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H1N1 flu vaccine arrives

Full story: Eureka Times Standard

On the heels of laying out its plans for the school-based distribution of the H1N1 vaccine to children, set to begin early next week, public health officials on Thursday announced a third local death from H1N1 had occurred earlier in the morning - a woman in her 50s with no underlying health conditions that would have contributed to her death.

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Oct 30, 2009
 
"The vaccine is safe" LOLOLOL. It's NEW. For all anyone knows it'll do more harm than good.

Hope the parents are having fun using their little snowflakes as guinea pigs!!!

/Swine flu is fake.
//That is all.
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Oct 30, 2009
 
My child will not be receiving the vaccine. This is a decision I based upon my own child's health. He is a healthy teenager and does not have any high risk conditions. I do not believe that the risks of giving him a virtually untested vaccine outweigh the risks of him having complications from the H1N1 virus. The immunity received from actually having the virus will last him a lifetime. A version of the H1N1 virus circulated in the 1950's. This is what many are attributing to the fact that seniors do not seem to be having the life threatening complications associated with H1N1 virus. Many Seniors have shown to have some immunity to the new H1N1. I believe that this virus will mutate into a more serious virus and individuals that have actually had the H1N1 will have some immunity.

That said my daughter, who does have high risk factors, will be receiving the vaccine. Again we weighed the risks. Her risk of complications from getting H1N1 was more then we thought the risks of getting the vaccine.

I believe that the choice of getting the vaccine should be an individual decision based upon their own beliefs.
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#3
Oct 30, 2009
 
40 million people were vaccinated for H1N1 in 1976 after an Army recruit died and several other recruits became ill at Fort Dix, NJ. This may be another reason this flu is said to harder on the young.
Speed Kills

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Oct 30, 2009
 
I'm not afraid of no stinking Swine Flu! I'll put d Swine Flu in a big balloon that looks like a flying saucer and deport it.
My 2 Cents

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#5
Oct 30, 2009
 
Wait a second...70,000 Humboldt county residents are determined to be at high risk for contracting or suffering complications for the virus (last paragraph of the story). Aren't there only about 110,000 people in the whole county? Is the proportion of unhealthy people in the county really that high?
Note: I'm not against the vaccine and if it's available to me before I've actually gotten the flu, I'll likely get it. I've had them in the past and found the results effective. It's just those numbers don't seem to add up.
what next

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#6
Oct 30, 2009
 
Drink more Kool-Aid folks and line up for the government vaccine.  Kind of like the "global warming" sheeple. Oh, I forgot. It's not global warming anymore. It's "climate change." haha
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Oct 30, 2009
 
Parent,

Since you want to "opt out", I say that's great. Let's enter your kids name in a data base and if your kid gets sick YOU and/or YOUR insurance pay the total cost, with NO government help. And if your kid gets sick and infects other people, you pay their medical costs. You accepting responsibility for your actions sure sounds like a great idea to me, yep!

My 2 Cents,

If you add up the young, the old, the alcoholics/druggies and aids people the numbers add up.
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Oct 30, 2009
 
Middle-o-the-road wrote:
Parent,
Since you want to "opt out", I say that's great. Let's enter your kids name in a data base and if your kid gets sick YOU and/or YOUR insurance pay the total cost, with NO government help. And if your kid gets sick and infects other people, you pay their medical costs. You accepting responsibility for your actions sure sounds like a great idea to me, yep!
My 2 Cents,
If you add up the young, the old, the alcoholics/druggies and aids people the numbers add up.
How is he going to infect others if the others have received their vaccine, assuming that everyone that wants vaccinated is vaccinated??? That would only leave us that chose not be vaccinated. If everyone that wants to be vaccinated is not, due to the limited supply, then I feel that my son not getting his shot is actually saving it for someone with a higher risk that might not otherwise get it.

If my child does get sick I will pay for it without government help. I have never been on a government program, no free or reduced lunches, no medical, no welfare etc...I am not saying that these programs are wrong, I have just always chose not to participate in the programs, even when I did qualify. If I got injured or sick and didn't have insurance, I paid for the bills. Maybe only $10 at a time but I paid for them.

“I'm aged like a fine wine.”

