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  • Title: Deaths, severe reactions after DTP not due to vaccine, says study team. Adverse reactions in Kazakhstan.
    Journal: Vaccine Immun News; 1996 Jun; (1):1-2. PubMed ID: 12179917.
    Abstract:
    Kazakhstan's ministry of health recently notified UNICEF of the deaths of 4 children under age 6 months which occurred within 24 hours to 6 days following immunization with diphtheria/pertussis/tetanus (DPT) vaccine. Thinking that the vaccine may have caused the deaths, the ministry was considering halting its national children's immunization program. Within 1 week of the report of the third death, a joint WHO-UNICEF team of experts arrived in Kazakhstan to investigate. Although the team strongly suspected that the deaths were due to defective vaccine, vaccination was quickly ruled out as the cause of death due to a number of reasons. The WHO-UNICEF team instead believes that failure to observe proper immunization procedure may have caused the deaths. Visits to 2 health centers in which 2 of the children were immunized produced no evidence in support of this latter hypothesis. Kazakhstan officials also reject poor immunization practices as a possible cause. Kazakhstan's ministry of health plans to investigate all of the cases, while WHO and UNICEF have recommended a review of the national immunization program and are waiting to see if the recommendation is followed up.
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