Flu

[Randy Baker]

Does anyone know if Influenzinum nosode made from the current H1N1 strain is yet available, and, if so, where to get it?
Thanks!

[Hart Matthews]

Hi all -

These are five cases from a family of six that was overwhelmed with the flu two weeks ago. The only person who didn't catch it was the mom, who is going through a flare-up of her MS symptoms.

These cases are from Idaho, and they were taken on Wednesday, 9/16. At the time, up to one-fifth of the students at one of the kids's schools were out with swine flu. Although I don't think there were blood tests done, the staff at the local hospital told the mother that her eldest daughter definitely had swine flu. You'll see that the other cases are similar enough that I gave one remedy to all five.

One of the kids (the first to catch it) had historical lung issues, so his symptoms were a little different from the others (deeper in the respiratory tract).

All of them got Belladonna 30C. One child aggravated badly but recovered within an hour. Everyone else responded well without aggravation (except for a normal spike in their fevers). All of them had also been on some sort of fever suppressing drug prior to having their cases taken.

I hope this is helpful for people who are starting to see flu cases -

Hart Matthews
Durham, NC

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Wednesday, 9/16, 12 p.m.

- Eldest Daughter - dry cough in morning yesterday, sent to school and kept on coughing, got a sore throat, drinking water through the day, got a headache from the coughing - outside after lunch felt like I was going to barf - last night woke up every half hour because just moving hurts - where? all over, especially legs and back - one spot on back that feels like it's going to cave in on me, hard to breath after I cough - cave in? hurts like needles kind of, like a big piece of metal that's pushing on my side - like it's going to fall into my body and make it hard to breath - expectoration yellow, gross and slimey, tastes like something, tastes salty - throat? really sore when I talk - feels like there's lots of needles kind of closer to my mouth, mostly in the front - head hurts more when she coughs - drinking lots of gatorade because water tastes bad, tastes really bad, tastes like something like really gross like rotten food or something - cold (ice) makes it worse, like there are spikes in the Gatorade - legs feel like jello when I walk, like I'm going to fall down - dizzy, too, standing up, even just laying down, like everything's moving, I have to concentrate on one thing - fever of 101.7, took Tylenol - lying down for a long time, couch feels like it's tipping upwards and will slide her off head first - (Mom) bad stabbing pain in ear (L) that she always gets when she gets sick - eyes sting, sensitive to light


- Middle Daughter - when I drink water I sometimes when I cough it just tastes horrible, when I drink Gatorade sometimes it feels all spiky in my throat - superbad cough sound, like a wolf, hurts so bad when that happens and it's really scratchy and last night I puked like sometimes you puke and then you take a breather and then you puke again - I did that ten times - it was orange and it had chunks of food in it like celery and noodles - really super bad taste - drank before throwing up? drank some Gatorade (yellow, orange) - super bad taste? tastes horrible like that horrible medicine that I had, it stung my throat, tastes, just a really bad mix - throat really itchy right now and I want to cough - cough so big it felt like my throat was breaking and my stomach hurt so bad and my chest felt like it was going to explode - like spikes are trying to get out of it and like there's a bomb in there, like a spiky bomb - where? closer to my throat like around the neck and a little bit lower - headache like a hammer when I try to stand up, when I cough it does a really hard one - try hard not to cough because it hurts so bad - like my heart is in my head - dizziness like the room is spinning, I feel like I'm going to fall on my face when I'm kneeling - when I'm closing my eyes, it feels like my body's going to fall off my bed to the right - feels like the bed's lifting up - can't bend knees, elbows, fingers and all the hinges on me because it hurts so bad, like there's going to be a needle sticking out of my knee when I bend it - at night I shake, only cold if I uncover myself - muscles over the top of R elbow cramping - sleep makes me feel better - I cough a lot in my sleep but it's really good for me (sleep) - liquids really hurt my throat - ice? would really really hurt my throat, I would warm it up first - hot? would feel like burning my throat - (Mom) some expectoration but it was swallowed - eyes sting - 102 degrees


- Mom - eldest daughter's blowing her nose every two minutes, a lot of clear mucous - middle daughter has been really needy, really needs a hug, common for her when she's sick - their dispositions? everyone's been pretty calm, and that's really unusual, very unusual, we're really a rambunctious family - when they were talking to you on the phone I was expecting a lot more drama - drama? tears and long stories - calm? they just seem whipped, defeated - both husband and eldest daughter have had a violent chill early after they got sick, suddenly super super cold, panic thing, I'm freezing, I'm freezing, I'm freezing


