Health Authorities Now Admit Severe Side Effects of Vaccination

Health Authorities Now Admit Severe Side Effects of Vaccination

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Orthomolecular Medicine News Service, March 20, 2012 Health Authorities Now Admit Severe Side Effects of Vaccination
Swine Flu, Pandemrix and Narcolepsy


by Karin Munsterhjelm-Ahumada, M.D.

(OMNS, March 20, 2012) The
swine flu pandemic of 2009 was caused by a type A influenza (H1N1)
virus. This virus was originally referred to as "swine flu" because
many of the genes of this new virus were very similar to influenza
viruses that normally occur in pigs in North America. The H1N1 virus is
genetically similar to the 1918 pandemic virus, as determined from
victimes of the latter who were buried, and later disinterred, in
Svalbard. It was responsible for most of the outbreaks up until 1956
and then disappeared.
However,
this new virus was actually quite different from the typical swine flu
viruses. This virus first caused illness in Mexico and the United
States in March and April, 2009. This novel H1N1 flu spread from person
to person, unlike typical swine flu. In 2009 vaccines were being
developed for the prevention of swine flu in humans. http://www.medterms.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=99584
On
11 June 2009, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared that the
swine flu had developed into a full scale world epidemic - a pandemic
alert to Phase 6. Margaret Chan, the Director-General of WHO, commented
on the situation in a somewhat ambiguous way. While stressing that the
swine flu had reached a serious pandemic level, she declared later in
the same statement that the illness seemed to be mild and that most of
the patients would recover without medical intervention. http://www.who.int/mediacentre/news/statements/2009/h1n1_pandemic_phase6_20090611/en/index.html
The world chose to listen to the first part of her message.
Two
pharmaceutical companies GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) and Novartis had, under
considerable time pressure, developed a vaccine against the swine flu.
Since the cultivation of an adequate amount of virus to generate the
vaccine requires time, GSK and Novartis decided to formulate a weaker
vaccine but strenghten it with an adjuvant that contains squalene.
Immunologic adjuvants are substances, administered in conjunction with a
vaccine, that stimulate the immune system and increase the response to
the vaccine http://www.who.int/vaccine_safety/topics/adjuvants/squalene/questions_and_answers/en/.
Although squalene is a natural substance found in methabolic pathways
of the body, its inclusion in a vaccine is controversial and it is not
in use in the USA.
On 25
September 2009, the European Medicines Agency (EMEA) approved
Pandemrix, the swine flu vaccine produced by GSK and Focetria produced
by Novartis. http://justthevax.blogspot.com/2009/09/eu-approves-gsk-pandemrix-and-novartis.html The vaccine would be ready for use that October.
In Sweden, Finland, Norway and Iceland, the authorities explicitly set the goal of vaccinating the entire population http://www.svd.se/nyheter/inrikes/massvaccinering-raddade-sex-liv_6851143.svd.
In this respect, it is of interest that the governments of these
countries, already before the outbreak of the swine flu, had concluded
an agreement with GSK, according to which they were assured the delivery
of pandemic vaccines, if needed. In addition, the contract stipulated
that, in a situation characterized as a pandemic by the WHO, the same
Nordic countries would have ten days to decide whether or not to accept
delivery of the vaccine in question. Hence, the purpose of the
agreement was to assure that the entire populations of these countries
would receive vaccinations. Finally, the contract protected GSK from
any claim for financial compensation in case the delivered vaccine
would have any side effects.
When WHO declared the swine flu to be a Phase 6 pandemic, the agreement referred to above was automatically activated.
Mass
vaccination started in Finland and Sweden in October 2009. In order to
cover the largest possible percentage of the population, the
authorities initiated an enormous public relations campaign, which
could be described in terms of a "moral persuasion." Solidarity became
the slogan: "Be vaccinated to protect your fellow citizens." Those who
questioned the vaccination program (small groups of vaccine opponents
or just people who were hesitant) were looked upon with disapproval.
In
contrast to these vaccine - enthusiastic countries, the politics of
vaccination within the rest of the European Union varied immensely
among its member states. Poland, for example, decided not to buy
vaccines at all due to the strict agreement conditions required by the
pharmaceutical companies. Denmark's order covered only "risk groups". http://www.svd.se/nyheter/inrikes/svd-granskar-sveriges-vaccinering-mot-svininfluensan_6843475.svd
The
expected second wave of the influenza never appeared. The epidemic
gradually declined during the first half of 2010. The same year, on 10
August, WHO officially declared the end of the epidemic. The European
Center for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) stated that the swine
