Flu Crimes

On the 7th of October, the BBC started hitting the public with its yearly dose of hyped flu propaganda. "The 1918 "Spanish" flu pandemic is estimated to have infected up to one billion people -- half the world's population at the time. The virus killed more people than any other single outbreak of disease, surpassing even the Black Death of the Middle Ages."(1) One can only wonder about "the miracle" of vaccines in those early days.

Today in England, with the most modern technology, we have a vaccine plant closing because of contamination. Imagine during World War I, when the pharmaceutical companies first started mass-producing vaccines. At that time, refrigeration was chancier and vaccine manufacturing technology primitive. Federal regulators said an inspection of Chiron's flu-vaccine plant in June 2003 turned up manufacturing problems, meaning they had ample warning of troubles that, over a year later, remained unresolved.

John Taylor, the FDA's associate commissioner for regulatory affairs, was correct in saying, last year, that "Chiron wouldn't necessarily be able to discover problems, identify the root cause and take steps to prevent similar issues from arising again." (2)

Why would we assume the early manufacturers of almost 100 years ago would do any better? Chiron's Fluvirin vaccine was pulled off the market after the dangerous serratia bacteria was found in a manufacturing plant that uses the most up-to-the-minute safeguards. Chiron also uses the mercury-based preservative thimerosal as a sterilizing agent in making Fluvirin, to prevent exactly this type of contamination. Before the 1930s, no such powerful preservative was available. It's not beyond reason or statistical probability that the vaccines back then were contaminated or seriously flawed in some way and provoked the epidemic that killed so many. Dr. Eleanor McBean, who lived through the 1918 Influenza epidemic, testified, "As far as I could find out, the flu hit only the vaccinated. Those who had refused the shots escaped the flu. My family had refused all the vaccinations so we remained well all the time. There was seven times more disease among the vaccinated soldiers than among the unvaccinated civilians, and the diseases were those they had been vaccinated against." (3)

Scare Tactics

It's quite normal for the medical establishment to bash the public with improbable stories of the past and "carrot stick" them with future fears saying things like this: Scientists believe the 1918 virus leapt to humans by mutating from bird flu, possibly after passing through pigs, which are able to harbor both human and avian viruses and thus allow them to swap genes as the viruses reproduce. For that reason, experts are deeply concerned that the avian flu that has broken out in poultry flocks in parts of south-east Asia may acquire genes that will make it highly infectious as well as lethal for humans. (4) This kind of speculation is simply that, speculation. Beliefs without substance. A good storyline to scare naïve people with. We can as easily believe the vaccines themselves killed hundreds of thousands of people because the pharmaceutical manufacturers had not developed safeguards or sufficient technology to ensure quality control.

"Influenza kills tens of thousands every year in this country and requires the hospitalization of about a quarter-million. In epidemic years, mortality can be in the millions,"(5) says Dr. Henry I. Miller, a fellow at the Hoover Institution and former director of the Office of Biotechnology, who seems not to have read the CDC's version (6), which puts 1918 flu deaths at only 500,000, the Asian Flu pandemic of 1957-58 at 70,000 and the Hong Kong Flu pandemic of 1968-69 at 34,000. Medical authorities, the media and doctors like Miller tend to have statistical hallucinations this time of year. Miller goes on to suggest, "The FDA should also make it clear that although the labeling for FluMist, the nasal vaccine, indicates that it is intended for recipients aged 5 to 49 years, it will likely also be effective in those younger or older."

FluMist was a disaster last year not only because it is expensive but because it is dangerous and comes with warnings that those who use it can become contagious for up to 21 days to those around them, because of it's live viruses. Miller, in some kind of manic need to sure up this year's flu campaign, would have it stuffed up the noses of babies even though the FDA has indicated this is not safe.

The CDC estimated that from 1990 to 1999, an average of approximately 92 influenza-related deaths occurred each year among children less than 5 years of age.(7)

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