{"id":212117,"date":"2009-11-27T16:52:48","date_gmt":"2009-11-27T16:52:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/new.moldova.org\/2009\/11\/27\/swine-flu-vaccines-safety-polish-minister-of-healths-speech-204619-eng\/"},"modified":"2009-11-27T16:52:48","modified_gmt":"2009-11-27T16:52:48","slug":"swine-flu-vaccines-safety-polish-minister-of-healths-speech-204619-eng","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.moldova.org\/en\/swine-flu-vaccines-safety-polish-minister-of-healths-speech-204619-eng\/","title":{"rendered":"Swine flu vaccine’s safety: Polish Minister of Health’s speech"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading Time: <\/span> 2<\/span> minutes<\/span><\/span>

Polish Health Minister, Mrs. Ewa Kopacz, gives speech in the Polish Parliament on serious issues with swine flu vaccine’s safety and why the Polish government is rejecting the vaccines (5 November 2009). See video below. <\/p>\n

In addition, on Nov. 3, Minister Ewa Kopacz said at a press conference (transmitted by Polish television channel TVN24) that the government will reject mass “swine flu” vacccination for its population because of safety concerns over the jab.<\/p>\n

Kopacz said that the government would base its decision to use the swine flu vaccine based on the data from reliable clinical trials, but that there were no such reliable data for the swine flu jabs.<\/p>\n

“We will not order any AH1N1 vaccines unless there is full evidence they are completely safe,” she said.<\/p>\n

‘Each government is responsible for the welfare and health of its citizens, for recommending them health and safe medicines. So far, on any stage, no company we are negotiating with has been able to provide us with the most important thing for us – the evidence of jabs’ safety and that it will not have possible side effects,” she said.<\/p>\n

‘I will not work under pressure! We will not order any AH1N1 vaccines unless there is full evidence they are completely safe,” Ewa Kopacz said.<\/p>\n

Ewa Kopacz also said that the ordinary, seasonal flu is much more dangerous than ‘swine flu’.<\/p>\n

This is a word for word translation of a 39 second segment of the press conference:
\n“Let’s not worry about whether [the swine flu vaccine] will reach Poland. The problem is something else: when it gets here, [the vaccine] must be safe. It’s not going to be a case of “we don’t know for sure it is safe, but let’s buy some for the risk groups anyway“. Nobody will talk me into this. If we do [buy the swine flu vaccine], it should be safe so that it can be recommended looking Poles straight in the eye, and especially to those who are going to have the maximum contact with sick patients – first of all the white coats, who have to have the guarantee that the vaccine is a prophylactic measure, not a placebo, not something that might cause some adverse effects in the future, but a vaccine that will give them immunity, so please give us a little bit of time.,” she said.<\/p>\n

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Reading Time: <\/span> 2<\/span> minutes<\/span><\/span>Polish Health Minister, Mrs. Ewa Kopacz, gives speech in the Polish Parliament on serious issues with swine flu vaccines safety and why the Polish government is rejecting the vaccines (5 November 2009).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-212117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-society"],"content_social_share":"Reading Time: <\/span> 2<\/span> minutes<\/span><\/span>

Polish Health Minister, Mrs. Ewa Kopacz, gives speech in the Polish Parliament on serious issues with swine flu vaccine’s safety and why the Polish government is rejecting the vaccines (5 November 2009). See video below. <\/p>\n

In addition, on Nov. 3, Minister Ewa Kopacz said at a press conference (transmitted by Polish television channel TVN24) that the government will reject mass “swine flu” vacccination for its population because of safety concerns over the jab.<\/p>\n

Kopacz said that the government would base its decision to use the swine flu vaccine based on the data from reliable clinical trials, but that there were no such reliable data for the swine flu jabs.<\/p>\n

“We will not order any AH1N1 vaccines unless there is full evidence they are completely safe,” she said.<\/p>\n

‘Each government is responsible for the welfare and health of its citizens, for recommending them health and safe medicines. So far, on any stage, no company we are negotiating with has been able to provide us with the most important thing for us – the evidence of jabs’ safety and that it will not have possible side effects,” she said.<\/p>\n

‘I will not work under pressure! We will not order any AH1N1 vaccines unless there is full evidence they are completely safe,” Ewa Kopacz said.<\/p>\n

Ewa Kopacz also said that the ordinary, seasonal flu is much more dangerous than ‘swine flu’.<\/p>\n

This is a word for word translation of a 39 second segment of the press conference:
\n“Let’s not worry about whether [the swine flu vaccine] will reach Poland. The problem is something else: when it gets here, [the vaccine] must be safe. It’s not going to be a case of “we don’t know for sure it is safe, but let’s buy some for the risk groups anyway“. Nobody will talk me into this. If we do [buy the swine flu vaccine], it should be safe so that it can be recommended looking Poles straight in the eye, and especially to those who are going to have the maximum contact with sick patients – first of all the white coats, who have to have the guarantee that the vaccine is a prophylactic measure, not a placebo, not something that might cause some adverse effects in the future, but a vaccine that will give them immunity, so please give us a little bit of time.,” she said.<\/p>\n

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