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7 August 2009

FEARS AS PUPILS GET SWINE FLU JAB

By Martyn Brown

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PARENTS’ fears were growing last night over plans

to use Britain’s 8.5million schoolchildren as

guinea pigs for swine flu vaccinations.

The Government has drawn up drastic plans to

immunise every schoolchild in the UK.

In the biggest mass vaccination since the 1964

operation against smallpox, school nurses, health

visitors and GPs would deliver the injections to

five to 16-year-olds at all 33,700 schools.

The programme could start at the beginning of the

new school term in a major effort to minimise the

harm caused by a second wave of the pandemic this autumn.

But there are serious concerns as little or no

data exists on the safety or effectiveness of flu vaccines on young children.

However, the Department of Health stressed that

no decision had been made on delivering the vaccination programme.

Jackie Fletcher, who runs Jabs, a support group

for parents whose children have been affected by

vaccines, said the Government could end up with

unnecessary deaths on their hands if proper tests are not carried out.

She said: “We have got major concerns about the safety of these vaccines.

“No children or anyone else for that matter

should be used as guinea pigs for something like

this. There are too many unknowns.

“With millions of people vaccinated the chances

of serious side effects, possibly fatal, are very real indeed.”

She pointed to America in 1976 when the

government vaccinated 45 million people for a

swine flu outbreak that never materialised.

A total of 500 people developed a rare

neurological condition called Guillain-Barre syndrome and 25 died.

Ms Fletcher said: “We simply cannot run that risk

in Britain. Any vaccinations in September or

October are too early. This is a knee-jerk reaction by the Government.”

, professor of tropical epidemiology

at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical

Medicine, said: “What happened in America has never really been understood.

“It’s not really been observed with subsequent

influenza vaccines,” said Professor , who is

chairman of the global advisory committee on

vaccine safety at the World Health Organisation.

Parents would need to give permission for a child

to be vaccinated. But there are questions over

whether there will be enough health professionals

to carry out the vaccinations – there are just

1,447 nurses covering 25,000 schools in England.

Government figures showed the number being

diagnosed dropped from 110,000 to 30,000 over the

past seven days. But there have been nine new

deaths related to the virus in the last week, and 36 people have now died.

Chief medical officer Sir Liam son has

predicted a “second wave” when schools reopen.

Meanwhile, the country’s first swine flu vaccine

trial is being held at Leicester Royal Infirmary.

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