[NVIC] Bird Flu Vaccine 'may not work'

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BL Fisher Note:

Whatever kind of bird flu vaccine is produced may not work, but you can be

sure if Burr's Bioshield Two legislation is passed by Congress, the nurse

with the cop and the syringe will be knocking at your door making you take

it. And if you are hurt, the CDC will say it is all a coincidence and nobody

will be held liable in a court of law...

Related article:

http://edition.cnn.com/2005/HEALTH/conditions/10/18/australia.birdflu.ap/

Australia may vaccinate its entire population

http://www.theadvertiser.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5936,16966897%255E1

702,00.html

The Advertiser, Australia

Bird flu vaccine 'may not work'

19oct05

A VACCINE for a mass inoculation against bird flu could be ineffective by

the time it comes into production, Health Minister Tony Abbott says.

The Federal Government is considering vaccinating every Australian against

bird flu under a national program if trials on a new vaccine are successful.

Tests on the vaccine, being developed by research company CSL, should be

finished by the end of the year.

But with the possibility of the bird flu virus mutating quickly, Mr Abbott

is warning people not to put too much faith in the possibility or

effectiveness of a mass vaccination campaign.

" That's why people shouldn't get too excited about a mass vaccination

campaign, " he said on Channel 9.

" People should be conscious of all the qualifiers that I have put on the

possibility of a mass vaccination campaign. "

There was a long way to go before any vaccination campaign could be

implemented, the minister said.

" The CSL trial has got to be successful, then any candidate vaccine has got

to prove to be free of significant side effects and get registered with the

Therapeutic Goods Administration, " Mr Abbott said.

" We then have to have mass production, that would require obviously a

government decision.

" And finally we would have to have a pandemic imminent before a mass

vaccination campaign would take place.

" There's quite a lot of 'ifs' before we get to that point. "

Australia has begun stockpiling doses of the anti-viral drugs Relenza and

Tamiflu, but Mr Abbott played down reports that Tamiflu may already be

redundant in fighting bird flu.

" We don't know that at all. There's simply been one report of one piece of

evidence of resistance in one place, " he said.

" We are as confident as we can be about these things, that the Tamiflu

anti-viral stockpile will be effective against any pandemic flu outbreak. "

Mr Abbott said Australia was a world leader in its preparation for a

possible bird flu pandemic and had been working on the issue for 18 months.

" Our preparations, while far from complete, are better than just about any

other country in the world, " he said.

Further tests are being carried out in Greece on a turkey detected with bird

flu, to establish if it was infected with the deadly strain of the virus

found in Turkey and Romania.

If confirmed as the H5N1 strain that has killed more than 60 people in Asia

since 2003, it would be the first case of a bird with the virus in the

European Union.

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