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Global Advisory Committee on Vaccine Safety, 30 November-1 December 2016

Friday, 13th of January 2017 Print

Global Advisory Committee on Vaccine Safety, 30 November-1 December 2016

This meeting looked in particular at three items?

1)      Narcolepsy following the 2009 pandemic influenza vaccine

2)      Safety of typhoid vaccines

3)      Yellow fever mass vaccination campaigns using fractional dose

On yellow fever vaccination, the Committee said “[a] comparison should be examined between those individuals who received a full dose of vaccine and those who received a fractional dose, taking into consideration any compounding factors.”

Full text, in French and English, is at http://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/10665/253062/1/WER9202.pdf

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