A(H1N1) Vaccination: To Be or Not To Be?

Indeed, please judge yourself.

My counter-statement in brown colour.

Remember! Those who died due to A(H1N1) virus would never have thought they would be infected by the flu virus as well, are they?

My Australian friend has just sent me this article. Read and be your own judge. Hi Team, This very alarming piece of information was sent to us today . It was written by a pharmacist in South Australia . It seems that we really need to get the message out to the public on the dangers of vaccinations that the Government is scare mongering us about!! Please take a moment to read this article, it's an absolute disgrace on every Government & pharmaceutical company on the planet. *DO NOT THINK FOR A MOMENT THAT OUR GOVERNMENT IS TRYING TO PROTECT YOU!!! * Why do you think the WHO (world health organization) and government worldwide, including European countries, US, Singapore, Australia, Hong Kong and other democratically elected countries want to hoodwink their own citizens and anger their own people by forcing their own people to be flu vaccinated? How would this be beneficial to the elected government? Won’t it be suicidal to the elected politicians and holding powers eg. President Obama? On the other hand, imagine if the government does not have enough supply of flu vaccine and the A(H1N1) virus turn out to be very virulent & deadly (eg. SARS virus) and people just dying on the street?? What kind of government is that? Can any government afford that? And who will blame the government and World Health Organisation for doing nothing? This is important. I'm a qualified pharmacist. I've been researching the swine flu vaccine that our government has bought for us (using our money, by the way) and its DANGEROUS. Its easy a hundred times more dangerous than the swine flu itself.*Something that freaked me out is that several swine flu vaccine manufacturers have asked governments to give them an exemption from lawsuits, in case the vaccine caused harm in people. *If you made a vaccine that you knew worked, then why would you need a legal exemption in case it hurt people? *Massive warning sign. They don't believe its safe. Is flu vaccine safe? Please check yourself thru the proper channel. http://pediatrics.about.com/od/swineflu/a/910_vac_cntvsy.htm http://www.cidrap.umn.edu/cidrap/content/influenza/swineflu/news/mar0510safety.html http://www.who.int/csr/disease/swineflu/notes/briefing_20091222/en/index.html Undeniably, due to the millions of people to be vaccinated, especially those for the first time, there may be small risk of over-reaction or hypersensitivity or allergy, just like some people may develop allergy or over-reaction to food, nuts or seafood and in the case of flu vaccine- egg protein. Note. Very few in a million. By now, you would know whether are you allergic to protein eggs won’t you? Do you sue your food seller or restaurant owner because you develop allergy after taking their food? No? Yes, the fact is, there are many people, with lawyers especially in US, are taking legal actions against vaccine manufacturers for all kind of reactions (related or not related) after the flu vaccination, for falling from the stairs, met with road accident, heart attack, allergy etc. Yes, vaccine manufacturers have to ask for exemption because no insurance company would want to accept their insurance and without insurance, no vaccine manufacturers want to produce flu vaccines. Hence, the government have to step in to ensure adequate supply of flu vaccines as this is concerning public health. (by giving legal exemption) The worse thing to happen is if we are having a killer flu virus and due to issues above, although we have the know-how and expertise to produce flu vaccine and yet we don’t have the production facilities to produce mass flu vaccine…. *The swine flu itself has killed about 2/3000 people total. The regular flu kills 40 000 plus per year - so why are we freaking out about swine flu, and not normal flu? Does that make sense? No. If the regular flu kills 40 000 plus per year, and the swine flu only killed 2/3 000 - then why are governments buying it in advance, giving it to us for free, and giving drug manufacturers immunity to legal cases against them? Does that make sense? No. The regular flu (seasonal flu) kills 40,000 plus per year in US while A(H1N1) flu killed 2 in 3,000. Most of the people has developed some kind of immunity towards the seasonal flu, hence, the seasonal flu kills mostly the people who are physically weak or are with other medical conditions (eg. Elderly, diabetes, heart problems etc) which comes to approx. 40,000 a year. However, A(H1N1) flu is a newly mutated strain that most people have yet to gain immunity and kills 2 in 3,000. Do your own calculation – 2 in 3000, how many in 30 million populations? 20,000 at least. And this is about people who die. What if the virus mutate into something more deadly? What about those who are hospitalized, kept in intensive unit, Critical care unit, on long term hospital treatment? An estimation of 5 times of those who die, 100,000 hospitalized – can the government hospital and private hospital manage additional 100,000 extra patients required ICU due to A(H1N1) on top of the existing demand? And the new strain virus not only kills the elderly or weak, A(H1N1) virus tends to kill more children, young adults, pregnant mothers etc. (http://www.cidrap.umn.edu/cidrap/content/influenza/swineflu/news/dec2309nejm.html) Do you want to be part of that figure? The swine flu vaccine contains 2 horribly dangerous compounds - one is called thimerosol. It is made 50% of mercury. It binds to receptors in your Brain, and basically causes brain damage. Is it smart to be injected with thimerosol, and get brain damage, dropping 10 IQ points and going dumb, in Order to avoid getting a flu that kills 95% less people than regular flu? No The other horrible in gredient is called squalene. Squalene accidentally tricks your immune system into killing your own cells, which creates autoimmune diseases like asthma, multiple scelerosis, diabetes, and a bunch of diseases that we don't have a name for yet (because squalene hasn't been used for that long, and we have little data on its effects) - is it smart to inject yourself with that stuff, in order to avoid a relatively mild flu, like the swine flu? No. If you're a pregnant mother about to take Panvax, ask yourself this - why would you take Panvax, when it contains Neomycin and Polymyxin B Sulfate - both of which exhibit positive risk to unborn children - so as to avoid what? A mild flu, that kills 95% fewer people than the regular flu? Not all flu vaccine contains thimerosal or squalene. Those contain thimerosal as preservative are those with multi-dose packing (10 dose in one vial, means for 10 people), which is cheaper to produce and mostly supply through mass as tender item. Squalene is used by some manufacturers to boost the immune response. None of those ingredients have been proven to cause side effects. However, if you are still worry, flu vaccine which is thimerosal-free, and squalene-free is easily available in the market as a single vial in one dose. Just check with the doctors and look at the package insert. I'm a qualified pharmacist. I scored in the top 0.1% of my state in school. I am not a pharmacist or a doctor. I am like you who are concerned with my family members and their health. I hope I could give them the best available option technology could provide. I believe in prevention is better than cure. And vaccination has prevented a lot of disease in the past eg. Polio, hepatitis A & B, mumps, measles, rubella, diphtheria, pertussis, tetanus, HiB, chickenpox, rotavirus, influenza, meningococcal disease. I'm expert at critical analysis of drugs and their effects on humans. And let me be blunt - if someone came up to me with a syringe full of swine flu vaccine, or came near my family with one - I would take the needle off them and poke them with it myself - followed by several very hard punches. This stuff is poison. Don't take it. Don't let your friends take it. Don't let your family take it. If some idiot in a lab coat asks you if you want it, ask them about thimerosol, squalene, and why the company making it wants legal exemption from being sued, and watch their face go into "OMG, I'm being asked serious questions that I don't have the answer to" mode. Anyway, I hope you're all well. I took many type of vaccines (tetanus, hepatitis, polio, chickenpox, flu vaccines) myself in the past and have been flu vaccinated since 2007. My family, my daughter, my parents have took it since 2007 too and we have been healthier, fall sick less frequently, and even if we fall sick, we recovered faster. My family, my parents and myself have already been flu vaccinated against A(H1N1) and the seasonal flu as well. We are all protected. Finally, it is your choice. Wish you and your family healthy and happy.