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August 19, 2009 Update – Media Announcement: Citizens Petition tells FDA – STOP the “Swine Flu” Vaccine Rush to Approval – Respect Our Rights!
https://staging.drrimatruthreports.com/?p=3312
[This blog links from our July 24, 2009 Health Freedom Action eAlert, posted at:
https://staging.drrimatruthreports.com/?p=3178 ]
Reactions to the Threat of Pandemic Vaccine Panic:
Don’t Jab Us!
Sue for an injunction? Rely on your Sheriff to protect you? Complain to the FBI?
Everybody’s jumping on the band wagon… and that is a good thing! We’re facing an engineered pandemic to force an unproven, untested** and uninsurable “pandemic flu vaccine” on the public. As usual, Natural Solutions Foundation led the way, demanding that governments respect our fundamental human right to Self-Shield in our own homes in the event of a real pandemic, rather than be subjected to The Jab.
Now the “health freedom movement” is reacting, and many actions are being suggested.
Making sense out of the legal confusion.
Well meaning people are initiating steps to stop globalization of the planet and mandatory, weaponized vaccination. We applaud their efforts. Some of these efforts are brilliant, some of them may be somewhat effective and some are misguided.
Herewith a guide to their implications in the United States…
Complaint charging Baxter, WHO, Obama, UN, etc., with conspiracy to commit Crimes against Humanity, filed investigative reporter Jane Burgermeister.
This outstanding effort has fired the imagination and informed millions of people, making it a worthy effort on that score. Jane Burgermeister is brilliant and we salute her effort. Since we are not experts on Austrian/EU law, we do not know the likelihood of this suit being accepted in the Austrian courts, or of the FBI responding to her well-reasoned, well-researched information linking the drug companies and the globalist population-reduction-by-any-means agenda.
Since the “accidental” contamination by Baxter of the Seasonal Flu vaccine intended for 18 European countries apparently took place in Austria, it is logical to file suit there. We have written to Ms. Bergermeister expressing our support for her efforts and urge you all to become familiar with them. Spain has a legal structure which holds that crimes against humanity any where on the planet are prosecutable in Spain. We hope that a similar suit is filed there.
Here is one of the many media reports on the action: http://www.fleshandstone.net/healthandsciencenews/burgermeister.html
This suit, which will take a considerable time to process through the Court in Austria IF it is accepted for hearing, has little impact on US law, practice or vaccination policy. Unless and until the Globalists succeed in their plans for a One World Government, laws and judgments in sovereign countries have no impact on other sovereign countries although they might have trade implications, generally sorted out through trade dispute resolutions in the World Trade Organization if another agreement cannot be reached.
So Ms. Burgermeister’s suit is outstanding in Austria, important globally and will probably have no impact legally on the US, certainly not in time to meet the immediate threat.
Injunctions in the United States Delivered to Local Police and Law Enforcement to prevent mandatory vaccination: While it is enormously satisfying to take this action, it is fundamentally meaningless. All of the provisions necessary (e.g, Executive Orders, Homeland Security and Health and Human Services Directives, legislation and policy statements by CDC, FDA and WHO, State Emergency Medical Powers Acts, etc.,) are in place for the “pandemic emergency” leading to mandatory vaccination to be declared. The Natural Solutions Foundation fully expects that to happen, which is why we are urging you so strongly to take our Action Step to demand self quarantine in addition to the current choices you have if mandatory vaccination is declared. You know those choices: take the jab or be subjected to FEMA control… or force Congress to honor your Right* to Self-Shield:
Click here:
http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=27275
Despite the emotional satisfaction involved, however, it is highly unlikely that any court will issue an injunction against something that has not yet happened. The value of this effort is that perhaps, just perhaps, the people at the police station or prosecutor’s office where you deliver this document might read it and they might be less likely to enforce their orders for roundup, deportation, incarceration, vaccination or whatever.
We consider this a poor use of energy and time, and consider that the likelihood of changing the outcome of any order to vaccinate, detain or incarcerate people on the basis of some random people reading some documents – or not – that we cannot endorse this action, even for its educational value.
