Does not recommend vaccination bird flu vaccine
2012-12-19 06:34:00 Source: Hong Kong Sing Pao
Core Tip: A spokesman for the Department of Health announced yesterday, the Centre for Health Protection of the Department of Health's new and Zoonotic Diseases Scientific Committee (Committee) to make recommendations on the early human H5N1 influenza pandemic vaccine and pandemic vaccine. The recommendations of the Scientific Committee said, according to the latest scientific information, including the local epidemiological situation, international experience, and the World Health Organization (WHO), it is recommended that specific laboratory personnel, provide for the protection of the high risk of the H5N1 avian influenza virus in non-pandemic period, human H5N1 influenza pandemic pre-vaccine. However, Thomas Tsang said, the general public does not recommend the vaccine, because if the outbreak of avian influenza, the vaccine virus of unknown species, may not be able to completely prevent weekdays processing laboratory samples of the virus is known virus types, so The vaccine can provide basic prevention.
[Reporter Li Xi words reported] A spokesman for the Department of Health announced yesterday, the Centre for Health Protection of the Department of Health's new and Zoonotic Diseases Scientific Committee (Committee) to make recommendations on the early human H5N1 influenza pandemic vaccine and pandemic vaccine. The recommendations of the Scientific Committee said, according to the latest scientific information, including the local epidemiological situation, international experience, and the World Health Organization (WHO), it is recommended that specific laboratory personnel, provide for the protection of the high risk of the H5N1 avian influenza virus in non-pandemic period, human H5N1 influenza pandemic pre-vaccine. However, Thomas Tsang said, the general public does not recommend the vaccine, because if the outbreak of avian influenza, the vaccine virus of unknown species, may not be able to completely prevent weekdays processing laboratory samples of the virus is known virus types, so The vaccine can provide basic prevention.
Currently, our exposure to the virus laboratory set up more universities and government, involved a small number, it is estimated that about 40-50 people. He said the reason why the Scientific Committee to the proposal to laboratory personnel vaccinated, mainly based on security considerations. Foreign also injected H5N1 vaccine experience, and recommendations of the Scientific Committee. Thomas Tsang said that, worldwide infected with the H5N1 virus cases is small, but there are still risks, Hong Kong should take precautions, expected next year, February is the peak season for influenza, called on the high-risk people influenza vaccination as soon as possible, and yet see the number of influenza virus isolates break through the cordon, Hong Kong popular varieties of influenza virus and influenza vaccine composition pairing, if the virus coming months did not change, I believe that a good vaccine's protection force. http://www.singpao.com/xw/gat/201212/t20121219_408766.html
