05:39 p.m. Doctors are calling on citizens not to vaccinate against influenza, because such vaccination in the midst of the epidemic may injure the health, coordinator of epidemic influenza in Lviv Miron Borysevich claimed at a press conference, proUA.com reports.
“When an outbreak of influenza begins, nobody is being vaccinated. From the point of view of epidemiology this can not be done because it is harmful. It may harm the patient,” - he said.
PING!
Wholly smokes...
Makes sense since you don't know if you've been infected until you have full blown symptoms and you might get a double whammy with a live vaccine of a different strain.
“Doctors are calling on citizens not to vaccinate against influenza,”
Is this based on medical reasoning or some bureaucrats screw up that’s causing a shortage or a complete lack of vaccine? In government run health care, political expedience trumps public health every time.
Didn’t they halt vaccinations for seasonal flu in British Columbia a few weeks ago because they had some research that said a seasonal flu vaccine made one more susceptible to H1N1?