Serious Vaccine Reactions to Now Be Called 'Coincidence'?

Mercola.com 20/10/09

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By Dr Mercola 20/10/09

Every day Americans wake up to news reports that warn us about the dangers of influenza, especially the new H1N1 “swine flu”.

But swine flu is mild for most people and the virus is not mutating into a more serious form.

Millions of people around the world have recovered from swine flu, and millions more will get sick with fevers, body aches, nasal congestion, cough and sometimes diarrhea and vomiting and recover from it this year and next year without any complications.

Nonetheless, wide-scale vaccination is being encouraged -- even though swine flu vaccines have been tested on only a few thousand healthy Americans for a few weeks. There is little or no information about how safe the vaccine is for pregnant women and chronically ill or disabled children.

If you or your child are injured from getting a flu swine flu shot, you are on your own. Congress has shielded the vaccine manufacturers and any person giving swine flu shots from lawsuits if people get hurt.

There is no funded government vaccine injury compensation program for swine flu vaccine.

Do NOT let a doctor or anyone else tell you that a serious health problem you or your child experiences after vaccination is a coincidence and allow more shots to be given until you know for sure.

The most tragic cases of vaccine injury occur when vaccine reaction symptoms are dismissed as a 'coincidence" and more vaccines are given that result in more severe symptoms -- and sometimes end with permanent brain and immune system damage or death.

But while Americans are still debating whether to roll up their sleeves for a swine flu shot, companies have already figured it out: vaccines are good for business.

Drug companies have sold $1.5 billion worth of swine flu shots, in addition to the $1 billion for seasonal flu they booked earlier this year. These inoculations are part of a much wider and rapidly growing $20 billion global vaccine market.

"The vaccine market is booming," says Bruce Carlson, spokesperson at market research firm Kalorama, which publishes an annual survey of the vaccine industry. "It's an enormous growth area for pharmaceuticals at a time when other areas are not doing so well," he says, noting that the pipeline for more traditional blockbuster drugs such as Lipitor and Nexium has thinned.

As always with pandemic flus, taxpayers are footing the $1.5 billion check for the 250 million swine flu vaccines that the government has ordered so far and will be distributing free to doctors, pharmacies and schools. In addition, Congress has set aside more than $10 billion this year to research flu viruses, monitor H1N1's progress and educate the public about prevention.

Drugmakers pocket most of the revenues from flu sales, with Sanofi-Pasteur, Glaxo Smith Kline and Novartis cornering most of the market.

But some say it's not just drugmakers who stand to benefit. Doctors collect copayments for special office visits to inject shots, and there have been assertions that these doctors actually profit handsomely from these vaccinations.

Sources:

Vaccine Awakening October 1, 2009

New York Times October 7, 2009

Time Magazine October 19, 2009

Examiner September 30, 2009

Science News September 20, 2009

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Some very brief information on the Cervarix Vaccine.

Particularly for the young lady I was talking to today, who had decided not to have the vaccine.

I had a very interesting conversation today with a young lady, particularly about the adjuvants in the Cervarix vaccine and the properties of the antigen (how the virus is presented in the vaccine).

The Cervarix vaccine contains virus-like particles, which contain structural proteins from the virus, but lack the means to reproduce and so are not infectious. So, to answer the young lady's question, the vaccine does not contain live virus. It contains proteins from the virus that the immune system recognises and produces antibodies against.

However, since injection into deep muscle is not the normal route for a virus to enter your body, the vaccine manufacturers have to add something, called an "adjuvant," to help stimulate the immune system to respond and produce antibodies. The adjuvant in Cervarix is aluminium hydroxide.

The best way for anyone to decided whether they are going to take a vaccine, is to gather as much information as possible for themselves. In this way they can make an informed decision.

Swine flu vaccine is more deadly than flu shot.

Dr Sherri Tenpenny on vaccines

On fast-tracked H1N1 novel influenza/swine flu vaccine.

Beyond The Theory Of Vaccines - What's In Them And The Known Side-Effects.

Russell Blaylock is a former board certified neurosurgeon, author lecturer and health practitioner. I think the most important information he gives on this video is where he is talking about the normal immune response and what has to be added to vaccines to boost the system into action.

Dr Blaylock tells us that the problem is with the vaccine itself and trying to get the body to react to the agents that it is designed to immunise against. The normal routes of infection into the body are via the nasal passages and the gut. On exposure to an invading micro-organism, the body mounts a coordinated response. Vaccines by-pass this normal route by being injected into deep muscle and the result is an abnormal immune response. It is thus necessary to force the body to have a powerful immune response by including adjuvants in the vaccine material.

WHO USES ADJUVANTS AND WHAT DO THEY DO?

GlaxoSmithKline and Novartis use adjuvants in their swine flu, H1N1 vaccines. They are producing H1N1 vaccines with and without adjuvants, but most countries have accepted the vaccine with adjuvants, particularly European countries.