Universal Right to Refuse Vaccination Petition: The emotional and intellectual appeal of this internet activity is enormous. The political impact is zero. We have contacted the people involved in this activity to congratulate them on their activism and ask them to include the link to our Action Item for self shielding. We received no response. While it saddens us to say it, this intellectually worthy activity is educational to read but meaningless legally and in terms of any protection against vaccination. When the vaccinators are holding their syringe at your skin, explaining that if you refuse the vaccine, you will incarcerated, telling them that you signed the Universal Right to Refuse Vaccination Petition will not offer you protection. Therefore, we do not endorse this action because it provides no gain other than emotional solace in troubled times. [Your typical online or paper petitions have no legal significance. They should be distinguished, however, from formal Citizens Petitions under the Federal Administrative Procedures Act and the First Amendment’s Right to Petition for Redress of Grievances. These legal petitions are the basis of many Federal agency actions and are often a prerequisite for seeking relief in Federal Court.]
Sheriff Resistance: This legal approach holds that, as stated by the Supreme Court, there is no legal authority higher than a sitting sheriff in his own county. This is true and totally irrelevant. Although a sitting sheriff can refuse to comply with orders to vaccinate, detain, relocate or kill citizens and others, the likelihood of a full scale rebellion by a small force (Sheriffs and Deputy Sheriffs) against the United States Army and State or local Police whose authority and loyalty does not come from the traditional common law Sheriff structure, or worse yet, foreign and UN “Peacekeeping Forces” (including Chinese, Belgian, Eastern European and Canadian troops), National Guard and other non-sheriff forces seems absurd to us. Out numbered, out gunned, out commanded, any Sheriff who does oppose the mandate to vaccinate and/or incarcerate will simply wind up either overpowered and “relocated” or dead. This is, in our estimation, an invitation to armed insurrection consistent with an aggressive and non strategic thinking patterns without any likelihood of success. We cannot endorse this.
Armed Resistance: The Natural Solutions Foundation does NOT endorse, condone or support armed or violent resistance of any type for two reasons: first of all, we believe that there are better ways to fight injustice, oppression and fascism. Second, we know that the other side is better armed with weapons that can drop a resister at a mile and a half in a seizure without the resister even getting a telescopic sighting on the other side.
This is the wrong approach, guaranteeing death, incarceration or vaccination, or a combination of all of the above. Why give the other side what it wants?
For the record, with reference to the domestic terrorism law and other terrorism laws, regulations and executive orders, universally, the Foundation does not morally (or otherwise) support acts that are dangerous to human life, violate criminal law and “appear to be intended” to “intimidate or coerce a civilian population” or “influence the policy of a government by intimidation or coercion . . .”
We believe that push back, not revolution, is the answer to solving, not worsening, the situation.
Seemingly rational people say things like “I have my rifles and my guns – if they try to make me take a vaccine, they’ll have to take me down first”. They will, and they will do a good job of it, too.
How long can a militant hold out before the ammo runs out, the tear gas over comes him/her or the food and water run out? Or before the other side looses patience and he/she is the target of another Waco or Ruby Ridge?
If that is your preference, please understand that one such incident could serve as the “excuse” for martial law and worse.
The Natural Solutions Foundation urges you to take this moment seriously and act prudently:
1. Take the ACTION STEP
Click here:
http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=27275
2. Do whatever you can to motivate everyone you can reach to do the same and propagate this action. Our friends in Congress are considering introducing the self shielding legislation we have proposed to give us all that option. This is far more likely to happen if we can generate enormous support for it.
Read our White Paper: Stay Home; Stay Alive: Your Right to Self-Shield which has a link to the proposed bill and important information on preparations for Self-Shielding.
Click here: https://staging.drrimatruthreports.com/?p=2752
3. Stock up on supplies for Self-Shielding. FEMA is advising its people, we have been told, to lay in a 30 day supply of water, food, vitamins, drugs, etc. If that is good enough for FEMA, it is good guidance for us.
4. See our evolving Online Vaccine Resources Portal: https://staging.drrimatruthreports.com/?p=3085 and please share this link with everyone.
