[*QUOTE*] -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Deadly Disease Eliminated in Children under Five Years of Age in Uganda Nearly 100 Percent Drop in Hib Meningitis as a Result of Widespread Vaccination
GENEVA, SWITZERLAND, 10 March 2008 - Hib meningitis has been virtually eliminated in young children in Uganda just five years after the country introduced Haemophilus influenzae type b (Hib) vaccine nationwide, according to an independent study.
Haemophilus influenzae type b is a leading cause of pneumonia and meningitis, an inflammation of the lining covering the brain and spinal cord. Each year, Hib kills approximately 400,000 children under five years of age, most of them in the developing world. It is also responsible for approximately three million cases of serious illnesses resulting in long-term consequences such as deafness, paralysis, mental retardation and learning disabilities. The positive results are outlined in a study to be published in the April issue of The Bulletin of the World Health Organization, an independent peer-reviewed international public health journal. Advanced publication of the study can be found at http://www.who.int/bulletin/publish_ahead_of_print/en/index.html
Upon monitoring occurrence of bacterial meningitis due to Hib between 2001 to 2006, the study’s authors saw marked decline in the disease resulting from implementation of a new vaccination program. Where monitored, the incidence rate dropped by 85 percent within four years of vaccine introduction and fell to zero in the fifth year. The authors estimate that Hib vaccine in the Ugandan immunisation programme now prevents almost 30,000 cases of severe Hib disease and 5,000 child deaths (under five years) annually, equivalent to the successful control of measles in the country.
Funding for Hib vaccine is a major part of the GAVI Alliance's (formerly known as the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunisation) programme support to Uganda. With GAVI support, Uganda was able to introduce 16.5 million doses of Hib vaccines nationwide from 2002 to 2006. The government chose to use what is known as a pentavalent vaccine - a 5 in 1 injection that includes vaccines for Hib as well as diphtheria, pertussis, tetanus, and hepatitis B.
"GAVI welcomes these extremely positive results" said Dr Julian Lob-Levyt, Executive Secretary of the GAVI Alliance. "Thanks to the collaborative efforts of the Ugandan Ministry of Health, the WHO, UNICEF and other partners, we can applaud a true success in controlling this deadly disease that has too often claimed so many lives."
Uganda was one of the first GAVI-eligible countries to adopt Hib vaccine, preceding what is now a global trend. According to a recent report released by WHO, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Hib Initiative, between 2004 and 2007 the proportion of the 72 poorest countries eligible for GAVI support using or approved to use Hib vaccine increased from 18 percent to 65 percent. In November, the GAVI board approved additional funding for Hib vaccine, bringing the total number of countries with approved proposals to 44.
"This is excellent news for the future generations of Ugandanchildren. Uganda has been afrontrunner in the Africa region in adopting this life-saving vaccine. The leadership of early introducers such as Uganda, Kenyaand The Gambia hasstronglyinfluencedthe decisions of many other countries in the region to adoptHib vaccine. Today, 83% of the GAVI-eligible countries in Africa have now included or will soon include Hib vaccine in their national immunization programmes” says Rana Hajjeh, Director of the Hib Initiative.
"We are proud of the results of this study. It's encouraging to know that these kinds of interventions in Uganda and elsewhere are making a significant contribution towards achieving the Millennium Development Goal of reducing mortality in children less than 5 years of age," says Dr Sam Zaramba, Director General of Uganda Ministry of Health "And GAVI's support was catalytic in allowing us to tackle this disease quickly and efficiently."
The Government of Uganda recently committed national resources to procure Hib vaccine for its infant immunisation programme, in line with the GAVI co-financing policy.
"The introduction of Hib vaccine has now completely changed the epidemiology of bacterial meningitis in Uganda, with elimination of meningitis due to Hib as a public health problem" says Dr Kekitiinwa - Pediatrician at Mulago Hospital,in Kampala Uganda, co-author of the study. "High quality surveillance has allowed us to understand and monitor those trends to ensure the quality of the immunisation programme, improve collaboration between clinicians and laboratories and inform on drug susceptibility for the common organisms."
Although Hib vaccines for infants were first licensed in 1991 and have since been widely adopted in industrialised countries, they have not been used extensively in the developing world due to multiple barriers such as limited Hib disease awareness, uncertainty about the burden of disease and concerns about the financial and logistical implications of vaccine introduction. It took almost 15 years for the Hib vaccine to be introduced in developing countries after it was first licensed.
There are efforts underway to bridge this gap by reducing the number of years developing countries have to wait to benefit from new vaccines. In 2007, a pilot Advance Market Commitment (AMC) was announced, aiming at accelerating the introduction of new vaccines in poor countries.
The Uganda results follow similar results found in Bangladesh, Kenya, Chile, the Gambia, the United Kingdom, and United States. These studies have all concluded that Hib vaccine cuts the incidence of disease by 88% or more within 3 to 5 years.
In July 2007, a study from Bangladesh showed that routine immunisation of infants with a Hib conjugate vaccine prevented over one third of life-threatening pneumonia cases and approximately 90% of Hib meningitis cases.
A Kenyan study in 2006 showed that the Hib vaccine cut the incidence of disease by 88% within 3 years. The authors say that vaccinating against the bacterium Haemophilus influenzae type b prevented approximately 3,370 Kenyan children from being hospitalised in 2005.
The authors say that prior studies have shown that for every child with Hib meningitis in developing countries, there may be 5 to 10 others with Hib-related pneumonia, which is also preventable by vaccination. To achieve results more quickly, the WHO position paper on Hib vaccine recommends that children at highest risk, those under 2 years of age, be offered immunization at the time of vaccine introduction.
The GAVI Alliance
The GAVI Alliance is a public-private partnership of major stakeholders in vaccines and immunisation. It includes developing country and donor governments, the World Health Organization, UNICEF, the World Bank, the vaccine industry in both industrialised and developing countries, research and technical agencies, NGOs, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and other private philanthropists. WHO projections show that GAVI support has prevented more than 2.9 million future deaths by the end of 2007.
GAVI's efforts are critical to achieving the Millennium Development Goal on child health, which calls for reducing childhood mortality by two thirds by 2015. Of the 10 million children who die before reaching their fifth birthday every year, 2.5 million die from diseases that could be prevented with currently available or new vaccines.
In December 2005, the GAVI Alliance launched a $37 million program called the Hib Initiative, which unites infectious disease experts from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and WHO to advance evidence-informed decision-making regarding the use of Hib vaccine in the developing world. An estimated 3 million cases of Hib disease occur each year in children under the age of 5 years, resulting in approximately 400,000 deaths. For
ASHBURN, Va. (WUSA) -- Many of you have been lining up to get the seasonal flu shot. But there is one Ashburn woman who wants you to hear her story before you do.
Desiree Jennings is trapped in her body. Intellectually she's all there, but her muscles are fighting each other. She's been diagnosed with dystonia, an extremely rare and debilitating neurological disease.
She says after taking the seasonal flu shot she witnessed her body's rapid decline. She doesn't know what else it could be but she has serious questions about the seasonal flu shot. The Centers for Disease Control cannot comment on her case. Desiree was a healthy 25-year-old up until two months ago, working at AOL and as a Redskins cheerleading ambassador.
But her world has now been turned upside down.
Desiree has trouble talking and speaks in a staccato rhythm.
She says, "It's a battle every day because when I wake up I think it's going to be normal, but then I'm quickly reminded that's not going to be the case."
She says 10 days after getting a seasonal flu shot at a Reston grocery store in August, and on her second wedding anniversary, she got sick. First, she came down with flu like symptoms, then convulsions and blacking out.
She's seen more than 60 doctors. She says all of them were stumped until Johns Hopkins diagnosed her with dystonia. She believes her seasonal flu shot triggered it.
Desiree says, "Nothing else explains such a fast moving neurological damage. The medical hospitals ruled out everything, CAT scans normal, blood normal, MRI normal. The only thing that explains it is the shot caused the neurologic damage."
She says it is a strange disorder where muscles work against each other. She can't walk forward, only backwards. She can run, but she can't stop without help. She can whisper but has difficulty speaking. Noises can cause convulsions. Her resting heart rate is 90. When she runs her blood pressure dips to 58. She gets exhausted walking a few steps but she could run for hours.
Drugs such as valium and klonopin that make other people sleepy give her energy for hours.
Desiree says the disease is irreversible. Once she loses an ability it doesn't come back. She says there are only three ways you can get dystonia as an adult and they include head trauma, drug use, and poisoning. She says she has not experienced any of that.
There is no cure. One in a million are diagnosed with the disease. She says she just wants healthy people to talk to their doctors and weigh the risk.
While the Centers for Disease Control cannot comment directly on this case, they say they have no knowledge of a link between the seasonal flu shot and dystonia.
<quote> 18 million Indian children to receive life-saving five-in-one vaccine
One of the millions of Indian children set to benefit from the pentavalent vaccine. Copyright: UNICEF/2005/Pallava Bagla US$165 million grant from GAVI will kick off massive introduction of new vaccine.
Geneva, 11 August 2009 –More than 18 million children in India will be immunised with a pentavalent five-in-one vaccine thanks to funding worth US$ 165 million from the GAVI Alliance, a public-private partnership which brings together all key players in immunisation including the Indian government, the World Health Organization, UNICEF, donors, industry and the Hib Initiative.
A decision by the GAVI Alliance’s Executive Committee in Geneva announced today paves the way for the introduction of the combination vaccine in India, where some 27 million children are born each year. This is the first phase of a national roll-out which will start in 10 states.
The decision to approve the funding was communicated to Indian Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad by GAVI Alliance Deputy CEO Helen Evans on Monday 10 August.
Ninety percent of world's poorest children “India’s important and far-sighted decision to introduce the pentavalent vaccine will bring the country and the world significantly closer to achieving Millennium Development Goal 4" GAVI CEO, Dr. Julian Lob-Levyt
The pentavalent vaccine protects against five potential killers -- diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis (whooping cough), hepatitis B, and Haemophilus influenzae type b (often known as Hib) which causes some severe forms of pneumonia and meningitis. Children need to be vaccinated three times before they can be considered fully immunised.
