Influenza

 

     On the 30^th of April 2004 the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) added the influenza vaccine to its list of recommended immunizations for all infants. The CDC's Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, the American Academy of Pediatrics, and the American Academy of Physicians agree that all children starting from age six months onward, and their caregivers, should obtain the flu vaccine. Eventually, if these organizations have their way, this will turn into the biggest vaccination program in history. It translates into a dose each year for every man, women and child in the United States because medical authorities believe that each person needs to be protected from the flu.

 

     Added to the already heavy babies' recommended immunization schedule this recommendation brings a new element to the vaccine question. For a child born today that’s an additional twenty vaccine shots during the first twenty years of life, and sixty-five shots by the time they reach sixty-five. What no one seems to have grasped yet is that this constitutes the biggest lawbreaking recommendation in the history of government. There is not a person alive who can testify, with any shred of certainty, what the accumulative effects would be on a child born today of these additional twenty or 65 shots. That makes the official flu vaccine program in the United States a medical experiment. The Nuremberg Laws forbids such experiments. Any organization or person that breaks this law is thus guilty of crimes against humanity.

     At the end of 2004 Klaus Stohr of the WHO Global Influenza Program said "Even with the best case scenario, the most optimistic scenario, the pandemic will cause a public health emergency with estimates which will put the number of deaths in the range of two and seven million. There is no reason to believe that we are going to be spared. An influenza pandemic will spare nobody. Every country will be affected," he said.[i] For several years newspapers around the world have threatened the public with graphic accounts of a flu plague that was destined to kill. Doctors and the public alike are conditioned to expect a massive outbreak of killer flu each year. Millions of people are expected to die worldwide as a new strain of super-bug sweeps the globe. It must be a disappointment to certain medical officers that these predictions never materialize.

     “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,”[ii] says Dr. Henry I. Miller, a fellow at the Hoover Institution and former director of the Office of Biotechnology. The BBC adds, “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.”[iii] With communications like this the public is left in constant fear of the wrong enemy. Instead of paying attention to the real and growing health threat of mercury and other toxins in the environment that lead to flu and flu complications, people pay attention only to the effect of chemical poisoning and this leads them to line up for more shots and more poison. It seems none of the above people or organizations have read the CDC’s version[iv], 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 repeatedly at certain times of the year.

The CDC states that 135 children died during the 2003-2004 flu season.
59 of these children had received their flu shots.[v]

     By the CDC’s own admission, the vaccine for the flu is not effective against the flu. With 59 out of the 135 flu deaths this past year stemming from vaccinated children, a case could be made to include the vaccine itself in the etiology of some of these influenza deaths. Doctors like Harold Buttram have made excellent cases about how injections like this one diminish immune strength and resistance[vi] in children and adults alike. This is not what anyone needs when entering another flu season.

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.[vii]

     We have seen that 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. When the CDC admitted that 59 of the 135 children who died of the flu received their vaccine shots they admit a huge conceptual gap in their medical reasoning.[viii] With four million children born each year we are talking about giving 20 million children flu shots to theoretically save 76 children’s lives. Is this intelligent? Vaccine educated people know that immunization is all about benefit Vs risk ratios. In this case there is negligent benefit and large unknown risks.

     In reality there has been no flu pandemic anywhere but that does not bring a halt to those ‘killer flu’ front-page specials. The winters of 1998, 99, 2000, 01, 02, 03, saw the same tired old headlines appearing in the press driving the public and herding them with fear into clinics to get their desperately needed flu shots. Yet for a long time people have felt something wrong in the medical establishments propaganda about the flu. 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.” It does not take a lot of imagination to recognize there exists a long-term pharmaceutical strategy leading up to the present recommendation by the ACIP to make flu vaccines universal and mandatory.

