Swine flu: Ministers ‘preparing to offload millions of unwanted vaccines’

Kate Devlin,
London Telegraph
Monday , January 11th, 2010

Ministers are preparing to offload millions of unwanted
swine flu vaccines, it has emerged, as officials predicted that there
will be no third wave of the pandemic this winter.

Millions of pounds could be wasted if the Government is
unable to get out of orders for the vaccine it has placed with
GlaxoSmithKline (GSK), the pharmaceutical giant.

Officials confirmed that they are considering a number of options,
including attempting to sell or give away millions of the vaccines.

They also considering whether to stand down the National Pandemic
Flu Service, the network of call centres which diagnose swine flu and
hand out antiviral medications.

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