WHO predicts shortage of vaccines against influenza A/H1N1

WHO predicts that the annual volume produced vaccines against influenza A/H1N1 will be approximately 3 billion doses, and this amount is not sufficient to protect the world's population

It is said in a statement today by WHO, according to RIA Novosti.

Projected level of medication is likely to be insufficient to provide "the world's population, which accounts for 6.8 billion people at a time when in reality each is subject to the risk of infection to new, rapidly spreading virus," the statement said.

Earlier, experts from the organization believed that in 2010 will be produced 4.9 billion doses, but last week a representative of WHO said that in fact the number of doses produced will be much less.

Specialists have repeatedly expressed concerns that not all countries are able to provide its citizens with vaccines of new type of flu.

According to WHO, 85 out of 193 members of the organizations reported that they had no opportunity to obtain such drugs.

However, the U.S., Australia, Brazil, Britain, France, Italy, New Zealand, Norway, Switzerland and previously announced their intention to share with those less well off medication to combat new flu within the next 6-8 months.

At the same time, clinical trials conducted by WHO, show that even one dose of medication will be sufficient to protect against the influenza A/H1N1 «healthy adults and older children."

Recall the number of cases of influenza A/H1N1 in the world has exceeded 308,000, and the number of deaths from him close to 4.2 thousand cases.

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Young Ukrainian contracted H1N1 in a summer camp Russia

In three children, holidaymakers in summer camps in Russia, confirmed the swine flu. Among them - a child from Ukraine.

"The boy, who came from Germany to rest in the camp of" Azure "in Nizhny Novgorod region, on the third day of fever, and we found H1N1. In this case, it has infected another child from Ukraine. Now both he and the other recovered "- said the chief state sanitary doctor Gennady Onishchenko, RIA Novosti reported. In Russia, three cases of swine flu among children, he added.

"This year we celebrate the fact that the second shift delivery of influenza A/H1N1 in the camp of" Ocean. " One girl on the second day gave the temperature "- Onishchenko said about a third of cases among children.

In Primorye, at the invitation of Russian President, is currently resting Chinese children from areas affected by the earthquake. In particular, in the camp of "Ocean" rest 496 children from China with 51 attendant, among them - 8 health care workers.
According to Onishchenko, a young Chinese girl has recovered and returned to the camp, where he continues to rest.

Meanwhile, the number of officially confirmed cases of influenza A/H1N1 in Russia has reached 55. All in all the world, according to the World Health Organization, confirmed about 170 000 cases of swine flu. The number of victims of influenza A/H1N1 has exceeded one thousand.
In turn, German experts say that mass vaccination could turn into an experiment on human beings, according to Deutsche Welle.

"What we propose to make, you can call holding mass experience of the population of Germany", - said the doctor and the medical journal publisher Arznei-Telegramm Wolfgang Becker Bryuzer edition of Der Spiegel, sharply criticized the planned in many countries in Europe, mass inoculation of A / H1N1.

Vaccine trial on the safety of health were not carried out in full, he said. According to him, poorly understood side effects that occur in one out of hundred.
Head of the Department of Health in the Senate of Bremen, Matthias Grul believe that flu shots may not be needed.

"If the disease will continue to proceed in the same mild form, as it was still in most cases, the necessity of mass vaccination is not" - quoted expert Der Spiegel. According to Grulya, now there is no evidence confirming the opinion of some specialists that the fall will begin a new, more powerful wave of diseases.

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