Hundreds fall ill after having swine flu jab

herald.ie | Dec 14, 2009

By Clodagh Sheehy

Swine flu vaccine has caused adverse reactions in 619 people to date, varying from seizures and anaphylactic shock to fainting and vomiting.

Two more people have died from the flu but the number of people falling ill with the virus has halved in the past week.

More than 400,000 vaccinations against swine flu have been carried out, according to the latest figures from the Irish Medicines Board which details the reported side effects for both forms of the vaccines — Pandemrix and Celvapan.

Of the 619 people who showed side effects to the vaccine, 52 had an allergic reaction and three of these went into anaphylactic shock.

Altogether 210 children reacted adversely to the vaccine, 15 with an allergic reaction and some of the children needed hospital treatment as a result.

Forty pregnant women reported side effects, four of them allergic and one woman, with a history of miscarriage, lost her baby.

Six people had seizures, two people reported facial palsy and the IMB was made aware of the death of one patient 10 days after vaccination but says the patient had an underlying condition and there was no evidence of a link between the vaccine and the patient’s death.

“Most people receiving the vaccine have serious and/or chronic underlying medical conditions which put them at greater risk of developing serious complications of swine flu,” says the board adding “this is why it is important for these people to be vaccinated as a priority”.

Generally the reactions included flu-like illness, head-ache, dizziness and fainting, pins and needles, transient weakness of the vaccinated limb and nausea and vomiting.

The latest people to die from swine flu were two men with underlying illnesses, one from the east and the other from the south of the country, bringing the total deaths to 20.

Health officials say there has been a marked decline in the spread of the virus in the past week, down to 5,500 new cases compared to 10,500 the previous week.

£500 million spent on Temiflu but British medical journal says it doesn’t work

Benefits of Tamiflu are overated claim experts

express.co.uk | Dec 9, 2009

By Victoria Fletcher

TAMIFLU does not work on healthy patients who get swine flu, experts have claimed.

An investigation by the British Medical Journal has found no robust data to prove that Tamiflu prevents swine flu from becoming a serious condition.

In what could prove an acute embarrassment to the Government, analysis by two teams of academics suggests that the benefits of Tamiflu were vastly over-estimated.

And it could call into question the Government’s decision to spend £500million stockpiling the drug.

The research, published in the BMJ online, reviewed a number of studies looking at how well Tamiflu works in otherwise healthy patients.

Some of the data was provided by the drug’s manufacturer Roche. But after some research was thrown out of the analysis, experts said they could only find evidence to prove Tamiflu reduces the length of illness by a day.

Although they admitted it was of great use in reducing the severity of swine flu in people with underlying health conditions, they said this was not the case in “healthy” swine flu victims.

Dr Fiona Godlee, editor-in-chief of the BMJ, said there was not enough good research on Tamiflu to prove it works on healthy patients. “Governments around the world have spent billions of pounds on a drug that the scientific community now finds itself unable to judge,” she said.

The news came as another area of the Government’s pandemic flu campaign also descended into chaos. Health Secretary Andy Burnham announced that under-fives will be offered the swine flu jab in the next three weeks.

But it quickly emerged that GP leaders were not on-board with the plan, following a row over how much they would be paid. While the Government wants to pay £5.25 for each jab given, the British Medical Association said this was not enough.

The impasse means local health bosses will have to step into the breach and negotiate a pay deal with family doctors or ask pharmacists and district nurses to provide the jabs instead.

Last night the Government stood by its decision to offer Tamiflu to all patients.

A spokesman said: “On November 30 the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies reviewed the most up-to-date available evidence on anti-viral use and concluded that it clearly continues to point towards a benefit in those with severe illness.”

A spokesman for Roche said that they “firmly believe in the robustness of the data”.

British researchers: little evidence Tamiflu works

The researchers said the benefits of Tamiflu were small and that authorities should consider its side effects before using the drug in healthy people.

AP | Dec 8, 2009

By MARIA CHENG

LONDON — British researchers say there is little evidence Tamiflu stops complications in healthy people who catch the flu, though public health officials contend the swine flu drug reduces flu hospitalizations and deaths.

