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In Germany, several vaccines for children are no longer available. "There are delivery bottlenecks," said the president of the Paul-Ehrlich-Institut, Klaus Cichutek in Langen near Frankfurt, the Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa.

He confirmed that a report of the "Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung (FAS). Expected by mid-February are no longer available include a six-vaccine for infants and a quadruple vaccine against the viral diseases measles, mumps, rubella andfollow "href =" / disorders / windpocken.html "> chickenpox., but there are alternatives, so that no child should remain unvaccinated in Germany, said Cichutek. The reason for the shortage in the supply to the Institute were not known.

According to FAS the reason is that manufacturers are of the vaccine against the swine flu currently fully utilized. Therefore, since mid-January were seven vaccines für Children no longer available. A spokeswoman for the British manufacturer GlaxoSmithKline regretted the situation, according to FAS. Try to defuse the situation. It could, however, still expected a shortage of supply coming into the second quarter of this year.