesman Tony Pearson said the rare disorder, which affects the central nervous system, causing temporary paralysis and respiratory problems, usually followed a viral or bacterial infection, but in rare cases had been associated with vaccinations. Sometimes weeks could elapse between the "trigger" and the onset of symptoms, which made it difficult to pinpoint the cause. "That's why it's hard to prove it to ACC's satisfaction."
British health authorities have asked doctors to watch out for symptoms of GBS during the swine flu pandemic and mass vaccination programme.
The British Health Protection Agency said GBS had been identified as a potential adverse event, which would require enhanced surveillance following the introduction of a pandemic vaccine.
A swine flu vaccination programme in the United States in 1976 resulted in multimillion-dollar lawsuits after 500 people one in 80,000 developed GBS.
Twenty-five people died of GBS, while just one person died of swine flu.
Auckland Hospital neurologist John Simcock, a medical adviser for the Neurological Foundation, said though GBS had been linked to vaccinations, people were more at risk of complications from viral and bacterial infections.
"It's still a very rare event, affecting only one or two people in 100,000."
Wellington Hospital infectious disease expert Tim Blackmore said every vaccine had possible risks, but these had to be weighed against the benefits.
"Absolute numbers are hard to come by and keenly debated, and GBS is part of that debate. However, you often find when GBS has been linked to vaccination, it's usually a result of increased surveillance, not necessarily caused by vaccine itself."
Deputy Director of Public Health Fran McGrath said the Health Ministry was designing the safety monitoring it would put in place for a pandemic vaccine.
"Neurological illnesses following influenza vaccine have been reported in the past and safety monitoring programmes for influenza vaccine routinely advise patients and health professionals to be on the lookout for and to report any neurological illnesses following vaccination."
Figures supplied by the National Influenza Strategy Group show record numbers of New Zealanders more than 21 per cent of the population opted for the flu jab this year. By the end of June, 884,489 people had been vaccinated, up from 756,750 for the full 2008 flu season.
Of the 53 accepted ACC claims relating to flu jabs between July 1, 2005, and March 31, 2009, the most common injuries were: 14 allergic reaction, 12 haematoma or bruising, six cellulitis, five nerve damage and three adverse drug reaction.
My comment:
Interesting that this article says that 25 people died of GBS, CDC (USA) says three people did, and the court case documents presented to US Senate in a review, say that 400+ people died.
This comment is interesting in it's amazing manipulation...:
***"Absolute numbers are hard to come by and keenly debated, and GBS is part of that debate. However, you often find when GBS has been linked to vaccination, it's usually a result of increased surveillance, not necessarily caused by vaccine itself."***
Another way to look at this comment is to consider this: if "surveillance" been adequate from the start of the use of these vaccines, GBS following vaccination would have been recognised as a complication, long before now.
What the above aopears to infer is, "Because GBS is found after better surveillance, it can't have been the vaccine." Which is ridiculous.
Vaccines are the ONE commodity that when something happens afterwards, it's always first dismissed "coincidence".
I think of the commotion after a person becomes allergic to a drug: medic alert bracelets and bright red danger warnings on the top of the files.
But with vaccines? Not long ago, I sat in a doctors room while a doctor tried to fob off the total swelling of the upper arm, after a vaccine, as an "allergy to the sticky plaster".
People who suffer vaccine reactions are, amazingly, the people required to prove scientifically, that the reaction was the vaccine. Doctors are never required to prove that the vaccine didn't cause the problem, even if they can't find any other reason for the coincidental fact that the person keeled over after the vaccine, not just before it was given.
Just because ACC rejects a cvaccine damage application, doesn't mean that the vaccine didn't do it. All it means, like the cases rejected in the article above, is that you didn't provide enough convincing scientifically based facts, to convince the doctors at ACC that the vaccine did the damage.
Absolutely vaccine damage is keenly debated. After all, what doctor wants to admit that something they administered to their patient, caused this sort of damage?
By RUTH HILL - The Dominion Post
25/08/2009
A woman paralysed after a flu jab is one of 53 people to get ACC payouts for injuries related to the seasonal flu vaccine in the past four years.
Sxity-two claims were rejected.
