The Flu Scare Game
by John Keller
http://www.lewrockwell.com/keller/keller20.html


Sheri Nakken

THE 1918 INFLUENZA EPIDEMIC WAS A VACCINE-CAUSED DISEASE
E. McBean (Vaccination The Silent Killer p28)

Very few people realize that the worst epidemic ever to hit America, the Spanish Influenza of 1918 was the after effect of the massive nation-wide vaccine campaign. The doctors told the people that the disease was caused by germs. Viruses were not known at that time or they would have been blamed. Germs. bacteria and viruses, along with bacilli and a few other invisible organisms are the scapegoats which the doctors like to blame for the things they do not understand. If the doctor makes a wrong diagnosis and treatment, and kills the patient, he can always blame it on the germs, and say the patient didn't get an early diagnosis and come to him in time.

If we check back in history to that 1918 flu period, we will see that it suddenly struck just after the end of World War I when our soldiers were returning home from overseas. That was the first war in which all the known vaccines were forced on all the servicemen. This mish-mash of poison drugs and putrid protein of which the vaccines were composed, caused such widespread disease and death among the soldiers that it was the common talk of the day, that more of our men were being killed by medical shots than by enemy shots from guns. Thousands were invalided home or to military hospitals, as hopeless wrecks, before they ever saw a day of battle. The death and disease rate among the vaccinated soldiers was four times higher than among the unvaccinated civilians. But this did not stop the vaccine promoters. Vaccine has always been big business, and so it was continued doggedly.

It was a shorter war than the vaccine-makers had planned on, only about a year for us, so the vaccine promoters had a lot of unused, spoiling vaccines left over which they wanted to sell at a good profit. So they did what they usually do, they called a meeting behind closed doors, and plotted the whole sordid program, a nationwide (worldwide) vaccination drive using all their vaccines, and telling the people that the soldiers were coming home with many dread diseases contracted in foreign countries and that it was the patriotic duty of every man, woman and child to get "protected" by rushing down to the vaccination centers and having all the shots.

Most people believe their doctors and government officials, and do what they say. The result was, that almost the entire population submitted to the shots without question, and it was only a matter of hours until people began dropping dead in agony, while many others collapsed with a disease of such virulence that no one had ever seen anything like it before. They had all the characteristics of the diseases they had been vaccinated against, the high fever, chills, pain, cramps, diarrhea, etc. of typhoid, and the pneumonia like lung and throat congestion of diphtheria and the vomiting, headache, weakness and misery of hepatitis from the jungle fever shots, and the outbreak of sores on the skin from the smallpox shots, along with paralysis from all the shots, etc.

The doctors were baffled, and claimed they didn't know what caused the strange and deadly disease, and they certainly had no cure. They should have known the underlying cause was the vaccinations, because the same thing happened to the soldiers after they had their shots at camp. The typhoid fever shots caused a worse form of the disease which they called para-typhoid. Then they tried to suppress the symptoms of that one with a stronger vaccine which caused a still more serious disease which killed and disabled a great many men. The combination of all the poison vaccines fermenting together in the body, caused such violent reactions that they could not cope with the situation. Disaster ran rampant in the camps. Some of the military hospitals were filled with nothing but paralyzed soldiers, and they were called war casualties, even before they left American soil. I talked to some of the survivors of that vaccine onslaught when they returned home after the war, and they told of the horrors, not of the war itself, and battles, but of the sickness at camp.

The doctors didn't want this massive vaccine disease to reflect on them, so they, agreed among themselves to call it Spanish Influenza. Spain was a far away place and some of the soldiers had been there, so the idea of calling it Spanish Influenza seemed to be a good way to lay the blame on someone else. The Spanish resented having us name the world scourge on them. They knew the flu didn't originate in their country.

20,000,000 died of that flu epidemic, worldwide, and it seemed to be almost universal - or as far away as the vaccinations reached. Greece and a few other countries which did not accept the vaccines were the only ones which were not hit by the flu. Doesn't that prove something?

At home (in the U.S.) the situation was the same; the only ones who escaped the influenza were those who had refused the vaccinations. My family and 1 were among the few who persisted in refusing the high pressure sales propaganda ,and none of us had the flu - not even a sniffle, in spite of the fact that it was all around us, and in the bitter cold of winter. Everyone seemed to have it. The whole town was down sick and dying. The hospitals were closed because the doctors and nurses were down with the flu. Everything was closed, schools, businesses, post office - everything. No one was on the streets. It was like a ghost town. There were no doctors to care for the sick, so my parents went from house to house doing what they could to help the stricken in any way they could. They spent all day and part of the night for weeks, in the sick rooms, and came home only to eat and sleep. If germs or viruses, bacteria, or any other little organisms were the cause of that disease, they had plenty of opportunity to latch onto my parents and "lay them low" with the disease which had prostrated the world. But germs were not the cause of that or any other disease, so they didn't "catch" it. I have talked to a few other people since that time, who said they escaped the 1918 flu, so I asked if they had the shots, and in every case, they said they had never believed in shots and had never had any of them. Common sense tells us that all those toxic vaccines all mixed up together in people, could not help but cause extreme body-poisoning - and poisoning of some kind or another is usually the cause of disease.

