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The Department of Health has revealed it is to scrap plans for healthy children under five to continue to be vaccinated against swine flu, just three months after urging GPs to vaccinate more than three million youngsters against the outbreak.
In a major U-Turn, the Chief Medical Officer, Sir Liam Donaldson, revealed the programme of vaccinating healthy children would wrap up at the end of next month, although GPs have been told to continue to try to vaccinate children until then.
Extending the vaccination campaign to children has proved a disappointment, with just 17% of children in England having had the vaccine according to the latest uptake figures.
GP leaders blamed protracted negotiations with the Government, which refused to provide concessions on GP workload via a national deal, for the lack of uptake in a campaign which ended up being launched as a hugely patchwork and bitter set of local arrangements between PCTs and GPs.
The move to scrap child vaccination against swine flu will also be seen as vindication by many GPs, with the majority of respondents to a Pulse poll in December claiming that it was a waste of NHS resources.
A spokesperson for the Department of Health said: ‘The programme was extended to young healthy children because more people in this age group were hospitalised.
‘We want to ensure that the NHS has the opportunity to complete this programme of work so that all children in this age group can have the vaccine if their parents and carers wish.
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‘Following advice from JCVI, and given the low levels of swine flu virus circulating, the risk from the virus is lower for young children than the clinical risk groups so we will not be extending that part of the programme beyond the end of March.’
It means GPs have an impossible task of vaccinating more than 2.5 million children in just over a month, with only 518,000 doses having been given to healthy children to date.
Dr Dean Marshall, a GPC negotiator on swine flu, said: ‘I believe the take up of the vaccine among children would have been much greater had we not wasted several weeks in negotiations with the Government which meant the campaign did not get under way until after Christmas, by which time fears over the illness had lessened.'
The Government also revealed that just 32% of all target groups had been vaccinated in England, which confirms Pulse's predictions that the vast majority of GPs will fail to receive reduced thresholds in this year's patient survey, after the GPC's national deal based on vaccination of at risk groups aged between 5-65.
Sir Liam revealed overall figures for vaccination take up were far worse in England than other parts of the UK and elsewhere in Europe, adding: ‘We continue to receive anecdotal accounts of people not being aware of their need and entitlement for vaccination or believing that vaccination clinics are unavailable.
It would be really helpful if you [GPs] were able to check whether awareness and access to the vaccine is high in your practice. That way we can ensure that this important protection is widely in place.’
Source: Pulse GP's magazine, by Ian Quinn, 22 February 2010.
* Mary - Dunstable | 19 Feb 10
It does make one wonder! Either the threat from swine flu to the under 5s is real - in which case the campaign to immunise them needs to be continued despite current low uptake **OR** the threat is not real, in which case it should stop now! Not in the surgery and not sure whether the LES (terms imposed by DH) was a target or IOS fee - but should a clinically necessary immunisation campaign depend on uptake? If so, why did we continue with MMR when the uptake was reduced by the autism scare?
* Stephen - Bury | 22 Feb 10
Why continue to vaccinate the under fives for another 5 weeks if it is no longer thought to be necessary based on risk vs benefit and how do we explain this to confused parents?
* chris | 22 Feb 10
So is there a risk or isn't there? If not, just stop now, if there is continue! The whole thing seems very wooly and lacking in evidence based arguments. The uptake in our area is low as letters from PCT have only gone out in the last month to invite children in. There does seem to be a lot of factors impeding the roll out of the vaccine when if we had had the go ahead we were all prepared to work hard and get it done for everyone before Xmas!
* anglea | 22 Feb 10
So why have some practices today recieved letters from DOH telling them to continue vaccinating all at risks and under 5's through spring and summer? Left hand/right hand or wrong information?
* david | 22 Feb 10
Does nothing at all for public confidence in GP advice we give to patients based on the official line(how many of us believed in it anyway?). Also now advised to give to travellers to Southern hemisphere - from a 10 dose vial- ??? Do we throw the rest away?Speechless!
* John | 22 Feb 10
I am shocked by the spin of Sir Liam. Not long ago he dissed the pulse survey as being 'non-scientific' and pointed to another survey as being more scientific that suggested over 70% of parents would go for the vaccine. Of course the Pulse survey was very accurate and the other survey favoured by Sir Liam turned out to be complete rubbish. How can such an obvious spin doctor who ignores the observation of reality in favour of propaganda that the Third Reich would be proud of hope to continue? No wonder he has resigned. He can't go soon enough for me. Tip for his replacement - more hard science to back up your claims regarding the safety and efficacy of said vaccine and far less political spin and propaganda.
