October 5, 2009
Ineffectiveness and Dangers of Flu Shots
by Stephen Lendman
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Believing what governments say can be hazardous to your health. It's even truer
from corporate-sponsored studies on the benefits of their products. Thus, be
very leery about the new CSL Ltd. one on the effectiveness of taking one Swine
Flu dose. More to the point, any Swine Flu shot as, in single or multiple doses,
they're all extremely toxic, dangerous, and must be avoided to protect human
health from the pathogenic onslaught vaccines are designed to unleash.
CSL is "Australia's leading biopharmaceutical company (and) the only commercial
manufacturer of influenza vaccines in the Southern Hemisphere." It's currently
producing "a pandemic influenza vaccine called Panvax H1N1 which uses the proven
technology that has enabled us to provide Australia with seasonal flu vaccines
over the last 40 years."
The New England Journal of Medicine published "the welcome news," claiming to
show one shot produced the same immune response protection as annual flu
vaccines. More on their ineffectiveness and hidden dangers below.
The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (part of the US
National Institutes of Health) also claims its early trials and studies confirm
one dose provides protection eight to ten days after inoculation. Again beware -
their advice endangers your health, especially about Swine Flu and the vaccines
designed for it. They advise everyone take them voluntarily. Later, Health and
Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius may mandate them if enough
people don't comply, and individual states may follow suit.
Separating Facts from Government and Industry Disinformation
According to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), annual flu shots are advised
for "all children from 6 months through 18 years of age," everyone over 50,
pregnant women, and individuals with "long-term health problems" like heart,
lung, kidney or liver disease, HIV/AIDS, other immune system diseases or persons
with weakened immune systems, asthma, diabetes, anemia, certain muscle or nerve
disorders, residents of nursing homes or chronic care facilities, and certain
others.
Warning about "seasonal epidemics," the World Health Organization's (WHO) advice
is much the same, adding that "Seasonal influenza spreads easily and can sweep
through schools, nursing homes or businesses and towns....The most effective way
to prevent the disease or severe outcomes from the illness is vaccination."
The WHO claims "Among healthy adults, influenza vaccine can prevent 70% to 90%
of influenza-specific illness. Among the elderly, the vaccine reduces severe
illnesses and complications by up to 60%, and deaths by 80%."
Information below shows WHO claims are false and misleading. So are the CDC's
and NIH's and doubly so for the new Swine Flu vaccines.
All Vaccines Are Ineffective and Unsafe
Gary Null is a leading health and nutrition expert, author, documentary
filmmaker, founder of the Progressive Radio Network, and syndicated host of the
longest running health program in America, Natural Living with Gary Null.
On September 18, 2009, he interviewed Dr. Viera Scheibner, "arguably one of the
world's most respected scientists and scholars on vaccine medical data....Her
investigations uncover how the vaccine industrial complex (and complicit
government regulatory bodies produce) pseudo-science that is fraught with
inconsistencies, poorly designed studies, erroneous interpretations, and
conclusions that are patently false" - by design, not chance.
She calls vaccinations "an illness industry," causing a "pandemic (of)
degenerative diseases (and) behavioral problems."
From her research and writings on vaccine science and history, she said:
"Ever since the turn of the (last) century, medical journals published dozens
and dozens of articles demonstrating that injecting vaccines (can) cause
anaphylaxis, meaning harmful, inappropriate immunological responses, which is
also called sensitization. (This) increase(s) susceptibility to the disease
which the vaccine is supposed to prevent, and to a host of related and other
unrelated infections."
"We see it in vaccinated children within days, within two or three weeks. (Most
of them) develop runny noses, ear infections, pneumonitis, (and) bronchiolitis.
It is only a matter of degrees, which indicates immuno-suppression, (not
immunity). It indicates the opposite. So I never use the word immunization
because that is false advertising. It implies that vaccines immunize, which they
don't. The correct term is either vaccination or sensitization."
