Journalist Désirée Röver's fight against swine flu vaccination is dangerous and irresponsible.
That is what virologist Roel Coutinho says in De Telegraaf from last Saturday. Coutinho, director of the Center for Infectious Disease Control at RIVM, warns:"Even if only a few laymen pick it up and then do not get vaccinated, it can cost lives." /strong> hearing. And therein, according to Coutinho, lies the danger. You may reach an audience of millions via the internet, which you can prevent from taking precautions, he says in the newspaper. Röver is convinced that the Swine flu was made in the laboratory. In the article, Coutinho disputes that:"This flu really comes from pigs." Also Röver's claim that the vaccines that are now ready would not be kept long enough, Coutinho contradicts in De Telegraaf. “The best-before date is stated by the manufacturers, which has been tested very extensively. That 'beasts in the vaccine' would have crawled in the intervening period is really complete nonsense."