* neil | 22 Feb 10
The biggest problem that we have had on the front line is that swine flu has only been a mild illness. It never lived upto the apocolyptic chaos originally portrayed - 65,000 deaths, food and infrastrucure shortages... Unfortunately the DoH had commited itself to 60 million doses of vaccine and a stockpile of Tamiflu due to expire in 2010. Lessons learnt:- 1.Pandemic doesn't = serious. Perhaps the old epidemiology definition needs to be restored. 2. If you can't convince and engage the healthcare teams of the value of vaccination then your stockpiles are going nowhere
* margaret | 26 Feb 10
The decision by the Department of Health to simply abandon the under fives swine flu vaccination programme begs more questions than it answers. For a start why are we supposed to continue to vaccinate children tikl the end of March - if the DH has carried out a careful cost-risk benefit analysis and decided it is no longer thought to be necessary. And how do we explain this to confused parents? I know the decision to stockpile the vaccine had to made quickly and at a time when it was far from clear how serious the pandemic was going to be. But what's changed since the decision was made to vaccinate children to now? Very little it seems. This decision seems to be based on financial expediencey rather than clinical judgment. Is 'well if noone wants it let's not bother anymore' a reasonable way to run a vaccination campaign? However - maybe it's a rather fitting way to end a rather ignominius chapter in the DH's history
Source: Pulse GP magazine website:
http://www.pulsetoday.co.uk/story.asp?storycode=4125143&cid=Latest_headlines_1_220210We
The GMC recently announced that Dr. Andrew Wakefield was dishonest, his study was false and he had a callous disregard for children.
VAN UK would like to point out that the case paper involving 12 children was NOT a study but a case paper and Dr. Wakefield asked that a study be undertaken to establish if there was a link between MMR, autism and bowel disease. He also said that such a link at the time had not been 'proven', so the DOH's reaction has been a massive over-reaction and in our opinion, somewhat guilty. A guilty party always goes on the defensive.
If the DOH were truly concerned about children dying from measles (and incidently, 96% of deaths are in the third world), then they would have continued to allow parents access to the single measles vaccine on the NHS. The fact that they withdrew it, leaving a lot of pro-vaccine parents unwilling to vaccinate, would seem to us rather counter productive. If you believe in vaccines as they do then any vaccine is better than none.
Ever since the publication of the 1998 case paper, the DOH have presented studies supposedly to 'prove' that MMR doesn't cause autism, instead of doing what they were supposed to, determining what DOES cause it and investigating the bowel symptoms of the children, most of whom are in serious pain. One of the mother's of a child in the paper told me she cannot even take her child to the GP because they say to treat him would be 'too political' and when he has had serious medical events happen to him, the A+E staff have told her they will 'only treat the emergency, not the condition'.
These children have been dumped like hot potatoes and no one from the medical profession except Dr. Wakefield and his team have cared to help them. Since when did politics come before pain and suffering?
The children - some of them now young adults - were not allowed to state their views on their treatment at the GMC hearing and for those who were too disabled to do so, their parents were denied the opportunity to speak for them. Not one parent of the 12 children involved complained about Andrew Wakefield, in fact, some said he had been helping their children and relieving their pain.
It seems to us that it is the DOH who has a callous disregard for the wellbeing of children.
To retract a paper is not going to make the issue go away. There have now been studies done in the US and court hearings showing a link between autism and vaccines and there has been a very recent paper (listed on the autism, mercury and vaccines page of this site) that replicated Andrew Wakefield's findings of bowel disease in autistic children.
If a doctor cannot even question something because it is against popular theory, that is not science and we feel that the Lancet has lost some of its credibility as a result.
In order to promote their patented drugs and vaccines against flu, pharmaceutical companies have influenced scientists and official agencies, responsible for public health standards, to alarm governments worldwide. They have made them squander tight health care resources for inefficient vaccine strategies and needlessly exposed millions of healthy people to the risk of unknown side-effects of insufficiently tested vaccines.
The "birds-flu“-campaign (2005/06) combined with the "swine-flu“-campaign seem to have caused a great deal of damage not only to some vaccinated patients and to public health budgets, but also to the credibility and accountability of important international health agencies. The definition of an alarming pandemic must not be under the influence of drug-sellers.
The member states of the Council of Europe should ask for immediate investigations on the consequences at national as well as European level.
http://assembly.coe.int/Documents/WorkingDocs/Doc09/EDOC12110.pdf
Dear Health Protection Scotland
I would like to directly challenge you after you asserted in a newspaper article in the Scotsman, by Richard Bath, that my organisation was 'persuing a reckless cause' that would lead to the deaths of babies and mothers from swine flu, due to my organisation heading protests against the untested vaccine.
There is NO PROOF for your assertion that my organisation would do any such thing and ample proof that you, Health Protection Scotland, are being reckless with the lives of thousands of unborn infants and their mothers.
