The official CDC website states that approximately 36,000 Americans die from the flu annually.
We repeatedly hear this figure reported by officials and in the media across the nation, hence
making flu infection the seventh cause of death in the US. But the reality is very different. The
CDC’s own website reports mortality rates under the frequent heading “influenza/pneumonia.”
Dr. David Rosenthal, Director of Harvard University’s Health Services, brings clarity to this
confusion. Most of these so-called flu deaths are in fact pneumonias—not even viral
pneumonias—and secondary infections. Furthermore, a study in the Journal of the American
Medical Academy shows that many of these deaths are a result of pneumonias acquired by
patients taking stomach acid suppressing drugs.
For example, if we are to take the combined figure of flu and pneumonia deaths for the flu period
of 2001, and add a bit of spin to the figures, we are left believing that 62,034 people died from
influenza. The actual figures are 61,777 died from pneumonia and only 257 from flu. Even more
amazing, in those 257 cases, only 18 were scientifically identified as positive for the flu virus. A
separate study conducted by the National Center for Health Statistics for the flu periods between
1979 and 2002 reveals that the range of annual flu deaths were between 257 and 3006, for an
average of 1,348 per year.20
How does the CDC respond to this discrepancy reported by the Harvard scientist? Read
carefully the CDC’s own statement.
“Typically, influenza causes death when the infection leads to severe medical
complications… [and as most such cases] are never tested for virus infection… CDC
considers these figures to be very substantial undercounting of the true number of deaths
from influenza. Therefore, the CDC uses indirect modeling methods to estimate the
number of deaths associated with influenza.” In an earlier 2003 article JAMA, William
Thompson from the CDC’s National Immunization Program attempted to explain“influenza-associated mortality.” He wrote, “Based on modeling, we think it’s associated.
I don’t know that we would say that it’s the underlying cause of death.”21
In summary, the CDC is admitting
1) the deceased are not tested to determine the presence of the
flu virus, and
2) they do not directly perform any direct testing to determine the exact cause of
death but rather “indirect modeling methods” is a professional way of saying subjective
mathematical equations to arrive at their figures. The 36,000 mortality figure is nothing more
than a mathematical model. The British journal concluded that the only possible rationale for the
CDC’s complete disregard for scientific fact, even in face of independent research to discredit its
statistics, is a public relations effort between the CDC and the vaccine manufacturer’s campaigns
to increase flu vaccination.
There can be little doubt about this after statements presented by the CDC’s National
Immunization Program’s spokesperson, Glen Nowak, at the 2004 National Influenza Vaccine
Summit—co-sponsored by the CDC and the American Medical Association. Nowak outlined the
CDC’s “Seven Step Recipe for Generating Interest In, and Demand for, Flu Vaccination.” One
step requires “medical experts and public health authorities publicly.. [to] state concern and
alarm (and predict dire outcomes)” to encourage influenza vaccination. Another step is “continued reports.. that influenza is causing severe illness and/or affecting lots of people,
helping to foster the perception that many people are susceptible to a bad case of influenza.” 22
Why was the “Seven Step Recipe” implemented? Dr. Nowak publicly stated the CDC’s reasons
on National Public Radio, “… the manufacturers were telling us that they weren’t receiving a lot
of orders for vaccine for use in November or even December [of 2003]… It really did look like
we [CDC] needed to do something to encourage people to get a flu shot.23
Now that we have a better understanding of how the CDC calculated its statistics in the past and
expert confirmation from renown publications and scientists that such data is erroneous, what do
we find on the CDC website under the heading “Influenza Death Statistics” as of September
2009—five years after the published denunciation of the CDC’s erroneous calculations for
influenza?
“For pneumonia and influenza (P&I) deaths, CDC estimates approximately 8,000 deaths
are associated with seasonal flu. This represents 9.8% of (P&I) deaths. For respiratory
and circulatory (R&C) deaths, CDC estimates approximately 36,000 deaths are
associated with seasonal flu. This represents 3.1 percent of those deaths. For all-cause
deaths, CDC estimates that approximately 51,000 deaths are associated with seasonal flu.
