Say It Isn’t So About Vaccines

Say It Isn’t So About Vaccines

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Catherine J. Frompovich, Contributor
Activist Post

How effective are flu vaccines? Well, long story short—not very! What?
you probably are lamenting, in view of the present push to vaccinate
everyone six months and older against the present seasonal influenza
outbreak in the USA. That is the consensus of a report published in the
British Medical Journal (BMJ) November 19, 2012 [1] wherein flu vaccine efficacy claims have been exaggerated significantly.

Those conclusions came out of a report generated by the University of
Minnesota’s Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy analyzing
data from 1967 to 2012 that was based upon the review of the prestigious
Cochrane Library studies.

In 2011 this author co-edited the monograph Vaccines & Vaccinations: The Need for Congressional Investigation wherein we cited the Cochrane Library’s work regarding influenza vaccines effectiveness in children, adults, and the elderly.

The Cochrane Library published the article “Vaccines
for preventing influenza in healthy children” January 25, 2006 wherein
the authors’ conclusion in the Abstract stated:
<blockquote class="tr_bq">Influenza vaccines are efficacious in children
older than two but little evidence is available for children under two.
There was a marked difference between vaccine efficacy and
effectiveness. No safety comparisons could be carried out, emphasizing
the need for standardization of methods and presentation of vaccine
safety data in future studies. …If immunisation [sic] in children is to
be recommended as a public health policy, large-scale studies assessing
important outcomes and directly comparing vaccine types are urgently
required. [2]</blockquote>
In Issue 7 (2010) of the Cochrane Library, the article “Vaccines for preventing influenza in healthy adults” concluded that:

<blockquote class="tr_bq">Influenza vaccines have a modest effect
in reducing influenza symptoms and working days lost. There is no
evidence that they affect complications, such as pneumonia, or
transmission.</blockquote>
Furthermore, there was this WARNING:
<blockquote class="tr_bq">This review includes 15 out of 36 trials
funded by industry (four had no funding declaration). An earlier
systematic review of 274 influenza vaccine studies published up to 2007
found industry funded studies were published in more prestigious
journals and cited more than other studies independently from
methodological quality and size. Studies funded from public sources
were significantly less likely to report conclusions favorable to
vaccines. The review showed that reliable evidence on influenza
vaccines is thin but there is evidence of widespread manipulation of
conclusions and spurious notoriety of the studies. The content and
conclusions of this review should be interpreted in light of this
finding. [3]</blockquote>And in the elderly, Cochrane published in Issue
2 (2010) the article “Vaccines for preventing influenza in the elderly”
with the following conclusion: <blockquote class="tr_bq">The
available evidence is of poor quality and provides no guidance
regarding the safety, efficacy or effectiveness of influenza vaccines
for people aged 65 years or older. To resolve the uncertainty, an
adequately powered publicly-funded randomised [sic], placebo-controlled
trial run over several seasons should be undertaken.</blockquote>A plain
language summary of the above, Vaccines for preventing seasonal
influenza and its complications in people aged 65 or older is:
<blockquote class="tr_bq">Influenza vaccination of elderly individuals
is recommended worldwide as people aged 65 and older are at a higher
risk of complications, hospitalizations and deaths from influenza. This
review looked at evidence from experimental and non-experimental
studies carried out over 40 years of influenza vaccination. We included
75 studies. These were grouped first according to study design and
then the setting (community or long-term care facilities). The results
are mostly based on non-experimental (observational) studies, which are
at greater risk of bias, as not many good quality trials were available.
Trivalent inactivated vaccines are the most commonly used influenza
vaccines. Due to the poor quality of the available evidence, any
conclusions regarding the effects of influenza vaccines for people aged
65 years or older cannot be drawn. The public health safety profile of
the vaccines appears to be acceptable. [4]</blockquote>It seems according to the BMJ
article that, “consistent high-level protection is elusive,” including
that there is “evidence for protection in adults 65 years of age or
older [who represent over 90% of deaths from flu]…is lacking.” Which
reminds this author of an email she received recently from a person in
Ohio saying that, that person’s friend worked in a ‘rest home’ where the
elderly were given flu shots, which often led to their getting very
sick and dying. My question is this: What role did the flu shot play in
either their contracting the flu or in their deaths?

Personally,
this author can attest that the only time she ever contracted the flu
was in 1957 after she was taken by folks where she worked, who paid for
the shot. I contracted the flu not once, but twice; almost died; the
doctor came to the house every day; my mother slept with me at night;
and I missed almost a month at work!

The MD told me never to get another flu shot, as it probably would do me
in. I have listened to his advice, and to this day, have had no annual
flu vaccinations and never had a bout of influenza. Go figure!
However, I have maintained an extremely healthful lifestyle
(Mediterranean diet with no: junk food, smoking, alcohol, or sodas) and
took vitamin A religiously, which promotes the anti-viral messenger,
Interferon, produced by macrophages of the innate immune system.

Furthermore, when I was in practice as a natural nutritionist, my
clients always would call at the first sign of the sniffles and ask what
to do. My nutritional advice was to take three (3) 10,000 IUs of
vitamin A (retinol/retinal) with the juice of half a lemon in 4 ounces
of water, each day for three days in a row. Always, and without fail,
clients would ask, “What kind of magic is that?” It’s really not magic;
it’s knowing how human immunology works and supplementing it as Nature
likes and cooperates with.

Vaccines and vaccinations play around with—and apparently interfere
with—Nature’s intended immunology playbook called innate immunity.
Vaccines reprogram human biology to produce antigen-specific responses,
which ‘last’ for only a short while, if at all, therefore the need for
all the mandated booster shots with neurotoxins and other hazardous
chemicals. That probably is the apparent reason why infectious diseases
today are being contracted by those (children, in particular) who have
been fully vaccinated.

They have not acquired life-long immunity either from their mothers at
birth and during lactation, since young mothers may not be able to
convey innate immunity themselves because theirs was interrupted by
vaccine mandates as kids.

The other way to get life-long immunity is by contracting the disease,
which generations have done over the ages without Big Pharma’s
money-making vaccines being around, while humans still lived and
reproduced. However, U.S. children apparently are sicker [5] than ever
with chronic diseases at even earlier ages than ever, or experience
adverse events to vaccines as verified by CDC/FDA’s Vaccine Adverse
Event Reporting System (VAERS) [6] or on an international basis, vaccine
damage that recently happened in the African country of Chad
http://vactruth.com/2013/01/13/children-paralyzed-by-vaccine/ , which
apparently is being kept out of U.S. news reports. Go figure!

Source:-
http://www.activistpost.com/2013/01/say-it-isnt-so-about-vaccines.html