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"Informed consent advocate says government and industry should release flu vaccine effectiveness data, http://www.vaccineinfo.net/immunization/vaccine/ influenza/fluvaccinefacts.shtml: "The flu vaccine only protects against the three specific viral strains which are included in any given year's flu vaccine. Throat, respiratory, gastrointestinal and ear infections caused by bacteria or other kinds of viruses are not prevented by getting an annual flu shot." Via the government of course by their own lobby, the media that concentrates in selling fear. And via front groups." - Kenneth W Thomas, Ron Gilbert, Gerd Schaller, Side Effects: The Hidden Agenda of the Pharmaceutical Drug Cartel (Get the book.)

"This all became rather apparent in the fall of 2004, when the flu vaccine shortage hit the United States. In order to acquire more flu vaccines, the U.S. turned to (where else?) Canada. Suddenly, we were importing millions of doses of flu vaccines from Canada, which was perfectly okay with the FDA and U.S. government authorities. "Why was it okay? Because, they didn't want to take the heat for messing up the flu vaccine supply, so, all of a sudden, drugs from Canada were perfectly acceptable and deemed safe." - Mike Adams, Spam Filters for Your Brain (Get the book.)

"In other words, the overuse of the flu vaccine is related to: (1) overzealous policy makers with good intentions but a lack of knowledge of the evidence; (2) the attitude that "it can't hurt"; and (3) the influence of the profit motive in selling millions of flu vaccines. Most cases of the so-called flu are actually "influenzalike diseases," that is, infections caused by viruses other than the flu that are not prevented by the flu vaccine. In addition, the influenza vaccine does not prevent the most virulent forms of influenza, the ones that can actually cause death." - J. Douglas Bremner, Before You Take that Pill: Why the Drug Industry May Be Bad for Your Health (Get the book.)

"Just adopt these simple rules: Before you vaccinate, ask about thimerosal Until thimerosal in flu vaccines is a thing of the past, you and your pediatrician have a responsibility to demand the right to a preservative-free, heavy-metal-free flu vaccine, like Flu Mist (www.flumist.com). For Dr. Jeffrey Boscamp, the chairman of pediatrics at Hackensack University Medical Center, the issue is incredibly simple. The question of what exactly thimerosal does to children isn't even relevant, he said. " - Deirdre Imus, Growing Up Green: Baby and Child Care: Volume 2 in the Bestselling Green This! Series (Green This!) (Get the book.)

"Later calculations showed that the relative risk of acquiring GBS during the six weeks after the vaccination was ten times higher if you had been vaccinated than if you had never received the swine flu vaccine. The cases of GBS that resulted from the swine flu vaccine were no different, in terms of the severity of paralysis and weakness, from those that had emerged in nonvaccinated individuals, except for the fact that those who developed GBS without having been vaccinated were, as in my own case, far more likely to have had an acute illness in the month preceding GBS." - Donna Jackson Nakazawa, The Autoimmune Epidemic (Get the book.) "Epidemiologists wondered if the cause of so many people developing GBS after getting the swine flu vaccine might have been a residual protein taken from the myelin of embryonic chicks that existed in the vaccine through all its manufacturing stages, though the idea that this myelin protein had caused a case of molecular mimicry was a guess at best. Back then, investigators could not imagine that the virus in the vaccine itself was the cause. Still, it seemed a freak occurrence having to do with something unique to the swine flu vaccine. Then, in 1992, 1993, and 1994, it all happened again." - Donna Jackson Nakazawa, The Autoimmune Epidemic (Get the book.)

"In children over the age of two years old, the injectable flu vaccine, in most studies, seems to be about 70 percent effective. Under two, it may not be more effective than placebo. There are not good studies showing that flu vaccine in kids under two are more effective than placebo." So ask your pediatrician about FluMist, which is now approved for children as young as twenty-four months. If your child absolutely must get vaccinated for the flu, just make sure the vaccine is thimero-sal-free. Always review the vaccine packaging before immunizing your children." - Deirdre Imus, Growing Up Green: Baby and Child Care: Volume 2 in the Bestselling Green This! Series (Green This!) (Get the book.)