Researchers at the Cochrane Review, an international nonprofit that reviews health information, looked at previously published papers on Tamiflu as used for seasonal flu. They found insufficient data to prove whether the antiviral reduces complications like pneumonia in otherwise healthy people but concluded the drug shortens flu symptoms by about a day. The papers were published online Tuesday in the British journal, BMJ.

The researchers said the benefits of Tamiflu were small and that authorities should consider its side effects before using the drug in healthy people. While the reviewed studies only looked at Tamiflu use for seasonal flu, the experts said their conclusions raised questions about the widespread use of the drug in people with any flu-like illness, including swine flu.

Fiona Godlee, BMJ’s editor, said the papers cast doubt not only on how safe and effective Tamiflu is, but on the drug regulatory system that approved it. “Governments around the world have spent billions of pounds (dollars) on a drug that the scientific community now finds itself unable to judge,” she said in a statement.

But the World Health Organization disagreed. They said data from countries around the world show that when given early, Tamiflu can reduce the severity of swine flu symptoms, though the agency recommends the drug be saved for people at risk of complications, like pregnant women, the elderly, children, and those with underlying medical problems.

“This will not change our (Tamiflu) guidelines,” said Charles Penn, a WHO antivirals expert. Penn said that while past studies show Tamiflu only has a modest benefit, when patients with severe illness or at risk of complications are treated early, there are fewer hospitalizations and deaths.

And Roche, the maker of Tamiflu, defended the drug, saying in a statement that they “firmly believe in the robustness of the data.”

Both the British researchers and WHO said there is little evidence to support the widespread use of Tamiflu in otherwise healthy people — precisely the policy Britain has adopted to fight swine flu.

In addition to recommending Tamiflu be saved for at-risk groups, WHO recommends Tamiflu only be used on a doctor’s recommendation.

In Britain, however, Tamiflu is regularly dispensed to healthy people who catch the flu. The drug is given out via a national swine flu hotline by call center workers with no medical training.

Swine Flu “Pandemic” could be mildest since modern medicine began documenting influenza outbreaks

H1N1 toll likely to be lower, but vaccinations are still encouraged

Washington Post | Dec 8, 2009

Flu pandemic could be mild

By Rob Stein

With the second wave of H1N1 infections having crested in the United States, leading epidemiologists are predicting that the pandemic could end up ranking as the mildest since modern medicine began documenting influenza outbreaks.

Experts warn that the flu is notoriously unpredictable, but several recent analyses, including one released late Monday, indicate that the death toll is likely to be far lower than the number of fatalities caused by past pandemics.

The predictions are being met with a mix of skepticism, relief and trepidation: Public health officials worry that people may become complacent about getting vaccinated, which could prove disastrous if a third wave of infections swells later this winter or the virus mutates into a more dangerous form.

“I think it is very likely to be the mildest pandemic on record,” said Marc Lipsitch, an epidemiology professor at the Harvard School of Public Health, who led a federally funded analysis with researchers at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and elsewhere published online Monday by the journal PLoS Medicine.

The analysis, based on data collected in New York City and Milwaukee, indicates that the virus may directly cause 6,000 to 45,000 deaths by the end of the winter, with the final toll probably falling between 10,000 and 15,000, Lipsitch said. In the worst-case scenario, the swine flu pandemic would kill no more than about 60,000 people, his new analysis concluded.

Several experts noted that even if the overall death toll does end up being relatively low, the pandemic already has taken an unusually high number of children and young adults.

“We’ve had hundreds of deaths among children, which is a tragedy any way you look at it,” said Anne Schuchat, director of the CDC’s National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases.

A typical flu season is associated with an average of 36,000 deaths in the United States, and an estimate released in August by a presidential advisory panel that Lipsitch was involved in predicted that the 2009 H1N1 virus could kill 30,000 to 90,000 in this country.

“Those were the best estimates we could make at the time based on the data available at the time,” he said. “We now have much better data to make estimates from.”

When the presidential council’s estimate was made, experts thought the virus could make up to 30 percent of the population sick. So far, the virus appears to be causing symptoms in a much smaller proportion, perhaps 15 percent, Lipsitch said.