According to this NHS training pack for immunisers, here:
http://209.85.229.132/search?q=cache:RbuvyWzwBe4J:www.nes.scot.nhs.uk/hai/pandemic_flu/documents/H1N1v1.003-08-09.pdf+Celvapan+data+sheet&cd=8&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=uk&client=firefox-a
both vaccines, Pandemrix and Celvapan HAVE NOT BEEN EVALUATED for side-effects or contraindications so it is basically a big experiment and you have no idea if the patient you are injecting is contraindicated or what type of side-effects they might experience. It has also NOT been tested on pregnant women so to recommend it for pregnant women is irresponsible, particularly when the Pandemrix version contains mercury which has been detected in evalated levels in autistic children (Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons Volume 8 Number 3 Fall 2003) and Merck, a vaccine manufacturer, say thimerosal can cause 'considerable damage to health and may even be lethal' -
http://www.vce.org/mercury/thimerosal-usp.pdf
My question would be why you are injecting a potentially lethal substance into a pregnant woman?
Another study found that even tiny injections of thimerosal can cause autism - 'As a result of the present findings, in combination with the brain pathology observed in patients diagnosed with autism, the present study helps to support the possible biological plausibility for how low-dose exposure to mercury from thimerosal-containing vaccines may be associated with autism' - (Induction of metallothionein in mouse cerebellum and cerebrum with low-dose thimerosal injection, Cell Biology and Toxicology, 0742-2091 (Print) 1573-6822 (Online), 9 April 2009).
The Journal of Pediatric Infectious Diseases also said that governments should bring in laws that prevent the use of thimerosal in vaccines - (Journal of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Volume 4, Number 3 / 2009) and in many other countries in the world, H1N1 vaccine is NOT recommended for pregnant women. In fact, a data sheet for Afluria H1N1 vaccine shows that the vaccine SHOULD NOT BE USED IN PREGNANT OR NURSING MOTHERS and has not been tested in such groups:
Pregnancy Category C: Animal reproduction studies have not been conducted with Influenza A (H1N1) 2009 Monovalent Vaccine or AFLURIA. It is also not known whether these vaccines can cause fetal harm when administered to a pregnant woman or can affect reproduction capacity. Influenza A (H1N1) 2009 Monovalent Vaccine should be given to a pregnant woman only if clearly needed.
Neither Influenza A (H1N1) 2009 Monovalent Vaccine nor AFLURIA has been evaluated in nursing mothers. It is not known whether Influenza A (H1N1) 2009 Monovalent Vaccine or AFLURIA is excreted in human milk. Because many drugs are excreted in human milk, caution should be exercised when Influenza A (H1N1) 2009 Monovalent Vaccine is administered to a nursing woman.'
http://www.fda.gov/downloads/BiologicsBloodVaccines/Vaccines/ApprovedProducts/UCM182401.pdf
Although this brand is not being used in the UK, they are all very similar H1N1 vaccines.
According to a 10 November government document, plans are in place to mandate H1N1 vaccine and exclude unvaccinated children from school -
http://www.parliament.uk/commons/lib/research/briefings/snsc-05164.pdf
This is a violation of human rights and since the drug is clearly experimental, admitted in the NHS document, it is against the nuremburg code. The first directive of the nuremburg code states that:
'The voluntary consent of the human subject is absolutely essential. This means that the person involved should have legal capacity to give consent; should be so situated as to be able to exercise free power of choice, without the intervention of any element of force, fraud, deceit, duress, over-reaching, or other ulterior form of constraint or coercion; and should have sufficient knowledge and comprehension of the elements of the subject matter involved as to enable him to make an understanding and enlightened decision. This latter element requires that before the acceptance of an affirmative decision by the experimental subject there should be made known to him the nature, duration, and purpose of the experiment; the method and means by which it is to be conducted; all inconveniences and hazards reasonable to be expected; and the effects upon his health or person which may possibly come from his participation in the experiment.' - (http://ohsr.od.nih.gov/guidelines/nuremberg.html).
So even suggesting that vaccines could be coerced is illegal.
The JCVI meeting minutes for 18 February 2009 said that they would only introduce influenza vaccines for pregnant women if it was cost effective and reduced respiratory disease in neonates:
'the vaccination of pregnant women was only likely to be cost-effective if there was evidence to suggest that vaccination in the late stages of pregnancy reduced influenza in neonates.' - http://www.dh.gov.uk/prod_consum_dh/groups/dh_digitalassets/@dh/@ab/documents/digitalasset/dh_097411.pdf
So in actual fact, they introduced a vaccine that had NO EVIDENCE of reducing disease in newborns and were only interested in introducing it if it made enough money. It seems money is more important to this government than the health and wellbeing of mothers and their babies.
