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FLU VACCINE SCANDAL AND FLU SCANDAL EXPLODING
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2004-10-12
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MONDAY, OCTOBER 11, 2004. BANNED CONTAMINATED CHIRON FLU VACCINE IS LOOSE IN THE US.
THE CDC MUST ANSWER QUESTIONS NOW. FOR EXAMPLE, DON'T ITS OWN BOTTOM-LINE STATISTICS PROVE THAT THE FLU IS KILLING VERY, VERY FEW PEOPLE???
MY ANSWER TO THAT QUESTION IS YES. THE CDC IS IS FLOATING FALSE PROPAGANDA ABOUT FLU DEATHS, IS CONCEALING THE TRUTH.
WE ARE LIVING IN THE MIDDLE OF A LIE.
THE CDC IS FABRICATING AND SPINNING ITS OWN DATA TO CONVINCE US THAT THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE (ABOUT 36,000) ARE DYING FROM THE FLU EVERY YEAR IN THE US. WHEN ITS OWN POSTED DATA (UNDER ALL THE LIES) SHOWS THAT FLU IS ABOUT AS DEADLY AS ACCIDENTS INVOLVING TOASTERS FALLING ON PEOPLE FROM APARTMENT WINDOWS.
NOTE: ALL DAY TODAY, BEFORE MY APPEARANCE TONIGHT ON COAST TO AM with George Noory, I'll be adding to the end of this article, giving you up-to-the-minute news on the breaking madness re FLU and FLU VACCINE...keep checking back for updates....
This isn’t big, it’s huge. (NOTE: I WILL BE ON COAST TO COAST AM WITH GEORGE NOORY TONIGHT FOR A FEW MINUTES IN THE FIRST HOUR....TALKING ABOUT CHIRON BANNED FLU VACCINE loose in the US...and CDC lies.
John Keller may have just solved several big mysteries vis-à-vis flu stats.
WHY DOES THE CDC SAY, OVER AND OVER, THAT 36,000 PEOPLE IN THE US DIE EVERY YEAR FROM THE FLU?
WHY DOES THE CDC LUMP TOGETHER FLU AND PNEUMONIA WHEN ISSUING DEATH REPORTS?
WHY DO LOTS OF PEOPLE SAY THEY KNOW OF NO ONE WHO HAS DIED OF THE FLU?
Does the CDC admit, on its own site, that the REAL numbers of flu deaths, in recent years, are UNDER 800 PER YEAR? UNDER 1000 (TOTAL) FOR TWO YEARS?
Mr. Keller, an independent researcher, has issued a report…I have excerpted a key paragraph below, which gives directions on finding the truth at the bottom of the CDC well. I have been trying to follow those directions…so far I’m lost in space…I need help from readers. Please try it yourself and report back to me. I have already emailed Mr. Keller and another friend for assistance. So far, my impression is, it’s me. I’m just not finding what is there. I don’t know. But I’m LOOKING, LOOKING, LOOKING. Help… [Update: I've gotten help from three independent sources.]
Again, this could be bigger than big.
Here is Keller’s excerpt:
Now, let's dig into the more detailed reports. The "Deaths: Final
Data for 2001" (http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr52/nvsr52_03.pdf
) report is an 8MB PDF. Skip it unless you want all the charts detailing
deaths by race, age, and ethnicity. The 2002 preliminary report contains
the interesting parts of the 2001 final report, as well as data from
2002. The second search result for J10 (the mortality code for flu)
brings us to page 16 of 48, which contains the breakout of flu and
pneumonia. Total flu deaths for 2002: 753. Pneumonia accounted for the
other 65,231 deaths. Scrolling to the right are the numbers for 2001.
Again, total flu deaths were under one thousand, coming in at 257.
That's right, less than a thousand people died of the flu in 2001 and
2002, according to the CDC's own numbers.
End of excerpt.
THIS MAY BE THE BIGGEST MEDICAL STORY TO COME DOWN THE PIPELINE IN YEARS.
UPDATE: I'm getting confirmations on Mr. Keller's discovery. I will be adding to this article through the day, prior to my brief appearance on Coast to Coast AM tonight....and I'll be weaving in other material on the flu scam.
Keep checking back.
For example:
OCTOBER 11, 2004. Researcher Patricia Doyle has uncovered a very disturbing paragraph at the end of a Reuters article dated October 6:
“The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention [CDC] was working to find out where vaccines had already been shipped to providers such as clinics, drug stores and employers.”
The paragraph is, of course, about the explosively widening Chiron flu vaccine scandal.
