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Posted on 08/16/2009 8:23:18 AM PDT by traumer
Because H1N1 flu is a novel virus, parents are concerned as 12,000 children in Oklahoma are going to be tested with vaccinations for H1N1 to see whether there are any serious side effects. Some parents are complaining the only benefit is going to be for the vaccine manufacturers. Other parents say numerous children will die, not from the new vaccine, but from the novel virus that combines avian, swine, and human viruses.
Among the parents' fears are the fear of autism, fear of children becoming paralyzed by novel reactions similar to the syndrome that occured with a different type of swine flu vaccine in 1976. See the Nov. 24, 2004 Journal of the American Medical Association article, Guillain-Barré Syndrome Following Influenza Vaccination. According to the article's abstract, "An unexplained increase in the risk of Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS) occurred among recipients of the swine influenza vaccine in 1976-1977.
Guillain-Barré syndrome remains the most frequent neurological condition reported after influenza vaccination to the Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System (VAERS) since its inception in 1990."
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A Red State or I’m I just being paranoid?
How complicated is this!! You just say NO..my kid is NOT going to be vaccinated!!! Problem solved.
Did I just miss in the article how these 12K children will be selected?
Didn’t they do something like this in Germany during WWII?
How about adults who freely choose it while knowing the risks and are willing to take those risks.
Ping! ping! ping!!
You said — A Red State or I’m I just being paranoid?
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Ummm..., you’re being paranoid. All a parent has to do is say no.... end of problem...
It’s up to the parents.
You said — How complicated is this!! You just say NO..my kid is NOT going to be vaccinated!!! Problem solved.
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Exactly.... LOL...
Some people want to make it more complicated than it is... :-)
Kids are not test dummies or tissue factories, they are precious life, our futures.
What also bothers me is this test is taking placed dead set in the middle of the country.......nice way to start a vector.
You said — How about adults who freely choose it while knowing the risks and are willing to take those risks.
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That’s exactly the way it is, with kids or adults. The parents are the ones who determine that for their kids.
You said — Kids are not test dummies or tissue factories, they are precious life, our futures.
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That’s up to the parents of those kids to determine for themselves what is best for their own kids.
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And then you said — What also bothers me is this test is taking placed dead set in the middle of the country.......nice way to start a vector.
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Ummmm..., the “vectors” have already been started — *all over the country* for the last several months... LOL...
Why not Dearbornistan, Gary Indiana, or Watts?
Or how about all the kids in the Kennedy Klan and Klavern?
411 confirmed GBS cases reported to VAERS over a 13 year period, which calculates to an average of about 32 cases per year. I’m sure the incidence percentage wise is extremely low (although if you are the one who gets GBS, the percentage is a moot point).
Having said that, I routinely get seasonal flu vaccine. Were I able to get Swine Flu vaccine (I can’t since it’s a live virus), I would have to think long and hard about that one.
I say we should do this, if the two Obama children and all of Congress’ children partake in it too.
And they should be randomly in the line....not in a different group.
OKLAHOMA KIDS TO GET SHOT AT SWINE FLU VACCINE
BY VALLERY BROWN
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.
But some officials fear the already fast-tracked studies may not be swift enough to curb the disease’s quick spread.
IPS Research in Oklahoma City is the first Oklahoma company to conduct the vaccination trials and will begin enrolling study patients Aug. 17, said IPS Research medical director Dr. Louise Thurman.
The trials will test the vaccine’s effectiveness and whether or not it has negative side effects in patients.
She anticipates about 200 children ages 3 to 8 will be able to enroll.
Patients accepted for the study will be administered a vaccine or placebo and are monitored through office visits and by phone. The study lasts 42 days and follow-up calls continue after that period.
Nationwide, 12,000 children will be given the vaccine for the trial, she said. The company should know today whether it will conduct adult trials, too.
“From a science standpoint, it should work,” Thurman said.
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.
http://newsok.com/state-kids-to-get-shot-at-swine-flu-vaccine/article/3387609
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Parents should simply opt out if they don’t want their kids to get it. It shouldn’t present a problem to those kids, except that they might get the H1N1 Flu virus anyway... (which a lot of people are, already, in any case....).
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