The new analysis also indicates that the pandemic’s “symptomatic case-fatality ratio” — the percentage of those who become ill and die — has been far lower than the previous three pandemics.

“If things continue as they’ve gone so far, this could turn out to be quite mild,” said Ira M. Longini Jr., a professor of biostatistics at the University of Washington in Seattle who has calculated a similarly low case-fatality rate based on CDC data.

Several experts praised the new analysis as the most sophisticated and therefore reliable to date.

“From what we know now, it would appear this is the mildest, both compared to 1968 and 1957 and certainly 1918,” said Neal M. Ferguson, an epidemiologist at Imperial College in London who advises the World Health Organization and the Health and Human Services Department. The pattern appears to be consistent in other developed countries, such as Britain, he noted.

Others, however, cautioned that previous pandemics have produced deadly late-winter waves, which could occur in this case. More older people could also become infected, which could also increase the toll.

“I would hold my horses until we are through the winter,” said Lone Simonsen, a research professor at George Washington University.

To encourage Americans to continue to get vaccinated, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius announced a new multimedia advertising campaign Monday aimed at countering complacency. After a slow start, more than 80 million doses of vaccine are now available, she said.

“We have to seize this opportunity as disease is going down slightly to remind folks how important this is,” she said.

While agreeing that people should continue to be inoculated, Lipsitch and others said they doubt that a major increase in deaths would occur in a third wave without some significant shift in the virus.

“There’s a faint possibility,” Ferguson said. “But I don’t think there will be a major change.”

One major reason for the relatively low death toll is that the elderly have largely been unaffected, apparently because many have some immunity against the disease. The 36,000 deaths blamed on a typical flu season include many that are caused by heart attacks, strokes and other complications associated with the flu among seniors and people with other health problems. About 9,000 deaths are directly caused by the influenza virus during a typical flu season.

“Sometimes Mother Nature throws us a break,” said Howard Markel, director of the Center for the History of Medicine at the University of Michigan.

But other factors may also be playing a role, including the virus being less likely to cause illness than viruses involved in previous pandemics, as well as better medical care available than in previous decades, such as antiviral drugs and more sophisticated intensive-care techniques.

“In 1918, it was really prehistoric medical care,” Markel said. “In 1957, we really didn’t have intensive care. In 1968, we were starting to have it, but it was nothing like we have today.”

Nonetheless, Lipsitch and others stressed that the multibillion-dollar vaccination campaign and other intense responses were appropriate, given the uncertainty of what the nation and world was facing.

“We got lucky,” Lipsitch said. “But if we didn’t have a plan in place and we had 60,000 or 70,000 deaths, people would have been justifiably outraged.”

Swine Flu Deaths Much Lower Than Expected

As swine flu begins to wane, researchers are starting to get a grasp of the virus’ magnitude this season and it’s a lot less severe than originally forecast.

portfolio.com | Dec 7, 2009

The current wave of swine flu in the U.S. will result in a death toll only slightly higher or even lower than that caused by seasonal influenza in a typical year, according to research published in the journal PLoS Medicine. The government-backed researchers looked at flu cases in Milwaukee and New York from last spring to make projections.

An average of 36,000 people die from influenza-related causes every year in the U.S., the researchers say. Under one scenario, the U.S. death rate from swine flu could be as low as 7,800 to 29,000 deaths. However, children up to 4 years old were among those affected the most by the disease and a lull in the virus’ spread could be temporary, the scientists warn. The flu could return in January.

That’s not to say some companies didn’t make some money off the flu. Big drug companies produced millions of shots, while drug-store chains saw sales stoked by cold and flu medicines, hand sanitizer and clinical services.

European drug makers AstraZeneca Plc, Novartis AG, Sanofi-Aventis SA, GlaxoSmithKline Plc and Australia’s CSL Ltd. sold 250 doses of swine flu vaccine to the U.S. government, and worldwide sales of shots helped boost sales for these companies.

Meanwhile, Walgreen Co. and CVS Caremark Corp. sold more cold and flu medicines, hand sanitizer as they administered vaccines in their stores in hopes of showing off their clinical services.