In previous stories, I’ve discussed the fact that this vaccine, just banned as UNSAFE and CONTAMINATED, was already shipped, in huge quantities, from England to the US, where it has been sitting in distributors’ warehouses.
I warned that there was a very good chance vaccine had already been shipped out the doors.
The CDC KNOWS THIS IS TRUE. Because the hunt is on. Clinics, drug stores, employers.
The vials of vaccine have escaped quarantine.
US health authorities are downplaying the situation. They claim, without a flutter of an eyelid, that it is standard practice for vaccine makers to ship doses for sale and distribution BEFORE THESE MANUFACTURERS DO THEIR FINAL SAFETY TESTS.
As of this morning, Oct. 11, no major media outlet I can find has sounded an alarm.
Why not? I’ll tell you. Because the CDC has not told them to.
It is the CDC that is holding back. You know: “We must avoid panic.”
You can be SURE that, if the CDC and its parent, the US Dept. of Health and Human Services, an agency of the executive branch of the US federal government, had issued press releases, the major media would be all over this.
So it is those agencies of the government that are CULPABLE.
How many people in the US have already received contaminated flu shots manufactured by Chiron?
JON RAPPOPORT www.nomorefakenews.com
Now start putting all this together. If the CDC has been lying for years about the real numbers of deaths from the flu in the US---if the true numbers are much, much lower than advertised broadly, then why all the fear-mongering about the dangers of the flu?
They want to sell vaccine.
They want to sell vaccine.
So what does it appear they have ended up with? Very few actual deaths from the flu. And a contaminated and very dangerous vaccine which is being sold out the doors in the US...a wildcat vaccine...and no accountability.
Add to this the hysterical propaganda about the possible arrival of The Big One, a global flu pandemic, based on no evidence at all, and you have a monumental crime in progress, right before your eyes.
Yesterday, on C-SPAN, I watched a few minutes of a brief Congressional hearing on the "flu-vaccine shortage" in the US. The drug-company reps basically said that the only way to guarantee the vaccine makers a good season every season for selling flu vaccine is to UP THE DEMAND. And that means young children, who are still "not getting the shots in great enough numbers."
It's nothing less than a RICO crime.
Keep checking back today...
JON RAPPOPORT www.nomorefakenews.com
UPDATE: October 11, 2004, 12:10PM, Pacific Time. The first confirmation on the Keller report has come in, from John Cullison. He has checked part of Keller’s work and finds identical low, low numbers on actual flu deaths. He offers the following path to take, using the CDC link Keller offered (above). As I suspected---since I am basically a writer with a typewriter who woke up one day with a computer---the technical details of the search are way over my head:
Hi,
You need to download the PDF (create a link to it on a page, and then right
click the link; then select Save Target As..., assuming you're using
Internet Explorer), and then open it in Adobe Acrobat Reader (rather than
reading it via Internet Explorer's Acrobat plug-in), and then you'll be able
to search the document for "J10". (In Acrobat Reader, use the Edit->Find
command, and once you've found "J10" the first, time, use F3 to find
subsequent "J10"'s.) I've already done the work, however, so here's what
you need to do.
Go to page 31. That page is printed in landscape mode, so that the table
can fit the page. There, sixth line from the bottom, is the "Influenza and
pneumonia (J10-J18)" listing, and below that are sub-listings for "Influenza
(J10-J11)" and "Pneumonia (J12-J18)". Sure enough, under the first column
of data, "All Ages", the influenza line shows a whopping 257, while the
pneumonia line shows 61,777, for a total of 62,034. Almost 2/3 of the
influenza deaths were of people over 74 years old.
Go to page 35. The table layout is either identical or very similar, but it
lists death rates per 100,000. As you can infer from the fifth line from
the bottom of the table, death from influenza is a one-in-a-million event.
Following those pages are breakouts for various races, various age groups
(i.e. infant-related), etc. On page 104, you can find the following data:
"The large decrease in Influenza (ICD-10 codes J10-J11) deaths from 2000 to
2001 is largely due to a change in the coding rules, which resulted in
deaths that would have previously been assigned to Influenza, instead were
assigned to Pneumonia in 2001."
Of course, what exactly this means is not stated. Was the CDC misreporting
pneumonia deaths as flu deaths previously, thereby generating excess alarm
about the relative danger of influenza?
=-John-=
JON RAPPOPORT www.nomorefakenews.com
UPDATE Oct.11, 2004, 12:25PM, Pacific Time: More from John Cullison that confirms the Keller report on ACTUAL very low CDC stats for flu deaths in the US:
I've found the preliminary data for 2002. It's at
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr52/nvsr52_13.pdf. It's in THIS
document that Keller's instructions make sense. Sure enough, on page 16,
Influenza (J10-J11) is listed as 753, and Pneumonia (J12-J18) accounts for
the other 65,231 cases.
