The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and the World Health Organization (WHO) deserve tremendous credit for tracking contagious diseases and trying to warn nations to prepare for the coming influenza pandemic. But nations aren't listening. WHO warnings are being ignored. CDC advice isn't being given the attention it deserves. The politicians, essentially, aren't heeding the advice of these organizations. Sure, they're talking preparedness, but they aren't following through with action. They don't realize that it is precisely the CDC, the WHO and other organizations that saved the world from a SARS outbreak in 2001 through vigilance, quick action and a dedication to public health. But we may not be so lucky next time.
You don't have to be a victim
Regardless of what the next outbreak looks like, there will be millions of people whose lives are protected because they are able to get the right herb, the right mineral, the right vitamin, the right strategy for surviving those viral epidemics. Flu shots won't save you. In fact, as you'll see here, flu shots may harm you by weakening your defense against the bird flu. It's a contentious idea, and hotly debated by the medical community. Here's what you need to know:
What some doctors say about flu shots
Talking about everyday flu strains and vaccinations, the Health Sciences Institute says, "Even flu shots can't adequately protect you. New and increasingly dangerous strains of the flu appear each year, circling the globe with astonishing speed. Your only defense is a strong immune system."
Likewise, Dr. Haim Danenberg of Hadassah University Hospital in Jerusalem says, "Subjects who have been given repeated flu vaccines had lower antibody levels against three major strains of flu than those who were not vaccinated. Our studies showed that a decreased immune response to some influenza strains may follow repeated annual vaccinations."
He's saying that if you go out and get vaccinated, you're actually weakening your immune system over the long term. In other words, by getting an annual flu shot, you are making yourself more susceptible to the flu in subsequent years. This may or may not be a factor in a bird flu pandemic, but it's worth noting.
Flu shots create dependence
This is why, to put it bluntly, flu shots create a cascading pattern of dependence. Once you start taking them, you need more and more flu shots for the rest of your life as your immune system gets weaker and weaker.
Phyllis A. Balch, one of the best-known authors on herbs and health, says, "We do not recommend flu shots in general. Their usefulness is questionable and the side effects may be worse than the flu. The best way to get rid of the flu is to attack it head-on by strengthening the immune system."
Flu shots are only 1 percent effective anyway
How effective are flu shots really? Earl Mindell, Ph.D., also one of the best-known authors on nutritional supplements and wellness, says, "The strains of flu that sweep through North America are different every year. The antibody response will only be protective if manufacturers of the vaccine are lucky enough to pick the right flu virus. A study from the Netherlands showed that among two groups of elderly people � one that received flu shots and one that received a placebo � the group receiving the flu shot had only a one percent lower incidence of the flu than the placebo group."
Interesting, isn't it? With all of this hype and propaganda surrounding flu shots, and the evening news telling people to rush out and get a flu shot, and doctors urging people to get shots to save themselves from the flu, it turns out that when it's all held up to some good hard science, flu shots only give you a one percent lower chance of getting the flu after all.
Is all of that trouble and worry really worth a one percent reduction in the risk of getting the flu, especially if it makes you weaker the following year? Is it worth reducing the strength of your immune system and getting jabbed in the arm just for a one percent reduction in the risk of getting the flu? I don't think so.
Now, perhaps things are different with the bird flu. If a bird flu strain is isolated, identified and used to manufacture a bird flu vaccine, it may turn out to be far more effective than one percent. It is impossible to predict what may unfold here. But remember, I'm not at all saying you should avoid bird flu vaccines if, by some logistical miracle, they are made available to you. I'm only suggesting you strongly consider the effectiveness of vaccines in general, then make an informed decision about what's best for your own health.
Flu shots contain toxic heavy metals
Like many things in conventional medicine, flu shots are largely based on junk science combined with a blatant financial motivation by vaccine manufacturers. Heavy marketing (and, some say, engineered shortages) result in heightened vaccine demand in the general public. Yet people are never told what's really found in vaccines.
Flu shots contain mercury. Dr. Russell Blaylock, author of Excitoxins, explains, "Flu vaccines contain 25 units of organic mercury. These vaccinations, which offer little protection against yearly flu virus strains, are heavily promoted by the CDC, Public Health Department and most physicians."
So, along with the useless dose of the flu vaccine and the pain of getting jabbed in the arm with a needle, you also get, as a bonus, organic mercury, which is a heavy metal linked to neurological disorders such as Alzheimer's disease. It's just one extra, free bonus that the medical community has included at no extra charge, because they are watching out for your health, of course. This is perhaps why people are literally killed each year from flu vaccine shots. Most of these people die, by the way, with symptoms of neurological destruction -- precisely the sort of destruction that might be initiated by mercury poisoning.
Shielding the vaccine manufacturers
By the way, if the mercury in a bird flu vaccine harms you, you may have absolutely no recourse in the United States. U.S. lawmakers are currently considering a law called the Biodefense and Pandemic Vaccine and Drug Development Act of 2005 (s. 1873, nicknamed �Bioshield II�). If a state of emergency is declared because of a viral epidemic/pandemic, or some other biological or chemical threat, this law provides detailed language that indemnifies vaccine manufacturers from the harm caused by their products (even if their products kill people).
Here's the specific language found in the legislation:
(a) Authority- As provided in subsection (b), and subject to subsection (b)(1)(C), a manufacturer, distributor, or administrator of a security countermeasure, or a qualified pandemic and epidemic product, described in subsection (b)(1)(A) or a health care provider shall be immune from suit or liability caused by or arising out of the design, development, clinical testing and investigation, manufacture, labeling, distribution, sale, purchase, donation, dispensing, prescribing, administration, or use of a security countermeasure, or a qualified pandemic and epidemic product, described in subsection (b)(1)(A). No cause of action shall exist against a person described in subsection (a) for claims for loss of property, personal injury, or death arising out of, reasonably relating to, or resulting from the design, development, clinical testing and investigation, manufacture, labeling, distribution, sale, purchase, donation, dispensing, prescribing, administration, or use of a security countermeasure or qualified pandemic or epidemic product distributed, sold, purchased, donated, dispensed, prescribed, administered, or used in anticipation of and preparation for, in defense against, or in response to, or recovery from an actual or potential public health emergency that is a designated security countermeasure or a qualified pandemic or epidemic product by the Secretary in a declaration described in paragraph (2).
Learn more about this legislation at the U.S. government website: http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d109:s.01873:
So the vaccine companies have carte blanche to make and deliver high-profit vaccines, with a guaranteed buyer (the government) and absolutely no consequences if their product harms or kills people. Doesn't this make you wonder? If vaccines were perfectly safe, why would the vaccine companies need indemnity?
The truth is that vaccines are not universally safe. Neither are they very effective against the flu (not to mention bird flu). People who rely on the government to provide flu shots as their sole source of defense against a possible bird flu pandemic may ultimately be risking their lives on misplaced faith.
Don't rely on the government to protect you. Educate yourself now, and stock up on the real anti-viral medicines that are far more effective than any flu shot.