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A federal district judge has ruled for a West Virginina school district and its officials in a case in which a parent sought to exempt her daughter from mandatory vaccinations for medical and religious reasons.

The ruling earlier this month by U.S. District Judge Joseph R. Goodwin of Charleston, W.Va., is interesting in light of the debate over links between vaccines and autism, as well as public debate over school vaccinations for the H1N1 virus.

The suit was filed by Jennifer Workman, who feared exposing her 6-year-old daughter to mandatory vaccines required for school because the child’s older sister developed developmental disorders that the mother attributes to vaccines. The mother submitted a doctor’s note seeking to exempt the 6-year-old from vaccines, but the Mingo County School District turned down the request on the advice of the West Virginia state health department, according to court documents.

The mother sued the district and its officials, claiming, among other things, that the vaccination requirement violates her First Amendment right to free exercise of religion. The mother’s “Christian Bapticostal religious beliefs require that she honor God by protecting her child from harm and illness, and that immunizing [the 6-year-old] in this instance would violate those sincerely held beliefs,” her suit said.

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FoxNews.com When the nation’s swine flu vaccination program began in early October, health officials predicted it was going to be “messy.” They were right.

The program has been plagued with problems and information gaps:

— Health officials have been terrible at predicting when and how much vaccine would be available. Only about 44 million doses have been shipped so far. Initially, officials said more than three times that would be out by now.

— At times vaccine shipments have been inexplicably lopsided. For example, smaller counties in Illinois and California have received the same amount delivered to counties with seven times as many people.

— Health officials have stressed that people most at risk for swine flu complications should go to the head of the line, but they haven’t tried to make sure that actually happened.

— And despite pledges that they would be transparent about the vaccine program, some health officials have refused to disclose where all the doses are going, and they have held back on public service announcements telling people who should be coming in for shots. Also, many states were slow to establish Web sites that give vaccination locations.

To be fair, health officials say, the government deserves credit for a herculean effort to develop and distribute a safe and effective vaccine against a deadly virus that was first identified only seven months ago.

“You have a brand-new disease that gets identified in April. By October, you have a vaccine for it. By any standards, it’s a miracle,” said Dr. Diane Helentjaris, director of the Virginia Department of Health office handling swine flu response.

But complaints have been mounting, with lawmakers this week holding hearings in Washington and elsewhere, pressing for explanations.

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Rob Stein
Washington Post
Friday, November 20, 2009

Scientists in Norway announced Friday they had detected a mutated form of the swine flu virus in two patients who died of the flu and a third who was severely ill.

In a statement, the Norwegian Institute of Public Health said the mutation “could possibly make the virus more prone to infect deeper in the airways and thus cause more severe disease,” such as pneumonia.

The institute said there was no indication that the mutation would hinder the ability of the vaccine to protect people from becoming infected or impair the effectiveness of antiviral drugs in treating people who became infected.

Scientists have analyzed about 70 viruses from confirmed Norwegian swine flu cases and found the mutation in only those three patients, Geir Stene-Larsen, the institute’s director general, said in the statement.

“Based on what we know so far, it seems that the mutated virus does not circulate in the population, but might be a result of spontaneous changes which have occurred in these three patients,” the statement said.

A top U.S. health official said the mutation was no reason for alarm. The same mutation has been detected elsewhere in the world, including possibly in the United States, in both severe and mild cases.

Full story here.

CNN
Thursday, Nov 19th, 2009

More than half of all adult Americans say they don’t want to get the H1N1 flu vaccine, according to a new national poll.

The CNN/Opinion Research Corporation survey released Wednesday also indicates that the number of adults who have tried to get the vaccine but were turned away is higher than the number of adults who have gotten a swine flu shot.

According to the poll, 55 percent of adults don’t want to get the swine flu vaccine, and don’t plan to get a shot. Another one in five say they want to get inoculated but haven’t taken any steps to do so, 14 percent want a shot and have tried to get it but have been unsuccessful. Just 7 percent have been inoculated for H1N1.

Why are more than half of all Americans shunning the vaccine?

“The perception that the vaccine has dangerous side effects is the top reason,” says CNN Polling Director Keating Holland. “Roughly half of those who don’t want a swine flu shot say that the possibility of side effects is one reason why they don’t plan to get the vaccine. That works out to 28 percent of the adult population who don’t plan to get inoculated due to the risk of dangerous side effects.”

