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Health Authorities Evasive in Answering Perplexing Questions
About This Year’s Flu Vaccination Campaign
Bill Sardi
Lew
Rockwell.com
Wednesday, Oct 21st, 2009
Major news sources are making attempts to rescue
what appears to be flagging demand for flu shots in an already
unforgettable flu season.
The Chicago Tribune published a report saying flu vaccines
are "safe and time tested," but in reality, none were
tested on high-risk groups (young children, asthmatics, elderly,
smokers, pregnant women) who the government is targeting for
inoculation.
The flu shot is newly formulated every year and there is simply
no way to know for sure it won’t result in serious side
effects, like paralyzing Guillain Barré syndrome, which
occurred with the 1976 swine flu vaccine.
Furthermore, public health authorities have been doing a zig-zag
on questions posed by the public regarding this year’s
flu shots.
At first it was said two flu shots would be required to produce
sufficient antibodies against the flu. But then, at the last
moment, vaccine makers said only one shot would be needed. Scientific
reviews of past flu vaccination campaigns show that single vaccination
was at best 30–50% effective at generating antibodies.
Furthermore, in many past flu seasons the three strains of the
virus in the trivalent vaccines did not match the flu strain
in circulation in the population. So many people were vaccinated
needlessly.
Because it has become apparent single-dose flu vaccination
has not been proven to be effective, the public would think
vaccine makers figured out how to add more potent adjuvants,
agents that boost antibody production, but inexplicably, the
flu vaccines offered this year are said to be free of adjuvants
like squalene that have made the public wary of vaccines.
A couple of years ago the FDA said it was going to remove thimerosal
preservative from vaccines altogether because it was revealed
the amount of mercury in vaccines exceeded EPA guidelines. But
thimerosal once again makes its enigmatic appearance in this
year’s flu vaccines.
Newsweek has published a lengthy article dispelling many of
the myths circulating the internet about this year’s flu
outbreak, such as flu-shot related deaths aboard a US Navy ship
docked at a foreign port, and alleged preparations to force
Americans into quarantine camps. But with these myths dispelled,
many others still linger and the news press is doing a terrible
job at getting them resolved.
For example, with the Centers for Disease Control airing an
online film showcasing their 1000-man army in Atlanta that is
working 24-7 to battle this year’s flu pandemic, it becomes
puzzling why there is such a huge effort to promote flu shots
when this year’s flu virus is producing far fewer deaths
than past seasonal flu outbreaks.
Another puzzler is why health authorities initially claimed
the pandemic flu emanated from pigs when only this week this
flu strain was isolated from swine herds. It appears humans
spread this strain of the flu to the pigs, not the other way
around. Flu experts believe this is also what happened in 1918
– swine developed symptoms of the flu after the human
pandemic started.
But if the so-called swine flu originated in a human, then
how could it have possibly reassorted as explained by health
authorities? Most graphical drawings of the origins of this
triple reassortant pandemic flu show pigs and bird flu strains
as antecedents to the current human pandemic strain.
While health authorities lament over the public malingering
to undergo flu vaccination, delivery of vaccines is late. Why
should the public race to be vaccinated when there simply aren’t
enough flu shots to go around?
Bloomberg News reports there were only 11.4 million doses available
as of October 14, far short of the 50 million doses anticipated
by this date.
In past flu seasons about a third of the population, around
100 million, received flu shots. The Centers For Disease Control
has established a target of a 70–80% vaccination rate.
Surveys show less than half of the American public says they
will opt for the vaccine, which would still be about 50 million
more than past flu seasons. What goes unexplained is why, with
only a third of the public vaccinated in prior years, did no
deadly pandemic result?
Health researchers in Japan and the U.S. caution that over-vaccination
could apply greater genetic pressure and result in a genetic
mutant strain of the flu for which no one would have immunity
towards. The CDC appears to be oblivious to words of caution
from within the ranks of virologists and communicable disease
specialists.
Still more bewildering is why the CDC continues to recommend
inoculation against the seasonal flu when the CDC’s own
website shows 99% of the flu in circulation is the A-H1N1 pandemic
strain. Seasonal flu shots would be of no value.
The Palm Beach Post reports a flu clinic vaccinating only about
30 people when 3000 were anticipated. Maybe the public is finally
catching on to this annual flu ruse.
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