Australian government continues use of dangerous flu vaccine

Australian government continues use of dangerous flu vaccine








Australian health authorities, demonstrating a shocking disregard for
the safety of health consumers, have awarded the discredited vaccine
manufacturer, CSL, an AUD $117 million, four-year contract to supply flu
shots for anyone over the age of 10. In 2010, CSL's vaccine, Fluvax,
caused hundreds of children to be hospitalized, leading to the death of
at least one child and the permanent brain damage of another. The rate
of convulsions in children who received this shot was 1 in 100 - almost
ten times higher than the rate 'expected' by Australia's government
regulator, the Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA)

America's Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has threatened CSL with
revocation or suspension of its license to sell drugs and vaccines due
to a series of "objectionable conditions and practices" in its
manufacturing facilities including:

* Failure of laboratory staff to wear masks while dispensing and mixing vaccines;
* Deficient tests to check whether the vaccine viruses had been
properly split (not performing these tests properly can increase the
risk of adverse vaccine reactions); and
* Inadequate investigations into vaccine and other product failures

Vaccine safety not a priority for Australian government

Despite
the obvious problems with vaccine safety and the lack of accountability
shown by CSL in demonstrating that they had taken any steps to improve
manufacturing processes, the Australian government has chosen to
continue administering this vaccine to an unsuspecting public. According
to an unnamed spokesperson for the Australian Health Department, this
decision was made because "CSL is the only onshore manufacturer of
influenza vaccine ... that can guarantee sufficient supply of influenza
vaccine to allow the national vaccination program to commence on 15
March."

Will Australians be warned?

Due to a feeling within the
community that influenza might be less dangerous than the flu vaccine,
the government had to dispose of more than 42 percent of the 'Swine
Flu' vaccines it had purchased (7.5 million doses) at a cost to the
taxpayer of over AUD $100 million. One has to wonder if this year's
vaccine recipients will be warned about the increased risk of using
Fluvax and if they are, how many doses will be wasted since most people
would most likely not want to leave themselves at risk from a flu shot
that is known to be highly reactive.

What makes this waste of our precious and limited health dollar even
more deplorable is the fact that in children under the age of two, flu
vaccines have been shown to be completely ineffective. In those over
the age of two and healthy adults, flu vaccines do nothing to prevent
the risk of hospitalization, time spent off of work or the risk death
from flu. And in the elderly - the original target group for this shot -
flu vaccines do nothing to prevent death or serious morbidity from flu
though there does seem to be a slight protective effect against death
from pneumonia.

The TGA, which is fully funded by cost-recovery (meaning it gets no
money from the Australian government and is completely funded by the
drug companies whose products it is meant to regulate) has proven to be
more of a friend to Big Pharma rather than a watchdog to protect the
health and well being of the public.


Source:-
http://www.naturalnews.com/035009_Australia_flu_vaccine_dangers.html