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CDC: Immunize Every Kid in America Against Flu – Every Year! Hey, It Worked in NJ!

Thursday, February 28th, 2008

The CDC and the American Academy of Pediatrics have succeeded in New Jersey so they are now after every child in America: vaccinate every child every year with flu shots that damage the immune system, may contain mercury, surely contain aluminum, formaldehyde, foreign protein, and actually don’t work most of the time. Apparently that sounds like a winner to the Big Pharma side of the house.

There are twists of logic that boggle the mind here. For example, although the CDC admitted within the last month that this year’s seasonal flu shot is only effective 40% of the time or less since the viruses in circulation are not the ones covered by the vaccine, there is no let up in the insistence that every child get vaccinated with this flu shot.
Consider, too, the rather astonishing quote from the article below:

“No deaths have been reported in New Jersey this season, but 16 children have been hospitalized with confirmed cases of flu, state
health officials said. Flu activity is currently characterized by the CDC as “widespread” in New Jersey.”

Does that mean that 16 kids with severe immunocompromise problems (say, kids on chemotherapy for cancer) or kids with HIV/AIDS got the flu and needed to be hospitalized and so every kid in the country needs to be vaccinated with a dangerous shot? What about the lost days and hours and lives of parents who have kids who have been vaccine injured and suffered brain injury, autism, asthma, or cancer? And what about the loss of parental rights and liberties guaranteed by the Constitution of the United States? Is that worth protecting the employers of New Jersey and the US from lost days of work by the parents whose kids get the flu (most often a cold, by the way)?

Apparently it does.
And then there is the rather weird “logic” of vaccinating kids yearly to protect their parents from loosing time from work (last year it was “vaccinate the kids to protect the elderly with whom they might come into contact”). You will note the same arguments used in New Jersey before the Health Commissioner declared that every child in the state, starting in infancy, would have to be vaccinated annually if they wanted to attend day care or go to school.

It is rumored in New Jersey that when Governor Corzine’s Stem Cell Therapy initiative failed to give the Big Pharma companies headquartered in that State the huge give away they were anticipating, he felt compelled to do something to help these companies (like Merck) want to stay in NJ. Reasoning that annual vaccination of kids might be a good gift to his Pharma Phriends, the Governor, who has been provided with all the scientific information needed to make it clear that this is a very, very bad idea, decided to go ahead anyway. A real “Man of the People”, as long as you are talking about Pharmaceutical investors and executives.

Read today’s entry into the “Vaccinate Every Kid Every Year” Propaganda campaign.

Compulsory vaccination is just part of the plans afoot for compulsory drugging. Please take all of the following Action Steps to protect your rights to make your own health decisions, not have them forced upon you by the Pharmaceutically controlled policy makers.

1. STOP COMPULSORY DRUGGING AND VACCINATION (http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/t/1128/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=21835)

2. SUPPORT PHILOSOPHICAL EXEMPTIONS IN NEW JERSEY AND ALL OTHER STATES (http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/t/1128/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=23087)

3. STOP SCHOOLS FROM FORCING DRUGS ON KIDS
(http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/t/1128/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=18970)

4. PREGNANT AND NEW MOMS DON’T NEED FORCED DRUGGING THAT COULD INJURE OR KILL THEIR BABIES
(http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/t/1128/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=23065)

These actions steps are vitally important in the movement toward passive helplessness in the face of Big Pharma domination of public policy toward active citizen control of our own health decisions.
Please support this change by taking the steps, letting everyone in your circle of influence know about them and making a recurring donation to the Natural Solutions Foundation by clicking here (http://www.Healthfreedomusa.org/index.php?page_id=189) to make your tax deductible donation.

Yours in health and freedom,
Dr. Rima

Rima E. Laibow, MD
Medical Director
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CDC panel expands flu shot guidance: Children up to 18 should get vaccine
Thursday, February 28, 2008
BY ANGELA STEWART
Star-Ledger Staff
Every child up to the age of 18 should be immunized against the flu,
a federal advisory panel recommended yesterday.

The recommendation, made by the Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, would
increase the number of children receiving flu shots by 30 million a year. Children younger than 6 months are excluded.

It is expected to be approved by the CDC as early as this spring and
become the agency’s official policy for the 2008-2009 flu season.

“We don’t expect any issue with this recommendation,” said Curtis
Allen, a CDC spokesman.

The CDC’s previous recommendation was that children from 6 months to
5 years of age or those with chronic conditions that put them at high
risk of complications needed to be immunized.

Allen said the expanded recommendation — which would be advisory but
likely influential — is pri marily aimed at protecting healthy
children of all ages against the flu, but noted it will also offer
residual benefits to others.

“The logic is there are children in this 6-month to 18-year-old age
group who are in schools where we know a lot of influenza
circulates,” he said. “When a child becomes sick, a parent also has
to stay home and out of work, which is lost productivity. Once a
child is vacci nated, this will help protect others in their
household and the community from influenza.”

A representative of the American Academy of Pediatrics applauded the
recommendation, saying there are many children with conditions like
asthma who should be getting immunized but aren’t.