flu was less dangerous and had a lower mortality rate than the seasonal
influenza. Thus, apparently the swine flu would not have been a
dangerous epidemic even without the mass vaccination. Interestingly,
also that same year, vitamin D was shown to prevent influenza in
children. (1)
In Sweden, 60% of
the population had been vaccinated, while in Finland 50% was covered.
In contrast, the figures in Germany and Poland were only 8 and 0%
respectively. In the history of Swedish health care this pandemic
campaign amounted to one of the most expensive ever. Enormous amounts
of taxpayer money were at stake. http://www.svd.se/nyheter/inrikes/svd-granskar-sveriges-vaccinering-mot-svininfluensan_6843475.svd
Meanwhile, the media had become silent on this issue ; there was no further discussion about the swine flu anymore.
Then the blow came:
"The
absolutely worst thing that could happen," commented Richard
Bergström, the Director - General of the European Federation of
Pharmaceutical Industries and Associations, EFPIA. "The worst nightmare
of both the industry and the health authorities is an illness that
turns out to be mild, while the vaccine that was supposed to prevent a
dangerous epidemic causes a severe side effect that was previously
unknown." http://www.kostdemokrati.se/nyheter/files/2012/02/SvD-sid-14-19.pdf
In
August 2010, Finland reported an increased occurrence of narcolepsy in
children and youngsters vaccinated with Pandemrix. On 1 September
2010, Finland stopped all Pandemrix vaccinations. http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2010/09/10/swine-flu-vaccine-may-have-caused-narcolepsy.aspx
Narcolepsy
is a severe chronic neurologic disease that not only results in a
disabling fatigue, which typically results in the patient falling
asleep anywhere and at any time. It might also lead to panic attacks
and a state of exhaustion. For many, the worst consequences are the
symptoms of cataplexy. This condition causes the narcolepsy patient,
when expressing strong feelings such as laughter or crying, to suddenly
lose muscular control. The legs give way, speech gets slurred, the
gaze goes unfocused and the person gives the impression of being drunk.
In some patients, frightening hallucinations appear when falling
asleep or waking up.
On 1
September 2011, the Finnish National Institute for Health and Welfare
(THL) admitted, that for Finnish children and youngsters age 4-19,
there was a new and obvious connection between Pandemrix and
narcolepsy. As stated in THL's press release, "The increased risk
associated with vaccination amounted to six cases of narcolepsy per
100,000 persons vaccinated in the 4-19 age group during the eight
months following vaccination. This was 12.7 times the risk of a person
in the same age group who had not been vaccinated." http://www.thl.fi/en_US/web/en/pressrelease?id=26352
This statement was made almost exactly two years after the THL's
earlier statement made in the midst of the swine flu hysteria that
everyone should be vaccinated with Pandemrix and that it would be safe.
In that original statement, the director of the THL emphasized that the
squalene adjuvant could increase the side effects of the vaccine to
some extent. However, he stated, these side effects would not be
dangerous. http://www.tohtori.fi/?page=5833192&id=0169960
In
Sweden, at least 150 children are now suffering from narcolepsy
caused by Pandemrix vaccine. In Finland, the number is approximately
100. In both countries the number is probably growing. Narcolepsy is a
disease with lifetime consequences, and the risk that Pandremix may
have caused other neurological illnesses has not yet been excluded.
Many have already began to compare this tragedy with the thalidomide
catastrophe. http://www.svd.se/nyheter/inrikes/medicinsk-tragedi-med-ett-absurt-slut_6861775.svd
No
European countries had a particularly high rate of deaths due to the
swine flue. Germany had the same death rate as Sweden, which was
0.31/100 000, although Sweden vaccinated 60% and Germany only 8%. This
implies that the vaccine did little to prevent deaths. The responsible
authorities have not yet commented on this matter of fact. http://www.svd.se/nyheter/inrikes/massvaccinering-raddade-sex-liv_6851143.svd
Last
year the Finnish government promised full compensation for those who
have developed narcolepsy as a consequence of the vaccination. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-10-05/finnish-government-to-compensate-pandemrix-narcolepsy-victims.html.
While Sweden did, indeed, follow the Finnish THL in admitting the
connection between the vaccine and the disease, the Swedish authorities
have not yet decided whether and how to provide appropriate
compensation.
In February 2012, Svenska Dagbladet,
a widely read newspaper in Sweden, presented an informative and
accurate series of articles on this theme. They describe some of the
affected children narrating how difficult it is to live with narcolepsy http://www.svd.se/nyheter/multimedia/artikel_6840743.svd
According
to the authorities, much research is still underway concerning the
details of the vaccine injury. Taking the pressure from the public and
the affected families into account, it will be difficult for them to
avoid carrying out a thorough investigation. Let's hope so.




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