While children in all countries are routinely immmunised against diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis and increasingly hepatitis B, the introduction of this pentavalent vaccine in India, will mean that now more than 90% of the world’s poorest children will be vaccinated against Hib.
Globally, Hib kills more than 370,000 children under five every year; nearly 20% of these children die in India. Survivors are often permanently paralyzed, deafened or brain damaged.
Routine introduction of Hib vaccine has been proven to prevent the majority of severe bacterial meningitis and up to one third of life-threatening cases of bacterial pneumonia, the leading infectious cause of death in children worldwide.
Critical step
“The introduction of the pentavalent vaccine in India is a critical step in our government’s efforts to protect all Indian children from deadly diseases,” said India’s Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad.
“We are glad to be working with the GAVI Alliance to turn this long-held vision into a reality for millions of families. I am extremely thankful to GAVI for assistance given for pentavalent vaccine.”
“India’s important and far-sighted decision to introduce the pentavalent vaccine will bring the country and the world significantly closer to achieving Millennium Development Goal 4, which aims to reduce child mortality by two-thirds by 2015,” said Dr. Julian Lob-Levyt.
“With such a significant number of pneumonia deaths occurring in India, we are pleased to see India recognising the importance of adding protection against Hib while continuing to work on strengthening routine immunisation."
One of largest-ever GAVI grants
In one of its largest-ever single grants, GAVI will fund the first two years of pentavalent vaccine introduction in India. In the first year, the pentavalent vaccine will reach more than 10 million children in 10 states -- about 40 percent of India’s total number of babies born each year.
By funding the introduction of the pentavalent vaccine, GAVI will equip India to expand its use in the rest of the country.
Pneumonia control strategy
“Introduction of Hib vaccine in India will save thousands of children’s lives,” said Panna Choudhury, President of the Indian Academy of Pediatrics.
“Routine use of Hib vaccine is an essential piece of a comprehensive pneumonia control strategy to reduce the disease's terrible burden on children.”
"No child should die or suffer from this preventable disease,” said Dr. Mathuram Santosham, executive committee member of the Hib Initiative at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
“Hib vaccine is a safe, effective intervention that has been used for more than nearly 20 years in developed countries. Where used routinely in countries such as Kenya, Uganda and the Gambia, it has been proven to virtually eliminate Hib disease.”
Pentavalent vaccine is now available from Indian suppliers and is expected to be used both in children in India and around the world. With increasing demand, this indigenous supply will play an important role in saving children’s lives.
The GAVI Alliance The GAVI Alliance is a Geneva-based public-private partnership aimed at improving health in the world’s poorest countries. The Alliance brings together developing country and donor governments, the World Health Organization, UNICEF, the World Bank, the vaccine industry in both industrialised and developing countries, research and technical agencies, NGOs, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and other private philanthropists. GAVI support consists of providing life-saving vaccines and strengthening health systems. Since 2000, 213 million children have been vaccinated and 3.4 million premature deaths averted thanks to GAVI-funded programmes. For more information, please visit: www.gavialliance.org The Hib Initiative The Hib Initiative unites experts from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, the World Health Organization, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and provides technical, coordination and communication support to countries making decisions regarding the use of Hib vaccine. The Hib Initiative is supported by a 4-year grant from the GAVI Alliance. The Hib vaccine is being used or will soon be used in at least 62 developing countries eligible for support from the GAVI Alliance. For more information, visit www.hibaction.org
For more information, please contact:
Dan Thomas GAVI Alliance Tel: +41.22.909.6524 Mobile: +41 79 251 8581 dtho...@gavialliance.org
> She's been diagnosed with dystonia, an extremely rare and debilitating > neurological disease. >She doesn't know what else it could be
a common effect in dumb people.
> She says 10 days after getting a seasonal flu shot at a Reston grocery > store in August, and on her second wedding anniversary, she got sick. > First, she came down with flu like symptoms, then convulsions and blacking > out.
sore throat? headache? NO, she barfed. not a h1n1 symptom DUMBASS
> She believes her seasonal flu shot triggered it. > Desiree says, "Nothing else explains such a fast moving neurological > damage.
except for dystonia
> The medical hospitals ruled out everything, CAT scans normal, blood > normal, MRI normal. The only thing that explains it is the shot caused the > neurologic damage."
Not at all, this is a dumb uneducated girl talking.
> She says it is a strange disorder where muscles work against each other. She
> Desiree says the disease is irreversible. Once she loses an ability it > doesn't come back. She says there are only three ways you can get dystonia > as an adult and they include head trauma, drug use, and poisoning. > While the Centers for Disease Control cannot comment directly on this > case, they say they have no knowledge of a link between the seasonal flu > shot and dystonia.
WELL, there you go. no link. thanks for posting this debunking. I new it was horseshit! lol
> > She's been diagnosed with dystonia, an extremely rare and debilitating > > neurological disease. > >She doesn't know what else it could be
> a common effect in dumb people.
> > She says 10 days after getting a seasonal flu shot at a Reston grocery > > store in August, and on her second wedding anniversary, she got sick. > > First, she came down with flu like symptoms, then convulsions and blacking > > out.
> sore throat? headache? NO, she barfed. not a h1n1 symptom DUMBASS
> > She believes her seasonal flu shot triggered it. > > Desiree says, "Nothing else explains such a fast moving neurological > > damage.
> except for dystonia
> > The medical hospitals ruled out everything, CAT scans normal, blood > > normal, MRI normal. The only thing that explains it is the shot caused the > > neurologic damage."
> Not at all, this is a dumb uneducated girl talking.
> > She says it is a strange disorder where muscles work against each other. > She
> > Desiree says the disease is irreversible. Once she loses an ability it > > doesn't come back. She says there are only three ways you can get dystonia > > as an adult and they include head trauma, drug use, and poisoning. > > While the Centers for Disease Control cannot comment directly on this > > case, they say they have no knowledge of a link between the seasonal flu > > shot and dystonia.
> WELL, there you go. no link. thanks for posting this debunking. > I new it was horseshit! lol
It appears that while Ms Jennings sincerely believes that she is a victim of a adverse vaccine reaction, she is much more likely suffering from psychogenic dystonia. The facts, not her conjecture, are what really matters. It is impossible to get the flu from the vaccine. Also, she accepts the Johns Hopkin's diagnosis of dystonia, but not the fact that they refer to her case as an example of Psychogenic Dystonia.
On the October 16, 2009, Fox News show, "The O'Reilly Factor", Dr. Leigh Vinocur from the University of Maryland Medical System offered an alternative cause to Ms. Jennings' syndrome. Dr. Vinocur stated that there have been no cases of dystonia associated with the flu vaccine and that neurology experts at the University of Maryland were using Ms. Jennings' case to teach neurology residents about psychogenic dystonia.
Dystonia is a neurological disorder where twitches and other repetitive, involuntary reactions occur. Normally, these repetitive actions do not let up. In the interview videos, Ms. Jennings' symptoms subside at times. According to Dr. Vinocur, neurologists saw the video and were convinced it was psychogenic.
Psychogenic disorders do not mean that a person is faking their symptoms. Rather, it means that the person truly believes that the symptoms are real. However, there is no physiological reason for the symptoms. It truly is all in their head. Examples include phantom limb syndrome, where a hand that has been amputated along with a limb is felt by the person as being clinched or still being there. Psychotherapy or some medications to treat the mental issues can help deal with psychogenic disorders.
Another important detail in Ms. Jennings' story is that she acquired flu from the flu vaccine. This is a scientific impossiblity. The flu virus in the injected vaccine is dead, inactive. In the solution being injected, the virus has no cells in which to live and reproduce. Viruses are, by definition, obligate intracellular parasites. They need cells to live, grow, and reproduce. There has been no recorded case of acquired flu from the flu shot vaccine. Likewise, if true, Ms. Jennings would be the first case of dystonia as a result of the flu vaccine. Furthermore, the Food and Drug Administration did not find anything wrong or different about the lot of vaccine used.
> > She's been diagnosed with dystonia, an extremely rare and debilitating > > neurological disease. > >She doesn't know what else it could be
> a common effect in dumb people.
> > She says 10 days after getting a seasonal flu shot at a Reston grocery > > store in August, and on her second wedding anniversary, she got sick. > > First, she came down with flu like symptoms, then convulsions and blacking > > out.
> sore throat? headache? NO, she barfed. not a h1n1 symptom DUMBASS
> > She believes her seasonal flu shot triggered it. > > Desiree says, "Nothing else explains such a fast moving neurological > > damage.
> except for dystonia
> > The medical hospitals ruled out everything, CAT scans normal, blood > > normal, MRI normal. The only thing that explains it is the shot caused the > > neurologic damage."
> Not at all, this is a dumb uneducated girl talking.
> > She says it is a strange disorder where muscles work against each other. > She
> > Desiree says the disease is irreversible. Once she loses an ability it > > doesn't come back. She says there are only three ways you can get dystonia > > as an adult and they include head trauma, drug use, and poisoning. > > While the Centers for Disease Control cannot comment directly on this > > case, they say they have no knowledge of a link between the seasonal flu > > shot and dystonia.
> WELL, there you go. no link. thanks for posting this debunking. > I new it was horseshit! lol
> > > She's been diagnosed with dystonia, an extremely rare and debilitating > > > neurological disease. > > >She doesn't know what else it could be
> > a common effect in dumb people.
> > > She says 10 days after getting a seasonal flu shot at a Reston grocery > > > store in August, and on her second wedding anniversary, she got sick. > > > First, she came down with flu like symptoms, then convulsions and blacking > > > out.
> > sore throat? headache? NO, she barfed. not a h1n1 symptom DUMBASS
> > > She believes her seasonal flu shot triggered it. > > > Desiree says, "Nothing else explains such a fast moving neurological > > > damage.
> > except for dystonia
> > > The medical hospitals ruled out everything, CAT scans normal, blood > > > normal, MRI normal. The only thing that explains it is the shot caused the > > > neurologic damage."
> > Not at all, this is a dumb uneducated girl talking.
