Now Cameron Wants to Inject You With Old Swine Flu Vaccines Due to Current Shortages
Friday, 07 January 2011 09:18
Translation by Autumnson Blog
'David Cameron said the Department of Health was "working hard" to tackle the problem after reports that some areas have run out of the flu vaccine.'大衛卡梅隆表示，衛生署在“努力“解決問題，在有報導稱一些地區已用完流感疫苗後。
The government confirmed on Wednesday there were "local supply" issues, but denied there was a national shortfall. It has also asked suppliers to see if there were spare vaccines in Europe.
政府週三證實，“本地供應“有問題但否認有全國性的短缺。它亦已要求供應商，看看歐洲是否有多餘的疫苗。
But it is thought that there are only about 100,000 doses at most and so using the pandemic vaccine that was left over - there are millions of doses stockpiled - could provide the solution. The vaccine is different from the jab being offered this year, but as swine flu is the dominant strain in circulation it could offer some protection.'
但它被認為，只有最多約10萬劑，和因此使用遺留下來的大流行疫苗 - 有數百萬劑量庫存 - 可提供解決方案。該疫苗是不同於今年提供的刺戳，但因為豬流感是流通的主導菌株，它有可能提供一些保護。'
Old pandemic flu vaccines may plug shortfall, PM says
舊的大流行流感疫苗可堵塞短缺：首相說
Read more: Now Cameron Wants to Inject You With Old Swine Flu Vaccines Due to Current Shortages
But before you rush out and get yourself injected read this...
但在你衝出去接受注射之前請閱讀這...
未使用的豬流感疫苗變成有害廢物
Unused swine flu vaccine turns into hazardous waste
(14.04.2010)
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Stuck with thousands, of unused swine flu shots, local health care providers are faced with the problem to discard flu vaccine for the first time in recent memory.
Background:
背景：
Swine flu vaccine left over from the winter 2009/2010 vacination campaign expires these days and therefore has to be disposed. Due to the content of mercury added as Thimerosal (also known as Thiomersal) to most of the vaccines that depending on the manufacturer can reach 25-50 ppm in the vaccine, the left overs have to be handled as "hazardous waste".
從2009/2010冬季疫苗注射運動遺留下來的豬流感疫苗這些天到期，及因此必須處理。由於水銀含量被加入作為硫柳汞在大部分的疫苗，這取決於製造商和可以達到25-50 ppm在疫苗中，剩下來的必須以“危險廢物“處理。
USA:Even as health officials are warning of a possible third wave of the H1N1 virus, or swine flue, this spring, millions of doses of surplus vaccine are about to be destroyed. In the US, only 90 million of the 162 million vaccine doses produced were administered and much of the unused vaccine has expired or soon will.
"The (vaccine) products have various expiration dates, depending on when they were produced," said Tom Skinner of the national Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Normally leftover flu vaccine is shipped to the state health department. But since the swine flu vaccine program was through the federal government, no one is sure what to do with the leftover vaccine.
"I don't have an exact number," he said. "But we are preparing a plan to share with the public very soon on proper disposal of vaccines or return of the vaccines for disposal."
Skinner noted the CDC paid $1.6 billion to four manufacturers to produce 229 million H1N1 doses. Of that number, 162 million doses were produced, 90 million of which were administered nationally. An estimated 71 million doses of the swine flu vaccine with looming expiration dates will have to be discarded, according to a recent Washington Post report. Another 60 million doses are being shipped to underdeveloped countries, or set aside for possible future use.
Interestingly Guidance documents provided by Health Departments forsee the handling of expired vaccines as "biomedical waste" that is allowed to be dumped at a municipal solid waste lanfill in quantities less than 100 pounds. It seems that these guidance documents fail to recognoize the mercury content of the vaccine that according to EPA turns the vaccine into "hazardous waste".
Europe:
The ratio of unused to ordered doses of the vaccines in Europe is even higher. For example in Germany only about 10% of the population received the vaccine.
WHO:
Meanwhile, The World Health Organization (WHO) faces mounting charges that it overreacted to the pandemic. It is alleged that the Geneva based arm of the United Nations was influenced by pharmaceutical companies to exaggerate the risk, thereby helping in vaccine sales. Nevertheless, WHO has launched an internal review of its response and announced that a committee of 29 outside experts would conduct an independent assessment.
http://www.speciation.net/News/Unused-swine-flu-vaccine-turns-into-hazardous-waste-;~/2010/04/14/4970.html
http://www.davidicke.com/headlines/43062-now-cameron-wants-to-inject-you-with-old-swine-flu-vaccines-due-to-current-shortages
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