Swine flu vaccine ... "It's a killer!"

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Swine flu’s preferred victims

26 August, 2009, 16:32

People in the US have been warned that youth and pregnant women are among the most severely at risk of swine flu. But it seems the virus may be showing another preference — for minorities.

An analysis of Boston’s swine flu cases revealed that, although Hispanics and African Americans are minorities in the city, they composed the bulk of infections.

“We really didn’t know what the race-ethnicity breakdown would be,” Dr. Anita Barry of Boston’s Public Health Commission said on National Public Radio. “And so, when we saw that this illness was disproportionately affecting black and Latino residents, it really did get our attention.”

It was also alarming that these groups appeared to suffer the most severe cases. This was shown by the fact that African Americans and Hispanics were twice as likely to be hospitalized.

Nebraska’s National Public Radio revealed a similar trend, noting that minorities only compose a small segment of the state’s residents, but their infection rate is “out of proportion to their share of the population.”

It’s not genetics…it’s economics

According to Dr. Rubens Pamies, a member of the advisory committee for the US Office of Minority Health and professor of internal medicine at the University of Nebraska Medical Center, these revelations are not overly surprising.

“When you have individuals, especially in under-serviced communities, which tend to have overcrowding and more close contact, it’s easier to see why the spread would be much more…” he said on Net Radio.

“African Americans are not genetically predisposed to getting viruses quicker,” Pamies clarified in another interview.

So far, there is no evidence to suggest that Hispanics are either.

In Boston, the theories of disproportionate infection echoed those of Dr. Pamies – that is, it’s because of minorities’ living conditions.

It is believed that the swine flu preys on the poor who, among other things, have limited access to adequate health care.
Schools support the theory

The hardest hit segments of Boston were low-income areas. Health officials support their notion that infection is based on socio-economics rather than genetics by the fact that within those areas most victims were children.

Minorities become the majority in Boston classrooms. Low-income parents appeared to have difficulty keeping their children at home when they were sick. Sending them to school despite their symptoms is believed to have caused a breeding ground for contagion.

Dr. Anita Barry said that “it was hard on everyone —the parents, the children and the school.” She said school nurses were overwhelmed by the number of parents who were called to pick up a child but reported that they either could not come, or had no one to take care of the child.

The condition in schools was so threatening that many shut down. “We believe it is best to help prevent new infections by keeping members of the school community isolated from one another for one week,” said Dr. Carol Johnson, Superintendent of Schools.

When Louis Agassiz Elementary School closed, so did the adjacent community center. This can create serious problems for parents.

A survey conducted by the Harvard School of Public Health and funded by the Center for Disease Control found that nearly half of African Americans and Hispanics believed that someone in their household would lose their job or business if schools closed due to the flu. However, only a fraction of white Americans, who tend to have the highest incomes, reported the same fear.
The aggravating health factor

Part of the explanation for why the swine flu sent more minorities to the hospital appears rooted in underlying health problems. About half of the hospital cases in Boston reportedly revealed that the patients suffered from asthma, a condition also believed to disproportionately affect minorities.

Dr. Pamies said that conditions such as “diabetes, chronic obstructive lung disease, asthma, heart conditions and so on, predisposes you to having worse outcomes.”

That the affected groups tend to lack health insurance and seek medical treatment from public health clinics appears to aggravate their delicate circumstances.

If the theories put forward so far are correct, the forthcoming federal swine flu report should clearly show that poorer people, no matter what their ethnicity, tend to be overburdened by the virus.

Michelle Smith for RT

[AtomicBlythe]

I respectfully ask that everyone please go read this:
http://zombietime.com/john_holdren_and_harrison_brown/
Below is an excerpt from Brown's book written in the 1950's...before the leaps in genetic understanding.  Science Czar to Obama, John Holdren, idolizes Brown and quotes him in many of his books and writings.

"Is there anything that can be done to prevent the long-range degeneration of human stock? Unfortunately, at the present time there is little, other than to prevent breeding in persons who present glaring deficiencies clearly dangerous to society and which are known to be of a hereditary nature. Thus we could sterilize or in other ways discourage the mating of the feeble-minded. We could go further and systematically attempt to prune from society, by prohibiting them from breeding, persons suffering from serious inheritable forms of physical defects, such as congenital deafness, dumbness, blindness, or absence of limbs. But all these steps would be negligible when compared with the ruthless pruning of man that was done by nature prior to the rise of civilization.

Unfortunately man's knowledge of human genetics is too meager at the present time to permit him to be a really successful pruner. The science of human genetics is not very old, and reliable facts and figures which enable one to differentiate satisfactorily between genetic effects and environmental effects are few and far between. Nevertheless, there is at present sufficient information to permit man to make a start toward pruning, however small it may be. And it is quite possible that by the time another ten or fifteen generations have passed, understanding of human genetics will be sufficient to permit man to do a respectable job of slowing down the deterioration of the species."

And this:
"Although there are admittedly numerous individual fluctuations, it does appear that the feeble-minded, the morons, the dull and backward, and the lower-than-average persons in our society are outbreeding the superior ones at the present time. Indeed, it has been estimated that the average Intelligence Quotient of Western population as a whole is probably decreasing significantly with each succeeding generation. "


I urge you to go and read the article at the URL above, keeping the H1N1 developments in mind.

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Tuesday, August 11, 2009
VACCINE SAFETY and VACCINATION CHOICE
http://njvaccinationchoice.blogspot.com/2009/08/vaccine-safety-and-vaccination-choice.html
by: Maureen Drummond
Co‐founder/ Co‐director
New Jersey Coalition for Vaccination Choice
Download this article here

Emotion is a powerful selling tool and a formidable motivator. If one feels great in a suit or dress, it’s sold. If one feels the distress of a starving child, he will send 47 cents a day to feed that child. If a parent feels a greater peace of mind knowing their children have cell phones, they will buy the cell phones. And if one
takes pleasure in watching others relish a meal, she will cook a banquet for everyone to enjoy.

There are an array of human emotions which motivate but fear is, by far, the greatest motivator of all. People will act out of fear without question or reason. We have seen this demonstrated within ourselves, within our circle of family and friends and even on a more grand scale, within our society and our world. The most widespread example of fear as a motivator is the overwhelming acceptance of injecting toxic,
pathogenic and carcinogenic substances directly into the bloodstream of developing infants and children through the practice of vaccination‐‐a practice we hail as the cornerstone of preventive medicine.

Generations of individuals have been duped with inflated statistics of disease morbidity and mortality rates proffered as vaccine information. The fact is, information about disease rates and information about vaccine ingredients and the harm those ingredients can cause in the human system, is not synonymous.
However, the sales tactic is brilliant! So much fear of the disease has been generated, that one does not even question the injection. The desire to be “artificially protected” from disease has developed with such a solid foothold that the American people have gone from accepting one compulsory vaccine‐‐smallpox, to
laying their children on the line for 41 state‐mandated vaccines here in New Jersey. And it will not stop there. The Jordan Report lists more than 400 vaccines currently in various stages of research and development. The Government’s plan for the swine flu pandemic involves administering 156 million doses of fast‐tracked vaccine without significant short term nor long term safety data to validate its use. Eightymillion
doses per month are expected to be available after the initial batches are released and news sources are reporting that every man, woman and child may be forced to take up to three doses of the newly developed swine flu vaccine.

If vaccines were harmless, there would be no dilemma. But the ethical, legal, medical and moral quandaries persist because vaccination does result in harm. Harm that would not otherwise be present with a natural infection. Harm from the sheer components of vaccine ingredients which include mercury, aluminum, formaldehyde and phenol among dozens of other known toxins. Harm from the route of administration‐‐via injection, which bypasses the natural hierarchy of immune system defenses, allowing
these toxins direct access to the blood‐brain barrier. Our federal government recognizes this harm under the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) which lists vaccine reactions ranging from injection site soreness and rashes to grand mal seizures and death. These reactions are underreported by as much as 90% according to former FDA commissioner, David Kessler.

The CDC’s sales pitch is that the swine flu is a pandemic. The emotion they will evoke to motivate the American people is fear. As of August 3, 2009, the World Health Organization confirmed 200,824 cases worldwide resulting in 1619 deaths. The world population is 6.8 billion. This means that presently one in 33,861 people are infected and roughly one in 4,200,000 has died from the swine flu. Is this enough to
make you roll up your sleeve with complete abandon? Would you be willing to let your emotion yield to your reason and consider the information critical to granting your truly informed consent? Are you willing to accept a significant risk from the vaccine before any promise of a benefit? A risk perhaps greater than the threat posed by the disease itself?

If history is destined to repeat itself, then we need look no farther back than the swine flu debacle of 1976. Several recruits at Fort Dix in New Jersey complained of respiratory ailments similar to the common cold. The army base doctor sent their throat cultures to the New Jersey Department of Health and Senior Services for testing. Most of the cultures revealed that the troops were suffering from the normal flu virus circulating at the time. Four of the troops, however, had presented with an unidentified virus and their cultures were subsequently sent to the CDC for testing. The CDC released the verdict‐‐swine flu. Three of the four recruits fully recovered from their illnesses. One private, David Lewis, left his sickbed against
doctor’s orders to participate in a 5 mile forced march. He collapsed during the march and died days later. His commanding officer had performed mouth to mouth resuscitation in an effort to revive the soldier. The Sergeant never became ill although he had direct contact with Private Lewis.

This widely publicized outbreak at Fort Dix involved 4 cases of suspected swine flu. No other confirmed cases of swine flu were reported anywhere in the nation. Yet on the basis of that isolated incident, 46 million people in this country were vaccinated with horrible results. Four thousand people, that year, made
claims against Uncle Sam amounting to three and a half billion dollars, for injuries and deaths resulting from vaccination. Two thirds of the claims involved those suffering from life‐altering neurological injury triggered by an allergic reaction to the shot. Guillian‐Barre Syndrome, a disease of the peripheral nerves
causing severe weakness and paralysis, afflicted thousands. One claimant, Judy Roberts, who had developed Guillan‐Barre and became a quadriplegic from the vaccine, was interviewed by Mike Wallace on CBS 60 Minutes in 1979. Three years after her shot, she was still waiting for her claim to be recognized. “Maybe they think if they drag it on long enough, people will just let it go,” Ms. Roberts told 60 Minutes.
Unfortunately, under the currently proposed swine flu vaccination campaign, the Government has exonerated all swine flu vaccine makers from liability when their products maim and kill. We will all be forced to accept the consequences of the vaccine without restitution, all for the sake of the “herd immunity and the greater good.” The vaccine manufacturers, however, will still be entitled to all of their profits.

Insidiously, health officials at the CDC knew the 1976 Swine Flu vaccine was likely to cause neurological injury. Dr. Michael Hatwick directed the surveillance team for the Swine Flu Vaccination Program at the CDC. His job was to identify what possible complications could arise from taking the shot and to report his findings to Dr. David Sencer, then head of the CDC. In a report dated July 1976, Dr. Hatwick identified neurological complications resulting from the vaccine. This report was submitted to Dr. Sencer. In an interview with Mike Wallace from the same 60 Minutes segment mentioned earlier, Dr. Sencer denied Dr. Hatwick’s report. When asked his reaction to Dr. Sencer’s denial of the knowledge that the vaccine caused
harm, Dr. Hatwick replied, “That’s nonsense! I cannot believe that they would say they did not know there was neurological illness associated with that influenza vaccine. That simply is not true! We did know that!”

Over three years ago, Novartis applied for a patent to which the U.S. Patent Office granted and issued US 20090047353A1 for a "Split Influenza Vaccine with Adjuvants.” A year before any reported H1N1 cases, Baxter applied for an H1N1 vaccine; Baxter Vaccine Patent Application US 2009/0060950A1. Simply prophetic!

The A‐H1N1 vaccine is being rushed to market. There will be no proof of its safety. Test populations are too small to determine what will happen with a mass vaccination program that proposes to inject hundreds of millions. The vaccines being prepared for the current pandemic involve a specific variant of the virus. If the genetic material of the virus mutates from the original A‐H1N1 viral antigen used in the millions of
doses of vaccine now being prepared, then the vaccine will be useless against those infected with the mutated strain. Reuters reported on June 23, 2009 that German scientists had evidence to believe the virus has already mutated. Nine days later, on July 2, 2009 Japan reported confirming its first case of H1N1 infection with a mutated form of the current strain.

Enter squalene, an oil based adjuvant that will likely be added to the vaccines. Adjuvants are commonly used in vaccine production to prolong the immune response to the vaccine. Since the medical community falsely measures a vaccine’s “effectiveness” in terms of antibody responses produced by the body after the vaccine is given, the adjuvants work well to perpetuate the illusion of being “immunized.” Theoretically, if the body has produced antibodies, it then, has the necessary equipment to ward off disease, although clinically, this has only been proven with naturally acquired infections, not vaccinations. Antibodies are produced when the body encounters something foreign to it, hence, anti‐body. Immunity, however, can only be acquired when the immune system encounters the antigen or foreign substance in a natural way
and resolves it naturally so that the hierarchy of immune system responses is allowed to progress through all of its necessary stages. Injection is not natural. It bypasses that hierarchy and the antibody response is not the same; it fails to go through the correct order of immune system responses necessary to develop true immunity. Therefore, a person may show circulating antibodies from the vaccine but this is not an indication that they have become immune. It is only an indication that the immune system is responding to something foreign. There is no valid, scientific model for testing the effectiveness of vaccination.

Squalene has been known for decades to produce severe autoimmune disease. We know now, that a formulation‐‐ MF59 ‐‐was the secret ingredient in certain lots of experimental anthrax vaccines that caused devastating autoimmune diseases and deaths in countless Gulf War Veterans. Squalene induced autoimmune diseases include multiple sclerosis, systemic lupus erythematosus, rheumatoid arthritis, chronic fatigue syndrome and fibromyalgia. An autoimmune disease is one in which the body loses its
ability to distinguish what is foreign from what is self, so it begins to attack its own healthy cells. Introducing foreign matter into the body by injection produces complete chaos in the natural economy of the human immune system and is, in fact, the basis for autoimmune disease. Investigative journalist, Gary Matsumoto was one of the first to report on the horrors of squalene. “Squalene is a kind of trigger for the
immune system. When the immune system’s full repertoire of cells and antibodies start attacking the tissues they are supposed to protect, the results can be catastrophic.” The evidence can clearly be seen in the ever‐increasing numbers of people diagnosed with auto‐immune disease whose common denominator is vaccination. Immunologist, Dr. Pamela Asa has worked with many patients who suffer from similar autoimmune diseases following injection with vaccines containing adjuvants. Dr. Asa maintains that, “Oil
adjuvants are the most insidious chemical weapons ever devised.”

So, are you ready to roll up your sleeve?
Please check out NJCVC’s website at: www.njvaccinationchoice.org
e‐mail questions and comments to: md1stnoharm (at) aol.com
Posted by vaxchoice at 9:45 AM

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Head of the CDC, Dr. Thomas Frieden,
disputes White House swine flu report

BY Rich Schapiro
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER

Updated Thursday, August 27th 2009, 3:41 PM

Dr. Thomas Frieden, head of the CDC,
sought to assuage swine flu fears on Thursday.

Nearly 90,000 deaths from swine flu this fall? Not quite, the chief of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says.

"Everything we've seen in the U.S. and everything we've seen around the world suggests we won't see that kind of number if the virus doesn't change," Dr. Thomas Frieden said in a C-SPAN interview taped Wednesday.

Frieden's downgrading of the swine flu threat marks yet another volley in what appears to be a growing battle between the CDC and the White House's top medical advisors over the dangers of the next wave of the H1N1 virus.

On Monday, the White House unveiled a grim report estimating the swine flu will wipe out up to 90,000 Americans in the coming months. The deadly virus will also infect half of the population and force some 1.8 million people into hospital intensive care units, the President's Council of Advisers on Science and Technology predicted.