- Youngest Daughter - whenever I eat something and it sits in my belly for a while, my tummy starts to sting - it hurts - no throwing up - whenever I cough it feels like a knife is cutting my throat open - better? nothing - worse? eating, coughing - like to eat? tortillas - whenever I walk to the bathroom, my legs start to shake and my legs hurt, it hurts right on my waist kind of and my feet hurt too - it stings - sometimes when I'm watching TV my throat starts to sting - I start coughing a lot and it feels like I'm going to throw up and it hurts - spot on back feels like this little spiky thing that's going to pop out of something - spiky thing? kind of on spine but whenever I rub my back it feels kind of numb a little bit and it hurts kind of, closer to shoulders - head? feels like something's trying to pop out from my head, kind of close around my nose and it hurts - dizzy? whenever I lay down in bed it feels like it's going to fall over on my back


- Husband (from Mom) - defeated - got a panic with his fever last night - had to get up and go to the bathroom three times, when he came back he was icy cold - cough - sore throat - pounding pounding headache and pain in back - he felt like it was stabbing pain that was going to make his back go out, holding lower back - even smallest cough, he was going "oh, no, oh, no" - pounding head and said he couldn't breath - son said the same thing, he was coughing and couldn't breath - vertigo? yes, when he was getting up - really brutal vertigo - holding head really still, he won't turn his head to look at me - 99 degrees


- Mom - sound of everyone's coughing (sounded brassy through the phone)? really shallow hack for a while, then deep lung cough, a real ring to it - sounds ripping to me, like it's tearing them up, really really deep when they get going, almost a bark


- Son - Saturday morning cough, unusual difficulty in track practice, couldn't get air - mid afternoon more fatigued, by evening a dry cough, really feeling tired - Ibuprofen at night - slept in till 9 a.m. on Sunday, usually wake at 5 a.m. - really tired and weak, throbbing headache - feeling like lungs were full of fluid, breath more and more raspy, more and more weak - Monday worst, could hardly move at all - in bed most of the day - Tuesday still at 101.7 - drenched with sweat last night (Wednesday) three or four times, soaked the bed and had to change clothes - energy better today - sore throat? felt like it was deep down in my lungs, like bronchial, progressively moved upwards to where lower jaw meets pharynx, top of neck - pain? just when I swallow - when I breath you can kind of hear the raspiness - takes shallow breaths especially in the evening - feels like diaphragm is cramping, very sore, seizes up when coughing, stops working - happens in sleep, too - concentrate on timing my breath so that I wouldn't panic and seize up (historical) - time my breath so I don't seize up - no dizziness - expectoration? late yesterday and today felt it but too deep to raise - aches? Sunday and Monday very bad muscle aches and a lot of weakness, a lot of back pain, pretty much impossible to move around - tense pain, mid to lower back, thighs (quads), side neck muscles, diaphragm - overwhelming weakness - soreness - diaphragm is a burning pain if you touch it (wrapping fingers under ribs) - food and drink? no appetite for two days, too tired, didn't drink or eat - felt like there was a ball of illness in my abdomen, didn't want to put anything in - yesterday first stool in a couple of days, real aching intestinal pain - cold or hot drinks? herbal tea yesterday, helped loosen things up - last night had iced tea, also helped

- Mom - eldest and middle daughter also complained about not being able to breath with the cough - husband had severe shortness of breath when he was up during the night - son coughs until he feels like his diaphragm is cramping and will no longer take air in - this is a scary feeling for all of them - no one in the family will drink water, as it tastes too bad - they are all very thirsty for Gatorade in various flavors - the kids want to keep wash cloths over their eyes to keep out the light, and our house is not brightly lit

Rx: Belladonna 30C (the potency available from the health food store)

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FOLLOWUP - Mom, Thursday, 9/17/09, 7 p.m.

1st dose - Belladonna 30C about 5 p.m., 9/16 - by 5:30 p.m. eldest daughter was having a panic attack with sharp pains in the side of her chest - terrible fear and cutting pains, yelling out, so mom took her to the emergency room - as they were waiting for the doctor to arrive, she watched the girl improve on the table, watched her relax and breath better - no treatment in ER, but experienced staff confirmed swine flu (actual test?) - with the exception of the son, the others stayed in bed and rested for the remainder of the evening, no repeats of the remedy until the next morning - "this morning [9/17] I thought we were going to be in for another day of not getting out of bed - I gave them doses and they perked really well - youngest daughter got up and went for a walk with me, eldest daughter up reading a book and playing board games an hour later - they built a fort and started tearing up the house again" - husband refused to take another dose for a while after seeing the eldest daughter's aggravation, but mom convinced him to in the late afternoon - he's now standing in the kitchen conversing with the mom while she talks with me on the phone - son got a dose and didn't need a second one, going for walks and doing homework, but has a lingering cough - everyone else coughing? yes, everyone still has a lingering cough

Rx: repeat Belladonna 30 in the morning if coughs not gone, call back if they don't resolve in a day or two

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[David Kent Warkentin]

From: http://www.timescolonist.com/health/suspend+seasonal+shots/2041163/story.html

B.C. might suspend seasonal flu shots as early as Monday for people who aren't seniors, in the wake of a Canadian study that suggests people who get the normal flu vaccine are twice as likely to contract the H1N1 virus.

