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The H1N1 Swine Flu Pandemic: Manipulating Data to Enrich Drug Companies
Posted by USAHM News on October 13, 2010 in Become Aware | 0 Comment
By Project Censored

The H1N1 virus has spawned widespread panic and fear throughout the world. However, upon closer examination, many of the claims made by the World Health Organization (WHO) seem to be based on weak and incomplete data. The Atlanta-based Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has created and used data to grossly exaggerate the need for an expensive and unnecessary vaccine aimed at creating profits for the pharmaceutical industry—not protecting Americans.

The WHO claimed that a worldwide public health emergency had unfolded on an unprecedented scale in 2009, and 4.9 billion doses of H1N1 swine flu vaccine were needed to stop the spread. Very soon thereafter countries all around the globe began preparation for the inoculation of millions of people in accordance with WHO recommendations. In some countries the WHO recommended that the H1N1 vaccination be mandatory. However, most people were unaware that the data used by the WHO was faulty at best.

In the US, both federal and state governments began preparation for the pandemic. State governments are generally responsible for these preparations, in coordination with federal agencies. President Obama’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology released a report that “considered the H1N1 pandemic ‘a serious health threat’ to the US—not as serious as the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic but worse than the swine flu outbreak of 1976.” Responding to such terrifying language, Massachusetts’s legislation introduced hefty fines and prison sentences for those who refused to be vaccinated. The US military was expected to have an active role in this health emergency.

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H1N1 Is Back People!!! 2010
Posted by USAHM News on October 15, 2010 in Become Aware | 0 Comment


State health officials have documented the first case of the flu in New Hampshire this season. This means that we will be hearing more cases within the week. Figure this guy alone infected over twenty people.. Then those people will infect more people and then before you know it, it’s across the globe… Be prepared and don’t get the flu shot because it will make you only more sick… Don’t trust the Mainstream Media or Government data… Only Old people or people with immunity problems were the ones that died during 2009.. This H1N1 seems like a man made disease because it came out of no where.. Just another depopulation plan & a money maker..

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More than 300 patients in intensive care as flu sweeps the country

By Sophie Borland
Last updated at 4:31 PM on 21st December 2010
More than 300 flu victims are fighting for their lives in hospital, Government figures showed today.
Data from the Department of Health for England revealed there are 302 flu patients in intensive care beds.It is unclear how many have the H1N1 'swine flu' strain but they are expected to be in the majority. The figure is therefore likely to be higher than the 190 confirmed hospital cases so far.

During the swine flu pandemic of 2009, 474 people died from swine flu.
However, Professor Dame Sally Davies, interim chief medical officer for England, said: 'We have not got a pandemic.'
But she added: 'What makes this an unusual year is the (deaths) are in children and adults below the age of 65, whereas seasonal flu (deaths) are predominantly in the over-65s.'
Fewer patients than last year in at-risk groups, including pregnant women, have come forward for the seasonal flu jab, which also protects against swine flu.
Professor Davies said: 'We want more people to come forward for the vaccine, particularly pregnant women.'
So far there have been 14 confirmed deaths from swine flu and three more from Influenza B. However, new figures on the number of deaths from flu and swine flu will be released by the Health Protection Agency on Thursday.
Pregnant mother-of-four Fallon Devaney, 25, is just one of those in a critical condition in hospital after contracting swine flu last week.
Doctors fear that the baby is sapping Ms Devaney's strength - leaving her unable to fight the infection.
It is feared that the swine flu strain may have grown more virulent over the past 12 months with victims quickly becoming dangerously ill.
Intensive care units are warned to look out for the illness in new admissions, with medics urged to use antiviral medicines if they have the least suspicion a patient has it.
Hospital managers have been holding emergency meetings to draw up plans to tackle a further onslaught of cases.
It is thought the cold weather could cause a surge of admissions, putting intensive care units under massive strain.
Analysis by SDI Healthcare, which models flu rates based on reports from GPs and chemists, suggests infection rates are at a five-year high.