In addition, "Vaccines (can) damage internal organs, particularly the pancreas,"
so everyone vaccinated, including for seasonal flu, is vulnerable to contracting
severe "autoimmune diseases like diabetes," Addison's Disease, Arthritis,
Asthma, Guillian-Barre Syndrome, Hepatitis, Lou Gehrig's Disease, Lupus,
Multiple Sclerosis, Osteoporosis, Polio, and dozens of others.
Some can kill. Others produce a lifetime of disability and pain because
autoimmune disease happens when the "body attacks itself," or more accurately
"is attacked" by an unhealthy lifestyle, stress, and various harmful ingestible
substances; that is, toxins in drugs, food, air, water, and other liquids.
According to immunologist, Dr. Jesse Stoff, human health is compromised four
ways:
-- by poor nutrition;
-- man-made environmental toxins;
-- disease-causing organisms and their toxins; and
-- immune system trauma from factors like x-ray radiation and stress.
Other factors include a lack of sleep and exercise, smoking, heavy alcohol
consumption, and various excesses that throw the body out of balance, making it
susceptible to a host of debilitating illnesses.
Known Toxins in Seasonal Flu and Other Vaccines
Millions voluntarily take annual flu shots not knowing their harmful
ingredients. With variations by producer, they contain numerous stabilizers,
neutralizers, carrying agents, and preservatives, including:
-- 25 micrograms of mercury (thimerosal), a known neurotoxin; one microgram is
considered toxic; according to the NIH, "mercury and all of its compounds are
toxic, exposure to excessive levels can permanently damage or fatally injure the
brain and kidneys;" even "exposures to very small amounts" can also cause
"allergic reactions, neurological damage and death;" it's also linked to autism;
-- aluminum hydroxide and phosphate, known to be linked to some
neurodegenerative diseases, including Alzheimer's disease; the Office of
Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) reports x-ray evidence of
pulmonary fibrosis among workers studied; it also reports that patients
undergoing long-term kidney dialysis develop speech disorders, dementia, or
convulsions;
-- formaldehyde, a known carcinogen according to the National Cancer Institute;
it's also linked to upper respiratory tract problems and effects on lymphatic
and hematopoietic systems (relating to human blood cells);
-- gelatin, polysorbate 80 and resin - ingredients causing severe allergic
reactions;
-- ammonium sulfate, a suspected gastrointestinal, liver, and respiratory
toxicant and neurotoxicant;
-- sorbitol, a suspected gastrointestinal and liver toxicant;
-- phenoxyethanol (antifreeze), a suspected developmental and reproductive
toxicant;
-- beta-propiolactone, a known carcinogen and suspected gastrointestinal, liver,
respiratory, skin and sense organ toxicant;
-- gentamycin, an antibiotic;
-- triton X100, a strong detergent;
-- animal tissues and fluids, including potentially contaminated horse blood,
rabbit brain, dog kidney, monkey kidney, chick embryo, chicken egg, duck egg,
pig blood, and porcine (pig) protein/tissue;
-- calf and fetal bovine serum;
-- macerated cancer cells;
-- diploid cells from aborted fetal tissue; and/or
-- other ingredients varying by producer.
Contrary to industry and government agency advice, annual flu shots are
dangerous and ineffective. According to Croft Woodruff, president of the EDTA
Chelation Association of British Columbia:
"Statistically, you'd be more likely to avoid the flu if you took nothing at
all. So why are we subjected to the flu vaccine media blitz each year?" In a
word, profits assured annually as long as enough people take them - for all
vaccines (besides the enormous bonanza from the Swine Flu vaccines), billions of
dollars in annual revenues, according to leading producer estimates.
On September 29, Wall Street Journal writers Jonathan Rockoff and Peter Loftus
explained that the industry believes vaccines:
"will become an increasingly important source of growth to replace aging
blockbusters that are poised to lose patent protection. Vaccine sales are
growing faster than sales of other prescription medicines and are largely immune
to the generic competition that is already cost drug makers billions of dollars
in revenues on their top-selling treatments. Moreover, government agencies both
in the US and around the world are increasingly reliable buyers of vaccines as
they seek to stockpile medicines that could help protect the public in case of a
major flu outbreak."
