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BCG vaccination cutbacks?

  • 08-12-2015 9:29pm
    #1
    Lucyspell
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 63 ✭✭


    Hi
    Can anyone explain or make sense of the new proposal to only vaccinate one in eight babies with the BCG vaccine?
    What criteria is used to determine who is most vulnerable?


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  • #2
    Stheno
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 51,690 Mod ✭✭✭✭Stheno


    Lucyspell wrote: »
    Hi
    Can anyone explain or make sense of the new proposal to only vaccinate one in eight babies with the BCG vaccine?
    What criteria is used to determine who is most vulnerable?

    Have you a link to this?


  • #3
    echo beach
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,252 ✭✭✭echo beach


    Proposal comes from HIQA http://www.hiqa.ie/publications/health-technology-assessment-selective-bcg-vaccination-programme partly in response to repeated and ongoing shortages of the vaccine. If we persist in trying to give it to all babies we will regularly find ourselves in the present situation of not having stocks for anyone.
    Dr Ryan continued: “Selective vaccination would focus resources on those who are at higher risk of contracting TB; one in eight newborns will continue to be eligible for the vaccine. This includes infants born in, or whose parents are from, a country with a high incidence of TB, those in contact with patients with active respiratory TB, and members of an at-risk group, such as the Traveller community in Ireland. It would be important to consult with groups at higher risk to determine the most acceptable and efficient way to identify those eligible for vaccination.”


  • #4
    January
    Closed Accounts Posts: 23,862 ✭✭✭✭January


    I think it's a good step. Children in Galway don't receive the vaccine until they are in 6th class for example, while the rest of the country get it when they are newborn, what's the logic there? Best to just vaccinate the at risk groups.

    It might also pave the way for the Men B vaccine to be introduced sooner!


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