 

     In 2004 children were lucky because approximately fifty million doses of the vaccine containing 25 micrograms of thimerosal were thrown in the garbage at the Chiron vaccine plant in England. That’s fifty million less chemical assaults on the nervous system. According to Dr. Julie L. Gerberding, director of the Centers for Disease Control, speaking to congressional representatives, said that at best the preservative may be eliminated from the vaccine by 2009.[ix] Since medical authorities abandon their responsibility what we really need are similar disasters at the Chiron plant for the next five years to protect the children. This abandonment of responsibility and reason has run rampant in medicine recently when it comes to the flu. This was exemplified by Dr. Chesley Richards, of the division of geriatric medicine at Emory University, who said, when Americans were faced with severe shortages of the flu vaccine, that the elderly and parents with children between 6 months and 23 months might want to consider what he calls "prophylactic therapy," by which he means taking anti-viral pills that may be powerful enough to prevent the flu. The trick, he says, is not taking these prescription medications --amantadine, rimantadine and oseltamivir -- too early.[x]

    Those who deliberately foster fear among the public of influenza and the bird flu deliberately ignore studies that show small mercury concentrations predisposing organisms to influenza. It has been shown that “prolonged exposure of mammals (white mice) to low mercury concentrations (0.008 – 0.02 mg/m3) leads to a significant increase in the susceptibility of mice to pathological influenza virus strains. This is shown by a decrease in the Ld 50 and a more severe course of infection. In the experimental group more mice died (86 – 90.3 % than in the unexposed animals (60.2 – 68 %), additionally the experimental group died more quickly. The significant difference was in the appearance and degree of pneumonia in the effected animals,” wrote Dr. I. M. Trakhtenberg in Chronic Effects of Mercury on Organisms.[xi]

     It is clear, at least to naturopathic doctors, that people and young children die from the flu not because of the virus itself but because they are already sick, are bearing heavy toxic burdens, and have severely compromised immune systems. Allopathic doctors like Miller forget the most basic principles of health and disease because they do not care to look into the realities of the patients they treat. They do not want to take the time to understand weaknesses in patients because they are eating too much sugar, are malnourished, are getting inadequate rest, or if they are suffering from intense emotional trauma. The flu salesmen doctors multiply the danger and risk of viruses because without exaggerated stories flu vaccines just would not sell. In reality the virus is not dangerous in and of itself. The CDC deals with disease, not health. They would not stop and think that patients who exercise, for example, would be better protected from the dangers of flu then from patients who took vaccines.

     And we find this to be exactly the case. Jeffrey A. Woods, PhD., and graduate student Tom Lowder at the Physical Fitness Laboratory, Department of Kinesiology, University of Illinois, Urbana recently reported that four consecutive days of moderate exercise in mice after they were infected with influenza protects them from dying, compared with mice that didn’t exercise. Woods and Lowder are reporting this October of 2004 their findings at the American Physiological Society’s 2004 Intersociety Meeting, showing that 20-week-old mice that had exercised had significantly (p=0.008) higher survival rates (18 of 22) versus HCC of the same age (10 of 22). When all EX mice (47) were compared with all HCC mice (48), EX had twice the survival rate, 59% vs. 29.4% (p=0.003). They reported that none of the variables (food/water intake, random activity or symptom severity) proved to be reliable at predicting mortality.

     It’s just too much for the CDC to suggest that patients exercise and eat right to defend themselves against the flu. They would rather promote vaccines that contain dangerous chemicals and inject that in babies than promote health. Dr. Hugh Fundenburg, one of the most quoted biologist of our time, says that if an individual has 5 consecutive flu shots his/her chance of developing Alzheimer's Disease is 10 times greater than if they had 1, two or no shots.[xii] What it will do to babies given year after year is anyone’s guess and that is exactly what it is, a guess, an experiment for no one knows, for there have been no tests. Clearly no longitudinal study has been made with babies on the effect of giving annual flu shots starting from six months of age. With an already heavy childhood immunization schedule already in place, and with children already carrying increasingly heavy burdens of toxins, including mercury administered through other vaccines, it’s a crap shoot gamble on what will happen to the children under the CDC’s rule with the addition of the flu vaccine that contains thimerosal.

 

Most pediatric flu shots contain 12.5 mcg. of mercury. According to EPA guidelines for ingested (vs. injected) methylmercury  (vs. ethylmercury) not likely to cause harm in adults, an infant or young child would  need to weigh 275 pounds to receive this injection for it to be considered safe.