Or perhaps, in the case of Swine Flu, infect it as part of a sinister
depopulation scheme through involuntary male and/or female sterilization and
future deadly illnesses while rewarding producers with hundreds of billions in
profits from global inoculations over the next few years. For what may be
planned, it doesn't get any better than that. As a result, the public is
cautioned to ignore media and official hype and stay safe by refusing all
vaccines, especially the new Swine Flu ones that may, in fact, be bioweapons.
More Disclaimers about Flu Vaccine Effectiveness and the Truth about Their
Dangers
First the worst news. Annual flu shots may induce one or more of the
above-mentioned annoying to life-threatening autoimmune diseases, including
severe allergies, diabetes, and the Guillan-Barre Syndrome (GBS) nerve disorder
that causes progressive muscle weakness, paralysis, and at times death. They can
also cause encephalitis, an acute inflammation of the brain; various
neurological disorders; and thrombocytopenia, a serious blood disorder.
Now the bad news. Annual flu shots don't work, except to enhance producer
profits, which is why the industry, complicit regulatory bodies, and the media
tell unsuspecting people to take them.
Each year, government health agencies guess which viral strain(s) are most
worrisome. Usually they're wrong. For example, New York Times writer Lawrence
Altman headlined his January 15, 2004 article, "Vaccine Is Said to Fail to
Protect Against Flu Strain" in reporting that the CDC said its most recent
recommended flu vaccine had "no or low effectiveness" against that season's
Fujian threat, based on study results from its first ever health providers
survey. Other studies report similar findings, and so do reliable scientists
from their research.
The Lancet reported that a 2008 study on "immunocompetent elderly people aged 65
- 94 years enrolled in Group Health (a health maintenance organisation) during
2000, 2001, and 2002" found that "influenza vaccination was not associated with
a reduced risk of community-acquired pneumonia during the influenza season."
Influenza predisposes individuals to contracting pneumonia.
In understated terms, the prestigious medical journal concluded that "The effect
of influenza vaccination on the risk of pneumonia in elderly people during the
influenza seasons might be less than previously estimated." Yet doctors keep
recommending them based on misleading industry and government information.
In October 2007, the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases,
National Institutes of Health reported on the "mortality benefits of influenza
vaccination in elderly people: an ongoing controversy" and concluded:
"frailty selection bias and use of non-specific endpoints such as all-cause
mortality have led cohort studies to greatly exaggerate vaccine benefits. The
remaining evidence base is currently insufficient to indicate the magnitude of
the mortality benefit, if any, that elderly people derive from the vaccination
programme."
On May 1, 2003, The New England Journal of Medicine reported on the largest ever
study to determine the effectiveness of pneumococcal pneumonia vaccine
inoculations - based on medical data for 47,365 people aged 65 or older from
1998 - 2001. It found no significant association between vaccination and a
reduced pneumonia risk in concluding:
"alternative strategies are needed to prevent nonbacteremic pneumonia, which is
a more common manifestation of pneumococcal infection in elderly persons." In
other words, flu shots don't work, so why take them.
An October 2008 published study in the Archives of Pediatric & Adolescent
Medicine had similar conclusions based on doctor visits during the two most
recent flu seasons. It reported:
"In 2 seasons with suboptimal antigenic match between vaccines and circulating
strains, we could not demonstrate VE in preventing influenza-related
inpatient/ED or outpatient visits in children younger than 5 years. Further
study is needed during years with good vaccine match."
In September 2008, the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care
Medicine reported that the Department of Public Health Sciences, School of
Public Health, University of Alberta concluded as follows from "clinical,
laboratory, and functional data" collected on 1,813 adults "with
community-acquired pneumonia admitted to six hospitals outside of influenza
season" in Alberta:
"mortality benefits of influenza vaccination" are "overestimated" even though
the population inoculated increased from 15% in 1980 to 65% in 2008.
