Plan to vaccinate UK population against swine flu
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Health chiefs are preparing to vaccinate the entire population against swine flu, it emerged today.
In what would be the biggest vaccination programme of the last 50 years, experts are already drawing up a priority list of patients to be given immunity before the bug becomes more virulent.
It comes after the first British patient without underlying health problems died after contracting swine flu, taking the number of swine flu-linked deaths in the UK to 15.
Peter Holden, the British Medical Association's lead negotiator on swine flu, told The Sunday Times: "The high risk groups will be done at GPs' surgeries.
"People are still making decisions over this, but we want to get cracking before we get a second wave, which is traditionally far more virulent."
He added: "If the virus does (mutate), it can get a lot more nasty, and the idea is to give people immunity.
"But the sheer logistics of dealing with 60 million people can't be underestimated."
The latest swine flu-linked death happened at Basildon and Thurrock University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, NHS East of England.
Chief Medical Officer Sir Liam Donaldson warned yesterday that other healthy people were at risk of dying from the disease.
He said: "As with all flu-like viruses, some people are at higher risk than others. Unfortunately, people who are otherwise healthy could also become seriously ill or, sadly, die."
But Sir Liam added: "Fortunately, this particular new virus isn't nearly as severe as it could have been.
"If it had, for example, come out of the bird flu variant it would have been producing much higher levels of mortality."
Yesterday holidaymakers were advised to check their travel insurance and keep in touch with tour operators as the bug sweeps across the UK.
With school terms ending and summer breaks approaching, people who contract the virus should take the advice of their doctors about whether to stay at home, according to travel association Abta.
Abta spokeswoman Frances Tuke said: "We have had calls about this with regard to insurance - apparently some insurers are placing exemptions on policies.
"If you need to cancel because of swine flu you need to check your travel insurance policy to ensure it is covered."
Nearly 10,000 Britons have gone down with swine flu after it spread to the UK from Mexico.
The UK has the third highest case total in the world after Mexico, with 10,262, and the US, which has at least 33,902.
:: The NHS advises anyone who thinks they might have flu to check their symptoms on http://www.nhs.uk or call the swine flu information line on 0800 1 513 513.
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Journalist files charges of bioterrorism
'...In her April charges, she noted that Baxter's lab in Austria, one of the supposedly most secure biosecurity labs in the world, did not adhere to the most basic and essential steps to keep 72 kilos of a pathogen classified as a bioweapon secure and separate from all other substances under stringent biosecurity level regulations, but it allowed it to be mixed with the ordinary human flu virus and sent from its facilities in Orth in the Donau.'
This is nothing to do with health, or preventing deaths - this is all about the money.
There's already a cure for swine flu. Stay at home, watch shitty science fiction, drink plenty of fluids and stay in bed. If you start getting any symptoms that are worse than bog standard influenza, call your doctor for a home visit and let them decide whether hospital treatment is a good idea.
Voila! Nobody else gets infected, hospitals and GPs don't get overloaded, you get a few days off work. Everyone's a winner.
What they are hiding from you though right now, is that in America where they have given Tamilflu to whole communities, that people are dying, especially young people from the serious and nasty side effects from Tamilflu, go check with the Japanese who have outlawed Tamilflu being given to anyone under the age of 18 and those of 18-24 if there is no alternative because the Japanese health ministry noticed people were DYING from Tamilflu and not the influenza strain it was given to combat.
And to think that recently, the London Nautical School in Waterloo just forced the whole school to take a course a few weeks back, this is happening because Roche have bought government people using their links in the neo-cons and are successfully suppressing stories about Tamilflu's nastiness. They win both ways, if a kid dies then its the nasty flu, thus increasing demand, if they don't die then that proves its effectiveness...
http://www.naturalnews.com/026503_pande
but it sells the shots, i guess... and someone is going to be very happy about that!