Planning starts for swine flu clinics
The Rock County Health Department is planning for mass swine flu vaccination clinics this fall.
The department is planning locations and volunteers to hold large-scale clinics in a short period of time to vaccinate masses, especially the target populations such as school-aged children, Rock County Health Officer Karen Cain said.
People also will be advised to receive the normal influenza vaccination, which will be separate from the swine flu vaccine, Cain said.
The Centers for Disease Control is working with pharmaceutical companies to manufacture the vaccine, but it might not reach recipients until November or December, Cain said.
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Jul 23, 2009 at 11:22 a.m.
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Just another big waste of money....
This is not severe enough to warrant a vax. and certainly NOT an untested, guaranteed one. No thanks for me and mine.
Jul 23, 2009 at 10:39 a.m.
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I believe the Volunteers they are asking for are for the running of the vaccination clinic. Not for willing individuals to receive the vaccine. That is how I interpreted the article.
Jul 23, 2009 at 9:45 a.m.
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The US Secretary of Health and Human Services, Kathleen Sebelius, has just signed a decree granting vaccine makers total legal immunity from any lawsuits that result from any new "Swine Flu" vaccine. Moreover, the $7 billion US Government fast-track program to rush vaccines onto the market in time for the Autumn flu season is being done without even normal safety testing.
Neither the WHO nor the CDC or any other scientific body has demonstrated required scientific proof for the existence of the alleged H1N1 Influenza A new virus, a proof which requires such a virus to be scientifically isolated, characterized and photographed with an electron microscope-the scientifically accepted standard procedure. Yet it is being used as the basis for declaring a global "pandemic" threat.
Jul 23, 2009 at 9:29 a.m.
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I hear that they are asking for volunteers! Why would I want any foreign flu virus in my body - whether it works or not? I would rather take my chances; like in the past, and be free from any manufactured illnesses.
Jul 23, 2009 at 9:23 a.m.
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Sorry, I meant H3N2. There is an H2N3, of course, but it is not endemic in the human population.
Jul 23, 2009 at 9:20 a.m.
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H1N1 is a subtype of flu strain. It was the majority of the flu virus in North America until the 1950s when H2N3 took over. Even so, every year there were 2-3 strains of H2N3 that were dominant. The swine flu is a specific strain of H1N1. There are other subtypes like H1N4 and H4N1 that circulate, but they have never been as common as the other two.
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A vaccine for H1N1 may be effective against a specific strain, or it may not. People have been getting H2N3 flus for years and they don't acquire general immunity against H2N3. The WHO effort is focused on a vaccine for the specific strain causing this epidemic, not on a general H1N1 vaccine.
Jul 23, 2009 at 8:43 a.m.
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Baxter Vaccine Patent Application US 2009/0060950 A1. The patent was published in March 2009, a month before the virus was released in Mexico in April, but it was filed seven months before this 'new strain' was officially known about. It is the most blatant set-up you could ever see.
Jul 23, 2009 at 8:22 a.m.
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I can't believe how deceptive our government really is. The more I research and find out the real facts, the more I realize how untrustworthy our government truly is. I would never, ever get a swine flu shot. Why would anybody? They manufactured the swine flu just like they manufactured 9-1-1. Higheriqthanu has done his research and I totally agree with his findings.
Jul 23, 2009 at 7:33 a.m.
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higheriq...do you have a source for that?
Jul 23, 2009 at 6:54 a.m.
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We are told that the drug companies and the World Health Organization have been working at fever pitch to develop a vaccine for the 'new' swine flu strain known as H1N1, but ... wait for it ... Baxter International filed a patent for the H1N1 vaccine on August 28th 2008.
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