In the October 2006 British Medical Journal, Dr. Tom Jefferson wrote about
"Influenza vaccination: policy versus evidence" and concluded:
"Evidence from systematic reviews shows that inactivated vaccines have little or
no effect on the effects measured. (In addition), Little comparative evidence
exists on the safety of these vaccines....The optimistic and confident tone of
some predictions of viral circulation and the impact of inactivated vaccines,
which are at odds with the evidence, is striking. The reasons are probably
complex and may involve a messy blend of truth and conflicts of interest making
it difficult to separate factual disputes from value disputes."
In other words, influenza vaccination programs are ineffective and worthless.
They're also dangerous.
In 2006, the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews reported on an Oxford
University, Institute of Health Sciences examination of "Vaccines for preventing
influenza in healthy children" and concluded from the results of 51 studies
involving 263,987 subjects aged 23 months to six years that vaccines are little
more effective than placebos. It added that:
"If immunisation in children is to be recommended as a public-health policy,
large-scale studies assessing important outcomes and directly comparing vaccine
types are urgently needed."
FDA-Approved Swine Flu (H1N1) Vaccines
On September 15, the FDA:
"announced today that it has approved four vaccines against the 2009 H1N1
influenza virus. The vaccines will be distributed nationally after the initial
lots become available, which is expected to be within the next four
weeks....Based on preliminary data from adults participating in multiple
clinical trials, the 2009 H1N1 vaccines induce a robust immune response in most
health adults eight to 10 days after a single dose, as occurs with the seasonal
influenza vaccine."
The FDA warned that "People with severe or life-threatening allergies to chicken
eggs, or to any other substance in the vaccine, should not be vaccinated."
Approved US vaccines are produced by CSL Ltd., Novartis Vaccines and Diagnostics
Ltd., Sanofi Pasteur (a division of Sanofi-Aventis Group), and AstraZeneca's
MedImmune LLC. According to the FDA, "All four firms manufacture the H1N1
vaccines using the same processes, which have a long record of producing safe
seasonal influenza vaccines."
Meanwhile, other governments have placed large orders for Baxter's CELVAPAN
A/H1N1 vaccine, Novavax's VLP, and GlaxoSmithKline PLC's versions to assure all
the major vaccine producers share in the enormous profit bonanza.
Sanofi Pasteur's vaccine proved ineffective with one shot, and Medscape Medical
News reported that while it will have fewer side effects it may not protect
against the 2009 H1N1 strain.
Novartis' version contains its proprietary squalene adjuvant MF59, linked to
annoying to potentially deadly autoimmune and other diseases, including
paralysis, autism, Alzheimer's disease, and Gulf War Syndrome. Glaxo's ASO3
poses the same risks and will be available in America through CSL Ltd.'s
vaccine.
Squalene in vaccines has been secretly used for years, but according to Dr. Rima
Laibow, Medical Director of the Natural Solutions Foundation:
"Never before has (it) been (officially) approved for use in a drug in the
United States. But once before, when it was allowed in certain military
vaccines, more than 60,000 soldiers were hospitalized (by what became) known as
'Gulf War Syndrome.' (In Doe v. Rumsfeld, a) Federal Court in 2004, forbade its
involuntary use by United States troops."
"This new (Swine Flu) vaccine has, literally, 1,000,000 time more squalene than
the experimental military vaccine, known as 'Vaccine A.' The attempt to rush
this dangerous vaccine into the bodies of the public without safety testing is a
violation of US law, regulation and medical ethics and must be condemned."
Glaxo (GSK) will distribute CSL Ltd.'s vaccine with its own proprietary high
potency squalene adjuvant MPL (monophosphoryl lipid A) system ASO3 that
exponentially enhances its dangers as Dr. Laibow explained.
After being linked to Gulf War Syndrome, Army scientists concluded from over two
dozen post-war animal studies that nanodoses dangerously compromise the human
immune system and may also kill.
MedImmune says it FluMist is a "gentle nasal mist. It's a quick spray in each
nostril, one of the places where the flu virus enters the body. (It) helps your
body develop proteins called antibodies that help protect you from the flu."
Dr. Rima Laibow calls FluMist a "recipe for pandemic. (It) contains 3 live
viruses. You shoot it up your nose and your immune system gets a chance to make
antibodies to three live, weakened viruses while the manufacturer hopes against
hope that one of these three actually causes a disease this year....Of course,
if you are immune compromised or go near someone who is, you will get sick or
infect them with the virus and they can get the flu."
