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Poll: Two Thirds Of Parents Will Not Vaccinate Kids
With H1N1 Shot
Fear over lack of testing, possible side effects
cited in survey
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A survey conducted by a leading consumer watchdog group has
found that the vast majority of parents in the U.S. say they
will not vaccinate their children against H1N1 flu, citing concerns
over the safety of the vaccine.
The results of the poll have been published by
the independent, nonprofit organization Consumers Union in their
magazine Consumer
Reports, one of the top-ten-circulation magazines
in the country.
Almost two thirds of respondents to the poll stated
that they would either refuse
the vaccine outright or wait for more information
before considering vaccinating their children.
Exactly 50% said that they would hold off on immunizing
their kids due to concerns about possible side effects of the
vaccine and worries over whether it has been tested enough.
A further 14% of parents ruled out vaccination
altogether as an option.
43% of the parents said that they were not worried
about their children catching swine flu, and an equal amount
said they felt other parents were overreacting.
35% of respondents said that they would definitely
vaccinate their children.
Consumers Union, which has been in operation for
over seventy years and has offices in Washington, D.C. and Austin,
Texas, surveyed 1,502 adults by telephone over a five day period
last month. The Group has recommended that parents consider
immunizing their children against swine flu this Fall.
The results of this survey come in the wake of
others that found the majority of
doctors and health care workers would also refuse
to be vaccinated over safety concerns, as well as half of all
pregnant
women.
As we have previously reported, Pandemrix, the
H1N1 vaccine manufactured by GlaxoSmithKilne for use in the
U.S. and the U.K., contains both the novel
adjuvant squalene,
which has been linked to Gulf War Syndrome, and thimerosal,
the mercury based preservative that some scientists have testified
is a cause of autism.
In addition, the European Medicines Agency states
on its pandemic website that there is “no
clinical experience in the elderly, in children or in adolescents"
with Pandemrix.
Authorisation was fast tracked for the vaccine
based on research using "mock up" bird flu (H5N1)
vaccines dating from 2007 and 2008.
The vaccine is now being given
to children as young as six months in the U.S.
and the U.K., along with a rival vaccine produced by Novartis
in the U.S., and another produced by Baxter in the U.K.
Medical observers are watching closely to determine
which vaccine produces the least side effects.
The vaccines have been
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.
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