Dr. Harold Varmus, the New York doctor who spearheaded the report, told the Daily News Tuesday the "flu could be extremely dangerous" and "needs to be taken seriously."

But a day earlier, after Varmus' estimates were released, Frieden and White House health czar Kathleen Sebelius virtually ignored them.

Sebelius merely acknowledged that swine flu "will cause a more serious threat this fall."

Bolstering the notion that even the White House was at odds with Varmus' report, its release came with little fanfare and no official news conference.

What's more, the panel's dire report appears to have been released two weeks late. It was dated Aug. 7.

Varmus, president of the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, did not immediately respond to a request for comment Thursday.

Swine flu was first detected in Mexico in April.

The highly-contagious virus killed 47 New Yorkers and plunged the city into chaos. A raft of schools were shuttered and the sick and panicked overwhelmed emergency rooms.

The virus infected more than 1 million people across the nation.
rschapiro@nydailynews.com


Swine flu: Are blacks and Latinos at higher risk?
August 27, 2009 | 10:23 am

In the early stages of the pandemic H1N1 influenza outbreak in Chicago, blacks and Latinos were about four times more likely than Caucasians to contract the virus, according to the first study that has examined the racial composition of those who caught the flu. Children were also 14 times as likely as the elderly to contract the virus, according to a report from the Chicago Department of Public Health in today's edition of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report.

Despite the figures, CDC officials said it is unlikely that there is any genetic factor underlying the increased susceptibility. Rather, both blacks and Latinos suffer from higher rates of asthma, diabetes and other medical conditions that make them more susceptible to the new virus, commonly known as swine flu.

Illinois and Wisconsin had an unusually high incidence of laboratory-confirmed cases of the flu, surprising because of their distance from Mexico, the initial focus of the outbreak. But both states had aggressive laboratory testing programs and most likely simply detected a higher number of cases that would otherwise have gone unnoticed.

Today's report showed 1,557 laboratory-confirmed cases of pandemic H1N1 virus in Chicago in the 14 weeks ending July 25. Children ages 5 to 14 had the highest infection rate, 147 cases per 100,000 population -- 14 times higher than that for adults over the age of 60. Previous studies have shown that the elderly, who are normally the primary victims of seasonal flu, may have some resistance to the new virus because of previous exposures to swine-related flu viruses. A total of 205 patients were hospitalized, about 13% of those infected. Children up to 4 years old had the highest hospitalization rate, 25 per 100,000, followed by those aged 5 to 14 at 11 per 100,000.

Blacks were hospitalized at a rate of nine per 100,000 and Latinos at eight per 100,000, compared to the rate of two per 100,000 in Caucasians. Earlier this month, Boston public health authorities released some preliminary information suggesting that blacks and Latinos accounted for three-quarters of hospitalizations in that city. But Dr. Dan Jernigan of the CDC noted that the early stages of the epidemic struck neighborhoods rather randomly, and the outcomes might be due simply to chance -- as well as the higher rate of underlying disease in those populations.

Among the 205 hospitalized patients, 40 were admitted to the intensive care unit and nine required mechanical ventilation. Fourteen of the hospitalized patients were pregnant, one of whom died after giving birth by caesarean section. Among the 177 hospitalized patients for whom information was available, 37 (21%) had a previous diagnosis of asthma and 13 (7%) had a diagnosis of diabetes.

-- Thomas H. Maugh II


Swine flu vaccine arrives in UK but roll-out will have to wait

Swine flu vaccine must sit in storage for over a month while manufacturers wait to see whether it will be given a licence

The first batch of swine flu vaccine has arrived in the UK, but it must sit in storage for more than a month while the manufacturers wait to see whether it will be given a licence, the chief medical officer said today.

The news of the delivery of around 200,000 packs of the vaccine came as it was announced that the UK death toll from swine flu has risen to 66 after 11 fatalities in the past week.

The vaccine packs made by Baxter Healthcare – one of two drug companies with whom the government has signed contracts – have been delivered ahead of the drugs being approved, in contrast to the normal process for new drugs and treatments.

The European Medicines Agency will now decide whether to licence this vaccine and one made by GlaxoSmithKline. Both manufacturers hope to have their licence by early October, which will mean the roll-out can begin later that month. The Department of Health will prioritise distribution to those most at risk from the flu, including those with conditions that make them vulnerable, such as diabetes and HIV, as well as health workers.

When the vaccine is available, many people may be reluctant to be immunised because of fears it has not been tested properly, recent surveys of health care workers and the public suggest.

A Canadian study published on Monday indicated that a successful vaccination campaign would need to win over people who believe that alternative therapies and a good diet are a better option than vaccines.

Today the chief medical officer, Sir Liam Donaldson, said the health professionals he had spoken to seemed to want the vaccine as soon as it became available. "It still remains the case that this disease is not a killer but it can kill," he said.

While the vaccine sits in storage, the epidemic in the UK continues to abate.

Donaldson, who repeated warnings of a second wave of swine flu in the autumn, said the number of cases was currently down to what would be normal levels of flu if this was winter – although clearly this was abnormal for summer.

In the last week, the Health Protection Agency said there were an estimated 5,000 cases of swine flu - although the true figure could be anywhere between 3,000 and 12,000. There have been three swine flu deaths in England, seven in Scotland and one each in Wales and Northern Ireland over the last week. There were 218 people hospitalised with swine flu in the last week, which is a fall, but is high for the summer.

The weekly consultation rates at GP surgeries have risen in 11 primary care trusts but decreased in 134, with no change in two. But even among those where the rates have risen – most markedly in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly – the consultation rates were generally nowhere near as high as they were at the peak of the current outbreak. The highest rate of consultation in England was in Greenwich, London, at 45.2 swine flu consultations per 100,000. Tower Hamlets, which came second with 44.1 consultations per 100,000, hit 75 per 100,000 a few weeks ago.

One thing that surprised him, Donaldson said, was the continuing high level of swine flu cases in the West Midlands.

In contrast to most countries, only 22% of deaths in the UK have been among healthy people, said Donaldson. Figures from the World Health Organisation suggested 40% of those who had died were previously healthy. The proportion ending up in intensive care in the UK also appeared to be lower, he said.

More than 460,000 packets of the antiviral Tamiflu have been given out via the government's National Pandemic Flu Service for England since it launched in July.
guardian.co.uk
Swine flu sends more blacks, Hispanics to hospital

By MIKE STOBBE (AP) – 5 hours ago

ATLANTA — Swine flu was four times more likely to send blacks and Hispanics to the hospital than whites, according to a study in Chicago that offers one of the first looks at how the virus has affected different racial groups.

The report echoes some unpublished information from Boston that found three out of four Bostonians hospitalized from swine flu were black or Hispanic.

The cause for the difference is probably not genetic, health officials said. More likely, it's because blacks and Hispanics suffer disproportionately from asthma, diabetes and other health problems that make people more vulnerable to the flu.

It's not clear if a racial or ethnic difference will hold up when more complete national data is available, one federal health official said. The findings are based on fairly small numbers of cases from the early days of the pandemic.

"We don't have anything definitive to say one group is more affected than another," said Dr. Daniel Jernigan of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

The Chicago findings, released Thursday, are believed to be the first published study to detail a racial or ethnic breakdown of swine flu's impact.

Researchers looked at more than 1,500 lab-confirmed swine flu cases reported to the Chicago Department of Public Health from late April through late July.

Blacks with swine flu were hospitalized at a rate of 9 per 100,000, and Hispanics at a rate of 8 per 100,000. For whites, the rate was 2 per 100,000, the study found.

Earlier this month, Boston health officials released some unpublished information that found three out of four Bostonians hospitalized with swine flu were black or Hispanic.

"It's very disturbing," said Barbara Ferrer of the Boston Public Health Commission, speaking about the higher rates of minority swine flu hospitalizations.

"But intuitively it's understandable, because we have tremendous inequities in most areas of health," said Ferrer, the agency's executive director.

Also, experts noted that the Chicago and Boston data represent limited information from only two cities and only the first two or three months of the pandemic. The unpredictable manner of swine flu outbreaks means some parts of the city were hit before others — a sequence that may have little to do with race.

"I think it reflected more the neighborhoods the disease was first going through," said Jernigan, a CDC flu expert.

This fall, the government will be doing national surveys to better track swine flu trends. That should provide more reliable information about how the virus is affecting different groups of people, he said.
On the Net:

    * CDC report: http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr


One in four Californians could be affected by swine flu, state health chief says
August 27, 2009 |  9:27 am

California's state health officer said today that one in four Californians might be affected by swine flu this fall.

Dr. Mark Horton made the prediction in a letter to Californians released today by the California Department of Public Health. "All of us must prepare for the disruptions the novel H1N1 influenza virus may have on our daily lives," Horton said in the letter.

H1N1 Horton's letter is the latest warning to be issued by public health officials about H1N1, commonly known as swine flu.

Pregnant Women, New Parents Urged to Get Vaccine
Swine flu vaccine called vital for pregnant women, new parent

Health officials are stressing that it is vital for pregnant women and new parents to get the swine flu vaccine to protect themselves and their children.

In the words of Tina Johnson of the American College of Nurse-Midwives: "By not getting the flu yourself, you are going to protect your children better."

Dr. Anne Schuchat of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said at a briefing Thursday that women of any trimester should get the vaccine.

"There's no benefit to waiting until you're out of the first trimester," added Dr. Laura Riley of Massachusetts General

[sociostudent]

looks like the CDC's having second thoughts about the genocide.

[TahoeBlue]

looks like the CDC's having second thoughts about the genocide.

...if the virus doesn't change

[Irobot]

(Reuters) - Doctors are reporting a severe form of swine flu that goes straight to the lungs, causing severe illness in otherwise healthy young people and requiring expensive hospital treatment, the World Health Organisation said on Friday.

Some countries are reporting that as many as 15 percent of patients infected with the new H1N1 pandemic virus need hospital care, further straining already overburdened healthcare systems, WHO said in an update on the pandemic.


http://snardfarker.ning.com/group/flu/forum/topics/who-warns-of-severe-form-of

[Dig]

(Reuters) - Doctors are reporting a severe form of swine flu that goes straight to the lungs, causing severe illness in otherwise healthy young people and requiring expensive hospital treatment, the World Health Organisation said on Friday.

Some countries are reporting that as many as 15 percent of patients infected with the new H1N1 pandemic virus need hospital care, further straining already overburdened healthcare systems, WHO said in an update on the pandemic.


http://snardfarker.ning.com/group/flu/forum/topics/who-warns-of-severe-form-of

check into H2N2, they may be chemtrailing it (by accident of course):

http://forum.prisonplanet.com/index.php?topic=128816.0

[sociostudent]

check into H2N2, they may be chemtrailing it (by accident of course):

http://forum.prisonplanet.com/index.php?topic=128816.0

Yeah, just like Bayer accidentally put HIV in the hemophilia drugs in '83, then accidentally had the National Hemophilia Foundation "(urge) hemophiliacs to maintain use of clotting factor in their treatment of hemorrhagic episodes" for over a year until half of the nation's hemophiliacs were infected with HIV.

(Prescription for Disaster, Thomas J. Moore, 1998)

 

And just like the U.S. and British Navy accidentally let The Warrior drift within a mile of where they had just detonated Christmas and Malden in '57.....and then accidentally sold the irradiated warship to Argentina.

And it was a total accident that the NIH put a level III biolab with bird flu in it on a barrier island:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/29/us/29lab.html

We might as well be this guy:

when it comes to the real state of U.S. bioweapons security.

[Harconen]

Poison Alert: Pregnant women and new parents urged to get vaccine

Associated Press
Thu, 27 Aug 2009 06:38 UTC
http://www.sott.net/articles/show/192235-Poison-Alert-Pregnant-women-and-new-parents-urged-to-get-vaccine
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090827/ap_on_he_me/us_med_flu_pregnancy

Washington - Health officials are stressing that it is vital for pregnant women and new parents to get the swine flu vaccine to protect themselves and their children.


Comment: A vaccine which has not even been tested http://www.sott.net/articles/show/191889-UK-A-third-of-nurses-will-refuse-to-have-the-swine-flu-jab and which is actually proven to be quite dangerous http://www.sott.net/articles/show/191535-Swine-Flu-Vaccine-linked-to-Paralysis is supposed to protect pregnant women?





In the words of Tina Johnson of the American College of Nurse-Midwives: "By not getting the flu yourself, you are going to protect your children better."

Dr. Anne Schuchat of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said at a briefing Thursday that women of any trimester should get the vaccine.

"There's no benefit to waiting until you're out of the first trimester," added Dr. Laura Riley of Massachusetts General Hospital.

The swine flu, also known as H1N1, first appeared in the spring, and then spread to the southern hemisphere where thousands have been infected. It is expected to return this fall, when the normal flu season arrives in this hemisphere.

Vaccine for the seasonal flu is available in many parts of the country now and testing is under way for the swine flu vaccine, which is expected to be available in October. Experts urge people to get both seasonal and swine flu vaccinations, and not to wait to get them together.

Asked if there will be swine flu vaccines available without the preservative Thimerosal, Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease, said yes.

Fauci said there is no evidence that Thimerosal poses any medical hazard, but because some people are concerned about it a form of the vaccine without it will be available.

Comment: No evidence? What's this http://www.sott.net/articles/show/190819-Proof-That-Thimerosal-Induces-Autism-Like-Neurotoxicity then? And this http://www.sott.net/articles/show/190629-Thimerosal-Questions-Asked-Few-Answered ? And what about this http://www.sott.net/articles/show/131243-Thimerosal-Linked-To-Autism-New-Clinical-Findings ? And let us not forget about this http://www.sott.net/articles/show/140673-No-Shock-Federal-Study-run-by-former-Merck-employee-says-Thimerosal-doesn-t-affect-brain-function one. The list goes on and on.

[bigron]

WHO Warns of Severe Form of H1N1 Virus


Saturday, August 29, 2009 
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  Doctors are reporting a severe form of H1N1 that goes straight to the lungs, causing severe illness in otherwise healthy young people and requiring expensive hospital treatment, the World Health Organization said Friday.

Some countries are reporting that as many as 15 percent of patients hospitalized with the new H1N1 pandemic virus need intensive care, further straining already overburdened healthcare systems, WHO said in an update on the pandemic.

"During the winter season in the southern hemisphere, several countries have viewed the need for intensive care as the greatest burden on health services," it said.

"Preparedness measures need to anticipate this increased demand on intensive care units, which could be overwhelmed by a sudden surge in the number of severe cases."

Earlier, WHO reported that H1N1 had reached epidemic levels in Japan, signaling an early start to what may be a long influenza season this year, and that it was also worsening in tropical regions.

"Perhaps most significantly, clinicians from around the world are reporting a very severe form of disease, also in young and otherwise healthy people, which is rarely seen during seasonal influenza infections," WHO said.

"In these patients, the virus directly infects the lung, causing severe respiratory failure. Saving these lives depends on highly specialized and demanding care in intensive care units, usually with long and costly stays."

MINORITIES AT RISK

Minority groups and indigenous populations may also have a higher risk of being severely ill with H1N1.

"In some studies, the risk in these groups is four to five times higher than in the general population," WHO said.

"Although the reasons are not fully understood, possible explanations include lower standards of living and poor overall health status, including a high prevalence of conditions such as asthma, diabetes and hypertension."

WHO said it was advising countries in the Northern Hemisphere to prepare for a second wave of pandemic spread. "Countries with tropical climates, where the pandemic virus arrived later than elsewhere, also need to prepare for an increasing number of cases," it said.

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Every year, seasonal flu infects between 5 percent and 20 percent of a given population and kills between 250,000 and 500,000 people globally. Because hardly anyone has immunity to the new H1N1 virus, experts believe it will infect far more people than usual, as much as a third of the population.

