Tuesday, August 18, 2009

GREECE plans mandatory vaccinations ---- MALTA decides to play it safe and wait until declared safe by WHO ----GERMANY concerned about safety


MALTA: .... The swine flu vaccine will not be administered in Malta before it is declared safe by the World Health Organisation, The Times has learnt.The issue was discussed by Cabinet, which decided not to compromise vaccine safety, the Parliamentary Secretary for Community Care, Mario Galea said.....
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http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20090730/local/malta-decides-to-play-safe-on-swine-flu-vaccine


GREECE: will vaccinate its entire population of 12 million against the H1N1 swine flu pandemic which has swept around the world in weeks, killing hundreds of people, the country's health minister said on Friday.

READ MORE:http://tvnz.co.nz/health-news/greece-vaccinate-population-swine-flu-2881876#



GERMANY: Swine flu symptoms may generally be mild but in a bid to prevent a pandemic health officials and pharmaceutical companies are planning to administer a new, little-tested vaccine to millions of Germans.

"What we are experiencing here is a large-scale experiment being conducted on the German population," warns Wolfgang Becker-BrĂ¼ser, the publisher of arznei telegram, a professional journal critical of the pharmaceutical industry

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http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,640853,00.html