Illness after vaccine due to scabies, not reaction, says CMO

  • | Friday | 14th December, 2018

“This is a normal reaction induced in very few children who may be low on immunity. Their parents have, however, denied the claim.A team from WHO visited the Sorkha Primary School in Salarpur, where the children fell ill, and examined the immunisation programme. There are merely myths surrounding it,” the doctor said.Chief medical officer Dr Anurag Bhargava said the children who were from Jewar area were “suffering from scabies”. They also visited JJ colony in Sector 76.“The children are better and some will be discharged by Thursday evening. This kind of reaction is possible in a few children.

Noida: The health department has contested a reason cited by doctors for the 17 children who fell ill after being administered the measles-rubella vaccine, saying they were suffering from scabies and it was not an adverse reaction to the vaccination On Thursday, a team from the World Health Organisation (WHO) visited the district to examine the vaccination programme of the central government, under which about seven lakh children in Gautam Budh Nagar will be covered.Until now, most of the prescriptions of children admitted at the child PGI have cited AEFI (adverse event following immunisation) as reason for them falling sick. The health department has, however, mentioned scabies — whose most common symptoms are rashes and intense itching — as the reason.District immunisation officer Dr Nepal Singh had on Wednesday admitted that the children could have developed hypersensitivity after being given the vaccine.But one of the doctors said on condition of anonymity that it was possible that the children had low immunity level and the vaccine reacted adversely. “This is a normal reaction induced in very few children who may be low on immunity. It is a WHO-certified vaccine and completely safe. This kind of reaction is possible in a few children. There are merely myths surrounding it,” the doctor said.Chief medical officer Dr Anurag Bhargava said the children who were from Jewar area were “suffering from scabies”. Their parents have, however, denied the claim.A team from WHO visited the Sorkha Primary School in Salarpur, where the children fell ill, and examined the immunisation programme. They also visited JJ colony in Sector 76.“The children are better and some will be discharged by Thursday evening. But we still don’t know why our children fell ill,” said Udham Singh, father of Abhishek Kumar (14).As many as 25 private schools refused to go ahead with the vaccination programme without taking the consent of parents.

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