Whenever a person coughs or sneezes, most people cringe, thinking that the germs are being spread around in the au and will attack people. There is no need to fear those germs any more, because that is not the way colds are developed. Germs can't live apart from the cells (host) and can't do harm anyway, even if they wanted to. They have no teeth to bite anyone, no poison pouches like snakes, mosquitoes or bees, and do not multiply, except in decomposed substances, so they are helpless to harm. As stated before, their purpose is useful, not destructive.

The 1918 flu was the most devastating disease we ever had, and it brought forth all the medical bag of tricks to quell it, but those added drugs, all of which are poisons, only intensified the over-poisoned condition of the people, so the treatments actually killed more than the vaccines did.




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http://www.redflagsweekly.com/confer...004_oct07.html

Annual Number of flu deaths: it’s a guess

By Sherri Tenpenny, DO
www.nmaseminars.com

I have received many requests for a specific reference to the following statement made in my article “The Flu Season Campaign Begins” :

“Even though less than 175 people actually died from influenza in 2003, anticipate that exponentially more messages regarding the “deadly flu” will be pushed through the news media this year.”

After weeks of intense research to locate the full source for that statement, I have unearthed some interesting and powerfully useful information.

Recapping Last Year’s Flu Season

During the 2003--2004 season, influenza activity in the United States began earlier than usual (October 2003), peaked between late November and early December, and then declined rapidly during January-February, 2004. The CDC scrambled as it was discovered that neither of the trivalent influenza vaccines used (Fluzone® or the new intranasal vaccine, FluMist®) contained the strain A/Fujian strain, the most prevalent virus in circulation. By Jan. 15, the CDC issued a press release admitting that ongoing testing showed that the year's vaccine "was not effective or had very low effectiveness" in the test subjects. [i]

As of the week ending March 27, 2004, laboratories at the World Health Organization (WHO) and National Respiratory and Enteric Virus Surveillance System (NREVSS) had tested 115,222 specimens and only 21.0% of the samples were found to be positive for influenza viruses. [ii] During the four most recent influenza seasons (1999-00, 2000-01, 2001-02, and 2002-03), the number of specimens that tested positive for influenza viruses ranged from 23.9 to 30.9% [iii] In other words, over the last 5 winters, 70-80% of the sniffles, fevers and body aches generally characterized as “the flu” were not caused by influenza viruses, but by organisms not covered by a vaccine, regardless of the strain that was used.

Influenza-associated pediatric deaths received considerable attention last year, prompting the CDC to request state and local health departments to report influenza-associated deaths in persons less than 18 years of age. As of May 31, 2004, 152 “influenza-associated deaths” in children had been reported by 40 states. [iv] Most of the children who died in last year's flu season were younger than 5 years of age. Because no similarnational data were collected previously, whether this numberof pediatric deaths represents a change from previous seasons is unknown. [v]

Beginning in 2002, the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) began to recommend that all childrenaged 6-23 months and close contacts of children aged 0-23 monthsreceive annual influenza vaccination. With the increased reports of pediatric deaths in 2003, the Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists (CSTE) approved an initiative to add “all pediatric influenza-associated deaths” to the list of nationally notifiable conditions on June of 2004. [vi] This will turn out to be a boon for flu vaccine manufacturers as the media doggedly tracts and then morbidly reports this season’s statistics, placing fear in the hearts of parents who will in turn demand the flu shot for their children.

It should be noted that this initiative was undertaken after the influenza vaccine was added to the pediatric vaccination schedule, protecting the manufacturers from liability under the rules of the National Vaccine Injury Act.

Therefore, my statement that “less than 175 people who died” was technically incorrect and should have read, “less than 175 children died” in last year’s flu season. However, as few as 175 adult deaths could have occurred too. Here’s why…

Predicting 36,000 deaths

The CDC claims that influenza is “a highly contagious virus that causes an average of 36,000 deaths and 200,000 hospitalizations in the U.S. every year.” But how does the CDC determine the number of deaths related to influenza? Where is the tangible, annual report somewhere in the CDC’s database with an actual number of reported deaths among adults, such as the 152 reported deaths among children? These questions deserve answers. Upon intense investigation, I uncovered a startling truth.

