this data was published by WHO today.
Around me more and more people come down with a (swine) flu, most of them with the mild form. Schools around us stay closed. Fatalities are meandering through the press. The causalities between the death of these persons and the swine flu are not more than assumptive, far from confirmed.
People are not sure whether they should favor the vaccination or not, uncertainty is increasing, and the information policy from authorities and media are in line which means pro vaccination program. Some of you may call this propaganda 😉
The whole situations reminds me in many aspects of the swine flu (until now assessment is not final whether it was an pandemic or an epidemic) that was spreading in 1976 in the US and the desaster how it was handled by the authorities. What amazes me most is that the 1976 swine flu epidemic is never mentioned during these days and never referred back to as an option to avoid repeating the mistakes at that time. In 1976 possible side effects of a mass vaccination program (200 million people were intended to be treated, from Oct. 1 to Dec. 16, the official stop of the campaign, around 40 million people have been vaccinated) of these dimensions had been taken too lightly, and the then occurring cases of Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS) were either underestimated or ignored. It turned out that attracting this neurological disease which goes along with paralysis increased by the factor 11 among the group of immunized persons that received the vaccine used in those days.
Back to our current situation. The WHO says in its daily report from today, that no extraordinary abnormal reactions in relation to the vaccine of today have been reported until now. There is one observation I would like to add in this place. I got to know of a case of GBS in Wiesbaden, Germany through a reliable source (oral communication). In Wiesbaden up to now 2000 persons have been vaccinated with the vaccine that uses the adjuvant.
If this incident makes you more curious to have a look into the study that gives evidence of biestmilch/colostrum being superior to the vaccine in preventing a flu, check it out here.
The 1976 swine flu is mentioned by very mainstream media (such as Der Spiegel), especially as to why the FDA is reluctant to approve the adjuvanted vaccines.
Some have speculated thus, that Glaxo-Smith-Kline wants to use Europe as a large-scale clinical test to get the FDA approval.