A report in Le Parisen newspaper in France told of a mother who lost her baby at term after being vaccinated and the baby had H1N1 in his tissues (Le Parisien, 14 December 2009) and another report in a Swedish paper told of a previously healthy mother who had a brain haemorrhage after vaccination and her baby had to be delivered two months early - http://www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/article6283276.ab
There are dozens of women in the UK writing to the newspapers with similar stories, so you, Health Protection Scotland, are endangering the lives of many, and all for an illness that is as mild as normal flu. If you look at NHS choices flu and swine flu pages, you will see the symptoms are exactly the same:
http://www.nhs.uk/Conditions/Flu/Pages/Symptoms.aspx
http://www.nhs.uk/Conditions/pandemic-flu/Pages/Symptoms.aspx
Doctors are NOT taking swabs for this so they have no idea if the person actually has H1N1 or not and the person gets diagnosed over the phone without even being seen just to boost up swine flu notifications to encourage sales of your untested vaccine and misdiagnoses over the phone line have actually led to children dying of meningitis.
This for an illness that has killed far less than regular flu. One in three people get cancer, yet you don't scream from the roof tops about how everyone is going to die in the same way you have done with swine flu.
You are highly irresponsible and put money, profit and government agenda ahead of the health of mothers and their babies.
You should be ashamed of yourself,
Joanna Karpasea-Jones
Vaccine Awareness Network UK.
THIS LETTER HAS BEEN SENT TO HEALTH PROTECTION SCOTLAND, THE SCOTTISH HEALTH MINISTER AND THE SCOTSMAN NEWSPAPER. NEITHER THE MINISTER NOR HEALTH PROTECTION SCOTLAND HAVE REPLIED AND TO MY KNOWLEDGE THE NEWSPAPER HAS NOT PRINTED MY REBUTTAL - 23/12/09.
Powers to impose compulsory vaccination
Most legal powers needed to manage a pandemic are provided under the Public Health Acts covering England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland, which empower local authorities to require examination, hospitalisation, or isolation of infected persons, create a criminal offence relating to exposing others to risk of infection, and allow some controls over school attendance and playgrounds.
In other words, although local authorities cannot force people to be vaccinated under those powers, they can for example refuse to admit children to school unless they have been vaccinated.
However, the Government has extremely broad powers for tackling an emergency, in the Civil Contingencies Act 2004. This includes a special procedure for making regulations in an emergency, if existing legislation could not relied upon without the risk of serious delay, and various other conditions are met.
In particular:
22 Scope of emergency regulations
(1) Emergency regulations may make any provision which the person making the regulations is satisfied is appropriate for the purpose of preventing, controlling or mitigating an aspect or effect of the emergency in respect of which the regulations are made.
(2) In particular, emergency regulations may make any provision which the person making the regulations is satisfied is appropriate for the purpose of—
(a) protecting human life, health or safety,
(b) treating human illness or injury,
Thus, if the situation became serious enough for compulsory vaccination to be considered necessary, regulations could be introduced under the Civil Contingencies Act 2004 and these could include penalties for non-compliance.
http://www.parliament.uk/commons/lib/research/briefings/snsc-05164.pdf
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Demonstrators marched through Scotland's capital to protest against swine flu vaccination.
The group believe H1N1 is not as serious as it is claimed, and have concerns about the safety and usefulness of the vaccine.
Around 80 people took part in Saturday's march along Edinburgh's Royal Mile from St Giles' Cathedral to the Scottish Parliament.
Source: The Press Association, 13 December 2009
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ukpress/article/ALeqM5ghkO8yBQtEIhskaPR080CqH_PVeg
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This is not a perfect translation and I am sure there are mistakes as I needed the computer to help me. I only speak a little bit of Greek but here's what I wrote to the minister:
Αγαπητέ Κύριε
Είμαι ένα δεύτερο ελληνικό. Ο πατέρας μου ήταν τόσο ελληνικές Σας γράφω αυτή την επιστολή για να αντιταχθεί στην υποχρεωτική εμβολιασμό όλων των Ελλήνων πολιτών.
Το νέο εμβόλιο H1N1 δεν έχει δοκιμαστεί ακόμα και την ασφάλεια που περιέχει υδράργυρο που έχει απαγορευτεί από την παιδική ηλικία εμβολιασμού στις ΗΠΑ και του Ηνωμένου Βασιλείου για λόγους ασφαλείας. Σύμφωνα με αυτό το NHS εγγράφου:
http://209.85.229.132/search?q=cache:RbuvyWzwBe4J:www.nes.scot.nhs.uk/hai/pandemic_flu/documents/H1N1v1.003-08-09.pdf + Celvapan + + datasheet & cd = 8 & hl = en & ct = clnk & gl = uk & client = firefox-a
το εμβόλιο περιέχει επίσης squalene που έχει συνδεθεί με σύνδρομο Πόλεμο του Κόλπου, και Octoxynol 10 που είναι ένα spermacide και δεν έχει θέση σε μια εμβολιασμό.