Several news outlets have reported the preliminary findings of the study, which is still under peer review. Researchers found that those who received the seasonal flu vaccine in the past were more likely to catch H1N1.

While the research was initially met with much skepticism from health officials, several provinces, including Quebec, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Ontario and Nova Scotia, have suspended seasonal flu shots for anyone younger than 65, the Globe and Mail newspaper is reporting in its Monday editions.

Quebec announced its decision Sunday, postponing regular flu shots until January to devote the fall vaccination season to the wave of expected H1N1 infections. New Brunswick, on the other hand, announced last week that it will stick to its plans to offer seasonal flu shots in October.

The B.C. Ministry of Healthy Living and Sport is holding a news conference Monday morning at 9:30 to make what is billed as “an announcement around B.C.’s seasonal flu vaccine campaign.”

Jeff Rudd, ministry spokesman, would not confirm whether minister Ida Chong will announce a suspension of the vaccine.

“I can’t say what [the announcement] is about,” Rudd said. “All I can say is it has to do with the sequencing of vaccines.”

Chong will be joined by Provincial Health Officer Dr. Perry Kendall and Dr. David Patrick, director of epidemiology services for the B.C. Centre for Disease Control.

Last week, Kendall told CBC News that the uncertainty around how the flu shot interacts with the pandemic flu shot makes “decision-making a lot more complex.”

He said: “It would be very nice to have information cut and dried, and very clear in advance in plenty of time to make the decisions. But that isn’t, unfortunately, the world that we’re living in.”

The lead researchers behind the controversial study were Danuta Skowronski of the B.C. Centre for Disease Control and Gaston De Serres of Université Laval in Ste. Foy, Que., according to news reports.
© Copyright (c) The Victoria Times Colonist

[David Kent Warkentin]

Why the swine flu virus is not a major threat

Posted by medconsumers on September 24, 2009
http://medicalconsumers.org/2009/09/24/why-the-h1n1-virus-is-not-a-major-threat/

For the last 15 years, physician and epidemiologist Tom Jefferson, MD, has made it his mission to conduct extensive reviews of all studies of seasonal influenza vaccines. With colleagues at the Cochrane Collaboration, Dr. Jefferson has co-authored over 10 Cochrane reviews to answer a wide range of questions such as: do these vaccines reduce the chance of getting influenza or reduce the risk of complications, hospitalizations and deaths in elderly people, children, healthy adults and asthmatics? Based in Rome, Italy, Dr. Jefferson has published extensively and is, arguably, the world’s leading authority on the quality of the evidence supporting seasonal influenza vaccines. As we head into winter, the U.S. media is reporting a new, more ominous viral threat that may well become a pandemic. It is, of course, the swine flu, now known as the H1N1 virus or the 2009 H1N1 virus. Dr. Jefferson is interviewed by Maryann Napoli.

MN: Thanks for sending me that September 16, 2009 letter from the Health Protection Service of Australia. It made me turn my attention to that part of the world. Now that winter is ending in the southern hemisphere, what has happened in Australia doesn’t appear to be a pandemic. There were 131 H1N1 deaths out of a population of nearly 22 million people. Is it fair to conclude that the H1N1 virus did not turn out to be a pandemic in Australia?

TJ: Yes, you may conclude that the H1N1 virus is not the threat that it has been portrayed to be.

MN: And no H1N1 vaccine was available to Australians in time for their winter season.

TJ: Yes, that’s right. But notice that I did not answer the second part of your initial question about whether Australia experienced a pandemic. That’s because the definition of pandemic has changed on the World Health Organization’s (WHO) website since May 2009. The earlier version defines pandemic as: “An influenza pandemic occurs when a new influenza virus appears against which the human population has no immunity, resulting in epidemics worldwide with enormous numbers of deaths and illness [emphasis in the original document].” In the lookalike document that currently appears on the WHO Web site, the definition of pandemic has changed to: “A disease epidemic occurs when there are more cases of that disease than normal. A pandemic is a worldwide epidemic of a disease. An influenza pandemic may occur when a new influenza virus appears against which the human population has no immunity.”

MN: The phrase “enormous numbers of deaths and illness” is gone. And we now have a lower threshold for calling something a pandemic

TJ: The definition we’re left with makes the difference between seasonal influenza and pandemic influenza a matter of debate.

MN: What do you think is going on?

