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The Non-Disclosed and Hyper-Allergenic Vaccine Adjuvant

Posted by Leslie Carol Botha

vactruth.com

July 15, 2010
by Catherine Frompovich

What do peanuts and vaccines have in common? Well, you’re probably thinking that some people have allergic reactions to both, and you are correct. Peanuts cause the most common severe food allergy reactions.

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H1N1 vaccine study investigating hints of complications from vaccine

Posted by Leslie Carol Botha

Washington Post
By Rob Stein
Washington Post Staff Writer

Saturday, April 24, 2010

Federal health officials are investigating the first hints of any possible significant complications from the H1N1 vaccine, but stressed that the concerns will probably turn out to be a false alarm.

The latest analysis of data has detected what could be a somewhat elevated rate of Guillain-Barré syndrome, which can cause paralysis and death; Bell’s palsy, a temporary facial paralysis; and thrombocytopenia, which is a low level of blood platelets, officials reported Friday. The data is being collected through five of the networks the government is using to monitor people who were inoculated against the swine flu.

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AMA urges calm over vaccine ban

Posted by Leslie Carol Botha

theage.com.au
MARK RUSSELL

April 25, 2010
DOCTORS have urged the public to continue getting their flu shots and not to panic over the temporary ban on vaccinations for children under five.

Australian Medical Association vice-president Steve Hambleton said the children who had fallen ill after being vaccinated might simply have been the victims of a bad batch.

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Flu vaccination ban goes national after fever, convulsions in children

Posted by Leslie Carol Botha

WA News

April 23, 2010 – 8:06PM
CHRIS THOMSON

WA’s chief public health officer Tarun Weeramanthri has defended the response time in closing down the state’s juvenile flu vaccine program amid revelations that children were presenting with convulsions more than two weeks ago.

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Flu jab scare sparks call for surveillance system

Posted by Leslie Carol Botha

ABC News
Australia

Updated Fri Apr 23, 2010 5:32pm AEST

The number of children suffering adverse reactions after receiving the free seasonal flu vaccine may be severely underestimated because health authorities have no way of monitoring people’s reactions, experts say.

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Reconstruction of a Mass Hysteria – The Swine Flu Pandemic of 2009

Posted by Leslie Carol Botha

Spiegel Online International

March 12, 2010

Swine flu kept the world in suspense for almost a year. A massive vaccination campaign was mounted to put a stop to the anticipated pandemic. But, as it turned out, it was a relatively harmless strain of the flu virus. How, and why, did the world overreact? A reconstruction. By SPIEGEL staff.

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WHO pandemic probe focuses on media, Internet role

Posted by Leslie Carol Botha

Google

April 13, 2010

(AFP) – 12 hours ago

GENEVA — The Internet had a disruptive impact on the handling of the flu pandemic by fanning speculation and rumours, officials said as a world health probe on Tuesday examined communications on swine flu.

World Health Organisation influenza chief Keiji Fukuda told 29 health experts reviewing the international response to the pandemic that the Internet had added a new dimension to flu alerts over the past year.

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Patent application title: DECREASING POTENTIAL IATROGENIC RISKS ASSOCIATED WITH INFLUENZA VACCINES

Posted by Leslie Carol Botha

Inventors: Jens-Peter Gregersen
Agents: NOVARTIS VACCINES AND DIAGNOSTICS INC.
Assignees: CHIRON BEHRING GMBH & CO.
Origin: EMERYVILLE, CA US
IPC8 Class: AA61K3900FI
USPC Class: 4242061
Abstract:

Influenza viruses for use in preparing human vaccines have traditionally been grown on embryonated hen eggs, although more modern techniques grow the virus in mammalian cell culture e.g. on Vero, MDCK or PER.C6 cell lines. The inventor has realised that the conditions used for influenza virus 5 culture can increase the risk that pathogens other than influenza virus may grow in the cell lines and have identified specific contamination risks

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H1N1 Spread Linked to Seasonal Flu Shots

Posted by Leslie Carol Botha

Top News

Submitted by Prakash Sharma on Thu, 04/08/2010 – 13:30

The four new studies conducted by Canadian researchers conclude that the traditional seasonal flu vaccine seems to have boosted the risk of infection with pandemic H1N1 swine flu by almost double.

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The postmortem on pregnancy and H1N1 flu

Posted by Leslie Carol Botha

Los Angeles Times

Booster Shots
March 25, 2010

As early as last July, federal health officials warned doctors and pregnant women that the H1N1 (swine) flu virus appeared especially hazardous for pregnant women. In the fall, officials urged pregnant women to be vaccinated against H1N1, although surveys showed that pregnant women often hesitated to get any vaccines. Health authorities also instructed doctors, by way of several bulletins to practitioners nationwide, that pregnant women who showed symptoms of the flu should be treated immediately with antiviral medications, even before H1N1 infection was confirmed.

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