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Canadian Health Minister Wants 100% Of Population H1N1
Vaccinated
Goal is to get everyone to take the jab before
Christmas
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 Despite
national polls indicating that only one third of Canadians intend
to get the H1N1 flu vaccine, a Federal Health Minister says
it is the government's goal to vaccinate 100% of the population.
"My goal is to have 100 per cent of Canadians
(vaccinated)," chief public health officer Dr. David Butler-Jones
told reporters at the National Microbiology Laboratory in Winnipeg.
The minister stated that the vaccine will be rolled
out in the first week of November, with the goal of vaccinating
everyone by the end of December.
"No step is going to be skipped," the
health minister pledged. Once the vaccine is approved, it will
be shipped to the provinces and territories and local health
authorities will operate immunization programs."
Butler-Jones made
the statement at a press gathering to announce
a funding boost for swine flu research from the federal government
in the shape of $2.4 million.
"At the end of the day, it is an individual
choice," he said. "(But) if you don't want H1N1, get
the vaccine." Butler-Jones urged.
"We're very fortunate as Canadians to be
able to have that choice." he added
Last week a new Canadian
Press Harris-Decima poll indicated that only a
third of people in Canada intend to take the shot. That figure
is down from 45% in a similar poll conducted in August.
Only 11 per cent of respondents described themselves
as very concerned about H1N1.
Butler-Jones scolded a portion of Canadian health
workers who have also indicated that they do not intend to get
vaccinated:
"Doctors and nurses are not immortal, as
much as we might think we are," he said. "And, unfortunately,
if we're not immunized, and we have influenza, we'll take it
into the nursing home and hospital and, potentially, we'll kill
our patients."
The concerns of Canadian doctors and Health Workers
have been proven justified by a study led by Dr Danuta Skowronski
of the British Columbia Centre for Disease Control and Dr Gaston
De Serres of Laval University, Quebec. The study found that
seasonal
flu jabs could double the risk of developing swine flu.
The World Health Organisation has dismissed the
research as inconclusive, however some provincial and territorial
public health authorities in Canada, including those in Ontario,
have expressed
great concern, leading to threats to delay or cancel
mass vaccination programs.
Canada is to use the adjuvanted GlaxoSmithKline
H1N1 vaccine Pandemrix, which contains both squalene
and thimerosal, which have been linked with neurological side
effects.
Pandemrix has also been
"fast tracked" based on research only
using "mock up" bird flu vaccines dating from 2007
and 2008.
The Canadian government, like those of the US
and the UK, has agreed
to protect the producer of it's H1N1 vaccine from lawsuits
over potential side effects.
The majority of cases of swine flu in Canada have
turned out to be mild, with the virus having been linked to
79 deaths. The seasonal flu usually kills around 2000 people
per year in Canada.
On Wednesday Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper
appeared
to hedge when asked if he and his family would
get vaccinated.
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