TJ: I am wondering if this means that the world will always be in a pandemic. The world will always have to be doubly vaccinated and the world will always be spending a huge amount of money for vaccines, and of course, buying anti-viral drugs by the barrel load. Journalists and others have contacted WHO to find out why the change in definition, and they are always told that someone will get back to them, which never happens.

MN: What about funding? The WHO funded the osteoporosis meeting in 1993 where the definition of osteoporosis was expanded. Do you know whether the same thing may have happened here?

TJ: No, I don’t, but when you look at the WHO pandemic preparedness document, which is 62 pages long, you see in the citation count only 2 references for hand washing, 3 for masks, 1 for gloves, 23 for vaccines and 18 for anti-viral drugs. What WHO should be pushing worldwide, especially for poor countries, are these public health interventions; instead, it’s pushing pharmacologic interventions. We now have clear evidence from our reviews that pharmaceutical industry-sponsored influenza vaccine studies have risen in importance and visibility, considerably more than non-pharmaceutical industry-sponsored studies. However, this is not explained either by size or quality of the studies which is the same. The likely, and very unpalatable, explanation for this finding is that the most prestigious scientific journals are more likely to print pharmaceutical industry-sponsored studies probably because of the money they make out of selling reprints of the studies and advertising space.

MN: But Tom, many who read this will say, “Yes, maybe a lot of people are going to make money from our fear, but I’ll still get the vaccine.”

TJ: First of all, it’s not “maybe” a lot of people are going to make money. Here’s a swine and bird flu stocks index, which tells you just how much money vaccine companies made in the last six months. So if you want to know how the pandemic is going, you can consult this Web site. I call it a “pandemiometer,” the barometer of the pandemic. Don’t forget to read the comments at the end of the page and the insights from the contributing pundits.

MN: Don’t you mean that this Web site is a barometer of the fear of the pandemic?

TJ: No, I think it is a reflection of what this pandemic really is: a commercial operation.
Why else would the Australian government plan to immunize millions of people after the epidemic with a partially evaluated vaccine?

MN: The Food and Drug Administration recently announced approval for four new vaccines against the H1N1 virus. They come with the usual warnings for people with allergies to eggs and possible “unexpected or rare serious adverse events.” Do you have any other reservations about these vaccines?

TJ: Yes, I do. I am aware of only one published study. It appeared recently in the online version [September 11, 2009] of the New England Journal of Medicine. I have four problems with this study, which was done in Australia. 1) It was tiny, only 240 adults. The authors made reassuring statements about Guillain–Barré syndrome, which is ridiculous because GBS occurs in one out of 750,000 to 1 million vaccinations, and this study only had 240 participants; 2) one third of these volunteers had side effects that resembled influenza-like illness (headaches, sore throats, etc.), so they were vaccinating to prevent symptoms that they were causing; 3) there was no placebo arm in the study [a group that was injected with an inert vaccine], yet there’s no ethical excuse for not having a placebo arm because these are experimental vaccines; and 4) the description of what additive substances were in the vaccine was unclear. We know that there is thimerosal [mercury] in this H1N1 vaccine, but its manufacturer did not say whether there are additional substances like aluminum, which can be found in many other vaccines. We just don’t know. And they are advising this vaccine for pregnant women and children over six months of age!

MN: Can you just back up and explain how vaccine studies determine whether a new vaccine should be approved?

TJ: In all our reviews of the studies involving seasonal influenza vaccines, we always looked for real outcomes, i.e., cases of influenza, bronchitis, pneumonia. [In other vaccine studies like this new one from Australia], researchers look at the quantity and quality of antibodies [in the bloodstream] of the volunteers once they are injected with an experimental vaccine. If they produce a pre-set quantity considered to be “protective,” then it is assumed that once vaccinated, people will be protected. So the key question is how these laboratory markers relate to the protection of people. To answer the question we reviewed all influenza vaccines studies from 1948 to 2007. A straight answer is made difficult by the poor quality of these studies, but vaccines have performed very poorly especially in the elderly (for which they are universally recommended). So if this is the track record, why are researchers pursuing the same old tired and fruitless road?

MN: Yes, you made that so clear when I interviewed you in 2006 after you published an extensive report in the British Medical Journal. What about that CDC-generated statistic that the media hauls out each year to scare us into getting vaccinated: 36,000 U.S. deaths each year from influenza? It never changes.

TJ: We know that in the last 20 years in the U.S., the seasonal influenza-related mortality is flat, despite the fact that over the years a higher and higher number of people have been getting influenza vaccines.

MN: Re the seasonal influenza vaccine which the CDC usually recommends for certain populations like children under age two and the elderly…

TJ: There is no evidence whatsoever that seasonal influenza vaccines have any effect, especially in the elderly and young children. No evidence of reduced [number of] cases, deaths, complications.

