Canada-U.S. may go differently on vaccine production
Updated Tue. Jun. 30 2009 4:49 PM ET
The Canadian Press
TORONTO — Canada and the United States may go separate ways when deciding whether powerful boosting compounds called adjuvants should be added to swine flu vaccines, experts suggest.
Canada will likely use adjuvanted swine flu vaccine, says Dr. David Butler-Jones, head of the Public Health Agency of Canada.
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Medical staff want Tamiflu protection (Australia)
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/07/02/2614975.htm
South Australia’s Riverland Division of General Practice (SARDGP) says it was hoping its staff would have been supplied with the anti-viral medication Tamiflu.
The union covering nurses in South Australia has already called for all front-line health workers in the state to be given the medication.
Concerns were raised when two nurses in Adelaide tested positive to swine flu.
The SARDGP’s immunisation adviser, Dr Elizabeth Parsimei, says contracting the virus is a concern for local GPs.
“It is something that we think about every year, we always try and do the flu clinics to try and minimise any flu pandemics,” she said.
“But as we have had this year H1N1, which is swine flu, has been something which is new to everyone so that was a bit of a big worry to everyone.”