Marta Falconi
Wall Street Journal
Switzerland’s health regulator imposed an immediate ban on Novartis AG’s flu vaccines Thursday after possibly contaminated flu shots were found in batches in Italy, in a further embarrassment for the Swiss drug maker, which has struggled with a raft of manufacturing problems recently.
Medical watchdog Swissmedic halted deliveries of up to 160,000 doses to doctors and pharmacies as a precaution following a similar move by Italian authorities. The ban comes at an awkward time shortly before the flu season starts. There is already a shortage of flu vaccines in Switzerland and Italy this year after Netherlands-based vaccine maker Crucell, a unit of American drug maker Johnson & Johnson, had suspended a delivery of seasonal flu vaccine across Europe last week.
In Austria, health authorities said they’ve issued a recommendation to doctors and pharmacies to switch to other flu vaccines than the Novartis products.
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Reblogged this on No Compulsory Vaccination and commented:
So far, the Australian government has taken no action to ban the Novartis vaccines we use here. Switzerland, Italy, Germany and Spain have already banned these shots as a precaution. But the Australian government has done little to nothing about the problems with CSL’s flu shots (don’t use them on kids under 5 but OK for everyone else…) so why should we be surprised that they are doing nothing at all about these vaccines?
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