Halal-Haram Meningitis Vaccine

Decree of the Indonesian Ulema Council (MUI), which set a meningitis vaccine made by Glaxo Smith Kline (GSK) from Belgium unlawful questioned its scientific basis by academics. Because, although the manufacturers claim vaccines using animal free media elements but all of the current vaccine seeds derived from elements of the media intersect with the pig.

"All the seeds of meningitis vaccine, production, GSK, Novartis or manufacturers from China, all the same origins. The producers had never develop their own kumannya but buying from a germ factory in the Netherlands," said Prof.dr.Umar Anggara Jenie, Chairman of the Bioethics Commission National in Jakarta, Tuesday (08/03/2010).

Contact with any element of pigs occurred only at the beginning when the vaccine production begins, about 1930s. "The collection of meningitis germs have done decades ago," said Prof. Journalists Uddin, Chairman of the Foundation YARSI.
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