 

     The addition of the flu vaccine into the childhood immunization schedule, loaded as it is with chemicals like mercury and aluminum reveals the true nature of the pharmaceutical companies. Despite everything that has been researched and published about thimerosal they have insisted that the flu vaccine loaded with thimerosal be re-introduced into the childhood vaccine schedule. It is incredulous that five years after the Public Health Service and vaccine manufacturers announced they were going to remove Thimerosal/mercury from vaccines; we are witnessing what amounts to a reversal in policy. The CDC evidently believes that healthy infants ages 6-23 months should receive 25 mcg of thimerosal, half of which is mercury. It is absolutely dumbfounding that such a program was conceived and successfully implemented in 2004.[xiii] Parents are up in arms rightfully and more states are reviewing passing laws against thimerosal bearing vaccines like California and Iowa have. Presently Maryland is reviewing such a law and the CDC rushed over information saying there is no connection between thimerosal and neurological disorders like autism. Fortunately because of the hard work of many parents of autistic kids, fewer and fewer people trust the top medical officials of the country.   

 

     Seven additional states had ongoing mercury ban legislation in 2004: Kentucky, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, New York, Pennsylvania, and Rhode Island.  Four other states are pursuing legislation into 2005: Illinois, Massachusetts, North Carolina, and Ohio. In reality parents are now in complete rebellion of the federal health establishment and are actively pursuing legislation to ban mercury in vaccines in Alabama, Arizona, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Kansas, Maryland, Maine, Michigan, Mississippi, New Jersey, Nevada, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Vermont, Wisconsin, and Wyoming.

     Many Americans know that there is an autism-mercury connection and the American government is increasing putting itself in the position of a dark power that is justifying the poisoning of children. Congressman Dave Weldon (R-FL), always in the front lines of this fight against the medical establishment, has sponsored legislation in the U.S. House to ban mercury in vaccines for infants and young children (HR4169) but unfortunately no similar legislation has been sponsored in the U.S. Senate. American parents, six years on from the 1999 FDA recommendation against the use of thimerosal in vaccines, are still trying to get mercury out of vaccines.  Much success was made but federal agencies betrayed all sense of reason introducing a vaccine into the childhood immunization schedule that contains thimerosal.

 

    Healthy children who are well nourished and not exposed to environmental toxins and intense barrages of vaccines are not at risk for flu complications and death by the flu virus. The entire concept upon which the CDC operates is seriously flawed yet they have so much power and marketing muscle they manage to manipulate the entire country into stampeding doctors’ offices each year for flu shots. The paradigm of the medical establishment, pharmaceutical, chemical companies and government has them poisoning people as they walk around believing they are the saviors of humanity. When it comes to the flu we should remember that if one comes down with one out of season it’s not considered flu but only a common cold. The fall and winter offers temperature induced stresses that push unhealthy bodies over the edge into the flu. This is just as valid of a medical concept as a virus that precipitates the flu. The flu vaccine, especially the new nasal flu vaccines, also pushes people over the edge by deliberately exposing a person to live flu viruses and is the reason its counter indicated for children under five and adults over 65. The regular flu vaccine with thimerosal offers a strong shock to the body and since mercury has been shown to worsen flu conditions it is not what one would want to give ones child.

 

     Incredible to conceive is the evidence that certain highly placed people in the medical establishment have had their consciousness turned and now see the public as cows that need to be cattle prodded each year into taking their flu shots. How history is going to judge them is not apparent nor is it written what future generations will think of the public which let it be so deceived. It seems like HG Wells previewed the current situation quite well in writing his book The Time Machine where men were harvested as food by the monsters who lived below the surface of the earth. Today we have monsters that walk the earth and they think nothing of injecting babies with the most toxic substances on earth. These monsters walk around in suits, white medical and lab coats smiling while reassuring us that all is well and our worst fears are paranoid illusions. Even more amazing is that humanity has evolved itself to the point where it is nice to monsters and treats them with respect.