> > > She says it is a strange disorder where muscles work against each other. > > She
> > > Desiree says the disease is irreversible. Once she loses an ability it > > > doesn't come back. She says there are only three ways you can get dystonia > > > as an adult and they include head trauma, drug use, and poisoning. > > > While the Centers for Disease Control cannot comment directly on this > > > case, they say they have no knowledge of a link between the seasonal flu > > > shot and dystonia.
> > WELL, there you go. no link. thanks for posting this debunking. > > I new it was horseshit! lol
> It appears that while Ms Jennings sincerely believes that she is a > victim of a adverse vaccine reaction, she is much more likely > suffering from psychogenic dystonia. The facts, not her conjecture, > are what really matters. It is impossible to get the flu from the > vaccine. Also, she accepts the Johns Hopkin's diagnosis of dystonia, > but not the fact that they refer to her case as an example of > Psychogenic Dystonia.
> On the October 16, 2009, Fox News show, "The O'Reilly Factor", Dr. > Leigh Vinocur from the University of Maryland Medical System offered > an alternative cause to Ms. Jennings' syndrome. Dr. Vinocur stated > that there have been no cases of dystonia associated with the flu > vaccine and that neurology experts at the University of Maryland were > using Ms. Jennings' case to teach neurology residents about > psychogenic dystonia.
> Dystonia is a neurological disorder where twitches and other > repetitive, involuntary reactions occur. Normally, these repetitive > actions do not let up. In the interview videos, Ms. Jennings' symptoms > subside at times. According to Dr. Vinocur, neurologists saw the video > and were convinced it was psychogenic.
> Psychogenic disorders do not mean that a person is faking their > symptoms. Rather, it means that the person truly believes that the > symptoms are real. However, there is no physiological reason for the > symptoms. It truly is all in their head. Examples include phantom limb > syndrome, where a hand that has been amputated along with a limb is > felt by the person as being clinched or still being there. > Psychotherapy or some medications to treat the mental issues can help > deal with psychogenic disorders.
> Another important detail in Ms. Jennings' story is that she acquired > flu from the flu vaccine. This is a scientific impossiblity. The flu > virus in the injected vaccine is dead, inactive. In the solution being > injected, the virus has no cells in which to live and reproduce. > Viruses are, by definition, obligate intracellular parasites. They > need cells to live, grow, and reproduce. There has been no recorded > case of acquired flu from the flu shot vaccine. Likewise, if true, Ms. > Jennings would be the first case of dystonia as a result of the flu > vaccine. Furthermore, the Food and Drug Administration did not find > anything wrong or different about the lot of vaccine used.
Of course not. With their vested interests and lies. Seeing is believing.
Flu Shot Does Not Reduce Risk Of Death, Research Shows
Not enough proof that flu shots work, researcher warns Last Updated: Friday, October 27, 2006 | 2:03 PM ET The Canadian Press There isn't enough evidence that the flu vaccine is effective to support public programs advocating widespread use of flu shots, a controversial vaccine epidemiologist suggests.
In a commentary in Friday's British Medical Journal, Dr. Tom Jefferson argues that large-scale, long-term randomized controlled trials — the gold standard for generating scientific evidence — should be "urgently" undertaken to determine if flu shot programs are achieving their goals of lowering rates of cases and deaths.
Not enough proof that flu shots work, researcher warns Last Updated: Friday, October 27, 2006 | 2:03 PM ET The Canadian Press There isn't enough evidence that the flu vaccine is effective to support public programs advocating widespread use of flu shots, a controversial vaccine epidemiologist suggests.
In a commentary in Friday's British Medical Journal, Dr. Tom Jefferson argues that large-scale, long-term randomized controlled trials — the gold standard for generating scientific evidence — should be "urgently" undertaken to determine if flu shot programs are achieving their goals of lowering rates of cases and deaths.
Flu Shot Season - Think twice before you shoot! I'd like to repeat the Flu/Alzheimer's connection that so many of you have asked about. According to Hugh Fudenberg, MD, the world's leading immunogeneticist and 13th most quoted biologist of our times (nearly 850 papers in peer review journals), if an individual has had five consecutive flu shots his/her chances of getting Alzheimer's Disease is ten times higher than if they had one, two or no shots. I asked Dr. Fudenberg why this was so and he said it was due to the mercury and aluminum that is in every flu shot (and some childhood shots). The gradual mercury and aluminum buildup in the brain causes cognitive dysfunction. Is that why Alzheimer's is expected to quadruple? Notes: Recorded from Dr. Fudenberg's speech at the NVIC International Vaccine Conference, Arlington, VA September, 1997. Quoted with permission. Alzheimer's to quadruple statement is from John's Hopkins Newsletter Nov 1998. Dr. Fudenberg's web address is www.nitrf.org. Interesting info on treating autism on the site. Randall Neustaedter OMD author of The Vaccine Guide says this: The flu vaccine gets the most-useless-vaccine-of-all-time award. Now the CDC is recommending the vaccine for children under two years old and all adults over 50. Don't fall for it.
Flu Facts
* Flu vaccine manufacturers are notoriously inaccurate at predicting the appropriate viruses to use in an individual year's vaccine, rendering the vaccine ineffective.
* Flu vaccine is relatively ineffective in those patients most at risk of flu complications.
* The vaccine has caused GBS in recipients during several different flu seasons.
* Those most at risk of flu complications probably share a higher risk of adverse reactions to the flu vaccine as well.
Fluzone is the new flu vaccine for babies (recommended 6 months to 23 months). You can get it as a 0.25 mL prefilled syringe (for pediatric use) and as a 0.5 mL prefilled syringe. Fluzone contains mercury: 25 µg mercury/0.5 mL dose. It also has chicken embryos and formaldehyde and Sucrose, Sodium phosphate, Sodium Chloride, Mercury, Gelatin, Polyethylene Glycol p-Isooctylphenyl Ether, Fluzone is the new flu vaccine for babies (recommended 6 months to 23 months). You can get it as a 0.25 mL prefilled syringe (for pediatric use) and as a 0.5 mL prefilled syringe. Fluzone contains mercury: 25 µg mercury/0.5 mL dose. It also has chicken embryos and formaldehyde and Sucrose, Sodium phosphate, Sodium Chloride, Mercury, Gelatin, Polyethylene Glycol p- Isooctylphenyl Ether, Fluzone is the new flu vaccine for babies (recommended 6 months to 23 months). You can get it as a 0.25 mL prefilled syringe (for pediatric use) and as a 0.5 mL prefilled syringe. Fluzone contains mercury: 25 µg mercury/0.5 mL dose. It also has chicken embryos and formaldehyde and Sucrose, Sodium phosphate, Sodium Chloride, Mercury, Gelatin, Polyethylene Glycol p- Isooctylphenyl Ether, Hemaggluttinin.
Kids' Flu Shot Largely Ineffective Over Past Few Years Study finds it didn't keep them from hospitals, doctors' offices
MONDAY, Oct. 6 (HealthDay News) -- Over the past two flu seasons, vaccinating children five and younger did not reduce the number of child hospitalizations or doctor's visits linked to influenza, according to results of a new study.
Given the poor match between the flu vaccine and circulating strains during the last two years, "this finding is not surprising," said Dr. Robert Belshe, a professor of medicine and pediatrics and director of the Center for Vaccine Development at the Saint Louis University Medical Center, who was not involved in the study.
"We know that the inactivated vaccine -- the flu shot -- doesn't work real well in children, particularly when the virus has evolved and drifted away from the type that is put in the vaccine," he said.
> > > > She's been diagnosed with dystonia, an extremely rare and debilitating > > > > neurological disease. > > > >She doesn't know what else it could be
> > > a common effect in dumb people.
> > > > She says 10 days after getting a seasonal flu shot at a Reston grocery > > > > store in August, and on her second wedding anniversary, she got sick. > > > > First, she came down with flu like symptoms, then convulsions and blacking > > > > out.
> > > sore throat? headache? NO, she barfed. not a h1n1 symptom DUMBASS
> > > > She believes her seasonal flu shot triggered it. > > > > Desiree says, "Nothing else explains such a fast moving neurological > > > > damage.
> > > except for dystonia
> > > > The medical hospitals ruled out everything, CAT scans normal, blood > > > > normal, MRI normal. The only thing that explains it is the shot caused the > > > > neurologic damage."
> > > Not at all, this is a dumb uneducated girl talking.
> > > > She says it is a strange disorder where muscles work against each other. > > > She
> > > > Desiree says the disease is irreversible. Once she loses an ability it > > > > doesn't come back. She says there are only three ways you can get dystonia > > > > as an adult and they include head trauma, drug use, and poisoning. > > > > While the Centers for Disease Control cannot comment directly on this > > > > case, they say they have no knowledge of a link between the seasonal flu > > > > shot and dystonia.
> > > WELL, there you go. no link. thanks for posting this debunking. > > > I new it was horseshit! lol
> > It appears that while Ms Jennings sincerely believes that she is a > > victim of a adverse vaccine reaction, she is much more likely > > suffering from psychogenic dystonia. The facts, not her conjecture, > > are what really matters. It is impossible to get the flu from the > > vaccine. Also, she accepts the Johns Hopkin's diagnosis of dystonia, > > but not the fact that they refer to her case as an example of > > Psychogenic Dystonia.
> > On the October 16, 2009, Fox News show, "The O'Reilly Factor", Dr. > > Leigh Vinocur from the University of Maryland Medical System offered > > an alternative cause to Ms. Jennings' syndrome. Dr. Vinocur stated > > that there have been no cases of dystonia associated with the flu > > vaccine and that neurology experts at the University of Maryland were > > using Ms. Jennings' case to teach neurology residents about > > psychogenic dystonia.
> > Dystonia is a neurological disorder where twitches and other > > repetitive, involuntary reactions occur. Normally, these repetitive > > actions do not let up. In the interview videos, Ms. Jennings' symptoms > > subside at times. According to Dr. Vinocur, neurologists saw the video > > and were convinced it was psychogenic.
