One Third of Nurses Will Refuse Swine Flu Jab

This article was posted on The Daily Mail last week, if one third of nursed refuse the vaccine that should be a good indicator to the rest of us that something is amiss...

A third of nurses will refuse to have the swine flu jab
By Daniel Martin
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Last updated at 8:58 AM on 18th August 2009
Up to a third of nurses will say no to the swine flu jab because of concerns over its safety, a poll has found.
NHS workers are first in line for the vaccine, but a survey of 1,500 nurses found many will reject it.
Last night a Government scientist condemned the results saying nurses who do not have the jab are putting patients at risk.

Up to a third of nurses will say no to the swine flu jab because of concerns over its safety, a poll has found

Nevertheless the poll, by Nursing Times magazine, will raise questions over the Government's planned mass vaccination programme.
Of 1,500 readers, 30 per cent would not say yes to the vaccine, while 33 per cent said maybe. Just 37 per cent said they would definitely have the jab.
Of those who said they would refuse the jab, 60 per cent said their main reason was concern about the safety of the vaccine.
A further 31 per cent said they did not consider the risks to their health from swine flu to be great enough, while 9 per cent thought they would not be able to take time off work to get immunised.
Some 91 per cent described themselves as frontline nurses.
One told the magazine: 'I would not be willing to put myself at risk of unknown long-term effects to facilitate a short-term solution.'
Another added: 'I have yet to be convinced there is a genuine health risk and it's not just Government propaganda.'

But Professor David Salisbury, the Department of Health's director of immunisation, reckoned it was unfortunate nurses would 'knowingly leave themselves at risk'.
TODAY'S POLL Will you have the swine flu jab?
Yes No VOTE POLL RESULTS Close All polls Click to view yesterday's poll results He added: 'They have a duty to their patients and they have a duty to their families. I think you solve those responsibilities by being vaccinated.'
And Chief Nursing Officer Christine Beasley insisted: 'Frontline nurses will be absolutely crucial in the height of a pandemic without them, patient care will suffer and the NHS will be stretched.
'Getting the vaccine will protect nurses and their patients. That's why we're offering frontline nurses the vaccine as a top priority.'
The jab, currently being fast tracked, will not be fully tested before it is administered.
There will be no tests at all carried out on children under three, even though babies and children at high risk will be among the first to get the vaccine.
There are also concerns the jab can cause Guillain Barre Syndrome, which can lead to paralysis and even death.
A mass swine flu vaccination in the U.S. in 1976 caused far more deaths than the disease it was designed to combat and the Health Protection Agency watchdog has asked doctors to be on the lookout for cases of GBS.
Last week Chief Medical Officer Sir Liam Donaldson announced the jab will be given to high-risk groups with asthma or diabetes, as well as health workers.
Some 14million will be covered by the first wave of the vaccination programme.
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The jab, currently being fast tracked, will not be fully tested before it is administered.

As soon as Gordon Brown, Stephen Harper and Barack Obama and their SPOUSES AND CHILDREN have ALL had their shots ON TV then maybe the rest of the world can follow. BUT the leaders and their families must have their shots FIRST.

We need to be FULLY assured that it is safe - precisely because it has NOT BEEN TESTED.

- Francesca Thomas, Ontario, Canada, 18/8/2009 17:23

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To Laura, I believe the 25 you mentioned, where the ones that died in the mass vaccination in the US in 1976 after one soldier died from swine flu.
And as for Dr Michael Ward, I suggest you do some research on Baxter, one of the companies supplying the vaccine, just Google, Baxter H5N1 toronto sun and you may not be so quick to recommend the jab.

- Lee Nichols, Walton-on-the-naze, England, 18/8/2009 15:37

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God Bless those nurses! I hope none of them get this! I hope no one gets this vaccine. Did anyone see the article here yesterday 25 died from the shot???? they didn't even say who or where, just died on the headline then a bunch of info on why you should still get it.

- Laura, Marietta Ga, 18/8/2009 14:13

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So - Dr Michael Ward, Bradford , UK,

1. What do you know about SQUALENE and the side effects produced through injection?

2. European Medicines Agency (EMEA -the European Union's equivalent of America's FDA) that listed the basic ingredients in the primary "pandemic flu" vaccine being purchased for Europe ­ GlaxoSmithKline's (GSK) PANDEMRIX vaccine. This EMEA Document is very, very revealing.
The vaccine consists of:

Active Substance: Pandemic influenza vaccine (H5N1) (split virion, inactivated, adjuvanted) A/VietNam/1194/2004 NIBRG-14.

CLEARLY, THIS IS BIRD FLU vaccine, with the isolated antigen being the VietNam killer bird flu virus that has exhibited such a high mortality rate amongst victims in that country.

Why does an H1N1 vaccine need live adjuvanted H5N1 virus to be added?

No one should take this vaccine.

- Gavin, Tyne and Wear England, 18/8/2009 13:58

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In the US, just plain vanilla flu routinely kills about 40,000 people each year (figure does not include deaths from nosocomial infections).

Unless we start seeing a comparable proportioned fatality rate from this particular flu it seem irresponsibly premature to inject people with an untested vaccine that has not been judged safe by normal medical vaccination standards.

If it was an emergency, that would change things...but it isn't. If it were an emergency, I'm sure all the political and medical leaders would be getting their "jabs" right now and from the same vaccination batch to ensure continuity of government, right?

- Jack, Scottsdale, USA, 18/8/2009 13:46