Flu Crimes at the CDC

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Flu Crimes at the CDC http://www.mercola.com/2004/oct/23/flu_crimes.htm [ Page 1, Page 2 ]Next >>Dr. Mercola's Comment:If you haven’t read the lead story from last issue on the insanity surrounding the vaccine issue, then please read it now. It was a major blessing that Chiron's manufacturing facility in Britain was closed because the British government suspended its manufacturing license because of contamination at a Liverpool factory. I truly believe the snafu that eliminated some 50 million vaccines probably was a lifesaver for many men, women and children in the United States.Vaccines, like mega-billion drugs, actually do little to protect you from the flu. Most people have been lead to believe -- by the pharmaceutical powers that dominate conventional medicine and really like your money -- that viruses like the flu bug are the problem, but they aren't.The real problem: Most people have weakened and impaired immune systems that are unable to function as they're designed to because of horrendous dietary habits (the same culprit behind the obesity epidemic in this country).Dr. Mark Sircus wrote an excellent piece for his association that he agreed to share with us about the history behind the flu vaccine and the method behind the madness of our government's push to strike fear in the hearts of its citizens. This exposes provides more motivation to further my personal mission to topple the existing health care paradigm.By Dr. Mark A. Sircus Ac., OMDInternational Medical Veritas AssociationOn the 7th of October, the BBC started hitting the public with its yearly dose of hyped flu propaganda. "The 1918 "Spanish" flu pandemic is estimated to have infected up to one billion people -- half the world's population at the time. The virus killed more people than any other single outbreak of disease, surpassing even the Black Death of the Middle Ages."1 One can only wonder about "the miracle" of vaccines in those early days.Today in England, with the most modern technology, we have a vaccine plant closing because of contamination.Imagine during World War I, when the pharmaceutical companies first started mass-producing vaccines. At that time, refrigeration was chancier and vaccine manufacturing technology primitive. Federal regulators said an inspection of Chiron's flu-vaccine plant in June 2003 turned up manufacturing problems, meaning they had ample warning of troubles that, over a year later, remained unresolved.John Taylor, the FDA's associate commissioner for regulatory affairs, was correct in saying, last year, that "Chiron wouldn't necessarily be able to discover problems, identify the root cause and take steps to prevent similar issues from arising again." 2Why would we assume the early manufacturers of almost 100 years ago would do any better?Chiron's Fluvirin vaccine was pulled off the market after the dangerous serratia bacteria was found in a manufacturing plant that uses the most up-to-the-minute safeguards. Chiron also uses the mercury-based preservative thimerosal as a sterilizing agent in making Fluvirin, to prevent exactly this type of contamination.Before the 1930s, no such powerful preservative was available. It's not beyond reason or statistical probability that the vaccines back then were contaminated or seriously flawed in some way and provoked the epidemic that killed so many.Dr. Eleanor McBean, who lived through the 1918 Influenza epidemic, testified, "As far as I could find out, the flu hit only the vaccinated. Those who had refused the shots escaped the flu. My family had refused all the vaccinations so we remained well all the time. There was seven times more disease among the vaccinated soldiers than among the unvaccinated civilians, and the diseases were those they had been vaccinated against." 3Scare TacticsIt's quite normal for the medical establishment to bash the public with improbable stories of the past and "carrot stick" them with future fears saying things like this:Scientists believe the 1918 virus leapt to humans by mutating from bird flu, possibly after passing through pigs, which are able to harbor both human and avian viruses and thus allow them to swap genes as the viruses reproduce. For that reason, experts are deeply concerned that the avian flu that has broken out in poultry flocks in parts of south-east Asia may acquire genes that will make it highly infectious as well as lethal for humans. 4This kind of speculation is simply that, speculation. Beliefs without substance. A good storyline to scare naïve people with. We can as easily believe the vaccines themselves killed hundreds of thousands of people because the pharmaceutical manufacturers had not developed safeguards or sufficient technology to ensure quality control. "Influenza kills tens of thousands every year in this country and requires the hospitalization of about a quarter-million. In epidemic years, mortality can be in the millions,"5 says Dr. Henry I. Miller, a fellow at the Hoover Institution and former director of the Office of Biotechnology, who seems not to have read the CDC's version6, which puts 1918 flu deaths at only 500,000, the Asian Flu pandemic of 1957-58 at 70,000 and the Hong Kong Flu pandemic of 1968-69 at 34,000.Medical authorities, the media and doctors like Miller tend to have statistical hallucinations this time of year. Miller goes on to suggest, "The FDA should also make it clear that although the labeling for FluMist, the nasal vaccine, indicates that it is intended for recipients aged 5 to 49 years, it will likely also be effective in those younger or older."FluMist was a disaster last year not only because it is expensive but because it is dangerous and comes with warnings that those who use it can become contagious for up to 21 days to those around them, because of it's live viruses. Miller, in some kind of manic need to sure up this year's flu campaign, would have it stuffed up the noses of babies even though the FDA has indicated this is not safe. The CDC estimated that from 1990 to 1999, an average of approximately 92 influenza-related deaths occurred each year among children less than 5 years of age.7Truth Behind the FearIt is clear, at least to naturopathic doctors, that people and young children die from the flu not because of the virus itself but because they are already sick, are bearing heavy toxic burdens, and have severely compromised immune systems.Allopathic doctors like Miller forget the most basic principles of health and disease because they do not care to look into the realities of the patients they treat. They do not want to take the time to understand weaknesses in patients because they are eating too much sugar, are malnourished, are getting inadequate rest or if they are suffering from intense emotional trauma.The "flu salesmen" doctors and the CDC multiply the danger and risk of viruses because, without exaggerated stories, flu vaccines just would not sell for the virus is not dangerous in and of itself.Understand the CDC deals with diseases, not health. They would not stop and think that patients who exercise would be better protected from the dangers of flu then from patients who took vaccines. Jeffrey A. Woods, Ph.D., and graduate student Tom Lowder at the Physical Fitness Laboratory, Department of Kinesiology, University of Illinois, Urbana, recently said just this, reporting that four consecutive days of moderate exercise in mice after they were infected with influenza protects them from dying, compared with mice that didn't exercise.Woods and Lowder are reporting their findings this month at the American Physiological Society's 2004 Intersociety Meeting, showing that 20-week-old mice that had exercised had significantly (p=0.008) higher survival rates (18 of 22) versus HCC of the same age (10 of 22). When all EX mice (47) were compared with all HCC mice (48), EX had twice the survival rate, 59% vs. 29.4% (p=0.003).They reported that none of the variables (food/water intake, random activity or symptom severity) proved to be reliable at predicting mortality. Continued on Page 2 [ Page 1, Page 2 ]Next >>Return to Table of Contents #580