Age of Autism Comment of the Week

Congrats to Kevin Barry for the comment of the week on the H1N1 pandemic. 6,772,357,798 people on Earth, 429 deaths, from 94,512 cases, worldwide. How is this a pandemic?

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Comments

[Kevin Barry]

Hi Edd,

Hmmm, is the WHO definition change is academic wordplay about location, or is it about helping allow the HHS Secretary to declare an emergency when there really isn't one? http://www.cdc.gov/h1n1flu/statement061109.htm

The WHO is following the CDC's (CDC is a part of HHS) communication advice about how to create a market for flu shots, by talking about death via the media. See slides 27-29.
http://www.ama-assn.org/ama1/pub/upload/mm/36/2004_flu_nowak.pdf

[Lowell]

I have been collecting alot of information on childhood vaccines, biomedical treatment and this H1N1 siutation and the vaccines. Thanks to AOA and Dr. Sherri Tennpenny for alot of good links as well.
http://www.lowellsfacts.com

We are in a very perilous situation, and I have heard the hospitals are now handing out brochures, saying - get your swine flu shots when they arrive. I have yet to see a copy, but I am sure there are no warnings of any hazzards with this vaccine, (never is) that has not even been tested in human clinical trials. Most of the Amercian citizens have no idea what is happening.

[Benedetta Stilwell]

Squaline or Squalene???? Could this be true!
Anthrax vaccine does seem to be the worse one yet. Even the guy Bruce Ivins, who invented it, went insane and sent the anthrax through the mail right after 911! All the newsmen kept asking if the federal government didn't have some sort of screening process to check on a person in such dangerous and elite level position.

I thought maybe Bruce Ivins went insane later after they hired this very talented man because he had used his own product on himself - the anthrax vaccine?

When did they start putting squalene into vaccines and how wide of practice it is.

I do understand this correctly that is is some type of oil or fattty acid?

[Roger Kulp]

A Vaccine Form You Can Give to Your Paediatrician

http://www.fmotl.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=26&t=1285&p=12035#wrap

The U.S. government has contracts with several drug companies to develop and produce swine flu vaccines. At least two of those companies, Novartis and GlaxoSmithKline, are using an adjuvant in their H1N1 vaccines.

The adjuvant? Squalene.

According to Meryl Nass, M.D., an authority on the anthrax vaccine,

“A novel feature of the two H1N1 vaccines being developed by companies Novartis and GlaxoSmithKline is the addition of squalene-containing adjuvants to boost immunogenicity and dramatically reduce the amount of viral antigen needed. This translates to much faster production of desired vaccine quantities.”[v]

Novartis’s proprietary squalene adjuvant for their H1N1 vaccine is MF59. Glaxo’s is ASO3. MF59 has yet to be approved by the FDA for use in any U.S. vaccine, despite its history of use in other countries.

Per Dr. Nass, there are only three vaccines in existence using an approved squalene adjuvant. None of the three are approved for use in the U.S.

What Squalene Does to Humans

Your immune system recognizes squalene as an oil molecule native to your body. It is found throughout your nervous system and brain. In fact, you can consume squalene in olive oil and not only will your immune system recognize it, you will also reap the benefits of its antioxidant properties.

The difference between “good” and “bad” squalene is the route by which it enters your body. Injection is an abnormal route of entry which incites your immune system to attack all the squalene in your body, not just the vaccine adjuvant.

Your immune system will attempt to destroy the molecule wherever it finds it, including in places where it occurs naturally, and where it is vital to the health of your nervous system.[viii]

Gulf War veterans with Gulf War Syndrome (GWS) received anthrax vaccines which contained squalene.[ix] MF59 (the Novartis squalene adjuvant) was an unapproved ingredient in experimental anthrax vaccines and has since been linked to the devastating autoimmune diseases suffered by countless Gulf War vets.[x]

The Department of Defense made every attempt to deny that squalene was indeed an added contaminant in the anthrax vaccine administered to Persian Gulf war military personnel – deployed and non-deployed – as well as participants in the more recent Anthrax Vaccine Immunization Program (AVIP).

http://blogs.mercola.com/sites/vitalvotes/archive/2009/07/17/Squalene-The-Swine-Flu-Vaccines-Dirty-Little-Secret-Exposed.aspx

[Epidemic Pandemic Whiskey Tango Foxtrot!]

Epidemic: An infectious disease or condition that attacks many people at the same time in the same geographical area.

Pandemic: A disease affecting the majority of the population of a large region, such as dental caries or periodontal disease, or one that is epidemic at the same time in many different parts of the world.

Source: 2001: 19 Taber's Cyclopedic Medical Dictionary. F.A. Davis

I apologize for the citation. I am outdated on those, as is my Bedford.

Given the numbers I've seen, I don't even think it is reasonable to consider swine flu an epidemic, let alone a pandemic. Is it world wide, yes, but isn't seasonal flu every year as well? And we don't hear epidemic, or pandemic related to seasonal flu every year, even though 36,000 people supposedly die from flu annually in the US(which the majority who pass - it is secondary infections related to the flu and not the actual flu).

So I seriously have to ask WTF???
Ang

[Managing Editor]

Edd, thanks very much - that makes sense, pan versus epi. I should have thought of it that way - my Latin teacher is not pleased with me! Or is that Greek? KIM

[Edd]

The definition of a pandemic has to do with the area covered by an outbreak of disease. An epidemic is a sharp rise in the total number of cases of a disease or condition. H1N1 isn't much of an epidemic but it IS a pandemic since it is active worldwide.

Autism is CERTAINLY an epidemic in the US but I'm not sure about the numbers in other countries so it may not qualify as a pandemic. Just shedding some light here.

[Deb in IL]

Thanks, Kevin - I posted that to my Facebook status and someone re-posted from me :)