It also disproportionately affects younger people, unlike seasonal flu which mainly burdens the elderly, and thus may cause more severe illness and deaths among young adults and children than seasonal flu does.

"Data continue to show that certain medical conditions increase the risk of severe and fatal illness. These include respiratory disease, notably asthma, cardiovascular disease, diabetes and immunosuppression," WHO said.

"When anticipating the impact of the pandemic as more people become infected, health officials need to be aware that many of these predisposing conditions have become much more widespread in recent decades, thus increasing the pool of vulnerable people."

WHO estimates that more than 230 million people globally have asthma, and more than 220 million have diabetes. Obesity may also worsen the risk of severe infection, WHO said.

The good news — people infected with AIDS virus do not seem to be at special risk from H1N1, WHO said.

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Early and Current Fears about Vaccine Dangers


by Stephen Lendman

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August 28, 2009

Given today's hysteria over a non-existent Swine Flu threat and possible mandating of experimental, untested, toxic, and likely bioengineered vaccines, it's appropriate to review early fears about their dangers - when evidence first surfaced and concerns were raised.

 

In 1920, Charles Michael Higgins' "Horrors of Vaccination Exposed and Illustrated: Petition to the President to Abolish Compulsory Vaccination in Army and Navy" (now available in a new 2008 edition) issued a "Public Challenge to Health Departments" in citing "Deaths from Vaccination Denied and Concealed - More Deaths from Vaccination than from Smallpox," then continued:

 

"In order that there shall be no misunderstanding about the serious charge which I bring against vaccination, as being now actually more dangerous to public health and human life than natural smallpox, and the equally serious charge which I make against vaccinating doctors - who now control our Departments of Health and Vital Statistics - of denying and concealing these facts from the people, I now issue this special challenge" to the New York city and state authorities that "I will....prove from their death certificates and vital records, now concealed and withheld from the public, that there have been more deaths from vaccination than from smallpox in every year for the past fifteen years in the City and State of New York."

 

Calling compulsory vaccinations "medical barbarism," Higgins petitioned President Woodrow Wilson to stop mandating them for army and navy personnel. He cited facts he called shocking, including death certificates of primary school aged children "all killed in one week in September, 1915, from vaccination resulting in lockjaw and septicemia" and numerous others dead from "vaccine infection." Yet throughout 1915, only three people died from smallpox.

 

Higgins bluntly stated that:

 

"Compulsory disease as a condition for public schooling or for service in army and navy is medically barbarous and legally unconstitutional, and should be abolished." They violate the "right to life, health, and education..."

 

He asked Wilson to pardon court-martialed soldiers who refused non-consensual vaccinations, then imprisoned at "hard labor for twenty-five years!....for asserting (their) right to the medical sanctity of (their) own bod(ies)...."

 

He said that in the 1904 - 05 Russo-Japanese War, typhoid vaccinations weren't used. Instead, for almost the first time, modern, effective sanitation and hygiene practices were employed, and few soldiers experienced typhoid fever. But in the WW I Gallipoli campaign, English soldiers got typhoid vaccinations. Unsanitary conditions prevailed, and many succumbed to typhoid and other infectious diseases. In 1918 under conditions of poor sanitation for US forces, vaccinations proved ineffective in preventing "a high death-rate among the well vaccinated men."

 

On March 28, 1919, an official report from the Chief Surgeon of the AEF in the US Public Health was titled, "Typhoid Vaccination no Substitute for Sanitary Precautions."

 

Higgins quoted medical authorities admitting vaccination dangers and condemning their mandatory use. The 1913 edition of Osler's "Modern Medicine," Volume I stated:

 

"With the greatest care, however, certain (vaccination) risks are present and so it is unwise for the physician to force the operation upon those who are unwilling, or to give assurance of absolute harmlessness."

 

In 1889, the English Commission on Vaccination exhaustively studied the issue, published its findings in 1896, concluded that vaccinations were dangerous, and said laws making them compulsory should be repealed or modified. An enacted "conscientious clause" subsequently let parents exempt their children. Yet, contrary to fears at the time, smallpox greatly declined because of improved sanitation and good hygiene practices.

 

As early as the mid-19th century, books about vaccine dangers included Dr. Charles Schieferdecker's "Dr. CGG Nittinger's evils of vaccination" (1856), William Tebb's "Sanitation, not Vaccination the True Protection against Small-Pox" (1881), William White's "The Story of a Great Delusion" (1885), Alfred Russel Wallace's "Vaccination Proved Useless & Dangerous" (1889), Dr. Tenison Deane's "The Crime of Vaccination" (1913), and many others.

 

In his book, Higgins referred to vaccinations as the cause of "great epidemics of deadly disease in animals and mankind...." and cited government reports he called "notorious public facts."

 

"In October, November, and December, 1901, (a tetanus epidemic occurred) after vaccination(s were administered) in Camden, Philadelphia, and to a certain extent in near-by towns." Higgins wrote the Secretary of War citing proof "that there was a distinct medical and logical relation between influenza and vaccination, and that many serious diseases, including smallpox and cowpox, commence like influenza...."

 

The "wholesale and repeated vaccinations in the military camps throughout the world (suggested) that this vaccine infection had escaped....and was running wild as a world-wide epidemic infection," and to check it required all vaccinations be halted. He stressed what he called "no mere hypothesis or theory, but rather a hard fact" borne out by "foot and mouth disease" epidemics in cattle and other animals, "some of which originated from two of the largest vaccine factories in this country," at the time in Philadelphia and Detroit.

 

He cited US Bureau of Animal Industry and US Department of Agriculture reports that clearly showed vaccine infection as the cause of the 1902 and 1908 epidemics, and the "strong suspicion" that later ones in 1914 and 1915 were as well.

 

He called for the abolition of "dangerous medical domination and monopoly which now controls our Departments," which had long abused public power, that denied "Medical Truth, Freedom and Progress (and) which should no longer be tolerated." He urged that compulsory army and navy personnel vaccinations be abolished, replaced solely by voluntary ones.

 

He said "the practice of inflicting on the human body a compulsory medical disease, which is dangerous to the health and life and causes many deaths every year, is obviously illegal and a medical crime on the people which must be suppressed." On September 17, 1919, he asked President Wilson to put a stop to "vaccination horrors and medical mendacities."

 

Vaccinations Given US Military Forces During Major Military Conflicts since 1775
 

From at least the 1770s to the present, inoculations were routinely used. From the American Revolution through the Spanish-American War, smallpox vaccinations were administered. In WW I, typhoid was added, and in WW II, shots were given for smallpox, typhoid, typhus, tetanus, cholera, diphtheria influenza, scarlet fever, plague, paratyphoid A and B, and yellow fever. The Korean War adopted the same regimen. Vietnam added immunizations for polio, tetanus-diphteria toxoids, measles and meningococcal.

 

For the Gulf War, still more were added for anthrax, botulinum, adenovirus types 4 and 7, hepatitis B, measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR), and rabies - a virtual toxic stew besides depleted uranium exposure that combined caused Gulf War syndrome, its devastating effects on many thousands of troops, yet the Pentagon denied it existed.

 

The Afghan and Iraq wars added varicella (chicken pox), hepatitis A, influenza, yellow fever, pneumococcal, plus the upcoming Swine Flu vaccine. In combination, US military forces now get a greater than ever toxic brew of up to 20 dangerous inoculations plus booster shots (including for diphtheria, tetanus, and pertussis DTaP) that assure damage to (or destruction of) their immune systems followed by serious health problems later on.

 

In 1919, Higgins called smallpox and typhoid inoculations "medical barbarism." Today it's at an intolerable level.

 

Confessions of a Medical Heretic

 

On April 16, 1988, a portion of a brief New York Times obituary read:

 

On April 5, "Dr. Robert S. Mendelsohn, a physician, author and critic of the medical establishment, died after a brief illness....He was 61 years old." Besides teaching at the University of Illinois and Northwestern University, he was best known as "The People's Doctor" and for his 1979 bestseller, "Confessions of a Medical Heretic," in which he cautioned against "the harmful impact upon your life of doctors, drugs and hospitals."

 

In a November 1984 East West Journal article, he called immunizations a "medical time bomb," and (as a paediatrician) said the "greatest threat to childhood diseases lies in the dangerous and ineffectual efforts made to prevent them." He referred to deceptive marketing practices and called paediatricians objecting to their "bread and butter" the equivalent of a priest denying the infallibility of the Pope.

 

He urged parents to reject all inoculations for their children, but explained that in many states they're mandatory. He administered them early in his practice, but later stopped "because of the myriad hazards they present." He summarized his concerns as follows:

 

-- no evidence confirms that vaccinations eliminate childhood diseases;

 

-- the Salk and Sabin polio vaccines don't work and cited Jonas Salk later admitting that mass inoculations caused an epidemic after 1961;

 

-- smallpox vaccinations are "the only source of smallpox-related deaths for three decades after the disease had disappeared;"

 

-- significant inoculation risks are real; parents should avoid them when possible;

 

-- doctors are derelict for not explaining their hazards and for "defend(ing) them to the death;"

 

-- a "myriad (of known) short-term hazards (exist but) no one knows the long-term consequences of injecting foreign (substances) into the bod(ies) of your child(ren);"

 

-- even more shocking is that "no one is making any structured effort to find out," yet

 

-- suspicions now confirm that mass-inoculations dramatically increase autoimmune and neurological diseases, including leukemia, rheumatoid arthritis, multiple sclerosis, heart disease, and numerous others ranging from annoying to lethal;

 

-- he asked: "Have we traded mumps and measles for cancer and leukemia," and blamed vaccinations for their destructive harm, including thousands of annual SIDS (sudden infant death syndrome) deaths; and

 

-- he said the best way to protect children is make sure they're not vaccinated.

 

Doctors Speak Out on Vaccine Dangers
 

The Merck Manual (first published in 1899, now available in a Home Edition) warns individuals with B and/or T cell immunodeficiencies to avoid live-virus vaccines (the main ingredient in ones produced by Novartis, GlaxoSmithKline, and perhaps others) due to the risk of severe or fatal infections. Immunodeficiencies include common food allergies, inhalant ones, eczema, dermatitis, neurological deterioration and heart disease. Vaccines may be lethal for people with these conditions because their immune systems can't produce a healthy reaction to the viral assault on them. Getting it may induce illnesses they're intended to prevent and many other potentially deadly ones.

 

It's no surprise that many doctors, earlier and now, share Mendelsohn's concerns and state them.

 

On April 2, 2002 in the London Telegraph, autism specialist Dr. Kenneth Aitken said: "When I was in training, one in 2,500 (children were autistic). Now it is one in 250. At the moment, the only logical explanation for this is MMR" immunizations.

 

On April 27, 1979, at the American Society of Microbiology meeting, a paper by Drs. Anthony Morris, John Chriss, and BG Young titled, "Occurrence of Measles in Previously Vaccinated Individuals" concluded that "By the (US) government's own admission, there has been a 41% failure rate in persons who were previously vaccinated against the (measles) virus."

 

A 1993 British Medical Journal article stated: "In 1993 a high court judge in the UK decided that it was impossible to know the exact contents of vaccines and that science had no idea what the cocktails of chemicals, contaminants and heavy metals contained in vaccines could do to the human body, or why they would work to prevent disease."

 

Dr. J. Anthony Morris, former FDA Vaccine Control head said: "There is a great deal of evidence to prove that immunization of children does more harm than good." He concluded that "There is no evidence that any influenza vaccine thus far developed is effective in preventing or mitigating any attack of influenza. The producers of these vaccines know that they are worthless, but they go on selling them anyway."

 

Professor LC Vincent, Bioelectronics founder, said "Vaccines DO predispose to cancer and leukemia."

 

In December 1985, Dr. Albert Sabin, discoverer of the oral polio vaccine, admitted that "Official data have shown that the large-scale vaccinations undertaken in the US have failed to obtain any significant improvement of the diseases against which they were supposed to provide protection."

 

The National Institute of Health's (NIH) Dr. James A. Shannon said that "The only wholly safe vaccine is a vaccine that is never used."

 

Professor Ari Zukerman of the World Health Organization (WHO) stated: "Immunization against smallpox is more hazardous than the disease itself."

 

Dr. Paul Frame in the Journal of Family Practice believes "There is insufficient evidence to support routine vaccination of healthy persons of any age."

 

Dr. John B. Classen stated that his "data proves that the studies used to support immunization are so flawed that it is impossible to say if immunization provides a net benefit to anyone or to society in general."

 

Dr. Gerhard Buchwald concluded from the results of 150 trials that "Vaccination is not necessary, not useful, (and) does not protect. There are twice as many casualties from vaccination as from AIDS."

 

The Association of American Physicians & Surgeons stated that "Public policy regarding vaccines is fundamentally flawed. It is permeated by conflicts of interest. It is based on poor scientific methodology (and it's) insulated from independent criticism."

 

In his book, "Health and Nutrition Secrets," Dr. Russell L. Blaylock wrote: "Multiple vaccinations, especially in newborns, are another major source of childhood mercury exposure because of the mercury-containing thimerosal preservative. Over twenty-two vaccinations are now recommended for children before the age of two! Effects of exposure can vary from subtle to major malformations but even minor degrees of maldevelopment can have unacceptable consequences."

 

Blaylock called flu vaccinations, especially for the elderly, "criminal" because of known substance dangers in them, including methylmercury, phenylmercury,  ethylmercury, and aluminum that remain in the nervous system for decades and damage it.

 

According to the WHO, "The best vaccine against common infectious diseases (is) and adequate diet" along with good sanitation and hygiene practices.

 

Dr. Rebecca Carley calls vaccinations "The True Weapons of Mass Destruction Causing VIDS, Vaccine Induced Diseases."

 

Immunogeneticist Dr. Hugh Fudenberg concluded that individuals getting five consecutive flu shots between 1970 and 1980 (the time of his study) were 10 times more vulnerable to Alzheimer's disease than others receiving two or fewer shots. He cited dangerous mercury and aluminum ingredients that accumulate in the brain causing cognitive dysfunction.

 

Flu shots contain 25 micrograms of mercury. One microgram is considered toxic. By age two, most US children have received around 237 micrograms of mercury through vaccines alone.

 

Vaccines contain the following toxic and others substances:

 

-- thimerosal (mercury);

 

-- aluminum hydroxide and phosphate;

 

--ammonium sulfate;

 

-- amphotericin B,

 

-- animal tissues and fluids, including horse blood, rabbit brain, dog kidney, monkey kidney, chick embryo, chicken egg, duck egg, pig blood, and porcine (pig) protein/tissue;

 

-- calf serum and fetal bovine serum;

 

-- betapropiolactone;

 

-- macerated cancer cells;

 

-- formaldehyde;

 

-- formalin;

 

-- synthetic phenol;

 

-- gelatin and hydrolyzed gelatin;

 

-- glycerol;

 

-- human diploid cells (from aborted human fetal tissue);

 

-- MSG;

 

-- the anti-biotics neomycin and neomycin sulfate;

 

-- phenol red indicator disinfectant dye;

 

-- phenoxyethanol (antifreeze);

 

-- potassium monophosphate;

 

-- polymyxin B;

 

-- polysorbate 20 and 80;

 

-- residual MRC5 proteins;

 

-- sorbitol;

 

-- sucrose;

 

-- tri(n)butylphosphate;

 

-- VERO cells, a continuous line of monkey kidney cells linked to the SV-40 virus known to cause leukemia; and

 

-- washed sheep red blood cells.

 

One or a combinations of theses substances can play havoc with the human immune and neurological systems and cause deadly autoimmune and other diseases.