“We know that the vaccine is the best method for preventing influenza
and its potential severe complications,” said Henry Bern stein, a
member of the academy’s committee on infectious diseases and chief of
pediatrics at Dartmouth Medical School in New Hampshire

Children have among the highest rates of flu of any age group,
according to the CDC, with more than 20,000 kids under the age of 5
hospitalized each year nationwide. So far this flu season, 22
children across the country have died from flu-related illness, Allen
said.

No deaths have been reported in New Jersey this season, but 16
children have been hospitalized with confirmed cases of flu, state
health officials said. Flu activity is currently characterized by the
CDC as “widespread” in New Jersey.

Maria Spina of Colonia, whose 7-month-old daughter, Carlee, received
a flu shot yesterday at the office of Nutley Pediatrics, said she
thought the recommendations made sense.

“I think any mother would worry if their child got really sick with
the flu,” Spina said.

Richard Marcus, who immu nized Spina’s baby yesterday, said many
parents take vaccine preventable diseases “very, very, lightly.”

“It’s seen as something that doesn’t affect their children, that is
until they have an episode,” Mar cus said. “Then they become firm
believers.”

Alissa Kanowitz, who was a founder of a group called Families
Fighting Flu, lost her 4-year-old daughter Amanda in 2004 to the flu.
Amanda was not immunized, as the CDC at the time only recommended
shots for children up to 23 months. Two years ago, the recommendation
was expanded to include children up to age 5.

“Today’s vote really sends a strong message about just how se rious
influenza is,” said Kanowitz, a New York City resident.

This fall, New Jersey will become the first state in the nation to
require flu shots for infants and children entering licensed day care
centers or pre-schools. The state Public Health Council passed that
recommendation despite protest from anti-vaccine groups and oth ers
who oppose what they view as government usurping parental authority.

State Epidemiologist Eddy Bresnitz said that while he embraces the
new recommendations, New Jersey has no plans to make them mandatory.
Bresnitz, however, said he sends out an annual letter through schools
encouraging parents to have their children im munized against the flu
and will mention the CDC recommendations next fall.

Sue Collins, who co-founded the anti-vaccine advocacy group New
Jersey Alliance for Informed Choice, called the CDC’s new “blanket”
recommendation for pediatric flu shots a bad idea.

“I think the risks and side ef fects and unproven safety and effi
cacy studies do not warrant this,” said Collins, a mother of two who
lives in Long Hill. “The biggest thing is there is no data on how all
these vaccines react with each other.”

State and federal health officials, as well as most doctors, be lieve
the flu vaccine is safe for children, but many parents have raised
objections about the fact it contains thimerosal, a mercury-
containing organic compound used as a preservative in some multi-dose
vials of vaccine.

But there is flu vaccine doctors can order that is free of the
preservative, although it costs slightly more than the traditional
vaccine. Children, starting at 24 months, also have the option of
receiving a flu nasal spray instead of a shot.

Mandatory Flu Vaccine for Kids: First New Jersey, Then the US!

Thursday, February 28th, 2008

WASHINGTON (Feb. 28) – All U.S. children aged from six months up to 18 should be immunized every year against influenza, a panel of federal vaccine advisers said on Wednesday.

The panel, which advises the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on vaccine matters, agreed unanimously at its regular meeting in Atlanta that the new recommendations should go into effect as soon as possible, but no later than the 2009-2010 flu season.

The vote from the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices would add about 30 million children to the list of those who should be vaccinated, CDC spokesman Curtis Allen said. The current recommendations cover children aged 6 months to 5 years old.

“There about 59 million (children aged 5 to 18) but a lot of those children are already covered under current recommendations,” Allen said in a telephone interview.

Based on current vaccination rates, the CDC predicts about 7 million additional children will be vaccinated because of the expanded recommendations.

Flu infects between 5 percent and 20 percent of the population each year and kills an estimated 36,000 Americans in an average year, most of them elderly. It can also kill young children, often previously healthy children.

The CDC said last week that 22 children had died in this year’s flu season so far. Flu is active in all 50 states now.

Last year, 68 children died of flu in 26 states during a very mild influenza season, according to reports compiled by the CDC. Of them, 39 were aged 5 to 17 and more than 90 percent of all the children who died had not been vaccinated.

“We are very pleased,” said Gary Stein of Families Fighting Flu, who spoke to the meeting.

“Doctors follow these recommendations in advising their patients,” added Stein, whose 4-year-old daughter Jessica died of influenza in 2002. “Parents read it, and vaccination rates are so low that this awareness strongly follows the guidance.”

Not Just a Routine Bug

Dr. Carol Baker, president of the National Foundation for Infectious Diseases, agreed.

Babies aged 6 months to 2 years have a very high risk of complications and death from flu, but only 20 percent were vaccinated against influenza in 2006-2007, even though they are regularly being vaccinated against other diseases at this age.

“I think most parents do not understand how dangerous influenza is,” Baker, a pediatrician, said in a telephone interview.

“I think even some health care providers have that attitude, especially those who choose not to vaccinate themselves and who spread flu to their patients.”

This year’s flu vaccine is considered a poor match for two of the strains. Because the virus mutates so quickly, the vaccine is usually formulated afresh each year and includes three different strains of the virus.

