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    Warning: some doctors are deceiving the offer of vaccines

    Online and in markets selling fake drugs against influenza A
    Gabriel Leon Zaragoza

    La Jornada
    Tuesday, 1 December 2009, p. 36
    The Federal Commission for Protection Against Health Risks (Cofepris) warned that the Internet and wheel markets suspected counterfeit drugs are marketed influenza A/H1N1. Moreover, he warned, some private physicians have attempted to defraud the public with the sale of immunization against this virus.
    He reported that in January next year will unveil a proposal to regulate misleading advertising. This, he explained, is to summon all the cameras and industries, "because it is not just drugs, but supplements, alcoholic beverages and liquids in general."

    He noted that nearly 80 percent of drugs on the market so far fulfilled the requirements to apply for extension of licenses, procedure to be performed before 24 February 2010, date of expire within five years the Congress set.

    After inaugurating the international seminar Towards a comprehensive policy on drugs, Miguel Angel Toscano Velasco, head of the Cofepris, announced that it will shortly be available in all pharmacies in the country the prescribed medication to combat human influenza, which will be sold by prescription.
    The federal official said the committee in charge will closely watch how they carried out the marketing of the drug in more than 20 thousand pharmacies.

    Urged people to not be fooled by offers of some doctors who claim to have the H1N1 flu vaccine because it is only available in the public sector and so far has gone to those at greatest risk which established the Ministry of Health.

    In response, asked the public to report on the Internet portal COFEPRIS merchants or physicians who seek to deceive consumers. It is important, he added, is to report the addresses where they operate.

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    Warning: There is a vaccine against influenza sale
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    02-December-2009
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    The Ministry of Health denied that the AH1N1 influenza vaccine can be copied or "pirated" to market by the official or private health sector.

    However, Francisco Elizalde Herrera Coahuilans urged not to be surprised by any health institution that tries to sell the biological AH1N1 influenza, because there is none in the local market and abroad.

    This was part of the answer given by the Assistant Secretary for Health to cuestion?rsele on some negotiations are bidding
    up to 500 pesos a human influenza vaccine by some electronic media.

    The state official said, "there is a call of the Federal Commission for Protection Against Health Risks-(Cofepris), in the sense that not to be surprising people by offering the flu vaccine AH1N1 in relation to this may be a vaccine that is not considered fit for human consumption ".

    He also ruled ruled that some laboratories could develop a similar product or "pirate" because they are biological reagents and are not readily available.


    Related Tags: sale, drug, vaccine, influenza, AH1N1

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      Experts caution against pirate vaccines at clinics
      Cintya Contreras
      COFEPRIS makes it illegal to provide the biological private premises, as their availability for the sector is Publicola Federal Commission for Protection Against Health Risks (Cofepris) warned the sale of vaccines against influenza A H1N1 in private, it which so far is presumed unlawful and counterfeit medicine, since its availability is only for public hospitals.
      Miguel Angel Toscano, head of the federal agency, asked the public to avoid acquiring them, despite what they seem affordable, it can endanger your health with the possibility of being apocryphal.
      "The citizen has to be very responsible in not purchasing vaccines, do not buy drugs at flea markets, in sobrreruedas, and is warned that no doctor can sell the pandemic vaccine because there is no market, only in public hospitals", said in interview, following his participation in the International Seminar on Air Quality and Health Effects.
      He said the sale of the vaccine also can be a trick the user, offering the drug against the H1N1 virus when in fact it is only for seasonal influenza, which would mean the crime of counterfeiting packaging.
      "There is no private physicians at this time to deliver the vaccine of influenza A H1N1 pandemic," he said.
      Cofepris estimated that pirated drugs market in Mexico is three percent, despite being little in comparison with African countries where counterfeiting is 30 percent, the authorities concerned.
      Toscano said the swap meet sobrerruedas, as sites that sell illegal drugs. He acknowledged that the neighborhood of Tepito in Mexico City, is one of the places where cases have been reported sales of vaccines, but there is also said, in many markets that are put on the streets.
      "Not only are medical products for the subject of influenza, are also products that offer weight loss in a misleading way, among others," he said.
      So far, the states with the highest complaints of illegal sales are Yucatan Michoacan, Jalisco, Baja California, border areas and Mexico City.
      He emphasized the danger posed by the purchase of medical products online, by phone or autorrecetados, as well as running the risk of being false, the authorities could hardly track down those who committed the crime of selling them.
      He warned that the Cofepris is empowered to make operational its own initiative or upon a complaint, and although so far have not done any confiscation of vaccines will be on the lookout for phony hand with the Ministry of Finance, Customs, SAT , the Mexican Institute of Intellectual Property and Profeco.
      People who sell counterfeit drugs, pirated or stolen could be prosecuted for crimes against health, which warrants prison without bail.
      Toscano called on people to complain to the authorities the irregular sale of the vaccine through the website and phone www.cofepris.gob.mx 01-800-033-5050.

      COFEPRIS makes it illegal to provide the biological private premises, as their availability for the sector is Publicola Federal Commission for Protection Against Health Risks (Cofepris) warned the sale of vaccines against influenza A H1N1 in private, it which so far is presumed unlawful and counterfeit medicine, since its availability is only for public hospitals.

      Miguel Angel Toscano, head of the federal agency, asked the public to avoid acquiring them, despite what they seem affordable, it can endanger your health with the possibility of being apocryphal.

      "The citizen has to be very responsible in not purchasing vaccines, do not buy drugs at flea markets, in sobrreruedas, and is warned that no doctor can sell the pandemic vaccine because there is no market, only in public hospitals", said in interview, following his participation in the International Seminar on Air Quality and Health Effects.

      He said the sale of the vaccine also can be a trick the user, offering the drug against the H1N1 virus when in fact it is only for seasonal influenza, which would mean the crime of counterfeiting packaging.

      "There is no private physicians at this time to deliver the vaccine of influenza A H1N1 pandemic," he said.

      Cofepris estimated that pirated drugs market in Mexico is three percent, despite being little in comparison with African countries where counterfeiting is 30 percent, the authorities concerned.

      Toscano said the swap meet sobrerruedas, as sites that sell illegal drugs. He acknowledged that the neighborhood of Tepito in Mexico City, is one of the places where cases have been reported sales of vaccines, but there is also said, in many markets that are put on the streets.

      "Not only are medical products for the subject of influenza, are also products that offer weight loss in a misleading way, among others," he said.

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