{"id":33328,"date":"2020-12-10T19:08:42","date_gmt":"2020-12-10T19:08:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/nigeria\/?p=33328"},"modified":"2020-12-10T19:08:42","modified_gmt":"2020-12-10T19:08:42","slug":"people-with-anaphylaxis-should-not-take-pfizer-covid-19-vaccines-uk-medicine-regulator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/people-with-anaphylaxis-should-not-take-pfizer-covid-19-vaccines-uk-medicine-regulator","title":{"rendered":"People with anaphylaxis should not take Pfizer Covid-19 vaccines \u2013UK medicine regulator"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\">Africa-Press<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/nigeria\">Nigeria<\/a>. <\/strong><\/span>The United Kingdom\u2019s medicine regulator has warned that people with a history of anaphylaxis to a medicine or food should not risk taking a shot of the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine.<\/p>\n<p>This was revealed in a statement issued on Wednesday by June Raine, chief executive of the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA), thus expanding his guidance on an earlier allergy warning about the Covid-19 vaccine.<\/p>\n<p>Anaphylaxis is an abnormal sensitivity to proteins.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAny person with a history of anaphylaxis to a vaccine, medicine or food should not receive the Pfizer BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine,\u201d June said.<\/p>\n<p><b>READ ALSO: Israel receives first batch of Pfizer Covid-19 vaccines<\/b><\/p>\n<p>\u201cA second dose should not be given to anyone who has experienced anaphylaxis following administration of the first dose of this vaccine,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMost people will not get anaphylaxis and the benefits in protecting people against Covid-19 outweigh the risks,\u201d June stressed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou can be completely confident that this vaccine has met the MHRA\u2019s robust standards of safety, quality and effectiveness. The safety data has also been critically assessed by the government\u2019s independent advisory body, the Commission on Human Medicines. No vaccine would be approved unless it meets these stringent standards \u2013 on that you can be sure.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Opinions<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. The United Kingdom\u2019s medicine regulator has warned that people with a history of anaphylaxis to a medicine or food should not risk taking a shot of the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine. This was revealed in a statement issued on Wednesday by June Raine, chief executive of the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":33327,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,28,14,26],"tags":[1570,1931,1794,254,1928,1929,1930],"class_list":["post-33328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-homepage-english","category-policy","category-twitter","tag-africa-press","tag-anaphylaxis","tag-covid-19-vaccine","tag-nigeria","tag-pfizer","tag-pfizer-biontech","tag-uk-medicine-regulator"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>People with anaphylaxis should not take Pfizer Covid-19 vaccines \u2013UK medicine regulator - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/people-with-anaphylaxis-should-not-take-pfizer-covid-19-vaccines-uk-medicine-regulator\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"People with anaphylaxis should not take Pfizer Covid-19 vaccines \u2013UK medicine regulator\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. 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