Thailand's Public Health Ministry has primarily concluded that recent fetal deaths were not linked to the anti-A/H1N1-influenza vaccination of their mothers, the Thai News Agency's website reported Wednesday.

On the first case of a pregnant woman at Bangkok's Vajira Hospital, the fetal death occurred five days after its mother was vaccinated against the new flu.

The mother had experienced miscarriage twice in the past as the third one could not have involved with the vaccination since the unborn baby had brain haemorrhage five days later. It did not happen immediately after the mother was vaccinated.

For another case of the miscarriage in a southern province of Satun, it is found that the unborn baby weighed only 1,000 grams, while the miscarriage could have linked with the mother's record of smoking marijuana.

In related development, nationwide hospitals have still offered the vaccine against the new flu for the Thai people in the most risky groups, the website quoted Doctor Opas Karngawinphong, director of the Bureau of General Communicable Diseases, as saying Tuesday.

The vaccine could still boost immunity against the new flu as usual, Doctor Opas said.

However, if any person discovered allergic to it, medical staff must closely monitor his or her condition and find out whether it is related to the vaccine against the new flu, Doctor Opas said.

(Xinhua News Agency February 3, 2010)