Calls for calm amid flu jab scare

SPIN, SPIN, SPIN! The sad part in this is there are too many people stupid enough to get this vaccine despite the fact it is killing and crippling people.

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Calls for calm amid flu jab scare


Updated 10 hours 3 minutes ago
The AMA is concerned general immunisation rates will fall

The AMA hopes people will not be put off immunising their children despite suspension of the flu shot program. (ABC News)

The Australian Medical Association in WA is hoping a nation-wide ban on flu shots for small children will not affect overall immunisation rates.

Australian doctors have been warned not to give the seasonal flu vaccine to children under the age of five, after a child fell critically ill and dozens more suffered serious adverse reactions after receiving the vaccine in Western Australia.

Other states, including Queensland and South Australia, are also reporting incidents of children being hospitalised and having adverse reactions such as fevers and convulsions.

The vaccine supplier, CSL, has stopped its distribution while it investigates the matter.

Gary Geelhoed from the AMA says while he understands parents' concerns, it is important to remember the benefits of immunisation.

"We would certainly continue to advise parents to have the appropriate vaccination of their children," he said.

"At the same time we need to investigate any possible side effects or downsides, and that's what's happening at the moment.

"But we have to remember that the benefits of vaccinations far, far, far outweigh any side effects."

Mr Geelhoed says he hopes the temporary ban will not affect overall immunisation rates.

"We must remember now that we don't see things like whooping cough, diptheria, tetinus, measles, mumps and rubelle," he said.

"All those things have essentially gone from our community, they've largely gone because of vaccinations."

Health authorities say it is still safe for older children and adults to receive the flu vaccine.
More harm than good?

But one expert urged health authorities yesterday to consider whether rolling out vaccinations to millions of people around the country causes more harm than good.

Peter Collignon, a professor in infectious diseases from the Australian National University, says an effective surveillance system should monitor thousands of people for one or two weeks after vaccination before the vaccine is rolled out to the entire population.

"If you're in a risk group everybody agrees you need to be vaccinated," he said.

"But the majority of the population don't have risk factors, including children.

"Before we roll out a vaccine to millions of people, in my view, we need to do studies of thousands of people over a period of time to make sure we are always going to do more good than harm with the vaccine."

He says the seasonal flu vaccine has three components - one of which is swine flu - and children may be reacting badly to receiving a second exposure to part of the flu virus.

"If you were infected with swine flu itself last year or had been given the swine flu vaccine last November or December or January, if you then get exposed again to a part of the virus, you've already got antibodies and white cells that are turned on to try to fight the virus," he said.

"Therefore if you get exposed to it again you may have a brisk reaction, where you produce more antibodies and more white cells, which gives you a fever and an inflammatory reaction."

He says about 20 per cent of Australian children who received the swine flu vaccine had moderate to severe side effects in the form of a fever of more than 38.5 degrees Celsius and severe muscle aches and pains.

But he says last winter, the risk of someone under the age of 40 getting swine flu and dying from it if they had no risk factors was less than one in a million.

"You have to start weighing this up because you may actually produce as much influenza-like illness with a vaccine as you prevent with people not getting influenza," he said.

"That's been my concern about rolling out this vaccine to the entire population. I don't think we've got enough data to know how effective it's going to be."

NY: ALL FEDERAL SHOTS WILL BECOME MANDATORY

NY is planning to tighten the rules regarding vaccines, if you are
reading this please be aware this police state mentality will not stop
with NY! The CDC and big pharma will not stop until they inject every
last human with poison.

http://www.assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?bn=A10942&sh=t

Below is a really good explanation of the requirements I got from
a yahoo group I belong to.

NY: ALL FEDERAL SHOTS WILL BECOME MANDATORY

Act now to stop the worst vaccine law ever proposed in New York since
the invention of the mandatory schedule. Assembly Bill 10942 would
make all vaccines recommended by the CDC mandatory for all children
to attend school and, and for the first time vaccines would become
mandatory for infants and toddlers.

The bill was introduced in Rules Committee at the request of Richard
Daines, the Commissioner of the New York State Department of Health.
The Rules Committee in the personal committee of the Assembly Speaker
Sheldon Silver (D-Manhattan).

A-CHAMP is calling for rejection of this bill and is demanding the
passage of A5468/S3031, a bill that would give individuals a right to
a philosophical exemption from vaccine mandates. This is no time to
transfer vaccine decisions away from individuals and elected
officials answerable to the voters and give it to obscure bureaucrats
with financial ties to the vaccine industry.

Here are a few features of the proposed bill:

· Our elected New York representatives would no longer determine
the mandatory schedule of vaccines to attend school; decisions made
by the federal Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices would
automatically become mandatory.

· All children, infants and toddlers included, in New York would
be required to get all vaccines recommended by the ACIP according to
the ACIP schedule

· All children in New York up to age 18 would be required to get
annual flu shots.

· All girls in New York would be required to get a human papilloma
virus shot.

· All junior high school children and college students would be
required to get meningococcal shots.

· Doctors would be required to issue certificates for every shot
given and parents would be required to maintain the records and
provide them to school and other authorities.

· The rules committee claims that the new laws would have no
fiscal impact on the state despite the necessity of the state to
spend tens of millions on purchasing new vaccines, a vast increase in
mandatory record keeping and enforcement for schools, and a huge
increase that could be expected in the number of cases of
neurological damage, Guillian Barré syndrome and other vaccine-caused
injuries.

We only have a few weeks to defeat this bill. Let your Assembly member
and State Senator know immediately that a vote for this bill
guarantees that you will do everything you can to get them un-
elected. In addition to emailing and calling your local
representatives, please call Speaker Sheldon Silver and let his staff
know, politely, that this is a disastrous idea. While you are at it
please call Governor David Paterson and let his staff know, politely,
that this is a horrible law.

Governor David Paterson (518) 474-8390

Speaker Sheldon Silver (518) 455-3791