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Polls: Half Of Doctors Will Refuse To Take Swine Flu
Shot
Healthcare workers revolt against vaccination while
government plans mass immunization programmes
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Two separate polls of GPs in Britain have revealed that one
in two doctors have severe reservations over the safety of the
forthcoming H1N1 flu vaccine, raising serious questions over
the government's planned mass vaccination programme.
A poll of doctors for Pulse
magazine found that 49% would reject the vaccine
with 9% still undecided.
56 of the 115 GPs surveyed said they did not intend
to receive the jab, according to the UK's leading medical weekly
publication for health professionals.
A second poll conducted by GP
magazine reveals that Up to 60% of GPs have severe
doubts over the proposed vaccine. Of 216 GPs surveyed, 29% say
they will outright refuse to be vaccinated, while a further
29% remain unsure. Only 41% of doctors said they would definitely
take the shot.
Of those who said they would not take the shot,
71% said they were concerned that the vaccine had "not
been through sufficient trials to guarantee its safety".
Over half, 50.4%, said they "believe that swine flu is
too mild to justify taking the vaccine".
The Department of Health sought to dismiss the
results, declaring that the small number of responders to the
surveys was not reflective of the opinions of all doctors.
However, these figures also dovetail with those from a much
larger Nursing
Times magazine poll, that revealed 30% of
all NHS nurses said they would refuse to be immunized, with
another 33% saying they were unsure.
Of the 30% of nurses who said they would refuse to be vaccinated,
60% said the reason was due to fears about the safety of the
vaccine, following revelations that the shots will contain mercury
and squalene
and have also been linked with the killer
nerve disease Guillain-Barre Syndrome. Another
31% said they would refuse the vaccine because they did not
consider the risk from swine flu to be great enough.
The government has promised to vaccinate all health
workers before Christmas at the latest, to deal with what it
has described as the "second wave" of swine flu.
The vaccine
is being rushed through safety procedures while
the government has provided pharmaceutical companies with blanket
immunity from lawsuits arriving out of the vaccine causing deaths
and injuries.
Richard Hoey, editor of Pulse told the Daily
Mail "The view among many doctors is that
the Government hasn't yet made its case for why such a huge
vaccination programme needs to be rushed in for what seems to
be an unusually mild illness."
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Yet another new study, published in the Canadian
journal Emerging Health Threats, found that the public
also has grave reservations over the forthcoming vaccination
campaign.
Parents and health-care workers are reluctant
to be immunized or vaccinate their children against a pandemic
virus for fear that a drug would be brought to market with insufficient
testing, reports the Globe
and Mail.
The study, which used a number of focus groups
to establish the likely response of different people to a vaccine,
concluded that people who believe alternative therapies and
a good diet are a better option than vaccines need to be "won
over".
It is highly disturbing that one in two doctors
have concerns over the safety of vaccines while the shots are
being actively tested
on members of the public, including children.
Since it is now clear that the majority of the population
will refuse to take the vaccine, it seems that the government’s
only option will be to institute a mandatory program backed
by force, or to drop plans for mass vaccination altogether.
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