The Flu Shot Scam (page 2)

Discovering the Truth About the Influenza Vaccine Program

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ARTILCE #1 The Flu Scare Game

ARTICLE #2 The Flu Vaccine Scandal and Flu Scandal Exploding

ARTICLE #3 Great Danger Lurking In Flu Shots

ARTICLE #4 Tamiflu Deaths and the Tap-Dance

ARTICLE #5 Nurses Win Fight Against Mandatory Flu Vaccine

ARTICLE #6 Influenza Vaccination During Pregnancy

ARTICLE #7 Influenza Vaccine: Review of Effectiveness of US Immunization Program

ARTICLE #8 FDA Sued Over Mercury in Medicines

ARTICLE #9 FDA Panel Proposes Tamiflu Warning Label

ARTICLE #10 Tamiflu May be Linked to Risk of Self-Injury and Delirium

ARTICLE #11 Flu Shots – Beware of Toxic Additives

The Flu Scare Game

by John Keller

I always know when it's flu season. First, the media begins its usual role as hysterical government press secretary, uncritically trumpeting the same cooked numbers about the coming flu epidemic. The steady drone of recent broadcasts, including one on NBC's Today Show (10/6/04), warn that the flu kills about 36,000 people every year in the United States. The broadcasts usually cite the CDC as the source of this huge number. This is borne out by the main CDC page, with its immediate link to flu information and statistics. It's a crock, a lie, and a sham; a conspiracy to generate fear and stampede people to use a vaccine of questionable effectiveness to the benefit of pro-immunization bureaucrats, and big pharma. Sounds harsh, but follow the math and the money.

A cursory glance at the most recent (2001) death statistics from the Data Highlights page posted on the CDC site, shows that Influenza and Pneumonia (International Cause of Death numbers J10 and J18) killed 62,034 people. Quick mental subtraction would tell you that just over half were killed by the flu, versus pneumonia, if the 36,000 number is correct. So far, the size of the flu epidemic seems plausible. Here's the link to the National Vital Statistics System page within the CDC site that has the Data Highlights and Full Reports.

This is important, because the Data Highlights page is just that, a single page highlight of all the various mortality stats gathered by the CDC. Now, let's dig into the more detailed reports. The "Deaths: Final Data for 2001" report is an 8MB PDF. Skip it unless you want all the charts detailing deaths by race, age, and ethnicity. The 2002 preliminary report contains the interesting parts of the 2001 final report, as well as data from 2002. The second search result for J10 (the mortality code for flu) brings us to page 16 of 48, which contains the breakout of flu and pneumonia. Total flu deaths for 2002: 753. Pneumonia accounted for the other 65,231 deaths. Scrolling to the right are the numbers for 2001. Again, total flu deaths were under one thousand, coming in at 257. That's right, less than a thousand people died of the flu in 2001 and 2002, according to the CDC's own numbers.

Searching around on the CDC website reveals several more pages that call into question the 36,000 deaths per year number. For example, this page dedicated to the 2003-04 season (this link has been moved or should i say hidden, if anyone can find the CDC link to this please email it to me) states that "152 influenza-associated deaths among children" occurred during the 2003-04 flu season, but carefully avoids answering its own question about the total number of dead in the 2003-2004 season. Instead, it goes on in serious sounding quais-scientific statistico blather: "During the 2003-04 season, the percentage of P & I-associated deaths was higher than the epidemic threshold for 9 consecutive weeks." Again, lumping pneumonia and flu deaths together, even though the CDC does not recognize the flu as one of the many causes of pneumonia.

Finally, the CDC's own "Flu Pandemics" page puts deaths in the United States from the Spanish Flu Pandemic of 1918-1919 at 500,000, Asian Flu pandemic of 1957-58 at 70,000, and the Hong Kong Flu pandemic of 1968-69 at 34,000. These are the three 20th century pandemics, and two of them killed close to what the CDC is now calling average. What's going on here?

How is it that the CDC could be off by two orders of magnitude between their own official mortality stats, and the press kit number of 36,000 deaths per year. Could it be that the CDC is somehow misleading the public about the relative dangers of the flu?

Here is a link to the CDC-AMA sponsored National Influenza Vaccination Summit for 2004. This is an invitation only conference hosted by the CDC and the American Medical Association. Luckily for the public, the speaker list, agenda, and presentations are posted online. The attendees list of this CDC-AMA sponsored event reads like a lobbying group for flu immunization. Of the 97 attendees, vaccine manufacturers CHIRON (10), Aventis-Pasteur (10), Medimmune (5), and Baxter Vaccines (4) were a full 29 strong. Medical Conglomerates Kaiser Permanente (6) and McKesson (3) rounded out the big corporate influence cabal. The CDC sent 39 attendees and the AMA (proper, not members) had 4. The remainder of the attendees were a mix of state and local health departments (e.g. Rhode Island Medical Society), smaller pharma companies (e.g. Solvay Pharmaceuticals), and pro-immunization organizations (e.g. Sabin Vaccine Institute).

And did these learned scholars of immunology, virology, and general public health debate the merits of vaccinating against a virus that kills less than 1,000 people in most years? Perhaps they were celebrating the fact that only a few hundred died from the flu, thanks to their vaccines? Not exactly. The manufacture, distribution, and administration of flu vaccine is a cash cow, worth several hundred million dollars a year. Here's a quote from CHIRON CORP's 2003 Annual Report: "Sales of our flu vaccines were $332.4 million, $90.0 million and $74.7 million in 2003, 2002 and 2001, respectively." Those numbers represent just the manufacture of flu vaccine, from one company, not including any of the profits from the distribution, or administration of the vaccine.

Buried in the speakers presentations from the conference are some interesting stats. It turns out that 147 children under 18 died of the flu in the 2003–04 season. Of those, 101 reported whether or not the child received the flu vaccine. Of those, 22 had received at least one flu shot, and 4 had received multiple flu shots. That puts the percentage of immunized children that died at just under 22% of all children (page 10 of 23, Cochi Presentation.) Further in the report we learn that the CDC's own studies show they believe the flu vaccine to be only 16%-63% effective against the flu, while a French report shows 61% effectiveness against influenza-like-illness (without confirming that it's actually the flu). According to a Harvard study, (Nowak presentation, page 26), only 22% of parents of children 6–23 months had them immunized, and only 30% of children under 18 were immunized. Now, I'm no Dr. John Lott when it comes to statistics, but if the ratio of immunized to non-immunized children in the total population (22%–30%) is nearly identical to the immunized to non-immunized ratio of children in an admittedly small sample of children that died (22%), the case could be made that the flu vaccine is largely worthless.

In other words, the best case these needle-happy pro-flu vaccinators can mount shows that their immunization program would work, maybe, just over half the time, but some simple number crunching of our own shows that its probably much less than that. The coup de grace' comes from one of the CDC's own, Glen Nowak, PhD., in a presentation titled Planning for the 2004-5 Vaccination Season: A Communication Situation Analysis" the good doctor lays out a media manipulation campaign that would make Goebbels proud. Pages 27 on detail a literal "7 Step Recipe" that the CDC will use, in conjunction with the virus makers, to "(Frame)... the flu season in terms that motivate behavior (e.g., as very severe, more severe than last or past years, deadly)".

To summarize thus far:

The flu kills fewer than 1,000 people on average, not 36,000

Flu Vaccine is of highly dubious effectiveness

The CDC and Vaccine Manufacturers are in closed door sessions with the primary stated purpose of boosting vaccination numbers by spreading fear

At this point, some may think, "Hey, it might be worth getting, just as a preventative measure. Sort of like throwing a little salt over your shoulder, what can it hurt?" Plenty. The good Dr. Donald Miller, cardiac surgeon and Professor of Surgery at the University of Washington in Seattle, recently did an article about the dangers of mercury in vaccines and amalgam fillings. The CDC has a position on Thimerosal (methyl mercury based preservative) in flu vaccines posted to its website. Without admitting that Thimerosal might be responsible for the epidemics of autism, alzheimers, and ADD in this country, the CDC gives us a sop about taking it out or removing it. Reading the fine print, however, tells us: "the majority of influenza vaccines distributed in the United States currently contain Thimerosal as a preservative." Furthermore, in a bit of regulatory trickery, the FDA is letting smaller amounts go undisclosed : "..some contain only trace amounts of Thimerosal and are considered by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to be preservative-free." In other words, even if you ask to see the vaccine label, check for Thimerosal, and get a warm fuzzy feeling about the shot being labeled "Thimerosal free," thanks to the FDA's accommodation of drug manufacturers, it could still contain mercury.

When the major manufacturers of flu vaccine get together with the CDC in a closed door summit with the sole purpose of figuring out how to stick 185 million doses of a questionable vaccine into a population in which less than 1,000 people a year die, what should we call it? Yes, Virginia, it is a conspiracy. Luckily the conspirators are foolish enough to believe that their website is safely hidden amidst all the chaff of the Internet, or else, are so brazen in their contempt for the general population that they think we can't do a little math and conclude "The vaccine doesn't work, and the flu is a flim-flam!"

