”Thanks to the PKU test may care to discover more serious but rare diseases from birth. Now it will be possible to screen even for the severe immune deficiency SCID. The children affected can be thus the quicker to get treatment,” said social minister Lena Hallengren (S) in a written comment.
SCID is a congenital and fatal disease which affects about three children per year.
can be introduced via an amendment in the biobankslagen that enables screening for diseases other than metabolic disorders.
last week, the government decided to introduce vaccination against the rotavirus in the general vaccination programme from the first of september of this year. Because children who have SCID can be sick of the rotavaccinet must the screening be introduced in the PKU test prior to the change in the vaccination programme enters into force.
