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How to Predict an Epidemic Timeline
by Andrew Maniotis, Ph.D
[Dr. Maniotis asked us to share this historical information with you. As has been often repeated, those who fail to learn from history will find themselves repeating the same mistakes, to their detriment. It is perhaps a test of the intelligence of the human species that we can let go of traditional falsehoods that are believed to be true by many people for long periods of time. History is replete with examples… the myth that vaccines are ever safe and effective is one of those. Here Dr. Maniotis provides an exhaustive timeline of the development of the myth that influenza vaccines are something other than a threat to the public health. REL]
1918 DEPARTMENT OF THE NAVY — NAVAL HISTORICAL CENTER
805 KIDDER BREESE SE — WASHINGTON NAVY YARD WASHINGTON DC in a report
entitled, “The Pandemic of Influenza in 1918-1919” prepared by the US
Department of Health, Education and Welfare Public Health Service National
Office of Vital Statistics indicates that the extraordinary feature of
“the Great Spanish flu” was that it attacked young people in the prime of
life unlike any other epidemics recorded:
“The pandemic of influenza in 1918-19 which swept over nearly every
continent and island of the whole globe has been described as one of the
great human catastrophies. There are excellent descriptions of epidemics
and pandemics as far back as the year 1500, and various records of
epidemics since the 1918-19 holocaust. Many of them were relatively mild
infections, while others were severe, but none of them showed the
extraordinary high mortality in young adults that characterized the
1918-19 pandemic and its aftermath in 1920. The greatest amount of
mortality in epidemics prior to and subsequent to 1918-19 was found in
children under 1 year of age and in persons 65 years and over.”
“Frost, in one of his reports, pointed out that influenza and pneumonia
mortality rose sharply in some cities in the United States in December
1915 and January 1916, which may or may not have been related to the 1918
epidemic. In January 1916, influenza was reported to be epidemic in 22
States, but it was described as a mild type of illness.”
“As early as December 1917, influenza was prevalent in Camp Kearny,
California, and in other Army camps in January 1918, but the disease was
said to be mild. In the spring, localized outbreaks occurred in the
civilian population of the United States, and mortality from pneumonia
rose sharply in certain cities. In March and April, Camp Funston, Kansas,
experienced three waves of influenza. The first two affected all types of
personnel, and the third, which occurred late in April, was predominantly
in recruits who arrived shortly after the second wave. Mild epidemics of
influenza were reported in various localities in Western Europe in April
and May of 1918, and in June and July more extensive outbreaks occurred in
Great Britain and in Europe, China, India, the Philippine Islands, and
Brazil. In these countries, mortality rose moderately. The 1918-19
epidemic was often referred to in the United States as “Spanish
influenza,” but there is no reason to believe that it originated in Spain.
Indeed the occurrence of influenza in the United States in the spring of
1918 may have preceded that which occurred in Spain.”
“During August 1918, epidemics of influenza were reported in Greece,
Sweden, Switzerland, Spain, the West Indies, and late in the month it
appeared almost simultaneously in Camp Shelby, Mississippi, and Boston,
Massachusetts. In September, it appeared in rapid succession in other Army
camps and in the civilian population along the Atlantic seaboard and the
Gulf of Mexico and spread rapidly westward over the country. By October,
the epidemic had involved the entire United States, except isolated places
and some mountain areas. The interval between the peaks of the epidemic in
Boston and San Francisco was about 4 weeks, and the peaks in the number of
deaths usually were reached in about 1 month following the beginning of
the epidemic in a community or area. As a rule, epidemics affected rural
areas later than cities in the same sections. In some areas there was a
recrudescence of the epidemic in January and February 1919, which was most
marked in cities where the autumn epidemic was less severe. Thus the
influenza epidemic of 1918-19 in the United States was characterized by a
relatively mild phase in the spring of 1918, an explosive outbreak with
high mortality in the fall, and a third phase or recrudescence early in
1919.”
“The incidence and mortality of influenza in military personnel in 1918-19
has been described in great detail in Epidemiology and Public Health by
Vaughan, and in Volume 9 of the history of the Medical Department of the
United States Army in the World War. [See also the Surgeon General’s
account in Annual Report of the Secretary of the Navy, 1919 —
Miscellaneous Reports. About 90 percent of the men in military service in
World War I were young adults between 20 and 35 years of age.