The Foundation has two main focuses: (1) defending your Health Freedom and (2) discovering, developing, demonstrating and disseminating Natural Solutions to social problems. Even in defense of your rights, we are focused on Natural Solutions. This “pandemic panic” — artificially created as it is — is a clear and present danger to us all, but we will not allow it to prevent us from “keeping our eyes on the prize” — a better world, where all people are free to seek out natural ways and means to achieve and maintain a healthy self and healthy community.
Thank you for your continued support in this effort!
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Yours, for Peace, Hope and Freedom…
Ralph Fucetola JD
Natural Solutions Foundation Trustee and Counsel
Notes:
*The Nuremberg Code forbids experimentation on people to which they do not agree through fully informed consent. The Helsinki Declaration says that people have strong rights to determine their own health course. The United Nations Declaration of Human Rights states that people have a right to health, clean food and environment. These documents, excellent as they are, have little legal weight in the United States. We find in these documents moral justification for our common law right to Self-Shield. To protect that right, we need Congress to acknowledge and recognize the right, and to give it “teeth” by forbidding federal funds to be used to involuntarily remove anyone from their own home while self-Shielding.
The early 20th Century case of Jacobson v Massachusetts which vaccine promoters take as their legal justification for mandatory vaccines has been recently questioned as such justification in a scholarly article that has significant implications for the Right to Self-Shield. See: http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=1449224
That case, however, when read in light of recent discoveries regarding the dangers and ineffectiveness of vaccination, supports recognition of the right. The Supreme Court said, in 1905, “We are not to be understood as holding that the statute was intended to be applied to such a case, or, if it was so intended, that the judiciary would not be competent to interfere and protect the health and life of the individual concerned.”
** Well, they are about to “test” it… NOT. How can you test the efficacy of a vaccine for a pandemic that doesn’t exist? The following article shows that we are the test subjects to see how many of us will be crippled or killed by this dangerous concoction. Even the Secretary of “Health and Human Services” has admitted that she is willing to sacrifice our young, saying that our children, pregnant women and the elderly will be among the first experimental subjects for a vaccine whose short and long term dangers cannot be known before it is used on them and that the government will (we quote her) “watch and see” to find out whether there are “too many” adverse events!
Associated Press – July 22, 2009 11:55 AM ET
WASHINGTON (AP) – The government is calling for several thousand volunteers to
roll up their sleeves for the first swine flu shots, in a race to test whether a
new vaccine really will protect against the virus before its expected to rebound
in the fall.
The National Institutes of Health’s infectious disease chief, Dr. Anthony Fauci,
tells The Associated Press that scientists first will test different
doses of the swine flu vaccine in healthy adults and, if there are no immediate
safety concerns, quickly begin testing babies and children.
The studies will begin at eight medical centers around the country – in
Baltimore; Iowa City, Iowa; St. Louis; Nashville; Seattle; Atlanta; Cincinnati
and Houston…
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Draft NO HARMonization Bill
H.R. ________: To amend the Food, Drug and Cosmetics Act, Title 7 of the United States Code (Agriculture) and for other purposes.
HR _______
111th CONGRESS
1st Session
To amend the Food, Drug and Cosmetics Act and Title 7 of the United States Code regarding harmonization of United States food regulations with international regulations or guidelines, and for other purposes.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
July _____, 2009
[Co-Sponsors]
A BILL
To amend the Food, Drug and Cosmetics Act and Title 7 of the United States Code regarding harmonization of United States food regulations with international regulations or guidelines, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ‘Food Regulations No Harmonization Act” and may be referred to as the “No Harm Act.”
SEC. 2. DEFINITIONS.
1. International regulations or guidelines include the Guidelines adopted by the Codex Alimentarius or other bi-national, multinational or international bodies or agreements.
SEC. 3. CONGRESSIONAL FINDINGS REGARDING HARMONIZATION.
The Congress of the United States has determined:
1. The stated policy of the Food and Drug Administration of harmonization of United States food regulations with international guidelines announced in the October 11, 1995 issue of the Federal Register (60 FR 53078) should not the public policy of the United States.
