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Published 11/07/2009 by Swiss Info

First Swiss children receive swine flu vaccine

The first H1N1 vaccinations of children with underlying health problems have begun in canton Solothurn in north west Switzerland.

Doctors injected the anti-flu vaccine Focetria on Saturday, as reported by Swiss public television.

"It is mainly children with serious heart defects,...

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"It is mainly children with serious heart defects, lung problems or patients with weakened immune systems that we have immunised in a first round" Paul W Meirer, a doctor...

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