Since: Sep 09

Eureka, Calf.

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Oct 30, 2009
 
Middle-o-the-road wrote:
If you add up the young, the old, the alcoholics/druggies and aids people the numbers add up.
Let Mother Nature and Darwin do the work.
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#10
Oct 31, 2009
 
Known Vaccine Contents:
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Novartis Focetria Adjuvanted H1N1
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Influenza Vaccine Ingredients/Toxicity

Polysorbate 80: Sterilie Agent

Potassium Chloride: Neurotoxin

Squalene: Neurotoxin

Thimerosal: Neurotoxin
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Novartis H1N1 Monovalent Influenza Vaccine Ingredients/Toxicity
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Beta-Propiolactone: Carcinogen

Polymyxin: Neurotoxin

Neomycin: Immunotoxin

Thimerosal: Neurotoxin
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GlaxoSmithKline Arepanrix Adjuvanted
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H1N1 Influenza Vaccine Ingredients/Toxicity

Formaldehyde: Carcinogen

Polysorbate 80: Sterilie Agent

Sodium Deoxycholate: Immunotoxin

Squalene: Neurotoxin

Thimerosal: Neurotoxin
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GlaxoSmithKline Pandemrix Adjuvanted
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H1N1 Influenza Vaccine Ingredients/Toxicity

Octoxynol 10: Immunotoxin

Polysorbate 80: Sterilie Agent

Potassium Chloride: Neurotoxin

Sodium Deoxycholate: Immunotoxin

Squalene: Neurotoxin

Thimerosal: Neurotoxin
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GlaxoSmithKline Fluarix 2009-2010
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Formula Ingredients/Toxicity

Formaldehyde: Carcinogen

Octoxynol 10: Immunotoxin

Polysorbate 80: Sterilie Agent

Sodium Deoxycholate: Immunotoxin
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Sanofi-Pasteur H1N1 Influenza Vaccine
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Ingredients/Toxicity

Formaldehyde: Carcinogen

Polyethylene Glycol: Systemic Toxin

Thimerosal: Neurotoxin

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MedImmune H1N1 Vaccine Ingredients/Toxicity
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Monosodium Glutamate: Neurotoxin

Gentamicin Sulfate: Nephrotoxin

Monobasic Potassium Phosphate: Immunotoxin
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FLUARIX 2009 Latest Package Insert Ingredients/Toxicity
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Formaldehyde: Carcinogen

Gentamicin Sulfate: Nephrotoxic

Polysorbate 80: Sterilie Agent

Sodium Deoxycholate: Immunotoxin

Thimerosal: Neurotoxin

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CSL PANVAX H1N1 Vaccine Ingredients/Toxicity
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Beta-Propiolactone: Carcinogen

Neomycin: Immunotoxin

Sodium Taurodeoxycholate: Carcinogen/Immunotoxin

Polymyxin: Neurotoxin

Thimerosal: Neurotoxin
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CSL Afluria H1N1 Influenza Vaccine Ingredients/Toxicity
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Beta-Propiolactone: Carcinogen

Neomycin Sulfate: Immunotoxin

Polymyxin B: Neurotoxin

Potassium Chloride: Neurotoxin

Sodium Taurodeoxycholate: Carcinogen/Immunotoxin

Thimerosal: Neurotoxin

Note: An additional CSL H1N1 Vaccine is Undergoing Trials with AS03 Adjuvant which contains Squalene.
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Carson, WA

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Oct 31, 2009
 
Adverse Reactions of Vaccines
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Serious adverse reactions are as follows:

* Pain

* Redness

* Swelling

* Fatigue

* Headaches

* Arthralgia (joint inflammation)

* Myalgia (muscle inflammation)

* Shivering

* Sweating

* Swollen lymph nodes

* Fever

* Vomiting

* Tingling or numbness of the hands or feet

* Shortness of breath

* Vasculitis (inflammation of the blood vessels)

Serious adverse reactions are as follows:

* Blood and lymphatic system disorders (lymphadenopathy)

* Psychiatric disorders (insomnia)

