American children vaccine detects the virus
American medicines supervision department urges the medical organization to delay using vaccine Rotarix that the Ge 's of Britain produced on the 22nd, the reason detects a kind of animal virus in vaccine.
Rotarix is oral vaccine, suitable for the children in more than six weeks, is used for resisting causing rotavirus suffered from diarrhoea and vomited. American Food and Drug Administration and Ge Lan is plain- SmithKline detects DNA (DNA) of PCV-1 virus in vaccine . This kind of virus mainly regards pig as the host.
Ge LanSu - SmithKline issues a statement and says, PCV-1 virus is common in the meat products, the human body will not duplicate and cause a disease after taking in. Chief of American Food and Drug Administration Margaret? Hamberger verifies this statement on the 22nd. "we believe products ( Vaccine) Safe. "
However, Hamberger says, for the sake of security, Food and Drug Administration proposes using similar vaccine Rotateq that American Merck Company produce. The European medicines administration bureau says on the 22nd, though PCV-1 virus does not pose " public health threat " ,But " should not appear in vaccine, the source is not clear " ,So require Ge Lan to be plain- SmithKline " offers more information as soon as possible " .
It is reported Rotarix vaccine global the intersection of sales volume and volume up to 440 million dollarsed last year, would rise by 50% since 2008. And U.S.A.'s native sales volume reaches 118 million dollars. FDA estimates, there are 70,000 babies and study step children to inoculate similar rotavirus vaccine because of gastroenteritis every year. The age range that and Rotarix inoculates is the children under the age of 5.
Yesterday, reporters interviewed the prevention and health care head of the department Fan QinYing of Chinese-Japan Friendship Hospital of Ministry of Public Health on this, it is introduced, the vaccine preventing rotavirus from using of this city is the domestic production at present, have not imported.
(Xinhua News Agency, legal system evening paper)
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