Adverse vaccine reactions being reported between 2005 and 2015

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Dear Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency,

1. Under the Freedom of Information Act, I request information relating to ANY reported adverse vaccine reactions between January 2005 and now.

2. I would like to know the name of each vaccine and the disease (s) it offers protection against.

3. I wish to know the exact numbers of reported adverse vaccine reactions and please cite how many of those reported were serious and how many were not considered serious.

4. I wish to know the total number of reported adverse vaccine reactions between January 2005 and now.

5. I wish to know the age groups for every vaccine reaction if possible or how many of those reported were children under 4, children between 10 and 18 years of age and adults over the age of 18.

Thank you

Yours sincerely,

Petra Ratajova

MHRA Customer Services, Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency

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Our Ref: FOI 15/130
       
Dear Ms Ratajova,
       
RE:  REQUEST UNDER THE FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT 2000
       
Thank you for your enquiry which we received on 17 March 2015. 
       
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Dear Ms Ratjova,

Thank you for your email.

Attached is the response to your FOI request.

Kind Regards

Customer Services

Communications division

Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency
151 Buckingham Palace Road, London, SW1W 9SZ
Telephone: 020 3080 6000
Email: [1][MHRA request email]
Stay connected: [2]mhra.gov.uk/stayconnected

 

 

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Steve Hinks left an annotation ()

Dear Petra,
I too am interested in Serious Adverse Events (SAE) due to vaccines and in particular the HPV vaccine since my daughter has been seriously disabled by it over 4 years ago. I am now a member of an Association in the UK which facilitates contact between the many families adversely affected. You will see in your response that the HPV vaccine stands out like a sore thumb yet the MHRA deny that there are any serious adverse reactions: see Minutes of JCVI HPV sub-committee meeting of September 2014'. Politicians don't want to know. It is criminal gross negligence.
Even though there are only 9/100,000 cervical cancer cases and 2/100,000 cervical cancer deaths there were c.3000/100,000 SAE during the clinical trials of both Cervarix and Gardasil.
Please feel free to contact me at steve@hinksfamily.co.uk , I have a wealth of further information.