* Nervous system disorders (dizziness, paraesthesia, inflammation of the central nervous system, inflammation of nerves, autoimmune disorders affecting myelin sheaths of nerves such as Guillain-Barré Syndrome)

* Ear and labyrinth disorders (vertigo)

* Respiratory, thoracic and mediastinal disorders (dyspnoea)

* Gastrointestinal disorders (nausea, diarrhea, abdominal pain, vomiting, dyspepsia, stomach discomfort)

* Skin and subcutaneous tissue disorders (pruritus, rash)

* Musculoskeletal and connective tissue disorders (back pain, musculoskeletal stiffness, neck pain, muscle spasms, pain in extremity)

* General disorders and administration site conditions (bruising, asthenia, chest pain, malaise)
My 2 Cents

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#12
Oct 31, 2009
 
If you're going to post this information, which is fine by the way as long as it's factual, you should also point out the relative importance of it. For instance, while you list potassium chloride as a 'neurotoxin', it not only is at such a low concentration in the vaccine as to be unnoticeable, but it quickly dissociates into potassium ions and chloride ions, both of which are essential mineral elements for human metabolism. It's only at very high doses that these become issues.

As for the adverse reactions, you should also point out that the numbers are very low for these, particularly the severe reactions (something like 2 per 100,00?)

I'm guessing that you don't like big pharmaceutical companies and you probably think the whole vaccine thing is a scam. Personally, I've never had trouble with appropriate vaccines, including the flu shots, and the H1N1 isn't anything really new except for the strain. It's not like it's brand new untested technology.

I'm just worried about the microchips their implanting with the injections for tracking our locations.
My 2 Cents

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Oct 31, 2009
 
whoops, that's "they're" not "their" in that last sentence...crappy proofreading and too fast typing on too little morning coffee.:)
My 2 Cents

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Oct 31, 2009
 
Oh, as an afterthought....if you choose to NOT get vaccinated then the only socially moral position to take is to then voluntarily quarantine yourself should you become ill. This means removing yourself from all contact with others (especially the unvaccinated) for a minimum period of 1 week or until 1 day has passed after symptoms disappear. This means no work, no school, no outings, no grocery stores, no nothing until you get better. Are you willing to do that?

I fully support your right to not get vaccinated but I do not support irresponsibility when it comes to knowingly spreading a virus that could be fatal so some individuals.
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Oct 31, 2009
 
You left out-
*Coma
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*Death
onomous wrote:
Adverse Reactions of Vaccines
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Serious adverse reactions are as follows:
* Pain
* Redness
* Swelling
* Fatigue
* Headaches
* Arthralgia (joint inflammation)
* Myalgia (muscle inflammation)
* Shivering
* Sweating
* Swollen lymph nodes
* Fever
* Vomiting
* Tingling or numbness of the hands or feet
* Shortness of breath
* Vasculitis (inflammation of the blood vessels)
Serious adverse reactions are as follows:
* Blood and lymphatic system disorders (lymphadenopathy)
* Psychiatric disorders (insomnia)
* Nervous system disorders (dizziness, paraesthesia, inflammation of the central nervous system, inflammation of nerves, autoimmune disorders affecting myelin sheaths of nerves such as Guillain-Barré Syndrome)
* Ear and labyrinth disorders (vertigo)
* Respiratory, thoracic and mediastinal disorders (dyspnoea)
* Gastrointestinal disorders (nausea, diarrhea, abdominal pain, vomiting, dyspepsia, stomach discomfort)
* Skin and subcutaneous tissue disorders (pruritus, rash)
* Musculoskeletal and connective tissue disorders (back pain, musculoskeletal stiffness, neck pain, muscle spasms, pain in extremity)
* General disorders and administration site conditions (bruising, asthenia, chest pain, malaise)
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Oct 31, 2009
 
My 2 Cents wrote:
Oh, as an afterthought....if you choose to NOT get vaccinated then the only socially moral position to take is to then voluntarily quarantine yourself should you become ill. This means removing yourself from all contact with others (especially the unvaccinated) for a minimum period of 1 week or until 1 day has passed after symptoms disappear. This means no work, no school, no outings, no grocery stores, no nothing until you get better. Are you willing to do that?
I fully support your right to not get vaccinated but I do not support irresponsibility when it comes to knowingly spreading a virus that could be fatal so some individuals.
2 Cents - I totally agree with quarantining yourself in the event a person becomes ill. Not just with H1N1. Anyone that is ill should not be going to work, school etc to spread the illness. It is common courtesy.
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Nov 1, 2009
 
According to the NIH, people with H1N1 are already infectious 24 hours BEFORE they develop symptoms. So you can pass it on before you even know you have it.

