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This study was funded by Merck, a producer of hepatitis B vaccine. It
specifically looked at the risk of relapse of active multiple sclerosis (MS)
after hepatitis B vaccination in individuals with a multiple sclerosis
diagnosis. ****It did not address the issue of the development of neuroimmune
dysfunction following hepatitis B vaccination in previously healthy individuals
that resembles, but is not identical to, MS. The constellation of symptoms that
mark the chronic neuroimmune dysfunction being seen in adults and children
following hepatitis B vaccination has features which are similar to multiple
sclerosis but not identical to MS and only studying MS patients does not answer
the question about whether hepatitis B vaccine causes neuroimmune dysfunction.
The pattern of chronic neuroimmune dysfunction following hepatitis B
vaccination, which includes severe joint pain, muscle weakness, debilitating
fatigue, memory and vision loss and other serious deterioration in health, is
clear and case reports continue to be made to the National Vaccine Information
Center and the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System ((VAERS). The dismissal
of these vaccine adverse events as “coincidental” by vaccine producers and
vaccine policymakers does not negate that reality. Good basic science research
conducted by independent researchers and funded by non-industry sources,is what
is needed to answer the outstanding questions that remain about biological
mechanisms and genetic and other potential high risk factors for adverse
responses to hepatitis B vaccine. Only then will the confidence of those being
asked to take the vaccine risk be restored.
Table of Contents for Volume 344, Issue 5: February 1, 2001
C. Confavreux and Others
<http://www.nejm.org/content/2001/0344/0005/0319.asp>
A. Ascherio and Others
<http://www.nejm.org/content/2001/0344/0005/0327.asp>
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