H1N1 pandemic ending with a whimper, not a bang

A masked girl sits with a classmate at a kindergarten in a residential estate in Hong Kong on Jun. 11, 2009. Photograph by: Mike Clarke, AFP/Getty Images

“There was never any evidence, not from Day 1, and not anytime since, that this strain of flu was going to be a particularly dangerous strain, either in terms of its capacity to make people sick or its capacity to kill people.” – Philip Alcabes, associate professor in urban public health at Hunter College’s School of Health Sciences in the City University of New York.

Canwest News Service | Dec 4, 2009

By Sharon Kirkey

With H1N1 poised to enter history as the least deadly of four global flu pandemics, some experts are calling for an end to Canada’s mass vaccination program.

Nature is already achieving what we would hope to achieve by vaccinating, they say.

H1N1’s “reproductive number” — the number of people each infected person passes the virus to — was above one when the epidemic began, which led to the explosive initial increase in cases.

Now it is less than one, because many people have become immune, and each old case is making less than one new case. When the reproductive number falls below one, the epidemic can’t sustain itself, and fades away.

The drop in cases suggests Canada has hit the critical fraction of the population that needs to be vaccinated to control the pandemic, says Dr. David Fisman, a University of Toronto expert in infectious disease dynamics.

Fisman can’t understand the rational for continuing mass vaccinations. He said that for a virus as contagious as H1N1, fewer than 30 per cent of the population needed vaccination to reach a critical level of immunity.

“I’m sure that the vaccine has prevented some deaths. I’m sure that there are people who are alive right now who would not have been alive if we hadn’t vaccinated,” he says. But the pandemic was already peaking, and then subsiding before the vaccination was rolling out in force.

“That’s nobody’s fault, that’s just how long it took to make a vaccine against a brand new virus. Those were the cards we were dealt,” says Fisman, an associate professor of infectious diseases epidemiology at the University of Toronto’s Dalla Lana School of Public Health.

Despite that view, Canada’s top doctor this week pleaded with Canadians to get vaccinated if they have not already done so. Chief public health officer David Butler-Jones said that, while 30 per cent of the population is now immune to H1N1, either because they have been vaccinated or because they have already been infected, “millions” of people are still at risk of infection.

Someone vaccinated today may be protected against infection two weeks from now, “if there is still enough of (H1N1) kicking around,” Fisman says. But the benefit diminishes the further into the future we go, and he says other public health programs have suffered as staff and resources were redeployed to the H1N1 campaign. In some jurisdictions, breastfeeding support programs, sexually transmitted diseases clinics and other usual activities were cancelled or postponed as public health was forced to bear the brunt of delivering the largest immunization program in Canada’s history.

“At this point, in terms of saying everybody must get vaccinated because there is a pandemic abroad, it’s kind of done,” Fisman says.

H1N1 will likely die out with a death rate lower than that for regular seasonal flu.

Harvard University infectious disease expert Marc Lipsitch is pegging H1N1’s case fatality rate — the proportion of people infected with a disease who die of it — at less than 0.1 per cent, placing human swine flu in a category 1 pandemic, the lowest level of severity for a worldwide disease outbreak. Swine flu’s case fatality rate is less than what was seen for the three worldwide flu outbreaks in the 20th century: 1918, 1957 and 1968.

Unless the virus mutates, and there is no strong sign H1N1 is becoming noticeably different, “it’s almost certainly going to be the mildest of the four (pandemics) that we have good data on,” says Lipsitch, a professor of epidemiology at the Harvard School of Public Health.

When the World Health Organization declared the pandemic in June, officials warned the rogue virus threatened all of humanity. The reality is so far proving strikingly different from what was expected.

The world agency, and Canada, had done their pandemic planning with a different flu virus in mind. They spent five years watching H5N1, or “bird flu,” which kills up to 60 per cent of those it infects.

We got off lucky when the real pandemic hit, WHO says, but the public doesn’t always understand that.

“Adjusting public perceptions to suit a far less lethal virus has been problematic,” WHO said in a statement Thursday, issued in response to media reports that ties with the drug industry among expert advisers may have influenced WHO’s policy decisions related to H1N1.

“Given the discrepancy between what was expected and what has happened, a search for ulterior motives on the part of WHO and its scientific advisers is understandable, though without justification.