Consequently, the Armed Forces were seriously affected, as were the same
age groups in the civilian population. In the Army over a million men were
hospitalized for influenza and pneumonia, and of these there were more
than 44,000 deaths. There were approximately 5,000 deaths among Navy
personnel. Hospital admission rates and death rates for American troops
stationed in Europe were lower than for troops in the United States. The
large number of recruits concentrated in close quarters probably accounted
for higher rates in the latter. In the camps having the larger numbers of
trainees, incidence and mortality was highest, and in all camps the rates
were higher in recruits than in seasoned troops. The crowding in camps
probably favored the spread of secondary invading organisms as well as the
etiologic agent of influenza. The peak of the epidemic was reached in
September in Navy personnel and about the middle of October in the Army. A
secondary rise in incidence of these respiratory diseases occurred in the
Army in January and February 1919, but it was limited to troops stationed
in Europe.
When appropriate adjustments are made for differences in the age and sex
distribution of military and civilian populations, it appears that the
death rate was about one-fourth higher in the Army than in the civilian
population of the United States. It is reasonable to assume that this
difference was largely due to greater crowding in the recruit population
of the Army. Collins showed mortality rates from influenza and pneumonia
by age in 1918 as compared with certain other years. The relatively high
mortality in young adults in 1918 and the 2 years immediately following
seems to have been characteristic of that period and was not found in
epidemics prior to or subsequent to this 3-year period.”
It has been estimated that there were about 20,000,000 cases of influenza
and pneumonia in the United States in 1918-19, with approximately 850,000
deaths. In 1918 alone, 464,959 deaths from influenza and pneumonia were
registered in the registration States and the District of Columbia as
compared with 115,526 in 1917. This includes deaths in the Army, Navy, and
Marine Corps which occurred in registration States. Eighty percent of the
deaths in 1918 occurred in the last 4 months of the year.
The numbers of deaths from influenza and pneumonia by age in registration
States in 1917, 1918, and 1919 are shown in the table. A number of States
in which Army camps were located are not included in this table, so a
considerable number of deaths of civilians and of military personnel for
1918-19 are missing which accounts for the difference in an estimated
total of 850,000 for the United States and the figure of 650,399 for the
registration States. In 1918 the death rate for males was 669.0 per
100,000 population; for females, 507.5. At ages 25 to 34, the rate was
1,216.6 for males and 781.4 for females. These excessively high mortality
rates profoundly influenced the estimated average length of life
calculated for the year 1918. It was reduced 24 percent from 1917 to 1918
for males and 22 percent for females. However, these estimated average
lengths of life in years returned to their previous trends in 1920.
Influenza and Pneumonia Mortality by Age: Death-Registration States,
1917-19 (For 1917, area includes 27 States and the District of Columbia;
for 1918, 30 States and the district of Columbia; and for 1919, 33 States
and the District of Columbia):
Year 1917 1918 1919
Age Number of deaths
All ages 115,526 464,959 185,440
Under 1 year 22,207 38,428 27,736
1-4 years 12,859 49,699 21,133
5-14 years 3,319 28,054 10.598
15-24 years 4,861 78,158 20,381
25-34 years 6,915 126,792 32,159
35-44 years 9,387 60,902 20,690
45-54 years 10,652 28,596 14,043
55-64 years 12,571 19,632 12,530
65-74 years 14,771 17,643 13,065
75-84 years 13,224 11,829 9,548
85 years and over 4,600 3,680 3,173
Not stated 160 1,546 384
Rate per 100,000 population
All ages 164.5 588.5 223.0
Under 1 year 1,474.5 2,273.3 1,594.2
1-4 years 211.5 718.0 293.9
5-14 years 24.0 176.2 63.3
15-24 years 38.9 580.5 141.4
25-34 years 59.3 992.6 235.9
35-44 years 98.1 554.8 181.0
45-54 years 148.8 347.8 163.9
55-64 years 281.4 381.9 233.2
65-74 years 614.6 646.3 459.6
75-84 years 1,503.0 1,179.0 913.9
85 years and over 3,187.4 2,230.6 1,842.2
“Etiology – Pfeiffer isolated an organism in 1892 variously referred to as Pfeiffer
bacillus or influenza bacillus which was accepted by many as the causative
agent of influenza. However, in 1918, various observers failed to find
this organism in many cases, antemortem or postmortem. A report on sputum
cultures taken from 47 individuals in Baltimore during the epidemic showed
that streptococci were present in 24 sputums, staphylococcus in 1,
pneumococcus in 15, and the influenza bacillus in 8. In cultures taken in
various Army camps prior to and during the epidemic of influenza in the
fall of 1918, varying proportions of persons were found to carry
streptococci, pneumococci, and the Pfeiffer bacilli. Such variations were
also found in cultures from the bronchi or lungs at autopsy, and
differences were found from camp to camp. The proportion of persons
carrying streptococci or some other secondary invader did not remain
constant, being replaced from time to time by another bacterium.”
