- Are you grabbing your face mask, stocking up on food
and Tamiflu, locking your doors and keeping your TV tuned to the news to
find out just how bad the "swine flu pandemic" really is going
to get?
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- While Americans are being scared to death, few are noticing
how much of their tax money politicians are giving to drug companies and
government health officials to grease the skids to create more experimental
flu vaccines and drugs and more effective ways to quarantine or force their
mass use whenever a "public health emergency" is declared in
the future.
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- Call me cynical but not clueless. The bird's eye view
I have had for the past 27 years at the National Vaccine Information Center
www.NVIC.org has taught me one thing: the global alliance between Big Pharma
and Big Public Health is a prescription for disaster that could extend
far beyond a bout with the flu.
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- The international drama playing out right now before
our eyes is an example of how citizens around the world can be easily manipulated
by doctors and politicians engaging in fear mongering in the name of disease
control to forward agendas that have more to do with ideology, power and
corporate profits than health.
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- In 2006, the World Health Organization (WHO) issued an
international call for all nations to do whatever it takes to increase
public appetite and demand for annual influenza shots as the main strategy
to prepare for an influenza pandemic. In April 2007, the WHO used money
donated by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) to fund
the creation of influenza vaccine manufacturing plants in Mexico and other
countries one week after the FDA gave Sanofi Pasteur a license to produce
an experimental bird flu (H5N1) vaccine. Sanofi Pasteur is just one of
many drug companies the U.S. government has given millions of dollars to
for the creation of bird flu vaccines.
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- On February 19, 2009, the FDA's Vaccines & Related
Biological Products Advisory Committee (VRBPAC) discussed whether to give
approval for the testing of experimental bird flu vaccine on American infants.
VRBPAC consumer member, also NVIC's Director of Patient Safety Vicky Debold,PhD,
warned that testing of an experimental pandemic bird flu vaccine on infants
in the absence of a real epidemic and without assurances that unapproved
novel oil based (squalene) adjuvants (AS03, MF59) are safe, could pose
unacceptable risks in terms of inducing severe immune dysfunction.
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- On February 27, 2009 it was confirmed that an influenza
vaccine maker, Baxter International, had released a mixture of seasonal
influenza viruses mixed with unlabeled live bird flu viruses to facilities
in Czechoslovakia, Germany, and Slovenia. Baxter, which is waiting for
a license to manufacturer bird flu vaccine, explained it was an "accident"
and that no harm was done.
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- On April 23, 2009, the world heard the first news reports
about a mysterious pig (H1N1) and bird (H5N1)and human hybrid influenza
virus that was making people sick near a Mexican pig farm. By April 30,
the WHO had issued a Phase 5 "Alert" warning that the world was
facing an imminent pandemic influenza epidemic on the strength of several
hundred cases of "swine" flu and less than 10 confirmed deaths.
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- The pandemic flu panic that has an especially strong
grip on people living in Mexico and the U.S., thanks to the governments
of both countries declaring a "public health emergency," has
been a good thing for pharmaceutical companies in the pandemic flu business.
- Wall Street revealed that the pandemic scare sent stock
prices soaring for drug companies making anti-viral drugs, rapid flu diagnosis
tests and influenza vaccines. Sanofi Pasteur, GlaxoSmithKline, Novavax,
Baxter, Johnson & Johnson, Roche, BioCryst, and Vical are among the
drug companies likely to benefit from the world pandemic panic.
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- In all the chaos that has Americans running to drug stores
to buy face masks, closing schools to wipe desks down with rubbing alcohol
and avoiding public transportation, there is action being taken behind
the scenes by politicians and government health officials to prepare the
way for implementation of future quarantine and mass vaccination of citizens
with experimental vaccines and drugs that have by- passed normal FDA regulations
for demonstrating purity and potency of pharmaceutical products.
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- A "public health emergency" has become an excuse
to grease the skids and rush to market experimental drugs and vaccines
that are not subject to product liability in the civil courts.
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- The mandated, mass use of multiple vaccines has become
big business in the last quarter century since the U.S. Congress passed
a law in 1986 shielding vaccine makers and doctors from liability for vaccine
injuries and deaths and the numbers of vaccines recommended by the federal
health officials for American children multiplied from 23 doses of 7 vaccines
to 48 doses of 14 vaccines from birth to age six. For older children and
adults, there are several dozen more federally recommended or state mandated
vaccinations.
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- All of this liability protection and government vaccine
mandating has been a boon for vaccine profit- making and public health
agency empire building. In 1986, four drug companies made and sold vaccines
in America and, by 2007, after corporate mergers and acquisitions there
were six drug company giants making and selling vaccines in the U.S.
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- Today, there are more drug companies seeking to enter
the lucrative multi- billion dollar U.S. vaccine market as financial predictions
for global profits from the worldwide vaccine business by 2010 have climbed
to more than $20B.
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- Politicians should not bow to additional pressure from
vaccine manufacturers and public health officials to by-pass normal FDA
standards in proving safety and efficacy of pandemic flu vaccines and their
components for the purpose of rushing them to market in response to the
pandemic panic that has been created. The swine flu debacle of 1976 should
have taught Congress that lesson.
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- A rational perspective that reduces pandemic fear and
includes common sense advice for staying healthy in every season is being
offered by holistic health doctors, such as Joseph Mercola, D.O. and physician
Congressman Ron Paul, M.D. The next time you turn on the TV or the radio
or search the internet for the latest news on the flu pandemic, take a
deep breath and consider all the natural ways to stay healthy and resist
influenza or any illness : washing your hands; eating nutritious food;
drinking plenty of pure water; getting enough exercise, rest and sunshine,
and lowering stress - which includes not walking around filled with fear,
anxiety and dread.
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