"In an article entitled The flu vaccine Myth, Croft Woodruff presents the case that flu vaccines may actually increase the risk of developing neurological pathologies: ... according to Hugh Fudenberg, md, ... If an individual has had five flu shots between 1970 and 1980 (the years studied) her chances of getting Alzheimer's Disease is 10 times higher than if she had one, two or no shots. When asked why this was so, Fudenberg said it was due to the mercury and aluminum that is in every flu shot (and most childhood shots)." - Ron Garner, Conscious Health: A Complete Guide to Wellness Through Natural Means (Get the book.)

"The flu vaccine only protects against the three specific viral strains which are included in any given year's flu vaccine. Throat, respiratory, gastrointestinal and ear infections caused by bacteria or other kinds of viruses are not prevented by getting an annual flu shot." Via the government of course by their own lobby, the media that concentrates in selling fear. And via front groups. Front groups that are not grass-root movements. Artificial front groups. False front-groups are a piece of technology of the black propaganda know-how. We will talk more about that later." - Kenneth W Thomas, Ron Gilbert, Gerd Schaller, Side Effects: The Hidden Agenda of the Pharmaceutical Drug Cartel (Get the book.)

"For example, the flu vaccine is comprised of inactive flu virus. When presented to the immune system, the inactive virus acts as a Wanted poster, alerting the immune system to be on the watch for live flu virus when the body is exposed. Short-term immunity, on the other hand can be transferred passively from one individual to another via a serum containing antibodies. In this way, infants are protected by antibodies they receive from their mothers before birth and during breastfeeding." - Tom Bohager, Everything You Need to Know About Enzymes to Treat Everything from Digestive Problems and Allergies to Migraines and Arthritis (Get the book.)

"And yet there is no evidence that the flu vaccine does anything at all. There are no controlled trials that show that a flu shot prevents deaths in children or the elderly. The only positive studies are of patients with COPD, probably because COPD patients have marginal lung function and preventing any flu infections will have a greater impact. Dr." - J. Douglas Bremner, Before You Take that Pill: Why the Drug Industry May Be Bad for Your Health (Get the book.) "And even that estimate is optimistic because a substantial number of the elderly who die from influenza are immunocompromised and won't benefit from a flu vaccine anyway. Pending legislation in the form of the Flu Protection Act will revamp U.S. flu-vaccine policy by requiring the CDC to pay makers for vaccines unsold "through routine market mechanisms." The bill will also require the CDC to conduct a "public awareness campaign" emphasizing "the safety and benefit of recommended vaccines for the public good." And let me remind you that flu vaccinations are not innocuous." - J. Douglas Bremner, Before You Take that Pill: Why the Drug Industry May Be Bad for Your Health (Get the book.)

"Or are you getting the flu vaccine every year? We are a pill-popping society and we believe drugs are safe and have been adequately tested for long-term effects. Remember that most drugs go on the market after being tested for a few months on only a few hundred to a few thousand people. Long-term effects don't become apparent, except of course in the long term, after millions have been exposed. We know that drugs have many effects. The ones we like, we call "drug action." The ones we don't, we call "side effects." In fact they are all "effects" of the drugs." - Mark Hyman MD, The UltraMind Solution: Fix Your Broken Brain by Healing Your Body First (Get the book.)

"Most cases of the so-called flu are actually "influenzalike diseases," that is, infections caused by viruses other than the flu that are not prevented by the flu vaccine. In addition, the influenza vaccine does not prevent the most virulent forms of influenza, the ones that can actually cause death." - J. Douglas Bremner, Before You Take that Pill: Why the Drug Industry May Be Bad for Your Health (Get the book.)

"Nervous Iowans stood in line at any clinic offering flu vaccine, which was hard to find across America that year. Television stations and newspapers carried stories of the youngest Iowans who suffered. Blue-eyed Caitlin Mouw, just twenty months old, was the first Iowan to die. Her parents said the toddler was struck by both the flu and a case of pneumonia. "They said it was a mild case of pneumonia, nothing to be concerned about," Dan Mouw, the child's father, told a reporter from KCRG-TV 9 in Cedar Rapids. "It's just an empty place in my heart where she used to be." - Melody Petersen, Our Daily Meds: How the Pharmaceutical Companies Transformed Themselves into Slick Marketing Machines and Hooked the Nation on Prescription Drugs (Get the book.)

