VACCINE 2005 Archived Reports
BIRD FLU HYPE
Commentary By: Dr. Sherri J. Tenpenny
COMMENT: So, what will that do to exposure levels to poultry workers? This gets more bizarre all the time.
December 31, 2005: CIDRAP >> H5N1 avian flu viruses: What's in a name? As the virulent H5N1 virus continues to evolve and kill poultry in Eurasia, Halvorson predicted, scientists may turn toward a hitherto unthinkable option: a live influenza vaccine for
poultry. Such vaccines use a live but weakened form of flu virus..."People are now saying we've got to attack this with everything at our disposal, and that'll have to include a live vaccine.....The door is open now for a live H5 vaccine in birds." ...live viruses don't have to be injected into each bird individually; they can be put into drinking water or sprayed into the air in a chicken coop. That way, hundreds or
thousands of birds can be immunized quickly.
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COMMENT: PROOF! antibodies do NOT correlate with protection.
ARTICLE: What are the limits of adjuvanticity? "...Finally, adjuvanticity is more often evaluated in terms of antigen-specific antibody titers induced after parenteral immunization. It is known that, in many instances, antigen-specific antibody titers do not correlate with protection."
Del Giudice G, Podda A, Rappuoli R.
Vaccine. 2001 Oct 15;20 Suppl 1:S38-41. PMID: 11587808
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Comment: Now, this is a new twist!! What will they think of next?
November 22, 2005 - Pigs are a worry in avian flu situation - Radio Iowa - "Senne says the pigs have been linked to some past disease outbreaks -- but he says it doesn't seem to be as big a factor now. He says there's less emphasis on pigs being a mixing vessel today than there was 10 to 15 years ago. But Senne says the potential is still there and that's why workers in the swine industry are encouraged to get vaccines for the traditional flu so they don't infect pigs."
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November 17, 2005: WHO warns vaccines being developed might be useless in pandemic - Forbes.com WHO warns vaccines being developed might be useless in pandemic. '(But) we are very much aware that perhaps this vaccine might not work.'
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November 16, 2005 - Roche's Tamiflu may hold promise for staving off pandemic - Drug's bird flu bonanza - Newsday - "Dr. Paul Offitt, chief of the Division of Infectious Diseases at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, says it could be 20 years before a pandemic occurs. But Offitt says producing experimental flu vaccines today will help the government and pharmaceutical companies learn how to make them more efficiently in the future. "It's a trial run, I think," Offitt said. "They're trying to beat the path down a little bit and that makes sense."
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November 15, 2005: Summit Daily News for Breckenridge, Keystone, Copper and Frisco Colorado - News SUMMIT COUNTY - Mercury-free flu shots are hard to find in the High Country, and the closest clinic is charging more than double the price of a regular flu shot.It charges $52 for a single-dose mercury-free shot, as opposed to $21 for the regular flu shot.
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November 13, 2005 - Vietnam Study Shows Bird Flu Virus Mutating - Reuters via www.islam-online.net - "The online newspaper Vnexpress quoted Cao Bao Van, director of the Molecule Biology Department of the Pasteur Institute, Vietnam's centreof bird flu research, as saying the
decoding of 24 samples of the virus taken from poultry and humans showed significant antigen variation."
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November 11, 2005: Democrat & Chronicle: Living Thimerosal-free flu vaccines are out there. But to get one, you may have to shell out as much as $1,000. Single doses of mercury-free shots aren't widely available. What is, is a roughly 10-dose vial, the cost of which isn't covered by
insurance. With each shot costing about $100, "that's a lot of money to shell out for one shot."
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Comment: The problem is, no matter what the antigen, it won't work.
November 6, 2005 - Israeli vaccine could provide universal answer to flu epidemics - www.israel21c.org - "Dr. Arnon decided not to chase a specific strain of virus. She said 'let's identify the common components of all flu viruses, use genetic engineering to duplicate those common
parts of the virus, and create a vaccine which - no matter what virus will come - will vaccinate you,'" explained Devash, who then uses what he described as Arnon's favorite analogy."
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November 4, 2005 - Drug makers seek flu action - Government is expected to boost overall vaccine making - The News & Observer - "The plan's scope -- and the threat of a pandemic --has attracted the attention of vaccine makers that don't even have the facilities to make flu vaccines. Wyeth makes vaccines for children and doesn't have the manufacturing capabilities for flu vaccines. But the company, which employs about 1,200 at its manufacturing campus in Sanford, would be happy to fill and finish avian flu shots, said company spokesman Chris Garland."
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October 28, 2005 - Volunteers sought for avian flu vaccine study - Vaccine would be first to protect against bird flu - Vanderbilt University Medical Center via www.eurekalert.org - "Because the study is beginning at the start of this year's influenza season, all participants will be given this year's licensed influenza vaccine if desired. Participants will then be given three doses of either the bird flu or placebo vaccine over the next six months and will be required to provide blood samples to test if protection against the virus was produced.
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October 27, 2005 - Chiron Gets Contract for Bird Flu Vaccine (requires registration or subscription) - AP via The Washington Post -"Before the Senate acted, Health and Human Services Secretary Mike Leavitt awarded a $62.5 million contract to Emeryville, Calif.-based
Chiron Corp. to manufacture bird flu vaccine for a national stockpile. A competitor, Sanofi-Aventis of Paris, began manufacturing $100 million worth of a similar vaccine last month."
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Comment: Isn't this admitting that standard vaccines infect cells?
October 25, 2005 - Novavax shares surge on bird flu fears - AP via Business Week - "The company also announced in September that it would collaborate with Somerset, N.J.-based Wave Biotech to try to develop a way to produce its Virus-Like Particle avian flu vaccine on a
commercial scale. The VLP imitates a virus to elicit an immune response, but cannot infect cells because it lacks the genetic material of a virus, unlike standard vaccines."
