Reuters – The Dutch government wants to sell 21 million unused H1N1 flu vaccine doses back to their manufacturers after they proved unnecessary and no other country wanted to buy them, the Health Ministry said on Saturday. Read article
Washington Post — A government panel is now recommending that virtually all Americans get a flu shot each year, starting this fall. The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices had gradually been expanding its recommendation for flu shots – 85 percent of Americans were already included. Read Article
Reuters – “The committee advised that it was premature to conclude that all parts of the world have experienced peak transmission of the H1N1 pandemic influenza and that additional time and information was needed to provide expert advice on the status of the pandemic,” WHO spokesman Gregory Hartl said by e-mail. Read Article
Ed. – Remember WHO changed their definition of ‘pandemic’, so that it doesn’t quite mean the same thing (as the dictionary version)… not long before the swine flu broke out.
ScienceDaily — The seasonal increase of influenza has long baffled scientists, but a new study published in PLoS Biology has found that seasonal changes of absolute humidity are the apparent underlying cause of these wintertime peaks. The study also found that the onset of outbreaks might be encouraged by anomalously dry weather conditions, at least in temperate regions. Read Article
NY Times – Marco Torres stood on a busy road and waved an oversized yellow arrow with an unconventional message for a street marketing campaign: ”FREE TODAY: H1N1 Flu Shots for All.” Local health officials launched the human billboard campaign at a time when health departments around the country are going to great lengths to spread the word that swine flu vaccines are in abundant supply and available for free to anyone who wants one. Read Article
AP — The World Health Organization is recommending that swine flu be added to the regular flu vaccine next season. Read Article
Local.se – There is no evidence to support the contention that the influenza vaccine administered to the over 65s is of any more use than opening the windows and washing hands, a new study from the Cochrane Collaboration claims, according to a report in the Svenska Dagbladet newspaper. The Cochrane Collaboration, an international not-for-profit organization providing up-to-date information about the effects of health care, has compiled data from 40 flu seasons worldwide. Read Article
PhysOrg.com – Evidence for the safety and efficacy of influenza vaccines in the over 65s is poor, despite the fact that vaccination has been recommended for the prevention of influenza in older people for the past 40 years. These are the conclusions of a new Cochrane Systematic Review. Adults aged 65 and over are some of the most vulnerable during influenza season and a priority for vaccination programmes. However, very few systematic reviews of the effectiveness of vaccines in this group have ever been carried out. Read Article
Courier Post – New Jersey health officials say the country is due for a third wave of the pandemic flu and are reiterating their advice that immunization shots against regular influenza and H1N1 are the best protection against infection. You don’t want to get that,” said Bob Gogats, Burlington County Health Coordinator. “It makes you sick for quite awhile and immunization only takes a few minutes. Plus, it’s free. It doesn’t make any sense not to get it.” Read Article
Ed. – I’d like to know what evidence NJ Health Officials base this third wave on, since the CDC said it was ‘dying’ (viruses aren’t exactly alive). S-flu dying Although Anne Schuchat said that she thought the outbreak was not over, she was; “stressing that the number of affected cases has declined everywhere.” Both CDC and NJ county are still recommending vaccination. While the H1N1 2009 does cause severe reactions in some cases, so does the vaccine. You choose, but do gather information first.
Daily Telegraph – It’s been a good week for drug companies and an even better one for conspiracy theorists. Last Tuesday, angered by the bumper rise in profits being reported by vaccine manufacturers as the incidence of swine flu plummets, the former head of health at the Council for Europe accused the World Health Organization of “faking” the pandemic. Read Article
Ed. – Dr Wodarg would (hopefully) have been chosen for his intelligence and wisdom and ability to lead people; for the position of head of health at the Council for Europe. This man isn’t just any ‘conspiracy theorist’. He doesn’t seem to be benefiting from making this stance, which is widely unpopular, particularly among his peers. It makes sense that he has thought this through carefully and come to this conclusion, and is sharing that with the world – for the world’s benefit.
Toronto Sun – Just before Christmas, Stephanie Willette went from being a healthy nursing student to suddenly being a helpless patient paralyzed from the neck down with a tracheotomy so she could breathe. Today the 20-year-old is slowly recovering in a Kingston rehab hospital, still unable to sit up, but hoping that she’ll eventually walk again. Read Article
Ed. – Adjuvants are thought to be responsible for Guillian-Barre synddrome, as they are used in small quantaties (cheap) to enhance the immune response. The trouble seems to be when the immune response goes into hyperdrive in response to the adjuvant.
Xinhua — (Feb 5, 2010) U.S. health officials have asked parents to get their children under 10 years of age fully vaccinated against the A/H1N1 flu virus as another wave of strike might be coming soon. Hawaii state health department said on Tuesday that, in Hawaii and a number of other states, there are many children who have not received their second dose, and that there are still many children who have not been vaccinated against the A/H1N1 at all. Read article
PressTV – While swine flu is still circulating around the world, no major activity has been detected in the US for the past four weeks, health officials report. Latest figures revealed that some 80 million Americans, including the 11,000 fatal cases, have been infected with swine flu. US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) officials reported that the virus has claimed the lives of nine more children in the past week. Read article
The Council of Europe is set to decide whether the World Health Organization colluded with drug companies to exaggerate the threat from swine flu. Propeller The WHO declared the disease a “pandemic”, allegedly after advice from doctors with close links to pharmaceutical companies. Read article
Ed. – Let’s not forget that they changed the (WHO) definition of Pandemic – and most of the world were still using the ‘old’ meaing.
