PARENTS...

brace yourselves for the barrage of propaganda being unleashed to promote flu shots for all healthy children and babies starting at age 6 months. They're pulling out all the stops and mustering every fear tactic in the vaccine marketing arsenal. See Dr. Sherri Tenpenny's commentary on flu vaccine propaganda on the Redflags Online Vaccine Conference: The Seven-Step Recipe for Generating Interest in, and Demand for, Flu (or any other) Vaccination”
http://www.redflagsweekly.com/tenpenny.html

Your babies and children are the new target market for this vaccine experiment. Recently a news segment on CBC's The National implanted the idea that it is children who spread the flu to others, and therefore vaccinating babies and young children prevents its spread to the rest of the population. The Canadian media is dutifully pumping out flu vaccine propaganda without pausing to inquire what negative health impact this may have on children's health in the short or long term, nor how one would determine a 6 month old baby's sensitivity to vaccine ingredients like egg, thimerosal, neomycin (an antibiotic). And no one is reporting a recent study which shows a poor immune response in infants to influenza vaccination:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=pubmed&dopt=Abstract&list_uids=15308365

Canadian Paediatric Society recommendations:
http://www.cps.ca/english/statements/ID/ID04-01.htm

Free Flu Vaccines for Kids this Year - CBC Edmonton
http://www.cps.ca/english/statements/ID/ID04-01.htm

Provinces offer Free Flu Vaccine for Infants
http://www.cbc.ca/story/science/national/2004/09/15/flu_shots040915.html

Nor does the media ever report that of the thousands of lab tests done on influenza like illnesses (ILI) every year, only an average of 10% are confirmed as influenza virus. According to Health Canada's Fluwatch, from August 2003 to August 2004, there were 92,998 lab tests of flu like illnesses done in Canada. 11,436 or a little more than 12% were confirmed to be influenza related. The rest, 88% of flu like illnesses were absent the flu virus and involved other pathogens impervious to so called "protection" by the flu vaccine.
http://www.phac-aspc.gc.ca/fluwatch/03-04/index.html English
http://www.phac-aspc.gc.ca/fluwatch/03-04/index_f.html French

Aventis Pasteur's product monograph cautions:
"this vaccine should not be administered to anyone with a history of hypersensitivity (allergy) and especially anaphylactic reactions, to eggs or egg products. It is also a contraindication to administer this vaccine to individuals known to be sensitive to thimerosal (in multidose presentation only) or neomycin." Detailed Vaxigrip product monograph is at:
http://www.aventispasteur.ca/avp_content/docs/ca_products/Vaxigrip_E.pdf

Pharmaceutical giants Aventis Pasteur and ID Biomedical are the two main flu vaccine suppliers in Canada. The contents of Aventis Pasteur's vaccine Vaxigrip still contains thimerosal in multivial doses. Babies and young children are injected with half the standard dose twice, each dose 4 weeks apart, and will presumably receive vaccine drawn from multidose vials containing the mercury based preservative. The vaccine also contains formaldehyde and Triton ® X-100 and trace amounts of sucrose and neomycin. Triton X100 is also known as Polyethylene Glycol-p-isooctylphenyl Ether and is basically a detergent and emulsifier - see www.Calbiochem.com for chemical analysis.

We have not been able to obtain a product description for ID Biomedical's vaccine Fluviral whose recent press release states that it has a "leading position in Canada by currently supplying 75% of the influenza vaccine market in Canada."
http://www.canada.com/businesscentre/story.html?id=65D36708-4DFB-47DE-9194-36860744BDC5

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On the subject of injecting babies and children with flu vaccine, Dr. Russell Blaylock, MD writes the following (Sept. 13/04):

I just received a copy of the worthless Woman's Day. In it is a section on child health by Dr. Loraine Stern. She recommends that all children be vaccinated according to the American Academy of Pediatrics recommendations- that is giving the flu vaccine to all children age 6 to 23 months of age. In addition, she recommend the vaccination of all household adults and those coming in contact with the child (virtually everyone in the United States). I sent Woman's Day the following letter. I know they will ignore it, but they cannot say they weren't told.

Dear Editor,

I was appalled by the incredibly harmful advice given by Dr. Loraine Stern in your 10/5/04 issue. In the face of all of the information and extensive studies on the harmful effects of Thimerosal in vaccines, how could she recommend that mothers have their infants vaccinated with a vaccine known to contain 12.5ug mercury? The first recommended dose would expose the child to 25ug of mercury as well as aluminum, both of which have been shown to be extremely neurotoxic, especially to the developing infant's brain. Then they would receive additional mercury and aluminum yearly thereafter-for life. This is on top of the aluminum found in all childhood vaccines and residual thimerosal in some vaccines.

With the extensive research connecting both mercury and aluminum to neurodegenerative diseases, such as Alzheimer's dementia, ALS (Lou Gehrig's disease) and Parkinson's disease, one would have to be insane to advocate giving every child in America this vaccine. Especially with the strong evidence that both aluminum and mercury are stored in the brain for prolonged periods of time (decades). In addition, the child's brain is undergoing rapid development after birth until age two-a period called the brain growth spurt. Careful research has shown that this makes the child's brain infinitely more susceptible to the toxicity of aluminum and mercury. even at the levels contained in vaccines.

A recent study (Fudenberg) has shown that adults receiving the flu vaccine 5 years in a row have a 1000% higher risk of developing Alzheimer's disease than those not getting the vaccine. To start children at age 6 months receiving yearly doses of aluminum and mercury is insane. To subject these children to this danger, given the fact that in over 50% of the cases the wrong virus is used to make the vaccine, makes the recommendation even more absurd. The American Academy of Pediatrics has show itself to be irresponsible from the beginning of this controversy.

Mothers should be warned to avoid flu vaccines for their children and themselves. Instead they should be advised to breast feed their babies, take a multivitamin supplement and DHA during pregnancy and after the birth of their child, provide multivitamins added to a good diet for their children.

Russell L. Blaylock, M.D.
Neurosurgeon