THE GERMAN Medical Association (DAK) has advised against giving young children and pregnant women the new swine flu vaccine Pandemrix, containing an immune system-stimulating compound.
“We know the effects of the various ingredients in adjuvant vaccines but not the combined effect. It’s understandable that people are wary of getting jabs of drug cocktails.”
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“While Pandemrix contains no components that are completely unknown to us, the more components a vaccine has, the greater the chance of side effects,” said Prof Lothar Wieler of the Institute for Microbiology and Animal (Epizootic) Diseases at Berlin’s Free University.
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But Germany’s DAK opposes the vaccine’s use in risk-groups saying that, since the risks of swine flu are lower than initially feared, it would be unwise to rely exclusively on new vaccines containing adjuvants if alternatives are available.
“If there was only a risk of mild side effects, one could ignore them in the face of the danger of a pandemic,” said Dr Montgomery, DAK vice- president.
“But what we don’t know from less-researched vaccines is the long-term damage that might only occur in one case in a million.
Via Irish Times
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