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Contaminated vacines
[info]podinoldtown wrote:
Sunday, 12 April 2009 at 01:19 am (UTC)
Why are children being affected now?

Less than a month ago Baxters sent ordinary flu' vaccine to 18 outlets in Europe which was contaminated with live bird flu virus. Luckily, a laboraory in the Czech Republic tested it and rang alarm bells when the test subjects (ferrets) died. http://www.torontosun.com/news/canada/2009/02/27/8560781.html

Maybe they have finally suceeded in passing on the virus in a way that will start a pandemic by placing the live virus in vacines for children.

Scary stuff.

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Re: Contaminated vacines
[info]burgergak wrote:
Tuesday, 14 April 2009 at 08:41 pm (UTC)
Where is this article does it say that vaccines were contaminated.
I only see mention of research material being contaminated.
This is the kind of hype and hysteria that feeds this whole thing.
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Re: Contaminated vacines
[info]podinoldtown wrote:
Wednesday, 15 April 2009 at 02:54 am (UTC)
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/poland/2235676/Homeless-people-die-after-bird-flu-vaccine-trial-in-Poland.html

These were only trials too.....and we only have Baxters word that the contaminated batches were research materials.

You have to ask the question....."Why would they want to contaminate research material with live bird flu?"All the experts agree that the one surefire way to allow H5N1 to mutate into an airborne virus is by using live hosts and mixing it with ordinary flu vacine.

I am not hysterical, just aware.
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Re: Contaminated vacines
[info]osuredleg wrote:
Wednesday, 15 April 2009 at 03:30 pm (UTC)
There are plenty of articles within the mainstream (and other) media about the Polish "volunteers" who were givena strain of avian flu that died, and now many of those "doctors"/scientists involded are being tried for homicide. The Russian/Eastern European people are balking at taking most vaccines now due to the "gross negligence" (I'm being kind) of Baxter and other Big Pharma companies. My wife and I just had a little boy less than two months ago, and I'll be damned if I allow him to be vaccinated with any of that "stuff". I got enough chemicals/antigens pushed into my system when I was in the military and in the Gulf War, and I will die before I knowingly allow these bastards to poison my children any more!
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Get Pandemic Ready!
[info]readymom wrote:
Sunday, 12 April 2009 at 02:37 am (UTC)
For more information on home preparation for a pandemic event, please www.GetPandemicReady.org.

This website was created by members of a grassroots, volunteer organization comprised of a group of concerned citizens committed to personal preparation and community resiliency as the foundation for getting though a pandemic. Members of the team used their own experiences and extensive research to gather practical and time-efficient advice to help families prepare for a pandemic.

Topics include: Water, Food, Hygiene, Emergency Basics, Comfort, Staying Healthy, Safety, Special Concerns (the Elderly & Special Populations, College Students), Infants & Toddlers and Treating the Flu.

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more scare tactics...
[info]tommytcg wrote:
Sunday, 12 April 2009 at 04:25 am (UTC)
to sell toxic useless vaccines. Please somebody from Big Pharma, instead of coming on and insulting me, give the readers one single scirntific study reference that shows safety of any vaccine preservative, ie mercury, aspartame, msg, fluoride or aluminium, in the newly developing brain or immune system. The onus is on YOU to prove safety, not on me to prove toxicity.
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Re: more scare tactics...
[info]ooglymooglymoo wrote:
Wednesday, 15 April 2009 at 07:13 pm (UTC)
You must be fun to live with! Sheeshh.
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Re: more scare tactics...
[info]fairflight wrote:
Thursday, 16 April 2009 at 05:54 am (UTC)
You would not make a comment like this if you were informed! I would look into Vaccines and get both sides! I believe you will come to understand that they are killing our health as a society! Check back once you have some education on this subject...for your own sake and those you love!
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Necessary yet unforutnate
[info]living_fossil wrote:
Sunday, 12 April 2009 at 10:21 am (UTC)
This is just evolution. Those the virus kills will know nothing once they are dead. Yet they will reduce the massive over-population crisis. If I die why should I worry? I won't be missed except by a few who'll battle on regardless to their own invitable demise. This obsession with avoiding death is unnatural and unhealthy. Surely more efforts should be put into enjoying our finite lives than worrying about the universal expiry date? Taking simple precautions like having a few binliners is more sensible than stocking up like it'll be the end of the world. Come the day you'll have immunity or you won't; just roll the dice.
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Re: Necessary yet unforutnate
[info]life29_good wrote:
Sunday, 12 April 2009 at 01:26 pm (UTC)
I agree, in a way, with living_fossil in that yes, nature does have her way of correcting herself and in this case it's us humans. Because of overpopulation and our ability to corrupt our environment nature will take matters into her own hands and depopulate us so that the ecosystem can become less polluted. However, because it takes nature a very long time (hundreds, thousands, and even millions of years) to get anything accomplished I do believe there may be human forces at work bent on depopulating the planet for their own greedy agenda. With a less populated, one world government it's easier to control the masses and achieve more power for themselves; ever hear of the Bilderberg Group? ever wonder what their up to and why Baxter was able to ship out "vaccines" that contained regular flu and H5N1 virus to 18 different countries, and then not even own up completely to what they did? Some things make you go hmmm.. Yes we will all die one day but I would like to go when God says it's time for me to die, not when some power greedy jerk decides it. God help us all in America and around the world.
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The government is to take the blame
[info]chadi_salim wrote:
Sunday, 12 April 2009 at 05:43 pm (UTC)
More cases are reported in children as opposed to adult could be attributed to the less vigilance & less awarnessness among Egyption children, who regularaly come into contct with birds, & who take no measure to take jabs or disinfect when the diesase is contracted.

