I'm having trouble with my browser and/or provider: a LONG followup to
this seems to have disappered into webland.
Bottom line: I checked PDR and Medline. NO reason to think ANY kind of
vaccination causers MS. Possibility that Hep B vaccination causes
exacerbation in pre-existing MS--POSSIBILITY. Medline search for
health care workers X multiple sclerosis yielded nothing. Some studies
directly addressed issue of other kinds of vaccination influencing MS
course: negative findings.
My posting of full citationss (in prior attempted reply) may be
delayed; INS meeting in Budapest...
LeFever
In <6net9m$60f at dfw-ixnews4.ix.netcom.com> flefever at ix.netcom.com(F.
Frank LeFever) writes:
>>In <359A6CA0.75024B0A at mediaone.net> Cathy <ccarey at mediaone.net>
writes:
>>>>>I was diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis 2 years ago.
>>It was brought to my attention recently
>>How? by whom? In what publication?
>> that there is an increase in the
>>amount of health care workers who have MS.
>>Data? How obtained? where published?
>> They are attributing it to
>>the Hepatitis B vaccine.
>>Who are "they"? Some people who have MS? Somebody who has done a
>systematic survey with proper statistical analysis?
>>>> I did have the first shot of the series 2
>>months before the onset of MS.
> It is even in the PDR that one of the
>>adverse reactions can be MS.
>>I will check out the PDR. Possibly you misread it? Possibly it said
>SOME people have SUSPECTED that an EXACERBATION of MS might be one
>adverse effect???
>>Over the years, MANY things have been SUSPECTED of causing MS--when I
>first started dealing with MS patients (as a neuropsychologist, not as
>a physician), over 20 years ago, having small pets in the home was
>suspected... Subsequent statistical analysis found the apparent
>association illusory.
>>>I am just curious as to how many of you have had any kind of a
>reaction
>>to any kind of vacccine.
>>ANY reaction to ANY kind of vacciner??? Maybe about 1 in 50? local
>soreness, possibly flu-like symptoms, very briefly?
>>> Some people with fibromyalgia attribute it to
>>the Hep B Vaccine.
>>Some may, some attribute it to other things, but without systematic
>study this is about like attributing thunderstorms to one's having
>washed the car recently.
>>I'm being a bit sharp or harsh, not because I belittle your concern re
>MS, but because nut-cases periodically inveigh against vaccinations in
>general, irresponsibly, when the outcomes of failure to get
appropriate
>vaccinations are KNOWN to be deadly.
>>What IS known is that health care workers are at risk for getting Hep
>B, wwhich is a much more common threat than MS in this group, and
>faiure to get Hep B vaccination is much more likely to lead to serious
>illness or death than (so far as has been demonstrated) any risk of
>"getting" MS (I leave open the question of possible EXACERBATION of
>pre-existing MS).
>>Do not pass the buck. Do not refer us to web pages, put up by God
>knows who. Wha peer-reviewed studies were cited, and what were the
>citations?
>>F. Frank LeFever, Ph.D.
>>>>>The following are address's where you can find more info. I sure
>would
>>appreciate all of your input on this.
>>http://www.wplg.com/Special%20Reports/HepB.htm>>http://www.wplg.com/eoharch/June%2098/eoh0061598.htm>>http://WWW.HRSA.DHHS.GOV/bhpr/vicp/new.HTM>>http://www.909shot.com/nvicp.htm>>http://www.fda.gov/cber/vaers.html>>Thanks,
>>Cathy
>>>>>>>