The FDA knowing approved a vaccine for the wrong Flu strain!

[Ned]

This is outrageous! The FDA knowingly approved a vaccine for the wrong strain of flu. The manufacturers could not make the right strain, the Fujian strain, without a first a using dog liver culture. The advisory panel voted 17-1 against this vaccine as it allegedly posed a risk of contamination. The leading expert disagreed on the risk level and said it was more important to make the vaccine for the right strain of flu - the Fujian strain - which is now ravaging the country and potentially the world.

Millions could get sick and thousands could die as a result of this outrage!

http://www.cnn.com/2003/HEALTH/12/13/sprj.flu03.vaccine/index.html

[Dis]

how could they have known what could have happened? It said the strain did not meet FDA standards.

People die from the flu, get used to it.

[Urban Ranger]

I don't understand this. They approved the vaccine for a strain of flu that meets their standards.

[Ned]

Originally posted by Urban Ranger
I don't understand this. They approved the vaccine for a strain of flu that meets their standards.

But that is not for the strain they expected and therefor mostly ineffective. This is one of the reasons the Flu is out of control this year.

[Dis]

so all the dead people's families should sue the FDA and put them out of business.

If the strain they wanted to include didn't meet FDA standards, what are they to do?

[Nubclear]

If the FDA knowingly did this, then they willingly put people at risk and consequently CHIDLREN have died because of their ineptness.

[Dis]

children die every year of the flu

[Nubclear]

Children day every year due to many things. This does not mean that those things should not be actively sought out and destroyed.

[Dis]

Creating flu vaccines isn't an exact science. There are many variables involved. Sometimes mistakes happen.

[Nubclear]

From what I gather, this isn't one of those times

[Vesayen]

Am I the only person scared ****less over this? Already 3 sick people in my hall at college.... *hides*

[Ned]

It hasn't reached Kalifornia yet. I really do not want to get the Flu. But now that I know that the vaccine is worthless, I won't even try to get it.

[Bugs ****ing Bunny]

It's just flu, you big girl's blouses. You aren't kids or geriatrics.

[Drake Tungsten]

You aren't kids or geriatrics.

No, but most of them are computer geeks, who are the equivalent of kids and geriatrics. Be afraid, be very afraid...

[Urban Ranger]

Originally posted by Drake Tungsten

You aren't kids or geriatrics.

No, but most of them are computer geeks, who are the equivalent of kids and geriatrics.

Why Drake Tungsten is not a doctor or even medical student.