OOPS: F.D.A. Asks Pediatricians to Stop Using Rotarix Vaccine for Now

[WillYourVoteBCounted]

MY QUESTION IS THIS - IF THERE'S NOTHING WRONG WITH THE VACCINE, WHY HAULT ITS USE?


F.D.A. Asks Pediatricians to Stop Using a Diarrhea Vaccine for Now
By GARDINER HARRIS Published: March 22, 2010

WASHINGTON — Federal drug regulators on Monday asked the nation’s pediatricians to stop giving children a diarrhea vaccine until federal scientists can figure out why the product contains apparently harmless but extraneous pieces of a pig virus.

Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg News
Dr. Margaret Hamburg, the commissioner of the F.D.A.
The vaccine, called Rotarix, is manufactured by GlaxoSmithKline and is intended to prevent severe cases of rotavirus infections, a diarrheal illness that can cause dehydration in infants and young children.

“This was a difficult decision for us because there is no evidence at this time that there is a risk to children,” said Dr. Margaret Hamburg, the Food and Drug Administration commissioner.

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Vaccines for rotavirus have a difficult history. The first such vaccine, called RotaShield, was approved for use in the United States in 1998 and withdrawn a year later after it was linked with rare cases of intussusception, or bowel obstruction.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/23/health/policy/23fda.html

WHAT CAUSED THE FDA TO ASK DOCS TO STOP USING THIS VAC IF IT IS HARMLESS?

[Joey Kidd]

1. I have no trust whatsoever in the FDA.

Too much palm greasing.

[Ohio Joe]

2. The answer is in the first sentence

"Federal drug regulators on Monday asked the nation’s pediatricians to stop giving children a diarrhea vaccine until federal scientists can figure out why the product contains apparently harmless but extraneous pieces of a pig virus."

It makes no difference that the pig virus is harmless, until they figure out how something that does not belong got in and fix the process, they are correct in stopping it being given to children.

[HuckleB]

3. +1

[trotsky]

5. How dare you bring facts and reason into a vax-bashing thread?

They are not allowed!!!!

[Celebration]

4. It is harmless because

They said so.

"no evidence at this time"

That means, we'll stop the vaccine, but we don't want people out in the streets................

If that was a "difficult decision", then I would say we are in worse trouble with the FDA in charge than even I imagined. It sounds a bit more like a "no brainer."

[mzmolly]

6. K and R.

:kick:

[Orrex]

7. Too many are willing to condemn the FDA no matter what it does

If it had not called for a moratorium on the vaccine, the FDA would have been condemned as a child-poisoning cesspit of corruption and graft.

Having called for the moratorium, the FDA is criticized for not reacting aggressively enough, or something.


Does anyone here who condemns the vaccine have personal experience with the effects of rotavirus? I'd be interested to learn how trivial you think this is.