Hungary's new flu vaccine not suitable for children, pregnant women, says health advisor
The vaccine against the new flu virus is not suitable for small children and pregnant women, a member of Hungary's Collegium for Infectology, an advisor to the Health Ministry, said in a television programme on TV2 on Sunday evening.
Pregnant women should instead be treated with antiviral products, of which there is not enough in the country, Andras Szalka said.
The Health Ministry responded that it had not to date received a statement from the Collegium to this effect, however, it added that Chief Medical Officer Ferenc Falus has called a meeting of the pandemic committee for Monday, where this matter would be discussed.
The fourth patient died in Hungary on Thursday associated with the new flu A/H1N1 virus. The virus had been revealed in 283 cases since it appeared in Hungary in May
Thursday, October 29, 2009
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Anyone's newspapers or news station mention this? Seems pretty important given the fact that people in that area have had these shots for much longer than the US.
ReplyDeleteAnd people say we wear tin foil hats....