Too little: Unlike the last time there was a swine flu outbreak, the government has been accused of not doing enough to stop the virus spreading
It estimates that nine million Britons have been struck down – nearly one in six of the population. Twice the level seen this time last year, the infection rate is 36 per cent above normal, making it the worst flu outbreak in five years.
Three strains of influenza are in circulation: H1N1 or swine flu, flu B and H2N3. Swine flu is proving the most deadly and has claimed 14 of this winter’s 17 victims.
Pregnant women, the obese and asthmatics are at greater risk, with the virus far more common in those under the age of 65.
GPs blame the surge in cases in part on low vaccination rates, particularly among younger age groups.
The Government has also been accused of doing too little to prevent the spread of flu, such as using adverts to remind people to wash hands or catch sneezes in tissues.
Chip Schaible, an SDI Healthcare director, said last night: ‘We’ve seen an explosion in cases in the past two weeks
‘It is one of the highest peaks we’ve seen in the past ten years and significantly higher than the five-year average for this time of year.
‘At the moment it is too early to say whether it will get worse or whether rates will go down again.’
Bob Winter, of the Intensive Care Society, said: ‘We are certainly seeing more patients in intensive care this year compared with last year. They have a mixture of flu, mainly H1N1 and are aged 16 to 65.
‘It seems to be behaving differently from last year. The ones that are getting it seem to be getting it more seriously.
‘Last year most people got mildly ill. This year we have lots of people in intensive care when it doesn’t seem to be that high in the community.
‘Some are ordinary healthy people – it seems to be hitting pregnant women, the obese and those with underlying conditions such as asthma.
‘We’re only two weeks into it and we’re already seeing lots of patients. It has got the potential to get worse. Rates have increased quite rapidly over the past two weeks.'

Increase: Glenfield Hospital in Leicester has the largest ECMO unit in the country, and has seen the number of referrals triple in the last three weeks
The 16 most seriously-ill patients are on heart-lung machines, known as ExtraCorporeal Membrane Oxygenation units, which are usually used to treat premature babies unable to breathe for themselves.
Doctors say they are receiving five or six new referrals every day for this treatment.
Even at the height of the swine flu pandemic last year only 12 of these machines were ever in use at the same time.
Richard Firmin, director of the largest ECMO unit, at Glenfield Hospital in Leicester, said: ‘The numbers being referred have tripled in the past two or three weeks.
‘It appears to be a lot worse this year. We are receiving about half a dozen new referrals each day but not all these patients need to go on ECMO machines.’
The British Medical Association has warned that the seasonal flu outbreak could be much more serious this year because fewer people are being vaccinated.
As few 40 per cent of those under 65 in ‘at risk’ groups have had the jab.
Professor Lindsey Davies, president of the Faculty of Public Health, called for health adverts.
‘It’s really disappointing that there has not been a national campaign this year, like there was last year. People needed to be reminded to wash their hands regularly and catch sneezes in tissues,’ he said.
‘This may be one of the reasons it is worse this year. People forget these things and fall into bad habits.


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Two dead as France flu cases rise
December 29 2010 at 08:21pm



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French health watchdogs said the country was officially in the grip of a flu epidemic after 176 000 people had fallen sick, two of whom have died. Photo: AP

French health watchdogs said on Wednesday the country was officially in the grip of a flu epidemic after 176,000 people had fallen sick, two of whom have died.

To be classified as an epidemic, new cases of influenza recorded by doctors have to number more than 174 per 100,000 people per week.

This threshold was breached last week, when there were 280 cases per 100,000 people.

Three viral strains are to blame, including A(H1N1) 2009, which emerged last year as the novel “swine” flu, according to the epidemiological networks Regional Flu Observation Groups (GROG) and Sentinelles, which is operated by the National Institute of Health and Medical Research (Inserm).

On December 23, Britain's health authorities said 27 people had died of flu, 24 of them from swine flu.

Agencies in both countries have urged people in at-risk groups - particularly the elderly and those with respiratory problems -

to get vaccinated.

So-called “seasonal” flu epidemics are annual health problems in temperate countries with the onset of winter.

According to the World Health Organisation (WHO), flu epidemics result globally in about three to five million cases of severe illness per year and 250,000-500,000 deaths. -

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A Global Threat: Swine Flu

Swine flu has begun to make victims all over the world. What once appeared like a harmless cold has now turned into a world wide threat that has caused even the death of some people. Flu shoots have been provided but sometimes they do not reach people in time.