Eventually, there will be another pandemic of the flu, and thousands will die. The CDC should concentrate on finding ways to lower the spread, working alternatives to vaccines, and ways to minimizing the severity of the flu, rather than pumping out fake numbers, creating an aura of fear and hysteria, and shilling for profits to huge pharma companies.

Footnote: Thanks to the Health Sciences Institute daily health e-letter for calling this fraud to my attention.

October 9, 2004

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FLU VACCINE SCANDAL AND FLU SCANDAL EXPLODING

2004-10-12

MONDAY, OCTOBER 11, 2004. BANNED CONTAMINATED CHIRON FLU VACCINE IS LOOSE IN THE US.

THE CDC MUST ANSWER QUESTIONS NOW. FOR EXAMPLE, DON'T ITS OWN BOTTOM-LINE STATISTICS PROVE THAT THE FLU IS KILLING VERY, VERY FEW PEOPLE???

MY ANSWER TO THAT QUESTION IS YES. THE CDC IS IS FLOATING FALSE PROPAGANDA ABOUT FLU DEATHS, IS CONCEALING THE TRUTH.

WE ARE LIVING IN THE MIDDLE OF A LIE.

THE CDC IS FABRICATING AND SPINNING ITS OWN DATA TO CONVINCE US THAT THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE (ABOUT 36,000) ARE DYING FROM THE FLU EVERY YEAR IN THE US. WHEN ITS OWN POSTED DATA (UNDER ALL THE LIES) SHOWS THAT FLU IS ABOUT AS DEADLY AS ACCIDENTS INVOLVING TOASTERS FALLING ON PEOPLE FROM APARTMENT WINDOWS.

NOTE: ALL DAY TODAY, BEFORE MY APPEARANCE TONIGHT ON COAST TO AM with George Noory, I'll be adding to the end of this article, giving you up-to-the-minute news on the breaking madness re FLU and FLU VACCINE...keep checking back for updates....

This isn’t big, it’s huge. (NOTE: I WILL BE ON COAST TO COAST AM WITH GEORGE NOORY TONIGHT FOR A FEW MINUTES IN THE FIRST HOUR....TALKING ABOUT CHIRON BANNED FLU VACCINE loose in the US...and CDC lies.

John Keller may have just solved several big mysteries vis-à-vis flu stats.

WHY DOES THE CDC SAY, OVER AND OVER, THAT 36,000 PEOPLE IN THE US DIE EVERY YEAR FROM THE FLU?

WHY DOES THE CDC LUMP TOGETHER FLU AND PNEUMONIA WHEN ISSUING DEATH REPORTS?

WHY DO LOTS OF PEOPLE SAY THEY KNOW OF NO ONE WHO HAS DIED OF THE FLU?

Does the CDC admit, on its own site, that the REAL numbers of flu deaths, in recent years, are UNDER 800 PER YEAR? UNDER 1000 (TOTAL) FOR TWO YEARS?

Mr. Keller, an independent researcher, has issued a report…I have excerpted a key paragraph below, which gives directions on finding the truth at the bottom of the CDC well. I have been trying to follow those directions…so far I’m lost in space…I need help from readers. Please try it yourself and report back to me. I have already emailed Mr. Keller and another friend for assistance. So far, my impression is, it’s me. I’m just not finding what is there. I don’t know. But I’m LOOKING, LOOKING, LOOKING. Help… [Update: I've gotten help from three independent sources.]

Again, this could be bigger than big.

Here is Keller’s excerpt:

Now, let's dig into the more detailed reports. The "Deaths: Final

Data for 2001" (http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr52/nvsr52_03.pdf

) report is an 8MB PDF. Skip it unless you want all the charts detailing

deaths by race, age, and ethnicity. The 2002 preliminary report contains

the interesting parts of the 2001 final report, as well as data from

2002. The second search result for J10 (the mortality code for flu)

brings us to page 16 of 48, which contains the breakout of flu and

pneumonia. Total flu deaths for 2002: 753. Pneumonia accounted for the

other 65,231 deaths. Scrolling to the right are the numbers for 2001.

Again, total flu deaths were under one thousand, coming in at 257.

That's right, less than a thousand people died of the flu in 2001 and

2002, according to the CDC's own numbers.

End of excerpt.

THIS MAY BE THE BIGGEST MEDICAL STORY TO COME DOWN THE PIPELINE IN YEARS.

UPDATE: I'm getting confirmations on Mr. Keller's discovery. I will be adding to this article through the day, prior to my brief appearance on Coast to Coast AM tonight....and I'll be weaving in other material on the flu scam.

Keep checking back.

For example:

OCTOBER 11, 2004. Researcher Patricia Doyle has uncovered a very disturbing paragraph at the end of a Reuters article dated October 6:

“The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention [CDC] was working to find out where vaccines had already been shipped to providers such as clinics, drug stores and employers.”

The paragraph is, of course, about the explosively widening Chiron flu vaccine scandal.

In previous stories, I’ve discussed the fact that this vaccine, just banned as UNSAFE and CONTAMINATED, was already shipped, in huge quantities, from England to the US, where it has been sitting in distributors’ warehouses.

I warned that there was a very good chance vaccine had already been shipped out the doors.

The CDC KNOWS THIS IS TRUE. Because the hunt is on. Clinics, drug stores, employers.

The vials of vaccine have escaped quarantine.

US health authorities are downplaying the situation. They claim, without a flutter of an eyelid, that it is standard practice for vaccine makers to ship doses for sale and distribution BEFORE THESE MANUFACTURERS DO THEIR FINAL SAFETY TESTS.

As of this morning, Oct. 11, no major media outlet I can find has sounded an alarm.

Why not? I’ll tell you. Because the CDC has not told them to.

It is the CDC that is holding back. You know: “We must avoid panic.”

You can be SURE that, if the CDC and its parent, the US Dept. of Health and Human Services, an agency of the executive branch of the US federal government, had issued press releases, the major media would be all over this.

So it is those agencies of the government that are CULPABLE.

How many people in the US have already received contaminated flu shots manufactured by Chiron?

JON RAPPOPORT www.nomorefakenews.com

Now start putting all this together. If the CDC has been lying for years about the real numbers of deaths from the flu in the US---if the true numbers are much, much lower than advertised broadly, then why all the fear-mongering about the dangers of the flu?

They want to sell vaccine.

They want to sell vaccine.

So what does it appear they have ended up with? Very few actual deaths from the flu. And a contaminated and very dangerous vaccine which is being sold out the doors in the US...a wildcat vaccine...and no accountability.

Add to this the hysterical propaganda about the possible arrival of The Big One, a global flu pandemic, based on no evidence at all, and you have a monumental crime in progress, right before your eyes.

Yesterday, on C-SPAN, I watched a few minutes of a brief Congressional hearing on the "flu-vaccine shortage" in the US. The drug-company reps basically said that the only way to guarantee the vaccine makers a good season every season for selling flu vaccine is to UP THE DEMAND. And that means young children, who are still "not getting the shots in great enough numbers."

It's nothing less than a RICO crime.

Keep checking back today...

JON RAPPOPORT www.nomorefakenews.com

UPDATE: October 11, 2004, 12:10PM, Pacific Time. The first confirmation on the Keller report has come in, from John Cullison. He has checked part of Keller’s work and finds identical low, low numbers on actual flu deaths. He offers the following path to take, using the CDC link Keller offered (above). As I suspected---since I am basically a writer with a typewriter who woke up one day with a computer---the technical details of the search are way over my head:

Hi,

You need to download the PDF (create a link to it on a page, and then right

click the link; then select Save Target As..., assuming you're using

Internet Explorer), and then open it in Adobe Acrobat Reader (rather than

reading it via Internet Explorer's Acrobat plug-in), and then you'll be able

to search the document for "J10". (In Acrobat Reader, use the Edit->Find

command, and once you've found "J10" the first, time, use F3 to find

subsequent "J10"'s.) I've already done the work, however, so here's what

you need to do.

Go to page 31. That page is printed in landscape mode, so that the table

can fit the page. There, sixth line from the bottom, is the "Influenza and

pneumonia (J10-J18)" listing, and below that are sub-listings for "Influenza

(J10-J11)" and "Pneumonia (J12-J18)". Sure enough, under the first column

of data, "All Ages", the influenza line shows a whopping 257, while the

pneumonia line shows 61,777, for a total of 62,034. Almost 2/3 of the

influenza deaths were of people over 74 years old.

Go to page 35. The table layout is either identical or very similar, but it

lists death rates per 100,000. As you can infer from the fifth line from

the bottom of the table, death from influenza is a one-in-a-million event.

