Swine Flu

Moving on from Lariam/Mefloquine and fluoroquinolones,
on to H1N1 (Swine Flu) vaccine and Tamiflu.

From all the research I have done so far, the risks outweighs the benefit, in particular
for us. For those of you still in doubt, read on two of the best articles I could find,
supporting my views. I have yet come across a coherent argument of why those
are necessary, other, than for greed and profit.

The first article give a clear idea of the politics behind the Swine flu, Tamiflu
and vaccines.

I wrote this on FAVC and copied/pasted it here:

Investigation will lead to nowhere, the story will be buried as usual. Bird Flu Accidentally Sent As Vaccine Officials at the World Health Organization and and the European Centre for Disease Control have launched an investigation into how live Avian Bird Flu virus (both H5N1 and H3N2) was accidentally shipped to 18 countries as Bird Flu vaccine. Deerfield, Illinois-based pharmaceutical company Baxter International Inc. accidentally sent an “experimental virus material,” which mixed H3N2 seasonal flu viruses and unlabelled H5N1 viruses, to an Austrian research firm, Avir Green Hills Biotechnology in late December. That company then shipped portions of the mixture to sub-contractors in the Czech Republic, Slovenia and Germany. Subcontractors in the Czech Republic caught the error in early February when testing the shipment on ferrets. The animals died from the inoculation, indicating a live Bird Flu virus. Officials say the 37 people who were exposed to the virus have so far not shown any signs of infection. However, an Austrian news article from February 11 reports a Vienna hospital treated 19 outpatients on February 9 because of exposure to “bird flu virus.” The article said no one was sick, there was no evidence of infection, and the females were prophylaxed with antivirals (presumably Tamiflu). People infected with a mixture of H5N1 and H3N2 viruses could become incubators for a hybrid virus able to transmit easily to and among people. Baxter International Inc. follows a BSL3 (Biosafety Level 3) protocol which prevents the cross-contamination of materials. “It was a combination of just the process itself, (and) technical and human error in this procedure,” said Christopher Bona, Baxter’s director of global bioscience communications. Bona would not give any more information due to “trade secrets”. The mishap comes at an unfortunate time for Baxter International Inc., which was just about to secure a Euopean-wide license for the Avian Bird Flu vaccine. http://tinyurl.com/cpbnmx From The Times mag: http://tinyurl.com/mjxk9d The second article focuses on Tamiflu and its risks, associated with stroke and CNS symptoms: From all the evidence so far, including the Czech Health Officials complaing of it being man made, and no way was it "accidental", it might be conjectural on my part, but it smacks of cover up here...Now, if suspicious Czechs Health Officials had not injected the ferret, with the jab to begin with, this would have gone undetected and caused many deaths. Swine flu may have started in laboratory, expert says 20 May 2009 The man who helped develop the Tamiflu flu anti-viral drug believes the swine flu epidemic has been caused by human error. Adrian Gibbs says the H1N1 virus may have been man-made and was passed to humans after a handling mistake ] at a laboratory. Gibbs, who has studied germ evolution for 40 years, is to publish a paper about his theory, which he developed after studying the swine flu virus’s genetic blueprint. “One of the simplest explanations is that it’s a laboratory escape,” he told reporters from Bloomberg. Viruses are developed on eggs, and Gibbs believes the new H1N1 strain may have accidentally evolved before being passed to humans. He has] discovered that the strain mutates three times faster than the most closely-related viruses found in pigs, which suggests it had evolved outside of swine. It would not be the first time a virus has ‘escaped’ from a laboratory. Earlier this year the avian flu virus made its way into a consignment of ] seasonal flu vaccines, which were destined for around 18 countries in Europe. Some scientists also suspect that the Russian flu outbreak of 1977 was started when a virus was accidentally released from a laboratory. (Source: Bloomberg.com. May 13, 2009). Vaccines infected with deadly avian flu virus 12 March 2009 A large consignment of seasonal flu vaccine, which was due to be circulated to 18 European countries, has been infected with deadly live avian flu virus. ] Had the contamination not been detected, the vaccines may have started an avian flu pandemic, killing hundreds of thousands of people. The World Health Organization is carrying out investigations at the Austrian research facility of Baxter International, the pharmaceutical company, where the contamination happened. Baxter has confirmed that the consignment contained live H5N1 virus, which causes avian flu. A researcher in the Czech Republic discovered the lethal contamination when laboratory ferrets that he had injected with the H3N2 flu vaccine suddenly died. The H5N1 virus becomes lethal as an injection only when it is mixed with H3N2, a process known as reassortment. The WHO investigation team says it doesn’t have evidence to suggest that Baxter had deliberately reassorted the two viruses, but “what remains unanswered are the circumstances surrounding the incident in the Baxter facility,” a WHO official said. Despite dire warnings from health officials, no avian flu pandemic has occurred as human-to-human infection hasn’t happened. So far, several hundred people have died after catching the virus from poultry, although governments have warned