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Comment by truth on August 27, 2009 at 3:42am

WeAreChange Confronts the CDC Over Vaccines: Voluntary of Mandatory?

Comment by truth on August 26, 2009 at 4:06pm

Big Pharma Wants Males to Take Vaccine for Penile Cancer

Gardasil is proven dangerous, yet it is still mandatory for immigrants

MSNBC Hard Sell Propaganda for H1N1 Soft Kill Vaccination

Comment by Tara on August 26, 2009 at 12:31pm

Swine flu could hospitalize 2 million in U.S. this winter

As many as 300,000 could clog intensive care units in heavily affected regions, a new report says. But the CDC director notes that the H1N1 outbreak also could be much milder.

Reporting from Atlanta - Nearly 2 million Americans could be hospitalized during this winter's novel H1N1 influenza pandemic, with as many as 300,000 clogging intensive care units in heavily affected regions, according to a report released Monday by the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology.

Comment by truth on August 25, 2009 at 2:33pm

Polls: Half Of Doctors Will Refuse To Take Swine Flu Shot

Two separate polls of GPs in Britain have revealed that one in two doctors have severe reservations over the safety of the forthcoming H1N1 flu vaccine, raising serious questions over the government’s planned mass vaccination programme.

Order Out Of Chaos Slide During Swine Flu Conference

The following disturbing slide was part of a presentation on swine flu at the International swine flu conference recently.

Alan Watt On The Flawed Logic Of Those Pushing Vaccines On The Population (10mins 54s) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3n1cdzKKlUk


Nat Acad of Sciences accidently exposes the plan for depopulating h...

Swine flu immunity to take months, but testing will be complete in ...


Speed up flu drugs, says White House panel
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090825/us_nm/us_flu_vaccine_usa

U.S. officials should help drug companies speed up the supply of swine flu drugs and vaccines, making at least some shots available by mid-September, White House science advisers said on Monday.

Calling the H1N1 pandemic "a serious threat to our nation", they also urged the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to quickly decide on new, intravenous formulations of flu drugs, including current drugs such as Roche AG's Tamiflu and GlaxoSmithKline's Relenza but also BioCryst Pharmaceuticals' experimental drug peramivir.

Comment by Tara on August 25, 2009 at 11:22am

Speed up flu drugs, says White House panel

By Maggie Fox, Health and Science Editor
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. officials should help drug companies speed up the supply of swine flu drugs and vaccines, making at least some shots available by mid-September, White House science advisers said on Monday.

Calling the H1N1 pandemic "a serious threat to our nation", they also urged the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to quickly decide on new, intravenous formulations of flu drugs, including current drugs such as Roche AG's Tamiflu and GlaxoSmithKline's Relenza but also BioCryst Pharmaceuticals' experimental drug peramivir.

Comment by Tara on August 25, 2009 at 12:09am

Swine-Flu Report Details Number of Potential Cases

By BETSY MCKAY
A report by a panel of scientific advisers to President Barack Obama on Monday presented a "plausible scenario" in which 60 million to 120 million Americans -- or 20% to 40% of the U.S. population -- contract H1N1 swine flu this fall and winter, and 30,000 to 90,000 people die of the disease.

Comment by Tara on August 24, 2009 at 2:37pm

Flu Strategists See Schools on Front Line

Children Key to Infection-Prevention Dynamic

By Nelson Hernandez and David Brown
Washington Post Staff Writers
Monday, August 24, 2009

One of the main battlegrounds in the fight against an expected resurgence of swine flu this fall will be the schoolyard, a place where the disease could, well, go viral.

People between 6 months and 24 years old appear to be particularly vulnerable to the swine flu virus, known as H1N1. And there are several reasons to think that schools could be hotbeds of infection:

Large groups of children and young adults? Check.

In close proximity? Check.

Lax sanitary standards? Check.

And with schools expected to remain open unless the virus becomes more severe, there's little standing in the way of H1N1's spread.

At the same time, schools are likely to serve as centers for mass immunizations, which could sharply reduce H1N1's reach, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and state and local authorities. So far, the swine flu does not appear to be more dangerous than the typical seasonal flu. But medical authorities are concerned that it could infect many more people -- thereby increasing the potential number of deaths -- because so few people have immunity against it.

The mass immunization program, likely to be the largest of its kind since the polio vaccine was given to about 100 million Americans in the 1960s, will play out with some differences between states and local jurisdictions. For instance, still waiting to be resolved are questions about who gets the vaccine, whether schools are used as vaccination sites, whether parents are present when children are vaccinated and whether the vaccine is administered by injection or nasal spray.