The Christchurch woman in her 60s was struck down with the life-threatening condition Guillain-Barre Syndrome, or GBS, after receiving a seasonal flu inoculation.
Within a couple of days, she began suffering neurological symptoms and was admitted to hospital, where she spent three weeks in intensive care.
GBS Society spokesman Tony Pearson said the rare disorder, which affects the central nervous system, causing temporary paralysis and respiratory problems, usually followed a viral or bacterial infection, but in rare cases had been associated with vaccinations. Sometimes weeks could elapse between the "trigger" and the onset of symptoms, which made it difficult to pinpoint the cause. "That's why it's hard to prove it to ACC's satisfaction."
British health authorities have asked doctors to watch out for symptoms of GBS during the swine flu pandemic and mass vaccination programme.
The British Health Protection Agency said GBS had been identified as a potential adverse event, which would require enhanced surveillance following the introduction of a pandemic vaccine.
A swine flu vaccination programme in the United States in 1976 resulted in multimillion-dollar lawsuits after 500 people one in 80,000 developed GBS.
Twenty-five people died of GBS, while just one person died of swine flu.
Auckland Hospital neurologist John Simcock, a medical adviser for the Neurological Foundation, said though GBS had been linked to vaccinations, people were more at risk of complications from viral and bacterial infections.
"It's still a very rare event, affecting only one or two people in 100,000."
Wellington Hospital infectious disease expert Tim Blackmore said every vaccine had possible risks, but these had to be weighed against the benefits.
"Absolute numbers are hard to come by and keenly debated, and GBS is part of that debate. However, you often find when GBS has been linked to vaccination, it's usually a result of increased surveillance, not necessarily caused by vaccine itself."
Deputy Director of Public Health Fran McGrath said the Health Ministry was designing the safety monitoring it would put in place for a pandemic vaccine.
"Neurological illnesses following influenza vaccine have been reported in the past and safety monitoring programmes for influenza vaccine routinely advise patients and health professionals to be on the lookout for and to report any neurological illnesses following vaccination."
Figures supplied by the National Influenza Strategy Group show record numbers of New Zealanders more than 21 per cent of the population opted for the flu jab this year. By the end of June, 884,489 people had been vaccinated, up from 756,750 for the full 2008 flu season.
Of the 53 accepted ACC claims relating to flu jabs between July 1, 2005, and March 31, 2009, the most common injuries were: 14 allergic reaction, 12 haematoma or bruising, six cellulitis, five nerve damage and three adverse drug reaction.
My comment:
Interesting that this article says that 25 people died of GBS, CDC (USA) says three people did, and the court case documents presented to US Senate in a review, say that 400+ people died.
This comment is interesting in it's amazing manipulation...:
***"Absolute numbers are hard to come by and keenly debated, and GBS is part of that debate. However, you often find when GBS has been linked to vaccination, it's usually a result of increased surveillance, not necessarily caused by vaccine itself."***
Another way to look at this comment is to consider this: if "surveillance" been adequate from the start of the use of these vaccines, GBS following vaccination would have been recognised as a complication, long before now.
What the above aopears to infer is, "Because GBS is found after better surveillance, it can't have been the vaccine." Which is ridiculous.
Vaccines are the ONE commodity that when something happens afterwards, it's always first dismissed "coincidence".
I think of the commotion after a person becomes allergic to a drug: medic alert bracelets and bright red danger warnings on the top of the files.
But with vaccines? Not long ago, I sat in a doctors room while a doctor tried to fob off the total swelling of the upper arm, after a vaccine, as an "allergy to the sticky plaster".
People who suffer vaccine reactions are, amazingly, the people required to prove scientifically, that the reaction was the vaccine. Doctors are never required to prove that the vaccine didn't cause the problem, even if they can't find any other reason for the coincidental fact that the person keeled over after the vaccine, not just before it was given.
Just because ACC rejects a cvaccine damage application, doesn't mean that the vaccine didn't do it. All it means, like the cases rejected in the article above, is that you didn't provide enough convincing scientifically based facts, to convince the doctors at ACC that the vaccine did the damage.
Absolutely vaccine damage is keenly debated. After all, what doctor wants to admit that something they administered to their patient, caused this sort of damage?