This represents 2.2% of all deaths. Centers for Disease Control. “Influenza death
statistics”. www.cdc.gov/flu/about/diseases/us_flu-related_deaths.htm Accessed
September 24, 2009.
How did the CDC arrive at these conclusions? The CDC site now continues to restate its
scientifically flawed methodology:
“Statistical modeling was used to estimate how many flu-
related deaths occurred among people whose underlying cause of death on their death certificate
was listed as a respiratory and circulatory disease.”24
This is clearly an indication of policy
turned dogmatic that disregards sound scientific evidence proving their errors. It is all business
as usual, disregard the critics, full speed ahead.
Canadian health authorities are at least a bit more transparent over their investigations into
vaccination results than the American government health cartel. However, like the US, they still
report completely erroneous conclusions based on their own data. Every year Health Canada
publicizes their laboratory results of swabs received from people with Influenza-Like Illnesses
(ILI). Consistently the statistics show that approximately 95 percent of cases are attributable to
pathogens, such as adenoviruses, rhinoviruses, parainfluenza and others, instead of the flu
virus.25 Clinically, the symptoms appear very much the same, and unless laboratory tests with
high specificity are performed, nobody can distinguish between what is a real flu infection from
what might be any large number of different pathogenic infections giving flu-like symptoms.
During the 2004-2005 flu season, the Canada Communicable Disease Report showed that of the
68,849 laboratory tests performed for influenza, only 14.9% tested positive for a flu virus. All
the remaining 85.1% specimens were a result of other pathogens impervious to flu vaccines.26
For the following 2005-2006 season, Health Canada received 68,439 confirmed tests for
influenza like infections. Of these, only 6,580, or 10.4% confirmed positive for influenza. The
rest, 89.6%, were other pathogens.27 Canadian health officials, nevertheless, disregarded their
own statistics and continue their public relations campaign to boost the perception that the flu
vaccine is 70-90% effective. In a debate published in the Canadian Medical Association
Journal, Italian epidemiologist Dr. Vittorio Demicheli, now a colleague of Dr. Tom Jefferson,
stated that Canada’s claims are
“both wrong and misleading… and refers only to the ability of
the vaccine to produce antibodies effective against the virus. But his is not the important measure
of vaccine efficacy. Instead, we should measure the ability of the vaccine to prevent clinical
disease, in this case influenza. By this measure, vaccine efficacy is no greater than 25%.”28
To further complicate matters regarding influenza-like-illnesses attributed to non-influenza
pathogens, there is also evidence showing that flu symptoms are synonymous with symptoms
caused by toxic levels of pesticides, herbicides and fluoride. During his sworn testimony before a
Congressional Hearing in the 1960s, Dr. Granville Knight, former president of the American
Academy of Nutrition, stated,
“waves of so-called ‘Virus X’ and similar diseases… are caused
by exposure to such agricultural chemicals; [and] that it is impossible for doctors to diagnose the
difference between London flu, virus conditions and pesticide poisoning.”29
In August 2009, Swiss immunologist Dr. Beda Stadler at the Institute of Immunology at the
University of Bern reported in European papers that based on his research and analysis, the
swine flu has already ended through much of Europe and the United States. Dr. Stadler claims “the dangerous pandemic virus has mutated into a simple summer flu.”30
A similar, yet
independent conclusion on September 1, 2009 from the University of Maryland predicts the
H1N1 will very unlikely mutate “in a natural way” into a more virulent virus.31 It would appear
therefore that any dangers for a new and more virulent strain of H1N1 emerging would more
readily be the result of vaccination. The important word in this is “in a natural way.” What is not
being taken into consideration in any manner by the vaccine industrial complex is the fact that
human bodies are also superb incubators for viruses, and perhaps introducing viruses into our
bloodstream, along with the numerous known and unknown genetic contamination found in
vaccines, are giving rise to new strains of virus. However, chasing the origins of a new strain of
flu virus would be as successful as standing on a beach and trying to find that one sand granule
that is older than all the others.
