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German scientists say they found the reason for the thrombosis complications that temporarily had stopped the vaccination with AZ in several European countries.

Der Spiegel writes:

The University Medical Center Greifswald has now broken down the likely cause of the blood clots. According to Andreas Greinacher, he and his team found special antibodies in the blood of those affected, which are directed against the body's own blood platelets. These cells play an important role in blood clotting. The antibodies activate the platelets: they clump together, as they normally do to close a wound, and thus form blood clots. The basic problem is therefore an autoimmune reaction.

In Germany, 13 cases of sinus vein thrombosis were reported shortly after an AstraZeneca vaccination, all of which were associated with a lack of blood platelets, i.e. a so-called thrombocytopenia. Around 1.6 million people in Germany were vaccinated.

According to Greinacher, the problems that arose shortly after the vaccination are similar to a long-known complication with the administration of another agent, heparin-induced thrombocytopenia, or HIT for short. There, too, antibodies activate platelets so that clots form. In both cases the symptoms appear within 5 to 14 days after administration of the preparation.
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Females in general are more often affected by auto-immune diseases than males, and in the main its the older people and nurses who are being vaccinated so far. Most nurses are females.This may explain why so many women are amongst the thrombosis victims.