After all, this is the parents' responsibility & ultimately the government who should meaures into place to takle such eventuality & therefore, the government finds itself in the fame soley takes the blame for such avoidable event.
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More fear spreading
[info]quadhealer wrote:
Sunday, 12 April 2009 at 10:23 pm (UTC)
Bird flu is man made to reduce the worlds population, they spread it in vacines and chemtrails, but so far they have not been able to make it spread. Please do not go into fear - however don't go into denial either. Last time they blew it out of proportions in the news - yet they did not succeed, and it went away as fast as it got here.

Peace!
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H5N1
[info]ektravis wrote:
Monday, 13 April 2009 at 03:56 am (UTC)
It is a proven microbiological proncipal: the more passages through different species (eggs, mice,rats, guinea oigs, hamsters, etc., the less infective for the original host.
I was doing such experiments as a college student as a learning model in the early 1950s. It is the principal that all vaccines are based upon.
Eugene M. Kravis, DVM.
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Re: H5N1
[info]thetitssayso wrote:
Friday, 17 April 2009 at 10:19 pm (UTC)
Did you just call an egg a species?
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bird flu in the US
[info]punkhippydude wrote:
Monday, 13 April 2009 at 07:30 am (UTC)
Emergency!!Important !!!

Check out That Audio !!!

Bird Flu on the Move !!!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kXPYk4P5EAQ&feature=channel_page


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bird flu in the US
[info]punkhippydude wrote:
Monday, 13 April 2009 at 07:34 am (UTC)
Emergency!!Important !!!

Check out That Audio !!!

Bird Flu on the Move !!!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kXPYk4P5EAQ&feature=channel_page

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Interesting experiments...
[info]solipsistident wrote:
Monday, 13 April 2009 at 04:20 pm (UTC)
We have been pumping so much CO2 in the atmosphere, that we actually are doing a huge favour to any pathogen lurking in some dirty soil or in the bloodstream of a bird.

We are in the proces of boosting evolution by rising the CO2 to levels that are typical of eras with major biological activity. Raise global temperatures a bit, and we are in for wave after wave with bacteria and virusses wiping out entire populations.

Some will find that a good thing; fighting over-population is to some a healthy cause.

I'd rather avoid the insanity that will necessarily accompany such dramatic events.
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USA Next
[info]bluerinseblues wrote:
Monday, 13 April 2009 at 05:39 pm (UTC)
I advice you take time out to watch this video ................. Is there any truth in this .......... I will let you judge that for yourselves.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZG4-i7eR-_w&feature=channel_page