Following those pages are breakouts for various races, various age groups

(i.e. infant-related), etc. On page 104, you can find the following data:

"The large decrease in Influenza (ICD-10 codes J10-J11) deaths from 2000 to

2001 is largely due to a change in the coding rules, which resulted in

deaths that would have previously been assigned to Influenza, instead were

assigned to Pneumonia in 2001."

Of course, what exactly this means is not stated. Was the CDC misreporting

pneumonia deaths as flu deaths previously, thereby generating excess alarm

about the relative danger of influenza?

=-John-=

JON RAPPOPORT www.nomorefakenews.com

UPDATE Oct.11, 2004, 12:25PM, Pacific Time: More from John Cullison that confirms the Keller report on ACTUAL very low CDC stats for flu deaths in the US:

I've found the preliminary data for 2002. It's at

http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr52/nvsr52_13.pdf. It's in THIS

document that Keller's instructions make sense. Sure enough, on page 16,

Influenza (J10-J11) is listed as 753, and Pneumonia (J12-J18) accounts for

the other 65,231 cases.

=-John-=

JON RAPPOPORT www.nomorefakenews.com

UPDATE: October 11, 2004, 12:30PM, Pacific Time: Here is another source, Martin Maloney, who has tracked the CDC page address cited by Keller. He offers his succinct confirmatory finding:

Perhaps this is what you are looking for. Near the bottom of page 31 of that PDF document, you will find, under the heading:

Table 10. Number of deaths from 113 selected causes by age: United States, 2001 - Con.

//snip//

Influenza and pneumonia (J10-J18) ................................. 62,034

Influenza (J10-J11) ......................................................... 257

Pneumonia (J12-J18) ..................................................... 61,777

Martin

A question is raised here. If table 10 is assembled BY AGE, are the figures cited here for all ages, or only for a restricted range of ages?

Hopefully, more later on this.

JON RAPPOPORT www.nomorefakenews.com

UPDATE: OCTOBER 11, 2004, 1:30pm, Pacific Time. Martin Maloney replies to my question about whether the stats he just cited on flu deaths were for all ages or a restricted age group:

"Go to the top of the table, and you will see that age ranges are listed by column. The first column is "All ages" -- that is the column in which the cited figures appear."

JON RAPPOPORT www.nomorefakenews.com

UPDATE: OCT. 11, 1:55PM. In John Keller's original report, which I excerpted above this morning, he gives a web page where the CDC discusses various types of pneumonia.

www.cdc.gov/ncidod/diseases/submenus/sub_pneumonia.htm

Keller points out that, on this page, there is no discussion of the FLU as a precursor to pneumonia. I have checked this page, and Keller is right. This is important, because the CDC could try to defend itself for lumping together pneumonia and flu in death stats by saying, "Well, as we all know, the flu brings on pneumonia, and whether a person dies from flu or flu/pneumonia, the basic cause (flu) could be the same in many, many cases." There is no conventional basis for this assumption, and therefore the CDC has no leg to stand on for this deceptive lumping of death stats under the category "flu/pneumonia." As you can see from reading this far in today's post, it is exactly that lumping together that makes the flu seem rather dangerous.

JON RAPPOPORT www.nomorefakenews.com

UPDATE, OCTOBER 11, 2:10PM, Pacific Time. John Cullison has now posted a very important article on flu deaths stats. It attempts to make your search easier.

www.curezone.com/forums/m.asp?f=74&i=576

JON RAPPOPORT www.nomorefakenews.com

UPDATE---BACKGROUNDER---OCTOBER 11, 2004, 2:40PM, Pacific Time.

BOSTON (CBS.MW) -- British regulators' sudden move to shut down Chiron's flu shot manufacturing operations sent the company's shares tumbling, while fanning fears the United States could be vulnerable to an influenza epidemic.

Chiron (CHIR: news, chart, profile) rocked investors Tuesday when the company said it will not be able to release any of its Fluvirin vaccine because the British government has suspended the manufacturing license at its Liverpool plant for at least three months.

The plant is Chiron's only flu-shot manufacturing facility. The suspension only prohibits Chiron from making Fluvirin at Liverpool, and does not affect the production of other products there, the company said.

In addition, the British government also is preventing manufactured doses of the vaccine to be shipped to the United States.

Shares of the vaccine developer closed down 16.38 percent to $37.98 Tuesday. Chiron had halted trading of its shares until about 12.15 p.m. Eastern and was down by more than a third at one point after trading resumed.

Chiron is one of only two major suppliers of seasonal flu vaccine to the U.S. market. The Emeryville, Calif.-based biotechnology firm planned to supply 46 million to 48 million doses of the vaccine for the 2004-05 flu season, which begins in October. The other major supplier, Sanofi-Aventis (SNY: news, chart, profile), is reportedly on track to supply 50 million doses.

Chiron's flu vaccine is only approved for use in adults. Pediatric flu shots are supplied by Aventis, according to the U.S. Health and Human Services Department.

"We profoundly regret we will be unable to meet public health needs," said Chiron Chief Executive Howard Pien in a conference call with investors midday Tuesday.

"The suspension ... has the practical effect of wiping out our ability to supply," he added.

According to Chiron management, the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency, or MHRA, Britain's equivalent to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, yanked the company's license to manufacture the vaccine at its Liverpool plant at midnight Eastern time Tuesday, citing concerns about the process.

Chiron already had announced it was delaying shipments of the vaccine after discovering some batches of the vaccine made at the plant had been contaminated.

The company is also a major supplier of the flu vaccine to the British government.

The MHRA's move came just as Chiron was doing final testing on this season's supply. According to Chiron, practically all of the 48 million doses slated for the United States had already been manufactured when the MHRA pulled the plug.

Pien said that the move was "unexpected," maintaining that the flu shots had passed internal corporate inspection without a problem last week, an inspection process that the FDA appeared to be "fairly comfortable with."

"As of last week, we expected to be on track to have delivery of Fluvirin by early October," Pien elaborated on the U.S. shipments. "You should now assume that the entirety of the 2004-05 flu season is gone."

The executive said that the existing supply of flu shots at the Liverpool plant will be destroyed unless MHRA changes its decision in the next few days. He added that Chiron will begin discussions with that agency Wednesday.

Because it takes more than five months to manufacture the vaccine, Pien indicated that there is no way the company can manufacture more of the shots to meet its U.S. obligations.

Chiron also issued new 2004 financial estimates. The company said that due to the loss of its primary product for the year, Chiron now expects to post net earnings of between 35 cents and 45 cents per share for 2004. The company previously forecast earnings of $1.50 to $1.60 a share for the year.

Chiron is one of the world's leading manufacturers of flu vaccines. The company is a major supplier of flu shots to the United States, as well as Germany, Ireland, Italy and the United Kingdom.

It said in August it was delaying U.S. shipments for several weeks after it was discovered that a small number of batches made at its Liverpool plant had been contaminated due to human error. Chiron executives testified before Congress last week that they anticipated no further delays in the shipments.

Sanofi-Aventis is the other major flu vaccine supplier to the United States. The company said Monday that it had already shipped 30 million doses ahead of schedule to U.S. distributors. See related story.

Niche biotechnology concern MedImmune (MEDI: news, chart, profile) also makes a spray-mist version of the vaccine, called FluMist. But that product has not been approved for use in children under age 5 and adults over 50, who combined make up the vast bulk of flu shot recipients.

MedImmune's chief executive told CBS MarketWatch in early September that his company had no plans to ramp up additional production of FluMist to fill any market void created by Chiron's delays. MedImmune had planned to only make about 2 million doses of FluMist for the 2004-05 flu season.

U.S.-traded shares of Sanofi-Aventis rose 0.98 percent to $37.14. Its Aventis (AVE: news, chart, profile) subsidiary, of which 5 percent of its shares are publicly traded, was up 1.39 percent to $86. MedImmune jumped 5.79 percent to $25.78.

During a second press conference Tuesday, Chiron executives also emphasized that the company is still seeking to be a major vaccine supplier for the 2005-06 season. The company said that it is working diligently with U.S. and foreign regulators to help work out any outstanding issues to be able to begin the lengthy manufacturing process next spring.

"What we're worried about is our ability to live up to the public trust... as a reliable supplier of the vaccine," lamented Pien.

He added that the company is also on track with a previously planned $100 million capital investment in its vaccine-making operations, which include construction and upgrades.

End of CBS piece.

Since that piece appeared, the CDC has admitted (though the admission has not received wide press attention) that perhaps 6 million doses of the vaccine had already been shipped into the US, before the ban was laid on. Perhaps more.

Chiron's flu vaccine is contaminated with the serratia bacteria.

The doses already in the US are outside the regulatory arm of the FDA and outside the control of Chiron. Therefore, as demand increases for the vaccine and the public becomes predictably hysterical (announce a shortage, make people drool for your product), these stocks of vaccine, sitting in US distributors' warehouses, are almost certainly going out the door into the black market. Who knows how much is being sold in the US and other countries.

