71 MIllion Unused Flu Vaccines!! Hooray!!

The following story says that the US has 71 million unused swine flu shots! Let's claim victory for that fact. It means that dumbed down or not, Americans may be waking up to the massive manipulation campaign to destroy their lives and future. The massive false propaganda campaign by WHO and the governments around the world was met by an equally massive public uprising against the falsehoods and attempted herding of the population. And we helped to do it. Give yourself credit.

U.S. has 71 million unused flu vaccine doses

Maggie Fox, Health and Science Editor

WASHINGTON

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A nurse holds up a vial of H1N1 flu vaccine prior to an inoculation at the Geisinger Medical Center in Danville, Pennsylvania October 28, 2009.

Credit: Reuters/Bradley Bower

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States still has 71 million doses of H1N1 swine flu vaccine that have not been used, but it is not yet time to throw them out, the federal government said on Monday.

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States and other providers should hang on to the vaccine and continue to offer them to people until drug companies can start distributing seasonal vaccine for the coming influenza season in the autumn, said Health and Human Services Department spokesman Bill Hall.

Senator Chuck Grassley, the ranking Republican on the Senate Finance committee, released a letter on Monday that he sent to HHS secretary Kathleen Sebelius asking her how much vaccine was left over and when it would expire.

H1N1 swine flu is still technically causing a pandemic and health officials say anyone who has not been vaccinated should still try, in case it causes a third wave of serious disease.

Health experts consider swine flu likely to join the mix of seasonal flu viruses and it will be included in the seasonal flu vaccine for 2010-2011, which will also contain two other flu strains.

When the H1N1 virus started spreading in April, HHS and its agencies, along with commercial flu vaccine makers, rushed to formulate and make a vaccine.

Influenza vaccines are made using old and unwieldy methods that require incubating the virus in chicken eggs, and the process always takes months.

Vaccine started rolling out in October and the U.S. eventually ordered 229 million doses from its five licensed makers -- Novartis, AstraZeneca unit MedImmune, Sanofi Aventis, GlaxoSmithKline and Australian vaccine maker CSL.

Sebelius said last month that 162 million doses were produced and distributed, but only 90 million actually got into people's arms or noses.

VARYING SHELF LIFE

"Depending on the vaccine manufacturer, the shelf life of the H1N1 vaccines range from 18 weeks to 18 months, with some due to expire on June 30, 2010," Grassley wrote in his letter to Sebelius.

"I understand that it is not uncommon for some seasonal flu vaccines to be discarded each year, but the H1N1 vaccines were paid for with taxpayer dollars," he added, asking: "How many doses of vaccine are due to expire on June 30, 2010?"

Hall said the department would respond to Grassley.

"There are approximately 71 million doses, held by states, the distributor or the manufacturers, that remain unused, and have varying expiration dates, some as long as early 2011," Hall said by e-mail.

"We have asked states to hold on to any vaccine that has not expired, in case we continue to have regional upticks in disease, another wave, or another early start to the flu season. We are holding onto that vaccine (and advising states and vaccinators to hold onto theirs) until there is sufficient seasonal vaccine (which includes coverage for the 2009 H1N1 virus) to replace it."

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that H1N1 has killed at least 12,000 Americans and put more than 265,000 in hospital. People with chronic diseases such as asthma or diabetes, pregnant women and children were at highest risk.

Grassley also asked Sebelius whether HHS would try to increase distribution of seasonal flu vaccines.

Japanese Study: Vit D Reduces Flu By 67%

Every now and then, a scientific study is done that confirms what many of us already 'know' is true from our common experience. The Japanese have conducted a double-blind placebo controlled study that proves the effectiveness of Vitamin D in preventing the flu. The study shows up to 67% reduction in cases of influenza A among children taking Vitamin D. Then, they ruin it at the end by saying that Vit D should be given at the time of vaccination! UGGG!

