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The H1N1 vaccine is included in this years seasonal flu jab along with two other strains. Initially the government’s policy was to only offer the jab to high-risk groups, such as those with long-term illnesses. Of course, there is major concern in the public domain, and patients' groups have expressed anger over this year's seasonal flu jab programme because people are unable to opt out of having the swine flu vaccine. There should be a choice!
A recent newspaper article reports that the H1N1 virus killed 14 British healthy children, and caused 70 deaths in children under the age of 16.
Who did the research?
Sir Liam Donaldson, former chief medical officer in the UK, during the wake of the H1N1 scare...
When asked in September last year how dangerous he thought the Swine Flu virus was, Sir Liam answered: ‘It isn’t a killer, but it can kill people... I don’t think we need to fear it, because for many people it will be a mild illness...’
Now it seems his story has changed... The findings of his recent study were published in the journal The Lancet, and support the latest government initiative to have all children vaccinated against H1N1.
Force-feeding dangerous vaccines
The H1N1 vaccine is included in this years seasonal flu jab along with two other strains. Initially the government’s policy was to only offer the jab to high-risk groups, such as those with long-term illnesses.
However, Sir Liam’s research now seems to push the initiative in a new direction, by claiming that children are at greatest risk this winter and should be prioritised in receiving the H1N1 vaccine!
I am so passionate about this contentious topic, that last week, I took part in a radio interview on Talk Radio Europe, along with Prof John Oxford who is a world renowned virologist and very much in favour of this vaccination programme.
In the interview, Prof. Oxford said that the vaccine is perfectly safe and that none of the concerns about its safety, last year, transpired in any way!
Really?
What about the report by the National Coalition of Organized Women (NCOW), presented to the Vaccine Risk and Assessment Working Group (VRAW) in September 2010, stating that as many as 3,587 cases of either miscarriages or still births have been reported by women who received the vaccine when pregnant?
Then there’s the fact that in August this year, the Finnish Institute of Health (THL) proposed to suspend vaccinations for H1N1 after six children were reported to suffer with neurological side effects after receiving the vaccine — nine more cases are in the process of being confirmed.
In the UK, the vaccine has also been linked to fevers in young children, temporary paralysis and narcolepsy.
In November 2009, in Canada, health authorities called for a withdrawal of 170,000 doses of the vaccine after concerns were expressed about adverse reactions such as immediate anaphylactic reactions, to the vaccine.
The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA), in the UK, received nearly 8,600 suspected adverse reactions to the swine flu jab during the pandemic last winter.
Currently UK government health experts are examining a possible association between the H1N1 swine flu jab and the paralysing nerve disease Guillain-Barre Syndrome.
Of course, there is major concern in the public domain, and patients' groups have expressed anger over this year's seasonal flu jab programme because people are unable to opt out of having the swine flu vaccine.
There should be a choice!
If there was one, the medical authorities would see (as they did last year) that the majority of people will use common sense and not have this fast-tracked, untested and potentially dangerous vaccine. So much so, last year, only 6 per cent of the population in France and Germany took the vaccine and in the UK hospital staff and medical personnel openly refused to take it, because of safety concerns! It doesn’t fill you with confidence when even your own doctor won’t take it!
No one in the medical mainstream has stepped forward with conclusive evidence, meaning comprehensive gold-standard medical trials, to prove the effectiveness and above all the safety of this vaccine.
Instead, we are being fobbed-off with a remark, stating that none of the concerns surrounding the safety of the vaccine transpired.
Does this mean we should risk having a second go this winter, to see if our concerns are realised?
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