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The first known victim of the swine flu was five year old Edgar Hernandez, who lives in the town of La Gloria in Mexico.
La Gloria is part of the municipality of Perote – where an outbreak of flu and chest infections has affected 1,600 people out of a population of 3,000 since February.
The high death rate from flu in Mexico is down to poverty – people living in cramped, overcrowded conditions with poor nutrition and little access to healthcare.
At the heart of Perote is Granjas Carroll – one of the country’s largest pig farms.
Some 50 percent of the operation is owned by the US-based corporation Smithfield Foods. It produces close to a million pigs a year.
Originally posted by unicorn1
reply to post by seattletruth
'Atleast we can all agree now that taking the vaccine isn't the smartest choice, the D225G mutation has shown to be resistant.'
Am I missing something? I didn't see an actual consensus on this.
It really depends how widespread the variant is. Some people might argue that the vaccine still offers protection to the original strain and is therefore better than nothing.
Don't get me wrong, at the moment I have no intention of getting the vaccine. I can think of a few reasons not to get the vaccine but I don't understand the one that says that because the D225 mutation is resistant, there is no point in getting it.
Is that what you are saying?
Originally posted by Kailassa
However if you were vaccinated instead you would be unlikely to have any immunity to it, and would be a sitting duck.
Originally posted by Kailassa
Originally posted by calohan
. . . .
GSK secret contract binds Government to SILENCE !
Dr Eric Beeth 2009-11-02 18:13:41
Dear all,
The Flu Case - I am a Swedish general practitioner working in Belgium, and quite involved in this issue, as together with three citizens and another GP we advised the Belgian Government last Friday in court that this is a disguised pharmaceutical trial on human subjects, with real risks involved.
(Snipped the text here!)
(to make the quote fit in the context of my post below, and making it a bit shorter/Chevalerous)
And what an informed consent it was.
One really needs to read that through a few times to grasp the full import.
For those who don't want to download a pdf, here's a copy/paste of the Pandemrix consent form.:
(bolding is mine)
Consequently, I the undersigned …………………………………………………………………….. certify that:
• I have been made aware of the risks incurred by this vaccination against the A/H1N1 virus, knowing that a large-scale study will take place during this current vaccination campaign 2009-2010, in order to establish whether the product presents, at its current stage of development, any side-effects in either the short, medium and/or long term;
• I have been informed that my doctor is under obligation to consign personal data relating to me (last name, first name, national register number together with the reference of the manufacturing batch of the product injected) to a centralised electronic data-bank called “e-health” under the auspices of the Belgian government; my doctor will likewise be required to supply additional data relating to the safety of the product over the coming years;
• I have been informed that the manufacturer of the vaccine has obtained legal immunity in the event of the appearance of side-effects, and that I will therefore have no means of appeal against the company GSK; I have also been informed that in the event of unspecified damages relating to this vaccine being brought against me, the law protects the administrator of the vaccine against any legal or administrative proceedings.
I have taken good account of the pros and cons of this vaccine, including the conditions under which it is being launched which constitute a counter-indication for vaccination with Pandemrix, a product containing squalene. I have fully understood the possible consequences, the risks and the benefits associated with this vaccine, and I agree to be vaccinated in full knowledge of these facts.
www.asanat.org...
By signing this you are agreeing to take part in a medical study.
You are agreeing to your doctor providing not only your present, but also your future details to "e-health".
You are agreeing that use of this vaccine is contra-indicated.
In other words you are being asked to get vaccinated and at the same time being told that, medically speaking, it's a bad thing to do!
Though man has made impressive advances in the field of medicine over the last century, we remain vulnerable to a host of diseases, ranging from the common cold to those that can only be characterized as frightening. Influenza pandemics (worldwide) have occurred at various times in the 19th and 20th centuries. Several pandemics have been recorded; the first Asiatic (Russian) occurred in 1889-91 when one million people died. In 1918-19 a second pandemic suspected to have originated in Europe, known as Spanish Influenza, took millions of lives worldwide. Pandemics keep occurring regularly, in 1932-33; 1947-48; 1957, when Asian flu killed 1 to 1.5 million people; and the 1968-69 Hong Kong Flu outbreak, which killed 0.75 to 1 million. The possibility of a new type of pandemic influenza-due to mutated strains of Influenza, particularly H5N1-is nightmarish.
Pandemics keep occurring regularly, in 1932-33; 1947-48; 1957, when Asian flu killed 1 to 1.5 million people; and the 1968-69 Hong Kong Flu outbreak, which killed 0.75 to 1 million. The possibility of a new type of pandemic influenza-due to mutated strains of Influenza, particularly H5N1-is nightmarish.
