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In search of a universal flu shot: With current technology, scientists would not have a vaccine for a new pandemic... http://t.co/yUkKlPok In search of a universal flu shot: With current technology, scientists would not have a vaccine for a new pandemic... http://t.co/yUkKlPok Link - Trackbacks

Causes of the 1918 flu epidemic - http://t.co/kPYNn0zK The numbers are truly staggering. More people died from the Spanish Flu pandemic than died in World War I. It is almost impossible to fathom. More..., Trenna Sue Hiler Link - Trackbacks

.@GeorgeMonbiot the sum of that scenario work: nuclear terrorism, pandemic flu/biowar, global maoism, biometrics+genocide is a lot of change .@GeorgeMonbiot the sum of that scenario work: nuclear terrorism, pandemic flu/biowar, global maoism, biometrics+genocide is a lot of change Link - Trackbacks

▌Tamiflu: the battle for secret drug data▐ http://t.co/yOitiRcI Accountabilitywww.bmj.com/tamiflu allows readers to witness attempts to compel greater accountability and responsibility in public health decision making and policy. The BMJ plans to launch other campaigns linked to its investigations in the future.Jefferson’s colleague Peter Doshi, a postdoctoral fellow at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, describes bmj.com/tamiflu as the online equivalent of an open letter.He said: “I’m not aware of anything that does more than just a simple open letter. The reader can see the correspondence almost as a stage play. One can see how the actors are actually acting, especially when one is pushing for accountability but the other party refuses to engage. If you make that kind of behaviour visible, perhaps you can actually achieve progress.”“For decades industry and regulators have worked largely under agreement—sometimes forced by law and other times just tacit agreements—that the data that would be shared between them would be confidential and treated as a trade secret.“Now we’re realising there is a number of enormously harmful consequences from those policies in which arguably drug disasters like Vioxx [rofecoxib] or Celebrex [celecoxib] or Avandia [rosiglitazone] could have been detected much earlier had the data been available.”Also listed is the Cochrane group’s correspondence with the World Health Organization7 and the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).8The WHO correspondence begins with an email from Jefferson in February 2012. He asks WHO scientists how its review process had led to it including oseltamivir in its March 2011 “essential medicines” list.Had it asked the manufacturers of neuraminidase inhibitors for the unpublished trial data? Also, what had WHO scientists made of Cochrane’s conclusion “that there is no evidence that oseltamivir can limit the spread of influenza.”WHO told Jefferson that it was currently developing a standard guideline on clinical management of influenza virus infection.It had also commissioned several evidence reviews, including one on oseltamivir that was set to appear soon in a peer reviewed medical journal. It promised to alert Jefferson when the review appeared.The email exchange with the CDC asked for written answers to six detailed questions in response to an article posted on its website on 7 February 2012, CDC Recommendations for Influenza Antiviral Medications Remain Unchanged.9Why, for example, did the CDC not consider unpublished data? Had it asked Roche for any? Did it have any evidence that oseltamivir could stop the spread of influenza?The CDC article maintained that reviews of randomised controlled trials might not fully inform the question of whether antiviral treatment reduces severe complications of influenza.But is also maintained that “reviews of RCTs . . . have found consistent clinical benefit of early oseltamivir treatment in reducing the risk of lower respiratory tract complications.”Neither Jefferson nor Doshi was impressed with the CDC’s response, which they challenged in five follow-up emails.Jefferson told the BMJ last week that the US Food and Drug Administration had described Tamiflu’s effects as modest. “Despite this, WHO and CDC have been extensively promoting the drug. WHO has made Tamiflu one of the essential drugs, so it sits next door to aspirin and penicillin, cortisone,” he said.“The CDC has extensively recommended the use of Tamiflu, and, as you know, governments worldwide have stockpiled it on the advice, essentially, of WHO.“We were trying to find out exactly what evidence these decisions were made on. So we asked questions, and we also asked WHO and CDC whether they’d seen our review and what their thoughts were.