Re: Bid to calm fears over 'untested' swine flu vaccine

[Guest guest]

This is where we hold them by the face, look them in the eyes like we do with

our children when they're out of control and say " The vaccine hasn't been made

yet. You don't know the benefits. You don't know the risks. Stop lying. "

Winnie

Bid to calm fears over 'untested' swine flu vaccine

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> I wonder how many Brits will get in line to have this vaccine?

> I expect my

> FIL will be one...(

>

>

> http://www.independent.co

> uk/life-style/health-and-families/health-news/bid-to-calm-fears-

> over-untested

> swine-flu-vaccine-1751927.html

>

> Bid to calm fears over 'untested' swine flu vaccine

>

> By Press Association

>

>

> Saturday, 18 July 2009

>

> A senior adviser to the Government moved to calm concerns over

> the swine flu

> vaccine today after questions were raised about whether it will

> have been

> sufficiently tested before it is used.

>

> Professor Sir Gordon Duff, co-chairman of the Scientific

> Advisory Group for

> Emergencies, said the benefits far outweighed any potential

> risks.

>

> The first deliveries of the vaccine are expected in August. But

> a spokesman

> for the European Medicines Agency told The Independent: " What the

> manufacturers will be submitting will not have any clinical

> trial data. We

> expect the interim adult data from September and the first

> paediatric data

> from October onwards. "

>

> The Department of Health said the vaccine would be safe and

> warned that any

> suggestion otherwise would create unnecessary panic.

>

> Sir Gordon, who is also chairman of the Scientific Pandemic Influenza

> Advisory Committee, told the Press Association: " We are content that

> benefits far outweigh the risks. "

>

> He said the companies preparing the vaccine had been working on " core "

> vaccines which had been tested on 6,000 people.

>

> " In a pandemic, you can't predict what the virus is going to be,

> so to make

> a vaccine you use a similar virus. These core vaccines have been

> tested on 5

> 000-6,000 people already, with no serious adverse effects.

>

> " It is inconceivable that in the UK we would consider a vaccine

> without giving a full scientific appraisal of its benefits and

> theoretical risks. That is just what these risks are -

> theoretical. "

>

>