The CDC receives information on influenza cases from a several different sources. During each October to May period, the CDC receives weekly reports from approximately 120 World Health Organization (WHO) and National Respiratory and Enteric Virus Surveillance System (NREVSS) collaborating laboratories in the United States regarding influenza virus isolations. In addition, reports from several hundred “sentinel physicians” are received regarding the total number of patient visits and the number of visits for influenza-like illness (ILI). Sentinel physicians are randomly selected physicians who work in the community or for local health departments who collect nasal swabs on patients reporting flu-like symptoms. These swabs are sent to laboratories for organism identification and quantification.

A third source is the state and territorial epidemiologists who estimate the level of local influenza activity. The final source, the vital statistics offices for 122 cities across the country, report the total number of death certificates filed and the number of those in which 1) pneumonia was identified as the underlying cause of death or 2) influenza was listed anywhere on the death certificate. These reports from death certificates are filed throughout the year. From the number of positive nasal swabs and the complied data from epidemiological death certificates, the CDC “determines” the number of deaths per year from influenza. [vii]

A CDC spokesman, Mr. Curtis Allen told Insight Magazine last year,

“There are a couple problems with determining the number of deaths related to the flu because most people don't die from influenza - they die from complications of influenza - so the numbers [of deaths] are based on mathematical formulas. We don't know exactly how many people get the flu each year because it's not a reportable disease and most physicians don't do the test [nasal swab] to indicate whether [the symptoms are caused by] influenza.” [viii]

Hence, the oft-repeated “36,000 deaths nationwide” is nothing more than a computer-generated, ominous-sounding guesstimate, rather than an actual number.



NOTE: Between Oct 1, 2003 and Apr 9, 2004, the CDC identified 863 antigenically DIFFERENT influenza viruses. [ix] Therefore, even if one assumes that the flu vaccines work for the three chosen strains, it is important to understand that the vaccines will not provide protection against the other 860 influenza viruses known to be in circulation.

Hence the CDC’s statement about the flu is correct:

Yearly, adults can average one to three and children three to six influenza-like illnesses (ILIs). The vaccine does not prevent influenza-like illnesses caused by infectious agents other than influenza [strains found in the shot], and many persons vaccinated against influenza will still get the flu. [x]

Special thanks to Mrs. Lujene Clark and Mrs. Dawn Richardson for help with this research.



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Thank you Sheri, for posting all of this.

Melanie Grimes

Hi Sheri,

can you tell me what those vaccinations were for?

Regards

Luise

Hi Sheri,

As usual, these are fascinating posts! But I wonder how much of what's said in this one (for instance) can be documented, do you know? I mean e.g. the timing of the flu outbreak with reference to the mass vaccinations; even the *fact* of the mass civilian vaccinations? I'm certainly not saying I don't believe it! But those are assertions that won't be taken seriously unless there is very solid data behind them (at best)! Does the book itself provide references?

Shannon

"THE 1918 INFLUENZA EPIDEMIC WAS A VACCINE-CAUSED DISEASE
E. McBean (Vaccination The Silent Killer p28)

Very few people realize that the worst epidemic ever to hit America, the Spanish Influenza of 1918 was the after effect of the massive nation-wide vaccine campaign. ..................

If we check back in history to that 1918 flu period, we will see that it suddenly struck just after the end of World War I when our soldiers were returning home from overseas. That was the first war in which all the known vaccines were forced on all the servicemen. This mish-mash of poison drugs and putrid protein of which the vaccines were composed, caused such widespread disease and death among the soldiers that it was the common talk of the day, that more of our men were being killed by medical shots than by enemy shots from guns. Thousands were invalided home or to military hospitals, as hopeless wrecks, before they ever saw a day of battle. The death and disease rate among the vaccinated soldiers was four times higher than among the unvaccinated civilians. But this did not stop the vaccine promoters. Vaccine has always been big business, and so it was continued doggedly."
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Vaccines in use during WWI

Besides smallpox vaccine, there is a history of typhoid vaccines, plague vaccines, diphtheria, rabies vaccine, tetanus antitoxin



http://www.who.int/vaccines-diseases.../history.shtml
# 1885 Rabies
# 1897 Plague

http://www.worldpsychology.net/World.../marriage8.htm
1895 Diptheria vaccination program begins. Over the period lasting until 1907, 63,249 cases of diptheria were treated with anti-toxin. Over 8,900 died, giving a fatality rate of 14%. Over the same period, 11,716 cases were not treated with anti-toxin, of which 703 died, giving a fatality rate of 6%.

1919 Diptheria vaccinations injure 60 and kill 10 in Texas.

http://archives.tcm.ie/irishexaminer...y265526733.asp
But US Army records show that seven men dropped dead after being accinated.

A report from US Secretary of War Henry L Stimson not only verified these deaths but also stated that there had been 63 deaths and 28,585 cases of hepatitis as a direct result of yellow fever vaccination during only six months of the war.

That was only one of the 14 to 25 shots given to recruits.