In Scotland swine flu has caused the first victims during the holidays, a mother and her new born child. The two died at a hospital in Preston, Lancashire leaving behind a heart broken husband and father. Julie Ellison, the mother, was only 31 years old. Another young mother is fighting for her life in a hospital in Ayrshire. She managed to give birth two weeks ago to a baby girl but right after the birth she was infected with swine flu and is now struggling for her life. Doctors induced a coma in order to treat her and the signs are now promising. Swine flu killed last year 69 people in Scotland alone.

Another pregnant woman in Somerset is also fighting for her life after her husband took her to the hospital on Christmas day because she was having problems breathing.27 years old Gemma Escott was diagnosed with swine flu and pneumonia and is currently on life support, in a state of induced coma the same as in the case of the Scotland pregnant woman. Her mother-in-law told reporters that everything started as a usual cold but her condition deteriorated quickly. They are now hoping for the best.

It may appear that there is no protection against the swine flu virus. People all over the world catch it with no apparent source of infection. Three female inmates in a Vancouver jail were also diagnosed these days with the virus and they were immediately treated. The swine flu is now a globally spread disease and it appears that for now there is no stopping it.

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En die nuutste...H2N2


Call to vaccinate against possible H2N2 flu pandemic By Dominic Hughes

Health correspondent, BBC News


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Governments should launch a vaccination programme now to guard against a possible H2N2 flu pandemic, according to an article in the journal Nature.

The US authors say immunity to the H2N2 flu strain is very low in people under the age of 50.

But a safe vaccine already exists after an H2N2 outbreak in the 1950s and '60s.

They say that vaccinating now could save billions of dollars if a pandemic does develop.

Dr Gary Nabel and colleagues from the Vaccine Research Centre in the US say H2N2 has the ability to cause a pandemic in the same way that H1N1 did in 2009.

Between 1957 and 1968, the strain is thought to have caused up to 4 million deaths in a global outbreak, during which time a vaccine was developed.

When the pandemic was over the H2N2 vaccination programme was stopped in the late 1960s, although the virus is still present today among birds and swine.

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The US Centres for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that a pandemic outbreak costs the United States between $71 billion and $167 billion”
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Gary J Nabel

Vaccine Research Centre
Vulnerability of Youth

That means older people will have been vaccinated against the virus, but the relatively young will have missed out - what the authors call the vulnerability of youth.

Between 2003 and 2007 they examined levels of immunity to H2N2 among a small group of 90 people.

"Our study suggests that people under the age of 50 have little or no immunity, and resistance dramatically increases for those older than 50. This was also the case for the 2009 H1N1."

They argue that the vaccine developed in the 1950s would still work today and that governments should use this to develop a pre-emptive vaccination programme.

"One approach would be to manufacture the vaccine licensed in 1957 and immunise enough of the world's population to provide 'herd immunity' to the rest.

"This could be achieved by a 'one-time' campaign to immunise most of the adult population worldwide - for example, as part of standard seasonal flu vaccinations - accompanied by an ongoing programme to administer the vaccine to children."

Cheaper option

The authors say this would be a much cheaper option than stockpiling the vaccine or waiting for a pandemic to strike before boosting production.

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Flu strains
There are three types of seasonal influenza - A, B and C
Influenza A viruses are further divided into various subtypes, including H1N1, H1N2, H3N2 and H2N2
H1N1 appeared in 2009 and spread around the world, becoming a pandemic
Source: World Health Organization
"Another major influenza pandemic is likely to cost far more and create a much greater health burden than a well-planned pre-emptive programme.

"The US Centres for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that a pandemic outbreak costs the United States between $71 billion and $167 billion."

Dr Wendy Barclay, Chair in Influenza Virology at Imperial College, says the H2 flu virus does pose a credible pandemic threat, as do other strains of bird flu.

But she believes there are some big questions about whether a pre-emptive vaccination programme would be welcomed by the public.

"Now we are in the calm after the storm of that swine flu pandemic, it is timely to open up the debate about pre-pandemic vaccines. As Dr Nabel himself points out in his article, we have to ask whether the public will want or accept a vaccine against a disease that does not at the moment exist.

"Work towards making such vaccines available is ongoing in many laboratories around the world.

"Scientifically we are in a position to be able to offer a good solution, the issues to be decided are of cost and of public attitude."
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