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&quot;This should raise concern. Local committees should be in a better position to investigate because they can reach fast and get better information. Instead, we see national committee finding the reasons of death in more details,&quot; said Amitav Banerjee, professor of community medicine at D Y Patil Medical College, Pune. Banerjee has written a letter to the Union health secretary to look into the matter of deaths as well as the discrepancy.
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The Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare has admitted that the pentavalent vaccine has caused at least three infant deaths in Tamil Nadu since December 2011 when the vaccine was launched in the state. The admission follows a Right To Information query after vaccine-related deaths were reported in Tamil Nadu, Kerala and Haryana.   
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The district and state AEFI committees had confirmed only one vaccine-related death in Tamil Nadu. The National AEFI Committee found that three out of four deaths it investigated were caused by the vaccine. The national body concluded that it found &quot;a consistent causal association&quot; of death to immunisation.
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&quot;This should raise concern. Local committees should be in a better position to investigate because they can reach fast and get better information. Instead, we see national committee finding the reasons of death in more details,&quot; said Amitav Banerjee, professor of community medicine at D Y Patil Medical College, Pune. Banerjee has written a letter to the Union health secretary to look into the matter of deaths as well as the discrepancy.
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Centre confirms three pentavalent vaccine deaths -Jyotsna Singh

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