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The state department of public health, on the other hand, will recommend the vaccine only to high-risk groups, suggesting other citizens weigh the risks and benefits for themselves.
Clinical trials this summer showed the swine flu vaccine to be considerably less effective among young adults than among older people. The vaccine successfully produced antibodies in about 50 per cent of subjects under 25, compared to a success rate of 70 to 90 per cent in the older population...
In addition, the Harvard study compiled its figures before the federal government revealed that what may be a crucial component of the vaccine is missing. No one has yet explained what slip-up in the manufacturing process caused the vaccine to be produced without neuraminidase, an enzyme some scientists believe...
Critics, including a minority of state health officials, Ralph Nader's Health Research Group (HRG), The New York Times, and health officials and medical journals in England, France and Canada, have disputed government estimates of the likelihood of an epidemic, its probable severity and the effectiveness of the vaccine itself...
Sidney Wolfe of the HRG said this summer, "The major disease in the U.S. this year related to Fort Dix will not be swine flu but, rather, swine flu vaccine disease." The Lancet, a respected British medical journal, concluded that the swine flu virus "seemed to be not very good...