For the next flu season beginning at the end of 2008, all three strains will be replaced in the vaccines available globally, the CDC and World Health Organization say.

Besides children, people aged 50 and older are advised to get annual flu vaccines, as well as anyone with certain chronic medical conditions such as cancer or diabetes, people in nursing homes and other long-term care facilities, and caretakers of any of these groups.

Five companies now make flu vaccine for the U.S. market — Sanofi Pasteur, Australia’s CSL Ltd, GlaxoSmithKline Plc, Novartis AG and nasal spray maker MedImmune, recently acquired by AstraZeneca Plc.

Copyright 2008 Reuters Limited.

Vaccination Not Related to Mortality Decline in Elderly Say NIH, Other Government Researchers

Thursday, February 28th, 2008

Careful analysis of the data concerning flu-related mortality among the elderly makes it clear that although flu-related deaths are declining in that population, the decline is not related to vaccination. That is the conclusion of a team of researchers from the National Institutes of Health, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and other prestigious institutions.
This important paper should be shared with internists and elderly patients along with their caregivers.
When coupled with the information () recently published by Russel Blaylock, MD, showing that flu vaccines put the elderly at special risk for inflammatory neuropathy, homicide and suicide, this draws a rather compelling picture mitigating against flu vaccination for the elderly.

Yours in health and freedom,
Dr. Rima

Rima E. Laibow, MD

Medical Director
Natural Solutions Foundation
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Impact of Influenza Vaccination on Seasonal Mortality in the US Elderly Population
Vol. 165 No. 3, February 14, 2005

Lone Simonsen, PhD; Thomas A. Reichert, MD, PhD; Cecile Viboud, PhD; William C. Blackwelder, PhD; Robert J. Taylor, PhD; Mark A. Miller, MD

Arch Intern Med. 2005;165:265-272.

Background Observational studies report that influenza vaccination reduces winter mortality risk from any cause by 50% among the elderly. Influenza vaccination coverage among elderly persons (≥65 years) in the United States increased from between 15% and 20% before 1980 to 65% in 2001. Unexpectedly, estimates of influenza-related mortality in this age group also increased during this period. We tried to reconcile these conflicting findings by adjusting excess mortality estimates for aging and increased circulation of influenza A(H3N2) viruses.

Methods We used a cyclical regression model to generate seasonal estimates of national influenza-related mortality (excess mortality) among the elderly in both pneumonia and influenza and all-cause deaths for the 33 seasons from 1968 to 2001. We stratified the data by 5-year age group and separated seasons dominated by A(H3N2) viruses from other seasons.

Results For people aged 65 to 74 years, excess mortality rates in A(H3N2)-dominated seasons fell between 1968 and the early 1980s but remained approximately constant thereafter. For persons 85 years or older, the mortality rate remained flat throughout. Excess mortality in A(H1N1) and B seasons did not change. All-cause excess mortality for persons 65 years or older never exceeded 10% of all winter deaths.

Conclusions We attribute the decline in influenza-related mortality among people aged 65 to 74 years in the decade after the 1968 pandemic to the acquisition of immunity to the emerging A(H3N2) virus. We could not correlate increasing vaccination coverage after 1980 with declining mortality rates in any age group. Because fewer than 10% of all winter deaths were attributable to influenza in any season, we conclude that observational studies substantially overestimate vaccination benefit.

Author Affiliations: National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) (Dr Simonsen) and Fogarty International Center (Drs Viboud and Miller), National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Md; and Entropy Research Institute, Boston, Mass (Dr Reichert).

Vaccine Dreams: the Myths of Safety, Science and Effectiveness

Thursday, February 28th, 2008

The United States Government has given itself the authority to declare a pandemic (at any time) and require mandatory universal
forced vaccination under Patriot I, Patriot II, Bio Shield I, Bio Shield II, Bio Shield III and various Homeland Security Directives, Executive Orders and Signing Statements. Under these Acts and authorizations you may be (legally) subjected to experimental drugs – drugs which have no track record at all – without any informed consent rights, without right of refusal (unless you are willing to go to a quarantine center for an indefinite period of time) so it is now more important than ever that the real truth about vaccines be widely and quickly disseminated. There are reported to be more than 200 new vaccines “in the pipeline”. If they, along with the ones in use now, are not safe, we, and our children, are not safe.
All of us have been carefully conditioned to believe that vaccines are safe. But the truth is ugly and more than a little frightening. Here are the cold, hard facts:
Cold, Hard Fact # 1: Vaccines are not safe: vaccines are dangerous. The evidence is abundant that the tragic cost of loading babies and children up with toxic brews of mercury, aluminum, formaldehyde, injected foreign protein, stealth viruses and, in the second generation vaccines, the deadly immune enhancer squalene, is unacceptably high. Lives are ruined and lost in these children when toxins overwhelm their immune systems and brains and cause tragic, totally preventable suffering and death. Autism(occurring in 4 children per 10,000 when I graduated from medical school in 1970) now afflicts a minimum of 1 child in 168 in the US. Children have not changed: the poisons we give them have. Gulf War Syndrome, a pervasive, progressive, deadly auto-immune disease afflicting over half a million US veterans, appears to be a deadly vaccine reaction to an experimental vaccine (Anthrax) which the US used on soldiers without their consent in clear violation of the Helsinki Declaration and the Nuremberg Protocols, international conventions and agreements which prohibit human experimentation without fully informed consent. Vaccinated people come down with the diseases they are supposedly vaccinated against with astonishing frequency.

