The Associated Press: GlaxoSmithKline pulls swine flu vaccines in Canada

As if things were not bad enough they now have concerns for bad batches of H1N1 flu vaccine which may lead to more allergic reactions from the flu vaccinations that other batches.

Not only must we have concern overall for the effects of this vaccine but now we must contend with the fact that some doses are not the same as others. How do we know we are getting the right medic ine if each batch may be different?


The Associated Press: GlaxoSmithKline pulls swine flu vaccines in Canada: "Pharmaceuticals company GlaxoSmithKline PLC said Tuesday it has advised medical staff in Canada to not use one batch of swine flu vaccines in case they trigger life-threatening allergies.

Company spokeswoman Gwenan White said that they issued the advice after reports that one batch of the swine flu vaccine might have caused more allergic reactions than normal.

'We have advised health care professionals not to use that batch while health authorities and GlaxoSmithKline investigate,' she said.

White said the batch at issue, which has been distributed across Canada, contains 172,000 doses of the vaccine. She declined to say how many doses had been administered before the advice to stop using them was given."

Why some people will say no to the H1N1 vaccine

Why some people will say no to the H1N1 vaccine

Although reports from the state health department indicate that the most recent wave of H1N1-related illnesses may be cresting, no one knows for certain when the H1N1 vaccine will be produced in sufficient quantities to be available to most people. But when it finally does arrive, a recent McClatchy-Ipsos poll suggests, many Americans won't take advantage of the vaccine.

The poll found that 47 percent of Americans reported they weren't "at all likely" or weren't "very likely" to get vaccinated.

Doug Schultz, a spokesperson for the Minnesota Department of Health, says that number's a little higher than some of the poll numbers he's seen, which suggest that 30 to 40 percent of people will say "no thank you" to the H1 N1 vaccine. But he noted that these kinds of polls are often hard to interpret for a variety of reasons, and that it's difficult to predict public demand for a vaccine.

"It really depends on a lot of things: how they perceive the supply, if they perceive that there's going to be a lot of disease or not, and how they perceive their risk," Schultz explained.

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Disbursement for H1N1 vaccines uncertain

It has infected 400 students at San Diego State and Student Health Services asked for 15,000 doses of vaccination for last month. What is this mystery virus stirring up so much controversy and skepticism? The 2009 H1N1 “swine flu.”
Although SDSU has asked for the vaccination, it has received none and no information on exact dates for vaccine disbursement has been provided either to SHS or San Diego County.
The 2009 H1N1 is a new influenza virus causing illness in people worldwide according to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention Web site. It was first detected in the U.S. in April, and by June the World Health Organization labeled it a pandemic. Scientists have called it a “quadruple reassortant virus” because it has two genes from viruses in European and Asian pigs, birds and humans.
To avoid H1N1, people should wash their hands frequently, use alcohol-based hand cleaners, avoid touching their face and most importantly get vaccinated. Natural remedies are not an option and the Federal Trade Commission is skeptical about products that claim to prevent or treat H1N1.
Two versions of the vaccine include the live intra-nasal vaccine, a nose spray and an inactivated virus shot. The vaccine uses a dead or weak virus to stimulate the immune system’s defense against infection. When available, the CDC and SHS is giving vaccine priority to those who are pregnant, living with or caring for children younger than 6 months old, those in the health care field, those between the ages of 6 months and 24 years old and those between the ages of 25 and 64 who are unhealthy.
The federal government purchased 250 million doses early last month and began distributing shots on Oct. 12. According to the CDC the H1N1 vaccines are available, but limited. Availability for states is based on population and amount available at the distribution depots. People are encouraged to contact their health care providers.
Currently the six county public health centers and the one immunization clinic has the nasal spray available on a first come, first served basis for healthy people between ages 2 and 24 that are not pregnant according to the San Diego County Web site.
“We are waiting for the state to open up and allow us to order additional vaccine for the month of November,” spokesperson for the San Diego County Health and Human Services Holly Crawford said. “Currently private providers are continuing to receive vaccine from the October order.”
According to SDSU Medical Director Gregg A. Lichtenstein M.D. M.B.A., California only received 45 percent of the 411,000 H1N1 vaccine doses it was supposed to receive for October. The next disbursement may be delayed because the San Diego County Department of Public Health accidentally received 78,000 doses. At the end of last month, almost all of the vaccine shots were gone and the sites that had shots, were reserved to treat pregnant women. There were 3,000 nasal doses throughout all San Diego public health centers. The county CHP could not say when SDSU would receive a large amount of the vaccine, so the hopeful plan of a mass immunization is on hold, according to Lichtenstein.