=-John-=
JON RAPPOPORT www.nomorefakenews.com
UPDATE: October 11, 2004, 12:30PM, Pacific Time: Here is another source, Martin Maloney, who has tracked the CDC page address cited by Keller. He offers his succinct confirmatory finding:
Perhaps this is what you are looking for. Near the bottom of page 31 of that PDF document, you will find, under the heading:
Table 10. Number of deaths from 113 selected causes by age: United States, 2001 - Con.
//snip//
Influenza and pneumonia (J10-J18) ................................. 62,034
Influenza (J10-J11) ......................................................... 257
Pneumonia (J12-J18) ..................................................... 61,777
Martin
A question is raised here. If table 10 is assembled BY AGE, are the figures cited here for all ages, or only for a restricted range of ages?
Hopefully, more later on this.
JON RAPPOPORT www.nomorefakenews.com
UPDATE: OCTOBER 11, 2004, 1:30pm, Pacific Time. Martin Maloney replies to my question about whether the stats he just cited on flu deaths were for all ages or a restricted age group:
"Go to the top of the table, and you will see that age ranges are listed by column. The first column is "All ages" -- that is the column in which the cited figures appear."
JON RAPPOPORT www.nomorefakenews.com
UPDATE: OCT. 11, 1:55PM. In John Keller's original report, which I excerpted above this morning, he gives a web page where the CDC discusses various types of pneumonia.
www.cdc.gov/ncidod/diseases/submenus/sub_pneumonia.htm
Keller points out that, on this page, there is no discussion of the FLU as a precursor to pneumonia. I have checked this page, and Keller is right. This is important, because the CDC could try to defend itself for lumping together pneumonia and flu in death stats by saying, "Well, as we all know, the flu brings on pneumonia, and whether a person dies from flu or flu/pneumonia, the basic cause (flu) could be the same in many, many cases." There is no conventional basis for this assumption, and therefore the CDC has no leg to stand on for this deceptive lumping of death stats under the category "flu/pneumonia." As you can see from reading this far in today's post, it is exactly that lumping together that makes the flu seem rather dangerous.
JON RAPPOPORT www.nomorefakenews.com
UPDATE, OCTOBER 11, 2:10PM, Pacific Time. John Cullison has now posted a very important article on flu deaths stats. It attempts to make your search easier.
www.curezone.com/forums/m.asp?f=74&i=576
JON RAPPOPORT www.nomorefakenews.com
UPDATE---BACKGROUNDER---OCTOBER 11, 2004, 2:40PM, Pacific Time.
BOSTON (CBS.MW) -- British regulators' sudden move to shut down Chiron's flu shot manufacturing operations sent the company's shares tumbling, while fanning fears the United States could be vulnerable to an influenza epidemic.
Chiron (CHIR: news, chart, profile) rocked investors Tuesday when the company said it will not be able to release any of its Fluvirin vaccine because the British government has suspended the manufacturing license at its Liverpool plant for at least three months.
The plant is Chiron's only flu-shot manufacturing facility. The suspension only prohibits Chiron from making Fluvirin at Liverpool, and does not affect the production of other products there, the company said.
In addition, the British government also is preventing manufactured doses of the vaccine to be shipped to the United States.
Shares of the vaccine developer closed down 16.38 percent to $37.98 Tuesday. Chiron had halted trading of its shares until about 12.15 p.m. Eastern and was down by more than a third at one point after trading resumed.
Chiron is one of only two major suppliers of seasonal flu vaccine to the U.S. market. The Emeryville, Calif.-based biotechnology firm planned to supply 46 million to 48 million doses of the vaccine for the 2004-05 flu season, which begins in October. The other major supplier, Sanofi-Aventis (SNY: news, chart, profile), is reportedly on track to supply 50 million doses.
Chiron's flu vaccine is only approved for use in adults. Pediatric flu shots are supplied by Aventis, according to the U.S. Health and Human Services Department.
"We profoundly regret we will be unable to meet public health needs," said Chiron Chief Executive Howard Pien in a conference call with investors midday Tuesday.
"The suspension ... has the practical effect of wiping out our ability to supply," he added.
According to Chiron management, the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency, or MHRA, Britain's equivalent to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, yanked the company's license to manufacture the vaccine at its Liverpool plant at midnight Eastern time Tuesday, citing concerns about the process.
Chiron already had announced it was delaying shipments of the vaccine after discovering some batches of the vaccine made at the plant had been contaminated.
