Comments on: Tom Nolan on what every doctor should know about the swine flu vaccine

By: rishitiwari10

rishitiwari10 — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 01:49:49 +0000

The problem is that large scale trials take months to conduct and would therefore only be published after the pandemic is over. To get around this problem the European Medicines Agency (EMEA) approves pandemic vaccines under the so called “mock-up dossier route“. The WHO Director of the Initiative for Vaccine Research, Dr Marie Kieny, explained the process during a press conference last month.

By: Peter Flegg

Peter Flegg — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 07:54:14 +0000

What do I know?

I know it did make my arm a bit sore for 36 hours.

But at least I now know that:

• I have good immunological protection,
• I am far less likely to catch swine flu from patients and give it to my family,
• I am far less likely to catch it and give it to vulnerable patients (of which I see dozens in the course of a single day),
• I am far less likely to go off sick for 10 days leaving my overworked colleagues caring for large numbers of additional patients in my absence,
• I am far less likely to catch it and develop life-threatening complications or die, and
• I am far less likely to get Guillain-Barre syndrome than if I caught the swine flu naturally.

Knowledge is truly a wonderful thing.

By: Sergio Stagnaro

Sergio Stagnaro — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 12:32:37 +0000

The fact: a small minority of young people, suffer from swine flu, all around the world, even in Neaple! In addition, among young men and women, who are involved by swine flu, only a small minority die for viral pneumonitis.
What accounts for the reason of such as greatly different behaviour? Perhaps, there is a singular constitution which predisposes to viral pneumonitis? If this is true, we must pay attention particularly to these individuals, rather than others, showing normal immune defence.

By: Cosmoskitten

Cosmoskitten — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 16:41:43 +0000

@G Shankar

In short, the safety of not taking the swineflu 2009 vaccine is not proven, and I wont be able to honestly recommend any human to not to take it.

By: G Shankar

G Shankar — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 15:15:52 +0000

In short, the safety of the vaccine is not proven, and I wont be able to honestly recommend my patients to go for it.

By: Mark Struthers

Mark Struthers — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 13:00:41 +0000

Tom Nolan tells us that,

“The Commission on Health Medicines in the UK state that the “balance of risks and benefits of thiomersal-containing vaccines is overwhelmingly positive.””

Who are the ‘Commission on Health Medicines’? And don’t you get a bit fed up with the utter meaninglessness of such utterances? I know I do.

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