Reduced the World Health Organization WHO The seriousness of the article "mercury" used in the manufacture of vaccines "swine flu", at the time the donations received by about 50 million doses of vaccine for the H1N1 virus , Of a pharmaceutical company, for distribution to developing countries.
In response to warnings issued by one of the members of the American Academy of Pediatrics, on the vaccine to contain mercury, a spokesman for the Organization of the United Nations in Geneva, Gregory Hartl, saying: "One must be cautious about giving permits on mercury, as there are types of different ones. "
Hartl said in a statement posted on Wednesday, the United Nations Radio, that "one can not simply say that there is mercury in vaccines, to be used in the vaccine in some cases to save it, the material used in H1N1 vaccine Not have been talked about in the past. "
Hartl and renewed the call of the Organization should receive vaccines, and stressed that the symptoms caused by the offending does not differ from those produced by any other seasonal vaccine, he said, adding that "if we compare the risks and benefits resulting from the use ofH1N1 vaccine ,
We find that the benefits far outweigh the risks. "
The spokesman for the World Health Organization that children under the age of five are the groups most vulnerable to the disease, and injury is often very severe.
For her part, Director General of the World Health Organization, Margaret Chan, said the organization signed an agreement with the company "GlaxoSmithKline" drugs, which are the last to donate about 50 million doses of influenza vaccine Type A Of the Organization by the end of this month.
Chan and welcomed what he described as "this generous donation, which will protect the health of the poorest people in the world", noting that the WHO Has a list of 95 countries deserve to receive doses of the vaccine, that could cover these doses 10 per cent of the population of these States.
The WHO has warned a week ago that the world has not yet reached the season, the spread of influenza, which is between January and February, as expected and more cases, also confirmed that although the side effects of the vaccine, but the best tools available to combat the flu.
According to latest estimates by the World Health Organization declared the end of October last, the number of cases of swine influenza virus has risen to about 482 thousand cases confirmed in various parts of the world, died about six thousand cases.
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