ABC – Epidemiologists are warning Australians that a second wave of swine flu is likely to sweep through workplaces, homes and classrooms. They say it is only avoidable if people vaccinate themselves against the virus. Across the Northern Hemisphere the swine flu returned with the winter cold, and according to the World Health Organisation, it claimed thousands of lives. Read Article
Ed. – Please check out previous OYENews articles on the influenza vaccine and swine-flu.
ABC – The World Health Organisation and the pharmaceutical industry have been criticised for their handling of last year’s swine flu pandemic. At a hearing of the Council of Europe – the European Union’s human rights body – the WHO faced accusations that it exaggerated the danger of the virus under pressure from drug companies. Read Article
Ed. – Since WHO acted under their CHANGED definition of ‘pandemic’ (while the rest of the world were working with the old definition), ‘danger exaggeration’ claims will not hold up legally.
Daily Mail – A teenage girl left disabled by the swine flu treatment Tamiflu did not even have the virus, it was revealed today. Samantha Millard, 19, became critically ill after suffering a severe allergic reaction to the tablets, which she took on the advice of the controversial NHS helpline. Within 72 hours of taking three pills, doctors put her on life support. Read article
Chicago Tribune – Serbia’s health officials say they will stop the purchase of swine flu vaccines from a Swiss pharmaceutical company because of the lack of demand. Read article
Chicago Tribune – How contagious is swine flu? Less than the novel viruses> that have caused big world outbreaks in the past, new research suggests. If someone in your home has swine flu, your odds of catching it are about one in eight, although children are twice as susceptible as adults, the study found. It is one of the first big scientific attempts to find out how much the illness spreads in homes versus at work or school, and who is most at risk. Read Article
Ed. – Remember: The ‘novel’ viruses are thought by some academics to have originated in a laboratory.
Daily Mail – So the Government, as the Daily Mail has revealed, is trying to get rid of £1billion-worth of unwanted swine flu vaccine – because the deadly epidemic they were promising us all last year never materialised. Several things are shocking about this revelation, not least the charge by the Council of Europe’s head of health that major drug companies might have leaned on the World Health Organisation (WHO) to stoke up last year’s scare by warning that swine flu could be a worldwide ‘pandemic’ killing tens of millions. Certainly, those companies have made vast fortunes out of selling the vaccines which, at our expense, are now having to be flogged off at give-away prices. Read Article
BBC – The World Health Organisation (WHO) is to review its handling of the HIN1 swine flu pandemic, once it is over. The WHO has been facing charges from some European politicians that it exaggerated the dangers of swine flu. More than 12,700 people worldwide have died from H1N1 – but the virus has turned out to less deadly than feared. Read Article
Ed. – It is likely that they will use the WHO-changed (dictionaries don’t seem to have changed it) definition of the term ‘pandemic’ as part of their defense in court. And FYI: this link takes you to the current phase of the pandemic. By what they say, we are in the post-peak period AFTER numerical phases, but it still sits at 6 – presumably because a ‘period’ is not a ‘phase’?!
Daily Mail – The swine flu outbreak was a ‘false pandemic’ driven by drug companies that stood to make billions of pounds from a worldwide scare, a leading health expert has claimed. Wolfgang Wodarg, head of health at the Council of Europe, accused the makers of flu drugs and vaccines of influencing the World Health Organisation’s decision to declare a pandemic. This led to the pharmaceutical firms ensuring ‘enormous gains’, while countries, including the UK, ’squandered’ their meagre health budgets, with millions being vaccinated against a relatively mild disease. Read Article
Ed. – The signs were there: First and foremost; WHO had changed it’s defintion of ‘pandemic’ only a few years before the start of the ’swine flu’ ‘pandemic’, allowing GSK etc. to claim: “The WHO declared that H1N1 swine flu met the criteria for a pandemic.” 2. The media – whose? – did a lot of scare-mongering. 3. ‘Swine flu’ kept on being mild, other than a different spread in the population. 4. Evidence exists that this ’swine flu’ AND previous ‘flu scares originated in laboratories. Everyone deserves to know the Truth – but LOOK for it and THINK too.
Daily Mail – Millions of doses of swine flu vaccine are to be given away – at a possible cost of £1billion. Some 132million doses of the jab were ordered at the height of the scare about a worldwide pandemic. But this has proved to be a colossal miscalculation – and millions of doses are lying unwanted. The original order was enough for two doses for everyone in Britain. It was placed last May as ministers and chief medical officer Sir Liam Donaldson predicted 20million people would contract swine flu and 65,000 might die. Read Article
Ed. – Of course, this situation might have been created by WHO changing it’s definition of ‘Pandemic’ a few years ago, which very few people, including Government employees, took into account. The drug companies, who were VERY quick to advertise ‘the solution’, sure aren’t complaining.
Pres TV – France joins the list of European countries like Germany and the Netherlands, which have been seeking clients for their excess swine flu vaccines. Latest figures have revealed that swine flu has already claimed the lives of at least 12,220 individuals worldwide, the majority of whom were from the US and Canada. Despite primary statements, health officials have claimed that a single H1N1 flu vaccine is sufficient to ward off swine flu symptoms, meaning that many developed countries have a massive oversupply of vaccines. Read Article
Physorg.com – How contagious is swine flu? Less than the novel viruses that have caused big world outbreaks in the past, new research suggests. If someone in your home has swine flu, your odds of catching it are about one in eight, although children are twice as susceptible as adults, the study found. It is one of the first big scientific attempts to find out how much the illness spreads in homes versus at work or school, and who is most at risk. Read article
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