“WHO has consistently assessed the impact of the current influenza pandemic as moderate. WHO has consistently reminded the medical community, public and the media that the overwhelming majority of patients experience mild influenza-like illness and recover fully within a week, even without any form of medical treatment.”

But some critics say WHO set itself up for blame.

“They had been talking for years about the possibility of some kind of reprise of the 1918 pandemic,” says Philip Alcabes, author of Dread: How Fear and Fantasy Have Fueled Epidemics from the Black Death to the Avian Flu. “A huge amount of money and person power was devoted to preparing” for the next outbreak, he says.

But, “there was never any evidence, not from Day 1, and not anytime since, that this strain of flu was going to be a particularly dangerous strain, either in terms of its capacity to make people sick or its capacity to kill people,” says Alcabes, associate professor in urban public health at Hunter College’s School of Health Sciences in the City University of New York.

“Yet that’s the story that’s always been told, almost every single day since it appeared in April. ‘We don’t know what’s going to happen.’ Essentially, ‘the sky might fall.’”

Lipsitch, of Harvard, says that when the first reports were coming out of Mexico, the case fatality rate estimates were as high as four per cent, which is twice the rate for the 1918 Spanish flu.

“If you don’t know how bad your enemy is, you plan as if it’s bad, and you hope that you’re over-planning. In this case, that’s exactly what was done,” he says.

“I think the response has been appropriate for what we knew at each stage, but what we know has changed, because the data gets better.”

South Korean student dies after receiving A/H1N1 vaccine

digitaljournal.com | Nov 30, 2009

By Andrew Moran

On Monday, a South Korean student died of cerebral hemorrhage after receiving the A/H1N1 vaccination but officials have stated the student’s death is completely unrelated to the vaccine.

Digital Journal reported earlier this month that two Chinese people immediately died after taking the H1N1 vaccine, a Quebec man passed away moments after the vaccine and that others have been diagnosed with Guillain-Barre Syndrome.

Now, according to Xinhua, a South Korean student has died four days after receiving the A/H1N1 vaccination.

The Ministry of Health, Welfare and Family Affairs revealed that the student, whose identity will not be released to the public, died of cerebral hemorrhage but was unrelated to the inoculation. The Ministry came to this conclusion after the health ministry, the Korea Food and Drug Administration and the National Institute of Scientific Investigation suggested there was no direct link.

The Malaysian Insider reports that after it was released that the student died after the vaccination, health authorities conducted tests of 516 children and only 70 have had minor side-effects and the symptoms vanish with a few days.

Computer tomography further showed that the child had a prior medical condition, which may have been caused by an aneurysm in the brain, reports People Daily.

Heartbreaking Stories From People Who Have Had Their Lives Destroyed By H1N1 Swine Flu Vaccine

70 Heartbreaking Stories From People Who Have Had Their Lives Destroyed By H1N1 Swine Flu Vaccine Side Effects

organichealthadviser.com | Nov 27, 2009

While a few stories about adverse reactions to the H1N1 swine flu vaccine have gotten into the mainstream media, the reality is that most mainstream media outlets are extremely hesitant to publish such stories.  The general belief in the media seems to be that if they publish a story about a “rare” adverse reaction to the H1N1 vaccine, then the general public may be discouraged from taking the vaccine and more people will get sick.  However, this is a totally false assumption by the media.  The truth is that reports of serious adverse reactions to the H1N1 swine flu vaccine are constantly pouring in.  In addition, the pharmaceutical companies who produced these vaccines spend millions of dollars to advertise on mainstream media outlets.  Do you think that the owners of those mainstream media outlets are going to do anything that will jeopardize that source of income?  The truth is that the mainstream media is not going to tell you the stories of those people who have had their lives destroyed by H1N1 swine flu vaccine side effects.  Since the mainstream media will not give these victims a voice, we will.

These are stories that you will not hear in the mainstream media.  The reality is that a significant number of people are being hurt by the H1N1 swine flu vaccine and people need to know.

What follows are unedited stories from victims of the H1N1 swine flu vaccine in which they share what has happened to them in their own words…..

