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Swine flu: Drug Lobby Scare?

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The Swine Flu pandemic – the world was put on alert and almost 13,000 people died. Now the experts are asking was the response to strong? Did governments do the right thing? In France vast amounts of vaccine are unused – the French even sold off excess stocks of the drugs. Was this money wasted or was it a precaution that had to be taken?

A debate with Mark Owen and guests:
 
Christian SOMMADE, General Delegate of the Haut Comité français pour la défense civile (French High Committee for Civil Defense)
Eve IRVINE, Health Specialist, France24
LUC HESSEL, Executive Director of Policy Affairs for Europe at Sanofi Pasteur MSD and Chairman of the Public Health Policy and Advocacy Working Group of the EVM (European Vaccine Manufacturers group) (By phone from Lyon)
 
Programme prepared by Bilal Tarabey and Claire Brown
 


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