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Article: Swine flu: Scots will be forced to wait 1 years for full vaccination
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- The Scotsman
- Article date:
- July 8, 2009
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HEALTH bosses have admitted that the NHS will not be able to
vaccinate all of the Scottish population against swine flu until
November 2010 - almost 1 years away.
The admission led to calls for action to ensure that Scotland
does not suffer a vaccine shortage as the pandemic intensifies.
Experts have predicted that the number of swine-flu cases in
Scotland will soar to 10,000 a day by the end of August and doctors
are anticipating for a rapid increase of the illness over the
winter.
The fact that it will be 16 months before there is enough vaccine
to cover the entire Scottish population was revealed in a letter
from Kevin Woods, the NHS Scotland chief executive, to local NHS
board ...