#1) Margaret Densmore:

I GOT THE SHOT AND ALMOST DIED! I went into anaphlylatic shock, almost died and then (after getting out of ICU) proceeded to have two more extreme reactions over the course of 1 week. I went hystonic the second time and had excessive vomitting for two days as a third reaction, requiring hospitalization. I AM NOT ALLERGIC TO EGGS AND HAVE NEVER REACTED TO A VACCINE BEFORE. There were several reactions in my area within one day(one lady seizing within 5 minutes of me, one while I was waiting in line, another call while I was in the ambulance, but apparently NONE according to Health Canada. PLEASE USE MY EXPERIENCE AS AN EXAMPLE. GlaxoKlineSmith has immunity against prosecution. WHAT THE HELL DO THEY CARE IF THE VACCINE IS DEADLY? It has been 8 days and I am still suffering.

#2) Maureen Burke:

My family has a long history of vaccine injuries that are not reported as vaccine injuries. The list includes three cases of GBS in same family. My mom got her H1N1 shot on Monday of last week. She is high risk health care worker..I begged her not to get shot. But she did anyway to protect her residents. She thought she may be getting a cold on Wed. She went into resp and cardiac arrest on Sat. They say double pnumonia. septic. She has been on life support for the last five days. She is not breathing on her own, she is in medically induced heavy sedation/coma. One has something to do with the other..what does it take to get medically advised not to take these damn shots???

#3) Ebonee Jones:

I was released from the hospital this morning after delivering my stillborn 26 week old son last night. I am a firm believer that the swine flu vaccine I received a few weeks ago contributed to my son’s demise. My baby was very active and then I received the vaccine. After that, I noticed a change in his activity and then I noticed no movement over the weekend. When I went into the doctor’s office yesterday, there was no heartbeat and I was induced. I would not wish this pain on my worse enemy. To carry a child for 6 1/2 months and then lose him is worse than anything imaginable.

#4) Maja:

hi everyone, im 21 years old and I got the H1N1 shot on friday morning. Ive been on the fence about this shot for a few weeks but finally decided that I did not want to be a carrier and just to go for it.

About 5-10 minutes after the shot I fainted, but they let me go half an hour later when my blood pressure was back to normal. immediately i started to worry i was having severe allergic reactions or signs of GBS. About 2 hours later at work I started to get tingling sensations in my right leg (I got the shot in my left arm), and I started to worry. It is now about 30 hours post shot and i just came home from work because i had a panick attack that i was getting GBS. My right arm started to tingle a while ago, and i have what seems like a big lump in my throat (ive been crying so maybe its from crying). Currently my legs are tingling and i am a giant stressball.

#5) Katharine Theodosiou Loucaidou:

I got vaccinated 17 days ago. At first, had the sore arm and swollen lymph nodes which went away after 3 days… then day 4 woke up with weak legs… weakness progressed making it difficult to stand for more than 10 min. at a time. Was able to walk but felt very shaky. Day 11 woke up with arm in the same weakened state… as my legs. Weakness progressed to the point that I had to go to emerge on Day 14…did a battery of tests, which show nothing….. now Day 17 weakness in arm gone, but still in the legs…. has anyone had anything like this? I haven’t come across anyone with a similar reaction….I’m really concerned about when it’s going to go… GBS has been 100% ruled out…

#6) sm:

I live in Toronto, Canada and got the h1n1 non-adjuvanted vaccine for pregnant women on Tues Nov 10th. I was 4 1/2 wks along. I started spotting next day but tried not to worry because i thought it may have been implantation spotting, next day I started bleeding heavily. I have miscarried the baby. Like you i will never know if it was the vaccine or not however it is heartwrenching to go through something like this. I have had 2 healthy full term pregnancies, no history of miscarriages, am healthy so I know in my heart the vaccine had to do with my loss.

#7) Noell A.Teasley:

I had the H1N1 vaccination about 6 weeks ago and the needle became jammed (the medicine had to be transferred to a second needle) and hurt immensely; the second shot felt normal. The nurses at the health department said that they had had alot of trouble with the needles that the state had provided (they were bigger, lo…nger and less likely to work as well as the normal needles they use do). The injection was in my left arm and I still can not move it without severe pain. I have notified my doctor and the health department and they are quite concerned, but have no idea of what is the matter or what to do. I am posting this information in the hopes that it will be helpful in the research/tracking of the vaccine and would love to hear from anyone who has had similar reaction of suggestions for relief and/or a remedy!

