is the purpose of all of this coming out from the governemnet to whip up mass
hysteria?? At least as a by-product we should easily meet our QOF targets this
year - provided that we can get our vaccine supplies.
Paul Bromley
Quoting Chris Salter <[log in to unmask]>:
> Hello GP-UK,
>
> Unless I misheard, a Sky News correspondent was this afternoon
> describing Tamiflu as a *vaccine*! :-( He had apparently been to some
> Government briefing (I missed the intro). The 'new' news was HMG
> intended to procure enough vaccine to treat the *whole* population,
> the fly in the ointment being that a future avian flu pandemic may not
> the current strain so there isn't a vaccine to procure at the moment
> (nor one for H5N1 yet). HMG are putting out some form of test tender
> for a vaccine (which I believe they already announced a while ago).
> However, the correspondent stated that we had Tamiflu vaccine for the
> current strain, H5N1!! I am willing to be corrected but I am sure
> that's what he said, twice.
>
> Anyone in doubt as to what Tamiflu really *is* see:
>
> http://www.tamiflu.com/
>
> Chris
>
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Best wishes
Paul Bromley
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