I thought you should watch this video, very alarming if there is an ounce of truth in this!
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simple mathematics
[info]rmj1 wrote:
Monday, 13 April 2009 at 06:43 pm (UTC)
It is hard to imagine what is going through the heads of the people writing these things. Luckily judging by some of the comments not everyone is falling for it, but is anyone actually looking at the figures that are mentioned in these kind of scaremongering articles? Bird flu has killed hardly any people so far in comparison to other diseases, and how many years is it now that we have been hearing about it? To talk about 11 people in Egypt being infected and this being a possible early sign of a pandemic is just absurd. Does the author know the definition of pandemic? Also, the last sentence is a giveaway as to the author's lack of thought about what he is actually writing. 5% of the entire world's population is less than 350 million. Are we seriously expected to believe the entire world's population is at risk from something that has over the past few years killed only a handful of people worldwide? Can the journalists who write this nonsense please wake up and get in the real world and write about something important?
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Re: simple mathematics
[info]living_fossil wrote:
Monday, 13 April 2009 at 07:57 pm (UTC)
I concur. It is much more likely that HIV weakend folks will combine avian influenza with TB in Africa to produce a mass killer virus. This is not given a fraction of the publicity yet presents a much greater risk. Indeed it could kill 95% of the worlds population, but perhaps denial is the best option when thinking about that?
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Re: simple mathematics
[info]polyglot25 wrote:
Tuesday, 14 April 2009 at 07:37 am (UTC)
TB is caused by a bacterium, not a virus. Talking up the dangers ahead is all very well, but let's not start spouting mumbo-jumbo pseudoscience. Bacteria do not and cannot "combine with" viruses to produce "superviruses". I worry about H5N1 too but this is patent nonsense!
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Re: simple mathematics
[info]living_fossil wrote:
Tuesday, 14 April 2009 at 07:46 am (UTC)
Wrong way round. Sorry. A terrible blunder. What does it matter when we're dead?
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Re: simple mathematics
[info]thetitssayso wrote:
Friday, 17 April 2009 at 10:33 pm (UTC)
I understand what I think your meaning was! People whose immune system is already compromised/weakened such as the HIV infected, the undernourished, old people, small children and infants.. will have a harder time responding effectively to the additional demands of a Bird Flu infection.

Ooohh! The original article pointed out that most of the recent infections were in children aged under three years old, and living in the third world! So, no surprise there. Best defence against bird flu is not a vaccine, its helping your own body to restore its own immune system. That means take steps to improve your own health by doing things like eating the right amounts of proper food, sleeping enough, exercising enough, avoiding poisons etc etc etc. Your mother probably could tell you. Well mine could. The folks in the third world are a bit stuffed though.. less opportunities for better living if you are poor.
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Quack Quack
[info]c777 wrote:
Tuesday, 14 April 2009 at 11:59 am (UTC)
Sorry im not frightened.
Bring out your dead ring ! ding !
Bring out your dead ring ! ding !
Mind you how embarrising to have a big red cross painted on your front door.
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[info]taxidriver1 wrote:
Tuesday, 14 April 2009 at 07:20 pm (UTC)
next thing i will be told that the goverment are out to get everyone ....
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[info]fightthenwo wrote:
Wednesday, 15 April 2009 at 04:21 pm (UTC)
pretty much...
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possible pandemic?
[info]misterwax wrote:
Tuesday, 14 April 2009 at 10:48 pm (UTC)
Well if evolution yields a more easily transmittable virus, that does in fact kill hundreds of millions of folks around the world, then we would collectively reduce our carbon footprint....so Al Gore and Obama would say this is the kind of evolutionary change we needed....right? since it is evolution and not religion doing the killing, it's OK!!!
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bird flu
[info]supernatty wrote:
Tuesday, 14 April 2009 at 11:35 pm (UTC)
Very interesting especially when you consider a news article I read several months ago. The news article which received very little US attention stated that the Bird Flu virus was found in a huge shipment of childhood vaccines at a testing center before final shipment.
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Good English
[info]martinhanson wrote:
Tuesday, 14 April 2009 at 11:41 pm (UTC)
I wish journalists would learn the meaning of 'epicentre'. The epicentre of an earthquake is that point on the earth's surface that is directly above the quake ( 'epi' means 'on top of'). I have even come across a journalist referring to the 'epicentre' at Hiroshima; the correct term is, of course 'hypocentre', which is the point on the ground below the explosion (which was about 2000 feet above ground.
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Yeah again?
[info]ancientoneuk wrote:
Wednesday, 15 April 2009 at 01:13 am (UTC)
What are we supposed to be averting our gaze from this time?

I am rather sceptical of this "pandemic" jumping from birds to humans in such a way, although there is evidence that certain militaries including our own Porton Down have worked extensively with this virus.

I would still like to know the real reasons why Blair let the US Military violate British graves in search of a live strain of the virus that hit Europe then, what reason do Porton Down and the Pentagon have to do this?

Why did Indonesia state they were ejecting the US Military and its secret laboratories because it suspected that the US Military were using their pathogens on the Indonesians including as stated by one minister spreading bird flu, this has never been answered either.