To make things worse, about a million doses were shipped from Chiron in England this past July. People may have already been shot up with them...

JON RAPPOPORT www.nomorefakenews.com

UPDATE, OCTOBER 11, 2004, 3:15PM, Pacific Time. Yet another reader has made the trek to the CDC site pages and has found a 2003 report about flu for the year 2001:

nvsr52 03.pdf (7.4 MB) pg 44

influenza and pneumonia deaths (j10-j18) 62,034

influenza (j10-11) 257

pneumonia (J12-18) 61,777

JON RAPPOPORT www.nomorefakenews.com

UPDATE, OCTOBER 11, 4:50pm, PACIFIC TIME. Another backgrounder on flu vaccine.

Boom. It turns out that a great deal of the flu vaccine made by Chiron in England---the vaccine just declared contaminated and unfit for use and dangerous---IS ALREADY IN THE US. It was shipped here prior to the ban.

It’s sitting in US distributor warehouses, “outside the direct control of the company or US [FDA] regulators,” according to SFGate.com, the San Francisco Chronicle’s online outlet.

So which flu vaccine are people in the US going to be getting this fall and winter??

The vials of Chiron vaccine in the US are under the quarantine imposed by the company after it learned that all 48 million of its 2004 flu-vaccine doses were banned by British regulators…but that quarantine does not mean the vials will just sit there in US warehouses. Oh no. It means that eager greedheads can start putting it on the market. Because the selling price will skyrocket in a very heavy demand situation.

Chiron vaccine could be going out the door as we speak.

It’s open season on people who want flu vaccine.

And as you’ll see in the SFGate article excerpted below, there is a curious word being used to describe FDA action on these US-warehoused flu vaccine doses: the word is RELEASED. Huh? RELEASED? No explanation is spelled out.

Here ‘s the excerpt:

The Chronicle has learned that vaccine shipped across the Atlantic has been sitting since August in the warehouses of American drug distributors, under a Chiron-imposed "quarantine,'' but outside the direct control of the company or U.S. regulators.

Now, Chiron's entire production of at least 48 million doses of flu vaccine has been rendered useless after British regulators abruptly suspended the license of the Emeryville-based company's Liverpool factory Tuesday, cutting the U.S. supply of flu shots in half.

In this case, Chiron employed the little-known quarantine process under which drugmakers can ship products to distributors before final safety tests are completed.

Norman Baylor, deputy director for the FDA's vaccine unit, said it was not unusual for manufacturers to ship vaccine under quarantine. The quarantine is lifted by the manufacturer when the company's final tests confirm that the product is safe and the distributor is free to sell it.

"I think the system works,'' Baylor said in an interview in September shortly after Chiron's contamination problem first surfaced. "The system did what it was supposed to do.''

Baylor also confirmed that 27 bulk lots -- nearly half of the 60 produced by the Chiron plant -- had been "released" by the FDA prior to the company's discovery that some finished product was contaminated. The actual number of doses that can be produced from each lot varies.

Although the federal agency does not conduct tests on the final product, companies are liable for the safety of their medicines and have powerful incentive to test them thoroughly before releasing them from quarantine, Baylor explained.

Chiron shipped its first million doses of vaccine to distributors in late July, trumpeting its first-to-market achievement in a July 23 press release. At that time, the company explained that "in the coming days," it would "complete its internal release procedures, allowing distributors to begin shipping vaccines to customers.''

Any optimism at Chiron evaporated with Tuesday's ruling. "We consider the Fluvirin season to be over, for all intents and purposes,'' Chiron spokesman John Gallagher said Wednesday.

He also confirmed that the initial crisis had been triggered when tests detected serratia bacteria in a small number of lots. Serratia bacteria are often implicated in episodes of hospital-acquired infection and can be deadly in the bloodstream.

The company has yet to reveal when it discovered the contaminated lots, but having found a problem, Chiron never lifted its quarantine. Although no Chiron vaccine was shipped to clinics, some drug industry experts acknowledge that its presence at multiple U.S. distributor warehouses poses a potential security problem.

"Because of the shortage, the spot market for flu vaccines is going to go through the roof,'' said David Webster, a health care consultant in Lehigh Valley, Penn. "Any time there is an extremely valuable commodity, the potential exists that it will work its way on to the black market. It is a legitimate cause for concern.''

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JON RAPPOPORT www.nomorefakenews.com

UPDATE: OCTOBER 11, 2004, 9:20PM. PACIFIC TIME. I have had several people contact me who are trying to justify the CDC reporting system on flu and pneumonia. They basically claim that, since the flu "so often leads to pneumonia," especially the oh so deadly viral type of pneumonia (they stress this), it makes sense for the CDC to lump flu and pneumonia deaths together. I offer this tidbit from WebMD about viral penumonia:

"Viral pneumonia is pneumonia caused by a virus. About half of all people with pneumonia have viral pneumonia. Viral pneumonia is usually less serious than bacterial pneumonia and can take from 2 to 4 weeks to recover

"Viral pneumonia is usually less serious [than bacterial pneumonia].. A stay in the hospital is rarely needed."

Yes, I realize that the elderly, already drugged to the eyeballs, and suffering from multiple problems, can die of almost anything added to their already heavy burden, but this does NOT justify concluding that they are dying from the flu progressing into viral pneumonia on some seamless course in a vacuum.

So far I have found no authoritative death stats in the US from viral pneumonia, where the virus has definitely been IDed (NOT eyeballed)and where the titer of that virus has been determined to be high.

I'm sticking to my story. The CDC is fronting for a lie.

JON RAPPOPORT www.nomorefakenews.com

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EMERGENCY ALERT: Great Danger Lurking In Flu Shots

Health Risks Far Outweigh Benefits!

by Greg Ciola

October 8, 2005

It wasn’t until I went to my local Publix grocery store recently that I realized how low pharmaceutical companies would stoop to propagandize the public with lies. While I was at the checkout counter a young woman bagging my groceries looked at me, smiled, and said: “Have you had the flu shot yet.” My mouth almost hit the floor. She couldn’t have asked a bigger opponent of pharmaceutical drugs this question.

I looked at her and asked: “Is Publix management instructing you to ask everyone this?” She said ‘no’ but since all the Publix stores were working together in partnership with Maxim Healthcare Services to administer the flu shot, employees were encouraged to ask customers if they were interested in receiving the shot. I looked at this young woman with pity in my eyes and said: “There’s no way I would put that poison into my body.”

With curiosity about why someone would make such a bold statement, we engaged in conversation and I spent the next ten minutes giving her an earful. I asked her if she had any information on the shot and she graciously went over to the front desk to get a flyer outlining the reasons for getting the shot along with the locations and times I could get it. In big bold letters across the top were the words: “TAKE YOUR SHOT!” In addition to the flu shot, they were also promoting pneumonia shots and tetanus/diphtheria shots. It was then and there that I realized I had to speak out against this insanity. According to the flyer, the flu is now a “DISEASE”. Can you imagine this? A disease implies something that needs medical intervention. I guess a cold, headache, upset stomach or diarrhea could all potentially be classified as diseases too.

I remember vividly when they first started pushing the flu shot. It was originally marketed to the elderly and those with weakened immunity. Long gone are those days. There wasn’t enough money to be made (or enough people to poison) by selling to this select market. Now the shot is being promoted to virtually everyone as some sort of flu panacea. North American parents are the target of most of the propaganda. For example, they are told that their children could die if they are not vaccinated. How so many can throw common sense out the window and buy into this scam is very disturbing.

Before you, your friends, or anyone in your family are conned into taking the flu shot, here are some of the risks you need to know about.

Flu Shots Contain Toxic Agents

Like sheep being led to slaughter, people are following the advice of medical pundits as though they are gods with divine intellect. Why is it that so few dare even question what’s in the flu shot, or all other vaccines for that matter, before allowing a doctor to jab you with a needle? Did you know that the flu shot could contain anything from aluminum, formaldehyde, dangerous microorganisms, thimerosal (mercury), ethylene glycol, and other toxic adjuvants? In addition to these substances, the flu vaccine is prepared from the fluids of chicken embryos inoculated with the specific type (s) of influenza virus that supposedly protects against the strains federal health officials believe are most likely to be prevalent during the flu season. The effectiveness in preventing influenza often ranges from 30-40%. Not very encouraging considering the potential health dangers you may be opening yourself up to down the road from the toxic agents in the vaccine.

How is the human body supposed to build immunity by being exposed to neurotoxic poisons like mercury and formaldehyde? Mercury is the second most toxic material on the planet. The first is radioactive plutonium. To make thimerosal, they start with elemental mercury. Then, they hop it up 1,000 times by converting it to ethyl mercury. Then, they add aluminum to the vaccine that has a synergistic effect with the mercury, causing it to be 10,000 more toxic than elemental mercury. Mercury is used to sterilize the flu vaccine.

