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Wed 10 Oct 2009Germans want swine flu vaccines swapped
THE GERMAN Medical Association (BAK) has advised against giving young children and pregnant women the new swine flu vaccine Pandemrix, containing an immune system-stimulating compound.
Instead the BAK, the equivalent of the Irish Medical Organisation, has called for the federal government to hand over to high-risk groups another, standard vaccine – Celvapan – which was ordered for use on armed forces and state employees.
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