There's a lot of evidence that the Lymerix vaccine was making people sick.
"In addition the panel noted there were no long-term safety data, that persons who received vaccine would be positive by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay for antibody to Lyme disease (which could be confusing to clinicians), data were not available to determine whether booster doses might be necessary, the vaccine could not be used in young children (who were at the highest risk), and, perhaps of greatest importance, the panel raised the question of a possible relationship to autoimmune arthritis."
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2870557/Because I wanted to know more about
this possibility, I dug further.
"Concerns are growing that SmithKline Beecham's Lyme vaccine (LYMErix) may cause irreversible autoimmune arthritis in some patients. about
15% of the nearly 400 LYMErix adverse events reported to FDA in 1999 involved rheumatologic
symptoms ranging from muscle pain and acing joints to severe arthritis.
The reports suggest that a concern raised in preapproval hearings-the possib- ility that the vaccine could trigger degenerative autoimmune disease-may not have been unfounded. Although patients who received the vaccine during trials were no more likely than others to develop long-term rheumatologic or neurologic disorders, vaccine recipients were significantly more likely to report arthralgia and myalgia within 30 days of administration."
www.encognitive.com/node/1391"But when the drug agency's vaccine advisory committee recommended that the vaccine be approved for marketing, several members expressed concern that the vaccine could set off an autoimmune condition that, in turn, would result in arthritis. Some also said they feared it could cause flare-ups of Lyme disease among people previously infected with the Lyme bacteria, Borrelia bergdorferi."
"But when the drug agency's vaccine advisory committee recommended that the vaccine be approved for marketing, several members expressed concern that the vaccine could set off an autoimmune condition that, in turn, would result in arthritis. Some also said they feared it could cause flare-ups of Lyme disease among people previously infected with the Lyme bacteria, Borrelia bergdorferi."
"a New Jersey rheumatologist and president of the International Lyme and Associated Disorders Society, said she had told the agency that 21 patients developed severe arthritis soon after being given the vaccine by other doctors.
Dr. G, who does not give the vaccine, said she believed that the vaccine caused arthritis and Lyme disease itself but that the problems were not always linked to it because the vaccine took effect only after three immunization shots given over the course of a year. "The F.D.A. had just better withdraw this vaccine now," Dr. Gaito said.
Dr. D of Egg Harbor, N.J., an internist and family doctor, said 50 of her patients had developed autoimmune arthritis after receiving Lyme vaccine from other doctors and 30 others appeared to have flare-ups of previous Lyme infections. "
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