Health officials in Virginia, Maryland and the District said that at least some school campuses will be used as vaccination sites. Schools reopen today in the District and in parts of suburban Maryland.

"There's considerable interest out there from the local health departments and school districts to do it in the schools," said Jim Farrell, director of the immunization division of the Virginia Department of Health.

Elsewhere, officials suspect that schools will be used less.

"Our school health system . . . is not very well-funded," said David Fleming, public health director and health officer for Seattle and King County, Wash. "We don't have the staff in the schools to do it. There's also the cumbersome process of getting parental permission. So doing it during school hours may not make a lot of sense."

Comment by peter b dunn on August 24, 2009 at 2:10pm

Australian Coalition calles for health refferendum
Prime Minister Kevin Rudd should call a referendum asking voters if they want Canberra to take over public hospitals from the states, the opposition says.

But the coalition's health spokesman Peter Dutton admits he's against the concept of the federal government running the health system.

"An idea of public servants running hospitals out of Canberra is a bad idea," he told Fairfax Radio Network on Monday, adding federal funding of local hospital boards was a better idea.

Mr Rudd should live up to Labor's 2007 election promise to hold a referendum on Canberra taking over the nation's public hospitals, Mr Dutton said.

"I think he should put forward a referendum asking this very question."

The security industry must remove criminal elements, Attorney-General Robert McClelland says.

Comment by truth on August 24, 2009 at 11:22am

Plans to Take Children from Schools for Mass Vaccinations and Quara...

Infowars | Draconian plans revealed at international conference last week.

WHO predicts ‘explosion’ of swine flu cases

CTV | The WHO says as many as 2 billion people could become infected over the next two years.

Health experts warn not to take Tamiflu

London Evening Standard | The World Health Organization advice directly contradicts British policy on the issue.

Kids Get $40 Gift Cards in H1N1 Vaccine Test

CNN | Many parents have already volunteered their children but openings still exist.

Flu pandemic archive

Comment by peter b dunn on August 24, 2009 at 12:49am

This is a copy and paste of an article here in australia, geeze they are stil planning/fearmongering to make people want it to protect themselves..ffs

World faces swine flu jab dilemma

Governments bracing for a second, possibly more lethal, wave of swine flu are all grappling with the same unforgiving dilemma: with not enough vaccine to go around, who is going to get jabbed first?

Any lingering hopes that pharmaceutical companies could rapidly fill orders for more than a billion doses from northern hemisphere countries alone were quashed this week by the World Health Organisation (WHO).

"We need to gather advice on priority groups for initial protection," WHO head Margaret Chan said on Friday.

"This is one of the most difficult decisions governments around the world will need to make, especially as we know that supplies will be extremely limited for some months to come."

But national leaders looking for guidance from international health authorities on how best to distribute vaccines that will not be available in most cases before early October, at best, are bound to be disappointed.

The European Union has yet to issue any guidelines specific to the new strain of A(H1N1) influenza that has swept across the globe, infecting hundreds of thousands and claiming at least 1,800 lives.

The WHO does suggest that healthcare workers should be given priority, a policy embraced by most states, but stops short of making further recommendations.

"Individual countries have to look at their own conditions and adapt," WHO spokesman Melinda Henry told AFP from Geneva.

"They have to decide whether they want to stop transmission, protect essential infrastructure, or reduce illness and death."

The problem is that these strategies each target a different segment of society which means, in the event of a shortage, that there simply won't be enough vaccine to protect everyone during the first critical months.

And that's not all: there is also disagreement among epidemiologists, who study how infections spread, as to which approach would save the most lives.

Researchers writing this week in the journal Science argue that the best way to halt the spread of the virus for pandemic flu is to vaccinate school age children and their parents first.

The study makes projections for the United States, but the model could be applicable in other developed nations, and perhaps across the board.

In Japan, the systematic vaccination of schoolchildren prevented more than 40,000 deaths across all age groups every year from the 1960s until the policy was dropped in 1994, according to an earlier study in the New England Journal of Medicine.

This strategy, however, is sharply at odds not only with the one adopted by most countries for fighting seasonal flu, but the one taking shape for the 2009 pandemic as well: prioritising what has long been identified as high-risk groups.

These usually include very young children older than six months, pregnant women, persons with chronic lung conditions, and the very elderly.

http://news.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=853271

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