“Readers will see the kind of stonewalling that we got. Indeed, my correspondence with WHO shows that they didn’t answer a single one of my questions.“Politicians have ignored the problem and have not demanded accountability from their own decision makers, from regulators, and from industry.”This could be about to change, in the UK at least. Last week Sarah Wollaston, a general practitioner and Conservative member of parliament, raised the issue of missing data in parliament. Health minister Norman Lamb has agreed to meet experts to discuss what he referred to as “the really important issue” of access to data from clinical trials.10In an email telling Jefferson about the planned meeting, Wollaston said: “It will surely be a turning point in the campaign for open data if we can show that £1 in every £200 of the total NHS budget for 2009 was spent stockpiling a drug for which a drug company had knowingly concealed data either showing it had no real benefits . . . or worse . . . caused real harm.”Tamiflu timeline October 1997: The US Food and Drug Administration approves oseltamavir for the treatment of influenza in adults May 2002: WHO, with partners, develops a new global agenda on influenza surveillance and control. Part of the guidance includes country level stockpiling of antiviral drugs to treat influenza July 2005: Kaiser and colleagues publish their meta-analysis of the effect of oseltamivir on flu related lower respiratory tract complications.1 The review contained unpublished data from the manufacturer, Roche October 2005: As avian influenza H5N1 spreads globally, the United Nations warns a pandemic could lead to between five million and 150 million deaths July 2006: The Cochrane Collaboration carries out its first review—including data from the Kaiser meta-analysis—into the use of neuraminidase inhibitors (NIs) for preventing and treating influenza in healthy adults. They conclude that “Because of their low effectiveness, NIs should not be used in routine seasonal influenza control. In a serious epidemic or pandemic, NIs should be used with other public health measures.” March 2009: H1N1 influenza (“swine flu”) emerges in Mexico and spreads globally June 2009: WHO declares a flu pandemic. The H1N1 subtype had also caused the 1918 flu pandemic, which had a death rate of about 10%, raising fears that the death toll in the new pandemic would be measured in millions. Following WHO guidelines, governments worldwide start to stockpile oseltamivir, spending $6.9bn (2009 value) July 2009: Japanese paediatrician Keiji Hayashi contacts the Cochrane Collaboration with questions about the Kaiser meta-analysis. He points out that the review was based on unpublished, un-peer reviewed data from Roche given in confidence to the authors October 2009: Tom Jefferson, from the Cochrane Collaboration, requests data from Roche. It offers the data, but on the proviso that an agreement is made of confidentiality not only of the data but of the agreement itself. Cochrane declines December 2009: BMJ missing data cluster. The BMJ calls for Roche to make all its data available for scientific scrutiny. At the same time an investigation into conflicts of interest within WHO is published, showing links between those creating the guidelines for pandemic flu planning and Roche. The Cochrane team re-analyses the data from its previous meta-analysis, excluding the data shared with Kaiser by Roche. The team find no evidence to suggest that oseltamivir reduces complications in cases of influenza January 2011: Cochrane Collaboration approaches the European Medicines Agency to obtain the data it used as the basis of the approval of oseltamivir April 2011: The European Medicines Agency sends 25 453 pages of clinical study reports to the Cochrane Collaboration October 2012: Data from Roche are still undisclosed, despite assurances that the company would open them up to scientific scrutiny Link - Trackbacks

Scientists Move Closer to a Long-Lasting Flu Vaccine http://t.co/Td8Ki2Wl http://t.co/bIyzQjD6 Thanks to a flurry of recent studies, flu experts foresee a time when seasonal flu shots are a thing of the past. Link - Trackbacks

@shawnnair Haha. Stomach flu? Bird flu? Common flu? Swine flu? Seasonal flu? Pandemic flu? Type A flu? Type B flu? Type C flu? @shawnnair Haha. Stomach flu? Bird flu? Common flu? Swine flu? Seasonal flu? Pandemic flu? Type A flu? Type B flu? Type C flu? Link - Trackbacks

Preventing Swine Flu in Early Stages: http://t.co/rbIoXFcE DID YOU KNOW?In India, as of 26 December 2010, number of confirmed cases of the 2009 swine flu pandemic stood at 46,131 with 2,728 deaths. Women who died of the disease were aged between 39 ... Link - Trackbacks