2. The restrictions on harmonization of United States regulations enacted by Congress as 19 USC 3512 are insufficient to protect the interests of the United States and its citizens.
3. Codex Alimentarius guidelines are not mandatory upon the member nations and are merely “presumptive evidence” of the law to be applied in international trade disputes under the World Trade Organization, with member nations being allowed to adopt other science-based guidelines, laws and regulations.
4. Further restrictions on food regulations are required to protect the freedom of United States citizens to choose natural, unadulterated, nontoxic food products as a matter of national security, to protect the integrity of the national immune system thereby reducing the requirement for excessive medical costs secondary to food-born disease.
SEC. 4. NO HARMONIZATION WITH INTERNATIONAL OR DRUG REGULATIONS.
1. The Department of Agriculture, Environmental Protection Agency, Federal Trade Commission, the Food and Drug Administration and all other Federal agencies are directed to pursue a policy of not regulating food on the basis of harmonization with international guidelines or regulation of Dietary Ingredients. This policy includes all foods, including those offered with claims permitted under the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act, DSHEA. United States food regulation shall support the widest possible availability of recognized safe, high quality, high potency Dietary Ingredients and preserving to United States citizens their right to freedom of choice in health care, health care strategies and options. Organic, biodynamic and/or other non-genetically modified, non-irradiated or additive-free foods and Dietary Ingredients offered with claims to promote health, including all compounded, nutraceutical, bioidentical and functional foods, shall be included in the protections from harmonization enacted herein.
2. Neither the Food and Drug Administration, nor other department or agency of the United States, shall create a regulatory category known as “Complementary and Alternative Medicine (or Modality) Products”, or “CAM Products.” Dietary Ingredients used with informed consent by practitioners of complementary or alternative modalities shall be regulated as foods, generally recognized as safe, and not as drugs.
3. No department or agency of the United States shall issue, promote, support or permit regulations that denigrate the highest scientifically possible standards for organic foods, so that the public may be assured that, when buying foods denoted as “organic” they are buying foods that are only organic in origin and processing. Any deviation, no matter how slight, from strict organic standards must be clearly stated on the product label. These standards shall apply to organic food produced both domestically and internationally which are imported for distribution in the United States. Processes and conditions such as irradiation, gas sterilization, fumigation or other non-organic processes, which are prohibited for domestically produced organic foods shall not be permitted in foods imported into the United States and labeled or presented for sale in the United States as organic.
4. No department or agency of the United States shall issue, promote, support or permit regulations that allow irradiation of foods without that fact being prominently stated on the product label.
5. No department or agency of the United States shall issue, promote, support or permit regulations that allow Genetically Modified (GM) ingredients in foods without that fact being prominently stated on the product label. All foods which contain genetically modified (GM) ingredients or ingredients derived from genetically modified (GM) sources shall state that fact prominently on the product label.
6. No department or agency of the United States shall issue, promote, support or permit regulations that forbid purveyors of foods that are free of Genetically Modified (GM) ingredients from stating that truthful and not misleading fact on the product label.
7. All Food and Drug Administration regulations, guidances and policies that require the irradiation of food (including Dietary Supplements) or prohibit the truthful labeling of food (including Dietary Supplements) as non-irradiated, not genetically modified or toxin free are hereby repealed. This provision shall apply to imported foods as well as domestically produced foods, including Dietary Supplements.
8. Relationship of international food safety and claims agreements, including Codex Alimentarius to United States law and State law: United States law to prevail in conflict. No provision of any of international food safety and claims agreements, including Codex Alimentarius, nor the application of any such provision to any person or circumstance, that is inconsistent with any law of the United States shall have any effect. This statute may be cited as governing by any party to a dispute in any Court in the United States where such provision shall be in controversy.
9 No US agency or representative at Codex Alimentarius or other bi-national, multinational or international forum may bring forward, support or accept any standard, guideline or other international decision which conflicts with US food law or regulation, including DSHEA. US representatives must declare their opposition to, and reservations regarding, any such regulation.