“It was the impression of many in 1918 that an unrecognized virus was the
primary cause of influenza and that the streptococci, pneumococci, and
influenza bacilli were secondary invaders which might be termed “bacterial
hitch-hikers.” Attempts by two groups of investigators to transmit the
infection by nasal instillation of filtered and unfiltered secretions from
influenza cases in human volunteers were not successful. Nor could they
produce influenza in the volunteers by nasal instillations with Pfeiffer
bacilli.”
“Prevention and Control – It often happens that when a severe outbreak of a
disease occurs many measures are applied, some of which appear to be extreme
and dictated by panic. In 1918, which was no exception, isolation of cases and
quarantine of contacts were applied vigorously in some areas, but there is little
evidence to indicate that these measures were successful in preventing
introduction or spread of the disease. Closure of schools and prohibition
of public gatherings likewise were of doubtful value. The use of face
masks to protect the wearer against infection had its advocates. The use
of germicidal gases to destroy the organism was suggested. The use of a
vaccine containing the influenza bacillus was advocated, but as one would
expect, no value could be demonstrated. If a vaccine containing the
viruses now known to cause the disease had been made available early in
the epidemic, it is doubtful whether it would have been effective, since
the epidemic in the fall of 1918 spread with great rapidity.”
“In 1922, Victor Gaughan stated in retrospect that the most reasonable
administrative action that could have been taken was to direct efforts
toward relief measures, namely, medical and nursing care and
hospitalization.”
Much of the descriptive material and charts on the 1918-19 epidemic used
in this comprehensive Department of Navy report were obtained from
published reports or books by W.H. Frost, Edgar Sydenstricker, Victor
Vaughan, and Eugene Opie. The publications of Selwyn Collins were a
valuable source of information on characteristics of epidemics of
influenza in the United States prior to and subsequent to 1918.
1918 Pathologists became intimately familiar with the condition of lungs
of victims of bacterial pneumonia at autopsy. But the viral pneumonias
caused by the influenza pandemic were so violent that many investigators
said the only lungs they had seen that resembled them were from victims of
poison gas.
I. Honorof, E. McBean (Vaccination The Silent Killer p28)
Source: Dr. Rebecca Carley
Very few people realize that the worst epidemic ever to hit America, the
Spanish Influenza of 1918 was the after effect of the massive nation-wide
vaccine campaign. The doctors told the people that the disease was caused
by germs. Viruses were not known at that time or they would have been
blamed. Germs, bacteria and viruses, along with bacilli and a few other
invisible organisms are the scapegoats, which the doctors like to blame
for the things they do not understand. If the doctor makes a wrong
diagnosis and treatment, and kills the patient, he can always blame it on
the germs, and say the patient didn?t get an early diagnosis and come to
him in time.
If we check back in history to that 1918 flu period, we will see that it
suddenly struck just after the end of World War I when our soldiers were
returning home from overseas. That was the first war in which all the
known vaccines were forced on all the servicemen. This mish-mash of poison
drugs and putrid protein of which the vaccines were composed, caused such
widespread disease and death among the soldiers that it was the common
talk of the day, that more of our men were being killed by medical shots
than by enemy shots from guns. Thousands were invalided home or to
military hospitals, as hopeless wrecks, before they ever saw a day of
battle. The death and disease rate among the vaccinated soldiers was four
times higher than among the unvaccinated civilians. But this did not stop
the vaccine promoters. Vaccine has always been big business, and so it was
continued doggedly.
It was a shorter war than the vaccine-makers had planned on, only about a
year for us, so the vaccine promoters had a lot of unused, spoiling
vaccines left over which they wanted to sell at a good profit. So they did
what they usually do, they called a meeting behind closed doors, and
plotted the whole sordid program, a nationwide (worldwide) vaccination
drive using all their vaccines, and telling the people that the soldiers
were coming home with many dread diseases contracted in foreign countries
and that it was the patriotic duty of every man, woman and child to get
“protected” by rushing down to the vaccination centers and having all the
shots.
