17-07-2009, 07:29 PM
A couple of interesting responses to the Jobbing Doctor's story above:
Quote:Anonymous said...
It's good for up to two years after its sell by date. Are you going to discuss the vaccine rushed in to deal with a flu that is relatively mild.
Baxter are collaborting with Glaxo to produce the vaccine. In the early part of this year, Baxter sent out a vaccine to its facility in Austria. The vaccine was sent to several countries including the Czech Rep where it was tested on ferrets. The ferrets died and it was later discovered that the vaccine contained two live flu viruses. The contamination from Baxter's level 3 facility in the US was no accident. This incident was not reported outside of the countries involved and a small report appeared on a canadian newspaper website.
On the BBC website a concerned medic from Mexico reported that staff at a hospital dealing with the H1N1 virus died after being injected with a vaccine.
How safe will the vaccine be?
Quote:Wednesday, July 15, 2009 9:36:00 AM
John Woolman said...
The comment on Swine flu vaccine from Anonymous 09:36 is interesting. The last time there was mass vaccination with a rapidly produced H1N1 vaccine, back in 1977, the results were not too good for the population as a whole:
"The emergence of swine influenza at Fort Dix led to the implementation of a mass vaccination program, which resulted in 40 million civilian vaccinations and 532 cases of the Guillain–Barré syndrome (a rare side effect of influenza vaccination), including 32 deaths ". This from the New England Journal of Medicine & not the Daily Mail.
http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/full...a0904322v1) For the original paper see Marks JS, Halpin TJ. Guillain-Barré syndrome in recipients of A/New Jersey influenza vaccine. JAMA 1980;243:2490-2494. It is free on line.
Make up your own mind about risk and benefit of the new vaccine, but make sure you base your advice to patients on reliable data.
Quote:Wednesday, July 15, 2009 10:08:00 AM
Anonymous said...
The Tamiflu that I was prescribed on Sunday has a use by date of Oct 2010.
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"Proverbs for Paranoids 4: You hide, They seek."
"They are in Love. Fuck the War."
Gravity's Rainbow, Thomas Pynchon
"Ccollanan Pachacamac ricuy auccacunac yahuarniy hichascancuta."
The last words of the last Inka, Tupac Amaru, led to the gallows by men of god & dogs of war