Vaccine would be voluntary

11:30am Tuesday 11th August 2009 in News Photograph of the Author By Clare Kennedy, Health Reporter

Southampton children in swine flu trial Southampton children in swine flu trial

CHILDREN in Southampton could be among the first in the country to try out a new swine flu vaccine.

The city is one of five areas chosen to take part in the trial for youngsters aged between six months and 12-years-old.

If funding from the NHS National Institute for Health Research is approved the trials could begin as early as next month.

As well as Southampton, trials will also take place in Bristol, Exeter, Oxford and south west London, involving around 900 children in total.

Organisers have said any participation in the scheme would be entirely voluntary and consenting parents would be warned of any risks beforehand.

Bristol University’s Professor of Paediatrics Adam Finn has helped to organise the project and said the two vaccines being piloted were “unlikely” to have any serious effects on children.

He added that the trial would help the Department of Health make decisions on any future childhood vaccination programmes.

A UK adult vaccine trial began in Leicester last week and the first swine flu vaccines are expected to be available from next month.

It is expected that vulnerable groups and front line health workers will be first in line to receive the injection.

The latest development comes after a team of Oxford University researchers yesterday urged the Department of Health to rethink its policy of giving the anti-viral drug Tamiflu to children to combat swine flu.

They said youngsters with a mild form of the illness could suffer more harm than good with the drug’s side effects including vomiting.

A total of 36 people in England have died after getting swine flu including 18-year-old Madelynne Butcher from Sholing, Southampton.

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goard says...
12:09pm Tue 11 Aug 09

Should our City be proud we have been chosen for this new vaccine - be careful mothers - how much is being injected into the arms (pills) of your little darlings. I have this imagination of years of experimination with many laboratory tests - they have tried it on our animals, now its humans and worse still babies - our tomorrows. It was one thing to have the three - measles, mumps, whooping cough, which the mothers hesitated on, another which is now becoming an old chestnut - fluoride - mothers please think and consider is this what you want for your kids. I, am by the grace of doctors - alive and almost fit, I am forever thankful for our hospitals, but nevertheless they can only act on the knowledge gleaned from our laboratory scientists - what to do.

goard

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bemused26 says...
2:25pm Tue 11 Aug 09

So, a trial for an adult vaccine started last week and the first vaccines should be available for adults from next month. That does not seem like a lot of time trialling to me. I heard (not sure how true this is or exactly when it relates to) that the Americans rushed a flu vaccine out a while back and killed more people with the vaccine than had been affected by the flu!
SW = rest-them... spooky.

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goard says...
2:40pm Tue 11 Aug 09

Its a matter of 'do as we do' or 'die'. I fear for future generations. But then in my day science and experiments were few but in any case, as my doctor said once - then 'it takes 20 years to OK a drug' and NICE was considered an OK body. But are they now?

goard

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Bartonian says...
5:07pm Tue 11 Aug 09

DO NOT TAKE THIS VACCINE!

If this is anything to go by, the vaccine contains a dangerous chemical called SQUALENE, which is linked to illnesses such as Gulf War Syndrome. Around twelve thousand children in the USA are being treated as guinea pigs for this trial, which is absolutely disgraceful. Read on with this article and come to your own conclusion:
http://www.mathaba.n
et/news/?x=621206

SWINE FLU DID NOT COME OUT OF NATURE.

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HowDictorial says...
6:16pm Tue 11 Aug 09

Bartonian wrote:
DO NOT TAKE THIS VACCINE! If this is anything to go by, the vaccine contains a dangerous chemical called SQUALENE, which is linked to illnesses such as Gulf War Syndrome. Around twelve thousand children in the USA are being treated as guinea pigs for this trial, which is absolutely disgraceful. Read on with this article and come to your own conclusion: http://www.mathaba.n et/news/?x=621206 SWINE FLU DID NOT COME OUT OF NATURE.
Bartonian i agree with you 100%,i have 3 children and have also looked into this a considerable amount over the past few weeks and what i have become aware of is just how dodgey this Swine flu vaccine really is,we heard only this week about good ol TAMIFLU & its DANGERS TO CHILDREN,,,,,
My children will deff not be having it... they are pumped full of injections from the tender age of 1mth,3mths and so on.
I say let the body do its job as nature intented it.Seems we live in such a chemical era,its frightening.
I & probably many others fear for our children & grandchildrens,futur
es.

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Adrian-Smith says...
6:45pm Tue 11 Aug 09

bemused26 wrote:
So, a trial for an adult vaccine started last week and the first vaccines should be available for adults from next month. That does not seem like a lot of time trialling to me. I heard (not sure how true this is or exactly when it relates to) that the Americans rushed a flu vaccine out a while back and killed more people with the vaccine than had been affected by the flu! SW = rest-them... spooky.
I think you are referring to what happened in the US in the 70's. There was a bit of a problem with a vaccine.

The current Pandemic (Rumsfeld Flu) is killing less people than regular flu does.

I suggest you follow the money.

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