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Swine flu less serious than other influenza in children: new study using Wisconsin data
Wednesday, September 8, 2010
Flu Response: contradictions
Despite a recent attempt to paint last year's swine flu pandemic as more serious than thought, based on its higher attack rates and complications in a younger population, a new study using Wisconsin data, reported by Agence France Presse, calls those conclusions into question:
Children, which the 2009 H1N1 pandemic infection appeared to disproportionately affect, were not associated with more hospital admission or pneumonia cases when compared with seasonal H1N1 or H3N2, said the study.
Within thirty days of infection, six out of 395 children with the 2009 H1N1 virus, or 1.5 percent, were admitted to hospital, compared to five of 135 with seasonal H1N1 (3.7 percent) and eight of 255 with the H3N2 virus (3.1 percent).
For adults six out of 150 with 2009 H1N1 or 4.0 percent went to hospital, compared to 17 out of 377 cases of H3N2, or 4.5 percent.
"Our results suggest that the clinical manifestations and risk of hospital admission are similar for 2009 H1N1 and other seasonal influenza A strains," said the study's authors.
"The perceived severity of symptoms and risk of serious outcomes (pneumonia or hospital admission) were not increased," they added.
According to Finland's YLE, The narcolepsy rate appears to be at least ten times normal after swine flu vaccination, and may be higher still given the narrow age range of 5 to 15 years reported from Finland. On average, 3 cases are diagnosed in Finland annually, but 12-14 cases have been detected there with onset between last December and February.
What other neurological (or other types of) disorders might also be occurring as a result of last year's flu vaccines? It is relatively easy to identify increased rates of rare but extremely serious diseases, especially when the rate may have spiked ten-fold. It is much harder to identify increased rates of more common or less severe diseases that may result after vaccinations. What epidemiological efforts are being made to do so? ..."
Posted by Meryl Nass, M.D.
The swine flu vaccine used in Finland (Europe), not in the U.S., was Glaxo-Smith-Kline's Pandemrix. This vaccine contained squalene, an adjuvant to make the vaccine 'more effective'.
At this time there is no squalene in any US licensed vaccines.
Chris
http://www.i-c-a-p.org/GSK_Pandemrix.pdf Pandemrix information - AS03 adjuvant composed of squalene (10.68 milligrams), DL-α-tocopherol (11.86 milligrams) and polysorbate 80 (4.85 milligrams) - Excipients: It contains 5 micrograms thiomersal (49.5% ethyl mercury by weight), Octoxynol 10, Sodium chloride (NaCl), Disodium hydrogen phosphate (Na2HPO4), Potassium dihydrogen phosphate (KH2PO4), Potassium chloride (KCl), Magnesium chloride (MgCl2), Water for injections, one killed virus, H1N1-Swine flu
AVIP -Questions and Answers Squalene is not added to any US-licensed vaccine, including anthrax vaccine.
Influenza vaccine ingredient information provided by the manufacturers - CDC ingredient info.
Injected vaccine ingredients including 3 killed viruses
Influenza (Afluria)
Beta-Propiolactone, Calcium Chloride, Neomycin, Ovalbumin, Polymyxin B, Potassium Chloride, Potassium Phosphate, Sodium Phosphate, Sodium Taurodeoxychoalate
Influenza (Agriflu)
Cetyltrimethylammonium Bromide (CTAB), Egg Protein, Formaldehyde or Formalin, Kanamycin, Neomycin Sulfate, Polysorbate 80
Influenza (Fluarix)
Egg Albumin (Ovalbumin), Egg Protein, Formaldehyde or Formalin, Gentamicin, Hydrocortisone, Octoxynol-10, α-Tocopheryl Hydrogen Succinate, Polysorbate 80, Sodium Deoxycholate, Sodium Phosphate, Thimerosal*
Influenza (Flulaval)
Egg Albumin (Ovalbumin), Egg Protein, Formaldehyde or Formalin, Sodium Deoxycholate, Phosphate Buffers, Thimerosal
Influenza (Fluvirin)
Beta-Propiolactone , Egg Protein, Neomycin, Polymyxin B, Polyoxyethylene 9-10 Nonyl Phenol (Triton N-101, Octoxynol 9), Thimerosal (multidose containers), Thimerosal* (single-dose syringes)
Influenza (Fluzone)
Egg Protein, Formaldehyde or Formalin, Gelatin, Octoxinol-9 (Triton X-100), Thimerosal (multidose containers)
nasal-spray vaccine ingredients including 3 live attenuated viruses Influenza (FluMist)
Chick Kidney Cells, Egg Protein, Gentamicin Sulfate, Monosodium Glutamate, Sucrose Phosphate Glutamate Buffer
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