MN: Obviously, there’s no Cochrane review on the horizon for the H1NI virus.

TJ: Of course not, there’s no data yet to review. There is no problem with the H1N1 virus. It’s no different from any other seasonal virus. In fact, it looks—from the Australian experience—like it’s going to be milder and it can be handled with public health measures, such as hand washing, masks.

At the end of this interview Dr. Jefferson was asked if he had any conflicts of interest to report about influenza vaccines. His response: “Yes: I am publicizing my work. But no, I have no financial conflicts.”

[David Kent Warkentin]

From: http://www.healthzone.ca/health/newsfeatures/article/700026

MOH cautious on flu shot fears
September 23, 2009

Helen Branswell
THE CANADIAN PRESS

Unpublished Canadian data are raising concerns about whether it's a good idea to get a seasonal flu shot this season.

Drawn from a series of studies from British Columbia, Quebec and Ontario, the data appear to suggest that people who got a seasonal flu shot last year are about twice as likely to catch swine flu as people who didn't.

A scientific paper has been submitted to a journal and the lead authors – Dr. Danuta Skowronski of the British Columbia Centre for Disease Control and Dr. Gaston De Serres of Laval University – won't speak to the media. Journals bar would-be authors from discussing their results publicly before they go through peer review.

While few people appear to have actually seen or read the study, the puzzling findings have been a poorly kept secret and many in the public health community in Canada have heard about them.

Ontario's chief medical officer of health Dr. Arlene King said she is concerned about the study but cautions that it is too early to jump to conclusions.

"We are obviously concerned about the information that has occurred and we have certainly seen no higher illness or death rates here in Ontario or anywhere else in the country compared to the rest of the world, so it's very important for that information to be peer reviewed."

She said the province has been reviewing the preliminary information from the study for the past few weeks and will continue to do so. She emphasized that Ontario is well-prepared for a second wave of H1N1 influenza.

Concern about the unconfirmed findings is playing into calls from Quebec and possibly other jurisdictions to delay or even cancel this year's seasonal flu shot campaigns across the country.

The findings are causing consternation abroad as well, with officials at public health agencies and even at the World Health Organization worried the alleged link will deter people from getting vaccinated in a fall when many people are being asked to get both seasonal and pandemic flu shots.

The Public Health Agency of Canada knows of the findings and has been seeking help here and internationally to try to figure out if the effect is real or if the studies are flawed.

"An arms-length review of the various methods is currently underway to assess the validity of the studies relative to that observation," Dr. David Butler-Jones, Canada's chief public health officer, said by email.

"We are also examining other data that will help to understand what if any association there is. We look forward to the results of the review and other data to inform our recommendations as we go forward."

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control also knows of the work. It said it has looked for similar evidence in the United States but sees none.

"It is difficult to speak about a study that has yet to be published, however, as this is an important issue involving the subject of seasonal influenza and the fast moving global pandemic of 2009 H1N1 influenza it is important to note the scientists at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have not seen this effect in systems we have reviewed in the United States," spokesperson Joe Quimby said by email.

A number of influenza and infectious diseases experts know of but are unwilling to speak publicly about the paper. But several were quick to note that British and Australian researchers haven't seen the phenomenon either. The lack of corroboration in other jurisdictions is "a red flag," said one expert, who does not believe the findings are true.

Another flu expert who was willing to speak on the record said they do not make sense to him either.

"I cannot think of a good reason why this is biologically likely, especially since we have sufficient evidence now that ... there is priming in the population by the way the vaccine is working," said Dr. Arnold Monto, of the University of Michigan.

He was referring to the fact that studies of swine flu vaccine show a single dose induces a strong and likely protective response in teens and adults. That suggests humankind's long exposure to seasonal H1N1 viruses has "primed" or awakened our immune systems to recognize the new virus and fight it off.

Dr. Donald Low, chief microbiologist at Toronto's Mount Sinai Hospital, was reserving judgment on the findings. But he said this kind of effect of previous exposure raising the risk of future illness is seen in some diseases, like dengue fever.

"We don't see that in flu," Monto countered.

Low said it is important to get to the bottom of the issue, but in the meantime, delaying the use of seasonal flu vaccine makes sense for logistical reasons. Swine flu activity is on the upswing in the U.S. and in parts of British Columbia, and focusing on speeding delivery of that vaccine makes more sense now, he said.

"If we're going to try to protect people, this is the virus we should be trying to protect them against," he said.

Low admitted the controversy could undermine the public's willingness to be vaccinated against influenza.

"This is obviously difficult for public to be able to digest this," he said. "There's a crying need here for a prospective randomized controlled study."

