Swine Flu Vaccine Caused Narcolepsy in Thousands: BMJ Claim

Swine Flu Vaccine Caused Narcolepsy in Thousands: BMJ Claim

The Pandemrix vaccine has condemned thousands of children
to lives constrained by narcolepsy. An autoimmune disease was entirely
predictable because the adjuvant used was squalene—but warnings were
ignored. Now, the BMJ has produced a study that proves the AS03 adjuvant
of Pandemrix causes narcolepsy.


Photo by Gianfranco Reppucci (cropped)


by Heidi Stevenson

The narcolepsy toll from GlaxoSmithKline’s Pandemrix swine flu
vaccine is far more rampant than already recognized with 800 European
children’s lives devastated. The British Medical Journal (BMJ)
has revealed that the numbers worldwide must run into the thousands.
Suggestions that there was something unique about the Scandinavian
population that first noted the problem have now been shown to be
untrue.

Narcolepsy
is a devastating neurological disorder characterized by suddenly
dropping off to sleep as the result of emotion—any emotion. Sufferers
can suddenly collapse into sleep simply by laughing. Can you imagine a
life in which laughing could be dangerous? This is not the only symptom
of narcolepsy. It can also cause hallucinations, temporary paralysis,
difficulty concentrating, restlessness and difficulty sleeping normally,
vivid nightmares, cataplexy, and continuing to carry out actions while sleeping.

There is no known cure, and its victims are generally given strong
drugs in an attempt to control symptoms. These include amphetamines and
amphetamine-like drugs such as Adderall. All of these drugs can cause
severe adverse effects, including tachycardia, nervousness, diarrhea, fatigue, vomiting, anxiety, palpitations, tremors, and manic episodes.

The Study


The researchers examined the records of children who’d been diagnosed
with narcolepsy during the time that the Pandemrix vaccine was being
delivered. They were provided with lists from the British Sleep Society
and the British Paediatric Neurology Association, which referenced 23
centers that deal with narcolepsy. They initiated strong standards to
rule out any child whose condition wasn’t definitively narcolepsy.

Questionnaires were sent to their GPs to ascertain whether they’d
received the Pandemrix vaccine and on what date. This information was
compared with the timing of onset of narcolepsy. What they found was
definitive:

<blockquote>This study shows a significantly increased risk of
narcolepsy in children who received the AS03 adjuvanted pandemic strain
vaccine in England. Our case coverage method gave an odds ratio of 14.4
(4.3 to 48.5) for the primary analysis and is consistent with the
relative risk of 13 reported from Finland in a retrospective cohort
study.
</blockquote>
Their results show that Pandemrix caused 14.4 times more cases of narcolepsy than would have normally occurred!

The probable reason that an increase in narcolepsy wasn’t noted in
England is that Pandemrix vaccination in children was far from
universal. In Finland, where the tragedy was first noted, the coverage
was nearly universal. In England, it was 27.3% overall—43.9% in risk
groups (those considered at high risk if infected with swine flu) and
26.2% in non-risk children.

It is now abundantly clear is that throughout the world, Pandemrix
has caused thousands of children to develop narcolepsy during only a
couple of years. There is now no evading the reality of the devastation
caused by this vaccine that was pushed through a campaign of fear
mongering about a mild disease.

Even more bluntly, the researchers stated:

<blockquote>The increased risk of narcolepsy after vaccination with
ASO3 adjuvanted pandemic A/H1N1 2009 vaccine indicates a causal
association, consistent with findings from Finland.
</blockquote>
Notice that there’s no evading the reality: Pandemrix’s AS03
adjuvant causes narcolepsy. The question now is: What other autoimmune
disorders will show up over the next few years because of this vaccine?

Squalene, the Adjuvant that Destroys Lives


The researchers also clarified that they believe it’s the AS03
adjuvant used in Pandemrix that caused narcolepsy. Many people warned of
the risk, because the active ingredient in AS03 is squalene.

Even if squalene is banned, the problem of dangerous adjuvants is far
from over. Researchers are demonstrating that the old standard, aluminum,
is causing a huge array of adverse effects from vaccines, including
lupus erythematosus, macrophagic myofasciitis, rheumatoid arthritis, antiphospholipid syndrome, and many other severely debilitating disorders.

And then there’s the new generation of bioengineered adjuvants,
made by engineering bacteria so that they manufacture antigen-like
particles. These are used both as antigens and adjuvants, and they carry
a risk similar to squalene: They are all lipids. Injecting a lipid has
been known for decades to cause devastating autoimmune diseases. In the
early years of adjuvant experimentation, it was determined that they are
too dangerous for use in vaccines. In fact, they’re used in animal
experiments to cause autoimmune disorders so treatments for the human
diseases they duplicate can be studied. How can such adjuvants be
justified as safe?

The fact is that this tragedy was completely avoidable. Squalene’s
danger has been known for decades. There is no excuse for its use in
vaccines.

The Price Paid


These children with narcolepsy
are condemned to lives constrained by the effects of both narcolepsy
and the drugs they may take. When you consider that the disease they
were supposedly being protected from, swine flu, proved to be a rather
mild type of influenza, the tragedy of what has happened is inexcusable.
It becomes apparent that they will suffer for the rest of their lives,
never having the chance to experience life to its fullest, for one
reason alone: greed. The sufferers of narcolepsy resulting from
Pandemrix are paying the real price of GSK’s greed and government
agencies and doctors that were only too willing to go along with pushing
the vaccine that increased GSK’s profits.


Source:-
http://gaia-health.com/gaia-blog/2013-03-06/swine-flu-vaccine-caused-narcolepsy-in-thousands-bmj-claim/