Vaccine Weekly
Welcome to NewsRx!
Learn more about a six-week, no-risk free trial of Vaccine Weekly
We're a pay-per-view site for premium content. If you'd like to purchase this article, it's only $3.00.
Vaccine Safety
Link Between MMR Vaccine And Guillain-Barre Unlikely
April 11th, 2001
by N.R. Saltmarsh, staff medical writer - A proposed cause-and-effect relationship between the measles-mumps-rubella (MMR) vaccine and the neurological disease, Guillain-Barre syndrome, now appears unlikely. Researchers working in Finland reviewed hospital admissions data from a four-year period (1982-1986) to pinpoint MMR vaccine history among Guillain-Barre (GBS) patients. Among the 189 patients hospitalized for GBS, 24 represented the target vaccine population and 20 actually had received the vaccine, noted A. Patja and colleagues at the University of Helsinki. None of the 20 patients, however, experienced onset of symptoms within the projected...
Source: Vaccine Weekly (2001-04-11)
|