That type of study – which is not the kind on which the findings are based – is considered the gold standard of medical evidence.

With a file from Toronto Star health reporter Theresa Boyle.

thestar.com

[Penny Edwards]

just flew back from Australia to UK via Korea, and on the front page of the Korean English newspaper was an article headed "Five die after seasonal flu vaccination".  the article claimes 3 of those were over 80, but a 4th death was a 51 y.o. man "who was not eligible for free vaccination and paid for the shot" (adding financial insult to fatal injury?)

Their Health Ministry is looking into the "possible link between the deaths and the vaccines" (though of course there are lots of excuses as to why they died, eg. diabetes in an 80 yr old woman and hardened arteries in 51 y.o. man). 

if only other governments were even willing to look.... 

[Miranda Castro]

I've seen lots of swine flu in Florida
I haven't seen any Eupatorium cases (no bone breaking/no severe pains)
The oft-prescribed remedies are Gels, Bapt and Kali-bi

Most cases look like Gelsemium (lethargy/heaviness/thirstless/low grade fever) but if it only helps a bit i.e. after 1-2 days patient is not significantly better then I have given a high potency (1M if poss or 200C if that's all that's avaialble) if I'm sure about the remedy - or moved on to Baptisia if it really hasn't done much where there is prostration more than lethargy (imp. to differentiate)
Kali bich has worked well if the pathology moves into the sinuses (with or without a cough) - that may be a Florida/humidity thing

This Swine Flu is not as bad as some of the flus my patients had last winter. So far. Fingers crossed ....

[Monique Marcq]

Hello All: Here is BC (Canada) cases of H1N1 are on the rise. They stopped testing ages ago unless a patient is hospitalized; diagnoses are clinical, not lab verified.

I've had 7 cases in my practice - 2 on the same day this week. I can't say I'm seeing a strong tendency toward 1 or 2 remedies yet. The commonality is big H/A in everyone but different modalities & chest/back pain (lungs) where respiratory involvement threatens. Otherwise, some people are very chilled, some are very feverish, some very achy, some only H/A, etc. So far my age range has been 6yrs old - 24 yrs old for 6 of them, & one in her 50s. My sickest patient has been a 17yr old. Her illness began mild & so I was not contacted until she was 9 days into illness because her cough was becoming severe & her strength was sinking. Her GP also said she was the sickest patient he had, but she has not been hospitalized. She has now been sick for 24 days & we only just turned a corner on Day 20. I'm not sure if she got so sick because we didn't start homeopathy until the illness was so well established. She has no underyling history of chronic illness or recurrent URTI.

Anyway, in general I'm finding better results when I start out with 200c potencies instead of 30c. Am curious to know if others are finding this too? I'm also finding the time factor challenging - the amount of contact I'm having with the individuals, prescribing, monitoring etc is a lot in addition to my regular load of consultations. I can see having many cases simultaneously becoming difficult. Lovely that we have the support here of our community.

Hoping as Miranda said that things don't get too bad...

Regards,
Monique

[David Kent Warkentin]

Just sent to me by a friend:

Just thought I'd forward you these statistics which are hot off the CDC's VAERS (vaccine injury) database re: Swine flu vaccine  (and don't forget, this vaccine is just getting out there):

Deaths = 6
GBS = 4
Facial palsy/paresis = 16
ADEM = 2
Spontaneous abortion = 6
Acute respiratory distress syndrome = 2
Anaphylaxis = 8
Angioedema = 4
Bradycardia = 3
Brain injury = 1
Cardiac arrest = 2
Cerebral vascular accident = 1
Cerebral hemorrhage = 1
Chest pain = 30
Convulsion = 20
Cyanosis = 10
Depressed level of consciousness = 51
Dyspnea = 132
Abnormal EKG = 11
Embolism = 1
Falls = 13
Febrile convulsion = 5
Abnormal fetal heart rate = 2
Gait disturbance = 19
Grand mal convulsion = 6
Balance disorder = 10
Contraindication to vaccination = 33
Paresthesia = 95
Oral paresthesia = 21
Hypoaesthesia = 70
Oral hypoaesthesia = 18
Facial hypoaesthesia = 24
Stroke = 1
Loss of Consciousness = 21
Migrane = 15
Myalgia = 69
Pulmonary embolus = 1
Respiratory arrest = 3
Respiratory distress syndrome = 3
Car accident = 1
Speech disorder = 5
Stevens Johnson Syndrome = 1
Stillbirth = 1
Subarachnoid/subdural hemorrhage = 2
Facial swelling = 35
Swollen tongue = 15
Syncope = 40
Throat tightening = 32
Tic = 3
Tonic clonic seizure = 3
Tonic convulsion = 1
Tremor = 34
Unresponsive to stimuli = 7
Urticaria = 194
Vaginal hemorrhage = 3
Wheezing = 56
Intrauterine death = 9

[Stefan Sterchi]

Hi David

Which vaccine is beeing used and what's the number of vaccinations this statistic is based on?

