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The CDC's Wisdom
 After
reading this you can just imagine how surprised I was when I found at the
CDC’s website devoted to the influenza vaccine, a recommendation for the
vaccine in the second trimester of pregnancy.
http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/pdf/rr/rr5004.pdf
is vaccine contains 25 micrograms of ethyl Mercury in one dose! The CDC has
studied 2000 pregnant women and no adverse fetal effects were found. They
state additional studies are ongoing as data is limited with regard to the
effects of low dose or intermittent exposures. They also explain federal
guidelines were not designed for intermittent or bolus exposures. The CDC
believes that the average 110-pound woman is allowed to have 5 micrograms
per day without adverse reactions. If she were to get a flu shot and have a
tuna fish sandwich for lunch she would have just received 42 micrograms of
Mercury, eight times the safe level. The package inserts published by the
flu vaccine manufacturers state that "Animal reproduction studies have not
been conducted with
influenza virus vaccine.”
It is also not known whether influenza virus vaccine can cause fetal harm
when administered to a
pregnant woman.
It is interesting how the
CDC personnel attempt to predict which viruses will infect people in the
United States. They decide based on a large amount of guesswork, which
influenza viruses are distributed to vaccine manufacturers early in the year
for influenza vaccine production for administration that autumn. Flu shot
history is replete with examples of poor matches between influenza viruses
in the vaccine and those actually infecting people. Results for the
1989-1990 season were described as, "mixed at best" with "Medicare payments
significantly higher for those who had been vaccinated," according to Kidder
and Schmitz in the 1993 report Options for the Control of Influenza II.
 To
give you an idea of how the flu virus is decided I will give you a little
background information. Virologists believe the whole thing starts with
birds. Waterfowl to be exact. They are what virologists call the "reservoir"
for influenza. They carry nearly all known types of influenza, with no ill
effects, and willingly share them with the rest of the animal kingdom
through their feces. All animals that get the flu, horses, ferrets, seals,
pigs, and human beings probably get it originally from birds. Viruses can
only infect and take over a cell if the proper "receptor" is present, and as
far as we know human beings do not have a receptor for avian or bird flu.
What's needed for human infection is another species that has both human and
avian flu receptors. In other words, the pig. Having both human and avian
receptors sets the pig up for all sorts of wonderful influenza
possibilities. The process can be as simple as a flu-contaminated duck
dropping feces into the dirt a pig is rolling around in, thus infecting the
pig who, in turn, passes the virus on to a farmer. It is possible for a pig
to be infected with one kind of flu, say a human flu, only to contract
another avian flu. Now the poor pig has two different types of flues
simultaneously. When it proceeds to re-infect a human being, it passes on a
pig-bird-human influenza.
Since
the flu virus is always mutating, necessitating a new vaccine each year, the
World Health Organization (WHO) has set up a vast international flu
surveillance network. Around the world, Technicians affiliated with the
Centers for Disease Control (CDC) collect influenza viruses from pigs and
people in foreign lands, e.g., China and take nose and throat cultures from
patients suffering from the flu. These samples are sent off to laboratories
to be tested. Suspect and interesting cases are forwarded to the Center for
Disease Control (CDC) or to the closest National Influenza Center for full
analysis. There are many such centers throughout the world. CDC personnel
then attempt to predict which viruses will infect people in the United
States the following year. Predicting which influenza viruses from China,
for instance, will infect people in Dayton, Ohio, a year later involves a
great deal of guesswork.
Analysis
has shown that there are three main families of the influenza virus; A, B,
and C. Within each of these families there are many viral strains. Both the
A and B families contain strains that cause illness, although the influenza
A family has more virulent strains than the B family. These families are
further categorized by the two types of proteins that make up the outer
protective coating of the virus. These proteins are known as hemagglutinin
(h), and neuraminidase (n). Viruses are named according to the type of
proteins they carry. Since there are at least fifteen varieties of h, and
nine varieties of n that can combine with each other in any way to create a
different strain, it is practically impossible for anyone to predict what
might happen with any kind of accuracy. Unless of course you are the CDC
using your crystal ball.
This
is this years pick:
Reading across starting with the A. A stands for the virus in the A family
Strain, the most virulent. Moscow is the city or the name of the place where
they were first isolated. The 10 stands for the sample number of flu
isolated from the people infected. And the 99 stands for the year the virus
was isolated. The H3N2 is the No. 3 hemagglutinin, No. 2 neuraminidase. The
types of proteins that make up the outer protective coating of the virus.
So, to sum this up quickly, the mucus from the throat of ten Moscow citizens
in 1999 will make up the vaccine that will save you in whatever city you
might live in 2002 from the flu.
I guess
they had a lot left over from last year because only the Hong Kong portion
is new.
Flu
package insert
 It gets worse. I will
explain
how the vaccine is made. It is grown in
chicken eggs. This is done by injecting a microscopic droplet of the flu
virus into the air sack above the embryo and the yolk. In two to three days
time the original droplet has become a tablespoon full. The tops of the eggs
are lopped off and the virus is suctioned out. The largest vaccine makers
may use up to one hundred fifty thousand eggs at once from which they
extract two hundred and fifty gallons of pure virus. This is added to a huge
vat that then must be kept free of bacteria. Mercury as well as the other
toxic ingredients I have already mentioned are added to keep this witch's
brew stable. To produce adequate supplies of the vaccine, the drug companies
growing the virus must repeat this process dozens of times, using millions
of eggs. All of this takes at least 6 months.
Instead of being an
effective prevention, evidence indicates that flu shots are useless.
Although endorsed and funded by federal and state governments the shots seem
only to benefit the companies that make them, public health bureaucrats who
promote them, and medical personnel who administer them.
The CDC feels the benefit of
the influenza vaccine outweighs the potential risks for Mercury exposure.
According to Hugh
Fudenberg, MD., the worlds leading immunogeneticist and 13th most quoted
biologist of our times (nearly 850 papers in peer review journals), if an
individual has had five consecutive flu shots between 1970 and 1980 (the
years studied), his/her chances of getting Alzheimer's Disease is ten times
higher than if they had one, two or no shots. (1) Dr. Fudenberg said that it
was due to the mercury that is in every flu shot (and many childhood shots).
The gradual mercury buildup in the brain causes cognitive dysfunction. Is
that why Alzheimer's is expected to quadruple? (2)
(1) Dr. Fudenberg at the NVIC International Vaccine
Conference, Arlngton, VA September 1997.
(2) John's Hopkins Newsletter Nov. 1998.
Since
July of 1999, the FDA has "encouraged" manufacturers to remove thimerosal
from vaccines. Some have done it others have not. Today, most vaccines that
are being manufactured do not contain thimerosal, or they only contain a
"trace amount" 0.5 micrograms. Unfortunately we do not know how many of the
old thimerosal products are still on the shelf.
http://www.vaccinesafety.edu/thi-table.htm.
Here is what will be taking thimerosal's place.
2-Phenoxyethanol
Are preservatives like
thimerosal necessary in vaccines? The FDA regulations require preservatives
in multi-dose vials of most vaccines (with the exception of certain live
viral vaccines) to protect against inadvertent contamination from repeated
puncture of the seal. thimerosal does not prevent all bacterial
contamination, as evidenced by clusters of disease from group A
Streptococcus infections traced to multi-dose Diphtheria toxoid, Tetanus
toxoid, and Pertussis (DTP) vaccine vials that were contaminated after
opening.
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