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11 Responses to “Swine flu: Vaccine is safe, CDC says”

1. kert Says:
   August 26th, 2009 at 5:05 pm

   After the extremely frightening experience I had with my daughter getting that HPV vaccination this summer, I prefer not to take the government’s word on what is and is not “safe” when it comes to vaccines.

   

   barga Reply:
   August 26th, 2009 at 5:49 pm

   If you read their information, you know that safe means less than 1/10,000 uses
   your daughter just was that unlucky 1

   

   Wizcon Reply:
   August 27th, 2009 at 12:59 am

   What happened to her?

2. kert Says:
   August 26th, 2009 at 7:21 pm

   I don’t believe that statistic either. The side effects my daughter experienced TWICE (because the doctor denied they were related to the first shot) isn’t even listed as one of the possibilities in “their information”. Needless to say, there won’t be any third injection.

   

   barga Reply:
   August 26th, 2009 at 10:44 pm

   Is she allergic to something in it? The vaccine has a mal effect (non normal side effect) one out of every 12266 times, so odds are she had a reaction to something in it

3. DaddysDarlin Says:
   August 27th, 2009 at 1:03 am

   I will protect myself and my family by not getting the governments flu shot.

   

   Nonya Biznass Reply:
   September 9th, 2009 at 6:01 pm

   1) It’s not the “government’s” flu shot. They’re produced by companies like GlaxoSmithKline and Novartis.
   2) Flu/Pneumonia is the 7th leading cause of death in the US.
   3) The 1918 Flu Pandemic (also an H1N1 virus) took 100 million lives world-wide.
   4) If you don’t trust our “government” (ie, the CDC) then ask the World Health Organization, the Red Cross, the American Lung Association, or any other health organization.
   5) Your refusal to get a flu shot isn’t only endangering your family’s health (which would be Darwin in action) you’re also endangering others in your community.

   Hope this helps!

4. Wizcon Says:
   August 27th, 2009 at 1:06 am

   If you were born before 1957 you may be ok. They feel the virus that year may give you some immunity
   College students may be the source of the biggest outbreaks as well as younger children. So they are targeting 23 and younger as first in line. Pregnant women as well.
   I bought some face masks to clean out my Dad’s mouse infested storage shed and didn’t go back because of the bees. So I have masks if it gets really bad.

5. Anderxander Says:
   August 30th, 2009 at 11:08 pm

   I have more if you want.

   -“This strain of swine influenza that’s been cultured in a laboratory is something that’s not been seen anywhere actually in the United States and the world, so this is actually a new strain of influenza that’s been identified,” said Dr. John Carlo, Dallas Co. Medical Director.

   -Swine flu virus is described as a completely new strain, an intercontinental mixture of human, avian and swine viruses.

   -There have been no reported A-H1N1 infections of pigs.

   -“Chad Jones, spokesman for Fort Meade, said CID is investigating the possibility of missing virus samples from the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases,” reports The Frederick New

   -In February, USAMRIID halted their work when virus samples were discovered that were not listed in its inventory. Criminal investigators from the U.S. Army Criminal Investigation Division unit at Fort Meade are now probing whether virus samples are missing from the Army’s top biolab, which also studies pathogens including ebola, anthrax and plague.

   -Tamiflu is produced by the Swiss pharmaceutical giant Hoffman-La Roche on behalf of a US based biotech company Gilead Sciences, Inc. While the drug is produced by Roche, it was developed by Gilead Sciences Inc. which owns the intellectual property rights.

   -Former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld was one of the major shareholders of Gilead Sciences. In 1997, Rumsfeld was appointed Chairman of Gilead Sciences, Inc., a position which he held until becoming Secretary of Defence in the Bush administration in 2001. Rumsfeld was on the Board of Directors from the establishment of Gilead in 1987.

   -Fortune Magazine in a report published at the height of 2005 bird flu crisis, described Gilead as one of the most politically connected companies in the biotech industry. Rumsfeld’s interests and/or holdings in Gilead following his resignation in 2006 are not known.

   -The Tamiflu oral antiviral, approved in the U.S. to treat and prevent influenza A and B virus infection in people age one or older, is sold by F. Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd., which pays sales-related royalties to Gilead. Roche said it has 3 million packages of Tamiflu on standby — part of 5 million treatments donated to the U.N. health agency in 2006 — and can deliver the drug anywhere within 24 hours.” (San Francisco Business Times, 27 April 2009)

   -The share price of Gilead on the NYSE has risen substantially since the announcement of the Mexican swine flu outbreak.