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"It has infected 400 students at San Diego State and Student Health Services asked for 15,000 doses of vaccination for last month. What is this mystery virus stirring up so much controversy and skepticism? The 2009 H1N1 “swine flu.” Although SDSU has asked for the vaccination, it has received none and no information on exact dates for vaccine disbursement has been provided either to SHS or San Diego County. The 2009 H1N1 is a new influenza virus causing illness in people worldwide according to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention Web site. It was first detected in the U.S. in April, and by June the World Health Organization labeled it a pandemic. Scientists have called it a “quadruple reassortant virus” because it has two genes from viruses in European and Asian pigs, birds and humans. To avoid H1N1, people should wash their hands frequently, use alcohol-based hand cleaners, avoid touching their face and most importantly get vaccinated. Natural remedies are not an option and the Federal Trade Commission is skeptical about products that claim to prevent or treat H1N1. Two versions of the vaccine include the live intra-nasal vaccine, a nose spray and an inactivated virus shot. The vaccine uses a dead or weak virus to stimulate the immune system’s defense against infection. When available, the CDC and SHS is giving vaccine priority to those who are pregnant, living with or caring for children younger than 6 months old, those in the health care field, those between the ages of 6 months and 24 years old and those between the ages of 25 and 64 who are unhealthy. The federal government purchased 250 million doses early last month and began distributing shots on Oct. 12. According to the CDC the H1N1 vaccines are available, but limited. Availability for states is based on population and amount available at the distribution depots. People are encouraged to contact their health care providers. Currently the six county public health centers and the one immunization clinic has the nasal spray available on a first come, first served basis for healthy people between ages 2 and 24 that are not pregnant according to the San Diego County Web site. “We are waiting for the state to open up and allow us to order additional vaccine for the month of November,” spokesperson for the San Diego County Health and Human Services Holly Crawford said. “Currently private providers are continuing to receive vaccine from the October order.” According to SDSU Medical Director Gregg A. Lichtenstein M.D. M.B.A., California only received 45 percent of the 411,000 H1N1 vaccine doses it was supposed to receive for October. The next disbursement may be delayed because the San Diego County Department of Public Health accidentally received 78,000 doses. At the end of last month, almost all of the vaccine shots were gone and the sites that had shots, were reserved to treat pregnant women. There were 3,000 nasal doses throughout all San Diego public health centers. The county CHP could not say when SDSU would receive a large amount of the vaccine, so the hopeful plan of a mass immunization is on hold, according to Lichtenstein."
- The Daily Aztec - Disbursement for H1N1 vaccines uncertain (view on Google Sidewiki)

Boy develops Guillain-Barre syndrome after receiving H1N1 swine flu vaccine

These are the reasons I am so fearful of having my children vaccinated. I can only imagine what it must be like to have a flu vaccine which is supposed to help you end up destroying your life.

It's just incredibly sad that people are being messed up like this. I realize as many as 4000 people have died already but I just wonder how many more that is over the regular flu virus each year.

I mean this Guillain-Barre Syndrome is horrible and debilitating and if you can get it from a flu vaccine then why not take your chances with the flu?