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Vitamin D better than vaccines at preventing flu, report claims

Oliver Gillie

(Richard Cannon/The Times)

Vitamin D could cut the risk of flu infection in children by half, the report claims

The risk of children suffering from flu can be halved if they take vitamin D, doctors in Japan have found. The finding has implications for flu epidemics since vitamin D, which is naturally produced by the human body when exposed to direct sunlight, has no significant side effects, costs little and can be several times more effective than anti-viral drugs or vaccine.

Only one in ten children, aged six to 15 years, taking the sunshine vitamin in a clinical trial came down with flu compared with one in five given a dummy tablet. Mitsuyoshi Urashima, the Japanese doctor who led the trial, told The Times that vitamin D was more effective than vaccines in preventing flu.

Vitamin D was found to be even more effective when the comparison left out children who were already given extra vitamin D by their parents, outside the trial. Taking the sunshine vitamin was then shown to reduce the risk of flu to a third of what it would otherwise be.

Altogether 354 children took part in the trial, which took place during the winter of 2008-09, before the swine flu epidemic. Vitamin D was found to protect against influenza A, which caused last year’s epidemic, but not against the less common influenza B.

The trial, which was double blind, randomised, and fully controlled scientifically, was conducted by doctors and scientists from Jikei University School of Medicine in Tokyo, Japan.

The children were given a daily dose of 1200 IUs (international units) of vitamin D over a period of three months. In the first month children in the group taking the vitamin became ill just as often as those taking the dummy tablet. But by the second month, when the vitamin level in the children’s blood was higher, the advantage of the vitamin was clear.

The Japanese scientists, writing in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, say that the anti-viral drugs zanamivir and oseltamivir reduce risk of flu infection by 8 per cent in children who have been exposed to infection, compared with a 50 per cent or greater reduction with vitamin D.

Anti-virals are also too expensive, and possibly too toxic, to be given to the population as a whole whereas vitamin D has additional benefits. The sunshine vitamin not only prevents bone fractures but is also believed to reduce risks of cancer, heart disease, diabetes and other illness, including various bacterial as well as viral infections.

The Japanese finding supports a theory that low blood levels of the sunshine vitamin occurring in winter explain why flu epidemics generally peak between December and March.

Vitamin D activates the innate immune system, enabling the body to produce several proteins such as defensin and cathelicidin which trigger cell activity and disable viruses.

Dr Urashima said: “Vitamin D and vaccine work by quite different mechanisms. Vitamin D enhances innate immunity while vaccine enhances acquired immunity. So we do not have to select only one way of prevention, rather we should do both ways, I think.”

Dr John Oxford, professor of virology at Queen Mary School of Medicine, London, said: “This is a timely study. It will be noticed by scientists. It fits in with the seasonal pattern of flu. There is an increasing background of solid science that makes the vitamin D story credible. But this study needs to be replicated. If it is confirmed we might think of giving vitamin D at the same time as we vaccinate.”

Vitamin D Activates Immune System

Many of you who follow this blog remember that I recommended strongly that you and your family take Vitamin D (Cataplex D) as a part of our anti-swine flu protocol. Continuing research is showing why Vitamin D helps with the flu and everything else that requires immunity - infection, cancer, diabetes, osteoporosis and all the so-called auto-immune disorders. Remember, Vit D is the "Sunshine Vitamin" that is obtained naturally from exposure of the skin to sunlight for at least 20 minutes a day in most parts of the world. Picured are natural Vitamin D crystals. Anyone who lives north of a line drawn from East to West through Atlanta will probably not get enough Vit D in the dark days of winter and will need a Vit D supplement.

Also, keep in mind that dark skinned people will produce less Vit D in their skin due to the action of melanin, so darker people tend to have more severe Vit D deficiency, and hence, a higher risk of diseases affected by Vit D.