The Wall Street Journal in April 2009 reported that the WHO grossly inflated the number flu
deaths they reported as much as 15-fold. The actual confirmed swine flu deaths in Mexico were 7 instead of the 152 reported. When the CDC reports flu mortality statistics, they are lumped in the same
category with all pneumonia deaths. According to the independent vaccine journalist, Wynne
Alexander, “this is patently ridiculous… this is just insanity on its face, and the CDC is
comfortable with that.”32
If we think for a moment only about the number of deaths among the
elderly from pneumonia infection, and then consider that the figures being published by the
government health agencies to support their dire warnings for a presumed epidemic in October
include pneumonia deaths, then it should be clear that H1N1 infection dangers are far less than
the government and vaccine makers want the nation to believe. This conclusion is actually
supported by relatively recent study published by the National Institutes of Health in 2005 that
surveyed three decades of data on mortality rates among the elderly. The study, aired on Canada
TV, discovered that flu shots for elderly American citizens did not save any lives.33
Small children between 6 and 24 months are being recommended for the front of the vaccination
line by the CDC. The agency’s rationale remains unclear. However, biologists at Clemson
University have determined that children under the age of 5 are the least likely to transmit swine
flu. Therefore, the researchers recommend that smaller children not be given such a high ranking
on the government’s priority risk group list.34
The chairman of the Health Committee in the German Parliament, Dr. Wolfang Wodarg, stated
to the Neuen Presse that the swine vaccine and the so-called pandemic “is great business for the
pharmaceutical industry.”35 In actual fact, the majority of independent science, unbiased by
pharmaceutical corporate support, has very well shown that the swine flu is not very different
from normal season flu and does not warrant any special, dramatic alarm.
Dr. Marc Girard is a medical specialist in drug adverse effects. He was commissioned by the
French courts as a medical witness on the swine flu vaccine’s safety. During an interview on
French television, Dr. Girard stated, “A vaccine is being developed in conditions of amateurism
such as I have never seen before. Let’s take the pessimistic hypothesis: one death among every
1000 patients. There are plans to vaccinate 60 million people, and so you already have 60,000
deaths, and this time, young people, children and pregnant women.” Dr. Viera Scheibner
comments on this scenario: “The swine flu vaccination is just a hoax. It’s an attempt to create a
pandemic so that they can sell a lot of vaccines.”36 According to Nancy Cox, Director of the Influenza Division at the Centers of Disease Control, “intensive analysis” studies seem to indicate that the novel H1N1 variant has lower respiratory
transmission than the common seasonal H1N1 flu.37
The WHO is estimating that 2 billion or approximately one third of the world’s population might
become infected during the course of the next two years. In the US, the Centers for Disease
Control estimates that “swine flu could strike up to 40 percent of Americans.”38
For this reason,
world and national health agencies are mobilizing rapidly a massive vaccination campaign to
vaccinate as much of the planets population as possible. The Director General of the WHO, Dr.
Margaret Chan, estimates that vaccine makers could produce 4.9 billion pandemic flu shots.39
International scholar of political and social affairs, Michel Chossudovsky, states, “There is ample
evidence, documented in numerous reports, that the WHO’s level 6 pandemic alert is based on
fabricated evidence and a manipulation of the figures on mortality and morbidity resulting from
the H1N1 swine flu.” Chossudovsky has uncovered evidence that the CDCP and WHO are“recategorizing a large number of cases of common influenza as H1N1 swine flu.”40
Public Faith in Vaccine Science
Across the developed world there is a growing distrust in the pharmaceutical and vaccine
industry, government health agencies and professional medical associations. Although the
National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program has paid out $1.2 billion in damages due to
vaccine adverse effects in children, the vaccine makers impose gag orders to prevent public
disclosure of vital proprietary information during settlements. There remains confusion among
the US health agencies on the actual percentages of vaccine adverse reactions. The FDA
estimates only 1 percent are reported; the CDC claims it is 10 percent. According to the National
Vaccine Information Center, only one in forty New York doctors report adverse reactions, and
medical students have testified before Congress that they were instructed to not report vaccine
incidents in their private practice. The recent authorization of the 2006 Public Readiness and
Emergency Preparadness Act provides vaccine manufacturers with legal impunity in the event
the new untested Swine Flu vaccines result in a wave of serious injury and death.41
Immediately
this raises the question why the drug lobbyists would insist upon being granted immunity. Could it
be because they know the potential dangers of their swine flu vaccines? It is therefore little
wonder that more and more healthcare practitioners and the public are growing increasingly
suspicious of vaccine safety and the real intentions of the vaccine makers.
