British Medical Journal: Half Of Health Workers Reject H1N1 Vaccine

Steve WatsonInfowars.netWednesday, August 26, 2009A study published in the world’s foremost peer-reviewed medical journalhas found that around 50% of Hong Kong’s health workers will refuse tobe vaccinated against swine flu for fears over the safety of the shot.Research conducted by the University of Hong Kong and made public bythe

consistently found that less than half of 8,500 doctors and nurses in public hospitals would accept vaccinationagainst H1N1 influenza. The study also found that the figures did not change significantly with anincrease in the WHO pandemic alert level from phase 3 to phase 5.“The major barriers identified were fear of side effects and doubts aboutefficacy.” The study reveals.Microbiologists and infectious disease experts involved in the study alsosuggest that the number of dissenters is likely to be broadlyrepresentative of health workers worldwide. The British Medical Journal, now known simply as BMJ, has presided as themost influential and widely read academic journal in the field of medicinefor over 150 years.In our

report yesterday

, we highlighted the findings of three moresurveys by leading British and Canadian medical publications thatrevealed one in two doctors have severe reservations over the safety of the forthcoming H1N1 vaccine. The figures also dovetail with those from a much larger

Nursing Times magazine poll

, that revealed 30% of all NHS nurses said they wouldrefuse to be immunized, with another 33% saying they were unsure of thevaccine.It comes as no surprise then to learn that government officials on bothsides of the Atlantic are launching huge propaganda efforts to counter thegrowing revolt against vaccination.In Britain, officials have

highlighted criticism of dissenting doctors

bythe Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI), while theDepartment of Health’s director of immunisation has declared thatfrontline health workers have a “duty” to take the vaccine.