10. If any international body, including Codex Alimentarius, adopts or ratifies (by vote, consensus or otherwise) a policy, guideline or standard which conflicts with US law or policy, non-adoption of which could result in World Trade Organization sanctions or trade sanctions by any other international body, the US shall take those steps necessary to adjust US law and regulation to protect it from such trade sanctions, such as adopting other science-based guidelines and laws or regulations derived therefrom, consistent with this Act.
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Death By Vaccine
When you peruse just today’s top stories, you will, I believe, come to the same conclusion General Stubblebine and I have come to. That the people of the world are facing an engineered, media-powered “pandemic” panic leading to the mandating of a dangerous, untested, unproven, uninsurable (sic) “swine flu vaccine” — this blog entry is background information for our July 16, 2009 Health Freedom Action eAlert – see: https://staging.drrimatruthreports.com/?p=3101
What can we do? We can push-back! See our online Vaccine Resources Portal: https://staging.drrimatruthreports.com/?p=3085
And here is our URGENT WARNING: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=swHUfACaRN8
The first few items are today’s information from the blogisphere, etc. Then just some illustrative headlines and, of course, last week’s CDC ‘Recommendations for State and Local Planning for a 2009 Novel H1N1 Influenza Vaccination Program.’
Let’s start…
1. Coming soon to a Police State Near You…
Times of London censuring criticism, skepticism of mass vaccination with vaccine approved in 5 days of “testing”!
“The London Times newspaper has apparently censored scores of comments on its own website that expressed vehement opposition to plans by the UK government to implement a mandatory vaccination program for swine flu.”
http://www.infowars.com/london-times-censors-mass-opposition-to-mandatory-swine-flu-vaccine/
2. Countries place vax orders, ready campaigns – by John Carroll
“Faced with their first pandemic in four decades, health officials around the globe are scrambling to line up big supplies of a new vaccine in what is shaping up as a multibillion-dollar windfall for the world’s biggest manufacturers.
“The French government has ordered 94 million doses of swine flu vaccine–enough to vaccinate three-quarters of the country’s population. The French inked contracts–which total $1.4 billion–with Sanofi-Aventis, GlaxoSmithKline and Novartis. Sanofi Pasteur is estimating that it will have the first supplies of a new swine flu vaccine ready for delivery in four to six months.
“And France is far from the only country to lay the foundation for a mass vaccination campaign as soon as supplies arrive. The UK is considering hiring private contractors to help doctors in the country’s national health service to administer the jab. Peter Holden, who represents the British Medical Association, says doctors and nurses need to be ready to administer vaccines to 30 to 40 people an hour.
“While far more mild than originally feared, swine flu has nevertheless roiled populations around the globe, with each new death raising fresh fears. Those fears in turn have spurred government agencies to come up with new vaccination campaigns as a new flu season in the northern hemisphere looms.
“Europe isn’t wasting any time on its pandemic-vaccine plans. Today, Germany announced a deal for 50 million doses of the still-in-development vaccine, enough for about one-third of its citizens, health authorities said. Meanwhile, the U.K. is prepping for a massive shot campaign, hoping to reach the entire population–all 60 million.
“The contrast between Germany’s order and Britain’s illuminates a debate over vaccine allocation. The WHO is criticizing countries that order vaccine supplies for every citizen; it says shots would then be apportioned unfairly among rich nations and poor nations. Germany chose to go with the WHO’s recommendations. U.K. plans to go its own way. Of course, Britain is ranked fourth in the world for its high number of swine flu cases, and Germany doesn’t make the top dozen.
