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Czech Republic Cancels Baxter “Swine Flu” Vaccines After Baxter Refuses to Guarantee Safety
Prague – The U.S. pharmaceutical firm Baxter which manufactures a vaccine against the swine flu in its Czech branch will not ensure the vaccine for the Czech Republic in the case of a pandemic, Baxter media representative Jana Cechova told CTK today. The Czech Republic has relied on the factory in Bohumil, Central Bohemia. In its original pandemic plan, the Czech Republic reckoned with vaccines for 60 percent of the population, while the updated plan involves vaccines for 25 percent and the Tamiflu and Relenza antivirotics for the same number.
“No contract for the delivery of the vaccines A(H1N1) between Baxter and the Czech Republic has been concluded,” Cechova said.
The websit tn.cz writes that the Czech Health Ministry has explained its stopping the talks with Baxter by the firm’s inability to guarantee that the vaccine is safe and who will bear the risks for possible side-effects.
“It is a pity, but, unfortunately, at the moment when we accepted the bids, Baxter was unable to confirm that it will deliver a registered vaccine,” Health Minister Dana Juraskova said.
Over 60 Czechs have caught the swine flu, but no fatality has been registered.”
http://www.ceskenoviny.cz/domov/zpravy/pri-pandemii-nebude-mit-cr-vakciny-od-baxtera/391208?id=391210
http://birdflu666.wordpress.com/2009/08/05/czech-republic-cancels-baxter-swine-flu-vaccines-because-baxter-refuses-to-guarantee-safety/
It’s wonderful that the Czech Republic apparently cares enough about its citizen’s safety to quiz the manufacturer about the vaccine’s safety. I wish the American government cared so much.
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I’m happy for them, but how is Baxter going to recover the lost revenue from it except by forcing more of it over here? We need to say no to this, or we’re gonna end up being pin cushions for the government to use to try out their squalene-based adjuvants and mock-up viruses on a mass scale, the largest (and most costly, physically and economically) medical experiment in the history of mankind.
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This encourages me a lot to learn that the Czech Republic is being diligent and watching out for its citizens. Maybe if the message gets out far and wide, other nations will realize the importance of this move and stop the pharmaceutical companies from making obscene profits while using the public as guinea pigs. These companies have no incentive to even make the vaccines safe because of their exemption from liability should anyone have an adverse effect from the vaccine….UNLESS it can be shown that the company acted willfully and knowingly of the dangers involved. Now if they don’t ‘know’ the dangers, then that exempts them from any liability, so why should they test the vaccines for safety! So to sum it up, no one can sue them for damages in case of an adverse event. Under these circumstances, would you want to trust yourself to unknown dangers?
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I agree, it’s so sad how the Czech cares and the U.S. is almost making it mandatory.
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Excellent Czech Republic you have the guts to care about your people.Stand tall and hold your heads up high.I wish the UK would care about us the same.Bring on the squaline,thimerasol and the allumimium and still tell us its safe.Anyone with half a brain cell would know if the makers of a product wont stand by the safety of their product then something is wrong.Why dont the makers of the vaccine have us tagged like cows etc and go the whole hog so to speak.No pun intended.
I just hope other goverments have the balls to care about their citizens rather than bow down to the profit makers of death.
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I too applaude the sensibility of the Czech Republic. Not only does this serve its citizens, it provides the world with a control comparison. When the vaccinated in other countries become ill from the innoculation, it will make it harder for Baxter to claim it was just coincidence.
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Bravo Czech Republic for caring more about the health of your citizens that do governments such as the US of America and Australia.
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Bravo the Czech Republic. WOW. A country that actually CARES about their citizens and cares enough to NOT sit in the back pockets of Big pHarma! A country that will NOT permit themselves to be swamped by the media overhype of this H1N1 so-called ‘pandemmic’ – a mild virus that is NO worse in symptoms than the *common cold*, that is a threat to **nobody.
One shakes one’s head is disbelief at the nonsense that is going on, nonsense that is wasting public funds, funds taken from the tax payer and put directly into the pockets of the pHarma industry…beggars belief.
But worse than this, far worse, is the long term effects of all this vaccination malarky. The *mutation* that will inevitably ensue. Now, that is the scary part… That and what the USA, with Britain hanging on their coat-tails, is thrusting down their citizen’s throats, and in the case of the USA is looking to mandate for their citizens.
World – follow the eminently sensible and caring Czech Republic and **wake up**.
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My sister had a variation of the H1N1 and we was erratic. They wanted to hospitalize her when she returned home to CA because she had a 104 fever.
I came down ill shortly after she left my place, stress from being on a cold set and not enough sleep, worry.
I get the flu and I rest for a day and I bounce back up…this took 3 days, mild but weak legs/tired.
Alkaline diet and silver fixed me….Gave my daughter silver when she started to not feel well and she stayed well.
Silver and alkaline diet is the answer not injecting people with the illness.
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the usa should listen to them….
there is no way i will be getting the flu shot… i will take my chances… it scares me more to get the shot then the flu….
then we also would have to sign a paper that we couln’t sue them if something happens to us. HELLOOO!!!!!!
sounds like a death wish.
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I agree that it’s sad that the Czech actually seems to care about the safety of its citizens while the US appears to care but it just doesn’t seem like it’s as big a concern. I don’t know…just seems shady that Tamiflu is till widely recommended even after bad side effects have been reported.
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