The concept of informed consent, is, of course, is meaningless in the face of compulsory vaccination with secret ingredients and no manufacturer accountability.

Contaminants make vaccines tremendously dangerous. Swine flu (for a pandemic which never materialized) was contaminated with polio virus in 1976. Over 45 million Americans were vaccinated in just 77 days and although there were only 6 cases of Swine
flu in the entire country the vaccine reportedly caused at least 565 cases of polio paralysis (renamed “Guillain-Barre Syndrome” for the occasion), 60 deaths and other serious problems, including blindness and impotence. (There is no reason to feel reassured
because this particular disaster occurred in the past: every flu vaccine is capable of passing along Guillain-Barre (polio) and other unsuspected viral diseases.)

In February, 2008, the CDC announced that the seasonal flu vaccine being pushed, and required, of children, adults and the elderly was strikingly ineffective, missing more than 60% of the viruses circulating this flu season. That did not stop them, States, schools, hospitals, the New York City Department of Health, the American Academy of Pediatrics and myriad other “Health” organizations from continuing to insist on its use, despite its well characterized dangers.

Cold, Hard Fact # 2: Vaccines have not eradicated diseases: vaccines spread diseases. Attenuated viruses (infective, weakened versions of the dangerous ones) are commonly used in vaccines so that your body will develop an immune ‘memory’ for that virus. The next time your immune system meets that specific virus, it rapidly combats it by producing large numbers of antibodies. This practice and theory derive from the dawn of vaccination: Edward Jenner’s pioneering use of cowpox pus inoculations to eliminate
smallpox. This innovative and surprising medical treatment is touted as one of the triumphs of modern medicine. It makes a wonderful story but, in fact, inoculation not only spread smallpox, it caused well-documented epidemics of syphilis and leprosy in
inoculated people, especially babies (who have immature immune systems). In spite of the documented associated dangers of leprosy, syphilis, smallpox, death and blindness, England provided free vaccination in 1840, made it compulsory in 1853, and punished
lack of vaccination with seizure of property and imprisonment in 1857 (which should sound familiar). It took a British Royal Commission some 41 years more to put a stop to the deaths and disease that Jenner’s unproven technique caused. Finally, in 1898,
England’s compulsory smallpox vaccination laws were overturned.

In 1854, the first year of British compulsory vaccination, deaths from syphilis in infants under 1 year increased by 50% and continued to rise steadily after that. In 1802 Jenner was paid 10,000 pounds by the House of Commons. Shortly afterwards, it became clear
that vaccines did not work. Rather than lose face, the House of Commons granted Jenner another 20,000 pounds in 1807 and 3,000 pounds a year thereafter.

Jenner knew that milk maids who milked with active pus-filled sores on their hands transmitted pox to their cows. Local superstition held that the cow’s pus was a preventive against small pox. Jennings learned from a local farmer, Benjamin Jestey, that he had inoculated his wife and 3 children with cowpox pus by jabbing them with a darning needle and they did not contract small pox. Jenner assumed that this meant they were protected against smallpox. To the modern ear this is absurd. In Jenner’s day, neither methodology nor the scientific method were part of the culture.

Jenner, a village apothecary who purchased a University of Edinburgh MD for 15 pounds, was a showman who made much of his “discovery” and hastened to induce Sarah Nelmes, a young milk maid with a fresh lesion on her finger, to allow him to collect pus from her sore. He inoculated an 8 year old named James Phipps who developed a fever and a pustule on his skin. Seventeen days later he inoculated the boy again, this time with small pox. Since the boy did not develop smallpox, Jenner concluded that “protection was complete”.

Jenner hawked his inoculation but people started to complain because they were developing smallpox (and syphilis) after vaccination with Jenner’s cowpox. Jenner switched to infected material from horses’ heels instead (“Horse-grease”). John Baker, the child he inoculated with horse-grease, however, died before he could expose him to small pox. Undeterred, he inoculated 6 more children, including James Phipps, with horse-grease and was so convinced that the results would be positive that he rushed to London to publish them before there were any results. The [untested] “success” of James Phipps’ inoculation and his London paper established Jenner’s method and his success. Revolted by the idea of horse-grease inoculations, people demanded cowpox inoculations again. Jenner
complied.

But just what is cow pox? In tropical countries it is cutaneous smallpox plus leprosy (a non-lethal disease often present along with leprosy) while in more moderate climates the milk maids were transferring syphilis to the cattle along with their cutaneous smallpox.
Jenner was making his brew from the cowpox pus and the results were nothing short of disastrous for untold numbers of people.

Modern small pox vaccines are produced in much the same way: lesions are induced on the skin of calves and, after they are “sacrificed” [and sold for veal?], the harvested material from their lesions is cultured in eggs and prepared as vaccines.

