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Vaccines- ACWY Vax: Meningococcal polysaccharides serogroups A, C, W135 and Y.
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Ambirix: Hepatitis A (inactivated) and hepatitis B (rDNA) (HAB) vaccine (adsorbed).
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Arepanrix:
AS03-Adjuvanted H1N1 Pandemic Influenza Vaccine.
- Boostrix: Tetanus toxoid, reduced diphtheria toxoid and acellular pertussis vaccine, adsorbed.
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Cervarix: Human Papillomavirus vaccine (types 16, 18), recombinant, adjuvanted, adsorbed.
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Engerix-B: Hepatitis B Vaccine (Recombinant).
- Fendrix: Hepatitis B (rDNA) vaccine (adjuvanted, adsorbed).
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Fluarix: Influenza vaccine.
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FluLaval: Influenza vaccine.
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Havrix: Hepatitis A vaccine, inactivated.
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Hepatyrix: Hepatitis A (inactivated, adsorbed) and Typhoid Polysaccharide vaccine.
- Hiberix: Haemophilus B conjugate vaccine (tetanus toxoid conjugate).
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Infanrix: Diphtheria and tetanus toxoids and acellular pertussis vaccine adsorbed.
- Infanrix IPV: Diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis (acellular, component) and poliomyelitis (inactivated) vaccine (adsorbed).
- Infanrix IPV + HIB: Diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis (acellular, component) and poliomyelitis (inactivated) and Haemophilus influenzae serotype b conjugate vaccine (adsorbed).
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Kinrix: Diphtheria and tetanus toxoids and acellular pertussis adsorbed and inactivated poliovirus vaccine.
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Menitorix: Haemophilus influenza type b Polyribose ribitol phosphate and group C Meningococcal polysaccharide conjugate vaccine.
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Pandemrix:
AS03-Adjuvanted H1N1 Pandemic Influenza Vaccine.
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Pediarix: Diphtheria and tetanus toxoids and acellular pertussis adsorbed, hepatitis B (recombinant) and inactivated poliovirus vaccine combined.
- Poliomyelitis: Poliomyelitis monodose vaccine live (oral).
- Priorix: Measles, mumps and rubella vaccine (live attenuated virus).
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Rotarix: Human rotavirus vaccine, live attenuated.
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Twinrix: Combined hepatitis A (inactivated virus) and hepatitis B vaccine (genetically derived surface antigen).
- Typherix: Typhoid vaccine (purified polysaccharide antigen).
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Varilrix: Varicella in healthy adults and adolescents.
Vaccine TrialsGlaxoSmithKline Argentina Laboratories Company was fined 400,000 pesos by Judge Marcelo Aguinsky following a report issued by the National Administration of Medicine, Food and Technology (ANMAT in Spanish) for irregularities during lab vaccine trials conducted between 2007 and 2008 that allegedly killed 14 babies.
Likewise, two doctors -Héctor Abate, and Miguel Tregnaghi- were fined with 300,000 pesos each for irregularities during the studies.
The charges included experimenting with human beings as well falsifying parental authorizations so babies could participate in vaccine-trials conducted by the laboratory from 2007 to 2008.
Since 2007, 15,000 children under the age of one from Mendoza, San Juan and Santiago del Estero have been included in the research protocol, a statement of what the study is trying to achieve. Babies were recruited from poor families that attended to public hospitals.
A total of seven babies died in Santiago del Estero; five in Mendoza; and two in San Juan.
Pediatrician Ana Marchese, who reported the case through the Argentine Federation of Health Professionals (FESPROSA in Spanish), and was working at the Eva Perón children's public hospital in Santiago del Estero when the studies wee being conducted, said this morning in conversations with Continental AM radio that "GSK Argentina set an protocol at the hospital, and recruited several doctors working there."
"These doctors took advantage of many illiterate parents whom take their children for treatment by pressuring and forcing them into signing these 28-page consent forms and getting them involved in the trials."
"Laboratories can't experiment in Europe or the United States, so they come to do it in third-world countries."
Colombian and Panama were also chosen by GSK as staging grounds for trials of the vaccine against the pneumococcal bacteria.
- By Javier Cardenal Taján, Buenos Aires Herald (January, 2012) -