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Rebecca Smith
London Telegraph
Thursday, Nov 19th, 2009

Healthy children aged under five are to be given the swine flu jab, the Government has confirmed.

Currently people in priority groups – including young children with asthma or diabetes – are being vaccinated.

But the programme will now be rolled out to children with no underlying health issues, aged over six months and under five.

The UK-wide policy was officially confirmed by the Scottish Government today ahead of a similar announcement in England, expected later.

Nicola Sturgeon, the Scottish Health Secretary, said: “I am able to announce today that the next group in the population that will be vaccinated, or offered vaccination, is children aged over six months and under five years.”

The announcement came as it emerged that an 11-year-old girl from Berkshire who had tested positive for the H1N1 virus died on November 11.

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BILD.COM

With trembling hands, the distraught mother stroked the yellow bear which belenged to Finlay – her beloved son. The little boy died two weeks ago at the age of 21 months after having a vaccination against swine flu.

Doctors reported the case to the Paul Ehrlich Institute as a possible result of a deadly reaction to the virus inoculation.

Mother Yvonne B. (34), a nurse for the elderly in Berlin, said: “Finlay was born with a heart defect and damaged lungs. He had been operated on four times. Now he was waiting in hospital for a new heart and a new lung.

“He was doing quite well. We went out with him everyday. He played in the leaves and liked to watch birds.”

Doctors told the parents that the tot should be inoculated, mirroring the advice of the standing committee on vaccinations.

Mom-of-three Yvonne added: “They said the side effects would be no problem, but that swine flu would be a real danger to our son. On top of that, a patient in the room next door had been diagnosed with swine flu.”

In the afternoon the boy was vaccinated. On the next day he was still laughing and happily playing around in the leaves.

But in the night, his condition suddenly worsened. He vomited and fluid got into his lung. The organ failed, and then so did his heart.

The devastated mother said: “We were called at night. Finlay fell asleep on my husband’s arm.” Read more…

By Jon Rappoport
www.insolutions.info

NOVEMBER 13, 2009. It’s all over, folks. Swine Flu was a fake alarm, and the guilty parties are scrambling to save their careers. The latest defector from the manure pile is Dr. Richard Schabas, former chief medical officer of health in Ontario, Canada.

Schavas spoke with the CBC network in Canada and laid it on the line. Swine Flu=Dud. Who will be the next medical bureaucrat to opt out of the scandal and wash his hands of the whole affair?

There comes a time in every phony PR campaign when the stakes are too high, the consequences too heavy—and insiders begin wondering which way to jump.

Yesterday’s announcement by the US CDC was the latest trigger. CDC claimed—on the basis of absolutely no evidence, since they had suspended testing for Swine Flu way back in July—that 22 million people in the US have had Swine Flu. Talk about desperation. Insiders immediately began asking themselves: Can I go along with this preposterous charade?

Here is an excerpt from the Canadian story:

H1N1 a ‘dud’ pandemic, Ont. health official says

The huge investments governments made in swine flu pandemic planning might not have been justified, an Ontario health official said Thursday.

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Another case of Guillain-Barre Syndrome before mass vaccination program has even begun

Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet.com
Friday, November 13, 2009

A young woman in France has been diagnosed with the crippling illness Guillain-Barre Syndrome (GBS) after a swine flu shot, following reports yesterday about a Virginia teen who was similarly struck down by the disease hours after receiving the H1N1 vaccine.

The woman, identified only as a health worker, was diagnosed with GBS six days after she received the swine flu shot, according to the French health ministry.

Health Minister Roselyne Bachelot said the case diagnosed was light and that the woman was recovering.

“News of the apparently vaccine-related illness is likely to dampen enthusiasm here for getting vaccinated against swine flu,” reports Deutsche Presse-Agentur.

France has been at the center of a Europe-wide resistance to getting the swine flu shot, after authorities initially announced their intention to vaccinate the entire population. Outrage peaked in central Europe following the revelation that German Chancellor Angela Merkel and government ministers, as well as the armed forces there, received a special additive-free H1N1 vaccine that didn’t contain ingredients such as mercury and squalene that were included in shots for the general public.

France’s swine flu vaccination program has barely even begun, with so-called “high risk” individuals starting to receive the vaccine from yesterday. Reports of side-effects this early will do nothing to change the minds of 83 per cent of the French public, who indicated in a Le Monde survey they they would not take the vaccine.