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Vitamin D Activates the Immune System

NaturalNews) There is an epidemic of vitamin D deficiency sweeping across our modern world, and it's an epidemic of such depth and seriousness that it makes the H1N1 swine flu epidemic look like a case of the sniffles by comparison. Vitamin D deficiency is not only alarmingly widespread, it's also a root cause of many other serious diseases such as cancer, diabetes, osteoporosis and heart disease.A new study published in the March, 2010 issue of the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism found that a jaw-dropping 59 percent of the population is vitamin D deficient. In addition, nearly 25 percent of the study subjects were found to have extremely low levels of vitamin D.Lead author of the study, Dr. Richard Kremer at the McGill University Health Center, said "Abnormal levels of vitamin D are associated with a whole spectrum of diseases, including cancer, osteoporosis, and diabetes, as well as cardiovascular and autoimmune disorders."This new study also documents a clear link between vitamin D deficiency and stored body fat. This supports a theory I've espoused here on NaturalNews for many years: That sunshine actually promote body fat loss. Vitamin D may be the hormonal mechanism by which this fat loss phenomenon operates.The research findings on vitamin D, by the way, get even better...
Activator for the immune systemRecent research carried out at the University of Copenhagen has revealed that vitamin D activates the immune system by "arming" T cells to fight off infections.This new research, led by Professor Carsten Geisler from the Department of International Health, Immunology and Microbiology at the University of Copenhagen, found that without vitamin D, the immune system's T cells remain dormant, offering little or no protection against invading microorganisms and viruses. But with vitamin D in the bloodstream, T cells become "armed" and begin seeking out invaders that are then destroyed and carried out of the body.Vitamin D, in other words, acts a bit like the ignition key to your car: The car won't run unless you turn the key and ignite the engine. Likewise, your immune system won't function unless it is biochemically activated with vitamin D. If you're facing the winter flu season in a state of vitamin D deficiency, your immune system is essentially defenseless against seasonal flu. That's why all the people who get sick are the ones who live indoors, work indoors and exist in a chronic state of vitamin D deficiency.That's also why virtually all the people who died from H1N1 were chronically deficient in vitamin D. They had virtually no immune system protection at all and were thus easy targets for the swine flu.These findings about vitamin D "arming" the immune system were published in Nature Immunology. Commenting on the findings, the researchers said, "Scientists have known for a long time that vitamin D is important for calcium absorption and the vitamin has also been implicated in diseases such as cancer and multiple sclerosis, but what we didn't realize is how crucial vitamin D is for actually activating the immune system -- which we know now." (UK Telegraph, source below).It seems the CDC and WHO remain utterly ignorant about this research or they would have been recommending vitamin D to fight the recent H1N1 pandemic rather than vaccine shots. Vitamin D would have been a far more effective (and less costly) defense against the pandemic than vaccine shots, especially given that even vaccines don't work unless there is an immune response, and that immune response requires the presence of vitamin D!And while vaccine shots have undesirable side effects such as causing severe neurological damage in a small number of vaccine recipients, vitamin D's only significant "side effect" is that it prevents 77% of all cancers, too. (http://www.naturalnews.com/021892.html)
The common denominator for diseaseWhat's becoming increasingly clear from all the new research is that vitamin D deficiency may be the common denominator behind our most devastating modern degenerative diseases. Kidney failure patients are almost universally deficient in vitamin D and diabetes patients are usually in the same category. People suffering from cancer almost always demonstrate severe vitamin D deficiency, as do people with osteoporosis and multiple sclerosis.

Swine Flu Update - 13 US Deaths

This is the latest concerning what is undoubtedly the so-called 'Third Wave' of the Swine Flu pandemic which has been running globally for about one year. Deaths around the world in Ukraine have been reported previously. Now there are clusters of fatal cases in North Carolina, Michigan and other US states. There is also a spike in fatal cases in Mexico where the pandemic began a year ago. This signals a change in the genetic make-up of the H1N1 virus consisting of two mutations that are associated with the more severe and sometimes fatal illnesses. It is worrisome that the seasonal flu virus is essentially absent this year, leaving a 'biological vacuum' for the mutated H1N1. Keep all precautions in effect as winter turns into spring and natural vitamin D levels start to rise from increased sunlight.