More Evidence That Flu Vaccines Are Worthless http://t.co/yhdmxm0E via @mercola Children who received the pandemic flu vaccine developed narcolepsy, an ailment that affects their academic performance. Link - Trackbacks

H1N1 Pandemic Virus Does Not Mutate Into 'Superbug' in UMd. Lab Study http://t.co/goL6AsNf 2009 study posted for filing   COLLEGE PARK, Md. - A laboratory study by University of Maryland researchers suggests that some of the worst fears about a virulent H1N1 pandemic flu season may not be realized this year, but does demonstrate the heightened communicability of the virus.   Using ferrets exposed to three different viruses,… Link - Trackbacks

Expert Doctor Won't Vaccinate His Own Children - Vaccine Is More Deadly ...: http://t.co/IOcmiBvI via @youtube FINAL WARNING -- DO NOT VACCINATE YOUR CHILDREN -- Dr Kent Holtorf, an Infectious Disease Expert saying that he wouldn't even consider having his family take the vaccine! A warning that the swine flu vaccine has been linked to a deadly nerve disease has been sent by the UK Government to senior neurologists in a confidential letter. The letter from the Health Protection Agency, the official body that oversees public health, was leaked to The Daily Mail, leading to demands to know why the information has not been given to the public before the vaccination of millions of people, including children, begins. It tells the neurologists that they must be alert for an increase in a brain disorder called Guillain-Barre Syndrome (GBS), which could be triggered by the vaccine. GBS attacks the lining of the nerves, causing paralysis and inability to breathe, and can be fatal. The letter refers to the use of a similar swine flu vaccine in the United States in 1976 when: * More people died from the vaccination than from swine flu * The vaccine may have increased the risk of contracting GBS by eight times * The vaccine was withdrawn after just ten weeks when the link with GBS became clear * The U.S. Government was forced to pay out millions of dollars to those affected Concerns have already been raised that the new vaccine has not been sufficiently tested and that the effects, especially on children, are unknown. This year it is more important that you protect your children and loved ones from the flu vaccines than influenza itself. This article on Lew Rockwell discusses how: 1. The swine flu is simply another flu. It is not unusually deadly. 2. This is the first time both seasonal and pandemic flu vaccines will be administered. Both seasonal flu and swine flu vaccines will require two inoculations. This is because single inoculations have failed to produce sufficient antibodies. This is an admission that prior flu vaccines were virtually useless. Can you trust them this time? 3. Adjuvants are added to vaccines to boost production of antibodies but may trigger autoimmune reactions. Some adjuvants are mercury (thimerosal), aluminum and squalene. Why would you sign a consent form for your children to be injected with mercury, which is even more brain-toxic than lead? 4. This is the first year mock vaccines have been used to gain FDA approval. The vaccines that have been tested are not the same vaccines your children will be given. 5. Over-vaccination is a common practice now in America. American children are subjected to 29 vaccines by the age of two. Meanwhile, veterinarians have backed off of repeat vaccination in dogs because of observed side effects. 6. Modern medicine has no explanation for autism, despite its continued rise in prevalence. Yet autism is not reported among Amish children who go unvaccinated. 7. Researchers are warning that over-use of the flu vaccine and anti-flu drugs like Tamiflu and Relenza can apply genetic pressure on flu viruses and then they are more likely to mutate into a more deadly strain. 8. Most seasonal influenza A (H1N1) virus strains tested from the United States and other countries are now resistant to Tamiflu (oseltamivir). Tamiflu has become a nearly worthless drug against seasonal flu. 9. Public health officials are irresponsible in their omission of any ways to strengthen immunity against the flu. No options outside of problematic vaccines and anti-flu drugs are offered, despite the fact there is strong evidence that vitamins C and D activate the immune system and the trace mineral selenium prevents the worst form of the disease. For even more reasons, please review the full article on LewRockwell.com ♥☠✿☮❀☠✿☮❀☠✿♥❀☠✿ The Haight-Ashbury Homepage http://www.LoveHaight.org ♥☠✿☮❀☠✿☮❀☠✿♥❀☠✿ Link - Trackbacks

