Oklahoma kids to get shot at swine flu vaccine
VALLERY BROWN
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Published: July 24, 2009
Some Oklahoma children will get a swine flu vaccine before it is available to the public. If clinical trials go well, the vaccine could be available in limited supplies by mid to late fall, experts said.
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• The U.S. expects to have 160 million doses of swine flu vaccine available in October, even though manufacturers worldwide are having trouble brewing the shots, federal health officials said Thursday. More vaccine would trickle out over the following months.
• A surprise bright spot: The U.S. has the world’s only nasal-spray flu vaccine, and FluMist’s maker announced Thursday that it’s producing plenty — so many millions of doses a month that it can’t keep up with putting them into the special sprayer required to use it. So Maryland-based MedImmune Inc. is working with the government to see if it can race out a different method for fall, simply dripping its swine flu vaccine into people’s noses. The Associated Press
A race for a vaccine
"There is likelihood that we could have widespread disease in Oklahoma before we have a vaccine,” said Don Blose, chief of immunization services for the state Health Department.
He said the H1N1 strain spreads more quickly than other influenzas and more than half of the reported cases have been in children. Also, some antiviral drugs don’t work against the swine flu, he said.
This is why the studies are being allowed to progress more quickly than usual by the federal government.
According to Blose, the vaccine could be released in October or November. Those doses likely will go to at-risk and priority patients. He said federal health officials are working out those details and should have more information available in the coming weeks.
Blose said mass availability could come weeks or months later and as late as the first of the year if there are any delays.
Peak flu season is usually late fall, winter and early spring.
The vaccine probably will be administered in a two-dose series and will not supplant a seasonal flu vaccine, Blose said.
Likewise, a seasonal flu vaccine will not cover swine flu.
If the vaccines are not effective or if any problems are encountered in the production process, Blose said health officials will have to rely on backup plans: Washing hands, covering up coughs, avoiding crowds and ill persons staying at home.
But the best way, Blose said, is the vaccine.
The H1N1 virus has sickened about 200 people in Oklahoma and more than 40,000 nationwide.
It has resulted in 263 deaths, according to recent Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data.
The World Health Organization in June designated H1N1 as a level six pandemic, meaning the infection is widespread in the population.
According to the CDC, children and most adults don’t have any existing resistance to the disease and this has allowed it to spread more quickly.
However, some people older than 60 appear to have some antibodies, or immune resistance, to the strain.
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Wisen up folks...this vaccine will most likely damage and kill more people in OK that the virus ever would...
Blessings,
Nanaiya
Once your child takes part in a clinical trial of any kind, in Oklahoma, health insurance companies (Aetna, Blue Cross/Blue Shield, etc.) have and will refuse to cover your child, blaming any illness is a result of the unproven clinical trial your child participated in.
We had an opportunity to fix these kinds of slimy tactics used by insurance companies in Oklahoma, but our Republican leadership voted Stephanie's Law down last session.
If your child does experience an adverse reaction to the unproven flu vaccine, you will have no recourse in paying for the mounting medical bills. You will have signed your rights away from being able to recoup some of the 100's of 1000's of dollars that you will need throughout the lifetime of your child.
The H1N1 (Swine Flu) vaccine contains Thimerosal which is comprised of 49.9% ethyl-mercury. Keep that in mind. The FDA issued today a regulation on the dental amalgams (the ones that contain mercury) and stated there is neurologic risk to children and pregnant mothers if they use the mercury based fillings.
Mercury is a known neuro-toxin. It is 1000 times more toxic than arsenic.
I hope you think about these things when you sell your children's health for your 40 pieces of silver.
Well, my name isn't Cletus - although there isn't anything wrong with that name - and I think that I qualify as far as "book learnin'" goes, with a MS in engineering. I also happen to be one of those "lucky" Gulf War vets whom was given untested shots with unknown contents and made to take PB tablets under orders from the Commander-in-Chief. So, I would submit to you that it would behoove you and your family/children to look into the history of vaccines - especially the flu vaccines - who developes and mass produces them, what is actually in them, and what has happened to those who have been given them (knowingly and unknowingly). Try to prove that they are safe, and if you come to that conclusion when you're done, fine, but perhaps you will learn some things that will help you make a better, informed decision for yourself and your family about whether or not it's a good idea to take these vaccines. Here are some quick links:
Swine Flu Vaccine Should Not Be Given To Children In Schools
http://www.ageofautism.com/2009/07/swine-flu-vaccine-should-not-be-given-to-children-in-schools.html
Readying Americans for Dangerous, Mandatory Vaccinations
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=13925
Baxter: Product contained live bird flu virus
http://www.torontosun.com/news/canada/2009/02/27/8560781.html
Now Legal Immunity for Swine flu Vaccine Makers
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=14453
Now that is confidence. What could go wrong? Be the first one on your block to subject your child to medical experiments. Your childs' sacrifice will help others to live. Do it for science, do it for your country....