13 Recent H1N1 Deaths In Michigan Raise Concerns

Recombinomics Commentary February 11, 2010

Cumulative deaths associated with any influenza strain since Sept 1, 2009: 79The above comment in the most recent Michigan update describes a dramatic spike in H1N1 fatalities in the past 2 weeks in Michigan. This recent rate of approximately 1 death per day is in marked contrast to deaths between December 12, 2009 and January 19, 2010 when only 2 fatalities were reported. The spike in Michigan coincides with a spike in Pneumonia and Influenza deaths in the US, but in Michigan the spike was in lab confirmed H1N1, raising concerns that a new wave has begun in the US and is more lethal than the wave which largely ended in December and early January.The start of a new wave is not unexpected. Multiple waves within one pandemic seasonal have been noted previously, and the likelihood of a wave in early 2010 was increased by the early appearance of the fall wave, as well as the absence of seasonal influenza A. Moreover, the decline in wild type H1N1 provides an opportunity for the emergence and dominance of a new strain. Recent increases in the reporting of H1N1 sequences with D225G and D225N have raised concerns that this lethal strain could become more common leading to more severe and fatal cases.There has also been a recent surge in H1N1 confirmed fatalities in Mexico, raising additional concerns for the spread of D225G. In a recent series of 10 HA sequences from fatal cases in Mexico, 5 had D225G, D225N, or both. The two sequences with both were collected within a day of each other in San Luis Potosi, raising concerns of H225G/N transmission, which was recently seen in a death cluster at Duke Medical Center in North Carolina.

Deadly Third Wave Begins In US

The six pediatric patients who died this week along with the cluster of fatal cases in North Carolina on college campuses raise the specter of a deadly third wave of H1N1 Swine Flu. The 'normal' seasonal flu would expectedly begin to peak right at this time, but what is unknown is the degree to which the 'normal seasonal flu virus' is being replaced wth the mutant H1N1 swine flu virus with the deadly D225G mutation associated with deep lung fatal infections.

Do not let your guard down.

Review the flu prevention protocol in the archives of this blog.

Six H1N1 Pediatric Deaths In California Raise Concerns

Recombinomics Commentary 10:10February 05, 2010

There were 9 influenza-associated pediatric deaths: MS (1), TX (1), CO (1), CA (6)The above pediatric deaths for week 4 are in Friday’s MMWR and will be in the CDC week 4 report. The six deaths in California are striking and once again signal a high level of fatalities when there is no seasonal influenza A and reported pandemic H1N1 levels are low. In addition, the Pneumonia and Influenza deaths for week 4 will be 8.1%, virtually unchanged from the spike reported in week 3, which increased the rate to 8.2%The 9 pediatric deaths are week above the 5 year average for week 4, which is 2 deaths. These newly reported cases raise the number of confirmed pediatric deaths in the 2009/2010 season to 248. 247 of the 248 were due to pandemic H1N1. This number is well above the any report since pediatric death reports were mandatory. Last year the level broke 100, but that was due to the pandemic H1N1 deaths in the spring and summer. Deaths from seasonal flu were well below 100.The latest additions are not a surprise. Pandemic H1N1 is far more lethal to children as well as all age groups under 65, internet and media disinformation campaigns notwithstanding. The disinformation campaigns compare projections based on lab confirmed cases to US (36,000) or world (500,000) deaths created by extrapolations linked to pneumonia deaths, which lack influenza confirmaton.Moreover, recent data signal the start of wave 3, which is likely to be higher than wave 1 last spring or wave 2 in the fall. The traditional flu season peaks are in February/March and the recent H1N1 increases position wave 3 to coincide with more traditional seasonal flu trends.These recent increases raise concerns that the new wave will be more severe and deadly than earlier waves. The released sequences with D225G/N are on the rise, and in the Duke outbreak these changes were linked to fatal cases who were infected with Tamiflu resistant H1N1.Moreover, Mill Hill data on a Ukrainian isolate with D225G designated the isolate a low reactor, indicating titers with reference antisera was at least four fold lower than the reference isolate.Thus, a higher frequency of severe and fatal cases is expected in wave 3.Media Links
Recombinomics PresentationsRecombinomics PublicationsRecombinomics Paper at Nature Precedings

