December, 2003
Flu vaccine propaganda is in full swing with an added bit of deception this year. Without offering any scientific proof, health officials are claiming that the current flu vaccine cocktail may offer "partial" protection against the newly emerging A/Fujian influenza strain, (not contained in the vaccine), and that getting a vaccine is worthwhile because it could lessen the effects if one gets the flu.
The unfortunate child deaths in Ontario said to be related to influenza A had other underlying illnesses. Strain identification is still pending.
The following excerpt from an NVIC press release in the U.S. reveals some interesting facts about the newly mutated A/Fujian virus not contained in this year's brew. REMEMBER - Fujian strain is not in the vaccine because they could not get it to grow. Full transcripts of the press release and government documents can be viewed at:
http://www.NVIC.org/Diseases/Influenza.htm
PRESS RELEASE FROM THE NATIONAL VACCINE INFORMATION CENTER
Wednesday, December 10, 2003
INFORMED CONSENT ADVOCATE SAYS GOVERNMENT AND INDUSTRY SHOULD RELEASE FLU VACCINE EFFECTIVENESS DATA
Washington, D.C. - A leading vaccine safety and informed consent advocate is calling on federal health officials and flu vaccine makers to be honest with the American people about the effectiveness of this year's flu vaccine. "Public health officials knew last spring that it was highly likely that the A/Panama strain in the current vaccine was not going to protect against the mutated, more dangerous A/Fujian strain of flu. If there is solid new evidence that the vaccine is protective against Fujian, then it should be released. If there is no such evidence, then it is not right to lead people to believe that if they get vaccinated now, they will be protected against it," said Barbara Loe Fisher, president, National Vaccine Information Center (NVIC).
Federal officials were prevented from replacing the A/Panama strain with the Fujian strain emerging out of Asia and being detected in Europe and the U.S. last spring because scientists in labs around the world were unable to isolate and grow the virus in a way that would allow vaccine production.
Transcripts from the February 20 and March 18, 2003 meetings of the FDA Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee (VRBPAC) reveal that health officials around the world knew the genetically mutated Fujian strain was associated with significant morbidity and mortality and that last year's vaccine showed little protection against it. Fisher, who was the consumer voting member of the FDA Advisory Committee, abstained from the strain selection vote on March 18, saying "I feel uncomfortable voting for inclusion of an A/Panama-like virus, when what may really be needed is an A/Fujian-like virus. So I am going to abstain and urge that the public be informed that next year's flu vaccine may not be protective against an emerging strain."
"This is a matter of the public's right to have full and truthful information about the benefits and risks of a particular vaccine in order for us to make an informed choice. Although there were technological limitations with making the switch this year to the new emerging strain, it does not serve either public health officials, industry or the public to not be honest about what the current vaccine can and can't do. At the end of the day, it is a matter of respecting the public trust," she said.
(Both American & Canadian health officials recommended that "..........all age groups get an annual flu shot and now recommends that all healthy children older than 6 months of age get an annual flu shot. Contraindications for the killed flu vaccine are: fever, an impaired immune system, egg allergy, mercury allergy or a history of Guillain Barre syndrome. In the past, pregnancy was a contraindication but now the CDC recommends flu vaccine for women more than 14 weeks pregnant. However this recommendation is controversial since most flu vaccines still contain the mercury preservative, Thimerosal, and mercury has been associated with brain damage and developmental delays in fetuses whose mothers were exposed to high levels of mercury during pregnancy."
http://www.nvic.org
AND FROM CANADA - DOWNPLAYING THE RISK OF MERCURY IN FLU VACCINE. REMEMBER, ORGANIC MERCURY IS A POTENT NEUROTOXIN, AMONGST THE MOST POISONOUS ELEMENTS KNOWN. FOR INDEPTH INFORMATION ON THE EFFECTS OF MERCURY POISONING GO TO:
http://www.testfoundation.org/thimerosal.htm if unable to locate this site check the following site for information: http://www.mercola.com/2005/jul/23/mercury_vaccines.htm
A SHOT FOR THE FLU, WITH MERCURY TOO
By Michelle Catton
FluviralŪ, a brand of flu vaccine offered in Canada this year, contains 25 micrograms of mercury per dose.
OTTAWA | Nov.28, 2003 - Canadians are getting a dose of something unexpected with their flu shots this season: mercury. Provincial and territorial governments use an influenza vaccine that contains the mercury compound thimerosal as a preservative. They buy it because it's less expensive than vaccines without mercury.
"There's been much public concern about thimerosal because it's mercury containing," says allergist and clinical immunologist Eric Leith.
Mercury content
The free flu vaccine used in Canada contains 25 micrograms of mercury, not enough to be toxic, Leith says. But it's enough to cause allergic reactions in a small number of people. ...
... For the complete article go to:
http://www.carleton.ca/jmc/cnews/n1.shtml
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