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Em face destas notícias, é urgente que o governo explique porque é que recomenda a vacina Pandemrix para grávidas e crianças, quando a Suíça e o Canadá são peremptórios em afirmar que não há dados suficientes sobre a segurança desta vacina, neste grupos.

Switzerland on Friday restricted the use of British drugs group GlaxoSmithKline's swine flu vaccine Pandemrix, excluding pregnant women, minors and people over the age of 60.
The regulatory authority Swissmedic said it has received data on the vaccine for adults, but not for pregnant women and very little data for children.
"For this reason, Swissmedic has not yet authorised the administration of Pandemrix to pregnant women, children under the age of 18 and adults over 60," the regulator said in a statement.

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Canada has ordered 1.8 million doses of unadjuvanted swine flu vaccine for pregnant women and children under the age of three, Canada’s chief public health officer said Friday.

Adjuvants are substances added to vaccines to boost a person’s immune response to the shots. While the adjuvant to be used in Canada’s H1N1 vaccine -- an oil-in-water emulsion -- is similar to one that has been used in Europe with seasonal flu shots and other vaccines, Dr. David Butler-Jones said there’s not yet enough clinical data on adjuvanted vaccines in pregnant women and children under three.

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