Ο πολίτες, συμπεριλαμβανομένων των μελών της οικογενείας μου, έχουν το δικαίωμα να μην είναι αναγκασμένοι να έχουν ένα εμβόλιο που δεν έχει δοκιμαστεί και ασφάλειας περιλαμβάνει γνωστά δηλητηριώδη συστατικά. Είναι μια παραβίαση των ανθρωπίνων δικαιωμάτων.
Αυτό δεν είναι μια κατάσταση πανδημίας, μόλις 800 έχουν πεθάνει σε παγκόσμια κλίμακα - ότι περισσότερα άτομα που πεθαίνουν από την τακτική της γρίπης κάθε χρόνο σε μία μόνο χώρα.
Κατά την τελευταία επιδημία της γρίπης των χοίρων, μόνο ένα άτομο πεθάνει από την ασθένεια - ακόμα 25 σκοτώθηκαν από το εμβόλιο και αρκετές εκατοντάδες παραλύσει. Παρακαλείσθε να μάθουμε από τα λάθη της κυβέρνησης των ΗΠΑ και επιτρέπει στους πολίτες στην όμορφη χώρα σας την ευκαιρία να πω, αν δεν δεν θέλουν ένα εμβόλιο.
Φιλικά,
Joanna Karpasea-Jones.
English version of what it is supposed to say:
Dear Sir
I am half Greek. My father was Greek so I am writing this letter to object to the mandatory vaccination of all Greek citizens.
The new H1N1 vaccine has not been safety tested yet and it contains mercury which has been banned from childhood vaccinations in the US and UK for safety reasons. According to this nhs document:
http://209.85.229.132/search?q=cache:RbuvyWzwBe4J:www.nes.scot.nhs.uk/hai/pandemic_flu/documents/H1N1v1.003-08-09.pdf+Celvapan+data+sheet&cd=8&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=uk&client=firefox-a
the vaccine also contains squalene which has been linked to Gulf War Syndrome, and Octoxynol 10 which is a spermacide and has no place in a vaccination.
Your citizens, including my family members, have a right not to be forced to have a vaccine that hasn't been safety tested and contains known poisonous ingredients. It is a violation of human rights.
This is NOT a pandemic situation, only 800 have died worldwide - more people that that die of regular flu every year in just one country.
In the last swine flu epidemic, only one person died of the disease - yet 25 were killed by the vaccine and several hundred paralysed. Please learn from the mistakes of the US government and allow the citizens in your beautiful country the opportunity to say no if they don't want a vaccine.
Sincerely,
Joanna Karpasea-Jones.
I will let everyone know if the minister writes back to me.
Αγαπητή κυρία Karpasea-Jones, σας ευχαριστούμε για την επιστολή σας προς τον κ Υπουργό. Σε ότι αφορά το μείζον ζήτημα του εμβολιασμού για τη νέα γρίπη με το πολυαναμενόμενο πανδημικό εμβόλιο στη χώρα μας, είναι υποχρέωση της πολιτείας και του Υπουργείου Υγείας να εξασφαλίσει τις απαιτούμενες δόσεις του εμβολίου για όλους του Έλληνες πολίτες. Ήδη οι πρώτες παρτίδες της παραγγελίας αναμένονται βάσει του συμφωνηθέντος χρονοδιαγράμματος μέχρι τις 15 Σεπτεμβρίου. Ωστόσο, το «πράσινο φως» για τον εμβολιασμό του πληθυσμού θα πρέπει να δοθεί από τον Παγκόσμιο Οργανισμό Υγείας (ΠΟΥ) και την αρμόδια Ευρωπαϊκή Αρχή για τα Φάρμακα (European Medicine Agency, EMEA). Σύμφωνα με σχετική πρόσφατη ανακοίνωση της ΕΜΕΑ, τα πρώτα αποτελέσματα για την αποτελεσματικότητα, ανοσογονικότητα και ασφάλεια του εμβολίου από τις δοκιμές αναμένονται από τον Σεπτέμβριο του 2009 και θα μελετηθούν μόλις αυτά καταστούν διαθέσιμα. Έχει δε δηλωθεί επανειλημμένα, ότι δεν είναι δυνατό να υπάρξει πλήρως αδειοδοτημένο, και ως εκ τούτου ασφαλώς δοκιμασμένο, εμβόλιο για τη νέα γρίπη πριν από τον ερχόμενο Δεκέμβριο. Κι αυτό διότι ενώ συνήθως απαιτούνται κλινικές μελέτες 2-3 μηνών σε 1.000 ανθρώπους για να ελεγχθεί η αποτελεσματικότητα ενός εμβολίου, η ασφάλειά του απαιτεί χορήγηση σε περίπου 100.000 άτομα τα οποία θα ελέγχονται κάθε 6 εβδομάδες και για χρονικό διάστημα 3-4 μηνών. Ωστόσο, δεν αποκλείεται το ακραίο σενάριο εάν η μετάδοση του ιού Η1Ν1 δεν ανακόπτεται και τεθεί ζήτημα επείγουσας εμβολιαστικής κάλυψης του πληθυσμού, να χορηγηθούν τα νέα εμβόλια χωρίς την έγκριση της Επιτροπής Φαρμακευτικών Προϊόντων για Ανθρώπινη Χρήση του ΕΜΕΑ. Σε κάθε περίπτωση, ο πολίτης θα έχει δικαίωμα να επιλέξει εάν επιθυμεί ή όχι να εμβολιαστεί, αφού ενημερωθεί πρώτα για τα οφέλη και τα ρίσκα μιας τέτοιας προσωπικής απόφασης. Στην διάθεση σας για ότι άλλο χρειαστείτε. Με φιλικούς χαιρετισμούς, Κατερίνα Καρατζά Γραφείο Υπουργού 210-5202312
Dear Ms. Karpasea-Jones,
Thank you for your letter to Mr Minister.