> > Psychogenic disorders do not mean that a person is faking their > > symptoms. Rather, it means that the person truly believes that the > > symptoms are real. However, there is no physiological reason for the > > symptoms. It truly is all in their head. Examples include phantom limb > > syndrome, where a hand that has been amputated along with a limb is > > felt by the person as being clinched or still being there. > > Psychotherapy or some medications to treat the mental issues can help > > deal with psychogenic disorders.
> > Another important detail in Ms. Jennings' story is that she acquired > > flu from the flu vaccine. This is a scientific impossiblity. The flu > > virus in the injected vaccine is dead, inactive. In the solution being > > injected, the virus has no cells in which to live and reproduce. > > Viruses are, by definition, obligate intracellular parasites. They > > need cells to live, grow, and reproduce. There has been no recorded > > case of acquired flu from the flu shot vaccine. Likewise, if true, Ms. > > Jennings would be the first case of dystonia as a result of the flu > > vaccine. Furthermore, the Food and Drug Administration did not find > > anything wrong or different about the lot of vaccine used.
> Of course not. With their vested interests and lies. > Seeing is believing.
Agreed. I see your posts and believe that you are one of most ignorant people I have ever encountered.
> "john" <nos...@bt.com> wrote in message > news:LcqdnWPN4sd8CErXnZ2dnUVZ8m6dnZ2d@bt.com... >> She's been diagnosed with dystonia, an extremely rare and debilitating >> neurological disease.
>>She doesn't know what else it could be
> a common effect in dumb people.
>> She says 10 days after getting a seasonal flu shot at a Reston grocery >> store in August, and on her second wedding anniversary, she got sick. >> First, she came down with flu like symptoms, then convulsions and >> blacking out.
> sore throat? headache? NO, she barfed. not a h1n1 symptom DUMBASS
>> She believes her seasonal flu shot triggered it.
>> Desiree says, "Nothing else explains such a fast moving neurological >> damage.
> except for dystonia
>> The medical hospitals ruled out everything, CAT scans normal, blood >> normal, MRI normal. The only thing that explains it is the shot caused >> the neurologic damage."
> Not at all, this is a dumb uneducated girl talking.
> > She says it is a strange disorder where muscles work against each other. > She
>> Desiree says the disease is irreversible. Once she loses an ability it >> doesn't come back. She says there are only three ways you can get >> dystonia as an adult and they include head trauma, drug use, and >> poisoning.
>> While the Centers for Disease Control cannot comment directly on this >> case, they say they have no knowledge of a link between the seasonal flu >> shot and dystonia.
> WELL, there you go. no link. thanks for posting this debunking. > I new it was horseshit! lol
CDC says they have no evedence. That means that they do not KNOW that it did not. In fact, they know very little about what this stuff can do / cause. Almost no testing. Unlike you who believes in horseshit. LOL!!
The Dystonia Flu-Shot Case Published by Steven Novella under Neuroscience, Science and Medicine,
Robert E. Bartholomew is a social scientist who specializes in mass delusions. He describes them here, in an article he wrote for the NESS, but also in a longer article here for the Skeptical Inquirer and in his several books. About mass delusions he writes:
A collective delusion is the term most commonly used by social scientists to describe the relatively spontaneous spread of false beliefs that do not occur in an organized, institutionalized or ritualistic fashion.
Today, we live in a connected virtual community, and YouTube, Twitter, Facebook, and blogs, in addition to traditional media, are the medium through which community panic and delusions spread.
At this time there are two slow panics spreading through the community – fear of the H1N1 “swine” flu pandemic, and fear of the vaccine to prevent H1N1 flu. Regarding the pandemic itself – this is a real threat, it is just not known at this time how severe it will turn out to be. So far it is looking like another seasonal flu in severity, but with some different features, such as a greater tendency to severely affect otherwise healthy individuals.
The panic over the vaccine, however, is entirely manufactured, primarily by dedicated conspiracy theorists and anti-vaccinationists, and then aided by irresponsible media. There have been two stories in particular about alleged severe reactions following vaccines recently, one dealing with the HPV vaccine and the recent cased of what is being called dystonia following the seasonal flu vaccine. The young girl who died within hours of getting the HPV vaccine was found to have a heart defect, and her death had nothing to do with the vaccine, so that story was rather short-lived.
The new case making the rounds, however, appears to have some legs. It is getting international news attention, and I am being flooded with e- mail requests to analyze the case.
This is the story of Desiree Jennings, who is a 28 year old cheerleader who was apparently healthy until August when she received the seasonal flu vaccine. Ten days later she developed a severe respiratory illness, probably the flu, requiring hospitalization. She then developed an apparent neurological reaction in which she has difficulty speaking and walking, with involuntary muscle contractions and contortions. Her symptoms (including speech) are relieved, however, by walking backwards or by running. She also seems to have attacks of muscle contortions.
News reports are presenting her story as a rare vaccine reaction. Take a look at the video of her movements on this news report also.
This case, of course, has been immediately picked up by the anti- vaccine crowd. Generation Rescue, Jenny McCarthy’s anti-vaccine organization, wasted no time in exploiting this poor girl for their own agenda. She is now the latest poster child in the war against vaccines.
The media is largely covered in fail over their reporting of this case. They failed to ask basic journalistic questions – was the illness Jennings suffered from due to the vaccine, was it confirmed as the flu, and was it the strain from the vaccine, was the incubation period compatible with a vaccine-induced flu, did she get the live- virus version of the vaccine, does she really have dystonia, has that diagnosis been verified, are their other possibilities, and what is the plausibility that it was caused by the vaccine?
None of these basic questions are addressed in the news reports – instead we are given an emotional report of a “one in a million” (a figure apparently pulled out of someone’s butt) vaccine reaction. Her episodes are called “seizures” when they are almost certainly not seizures. Her condition has also been called permanent and irreversible – without any justification.
Normally I try to refrain from making medical diagnoses in public cases – but Jennings has now inserted herself in to the anti-vaccine movement, and is using her own case to “warn about the dangers of vaccines.” To mitigate the damage to public health brought about by misinformation in this case, I think it is necessary to provide some expert opinion.
The movements and symptoms that Ms. Jennings displays on the public videos I have seen (linked to above) are not compatible with the diagnosis of dystonia, or any other movement disorder. Dystonia is one type of involuntary contraction of muscles. It can be reduced or exacerbated by certain movements or positions, and there are “task specific” dystonia, such as writer’s cramp, that come out only with certain activity. Jennings does not display the type of movements that are consistent with dystonia. Her speech and movement are, however, very suggestive of a psychogenic disorder.
This also seems to be the consensus opinion of experts who have viewed this case. The Dystonia Medical Research Foundation had this to say about the case:
Because of the concern of individuals with dystonia as to whether or not to get a flu shot because of this reported case, we have sought the opinion of dystonia experts on this case. Based on the footage that has been shared with the public, it is their unanimous consensus that this case does not appear to be dystonia.
The one news report that I saw that actually consulted an expert for their opinion was Fox News. Leigh Vinocur, and emergency room physician, was interviewed and relayed the opinion that the neurologists she consulted were of the opinion that Jennings’ symptoms were consistent with a psychogenic disorder. In other words – her symptoms are not neurological, they are psychological. This does not mean she has any insight or voluntary control over her symptoms – they are involuntary and “real” – just not neurological in origin. Symptoms such as this are not uncommon reactions to emotional stress in some individuals. Given the evidence presented, I think this is a reasonable opinion.
Dr. Vinocur also points out that there are no reported cases of true dystonia resulting from the flu vaccine – this is not a known or established vaccine reaction.
Here is another interview on Fox with a movement disorder specialist, Dr. Stephen Grill, who concurs that (based upon the video, and not personal examination) Ms. Jennings does not have true dystonia but psychogenic dystonia.
It is therefore highly unlikely that whatever Jennings is suffering from now had anything to do with the flu vaccine she received in August. Unfortunately, this is not stopping irresponsible news coverage or exploitation by anti-vaccinationists. Further, Jennings is now in the hands of the Generation Rescue anti-vaccine quacks. I predict that they will be able to “cure” her, because psychogenic disorders can and do spontaneously resolve. They will then claim victory for their quackery in curing a (non-existent) vaccine injury.
In addition to the public harm, Ms. Jennings herself is likely to be harmed by the media attention her case is garnering. She likely could benefit from proper medical attention of her condition. But now she is publicly invested in her disorder, and is likely to accept care from those with their own anti-vaccine agenda. It is difficult enough dealing with psychogenic disorders without international public attention and controversy.
The medical community is always careful to point out that there are very rare reactions to vaccines. No one is claiming that they are 100% safe – no medical intervention is. But severe reactions are very rare. Meanwhile, about 36,000 people die each year in the US alone from the seasonal flu. That figure is likely to be higher this year, as seasonal strains are combined with the H1N1 strain to form a particularly bad flu season. We are fortunate that there are vaccines both for the seasonal flu and the H1N1 flu, which is particularly well targeted because we know the strain.
Other measures for minimizing spread of the flu are, as always, also important – wash your hands, stay home if you are ill, and avoid contact with those with respiratory symptoms. But the vaccines are likely to significantly reduce the spread and severity of the flu. And yet, fear-mongering and misinformation, such as with the Jennings case, are scaring people away from the vaccines, without good cause.
> > > > She's been diagnosed with dystonia, an extremely rare and debilitating > > > > neurological disease. > > > >She doesn't know what else it could be
> > > a common effect in dumb people.
> > > > She says 10 days after getting a seasonal flu shot at a Reston grocery > > > > store in August, and on her second wedding anniversary, she got sick. > > > > First, she came down with flu like symptoms, then convulsions and blacking > > > > out.
> > > sore throat? headache? NO, she barfed. not a h1n1 symptom DUMBASS
> > > > She believes her seasonal flu shot triggered it. > > > > Desiree says, "Nothing else explains such a fast moving neurological > > > > damage.
> > > except for dystonia
> > > > The medical hospitals ruled out everything, CAT scans normal, blood > > > > normal, MRI normal. The only thing that explains it is the shot caused the > > > > neurologic damage."
> > > Not at all, this is a dumb uneducated girl talking.