Do they recommand to vaccinate women in the first three months of pregnancy in US?

Regards

Stefan

[David Kent Warkentin]

Hi Stefan,
Sorry, I don't know.
Just passing on what was sent to me.  Shouldn't be hard to find the CDC's website.
Here it is: http://vaers.hhs.gov/data/index
Ciao
David

[David Kent Warkentin]

Europe to Investigate WHO 'False Pandemic' Scandal
Written by Alex Newman
Tuesday, 05 January 2010 16:30

The Council of Europe is set to investigate the World Health Organization’s
swine flu campaign this month over allegations of improper influence from
pharmaceutical companies in declaring the H1N1 “pandemic” and the
promotion of “inefficient” and potentially dangerous vaccination strategies.

The resolution to launch the emergency inquiry was approved by the Parliamentary
Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) and passed through the health committee
unanimously. It states in part that “in order to promote their patented drugs and vaccines against flu,
pharmaceutical companies influenced scientists and official agencies responsible for public health
standards to alarm governments worldwide and make them squander tight health resources for
inefficient vaccine strategies, and needlessly expose millions of healthy people to the risk of an
unknown amount of side-effects of insufficiently tested vaccines.”

“The ‘birds-flu’-campaign (2005/06) combined with the 'swine-flu'-campaign seem to have caused a
great deal of damage not only to some vaccinated patients and to public health-budgets, but to the
credibility and accountability of important international health-agencies,” noted the resolution. “The
Council of Europe and its member-states should ask for immediate investigations and consequences
on their national levels as well as on the international level. The definition of an alarming pandemic
must not be under the influence of drug-sellers.”

Leading the charge for the probe is German epidemiologist Dr. Wolfgang Wodarg, the chairman of
the PACE health committee and a medical doctor specializing in lung disease. “The victims among
millions of needlessly vaccinated people must be protected by their states and independent scientific
clarification should provide evidence and transparency for national and — if necessary — European
courts,” Wodarg said in a statement.

Wodarg called the “false pandemic” one of the greatest medical scandals of the last century and said
that pharmaceutical companies influenced the whole process and needed to be held accountable.
They were willing to "inflict bodily harm in their pursuit of profits," he said. Articles in the European
press, starting in Denmark and spreading, have repeatedly called into question the myriad ties
between vaccine manufacturers and decision makers in the United Nations' global health body.
Earlier this year the WHO redefined the term pandemic, lowering the threshold for an emergency
declaration by removing the requirement of an “enormous” number of deaths. The WHO estimated
that by the end of 2009, around 10,000 people had died from swine flu-linked complications.
Seasonal influenza kills between 250,000 and 500,000 per year on average, according to the
organization.

News reports earlier this year, citing the UN, warned of millions of deaths around the world unless
nations promptly proceeded with the controversial vaccination schemes being promoted by the WHO
— along with forking over billions of dollars. Since then, the disease has proved relatively mild
despite the wild fearmongering campaigns waged by governments, such as the President’s Council of
Advisors on Science and Technology that warned that 90,000 Americans could die from the H1N1
virus.

The incident has reminded people of the avian flu scare. In September of 2005, the chief of the UN’s
bird flu preparations estimated that the epidemic could cause up to 150 million human deaths. So far,
the WHO has confirmed slightly more than 250. The bird flu propaganda campaign will also be
investigated by the “urgent” inquiry.

National governments should be ashamed of themselves for squandering billions of taxpayer dollars
on an untested, unpopular vaccine for a virus that so far has been extremely mild compared to even
the seasonal influenza. Governments are currently trying to get rid of the vaccine supplies. Global
health authorities must be held accountable, though it’s unfortunate that the charge is being led by a
European supranational body instead of national legislatures.

The United States should get involved as well — starting with a complete withdrawal from the UN
and its subsidiary bodies. Obama’s declaration of a national emergency over swine flu is looking
increasingly preposterous. Of course, Congress should also be held accountable for allowing this all
to happen in America in the first place, despite the lack of constitutional authority to purchase or
promote vaccines. But on the bright side of this whole scandal, citizens may start realizing that
government is not a reliable resource for honest and accurate information. The New American has
been reporting about these issues for months.

[David Kent Warkentin]

Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly to Investigate WHO and “Pandemic” Scandal
By F. William Engdahl
Global Research, December 31, 2009

The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) will launch an inquiry in January 2010 on the influence of the pharmaceutical companies on the global swine flu campaign, focusing especially on extent of the pharma‘s industry’s influence on WHO. The Health Committee of the PACE, a body representing 47 European nations including Russia, has unanimously passed a resolution calling for the inquiry. The step is a long-overdue move to public transparency of a “Golden Triangle” of drug corruption between WHO, the pharma industry and academic scientists that has permanently damaged the lives of millions and even caused death.