Swine Flu Death Rate Soars in Ukraine and Russia

The H1N1 epidemic continues to explode in the Ukraine with an accelerating death rate. The epidemic of a novel, mutated H1N1 virus has now spread widely into neighboring countries including Russia and is being virtually ignored by the media. While information is sketchy, it is clear that the situation is deadly and still evolving. Even though far away the event in Ukraine and the Eastern European region are only a jet plane ride away. So now is not the time to go to sleep on what can still happen throughout the world. Now is not the time to let down your precautions. We may soon face a nasty third wave of a global pandemic that is far from spent.

Ukraine Fatalities Spike to 805

- One Day Record of 38

Recombinomics Commentary

January 4, 2010

3,802,945 Influenza/ARI

222,205 Hospitalized

805 Dead

The above update is from the Ukraine Ministry of Health. The number of deaths was 38 more than Sunday's report. Donetks had the largest increase. The 11 deaths in the past two days in the oblast brings the season total to 108, which is the highest in Ukraine. Donetks shares a border with Russia (see map), where there have also been a high number of cases. Recently released sequences from Russia match the initial sequences from western Ukraine.Although the number of reported cases has declined in recent days, the jump of 38 deaths in 24 hours is the highest reported to date for Ukraine and raise concerns that sequences with D225G and D225N are becoming more common and are linked to the rise in deaths. Sequences from recent fatalities in eastern Ukraine would be useful.

Near Death From Flu Vaccine Shot

OK, in Holland, they actually have a humane response to infant deaths that occur related to vaccination.

But here - it's altogether a different story.

Unfortunately, when death or near death occurs here from a vaccine,

it's brushed aside.

Full speed ahead!

Babies Die, Vaccines Halted in Holland

Vaccine use halted after baby deaths
Friday 06 November 2009
The Dutch health institute RIVM has stopped the distribution of a batch of Pfizer's Prevnar childhood vaccine following the death of three babies shortly after being vaccinated.
The vaccine has been labeled 'do not use' and and new supplies have been made available to doctors.
The exact cause of the death of the infants is not yet known, the RIVM said. The babies died between one and 11 days after the vaccination.
© DutchNews.nl

Flu Prevention Protocol

To be completely safe, we have put together the following recommendations for those who want to be sure that they are not vulnerable to whatever is coming down the pike- whether it is this new ‘bug’ or just the regular old garden variety flu bug that we are used to.

Our prevention protocol is the following:

Cataplex C 3 tablets daily
Cataplex D 3 to 6 tablets daily (dark skinned people should take the higher dose)
Cataplex F 3 tablets daily
Calcium Lactate 6 tablets daily
Tuna omega 3 perles daily




This will help to prevent you from catching the flu or any other viral illness that may be going around. However, if you unfortunately have an active case of the flu, with fever, headache, body aches, cough, sneezing, poor appetite, etc the following may be added to the above protocol:

Immuplex 3 to 6 per day
Congaplex 6 to 12 per day (chewable form for children)
Antronex 3 to 9 per day
Andrographis 3 to 9 per day
DiaCo 3 to 6 teaspoons per day (especially suitable for children)
Veldona 1 to 2 per day
Calcium Lactate 6 every hour until fever breaks

This active treatment protocol must be taken under the directions of Dr Muhammad or other qualified health care professional familiar with this natural approach. Dr Muhammad does not recommend Tami flu, Relenza or any influenza vaccine. Remember, the 1976 swine flu vaccine killed dozens of people and crippled hundreds. The virus killed one.