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Teresa Binstock
Researcher in Developmental & Behavioral Neuroanatomy
August 09, 2009
Once again, a specter of flu haunts the media. Messages are conflicted. News media repeatedly mention that the H1N1 flu is
generally mild, even as we are told to fear the H1N1 swine flu.
Irony abounds. Often, flu vaccines in prior flu seasons have been found to be ineffective because that season's
vaccine strain was not identical to the wild-type strain that became widespread, yet recent media reports tell us
that an H1N1 vaccine will be effective even if H1N1 mutates into a
different strain.
The Lancet - a peer-reviewed medical journal - recently editorialized
on behalf of
caution in regard to fast-tracking mass vaccinations (1). After free
registration, the essay can be viewed online. Oddly, The Lancet
editorial mentions vaccine adjuvants but does not dwell upon their
documented side-effects. Indeed, several vaccine
ingredients merit concern, including mercury, aluminum, live viruses,
and squalene.
For instance, despite assurances that thimerosal injections do no
harm, an increasing body of peer-reviewed evidence describes adverse
effects of vaccinal thimerosal (eg, 2). Aluminum is associated with
neurodegeneration (eg, 3), and the adjuvant squalene is associated with
arthritic pathologies and with Gulf War Syndrome (4-6).
Questions need be answered. Why is there a mass vaccination
program with vaccines untested for
safety when H1N1 swine flu cases are generally mild? Why a massive
anti-H1N1 vaccination program when the rapidly
developed H1N1 vaccine may not be effective against a mutated strain,
when various H1N1 vaccine ingredients have a record of toxicity and adverse
effects?
I am saddened by a possibility: Is the
creating of chronic pathologies by means of vaccination an unstated
intention of pharmaceutical companies and their eager servants in the
FDA and CDC? Alternatively, has vaccinology become dominated by True Believers who shun findings of adverse effects?
Conclusion & recommendation: This brief essay calls attention to
ironies in the so-called "H1N1 pandemic" and amid hoopla urging mass
vaccination without real testing for safety. Via several online
essays (4-5) and a well written, thoroughly citationed book (4b),
individuals who may be subjected to untested vaccines are encouraged to
read more about squalene and other adjuvants which hyper-stimulate
immunity and have a track record of adverse effects.
References:
1. Supply and safety issues surrounding an H1N1 vaccine
Lancet. 2009 Aug 1;374(9687):358.
http://download.thelancet.com/pdfs/journals/lancet/PIIS0140673609613957.pdf
2. Hepatitis B triple series vaccine and developmental disability in US children aged 1-9 years
Carolyn Gallagher ; Melody Goodman
Stony Brook University Medical Center
Toxicol Environ Chem 2008 90(5):997-1008.
{free online}
http://fourteenstudies.org/pdf/hep_b.pdf
This study investigated the association between vaccination with the
Hepatitis B triple series vaccine prior to 2000 and developmental
disability in children aged 1-9 years (n = 1824), proxied by parental
report that their child receives early intervention or special
education services (EIS). National Health and Nutrition Examination
Survey 1999-2000 data were analyzed and adjusted for survey design by
Taylor Linearization using SAS version 9.1 software, with SAS callable
SUDAAN version 9.0.1. The odds of receiving EIS were approximately nine
times as great for vaccinated boys (n = 46) as for unvaccinated boys (n
= 7), after adjustment for confounders. This study found statistically
significant evidence to suggest that boys in United States who were
vaccinated with the triple series Hepatitis B vaccine, during the time
period in which vaccines were manufactured with thimerosal, were more
susceptible to developmental disability than were unvaccinated boys.
3. Effects of aluminum on the nervous system and its possible link with neurodegenerative diseases
Kawahara M.
J Alzheimers Dis. 2005 Nov;8(2):171-82.
Aluminum is environmentally abundant, but not an essential element.
Aluminum has been associated with several neurodegenerative diseases,
such as dialysis encephalopathy, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and
Parkinsonism dementia in the Kii peninsula and Guam, and in particular,
Alzheimer's disease. Although this association remains controversial,
there is increasing evidence which suggests the implication of metal
homeostasis in the pathogenesis of Alzheimer's disease. Aluminum, zinc,
copper, and iron cause the conformational changes of Alzheimer's
amyloid-beta protein. Al causes the accumulation of tau protein and
amyloid-beta protein in experimental animals. Aluminum induces neuronal
apoptosis in vivo as well as in vitro. Furthermore, a relationship
between aluminum and the iron-homeostasis or calcium-homeostasis has
been suggested. Based on these findings, the characteristics of
aluminum neurotoxicity are reviewed, and the potential link between
aluminum and neurodegenerative diseases is reconsidered.
4. Excellent source materials:
4a. Squalene: The Swine Flu Vaccine’s Dirty Little Secret Exposed
by Joseph Mercola, D.O.
http://tinyurl.com/lh57v8
4b. Extensive documentation about squalene's adverse effects in:
Vaccine A: The Covert Government Experiment That's Killing Our
Soldiers--And Why GI's Are Only The First Victims
Gary Matsumoto; 2004, Basic Books.
Bookfinder for used copies of Vaccine A:
http://tinyurl.com/m46n33
Amazon:
http://www.amazon.com/Vaccine-Government-Experiment-Killing-Soldiers/dp/046504400X
B&N
http://search.barnesandnoble.com/Vaccine-A/Gary-Matsumoto/e/9780465044009
5a. Adverse effects of adjuvants in vacines
by Viera Scheibner, Ph.D.
http://www.whale.to/vaccine/adjuvants.html
5b. Adjuvant Index
http://www.vaclib.org/basic/adjuvants.htm
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