Bhubaneswar Meet: Minister, handle swine flu with care.

[Guest guest]

Respected Sirs/Madam,

 

We had a very lively workshop. There were presentations by activists, doctors and legal experts. The dangers from Tamiflu and Swine Flu Vaccines were discussed. Parents who have not vaccinated their children spoke about the hurdles they had to face from friends and relatives. Friends from the media were present. TV channels aired footage, english newspapers have published the days activities. It was felt that there should be a doctors network to tackle the Swine Flu Menace.

 

Regards,

Jagannath & Others.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

BHUBANESWAR | Saturday, September 19, 2009 |

Workshop urges Minister to handle swine flu with carePNS | BhubaneswarFocussing on the treatment method and the necessary precautions to be taken, a workshop called by the Deccan Development Society and Living Farms discussed various issues related to swine flu.The speakers talked at length about the possibilities of virus mutating on its own to become a human-to-human transmitted disease. Pigs have faced the problem but animal to human transmission is rare. Researches are on since 1930 to try and isolate all strains of the Influenza A virus, they said.The Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) feels that flu is the outcome of a faulty vaccine being given to pig in North America. This was discovered by Adrian Gibbs and Jean Downie, virologists who are studying pigs in North

America to trace the origin of the virus, it was revealed.The researchers say, “The virus had three parents from two continents and appeared suddenly without warning. The sequence of data suggests that it may have been created from a faulty vaccine given to pigs in North America.†The report has been submitted to the US FDA and CDC, and to Sir Liam Donaldson, UK Chief Medical Officer.Vaccine manufacturer Baxter is also under lens and is suspected of releasing a batch of vaccine material which had live bird flu virus. If inoculated, it would have resulted in a bird flu epidemic. Another manufacturer Merck has also been accused of similarly dispatching serum-based medicines, contaminated with the AIDS virus in the early 1980s when AIDS first appeared.Baxter has applied for a patent on the vaccine one year before the swine flu emerged prompting media to question Margaret Chan, the Director General of WHO. Chan admitted that the

WHO knew swine flu could emerge as a pandemic. The WHO feels that the flu may ‘explode’ in the coming winter months. The vaccine to the swine flu is being rushed through prompting doctors to protest its hasty introduction. In India, Director General ICMR VM Katoch has observed that the vaccine should be tested in India before release. In case of anti-viral drug Oseltamivir (Tamiflu) too, the health officials have restricted its use. Tamiflu has adverse effects on the body and mind. Teenagers, given Tamiflu in Japan, reported psychiatric ailments including suicides. Outbreaks of swine flu occurred amongst soldiers in 1918 and 1976. This made doctors to question the vaccines that were being given to them prior to the disease outbreak. The speakers at the workshop entreated the Union Health Minister to be careful in dealing with flu. Indians have natural resistance to the flu. There are also alternative systems of treatment

which can be very efficacious against this disease which has spread in India. These systems have very safe medicines to offer. Modern doctors too stress that rest and isolation is the best way to tackle swine flu.

All it takes is just one vaccine to forever change your life. - Dawn, mother of vaccine damaged child.

 

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