However, although immunity fails to develop more than 80% of the time, serious side effects are distressingly common from the modern small pox vaccines: At least 52 people out of every million will have life threatening events and 1-2 will die. Permanent damage to heart, brain, skin and GI effects are also well known side effects. The Center for Disease Control (CDC) notes that serious side effects and dangers probably occur much more often since many people can be harmed by live virus vaccines: immune compromised people (on steroids, with eczema or psoriasis, nursing babies, pregnant women and their fetuses, people with HIV/AIDS, transplant patients, chemotherapy and radiation patients, people with auto-immune diseases, young children, asthmatics, etc.) are at serious risk for contracting the same disease that the inoculation is designed to prevent or worse.

In the US, the CDC classifies more than 60 million people as immune compromised. People who are re-inoculated after many years are particularly susceptible to severe and life threatening reactions. Those who are ill are likely to develop sever effects as well.
In fact, Tommy Thompson, former Health and Human Services boss, said that he would not take the vaccine although the US is stock piling “a dose of smallpox vaccine with every American’s name on it”. Perhaps the one with his name has been changed so it
reads, “To Whom It May Concern”.

Emergency vaccinations for a Homeland Security emergency, that is, a pandemic, will allow absolutely no exemptions
for medical conditions or personal conviction. None.

Dr. Mike Lane, former director of the CDC’s so-called “smallpox eradication program” in the 1970’s, is a proponent of mass vaccination with no exemptions saying, “Medical contraindications would not apply… there would be NO exceptions. [In India] I’m sure that we killed a few people, but we did the best that we could….If the person is exposed there will be no exemptions, medical or otherwise.”

When a live virus is used in the vaccine, infective virus is shed for anywhere from 4 to 21 days (or more) and, during that time, inoculated persons can give the disease, or the side effects of the inoculation, to any vulnerable person they come into contact with.

So, while it may be true that vaccines have spread disease, isn’t it true that vaccines have eliminated the epidemic diseases of the past? No, actually they have not. Neither Jenner’s cowpox inoculation nor modern smallpox inoculation did anything to eliminate
smallpox (quite the contrary). The fact is, Dr. Charles A. R. Campbell discovered that smallpox is transmitted by the flying bedbug, Cimex lectularius, and that eliminating this parasitic insect from human habitation eliminates smallpox, too. Personal hygiene and
better housekeeping eliminated the deadly scourge. (Dr. Campbell also discovered that the disfiguring pocks of the disease could be prevented by a diet high in Vitamin C.)

When the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the planet “smallpox free” in 1980, they did so administratively, not medically: small pox incidence was reduced, but not gone, despite nearly universal vaccination. What to do? WHO solved the problem
cleverly: they renamed the disease “cowpox” and “monkey pox”. Shazam: a smallpox free planet, quicker than you can say, “Junk Science!”

Other epidemic diseases were in sharp decline at the end of the 19th and early 20th centuries as a direct consequence of improved hygiene and other life-style changes. Measles, Diphtheria, Whooping Cough, Polio and Hepatitis B were all in sharp decline
long before vaccines were introduced. The contribution to the decline made by vaccines, however, was negligible or non-existent. Scarlet Fever, typhoid fever and cholera, for which inoculation either did not exist or was never wide-spread, declined on the same
sharp curve for the same reasons. So do we need inoculations because of the public health hazard? Despite the considerable hype, in fact, there is no unbiased evidence which connects disease prevention with inoculation.

Cold, Hard Fact # 3: Flu vaccines do not protect people from flu-related deaths. The CDC claims that an astonishing 36,000 people die from flu in an average year. But according to the former Secretary of Health and Human Services, Tommy Thompson, 68 people under 65 die from flu each year in the US. The truth i,440 people, mostly elderly, died from flu, no where near the CDC’s touted 144,000 deaths. While that figure is great for flu vaccine sales, it derivers not from reality but
from the CDC’s industry-friendly statistical trick of classifying all pneumonia-related deaths, despite any lack of evidence, as flu deaths. Discussing this nonsense, Lone Simonsen of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease/NIH, writes in The
Archives of Internal Medicine “We could not correlate increasing vaccination coverage after 1980 with declining mortality rates in any age group. Because fewer than 10% of all winter deaths were attributable to influenza in any season, we conclude that observational
studies substantially overestimate vaccination benefit.”1

Cold, Hard Fact # 4: Potential pandemic viral diseases like the Bird Flu do not have safe and effective vaccines to prevent them and there are no drugs to treat them effectively. Despite that fact, on September 15, 2005 the US purchased $100 Million of a French experimental flu vaccine designed to protect against bird flu. It’s so experimental, in fact, that although we have purchased megabucks worth of the stuff, the French manufacturer, Sanofi-Pasteur, is planning to experiment with adjutants (immune response enhancers) to rev up human response to it. Perhaps the adjuvant is the same one that the Army used in the deadly Vaccine A against anthrax: squalene. The purchase is real, but there is currently no such thing as a vaccine for pandemic bird flu. None the less, the US has announced recently that it has stock piled enough “Avian Flu Vaccine” to inoculate every man, woman and child in America. With what? Against what?

