About 80% of the state medical fraternity is unwilling to be vaccinated against swine flu. Of the total 34,000 doctors, nurses and other paramedical staff in the state working to treat swine flu patients, only 5,300 have showed willingness to take the swine flu vaccination. “The others are reluctant to be vaccinated with the imported H1N1 flu vaccination,” said Dr DS Dakhure, the state director for health services.

Nozia Sayyed, DNA, Mumbai

Swine Flu Vaccine Tests On Romanian Children Unethical

Growing concern in Romania about the opaque circumstances in which a vaccine against H1N1 flu is being tested on children has forced health authorities to postpone the launch of the vaccination campaign by at least one month. Their families — most of them low-income — are being paid up to $825 for allowing their children to be inoculated. The vaccine, called Cantgrip, is produced by the Cantacuzino Institute, a private company with minority state ownership. Cantacuzino seems to have sidestepped established procedures of testing and introducing new drugs. The tests were not carried out by the Cantacuzino Institute itself but by a small private company, IFE Human Pharmacology, now operating under the name Pierrel Research HP-RO. It appears that Human Pharmacology was the only participant in the public tender for the testing of the vaccine. The vaccine was administered only two days after the public tender.

Rita Uplend, Vaccine News Daily

Swine Flu Vaccine Blamed For Paralysis

Just before Christmas, Stephanie Willette went from being a healthy nursing student to suddenly being a helpless patient paralyzed from the neck down with a tracheotomy so she could breathe. Today the 20-year-old is slowly recovering in a Kingston rehab hospital, still unable to sit up. The Lindsay woman is yet another person stricken with Guillain Barre Syndrome, yet another whose family blames her H1N1 flu shot for triggering the neurological condition. How many have really been devastated by this highly touted vaccine? And why is Quebec the only province that has a no-fault compensation program? Dr. David Butler-Jones, Canada’s chief medical officer of health, is refusing to answer the concerns of so many parents. No one has even had the decency to reply.

Michelle Mandel, Toronto Sun

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