24 февраля 2015 21:00

Vaccination against measles in Kazakhstan puts teenagers into hospital beds

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Kazakhstan has suspended immunization against measles after a series of hospitalizations following the injections, Tengrinews reports.

At first, 18 students of a medical college in Temirtau, a town in central Kazakhstan, were hospitalized with high temperature. Then, a similar situation happened in Zhanaozen, where 30 high-school and college students were hospitalized. The condition of the first six was so severe that they were transferred to an intensive care unit. Then, a single case happened in Taraz: a 16-year old student lost consciousness after the immunization and was taken to a psychiatric clinic.

"In connection with the registration of adverse events following the immunization in Temirtau and Zhanaozen, by the resolution of the Chief State Sanitary Doctor of the Republic of Kazakhstan Zhandarbek Bekshin, the immunization campaign has been suspended," the statement of the Ministry of National Economy of Kazakhstan said.

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