Tags: ‘Episode’

Pertussis

Bordetella parapertussis outbreak in Southeastern Minnesota and the United States, 2014. (2017) “All patients were vaccinated against pertussis, suggesting that pertussis vaccination is ineffective against B. parapertussis.” #Pertussis #Vaccine #Failure #MedScienceResearch https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/28514288/ — 🛑 [Complications of pertussis immunization (author transl)]. “16 cases of neurological disease and/or death shortly after pertussis immunization are reported. Eight patients […]

Pneumococcal

Hypotonic hyporesponsive episode and the 13-valent pneumococcal vaccine. “Hypotensive-hyporesponsive episodes are rare events after immunizations performed for diphtheria, tetanus, Haemophilus influenzae type b and hepatitis B virus vaccines, but most of the reported episodes have been associated with pertussis-containing vaccines. We report the case of a 3-month-old girl, previously healthy otherwise, presenting with the unusual […]

Hypotonic-Hyporesponsive Episodes

“A hypotonic-hyporesponsive episode (HHE) is a sudden and unexpected episode of loss of tone, unresponsiveness and colour change which uncommonly affects infants and children after vaccination.” - MS Gold, PubMed Near miss. Also see category, sudden infant death syndrome — Hypotonic and hyporesponsive episodes after diptheria-tetanus-acellular pertussis vaccination. “Administration of the discontinued diphtheria-pertussis-tetanus vaccine was occasionally associated with a […]