Consider this insanity; they tell us that it’s unsafe to touch or swallow the mercury from a broken thermometer yet it’s perfectly acceptable to inject the same poison directly into your bloodstream through a vaccine. Don’t worry! Your doctor knows what’s best for you.

Now let’s look at formaldehyde. Formaldehyde is classified as a toxic, colorless, water-soluble gas having a suffocating odor. It’s used predominantly in embalming fluid and vaccines as a disinfectant and preservative. There are no long-term safety studies that vaccine manufacturers can draw from to validate the effectiveness of the flu shot. Those that take the shot are the safety studies and only 10% of the side effects associated with vaccines are ever reported to federal agencies. In fact, a simple search on the internet will lead you to literally thousands of websites and stories that report on vaccine injuries, including the flu shot. What you find will not put you at ease if you’ve bought into this myth.

If the public were fully informed and aware of all the ingredients that went into the flu shot, there would be a mass exodus away from it. Unfortunately, your doctor won’t tell you anything about this; the news media will not report the truth about these contaminants; the CDC won’t address the issue; pharmaceutical companies don’t properly warn consumers; mass retailers pushing the shots don’t seem to care even after being warned about the potential dangers of administering vaccines.

Do Flu Shots Help Spread The Flu?

It’s rather ironic that what the flu shot is supposed to prevent actually seems to have an opposite effect on the population. In recent years, flu season seems to be programmed into society. When October rolls around, all of the sudden there’s a massive outbreak of the cold and flu. Is it just coincidence that this happens to coincide with the exact time that millions of people receive the flu shot? Health officials would like us to believe that this is why we should all be vaccinated.

Another deception perpetuated by the vaccine cartel is that the flu shot contains inactive or dead viruses. If these viruses were completely inactive, then the shot would never stimulate an immune response. The flu shot contains “attenuated” virus. In the book, The Sanctity of Human Blood: Vaccination Is Not Immunization, Tim O’Shea, a highly recognized authority on the dangers of vaccines, sums up what attenuated really means:

“Attenuated means half-killed. The infectious agent is weakened so that it is just below the threshold of being able to trigger an inflammatory response in 99% of people. By allowing the implantation of an attenuated virus or bacteria into the body, we have done something nature would never permit. We have violated the sanctity of the bloodstream. We have tricked the immune system into not mounting an all-out response to a foreign agent. If the vaccine’s microorganisms were not attenuated, the powers of the natural immune system would join together to repel and attack the invader.”

Recent evidence suggests that those that receive the flu shot could be contagious for weeks and spread germs to the general public. For example, it’s rather interesting to see how unvaccinated people exposed to those recently given the flu shot tend to be much more susceptible to getting the flu. Not only does the shot manipulate the immune system, it contains foreign microorganisms that have the potential to breed in the body. It is ridiculous for the CDC to say that none of these germs can be contagious. There are many well-respected health experts who believe that the number of people coming down with the flu would be drastically reduced if flu shots weren’t administered. One of the best ways to avoid the flu is to stay away from people who have it. This includes staying away from those who have recently received a shot.

Flu Shots Do Not Guarantee Immunity

Doctors and pharmaceutical companies ignore the statistics of those who get the flu shot and still get the flu. Instead, we’re bombarded with propaganda about how the shot helps prevent the flu. Numerous news reports during the summer of 2004 reported that the flu shots administered during 2003 were not even capable of protecting people against the influenza strains that we were around last year. In good faith, millions of people took the shot thinking that it would buy them immunity when in reality all it bought them was a vial of toxins to suppress their immune system.

Many of you may have heard stories similar to this one: In 2003, a Canadian nursing home sent out a memo that stated all employees had to take the flu shot. Those that refused would be put on a leave of absence and possibly face the loss of their job. Not believing the hype, one employee (a personal friend of this writer) stood on her principles and refused the shot while her entire staff went along with the order. Much to her amazement, everyone that took the shot came down with the flu except for her. Does this surprise you? It should. Surprisingly, however, there are reports like this all over North America but there’s a virtual media blackout on this truth because there’s an agenda behind the promotion of the flu shot.

Trying to predict what influenza strains will be most prevalent during flu season is a crap shoot. The flu shot does not protect against all throat, respiratory, gastrointestinal, and ear infections. It does not protect you against SARS. The flu vaccine only gives temporary immunity at best. What we’re NOT told, however, is that the flu shot actually weakens the immune system in the long run. Nobody knows for sure what negative effects the mercury, aluminum, formaldehyde, and other adjuvants will have on the immune system. Some of these agents are known to interfere with your DNA. How do we know that the DNA won’t miscode genetic information to the cells? And even if you don’t come down with the flu after getting a shot, your body may be much more susceptible to getting sick from other viruses and bacteria that it would normally be able to fend off. Is it all worth the risks? That’s the decision you have to make.

Author Tim O’Shea made some very noteworthy statements in his book regarding the flu shot:

“A vaccine supposedly contains some version of the causative agent, in a weakened form. With influenza, by the time the virus is isolated, cultured for manufacture, and distributed to the population, the virus that is causing the current incidence of influenza has usually changed to a form completely unaffected by the vaccine. Michael Decker, MD of Aventis, the flu vaccine manufacturer admits: ‘By the time you know what’s the right strain, you can’t do anything about it.’”

“This doesn’t even take into account the unique form influenza virus takes within each person. Yet with flu shots, it’s One Size Fits All – everyone gets the same vaccine. If it really worked, you wouldn’t have to come back next year. Natural immunity is for life.”

“Ever notice that people who get flu shots all the time keep getting the flu? Think that could have anything to do with not giving the body a chance to put immunity together itself?”

Vaccines Assault The Blood & Violate Biblical Law

The Bible tells us in Leviticus 17:11-12 that: “For the life of the flesh is in the blood… No soul of you shall eat blood, neither shall any stranger that sojourneth among you eat blood.”

God has made it very clear throughout the scriptures that blood is sacred. When you understand the importance of health and nutrition and how critical your blood is in this process, it’s easy to see why the flu shot, and all vaccines for that matter, violate Biblical law and all the laws of health. Your bloodstream is either a river of life to all the cells in your body or a river of disease and death. You can’t inject blood contaminants, DNA disrupters, neurotoxins, and preservatives directly into your bloodstream and somehow think you’re getting health.

Vaccines violate the natural processes whereby substances enter the bloodstream. They bypass the defensive capabilities of the liver, kidneys, colon, lymphatic system, and the immune system and deliver toxic waste directly into the body/bloodstream. Your body doesn’t know what to do with mercury, aluminum, formaldehyde, chicken embryos, and microorganisms when it’s fired into it like a missile. Some people can go into shock. Others have died and many have been seriously injured shortly after receiving a flu shot. Guillain-Barré, temporary Multiple Sclerosis-like illness, breathing problems, hoarseness, wheezing, hives, paleness, dizziness, weakness, and rapid heartbeat have all been reported as side effects from the flu shot.

Let’s use common sense here. If God didn’t want us to eat blood or mix unclean substances in our bodies, he certainly didn’t want them injected directly into our bloodstream. All vaccines contain substances that God deems unclean and unfit for our bodies. The question really boils down to this: Are you going to trust God for your immunity or are you going to trust man? There are many safe and natural alternatives that are available to ward off infections but you’ll never hear about them from the media. They thrive on fear in order to create consumption. That’s how we could see thousands of people standing in long lines all night around the country hoping to get a flu shot before the vaccine runs out. Just read the following scripture from the extra-biblical book of Jasher and see where vaccines fit into this equation.

“And the sons of men in those days took from the cattle of the earth, the beasts of the field and the fowls of the air, and taught the mixture of animals of one species with the other, in order therewith to provoke the Lord; and God saw the whole earth and it was corrupt, for all flesh had corrupted its ways upon earth, all men and all animals.” (Jasher 4:18)

These events are being described just prior to the flood of Noah. Perhaps we should take heed to what it says. The flu shot is harvested on chicken embryos. Certainly the book of Jasher is referring to events such as this and worse. It’s very possible that all the genetic tampering and cross species mixing that’s taking place with pharmaceutical and biotech companies could actually be unleashing these plagues of sickness upon the human race. Jasher certainly supports this theory.

Satanic Sorcery Is Alive And Well!

Most people have no clue that the word “pharmaceutical” is derived from the Greek word “pharmakeia,” which means magic, sorcery, and witchcraft. The symbols of the pharmaceutical companies are extremely meaningful. For example, the winged staff with a serpent wrapped around a pole is the ancient magic wand of the pagan god Hermès. In an attempt to prevent people from linking with our Creator, pharmaceutical companies use their drugs, vaccines, spells and potions to contaminate the blood of an unsuspecting public.

The biggest disappointment comes from Christian leaders who should know these truths and proclaim them loudly from the pulpit. Instead, many churches throughout North America are actually promoting the flu shot to their congregation. In some instances, churches are even being used as outlets to administer the shot. How sad to see the body of Christ being DECEIVED by Satan’s sorcery. Oh, how our Savior must feel!

