Word: eczema
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...study, published in the New England Journal of Medicine, says that 68% of the patients had serious complications after being vaccinated for the first time (only 7% after repeat vaccinations). No fewer than 20% of the patients had never been directly vaccinated at all: they were mostly children with eczema who picked up the vaccinia (cowpox) infection accidentally from contact with somebody else's sore arm. In the entire group surveyed there were nine deaths, while three survivors appear to have suffered brain damage and a fourth is paralyzed in both arms and legs. In all likelihood...
...point on which all the warring factions agree is that doctors should be far more careful before giving the present vaccine. Children with leukemia, or on steroid drugs that depress the immune reaction, obviously should not be vaccinated. Nor should a child with eczema or a history of recent eczema be vaccinated-certainly not without VIG -because cowpox may cause a fulminating and occasionally fatal exacerbation of eczema. But doctors and nurses often do not take the time to ask the right questions...
...with a fresh doctorate from Louvain, is a 29-year-old priest teaching history in a Catholic House of Studies. Set off as it is against the Mediterranean glitter of Sydney's splendid harbor and the sunburned hedonists who inhabit it, this comfortless, twilit gothic barracks with an "eczema of stained glass," emphasizes one of the book's controlling ironies. For Maitland fits neither world, though he can swim like a fish in the troubled waters of theology...
...Eczema afflicts nearly half a million U.S. children under six - a statistic that can have serious consequences at vaccination time. An eczematous child inoculated against smallpox with the standard cowpox-virus vaccine may develop a severe and possibly fatal combination of cowpox and eczema known as eczema vaccinatum. Now the University of Colorado's Dr. C. Henry Kempe has resolved the conflict between the child's safety and the requirement for preschool vaccination...
...important difference was that no matter how it was given, children with eczema had less fever and even fewer severe reactions than normal children who got the standard shot. In 1,409 test vaccinations, only two children developed allergic complications, and they were mild and short-lived. Of the test subjects, 300 were later given the legally required shot of standard calf vaccine. Apparently preconditioned, not one suffered ill effects...