 

On August 15, a UK Mail Online article linked Swine Flu vaccines to a deadly nerve disorder called Guillan-Barre Syndrome (GBS). It cited a leaked letter from Britain's Health Protection Agency ahead of planned mass-vaccinations in the country. Sent to about 600 neurologists on July 29, it referred to America's 1976 killer virus Swine Flu scare, the urging then that everyone be vaccinated, and the millions who did with these results:

 

-- people died from the vaccine (from respiratory failure after severe paralysis), not Swine Flu;

 

-- 500 GBS cases were detected;

 

-- experts said the vaccine increased the GBS risk level eight-fold;

 

-- once the link was established, vaccinations were halted, but the damage was done after about 10 weeks of inoculations; and

 

-- the US government paid hundreds of millions of dollars to settle damage claims from thousands of victims.

 

UK press coverage currently describes concern over the government releasing a vaccine "of unknown safety," yet plans remain to proceed. According to Jackie Fletcher, founder of the vaccine support group Jabs: "The (UK) Government would not be anticipating (trouble) if they didn't think there was a (GBS) connection. What we've got is a massive guinea-pig trial."

 

In a July 26 rense.com article titled, "Startling New Evidence That The 'Swine Flu' Pandemic Is Man-Made," Dr. A. True Ott cited evidence showing that Novartis Pharmaceuticals "conspired with corrupt 'scientists' at the US Army Institute of Pathology, Ft. Detrick, Maryland, to create a 'novel' strain of weaponized 'influenza' virus by....'reverse engineering' the deadly 1918 killer strain (then) maliciously and surreptitiously releas(ing it globally) in March and April 2009 for the primary purpose of creating a panic-stricken world-wide demand for Novartis vaccine material."

 

Ott claims the vaccine will unleash "lethal waves of increasingly virulent and deadly disease, rather than to curtail and limit the existing outbreak" - for huge profits and "a massive and sudden (worldwide) depopulation" agenda.

 

He called the scheme much greater than Henry Kissinger's 1974 NSSM-200 diabolical plan for "the immediate reduction of world population" in the hundreds of millions.

 

In 1987, Dr. Maurice Hillerman, prominent vaccine expert and head of Merck's vaccine division admitted that mass inoculations in the 1950s and 1960s likely caused thousands of annual cancer deaths because the SV40 virus (from dead monkeys) contaminated the first polio vaccine. "According to Hillerman, MERCK KNEW THE VACCINES WERE INFECTED WITH SV40, but distributed them anyway."

 

Many other examples show that "live viruses in vaccines SPREAD....disease very effectively. When combined with SQUALENE ADJUVANT the virus becomes many times more potent and lethal."

 

Ott claims Novartis' patent application reveals "smoking gun" evidence. The company admitted that "their 'invented' vaccine will be effective because of ADVANCE KNOWLEDGE CONCERNING THE ORIGINS OF THE PANDEMIC FLU STRAIN THAT WAS 'REVERSE ENGINEERED'....Clearly the pandemic virus was not an act of nature. (It's) a conspiracy to commit mass murder" for profit.

 

Writing for Citizens for Legitimate Government (CLG), Dr. Andrew Bosworth sounded the alarm about "The Swine Flu Hoax," admitted its mysterious origins, expressed concern that it might be lethal, and suggested that it was either accidently or deliberately released by corporate or government sources to cause a global epidemic for profit and power.

 

He cited suspicions of doctors and scientists that Swine Flu was man-made because of its unique combination of viruses from different parts of the world. He mentioned spurious media and official reports of Swine Flu deaths, perhaps from conventional flu, another cause, or an unrelated medical condition. He called the US government's pandemic policy "ridiculous" and "repugnant," leaving people terrified and uninformed enough to react adversely to their own well-being.

 

Current News from Jane Burgermeister's theflucase.com

 

Burgermeister is the journalist who filed criminal charges against Baxter AG, Baxter International, and Avir Green Hills Biotechnology AG "for producing and distributing contaminated bird flu material this winter, alleging that this was a deliberate act to cause a pandemic, and also to profit" from it. In addition, she accused Austrian Health and other Ministry officials of knowledge and support of this practice, then later named Baxter, Novartis, Sanofi Aventis, world agencies (including the WHO, UN, and CDC), and high-level officials in Austria, other European countries, and America of conspiratorial involvement.

 

Her web site features the following recent reports:

 

-- on August 25, the UK Daily Mail said "Up to half of (British) family doctors do not want to be vaccinated against swine flu," and one-third of them said the vaccine was inadequately tested;

 

-- in Australia, "Leading infectious disease experts have called on the Federal Government to abandon its mass swine-flu vaccination plan because of fears the vaccine is a contamination risk that could spread blood-borne diseases;"

 

-- In Jacobson v. Commonwealth of Massachusetts (1905), the US Supreme Court ruled that the state could require people to be vaccinated for the common good; in April 2009, NECN.com reported that a possible new Massachusetts law (Bill 2028) will require compulsory vaccinations; those refusing face $1,000 a day fines or 30 days in prison; after the state senate unanimously passed it, Catherine Austin Fitts concluded that Boston's money men must be "very scared about something," given that the city is "the capital of equity investment;"

 

-- on August 25, Health Minister Ulla Schmidt admitted on German TV that the Swine Flu vaccination campaign was a hoax and the largest ever inoculation experiment in history; and

 

-- on August 22, Dr. Wolfgang Wogarg, chairman of the health committee in the German parliament and European Council, warned about potential Swine Flu vaccine safety. He said Novartis' vaccine contained cancerous animal cells, and emphasized peoples' fears over the disease from being inoculated. "It is a great business for the pharmaceutical industry," he told Neuen Presse. Swine flu is not very different from conventional flu, but the vaccine can have dangerous side effects.

 

Lessons from the 1976 Swine Flu Outbreak

 

Soldiers at Fort Dix, NJ were affected. About 240 became ill. One death was reported, but the illness never spread beyond the base, so it's curious why not. The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention couldn't explain why the disease was contained or how it was introduced.

 

More curious is the current hype over person-to-person transmission when it didn't happen in 1976. Northwestern University's Immunology Professor Robert Lamb explains that isolated swine flu cases in humans aren't uncommon. "Every year, you will find some pig farmer somewhere who gets swine flu. But it usually doesn't transmit to his family," let alone to the surrounding area or beyond.

 

Several years ago, Texas A & M's head of microbial and molecular pathogenesis, John Quarles, isolated a swine flu virus in a student on campus. He took samples from him and about 100 others close to him. Not a single one of them was affected, and according to Quarles: "That's pretty classic for swine flu."

 

In research conducted by Dr. Pascal James Imperato, dean at SUNY's School of Public Health, he reported that "the 2009 H1N1 virus was less efficiently transmitted by droplet infection (inhalation of respiratory pathogens exhaled by someone infected) in ferrets compared to the seasonal human H1N1 virus. This is a significant finding as it indicates that the 2009 swine flu virus might not be as easily transmitted between humans as its seasonal counterpart" - unless it's bioengineered to make it contagious and deadly.

 

Conclusion

 

Swine Flu is a virus-induced respiratory illness in pigs. Few succumb and die, and humans are rarely infected, except occasionally among people having direct contact with infected animals. For most who do, symptoms are generally mild. Medications and other treatments aren't essential. The illness usually lasts from two to seven days, and most patients recover well on their own.

 

Currently, no global pandemic or public health emergency exists, nor does forensic evidence link H1N1 to reported deaths. Yet fear-mongering persists to convince people globally to submit voluntarily to dangerous, possibly deadly bioengineered, vaccines.

 

If large numbers of confirmed Swine Flu deaths occur, contrary to compelling scientific reasons why they should not, then serious investigation is called for to determine if inoculations, not H1N1, caused them, and whether corporate greed and government complicity are behind a sinister plot to distract world attention from a deepening global depression, enrich drug companies hugely, and depopulate nations in numbers too horrifying to imagine - or as some observers put it, "depopulation by inoculation."

 

Stephen Lendman is a Research Associate of the Centre for Research on Globalization. He lives in Chicago and can be reached at lendmanstephen@sbcglobal.net
 

Also visit his blog site at sjlendman.blogspot.com and listen to The Global Research News Hour on RepublicBroadcasting.org Monday - Friday at 10AM US Central time for cutting-edge discussions with distinguished guests on world and national issues. All programs are archived for easy listening.

 

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WHO Warns of Severe Form of H1N1 Virus

Saturday, August 29, 2009 
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,544262,00.html

Doctors are reporting a severe form of H1N1 that goes straight to the lungs, causing severe illness in otherwise healthy young people and requiring expensive hospital treatment, the World Health Organization said Friday.

As this story develops, keep in mind that this is the same banker-owned political establishment that admittedly issued fake terror alerts to manipulate the public:

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Fake Homeland Security Terror Alerts during Bush Adminstration
Tom Ridge's Revelations Vindicate "Unserious" Terror Alert Skeptics

by Jason Linkins



Global Research, August 22, 2009
Huffington Post - 2009-08-21

Yesterday's revelation from former Secretary of Homeland Security Tom Ridge that he was pressured to raise the terror alert level to assist President George W. Bush win re-election in 2004 was widely greeted by Bush critics as the confirmation of longstanding suspicions. And everyone who contended that the silly Terror Color Chart could have not possibly served any other purpose than a political one should take a victory lap, right? Atlantic's Marc Ambinder didn't seem to think so (at least not at first), telling his readers:

Journalists, including myself, were very skeptical when anti-Bush liberals insisted that what Ridge now says is true, was true. We were wrong. Our skepticism about the activists' conclusions was warranted because these folks based their assumption on gut hatred for President Bush, and not on any evaluation of the raw intelligence. But journalists should have been even more skeptical about the administration's pronouncements.

I can do very little to add what Marcy Wheeler and Glenn Greenwald have contributed to the discussion, nevertheless I feel the need to get a few licks in about Ambinder's prejudice. What Ambinder needs to admit, here -- and he is not alone -- is that he erred in assuming that skepticism about Bush's conduct only originated from "gut hatred of Bush." Certainly, some did. But, Ambinder's view completely eliminates the possibility that skepticism could originate from reason or from seriousness.

[Continued...]

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The global elite are attempting to "punk" us yet again, folks.

Will the sheep-like masses fall for it like they always have before?

[Satyagraha]

Don't mess with our need to get rid of the OVERSTOCKS of Tamiflu....

Canada dismisses warning about flu drug
Caroline Alphonso
Toronto — From Tuesday's Globe and Mail
Monday, Aug. 10, 2009 07:32PM EDT
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/tamiflu-effective-in-treating-children-canada-maintains/article1247247/

Study raises questions about effectiveness of Tamiflu for young children, but public health agency stands by broad use of treatment

Canadian health authorities will not change their practice of prescribing the anti-viral drug Tamiflu to treat cases of pandemic H1N1 flu in children, despite a new study that raises questions about the drug’s effectiveness.

Researchers at the University of Oxford cautioned about the broad use of anti-viral drugs to treat children 12 years of age and younger suffering from seasonal flu. They found anti-viral drugs have little or no effect on asthma flare-ups, ear infections or bacterial infections in children. Tamiflu was also linked to increased vomiting.
The authors questioned whether children would face the same risks when being treated with anti-virals for the pandemic H1N1 flu virus.

But the Public Health Agency of Canada assured parents Monday that Tamiflu has a strong safety profile, and has recommended doctors prescribe it for infection prevention and to treat cases of H1N1 in infants under one year.

“We know that Tamiflu thus far is effective in treating the vast majority of people who have H1N1, making their symptoms less severe and the illness lasting fewer days,” the agency said in an e-mail. “We now have some evidence that there seems to be less risk in using Tamiflu in young children.”

The pandemic virus has shown resistance to Tamiflu, one of two anti-virals that can keep it in check if taken within days of the first symptoms. However, there have been people who have fallen ill despite taking the drug.

The study, published Monday in the British Medical Journal, found anti-virals shortened the duration of seasonal flu in children from between a half-day and 11/2 days. But the study found no clear evidence the anti-virals prevent complications in children with seasonal flu. It didn’t prevent asthma exacerbations in asthmatic children or lower rates of antibiotic prescriptions, for example.

The researchers did not study the effects of anti-virals on children with H1N1 flu, but said that based on some evidence, anti-virals might have “limited” effects on preventing complications.

“While morbidity and mortality in the current pandemic remain low, a more conservative strategy might be considered prudent, given the limited data, side effects such as vomiting, and the potential for developing resistant strains of influenza,” Matthew Thompson, a senior clinical scientist at Oxford, and his colleagues concluded.

The researchers conducted a scientific review of seven previous studies, known as a meta-analysis, on the use of anti-viral drugs for seasonal flu in children. Four studies looked at the treatment of influenza, the other three looked at the use of drugs to prevent infection.

Grant Stiver, a professor of medicine in infectious diseases at Vancouver General Hospital and the University of British Columbia, dismissed the findings. “I don’t think I would base any clinical judgment on this study,” Dr. Stiver said in an interview.

Trials done on Tamiflu have shown the drug to have benefits when it comes to seasonal flu, even in children, he said.

Although there isn’t much data on anti-virals and the H1N1 virus, Dr. Stiver said Tamiflu helps prevent the spread of infection in the early stages and, more importantly, in the absence of a vaccine.

“I think it’s safe in children,” Dr. Stiver said. “The earlier you can get this drug, the better it works.”
(He THINKS it's safe? - would he give it to his own kids???)

[Please Wake Up!]

Vent to follow:

I am on a list of parents who have children with type 1 diabetes. The Swine Flu vaccine has come up a few times and there is sort of mixed opinions about it.  Of course, I make my opinion very clear - I will not allow my family to get the vaccine.  So, this father (a doctor) laid into me about it.  Of course he brings up the Virus of 1918, blah, blah, blah.  The thing that bothered me was when he made a comment about how withholding the Swine Flu vaccine from my child would be like withholding insulin from my child.  WTF?  For those who don't know... if I withheld insulin from my insulin dependent daughter, she would DIE within days.  (As a parent with a child with type 1 D, he obviously knows this).  He actually believes that these two situations are comparable... He then ended his comment by writing "You sound rooted in principle, I hope it doesn't become too costly." My 'principle' basically being that I wouldn't inject neurotoxins, etc... into my body or my kids' bodies.   

Wow.  Just Wow. 

[Satyagraha]

Vent to follow:

I am on a list of parents who have children with type 1 diabetes. The Swine Flu vaccine has come up a few times and there is sort of mixed opinions about it.  Of course, I make my opinion very clear - I will not allow my family to get the vaccine.  So, this father (a doctor) laid into me about it.  Of course he brings up the Virus of 1918, blah, blah, blah.  The thing that bothered me was when he made a comment about how withholding the Swine Flu vaccine from my child would be like withholding insulin from my child.  WTF?  For those who don't know... if I withheld insulin from my insulin dependent daughter, she would DIE within days.  (As a parent with a child with type 1 D, he obviously knows this).  He actually believes that these two situations are comparable... He then ended his comment by writing "You sound rooted in principle, I hope it doesn't become too costly." My 'principle' basically being that I wouldn't inject neurotoxins, etc... into my body or my kids' bodies.   

Wow.  Just Wow. 

That "Doctor" who made the comparison that not giving the vaccine = withholding insulin is a complete idiot. He is irresponsible, and he's making a patently untrue statement. I feel sorry for his patients!!!

[donnay]

Vent to follow:

I am on a list of parents who have children with type 1 diabetes. The Swine Flu vaccine has come up a few times and there is sort of mixed opinions about it.  Of course, I make my opinion very clear - I will not allow my family to get the vaccine.  So, this father (a doctor) laid into me about it.  Of course he brings up the Virus of 1918, blah, blah, blah.  The thing that bothered me was when he made a comment about how withholding the Swine Flu vaccine from my child would be like withholding insulin from my child.  WTF?  For those who don't know... if I withheld insulin from my insulin dependent daughter, she would DIE within days.  (As a parent with a child with type 1 D, he obviously knows this).  He actually believes that these two situations are comparable... He then ended his comment by writing "You sound rooted in principle, I hope it doesn't become too costly." My 'principle' basically being that I wouldn't inject neurotoxins, etc... into my body or my kids' bodies.   

