Swine flu vaccine tossed

[Guest guest]

and what happens to the mercury in it when it is burned? Goes into

our air and then our bodies

And it is $260 million dollars, Winnie

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gcx9bjqSn_mHLMw5rb3eoY32TZdQD9GMFDPO0

see here

Sheri

At 04:45 PM 7/1/2010, you wrote:

Even at a buck a pop, we're talking $40 million of our taxes wasted

because someone overestimated the " need. " I'm surprised it

didn't occur to them to donate the vaccine to other countries which are

now going through their flu season.

Winnie

(

http://pagingdrgupta.blogs.cnn.com/2010/07/01/swine-flu-vaccine-tossed/

)

July 1st, 2010

03:22 PM ET

Swine flu vaccine tossed

An estimated 40 million doses of H1N1 vaccine expired Wednesday and will

be thrown away, the

U.S. Department of

Health and Human Services, says. Federal officials

say the expired vaccine accounts for nearly 25 percent of the 162 million

doses of swine flu vaccine that were available for public use. The

vaccine will be crushed and then incinerated.

According to HHS, an estimated 90 million doses of the vaccine was

dispensed in 2009-2010. Eighty million Americans were vaccinated–about 25

percent of the population–children under 9 years old got two doses.

Approximately 32 million doses remain in storage, set to expire at

various times next year.

Manufacturing the vaccine in large numbers was justified, says HHS

spokesperson Bill Hall. " Our decisions regarding vaccine production

were in line with the existing threat at the time such decisions were

made. Although there were many doses of vaccine that went unused, it was

much more appropriate to have been prepared for the worst case scenario

than to have had too few doses. As we have said repeatedly, the risk of

influenza disease is far greater than the risk of vaccination either for

seasonal or pandemic influenza. "

For the upcoming flu season, manufacturers expect to produce about 175

million doses of the 2010-2011 seasonal vaccine that will include the

2009 H1N1 strain. But HHS is encouraging states to keep any H1N1 vaccine

they have in stock in the event cases begin to spike before that seasonal

vaccine is available.

Sheri Nakken, R.N., MA, Hahnemannian

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