If They Contaminated Our Food Supply, How Can We Trust Their Vaccine?

At present, there are two major pharmaceutical firms that supply the flu shot. One is Chiron Corp., based out of Britain and the other is Aventis, based out of France. Several years ago, a major problem arose from a genetically engineered variety of corn that hadn’t been approved for human consumption. It was called StarLink corn. The manufacturer was Aventis, the same company supplying almost half of the U.S. flu vaccine this year.

StarLink corn had only been approved as animal feed. In rather mysterious fashion, StarLink corn was found in hundreds of food products on the market containing corn and corn by-products. The contamination led to a massive recall that turned out to be the biggest fiasco the biotech industry has ever had to experience.

One Midwest farmer has gone on record claiming that StarLink corn made all his males in his herd sterile, putting him out of business. He has also stated that there are at least 25 other farmers in the State of Iowa alone that he knows of that have blamed StarLink corn for sterility problems in their herd (See the book GMOs: Beware of the Coming Food Apocalypse, page 91, second edition). On top of this, numerous complaints were filed with the FDA because of allergic reactions people had to products that contained StarLink corn.

What relevance does this have with the flu shot? If this derelict company acted so recklessly with StarLink corn, how could we trust them with their flu vaccine? When one considers that the Population Council (www.popcouncil.org) based out of New York has been working on sterility vaccines to help reduce world population levels, and there are reports of sterility in certain herds that consumed StarLink corn, it certainly doesn’t put one at ease knowing the flu shot is being supplied and heavily promoted by Aventis. While there is no evidence and no known links to sterility problems with the flu shot, nobody knows what kind of long-term ramifications the vaccine will have. Again, it’s a crap shoot with your health. You’d have better odds in Vegas.

Chiron’s Flu Vaccine Shipments Suspended

If we can’t trust the vaccine made by Aventis, certainly we can’t trust the vaccine manufactured by Chiron. On October 5, 2004 British health authorities blocked shipments of Chiron’s vaccine because of manufacturing problems. Chiron had planned to provide the U.S. between 46 and 48 million flu shots this year, almost half the nation’s supply. In a strange twist of fate the shortfall has created panic in the U.S. population fueled by massive media attention that is causing millions to rush out and get their shot before supplies run out. Oh, how gullible can people be? What’s sad is that an estimated 6-8 million doses of Chiron’s vaccine were already in the U.S. market prior to the ban. It’s very likely that some people were given this shot and if there were side effects you can be sure the statistics will be buried.

Natural Alternatives

There are many very effective, natural products available to help boost your immune system and keep you well during flu season without needing to inject neurotoxic poisons and blood contaminants into your body. Your immune system is the only thing that prevents you from being riddled with opportunistic infections and a host of other chronic illnesses. You can’t build immunity and shield the immune system with vaccines and poisonous pharmaceutical drugs. You can only modulate the immune system through natural methods.

Enhancing the immune system means you don’t just boost one or two components. There are 22 different instruments or components to the immune system including T-cells, B-cells, Natural Killer cells (NK cells), macrophages, lymphocytes, leukocytes, monocytes, interferon, gamma globulin, interleukin 1,2,3,4, and other white blood cells. All 22 components must be orchestrated simultaneously like a symphony, in order to maintain optimum immunity. While there are an extensive number of natural alternatives to help boost your immune system, here is a short, but effective list of some of the most powerful immune enhancers being used in alternative medicine:

•Oregano Oil: This natural wonder has been used for thousands of years as an antibacterial, antiviral, antifungal, and antiseptic agent. Many people have reported that regular use of this product during the cold and flu season has prevented them from getting sick.

•Colostrum: This is the first fluid secreted by the mammary glands of mammalian mothers in the first days after giving birth. Colostrum contains high levels of protein and growth factors, as well as immune factors. It’s used around the world as one of the most powerful immune boosters known to man. The best colostrum on the market comes from New Zealand cows. Outside of New Zealand it’s very hard to guarantee that the cows were grass fed and free of antibiotics, growth hormones, and steroids.

•Olive Leaf Extract: Fights all types of bacteria, viruses, fungi, and parasites and is good for virtually any infectious disease. Some religious scholars theorize that it is olive leaves that are being referred to in Revelation 22:2 that are used for the healing of the nations.

•Propolis: Resinous substance that bees derive from trees and mix with beeswax. Used as a health shield for the beehive, propolis has antibacterial, antiviral, antifungal, and antiseptic properties. Propolis has been used for thousands of years as an immune system booster.

•Colloidal Silver: This wonder product has been around for centuries and is reported to be one of the few things that helped protect people during the height of Bubonic plague.

•Royal Jelly: Fed only to queen bees. Contains over 100 nutritional properties and has long been known to strengthen the immune system.

•Bee Pollen: Plant pollen that bees harvest and pre-digest. Excellent for people with allergies and also strengthens the immune system.

•Aloe Vera: Contains high amounts of mucopolysaccharides which kick in the immune modulators to fight off disease.

•Homeopathic Remedies: There are some excellent homeopathic remedies that help build immunity and ward off the cold and flu. You can find many good homeopathic formulas at your local health food store or you can seek out a homeopathic specialist in your area that can custom blend formulas specifically targeted for your immune system.

•Mushroom Extracts (Shiitake, Reishi, D-Fraction Maitake): Have excellent immune-boosting properties. Shiitake increases T-cell function, Reishi has anti-tumor properties, and Maitake enhances the activity of key immune cells known as T-helper cells or CD4 cells.

•Echinacea: Excellent herb for the immune system and the lymphatic system. Echinacea has been shown to be very effective when it is cycled for 1-2 week periods throughout the cold and flu season. Early use of Echinacea at the onset of a cold or flu could help drastically diminish the duration and severity of illness.

•Vitamin C: Helps prevent free radical damage and has antifungal and astringent properties. High doses of vitamin C throughout the cold and flu season can help tremendously to ward off infection.

•Garlic: Has antibacterial, antiviral, antifungal, and antiseptic properties and has long been used to fight off and prevent colds and infections. Use 3-4 cloves on salad or crushed onto bread when your immune system is in a weakened state.

•Cayenne Pepper: Is used for a litany of health problems. Cayenne Pepper heats the body up, improves circulation, and helps ward off colds, sinus infections, and sore throats. This magical substance should be used on a daily basis during the cold and flu season.

•Probiotics: Help to maintain and rebuild intestinal flora. Flora plays a key role in keeping the immune system functioning optimally.

•Essential Fatty Acids: Good fats like Omega 3’s and Omega 6’s play a major role in cellular health. Good fats also help to bring nutrients into the cell and discard waste. EFA’s also contain high amounts of antioxidants which help to protect your immune system.

•Oxygen Supplements: Virtually all microorganisms are anaerobic, meaning they survive predominantly in the absence of oxygen. When the body’s blood oxygen is normal and the cells have adequate oxygen it’s nearly impossible to get sick. There are many good products to choose from that can be added as drops to your water.

•Essential Oils: There are many essential oils like Frankincense, Myrrh, Spikenard, Rose Oil, Thieves, and others that provide tremendous immune system protection. Essential oils have been used for thousands of years and have much Biblical support to back up their use. They can be diffused through aromatherapy or applied to your skin and feet.

•Zinc: An essential mineral that promotes a healthy immune system and fights free radicals. Zinc lozenges have been reported to be effective in relieving symptoms of the common cold and reducing duration of colds.

•Alkaline Water: It’s very important to keep your body properly hydrated and your pH in balance. Make sure you consume at least half your bodyweight a day of water to adequately flush out toxins and hydrate your cells.

•Rest: It’s especially important during the cold and flu season to keep from getting run down. Make sure you get at least 6-8 hours of quality sleep a night.

While all of these natural immune boosters can help you tremendously, nothing can replace what a good diet and exercise can do for you. You can’t feed your body garbage and turn to these natural alternatives as a last resort. Keep in mind that it costs nothing to remove all processed food from the diet. Processed foods can diminish your immune system. The more man touches a food, the less you should consume it. Replacing processed foods with whole foods will also boost your immune system. Sugar and sweets should also be avoided at all costs, especially during the cold and flu season. Sugar severely weakens the immune system and is the fuel that foreign invaders feed on.

Conclusion

It’s better to trust in the LORD than to put confidence in man. God did not make a mistake when he created us. The human body is equipped with one of the natural wonders of nature: An Immune System. If you are concerned about the plagues and epidemics coming upon the world, read Psalm 91. If we are to stand steadfast until the end, it is with the LORD on our side. Don’t become a victim of the fear and panic spread by the Pharma cartel and media. Our hope is in the King of Heaven and Earth who promised us deliverance. Remember this next time someone tries to con you into getting a flu shot.

End Notes:

1. O’Shea, Tim, The Sanctity Of Human Blood: Vaccination Is Not Immunization, eighth edition, pages 40, 41, 90, 91, Two Trees, San Jose, CA, 2004.

