Comments on: Changes to Next Season’s Flu Vaccine http://medheadlines.com/2008/02/24/changes-to-next-seasons-flu-vaccine/ Medical news updated 24 hours Fri, 19 Mar 2010 08:05:21 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 hourly 1 By: Justin Case http://medheadlines.com/2008/02/24/changes-to-next-seasons-flu-vaccine/comment-page-1/#comment-420 Justin Case Wed, 27 Feb 2008 21:44:37 +0000 http://medheadlines.com/2008/02/24/changes-to-next-seasons-flu-vaccine/#comment-420 I agree with Doreen 100%, and to add, the vaccine industry got a Carte Blanche PR campaign go-ahead from the CDC after the 2003 shortage. At the time the vaccine manufacturers asked that the vaccination base is expanded so it is economically feasible to produce the vaccine. The CDC did not want another shortage and agreed to an expanded campaign to include children over 6 mo old and healthy adults. There were very few safety and efficacy studies done to prove efficacy in these new groups. The 2003-2004 study performed on healthcare workers in Colorado failed to show benefit for ILI (influenza like Illness), but the the CDC editor still put a positive spin on it saying that the vaccine protects against influenza A and B. In fact, this has never been proven. For example there has never been a study that measures the percentage of people who got the vaccine and got the flu vs. the ones that didn't. I challenge ANY of the advocates to point us to a double-blind study that proves a benefit from the vaccine. Just one study like that would make a believer out of me! Many in healthcare seem to know this already and despite the constant nagging, and carefully crafted deceitful PR, only a minority of healthcare professionals gets the vaccine. Thankfully my family’s healthcare providers have not taken this bait and haven’t tried to push us in to flu vaccination. The vaccine today is “lab quality” at best and this latest re-engineering of the vaccine to something completely different for next year proves it. What is scary is that the reporters that first broke the story were harassed extensively. Thankfully they stuck to their guns. I don’t know about you but I hate being a guinea-pig or a lab mouse. Unfortunately my state (New Jersey) is forcing all pre-K and schoolchildren enrolling in daycare to get this ineffective and dangerous vaccine. It’s time to move out of here before my children reach 5 years of age. I agree with Doreen 100%, and to add, the vaccine industry got a Carte Blanche PR campaign go-ahead from the CDC after the 2003 shortage. At the time the vaccine manufacturers asked that the vaccination base is expanded so it is economically feasible to produce the vaccine. The CDC did not want another shortage and agreed to an expanded campaign to include children over 6 mo old and healthy adults. There were very few safety and efficacy studies done to prove efficacy in these new groups. The 2003-2004 study performed on healthcare workers in Colorado failed to show benefit for ILI (influenza like Illness), but the the CDC editor still put a positive spin on it saying that the vaccine protects against influenza A and B. In fact, this has never been proven. For example there has never been a study that measures the percentage of people who got the vaccine and got the flu vs. the ones that didn’t. I challenge ANY of the advocates to point us to a double-blind study that proves a benefit from the vaccine. Just one study like that would make a believer out of me! Many in healthcare seem to know this already and despite the constant nagging, and carefully crafted deceitful PR, only a minority of healthcare professionals gets the vaccine.
Thankfully my family’s healthcare providers have not taken this bait and haven’t tried to push us in to flu vaccination. The vaccine today is “lab quality” at best and this latest re-engineering of the vaccine to something completely different for next year proves it. What is scary is that the reporters that first broke the story were harassed extensively. Thankfully they stuck to their guns.
I don’t know about you but I hate being a guinea-pig or a lab mouse. Unfortunately my state (New Jersey) is forcing all pre-K and schoolchildren enrolling in daycare to get this ineffective and dangerous vaccine. It’s time to move out of here before my children reach 5 years of age.

]]> By: Doreen Carlson http://medheadlines.com/2008/02/24/changes-to-next-seasons-flu-vaccine/comment-page-1/#comment-416 Doreen Carlson Wed, 27 Feb 2008 18:01:45 +0000 http://medheadlines.com/2008/02/24/changes-to-next-seasons-flu-vaccine/#comment-416 Flu Vaccine Initiative 2008 – offers only mercury and excuses In the interest of marketing the flu vaccine, the CDC provides mortality rates of 36,000 EVERY YEAR. The last two years were mild yet flu = 36,000 deaths. The flu vaccine was in short supply in 2005, yet flu = 36,000 deaths. Since 1995, whether there are many or few vaccine recipients, flu = 36,000 deaths. Why no change? The deceit is obvious. The Feb 2005, Archives of Internal Medicine flu vaccine study states there is no measurable impact from the flu vaccine each year and "benefits of the flu vaccine are overstated". Marketing perceived benefits is NOT scientific proof. The only 100% guarantee with the flu vaccine is mercury exposure for the vast majority of unwitting recipients. As Dr Marie McCormick of the Harvard School of Public Health admits, "laboratory evidence points to the fact that mercury is not good for you.." Of course! For flu vaccine recipients this year - they got nothing but excuses, mercury and possibly a case of the flu. Next year, they can expect more marketing hype and more mercury along with "36,000 deaths", regardless of the flu vaccine program. Flu Vaccine Initiative 2008 – offers only mercury and excuses

In the interest of marketing the flu vaccine, the CDC provides mortality rates of 36,000 EVERY YEAR. The last two years were mild yet flu = 36,000 deaths. The flu vaccine was in short supply in 2005, yet flu = 36,000 deaths. Since 1995, whether there are many or few vaccine recipients, flu = 36,000 deaths. Why no change?

The deceit is obvious. The Feb 2005, Archives of Internal Medicine flu vaccine study states there is no measurable impact from the flu vaccine each year and “benefits of the flu vaccine are overstated”. Marketing perceived benefits is NOT scientific proof.

The only 100% guarantee with the flu vaccine is mercury exposure for the vast majority of unwitting recipients. As Dr Marie McCormick of the Harvard School of Public Health admits, “laboratory evidence points to the fact that mercury is not good for you..” Of course!

For flu vaccine recipients this year - they got nothing but excuses, mercury and possibly a case of the flu. Next year, they can expect more marketing hype and more mercury along with “36,000 deaths”, regardless of the flu vaccine program.

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