With AstraZeneca's vaccine trial still on pause in US, questions abound about mysterious illnesses

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With AstraZeneca's vaccine trial still on pause in US, questions abound about study participants' mysterious illnesses

(CNN) - As US health authorities consider whether to allow AstraZeneca to resume the clinical trial of its coronavirus vaccine, crucial questions remain about neurological illnesses suffered by study participants who received injections of the experimental vaccine.

The trial has been on hold in the United States for more than two weeks, and regulators face the task of trying to figure out if these illnesses were random and disconnected from the vaccine, or if they are related to the vaccine.

AstraZeneca and its partner, the University of Oxford, have given various accounts of the sick volunteers.

AstraZeneca told the media that the first volunteer who became ill had "an undiagnosed case of multiple sclerosis," but information on the Oxford website describes volunteers who developed "unexplained neurological symptoms." The company has stated that the second volunteer had "an unexplained illness" but an internal company document, which was labeled as "initial," states that at least at one point, she had a rare neurological condition called transverse myelitis.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/25/health/astrazeneca-covid-19-vaccine-trial-questions-fda/index.html

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1. And if you have a hereditary neuropathy, like HNPP, you're probably doubly fucked!