13 Nov 2009

Vaccine safety debated

In Italy people are arguing about the safety of the vaccination against the swine flu. This is the biggest debate, not the efficiency of the heath care system or the supply of antiviral drugs. Today the Italian news websites cover the unconfirmed death of a man in Germany after the vaccination. The Deputy Health Ministry Ferruccio Fazio keep reassuring that the vaccine is safe. He also announced that his sons will get the vaccine shot very soon.
Professor Franco Cuccurullo, Presidente of Consiglio Superiore di Sanità, has replied to the doubts risen by the consumer organization Codacons over the adjuvant used in the Focetria vaccine, containing squalene. Anyway, Codacons is collecting evidence of possible cases of adverse effects. The confirmed deaths of the pandemic have risen to 44.

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