Health Care Issues - Written by Beasley Allen on Friday, December 18, 2009 11:03 - 0 Comments
Dutch pull Pfizer vaccine batch after infants die
Dutch authorities have banned use of a batch of Pfizer’s Prevenar, or Prevnar, after three infants died within two weeks of receiving the anti-infection vaccination. A spokeswoman for the Dutch health institute RIVM, addressing the problem, said:
On average about five to ten deaths are reported annually after babies get vaccines. We now have three cases in a short period. That is unusual and the reason for suspending the batch.
RIVM was said to be investigating the cause of the infants’ deaths. Other batches of Prevenar, known as Prevnar in the United States, will continue to be used. Pfizer spokeswoman Gwen Fisher said preliminary investigations by the company and health authorities had found no link between the vaccinations and the deaths. She said the company initiated the “quarantine” of the batch which she said contained 110,000 doses of Prevenar, used to prevent pneumonia and related infections. Ms. Fisher told Reuters that the three infants also received two unrelated other vaccines as part of routine immunizations. She says no other Prevenar batches were suspended and infants in the Netherlands will continue to be vaccinated with it as part of routine immunization.
According to a spokesman for the European Medicines Agency in London, its officials were working with the Dutch authorities to find out if there were any safety issues with the vaccine batch. The vaccine is one of the most widely used in the world and generated sales for U.S. drug maker Wyeth of $2.7 billion in 2008. Wyeth, which has just been acquired by Pfizer, had asked for the suspension of batch D66977 of Prevenar.
Source: Reuters
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