Wow.  Just Wow. 

The doctor is an absolute quack.  I would have turned to him and said I will give this flu shot to my child if you can unconditionally guarantee me that my child will not get the swine flu.  I am sure his tune would have changed.

[Irobot]

WHO: Swine flu spreading at ‘unbelievable’ rate

Swine flu spreads four times faster than other viruses and 40 percent of the fatalities are young adults in good health, the world’s top health official warned in an interview appearing Saturday.

“This virus travels at an unbelievable, almost unheard of speed,” World Health Organisation Director General Margaret Chan told France’s Le Monde daily in an interview.



Doctors Question WHO's Severe Swine Flu Warning

Some Say While Severe Swine Flu Exists, Warnings May Be Overblown
The World Health Organization warned Friday that doctors around the world are now reporting a severe form of swine flu that goes straight to the lungs of otherwise healthy young people -- but some infectious disease experts said the alarm could be unwarranted.



Obesity linked to swine flu deaths

Study of pandemic reveals that weight problems and pregnancy are significant factors in fatal cases

The Observer, Sunday 30 August 2009

Obesity has emerged as a possible contributing factor in fatal swine flu cases, according to ground-breaking research looking at deaths caused by the pandemic in countries around the world.

The claim is made by a team from the French Institute for Public Health Surveillance, which has studied the characteristics of 574 deaths associated with the pandemic H1N1 influenza up until the middle of July. According to the team's findings, published in medical journal Eurosurveillance, underlying disease was found in at least half of all fatal cases.


12160 Bio Watch :
http://tinyurl.com/12160BioWatch

[2Revolutions]

Pay attention to the sub headline. 


http://abcnews.go.com/print?id=8438195

Will Fear Make Pregnant Women Shun Swine Flu Vaccine?
Doctors Fear Safety Worries May Overshadow Pregnant Patients' Need for the Shot

By DAN CHILDS
ABC News Medical Unit

Aug. 28, 2009—

New Yorker Deirdre Hykal is precisely the type of person doctors hope will get the swine flu vaccine first.

Hykal is pregnant -- a fact that moves her to the front of the line to receive the vaccine, as health officials have warned that pregnant women appear to be more susceptible to swine flu than their non-pregnant counterparts.

But despite this, Hykal has her misgivings about the jab.

"It's sort of nerve wracking, perhaps because you're the guinea pigs," Hykal told ABC News' Sharyn Alfonsi. "But I don't know what's worse ... getting sick from the vaccine or sick from the swine flu. So it's a tough decision."

Doctors are increasingly worried that pregnant women like Hykal, fearing side effects from the swine flu vaccine for themselves or their unborn babies, will skip the shots -- even though these women are among the priority groups to receive them.

Dr. Gerald Joseph, president of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, sent a letter on Thursday to doctors in the organization pressing them to urge their pregnant patients to get the shots when they become available.

"The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists has joined with a coalition of prenatal and pediatric health care provider organizations to urge pregnant women to take steps to prevent influenza and to seek early treatment," Joseph wrote in the letter. "Your action to prevent and treat influenza in your pregnant patients is of critical importance."

The recommendation that pregnant women be among the first to receive the swine flu vaccine comes after a study released last month showed that pregnant women are four times more likely to be hospitalized with the illness than other people.

But some pregnancy experts say the vaccine could be a tough sell to pregnant women who worry that the shots could have an ill effect on their babies.

"Pregnant women attending our clinics are very concerned about swine flu and the risk to their health and, more importantly, the impact it might have on their pregnancy and the health of their baby," said Dr. Amanda Cotter, associate professor obstetrics and gynecology at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine.

"All pregnant women should be vaccinated against the seasonal flu, but only 15 percent of pregnant women actually [are]," she said. "The reluctance is because pregnant women are always afraid to take medication in pregnancy and harm their baby."

Dr. Marjorie Greenfield, director of general obstetrics and gynecology at the University Hospitals Case Medical Center's MacDonald Hospital for Women in Cleveland, agreed that convincing some mothers to get the vaccine could be an uphill battle.

"I know a lot of people are worried about vaccines for their children, and many mothers-to-be don't want to take any unnecessary medications or treatments during pregnancy," she said. "So I am sure we will get lots of questions about whether it is safe to take this vaccine."

Swine Flu More Dangerous for Pregnant Women, Doctors Say

Ironically, pregnant women are the ones who stand to benefit the most from the swine flu vaccine, doctors say, as the disease appears to be much more severe for these women.

"We have good evidence that flu is more dangerous to pregnant women than to the general public," Greenfield said.

"We are very worried about how big this epidemic of H1N1 may be this year, and pregnant women who get H1N1 will be at increased risk of severe illness and death," she said. "There is no reason to believe that the immunization will be unsafe and good reason to believe that H1N1 has the potential to make pregnant women very sick."

And some doctors report that they have already seen firsthand the potentially devastating effects of swine flu in pregnant patients.

"We did have a pregnant mother in late spring who developed H1N1 flu and was critically ill," said Dr. Ian Holzman, chief of the Division of Newborn Medicine at Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York. "She delivered prematurely, and the baby was ill, but there was no evidence that the baby had influenza.

"The risks of the immunization are surely less than the risk of influenza in the mother," he said.

[AtomicBlythe]

  FEAR FEAR FEAR
The doctor fears because of the patient's fear...
YOU DON'T KNOW IF YOU WILL EVEN GET THE FLU AND IF YOU DO YOU DON'T KNOW YOU ARE GOING TO DIE FROM IT!  GRRRR...
We also don't KNOW that the vaccine is going to hurt people so the question is - Does the evidence that you are going to die/endanger your baby if you contract H1N1 outweighs that of vaccines harming you or your unborn baby?
Heh, sorry, hope that made sense.
EDIT: After re-reading that, I realized that I sort of sound like I am advocating the vaccine. I AM NOT.
I'm saying, give me the numbers.  What PERCENTAGE of pregnant women contracted H1N1 and of those, what percentage have died or caused harm to their fetus and -
What percentage of children/fetuses have been harmed by vaccines?

[2Revolutions]

http://abcnews.go.com/print?id=8412477

Drastic Measure? Officials Consider Early Roll-Out of Swine Flu Vaccine
Influenza Experts Disagree Over Need to Move Quickly on Vaccine Given Dire Predictions
By DAN CHILDS
ABC News Medical Unit

Aug. 25, 2009—

The government appears to be moving forward with an early roll-out of a vaccine against the H1N1 swine flu virus  even as trials to determine its safety, efficacy and proper dosage are still under way.

On Tuesday, Dr. Ann Schuchat, director of the CDC's National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, confirmed that the government will request that manufacturers "fill and finish" batches of the vaccine in 15-microgram doses in order to put some doses of the vaccine into vials for shipment so they could be available as early as mid-September. The measure was one of the recommendations laid out in a report by the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) released on Monday.

Comment:  Paging Dr. Holdren

"We certainly feel that based on everything we know about seasonal influenza and H1N1... the risks of the disease are much higher than the risks of the vaccine," Schuchat said during a CDC press conference on the vaccine on Tuesday.

Some infectious disease experts said that given the circumstances, the plan is warranted.

"I think this is a good idea if it can be done," noted Dr. D.A. Henderson, former director of the Office of Public Health Emergency Preparedness for the Bush administration and currently an infectious disease specialist at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. "The only problem is that the individual may receive a less potent vaccine that will be less effective. Is it better to have this than no vaccine at all? I think so."

But others said the early roll-out could be premature. "I am very skeptical of finishing vaccine before we know the appropriate dose to be included in each inoculation, before immunogenicity studies are complete or before safety assessments have been finished," said Dr. William Schaffner, chair of the Department of Preventive Medicine at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine in Nashville, Tenn., and a proponent of influenza vaccination.
Early Push May Not Be Warranted, Flu Experts Say

"We have assured both the profession and the public that the H1N1 vaccine will be evaluated with the same rigor that is applied to seasonal vaccine," he added. "We should not make vaccine available before the trials are complete and the results carefully assessed."

Amir Afkhami, assistant professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and of Global Health at George Washington University in Washington, D.C., agreed.

"I fear that a rush towards vaccinating the population without completing trials risks leading to the harmful outcome that we witnessed during the 1976 Swine flu scare where the government advocated rapid production and vaccination of the population without adequate safeguards which led to an unexplained increase in cases of Guillain Barre syndrome amongst other complications," Afkhami said. "I think in this regard we must learn from lessons of the past and be mindful of not jumping from the proverbial frying pan into the fire by putting people's health at risk without adequate production and safety monitoring of the vaccines."

Too Early for 'Fill and Finish'?

Throughout the development of the new vaccine that is aimed at offering protection against the swine flu, some have raised concerns over what they see as an effort to rush the drug through safety trials.

Indeed, some of the lingering fears may spring from the spike in a rare neurological condition known as Guillain Barre syndrome cases that accompanied vaccination efforts during the 1976-77 flu season. A number of medical professionals say no strong evidence exists to support the theory that the vaccine caused the neurological disorder. However, some believe that preparing the doses before the trials are complete could open the door to unexpected side effects.

"Normally to get approval for a new vaccine you must do a variety of trials to make sure the vaccine is both safe and effective and, if there are side effects, what those may be," said Bill Muraskin, professor in the Department of Urban Studies at Queens College at the City University of New York. "Even with the biggest and best trials, there is the problem that a side effect that appears rarely may not be discovered."
Push Comes Amid Sine Flu Vaccine Supply Worries

Meanwhile, with the news last month that barely more than a third of the anticipated 120 million doses of swine flu vaccine will be available by mid-October, public health experts are faced with significant pressure to ensure that vulnerable populations will have access to the shots if they are needed.

One of the biggest questions that still remains is whether recipients of the vaccine will need one or two doses to get full protection from the virus. And even then, the question of whether 15 micrograms is the proper amount of antigen to have in each shot is still an unanswered one.

"Is 15ug the correct quantity?" asked Dr. Rich Whitley, president-elect of the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA). "We will need the results of the NIAID studies to answer that question, as well as whether we will need to doses of novel H1N1 vaccine."

Making the Right Move Is Crucial, Experts Warn

At stake in the debate over how quickly to push forward with swine flu vaccine efforts is not only public health, but also public opinion, Muraskin warned.

"We have in this country a major anti-vaccine lobby and movement that is not confined to the lunatic fringe, but increasingly includes upper middle class groups," he said. "It is vital not to give these people ammunition.

"If the public health authorities skip any key step in the normal vaccine approval process they are setting themselves up for a real attack by the anti-vaccine forces if there are significant side effects and the flu is no more severe than what they are now predicting."

[Irobot]

Colombia says president has swine flu
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/08/30/AR2009083002134.html
BOGOTA (Reuters) - Colombian President Alvaro Uribe has contracted the H1N1 swine flu virus and is being treated by doctors

[3REPORT]

The HHS Dept. kicked off a youtube contest to see who could make the best video instructing the shattle slaves to get their injections.

http://www.the3report.com/index.php/blog/hhs_flu_shot_video_contest/

[AtomicBlythe]

Children under 9 will now need 4 shots...


http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,544782,00.html?test=latestnews

H1N1 State of Confusion

Monday, August 31, 2009
By Marrecca Fiore

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Millions of kids, young adults and teachers are returning to classrooms and dorm rooms this week – prime real estate for the spread of H1N1 – and there’s still little agreement on how best to protect against the bug.

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Department of Health and Human Services, World Health Organization and vaccine manufacturers have yet to reach an agreement on how to attack and prevent the H1N1 virus.

Among the most confusing points are:

— How many flu shots will you need?

How many times will you need to get poked this year? That depends on who you ask and how old you are.

One shot: The CDC and HHS recommend seasonal flu shots for everyone – especially high risk groups like the very young, very old, health-care workers and those with pre-existing health conditions or weakened immune systems.

Two shots: H1N1 shots (two of them administered about three weeks apart) are recommended for health-care workers, pregnant women, the very obese, parents of children and teens, and children and adults ages 6 months to 24 years old. People older than age 50 do not need H1N1 shots unless they have pre-existing health conditions or weakened immune systems, according to health officials.

Three shots: Certain people are encouraged to get both seasonal flu and H1N1 shots including pregnant women, health-care workers, parents of children and teens, college students and people with underlying health conditions.

Four shots: New this week, some health officials say children under the age of 9 who have never had a flu shot will need four shots. This includes two seasonal flu shots and two H1N1 shots.

— Should infected schools and colleges close?

Although the CDC, HHS and WHO are all recommending thatofficials do not close schools or colleges if a small number of students come down with flu symptoms, HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said last week that all schools and colleges should be ready to offer online courses, should an outbreak occur and closure become necessary.

Still, no organization has yet to define what constitutes a small number of sick students versus an outbreak. Further complicating issues, while America and Britain have said they will not close schools unless “exceptional circumstances” arise, France says it may close schools if as few as three students become ill.

Austria, Germany, Spain and Switzerland say they will close schools on a case-by-case basis.

— Stay home or go to the doctor?

Hoping to avoid some of the mad dashes that led to emergency room overcrowding last year, health officials are recommending that in some cases, the sick should stay home rather than head to a doctor’s office or emergency room.

Why? Because if you go to the emergency room and don’t have H1N1, there’s a good chance you could leave with it.

The only problem with that advice is that health officials also recommend that people with flu-like symptoms obtain a prescription for anti-viral drugs like Tamiflu or Relenza within 72 hours of becoming sick to minimize symptoms and potentially deadly complications.

Doctors say a good rule of thumb is to avoid the doctor if the only symptoms are typical of a cold — runny nose, mild sore throat and cough – and no or very low fever (under 100 degrees).

Seek a doctor’s care if your symptoms include a fever over 100 degrees, cough, body chills and aches, congestion, diarrhea and vomiting.

— Is it safe to travel abroad?

Although the WHO has declared an H1N1 pandemic, there are little if no travel restrictions that have been declared. The U.S. government in July warned against traveling to Argentina due a widespread outbreak in that country, but has stopped short of preventing people from traveling to that country.

The U.S. government also warns that due to increased H1N1 screening procedures in China, anyone who is suspected of having H1N1 or has traveled by air with someone suspected of having H1N1 may be quarantined by the Chinese government for an indeterminable amount of time.

[Harconen]

Children under 9 will now need 4 shots...

Four shots: New this week, some health officials say children under the age of 9 who have never had a flu shot will need four shots. This includes two seasonal flu shots and two H1N1 shots.

This is so sick...I can't take it anymore. 

[sociostudent]

This is so sick...I can't take it anymore. 

Seems like they're using the "wear-down" approach. Push, push, push, for 4, 5, or 6 shots, then even if the poor kid only gets one or two, they still get enough of the poison to "do the trick"...you're right, this is sick.

[muggl3z]

Art Bell told me last night to wait and see if the first people to get the first shot die, then decide. lol Told him I was going to take my chances with chicken noodle soup. He sarcastically asked if all chicken soup was ok? I told him yes, as long as you didn't make it with tap water, because of the floride. ZING! he laughed and moved on.

[sociostudent]

Art Bell told me last night to wait and see if the first people to get the first shot die, then decide. lol Told him I was going to take my chances with chicken noodle soup. He sarcastically asked if all chicken soup was ok? I told him yes, as long as you didn't make it with tap water, because of the floride. ZING! he laughed and moved on.

The seasonal flu shot shouldn't have the adjuvant in it, it's the H1N1 "swine flu" vaccine and H5N1 "prepandrix" (pre-pandemic) vaccines that have the badass stuff in it. The flumist just encourages the mutagenic potential of the virus through viral shedding. The Celvapan is worrisome because they're using AGM to make it, albeit Vero Cell technology rather than pure MKTC, it's still dangerous.

