Deafness

Auditory reactions to vaccination
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See: Otitis Media

Antonuccio C [On a case of vaccinosis localized at the external auditory meatus. Clinical note]. Arch Ital Laringol. 1966 May-Jun;74(3):149-52. Italian. No abstract available.PMID: 5965607; UI: 67162877. [See Related Articles]

Angerstein, W, et al, "Solitary Hearing and Equilibrium Damage After Vaccinations", Gesundheitswesen, May 1995, 57(5): 264-268.

Brodsky, Stanievich, "Sensorineural Hearing Loss Following Live Measles Virus Vaccination", Int J Ped Oto, 1985 Nov; 10(2):159-163

Hulbert, et al, "Bilateral Hearing Loss after Measles and Rubella Vaccination in an Adult", NEJM, 1991 July, 11;325(2):134

Healy, "Mumps Vaccine and Nerve Deafness", Am J Disorder Child, 1972 Jun; 123(6):612

Hulbert TV, et al. Bilateral hearing loss after measles and rubella vaccination in an adult. N Engl J Med. 1991 Jul 11;325(2):134. No abstract available.PMID: 2052052; UI: 91270316.

Jayarajan V, et al. Hearing loss following measles vaccination. J Infect. 1995 Mar;30(2):184-5. No abstract available.PMID: 7636291; UI: 95363215.[See Related Articles]

Kaga, "Unilateral Total Loss of Auditory and Vestibular Function as a Complication of Mumps Vaccination", Int J Ped Oto, Feb 1998, 43(1):73-73

Koga K, et al. [Bilateral acute profound deafness after MMR vaccination--report of a case]. Nippon Jibiinkoka Gakkai Kaiho. 1991 Aug;94(8):1142-5. Japanese. PMID: 1960595; UI: 92071796.
In April 1989 the MMR vaccination program had started, and until October, 1989, 630,000 children received vaccination. In is, however, well known that many children developed various complication including aseptic meningitis after vaccination, and the MMR vaccination program has discontinued. This report described a case of bilateral acute profound deafness most likely due to MMR vaccination. The cause of this deafness was presumed to be mumps vaccination. The bases of the presumption are as follows: the meningitis after MMR vaccination was elicited by PCR method to be caused by mumps vaccine, and the complication of CNS after measles vaccination occurs within 14 days after injection, while the onset of vomiting and gait disturbance of the case was 24 days after vaccination.

Nabe-Nielsen J, et al. Unilateral total deafness as a complication of the measles-mumps-rubella vaccination. Scand Audiol Suppl. 1988;30:69-70. PMID: 3227284; UI: 89145980

Pialoux, P et al, "Vaccinations and Deafness", Ann Otolaryng (Paris), Dec 1963, 80:1012-1013.

Pantazopoulos, PE, "Perceptive Deafness Following Prophylactic use of Tetanus anittoxin", Laryngoscope, Dec 1965, 75:1832-1836.

Stewart BJ, et al. Reports of sensorineural deafness after measles, mumps, and rubella immunisation. Arch Dis Child. 1993 Jul;69(1):153-4. PMID: 8024302; UI: 94296111.
Seiferth, LB, "Deafness after Oral Poliomyelitis Vaccination - a Case Report and Review", HNO, 1977 Aug; 25(8): 297-300

Zimmerman, W, "Observation of a case of Acute Bilateral Hearing Impairment Following Preventive Poliomyelitis Vaccination (type 3)", Arch Ohr Nas Kehlkopfheilk, 1965, 185:723-725.

"To give some idea of the (smallpox) vaccine's dangers, it was reported--in the late sixties--that annually, roughly 3,000 children were experiencing varying degrees of brain damage due to the smallpox vaccine; and according to G. Kiftel in 1967, smallpox vaccination damaged the hearing of 3,296 children in West Germany, of which 71 became totally deaf.¹¹⁷."--R Obasawin MD (117 James, W., Immunization, p. 18)

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