Quotes about Swine Flu from the world's top natural health / natural living authors
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 "Various investigations concluded that the problems caused by the swine flu vaccine occurred because the vaccine was produced in too much of a rush. Tests were not yet conclusive about the right dosage. Side effects were not thoroughly explored. And the GDG's alarms that the Fort Dix virus represented a dangerous genetic makeover, and that it was highly contagious, were not well founded. The CDG has learned its lessons, which is why Cox's group is so active year-round. It is not a question of whether the next killer flu pandemic will occur, but when. We are overdue."- Elinor Levy, Mark Fischetti, The New Killer Diseases: How the Alarming Evolution of Germs Threatens Us All (Get the book.) |
 "The three most important outcomes of the swine flu affair were demonstration of the inadequacies in the U.S. vaccine system; loss of public faith in the CDC and, more generally, in public health leaders; and an insurance legacy that would impede vaccine efforts for the rest of the century.
Consider this, the CDC told HEW secretary Forrest Matthews, if, just if this strain of swine flu is as lethal as the swine-type flu that killed more than twenty-five million people worldwide in 1918 to 1919, wouldn't an epidemic be far worse today?"- Laurie Garrett, Betrayal of Trust: The Collapse of Global Public Health (Get the book.) "In the case of swine flu, the CDC and the U.S. Army appear in hindsight to have overreacted to a single death and a handful of secondary cases attributed to a new strain of influenza that struck a military base in New Jersey in the winter of 1976. And the White House, for its part, leapt way beyond the evidence, sending the country into a real public health fiasco.334 The three most important outcomes of the swine flu affair were demonstration of the inadequacies in the U.S." - Laurie Garrett, Betrayal of Trust: The Collapse of Global Public Health (Get the book.) "And the agency came to fear that the 1918 killer flu, swine flu, had returned and might claim millions of lives. Sadly, Legionnaires' disease, as it came to be known, and the fiasco triggered by the swine flu scare would so dominate public concern and attention in 1976 and '77 that few people in the United States would even realize that the CDC and WHO had achieved the greatest public health victory of the twentieth century: they had wiped out smallpox.333 That victory wasn't, however, what made the CDC a household acronym in America." - Laurie Garrett, Betrayal of Trust: The Collapse of Global Public Health (Get the book.) |
 "Meanwhile, no swine flu epidemic had erupted. Twenty years later, Walter Dowdle, who had served as the CDC's laboratory chief during the swine flu scare, wrote: "It has been said that the pandemics of 1957 and 1968 were diseases in search of a vaccine. In 1976, the vaccine was in search of a disease."
For public health officials, the lesson from Fort Dix has been that before you declare a novel virus pandemic, make sure the microbe has legs and can spread efficiently from person to person."- Madeline Drexler, Secret Agents: The Menace of Emerging Infections (Get the book.) |
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Government at Harvard during the swine flu affair. Dr. Harvey Fineberg wore two hats, holding degrees in both medicine and public policy. Together in 1977 they would review the events of the previous year, trying to pin down exactly when, and why, the federal health establishment started to suspend disbelief and began its journey down the swine flu slippery slope.
"From one case—Private Lewis—you learn nothing," Fineberg, seventeen years later as dean of the Harvard School of Public Health, would say. "- Laurie Garrett, The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance (Get the book.) "But they did have a sample of Shope's swine flu, and were able to show that some of the Fort Dix recruits had antibodies that neutralized the Shope swine flu. On the basis of those two layers of hypothetical thinking, Goldfield suggested the Fort Dix strain might be the same as, or similar to, the virus that sickened over one billion people worldwide in 1918?9, killing more than 21 million. The Centers for Disease Control quickly repeated the New Jersey studies, confirming Goldfield's findings." - Laurie Garrett, The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance (Get the book.) |
 "The live virus against measles and mumps may produce such side effects as encephalitis (brain damage) ".
The swine flu vaccine was administered to the American public even though there had never been a case of swine flu identified in a human. Within a few months of use of this vaccine, many cases of nerve injury began to become reported. Claims amounting to $1.3 billion were filed for injury from the vaccine.
In 1986 150 lawsuits were filed against the manufacturers of DPT (Diphtheria, Pertussis, Tetanus) vaccine seeking 1.5 billion in damages."- James A. Howenstine, MD, A Physician's Guide To Natural Health Products That Work (Get the book.) |
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