'No evidence' Fluad flu vaccine caused deaths in Italy

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http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-30316113


There are three to five million cases of flu each year, according to the WHO


There is no evidence the flu vaccine Fluad caused a number of deaths in Italy, EU drug regulators have said.

Two batches of the drug, made by Swiss company Novartis, were suspended last week by the Italian authorities as a precautionary measure.

Four elderly people died shortly after receiving the vaccine.

But European Medicines Agency experts found no evidence of a causal relation between the fatalities and the administration of the drug.

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1. This vaccine was NOT used in the U.S. It was administered only to high risk individuals, and they

are still doing more testing, but right now have not found any evidence that the vaccine contributed to the deaths.

They are still recommending it to people in the high risk category, so either they are sure it wasn't due to the vaccine or we will know soon enough if that was an incorrect judgement call. Hopefully not.