The company is also a major supplier of the flu vaccine to the British government.
The MHRA's move came just as Chiron was doing final testing on this season's supply. According to Chiron, practically all of the 48 million doses slated for the United States had already been manufactured when the MHRA pulled the plug.
Pien said that the move was "unexpected," maintaining that the flu shots had passed internal corporate inspection without a problem last week, an inspection process that the FDA appeared to be "fairly comfortable with."
"As of last week, we expected to be on track to have delivery of Fluvirin by early October," Pien elaborated on the U.S. shipments. "You should now assume that the entirety of the 2004-05 flu season is gone."
The executive said that the existing supply of flu shots at the Liverpool plant will be destroyed unless MHRA changes its decision in the next few days. He added that Chiron will begin discussions with that agency Wednesday.
Because it takes more than five months to manufacture the vaccine, Pien indicated that there is no way the company can manufacture more of the shots to meet its U.S. obligations.
Chiron also issued new 2004 financial estimates. The company said that due to the loss of its primary product for the year, Chiron now expects to post net earnings of between 35 cents and 45 cents per share for 2004. The company previously forecast earnings of $1.50 to $1.60 a share for the year.
Chiron is one of the world's leading manufacturers of flu vaccines. The company is a major supplier of flu shots to the United States, as well as Germany, Ireland, Italy and the United Kingdom.
It said in August it was delaying U.S. shipments for several weeks after it was discovered that a small number of batches made at its Liverpool plant had been contaminated due to human error. Chiron executives testified before Congress last week that they anticipated no further delays in the shipments.
Sanofi-Aventis is the other major flu vaccine supplier to the United States. The company said Monday that it had already shipped 30 million doses ahead of schedule to U.S. distributors. See related story.
Niche biotechnology concern MedImmune (MEDI: news, chart, profile) also makes a spray-mist version of the vaccine, called FluMist. But that product has not been approved for use in children under age 5 and adults over 50, who combined make up the vast bulk of flu shot recipients.
MedImmune's chief executive told CBS MarketWatch in early September that his company had no plans to ramp up additional production of FluMist to fill any market void created by Chiron's delays. MedImmune had planned to only make about 2 million doses of FluMist for the 2004-05 flu season.
U.S.-traded shares of Sanofi-Aventis rose 0.98 percent to $37.14. Its Aventis (AVE: news, chart, profile) subsidiary, of which 5 percent of its shares are publicly traded, was up 1.39 percent to $86. MedImmune jumped 5.79 percent to $25.78.
During a second press conference Tuesday, Chiron executives also emphasized that the company is still seeking to be a major vaccine supplier for the 2005-06 season. The company said that it is working diligently with U.S. and foreign regulators to help work out any outstanding issues to be able to begin the lengthy manufacturing process next spring.
"What we're worried about is our ability to live up to the public trust... as a reliable supplier of the vaccine," lamented Pien.
He added that the company is also on track with a previously planned $100 million capital investment in its vaccine-making operations, which include construction and upgrades.
End of CBS piece.
Since that piece appeared, the CDC has admitted (though the admission has not received wide press attention) that perhaps 6 million doses of the vaccine had already been shipped into the US, before the ban was laid on. Perhaps more.
Chiron's flu vaccine is contaminated with the serratia bacteria.
The doses already in the US are outside the regulatory arm of the FDA and outside the control of Chiron. Therefore, as demand increases for the vaccine and the public becomes predictably hysterical (announce a shortage, make people drool for your product), these stocks of vaccine, sitting in US distributors' warehouses, are almost certainly going out the door into the black market. Who knows how much is being sold in the US and other countries.
To make things worse, about a million doses were shipped from Chiron in England this past July. People may have already been shot up with them...
JON RAPPOPORT www.nomorefakenews.com
UPDATE, OCTOBER 11, 2004, 3:15PM, Pacific Time. Yet another reader has made the trek to the CDC site pages and has found a 2003 report about flu for the year 2001:
nvsr52 03.pdf (7.4 MB) pg 44
influenza and pneumonia deaths (j10-j18) 62,034
influenza (j10-11) 257
pneumonia (J12-18) 61,777
JON RAPPOPORT www.nomorefakenews.com
UPDATE, OCTOBER 11, 4:50pm, PACIFIC TIME. Another backgrounder on flu vaccine.
Boom. It turns out that a great deal of the flu vaccine made by Chiron in England---the vaccine just declared contaminated and unfit for use and dangerous---IS ALREADY IN THE US. It was shipped here prior to the ban.
It’s sitting in US distributor warehouses, “outside the direct control of the company or US [FDA] regulators,” according to SFGate.com, the San Francisco Chronicle’s online outlet.