> > > > She says it is a strange disorder where muscles work against each other. > > > She
> > > > Desiree says the disease is irreversible. Once she loses an ability it > > > > doesn't come back. She says there are only three ways you can get dystonia > > > > as an adult and they include head trauma, drug use, and poisoning. > > > > While the Centers for Disease Control cannot comment directly on this > > > > case, they say they have no knowledge of a link between the seasonal flu > > > > shot and dystonia.
> > > WELL, there you go. no link. thanks for posting this debunking. > > > I new it was horseshit! lol
> > It appears that while Ms Jennings sincerely believes that she is a > > victim of a adverse vaccine reaction, she is much more likely > > suffering from psychogenic dystonia. The facts, not her conjecture, > > are what really matters. It is impossible to get the flu from the > > vaccine. Also, she accepts the Johns Hopkin's diagnosis of dystonia, > > but not the fact that they refer to her case as an example of > > Psychogenic Dystonia.
> > On the October 16, 2009, Fox News show, "The O'Reilly Factor", Dr. > > Leigh Vinocur from the University of Maryland Medical System offered > > an alternative cause to Ms. Jennings' syndrome. Dr. Vinocur stated > > that there have been no cases of dystonia associated with the flu > > vaccine and that neurology experts at the University of Maryland were > > using Ms. Jennings' case to teach neurology residents about > > psychogenic dystonia.
> > Dystonia is a neurological disorder where twitches and other > > repetitive, involuntary reactions occur. Normally, these repetitive > > actions do not let up. In the interview videos, Ms. Jennings' symptoms > > subside at times. According to Dr. Vinocur, neurologists saw the video > > and were convinced it was psychogenic.
> > Psychogenic disorders do not mean that a person is faking their > > symptoms. Rather, it means that the person truly believes that the > > symptoms are real. However, there is no physiological reason for the > > symptoms. It truly is all in their head. Examples include phantom limb > > syndrome, where a hand that has been amputated along with a limb is > > felt by the person as being clinched or still being there. > > Psychotherapy or some medications to treat the mental issues can help > > deal with psychogenic disorders.
> > Another important detail in Ms. Jennings' story is that she acquired > > flu from the flu vaccine. This is a scientific impossiblity. The flu > > virus in the injected vaccine is dead, inactive. In the solution being > > injected, the virus has no cells in which to live and reproduce. > > Viruses are, by definition, obligate intracellular parasites. They > > need cells to live, grow, and reproduce. There has been no recorded > > case of acquired flu from the flu shot vaccine. Likewise, if true, Ms. > > Jennings would be the first case of dystonia as a result of the flu > > vaccine. Furthermore, the Food and Drug Administration did not find > > anything wrong or different about the lot of vaccine used.
> Of course not. With their vested interests and lies. > Seeing is believing.
> On Oct 23, 7:31 pm, "JohnSmith" <some...@microsoft.com> wrote: > > "john" <nos...@bt.com> wrote in message > >news:LcqdnWPN4sd8CErXnZ2dnUVZ8m6dnZ2d@bt.com... > > > She's been diagnosed with dystonia, an extremely rare and debilitating > > > neurological disease. > > >She doesn't know what else it could be > > a common effect in dumb people. > > > She says 10 days after getting a seasonal flu shot at a Reston grocery > > > store in August, and on her second wedding anniversary, she got sick. > > > First, she came down with flu like symptoms, then convulsions and blacking > > > out. > > sore throat? headache? NO, she barfed. not a h1n1 symptom DUMBASS > > > She believes her seasonal flu shot triggered it. > > > Desiree says, "Nothing else explains such a fast moving neurological > > > damage. > > except for dystonia > > > The medical hospitals ruled out everything, CAT scans normal, blood > > > normal, MRI normal. The only thing that explains it is the shot caused the > > > neurologic damage." > > Not at all, this is a dumb uneducated girl talking. > > > She says it is a strange disorder where muscles work against each other. > > She > > > Desiree's husband, Brendan, says, "It gets worse everyday. It's > > > heartbreaking to see." > > > Desiree says the disease is irreversible. Once she loses an ability it > > > doesn't come back. She says there are only three ways you can get dystonia > > > as an adult and they include head trauma, drug use, and poisoning. > > > While the Centers for Disease Control cannot comment directly on this > > > case, they say they have no knowledge of a link between the seasonal flu > > > shot and dystonia. > > WELL, there you go. no link. thanks for posting this debunking. > > I new it was horseshit! lol > It appears that while Ms Jennings sincerely believes that she is a > victim of a adverse vaccine reaction, she is much more likely > suffering from psychogenic dystonia. The facts, not her conjecture, > are what really matters. It is impossible to get the flu from the > vaccine. Also, she accepts the Johns Hopkin's diagnosis of dystonia, > but not the fact that they refer to her case as an example of > Psychogenic Dystonia. > http://www.examiner.com/x-13791-Baltimore-Disease-Prevention-Examiner... > On the October 16, 2009, Fox News show, "The O'Reilly Factor", Dr. > Leigh Vinocur from the University of Maryland Medical System offered > an alternative cause to Ms. Jennings' syndrome. Dr. Vinocur stated > that there have been no cases of dystonia associated with the flu > vaccine and that neurology experts at the University of Maryland were > using Ms. Jennings' case to teach neurology residents about > psychogenic dystonia. > Dystonia is a neurological disorder where twitches and other > repetitive, involuntary reactions occur. Normally, these repetitive > actions do not let up. In the interview videos, Ms. Jennings' symptoms > subside at times. According to Dr. Vinocur, neurologists saw the video > and were convinced it was psychogenic. > Psychogenic disorders do not mean that a person is faking their > symptoms. Rather, it means that the person truly believes that the > symptoms are real. However, there is no physiological reason for the > symptoms. It truly is all in their head. Examples include phantom limb > syndrome, where a hand that has been amputated along with a limb is > felt by the person as being clinched or still being there. > Psychotherapy or some medications to treat the mental issues can help > deal with psychogenic disorders. > Another important detail in Ms. Jennings' story is that she acquired > flu from the flu vaccine. This is a scientific impossiblity. The flu > virus in the injected vaccine is dead, inactive. In the solution being > injected, the virus has no cells in which to live and reproduce. > Viruses are, by definition, obligate intracellular parasites. They > need cells to live, grow, and reproduce. There has been no recorded > case of acquired flu from the flu shot vaccine. Likewise, if true, Ms. > Jennings would be the first case of dystonia as a result of the flu > vaccine. Furthermore, the Food and Drug Administration did not find > anything wrong or different about the lot of vaccine used.
Of course not. With their vested interests and lies. Seeing is believing.
Flu Shot Does Not Reduce Risk Of Death, Research Shows
Not enough proof that flu shots work, researcher warns Last Updated: Friday, October 27, 2006 | 2:03 PM ET The Canadian Press There isn't enough evidence that the flu vaccine is effective to support public programs advocating widespread use of flu shots, a controversial vaccine epidemiologist suggests.
In a commentary in Friday's British Medical Journal, Dr. Tom Jefferson argues that large-scale, long-term randomized controlled trials — the gold standard for generating scientific evidence — should be "urgently" undertaken to determine if flu shot programs are achieving their goals of lowering rates of cases and deaths.
Not enough proof that flu shots work, researcher warns Last Updated: Friday, October 27, 2006 | 2:03 PM ET The Canadian Press There isn't enough evidence that the flu vaccine is effective to support public programs advocating widespread use of flu shots, a controversial vaccine epidemiologist suggests.
In a commentary in Friday's British Medical Journal, Dr. Tom Jefferson argues that large-scale, long-term randomized controlled trials — the gold standard for generating scientific evidence — should be "urgently" undertaken to determine if flu shot programs are achieving their goals of lowering rates of cases and deaths.
Flu Shot Season - Think twice before you shoot! I'd like to repeat the Flu/Alzheimer's connection that so many of you have asked about. According to Hugh Fudenberg, MD, the world's leading immunogeneticist and 13th most quoted biologist of our times (nearly 850 papers in peer review journals), if an individual has had five consecutive flu shots his/her chances of getting Alzheimer's Disease is ten times higher than if they had one, two or no shots. I asked Dr. Fudenberg why this was so and he said it was due to the mercury and aluminum that is in every flu shot (and some childhood shots). The gradual mercury and aluminum buildup in the brain causes cognitive dysfunction. Is that why Alzheimer's is expected to quadruple? Notes: Recorded from Dr. Fudenberg's speech at the NVIC International Vaccine Conference, Arlington, VA September, 1997. Quoted with permission. Alzheimer's to quadruple statement is from John's Hopkins Newsletter Nov 1998. Dr. Fudenberg's web address is www.nitrf.org. Interesting info on treating autism on the site. Randall Neustaedter OMD author of The Vaccine Guide says this: The flu vaccine gets the most-useless-vaccine-of-all-time award. Now the CDC is recommending the vaccine for children under two years old and all adults over 50. Don't fall for it.
Flu Facts
* Flu vaccine manufacturers are notoriously inaccurate at predicting the appropriate viruses to use in an individual year's vaccine, rendering the vaccine ineffective.
* Flu vaccine is relatively ineffective in those patients most at risk of flu complications.
* The vaccine has caused GBS in recipients during several different flu seasons.
* Those most at risk of flu complications probably share a higher risk of adverse reactions to the flu vaccine as well.
Fluzone is the new flu vaccine for babies (recommended 6 months to 23 months). You can get it as a 0.25 mL prefilled syringe (for pediatric use) and as a 0.5 mL prefilled syringe. Fluzone contains mercury: 25 µg mercury/0.5 mL dose. It also has chicken embryos and formaldehyde and Sucrose, Sodium phosphate, Sodium Chloride, Mercury, Gelatin, Polyethylene Glycol p-Isooctylphenyl Ether, Fluzone is the new flu vaccine for babies (recommended 6 months to 23 months). You can get it as a 0.25 mL prefilled syringe (for pediatric use) and as a 0.5 mL prefilled syringe. Fluzone contains mercury: 25 µg mercury/0.5 mL dose. It also has chicken embryos and formaldehyde and Sucrose, Sodium phosphate, Sodium Chloride, Mercury, Gelatin, Polyethylene Glycol p- Isooctylphenyl Ether, Fluzone is the new flu vaccine for babies (recommended 6 months to 23 months). You can get it as a 0.25 mL prefilled syringe (for pediatric use) and as a 0.5 mL prefilled syringe. Fluzone contains mercury: 25 µg mercury/0.5 mL dose. It also has chicken embryos and formaldehyde and Sucrose, Sodium phosphate, Sodium Chloride, Mercury, Gelatin, Polyethylene Glycol p- Isooctylphenyl Ether, Hemaggluttinin.
