Flu vaccination program in Romania

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According to an article in the New York Times I came across this

morning, it seems they are using the normal flu vaccine:

 

" In Romania, animal outbreaks were reported in the region of the

Danube Delta, with both wild and domestic birds affected, according

to news reports Saturday night on the television station Antennae One.

To limit the spread of bird flu, the authorities took hundreds of

birds from the farms and killed them and then declared a quarantine

on the villages and six counties in the area, the station reported.

The authorities were taking the extra precaution of vaccinating local

residents who might have had contact with sick birds against

conventional influenza, said Dr. Adrian Streinu-Cercel, a prominent

infectious disease specialist in Bucharest, as is suggested by the

World Health Organization.

That vaccine does nothing to protect against the bird flu. Instead,

the goal of the shots is to try to prevent a human who may be at risk

for bird flu because of close contact with birds from becoming

infected with normal seasonal flu at the same time.

Scientists have warned that such co-infection with the two types of

virus was the most likely route for the bird flu virus to acquire the

ability to pass readily from human to human, since conventional flu

is highly contagious. In the same body - as in a laboratory -- flu

viruses often exchange genes, creating new, more deadly pathogens. "

 

Kind regards

Sepp

 

 

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Sun, 09 Oct 2005 09:17:27 +0930

Hannah <blosshan

Flu vaccination program in Romania

 

http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,16863086-2,00.html

ROMANIA began to administer anti-flu vaccines to thousands of people

amid fears that the avian flu detected on Friday may be the deadly

strain that has killed over 60 in southeast Asia.

Health authorities said that based on preliminary tests they feared

that three ducks in the southeastern Tulcea region had been infected

with the H5N1 strain transmissible to humans.

 

 

In the above article it is mentioned that roughly 3000 people in

Romania will have received a flu jab by this weekend, after finding 3

ducks with the H5N1.

Is this an en masse trial for the vaccine? What vaccine are they

using/trying out? Who would be monitoring the outcome of the effects

of this vaccine?

 

Just curious, and cynical of course

 

 

 

Hannah

 

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