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Swine flu: to vaccinate or not?

Sunday 27 September 2009 by Marc Girard

Projects of forced flu vaccination certainly raise serious issues regarding fundamental liberties, but more simply, they also raise significant health issues, which require a factual analysis.

Basically, vaccines are drugs amongst others (and, as will be demonstrated below, far more complicated agents as compared to most available drugs). From my professional experience in drug development and pharmacoepidemiology, I have a simple conceptual frame of relevant issues to be analysed: