Environmental Health
Swine Flu Vaccination Dangers
Date: 17/08/09
So, there will be a vaccine that’s been developed in less than half the time for use in the general population by September this year... When did they test it then?
In the previous article I told you about my experience with the antiviral, Tamiflu, and my supposed diagnosis of Swine Flu. As much as last week’s article was anecdotal, it was written to illustrate that we are all vulnerable to being misdiagnosed, forced on the bandwagon and bullied into taking medication we don’t want to take.
Whilst the media seems to have backed down a bit in their coverage of Swine Flu cases, we are still ‘warned’ that the H1N1 flu virus can strike again and be ‘at large’ later this year with the approaching winter months.
On 6 August 2009 the World Health Organization (WHO) announced that the first Swine Flu vaccines are likely to be licensed for use in the general population in September of this year.
That was quick
Okay let’s take a moment to digest this... Normally it takes about 26 weeks (6 months) to develop a vaccine, but Baxter International (a pharmaceutical giant and major player in the race for a H1N1 vaccine) announced on June 12 it has a patented cell-based technology which reduces the development time to 13 weeks and was ready to complete their development this month...
Mid-June to end of June is two weeks, right? July had five weeks, right? So we are on 7 weeks. August, has four weeks, right? That makes 11 weeks... Am I the only person missing two weeks? In total that is, 15 weeks cut short on the development of a vaccine...
So, there will be a vaccine that’s been developed in less than half the time for use in the general population by September this year... When did they test it then?
Oh, hang on, I nearly forgot: In response to WHO’s Phase 6 alert level with the ‘outbreak of the pandemic’, the US Centres for Disease Control (CDC) declared the H1N1 flu pandemic a public health emergency, which allowed the American Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to authorise drug companies to “fast track” experimental vaccines. Meaning the new vaccines won’t be tested as thoroughly as vaccines which move through the normal licensing (and developing) process.
In other words, a fast tracked vaccine will be available for use in the general population long before it’s undergone adequate safety testing... It sounds as if we’re being duped... I don’t think proper testing will be done at all...
Perhaps this quote from a leading UK newspaper highlights my concern: ‘The path of a popular medicine from the laboratory to the chemist or doctor’s surgery can involve years of clinical trials on a select group of patients.
When the new vaccine for Swine Flu arrives in Britain, regulators said this weekend [12.07.09], it could be approved for use in just five days.’
Children first
Children will all be vaccinated first because according to the Department of Health and Human Services they are our “first priority”.
What? First priority for poisoning them with a novel H1N1 vaccination that has not yet undergone adequate safety testing?
If you have a child with an established health condition, do you really want him or her injected with an experimental vaccine? Children with underlying health problems will likely be the first to receive the vaccine, since they will be considered the most probable group to develop severe cases of the H1N1 virus. Unfortunately, these children are also the ones most vulnerable to serious side effects from the vaccine.
It gets worse, because there is no logic here: According to WHO, most cases of severe and fatal Swine Flu infections occurred in people aged 30 to 50. Many of those cases were seen in people who were already ill with disorders like asthma, heart disease, diabetes, autoimmune diseases and obesity. So why vaccinate our children first?
Cases of Swine Flu in healthy children have been mild in nature, with little or no medical intervention required. Informed parents, given a choice, will surely opt for a mild case of the flu over the potential health risks of an inadequately tested vaccine that can potentially cause long-term devastation of your child’s health, or worse.
Mine is broken
Not only is it dangerous to use an untested Swine Flu vaccine on the population, but there are numerous studies that have shown that vaccines simply don’t work:
• According to the 2006 Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, 51 separate studies concluded the flu vaccine worked no better than a placebo in 260,000 children ranging in age from six months to 23 months.
• A study published in the October 2008 Archives of Paediatric and Adolescent Medicine found flu vaccines in young children have made no difference in the number of flu-related doctor and hospital visits.
• As reported in a 2004 publication of the Archives of Disease in Childhood, a study of 800 children with asthma concluded those receiving a flu vaccine had a significantly increased risk of asthma-related doctor and emergency room visits.
• A more recent study released at the 2009 American Thoracic Society International Conference showed children with asthma who received a vaccine called FluMist had a 3-fold increased risk for hospitalisation.
• According to the 2007 Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, studies of over 65,000 healthy adults concluded vaccinations reduced the risk of flu by only six percent, and reduced missed work days by less than a single day. Vaccinations did not reduce the number of people who sought medical help or took time off from work.
• The 2006 Cochrane Database also includes a review of 64 vaccination studies of the elderly across nearly 100 flu seasons. The studies showed flu vaccines were ineffective in preventing the flu in either nursing home patients or elderly living in the community.
• A study published in the Lancet last year found that influenza vaccination was NOT associated with a reduced risk of pneumonia in older people. This supports a study done five years ago, published in The New England Journal of Medicine.