Avian influenza viruses do not normally infect species other than birds and pigs. Migratory aquatic birds, most notably wild ducks, are the natural reservoir of avian influenza viruses that inhabit the intestines of these birds. Infection in domestic poultry is thought to occur due to contact with these aquatic/wild birds. Fifteen subtypes of influenza virus are known to infect birds, providing a large pool of influenza viruses potentially circulating in bird populations.
On Saturday, November 24, all Ukraine will observe the 75th anniversary of the Ukrainian famine or Holodomor of 1932-33. The scale of mourning was made public both to Ukrainians and the world.
Nothing, however, is known about the famine, which also affected Russia, and how the date will be marked in Russia. There is no information available about any official events on either the Internet or from news agencies.
This oversight in the official response to the tragic date in Russia and Ukraine is unlikely to be due to the difference in the number of victims: between 3.5-4 million Ukrainians perished in the famine, while Russia lost hundreds of thousands.
Kiev believes that the extent of the losses from the famine surpasses even World War II.
But even if the number of Russian victims does not run into the millions this does not mean that Russia is incapable of honoring the memory of those hundreds of thousands on a nationwide scale.
The overwhelming fact is that Moscow is anxious to divorce itself from the 1932-33 tragedy for political reasons.
The Russian authorities fear losing the information war against Ukraine, which is demanding that other countries recognize the Holodomor as genocide of Ukrainians.
Although the regime guilty of the crime no longer exists, Moscow is concerned that if there was an admission it would have to bear the moral and maybe material responsibility for the millions of deaths 75 years ago.
Moscow is making every effort to block Kiev's plans to turn the Holodomor into an international issue like the Jewish Holocaust of World War II.
The authorities are also trying to wipe out all memory of the event that is now extremely unsafe politically.
There are, however, no documents testifying that the famine was deliberately engineered for ethnic reasons.
Moscow had to repay German industrial loans, and was forced to clear out barns in grain-producing areas.
At the same time, the geographical range of the famine shows that it hit mostly the Soviet Union's outlying ethnic regions. Aside from Ukraine the famine raged in the Kuban, Stavropol, Don, and the lower and middle Volga areas, which were part of the Russian Federation.
A year earlier, in Kazakhstan, which was also part of the Russian Federation at that time, one in three Kazakhs died from starvation.
In the Volga area the worst hit was the German autonomy, which was wiped out in 1941.
If the high morbidity strain spreads to your area, and you have already had a bout of a low morbidity one, you are likely to be immune, just as people who caught Spanish flu early were immune to the deadly version which came in the second wave.
However if you were vaccinated instead you would be unlikely to have any immunity to it, and would be a sitting duck.
The remains of 602 people caught fleeing famine in Ukraine 60 years ago and shot by the Soviet secret police were reburied on Saturday, closing a dark chapter in the country's history.
Ukraine's Holodomor, or death by starvation, was denied by the Soviet Union for decades.
Originally posted by nikiano
So, basically, what we all knew in our hearts that would happen, did happen. A mutation occurred in the virus making it more lethal (D225G mutation made the H1N1 virus go deeper into the lungs) and the vaccine does NOT prevent getting infected with this mutation.
Once again: the vaccine does not seem to protect against this more lethal mutation of the virus. Yet the WHO doesn't make an announcement to this effect, thus putting millions of people at risk for severe side effects who might go ahead and get vaccinated anyway.
This is just shameful. People need to weigh all the pros and cons before taking a vaccine. One of the "cons" they should know is that the virus has now mutated into a more deadly form, and the vaccine does not offer any protection from this mutation.
To me, this gives clear evidence that the WHO is totally in bed with the vaccine manufacturers.
Originally posted by ecoparity
reply to post by seattletruth
Niman hasn't released a new commentary updating it but he no longer believes the vaccine will increase the risk or effects of the D225G strain on those who took the "dead virus" vaccine.
So far out of the four points of research to confirm it he's determined that three of them show no added or worse effects for the vaccinated or the public.
The live virus vaccine nasal spray is a different story, however. It's entirely possible the people who took that vaccine may actually be walking incubators for D225G which will kill the unprotected around them while they remain safe.
It's very complicated but he will probably update the commentaries in the next week or so regarding this. He's still saying the vaccine will protect people and that they should take it, a point I disagree with right now due to conversations with other virologists. They say the last week of Dec will be the time to do it if someone should want to.
There will be no new vaccine coming out, at least not in time to matter. The next wave arrives in January and it will be the one to watch out for. I'm heading out to the cabin tonight and won't be back until mid January.
WHO Confirms D225G Vaccine Failure
One isolate from Ukraine with the mutation had changed so that swine flu vaccine probably would not protect against it well, Britain's national medical laboratory reported Friday.