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1. Swine Flu/H1N1: Fact or Fiction?
Something unusual has happened. Doctors started asking questions and privately some of them told their patients not to bother getting the H1N1 vaccine. And the people, who were still being told by health officials to be very, very afraid, started to do their own research using the great new Library of the World, the internet. People started asking more questions of their government health officials – not just in America – but in Great Britain and the Netherlands, in Germany and Italy, in Poland and in Canada and many other countries. I am reminded of a famous quote from Abraham Lincoln: You can fool some of the people all of the time and you can fool all of the people some of the time, but you can’t fool all of the people all of the time. I would urge those of you who want to get seasonal or H1N1 vaccines, to go to the homepage of the website of the National Vaccine Information Center at www.NVIC.org and look at the new Vaccine Ingredient Calculator, which will tell you how much mercury is in those vaccines.
Barbara Loe Fisher, National Vaccine Information Center
Related Links:
* The Barbara Loe Fisher Interview
NVIC Conference: Style, Gonads And Brass Ovaries
Jane Bryant, The One Click Group
* The New Journalism: Challenging The Status Quo
NVIC Conference Speech, USA
Jane Bryant, The One Click Group
2. 'Swine Flu Pandemic' A Dud, Says Canada
(Pic courtesy of One Click)
The huge investments governments made in swine flu pandemic planning have not been justified, an Ontario health official said Thursday. Dr Richard Schabas, Ontario's former chief medical officer of health and now chief medical officer of health for Hastings and Prince Edward counties in eastern Ontario said: "It's really not causing — and is not going to cause and nowhere has caused — significant levels of illness or death. But governments moved ahead regardless. They ramped up their response, spent a huge amount of money on vaccines and other things. I'm not sure the $1.5 billion includes the cost of new ventilators, the cost of Tamiflu stockpiles … the huge investment that's been put into planning for what has ultimately turned out to be, from a pandemic perspective, a dud." In another development, an EKOS poll conducted exclusively for CBC News suggests more than half of Canadians surveyed believe concerns over the risk of H1N1 a re exaggerated.
CBC News
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* USA Boy Struck Down By Potentially Fatal Nerve Disease After Swine Flu Vaccine
JoNel Aleccia, MSNBC/The One Click Group
* UK Doctors Take Bribes To Push Swine Flu Vaccine On Patients
Lilian Anekwe, PULSE/The One Click Group
* Doctors, Healthcare Workers And Patients Refusing Swine Flu Vaccine In Britain
Nigel Praities, PULSE
* Poland Prime Minister Slams Drug Companies Over Swine Flu Vaccine
JAVNO
* Italian Physicians Refuse Swine Flu Vaccine For Patients
PRESS TV
* American Doctors Rejecting Swine Flu Vaccine And Spray
Rob Stein & Michael Laris, The Washington Post
3. Antipsychotic Drugs Killing The Elderly
More than 140,000 dementia patients in the UK are given antipsychotics needlessly and some 1,800 deaths in elderly people each year have been linked to overprescribing, according to a report commissioned by the government. Liberal Democrat MP Paul Burstow, who has led a 10-year campaign highlighting the risks of excessive and inappropriate prescribing, tells the paper that “this review comes much too late for thousands of elderly people whose lives have been cut short by the reckless prescribing of anti-psychotic drugs. The evidence that anti-psychotic drugs do more harm than good has been mounting for years. There is next-to-no benefit for the older person and prolonged prescribing can lead to premature death.”
Ed Sliverman, Pharmalot
4. Chronic Fatigue Syndrome - Victory For The Little Guys
Andrea Whittemore-Goad's chronic fatigue syndrome
prompted her parents to take action
To many people who suffer from the poorly understood illness called chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS), a recent study linking the disorder to the XMRV virus was a victory for the little guys. the study pointed to a physical cause for an illness that the medical establishment had often snidely dismissed as psychosomatic. The research could not be ignored: it was published last month in Science, one of the world’s pickiest and most prestigious journals. The discovery came, in a sense, from within the patients’ own ranks: several of the scientists, including the lead author of the report, worked for the Whittemore Peterson Institute for Neuro-Immune Disease, a nonprofit in Reno, Nev., founded recently by the parents of a young woman who has the syndrome. And even though the institute was new, it had attracted collaborators from two high-powered centers, the National Cancer Institute and the Cleveland Clinic. Retroviruses can cause cancers in animals, and in h umans, they include HIV and a virus that can cause leukemia.
Denise Grady, The New York Times
Related Links:
* ME/CFS Sufferers Vindicated By Science
Susan Daly, Irish Independent
* Detection of an Infectious Retrovirus, XMRV, in Blood Cells of Patients with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
Judy A. Mikovits et al, 10.1126/science.1179052, Science Express
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