The European Medicines Agency Evaluates the Potential Risk of Encephalitis Associated with Vaccines Against Varicella
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The European Medicines Agency's Medicines Safety Committee has begun an investigation into two chickenpox vaccines after a Polish child died of encephalitis a few days after receiving the vaccine. Both vaccines are in use in Iceland and have been for almost 30 years, according to the Director of Health's announcement, but general vaccination for chickenpox did not begin in this country until 2020. No causal link exists Chief Epidemiologist Guðrú…
The vaccines with live viruses, used on a wide scale to prevent varietal infections, come under the control of the European regulatory authorities.
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