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Hepatitis B vaccination and multiple sclerosis (MS)

- Global Advisory Committee on Vaccine Safety: response to the paper (in press) by Y. Mikaeloff and colleagues in Neurology entitled "Hepatitis B vaccine and the risk of CNS inflammatory demyelination in childhood", October 2008

- Global Advisory Committee on Vaccine Safety: response to the paper by MA Hernán and others in Neurology 14 September 2004 issue entitled "Recombinant hepatitis B vaccine and the risk of multiple sclerosis"

- Questions and answers with respect to the recent study "Recombinant hepatitis B vaccine and the risk of multiple sclerosis" published by Hernán and others in Neurology, 2004

- Hepatitis B vaccination and mulitple sclerosis: update, January 2004

- The Global Advisory Committee on Vaccine Safety rejects association between hepatitis B vaccination and multiple sclerosis, November 2002

Committee reports

- Appears in WER 22 November 2002

Page last updated: 08 October 2008


New in August 2009
Report of Committee meeting [pdf 254kb]


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