Unfortunately, even if vaccines did work (they don’t) and were safe (they’re not), a virus has to actually exist before you can make a vaccine that can control the disease. The pandemic version of the latest bird flu does not yet exist. Vaccines are very specific: they
train the immune system to make antibodies to a particular protein sequence. Because those antibodies are highly specific, guessing wrong on which flu strain is coming soon to a droplet near you has led to an embarrassing history, year after year, of ineffective flu
shots against the wrong strain of virus. People developed side effects, but the shots did not ward off the flu since the vaccine misfired with regard to the virus it was supposed to be protecting people against. And, oh by the way, experimental vaccines are not even
alleged to be safe. No one knows what effects they will have. Now that the FDA, the Courts and Congress have relieved vaccine and drug manufacturers from any consumer liability whatsoever once their product has been approved by the FDA for any use whatsoever, the entire question of receiving compensation from a manufacturer for vaccine damage is moot. Vaccine damage is an uninsurable risk because no insurance underwriter in the world wants to bet that you (or your child) will NOT be damaged by the vaccines tampering with your immune, neurological and other systems. The US has paid out over 2 billion dollars through its Vaccine Injury Compensation system and recently announced in a concession that vaccines could have precipitated the autism in a child who received 9 shots on one day and then collapsed into autism. Another 49,000 cases making their way through the same Court system may be settled in the same way because of this decision. But if the damage is not autism, but, for instance, encephalitis, cancer, sterility or death, there is no system of compensation for you.

Allegedly, the bird flu pandemic version has not yet mutated and therefore does not exist so there is no way whatsoever to make a vaccine against it. Not even the US Government can make a vaccine against an imaginary virus. But that is just what the government
wants us to believe they can do. Clearly, the French experimental flu vaccine purchase is a political, not a public health one. IF the bird flu mutates and becomes pandemic, it would take between 4 and 18 months to gear up to make commercial quantities of the vaccine.1 (http://archinte.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/abstract/165/3/265) In the meantime, anyone getting the bird flu and surviving it would have natural antibodies to the disease. But right now, unless the already-mutated pandemic H5N1 virus is being stock-piled in a laboratory for convenient release at an opportune moment
(which is certainly possible), the virus needed to make a real bird flu vaccine exists only in fearful imagination. So what would the government inoculate you with? Who knows? A nanochip to track you, perhaps? The technology exists. An experimental drug, maybe? Something that someone wants to test on huge numbers of people whether they like it or not? An FDA approved sterility vaccine already used in sub Saharan Africa by the WHO and in South and Central America? Squalene? Perhaps. Perhaps not. Only the government would know. You won’t.

The US government has set itself above the law and beyond investigation. Consider: the anthrax vaccine currently being tested on US 2nd and 3rd graders contains squalene. The experiment is therefore not about anthrax (the vaccine is only approved for cutaneous anthrax, a non- life threatening disease highly unlikely to be used, therefore, as a bio-weapon) but rather about what happens to children given a deadly substance which stimulates their immune systems to destroy their bodies over time. After World War II, the managers of IG Farben, the vast German industrial combine, were imprisoned for Crimes Against Humanity for precisely this kind of activity. Who will be convicted this time? The head
of the FDA? The Secretary of Homeland Security? The Secretary of Health and Human Services? On what secret evidence? This is what the US government/pharmaceutical cabal is setting up in full view of the public and of Congress under the false flag of Homeland Security. Can you imagine what would happen if there were no public scrutiny at all and no legal liability for any ill deeds whatsoever? Only if you can imagine medical fascism – and it is no dream.

Under the banner of Homeland Security the US government has established a medical Gestapo. It has given itself the power to initiate a medical marshal law from which the only escapes would be prison, death, fleeing the country or rebellion.

Vaccines are unscientific (but highly profitable), dangerous and forced vaccinations represent a violation of personal self determination and the inalienable rights enumerated by the Declaration of Independence: Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness.

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Am. Acad. Ped. Immunization Reccomendations

Wednesday, February 27th, 2008

POLICY STATEMENT

PEDIATRICS Vol. 119 No. 4 April 2007, pp. 846-851 (doi:10.1542/peds.2007-0164)

POLICY STATEMENT
Prevention of Influenza: Recommendations for Influenza Immunization of Children, 2006–2007
Committee on Infectious Diseases

ABSTRACT

The purpose of this statement is to update recommendations for routine use of influenza vaccine in children for the 2006–2007 influenza season. The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends annual influenza immunization for (1) children with high-risk conditions who are 6 months and older; (2) healthy children 6 through 59 months of age; (3) household contacts and out-of-home caregivers of children with high-risk conditions and all healthy children younger than 5 years; and (4) health care professionals. Other children, adolescents, and adults can be immunized to decrease the impact of influenza as indicated in the Red Book: 2006 Report of the Committee on Infectious Diseases.