Army records also reveal that after vaccination became compulsory in the US Army in 1911, not only did typhoid increase rapidly but all other vaccinal diseases increased at an alarming rate.

After America entered the war in 1917, the death rate from typhoid vaccination rose to the highest point in the history of the US Army.

The deaths occurred after the shots were given in sanitary American hospitals and well-supervised army camps in France, where sanitation had been practised for years.

The report of the Surgeon-General of the US Army shows that during 1917 there were admitted into the army hospitals 19,608 men suffering from anti-typhoid inoculation and vaccinia.

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http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-35678
Tetanus
from the medicine, history of article
The other great hazard of war that was brought under control in World War I was tetanus. This was achieved by the prophylactic injection of tetanus antitoxin into all wounded men. The serum was originally prepared by the bacteriologists Emil von Behring and Shibasaburo Kitasato in 1890–92, and the results of this first large-scale trial amply confirmed its efficacy. ...

In 1897 the English bacteriologist Almroth Wright introduced a vaccine prepared from killed typhoid bacilli as a preventive of typhoid. Preliminary trials in the Indian army produced excellent results, and typhoid vaccination was adopted for the use of British troops serving in the South African War. Unfortunately, the method of administration was inadequately

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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/q...&dopt=Citation
South Med J. 2000 Aug;93(8):763-7. Related Articles, Links

'Bacilli and bullets': William Osler and the antivaccination movement.

Greenberg SB.

Department of Medicine, Microbiology and Immunology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas 77030, USA.

Public discourse concerning current vaccination recommendations has dramatically increased. The current battle is not new, having had a lengthy foreshadowing during the 19th and early 20th centuries. Over a 30-year period, a concerted effort to limit the use of smallpox vaccine grew at the very time typhoid vaccines were being developed and advocated for widespread prevention. As a long time advocate for widespread smallpox vaccination and a supporter of the newly tested typhoid vaccine, Sir William Osler entered the public debate at the beginning of World War I. Osler was asked to address the officers and men in the British army on the need for typhoid vaccination. His speech entitled "Bacilli and Bullets" outlined the medical reasons for getting inoculated against typhoid. Osler's strong support for typhoid vaccination of the British troops was met by opposition in Parliament but not by most of the troops. Osler's arguments in support of vaccination failed to respond to the concept of "conscientious objection," which was central to the antivaccinationists' argument. Similar arguments are being propounded by current antivaccination groups.

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http://www.smallpox.army.mil/message...ll.asp?cID=152
From 1777 to today, vaccines protected American troops from dangerous infections. Typhoid vaccine reduced typhoid casualties from 20,000 in Spanish-American War of 1898 to just 1,500 in World War I.

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http://www.findarticles.com/p/articl...9/ai_103382403
"In 1899 during the Boer War, the British developed the typhoid vaccine. As history has shown, people are usually opposed to vaccines, and the opposition to the typhoid vaccine grew among the British Army troops. Opposition personnel even boarded transport ships in Southampton Harbor and threw the typhoid vaccine into the water. As a result, the British Army made the typhoid vaccine optional and only 14,000 soldiers volunteered to take it. During the Boer War itself, 58,000 British troops contracted typhoid fever and 9,000 needlessly died from the disease. Among those vaccinated, only 2 percent became infected, and they survived. The overall result, however, was that the British lost the Boer War. But a lesson had been learned; in 1914 during World War 1,97 percent of the British troops opted to take the typhoid vaccine."

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http://www.brainyhistory.com/events/...870_57599.html
August 17, 1870 in History
Frederick Russell, developed 1st successful typhoid fever vaccine

http://www.mnmed.org/publications/MN...ry/Blanck.html
Published monthly by the Minnesota Medical Association
February 2002/Volume 85

The History of Immunization in the U.S. Armed Forces

For centuries, the U.S. military has led the charge against infectious disease.

"Even before the Spanish-American War, the new science of bacteriology was marching on. In Paris in 1898, Fernand Widal showed that the serum from a recovered patient would cause typhoid bacteria to clump. From that came the Widal test, the first serodiagnosis.

In Germany in 1896, Richard Pfeiffer demonstrated that cholera bacilli would agglutinate in vivo as well as in guinea pig peritoneum, which suggested to him and Elmo Wright in England that perhaps dead bacilli could produce an antibody response. This understanding led, in 1896, to the development of a typhoid vaccine, which was used by the British during the Boer War. Lt. Col. William Leishman of England continued this research, developing standard methods of production and performing statistically sound epidemiological studies, which by 1908 showed that two shots of typhoid vaccine gave excellent protection.

In 1908, U.S. Army Surgeon General Robert O’Reilly decided that the U.S. Army needed to study Leishman’s vaccine. He sent Capt. Frederick Russell to England to study with Leishman and then to learn Pfeiffer’s methodology in Germany. Russell returned to the Army Medical School laboratories in Washington, D.C., and began to make vaccines with the combination of German and English methods.