So which flu vaccine are people in the US going to be getting this fall and winter??
The vials of Chiron vaccine in the US are under the quarantine imposed by the company after it learned that all 48 million of its 2004 flu-vaccine doses were banned by British regulators…but that quarantine does not mean the vials will just sit there in US warehouses. Oh no. It means that eager greedheads can start putting it on the market. Because the selling price will skyrocket in a very heavy demand situation.
Chiron vaccine could be going out the door as we speak.
It’s open season on people who want flu vaccine.
And as you’ll see in the SFGate article excerpted below, there is a curious word being used to describe FDA action on these US-warehoused flu vaccine doses: the word is RELEASED. Huh? RELEASED? No explanation is spelled out.
Here ‘s the excerpt:
The Chronicle has learned that vaccine shipped across the Atlantic has been sitting since August in the warehouses of American drug distributors, under a Chiron-imposed "quarantine,'' but outside the direct control of the company or U.S. regulators.
Now, Chiron's entire production of at least 48 million doses of flu vaccine has been rendered useless after British regulators abruptly suspended the license of the Emeryville-based company's Liverpool factory Tuesday, cutting the U.S. supply of flu shots in half.
In this case, Chiron employed the little-known quarantine process under which drugmakers can ship products to distributors before final safety tests are completed.
Norman Baylor, deputy director for the FDA's vaccine unit, said it was not unusual for manufacturers to ship vaccine under quarantine. The quarantine is lifted by the manufacturer when the company's final tests confirm that the product is safe and the distributor is free to sell it.
"I think the system works,'' Baylor said in an interview in September shortly after Chiron's contamination problem first surfaced. "The system did what it was supposed to do.''
Baylor also confirmed that 27 bulk lots -- nearly half of the 60 produced by the Chiron plant -- had been "released" by the FDA prior to the company's discovery that some finished product was contaminated. The actual number of doses that can be produced from each lot varies.
Although the federal agency does not conduct tests on the final product, companies are liable for the safety of their medicines and have powerful incentive to test them thoroughly before releasing them from quarantine, Baylor explained.
Chiron shipped its first million doses of vaccine to distributors in late July, trumpeting its first-to-market achievement in a July 23 press release. At that time, the company explained that "in the coming days," it would "complete its internal release procedures, allowing distributors to begin shipping vaccines to customers.''
Any optimism at Chiron evaporated with Tuesday's ruling. "We consider the Fluvirin season to be over, for all intents and purposes,'' Chiron spokesman John Gallagher said Wednesday.
He also confirmed that the initial crisis had been triggered when tests detected serratia bacteria in a small number of lots. Serratia bacteria are often implicated in episodes of hospital-acquired infection and can be deadly in the bloodstream.
The company has yet to reveal when it discovered the contaminated lots, but having found a problem, Chiron never lifted its quarantine. Although no Chiron vaccine was shipped to clinics, some drug industry experts acknowledge that its presence at multiple U.S. distributor warehouses poses a potential security problem.
"Because of the shortage, the spot market for flu vaccines is going to go through the roof,'' said David Webster, a health care consultant in Lehigh Valley, Penn. "Any time there is an extremely valuable commodity, the potential exists that it will work its way on to the black market. It is a legitimate cause for concern.''
End of SF Gate article
JON RAPPOPORT www.nomorefakenews.com
UPDATE: OCTOBER 11, 2004, 9:20PM. PACIFIC TIME. I have had several people contact me who are trying to justify the CDC reporting system on flu and pneumonia. They basically claim that, since the flu "so often leads to pneumonia," especially the oh so deadly viral type of pneumonia (they stress this), it makes sense for the CDC to lump flu and pneumonia deaths together. I offer this tidbit from WebMD about viral penumonia:
"Viral pneumonia is pneumonia caused by a virus. About half of all people with pneumonia have viral pneumonia. Viral pneumonia is usually less serious than bacterial pneumonia and can take from 2 to 4 weeks to recover
"Viral pneumonia is usually less serious [than bacterial pneumonia].. A stay in the hospital is rarely needed."
Yes, I realize that the elderly, already drugged to the eyeballs, and suffering from multiple problems, can die of almost anything added to their already heavy burden, but this does NOT justify concluding that they are dying from the flu progressing into viral pneumonia on some seamless course in a vacuum.
So far I have found no authoritative death stats in the US from viral pneumonia, where the virus has definitely been IDed (NOT eyeballed)and where the titer of that virus has been determined to be high.
I'm sticking to my story. The CDC is fronting for a lie.
JON RAPPOPORT www.nomorefakenews.com