   -The U.S. Department of Homeland Security has sent a memo to some health care providers noting procedures to be followed if the swine flu outbreak eventually makes quarantines necessary. (CBS News April 27th, 2009)

   DHS Assistant Secretary Bridger McGaw circulated the swine flu memo.

   It says: “The Department of Justice has established legal federal authorities pertaining to the implementation of a quarantine and enforcement. Under approval from HHS, the Surgeon General has the authority to issue quarantines.”

   McGaw appears to have been referring to the section of federal law that allows the Surgeon General to detain and quarantine Americans “reasonably believed to be infected” with a communicable disease.

   McGaw’s memo on Monday also said that the federal plan to respond to pandemic influenza was “in effect.”

   -Federal quarantine authority is limited to diseases listed in presidential executive orders; President Bush added “novel” forms of influenza with the potential to create pandemics in Executive Order 13375. Anyone violating a quarantine order can be punished by a $250,000 fine and a one-year prison term.

   -The Bush administration released the National Strategy For Pandemic Influenza in November 2005; it envisioned closer coordination among federal agencies, the stockpiling and distribution of vaccines and anti-viral drugs, and, if necessary, government-imposed “quarantines” and “limitations on gatherings.”

   -A Defense Department planning document summarizing the military’s contingency plan says the Pentagon is prepared to assist in “quarantining groups of people in order to minimize the spread of disease during an influenza pandemic” and aiding in “efforts to restore and maintain order.”

   -The World Health Organization (WHO) raised its pandemic alert level to Phase 5 on a 6 point scale.

   -The WHO’s Phase 5 alert means “there is sustained human-to-human spread in at least two countries and that global outbreak of the disease is imminent… It also signals an increased effort to produce a vaccine… Human cases have been confirmed in Mexico, the United States, Canada, Britain, Israel, New Zealand and Spain.”

   The WHO took this decision after ” a 23-month-old child died from the swine flu in Texas after travelling there from Mexico for medical treatment.”

   the WHO in Geneva and Washington are quoted as saying that the “spread of the virus is unlikely to stop”.

   On the day following the WHO’s Phase 5 Pandemic Alert, a scientist attached to the European Union’s Centre for Disease Control and Prevention hinted, without evidence, that the epidemic could potentially affect 40% to 50% of the EU population “in a mild way”. (See europeanvoice.com, April 30, 2009).

   -The media has gone into full gear with little analysis and review of the evidence, focussing their attention on the more than 2400 cases of non-specific influenza in Mexico.

   “the global outbreak is imminent…

   all countries should activate preparedness plans”,

   The worst health crisis facing the world in 90 years…”

   -Professor Neil Ferguson, a member of the World Health Organisation task force on swine flu, stated that “40 per cent of people in the UK could be infected within the next six months if the country was hit by a pandemic.”

   “We might expect up to 30 to 40 per cent of the population to become ill in the next six months if this truly turns into a pandemic. “We could get substantial numbers infected in the next few weeks but, if I was to be a betting man, I would say it would be slightly longer because we are moving into summer.” Prof. Ferguson said the 152 deaths in Mexico probably made up a relatively small proportion of the total number infected, which might run into tens or hundreds of thousands.” (Daily Express, May 1, 2009)

   -On April 27, there was, according to reports, only one case of swine flu in the entire European Union: “Europe’s first confirmed case of swine flu has been diagnosed in Spain. The country’s health ministry confirmed the news on Monday morning, after tests on a man who had recently returned from a trip to Mexico.” (BBC, April 27, 2009)

   -”I [the WHO Director-General] have reached out to companies manufacturing antiviral drugs to assess capacity and all options for ramping up production. I have also reached out to influenza vaccine manufacturers that can contribute to the production of a pandemic vaccine.”

   -Scientific opinion contradicts the WHO official statement:

   “Scientists studying the virus are coming to the consensus that this hybrid strain of influenza — at least in its current form — isn’t shaping up to be as fatal as the strains that caused some previous pandemics.

   In fact, the current outbreak of the H1N1 virus, which emerged in San Diego and southern Mexico late last month, may not even do as much damage as the run-of-the-mill flu outbreaks that occur each winter without much fanfare.