“Which drugmakers will benefit from these latest orders? At press time, there was no word which companies got Germany’s business, but the U.K. selected GlaxoSmithKline and Baxter as its vaccine suppliers. U.K. is also aiming to boost its stock of antivirals, including GlaxoSmithKline’s Relenza and Roche’s Tamiflu, to treat 80 percent of the population. Its stockpile now covers about half.”
http://www.fiercepharma.com/story/germany-u-k-load-flu-vaccine/2009-07-15
3. Novartis readies trial as H1N1 orders pour in – by John Carroll
“Novartis says it’s using both a traditional egg-based as well as a cell-based approach in developing a new vaccine for swine flu. And the pharma giant says it expects to launch a clinical trial of a new jab before the end of the month as it racks up huge orders from countries around the globe…
“Right now no one in the U.S. government has laid out a clear plan for handling swine flu this fall. Vaccinations may initially be planned only for health care workers and other front-line emergency workers. Ultimately, some believe that the U.S. will order up to 600 million doses for the entire population to guard against a so-called second wave in the fall that could include a more lethal version of A/H1N1.”
4. Deals help Novavax pay off $22M in debts – by John Carroll
“Flush from a pair of newly inked collaborations, Novavax has paid off the last of its debt.
“Novavax began this year–one of the rockiest in biotech history–with $22 million in convertible debt. But the last $5 million was paid off earlier in the week as the developer cleared the books of debt…”
5. Some headlines and tidbits…
The Department of Health and Human Services will hand out $884 million in funding to buy more ingredients an antigen and an adjuvant for swine flu vaccines. This is in addition to the $1 billion HHS committed to fighting the disease in May.
MedImmune was awarded a new $61 million contract for a nasal spray vaccine that can be used against swine flu. Story
In the U.K., the number of calls to GPs over concerns related to swine flu has rocketed up 50 percent, to 40,000. Story
Three biotech companies in India have been given the green light to start on a swine flu vaccine. Report
Health officials in Wales are preparing for up to a million cases of swine flu.
Health officials in Italy are preparing to vaccinate 15 percent of the population.
Vaccine Market Analysts expect that Pfizer and Merck will both do well when they close a deal to sell their animal health divisions, which is being forced by their respective merger plans. In part that’s because their animal vaccines offer a reliable revenue stream and significantly lower risks than they face on the human side of drug development. Story
Antigenics has forged a distribution agreement for its therapeutic cancer vaccine Oncophage in Russia. Report
Wyeth says that it won its first regulatory approval for the new version of Prevnar-Prevnar 13–in Chile.
6. Vaccine Research & Researchers
An Israeli company has created a vaccine that researchers believe can save bees from colony collapse disorder.
New Science Czar, John Holdren: Overpopulation was an early concern and interest, and in 1969, writing with Paul R. Ehrlich, Holdren claimed that, “if the population control measures are not initiated immediately, and effectively, all the technology man can bring to bear will not fend off the misery to come.”[10] In 1973 Holdren encouraged a decline in fertility to well below replacement in the United States, because “210 million now is too many and 280 million in 2040 is likely to be much too many”[11]. Currently, the U.S. population is 306,916,000[12]. In 1977 he co-authored (with Paul R. Ehrlich and Anne H. Ehrlich) Ecoscience: Population, Resources, Environment,[13] which discussed the possible role of a wide range of solutions to overpopulation, from voluntary family planning at one extreme, to a “planetary regime” of enforced population control at the other extreme.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Holdren
To this day, Holdren lists the book on his CV. Among other things, Holdren and Ehrlich wrote in Ecosystems:
“Indeed, it has been concluded that compulsory population-control laws, even including laws requiring compulsory abortion, could be sustained under the existing Constitution if the population crisis became sufficiently severe to endanger the society.
“It would even be possible to require pregnant single women to marry or have abortions, perhaps as an alternative to placement for adoption, depending on the society.
Adding a sterilant to drinking water or staple foods is a suggestion that seems to horrify people more than most proposals for involuntary fertility control. Indeed, this would pose some very difficult political, legal, and social questions, to say nothing of the technical problems. No such sterilant exists today, nor does one appear to be under development. To be acceptable, such a substance would have to meet some rather stiff requirements: it must be uniformly effective, despite widely varying doses received by individuals, and despite varying degrees of fertility and sensitivity among individuals; it must be free of dangerous or unpleasant side effects; and it must have no effect on members of the opposite sex, children, old people, pets, or livestock.
http://www.examiner.com/x-722-Conservative-Politics-Examiner~y2009m7d16-Science-Czar-John-P-Holdrens-disturbing-beliefs-about-America-capitalism-and-humanity
7. And a few days ago…
CDC Recommendations for State and Local Planning for a 2009 Novel H1N1 Influenza Vaccination Program – July 8, 2009, 4:30 PM ET
“The purpose of this document is to describe planning scenarios for state and local governments to target high-priority populations for vaccination in order to reduce the health and societal impact of the novel H1N1 influenza virus.