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"Guillain-Barre Syndrome"
- Boy develops Guillain-Barre syndrome after receiving H1N1 swine flu vaccine (view on Google Sidewiki)

Miscarriage after H1N1 vaccine - June 2010 Birth Club - BabyCenter

Miscarriage after H1N1 vaccine - June 2010 Birth Club - BabyCenter: "I am so upset. I was so excited to be pregnant after trying for a year. As soon as I found out I was pregnant, I joined this birth club and I was due June 25th. We have two healthy boys with no history of miscarriage. Everything was going great. Last Monday, I got the H1N1 vaccine thimerosal reduced (mercury reduced for pregnant women). On Tuesday morning, I started cramping and on Wednesday I started bleeding heavily. My hcg was 50 on Wednesday and I was almost 6 weeks along so it was low. They still thought that I might be pregnant but on Friday my hcg was down to 22. I am an emotional wreck. I feel like I had a healthy baby and I caused this by getting the H1N1 vaccine. My doctors pushed it. I researched online and there have been many miscarriages after the H1N1 vaccine but they haven't been reported since it is hard to say what caused the miscarriages. I hope that I did not cause this. I wish everyone the best."

Shocking H1N1 Swine Flu Vaccine Miscarriage Stories From Pregnant Women – Tell Your Doctors That Vaccines And Pregnancy Do Not Mix! | ORGANIC HEALTH

Shocking H1N1 Swine Flu Vaccine Miscarriage Stories From Pregnant Women – Tell Your Doctors That Vaccines And Pregnancy Do Not Mix! | ORGANIC HEALTH: "Jo:

I got the flu vaccine (regular not H1N1) at 8 weeks pregnant. Three days later I miscarried. I am not going to get the H1N1.

Regrets:

I got both vaccines on Thursday. I was 9 weeks pregnant. I miscarried on Sunday. I was told by several doctors to get these vaccines. Now I wish I followed my gut feeling and not get them at ALL!

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i work in a hospital like setting and was told ‘the benefits outweigh the risks” 1am i got the vaccine, 3am i started bleeding and craming, 3pm miscarried. you decide

sue:

I had the H1N1 vaccination and 24 hours later had a miscarriage.

Linda Hill:

My daughter in law was 10 weeks pregnant and had the H1N1 vaccine on Friday that night she miscarried.

SoSorry:

I was so ready to get the H1N1 vaccine last week and they were only giving them to pregnant women. I was 6 weeks along and got it and the next day I started cramping and miscarried. I already had two healthy pregnancies and never miscarried or had any problems. My doctors think I am crazy to think it was the H1N1 but if no one looks into this than other women will not know. I am so sorry that I got it.

Connie:

I also received the H1N1 vaccination on October 22nd, 2009 and went into labor on October 25th, at 16 weeks pregnant and we just heard the heartbeat and everything was fine with my pregnancy on October 16th, 2009, then on October 28th my water broke then on October 29th, I delivered a stillborn baby boy, and no one can tell me why…Everyone wants to say it did not come from the shot but I believe it did. My baby was growing at the correct pace and everyone wants to brush off the vaccination. I say if you have the vaccination and suffer a miscarriage if they are able to perform an autopsy have it done.

I also agree something needs to be done and looked more into with this vaccination because most women are being advised it’s just something that happens, but I also had two healthy children normal pregnancies and when I received this vaccination with my third pregnancy, my baby is gone.

sioux falls, south dakota:

I received the H1N1 vaccine on October 16th and started experiencing cramping on the 22nd. I was nearly 17 weeks pregnant and gave birth to a stillborn baby boy on the 23rd. Like many of the other women here, the first thing I suspected was the H1N1 vaccine. I immediately asked a nurse at the hospital if that would have anything to do with it. Without hesitation, she told me “absolutely not.” I had reservations about getting the vaccine, but followed the advice of my long trusted family doctor. In a follow up appointment with my doctor 3 days after I lost my baby, I asked him if the vaccine would have had any adverse effects on my baby. He also said that it was not possible. I don’t believe that my doctor was necessarily lying to me, he was simply following the accepted practices and opinions of his field. I do, however, believe that as a nation, we are being lied to. This vaccine is NOT safe during pregnancy. There has not been enough testing done to determine this and there are far too many “coincidences” for this to be anything but a result of a vaccine that was hastily pushed into production and distribution in an effort to stop widespread panic. I have read so many stories in defense of the vaccine that will talk about how common miscarriages are, but I would challenge you to ask ANY health care professional how common second trimester miscarriages are. My baby was doing perfect developmentally and I had felt him move earlier that day. My heart goes out to all of you out there who have had to go through the same heartache and loss that I have had in the last couple of weeks. There is no reason that any woman or family should have to go through this. Get the word out to all of the pregnant women that you know. I know that if I had heard that women had been losing their babies shortly after they received the vaccine, I would have followed my gut and not gotten it myself. Maybe then Wyatt would have had a chance at life.

