swine flu : Vaccination is progressing slowly
The vaccination campaign against swine flu is progressing in many regions of Germany, less than a week after starting slow. On the one hand provide primary care physicians more aware of non-vaccination. On the other hand was, at least in Stuttgart Baden-Wuerttemberg Ministry of Social Affairs vaccine provided significantly lower than expected in July. Lower Saxony had been postponed because of supply disruptions launch of the swine flu vaccination for a week next Monday. Instead Pandemix 900,000 doses per week, was reached in the first margin of 200,000 and 112,000 seconds in Baden-Wuerttemberg.
The situation is similar throughout the country, said a spokesman for the manufacturer GlaxoSmithKline. The problems were teething low in manufacturing. Priority will be vaccinated hospital employees, police, firefighters and the chronically ill. They are responsible for the delay in delivery according to the manufacturer’s original concerns. “At the top are not the seed virus for vaccines can be multiplied as well as expected,” she said. Draw it became apparent that the number would fall below target in July from 8.3 million doses per month nationally significant yet. Meanwhile, the company has optimized the production process: “We see an upward trend.
Number of pig influenza deaths in Germany rose by
The number of swine flu deaths in Germany on Friday had risen from three to six. At the national level for the first time a man with no known history of the consequences of the new flu has died. The 48-year-old woman was transferred from another hospital or intensive care unit of University Hospital of Bonn, but in spite of artificial ventilation could not be saved.
The mother of the Rhein-Sieg-Kreis leaves four children and a husband. Saarland died in a chronically ill, Augsburg five years in a child with severe disability and 16 years of age, the swine flu. In the U.S., meanwhile, the influenza medicine as Tamiflu in liquid form in providing short term. The CDC U. S. Epidemiological Authority gave all remaining emergency reserves of flu free agent in liquid form, which is especially suitable for children.