Key Words: influenza • vaccine • immunization • epidemiology • children • adolescents

Abbreviations: TIV—trivalent inactivated influenza vaccine • LAIV—live-attenuated influenza vaccine

KEY POINTS RELEVANT FOR THE 2006–2007 INFLUENZA SEASON

1. The recommended age range of children for annual influenza immunization has been expanded to include all healthy children 6 through 59 months of age. Studies indicate that healthy children younger than 24 months of age and children of all ages with chronic heart and lung conditions are hospitalized for influenza infection and its complications at rates similar to those experienced by the elderly. This recommendation was extended to include healthy children 24 through 59 months of age, in part, on the basis of documentation of the significant morbidity in this age group, which results in additional office and emergency department visits and increased use of antimicrobial agents. This preschool-aged cohort is also an important potential source of transmission of influenza to household members and others in the community.
2. Household contacts and out-of-home caregivers of either high-risk children and adolescents or all healthy children younger than 5 years should also receive influenza vaccine each year. To reduce the risk of exposure to influenza, especially in infants younger than 6 months, who are too young to be immunized, it is essential that all contacts of high-risk children and all children younger than 5 years be immunized each year.
3. All high-risk children of any age, all healthy children 6 through 59 months of age, and all healthy 5- to 18-year-olds who are contacts of either high-risk persons or children younger than 5 years should be identified, and their parents should be informed that annual influenza immunization is due (Fig 1).
* Previously unimmunized children 6 months to younger than 9 years of age should receive 2 doses of influenza vaccine to maximize protection during the influenza season.
* Available data suggest that children younger than 9 years who did not receive the second dose of influenza vaccine in the initial year that influenza vaccine was given may not be adequately protected with only 1 dose the next influenza season. In this group, levels of protection can be suboptimal, especially if the antigenic specificity of the predominant strains has changed from the previous year. Thus, the American Academy of Pediatrics recommends that 2 doses be given to these children the following influenza season.* This recommendation applies only to the influenza season that follows the first year that a child younger than 9 years receives influenza vaccine.

4. Two of the 3 strains in the 2006–2007 influenza vaccine are different from last year’s vaccine. On the basis of global surveillance of influenza virus isolates, the influenza vaccine formulated for this season contains new components to match the strains expected to circulate this year.
5. Amantidine and rimantadine should not be prescribed during this influenza season. Widespread resistance to these antiviral medications now exists among influenza A viral strains. Therefore, the only antiviral therapies available for chemoprophylaxis or treatment of influenza in children this year are the neuraminidase inhibitors (ie, oseltamivir or zanamivir), which should be prescribed as recommended in the Red Book: 2006 Report of the Committee on Infectious Diseases.
6. Influenza vaccine should be offered throughout the influenza season, well into late winter and up to May 1, 2007. Because the influenza season peaks in January and February and often extends into March and beyond, administration of influenza vaccine later in the season can still offer protection to recipients during that specific influenza season. Therefore, if a child requires 2 doses of the influenza vaccine this year, the second dose can still be given later in the season. There may be more than 1 peak of activity during an influenza season, so later immunization may still help protect from a later peak caused by a different strain of the influenza virus that season (Fig 2).
7. Outreach and infrastructure to immunize more children should be developed. All health care professionals, influenza campaign organizers, and public health agencies should work together, especially if prioritization for administering influenza vaccine is indicated when vaccine supplies become delayed or limited.

INFLUENZA VACCINES

Tables 1 and 2 summarize information on the 2 types of influenza vaccine used to immunize both children and adults—trivalent inactivated influenza vaccine (TIV) and live-attenuated influenza vaccine (LAIV)—as well as the licensed age group of each available preparation. Both vaccines contain 3 virus strains (2 strains of influenza A [subtypes H1N1 and H3N2] and 1 strain of influenza B) that are selected annually on the basis of the viruses anticipated to be circulating during the upcoming influenza season. Children with serious allergies to chicken or egg proteins should not receive these vaccines, because both TIV and LAIV are developed with embryonated hen eggs. Inactivated influenza vaccine is preferred for close contacts of very severely immunosuppressed people.

TIV is an inactivated vaccine, administered intramuscularly, that contains killed viruses and, therefore, cannot produce signs or symptoms of influenza caused by active virus infection. The most common symptoms associated with TIV administration are soreness at the injection site and fever. Fever, usually occurring 6 to 24 hours after immunization, affects approximately 10% to 35% of children younger than 2 years. Mild systemic symptoms such as nausea, lethargy, headache, muscle aches, and chills also can occur with TIV injection.

TIV is administered intramuscularly into the anterolateral thigh of infants and young children and into the deltoid muscle of older children and adults (injection-site recommendations are outlined in the Red Book: 2006 Report of the Committee on Infectious Diseases). Recent concerns about thimerosal have prompted some parents to reconsider influenza immunization. However, the benefits of protecting children against the known risks of influenza far outweigh the theoretic risks associated with the small amounts of thimerosal in some currently available forms of influenza vaccine. In addition, certain types of TIV without thimerosal can be obtained, including single-dose Fluzone (sanofi pasteur, Swiftwater, PA) and Fluvirin (Novartis Vaccines, Emeryville, CA), but the latter is not licensed for children younger than 4 years.

LAIV is a live-attenuated vaccine that is administered intranasally and is licensed by the Food and Drug Administration for healthy individuals 5 through 49 years of age. LAIV has the potential to produce mild signs or symptoms related to influenza virus infection. The cold-adapted formulation that is licensed in the United States must be stored at –15°C or colder. LAIV may be stored in frost-free freezers without using a freezer box. When the vaccine is warmed to room temperature for intended use, it must be used within 30 minutes. It should not be refrozen after thawing because of decreased vaccine potency.

