Vaccine safety confidence is very important

The 2016-03-23

Source: health

Mind zhi-yong liu

Jinan illegal business vaccine case vibration society. For five years, normal manufacturer production of vaccine into illegal circulation channels, in the process of storage and transportation of failing to meet strict cold chain storage conditions, and the safety and effectiveness may be compromised vaccine, how many, specific to where it is not known.

The gruesome case inevitably damage the public confidence in the vaccine safety, to make matters worse, the media will be the incident with normal vaccine adverse reactions, interconnected together, more aggravated public anxiety, caused panic. This can not help worrying, if therefore affect the implementation of national immunization programmes, will bring greater losses to public health.

Vaccination is an important measure to prevention and control of infectious diseases, but also to carry out the important content of "prevention first" policy. Smallpox virus, for instance, once claimed one hundred million lives, it is with the help of the vaccines, human beings in the natural environment thoroughly the eradication of smallpox. Under the general kind of measles vaccine prevention strategies, our country's measles incidence by more than 5000/10 of the 1950 s, decreased to 10/10 of the now than the following.

After decades of development, our country in view of the vaccine production, circulation, use established a complete set of regulatory system, assessed by the world health organization (who), the vaccine production process of our country, security, effectiveness has reached or exceed international standards, free of national immunization programmes vaccine also increased gradually expanded to 14. The public have a deep understanding to the importance of vaccination, the vaccine has become almost every a person's life common sense.

Vaccine events, but the worst problems are likely to impact before we have done a lot of effort. The specific quantity and flow of these vaccines was found as soon as possible, maximize reduce the harms brought by events may very urgent; To investigate the case open, transparent, carefully examines, combing regulation of the holes is more important. How the vaccine "escape" out of the closed circulation channels, again and again after extracorporeal circulation "and enter the vaccination units? Is our system design is not enough detail is perfect, or poorly performing? This requires relevant government departments give the public a clear answer.

As is known to all, only a certain coverage, as immune barrier across the crowd, to avoid a pandemic vaccine preventable diseases, vaccination can achieve maximum social benefits. For various reasons, many countries have had some sort of vaccination rates fell sharply, eventually caused the disease incidence of rebound sharply, society and the public pay a heavy price. Immune planning in our country have higher coverage, the incidence of the disease also fell to a low level, this is a few generations through unremitting efforts for the public trust, the result of the vaccine production enterprise, social media, regulators, use unit, each party should cherish the hard-won achievements. The government only to ensure that the results of the investigation and open, transparent, can live up to the public's trust.