Marina Rossi:

I recently got the H1N1 vaccine and miscarried 3 days later. I thought it could have been the vaccine but didnt ask. After finding this site I believe it was the vaccine. Sorry to everyone else out there who has just experienced a miscarriage.

kathy-sd:

I’m from a town of 2000 in SD, there are several women pregnant and we are all due within a few weeks of each other. Four of us got the H1N1 vaccine 2 weeks ago and one by one each of us started to have preterm contractions. We are all due in Nov and Dec so we are further along than most of the people that lost their babies. There is no way you can tell us that our preterm labor was not caused by the H1N1 vaccine. It may look like a “fluke” to some people when these women are scattered all over the country but we are talking about 4 of us in our small community. My heart goes out to all of you that lost your babies.

ashley:

Im not sure but not only myself, i know someone that withing 4 days of getting the shot we both miscarried, i was only 6 weeks and she was 4 months along, not sure if the shot caused it and cant find any other information but i am a little concerned about this coincidence.

Time Machine:

I got a flu shot in pregnancy, developed incredibly strange symptoms immediately (numb hands, feet and mouth, heart palpitations, sudden weakness in my legs, a bright red face), began bleeding and miscarried by 11 weeks. I had no idea there was mercury in most flu shots but once I found out after the fact, I was assured that I’d had the “mercury free” form. As it turned out, the shot wasn’t completely mercury free and, according to the EPA website, it still had 5,000 times the limit for mercury in drinking water– not to mention a list of other toxins (MSG, formaldehyde, etc.).

I’d had no idea the shots were so dirty. I guess I’d been under the impression they were something like sterile water and a dead virus, that’s it.

The strange symptoms– which I’d been told were “just pregnancy” lasted six months. No one could figure out what was wrong with me, why I couldn’t make stairs, why I felt like I’d been shot with novocaine. I learned later from a book by Jane Hightower that these were all symptoms of mercury exposure. I guess I’m one of those susceptible people. No one in my family is getting the H1N1– no one even gets regular flu shots anymore, we all read labels.

If you are a pregnant mother, please do not take the H1N1 swine flu vaccine. Instead, do everything that you can do to avoid public places and make sure to wash your hands more than you usually would. Take extra large doses of immunity building vitamins and research many of the great natural ways for fighting the flu that are out there on the Internet.

The truth is that if you do take the vaccine and then something happens, you will NOT be able to sue anyone (thanks to Congress). You will have to bear all the responsibility yourself. That doctor who kept pushing and pushing it on you will tell you that it could not have been the vaccine and that you probably would have miscarried anyway.

Do you honestly want to inject a vaccine that may contain mercury, formaldehyde, polysorbate 80 (associated with infertility), triton X100 (a strong detergent), phenoxyethanol (antifreeze) and a whole bunch of other toxic ingredients into your system when you know that your baby will absorb it too and has no defenses against most of these things?

In the very short video posted below, you will see one health expert explain to Sean Hannity that not even the swine flu vaccine package insert says that it is safe for pregnant women....."

1000's of people waiting in fairgrounds for swine flu vaccine

Would you stand in a field with 1000's of potentially sick people to get a vaccine?