that millions would die if people could infect each other. Baxter is currently working on a new type of avian flu vaccine, called Celvapan, which is based on cell culture technology. The technology, which is being developed at Baxter’s research facility in the Czech Republic, by-passes the conventional process where a virus is incubated in chicken eggs. Instead, Baxter is working with the ‘native’ virus that does not need to be modified. Last year the vaccine passed the first two phases of safety trials, and Baxter announced that “Celvapan combines innovative science and breakthrough production technology with the aim of protecting people against an H5N1 pandemic flu infection.” (Sources: Toronto Sun, February 27, 2009; New England Journal of Medicine, 2008; 358: 2573-84).] This article was written by Dr Dr. Anders Bruun Laursen giving an option towards the end of the article, should the vaccine be compulsory! There seems to be quite a lot of uncertainty about the technical nature of Swine Flu (H1N1) vaccines. As a medical doctor, I wish to clarify a number of important issues: First, we should talk about vaccines instead of vaccine, since the vaccines vary as for their compositions and even their ways of being dispensed: some by injection, another by the nose. I think the fears as for the vaccines can be referred to: 1. the adjuvants – in particular squalene which was in all probability responsible for the Gulf War syndrome, 2. the virus antigen´s condition (dead, attenuated, live) 3. a deeply rooted mistrust in our politicians and the vaccine producers´ motives and morals: e.g. Baxter´s live bird flu virus last Winter (12), the Bayer AIDS haemophiliac product scandal (15). First 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 (see below). 2. A Mock-up vaccine is a vaccine with all the adjuvants of the pandemic vaccine – but without the killed or attenuated pandemic virus. (1) 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 (2). So, as you see, there is no confusion with regard to swine flu and bird flu viruses. But there is another important consideration: the role of squalene. The average quantity of squalene injected into the US soldiers abroad and at home in the anthrax vaccine during and after the Gulf War was 34.2 micrograms per billion micrograms of water. According to one study, this was the cause othe Gulf War syndrom in 25% of 697.000 US personnel at home and abroad. (3). You can find this table of FDA analyses from the Gulf War lots on The Military Vaccine Resource Directory website (4) a.. AVA 020 - 11 ppb squalene (parts per billion) > b.. AVA 030 - 10 ppb squalene > c.. AVA 038 - 27 ppb squalene > d.. AVA 043 - 40 ppb squalene > e.. AVA 047 - 83 ppb squalene These values were confirmed by Prof. R. F. Garry (5) before the House of Representatives. Prof Garry was the man to discover the connection between the Gulf War syndrome and squalene. According to his findings, the Gulf War syndrome was caused by squalene, which was banned by a Federal Court Judge in 2004 from the Pentagon´s use. (6) As seen on p. 6 of this EMEA document (7), the Pandremix vaccine contains 10,68 mg of squalene per 0,5 ml. This corresponds to 2.136.0000 microgrammes pr. billion microgrammes of water, i.e. one million times more squalene per dose than in (4). There is any reason to believe that this will make people sick to a much higher extent than in 1990/91. This appears murderous to me. I have contacted the Danish National Health Service: They are to decree mass vaccinations in Denmark - and yet they knew nothing about the composition of the Pandremix vaccine. Interesting.. Then I addressed the Danish Medicinal Agency. They admitted that the Pandremix vaccine from GlaxoSmithKline does contain squalene and thimerosal. They have not rejected my remark that the squalene concentration is dangerous. In contrast, the AstraZeneca MedImmune nasal vaccination (8) avoids squalene side effects. So far the use of squalene has been banned by the FDA in the US according to Der Spiegel (9). However, this may not last long (10). "Clearly bypassing the FDA requirements for safety testing of these new adjuvants and the vaccines which contain them puts the entire population at risk for serious, possibly life threatening side effects, particularly any of the 12,000 paid trial participants (6,000 children) who are unfortunate enough to be randomized into the adjuvant containing groups.” Still, on July 23, 2009, the FDA announced, “Currently, no U.S. licensed vaccine contains the adjuvants MF-59 or ASO3 (squalene). It is expected that a novel influenza A (H1N1) vaccine manufactured using the same process as U.S. licensed seasonal inactivated influenza vaccine but administered with MF-59 or ASO3 will be authorized for emergency use only.” Furthermore, “Two of the manufacturers (Novartis and GSK) have proprietary oil-in-water adjuvants (MF-59 and ASO3, respectively) which have been evaluated in a number of clinical studies including studies with influenza vaccines. These manufacturers will include an evaluation of the utility of the adjuvant for dose sparing and higher effect in their clinical studies.