As for the crux of the new vaccination for the anticipated flu pandemic vaccine in our country, it is the duty of the state and the Ministry of Health to ensure the required doses of vaccine for all Greek citizens. Already the first batch of orders expected under the agreed timetable by 15 September.
However, the "green light" to vaccinate the population should be given by the World Health Organization (WHO) and the relevant European Medicines Authority (European Medicine Agency, EMEA). According to an recent announcement of the EMEA, the first results on the effectiveness, safety and immunogenicity of the vaccine trials are expected by September 2009 and will be studied as they become available. Has not declared repeatedly that it can not be fully licensed, and therefore certainly tried, the new vaccine before flu in December. This is because, whereas most clinical studies required 2-3 months to 1,000 people to test the efficacy of a vaccine, its safety requires feeding to about 100,000 people who are tested every 6 weeks for a period of 3-4 months. However, it excluded the extreme scenario where the transmission of the virus I1N1 not inhibited and no question of emergency vaccination coverage of the population, given the new vaccines without the approval of the Committee on Medicinal Products for Human Use at the EMEA.
In any case, the citizen has the right to choose whether or not it wishes to be vaccinated after the first informed about the benefits and risks of such a personal decision.
At your disposal for everything you will need.
Sincerely,
Katerina Karatzas
Minister's Office
210-5202312
Dear Κυρία,
Σας ευχαριστώ για την απάντησή σας σχετικά με το εμβόλιο H1N1. Χαίρομαι ακούω ότι ελληνική πολίτες θα έχουν επιλογή.
Ωστόσο, γιατί έκανε ένα 31ης Ιούλη Reuters άρθρο πω ότι η Ελλάδα ήταν η υποχρεωτική εμβολιασμός;
Είπε "Αποφασίσαμε ότι το σύνολο του πληθυσμού, όλων των πολιτών και των κατοίκων, χωρίς καμία εξαίρεση, θα πρέπει να έχουν εμβολιαστεί κατά της γρίπης," υπουργός Υγείας Δημήτρης Αβραμόπουλος δήλωσε μετά από μια υπουργική συνάντηση.
Δείτε εδώ:
http://www.reuters.com/article/GCA-SwineFlu/idUSTRE56U3VV20090731?rpc=60
Είναι αυτό το άρθρο, που εκ των πραγμάτων λανθασμένη;
Έχω επίσης δει πανδημία γρίπης έκτακτης ανάγκης σας σχέδια, τα οποία αναφέρουν ότι η αστυνομία θα είναι παρούσα σε κέντρα εμβολιασμού. Γιατί θα πρέπει αστυνομία αν δεν πρόκειται να αναγκάσει τους ανθρώπους να την έχει;
Το σχέδιο αναφέρει επίσης ότι θα υπάρχει επιπλέον χώρος στο εσωτερικό των κέντρων εμβολιασμού για τους ανθρώπους που αρνούνται, διότι «θα χρειαστεί περισσότερο χρόνο». Γιατί συμβαίνει αυτό; Ακούγεται σαν δύναμη. Εάν ένα άτομο δεν θέλει το εμβόλιο, γιατί δεν πάνε ακριβώς το σπίτι;
Εδώ είναι πανδημία σχέδιο σας:
http://www.ebeth.gr/eb/docs/Sxedio_Drasis_gia_thn_griph.pdf
Ποιο είναι το σημείο των πολιτών υπογράφοντας το έντυπο συγκατάθεσης όταν γίνεται με την αστυνομία σήμερα; Αυτό είναι κάτω από πίεση.
