Vaccines against swine flu

الأحد، 4 أكتوبر 2009

Vaccines against swine flu

For health agencies as well as their experts, this is a leitmotiv that a longstanding past experience with vaccines against seasonal flu is clearly relevant for the development of new vaccines against swine flu and justifies the frightening swiftness of their current development. But as demonstrated in the previous section, a thorough assessment of this past experience is now available – and it is disastrous.

Even worst, the manufacturers and health agencies do not contend themselves with using this disastrous precedent as a shield: they search to take advantage of a supposed pandemic emergency to get rid of time-consuming regulatory prerequisites regarding major pharmaceutical innovations such as new adjuvants or new processes of viral cultures (each of them likely to require years of research).

If, in some 40 years of anti-flu routine, the responsibles have not proved to be able to produce any sound evidence of efficacy for their vaccines, who would be ready to believe that they will do better under the pressure of emergency ?...
http://www.rolandsimion.org/spip.php?article61