Most people believe their doctors and government officials, and do what
they say. The result was, that almost the entire population submitted to
the shots without question, and it was only a matter of hours until people
began dropping dead in agony, while many others collapsed with a disease
of such virulence that no one had ever seen anything like it before. They
had all the characteristics of the diseases they had been vaccinated
against, the high fever, chills, pain, cramps, diarrhea, etc. of typhoid,
and the pneumonia like lung and throat congestion of diphtheria and the
vomiting, headache, weakness and misery of hepatitis from the jungle fever
shots, and the outbreak of sores on the skin from the smallpox shots,
along with paralysis from all the shots, etc.
The doctors were baffled, and claimed they didn?t know what caused the
strange and deadly disease, and they certainly had no cure. They should
have known the underlying cause was the vaccinations, because the same
thing happened to the soldiers after they had their shots at camp. The
typhoid fever shots caused a worse form of the disease, which they called
para-typhoid. Then they tried to suppress the symptoms of that one with a
stronger vaccine, which caused a still more serious disease, which killed
and disabled a great many men. The combination of all the poison vaccines
fermenting together in the body, caused such violent reactions that they
could not cope with the situation. Disaster ran rampant in the camps. Some
of the military hospitals were filled with nothing but paralyzed soldiers,
and they were called war casualties, even before they left American soil.
I talked to some of the survivors of that vaccine onslaught when they
returned home after the war, and they told of the horrors, not of the war
itself, and battles, but of the sickness at camp.
The doctors didn?t want this massive vaccine disease to reflect on them,
so they, agreed among themselves to call it Spanish Influenza. Spain was a
far away place and some of the soldiers had been there, so the idea of
calling it Spanish Influenza seemed to be a good way to lay the blame on
someone else. The Spanish resented having us name the world scourge on
them. They knew the flu didn?t originate in their country.
20,000,000 died of that flu epidemic, worldwide, and it seemed to be
almost universal or as far away as the vaccinations reached. Greece and a
few other countries, which did not accept the vaccines, were the only ones
that were not hit by the flu. Doesn?t that prove something?
At home (in the U.S.) the situation was the same; the only ones who
escaped the influenza were those who had refused the vaccinations. My
family and 1 were among the few who persisted in refusing the high
pressure sales propaganda, and none of us had the flu not even a sniffle,
in spite of the fact that it was all around us, and in the bitter cold of
winter.
Everyone seemed to have it. The whole town was down sick and dying. The
hospitals were closed because the doctors and nurses were down with the
flu. Everything was closed, schools, businesses, post office everything.
No one was on the streets. It was like a ghost town. There were no doctors
to care for the sick, so my parents went from house to house doing what
they could to help the stricken in any way they could. They spent all day
and part of the night for weeks, in the sick rooms, and came home only to
eat and sleep. If germs or viruses, bacteria, or any other little
organisms were the cause of that disease, they had plenty of opportunity
to latch onto my parents and “lay them low” with the disease that had
prostrated the world. But germs were not the cause of that or any other
disease, so they didn?t “catch” it. I have talked to a few other people
since that time, who said they escaped the 1918 flu, so I asked if they
had the shots, and in every case, they said they had never believed in
shots and had never had any of them. Common sense tells us that all those
toxic vaccines all mixed up together in people, could not help but cause
extreme body-poisoning and poisoning of some kind or another is usually
the cause of disease.
Whenever a person coughs or sneezes, most people cringe, thinking that the
germs are being spread around in the air and will attack people. There is
no need to fear those germs any more, because that is not the way colds
are developed. Germs can?t live apart from the cells (host) and can?t do
harm anyway, even if they wanted to. They have no teeth to bite anyone, no
poison pouches like snakes, mosquitoes or bees, and do not multiply,
except in decomposed substances, so they are helpless to harm. As stated
before, their purpose is useful, not destructive.
The 1918 flu was the most devastating disease we ever had, and it brought
forth all the medical bag of tricks to quell it, but those added drugs,
all of which are poisons, only intensified the over-poisoned condition of
the people, so the treatments actually killed more than the flu did. This
is from Vaccination The Silent Killer: Honorof, Ida and McBean, E.:
Vaccination the silent killer (U.S.A.) Honor Publications, P.O. Box 346,
Cutten, CA 95534, U.S.A.http://www.whale.to/vaccines/books.html
Andrew Maniotis, Ph.D
Visiting Associate Professor of Bioengineering
University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL 60607
Email: amanioti@uic.edu
