Do Not Inject Me ! Say No To Vaccines

India has seen three vaccine disasters this year, resulting in 4 deaths after the measles vaccine and six deaths after the HPV vaccine, so it any wonder that the the citizens of India are wary of having the H1N1 vaccine?

The Times of India report that a pharmacy manager in Virugambakkam told them that he had sold a mere four vials of the H1N1 vaccine in a month, with the capital New Dehli pharmacists reporting a similar story. To try and rectify the situation, the government of India, plan on opening vaccine clinics to entice people to take up the vaccine. In their article 'With no takers to H1N1 vaccine, govt to start special clinic' The Times spoke to the health secretary VK Subburaj of India who said :-

"We assume that people don't go in for vaccination as there are not many centres offering them. We are planning to set up a clinic exclusively for H1N1 vaccination. Since we are planning to do bulk purchases, we are also talking to pharmaceutical companies to provide the drug at a reduced cost,"

Prison Planet however, reported that the Indian public were rejecting the H1N1 vaccine through the fear of the side effects. In their article 'India Rejects H1N1 shots after vaccines kill children' by Paul Joseph Watkins, Watkins reported that the rejections of the vaccine en masse, followed reports that the measles vaccine killed four children in the village of Lucknow, He wrote:-

"Furious villagers reacted to the tragedy by going on a rampage, attacking health workers and holding government doctors hostage.

The story has contributed to increasing distrust of health authorities in the country, and ensured that take up of newly marketed swine flu vaccines is virtually non-existent.

Many health workers in Delhi government hospitals have also refused to get themselves vaccinated due to fear of side-effects."

The Indian public could be right to refuse the vaccine, as Finland and Sweden have suspended the H1N1 vaccine by Glaxo Smith Kline, Pandermix, linking it to the sudden rise in the numbers of cases of the sleep disorder Narcolepsy. Finland reported that they have seen a staggering 300% rise in the cases of the extremely rare disorder narcolepsy, in children who have had the vaccine. Reports of adverse reactions have also come in from France with the media suggesting adverse reactions of narcloepsy also being reported from Germany and Norway, although these have yet to be confirmed.