4/25/08 - India recalls measles vaccine after child deaths

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India recalls measles vaccine after child deathsApr 25,

2008

NEW DELHI (AFP) ­ India has recalled over four million doses of a measles

vaccine supplied by a south Indian drug manufacturer after four children

died following inoculation with the drug, reports said Friday.

" All state governments have been instructed to stop use of the

measles vaccine manufactured by the Indian Immunological Limited until

further orders, " Health Minister Anbumani Ramadoss told the Press

Trust of India news agency.

Further supplies from the manufacturer have also been halted, he

said.

The government late Thursday ordered the recall of some four million

doses of the vaccine already supplied by Hyderabad-based Indian

Immunologicals Limited out of an overall order of nine million, the

Indian Express daily said.

The recall came after four infants who received the measles vaccine in

the southern state of Tamil Nadu died on Wednesday.

Parents said their babies started frothing at the mouth and nose and died

within 15 to 20 minutes of being administered the vaccine, news channel

NDTV reported.

The state health minister has said the children might have had a severe

allergic reaction to the vaccine, noting that some 20,000 children in

Tamil Nadu were inoculated against measles with the same drug

Wednesday.

Samples of the vaccine have been sent to a national laboratory for

testing and a team of health experts is examining how the vaccine was

stored and how health workers administered it.

For now, Tamil Nadu state has suspended its measles vaccination programme

and inoculation programmes in other states are also likely to be hit by

the recall.

An Indian minister expressed concern that the development could

jeopardise India's larger immunisation efforts, sometimes beset by

rumours about the safety of the injections.

In the past, India's attempts to eradicate polio have been delayed after

some Islamic clerics spread rumours the vaccines would harm Muslim

children.

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