In 1911, Army Chief of Staff Maj. Gen. Leonard Wood (who began his army career as a medical officer) ordered that the Army be immunized and that the immunizations be recorded. So from 1911 on, the Army and Navy personnel were immunized against typhoid fever. This made a critical difference in the health of the military personnel. The high rates of morbidity and mortality during the Spanish-American War in 1898 (from typhoid) faded to essentially nothing by World War I."

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http://muse.jhu.edu/cgi-bin/access.c...ssion=23645538
Hardy, Anne, Dr ""Straight back to Barbarism": Antityphoid Inoculation and the Great War, 1914"
Bulletin of the History of Medicine - Volume 74, Number 2, Summer 2000, pp. 265-290
The Johns Hopkins University Press

Excerpt

On 27 August 1914, just three weeks after the outbreak of the Great War, Sir William Osler, Regius Professor of Medicine at Oxford University, wrote a letter to the Times, in which he urged the necessity of compulsorily vaccinating British troops against typhoid. "In war," he pressed, "the microbe kills more than the bullet," and he reminded his readers that more men had died of dysentery and typhoid in the Boer War than had died in action. 1 Osler's plea was supported, in the first week of September, by letters from Sir Lauder Brunton, an acknowledged leader of the medical profession, and Sir Almroth Wright, head of the Inoculation Department at St Mary's Hospital, London, and a pioneer of antityphoid vaccine. 2 On 28 September Wright wrote again, arguing the case for compulsory vaccination at far greater length. "An army going on active service," he stated, "goes from the sanitary conditions of civilization straight back to those of barbarism. It goes out to confront dangers which have, in settled communities, been so completely extinguished as to have passed almost out of mind." 3 [End Page 265]

On the face of it, these letters may be read as a reflection of medical altruism, of concern that governmental and military authorities should take advantage of the latest developments of modern medicine in protecting their armies and the wider war effort from the ravages of disease--but the reality was less prosaic, less disinterested, and considerably more complicated. Behind these letters lay a continuing tension between the British medical community's attempts to gain acceptance for the perceived benefits of immunization, and the political consensus and popular sensitivities established within the wider social context of British liberal adjustment to a modernizing industrial society. 4 The context of war, moreover, sharpened a parallel...

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http://nobelprize.org/medicine/articles/behring/
The Introduction of Serum Therapy

The first successful therapeutic serum treatment of a child suffering from diphtheria occurred in 1891. Until then more than 50,000 children in Germany died yearly of diphtheria. During the first few years, there was no successful breakthrough for this form of therapy, as the antitoxins were not sufficiently concentrated. Not until the development of enrichment by the bacteriologist Paul Ehrlich (1854-1915) along with a precise quantification and standardization protocol, was an exact determination of quality of the antitoxins presented and successfully developed. Behring subsequently decided to draw up a contract with Ehrlich as the foundation of their future collaboration. They organized a laboratory under a railroad circle (Stadtbahnbogen) in Berlin, where they could then obtain the serum in large amounts by using large animals – first sheep and later horses.

In 1892, Behring and the Hoechst chemical and pharmaceutical company at Frankfurt/Main, started working together, as they recognized the therapeutic potential of the diphtheria antitoxin. From 1894, the production and marketing of the therapeutic serum began at Hoechst. Besides many positive reactions, there was also noticeable criticism. Resistance, however, was soon put aside, due to the success of the therapy.


The Marburg Years

Behring was given the opportunity to start a university career through one of the leading officers (Ministerialrat) of the Prussian Ministry of Education and Cultural Affairs, Friedrich Althoff (1839-1908), who wanted to improve the control of epidemics in Prussia by supporting bacteriological research. After a short period as professor at the University of Halle-Wittenberg, Behring was recruited by Althoff to take over the vacant chair in hygiene at Philipps Marburg University on April 1, 1895. His appointment as full professor followed shortly thereafter against the will of the faculty, who besides all of Behring's outstanding discoveries, wanted a university lecturer who would broadly represent the field. However, Althoff rejected all counterproposals and Behring took over as Director of the Institute of Hygiene at Marburg. His position included giving lectures for hygiene and concurrently held a teaching contract in the history of medicine. In 1896, the Marburg Institute of Hygiene moved to a building on a road nearby Pilgrimstein Road, previously the Surgery Clinic. Behring divided the Institute into two departments, a Research Department for Experimental Therapy and a Teaching Department for Hygiene and Bacteriology. He remained Director of the Institute until his retirement as professor in May 1916.


