Swine flu vaccine safety questioned (AP Photo/Darren Calabrese)
Is the swine flu vaccine safe?
An article in this week's Time magazine reports that German politicians are being given a swine flu vaccine that is more safe than that provided for the general population.
The German public is understandably upset and demanding to know why they are being given vaccines with added "adjuvants" of which the safety is less certain. The swine flu vaccine being given to many Americans also includes untested adjuvants.
The Time article states that there have been a total of three deaths in Germany due to the swine flu. Yet like most media reports, the article then attempts to instill fear in readers, telling them not pay attention to these very small numbers. There is clearly a big push for this vaccine of questionable safety.
The fear mongering now is very much like that of the 1976 swine flu scare, in which over 40 million Americans received the swine flu vaccine. The vaccine that year was also claimed to be safe as a major media campaign spread fear of the dreaded swine flu around the nation.
Yet according to a CBS 60 Minutes report, only one person was eventually confirmed to have died from the swine flu itself in 1976, while the vaccine led to the death of hundreds and paralysis of thousands more. The government and media fear campaign filled the pockets of the drug companies which produced the vaccine with many millions of dollars, while the vaccine did much more harm than good to public health. Don't miss the highly revealing 60 Minutes video clip available here.
So is the current swine flu vaccine safe? Read the excerpts below from the Time magazine article.
As Germany launched its mass-vaccination program against the H1N1 flu virus on Monday, the government found itself fending off accusations of favoritism because it was offering one vaccine believed to have fewer side effects to civil servants, politicians and soldiers, and another, potentially riskier vaccine to everyone else. The German government prepared for its mass-vaccination campaign earlier this year by ordering 50 million doses of the Pandemrix vaccine.
The vaccine, manufactured by GlaxoSmithKline, contains an immunity-enhancing chemical compound, known as an adjuvant, whose side effects are not yet entirely known. The Interior Ministry confirmed that it had ordered a different vaccine, Celvapan, for government officials and the military. Celvapan, which is made by U.S. pharmaceutical giant Baxter, does not contain an adjuvant and is believed to have fewer side effects.
So one version of the swine flu vaccine has side effects which "are not yet entirely known." Yet all swine vaccines are claimed to be safe to people around the world. What's going on here? Are we being deceived? How strange that the vaccine with far fewer side effects is reserved for a small percentage of the population with the right connections in Germany. Obviously government officials want to be safe, yet they seem not to be so concerned with safety of the general populace.
This is only the tip of the iceberg of strange, yet little-known facts about the swine flu vaccine. Did you know, for instance, that earlier this year drug companies were given immunity from any potential lawsuits that might arise from people killed or injured by the vaccines? For more on this, click here.
Did you know that CBS News has reported that the number of swine flu cases has been greatly exaggerated, and the government blocked reporters in their investigation of this? Some states reported that only 1 - 2% of cases claimed to be swine flu in fact tested positive. For more on this click here.
Did you know that numerous experts in vaccines are questioning the safety of this swine flu vaccine campaign? For more on this, click here. Remember, too, that our tax dollars are paying for these vaccines, and drug companies are making billions in profit as a result, as reported by ABC News. For many other facts raising serious questions about the safety of the vaccine and more, click here.
The box below provides several ideas on what you can do to educate yourself and others on the vital topic of swine flu vaccine safety. We also invite you to comment below and let us know what you think. Should politicians be allowed to get a safer vaccine than the public?
What you can do:
- Inform your media and political representatives of this vital information. To contact those near you, click here. Urge them to investigate the safety of untested adjuvants in the swine flu vaccine and to make sure all have equal access to the safest vaccines.
- Read other reliable, eye-opening articles that the major media won't cover on swine flu vaccine safety and various other aspects of the swine flu at this link.
- Read concise summaries of revealing media reports on the flu scares available here.
- Learn more key information of vital importance to the health of you, your family, and your loved ones in the powerful lesson on health available here.
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Fred Burks served as personal language interpreter to Clinton, Bush, Cheney, Gore, and other top dignitaries in secret meetings. As part of an international network of researchers and news analysts, Fred obtains and disseminates key, reliable information about powerful, yet little-known forces which shape our world. For more, see articles and links in the right column of this page.
Comments
I do not understand what is it that is so confusing about the importance of the elite and their worth? We, the common folk are expandable, ready to be used as the an experimental group and the elite, well, we can not replace them, or can we? One polirician's life is worth at least a 1000 common lives, am I right? It would be nice if we could equate our worth, and all get the same treatment, but, then, .....well, it will never happen.
Oscar Wilde, once said: “There are three kinds of lies: ordinary lies, white lies, and statistics.” His point was that relying too heavily on statistics can be misleading.
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