Kids' Flu Shot Largely Ineffective Over Past Few Years Study finds it didn't keep them from hospitals, doctors' offices
MONDAY, Oct. 6 (HealthDay News) -- Over the past two flu seasons, vaccinating children five and younger did not reduce the number of child hospitalizations or doctor's visits linked to influenza, according to results of a new study.
Given the poor match between the flu vaccine and circulating strains during the last two years, "this finding is not surprising," said Dr. Robert Belshe, a professor of medicine and pediatrics and director of the Center for Vaccine Development at the Saint Louis University Medical Center, who was not involved in the study.
"We know that the inactivated vaccine -- the flu shot -- doesn't work real well in children, particularly when the virus has evolved and drifted away from the type that is put in the vaccine," he said.
> On Oct 23, 7:45 pm, The One True Zhen Jue <Andrew_King...@yahoo.com> > wrote:
> > On Oct 23, 7:31 pm, "JohnSmith" <some...@microsoft.com> wrote: > > > "john" <nos...@bt.com> wrote in message > > >news:LcqdnWPN4sd8CErXnZ2dnUVZ8m6dnZ2d@bt.com... > > > > She's been diagnosed withdystonia, an extremely rare and debilitating > > > > neurological disease. > > > >She doesn't know what else it could be > > > a common effect in dumb people. > > > > She says 10 days after getting a seasonal flu shot at a Reston grocery > > > > store in August, and on her second wedding anniversary, she got sick. > > > > First, she came down with flu like symptoms, then convulsions and blacking > > > > out. > > > sore throat? headache? NO, she barfed. not a h1n1 symptom DUMBASS > > > > She believes her seasonal flu shot triggered it. > > > > Desiree says, "Nothing else explains such a fast moving neurological > > > > damage. > > > except fordystonia > > > > The medical hospitals ruled out everything, CAT scans normal, blood > > > > normal, MRI normal. The only thing that explains it is the shot caused the > > > > neurologic damage." > > > Not at all, this is a dumb uneducated girl talking. > > > > She says it is a strange disorder where muscles work against each other. > > > She > > > > Desiree's husband, Brendan, says, "It gets worse everyday. It's > > > > heartbreaking to see." > > > > Desiree says the disease is irreversible. Once she loses an ability it > > > > doesn't come back. She says there are only three ways you can getdystonia > > > > as an adult and they include head trauma, drug use, and poisoning. > > > > While the Centers for Disease Control cannot comment directly on this > > > > case, they say they have no knowledge of a link between the seasonal flu > > > > shot anddystonia. > > > WELL, there you go. no link. thanks for posting this debunking. > > > I new it was horseshit! lol > > It appears that while Ms Jennings sincerely believes that she is a > > victim of a adverse vaccine reaction, she is much more likely > > suffering from psychogenicdystonia. The facts, not her conjecture, > > are what really matters. It is impossible to get the flu from the > > vaccine. Also, she accepts the Johns Hopkin's diagnosis ofdystonia, > > but not the fact that they refer to her case as an example of > > PsychogenicDystonia. > >http://www.examiner.com/x-13791-Baltimore-Disease-Prevention-Examiner... > > On the October 16, 2009, Fox News show, "The O'Reilly Factor", Dr. > > Leigh Vinocur from the University of Maryland Medical System offered > > an alternative cause to Ms. Jennings' syndrome. Dr. Vinocur stated > > that there have been no cases ofdystoniaassociated with the flu > > vaccine and that neurology experts at the University of Maryland were > > using Ms. Jennings' case to teach neurology residents about > > psychogenicdystonia. > >Dystoniais a neurological disorder where twitches and other > > repetitive, involuntary reactions occur. Normally, these repetitive > > actions do not let up. In the interview videos, Ms. Jennings' symptoms > > subside at times. According to Dr. Vinocur, neurologists saw the video > > and were convinced it was psychogenic. > > Psychogenic disorders do not mean that a person is faking their > > symptoms. Rather, it means that the person truly believes that the > > symptoms are real. However, there is no physiological reason for the > > symptoms. It truly is all in their head. Examples include phantom limb > > syndrome, where a hand that has been amputated along with a limb is > > felt by the person as being clinched or still being there. > > Psychotherapy or some medications to treat the mental issues can help > > deal with psychogenic disorders. > > Another important detail in Ms. Jennings' story is that she acquired > > flu from the flu vaccine. This is a scientific impossiblity. The flu > > virus in the injected vaccine is dead, inactive. In the solution being > > injected, the virus has no cells in which to live and reproduce. > > Viruses are, by definition, obligate intracellular parasites. They > > need cells to live, grow, and reproduce. There has been no recorded > > case of acquired flu from the flu shot vaccine. Likewise, if true, Ms. > > Jennings would be the first case ofdystoniaas a result of the flu > > vaccine. Furthermore, the Food and Drug Administration did not find > > anything wrong or different about the lot of vaccine used.
> Of course not. With their vested interests and lies. > Seeing is believing.
Like I said, you have to know how to interpret what you are seeing. And, anyway, merely seeing something does not prove causality.
All of you anti-vacs love to cite VAERS to prove causality, when it is not designed for that. I went a-hunting and found this:
Sore throat, nasal congestions, followed by fever, body aches, chills, and headache.10/8/08 Medical records received, Dates of Service 10/2-10/3/09. Diagnosis: Weakness. Pt. experienced sore throat, congestion, body aches, chills, headache, fatigue and fever 3 days after receiving the influenza vaccine. The fatigue continued for almost 2 weeks during which the patient continued to work, but on 9/12/09 she presented to the ED with generalized weakness, lightheadedness and an episode of syncopy that was accompanied by generalized convulsions. Admitted to the hospital from 9/12-9/14/09. CK and LFT's were noted to be significantly elevated. Returned to work on 9/17/09 and continued to experience nausea and syncope with all over trembling and was readmitted to the hospital overnight. On 9/21 her PCP told her she had a positive ANA and lupus. Pt. began experiencing chest pain, for which steroids were prescribed. She saw an Infectious Disease MD on 9/22 and had a lumbar puncture which was normal. Pt. began experiencing difficulty walking, chills, sweats, tremors and vivid dreams with difficulty sleeping. She began having headaches described as a ""cold spot"" on the back of her head, had subsequently developed a stutter, but was able to speak clearly if she whispered. Her symptoms persisted and progressed to erratic movements of the toe, intermittent uncontrolled blinking, difficulty focusing, uncontrolled shaking, cold feet and sharp pains in the legs. Upon this admission the plan was to rule out GBS, MS, malignancy, Lyme and MG. Pt. noted to have dystonia, speech dysfunction, gait dysfunction, anxiety, SOB, photophobia, tinnitus in the left ear, and increase in appetite, a 2 lb. weight loss. It was also noted that the symptoms were worsened by warm water, especially at the knees. The admitting neurologist felt that there was a strong psychogenic component to the symptomology, and made a final diagnosis of weakness. 10/13/09 Medical records received from dates 10/2/09-10/4/09 Presented to for eval of p (REDACTED)" (United States Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), Public Health Service (PHS), Centers for Disease Control (CDC) / Food and Drug Administration (FDA), Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) 1990 - last week, CDC WONDER On-line Database Accessed at http://wonder.cdc.gov/vaers.html on Nov 4, 2009 10:20:23 AM)
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Cue the anti-vacs to discount this in some manner.
PSYCHOGENIC DYSTONIA diagnosed by the treating doctors.
Ummm, I think to be honest, we need a second or third diagnosis. It would seem reasonable considering the possible implications of this case. By at least one pro vacer and one less than pro. Where is House when we need him?