Scientific Contacts

Behring belonged to a scientific discussion group called "The Marburg Circle" (das Marburger Kränzchen), whose other members were the zoologist Eugen Korschelt (1858-1946), the surgeon Paul Friedrich (1864-1916), the botanist Arthur Meyer (1850-1922), the physiologist Friedrich Schenk (1862-1916), the pathologist Carl August Beneke (1861-1945) and the pharmacologist August Gürber (1864-1937). They often met at Behring's home where they had rounds of vivid and prolific scientific discussions.


Active Protective Vaccination against Diphtheria
Old vials (1897 and 1906) with hand-written labels.
Photo: Courtesy of Aventis Behring

The therapeutic serum developed by Behring prevented diphtheria for only a short period of time. In 1901, Behring, therefore, for the first time, used a diphtheria innoculation of bacteria with reduced virulence. With this active immunization he hoped to help the body also produce antitoxins. As a supporter of the humoral theory of immune response, Behring believed in the long-term protective action of these antitoxins found in serum. It is well-established knowledge today that active vaccination stimulates the antitoxin (antibody) producing cells to full function.

The development of an active vaccine took a few years. In 1913, Behring went public with his diphtheria protective agent, T.A. (Toxin-Antitoxin). It contained a mixture of diphtheria toxin and therapeutic serum antitoxin. The toxin was meant to cause a light general response of the body, but not to harm the person who is vaccinated. In addition, it was designed to provide long-term protection. The new drug was tested at various clinics and was proven to be non-harmful and effective.

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http://nobelprize.org/medicine/articles/behring/
Tetanus Therapeutic Serum during World War I

In 1891, tetanus serum was introduced considerably more quickly in clinical practices than the diphtheria serum. The Agricultural Ministry supported research efforts to develop a therapeutic agent against tetanus to protect agriculturally valuable animals. The large amounts of serum required were obtained through the immunization of horses. However, there was no substantial clinical testing on humans; this led the Military Administration to accept it only on a small scale at the beginning of World War I.

During the first months of the war, this restraint led to massive losses of human lives. Also, after the distribution of the tetanus antitoxins in the military hospitals, many futile attempts at therapy were noted. At the end of 1914, as a result of Behring's constructive assistance, the injection of serum was established as preventing disease. Starting in April 1915, the mistakes in dosage and the shortage of supplies were overcome and the numbers of sick fell dramatically. Behring was declared "Saviour of the German Soldiers" and was awarded the the Prussian Iron Cross medal.

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http://www.vaccines.army.mil/default.../minidv&dID=43
In 1897, Nocard demonstrated the protective effect of passively transferred antitoxin, and passive immunization in humans was used during World War I.

http://www.mmhc.com/altc/displayArti...leID=altcac407
Passive immunization was used during World War I


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History of Plague Vaccines

Killed bacteria have been used in plague vaccines since 1896

http://www.vnh.org/MedAspChemBioWar/...m#immunization

The first plague vaccine, consisting of killed whole cells, was developed by Russian physician Waldemar M. W. Haffkine, working in India in 1897.

http://www.vnh.org/MedAspChemBioWar/...m#immunization
Plague vaccines have been used with varying effectiveness since the late nineteenth century.

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg...43930?v=glance
Yersin went on to discover a vaccine for the plague, which he began administering in India in 1898.

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http://americanhistory.si.edu/polio/...e/history2.htm
As more immunizing agents became available, people saw the benefit of immunizing large groups, such as soldiers. During World War I, they were vaccinated against diphtheria


Also a history of Biological Warfare in WWI
1915

Dr Anton Dilger, a noted German-American Physician, established a small biological agent production facility at his northwest Washington, DC home. Using cultures of Bacillus Anthracis (Anthrax) and Pseudomonas Mallei Glanders) supplied by the Imperial German government, Dilger produced an estimated liter or more of liquid agent. He reportedly passed the agent and a standard inoculation device to dock workers in Baltimore who used them to infect a reported 3500 horses, mules and cattle destined for the Allied troops who were waging World War 1. Several Hundred military personnel were infected as well.


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yes, I hear you

But the info was mostly for you all and you have to weigh it all. Sent more on the number of vaccines used. And no weren't used on civilians but key was exposure to those who were vaccinated

Just another piece of information for you.

Sheri

http://www.redflagsdaily.com/articles/2005_sep12.php

Throw Out the Playbook: A New Plan Arrives
By Red Flags Columnist, Sherri Tenpenny, DO

Every winter, it is reported that millions of people in the world get the
flu. Coworkers and classmates are home, sick and miserable, for about a
week. A few — mostly the elderly and infirm — die. We’re told the annual
death toll exceeds 36,000 in the United States and a few hundred thousand
around the globe. This computer-generated number has gaping holes in its
credibility, however, because medical authorities don't separate and verify
those who actually died of influenza from those who died of a "flu-like
illness” or of flu-complications, such as pneumonia. (1)

As a general rule, people think of the flu season as a nuisance. Even major
controversies — like last year’s contaminated vaccine supply that cut the
number of doses by 50 percent — barely made a blip on the radar screen. For
a few weeks, the media hyped the shortages with images of people standing
in line to be vaccinated. But by January, a vaccine shortage turned into a
vaccine glut. Authorities abandoned the rationing and started to urge
everyone once again to get in line. After all that hoopla, we ended up with
a very mild flu season.

