Wednesday, April 24, 2013

Vaccine mistakes

Vaccine mistakes:

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[2010 March] Baby in Britain is overdosed with BCG vaccine and is now being treated for TB by Christina England  "A report by the National Patient Safety Agency (NPSA), the watchdog which monitors NHS errors, looked at 949 incidents involving jabs reported in 2007. A detailed study was made of 138 of these cases, picked at random. Eight caused children ´moderate harm´.
[2010 March] BABY FIGHTS FOR LIFE AFTER TB VACCINE OVERDOSE 
More Vaccine Stuff-Ups Destroy Confidence in the MMR CampaignWednesday, June 24, 1998
Twenty High School students in Maitland, SA were given the wrong vaccine in the second major vaccination blunder in six weeks. The year 8 students were meant to get the vaccine against Hepatitis B but instead, were given Infanrix, the acellular pertussis (whooping cough), diphtheria and tetanus shot - a vaccine that is only licensed in Australia for children up to the age of 5.
Recalls of unsafe vaccine are rare-----Fresno Bee DPT report 1984
Orange juice cans have more accurate lables.State Struggles to Keep Vaccines Stored at Correct Temperature




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