"Mark Probert" <mark.prob...@gmail.com> wrote in message
> On Oct 23, 7:45 pm, The One True Zhen Jue <Andrew_King...@yahoo.com> > wrote:
> > On Oct 23, 7:31 pm, "JohnSmith" <some...@microsoft.com> wrote: > > > "john" <nos...@bt.com> wrote in message > > >news:LcqdnWPN4sd8CErXnZ2dnUVZ8m6dnZ2d@bt.com... > > > > She's been diagnosed withdystonia, an extremely rare and > > > > debilitating > > > > neurological disease. > > > >She doesn't know what else it could be > > > a common effect in dumb people. > > > > She says 10 days after getting a seasonal flu shot at a Reston > > > > grocery > > > > store in August, and on her second wedding anniversary, she got > > > > sick. > > > > First, she came down with flu like symptoms, then convulsions and > > > > blacking > > > > out. > > > sore throat? headache? NO, she barfed. not a h1n1 symptom DUMBASS > > > > She believes her seasonal flu shot triggered it. > > > > Desiree says, "Nothing else explains such a fast moving neurological > > > > damage. > > > except fordystonia > > > > The medical hospitals ruled out everything, CAT scans normal, blood > > > > normal, MRI normal. The only thing that explains it is the shot > > > > caused the > > > > neurologic damage." > > > Not at all, this is a dumb uneducated girl talking. > > > > She says it is a strange disorder where muscles work against each > > > > other. > > > She > > > > Desiree's husband, Brendan, says, "It gets worse everyday. It's > > > > heartbreaking to see." > > > > Desiree says the disease is irreversible. Once she loses an ability > > > > it > > > > doesn't come back. She says there are only three ways you can > > > > getdystonia > > > > as an adult and they include head trauma, drug use, and poisoning. > > > > While the Centers for Disease Control cannot comment directly on > > > > this > > > > case, they say they have no knowledge of a link between the seasonal > > > > flu > > > > shot anddystonia. > > > WELL, there you go. no link. thanks for posting this debunking. > > > I new it was horseshit! lol > > It appears that while Ms Jennings sincerely believes that she is a > > victim of a adverse vaccine reaction, she is much more likely > > suffering from psychogenicdystonia. The facts, not her conjecture, > > are what really matters. It is impossible to get the flu from the > > vaccine. Also, she accepts the Johns Hopkin's diagnosis ofdystonia, > > but not the fact that they refer to her case as an example of > > PsychogenicDystonia. > >http://www.examiner.com/x-13791-Baltimore-Disease-Prevention-Examiner... > > On the October 16, 2009, Fox News show, "The O'Reilly Factor", Dr. > > Leigh Vinocur from the University of Maryland Medical System offered > > an alternative cause to Ms. Jennings' syndrome. Dr. Vinocur stated > > that there have been no cases ofdystoniaassociated with the flu > > vaccine and that neurology experts at the University of Maryland were > > using Ms. Jennings' case to teach neurology residents about > > psychogenicdystonia. > >Dystoniais a neurological disorder where twitches and other > > repetitive, involuntary reactions occur. Normally, these repetitive > > actions do not let up. In the interview videos, Ms. Jennings' symptoms > > subside at times. According to Dr. Vinocur, neurologists saw the video > > and were convinced it was psychogenic. > > Psychogenic disorders do not mean that a person is faking their > > symptoms. Rather, it means that the person truly believes that the > > symptoms are real. However, there is no physiological reason for the > > symptoms. It truly is all in their head. Examples include phantom limb > > syndrome, where a hand that has been amputated along with a limb is > > felt by the person as being clinched or still being there. > > Psychotherapy or some medications to treat the mental issues can help > > deal with psychogenic disorders. > > Another important detail in Ms. Jennings' story is that she acquired > > flu from the flu vaccine. This is a scientific impossiblity. The flu > > virus in the injected vaccine is dead, inactive. In the solution being > > injected, the virus has no cells in which to live and reproduce. > > Viruses are, by definition, obligate intracellular parasites. They > > need cells to live, grow, and reproduce. There has been no recorded > > case of acquired flu from the flu shot vaccine. Likewise, if true, Ms. > > Jennings would be the first case ofdystoniaas a result of the flu > > vaccine. Furthermore, the Food and Drug Administration did not find > > anything wrong or different about the lot of vaccine used.
> Of course not. With their vested interests and lies. > Seeing is believing.
Like I said, you have to know how to interpret what you are seeing. And, anyway, merely seeing something does not prove causality.
All of you anti-vacs love to cite VAERS to prove causality, when it is not designed for that. I went a-hunting and found this:
Sore throat, nasal congestions, followed by fever, body aches, chills, and headache.10/8/08 Medical records received, Dates of Service 10/2-10/3/09. Diagnosis: Weakness. Pt. experienced sore throat, congestion, body aches, chills, headache, fatigue and fever 3 days after receiving the influenza vaccine. The fatigue continued for almost 2 weeks during which the patient continued to work, but on 9/12/09 she presented to the ED with generalized weakness, lightheadedness and an episode of syncopy that was accompanied by generalized convulsions. Admitted to the hospital from 9/12-9/14/09. CK and LFT's were noted to be significantly elevated. Returned to work on 9/17/09 and continued to experience nausea and syncope with all over trembling and was readmitted to the hospital overnight. On 9/21 her PCP told her she had a positive ANA and lupus. Pt. began experiencing chest pain, for which steroids were prescribed. She saw an Infectious Disease MD on 9/22 and had a lumbar puncture which was normal. Pt. began experiencing difficulty walking, chills, sweats, tremors and vivid dreams with difficulty sleeping. She began having headaches described as a ""cold spot"" on the back of her head, had subsequently developed a stutter, but was able to speak clearly if she whispered. Her symptoms persisted and progressed to erratic movements of the toe, intermittent uncontrolled blinking, difficulty focusing, uncontrolled shaking, cold feet and sharp pains in the legs. Upon this admission the plan was to rule out GBS, MS, malignancy, Lyme and MG. Pt. noted to have dystonia, speech dysfunction, gait dysfunction, anxiety, SOB, photophobia, tinnitus in the left ear, and increase in appetite, a 2 lb. weight loss. It was also noted that the symptoms were worsened by warm water, especially at the knees. The admitting neurologist felt that there was a strong psychogenic component to the symptomology, and made a final diagnosis of weakness. 10/13/09 Medical records received from dates 10/2/09-10/4/09 Presented to for eval of p (REDACTED)" (United States Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), Public Health Service (PHS), Centers for Disease Control (CDC) / Food and Drug Administration (FDA), Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) 1990 - last week, CDC WONDER On-line Database Accessed at http://wonder.cdc.gov/vaers.html on Nov 4, 2009 10:20:23 AM)
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Cue the anti-vacs to discount this in some manner.
PSYCHOGENIC DYSTONIA diagnosed by the treating doctors.
> Ummm, I think to be honest, we need a second or third diagnosis. It would > seem reasonable considering the possible implications of this case. By at > least one pro vacer and one less than pro. Where is House when we need him?
Read the information carefully, The diagnosis was made by the doctors treting her, not by anyone else. The report says:
"The admitting
> neurologist felt that there was a strong psychogenic component to the > symptomology, and made a final diagnosis of weakness. "
The admitting neurologist, the one who was seeing and believing, made the diagnosis.
And, the other article I posted, from Dr. Novella, is from an academic neurologist who practices at Yale. Academic physicians are salaried, and do not make an extra dime when they see patients.
> > On Oct 23, 7:45 pm, The One True Zhen Jue <Andrew_King...@yahoo.com> > > wrote:
> > > On Oct 23, 7:31 pm, "JohnSmith" <some...@microsoft.com> wrote: > > > > "john" <nos...@bt.com> wrote in message > > > >news:LcqdnWPN4sd8CErXnZ2dnUVZ8m6dnZ2d@bt.com... > > > > > She's been diagnosed withdystonia, an extremely rare and > > > > > debilitating > > > > > neurological disease. > > > > >She doesn't know what else it could be > > > > a common effect in dumb people. > > > > > She says 10 days after getting a seasonal flu shot at a Reston > > > > > grocery > > > > > store in August, and on her second wedding anniversary, she got > > > > > sick. > > > > > First, she came down with flu like symptoms, then convulsions and > > > > > blacking > > > > > out. > > > > sore throat? headache? NO, she barfed. not a h1n1 symptom DUMBASS > > > > > She believes her seasonal flu shot triggered it. > > > > > Desiree says, "Nothing else explains such a fast moving neurological > > > > > damage. > > > > except fordystonia > > > > > The medical hospitals ruled out everything, CAT scans normal, blood > > > > > normal, MRI normal. The only thing that explains it is the shot > > > > > caused the > > > > > neurologic damage." > > > > Not at all, this is a dumb uneducated girl talking. > > > > > She says it is a strange disorder where muscles work against each > > > > > other. > > > > She > > > > > Desiree's husband, Brendan, says, "It gets worse everyday. It's > > > > > heartbreaking to see." > > > > > Desiree says the disease is irreversible. Once she loses an ability > > > > > it > > > > > doesn't come back. She says there are only three ways you can > > > > > getdystonia > > > > > as an adult and they include head trauma, drug use, and poisoning. > > > > > While the Centers for Disease Control cannot comment directly on > > > > > this > > > > > case, they say they have no knowledge of a link between the seasonal > > > > > flu > > > > > shot anddystonia. > > > > WELL, there you go. no link. thanks for posting this debunking. > > > > I new it was horseshit! lol > > > It appears that while Ms Jennings sincerely believes that she is a > > > victim of a adverse vaccine reaction, she is much more likely > > > suffering from psychogenicdystonia. The facts, not her conjecture, > > > are what really matters. It is impossible to get the flu from the > > > vaccine. Also, she accepts the Johns Hopkin's diagnosis ofdystonia, > > > but not the fact that they refer to her case as an example of > > > PsychogenicDystonia. > > >http://www.examiner.com/x-13791-Baltimore-Disease-Prevention-Examiner... > > > On the October 16, 2009, Fox News show, "The O'Reilly Factor", Dr. > > > Leigh Vinocur from the University of Maryland Medical System offered > > > an alternative cause to Ms. Jennings' syndrome. Dr. Vinocur stated > > > that there have been no cases ofdystoniaassociated with the flu > > > vaccine and that neurology experts at the University of Maryland were > > > using Ms. Jennings' case to teach neurology residents about > > > psychogenicdystonia. > > >Dystoniais a neurological disorder where twitches and other > > > repetitive, involuntary reactions occur. Normally, these repetitive > > > actions do not let up. In the interview videos, Ms. Jennings' symptoms > > > subside at times. According to Dr. Vinocur, neurologists saw the video > > > and were convinced it was psychogenic. > > > Psychogenic disorders do not mean that a person is faking their > > > symptoms. Rather, it means that the person truly believes that the > > > symptoms are real. However, there is no physiological reason for the > > > symptoms. It truly is all in their head. Examples include phantom limb > > > syndrome, where a hand that has been amputated along with a limb is > > > felt by the person as being clinched or still being there. > > > Psychotherapy or some medications to treat the mental issues can help > > > deal with psychogenic disorders. > > > Another important detail in Ms. Jennings' story is that she acquired > > > flu from the flu vaccine. This is a scientific impossiblity. The flu > > > virus in the injected vaccine is dead, inactive. In the solution being > > > injected, the virus has no cells in which to live and reproduce. > > > Viruses are, by definition, obligate intracellular parasites. They > > > need cells to live, grow, and reproduce. There has been no recorded > > > case of acquired flu from the flu shot vaccine. Likewise, if true, Ms. > > > Jennings would be the first case ofdystoniaas a result of the flu > > > vaccine. Furthermore, the Food and Drug Administration did not find > > > anything wrong or different about the lot of vaccine used.
> > Of course not. With their vested interests and lies. > > Seeing is believing.
> Like I said, you have to know how to interpret what you are seeing. > And, anyway, merely seeing something does not prove causality.
