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March 2022 -
Volume 20, Issue 3


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Prevalence of depression and anxiety among patients with breast cancer: a cross-sectional study
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Abbas Bukhari, Ali Farsi, Fawaz Albaqami, Abdulaziz Jowharji, Mansoor Radwi, Abdalmohsen Albaqami, Mohammed Fallatah, Abdullah Alammari, Waleed Alghamdi
DOI: 10.5742/MEWFM.2022.952506

Women's Expectations and Satisfaction with the Quality of Antenatal Care at the Primary Health Care Centers in Unaizah City
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Sadeem Alrobiaee, Saulat Jahan
DOI: 10.5742/MEWFM.2022.952507

Pulmonary hypertension and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in sickle cell diseases
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Mehmet Rami Helvaci, Engin Altintas, Atilla Yalcin, Orhan Ekrem Muftuoglu,
Abdulrazak Abyad, Lesley Pocock
DOI: 10.5742/MEWFM.2022.952508

Positive and negative acute phase reactants in sickle cell diseases
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Mehmet Rami Helvaci, Engin Altintas, Atilla Yalcin, Orhan Ekrem Muftuoglu, Abdulrazak Abyad, Lesley Pocock
DOI: 10.5742/MEWFM.2022.952509

Population and Community Studies

An Overview of Biological Warfare and SARS-CoV-2 as a Potential Biological Agent
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Basem Mohammad Mansour, Deaa Mohammad Alsoleman, Suhail Haydar Alghanem
DOI: 10.5742/MEWFM.2022.9525010

Clinical Audit on Well Baby Services at Primary Health Care Corporation, Qatar
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Noora Alkubaisi, Ansif Pallath Majeed, Hanan Al Mujalli, Abdul Ali Shah,
Sharifullah Khan, Manickavalli M S Anand, Mohammed Asif AbdulGafoor
DOI: 10.5742/MEWFM.2022.9525012

Letter to the Editor

MENA Stem Cells Forum

News Alert

Fake Covid vaccine found in Iran - and beyond?
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Lesley Pocock
DOI: 10.5742/MEWFM.2022.9525016

Review


Cystic Fibrosis: A Review Article
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Hani Raka Karrar, Mahmoud Ismail Nouh, Abdulmohsen Aqeel G. Alanazi,
Sultan Essa Alharbi, Fahad Nuwayfi Almutairi, Hussain Ali Abdullah Alhammad,
Abdullah Ali Hassan Sadeeg, Mohammed Aljunaid Alamin Alsheikh,
Wafa mohammed alshaikh, Mohammed yousef Alyahya, Wejdan Ali Sulieman makki, Hashima Mohammed Alhazmi,
Amal saleem Almutairi, Rehab Salah Aldin Alhendi
DOI: 10.5742/MEWFM.2022.9525014

Case Report

Early-onset CTCL, localized and unilateral - case review

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Ebtisam Elghblawi
DOI: 10.5742/MEWFM.2022.9525015

Original Clinical Research

Study the clinical futures of vitiligo among Yemeni patients in Aden
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Asia Hassan Abdulla Saleh, Amer Bin Al-Zou
DOI: 10.5742/MEWFM.2022.9525017

Surgical treatment and Survival of Gallbladder Cancer Patients: A Systematic Review
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Ali Ibrahim A. Alshehri
DOI: 10.5742/MEWFM.2022.9525019

Shared Decision-Making and its Impact on Medication Adherence among Hypertensive Patients in Northern Saudi Arabia
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Mutasim Almuayqil, Abdusalam Alghamdi, Fahad Alruwaili, Nashmi Al-Etesh
DOI: 10.5742/MEWFM.2022.9525020

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March 2022 - Volume 20, Issue 3

Fake Covid vaccine found in Iran – and beyond?

Publisher - World Family Medicine
Email: lesleypocock@mediworld.com.au, publishermwi@gmail.com

DOI: 10.5742/MEWFM.2022.9525016

Abstract

We are bringing this matter to our readers and regional doctors attention as sadly there is always someone prepared to prey on others misfortune.

The original article is on the WHO website and they provide detail on how to identify fake vaccines and those vials that have been tampered with. It was Astra Zeneca fake vaccine discovered in the original report.

https://www.who.int/news/item/04-11-2021-medical-product-alert-n-7-2021-falsified-covid-19-vaccine-astrazeneca

It is not clear if fake vaccine is still circulating or has been fully removed from circulation but all patients, doctors, health systems and governments should remain vigilant.

We stress that all vaccine should be acquired from a reliable and long trusted source.

There are implications on various levels, i.e. a systemic flaw where not all vaccines in the system can be trusted and from the population health viewpoint where not all people will necessarily have the immunity they assumed they had.

We also need to be aware that whatever was injected was also not necessarily harmless.

Ideally the Iranian government should pay for re-vaccination as it is the national system that was flawed and ordinary Iranian people can ill afford the cost of vaccination. We have also found that immunity decreases after vaccination and after infection with COVID-19, and with new variants arising in the community, free (re)vaccination of all citizens will cover any shortfalls caused by fake vaccines and will be a positive population health approach on many levels.

It has also been suggested that there may be further corruption within the system whereby casting doubt on A-Z, which is a reputable vaccine, allows some other vaccine vendors to push their own brand and after this reported subterfug,e can providers of competing vaccines/sources all be trusted?

It is a systemic failure that a fake vaccine could be introduced in the first place and proper precautions need to be taken to prevent fake vaccines entering the system in all countries.

POSTSCRIPT WAR: Once again we have innocent people being slaughtered by the armies of, let us be frank, evil and insane men. The dangerously mentally ill rule most of the planet. How on earth does this happen? How on earth does it still happen in 2022?

Family medicine deals with the physical, mental and psychological health of all people and as Publisher of World Family Medicine Journal I feel obliged to speak up about the endless slaughter, the endlessly brutalisation, and the endless dispossession. Today it is Ukraine, yesterday it was Myanmar and who knows who it will be tomorrow.

It must stop now and we have to find a way to make it stop forever as it is the biggest family medicine issue on the planet and always has been.







 


 

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