CURRENT RECOMMENDATIONS

Immunization with TIV is recommended for the following groups (Fig 1):

* Healthy children 6 through 59 months of age
* High-risk children 6 months and older and adolescents with underlying medical conditions, including:

-> Asthma or other chronic pulmonary diseases such as cystic fibrosis
-> Hemodynamically significant cardiac disease
-> Immunosuppressive disorders or therapy
-> HIV infection
-> Sickle cell anemia and other hemoglobinopathies
-> Diseases requiring long-term salicylate therapy, such as rheumatoid arthritis or Kawasaki disease
-> Chronic renal dysfunction
-> Chronic metabolic disease such as diabetes mellitus
-> Any condition that can compromise respiratory function or handling of secretions or can increase the risk of aspiration, such as cognitive dysfunction, spinal cord injuries, seizure disorders, or other neuromuscular disorders

* Any female who will be pregnant during influenza season

To prevent additional cases of influenza and transmission from these patients to at-risk individuals, influenza immunization with TIV or LAIV is recommended for the following persons, unless contraindicated:

* Healthy household contacts and out-of-home caregivers of either high-risk children and adolescents or children younger than 5 years; immunization of close contacts of children younger than 6 months is especially important, because influenza vaccine is not licensed for use in these infants
* Healthy contacts and caregivers of other children or adults at high risk of complications from influenza infection
* Close contacts of immunosuppressed people
* Health care professionals or volunteers in hospitals or medical offices

Children or adolescents should not receive TIV if they

* Had a severe allergic reaction to a previous dose or vaccine component, including eggs
* Are younger than 6 months
* Have a moderate-to-severe febrile illness (minor illnesses, with or without fever, do not contraindicate use of TIV, particularly among children with mild upper respiratory tract symptoms or allergic rhinitis)
* Had Guillain-Barré syndrome within 6 weeks after a previous dose of influenza vaccine

Children or adolescents should not receive LAIV if they

* Are younger than 5 years
* Have a moderate-to-severe febrile illness
* Received other live-antigen vaccine(s) within the last 4 weeks
* Had a severe allergic reaction to a previous dose or vaccine component, including eggs
* Are receiving salicylates
* Have a known or suspected immunodeficiency
* Have a history of Guillain-Barré syndrome
* Have asthma or reactive airways disease
* Have other conditions traditionally considered to place them at high risk of severe influenza (chronic pulmonary or cardiac disorders, pregnancy, chronic metabolic disease, renal dysfunction, hemoglobinopathies, or immunosuppressive therapy)

PRECAUTIONS

Consideration of the potential risks and benefits of administering influenza vaccine to any child with known or suspected immunodeficiency is discussed in the Red Book: 2006 Report of the Committee on Infectious Diseases.

Precaution also should be taken when considering LAIV administration to persons with minor acute illness such as a mild upper respiratory tract infection with or without fever. Although the vaccine can most likely be given in this case, LAIV should be temporarily deferred if nasal congestion will impede the delivery of the vaccine to the nasopharyngeal mucosa until the congestion-inducing illness is resolved.

LAIV or TIV can be used to prevent influenza in those who are in close contact with most immunosuppressed individuals. People who are in contact with severely immunosuppressed individuals, such as those being cared for in a protective environment after hematopoietic stem cell transplantation, should not receive LAIV. For such individuals, TIV is recommended.

Committee on Infectious Diseases, 2006–2007

Joseph A. Bocchini, Jr, MD, Chairperson

Robert S. Baltimore, MD

Henry H. Bernstein, DO

John S. Bradley, MD

Michael T. Brady, MD

Penelope H. Dennehy, MD

Margaret C. Fisher, MD

Robert W. Frenck, Jr, MD

David W. Kimberlin, MD

Sarah S. Long, MD

Julia A. McMillan, MD

Lorry G. Rubin, MD

Liaisons
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ABSTRACT
KEY POINTS RELEVANT FOR…
INFLUENZA VACCINES
CURRENT RECOMMENDATIONS
PRECAUTIONS
Committee on Infectious…
Liaisons
Ex Officio
Consultant
Contributors
Staff
IMPORTANT RESOURCES

Richard D. Clover, MD

American Academy of Family Physicians

Marc A. Fischer, MD

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Richard L. Gorman, MD

National Institutes of Health

Douglas R. Pratt, MD

Food and Drug Administration

Anne Schuchat, MD

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Benjamin Schwartz, MD

National Vaccine Program Office

Jeffrey R. Starke, MD

American Thoracic Society

Jack Swanson, MD

Practice Action Group

Ex Officio
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ABSTRACT
KEY POINTS RELEVANT FOR…
INFLUENZA VACCINES
CURRENT RECOMMENDATIONS
PRECAUTIONS
Committee on Infectious…
Liaisons
Ex Officio
Consultant
Contributors
Staff
IMPORTANT RESOURCES

Larry K. Pickering, MD

Red Book Editor

http://aappolicy.aappublications.org/cgi/content/full/pediatrics;119/4/846