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British Medical Journal: Half Of Health Workers Reject
H1N1 Vaccine
Another prominent study reveals fears over untested
jabs as Feds plan massive propaganda campaign
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A study published in the world's foremost peer-reviewed medical
journal has found that around 50% of Hong Kong's health workers
will refuse to be vaccinated against swine flu for fears over
the safety of the shot.
Research conducted by the University of Hong Kong
and made public by the British
Medical Journal consistently found that less than
half of 8,500 doctors and nurses in public hospitals would accept
vaccination against H1N1 influenza.
The study also found that the figures did not
change significantly with an increase in the WHO pandemic alert
level from phase 3 to phase 5.
"The major barriers identified were fear
of side effects and doubts about efficacy." The study reveals.
Microbiologists and infectious disease experts
involved in the study also suggest that the number of dissenters
is likely to be broadly representative of health workers worldwide.
The British Medical Journal, now known simply
as BMJ, has presided as the most influential and widely read
academic journal in the field of medicine for over 150 years.
In our report
yesterday, we highlighted the findings of three
more surveys by leading British and Canadian medical publications
that revealed one in two doctors have severe reservations over
the safety of the forthcoming H1N1 vaccine.
The figures also dovetail with those from a much
larger Nursing
Times magazine poll, that revealed 30% of
all NHS nurses said they would refuse to be immunized, with
another 33% saying they were unsure of the vaccine.
(Article continues below)
It comes as no surprise then to learn that government
officials on both sides of the Atlantic are launching huge propaganda
efforts to counter the growing revolt against vaccination.
In Britain, officials have highlighted
criticism of dissenting doctors by the Joint Committee
on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI), while the Department
of Health's director of immunisation has declared that frontline
health workers have a “duty” to take the vaccine.
The US government is also launching its own crackdown
on vaccine dissent.
"Federal authorities plan to initiate a nationwide
campaign in the coming weeks to persuade Americans to get the
swine flu vaccine and to erase any public skepticism about the
flu's danger and the safety of immunizations." reports
the San
Francisco Chronicle.
The $16 million federal programme comes as a
response to concerns both doctors and the general public have
voiced over revelations that H1N1 shots will contain mercury
and squalene.
It will attempt to allay fears over the links
these adjuvants* have to the severe
nerve disease Guillain-Barre Syndrome, which killed
more people than the actual flu virus the last time a pandemic
was declared in 1976.
* An adjuvant is a chemical which
increases the body’s reaction to a vaccine, and thus stretches
the number of doses which a given quantity of vaccine can produce.
Read more on adjuvants here.
Many people are also concerned about the fact
that the vaccine
is being rushed through safety procedures while
the government has provided pharmaceutical companies with blanket
immunity from lawsuits arriving out of the vaccine causing deaths
and injuries.
"The CDC will be monitoring immunizations
throughout the season." the article continues, "If
there are side effects, CDC officials said, they'll probably
be rare and won't show up until hundreds of thousands of people
have been vaccinated. If serious side effects appear during
clinical trials, the vaccine program will be halted immediately."
The propaganda campaign seemed to be in full swing
on Monday, with federal officials announcing that they estimate
60 to 120 million people could be infected in the US this fall
and winter, with 1.8 million people being hospitalized and as
many as 90,000 dying.
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