"One double-blind trial found that co-administration of 100 mg of Asian ginseng extract with a flu vaccine led to a lower frequency of colds and flu compared to people who just received the flu vaccine alone.13 Boneset (page 644) has been shown in test tube and other studies to stimulate immune-cell function,14 which may explain it's traditional use to help fight off minor viral infections, such as the flu. Wild indigo (page 759) contains polysaccharides and proteins that have been reported in test tube studies to stimulate the immune system." - Alan R. Gaby, M.D., Jonathan V. Wright, M.D., Forrest Batz, Pharm.D. Rick Chester, RPh., N.D., DipLAc. George Constantine, R.Ph., Ph.D. Linnea D. Thompson, Pharm.D., N.D., The Natural Pharmacy: Complete A-Z Reference to Natural Treatments for Common Health Conditions (Get the book.) "However, one double-blind trial found that people who were given 100 mg of Asian ginseng extract in combination with a flu vaccine experienced a lower frequency of colds and flu compared with people who received only the flu vaccine.40 According to test tube experiments,41 wild indigo stimulates immune function (page 255), which might account for its role in fighting the common cold and flu (page 269). In combination with echinacea, bone-set, and homeopathic arnica, as mentioned above, wild indigo has prevented and reduced symptoms of the common cold in double-blind research." - Alan R. Gaby, M.D., Jonathan V. Wright, M.D., Forrest Batz, Pharm.D. Rick Chester, RPh., N.D., DipLAc. George Constantine, R.Ph., Ph.D. Linnea D. Thompson, Pharm.D., N.D., The Natural Pharmacy: Complete A-Z Reference to Natural Treatments for Common Health Conditions (Get the book.)

"The cases of GBS that resulted from the swine flu vaccine were no different, in terms of the severity of paralysis and weakness, from those that had emerged in nonvaccinated individuals, except for the fact that those who developed GBS without having been vaccinated were, as in my own case, far more likely to have had an acute illness in the month preceding GBS. When we catch a disease naturally, we usually produce antibodies to the organism that causes it." - Donna Jackson Nakazawa, The Autoimmune Epidemic (Get the book.) "Still, it seemed a freak occurrence having to do with something unique to the swine flu vaccine. Then, in 1992, 1993, and 1994, it all happened again. People developed Guillain-Barre after widescale influenza vaccination programs, cementing the epidemiologic evidence that influenza strains other than the swine flu could also induce GBS. This isn't all that surprising, given Harley and James's discovery that molecular mimicry between a protein in a virus and a protein in the body could lead to autoimmune disease. But it was a startling realization at the time." - Donna Jackson Nakazawa, The Autoimmune Epidemic (Get the book.)

"I always warn elderly patients against taking the flu vaccine. Instead, use nutritional supplementation and a healthy diet. It is much more effective and far less hazardous. Multiple studies have shown that the reason the elderly are so susceptible to the flu is because of age-related immune deficiencies, which I will discuss in chapter nine. At any rate, over 50 percent of the time, flu vaccines contain the wrong antigen and will not protect you, and a significant number of the vaccinated elderly actually contract flu because of the vaccine." - Russell L. Blaylock, M.D., Health and Nutrition Secrets (Get the book.)

"One double-blind trial found that co-administration of 100 mg of Asian ginseng extract with a flu vaccine led to a lower frequency of colds and flu compared to people who just received the flu vaccine alone.13 Boneset (page 644) has been shown in test tube and other studies to stimulate immune-cell function,14 which may explain it's traditional use to help fight off minor viral infections, such as the flu. Wild indigo (page 759) contains polysaccharides and proteins that have been reported in test tube studies to stimulate the immune system." - Alan R. Gaby, M.D., Jonathan V. Wright, M.D., Forrest Batz, Pharm.D. Rick Chester, RPh., N.D., DipLAc. George Constantine, R.Ph., Ph.D. Linnea D. Thompson, Pharm.D., N.D., The Natural Pharmacy: Complete A-Z Reference to Natural Treatments for Common Health Conditions (Get the book.)