[sociostudent]

What's interesting is Celvapan is supposed to be against H1N1, but even as late as June 11, German news was still reporting that Celvapan was against H5N1:
http://chemiereport.at/chemiereport/stories/8208/

http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&langpair=de|en&u=http://chemiereport.at/chemiereport/stories/8208/

Wednesday 11 Juni 2008, 23:35 June 2008, 23:35
H5N1: Celvapan induziert Antikörper in Phase I/II H5N1: Celvapan induces antibodies in phase I / II

[MaxRomeo2.0]

I aint takin no shot !!!!

[Maddie]

I'm a new member from the UK. Have been reading this thread with much interest.........

I actually had the swine flu a few weeks ago and shock horror!!!....... I didnt die!!!!!

Whilst I did feel ill, I certainly wasnt as ill as I thought I was gonna be!! My Doctor prescribed me Tamiflu because I got a chest infection and couldnt stop coughing and wheezing all the time. I did ask for another antibiotic but he wouldnt hear of it. I reluctantly took the Tamiflu for 2 days, the dosage was 1 tablet twice a day, 75mg. I stopped taking it after that because I actually did feel worse than before!!
I felt wholly better after another 2 days anyway.

My kids certainly wont be having the swine flu vaccine and I am telling as many people as possible, who will listen to me NOT to have it either!! My mom has asthma and is worried about getting the flu and I told her she is more in danger from the vaccine than the actual flu itself!!!!!

[Dig]

Is H1N1 vaccine program a shot in the dark?
http://www.phillyburbs.com/news/news_details/article/62/2009/september/01/is-h1n1-vaccine-program-a-shot-in-the-dark.html
By: JO CIAVAGLIA
The Intelligencer

The one time that Gail Cowan had a seasonal flu shot she said she got sick with the flu.

That happened 25 years ago, but the memory is enough to make the Richboro resident reluctant to consider getting vaccinated against the new H1N1 virus that flu experts predict could infect up to half the U.S. population starting this fall.

And she isn't sure what to advise her 20- and 30-something kids.

Many area residents are wrestling with the same decisions and concerns over how widespread the new virus - the first global flu pandemic in 40 years - will become this season and the safety and effectiveness of the vaccine developed so quickly.

Some cite the 1976 U.S. swine flu scare, where the government encouraged millions to get vaccinated against the new strain that appeared closely related to the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic that killed tens of millions. But the threat never materialized and the vaccine effort was quickly halted after a rare side effect, a nerve disorder called

Guillain-Barre Syndrome, was linked to the shot.

Others, like Miriam Schlifer, know how dangerous the flu can be. The Newtown Township resident and her then 3-year-old daughter developed the Hong Kong Flu during the last 1969 pandemic, which killed 1 million people worldwide.

"It was awful," she said. I was sick for weeks. I had a cough for months."

Now, at age 67, Schlifer, who got the seasonal flu vaccine last week, would like to get the H1N1 shot - once it has been thoroughly tested.

"I don't think they know enough, to be honest," she added. "You have to think what is the best of the different evils?"

Flu experts estimate more than 1 million people in the U.S. have been infected with H1N1 since it started circulating in April. Of those, nearly 8,000 have been hospitalized and more than 500 died.

Pennsylvania has confirmed 2,049 cases as of Friday, including 127 in Bucks County and 199 in Montgomery County. Statewide, 10 deaths have been attributed to the virus, including seven in Philadelphia, which has had 484 confirmed cases.

New Jersey is no longer counting individual H1N1 cases, but as of Wednesday, 517 state residents had been hospitalized and 17 deaths attributed to the virus, according to the state health department.

H1N1 continues to circulate widely and computer models suggest it has the potential for a strong resurgence. But the problem with the flu - especially with pandemics -is its unpredictability. Scientists can't say for sure what the upcoming season will be like or how virulent the strain will be.

Most H1N1 cases are expected to be mild, though 30,000 to 90,000 people, mostly children and young adults could die, according to a recent report from the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology.

Bristol resident Chris Chapman skips the seasonal flu shot and said he's skeptical of the H1N1 vaccine, which is currently undergoing clinical trials in adults and testing in pediatric populations.

"I kind of think they might be testing something on everybody," he said.

While children and adults are at the top of the government priority list, Chapman - who had the swine flu vaccine as a child in 1976 - doubts he'll have his kids get the new vaccine.

"If I saw something convincing about the shot, I would say absolutely," he said. "The swine flu, unless someone tells me different, it's just another strain of flu. I don't see what all the hubbub is about. We eat lots of vegetables and fruits."
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Middletown resident Dr. William McKenna is 80 years old - an age group that scientists say appears to have some immunity to the virus. Nationwide, most H1N1 cases have been among children and young adults; the fewest cases are among people age 60 and older.

The retired general practitioner would still like to get the vaccine. He gets the seasonal flu vaccine annually.

"I have 20 grandchildren and 13 great-grandchildren I'd get them all a shot," he said.

Health care workers are among the government's priority group for the H1N1 vaccine, which federal experts believe will be available in limited amounts starting in last October.

But fewer than half of all U.S. health care providers historically get annual seasonal flu shots and some infection control experts worry if the same could hold true for the novel H1N1 virus. A recent United Kingdom poll showed 30 percent of nurses would turn down the H1N1 shots, and researchers believe it's a good indicator of health worker reluctance worldwide.

Research over the years has shown that health care workers, who are constantly exposed to sick people, are a key source of seasonal flu, which causes about 200,000 hospitalizations and at least 36,000 deaths a year.

Patients in Dr. Joe Kepko's Bensalem family practice are already expressing interest in the H1N1 vaccine, though he likely won't get it until January, at the earliest. But he plans to get the vaccine and so will his children.

"You can never predict what will happen with genetic drift," Kepko said. "Sometimes, the public makes a mountain out of a molehill. More patients will succumb to the influenza-A this year than swine flu."

Nurse practitioner Cathy Giorgio manages the Bucks County Health Improvement Partnership free health clinic in Bensalem, which treats uninsured, low-income Bucks residents.

She always gets a seasonal flu shot, though last year she fell ill for four days with a 103-degree fever. But since she has chronic health conditions, Giorgio won't hesitate about protecting herself against H1N1, too.

"There is always something and I am on the front line," she said. "If anything, people need to wash their hands all the time. Grocery stores, the mall and other large gathering places need to have hand-washing stations as a public service."

Did you know?

A total of 48.1 million Americans, about 22 percent of the population, received vaccinations against the A/New Jersey/1976 (H1N1) swine flu by the time the National Influenza Immunization Program was halted in December, 1976. The CDC later determined that 532 of 1,098 cases of Guillain-Barre Syndrome, a paralyzing neuromuscular disorder were linked to the vaccine program. [It was actually thousands if not tens of thousands.]

priority groups for the H1N1 vaccine

Health care workers, pregnant women, children, young adults and adults with high-risk medical conditions, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

September 01, 2009 02:30 AM

[Dig]

Letter Leaked Showing New Swine Flu Jab Linked to Guillain Barre Syndrome
http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/view/114488
Christina England  August 16, 2009

A UK newspaper has received letters showing a link between the new Swine Flu vaccine and Guillain Barre Syndrome, a serious neurological disease that cause paralysis and in extreme cases can lead to death. A member of the JCVI Professor Elizabeth Miller and head of the HPA's Immunisation Department has sent a confidential letter to senior neurologists warning to be on the alert for new cases of GBS which she says could be linked to the vaccine. This letter was sent on the 29th July 2009. So why have the public not been alerted to the problem and why has the testing of the vaccine been allowed to continue?

The letter says: ´The vaccines used to combat an expected swine influenza pandemic in 1976 were shown to be associated with GBS and were withdrawn from use.

"GBS has been identified as a condition needing enhanced surveillance when the swine flu vaccines are rolled out.

Reporting every case of GBS irrespective of vaccination or disease history is essential for conducting robust epidemiological analyses capable of identifying whether there is an increased risk of GBS in defined time periods after vaccination, or after influenza itself, compared with the background risk."

Reported by the Mail of Sunday Jo MacFarlane 15th July 2009.

To make matters worse this was the SECOND letter sent on the subject, the first sent out just days before. The second letter, dated July 27, is from the Association of British Neurologists and is written by Dr Rustam Al-Shahi Salman, chair of its surveillance unit, and Professor Patrick Chinnery, chair of its clinical research committee.- Reports Jo Macfarlane.

Yet despite these letters and this knowledge and despite the fall in the cases of Swine Flu, the testing of this vaccine began all around the world, using the public as 'Pharmaceutical Lab Rats'

A UK Daily newspaper reported that despite Dr Marie-Paule Kieny, director of WHO vaccine research initiative saying that the results from the clinical testing of the vaccine would not be expected until the end of September, Andy Burnahan and the chief medical officer Sir Liam Donaldson have said that the vaccine will be available this month. Ministers Plan Swine Flu Vaccination in Every School Denis Campbell and James Sturcke the Guardian 6th August 2009.

Note, this announcement was made AFTER the knowledge that these letters existed, indicting that even with a serious risk such as GBS known about the UK Government was still willing to mass vaccinate. What makes matters a million times worse is that the vaccine programme is due to target the most vulnerable first. This shows a total lack of care of the public and a degree of negligence on their part. Especially when the indication is, that there is a general decline in the numbers of Swine Flu cases being reported.

The UK have decided that children are to be the first to be vaccinated as they are said to be the highest at risk from developing serious form of the H1N1 virus along health care professionals, pregnant mothers and people with underlying health conditions even though these groups are often the most vulnerable and there is little or no data that this vaccine is safe.

Alliance for Human Research Protection .A USA site said

"Swine Flu Vaccine Trials Begin --160 million shots ordered

an aggressive campaign to vaccinate against the swine flu--EVEN BEFORE THE VACCINE'S SAFETY HAS BEEN TESTED, or the safety of the vaccine adjuvants have been tested. Although the effects of the "swine flu" have been shown to be rather mild compared to the avian flu--which killed 70% of those infected--the World Health Organization declared it a pandemic, thereby lending an air of urgency to quickly vaccinate millions of people.

Such a policy could lead to a public health catastrophe.

"Make no mistake: Vaccines containing immune-system boosters called adjuvants are not candidates for the easier strain-change approval, the FDA said. Flu vaccine with this extra ingredient is widely sold in Europe but never has been sold here, and there's little information about their safety in young children or pregnant women. While both adjuvant-free and adjuvant-added swine flu vaccine is being tested in the U.S. and abroad, using it outside of those studies would require a completely separate government decision."

In 1976 a similar world pandemic emergency was declared. As a result the USA began to vaccinate the entire USA population for H1N1 strain of the Swine Flu, however, the vaccine was found to be linked with the development of Guillain Barre Syndrome and the programme was cut short. Sadly 532 people were thought to have began the onset of GBS as a result of the H1N1 vaccination. Guillain Barre Syndrome is a nasty and debilitating disorder that can affect a person for many months or years. In some cases Gullain Barre Syndrome can be fatal.

National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Strokes

NINDS Guillain - Barre Syndrome Information Page

"Guillain-Barré syndrome is a disorder in which the body's immune system attacks part of the peripheral nervous system. The first symptoms of this disorder include varying degrees of weakness or tingling sensations in the legs. In many instances, the weakness and abnormal sensations spread to the arms and upper body. These symptoms can increase in intensity until the muscles cannot be used at all and the patient is almost totally paralysed. In these cases, the disorder is life-threatening and is considered a medical emergency. The patient is often put on a respirator to assist with breathing. Most patients, however, recover from even the most severe cases of Guillain-Barré syndrome, although some continue to have some degree of weakness. Guillain-Barré syndrome is rare. Usually Guillain-Barré occurs a few days or weeks after the patient has had symptoms of a respiratory or gastrointestinal viral infection. Occasionally, surgery or vaccinations will trigger the syndrome. The disorder can develop over the course of hours or days, or it may take up to 3 to 4 weeks. No one yet knows why Guillain-Barré strikes some people and not others or what sets the disease in motion. What scientists do know is that the body's immune system begins to attack the body itself, causing what is known as an autoimmune disease. Guillain-Barré is called a syndrome rather than a disease because it is not clear that a specific disease-causing agent is involved. Reflexes such as knee jerks are usually lost. Because the signals travelling along the nerve are slower, a nerve conduction velocity (NCV) test can give a doctor clues to aid the diagnosis. The cerebrospinal fluid that bathes the spinal cord and brain contains more protein than usual, so a physician may decide to perform a spinal tap."

Epidemiologic evidence indicated that many cases of GBS were related to vaccination. When compared to the unvaccinated population, the vaccinated population had a significantly elevated attack rate in every adult age group. PubMed Guillain-Barre syndrome following vaccination in the National Influenza Immunization Program, United States, 1976—1977 Despite this overwhelming evidence of previous disaster the UK are still prepared to vaccinate all the UK's 8.5 million children with a similar untested version of this vaccine for a disease that is clearly on the decline, although it is expected to rise again during the colder months.

Children could be given untested swine flu vaccine – Daily Mail Jo Mcfarlane 9th August 2009 reported that Dr Tom Jefferson of the Cochrane Collaboration was very concerned about the decision.

Dr Tom Jefferson, of the vaccines section of the Cochrane Collaboration, an independent group that reviews research, said he feared there would be safety issues with the jab and had doubts it would work. He added: ´Governments have a duty of care, and therefore a duty to provide vaccines which are proven to be safe and effective.

During the last swine flu outbreak in the US in 1976, a vaccine caused 25 deaths – more than the virus itself. Dr Jefferson said a repeat of that ´was possible´.

Dr Mayer Eisenstein is outraged by the mass vaccination plans in USA, in particular the quote from Kathleen Sebelius stating that thimerosal, an ingredient in the pending vaccines is quite safe

Dr. Mayer Eisenstein and Dr. Sherri Tenpenny Sound Alarm

About the Dangerous Swine Flu Vaccine, This is a Nightmare,

Expert Click 6th August 2009

"Study after study, scientist after scientist, has determined that there really is no safety risk with thimerosal. There is concern about parents of why autism rates are rising. And, as you know, we've got some special NIH studies, thanks to the president, focused on just what is going on.

"But thimerosal has been proven to be safe. It's used in seasonal vaccine—seasonal flu vaccine. And, again, we want to assure people that that—the scientists, again, have confirmed—that there is really a safe factor with using thimerosol. It's an effective preservative and one that we think actually adds to the likelihood that we'll have a safe vaccine for a while to come"

His rather curt comments to her are as follows:-

Dr. Eisenstein's Comments to Sebelius are as follows:

I have only one comment For HHS Secretary Sebelius

BS in BS out:

And:

1. Smoking does not cause lung cancer

2. Mercury, aluminum, squalene, etc. are perfectly safe

3. The earth is flat

4. Autism does not exist

5. Oswald did not kill Kennedy (oops maybe that is true)

Need I go on!!!!

To listen to further views and opinions from Dr Eisenstein you can tune in tomorrow night 8.17.09 to the radio show Holy Hormones Honey - The Greatest Story Never Told! on KRFC FM 88.9 in Fort Collins, Colorado . Audio Streamed at www.krfcfm.org.where host Leslie Botha interviews him live on air.

As the world goes vaccine crazy one state in the USA has decided to allow dentists, pharmacists and paramedics to administer the H1N1 vaccine to cut costs.

State adopts emergency rules to expand pool of flu vaccine administrators - Wicked Local Wellesley Gintautas Dumcius 13th August 2009.

"Faced with budget cutbacks at the local level and the need to vaccinate 3 million Bay State residents against the H1N1 flu virus, state public health officials on Wednesday signed off on emergency rules allowing dentists, pharmacists and paramedics to administer the vaccine."