Canadian study shows those who got the flu shot during the 2009 pandemic were more likely to get the flu. http://t.co/s8frhGQy Canadian study shows those who got the flu shot during the 2009 pandemic were more likely to get the flu. http://t.co/s8frhGQy Link - Trackbacks

Canadian study shows those who got the flu shot during the 2009 pandemic were more likely to get the flu. http://t.co/s8frhGQy Canadian study shows those who got the flu shot during the 2009 pandemic were more likely to get the flu. http://t.co/s8frhGQy Link - Trackbacks

A concise report on the impending H1N1 "Swine Flu Pandemic" tied together with the long-standing depopulation... http://t.co/bIot5tZb http://www.fightbackh1n1.com A concise report on the impending H1N1 "Swine Flu Pandemic" tied together with the long-standing depopulation agenda of globalists, "transnationalists," Illuminati, Bilderbergs, and all the rest of the usual suspects. A well-produced video that should inspire the viewer to seek out additional information on the multitude of subjects covered and how they all relate. Link - Trackbacks

Flu pandemic: not if, but when - http://t.co/kii3Qv8M : http://t.co/2vO4VirP #SwineFlu #H1N1 Flu pandemic: not if, but when - http://t.co/kii3Qv8M : http://t.co/2vO4VirP #SwineFlu #H1N1 Link - Trackbacks

Study: Each typical flu case in a school system leads, statistically, to 1.33 new cases (up to 3.5 in pandemic). http://t.co/MPlcaZJb #flu Study: Each typical flu case in a school system leads, statistically, to 1.33 new cases (up to 3.5 in pandemic). http://t.co/MPlcaZJb #flu Link - Trackbacks

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ALERT Flu pandemic: not if, but when: Forum: Timebomb2000 Posted By: China Connection Post Time: 10-28-2012 at 05:58 AM http://t.co/o4ZCll8D ALERT Flu pandemic: not if, but when: Forum: Timebomb2000 Posted By: China Connection Post Time: 10-28-2012 at 05:58 AM http://t.co/o4ZCll8D Link - Trackbacks

FLU NEWS SCAN: Pandemic school closure, flu vaccine effectiveness: FLU NEWS SCAN: Pandemic school closure, flu v... http://t.co/fLjjkEXd FLU NEWS SCAN: Pandemic school closure, flu vaccine effectiveness: FLU NEWS SCAN: Pandemic school closure, flu v... http://t.co/fLjjkEXd Link - Trackbacks

Vietnam: Hai Phong: Bird flu reappears http://t.co/qDY0KRcS 10/27/2012 Nhan Dan Online-27-10, Haiphong Department of Animal Health, said bird flu has reappeared in Hải Phòng after more than two months publishing service. Link - Trackbacks

I uploaded a @YouTube video http://t.co/EbAewEQy Left 4 Dead 2, My Little Pony vs. Warrior Bugs: Suicide Blitz 2 (part 3) This is me (AznKei) playing Left 4 Dead 2 in single player with My Little Pony characters starring Twilight Sparkle, Apple Jack, Pinkie Pie and Rainbow Dash replacing the original survivors Nick, Ellis, Coach and Rochelle. The game is about 4 survivors immune to The Green Flu, which turns most humans into zombie-like creatures, who must escape the apocalyptic pandemic by defending themselves. Suicide Blitz 2, made by "R.T. Frisk" is a custom campaign made for Left 4 Dead 2. Four new survivors must make their way through an infected city to escape the zombie apocalypse! The campaign can be found and downloaded at: http://www.l4dmaps.com/details.php?file=9754 . All thanks go for the author R.T. Frisk for making this campaign. Also, all thanks for Splinks for his wonderful My Little Pony character and Warrior Bugs mods. :) Note: I recently updated the game to 2.1.0.0 so I wanted to try the mods that are compatible to that version. But I doubt I'm going to continue making more L4D2 videos any longer, unless people are interested with these. Link - Trackbacks