• Research published in the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine also confirms that there has been no decrease in deaths from influenza and pneumonia, despite the fact that vaccination coverage among the elderly has increased from 15 per cent in 1980 to 65 per cent now.
The real threat at the moment seems to be the vaccine and not Swine Flu...
Mass vaccination campaign
The UK government has ordered enough vaccine to cover the entire population. GPs are being told to prepare for a nationwide vaccination campaign.
Dr. Peter Holden, the British Medical Association’s lead negotiator on Swine Flu, is of the opinion that although Swine Flu is not causing serious illness in patients, UK health officials are eager to start a mass vaccination campaign, beginning with “priority groups.” Holden says the vaccinations will reduce the chances of a shortage of hospital beds because of people suffering from Swine Flu.
Why is the UK eager to vaccinate for a virus that isn’t causing serious illness? And why, if the Swine Flu isn’t causing serious illness, is Dr. Holden concerned about a shortage of hospital beds? It makes no sense!
To raise suspicions further, regulators at the European Medicines Agency (EMEA) said the fast-tracked procedure has involved clinical trials of a “mock-up” vaccine similar to the one that will be used for the biggest mass vaccination programme in generations. Mock-up vaccine? Generations to come? So this will be a reoccurring thing?
The worst is this quote from the EMEA: “The vaccines are authorised with a detailed risk management plan.” So, what they are really saying is: We didn’t test this vaccine properly, it is a mock-up and we foresee that it will be necessary to have a risk management plan when everything goes to pot!
Without wanting to sound as crazy as the rest of them, this sounds more and more to me like a form of population control that’s going a bit pear shaped.
Related Reading:
Swine Flu: My experience with the H1N1 virus and Tamiflu
Swine Flu: Only Another 749,983 To Go For The UK Pandemic Predictions To Be Accurate
Swine Flu: Did You Survive The First Week Of This ‘Pandemic’?
Sources:
‘Swine Flu vaccine 'by September' published online 06.08.09, news.bbc.co.uk
‘Do Drug Companies Secretly Favour a World Flu Pandemic?’ by Dr, Mercola, published online 28.07.09, articles.mercola.com
‘Critical Alert: The Swine Flu Pandemic – Fact or Fiction?’ by Dr, Mercola, published online 21.04.09, articles.mercola.com
‘What are the Dangers of Mandatory Swine Flu Vaccination?’ by Dr. Mercola, published online 11.08.09, articles.mercola.com
‘Mortality reduction with influenza vaccine in patients with pneumonia outside "flu" season: pleiotropic benefits or residual confounding?’, Am J Respir Crit Care Med. 2008 Sep 1;178(5):527-33. Epub 12.06.08
‘Swine Flu vaccine to be cleared after five-day trial’ published online 12.07.09, timesonline.co.uk
Back to topWhilst the media seems to have backed down a bit in their coverage of Swine Flu cases, we are still ‘warned’ that the H1N1 flu virus can strike again and be ‘at large’ later this year with the approaching winter months.
On 6 August 2009 the World Health Organization (WHO) announced that the first Swine Flu vaccines are likely to be licensed for use in the general population in September of this year.
That was quick
Okay let’s take a moment to digest this... Normally it takes about 26 weeks (6 months) to develop a vaccine, but Baxter International (a pharmaceutical giant and major player in the race for a H1N1 vaccine) announced on June 12 it has a patented cell-based technology which reduces the development time to 13 weeks and was ready to complete their development this month...
Mid-June to end of June is two weeks, right? July had five weeks, right? So we are on 7 weeks. August, has four weeks, right? That makes 11 weeks... Am I the only person missing two weeks? In total that is, 15 weeks cut short on the development of a vaccine...
So, there will be a vaccine that’s been developed in less than half the time for use in the general population by September this year... When did they test it then?
Oh, hang on, I nearly forgot: In response to WHO’s Phase 6 alert level with the ‘outbreak of the pandemic’, the US Centres for Disease Control (CDC) declared the H1N1 flu pandemic a public health emergency, which allowed the American Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to authorise drug companies to “fast track” experimental vaccines. Meaning the new vaccines won’t be tested as thoroughly as vaccines which move through the normal licensing (and developing) process.
In other words, a fast tracked vaccine will be available for use in the general population long before it’s undergone adequate safety testing... It sounds as if we’re being duped... I don’t think proper testing will be done at all...
Perhaps this quote from a leading UK newspaper highlights my concern: ‘The path of a popular medicine from the laboratory to the chemist or doctor’s surgery can involve years of clinical trials on a select group of patients.
When the new vaccine for Swine Flu arrives in Britain, regulators said this weekend [12.07.09], it could be approved for use in just five days.’
Children first
Children will all be vaccinated first because according to the Department of Health and Human Services they are our “first priority”.
What? First priority for poisoning them with a novel H1N1 vaccination that has not yet undergone adequate safety testing?