"Unfortunately, the CDC's 1999 recommendation did not apply to the flu vaccine, most of which to this day contains thimerosal. And it's not as if only a small minority of children receive the flu shot. As Dr. Lawrence Rosen pointed out, it's now recommended for all children 6 months to five years old, regardless of their health condition. There's a real contradiction here. On the one hand, the American Academy of Pediatrics admits that there's "no safe level" of mercury exposure; on the other hand, the CDC is recommending that we give our kids flu shots that contain mercury." - Deirdre Imus, Growing Up Green: Baby and Child Care: Volume 2 in the Bestselling Green This! Series (Green This!) (Get the book.) "There are not good studies showing that flu vaccine in kids under two are more effective than placebo." So ask your pediatrician about FluMist, which is now approved for children as young as twenty-four months. If your child absolutely must get vaccinated for the flu, just make sure the vaccine is thimero-sal-free. Always review the vaccine packaging before immunizing your children. Ask to see the package insert and really look at that little sheet of paper that's folded up about six times in the box." - Deirdre Imus, Growing Up Green: Baby and Child Care: Volume 2 in the Bestselling Green This! Series (Green This!) (Get the book.)

"So does losing a few hours of sleep at night, drinking a can of cola, having that Starbucks grande latte, getting the flu vaccine, having those two glasses of chardonnay, taking a few Rolaids for heartburn, eating strawberries grown on a conventional farm, having a fight with our spouse, and talking on our cell phones for a few hours a day. Save your brain. Learn what harms and what enhances it. Understand why you are brain damaged and how to prevent—even reverse—it. The data is in. We know what the harmful influences are on brain function." - Mark Hyman MD, The UltraMind Solution: Fix Your Broken Brain by Healing Your Body First (Get the book.)

"That's the idea behind Medicare's new reimbursement system, called "pay for performance," which offers small bonuses to hospitals for sweating the small stuff, like ensuring that heart attack patients get their aspirin and giving every Medicare recipient who walks through their doors a flu vaccine. This approach assumes that hospitals (and the physicians and nurses who work in them) fail to do what's right because there's no money in it, and that paying them will get them to focus on reducing undertreatment." - Shannon Brownlee, Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer (Get the book.)

"What makes matters worse is that there has never been a properly controlled clinical trial with the flu vaccine. Because we don't know anything about its long-term effects, we may be unknowingly producing generations of people with debilitated immune systems and chronic diseases. Flu vaccination is an unproved and unscientific practice and nothing in the scientific literature can certify or guarantee its safety. The most effective way to fight infections, including the flu, is to prevent it. There is no substitute for a health-increasing regimen." - Andreas Moritz, Timeless Secrets of Health & Rejuvenation: Unleash The Natural Healing Power That Lies Dormant Within You (Get the book.)

"It has since been removed from childhood vaccines, yet manufacturers still are using thimerosal in the adult flu vaccine. However, a preservative-free vaccine in a single-dose syringe is available. It contains only trace amounts of thimerosal—a residual from early manufacturing steps. Thimerosal is used as a preservative in an amount less than 1 microgram (meg) of mercury per 0.5 milliliter (mL) dose. The regular injectable version contains 25 meg mercury/0.5 mL dose. Ask your doctor about it if you are getting a shot." - Bottom Line Health, Bottom Line's Health Breakthroughs 2007 (Get the book.)

"The FDA and the FTC are only protecting the profits of the big multinational corporations. THE flu vaccine SCAM Vaccines are a scam. Getting vaccinated is one of the worst things you could do to yourself, your children, and your loved ones. Vaccinations do not prevent illness, they cause illness. The mercury in the vaccines cause autism, brain damage, and disease. The vaccines themselves cause the body to be in an unnatural state and set you up for major disease. In the Natural Cures book I give you several other books that I recommend to discuss vaccines." - Kevin Trudeau, More Natural Cures Revealed: Previously Censored Brand Name Products That Cure Disease (Get the book.)

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