“ "The same document indicates that vaccines containing the un-approved adjuvants will be given to 100 children 6 months to 3 years old, 100 children 3 years old to 8 years, 100 individuals 18 to 64 years old and 100 individuals 65 and older in each of the multiple clinical trials. In addition, 700 individuals in each trial will be given non-adjuvanted vaccine". Now for the immunological side effects of squalene to occur takes months to years – and cannot be evaluated after up to 6 weeks of observation. Der Spiegel (9) calls the mass vaccinations on Europeans a gigantic cost free experiment to provide the FDA with mass vaccination experience to clear the track for sale in the US. EMEA admits that side effects can only be found through extensive vaccination campaigns! (1). Here is what EMEA (4) has to say about risks of GSK Pandemrix: EMEAs Pandemrix is commonly or very commonly associated with a range of local and systemic adverse reactions but these are not often of severe intensity and the safety profile would not preclude the use of the vaccine in healthy adults aged 18-60 years or > 60 years. However, there are some adverse reactions known to be very rarely associated with influenza vaccines and it is currently not possible to predict if higher rates might be observed with Pandemrix compared with, for example, seasonal influenza vaccines. Dr Keiji Fukuda, the WHO's flu chief, today warned about the potential dangers of the untested vaccine (11): "There are certain areas where you simply do not try to make any economies. One of the things which cannot be compromised is the safety of vaccines." Which is exactly what is going on! What I do not know is, if they are going to leave the attenuated (or live - Baxter (12)) bird flu vaccine - or to totally replace it by the H1N1 virus. Other severe, but rare side effects are autism in children due to thimerosal (13) and the Guillan-Barré syndrome seen with 400-500 Americans after the 1976 unnecessary mass vaccinations against swine flu (14) – videos. As for additional severe side effects of squalene – see Stephen Lendman (15). [b]My advice: If you are forced to be vaccinated against the harmless swine flu (H1N1) – demand a vaccination with the AstraZeneca nasal vaccine MedImmune (8)– thereby avoiding squalene side effects.[/b] References (1) EMEA http://www.emea.europa.eu/pdfs/human/pan...._46147609en.pdf (2) Global Research 20 July http://tinyurl.com/ljbj3g (3 Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulf_War_syndrome (4) The Military Vaccine Resource Directory http://www.mvrd.org/showpage.cfm?ID=69 . (5) Statement for Hearing Record, The House Subcommittee on National Security, Veterans Affairs, and International Relations http://tinyurl.com/lzk7gy (6) Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulf_War_syndrome (7) EMEA http://tinyurl.com/npbvk5 (8) Reuters http://tinyurl.com/kuez7j (9) Der Spiegel http://tinyurl.com/lnmu7c (10) Your Spine http://tinyurl.com/lqx24e (11) The London Evening Standard http://tinyurl.com/mgyvrz (12) The Toronto Sun http://tinyurl.com/9f5v5y (13) Global Research 23 July, 2009 http://tinyurl.com/ox7koq (14) Video 1 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFcnneAqnTM Video 2 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9Bvf9AaC-4 (15) Youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wg-52mHIjhs (13) Global Research 23 July 2009 http://tinyurl.com/ox7koq (14) 1. video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFcnneAqnTM 2. video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9Bvf9AaC-4 (15) Stephen Lendman, Global Research, 10 June, 2009 http://tinyurl.com/nuswao Surveys can be seen here http://euro-med.dk/?p=9152 and here http://euro-med.dk/?p=9895 The article may be relevant to many of us taking blood thinners in various forms!! Tamiflu puts 600,000 at greater risk of a stroke By Daniel Martin Last updated at 10:47 AM on 19th August 2009 GPs have been put on alert over fears that Tamiflu can put some people at greater risk of suffering a stroke. A Government watchdog is concerned that the anti-swine flu drug can interact with the blood-thinning medication warfarin, which is taken by more than 600,000 people in the UK. The combination can dangerously thin the blood, putting patients at risk of uncontrolled bleeding which can lead to a stroke. The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency has already received reports of such cases and has asked health professionals to watch out for more. Last night an expert warned that the dangers have been increased because people given Tamiflu over the national flu hotline are not being warned properly about the possible warfarin risk. The MHRA has now received 418 reports of suspected adverse reactions to Tamiflu, including two deaths. Of these reactions,12 were are due to interactions with warfarin. The number may be small, but the MHRA is sufficiently concerned to place all such reports under 'close review'. It is the latest concern to emerge about Tamiflu, the powerful antiviral handed out by the Government to people with swine flu or flu-like symptoms. Last week, Oxford scientists advised parents not to let children take it because the risks outweighed the benefits. A recent study found Tamiflu caused side effects such as nausea and nightmares in children. On Monday it emerged that ministers ignored a warning from their own advisors that handing out Tamiflu widely could do more harm than good, especially as most swine flu victims suffer only mild symptoms. Health secretary Andy Burnham went ahead with the flu hotline, which lets people get Tamiflu by answering questions from call centre staff who have no medical training. More than 500,000 packs were handed out in the first two weeks. The concern about warfarin centres on the INR rate, which measures how long it takes the blood to clot. The higher the rate, the more the risk of uncontrolled bleeding. Patients on warfarin need regular monitoring to ensure they stay in a safe range. Cont/... http://tinyurl.com/kj2jf Read more: http://tinyurl.com/ms2nog In addition and more importantly, please read this article written by a group of scientists voicing their concerns over the fastracking of the H1N1 vaccine: http://tinyurl.com/m56zqx