Plans to fast-track the swine flu vaccine in Britain came under fire from World Health Organisation chiefs today.
The Department of Health plans to make the vaccine available at least two months earlier than in America.
More than 132million doses have been ordered with the first batch due to arrive next month.
However, Dr Keiji Fukuda, the WHO's flu chief, today warned about the potential dangers of the untested vaccine: "There are certain areas where you
simply do not try to make any economies. One of the things which cannot be compromised is the safety of vaccines."
The European Medicines Agency, the drug regulatory body for the EU, is accelerating the approval process for the vaccine, allowing firms to bypass
large-scale human trials and instead test a vaccine based on bird flu.
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Again I checked for thread post on this earlier, could not find such.
Anyhow it seems the Brit's and the EU are getting in rush to use this vaccine, up to 2 months before we do in the US.
This might be good for us but bad for the Brits & EU.