   Mounting preliminary evidence from genetics labs, epidemiology models and simple mathematics suggests that the worst-case scenarios are likely to be avoided in the current outbreak.” (Los Angeles Times, April 30, 2009)

   -Influenza is a common disease. There are millions of cases of influenza across America, on an annual basis. “According to the Canadian Medical Association Journal, the flu kills up to 2,500 Canadians and about 36,000 Americans annually. Worldwide, the number of deaths attributed to the flu each year is between 250,000 and 500,000″ (Thomas Walkom, The Toronto Star, May 1, 2009)

   -The Mexican Minister of Health, José Ángel Córdova confirmed that there were “2498 serious cases of atypical pneumonia associated with a flu condition” …[which] ***could be*** related to the A/H1N1 virus”. Out of those 2498 cases of influenza, 159 died, of influenza or related ailments, but only seven of these deaths were related to the swine flu, according to the official statement of the Minister of Health.

   -The figures above are consistent with the overall pattern of influenza observed in Mexico in previous years. “In a normal year, between 6,500 and 7,500 Mexicans die from pneumonia-like diseases”

   -In the US only one lab in the entire country has the ability to confirm the identify of the virus, namely the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention located in Atlanta. How many labs are there in Mexico which have the ability to confirm the identify of the virus?

   -It is revealing that the Atlanta based CDCP is playing a key role in identifying the virus on behalf of several Latin American countries, including Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador and Costa Rica. On April 30th, the US government established a CDCP lab in Mexico. In other words, a US government agency is monopolising the conduct of laboratory testing, the data and analysis.

   -The US Congress to appropriated 300% more money for Swine Flu ‘preparedness’ than Congress planned. Responding to lobbying by the Obama administration, the US Congress has approved $7.65 billion for the non-proven pandemic influenza.

   The money was included in a $106 billion supplemental appropriation bill for funding the military wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

   Most of the pandemic money is for the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), but the bill includes $350 million to increase state and local capacity for responding to H1N1. The bill provides $1.5 billion in fiscal year 2009 money and $5.8 billion in “contingent emergency appropriations” for HHS and the CDC.

   -Swiss drugs giant Novartis has completed a first batch of swine flu vaccine for pre-clinical trials and aims to make a version available from September, the company said.
   “Novartis has successfully completed the production of the first batch of influenza A(H1N1) vaccine, weeks ahead of expectations,” the company said. The 10-litre batch “will be used for pre-clinical evaluation and testing and is also being considered for use in clinical trials”.

   Novartis hopes to start clinical trials in July and “expects licensure in the fall (September to November) of 2009″, it said. It added that “more than 30 governments have made requests to Novartis to supply them with influenza A(H1N1) vaccine ingredients.”

   The company used cell-based technology to produce the vaccine, a faster method than the traditional technology that uses eggs, according to Novartis. (AFP, June12, 2009)

   -A letter from the Health Protection Agency, the official body that oversees public health, has been leaked to The Mail on Sunday.

   It tells the neurologists that they must be alert for an increase in a brain disorder called Guillain-Barre Syndrome (GBS), which could be triggered by the vaccine.

   GBS attacks the lining of the nerves, causing paralysis and inability to breathe, and can be fatal.

   The letter, sent to about 600 neurologists on July 29, is the first sign that there is concern at the highest levels that the vaccine itself could cause serious complications.

   It refers to the use of a similar swine flu vaccine in the United States in 1976 when:

   * More people died from the vaccination than from swine flu.
   * 500 cases of GBS were detected.
   * The vaccine may have increased the risk of contracting GBS by eight times.
   * The vaccine was withdrawn after just ten weeks when the link with GBS became clear.
   * The US Government was forced to pay out millions of dollars to those affected.

   Concerns have already been raised that the new vaccine has not been sufficiently tested and that the effects, especially on children, are unknown.

   It is being developed by pharmaceutical companies and will be given to about 13 million people during the first wave of immunisation, expected to start in October.

   -Dr. Wolfgang Wodarg is a politician and a specialist In lungs, hygiene and environmental medicine. He is the chairman of the health committee in The German parliament and European Council

   Lung specialist Wolfgang Wodarg has said that there are many risks associated with the vaccine for the H1N1 virus.

   He has grave reservations about the firm Novartis who are developing the vaccine and testing it in Germany. The vaccination is injected “with a very hot needle”, Wodarg said.

   The nutrient solution for the vaccine consists of cancerous cells from animals and “we do not know if there could be an allergic reaction”.

   Wodrag also described people’s fear of the pandemic as an “orchestration”: “It is great business for the pharmaceutical industry,” he told the ‘Neuen Presse’.

   Swine flu is not very different from normal flu. “On the contrary if you look at the number of cases it is nothing compared to a normal flu outbreak,” he added.

