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Wed Jul 29, 9:08 am ET
JERUSALEM (AFP) – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday ordered health authorities to buy up swine flu vaccine for the country's entire 7.5 million population, his office said.
The decision came at the end of a meeting with top health officials to discuss measures to tackle the A(H1N1) virus that has so far killed one person and infected thousands in Israel.
The prime minister's office put the likely cost of the vaccine stock-up at some 450 million shekels.
Originally posted by Sliadon
What is Israel thinking?!?
These drugs have skipped many of the preliminary testing methods that other medical products undergo.... And with waivers protecting the Pharm firms that make them!!!
-Sliadon
Originally posted by drwizardphd
I tend to lean towards #1, but that's the conspiratorial side of me coming out. In either case, stay away from that damned vaccine. You do NOT want to put anything in your body that a company cannot be held legally responsible for. That's just common sense.
Originally posted by ZeroKnowledge
I think that it is local politicians covering their behinds. If nothing really bad happens to majority of population, well - tax payers money wasted. Not the first time and not the last. But if something bad happens and it would be like 1918 damage in the winter, they would be heroes. Not hard choice to make actually.
So far there is no real panic in Israel.
Originally posted by Sliadon
reply to post by Oeden
He's not referring to a forced vaccination, just that some leaders are lining up for receiving the vaccine to try and come across as someone that "saved" his people from death from Swine Flu.
Rather grandiose thoughts of them, dontcha think?
-Sliadon
Professor Gabi Barabash, head of the Sourasky Medical Center in Tel Aviv, said he was skeptical an effective vaccine against swine flu will be produced soon. He recommended that the public be vaccinated against common influenza ahead of wintertime, "In order to reduce morbidity rates and ease the pressure on hospitals."
According to Barabash, up-to-date medical research makes it clear that "an effective, proven and safe vaccine will not be ready before the coming winter. It seems we will have to go through winter without one."
It would be rather amusing to see them try to force vaccinate the Israelis. LOL, it would be like trying to herd cats.
Good luck with that.
Originally posted by Oeden
The piece goes onto to say that the common flu Tamiflu only decreases the chance of infection by 5%. Is this a sound investment especially considering that these H1N1 vaccines aren't even developed yet nor would there be adequate time to test them? (perhaps I'm going off topic) It is difficult for me to find statistical numbers on deaths and psychological cases related to these vaccines.
well, well, well......................
Doesn't that kind throw a monkey wrentch into the anti Isreal crowd...
You know, the ones that try to blame everything on Isreal....
Well, how can "they" be behind a plot with the flu if they have purchased enough to cover their entire population????
Originally posted by mrmonsoon
It was a sarcastic comment refering to the following....
There is a very "vocal" group of posters who will, usually sooner than later, blame every and anything on Isreal/US.
Originally posted by mrmonsoon
Three, I get a sick feeling inside my gut that many world leaders know something we don't. How do they kno what is going to be a "bad one" vs others?How much advanced warning do/did they have?