Background
“Data from U.S. and international sources suggests that it is appropriate to plan for a vaccination program to reduce the health and societal impacts of the novel H1N1 influenza virus. In order to increase the probability of success of such a program, planning scenarios should be provided to state and local health authorities promptly. Planning scenarios can facilitate readiness to implement specific plans within states and large cities, improving the chances that vaccine will reach target populations when recommendations are made, and that distribution, delivery, and communication efforts regarding vaccination will overcome local challenges and maximize capacities.
“Ongoing analysis through the summer of available data on the epidemiology and virologic characteristics of 2009-H1N1 virus and about vaccine efficacy will guide decisions about features of the program. These decisions will be made in collaboration with expert panels and with input from the public. For example, CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices will provide specific vaccination recommendations, including specific target populations and priorities for circumstances of limited or phased vaccine supply. In addition, the National Vaccine Advisory Committee will provide guidance on implementation and evaluation of vaccine safety. A public engagement effort will also seek input from citizens from several regions around the country about these matters. While additional data are collected and reviewed, state and local public health authorities need to accelerate their outreach to health care providers, the private sector, occupational groups, and others to put in place mechanisms and to develop vaccination venues appropriate to reach groups most likely to be included in a vaccination program against pandemic H1N1 influenza.
“Rationale Used in Developing the Planning Scenarios
“The particular configuration of the vaccination program in each state and local jurisdiction will be determined by the population groups for which vaccine is recommended, and vaccination planning needs to encompass the diverse venues where vaccine might be delivered. Identification of highly affected populations to date can highlight venues that need to be ready to administer vaccine to the various populations that might be included in the program, and provide the rationale for the planning scenarios. Populations included in planning scenarios are based on the best current data to facilitate state and local planning.
“Evidence to date suggests that population immunity to this virus is low, particularly among the young. In one small serologic study of samples collected during 2006-08, cross-reacting antibody were found among some older persons but not in any younger adults or children. Widespread susceptibility to this virus among young persons creates the potential for large numbers of cases with more hospitalizations and deaths among younger age groups than would be expected for a typical routine seasonal influenza virus. Importantly, severe disease and death caused by novel H1N1 thus far have affected younger adults, children, and pregnant women, in addition to persons of all ages with certain underlying medical conditions more than the elderly. The virus has also caused numerous outbreaks in schools and summer camps.
Planning Assumptions
“These planning scenarios are based on the following assumptions at the time vaccine becomes available and distribution begins:
1. severity of illness is unchanged from what has already been observed
2. risk groups affected by this virus do not change significantly
3. vaccine testing suggests safe and efficacious product
4. adequate supplies of vaccine can be produced
5. no major antigenic changes are evident that would signal the lack of likely efficacy of the vaccines being produced
“Planning Scenarios
“The following are best-case planning scenarios that would be recommended in a setting of limited initial vaccine availability.
“Target population: Students and staff (all ages) associated with schools (K-12th grade) and children (age ?6 months) and staff (all ages) in child care centers.
“Primary venues: schools and child care centers.
“Goals: Provide direct protection against illness among persons who have high attack rates of illness, reduce likelihood of outbreaks that may lead to disruptive school dismissals, reduce transmission from schools into homes and the community.
“Adherence to these guidelines will require state and local authorities to carry out extensive planning to reach school-aged populations either through venues such as school-associated mass vaccination efforts, or, where private capacity is sufficient, through local pediatric providers. Local pediatric care providers may play a particularly prominent role in vaccinating preschool-aged children who have a medical home. These planning efforts will reinforce longer-term immunization targets of strengthening vaccination efforts in these populations, and building links between health and education. The disruptive outbreaks prevalent in schools and some universities in the spring of 2009 may provide impetus for these planning steps to move forward actively. They will also permit strengthening capacity for seasonal influenza vaccination of school-aged children in future seasons.
