Not exact matches
Their study found «a potential link
between the H1N1 virus used to make the vaccine and
narcolepsy.»
Poertner has
narcolepsy, a sleep disorder that affects
between 25 and 50 people in 100,000.
Four years and several country - wide studies later, there now is an established link
between Pandemrix, a vaccine against the H1N1 strain of the flu that was widely used in Europe, and some cases of
narcolepsy.
The most obvious difference
between Pandemrix and the vaccine against H1N1 that was used in the United States — which hasn't been associated with
narcolepsy — was that Pandemrix included a strong adjuvant, a substance intended to provoke a heightened immune response to proteins in the vaccine.
Palm alerted Swedish health authorities, and subsequent population - wide studies in Sweden, Finland, Ireland and the United Kingdom suggested that vaccination for H1N1 — but only with the Pandemrix vaccine — had increased the risk of developing
narcolepsy between four - and 13-fold in children and adolescents, and
between two - and four-fold in adults.