Swine flu vaccine may be linked to three deaths

The deaths of three people, including a newborn baby, may be linked to use of the swine flu vaccine Pandemrix over the past two years.

Irish Medicines Board data on the top 10 medications for adverse reactions show the drug at the centre of the HSE’s nationwide inoculation programme may have had some role in the fatalities.

According to statistics from irishhealth.com, since Jan 2010 the IMB — the State’s independent medication watchdog — received reports from doctors that these drugs may be linked to 2,090 reactions, including 139 deaths.