As the vaccination campaign to end the pandemic slowly heats up, another healthcare worker has suffered a severe allergic reaction after receiving the coronavirus vaccine from Pfizer Inc and BioNTech.
A 32-year-old doctor in Mexico was hospitalized after receiving the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine.
The doctor, whose name has not been released, was admitted to the intensive care unit of a public hospital in the northern state of Nuevo León after experiencing seizures, shortness of breath and a skin rash.
“The initial diagnosis is encephalomyelitis,” the Health Ministry said in a statement released Friday night. Encephalomyelitis is an inflammation of the brain and spinal cord.
The ministry added that the doctor has a history of allergic reactions and said there is no evidence from clinical trials that someone developed inflammation of the brain after applying the vaccine.
Pfizer and BioNTech could not be immediately reached for comment.
More than 126,500 people have died from COVID-19 in Mexico. The country began distributing the first round of COVID-19 vaccines to healthcare workers on December 24.
(With inputs from agencies)
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