Donny Kwok Reuters 05/31/2010 Pfizer Inc, the world’s biggest drugmaker, is selling its swine vaccine business in China to Harbin Pharmaceutical Group for $50 million, a source with direct knowledge of the deal said on Monday. A spokeswoman from Pfizer’s Singapore office confirmed the divestment of its China swine vaccine business to Harbin Pharmaceutical but […]
Cathy O’Leary The West Australian 05/28/2010 Australian health authorities are still offering no explanation for a spike in bad reactions in young children having the flu vaccine, more than a month after they were forced to suspend the program. But GPs said it has led to a drop in the number of adults and older […]
Lisa Schnirring CIDRAP News 05/26/2010 Legal issues that came into play during the H1N1 flu pandemic provided a useful look at how laws can help ease the availability of the vaccine, but in some instances can work against immunization efforts, according to a legal expert who has analyzed events that unfolded over the past year. […]
Jinal Shah Indian Express 05/19/2010 On Day One of the swine flu vaccination drive for healthcare professionals, the BMC found the vaccine had no takers. Over 2,000 city-based professionals, who had worked in isolation wards and screening centres when the virus had first struck, had consented to taking the vaccine, but none turned up. The […]
JOHN GARNAUT TheAge.com.au 05/14/2010 ON MARCH 19, Shandong farmer Li Baoxiang consented to his only son being vaccinated for swine flu. That night, eight-year-old Li Zhikang said he felt sick. By the morning his body was trembling all over. Yesterday the father stood with tears streaming down his face at Beijing Children’s Hospital as his […]
Christina England American Chronicle 05/04/2010 Parents have heavily criticized the Western Australian government for not acting sooner, after the flu vaccine caused hundreds of children to suffer convulsions and vomiting. One angry parent told the Australian that all three of her children were taken to hospital suffering from vomiting and fits after the vaccine saying […]
ABC News 05/04/2010 There is widespread support for the State Government’s decision to launch an enquiry into the Health Department’s handling of the flu vaccination program. The program was suspended last month after hundreds of West Australian children under the age of five experienced severe adverse reactions. The executive director of the Health Consumers Association […]
Michael King 11Alive.com 05/04/2010 WASHINGTON — Despite a surplus of 71 million doses of unused swine flu vaccine, the federal said Monday that it is not time to discard them. Federal Health and Human Services Department officials said providers should continue to make the vaccine available to people until companies begin distributing seasonal flu vaccines […]
Suellen Hinde News.com.au 04/25/2010 A FAMILY is in mourning after their toddler unexpectedly died less than 12 hours after receiving a seasonal flu vaccination. Two-year-old twin Ashley Jade Epapara had been “perfectly fine” before dying at her Upper Mt Gravatt home, on Brisbane’s southside, on April 9. Parents David and Nicole are shattered by the […]
PublicService.co.uk Thursday, April 22, 2010 The World Health Organisation (WHO) overreacted to the swine flu crisis which led to hundreds of millions of pounds being spent unnecessarily on vaccines that, in some countries, were hardly used, according to Paul Flynn, head of a Council of Europe inquiry. In England the NHS spent around £155m on […]
Flu vaccination ban goes national after fever, convulsions in children Chris Tomson WAToday 04/23/2010 WA’s chief public health officer Tarun Weeramanthri has defended the response time in closing down the state’s juvenile flu vaccine program amid revelations that children were presenting with convulsions more than two weeks ago. More than 60 children around the state […]
Rob Shaw Canwest News Service 04/21/2010 B.C. could throw away almost $20 million worth of H1N1 vaccine because it went unused during swine flu season and will soon expire. Only 40 per cent of B.C.’s population chose to be vaccinated against H1N1, which meant roughly 2.5 million of the 4.3 million doses ordered by B.C. […]
. . . By Richard Cuthbertson Canwest News Service, Vancouver Sun 04/14/2010 CALGARY — The Alberta government is recalling more than 650,000 unused doses of adjuvanted H1N1 flu vaccine and is also seeking a refund from the pharmaceutical giant that manufactured the product. The moves come after Health Canada recently slashed the original provisional expiration […]
. . . Peter Doshi, graduate student Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA 02139 http://www.bmj.com/cgi/eletters/340/apr06_2/c1904 To the Editor: Since the H1N1 outbreak, the World Health Organization (WHO) appears to be distancing itself from the idea that it ever promoted the concept of an influenza pandemic as an inevitably disastrous event. Last May, the WHO […]