   -The vaccine – as Johannes Löwer, president of the Paul Ehrlich Institute, has pointed out – can also cause worse side effects than the actual swine flu virus.

   -Up until now, the producers of the vaccine did not know how many orders they would have by the autumn, the German Government is now a guaranteed customer.

   -A Worldwide public health emergency is unfolding on an unprecedented scale. 4.9 billion doses of H1N1 swine flu vaccine are envisaged by the World Health Organization (WHO).

   -On the basis of scanty country-level information, the WHO declared a level 4 pandemic on April 27. Two days later, a level 5 Pandemic was announced without corroborating evidence (April 29). A level 6 Pandemic was announced on June 11.

   There was no attempt to improve the process of data collection in terms of lab confirmation. In fact quite the opposite. Following the level 6 Pandemic announcement, both the WHO and the CDC decided that data collection of individual confirmed and probable cases was no longer necessary to ascertain the spread of swine flu. As of July 10, one month after the announcement of the level six pandemic, the WHO discontinued the collection of confirmed cases. It does not require member countries to send in figures pertaining to confirmed or probable cases.

   WHO will no longer issue the global tables showing the numbers of confirmed cases for all countries. However, as part of continued efforts to document the global spread of the H1N1 pandemic, regular updates will be provided describing the situation in the newly affected countries. WHO will continue to request that these countries report the first confirmed cases and, as far as feasible, provide weekly aggregated case numbers and descriptive epidemiology of the early cases. (WHO, Briefing note, 2009)

   Based on this data that they discontinued collecting, The WHO states “as many as 2 billion people could become infected over the next two years — nearly one-third of the world population.” (World Health Organization as reported by the Western media, July 2009).

   -According to reports, the US government expects to have 85 million doses of the new vaccine by the end of October. In total, the US government has ordered 195 million doses from Big Pharma.

   “Recommendation: Priority groups to receive the novel H1N1 vaccine

   On July 29, 2009, the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP)—an advisory committee to CDC—recommended that novel H1N1 flu vaccine be made available first to the following five groups (News Release)

   Pregnant women Health care workers and emergency medical responders
   People caring for infants under 6 months of age
   Children and young adults from 6 months to 24 years
   People aged 25 to 64 years with underlying medical conditions (e.g. asthma, diabetes)

   Combined, these groups would equal approximately 159 million individuals.” (See Flu.gov: Tests, Vaccines, Medications, & Masks)

   -According to the WHO, Western countries have already ordered one billion doses of the vaccine.

   “Northern hemisphere countries have so far ordered more than one billion doses of swine flu vaccine, the World Health Organisation said Tuesday, sparking warnings over shortages,” Agence France-Presse reports. While some countries, including Greece, The Netherlands, Canada and Israel, have ordered enough vaccine to inoculate their citizens, “[o]thers, such as Germany, the United States, Britain and France, have put in orders that would cover between 30 and 78 percent of people,” (AFP, August 19, 2009).

   -it is necessary to understand, that pandemic vaccines are made according to two procedures:

   1. The Developement of a totally new vaccine from scratch. This takes more time, administration and testing than mock up vaccines .

   2. A Mock-up vaccine is a vaccine with all the adjuvants of the pandemic vaccine – but without the killed or attenuated pandemic virus. This virus is – until the pandemic virus is known – a different, attenuated known potentially pandemic virus, in the case of the Pandemrix vaccine for the EU it is an attenuated H5N1 bird flu virus. This is the mock-up vaccine. When the nature of the pandemic swine flu virus (H1N1) is known, it replaces the H5N1 virus in an attenuated form, the adjuvants being left unchanged.

   Until now mock-up vaccine test-vaccinations have been going on on voluntary ”human guinea pigs.” Since most of the contents of the vaccine has already been approved, the approval of the pandemic vaccine is ****easier to implement****.

   After the exchange of virus in the vaccine, the company will have to apply for a ”variation”. However, this is just a matter of form, since such a variation approval is given by the EU within 5 days – which means that there is no objective testing of the vaccine requiring official approval. The safety is entirely left to the vaccine producer, who has been granted immunity to actions of damages due to expected side effects .

   EMEA
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   The Military Vaccine Resource Directory
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6. Anderxander Says:
   August 30th, 2009 at 11:11 pm

   why won’t my comment post?

   

   Sage Reply:
   August 30th, 2009 at 11:38 pm

   Because of all the links in it. The spam filter puts everything in spam that has over a certain number of links.