#8) Ann:

My friend was diagnosed w/GBS today. She had the H1N1 vaccine on Tuesday. She woke up friday morn. with one side of her face paralized, now almost her whole face is paralized. She is starting blood and plasma transfusions tonight. She will be transferred to Barnes hospital soon for more extensive testing. To those who laugh at the severity of this strange, unknown sickness and vaccine I hope you stay informed and not ignorant.

#9) H. Gordon:

I am a 39 year old healthy female with no underlying health conditions and was feeling fine. I received the adjuvanted H1N1 shot on the afternoon of October 25/09 in Ottawa. I have had a reaction to the regular flu shot in the past so I do not get them; so I expected a reaction to this one as well. The reaction was much worse than I expected. By 9pm that evening I could barely move my arm it was so sore; I also felt a bit anxious and shaky. By 12:30 at night, I was sweaty and shaky and had a fever of 38.8 and lay awake unable to sleep till about 3:30 am. By the morning, I couldn’t lift my arm and my hand/wrist was swollen and I still had a fever…I took Tylenol and spent the day at home resting. I had wicked chills and my skin was crawling and I still had a fever. By the next morning, my fever had dropped to 37.5 and I started to feel better. It took a week to feel mostly back to normal. I then developed a really bad cold and sinus infection with a cough too so went to the doctor. Asked about the reaction to the shot and was told that likely I am allergic to one of the preservatives in the shot. Not a happy camper at all as I sat on the fence for awhile and tried to educate myself as best as I could before getting the shot.

#10) Felicia Kuo Wong:

I broke out in severe hives within 24 hours after the shot. Despite taking benadryl 50mg every 4 hours x 4 cycles, the hives just kept on getting worse to the point I was red like a lobster from my neck to my knees and it was spreading out more and more. I started Prednisone this afternoon and finally starting to get better!

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Medical Mafia Marches in the New World Order

NaturalNews | Nov 27, 2009

by Paul Fassa

A Benedictine Nun from inside a monastery in Barcelona exposed this premise. Sister Teresa Forcades, a former MD, gave a detailed analysis of the flawed pandemic reportage while warning of the dangers from a highly questionable vaccination for a relatively harmless flu.

In her video presentation, the brilliant nun also outlined the steps that were taken by the WHO (World Health Organization) for medical domination over the world. Investigative journalist Jon Rappoport also explained how the WHO is now set up to dominate the world as an agency of control.

The Step Approach for Control

Two steps forward and one step back has been a surreptitious method of gaining control for decades. For every advance a setback is assumed with multiple alternative plans ready to implement. “They” are in it for the long haul.

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70 Heartbreaking Stories From People Who Have Had Their Lives Destroyed By H1N1 Swine Flu Vaccine Side Effects

According to Rappoport, the WHO is an arm of the CFR (Counsel of Foreign Affairs), established by the Rockefeller family 90 years ago to create a one world order agenda. This agenda is falsely promoted as a benefit for mankind. John D. Rockefeller also established the AMA then. He who owns the gold makes the rules!

With pandemic alarms ringing, the medical monarchy comes to the rescue. But it’s actually a setup for world domination by a few.

Sister Forcades points out that the WHO changed its criteria for calling a pandemic from widespread morbidity (death rates) to only widespread infections in early 2009! The swine flu has lower morbidity than even the seasonal flu. What a coincidence! The savvy nun pointed out that this enabled the WHO to declare a level six pandemic with low morbidity.

Through a series of prior international agreements, this put the WHO in position to mandate vaccinations for 195 UN member nations. Sister Forcades pointed out that normally the WHO makes recommendations. But recommendations become legal mandates during a stage six pandemic.

Yet the swine flu is not even as widespread as reported. The WHO stopped counting infections in mid-summer of 2009! So current WHO/CDC statistics are highly inflated, as discovered recently by a CBS news program called Washington Unplugged.