To date a very tiny proportion of the world population have succumbed to this virus in its native form and every time a case appears, there is widespread panic spread by the governments, hell more people have died in the last few years of Scurvy than bird flu, something just does not add up.

I am reminded of the fact that Henry Kissinger is very much active, the man that first advocated a major cull of the worlds population "by force if need be", this whole thing stinks... and I didn't even mention the neo-cons connections to the company that owns Tamilflu either... oops
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Bird Flu and Children.
[info]jackolantyrn356 wrote:
Wednesday, 15 April 2009 at 05:58 am (UTC)
An Unusual Out Break of Bird Flu??? Sounds like a case of something from the Eugenics lab. they were trying out. As you know, Algore and "W" and a bunch more including harry Reid and Barney Frank and Ms. Pelosi her self all believe in reducing the population to 250 million on the Earth. You must also rememebr that this was the belief of Hitler.
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Codename?
[info]ibrewit wrote:
Wednesday, 15 April 2009 at 01:49 pm (UTC)
It's not "code named" H5N1 -- that's a scientific designation for the virus.
As in, Hemagluttinin type 5 (H5), Neuraminidase Type 1 (N1), thus H5N1.

Most of the flu circulation (aka seasonal flu) is H3N2, and that's what most people have antibodies present in their body to protect against. When you get vaccinated, or suffer the flu, your immune system produces antibodies to guard against future infections.
The problem with flu is that is mutates so quickly that one vaccine isn't enough -- you have to get the new vaccine each year to guard against the new flu types.

This article is making a salacious error by saying the flu is code named like some kind of government secret or a weapon. Seriously. I won't bother commenting on the hysteria-inducing writing style...
The content is accurate but the article is clearly written with the tone of "Panic!".
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Baxter corporation sent out bird flu!!
[info]gabeh73 wrote:
Wednesday, 15 April 2009 at 01:53 pm (UTC)
http://www.lifegen.de/newsip/shownews.php4?getnews=2009-02-25-5123


http://www.jasongooljar.com/?p=2746


how can this story be ignored!??
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Live Bird Flu mixed with Flu Shot by Baxter
[info]fightthenwo wrote:
Wednesday, 15 April 2009 at 02:53 pm (UTC)
Interesting that this story has been buried by the media. http://www.torontosun.com/news/canada/2009/02/27/8560781.html

I see no coincidence this is happening. Wake up people. Mainstream news reports the eugenicists' plans to reduce the British population by one half:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article5950442.ece

I suggest these films:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eAaQNACwaLw

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rO3PIBjR59s
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJoIbPkRvig
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Plagues of Egypt
[info]rebeccatotilo wrote:
Wednesday, 15 April 2009 at 03:42 pm (UTC)
This seems too coincidental for me to ignore. The rising pandemic of bird flu affecting children under the age of 3 (only) sounds like the last plague of Egypt from the old testament, killing the first-born male in every household. The Israelites were protected from this by applying the blood of a lamb using a hyssop branch. Could it be the essential oils released from the hyssop branch that protected them from ancient times could protect us now?

Rebecca Totilo
http://www.HealWithOil.com
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Re: Plagues of Egypt
[info]kylecoyote wrote:
Wednesday, 15 April 2009 at 05:45 pm (UTC)
Rebecca....You may be right on target. And in Revelation it also says that 1/3 of the earth's population will be killed as part of the final tribulation period...so this may not be a Human endeavour. God may be as fed up with us as he was is Noah's day. Ya think?
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Posssible Cure for Bird Flu
[info]mikego54 wrote:
Wednesday, 15 April 2009 at 09:53 pm (UTC)
www.mmsmiracle.com/liquidmiracle

MMS is a Water Purifier that has cured Malaria in 4 hours.
Also google Hydrogen Peroxide Therapy. It helped stop the Spanish Flu in 1920. That flu killed around 50 million worldwide.
You can drink peroxide in water or use inhaler to inhale into your lungs. Please people do your research before it is too late.
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[info]peterwarrender wrote:
Monday, 20 April 2009 at 09:56 am (UTC)
Why did US scientists exhume frozen bodies of people who had died of the Spanish Flu, which killed 20 million plus in WW1. From the graves in the frozen tundra of Alaska. Was it as they said "to make a vaccine against the long gone Spanish Flu" or did they have a more sinister motive .... Bird Flu perhaps?
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