The four vaccines against cavidas used in France are safe, it reaffirms this Tuesday, February 4, the drug agency in its latest undesirable effects, specifying in particular that no link with Charcot’s disease has been established after a case reported After vaccination.
The new results of pharmacovigilance surveys of the National Medicine Safety Agency (ANSM), in data from January 2023 to February 2024, “show again that vaccines against COVVI -19 are safe,” he said in a statement of press.
These surveys, one dedicated to pregnant women who are breastfeeding the declarations of undesirable effects reported for the four vaccines against COVID -19, Pfizer Cumirnaty/Biontech, Spikevax (modern), Nuvaxovid (Novavax, since then replaced by Nuvaxovid XBB ) and Vidprevtyn Beta (Sanofi/GSK)- Available in France.
There was no new risk signal in “pregnant women and infants” with respect to Nuvraxovid, very few vaccines used in France, and Vidprevtyn Beta. Marketing authorization was after repealed, in March 2024.
More than 152 million doses administered
To date, “more than 152 million doses of” antirrovive vaccines “” have been administered in France, and 13 billion doses worldwide, and some “163,000 reports of suspects of possible adverse effects have been recorded” in France, at AFP to AFP Mehdi Benkebil, director of surveillance of the ANSM.
“All these cases have been subject to regional and national analysis. As a comparison, we receive about 40,000 cases for all -vaccines.
If the risk/risk of COVVVVS vaccines is very positive, certain lateral or unwanted effects have been highlighted, the slightest or rare when they are more impressive. In addition to the most frequent adverse effects related to the immediate reaction of the body to injection, rare cases of peripheral facial paralysis (partial loss of the functioning of part of the face), myocarditis/pericarditis (inflammation of the muscular heart), significant bleeding menstrual and polymorphic erythema (skin tasks eruption) thus identified themselves.
New “very rare” effects informed
In its evaluation of the new effects reported and so far not listed, the ANSM points out that “very rare cases” of “burned pain, mainly on the feet and lower extremities (neuropathies with small fibers), appear” with the vaccine Pfizer and other cases, “very rare” too, of chronic fatigue, with the Spikevax vaccine.
“They are subject to additional investigations” that could lead to “measures adapted to nature and risk, in relation to the European Medicines Agency (EMA),” said the agency.
“Recently informed after a vaccination with the” Pfizer, a case of Charcot disease (ELA), has been analyzed and “the data available to date” do not allow to retain a link “between the appearance of the disease and the vaccine, Write the ANSM, after a “university exam with regional pharmacovigilance centers.”
This case is that of the thirties of the Allier, whose family and an association of victims have communicated largely on social networks and in the regional press around an alleged “official recognition” of a causal link between their illness and This vaccination.
Other cases already studied
The Regional Pharmacovigilance Center sent a letter that indicates that the report of the case was “registered, generating a file” with the end of “experience work”, but “a causal link” was not made between the disease and the vaccine, to the AFP professor to AFP teacher. Joëlle Micallef, a pharmacologist, at the head of one of the 10 regional centers (PACA-CORSE) to evaluate cases throughout France.
Already in 2022, the ANSM had examined about fifteen SLA reports after vaccination, reports this expert. “If these patients were well affected,” the cause of vaccination had dismissed in particular “because medically and pathophysiologically, Charcot’s disease cannot be triggered in such a short time,” he said.
“With this (last) case, there are currently no data, arguments, to evoke the direct or indirect role of the vaccine in the appearance of this disease,” he concludes. Since the beginning of vaccination, opponents have highly highlighted the undesirable effects of Covid vaccines, which have sometimes transmitted misinformation messages.
Source: BFM TV