2. Tunsky, Gary, The Battle For Health Is Over pH, Crusador Enterprises, Orlando, FL, 2004.

3. Ciola, Greg, GMOs: Beware of the Coming Food Apocalypse, Crusador Enterprises, Orlando, FL, 2004.

4. The Book of Jasher, Artisan Publishers, Muskogee, OK.

5. Balch, Phyllis A., CNC, Prescription For Nutritional Healing, The A-Z Guide To Supplements, Avery, New York, NY, 2002.

6. Balch, Phyllis A., CNC, Prescription For Nutritional Healing, Third Edition, Avery, New York, NY, 2000.

7. Balch, Phyllis A., CNC, Prescription For Herbal Healing, An Easy-to-Use A-to-Z Reference to Hundreds of Common Disorders and Their Herbal Remedies, Avery, New York, NY, 2002.

8. Goldberg, Burton, Alternative Medicine, The Definitive Guide, Celestial Arts, Berkeley, CA, 2002.

9. www.vaccinetruth.org

10. www.vaclib.org

11. www.truth.info

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Tamiflu Deaths and the Tap-Dance

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Nurses Win Fight Against Mandatory Flu Vaccine

The Washington State Nurses Association (WSNA) won a victory in U.S. District Court, which upheld an arbitrator's decision that Virginia Mason Medical Center COULD NOT make influenza vaccination a condition of employment. Barbara Frye, RN, Director of Labor Relations at WSNA said, "it's a basic right for people to make decisions regarding their own health care treatment."

Now ask yourself, why are even nurses declining to take the influenza vaccine......even when they have been threatened with their jobs?????

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Influenza Vaccination During Pregnancy:

A Critical Assessment of the Recommendations of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP)

David M. Aayoub, M.D.

F. Edward Yazbak, M.D.

ABSTRACT

Influenza vaccination during all trimesters of pregnancy is now universally recommended in the United States. We critically reviewed the influenza vaccination policy of the CDC's Advisory Committee on Immunization Practice (ACIP) and the citations that were used to support their recommendations.

The ACIP's citations and the current literature indicate that influenza infection is rarely a threat to a normal pregnancy. There is no convincing evidence of the effectiveness of influenza vaccination during this critical period. No studies have adequately assessed the risk of influenza vaccination during pregnancy, and animal safety testing is lacking. Thimersol, a mercury-based preservative present in most inactivated formulations fo the vaccine, has been implicated in human neurodevelopment disorders, including autism, and a broad range of animal and experimental reproductive toxicities including teratorgenicity, mutagenicity, and fetal death. Thimersol is classified as a human teratogen.

The ACIP police recommendation of routinely administering influenza vaccine during pregnancy is ill-advised and unsupported by current scientific literature, and is should be withdrawn. Use of thimersol during pregnancy should be contraindicated.

The ACIP's recommendation of influenza vaccination during pregnancy is not supported by citations in its own policy paper or in current medical literature. Considering the potential risks of maternal and fetal mercury exposure, the administration of thimersol during pregnancy is both unjustified and unwise. Pregnancy should continue to be a time when doctors are highly protective of their patients with regard to any fetal exposure. Without adequate safety testing, a risk-benefit analysis of influenza vaccination during pregnancy is not possible, and therefore the ACIP's present recommendation should be withdrawn.

Key Points from the Full Article

The 2005-2006 Fluzone, Fluvirin, and Fluarix package inserts clearly state that animal reproductive safety studies have not been conducted during pregnancy and that risk to the human fetus were never investigated, including mutagenicity, carcinogenicity, and effects on future fertility. The Fluzone manufacturer states that the vaccine should be given to pregnant women only if clearly needed. The Fluvirin insert adds that the clinical judgment of the attending physician should prevail. The manufacturer of the live vaccine Flumist issues a similar warning: "Animal repoduction studies have not been conducted with Flumist. It is also not known whether Flumist can cause fetal harm when administered to a pregnant woman or affect reproduction capacity." The manufacturer is careful to add: "Therefore, Flumist should not be administered to pregnant women". Eli Lilly MSDS further states that thimersol "is known to cause birth defects and other reproductive harm." The NTP broadly classifies thimersol as a teratogen capable of other adverse reproductive effects. The California EPA has proclaimed that thimersol is a human reproductive toxin when denying a request from Bayer, Inc., to reclassify thimersol as harmless.

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Influenza Vaccine: Review of Effectiveness of US Immunization Program and Policy Considerations

Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons

Volume 11, Number 3, page 69, Fall 2006

Below are key points of the article.

"A number of studies have been reported that influenza vaccine (IV) administration has been less than optimally effective in certain subpopulations."

"...the yearly US mass influenza vaccination campaign has been ineffective in preventing influenza in vaccine recipients."

"Between 1979 and 2000, influenza vaccine was shown to have little or no effectiveness over the US population for preventing influenza cases, deaths, or hospital admissions."

" The poor effectiveness shown by the present study is particularly troubling in view of the cost of the influenza vaccine program. If it were recommended that every person be vaccinated annually against influenza, full implementation would require giving approximately 300 million doses annually in the United States......at a cost of $22.5 billion for the whole population." (remember, if this were the scenario, YOU would be paying $22.5 billion.)

"Even if the influenza vaccines were 100% effective in preventing deaths for these children, which certainly does not seem to be the case, the cost of preventing the average of 10 deaths per year in children under 1 year of age would be about $60 million per death prevented."

"...the annual cost to the NVICP (the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program - this is the organization that must pay for drug company vaccines that damage YOU) of paying compensaton for adverse effects is increasing substantially....as a number of studies have reported an association between influenza vaccine administration and adverse reactions such as Guillain-Barre syndrome, Bell's palsy, and systemic vasculitis."

"Another problem with annual influenza vaccination is that a large proportion of available vaccines currently contain 25 micrograms of mercury from thimersol per 0.5 mL dose. Thimersol is a highly toxic, ethyl-mercury containing compound, which has been found to pose a significant risk to some vaccine recipients. The public's awareness of this risk is shown by the passage of statutes that will soon ban the use of thimersol at other than "trace" levels and/or completely in the states of Iowa, California, Missouri, Illinois, Delaware, New York, and Washington. The presence of thimersol at preservative levels in influenza vaccine is one of the main reasons for public support if this legislation. An additional reason for caution is the ineffectiveness of live-virus influenza vaccines, for example, Flumist, a live cold-adapted trivalent nasally administered vaccine, which is currently bing recommended for individuals aged 5 - 49. (There is a likelihood that on can catch the flu when one comes in contact with a person who has been inoculaed with Flumist) Persons who have received Flumist....."are advised to avoid close contact with immuno-compromised individuals for at least 21 days. Persons with conditions such as HIV, malignancy, leukemia, or lymphoma, and patients who are receiving systemic corticosteroids, alkylating drugs, antimetabolites, radiation, or other immunosuppressive therapies are also placed a significant risk. (What this article fails to state is that deaths from influenza are almost solely from individuals stated above. People with pre-existing illnesses who contract influenza and die are counted in the CDC death toll as an influenza death. This is clearly a misrepresentation.) Other individuals who should avoid contact with a Flumist inoculee include pregnant women, adults and children with chronic cardiovascular or pulmonary disorders, including asthma; metabolic dieases, including diabetes; renal dysfunction; or hemoglobinopathies. The widespread use of Flumist would place a significant part of the populations at risk, raising serious concerns about the wisdom and ethics of recommending Flumist for use in the general population."

"In addition to transmissibility, a live virus vaccine poses the risk that vaccine strains could recombine or re-assort genes in the event that an inoculee contracts a second viral infection, potentially producing a 'super virus'".

"The annual risk of influenza....on average...is about 37% of the population. However, these millions of influenza cases annually translate into an average of about 1,300 deaths in the U.S., and not the often-quoted inflated number of 36,000 influenza deaths per year." (The source of these inflated numbers comes from combining pneumonia statistics with the influenza statistics. This is done in order to create a stronger "scare tactic". If one checks the CDC's death rate statistics this will be verified. Of the 1,300 deaths cited in this article, not one death was from influenza alone. All of these deaths were in individuals that had a pre-existing condition that greatly affected their immune system.)

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FDA Sued Over Mercury in Medicines

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On Oct 27, the Coalition for Mercury-free Drugs (CoMeD) filed an amended complaint in U.S. federal court, disputing a Sept 26 FDA response defending the use of mercury in medications.

The lawsuit, originally filed in August 2006, asks the court to force the FDA to comply with existing law and regulations and provide proof of the safety and efficacy of mercury in drugs. The suit was filed because the FDA failed to answer issues raised in a citizen petition filed on Aug 4, 2004, by CoMeD representatives.

Mercury is found in at least 45 different prescribed or over-the-counter drugs, including eye ointments, nasal sprays, and vaccines, most importantly, flu vaccines administered to children and pregnant women.