Target population: Pregnant women, children 6 months – 4 years of age, new parents and household contacts of children <6 months of age.
"Primary venues: Provider offices, community clinics.
"Goal: Reduce complications of novel H1N1 influenza, such as excess hospitalizations and deaths among those vulnerable for serious complications of influenza, as evidenced by higher rates of hospitalization; protect the youngest (<6 months) who are not themselves able to be vaccinated through immunization of their household contacts.
"Sustaining a focus on pregnant women and young children is appropriate given their high rates of complications and hospitalizations to date, and is consistent with tier 1 prioritization for these groups in pre-pandemic planning.
"Target population: Non-elderly adults (age <65 years) with medical conditions that increase the risk of complications of influenza.
"Primary venues: Occupational settings, community clinics, pharmacies, providers’ offices. (Experience with seasonal influenza vaccine suggests that persons with underlying illness age 50 to 64 years may be more likely to receive vaccine from their provider, while younger persons may be more likely to be vaccinated elsewhere).
Goal: Reduce risk of hospitalizations and deaths among persons with higher rates of these complications than the general population, and focus vaccine where its impact can be most beneficial for direct protection.
"The planning requirement to offer vaccine to young adults with risk factors will permit state and local authorities to address a group that does not frequently seek health care and has relatively low rates of vaccination against seasonal influenza. Links with occupational clinics, adult providers, or contingency plans for community venues or pharmacies are all options that might address this important at-risk group.
Target population: Health care workers and emergency services sector personnel (regardless of age).
"Primary venue: Occupational settings, providers’ offices.
"Goal: Reduce risk of illness, sustain health system functioning, and reduce absenteeism among front-line providers; reduce transmission from emergency services personnel and health care workers to patients; provide additional worker protection in settings of increased exposure; reinforce importance of influenza vaccination among all health care workers.
"Note: Immunization of military (e.g., deployed forces) may be appropriate given the current circumstances; however, this memo focuses on vaccination of civilian populations under the authority of CDC and state and local health departments.
Vaccine Availability Considerations
"If vaccine is widely available, CDC would recommend offering vaccine at multiple venues to anyone who wants to be vaccinated. Although the benefits of vaccine may be greatest in the persons in groups at increased risk, and interest in being vaccinated may be lower among the general population, offering vaccine to everyone can reduce the risk of influenza for general population may reduce transmission to unvaccinated persons. At the same time, if vaccine supply is limited, it will be important to consider a balance between international needs for vaccine in relation to the vaccination of low risk individuals in the United States."
http://www.cdc.gov/h1n1flu/vaccination/statelocal/planning.htm
8. And let’s not forget some of the other issues that concern us
http://www.biolsci.org/v05p0438.htm [Very important paper – REL]
“Chronic health effects are increasing in the world such as cancers, hormonal, reproductive, nervous, or immune diseases, even in young people. During regulatory toxicological subchronic tests to prevent these on mammalian health, prior commercialization of chemicals, including pesticides and drugs, or GMOs, some statistically significant findings may be revealed. This discussion is about the need to investigate the relevant criteria to consider those as biologically significant. The sex differences and the non linear dose or time related effects should be considered in contrast to the claims of a Monsanto-supported expert panel about a GMO, the MON 863 Bt maize, but also for pesticides or drugs, in particular to reveal hormone-dependent diseases and first signs of toxicities.”
“Some contaminations or pollutions by pesticides [1] and other chemical residues [2-4] affect human and animal health, together with biodiversity. Thus it is important to study potential mid and long-term toxicological effects during regulatory tests prior to commercialization of chemicals, and not to test only short-term or subchronic effects. This question has also been raised for GMOs [5], especially those containing pesticides, either because they tolerate (such as Roundup Ready soya) or produce (such as Bt maize) these molecules (99 % of commercially cultivated GMOs). This subject has been reviewed recently by Dronamraju [6].”
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