Vaccines for all in flu pandemic

Friday 27th April 2007, 12:00AM BST.

EVERY man, woman and child in Jersey will be provided with two vaccines and a dose of Tamiflu when – not if – the World Health Organisation announces the start of a global flu pandemic.

Yesterday ministers agreed to spend £2 million on preparations for the pandemic – which the WHO predict will happen within five to ten years – to set up the highest protection standard anywhere in the world. Every Islander will get a dose of Tamiflu, the H5N1 vaccine which is being stockpiled now, and a dose of the vaccine for the flu that causes the pandemic which will be developed within a few months of the pandemic’s outbreak. Medical Officer of Health Dr Rosemary Geller said that the Island was’ buying a peace-of-mind package’.

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