In addition, the CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) has a
media plan in place. Referred to as a “Seven-Step Recipe for Generating
Interest in, and Demand for, Flu (or any other) Vaccination,” it was
engineered to ensure the economic success of the season’s flu vaccine
campaign. The program is designed to methodically manipulate the general
public through the use of major media (newswires, television). The
scheduled, fear-based messages are aimed at convincing the unsuspecting
public that not only is the flu shot necessary, but people should be
demanding it. This results in millions of dollars of free advertising for
vaccine manufacturers. (2)

The “recipe” is ramping up all over again with the approach of fall: The
annual flu vaccine push is about to begin. “Make a plan, then work the
plan,” comes to mind. But the plan may be wearing thin. The general public
has come to understand that the flu isn’t a catastrophic illness. Like the
sparrows to Capistrano, it arrives at about the same time every year. Most
people are showing the same ho-hum attitude to the frenzied reports of the
avian flu virus, H5N1, also referred to as “bird flu.”

Predictably, officials don’t like it one bit. They are finding it difficult
to get people really worried about avian influenza no matter how many
articles of “catastrophic concern” they have published. But this time, they
need to walk a tight line. They saw the economic consequences caused by
“epidemic hype” in 2003, when the world was focused on the SARS (severe
acute respiratory syndrome) outbreak.

The SARS virus was thought to spread from humans after infected animals
were sold and slaughtered in unsanitary and crowded markets in China's
Guangdong province. Over a period of five months, 8,049 people were
reported to be infected by what turned out to be a novel human coronavirus.
The vast majority of those (7,248) were in China, Hong Kong and Taiwan.
Even though there were 774 deaths, or close to 10 percent of known cases,
SARS didn’t become “the new pandemic,” killing millions as feared. (3)

The SARS experience, however, taught officials a critically important
lesson about overestimating the staying power of an infection. The economic
impact on the Asia-Pacific region of the six-month SARS outbreak was nearly
$40 billion.

In Canada, 251 people were infected and 43 died. (4) The Canadian Tourism
Board estimated that the epidemic cost the nation's economy $419 million.
The Ontario health minister estimated that the cost to the province's
health-care system, including money spent on special SARS clinics and
supplies to protect healthcare workers, was about $763 million. That’s more
than $1.18 billion spent on one disease during one season in just one country.

The SARS outbreak also had a substantial impact on the global airline
industry. Flights to Asia and the Pacific Rim decreased by 45 percent and
the number of flights between Hong Kong and the United States fell 69
percent. (5)

Undeniably, there is a genuine downside to issuing warnings that turn out
to be unnecessary hype. Unfortunately, the way that the H5N1 avian flu
infection is being handled is starting to inflict a similar economic
impact. Since 2003, more than 160 million domestic ducks, chickens and
geese have been killed in eight countries. The cost to various local
economies is already estimated in the tens of millions. And based on
information freely available on the Internet, bird flu is predicted to
cause the “Great Global Depression,” 40 percent of the world’s population
to be infected, an unimaginable number of deaths and, in Western
civilization, “the end of life, as we know it.” (6,7)

But, if the apocalypse is coming, the general public does not seem overly
concerned. The old playbook isn’t working this time. No one seems to be
paying much attention to the scenarios being portrayed by the CDC and the
World Health Organization (WHO). Officials need a new plan.

Enter risk communication.

The field of risk communication is relatively new. Dating from the early
1980s, it evolved from several different fields of study: health education,
public relations, psychology, risk perception and risk assessment. The CDC
needed a new plan to get people to take bird flu seriously and to move
government health officials to earmark massive amounts of money for the
planning process.

* A new 10-step “recipe” crafted by risk communication experts, Peter
M. Sandman, Ph.D., and Jody Lanard, MD, based in Princeton, New Jersey, has
arrived on the scene. Their plan will serve to guide people through serious
hazards when they are appropriately upset (or even in denial). (8)

Here’s the “new and improved” version of the “Seven-Step Recipe” for the
flu shot:

Step 1: Start where your audience is

Fair enough. For most educational processes, this is a good place to begin.
Officials are advised to start with empathy. Instead of “berating” people
for their lack of concern about bird flu, make “common cause with the
public” … and then talk about how “horrific the next flu pandemic may be
compared with the annual flu.”

Don’t tell them the answer; lead them to the conclusion.

