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🗓️ 13 July 2020
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0:00.0 | There's a study that was just published and this was out of Bangladesh. |
0:05.6 | Now, it has to do with the Pentavalent vaccine. |
0:09.3 | That's a five-in-one vaccine. |
0:10.8 | It's basically DTP, HBV, and HIB. |
0:15.8 | It's all in one. |
0:16.8 | In 2020, UNICEF and the WHO issue guidelines for developing nations on a Penta vaccine. |
0:23.9 | And a year later, that vaccine accounted for 100% of the DTP containing vaccines that |
0:29.2 | UNICEF uses. |
0:30.8 | As far as developing nations, these children are all getting this vaccine. |
0:36.4 | So the study, it's called Penta, is associated with an increased female male mortality |
0:42.0 | ratio. |
0:43.0 | That's not a Bangladesh. |
0:44.5 | So the examin mortality rates of over 7,000 children from 2011 to 2016. |
0:50.4 | The conclusion on the study reads, quote, |
0:54.2 | Penta, as the most recent administered vaccination, was associated with significant |
0:58.6 | excess female mortality between six weeks and nine months of age. |
1:02.6 | And that's the window when they get this Penta vaccine. |
1:05.4 | So they found that girls had higher mortality than boys at the age of the Penta vaccination, |
1:10.2 | which is two to nine months. |
1:12.5 | And this is in partnership with the Guinea-Bassao and Peter Abe's group. |
1:18.1 | And they're findings basically consistent with several other findings with the DTP vaccine |
1:24.3 | when it comes to mortality, specifically female mortality. |
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