Adverse Events After Pandemic Flu A/H1N1 Vaccination In Children: Concern About Vaccine Safety

Birutė Strukčinskienė, Sigitas Griškonis Abstract Vaccination is essential tool for the management and control of infectious diseases. However, it can cause adverse events. After novel Pandemic (“swine”) flu virus A H1N1 rapid spread in 2009 all over the world and mass vaccination initiatives, the sudden increase in childhood narcolepsy with cataplexy in some countries has…

Autoimmune Inflammatory Rheumatic Diseases and Benefit of Vaccination

Inesa Arštikytė, Giedrė Kaplerytė, Irena Butrimienė Abstract There are twenty eight infections, which might be prevented byvaccination [1]. Lithuania’s National vaccination program startedin 1992, and the calendar for children prophylactic vaccinationwas approved in 2007. At this moment, the important question isabout vaccination in adults [2]. The usefulness of vaccinationsin adult patients at increased risk are…

ANALYSIS OF VACCINATION AGAINST INFECTIOUS DISEASES IN KLAIPEDA COUNTY

Dalija Stasiuvienė Abstract The purpose of the study was to analyze vaccination aspects against infectious diseases in Klaipeda County (Lithuania). In the study, the document analysis and descriptive analysis were used. The study results revealed that in Klaipeda County, same as in Lithuania, not many people were vaccinated against pandemic flu A/H1N1. Pandemic flu vaccine…