US EditionBasque Health Mistakenly Delivers Expired Vaccines to 253 People, Mostly Babies, but without “Adverse Effects”
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On Wednesday, the Basque Government's Health Advisor Alberto Martínez acknowledged a "serious error" of Osakidetza (health service of the autonomous community) in the case of the noculation of expired vaccines to 253 people (mostly babies) at up to twelve different points of the system in the Basque Country. According to his statements at a press conference, collected by 'El Correo', an internal investigation has been opened to try to detect the…
The Basque Government is studying whether to re-vaccinate only adults or also infants affected by out-of-date dosing.
The Basque Health Service-Osakidetza has given “recently” expired vaccines to 253 people, most of them babies. From the Basque Department of Health, however, they have pointed out that this situation “does not involve any kind of health condition or adverse effect”, and have recommended that those affected be vaccinated with a new dose of hexavalent to ensure maximum protection.Continue reading...
The Basque Health Service has administered "recently" expired vaccines to 253 people, most of them babies, as confirmed by the health institution itself on Tuesday, 27 January. These are doses of the hexavalent vaccine, which protects against diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis, poliomyelitis, hepatitis B and Haemophilus influenzae type B, belonging to a lot whose expiration date had expired. That is to say, it protects against six diseases. The Heal…
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After studying the situation, Health recommends that those affected be given a new dose of the hexavalent vaccine to ensure maximum prot...
Vaccines supplied by the North American pharmaceutical company MSD were placed in December despite the fact that they expired in October. The affected children belong to almost all health areas in the Basque Country Read
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