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October 24, 2005 - Bird flu has drug makers rushing to meet demand - Critics say public health should be priority - The Star-Ledger - "Sanofi-Aventis is lobbying Washington for such a move, which would generate revenue needed to increase production. A Sanofi spokesman said the drug maker would then better meet the surge in demand caused by a pandemic. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, bridging the interests of public health and the drug industry, is opening a two-day meeting today at Emory University in Atlanta called "Universal Vaccination Against Influenza -- Are We Ready?" where experts will ponder the need for a new paradigm. "The best preparation for a possible influenza pandemic is ... the need for vaccination, with a goal toward universal immunization before a pandemic arrives," said David Williams, who heads the Sanofi's vaccine unit.
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October23: Glaxo: bird flu vaccine can be ready in months - Sunday Times - Times Online BRITAIN's largest drugs group, Glaxo Smith Kline, will this week announce that it could be ready to produce millions of doses of flu vaccine within four months of the declaration of a pandemic.
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COMMENT: As if using eggs wasn't bad enough, now they want to use DOG kidney cells. Dog DNA specimens...what will be injected in us next?
October 20, 2005 - Flu Vaccine Manufacturing With Canine Kidney Cells To Be Discussed By Committee In November - FDA Advisory Committee
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Vaccines for pandemic influenza. Informal meeting of WHO, influenza vaccine manufacturers, national licensing agencies, and government representativeson influenza pandemic vaccines
SUMMARY REPORT, 11-12 November 2004 Geneva, Switzerland
Page 5: All manufacturers should develop internal contingency plans to expedite the switch from production of seasonal vaccines to pandemic vaccines. Such plans should include the testing of a 'mock-up' pandemic-like vaccines according to established regulatory procedures.
Page 14: 1A pandemic vaccine, also referred to as a 'pandemic-like' vaccine, is a vaccine that anticipates and mimics the characteristics of a pandemic virus and is designed to confer protection against it. The vaccine contains viral antigens to which humans are immunologically naive and which therefore necessarily differ from antigens used in seasonal vaccines. A dossier for this pandemic-like vaccine (including data on antigen content, immunogenicity, safety, and efficacy) is submitted for provisional regulatory approval prior to the start of a pandemic. When a pandemic virus emerges, a variation to the dossier, with technical data specific to the pandemic virus, is then submitted for final marketing authorization.
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October 17, 2005 - Congress Poised to Rush Through Sweeping Immunity for Possibly Unsafe Vaccines and other Drugs -Americans Likely to Become Human Guinea Pigs - A new Bio-defense bill will be introduced in the U.S. Senate and is expected to be pushed through the U.S. Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee, without hearings. The Bill Would Wipe Out Both Regulatory and Legal Safeguards Against Certain Unsafe Vaccines, Drugs and Devices, Leaving the Industry Completely off the Hook for
Hurting American Citizens - Center For Justices & Democracy
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October 17, 2005 - The Flaw of Administering Immunizations for the Upcoming Bird Flu Pandemic - To create optimal health and reduce the worry of germs and virus, we must change and optimize our body chemistry. - PRWeb
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October 16, 2005 - How might bird flu unfold in our area? - UR's vaccine researchers are working to ease fears and prevent a pandemic - Rochester Democrat and Chronicle - "The University of Rochester is one of four sites testing the vaccine; the others are in
Cincinnati, Nashville and Los Angeles.
UR recently completed its tests on healthy adults. It is now seeking adults older than 65 to ensure (ie...to SEE if it will work in the elderly--ST) that it works in the elderly. Other sites will study children's reactions to the vaccine. Dr. Nancy Bennett, Monroe County's deputy health director,
said it's possible that the H5N1 vaccine would eventually be combined with the regular flu shot to make a large segment of the population immune."
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COMMENT: This is amazing. The CDC states that for a vaccine to be effective, it must be an "exact match". This link shows all the different strains of H5N1 that have been identified. Which one will they pick to be the "exact match"?
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October 14, 2005 - Avian Bird Flu Scare Being Used To Pad Pockets Of Pharmaceutical Companies - Naturally Speaking via www.healthliesexposed.com
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October 12, 2005 - MedImmune Named One Of Maryland's Fastest Growing Technology Companies In Deloitte Technology Fast 50 Program - PRNewswire-FirstCall. MedImmune is the manufacturer of FluMist, the intranasal influenza vaccine.
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October 3, 2005 - Concern grows over secrecy at CDC - Scientists want agency to provide data on flu to help with vaccines - Austin American-Statesman - "The CDC is not the CIA," Aftergood said."Withholding data is not just bad public policy, it is bad science."Withholding data impedes the normal process of scientific replication of results and of peer review, Aftergood said. The CDC's behavior of withholding "is just baffling," he said."
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COMMENT: This actually means that the virus is very WEAK....It requires a very large amount of the virus to push the body into developing and antibody. The H5N1 virus may not be deadly at all.
September 16, 2005 - Low-dose bird flu vaccine tested on humans - New Scientist -Sanofi Pasteur's trial is testing low doses of killed vaccine virus combined with adjuvant - a chemical that stimulates the immune system. As New Scientist reported at the time, previous experimental work on bird flu suggested that without an adjuvant, these doses of the virus would be unlikely to elicit much of an immune response. That is 12 times as much virus as is needed to make an effective vaccine from an ordinary influenza virus.
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March 25, 2005 - US flu vaccine trials may be effort wasted - New Scientist - "The first human trials of a vaccine against H5N1 bird flu are likely to be a waste of time and money. The formulations that the US plans to test are thought likely to be ineffective. But several studies have shown that with people who have not been exposed to before, even doses higher than 15 micrograms have little or no immunising effect."
