Friday, November 13, 2009
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is now talking with Wolf-Dieter Ludwig on pig flu, the usually level-headed doctor responded irritably. "So much nonsense can not refute it, as is being talked and written," says Ludwig, who is not only head doctor for cancer medicine, but also chairman of the Independent Drug Commission of the German Medical Association (AKdÄ). Ludwig is a doctor, which may be called honest. For the sake of it is also the point where it sometimes hurts - on TV. There he meets virologists who do are important because their field suddenly center stage. Germany investigated the super-experts. The problem with it: No one knows the answers to many questions. And some talking to for a bit of popularity around his neck. 
many questions circulating around the swine flu vaccine Thus, some virologists take the nightmare scenarios of 50 000 deaths in Germany. Others refer to the vaccine as safe, although they do not do that - nor can know as to whether he is insecure. "The debate is no longer beautiful," says Ludwig. "In France and Italy are listed sober every day the numbers -.. How many people are affected, how many of them seriously, how much easier this transparency is lacking in Germany, and the evidence that argue against that swine flu is dangerous to be scarcely .
communicates is in the southern hemisphere winter just past, and there were mostly innocuous histories. Deaths in proportion to the number of infected people there were not more frequently than the seasonal flu. In New Zealand and Australia established researchers with a severe course per 300-400 infections. "The masses in Germany has little chance of a balanced informed about the benefits and risks of the vaccine," laments Ludwig. to too few experts to the fact that science does not always have answers. "As experts, we would have confess more often in the swine flu, 'We do not know exactly,' "Bremer said the health researcher Norbert Schmacke
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are many unanswered questions and doubts. So you know, for example, like whether the government and the health ministers of the countries at the conclusion of contracts with the pharmaceutical industry does not have on the table can be drawn, as suggested by insiders. "Why did the same doses for 50 million people are appointed?" Critical question doctors. "Why have not agreed on a schedule with the industry, which governs the provision according to need?" The fact that the pricing for the vaccine is absurd - a € the drug, six of the controversial € active amplifier - can not be emphasized often enough.
for a joke or a stair case to the Federal Court keep observers depending on mood also one of the few results of the "Impfgipfels" on Wednesday - that too little vaccine is here. Be delivered until the spring, the doses, it is too late. What good is a mass vaccination if the winter is over and the flu season anyway naturally coming to an end? "Who should be invited to dinner in the evening, before looking in the fridge," says Gerd Antes, a member of the Standing Committee on Vaccination and director of the Cochrane Center, which evaluates the quality of scientific studies. "Following the unconditional calling the policy for vaccination of the shortage of vaccine, the recommendation now leads ad absurdum."
The vaccination campaign runs even chaotic. Patienten kommen zu Ärzten, die nicht impfen oder keinen Impfstoff haben. Ein Arzt aus München sagt: "Ich habe beschlossen, dass es in meiner Praxis keine Schweinegrippe gibt. Niemand weiß, wer den Test bezahlt - der Verlauf ist fast immer milde, und wenn die Leute krank sind, gehören sie ins Bett, egal was Ursache ihrer Grippe ist." Der Aufruf von Gesundheitsminister Rösler, dass nicht alle Menschen jetzt zur Impfung sollen, zeigt die schlechte Planung - der Eindruck der Verknappung führt wohl erst recht zum Ansturm auf Impfpraxen.
Wegen der unsystematischen Impferei werden Nebenwirkungen schlecht erfasst. Das pharmakritische arznei-telegramm betitelt seinen Bericht über den Impfstoff mit "Verträglichkeitsmythos und Empfehlungschaos". Gerd Antes hat letzten Samstag in dieser Zeitung betont, wie unseriös es ist, Impfstoffe als "sicher" zu bezeichnen - wie auch, sie zu verteufeln. Sie sind schlicht in dieser Zusammensetzung fast nicht erprobt.
Pandemrix, der Impfstoff für die Bevölkerung, der wie Asterix mit Ausschlag klingt, ist vor der Zulassung nur an 61 Probanden getestet worden. Die dürftigen Erfahrungen wurden zuvor mit einem Modellimpfstoff gemacht, der neben dem wenig getesteten Wirkverstärker AS03 den Wirkstoff gegen das Vogelgrippe-Virus H5N1 enthielt. Dieser wurde kurzerhand gegen einen Wirkstoff gegen das Schweinegrippe-Virus H1N1 ausgetauscht. Aus wenigen Erfahrungen mit dem ersten Impfstoff abzuleiten, dass der zweite Impfstoff - With which there is even less experience - is safe, keeps Ludwig "to say the least surprising. After all the confusion and the many open questions is clear to him: "No one can deny anymore that we're participants in a huge big test."
Source: Süddeutsche Zeitung online
of 13 November 2009
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