cheekyboy Posted July 12, 2009 Report Share Posted July 12, 2009 Swine flu: plans to vaccinate UK ITN Health chiefs are preparing to vaccinate the entire population against swine flu, it has emerged. Skip related content Related photos / videos Swine flu: plans to vaccinate UK In what would be the biggest vaccination programme of the last 50 years, experts are already drawing up a priority list of patients to be given immunity before the bug becomes more virulent. It comes after the first British patient without underlying health problems died after contracting swine flu, taking the number of swine flu-linked deaths in the UK to 15. Peter Holden, the British Medical Association's lead negotiator on swine flu, told a Sunday paper: "The high risk groups will be done at GPs' surgeries. "People are still making decisions over this, but we want to get cracking before we get a second wave, which is traditionally far more virulent. "If the virus does (mutate), it can get a lot more nasty, and the idea is to give people immunity." He added: "But the sheer logistics of dealing with 60 million people can't be underestimated." The latest swine flu-linked death happened at Basildon and Thurrock University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, NHS East of England. Chief Medical Officer Sir Liam Donaldson warned on Saturday that other healthy people were at risk of dying from the disease. He said: "As with all flu-like viruses, some people are at higher risk than others. Unfortunately, people who are otherwise healthy could also become seriously ill or, sadly, die." But Sir Liam added: "Fortunately, this particular new virus isn't nearly as severe as it could have been. "If it had, for example, come out of the bird flu variant it would have been producing much higher levels of mortality." Nearly 10,000 Britons have gone down with swine flu after it spread to the UK from Mexico. The UK has the third highest case total in the world after Mexico, with 10,262, and the US, which has at least 33,902. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Torneyboy Posted July 12, 2009 Report Share Posted July 12, 2009 In what would be the biggest vaccination programme of the last 50 years, experts are already drawing up a priority list of patients to be given immunity before the bug becomes more virulent. An enormous opperation... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest lazyphil Posted July 12, 2009 Report Share Posted July 12, 2009 well that would be a neat trick keeping in mind the government by addmission have no fucking idea what the population is anymore! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cavanami Posted July 12, 2009 Report Share Posted July 12, 2009 ...and the big pharma are cashing in! Farking hell...there are very few people that died, come on!!! More die everyday from malaria... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest lazyphil Posted July 12, 2009 Report Share Posted July 12, 2009 more die from food posioning! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bangkoktraveler Posted July 13, 2009 Report Share Posted July 13, 2009 If they have a vacination program in the USA, will shots be given to old people, handicapped and disable people, criminals, gays, Mexicans, etc.? Sounds like eugenics to me! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sayjann Posted July 14, 2009 Report Share Posted July 14, 2009 chatting to the people in the know at the hospital where i work and they have had no info from the Gov. about vaccines and have no idea about what is going on. they seem to think it's all talk and i agree with them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cavanami Posted July 15, 2009 Report Share Posted July 15, 2009 Buzz is that forced vaccines will be given out in the US in September...we will see. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
allistar Posted July 15, 2009 Report Share Posted July 15, 2009 Maybe, they can combine the duties of a census taker and a nurse and kill 2 birds with one stone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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