Laibow and others also warn that Flu Mist risks potential brain damage, making
it an extremely hazardous drug. The nasal passage olfactory tract is a direct
pathway to the brain. Ingesting viruses through it risks encephalitis, a
viral-induced acute brain inflammation.
British geneticist and bilphysicist Dr. Mae-Wan and biologist Joe Cummins add
that:
"Vaccines can be dangerous, especially live, attenuated viral vaccines or the
new recombinant nucleic acid vaccines, that have the potential to generate
virulent viruses by recombination and the recombinant nucleic acids could cause
autoimmune diseases."
According to Medimmune, "FluMist is a (nasal administered) vaccine approved for
the prevention of certain types of influenza disease in children, adolescents,
and adults 2 - 49 years of age," except for:
-- children and adolescents regularly taking aspirin or products containing it;
or persons with certain:
-- sensitivities,
-- health problems,
-- illnesses,
-- malignancies,
-- immunodeficiencies,
-- nutritional deficiencies,
-- abnormalities,
-- allergies, or
-- infections - categories applying to the majority of the population, including
many in it unaware it means them.
MedImmune's product information states:
"Administration of Influenza A (H1N1) 2009 Monovalent Vaccine Live, Intranasal,
a live virus vaccine, to immunocompromised persons should be based on careful
consideration of potential benefits and risks. Safety has not been established
in individuals with underlying medical conditions predisposing them to wild-type
influenza infection complications."
"Appropriate medical treatment and supervision must be available to manage
possible anaphylactic (life-threatening allergic) reactions following
administration of the vaccine....Hypersensitivity, including anaphylactic
reaction, has been reported during post-marketing experience with FluMist....Intranasal
may not protect all individuals receiving the vaccine."
Each producer lists numerous adverse reactions to its vaccines. Those MedImmune
reported included:
-- "Congenital, familial and genetic disorder: Exacerbation of symptoms of
mitochondrial encephalomyopathy (Leigh syndrome);
-- Gastrointestinal disorders: Nausea, vomiting and diarrhea;
-- Immune system disorders: Hypersensitivity reactions (including anaphylactic
reaction, facial edema and urticaria);
-- Nervous system disorders: Guillain-Barre syndrome, Bell's Palsy;
-- Respiratory, thoracic and mediastinal disorders: Epistaxis;" and
-- "Skin and subcutaneous tissue disorders: Rash."
The FDA has not approved nasal vaccine sprays for children under two, adults
over 49, or pregnant women. Product instructions also warn that:
"FluMist recipients should avoid close contact with immunocompromised
individuals for at least 21 days," that should include health care workers but
it doesn't. It suggests the likelihood that the vaccine's live virus will spread
among immune-weakened hospital patients and elsewhere through close contact with
their providers.
In their article titled, Vaccines' Dark Inferno, Gary Null and Richard Gale warn
that:
"The vast majority of scientists, physicians, nurses and public health
educators' trust that the ingredients in a vaccine have been individually and
synergistically proven safe and effective." So do most people, even though
commonly held beliefs are wrong, including by professionals who should know
better. Because they don't, their patients' are endangered by the array of above
toxins that in combination with new ones can trigger "a pandemic of Vaccine
Disease, manifesting in myriad illnesses (including the new H1N1) dependent upon
each vaccinated person's genetic predisposition and the robustness of (their)
immune system(s to withstand) any epidemic threat posed by wild infectious
pathogens (that) could unfold in so-called developed, hygienic society."
Since most governments sacrifice human health for business profits, who are the
guardians to protect us from the coming pathogenic onslaught that may weaken or
destroy the immune systems of millions of unsuspecting people, and likely
sterilize and/or kill them. Something to consider before submitting to dangerous
vaccines that everyone has a legal, ethical and for many a medical right to
refuse.
Stephen Lendman is a Research Associate of the Center for Research on
Globalization. He lives in Chicago and can be reached at lendmanstephen@sbcglobal.net.
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