British drugmaker GSK said on Thursday that its previous flu pandemic vaccine, which used some of the same ingredients as COVID-19 vaccines currently under development, was not linked to a rise in cases of the sleep disorder narcolepsy.
FILE PHOTO: A nurse holds a bottle of the Pandemrix H1N1 flu vaccine and a bottle of the vaccine's adjuvant at a health centre in Burgos in this November 16, 2009 file photo. REUTERS/Felix Ordonez/Files
Pandemrix’s ingredients included a booster, or adjuvant, known as AS03, which GSK said on Thursday it planned to produce in large volume for possible use in COVID-19 vaccines currently being developed to fight the disease caused by the new coronavirus. In a statement to Reuters, GSK said available scientific data now suggest that “the rare occurrence of narcolepsy during the 2009/10 flu pandemic was triggered by the body confusing a protein in the wild type H1N1 flu virus with a human protein relevant in regulating the sleep cycle”.
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