> All of you anti-vacs love to cite VAERS to prove causality, when it is > not designed for that. I went a-hunting and found this:
> Sore throat, nasal congestions, followed by fever, body aches, chills, > and headache.10/8/08 Medical records received, Dates of Service > 10/2-10/3/09. Diagnosis: Weakness. Pt. experienced sore throat, > congestion, body aches, chills, headache, fatigue and fever 3 days > after receiving the influenza vaccine. The fatigue continued for > almost 2 weeks during which the patient continued to work, but on > 9/12/09 she presented to the ED with generalized weakness, > lightheadedness and an episode of syncopy that was accompanied by > generalized convulsions. Admitted to the hospital from 9/12-9/14/09. > CK and LFT's were noted to be significantly elevated. Returned to work > on 9/17/09 and continued to experience nausea and syncope with all > over trembling and was readmitted to the hospital overnight. On 9/21 > her PCP told her she had a positive ANA and lupus. Pt. began > experiencing chest pain, for which steroids were prescribed. She saw > an Infectious Disease MD on 9/22 and had a lumbar puncture which was > normal. Pt. began experiencing difficulty walking, chills, sweats, > tremors and vivid dreams with difficulty sleeping. She began having > headaches described as a ""cold spot"" on the back of her head, had > subsequently developed a stutter, but was able to speak clearly if she > whispered. Her symptoms persisted and progressed to erratic movements > of the toe, intermittent uncontrolled blinking, difficulty focusing, > uncontrolled shaking, cold feet and sharp pains in the legs. Upon this > admission the plan was to rule out GBS, MS, malignancy, Lyme and MG. > Pt. noted to have dystonia, speech dysfunction, gait dysfunction, > anxiety, SOB, photophobia, tinnitus in the left ear, and increase in > appetite, a 2 lb. weight loss. It was also noted that the symptoms > were worsened by warm water, especially at the knees. The admitting > neurologist felt that there was a strong psychogenic component to the > symptomology, and made a final diagnosis of weakness. 10/13/09 Medical > records received from dates 10/2/09-10/4/09 Presented to for eval of p > (REDACTED)" > (United States Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), Public > Health Service (PHS), Centers for Disease Control (CDC) / Food and > Drug Administration (FDA), Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System > (VAERS) 1990 - last week, CDC WONDER On-line Database Accessed athttp://wonder.cdc.gov/vaers.htmlon Nov 4, 2009 10:20:23 AM)
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> Cue the anti-vacs to discount this in some manner.
> PSYCHOGENIC DYSTONIA diagnosed by the treating doctors.- Hide quoted text -
> Ummm, I think to be honest, we need a second or third diagnosis. It would > seem reasonable considering the possible implications of this case. By at > least one pro vacer and one less than pro. Where is House when we need > him?
Read the information carefully, The diagnosis was made by the doctors treting her, not by anyone else. The report says:
"The admitting
> neurologist felt that there was a strong psychogenic component to the > symptomology, and made a final diagnosis of weakness. "
The admitting neurologist, the one who was seeing and believing, made the diagnosis.
And, the other article I posted, from Dr. Novella, is from an academic neurologist who practices at Yale. Academic physicians are salaried, and do not make an extra dime when they see patients.
> > On Oct 23, 7:45 pm, The One True Zhen Jue <Andrew_King...@yahoo.com> > > wrote:
> > > On Oct 23, 7:31 pm, "JohnSmith" <some...@microsoft.com> wrote: > > > > "john" <nos...@bt.com> wrote in message > > > >news:LcqdnWPN4sd8CErXnZ2dnUVZ8m6dnZ2d@bt.com... > > > > > She's been diagnosed withdystonia, an extremely rare and > > > > > debilitating > > > > > neurological disease. > > > > >She doesn't know what else it could be > > > > a common effect in dumb people. > > > > > She says 10 days after getting a seasonal flu shot at a Reston > > > > > grocery > > > > > store in August, and on her second wedding anniversary, she got > > > > > sick. > > > > > First, she came down with flu like symptoms, then convulsions and > > > > > blacking > > > > > out. > > > > sore throat? headache? NO, she barfed. not a h1n1 symptom DUMBASS > > > > > She believes her seasonal flu shot triggered it. > > > > > Desiree says, "Nothing else explains such a fast moving > > > > > neurological > > > > > damage. > > > > except fordystonia > > > > > The medical hospitals ruled out everything, CAT scans normal, > > > > > blood > > > > > normal, MRI normal. The only thing that explains it is the shot > > > > > caused the > > > > > neurologic damage." > > > > Not at all, this is a dumb uneducated girl talking. > > > > > She says it is a strange disorder where muscles work against each > > > > > other. > > > > She > > > > > Desiree's husband, Brendan, says, "It gets worse everyday. It's > > > > > heartbreaking to see." > > > > > Desiree says the disease is irreversible. Once she loses an > > > > > ability > > > > > it > > > > > doesn't come back. She says there are only three ways you can > > > > > getdystonia > > > > > as an adult and they include head trauma, drug use, and poisoning. > > > > > While the Centers for Disease Control cannot comment directly on > > > > > this > > > > > case, they say they have no knowledge of a link between the > > > > > seasonal > > > > > flu > > > > > shot anddystonia. > > > > WELL, there you go. no link. thanks for posting this debunking. > > > > I new it was horseshit! lol > > > It appears that while Ms Jennings sincerely believes that she is a > > > victim of a adverse vaccine reaction, she is much more likely > > > suffering from psychogenicdystonia. The facts, not her conjecture, > > > are what really matters. It is impossible to get the flu from the > > > vaccine. Also, she accepts the Johns Hopkin's diagnosis ofdystonia, > > > but not the fact that they refer to her case as an example of > > > PsychogenicDystonia. > > >http://www.examiner.com/x-13791-Baltimore-Disease-Prevention-Examiner... > > > On the October 16, 2009, Fox News show, "The O'Reilly Factor", Dr. > > > Leigh Vinocur from the University of Maryland Medical System offered > > > an alternative cause to Ms. Jennings' syndrome. Dr. Vinocur stated > > > that there have been no cases ofdystoniaassociated with the flu > > > vaccine and that neurology experts at the University of Maryland were > > > using Ms. Jennings' case to teach neurology residents about > > > psychogenicdystonia. > > >Dystoniais a neurological disorder where twitches and other > > > repetitive, involuntary reactions occur. Normally, these repetitive > > > actions do not let up. In the interview videos, Ms. Jennings' symptoms > > > subside at times. According to Dr. Vinocur, neurologists saw the video > > > and were convinced it was psychogenic. > > > Psychogenic disorders do not mean that a person is faking their > > > symptoms. Rather, it means that the person truly believes that the > > > symptoms are real. However, there is no physiological reason for the > > > symptoms. It truly is all in their head. Examples include phantom limb > > > syndrome, where a hand that has been amputated along with a limb is > > > felt by the person as being clinched or still being there. > > > Psychotherapy or some medications to treat the mental issues can help > > > deal with psychogenic disorders. > > > Another important detail in Ms. Jennings' story is that she acquired > > > flu from the flu vaccine. This is a scientific impossiblity. The flu > > > virus in the injected vaccine is dead, inactive. In the solution being > > > injected, the virus has no cells in which to live and reproduce. > > > Viruses are, by definition, obligate intracellular parasites. They > > > need cells to live, grow, and reproduce. There has been no recorded > > > case of acquired flu from the flu shot vaccine. Likewise, if true, Ms. > > > Jennings would be the first case ofdystoniaas a result of the flu > > > vaccine. Furthermore, the Food and Drug Administration did not find > > > anything wrong or different about the lot of vaccine used.
> > Of course not. With their vested interests and lies. > > Seeing is believing.
> Like I said, you have to know how to interpret what you are seeing. > And, anyway, merely seeing something does not prove causality.
> All of you anti-vacs love to cite VAERS to prove causality, when it is > not designed for that. I went a-hunting and found this:
> Sore throat, nasal congestions, followed by fever, body aches, chills, > and headache.10/8/08 Medical records received, Dates of Service > 10/2-10/3/09. Diagnosis: Weakness. Pt. experienced sore throat, > congestion, body aches, chills, headache, fatigue and fever 3 days > after receiving the influenza vaccine. The fatigue continued for > almost 2 weeks during which the patient continued to work, but on > 9/12/09 she presented to the ED with generalized weakness, > lightheadedness and an episode of syncopy that was accompanied by > generalized convulsions. Admitted to the hospital from 9/12-9/14/09. > CK and LFT's were noted to be significantly elevated. Returned to work > on 9/17/09 and continued to experience nausea and syncope with all > over trembling and was readmitted to the hospital overnight. On 9/21 > her PCP told her she had a positive ANA and lupus. Pt. began > experiencing chest pain, for which steroids were prescribed. She saw > an Infectious Disease MD on 9/22 and had a lumbar puncture which was > normal. Pt. began experiencing difficulty walking, chills, sweats, > tremors and vivid dreams with difficulty sleeping. She began having > headaches described as a ""cold spot"" on the back of her head, had > subsequently developed a stutter, but was able to speak clearly if she > whispered. Her symptoms persisted and progressed to erratic movements > of the toe, intermittent uncontrolled blinking, difficulty focusing, > uncontrolled shaking, cold feet and sharp pains in the legs. Upon this > admission the plan was to rule out GBS, MS, malignancy, Lyme and MG. > Pt. noted to have dystonia, speech dysfunction, gait dysfunction, > anxiety, SOB, photophobia, tinnitus in the left ear, and increase in > appetite, a 2 lb. weight loss. It was also noted that the symptoms > were worsened by warm water, especially at the knees. The admitting > neurologist felt that there was a strong psychogenic component to the > symptomology, and made a final diagnosis of weakness. 10/13/09 Medical > records received from dates 10/2/09-10/4/09 Presented to for eval of p > (REDACTED)" > (United States Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), Public > Health Service (PHS), Centers for Disease Control (CDC) / Food and > Drug Administration (FDA), Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System > (VAERS) 1990 - last week, CDC WONDER On-line Database Accessed > athttp://wonder.cdc.gov/vaers.htmlon Nov 4, 2009 10:20:23 AM)
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> Cue the anti-vacs to discount this in some manner.
> PSYCHOGENIC DYSTONIA diagnosed by the treating doctors.- Hide quoted > text -
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