Quarantining yourself is OK but don't fool yourself and think by just doing that you can't hurt anyone else.
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Nov 3, 2009
 
Tetrahedron Publishing Group
Health Science Communications for People Around the World

http://www.tetrahedron.org
NEWS RELEASE
Release: No. H1N1-15=6
Date Mailed: April 25, 2009

"H1N1-H5N1 Flu Outbreak Implicates Anglo-American
“Vaccine Pipeline” Says Expert Dr. Leonard Horowitz
Los Angeles, CA— Skyrocketing stock values of Novavax, Inc.,1 precipitated by dozens of flu deaths in Mexico,
implicates a leading Anglo-American network of genetic engineers in a conspiracy to commit genocide, according to a Harvard trained expert in emerging diseases, Dr. Leonard Horowitz.
Dr. James S. Robertson, England’s leading bioengineer of flu viruses for the vaccine industry, and avid promoter of U.S. Government funding for lucrative “biodefense” contracts, along with collaborators at the US Centers for Disease Control & Prevention (CDC), helped Novavax, Inc., in Bethesda, Maryland, produce genetically-modified
recombinants of the avian, swine, and Spanish flu viruses, H5N1 and H1N1, nearly identical to the unprecedented
Mexican virus that has now spread to the United States. The outbreak was precisely timed to promote the company’s new research and huge vaccine stockpiling contracts, according to Dr. Horowitz.2
Scientists at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC) are implicated through collaborations and publications
involving private contracts with Novavax, a company that obtains its “biosimulars” through CDC Influenza
Branch director, Ruben O. Donis, and Dr. Rick Bright, previously working with Donis at the CDC, now Novavax’s Vice President of Global Influenza Programs.
Evidence for the conspiracy to commit deadly duplicity in the vaccine industry includes the genetic markers on the novel flu virus now spreading from Mexico to America. The virus is “genetically different from the fully human H1N1 seasonal influenza virus that has been circulating globally for the past few years,” according to Reuters and government officials.“The new flu virus contains DNA typical to avian, swine and human viruses, including elements from European and Asian swine viruses.”3
“That is a description that is pathognomonic, or diagnostic, of a virus that came from Robertson’s circle of friends,” Dr. Horowitz claims.“No other group in the world takes H5N1 Asian flu infected chickens, brings them to Europe, extracts their DNA, combines their proteins with H1N1 viruses from the 1918 Spanish flu isolate,
additionally mixes in swine flu genes from pigs, then ‘reverse engineers’ them to infect humans. The end product that Reuter’s describes could only end up in Mexico via the United States from Britain in care of the CDC. Ruben Donis at the CDC had to have sent them to Novavax, where Rick Bright’s team is now implicated in a conspiracy to commit genocide—the mass killing of people for profit.”"
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Nov 4, 2009
 
My 2 Cents wrote:
Oh, as an afterthought....if you choose to NOT get vaccinated then the only socially moral position to take is to then voluntarily quarantine yourself should you become ill. This means removing yourself from all contact with others (especially the unvaccinated) for a minimum period of 1 week or until 1 day has passed after symptoms disappear. This means no work, no school, no outings, no grocery stores, no nothing until you get better. Are you willing to do that?
I fully support your right to not get vaccinated but I do not support irresponsibility when it comes to knowingly spreading a virus that could be fatal so some individuals.
Very well said. Thank you for your input. You've expressed my sentiment very well.
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Nov 4, 2009
 
Too Late wrote:
According to the NIH, people with H1N1 are already infectious 24 hours BEFORE they develop symptoms. So you can pass it on before you even know you have it.
Quarantining yourself is OK but don't fool yourself and think by just doing that you can't hurt anyone else.
You can hurt A LOT fewer people tho.
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