Has New Zealand purchased any vaccines against H5N1 Bird Flu?
Lana Maree made this Official Information request to Ministry of Health
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From: Lana Maree
Dear Ministry of Health,
Has New Zealand purchased any vaccines against H5N1 Bird Flu, such as AUDENZ: A cell-based H5N1 vaccine manufactured by CSL Seqirus?
Or, Pandemic influenza vaccine H5N1 manufactured by AstraZeneca, or
H5N1 vaccine manufactured by Sanofi, GSK subsidiary ID Biomedical Corporation of Quebec (IDB), and CSL Seqirus?
If so, What products have been purchased?
How many doses have been purchased?
What was the total cost of purchase?
Yours faithfully,
Lana Maree
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greg rzesniowiecki left an annotation ()
Great questions Lana Maree,
Regarding the response, I cannot see how the number of product doses purchased has any bearing on New Zealand's ability to negotiate with any party for any product in the future.
It might be worth the effort to write the Ombudsman's Office and appeal the MoH's use of section 9(2)(i) of the OIA1981 to block giving at least the number of doses purchased.
What products have been purchased?
Health NZ has purchased H5N1 vaccine manufactured by CSL Seqirus.
How many doses have been purchased?
What was the total cost of purchase?”
This information is withheld in accordance with section 9(2)(i) to enable Health NZ to carry out, without prejudice or disadvantage, commercial activities.
Why are the people to be inflicted with the products the last folk to know anything about the toxic injectable entity and contents the MoH aims to jab into them? Perhaps rhetorical, however, it expresses the problem of the age, what is informed consent?
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