Vaccine Primer

By Dana Ullman, Expert in homeopathic medicine Even though deaths from influenza have not increased at all in the past 20 years, have you noticed how much fear and anxiety the media has created about the common flu recently? And even though the number of people getting the flu vaccine has increased tremendously in the past 20 years, the number…

original link:www.globalresearch.ca By Richard Gale and Dr. Gary Null One hard lesson we should have learned after Wall Street’s collapse and the government’s handling of the bailout is that there is no reason, whatsoever, for us to sacrifice our good faith and trust in former bankers who now run the Treasury and Federal Reserve. And now as the flu season…

Boy diagnosed with Guillain-Barre syndrome, but CDC says no clear link By JoNel Aleccia, Health writer Nov. 12, 2009 A 14-year-old Virginia boy is weak and struggling to walk after coming down with a reported case of Guillain-Barre syndrome within hours after receiving the H1N1 vaccine for swine flu. Jordan McFarland, a high school athlete from Alexandria, Va., left Inova…

By Alison Rose Levy via The Integrative Health Outlook In following the vaccine debate, I’ve observed what seem like two completely different versions of reality. For those perplexed by this, here’s a brief guide to a basic issue underlying this long-standing controversy: biological individuality. If properly understood, it can create the ground for reconciliation. Have you ever noticed that feet…

A new law just passed in Massachusetts imposes fines of up to $1000 per day and up to a 30 day jail sentence for not obeying authorities during a public health emergency. So if you are instructed to take the swine flu vaccine in Massachusetts and you refuse, you could be facing fines that will bankrupt you and a prison…

Adapted from The Antibiotic Alternative: The Natural Guide to Fighting Infection and Maintaining a Healthy Immune System by Cindy L. A. Jones, Ph.D. (Inner Traditions, 2000). It is getting to be time that we all get a bit more sophisticated about the flu, what with the Swine flu fears looming as a possible global pandemic. Vaccinations, antiviral drugs and pharmaceuticals…

by Tom Philpott via www.grist.org Why isn’t the federal government seriously investigating the possible CAFO-swine flu link? I’ve posed that question several times recently, most recently here. Now let me venture an answer. The USDA is the federal agency tasked with ensuring that practices on farms, including factory animal farms, are safe. But it’s also the agency that exists to…

By Sewell Chan & Anemona Hartocollis Under pressure, the Paterson administration on Thursday evening backed away from a health regulation that would compel hundreds of thousands of health care workers and hospital volunteers to be vaccinated for seasonal and swine flu. Claudia Hutton, a spokeswoman for the State Department of Health, said in an interview on Thursday night, “Since the…

By Rob Stein Washington Post Staff Writer Sunday, August 23, 2009 Only Third of Supply Is Expected for First Round of Vast Effort Government health officials are mobilizing to launch a massive swine flu vaccination campaign this fall that is unprecedented in its scope — and in the potential for complications. The campaign aims to vaccinate at least half the…

WASHINGTON (AFP) — New York medical workers took legal action Thursday to halt a massive swine flu inoculation program being rolled out across the United States, claiming the vaccines have not been properly tested. Lawyers for the group filed a temporary restraining order in a Washington federal court against government medical regulators they claim rushed H1N1 vaccines to the public…

By S. Humphries, MD January 22, 2010 original link with references www.medicalvoices.org H1N1 and seasonal influenza vaccines are now being given to sick hospital patients with or without their doctor’s consent. This is being done despite there being no data on the safety of doing so. I am a licensed, board-certified nephrologist, otherwise known as a kidney specialist, working in…

By Dr. Frank Lipman, Integrative Physician Summer is over and the question I am being asked most frequently in my practice is, “what do I do about Swine flu?” My patients are wondering whether or not they should get vaccinated and the simple answer I give most of the time is ..NO! From what you may have read, you might…

By ERIC KONIGSBERG Published: November 8, 2009 Perhaps it was fear of crowds that kept the crowds away on Sunday from the clinics offering free swine flu vaccinations to schoolchildren. Or, maybe, as some of the few who did show up suggested, the small numbers could be attributed to wariness about the new vaccine or a lack of knowledge about…

By STEPHANIE BARISH – wpix.com 4:50 PM EDT, October 16, 2009 ALBANY, N.Y. (WPIX) – New York’s second-largest public employee union is challenging a state requirement making it essential for all health care workers to be vaccinated for the swine flu virus. The Public Employees Federation filed a lawsuit Friday, claiming the State Health Commissioner Richard Daines, overstepped his boundaries….