After the CDC (Center for Disease Control) stonewalled CBS journalists’ request for an accurate count of swine flu cases, CBS surveyed all 50 state labs for confirmed swine flu cases. It turns out that most states reported less than five percent of suspected episodes as confirmed swine flu, and in most states over half those cases were not any flu at all!

But the WHO is big brother, and in the USA the CDC is calling some back door shots for the WHO.

Forced Vaccinations for Forced Health Insurance?

Resistance to overtly mandated vaccinations has risen. But a new angle has been approached in the USA. According to a health insurance industry website, the CDC has inserted a provision in the “health care” bill to withhold health care if vaccinations are not up to date.

What’s wrong with the WHO and the CDC having all this control? The medical establishment’s actual record speaks for itself. This medical monopoly has caused more death and bad health than any flu over the past 90 years. Here’s what is not publicly disclosed:

The annual death toll from AMA medical practices in the USA is 225,000. Of this, 106,000 deaths are from correctly prescribed FDA approved drugs. Disabilities or bad health consequences are not included.

World wide total (not annual) statistics from 15 years of flu scares? SARS – 774 deaths, West Nile Virus – 1088 deaths, Bird Flu – 262 deaths, Swine Flu – ?

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Vaccines and Pregnancy Do Not Mix

NaturalNews | Nov 17, 2009

by Paul Fassa

From an internet forum: “I got both vaccines [seasonal and swine flu] on Thursday. I was 9 weeks pregnant. I miscarried on Sunday. I was told by several doctors to get these vaccines. Now I wish I followed my gut feeling and not get them at ALL!” This is not an isolated case.

Here’s another report: “I feel like I had a healthy baby and I caused this by getting the H1N1 vaccine. My doctors pushed it. I researched online and there have been many miscarriages after the H1N1 vaccine but they haven’t been reported since it is hard to say what caused the miscarriages.”

She researched online, the only source reporting vaccination tragedies throughout the world.

Lies Under the Light of Truth

First of all, the Swine Flu is less harmful than a normal seasonal flu. Research with ferrets, real statistics released by independent researchers, as well as reports from uncorrupted medical authorities have confirmed this. The CDC and mainstream media bury that information. Instead, they circulate alarming false swine flu statistics.

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But one mainstream media outlet, CBS Washington Unplugged, did inadvertently reveal true swine flu statistics. They had tried to get information from the CDC about swine flu episodes actually confirmed. The CDC skirted the issue and stonewalled them.

So they surveyed all 50 USA state medical laboratories themselves. The results were that most states had confirmed five percent or less of reported cases as swine flu. Most labs reported half or more cases were not any kind of flu! So much for hysteria.

Dr. Michael Bronze of the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, stated on WebMD that the actual risk of pregnant women getting hospitalized for swine flu infections is one in 300 thousand.

The Australian/New Zealand’s flu season was surveyed by American epidemiological statisticians. The data from around the middle of that flu season indicated that pregnant women are 99.97 percent sure of avoiding hospital care for any flu.

Of those few admitted and held in ICU 7.7 percent died. Not a high figure. And even those few had other health complications prior to being infected with the swine flu.
Vaccinations Are The Real Danger.

According to Dr. Russel Blaylock, retired neurosurgeon and author of Excitotoxins: The Taste That Kills, various studies have proven that artificially stimulating the immune system causes a cytokine immune reaction that damages the forming brain of a fetus.

Throw in thimerosal mercury additives as well as formaldehyde and other toxic materials delivered in the vaccines. These circulate through the fetus if a pregnant woman is vaccinated. The child can become prone to seizures, autism, schizophrenia, and a host of other neurological problems.

There is the case of Desiree Jennings, the young Washington Redskins cheerleader who was diagnosed with dystonia by doctors at John Hopkins and Fairfax Inova. They determined her dystonia, which caused chronic severe spasms and partial paralysis, was a reaction to her seasonal flu shot.

Right, she wasn’t pregnant. She was also active and healthy. But her story links the miscarriage stories to Dr. Blaylock’s conclusion, “The bottom line is vaccinating a pregnant women is vary hazardous to the mother’s health as well as the baby.”

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