In a 1999 internal email, obtained under a Freedom of Information Act request, an FDA official wrote that the agency’s failure to evaluate the cumulative amount of mercury in medicine “…will raise questions about FDA being ‘asleep at the switch’ for decades by allowing a potentially hazardous compound to remain…and not forcing manufacturers to exclude it from new products….”

In a second email, the same official wrote: “…the greatest point of vulnerability on this issue is that the systematic review…by the FDA could have been done years ago and on an ongoing basis.”

In a letter by FDA Acting Assistant Commissioner for Policy Jeffrey Shuren, denying the CoMeD petition, the “admission that the FDA had no substantive evidence confirming the safety of mercury in medicine was stunning,” stated CoMeD.

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FDA Panel Proposes Tamiflu Warning Label

Monday, November 13, 2006

Doctors and parents should watch for signs of bizarre behavior such as delirium and hallucinations in children treated with the flu drug Tamiflu, federal health officials suggested Monday, citing increasing cases overseas.

Food and Drug Administration officials still don't know if the more than 100 new cases, including three deaths from falls, are linked to the drug or to the flu virus (we know the answer, don't we?!) – or a combination of both. Most of the reported cases involved children.

Still, FDA staff suggested updating Tamiflu's label to recommend that all patients, especially children, be closely monitored while on the drug. They also acknowledged that stopping treatment with Tamiflu could actually harm influenza patients if the virus is the cause of delirium, hallucinations and other abnormal behavior, such as aggression and suicidal thoughts. (Interesting, they say keep taking the drug that could be the cause of the problem...hmmm..what do you think?.)

The FDA's pediatric advisory committee is to discuss the recommendation Thursday. The FDA isn't required to follow the advice of its outside panels but usually does. An FDA spokeswoman did not immediately return a call seeking comment.

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Tamiflu May be Linked to Risk of Self-Injury and Delirium

12/6/2006

Tamiflu may be linked to risk of self-injury and delirium; vitamin D suggested for influenza

New safety labeling provisions for the anti-influenza drug oseltamivir phosphate (Tamiflu) warn of potential neuropsychiatric adverse effects.

The warning is based on postmarketing reports, primarily from Japan, suggesting that persons who receive Tamiflu, especially children, may be at increased risk of self-injury or delirium.

An alert sent by MedWatch, the FDA’s safety information and adverse event reporting system, advised close monitoring of patients given Tamiflu for signs of abnormal behavior.

Adverse events can be reported to MedWatch by telephone at (800) FDA-0178, online at www.fda.gov/medwatch, or by mail to 5600 Fishers Lane, Rockville, MD 20852-9787.

Some scientists suggest that a shortage of vitamin D triggers outbreaks of influenza, which tend to peak between late December and March.

Attempts to demonstrate a link between cold exposure and influenza susceptibility have failed. Additionally, influenza also occurs in tropical climes, where the seasonal pattern is similar. Some scientists hypothesize that sun exposure is the key. Susceptibility to influenza may be increased when vitamin D levels are lower, as during the rainy season in the tropics or winter in temperate zones.

Dr. John Cannell, a psychiatrist at Atascadero State Hospital in California noted that his ward at a maximum-security facility for the criminally insane was the only one spared during an influenza outbreak in April 2005. The only difference he could determine was that his 32 patients were taking high daily doses of vitamin D.

The hypothesis should be easy to prove or disprove with a controlled study. In the meantime, Cannell takes 5,000 IU of vitamin D daily during winter months (Michael Stroh, Baltimore Sun 11/26/06).

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Flu Shots – Beware of Toxic Additives

By Sherri J Tenpenny, DO

One year ago this month, The Washington Post ran a story that not only extolled the use of the influenza vaccines but pushed for a new and improved version by saying, “Why wait for the pandemic to benefit from better flu vaccines?”(1) The story went on to say that the National Institutes of Health (NIH) is planning to strengthen the flu shot “destined for the elderly” by adding an immune-boosting compound to the shot called an adjuvant.

An adjuvant is a substance added to produce a high antibody response using the smallest amount of virus (antigen) possible. By definition adjuvants are considered to be “pharmacologically active drugs.” They are designed to be “inert without inherent activity or toxicity” and yet they are required to “potently augment effects of the other compounds” in the vaccines. It is difficult to explain how a substance can be defined as “pharmacologically active” and at the same time be described as “inert and have no activity or toxicity.”

The limiting factor for approval of new adjuvants has been that most are far too toxic for use in humans. However, one adjuvant has been approved in Europe and its approval is on the way for use in the U.S. It is an oil-based adjuvant called MF-59, a compound primarily composed of squalene.

On first blush, squalene seems like a good choice for an adjuvant. Manufactured naturally in the liver, squalene is a precursor for cholesterol. In addition, squalene can be purchased at health food stores in its more commonly known form, “shark liver oil.” However, ingested squalene has a completely different effect on the body than injected squalene. When molecules of squalene enter the body through an injection, even at concentrations as small as 10 to 20 parts per billion, it can lead to self-destructive immune responses, such as autoimmune arthritis and lupus.(3)

Several mechanisms have been proposed to explain this reaction. Metabolically, squalene stimulates an immune response both excessively and nonspecifically. More than two dozen peer-reviewed scientific papers from ten different laboratories throughout the U.S., Europe, Asia, and Australia have been published documenting the development of autoimmune disease in animals subjected to squalene-based adjuvants.(4) A convincing proposal for why this occurs includes the concept of “molecular mimicry” in which an antibody created against the squalene in MF59 can cross react with the body’s squalene on the surface of human cells. The destruction of the body’s own squalene can lead to debilitating autoimmune and central nervous system diseases.

The squalene in MF59 is not the only cause for concern. One of its components, Tween80 (polysorbate 80) is considered by vaccine manufacturers to be “inert” but is far from it. A study published in December, 2005 discovered that Tween80 can cause anaphylaxis, a sometimes fatal reaction characterized by a sharp drop in blood pressure, hives, and breathing difficulties. Researchers concluded that the severe reaction was not a typical allergic response characterized by the combination of IgE antibodies and the release of histamines; it was caused by a serious disruption that had occurred within the immune system.(5)

Vaccine manufacturer Chiron is already using MF59 in its European influenza vaccine for seniors called Fluad™. It remains to be seen if Chiron will gain approval for using this adjuvant-containing vaccine in the U.S. In the mean time—and for the first time—all children from age six months to five years will be targeted for the flu shot this fall. Expect even more children to be on the vaccine list as early as 2007; discussions are underway to mandatorily vaccinate the healthy five to nine year-old group as a school requirement.

A record 121 million doses of flu vaccine was produced for the 2006-2007 flu season and production is being ramped up to 140 million doses for the coming flu season. Be prepared for a huge push to get everyone vaccinated this fall. Consider it to be psychological pre-conditioning. The plan is to get each person ready—and eager—to roll up their sleeve for an injection of the “pandemic” flu vaccine when it becomes available.

Retaining freedom of choice will become increasingly important for those who want to refuse. Get politically active by joining the American Association for Health Freedom, at http://www.healthfreedom.net, the organization on Capitol Hill that lobbies for a person's right to choose and the practitioners right to practice. Self-appointed experts at the WHO and the CDC who really believe the only way to survive a pandemic to be innoculated with viruses and chemicals will be pressuring you to comply. Don't let the bird flu vaccine become mandatory in your State.

When the media begins to, once again, shriek about the coming bird flu pandemic by urging everyone to be vaccinated, remember that the bird flu vaccine will be largely untested. Worse, it will be no more effective than the annual flu shot and there is a high probability it will contain MF-59.

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(1) Neergaard, Lauren. “Experts Say Elderly Need Better Flu Shot.” The Washington Post. April 17, 2006.

(2) Kenney, R. T., Edleman, R. “Survey of human-use adjuvants,” Expert Review of Vaccines 2 (2) (2003): 167–188.

(3) Ref. No. 1: Svelander, L., Holm, B. C., Buchtt, A., Lorentzen, J. C., Svelander, L. “Responses of the rat immune system to arthritogenic adjuvant oil,” Scandinavian Journal of Immunology 54 (2001): 599–605. PMID: 11902335.

(4) Matsumoto, Gary. Vaccine A: The Covert Government Experiment That’s Killing Our Soldiers and Why GIs Are Only the First Victims Vaccine. (New York: Basic Books)

(5) Coors, Esther A., Seybold, Heidi, Merk, Hans, Mahler, Vera. “Polysorbate 80 in medical products and nonimmunologic anaphylactoid reactions,” Annals of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology 95 (2005): 593–599.

Dr. Sherri J. Tenpenny is respected as one of the country’s most knowledgeable and outspoken medial doctors regarding the negative impacts of vaccines on health. Through her education company, NMA Media Press, she spreads her vision of retaining freedom of choice in healthcare, including the freedom to refuse vaccination.