Μπορείτε να μου εξηγήσετε αυτό σε μένα;
Φιλικά,
Ιωάννα Karpasea-Jones.
ENGLISH VERSION:
Dear Madam,
Thank you for your reply regarding H1N1 vaccine. I am glad to hear that Greek citizens will have choice.
However, why did a 31 July Reuters article say that Greece was mandating the vaccination?
It said "We decided that the entire population, all citizens and residents, without any exception, will be vaccinated against the flu," Health Minister Dimitris Avramopoulos said after a ministerial meeting.
See here:
http://www.reuters.com/article/GCA-SwineFlu/idUSTRE56U3VV20090731?rpc=60
Is this article factually incorrect?
I have also seen your pandemic flu emergency plans which state that police will be present at vaccination centres. Why would you need police if you aren't going to force people to have it?
The plan also says that there will be extra space inside the vaccination centres for the people who refuse because 'it will take more time'. Why is this? It sounds like force. If a person doesn't want the vaccine, why don't they just go home?
Here is your pandemic plan:
http://www.ebeth.gr/eb/docs/Sxedio_Drasis_gia_thn_griph.pdf
What is the point of citizens signing the consent form if it's done with police present? That is under duress.
Can you explain this to me?
Sincerely,
Joanna Karpasea-Jones.
Please note as of 22 November I still have not had a reply from the Greek Health Minister despite sending the same letter twice. I have now sent the letter to the new Greek Health Minister who took over office on 7 October 2009. Let's hope she replies to me.
WHO launches global vaccination program
The World Health Organization has issued a binding ‘recommendation’ to all member countries requiring them to institute mandatory vaccination programs. Under an existing multilateral agreement this formally invokes each state’s pandemic plan and puts coordination under control of WHO. For some European states the pandemic plan includes setting aside government as normal and ruling the country by a special council under control of the EU and WHO. France has already announced that it will effect a move to military rule beginning in September.
The global pandemic vaccination program will begin somewhere around the end of September and last about two months. Many countries are in the process of acquiring from Baxter, Novartis, GlaxoSmithKline and other pharmaceutical companies enough doses of vaccine to vaccinate their entire population twice. They remain quiet about mandatory vaccination, simply saying they will make vaccination ‘available’ to all on a priority basis. But Greece and Switzerland have already announced that their programs will be mandatory and enforced by the military. There are unconfirmed reports that Norway and Israel have done the same. The United States is preparing for military ‘assisted’ mandatory vaccination but has not explicitly declared its intentions to the public.
Source: Columbia Valley News, 14 August 2009.
Nearly 200 babies and toddlers in Kirkby have been asked to come in and have their vaccinations AGAIN because it was discovered that the vaccines weren't being stored at the correct temperature, which doctors say renders them ineffective. (No mention was made as to the side-effects from this. Doctors say it is not harmful, but they don't say how they know this).
Letters have been sent out to all the parents explaining what has happened and asking them to bring their babies back for 'free jabs'.
What with this and the latest Meningitis C vaccine scandal, I am so glad my children were never part of the national vaccination programme. If they had been, I would have been so furious at the potiential side-effects, neglience from the doctors at not following basic safety protocol, and the trauma of putting my babies through pain and distress for NOTHING, that the LAST thing I would do is take them in for round two!
The story of the Kirby Babies vaccine blunder is on chad.co.uk, dated 4 March 2009.
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Out-of-date vaccinations have been given to 70 pre-school children after an error at a Kent medical practice.
Parents of the children have been told Hildenborough Medical Practice gave more than 100 injections that were up to nine months out of date.
NHS West Kent said the children's health was not at risk, but the vaccinations would be less effective and boosters would be needed.
"As far as we are aware, no child has come to harm," said Dr James Thallon.
"Our first priority when it became clear that it happened was to make sure that patient safety was preserved."
"The out of date vaccinations are not toxic, or harmful to the children"
Dr James Thallon, NHS West Kent Primary Care Trust
The vaccinations, some of them for meningitis, were given between January and August and the error was discovered several weeks ago.
The medical practice wrote to the parents involved on 7 October.
Dr Thallon, speaking for NHS West Kent Primary Care Trust (PCT), said the practice took appropriate action when the mistake was discovered and contacted Kent Health Protection Unit.
An audit of vaccine stocks was undertaken to find the number of children affected and the correct course of action.
"We want to assure parents that the out of date vaccinations are not toxic, or harmful to the children," said Dr Thallon.
"The PCT has reviewed the immunisation records at the practice and we are confident that no further out of date immunisations have been administered.
"The practice has taken interim action to ensure that the administration of immunisations is now in line with NHS best practice, and a full investigation into the incident is being led by the PCT."
Source: BBC News, Kent, 17 October 2009.
