Is there any danger with the swine flu vaccine?
It ISN’T dangerous. I am very angry with the newspapers for publishing misleading headlines such as “Swine flu vaccine rushed through safety checks” I can see whats going to happen here, the anti-vaccination brigade will have a field day and people will listen to their incorrect diatribes and end up not having the vaccine for fear of it being unsafe. The vaccine WILL still go through the standard safety checks. No vaccine is 100% but the benefits do outweigh the rare risks. By ‘rushing through safety checks’ it simply means they will hasten the whole process and cut out the endless paperwork. All the vaccines WILL be tested, you will not be given an untested vaccine. It takes months to make flu vaccines, but they are using a fast-tracked approval procedure which has involved trials of a “mock-up” vaccine so the speed would not compromise patient safety.