[Optimus]

Published: Sep 1, 2009
Why Won't Healthcare Workers Take The Swine Flu Vaccine?
http://www.postchronicle.com/news/original/article_212254207.shtml
by Rachel Friedman

Can vaccinations actually fuel pandemics? According to a study released August 26, 2009 by the British Medical Journal, more than half of Hong Kong's healthcare workers surveyed said they would refuse the H1N1 shot, which is not yet available, because they are afraid of side effects and doubt how safe and effective it will be.

More importantly, the study suggested the trend would be repeated worldwide.

"The truth is that vaccines aren't effective, generally carry dangerous side effects, and in many cases actually fuel the spread of pandemics," said Dr. Leonard Horowitz, a Harvard University trained medical researcher who also holds a Master's Degree in Public Health. "The fact is that most healthcare workers know this, and they don't trust that any swine flu vaccine will do anything but cause more problems and potential harm to the patients they care for."

In Dr. Horowitz's view, vaccines do more harm than good, and are little more than a way for the pharmaceutical companies to profit from epidemics and side effects.

"In April, 2009, the swine flu scare placed the world at high alert thanks to gads of suspicious publicity," Dr. Horowitz said. "Anglo-American officials and Reuters News Service first claimed this was a rapidly spreading combination of the world's scariest flu's – swine, avian and Spanish flu viruses. They were all said to be rolled up in this never-before-seen Mexican pathogen."

The scare, however, seemed to have less substance than volume, as the thousands of U.S. deaths that were predicted never happened, Dr. Horowitz added.

"The H1N1 swine flu shot is more of a drug than a vaccine given the list of toxic chemical ingredients causing side effects including Guillain-Barre syndrome, a deadly paralyzing disorder widespread after the 1976 swine flu vaccination campaign." Dr. Horowitz continued.

"Vaccines are an aberration, and the medical profession and pharmaceutical companies have been playing fast and loose with explaining how vaccines immunize people," he said. "Classic immunology draws an important distinction between the terms 'immunize' and 'vaccinate.' By casually substituting 'immunization' for 'vaccination,' the pharmaceutical machine mystifies the masses. More accurately, vaccinations cause hyper-sensitizations.

Simply put white blood cell body guards begin to attack far more than desired. Myriad auto-immune diseases and childhood injuries result from vaccinations. However, pseudo-scientists and ignorant health officials confuse this matter with the 'immunization' misnomer. Similarly, they repeat the myth that vaccines, not improvements in hygiene and nutrition, caused the great reduction, or alleged elimination, of deadly human diseases."


Dr. Leonard G. Horowitz is an internationally known authority in the overlapping fields of public health, behavioral science, emerging diseases, and natural healing. He is also a Harvard University trained medical researcher and expert in public health.

Dr. Horowitz researched the history and effectiveness of vaccines following his mother's death from the 1976 swine flu vaccine. He believes when vaccine risks are considered, doctors and parents can make more informed decisions. He has authored sixteen books including the bestseller Healing Codes for the Biological Apocalypse, and the co-founder of Healthy World Organization

[NWOSCUM]

Doctor's, Healthcare workers and scientists REFUSE the shot:

http://forum.prisonplanet.com/index.php?topic=129613.0

[spangler]

Flu forecast is based on suspect data

There is no solid evidence indicating that H1N1 will meet dire projections.

By Michael Fumento


The President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology issued an alarming report on swine flu last week. A typical front-page article about it began, "Swine flu could infect half the U.S. population this fall and winter, hospitalizing up to 1.8 million people and causing as many as 90,000 deaths."

But the council's "plausible scenario" involving those alarming figures is based on three main assumptions, and all three are highly suspect.

First, the report says that "based on past pandemics," a sharp increase in infections "is likely ... starting in September and peaking in October." That's important, because the first shipments of vaccine aren't expected until mid-October.

The problem is that swine flu isn't comparable to those past pandemics. As I wrote in June, it's only called a pandemic because the World Health Organization changed its definition of the term so that "enormous numbers of deaths and illness" are no longer required.

Furthermore, true pandemics have been severe because the viruses involved were alien to our immune systems. But H1N1 virus, of which swine flu is a variety, "has been circulating every year since 1977," noted Peter Palese of Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York, a member of the president's council. It's consistently part of the seasonal-flu vaccine. The swine flu variety is different in some ways, but this is "something our immune systems have seen before," Palese said.

In fact, older people seem especially protected, apparently from exposure to a strain that circulated before 1957. That helps explain why swine flu disproportionately afflicts younger people.

Palese, who is none too happy with the council's report, calls an October peak "highly hypothetical." James Chin, a professor at the University of California, Berkeley, and former WHO epidemiologist, is even more skeptical. "Just six weeks from now, about a quarter of the U.S. population will have to have been infected, or close to an average of two million infections per day," he noted. It took almost five months for the flu to reach an estimated two million infections.

Faulty figures

A second suspect assumption in the report is that, in the absence of a vaccine, swine flu will infect vastly more Americans - 30 to 50 percent of the population - than seasonal flu does. Why? "Because most of the population lacks significant immunity to a new pandemic strain," says the report. Once again, this overstates the newness of the virus.

The report's third dubious assumption is that the rate of death from swine flu "appears to be similar to" that of seasonal flu. There's no source for this claim in the report, so I contacted Dr. Harold Varmus, president of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York and a co-chairman of the president's council. In an e-mail, he cited figures from the British government and two journals, BMJ and Eurosurveillance.

The U.K. figures were described as a worst-case scenario. The rates reported by BMJ came from the United States, Mexico, and three other areas; the high end was from Mexico, the U.S. rate was far lower, and those from the other areas were lower still. Portraying them as a range for the United States, as the council report did, is misleading. Finally, the figures attributed to Eurosurveillance come from four different sets of data. Three of these have maximum death rates far below the council's minimum, and the fourth barely exceeds the council's minimum estimate.

Worried well

On the other hand, comparing current U.S. swine flu deaths (about 550) to the number of estimated infections (two million) suggests that the virus is far less lethal than seasonal flu. A new New York City estimate suggests seasonal flu is 10 to 40 times more deadly.

Chin noted that Australia is having its flu season now. But with swine flu cases having peaked in July, and with no swine-flu vaccine, the government is reporting a flu epidemic not discernibly worse than in recent years. Indeed, swine flu "appears to be replacing the current seasonal H1N1 virus," meaning there could be fewer deaths. Chin told me, "My bet is that the coming [U.S.] season will not be too severe - at or below that of a usual flu season."

The only realistic aspect of the scenario put forward by the council is that emergency facilities could be swamped. But rather than with truly sick people, it will be with the mildly ill and the worried well - as happened during the media fright fest last spring. This time, much of the panic will be due to the council's self-fulfilling prophecy.




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[sociostudent]

Another possible heads-up on celvapan:

AGM carry lymphotropic polyomavirus--closely related to Merkel Cell Polyomavirus:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merkel_cell_polyomavirus

Merkel cell polyomavirus (MCV or MCPyV) was first described in January 2008.[1] MCV is one of seven known human tumor viruses. It is suspected to cause the majority of cases of Merkel cell carcinoma, a rare but aggressive form of skin cancer. Approximately 80% of Merkel cell carcinoma (MCC) tumors have been found to be infected with MCV. MCV appears to be a common—if not universal—infection of older children and adults.[3][4] It is found in respiratory secretions suggesting that it may be transmitted by a respiratory route [5][6]. Most MCV viruses found in MCC tumors, however, have at least two mutations that render the virus nontransmissible: 1) The virus is integrated into the host genome in a monoclonal fashion and 2) The viral T antigen has truncation mutations that leave the T antigen unable to initiate DNA replication needed to propagate the virus [7]

Polyomaviruses are small (~5400 base pair), non-enveloped, double-stranded DNA viruses. MCV is the fifth polyomavirus that infects humans to be discovered. It belongs to the murine polyomavirus group, one of the three main clades of polyomaviruses.[1] (The group is named for murine polyomavirus, the earliest virus of the group to be discovered, and does not imply that MCV is transmitted to humans from rodents.) MCV is the only human polyomavirus discovered to date that does not fall within the SV40-like clade.[1]

MCV is genetically most closely related to the African green monkey lymphotropic polyomavirus[1] (formerly known as African green monkey lymphotropic papovavirus),[2] which is consistent with MCV coevolving with human primates.

The prototype sequence of MCV has a 5387 base pair genome, and encodes characteristic polyomavirus genes including a large T antigen, small T antigen, VP1 and VP2/3 genes. MCV T antigen has similar features to the T antigens of other polyomaviruses, which are known oncoproteins, and is expressed in human tumors.[[1]][8] The T antigen is a spliced gene that forms multiple different proteins depending on the splicing pattern. Both large T and small T antigen proteins can transform healthy cells into cancer cells by targeting tumor suppressor proteins, such as retinoblastoma protein. The large T antigen also possesses a helicase and a viral DNA replication origin binding motif that are needed for the virus to reproduce its own DNA.

[edit] Viral etiology for Merkel cell carcinoma

Merkel cell carcinoma is a highly aggressive type of skin cancer that was first described by Cyril Toker in 1972 as "trabecular tumor of the skin".[3] The cancer may derive from the microscopic Merkel cell nervous organ in the skin and viscera which is responsible for touch and pressure sensation[9]. Based on its origin, the cancer cell type is called a neuroectodermal tumor. Although rare compared with other skin cancers, the incidence of Merkel cell carcinoma in the USA tripled between 1986 and 2001, to around 1400 cases per year.[4]

Merkel cell carcinoma is mainly seen in older individuals.[4] It is known to occur at increased frequency in people with immunodeficiency, including transplant recipients and people with AIDS,[5][6] and this association suggests the possibility that a virus or other infectious agent might be involved in causing the cancer. Kaposi's sarcoma and Burkitt's lymphoma are examples of tumors known to have a viral etiology that occur at increased frequency in immunosuppressed people. Other factors associated with the development of this cancer include exposure to ultraviolet light.[4]

Eight of 10 Merkel cell carcinoma tumors initially tested were found to be infected with MCV.[1] In these tumors, the virus has integrated into the cancer cell genome and can no longer freely replicate. Recent studies from other laboratories have reproduced these findings: in one study 30 of 39 (77%) of Merkel cell tumors were MCV positive [10]; in another study, 45 of 53 (85%) Merkel cell tumors were positive.

Sequencing of the virus from Merkel cell cancers reveals that it has generally has tumor-specific mutations that truncate the MCV T antigen. These mutations (which are not found in native virus obtained from nontumor sites) eliminate the T antigen helicase, preventing the integrated virus from replicating independently from the host cancer cell [11]. The tumor is a "dead-end host" for MCV [12] . Normally, the virus exists as circular episome (or plasmid) within the cell and its DNA is packaged into viral capsids and transmitted to other cells. In tumors, the viral DNA has broken and become integrated into human DNA within the tumor, so that the virus is no longer transmissible. The integrated virus cannot be excised from the host cell and it must replicate as the host cell is replicated. Examination of infected tumors reveals that the majority have a clear monoclonal pattern, indicating that the virus integrated into a single cell before it began its cancerous expansion.[1] For this reason, there is very strong evidence that MCV causes some, but not all, Merkel cell carcinomas. MCV can also be found in healthy tissues from people without Merkel cell carcinoma. While the precise prevalence of infection is unknown in humans, it is likely that most infections do not cause cancers.[7]

[edit] Prevention, diagnosis, and treatment

Persons who have Merkel cell carcinoma with this virus are not infectious to others and no infectious restrictions are warranted. The reasons for this are: 1) the virus in tumors is already mutated and no longer can be transmitted from tumors, and 2) most persons are already naturally exposed to this virus as children and young adults by other asymptomatic carriers. Based on current data, prevention advice for MCC is similar to other skin cancers, such as avoiding sun burns and unnecessary sun exposure together with use of sun lotion. This may prevent mutations in the virus that increase risk for MCC among those already infected with MCV. Persons with immunosuppression (e.g., AIDS or transplant patients) are at higher risk for this cancer and may benefit from periodic skin examinations. Emergence of a painless lump that expands rapidly, especially among persons over age 50 or persons with immunosuppression, warrants examination by a physician. Biopsy of a Merkel cell tumor should readily provide a diagnosis and when caught early, has a good prognosis through standard treatment. At this time there are no vaccines or medications that can prevent MCV infection or prevent emergence of Merkel cell carcinoma.

Detection of the virus is still at a research phase and is generally not available as a clinical test. Detection of viral DNA is performed by PCR or by Southern blot. Caution is needed in interpreting results from PCR since it is prone to false-positive contamination and a substantial fraction of healthy skin samples may harbor low-level infection. Sequencing of the viral genome may determine whether or not tumor-specific mutations are present.

Antibodies have been developed to stain for T antigen in tumor tissues[13] and appear to be specific for MCV-infected tumor cells [14][15]. Blood tests have also been developed [16] [17] that show the majority of adults have been previously exposed to MCV and may continue to carry it as an asymptomatic infection.

Treatment guidelines do not differ for Merkel cell carcinoma infected with MCV or without MCV. A recent country-wide study from Finland suggests that MCV-positive tumors have a better prognosis than uninfected tumors [18] (although this has not been found in other studies[19]). If this is confirmed, routine detection of the virus may provide a future benefit for medical guidance. The virus itself is not known to be susceptible to current antiviral medications.

[edit] Discovery and characterization of MCV

Yuan Chang and Patrick S. Moore, who discovered Kaposi's sarcoma-associated herpesvirus in 1994,[8] with colleagues Huichen Feng and Masahiro Shuda at the University of Pittsburgh, USA, used the novel high-throughput sequencing technique of digital transcriptome subtraction (DTS)[9] to search for the presence of a virus in Merkel cell tumors.[1] In this method, all mRNAs from a tumor are converted into cDNAs and sequenced to a depth likely to sequence a viral cDNA if it is present. The sequences are then compared with the human genome and all human sequences are "subtracted" to leave a group of sequences that are most likely nonhuman. When this was performed on four cases of Merkel cell carcinoma, one cDNA was found that was similar to sequences of known polyomaviruses but clearly distinct enough that it could be shown to be a new virus.[1] Genetic sequences from nearly 400,000 mRNAs were analyzed for the study. Once the virus was found, Feng and coworkers quickly determined that infected Merkel cell carcinomas have the virus in an integrated monoclonal pattern and only found 8-16% of tissues taken from patients without MCC were positive for the virus. This was quickly confirmed by studies of MCC patients from around the world, including evidence for monoclonal integration of the virus in these tumors. [20][21][22] [23]

[edit] MCV as a cause for Merkel cell carcinoma

While the original authors conservatively noted that it is "too early to tell" whether MCV is a cause of Merkel cell carcinoma, general scientific opinion now suggests that the virus causes most, but not all Merkel cell tumors. The virus is monoclonally integrated into the tumor when present, indicating that the proto-tumor cell was infected with the virus prior to its cancerous expansion. Mutations in the T antigen render the virus noninfectious, and therefore it is not a passenger virus that infected the tumor after the tumor had already started. Finally, the T antigen oncogene is expressed in all of the tumor cells. It is likely that additional host cell mutations act in concert with the integrated virus to actually cause the tumor. Merkel cell carcinoma is associated with exposure to ultraviolet (UV) light and to ionizing radiation, and it is likely that these mutagens increase the rate of mutation in either the virus or the Merkel cell genome, contributing to the risk for cancer after infection.

The reasons why 20% of Merkel cell carcinoma are negative for the virus remain completely unknown but speculations include the possibility that "Merkel cell carcinoma" is actually two or more closely related cancers, only one of which is infected with MCV. Misdiagnosis of this difficult cancer may also account for some of the negative results. Only a very small proportion of people infected with MCV develop the cancer. At this time no test for the presence of the virus is generally available, nor would patients be advised to change their treatment based on knowledge of MCV infection status. MCC patients can be enrolled in research studies, but these are not likely to directly benefit participants.[10] Reducing risk of UV exposure through sun screens is likely to reduce the risk of Merkel cell carcinoma as well as other skin cancers.