Adjuvants used:

Squalene: an unsaturated terpene, which is an intermediate in cholesterol synthesis, and occurs normally at low levels in blood plasma and at elevated levels in viral influenza; used as a vehicle for pharmaceuticals. Squalene is the biochemical precursor to the whole family of steroids.

Squalene is used as an adjuvant in vaccines to boost immunogenicity and to reduce the amount of viral antigen needed. So, the supply of antigen goes further.
Your body will react naturally to squalene in olive oil, but when squalene enters the body through the abnormal route of being injected into deep muscle, it incites the immune system to attack all of the squalene in the body, including where it occurs naturally and is vital to the health of the nervous system. In returning military personnel, who were diagnosed with Gulf War Syndrome, 95% were found to have antibodies to squalene.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10640454

Gardasil

From the Gardasil information leaflet: view on the Gardasil web site.

1Human Papillomavirus = HPV
2L1 protein in the form of virus like particles produced in yeast cells (Saccharomyces cerevisiae
CANADE 3C-5 (Strain 1895)) by recombinant DNA technology.
3adsorbed on amorphous aluminium hydroxyphosphate sulphate adjuvant (225 micrograms Al).
The other ingredients in the vaccine suspension are:
Sodium chloride, L-histidine, polysorbate 80, sodium borate and water for injections.
Aluminium as an adjuvant accumulates all over the body and the brain with each successive vaccine which incorporates it. In vaccines it helps to stimulate the immune system.

"A metallic element that does not appear to be an essential part of the diet even though the body of a 70 kg person contains about 50 mg. Aluminium is toxic and can damage nerve cells. Excess dietary aluminium is normally eliminated in the faeces, but when intakes are very high some aluminium may be retained. Some researchers claim that this retention can contribute to the development of Alzheimer's disease (senile dementia). A study by the Medical Research Council showed that sufferers of the disease have unusual clusters of nerve cells in the brain saturated with aluminium. There is some evidence that vitamin C may help to reduce aluminium levels in the body."

http://www.answers.com/main/ntquery?s=aluminium&gwp=13

Cervarix, the HPV vaccine being used in the UK also contains aluminium as an adjuvant.

Herd Immunity

Herd immunity, or community immunity, is said to occur when the proportion of vaccinated people within a population (herd) provides protection to unprotected individuals. The theory is that in diseases passed from person to person, it is more difficult to maintain a chain of infection when large numbers are immune.

The higher the proportion of individuals who are immune, the lower the likelihood that a susceptible person will come into contact with an infected individual

Vaccination is thought to act as a sort of 'firebreak' in the spread of disease, slowing or preventing the further spread of the disease.

The proportion of immune individuals in a population above which a disease may no longer persist is the herd immunity threshold. Its value is said to vary according to the virulence of the disease and its method of spread from person to person. A few examples are:

Diphtheria: spread by saliva - threshold 85%

Pertussis (Whooping cough): spread by airborne droplets - threshold 92-94%

Smallpox: spread by social contact - threshold 83-85%

As of 2009, herd immunity to certain preventable diseases is said to be compromised by parental refusal: measles, whooping cough, mumps.

That is the theory of herd immunity and as with the theory of how vaccines work, I shall return to this topic in a later post.

Types Of Vaccine And How They Are Designed To Work

Child receiving a nasal spray vaccine.

In the generic sense, the process of artificially inducing immunity, in an effort to protect against infectious disease, works by 'priming' the immune system with an 'immunogen'. Stimulating immune response, via use of an infectious agent, is known as immunisation. Vaccinations involve the administration of one or more immunogens, which can be administered in several forms.

1) Inactivated vaccine: this is a virus which has been grown in culture and then killed. Certain virus proteins are intact enough to be recognised by the immune system and to provoke a response. Since the intended benefits are not thought to last, booster shots are needed.
2) Attenuated vaccine: these contain live virus particles with very low virulence. Less virulent strains are selected in the culture process, and since the virus is still reproducing, albeit slowly, fewer booster shots are needed. There is, apparently, a slight risk of reversion to virulence.
3) Virus-like particles: contain structural proteins from the virus, but lack the means to reproduce and so are not infectious.
4) A sub-unit vaccine: this presents an antigen without introducing viral particles, whole or otherwise. One method involves isolation of a specific protein from a virus. Thought to provoke a weaker immune response than other vaccines.

ROUTES OF ADMINISTRATION

A vaccine administration may be oral, by injection or by nasal spray.

So, that is how vaccines are designed to work and how they are administered. The theory is quite simple: induce an immune response by introducing a harmless version of a dangerous infectious agent and the immune system will be primed for when the dangerous model of that agent comes along. A simple theory that sounds good, but the whole process needs a little help and I shall deal with that in the next post.