FLU & PANDEMIC NEWSCLIPS

The fear and anxiety generated by constant reports of an avian flu "pandemic" is being used by drug companies to manipulate the flu vaccine market, and people are lining up in droves to get their flu shots, never mind that the vaccine is utterly worthless against any pandemic strain of influenza.

In Thunder Bay, Ontario, "officials were stunned when over one thousand people turned out causing traffic mayhem and the clinic running out of flu vaccine."
http://www.tbsource.com/Localnews/index.asp?cid=77986

British drug companies have shown their hand: make everyone take the flu vaccine every year or they won't produce a flu vaccine for a pandemic.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/10/26/nflu26.xml

Consumer advocate Barbara Loe Fisher (NVIC- www.nvic.org ) says "This emotional and financial blackmail is a familiar tactic used by U.S. drug companies", who in the early 1980's threatened to stop vaccine production unless the government passed legislation banning law suites for vaccine injuries. "They failed in the 1980's" says Fisher, "but are back again today trying to blackmail Congress into passing legislation which will give them total liability protection if they produce flu vaccine for pandemics. At the same time, U.S. drug companies are working with federal health officials to make sure all Americans get annual flu vaccinations. Like UK drug companies, they do not want the vaccines they produce to stand the free market test of supply and demand, they want guaranteed profits. In the U.S., this will be achieved with government health officials making sure state laws are passed forcing all citizens to get annual flu shots while making sure the pharmaceutical companies and doctors are not held accountable in a court of law if flu vaccines kill and injure people. The only leverage consumers have left to protect themselves from unsafe vaccines is: No liability? No mandates."

See "Bird Flu Scam to Cost us Plenty"

http://www.niagarafallsreporter.com/hanchette178.html

While we're not seeing any rumblings of forced vaccination mandates yet in Canada (except for health care workers facing job suspensions for refusing flu vaccine), Canadians need to know that our court system (except for the province of Quebec), has never awarded damages to vaccine injury victims, nor does it allow a jury of peers to try these types of cases. Only a trial by judge is permitted - a person appointed and paid by the same government that purchases, distributes and promotes mass vaccination programs. The Canadian pharmaceutical industry is already effectively shielded and protected from liability by a legal system that disempowers drug injury victims from receiving a fair trial judged by a jury of peers.

Flu jab may be fatal to some pensioners

(29/10/2005)

"Winter flu jabs are being linked to an increased risk of life-threatening illness among the elderly. Dozens of pensioners taking Warfarin to ward off strokes have suffered internal bleeding after flu jabs, leading to fears of potentially fatal interactions between the vaccine and blood-thinning medication." NVIC's Barbara Loe Fisher notes that "Failure of government health officials and physicians to acknowledge biodiversity and individualize vaccine policies is one reason why flu vaccine may be killing the elderly taking certain medications. The adoption of risky one-size-fits-all vaccine policies, which employ a utilitarian rationale that some may be sacrificed for the "greater good," lead to complacency when children or adults die or are left permanently injured following vaccination. Vaccine makers, government health agencies and physicians all have a duty to make sure that the process of vaccination does not kill or injure people and they should be held legally accountable if they fail to do that."

AIDS and Avian Flu- Plagues, Made in America?

Press Release, October 11, 2005

Researchers and scientists recommend an emergency restraining order on MedImmune Vaccines, Inc., FLU MIST.

According to researcher team, Dr. Mark and David Geier, the current flu vaccines are not only ineffective against the expected Avian Bird Flu pandemic but that “the FDA Approved thimerosal/mercury-free FLU MIST (MedImmune Vaccines, Inc., Gaithersburg, MD) vaccine may create a super strain virus plague”, warns Dr. Mark Geier.

The well respected research team has already alerted members of the medical community in Washington, DC recommending that any support for the FluMist vaccine be withdrawn immediately and a restraining order be issued to the vaccine manufacturers. The immediate and present danger lies in the suspicion that the FluMist contains 2 key genetic sequences needed for efficient human-to-human transmission that the avian flu is missing.

FluMist is a live cold-adapted trivalent nasally administered vaccine, which is currently being recommended for individuals between the age of 5 and 49 years. According to the 2005 Physicians Desk Reference (PDR), the probability of acquiring a transmitted vaccine virus following close contact with a single FluMist inoculee was estimated to be 2.4% (95% CI: 0.13-4.6) [31].

Because of the possible transmission of this vaccine’s viruses, vaccine recipients are advised to avoid close contact with immuno-compromised individuals for at least 21 days. Additionally, persons with conditions such as human immunodeficiency virus infection, malignancy, leukaemia, or lymphoma, and patients who may be immunosuppressed or have altered or compromised immune status as a consequence of treatment with systemic corticosteroids, alkylating drugs, antimetabolites, radiation, or other immunosuppressive therapies, may be at significant risk if exposed within 21 days to a FluMist vaccine inoculee.

Other individuals who might be at high risk if exposed within 21 days to FluMist inoculees, include, but are not limited to, adults and children with chronic disorders of the cardiovascular and pulmonary systems, including asthma (which up to 25% of today’s children seem to have); pregnant women; and adults and children who required regular medical follow-up or hospitalization during the preceding year because of chronic metabolic diseases (including diabetes), renal dysfunction, or hemoglobinopathies.

Additionally, because FluMist contains live influenza viruses, there is the possibility with the widespread use of FluMist, that an individual might have a second concurrent viral infection with another influenza strain (such as the avian bird flu), with the possibility that the live viruses from the FluMist recombine/re-assort with the second viral infection to produce a “super virus.”

It is obvious from the extensive list of persons who might be at risk if exposed to a FluMist vaccine recipient within 21 days of vaccination, along with potential ability of the live influenza viruses within FluMist to recombine/re-assort with other viruses, that the continued use of FluMist presents a significant potential danger to the health and well-being of a wide segment of the population. This raises major concerns about the wisdom and ethics of recommending the use of FluMist for use in the general population.

For complete article: http://www.progressiveconvergence.com/press-plagues-made-in-America.htm

Note: Flumist nasal spray vaccine is not marketed in Canada at this time.