Federal Health Authority recommended on Monday, that doctors stop giving Rotarix. Rotarix is made by GlaxoSmithKline and was approved by the FDA in 2008. This vaccine is given to prevent Rotavirus disease.
The reason the vaccine is suspended, at this time, is because it is contaminated with a material from a pig virus. The FDA learned about the contamination after an academic research team, using a novel technique to look for viruses in a range of vaccines, found the material in GlaxoSmithKline's product, and told the company. The drug maker confirmed it's presence in both the cell-bank and the seed from which the vaccine is derived, suggesting it's presence from the early stages of vaccine development. The FDA then confirmed the drug maker's findings.
In 4 to 6 weeks the drug agency will convene an advisory committee to make recommendations and seek input on the use of new techniques for identifying viruses in vaccine.
"We're not pulling it from the market, we're just suspending it's use during this period, while we're collecting more information,"said Merck's spokesperson Pam Eisele. Brings to mind Sigorney Weaver's dilemma in the Alien movie, when the synthetic android told her "we're still collating", in answer to her query about how to kill the Alien.
Pam Eisele further states, "It should not be in this vaccine product, and we want to understand how it got there. It's not an easy call, and we spent many long hours
debating the pros and cons, but because we have an alternate product, and because the background rates of the disease are not so severe in this country, we felt that the judicious thing to do was to take a pause, to really ask the critical question about what's this material in the vaccine, and how did it get there?"
debating the pros and cons, but because we have an alternate product, and because the background rates of the disease are not so severe in this country, we felt that the judicious thing to do was to take a pause, to really ask the critical question about what's this material in the vaccine, and how did it get there?"
Dr Fauci Director of the National Institute of Allergy & Infectious Diseases at the National Institute of Health said: "A substantial amount of the DNA was found in the vaccine". But, he stressed, "There is no evidence that it causes any disease ... there is no evidence that it ever does anything."
What? No evidence! Injecting DNA from an animal into a human baby? We just found out about it. I'm sure there are going to be health repercussions. Hopefully we will not turn the next generation into baby piglets. Remember Burke, in Aliens? "It's just a bad call Ripley."
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