Suspicions also lie in the government’s figures to support their predictions of a 2009-2010 swine
flu threat based on evidence that the diagnostic kits being used are inaccurate in diagnosing the
presence of H1N1. There are currently three rapid diagnostic tests for determining swine flu
infection. A CDC report found that these tests can be wrong as much as nine out of ten times,
and on average between 40-69 percent. The CDC determined that the instant tests are “not highly
worthwhile for diagnosing H1N1 infections.” The report states that there is almost nothing to
distinguish the swine flu from normal seasonal flu. In fact, the diagnostic tests were more
accurate with the seasonal flu.42 Consequently, only professional diagnostic laboratories qualify
for scientifically sound diagnosis of H1N1 incidents. Reports are coming into the CDC from
many various venues and the most common diagnostic usage being used around the world are
these rapid diagnostic kits.
Throughout the world, healthcare practitioners, including physicians, are becoming nervous
about the reports about the swine flu vaccine and are turning suspicious about health officials’
hype over their dire warnings of swine flu’s dangers. Dr. Neal Rau, an Ontario medical director
of infection prevention and control told the Toronto Star, “I won’t get one until there have been a
million doses given and there is evidence it is safe.”43
Polls taken in European countries show an
increase in the number of health workers and citizens ready to refuse the H1NI vaccination.
Twenty-nine percent of all Germans surveyed said they would refuse the vaccine “under any
circumstance” and an additional 33 percent would likely refuse it. In the region of Bavaria and
Baden Wurtteemburg, only 10 percent of those polled said they would submit to the injection. In
France, Le Figaro conducted a poll of 12,050 people showing 69 percent would refuse it. In a
separate French survey, one third of 4,752 doctors, nurses and healthcare workers surveyed
would not be inoculated.44
In the UK, a couple polls reported in the Daily Mail in late August 2009, showed:
• Half of family physicians do not want swine flu vaccination
• Seventy-one percent of those polled do not believe the vaccine has been tested enough for safety and the swine flu is much milder than health authorities are saying
• A third of UK nurses would refuse the vaccine 45
A survey published in the British Medical Journal of 8,500 healthcare workers in Hong Kong found that more than fifty percent would refuse the swine flu vaccine if they could.
Polls taken in the US so far are showing Americans are quickly losing faith in the federal health
agencies’ and the private medical establishment’s assurances about vaccine efficacy and safety.
A poll of pregnant mothers taken by the parent support group www.Mumsnet.com indicates that
women are becoming more suspicious of vaccines’ ultimate value. The survey of 1500
respondents showed that only 6 percent of pregnant women would “definitely” take the shot,
while 48 percent said they “definitely” wouldn’t. The figures mirror an accompanying poll that
showed 5 percent definitely would and 46 percent definitely wouldn’t vaccinate their children.46
Tamiflu
Another reason to question the health agencies’ credibility concerns the rapid push to have
sufficient amounts of the drug Tamiflu to treat people with H1N1 infections. This may seem to
be a vital and appropriate proactive measure if it wasn’t for the fact that two separate peer-
reviewed studies—one in the March 2009 Journal of the American Medical Association and the
other in the New England Journal of Medicine—stated Tamiflu does not work for the H1N1
virus! The conclusion is clear. The CDC committed a grievous error in ordering massive
amounts of Tamiflu for rapid distribution. Double-blind placebo controlled studies in respected
orthodox publications unequivocally state that Tamiflu does not work for H1N1. This is not an
isolated incident. A similar scenario unfolded in the UK and with wide media coverage. During
August 2009, across England, children taking Tamiflu fell deathly ill. Medical experts, outside
the government’s health ministry confirmed that Tamiflu is more harmful than good. But at the
end of a brief spark of media publicity, the government turned around, rejected the experts’
claims and continued to recommend Tamiflu in the advent of swine flu infection.47
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