Used as a replacement for the coronavirus vaccine although illegal in Italy. This is the Parvulan, the drug usually used to treat herpes zoster. To throw the alarm is Aifa in an opinion of the Technical Scientific Commission. “The use of the drug in the prophylaxis of Sars-CoV-2 – the website reads – is not supported by the slightest evidence of efficacy and safety and is a potential danger to people’s health“. Moreover, because also” the rationale for this use is largely insufficient, so much so that the Commission had not deemed it possible to authorize its use even in the context of a clinical trial “. For this reason the AIFA recalls” the attention of citizens all on risks related to hiring of unauthorized medicines for the prevention of Covid-19 infections.
Hence the Agency’s request for “invite you to be wary of any solution alternative to official vaccines, or any vaccine or medicine that has not been subjected to the necessary checks by the competent authorities, and which as such can represent a risk to health as it lacks any guarantee with respect to the actual effectiveness in preventing Covid -19 “.
Finally, the conclusion in which Aifa appeals to the “collaboration of everyone – private citizens, health professionals, companies and associations – so that suspicious cases, such as the one reported here, are constantly reported to Aifa for the purpose of implement all necessary measures to protect public health and the individual “.
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