300,000 doses of flu vaccine Preflucel withdrawn in alert over side-effects

[Celebration]

A flu vaccine has been recalled from thousands of surgeries and pharmacies across Europe amid fears it is making people ill.

The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) has issued a warning over Preflucel, a popular influenza vaccine.

Around 300,000 doses of the drug are to be immediately withdrawn following fears from health bosses that the most recent batch, issued last month, is causing side-effects.

A high percentage of those vaccinated with Preflucel have reported fatigue, muscle pain and headaches.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2054160/300-000-doses-flu-vaccine-Preflucel-withdrawn-alert-effects.html#ixzz1dPCS4vC8

[trotsky]

1. "fatigue, muscle pain and headaches"

I.e., symptoms you'd get from actually having the flu too. Sounds like the strain wasn't weakened enough - which considering this particular vaccine was made without eggs, to make it acceptable to those allergic to them, is not all that surprising.

But leave it to the Daily Fail to report it this breathlessly.

[MineralMan]

2. Not used in the United States.

[dixiegrrrrl]

3. The infamous Baxter company made that stuff.

Baxter is the same drug company that was caught inserting Avian Flu Virus into flu vaccines back in 2009.

[truedelphi]

4. Very good point. And one has to wonder which third world

nation will be the recipient of the flu vaccine material now found tainted, and much too awful for Europeans to use.

[Celebration]

6. that was weird

and we never heard the explanation. Ha!

[LeftishBrit]

5. A high proportion of those exposed to the Daily Mail...

have reported fatigue, a pain in the bum, and headaches; not to mention extreme nausea.