Moore has suggested that if his findings are confirmed, information about the virus could lead to a blood test or a vaccine that could improve the management of the disease or aid in prevention, much as the human papillomavirus vaccine can be used to prevent cervical cancer. Chang explained that study of the virus may assist in understanding other human cancers. "Once the virus integrates, it could express an oncoprotein, or it could knock out a gene that suppresses tumor growth. Either way, the results are bound to be interesting."[11] [12]



Oh, I'm sure they'll be interesting, alright--especially considering that SV-40 IS A POLYOMAVIRUS:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyomavirus
Polyomavirus is the sole genus of viruses within the family Polyomaviridae. Polyomaviruses are DNA-based (double-stranded DNA,~5000 base pairs,circular genome), small (40-50 nanometers in diameter), and icosahedral in shape, and do not have a lipoprotein envelope. They are potentially oncogenic (tumor-causing); they often persist as latent infections in a host without causing disease, but may produce tumors in a host of a different species, or a host with an ineffective immune system. The name polyoma refers to the viruses' ability to produce multiple (poly-) tumors (-oma).

The genus Polyomavirus used to be one of two genera within the now obsolete family Papovaviridae (the other genus being Papillomavirus which is now assigned to its own family Papillomaviridae). The name Papovaviridae derived from three abbreviations: Pa for Papillomavirus, Po for Polyomavirus, and Va for "vacuolating".


[edit] Classification

Five polyomaviruses have been found in humans.

    * JC virus can infect the respiratory system, kidneys, or brain (sometimes causing the fatal progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy in the latter case).

    * BK virus produces a mild respiratory infection and can affect the kidneys of immunosuppressed transplant patients. Both of these viruses are very widespread: approximately 80 percent of the adult population in the United States have antibodies to BK and JC.

    * Two recently discovered polyomaviruses, KI (Karolinska Institute)[1] and WU (Washington University)[2] viruses, are closely related to each other and have been isolated from respiratory secretions.

    * In January 2008, a new species, Merkel cell polyomavirus, was described as the likely causative agent of Merkel skin cancer.[3]

The Simian vacuolating virus 40 replicates in the kidneys of monkeys without causing disease, but causes sarcomas in hamsters. It is unknown whether it can cause disease in humans, which has caused concern since the virus may have been introduced into the general population in the 1950s through a contaminated polio vaccine.

An avian polyomavirus sometimes referred to as the Budgerigar fledgling disease virus is a frequent cause of death among caged birds.

[edit] Replication

Prior to genome replication, the processes of viral attachment, entry and uncoating occur. Cellular receptors for polyomaviruses are sialic acid residues of gangliosides. The attachment of polyomaviruses to host cells is mediated by viral protein 1 (VP1) via the sialic acid attachment region. This can be confirmed as anti-VP1 antibodies have been shown to prevent the binding of polyomavirus to host cells.[1]

Polyomavirus virions are subsequently endocytosed and transported first to the endoplasmatic reticulum where a conformational change occurs revealing Vp2.[citation needed] Then by an unknown mechanism the virus is exported to the nucleus.[citation needed]

Polyomaviruses replicate in the nucleus of the host. They are able to utilise the host’s machinery because the genomic structure is homologous to that of the mammalian host. Viral replication occurs in two distinct phases; early and late gene expression, separated by genome replication.

Early gene expression is responsible for the synthesis of non-structural proteins. Since Polyomaviruses rely on the host to control both the gene expression, the role of the non-structural proteins is to regulate the cellular mechanisms. Close to the N terminal end of polyomavirus genome are enhancer elements which induce activation and transcription of a molecule known as the T-antigen (see SV40 Large T-antigen). Early mRNA’s, encoding T-antigen are produced by host RNA polymerase II. T-antigen autoregulates early mRNA’s, subsequently leading to elevated levels of T-antigen. At high concentrations of T-antigen, early gene expression is repressed, triggering the late phase of viral infection to begin.

Genome replication acts to separate the early and late phase gene expression. The duplicated viral genome is synthesised and processed as if it were cellular DNA, exploiting the host’s machinery. As the daughter viral DNA are synthesised they associate with cellular nucleosomes to form structures that are often referred to as "minichromosomes". In this manner the DNA is packaged more efficiently.

Late gene expression synthesises the structural proteins, responsible for the viral particle composition. This occurs during and after genome replication. As with the early gene expression products, late gene expression generates an array of proteins as a result of alternative splicing.

Within each viral protein are 'nuclear localization signals' which cause the viral proteins to amass in the nucleus. Assembly of new virus particles consequently occurs within the nucleus of the host cell.

Release of newly synthesized polyomavirus particles exit the infected cell by one of two mechanisms. Firstly and less commonly, they are transported in cytoplasmic vacuoles to the plasma membrane, where budding occurs. More frequently, they are released when the cell lyses due to the cytotoxicity of virus particles present in the infected cell.

[edit] The Polyoma large and small T-Antigen

The large T-antigen plays a key role in regulating the viral life cycle by binding to the viral origin of DNA replication where it promotes DNA synthesis. Also as the polyomavirus relies on the host cell machinery to replicate the host cell needs to be in s-phase for this to begin. Due to this, large T-antigen also modulates cellular signaling pathways to stimulate progression of the cell cycle by binding to a number of cellular control proteins [4]. This is achieved by a two prong attack of inhibiting tumor suppressing genes p53 and members of the retinoblastoma (pRB) family, and stimulating cell growth pathways by binding cellular DNA, ATPase-helicase, DNA polymerase α association, , and binding of transcription preinitiation complex factors [5]. This abnormal stimulation of the cell cycle is a powerful force for oncogenic transformation.

The small T-antigen protein is also able to activate several cellular pathways which stimulate cell proliferation. Such as the mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK) pathway, and the stress-activated protein kinase (SAPK) pathway [6][7].

[edit] The Polyoma Middle T-Antigen

The Polyoma Middle T-Antigen is used in animal breast cancer model systems like the PYMT system where it is coupled to the MMTV promoter. There it functions as an oncogene, while the tissue where the tumor develops is determined by the MMTV promoter.

[edit] Diagnosis

The diagnosis of polyomavirus almost always occurs after the primary infection as it is either asymptomatic or sub-clinical. The most effective way to test whether there has been a past infection is to use haemagglutination inhibition to find if there are any corresponding antibodies to the virus [8]. This however is not necessary in immunocompetent individuals as the latent polyomavirus poses no threat.

In cases of progressive multifocal leucoencephalopathy (PML) and associated tumors, where the reactivation of polyomavirus is suspected, PCR is used on a biopsy of the tissue or cerebrospinal fluid to amplify the polyomavirus DNA. This allows not only the detection of polyomavirus but also which sub type it is [9]. ELISA-based assays for large T-Antigen and small T-Antigen are also used to detect the level of expression and thus whether reactivation has occurred [10].

There are three main diagnostic techniques used for the diagnosis of the reactivation of polyomavirus in polyomavirus nephropathy (PVN): urine cytology, quantification of the viral load in both urine and blood, and a renal biopsy [8]. The reactivation of polyomavirus in the kidneys and urinary tract causes the shedding of infected cells, virions, and/or viral proteins in the urine. This allows urine cytology to examine these cells, which if there is polyomavirus inclusion of the nucleus, is diagnostic of infection [11]. Also as the urine of an infected individual will contain virions and/or viral DNA, quanitation of the viral load can be done done through PCR[12]. This is also true for the blood.

Renal biopsy can also be used if the two methods just described are inconclusive or if the specific viral load for the renal tissue is desired. Similarly to the urine cytology, the renal cells are examined under light microscopy for polyomavirus inclusion of the nucleus, as well as cell lysis and viral partials in the extra cellular fluid. The viral load as before is also measure by PCR.

[jflack]

China OKs single-dose swine flu vaccines

By Gillian Wong and Randolph E. Schmid • ASSOCIATED PRESS • September 3, 2009

BEIJING — The answer may be near to a crucial question about vaccine for the advancing swine flu — one shot or two?

Chinese officials say they are about to approve vaccines that prevent the new flu in a single dose.

If they're right, it would be good news. Many health researchers fear it will take two shots to protect people, vastly complicating efforts to stem the spread of the illness.

The World Health Organization says it is encouraged after reviewing the test details from one of the two Chinese vaccines. However, experts said more results are needed from other vaccine makers to determine if one dose is enough.

U.S. vaccine is close
In about two weeks, the U.S. expects to announce initial test results from its vaccine, which is the same type as one of the Chinese versions, said Dr. Anthony Fauci of the U.S. National Institutes of Health.

"From what I've seen and heard of the data, it looks encouraging," Fauci said of the clinical trials of the Chinese vaccine from Sinovac Biotech Ltd.

However, James McGlothlin, a member of Purdue University's pandemic planning committee, was cautious about the Chinese report.

"I'd like to look at some of the clinical trials," that led to the one-dose conclusion, he said.

"In China, the rules are a little bit different in terms of human subjects," and it's not clear what safety factors were in place, McGlothlin said.

http://tennessean.com/article/20090903/NEWS07/909030352/

[mr anderson]

H1N1 Vaccine indemnity guarantee ends fight

THE federal health department will draft special consent forms for people receiving the H1N1 swine flu vaccination and distribute the vaccine under a legal clause that endorses its safety in moves that have ended a damaging impasse between the Government and doctors' indemnity insurers.

But the stand-off, in which some insurers last week claimed they were unconvinced of the vaccine's safety and might not cover doctors who administered it, appears to have damaged public confidence in the national immunisation program, with unprecedented numbers of children withdrawn by their parents from a clinical trial in Sydney.

Full article:
http://forum.prisonplanet.com/index.php?topic=130058.0

[Dig]

Risks of the Swine Flu Vaccine
http://www.thenewamerican.com/index.php/usnews/health-care/1813?tmpl=component&print=1
Written by Alex Newman   
Thursday, 03 September 2009 13:00

The coming swine flu vaccination campaign is expected to begin in October. But with vaccine safety tests being fast-tracked under “public health emergency” rules and the use of some questionable ingredients, many health experts are warning about a myriad of risks associated with the vaccine and the importance of being educated.

“Right now, you need to become educated about vaccination, influenza, vaccine risks and the public health laws in your state,” warned Barbara Loe Fisher, the president of the National Vaccine Information Center. “You need to find out what your rights and options are under new public health laws that may require you — and your children — to be vaccinated or quarantined.”

So what are the risks of the swine flu vaccines? It depends on who you ask.

“There can be no argument that unnecessary mass injection of millions of children with a vaccine containing an adjuvant known to cause a host of debilitating autoimmune diseases is a reckless, dangerous plan,” explained Dr. Joseph Mercola, a health activist, author and strong critic of the swine flu immunization program. He proceeds to provide evidence justifying his concerns.

The adjuvant Mercola is referring to is based on an oil known as squalene. It is used to reduce the amount of viral antigen required in vaccines, which allows companies to produce more vaccines for less money at a faster rate.

But according to countless medical professionals and experts, using it in immunizations is a bad idea. It is also going to be somewhat experimental. There isn’t a single vaccine containing squalene that is approved for use in America, according to Meryl Nass, M.D., who notes that Novartis and GlaxoSmithKline will make use of it as a “novel feature of the H1N1 vaccines.” 

Squalene is a naturally occurring oil, found in the human brain, joints, and other places. The problem, according to some experts, comes when it is administered in a vaccine. They claim that in this circumstance, the body creates antibodies to attack the oil. And it is believed by many to be responsible for the wide variety of symptoms that were called collectively "Gulf War Syndrome," a sometimes debilitating set of phenomena present in a large number of U.S. military personnel who served during the first war in Iraq. 

“The substantial majority (95%) of overtly ill deployed GWS patients had antibodies to squalene. All (100%) GWS patients immunized for service in Desert Shield/Desert Storm who did not deploy, but had the same signs and symptoms as those who did deploy, had antibodies to squalene,” noted a Tulane Medical School study published in Experimental Molecular Pathology. “In contrast, none (0%) of the deployed Persian Gulf veterans not showing signs and symptoms of GWS have antibodies to squalene.” The study has been challenged, but it is still widely cited.

Another study published in the American Journal of Pathology highlighted problems with the use of the substance as well. One injection of squalene into rats led them to develop what humans know as rheumatoid arthritis, or “chronic, immune-mediated joint-specific inflammation.”

Another potential risk from the vaccine was highlighted by Dr. Wolfgang Wodarg, the chairman of the health committee in the German parliament and the European Council. As reported in an article entitled "German health expert’s flu warning — Does virus vaccine increase risk of cancer?" in the German newspaper Bild, “the nutrient solution for the vaccine consists of cancerous cells from animals,” and according to Wodarg, "we do not know if there could be an allergic reaction.”

Johannes Löwer, the president of the German government’s Paul Ehrlich Institute, also warned that the side effects of the shot could be worse than the actual swine flu, according to the article. 

Thimerosal, a mercury-based preservative that will also be used in the swine flu vaccine, has come under fire from a broad array of medical experts. Despite a number of studies that concluded the substance does not cause autism, there are critics of the various studies. Also critics point to widespread concern about other mercury-related complications.

The Food and Drug Administration actually told pharmaceutical companies to stop using the substance in early childhood vaccines. But many still contain it. And the swine flu vaccine will be no exception, though Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease, said that because of concerns over the preservative, there will be some vaccines available without it.

Critics, however, are still not satisfied. "We don't have adequate safety studies on this vaccine before we are moving forward to market," noted Lyn Redwood, the president of a non-profit organization called SafeMinds (Sensible Action For Ending Mercury-Induced Neurological Disorders) dedicated to investigating and raising awareness about the risks associated with mercury in medicinal products. "I'm really not convinced that we know for sure that the risk of the disease outweighs the risk of the vaccine, especially since this is a brand new additive that we have never used before in combination with thimerosal."

But thimerosal, squalene, and cancerous animal cells are far from the only concerns.  Among other potentially dangerous chemicals and substances often found in influenza vaccines are formaldehyde, antibiotics, and even ethylene glycol, known as anti-freeze. Various health experts have varying opinions about the effects of all of these additives, but many doctors still warn against them.   

Another cause for concern surfaced in the United Kingdom when the government’s Health Protection Agency sent a letter to senior neurologists warning that the new swine flu vaccine is linked to the deadly nerve disease known as Guillain-Barre Syndrome (GBS), the Daily Mail reported in an article entitled "Swine flu jab link to killer nerve disease: Leaked letter reveals concern of neurologists over 25 deaths in America." The risk of contracting the paralysis-inducing illness was reportedly eight times greater in those who received the infamous government swine flu vaccine of 1976, which killed more people than the actual virus. The leaked letter warned recipients to keep an eye open for GBS and report it immediately.

Many vaccine opponents go much further than highlighting the potential risks, with some making unsubstantiated claims that it will be used as a tool for mass depopulation or eugenics. Some point to anecdotal evidence like comments by Obama’s science czar, who called for drastic population reduction methods in a book called Ecoscience. But what is certain is that the vaccine carries risks — a lot of them according to experts.

The people who seem totally convinced about the inoculations’ safety and efficacy — or who are at least downplaying the potential risks and side effects — appear to be mostly government bureaucrats or people with vested interests. Virtually every medicinal product carries some risk, and these vaccines are no different. To say otherwise is disingenuous. 

What is important is that the population be educated about the potential complications and then decide with their families and healthcare providers what approach they would like to take, taking into consideration the risks of the vaccine and of the swine flu. It should be an individual decision without bureaucratic interference or propaganda.