Swine flu may be sickening millions of people, but it's adding a healthy hue to the financial performance of the vaccine industry. The Boston Globe reports that the pandemic is delivering a $7 billion windfall to manufacturers.
They're using some of that avalanche of cash to invest in new technologies, while benefiting from what they've learned about fast-track vaccine development. That new knowledge and technology will be put to good use as the vaccine industry is projected to double in size in seven years. Scientia Advisors estimates that total vaccine revenue will jump from $16 billion in 2007 to $35 billion in 2014.
"With a pandemic like this, the upside for us is clearly significant,'' Andrin Oswald, chief executive of Novartis Vaccines and Diagnostics, tells the Globe. "The quicker we can ramp up our volume, the better it will be for people in the United States and around the world.''
Source: Fierce Vaccines, 22 October 2009.
Prescriptions for GlaxoSmithKline's rotavirus vaccine, Rotarix, have been suspended by the Jordan Food and Drugs Administration as it contains a virus, porcine circovirus type 1, which has unknown side effects, Jordan Times has reported. The move follows a warning by the US Food and Drug Administration calling for suspending the use of the vaccine until further investigations are complete. The vaccine is given to babies aged six weeks and older to prevent gastroenteritis (diarrhoea and vomiting) caused by rotavirus infections.
Source: http://www.ameinfo.com/227622.html
The Health Ministry has ordered medical personnel to temporarily stop using Rotarix, one of two vaccines that prevent a diarrhea-causing virus that leads to the hospitalization of some 5,000 babies in the country annually.
Israel is suspending use of the vaccine, manufactured by British drugmaker GlaxoSmithKline, after it was found to include traces of contamination by an apparently harmless pig virus - porcine circovirus 1, known as PCV1.
"The Health Ministry is adopting the decision of the U.S. [Food and Drug] Administration," a ministry spokesman said. "There have been no reports so far about side effects connected with this finding."
The FDA has temporarily suspended use of the vaccine, which is used to prevent rotavirus gastroenteritis, and Israel has followed suit as a precautionary measure. The U.S. agency has said there is no evidence that the presence of PCV1 poses a safety risk and no medical follow-up is needed for patients who have already received the vaccine.
Israel has no plans to stop stocking the vaccine on a permanent basis. The FDA said it would issue further information when it becomes available.
Switzerland has also suspended use of the vaccine. The European Medicines Agency has asked GlaxoSmithKline to look into how the DNA of a foreign viral strain got into the vaccine.
The World Health Organization said the risks from rotavirus, which kills 500,000 children a year globally, outweigh any potential risks from the pig virus. In Israel, the virus kills an average of one baby every two years.
The drug manufacturer said PCV1 is not known to cause illness in humans and is frequently eaten in meat without causing disease or illness. Its Israeli representatives said the company would be looking into the matter and is in regular contact with health authorities in Israel and around the world.
A quarter of the babies in Israel are vaccinated against rotavirus, using either Rotarix or Merck's RotaTeq, whose use has not been halted.
The vaccine is not covered by health insurance, but that is expected to change this year. In the meantime, the necessary doses cost NIS 450 for families with supplementary insurance plans, and double the price for those with basic insurance.
The rotavirus vaccine contains a weakened form of the live virus and is administered orally in the form of drops from the age of six weeks.
Rota is the most common gastroenteritis-causing virus, and its symptoms can include diarrhea, vomiting and fever. The existing vaccines make it possible to prevent 90 percent of rota infections, which are most prevalent among babies and children up to age 5.
Last October, Haaretz reported that pediatricians had called on the Health Ministry to include the vaccine in the national vaccination plan as soon as possible, as is done in 70 countries, including the United States.
Source: http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1158623.html
Health authorities in Hong Kong on Friday ordered the recall of rotavirus vaccine contaminated by a pig virus, though members of an advisory panel of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration said the vaccine did not appear to create health risks and should still be used.
The Rotateq vaccine recalled in Hong Kong is made by Merck and is one of two U.S.-approved rotavirus vaccines. The recall comes two months after the FDA recommended that doctors suspend use of the other rotavirus vaccine, GlaxoSmithKline’s Rotarix, because it was found to be contaminated by the porcine virus. Now more sensitive tests have turned up pig virus in the Merck vaccine, too.
Without a virus-free vaccine to choose from, members of the FDA advisory panel said that use of the vaccines should continue because the benefits outweigh the risks. The pig virus is not known to cause human illness, and rotavirus can cause severe diarrhea and is responsible for the deaths of thousands of infants each year, particularly in developing countries.
Officials in Hong Kong described the recall as a precautionary measure in response to quality control issues involving the Rotateq vaccine.
The lack of a virus-free version of rotavirus vaccine may cause the FDA to revise its warning to avoid Rotarix, reports MedPage Today.
Source: Fair Warning, 7 May 2010.
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