Step 2: Don’t be afraid to frighten people

That’s right, the new plan advocates the use of fear. “Fear appeals have
had a bad press, but the research evidence that they work is overwhelming…..
We can't scare people enough about H5N1. WHO has been trying for over a
year, with evermore-dramatic appeals to the media, the public and member
states.”

This is the reason the “same old recipe” isn’t working: fear is an
over-played card. At every turn is a doomsday message about something
coming from the CDC and the WHO. The “Chicken Little” approach has played
itself out, even though the press and the government seem to push that same
button over and over again.

Step 3: Acknowledge uncertainty

Uncertainty is the name of the game — and it is the very uncertainty of
this infection that feeds the fear. The plan encourages officials to admit,
“There is so much that we don’t know about H5N1.”

In spite of encouraging uncertainty, there has been a noticeable change in
the language surrounding the arrival of the pandemic from “if the pandemic
comes” to “when the pandemic arrives.” (9) I suspect we may see more of
this “certainty” once the new pandemic vaccine becomes available worldwide.

Step 4: Share dilemmas

In crisis communication, the goal of dilemma sharing is “to humanize
theorganization” making the decision, “reducing the outrage if you turn out
to bewrong.” In addition, this practice will let the public think that it
is helping to make decisions, leading to “better buy-in” of the decisions
being made.

I wonder if the farmers in Vietnam, China and Thailand are feeling any
sense of “dilemma sharing” when their birds — infected or not — are
confiscated by the government and killed, leading to a complete loss of
income and food production for their families?

Step 5: Give people something to do

In January 2005, Canadian infectious diseases expert Richard Schabas told
The Wall Street Journal, "Scaring people about avian influenza accomplishes
nothing because we're not asking people to do anything about it." The
authors of the new playbook recommend that we start planning how to handle
catastrophic business disruptions. They even suggest “cognitive and
emotional rehearsal — learning about H5N1 and thinking about what a
pandemic might be like and how you’d cope.”

Nearly every religious tradition and many researchers, including Depak
Chopra, Larry Dossey and Wayne Dyer, have given us a clear message: “You
get what you think about.” Could global cognitive and emotional rehearsals
make the situation worse? Perhaps we should visualize, instead, a safe,
clean healthy world, free of viral illnesses for all, humans, birds and
animals.

Step 6. Be willing to speculate — responsibly

Step 7: Don’t get caught in the numbers game

Step 8: Stress magnitude more than probability

Step 9: Guide the adjustment reaction

All four of these steps serve to accentuate Step 2: Don’t be afraid to
frighten people. Get people revved up and worried. Get them motivated to
fear that the pandemic is coming. Stockpile drugs, frantically push for
vaccines, store water and food. We didn’t see a disaster at the millennium,
but one is just around the corner. At any minute. Soon. We’re due.

Step 10: Inform the public early and aim for total candor and transparency

The American government has collaborated with its many agencies to hide so
many things from its citizens — from vaccine cover-ups about thimerosal to
Vioxx — that it has lost all sense of trustworthiness. Do government
officials still have the ability to be “transparent”?

Now that we have seen the new playbook, start watching for the rhetoric.
The bird flu vaccine to “protect” the public from the H5N1 virus is more
than a year away from release. Nonetheless, watch for the 2005/06 “normal”
flu season to be the launching pad for a new form of information sharing
called “risk communication.” See the plays unfold, paving the way for the
arrival of a new “bird flu” shot. A global mass vaccination program plan is
about to unfold.

REFERENCES:

1. “Annual number of flu deaths: It’s a guess” can be read here
2. The CDC’s full plan and commentary can be read in “The Flu Season
Campaign Begins” here
3. SARS fatalities. NationMaster.com at
http://www.nationmaster.com/graph-T/hea_sar_fat
4. SARS fatalities. NationMaster.com at
http://www.nationmaster.com/graph-T/hea_sar_fat
5. Preparing for the Next Pandemic by Michael T. Osterholm. Foreign
Affairs, July/August 2005.
6. Ibid. Osterholm. Also see:
7. The Next Pandemic? By Laurie Garrett. Foreign Affairs. July/August
2005. www.foreignaffairs.org
8. Bird Flu: Communicating the Risks, by Peter Sandman and Jody Lanard.
Perspectives in Health, Vol 10, No 2. 2005.
http://www.paho.org/english/DD/PIN/N...2_article1.htm
9. Monto, A.S. The role of antivirals in the control of influenza.
Vaccine. 2003 May 1:21(16) 796-800 PMID: 12686097

Sherri J. Tenpenny received her medical training at Kirksville College of
Osteopathic Medicine in Kirksville, Missouri. She is board certified in
emergency medicine and osteopathic manipulative medicine, and is a
respected expert in the area of integrative and alternative medicine.

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