Authorities forced to insist swine flu vaccine is safe

IRISH health authorities have been forced to insist the swine flu vaccine is safe and poses no risk to public safety after growing concern on the continent over the potential side-affects of the medication.

In two separate statements yesterday, the Department of Health and HSE moved to clarify concerns over the vaccine programme, noting that despite fears over the drug’s make-up it had been safely tested on “10,000 individuals”.

In the past 24 hours a national debate has been growing in Germany over the safety of the Pandemrix vaccine, with one medical organisation advising against using the drug due to a booster substance, or adjuvant, it contains.