If you have a child with an established health condition, do you really want him or her injected with an experimental vaccine? Children with underlying health problems will likely be the first to receive the vaccine, since they will be considered the most probable group to develop severe cases of the H1N1 virus. Unfortunately, these children are also the ones most vulnerable to serious side effects from the vaccine.
It gets worse, because there is no logic here: According to WHO, most cases of severe and fatal Swine Flu infections occurred in people aged 30 to 50. Many of those cases were seen in people who were already ill with disorders like asthma, heart disease, diabetes, autoimmune diseases and obesity. So why vaccinate our children first?
Cases of Swine Flu in healthy children have been mild in nature, with little or no medical intervention required. Informed parents, given a choice, will surely opt for a mild case of the flu over the potential health risks of an inadequately tested vaccine that can potentially cause long-term devastation of your child’s health, or worse.
Mine is broken
Not only is it dangerous to use an untested Swine Flu vaccine on the population, but there are numerous studies that have shown that vaccines simply don’t work:
• According to the 2006 Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, 51 separate studies concluded the flu vaccine worked no better than a placebo in 260,000 children ranging in age from six months to 23 months.
• A study published in the October 2008 Archives of Paediatric and Adolescent Medicine found flu vaccines in young children have made no difference in the number of flu-related doctor and hospital visits.
• As reported in a 2004 publication of the Archives of Disease in Childhood, a study of 800 children with asthma concluded those receiving a flu vaccine had a significantly increased risk of asthma-related doctor and emergency room visits.
• A more recent study released at the 2009 American Thoracic Society International Conference showed children with asthma who received a vaccine called FluMist had a 3-fold increased risk for hospitalisation.
• According to the 2007 Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, studies of over 65,000 healthy adults concluded vaccinations reduced the risk of flu by only six percent, and reduced missed work days by less than a single day. Vaccinations did not reduce the number of people who sought medical help or took time off from work.
• The 2006 Cochrane Database also includes a review of 64 vaccination studies of the elderly across nearly 100 flu seasons. The studies showed flu vaccines were ineffective in preventing the flu in either nursing home patients or elderly living in the community.
• A study published in the Lancet last year found that influenza vaccination was NOT associated with a reduced risk of pneumonia in older people. This supports a study done five years ago, published in The New England Journal of Medicine.
• Research published in the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine also confirms that there has been no decrease in deaths from influenza and pneumonia, despite the fact that vaccination coverage among the elderly has increased from 15 per cent in 1980 to 65 per cent now.
The real threat at the moment seems to be the vaccine and not Swine Flu...
Mass vaccination campaign
The UK government has ordered enough vaccine to cover the entire population. GPs are being told to prepare for a nationwide vaccination campaign.
Dr. Peter Holden, the British Medical Association’s lead negotiator on Swine Flu, is of the opinion that although Swine Flu is not causing serious illness in patients, UK health officials are eager to start a mass vaccination campaign, beginning with “priority groups.” Holden says the vaccinations will reduce the chances of a shortage of hospital beds because of people suffering from Swine Flu.
Why is the UK eager to vaccinate for a virus that isn’t causing serious illness? And why, if the Swine Flu isn’t causing serious illness, is Dr. Holden concerned about a shortage of hospital beds? It makes no sense!
To raise suspicions further, regulators at the European Medicines Agency (EMEA) said the fast-tracked procedure has involved clinical trials of a “mock-up” vaccine similar to the one that will be used for the biggest mass vaccination programme in generations. Mock-up vaccine? Generations to come? So this will be a reoccurring thing?
The worst is this quote from the EMEA: “The vaccines are authorised with a detailed risk management plan.” So, what they are really saying is: We didn’t test this vaccine properly, it is a mock-up and we foresee that it will be necessary to have a risk management plan when everything goes to pot!
Without wanting to sound as crazy as the rest of them, this sounds more and more to me like a form of population control that’s going a bit pear shaped.
Related Reading:
Swine Flu: My experience with the H1N1 virus and Tamiflu
Swine Flu: Only Another 749,983 To Go For The UK Pandemic Predictions To Be Accurate
Swine Flu: Did You Survive The First Week Of This ‘Pandemic’?
Sources:
‘Swine Flu vaccine 'by September' published online 06.08.09, news.bbc.co.uk
‘Do Drug Companies Secretly Favour a World Flu Pandemic?’ by Dr, Mercola, published online 28.07.09, articles.mercola.com
‘Critical Alert: The Swine Flu Pandemic – Fact or Fiction?’ by Dr, Mercola, published online 21.04.09, articles.mercola.com
‘What are the Dangers of Mandatory Swine Flu Vaccination?’ by Dr. Mercola, published online 11.08.09, articles.mercola.com
‘Mortality reduction with influenza vaccine in patients with pneumonia outside "flu" season: pleiotropic benefits or residual confounding?’, Am J Respir Crit Care Med. 2008 Sep 1;178(5):527-33. Epub 12.06.08
‘Swine Flu vaccine to be cleared after five-day trial’ published online 12.07.09, timesonline.co.uk
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