The motion was introduced by Dr. Wolfgang Wodarg, former SPD Member of the German Bundestag and now chairman of the Health Committee of PACE (Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe). Wodarg is a medical doctor and epidemiologist, a specialist in lung disease and environmental medicine, who considers the current “pandemic” Swine Flu campaign of the WHO to be “one of the greatest medicine scandals of the Century.”[1]

The text of the resolution just passed by a sufficient number in the Council of Europe Parliament says among other things, “In order to promote their patented drugs and vaccines against flu, pharmaceutical companies influenced scientists and official agencies, responsible for public health standards to alarm governments worldwide and make them squander tight health resources for inefficient vaccine strategies and needlessly expose millions of healthy people to the risk of an unknown amount of sideeffects of insufficiently tested vaccines. The "birdflu"campaign (2005/06) combined with the "swineflu"campaign seem to have caused a great deal of damage not only to some vaccinated patients and to public health budgets, but to the credibility and accountability of important international healthagencies.”[2]

The Parliamentary inquiry will look into the issue of „falsified pandemic“ that was declared by WHO in June 2009 on the advice of its group of academic experts, SAGE, many of whose members have been documented to have intense financial ties to the same pharmaceutical giants such as GlaxoSmithKline, Roche, Novartis, who benefit from the production of drugs and untested H1N1 vaccines. They will investigate the influence of the pharma industry in creation of a worldwide campaign against the socalled H5N1 “Avian Flu” and H1N1 Swine Flu. The inquiry will be given “urgent” priority in the general assembly of the parliament.

In his official statement to the Committee, Wodarg criticized the influence of the pharma industry on scientists and officials of WHO, stating that it has led to the situation where “unnecessarily millions of healthy people are exposed to the risk of poorly tested vaccines,” and that, for a flu strain that is “vastly less harmful” than all previous flu epidemics.

Wodarg says the role of the WHO and its pandemic emergency declaration in June needs to be the special focus of the European Parliamentary inquiry. For the first time, the WHO criteria for a pandemic was changed in April 2009 as the first Mexico cases were reported, to make not the actual risk of a disease but the number of cases of the disease basis to declare “Pandemic.” By classifying the swine flu as pandemic, nations were compelled to implement pandemic plans and also the purchase swine flu vaccines. Because WHO is not subject to any parliamentary control, Wodarg argues it is necessary for governments to insist on accountability. The inquiry will also to look at the role of the two critical agencies in Germany issuing guidelines on the pandemic, the PaulEhrlich and the RobertKoch Institute.
Bravo!

F. William Engdahl is author of Full Spectrum Dominance: Totalitarian Democracy in the New World Order. He may be contacted through his website, www.engdahl.oilgeopolitics.net.

Notes
Rainer Woratschka, Schweinerei mit der Grippe, Der Tagesspiegel, 16 December, 2009, accessed in http://www.tagesspiegel.de/politik/international/SchweinegrippeEuroparat;art123,2976433.
Dr. Wolfgang Wodarg, Motion for a Resolution and a Recommendation: Faked Pandemics a threat for health, accessed in http://www.wodarg.de/english/2948146.html.

[David Kent Warkentin]

In September 2009, news stories reported that researchers in Canada had found an increased risk of pandemic H1N1 (pH1N1) influenza in people who had previously been vaccinated against seasonal influenza.

In a school outbreak of pH1N1 in spring 2009, people with cough and fever were found to have received prior seasonal flu vaccination more often than those without.

Several public health agencies in Canada therefore undertook four additional studies during the summer of 2009 to investigate further. Taken together, the four studies included approximately 2,700 people with and without pH1N1.

The first of the studies found the seasonal vaccine to be associated with an increased risk of approximately 68 percent for pH1N1 disease.

The further 3 studies similarly found between 1.4 and 1.5 times increased likelihood of pH1N1 illness in people who had received the seasonal vaccine compared to those who had not.
WHO Finally Admits They Screwed up on Swine Flu

In related news, the World Health Organization (WHO) has admitted that it made mistakes in its response to H1N1 swine flu.

WHO influenza expert Keiji Fukuda conceded that the six-phase system for declaring a pandemic was confusing, and resulted in widespread panic about an illness which proved to be even less deadly than the similarly overhyped bird flu.

Critics have pointed out WHO's links to the pharmaceutical industry. Many drug companies made huge profits when governments bought enormous stockpiles of H1N1 vaccine, much of which has gone unused.

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