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vaccine fearing a large-scale epidemic in the fall. Now the vaccine doses
are here, the epidemic is here, but there is not much interest in the
vaccine – despite the fact that the people for whom it is intended are
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Current AffairsHealth minister slams GPs for not having relevant information on swine flu
Vaccination against swine flu has been underway in the Czech Republic for
two weeks, but, perhaps surprisingly, interest in the vaccine has not been
high. It seems doctors themselves are not interested in getting inoculated
either – a poll released last week suggested that a majority of general
practitioners had no interest in getting the vaccine; they say that either
vaccination had come too late in the face of the growing epidemic or even
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