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According to the director of the U.S. National Institutes of Health, Dr. Francis Collins, the new H1N1 swine flu vaccine is perfectly safe and there is nothing to worry about it. He mentioned that the H1N1 vaccine is similar to normal flu vaccines, with the drug made available from the same manufacturers.
"The concerns that there might be something unique and scary about this are utterly unjustified," Collins said while addressing a Society of Neuroscience meeting in Chicago.
"I would say this is a remarkably safe and effective vaccine," he said, noting that the risks "are about as close to zero as we can measure."
He mentioned that swine flu is now spread across the United States. "It's upon us. There is no part of the country where it is not present in various degrees," he said.
"Any notion that this was an unnecessary response is fading away pretty quickly," said Collins.