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"Starting in the wee hours of Saturday morning, thousands of eager people spilled out of the Santa Clara County fairgrounds in a determined effort to receive one of 5,400 doses of the coveted swine flu vaccine. The mass of humanity formed beneath the bright blue arch at the fairgrounds on Tully Road in San Jose and stretched down the sidewalk for half a mile, past Valley Health Center and the McDonald's, around the corner at the Valero gas station and kept extending down Senter Road."There's no way there's enough," said George Reis, who was helping direct traffic. "They keep coming."The free vaccinations at the fairgrounds, and at six smaller health center clinics around Santa Clara County, were the first to be administered at public health clinics in the county. More clinics will follow, including a second one at the fairgrounds next Sunday, as the county receives more vaccine from the state."
- Thousands wait at fairgrounds to get swine flu vaccine - San Jose Mercury News (view on Google Sidewiki)

WHO Says Pandemic Flu on Rise in China, Japan - ABC News

WHO Says Pandemic Flu on Rise in China, Japan - ABC News: "H1N1 swine flu is on the rise in China and Japan after triggering an unusually early start to the winter influenza season in Europe, Central Asia and North America, the World Health Organization said on Friday.

According to the U.N. agency's latest official toll, which is thought to underestimate the total spread of the virus, at least 6,071 people worldwide have died as a result of an H1N1 infection since its discovery earlier this year in Mexico and the United States."

WHO Says Pandemic Flu on Rise in China, Japan - ABC News

WHO Says Pandemic Flu on Rise in China, Japan - ABC News: "H1N1 swine flu is on the rise in China and Japan after triggering an unusually early start to the winter influenza season in Europe, Central Asia and North America, the World Health Organization said on Friday.

According to the U.N. agency's latest official toll, which is thought to underestimate the total spread of the virus, at least 6,071 people worldwide have died as a result of an H1N1 infection since its discovery earlier this year in Mexico and the United States."

H1N1 vaccine clinic next week | The Jamestown Sun | Jamestown, North Dakota

H1N1 vaccine clinic next week | The Jamestown Sun | Jamestown, North Dakota: "Central Valley Health District will be giving H1N1 vaccine to Stutsman and Logan county children ages 6 months through 18 years and household contacts of children under 6 months at a clinic this week.

The clinic will run from 12:30 to 6:30 p.m. Wednesday at Jamestown High School, or until vaccine is gone.

At this clinic both FluMist and injectable vaccine will be given and nurses on staff will determine which vaccine children qualify for. FluMist is for healthy people age 2 years through 49 years.

“Many people have questions about the safety of H1N1 vaccine and especially FluMist because FluMist is a live virus,” said Robin Iszler, administrator at Central Valley Health District. “FluMist does contain live virus, however, the viruses are weakened and cannot cause flu illness. Both FluMist and in-jectable 2009 H1N1 vaccine are made the same way as seasonal vaccine and are safe.”"

Flu shots for Wall Street stirs ire in New York | U.S. | Reuters

Flu shots for Wall Street stirs ire in New York | U.S. | Reuters: "NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York City health officials scrambled to explain themselves on Thursday in the wake of media reports about bankers who got scarce H1N1 flu vaccines through their employers.

Members of Congress fired off letters demanding immediate explanations and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reminded state and city health officers of the need to make sure the most vulnerable people get shots first.

'I am concerned that the distribution of the vaccine is resulting in favored treatment for the privileged,' New Jersey Democratic Representative Frank Pallone said.

A shortage of H1N1 vaccines has frayed nerves, and public health departments across the country say they will not be able to meet the bulk of the demand until December or January.

The CDC estimates swine flu has infected more than five million people and it is documented as having killed 1,000."

Pet cat in U.S. catches swine flu

So now we have a cat with the swine flu. Lets hope it does not eat a bird and catch bird flu or maybe a little mad cow disease or we'll have a horrible farmville pandemic

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"A cat in Iowa has tested positive for H1N1 swine flu, the first time a cat has been diagnosed with the new pandemic strain, the American Veterinary Medical Association said on Wednesday. The 13-year-old cat apparently caught the virus from one of the people living in the house, the group said in a statement. It has recovered and does not appear to have infected anyone or anything else. Pigs are the original source of the H1N1 virus and it has been found in several herds, as well as in a pet ferret. Ferrets are especially susceptible to human influenza viruses."
- Pet cat in U.S. catches swine flu | Health | Reuters (view on Google Sidewiki)

Health Officials Frustrated by H1N1 Vaccine Shortage

Are you as frustrated as these people?

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- Health Officials Frustrated by H1N1 Vaccine Shortage - WSJ.com (view on Google Sidewiki)