55 per cent indicated they would take the shot in September, but that number has now plunged to just 17 per cent, figures partly influenced by media attention on the case of nine individuals who have filed formal charges in the French courts claiming that the H1N1 mass vaccination campaign is a deliberate attempt to poison the French population.

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-or- HOW THE CDC TRIED TO SAVE ITS OWN ASS AND FAILED

BREAKING NEWS….

By Jon Rappoport
http://www.nomorefaknews.com/
http://www.insolutions.info/

NOVEMBER 12, 2009. Well, the only thing left for the CDC to say is 300 million people in the US have Swine Flu and we’re all dead.

So let me beat them to the punch. We’re all dead, folks. We just think we’re alive. But we need the vaccine anyway.

Can’t somebody just shut down the CDC headquarters and fumigate the place? It’s still sweating the sweat that exudes when arrogant scumbags try to defend a crumbling position they established in the first place.

Here’s what went down. A mild flu season. That’s all. But the CDC had gone out on a limb with cries of PANDEMIC and they were pushing it to the wall. They were committed.

So they stopped testing people for H1N1 in JULY. From that point on, they winged it. They didn’t want the public to know it was a mild flu season. So they stopped testing. Instead, from that point on, anybody with a sniffle or a little cough or a limp or a pimple or a glass of booze in his system or a hangnail or a shirttail hanging out was diagnosed with Swine Flu.

And even then, the numbers weren’t high enough, so the CDC just began to make it up. They had to. They were committed.

Two days before Obama announced his “nationwide Swine Flu State of Emergency,” Tom Frieden, the CDC director, drank four cups of coffee, stood up before the press, and said “many millions” of people in US had Swine Flu. He pulled that right out of his butt. Up until that moment, the figure was somewhere around 44,000. He looked straight ahead and said “many millions.” And the reporters stood there and looked blank. As usual.

But “many millions” is too vague, so today the CDC released an exact (approximate) figure. 22 million. There it is. And they said 98,000 people have been hospitalized with Swine Flu—these are the sniffling hangnail people who were never tested for H1N1. And then finally, as an afterthought, the CDC said 4000 people in the US have already died from Swine Flu.

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KIEV (AFP) — Ukraine’s epidemic of flu and acute respiratory disorders has now affected more than a million people, the country’s deputy health minister said on Tuesday.

Vasyl Lazoryshynets said the death toll from the epidemic had risen to 174, as President Viktor Yushchenko warned the country must brace itself for a second wave of infections.

Nearly 53,000 Ukrainians have now been hospitalised, Lazoryshynets said, but the number in intensive care has fallen by nearly a quarter to around 330.

A total of 67 cases of swine flu have been reported in Ukraine, he said, 14 of which had been fatal.

“Ukraine must prepare properly for a second wave of respiratory infections and flu,” including A(H1N1), Yushchenko said Tuesday, according to the Interfax news agency.

A World Health Organisation (WHO) team in Ukraine said on Monday the epidemic had slowed, but warned a second wave was likely.

On Monday the health ministry’s previous bulletin on the epidemic, which began in mid-October, reported 969,000 infections, with 155 deaths and 65 cases of A(H1N1).

NaturalNews.com

(NaturalNews) Dr. Mehmet Oz is a huge promoter of vaccines. He’s been on television reinforcing fear about H1N1 swine flu and telling everyone to get vaccinated. But what he didn’t tell his viewing audience is that he holds 150,000 option shares in a vaccine company that could earn him millions of dollars in profits as the stock price rises. It is in Dr. Oz’s own financial interest, in other words, to hype up vaccines and get more people taking them so that his own financial investments rise in value.

Evidence describing these facts was delivered to NaturalNews by a private investigator named Joseph Culligan (http://webofdeception.com/oprah.html#oz). That evidence includes an SEC document detailing how Dr. Oz. bought options on stocks for SIGA Technologies in 2005, 2007, 2008 and 2009. SIGA Technologies (stock symbol SIGA) is a vaccine technology company with many advanced developments whose success depends on the widespread adoption of vaccines. According to SEC documents, Dr. Mehmet Oz. currently holds 150,000 option shares on SIGA Technologies, purchased for as little as $1.35 back in 2005.

At the time of this writing, SIGA Technologies is trading at $7.10, making those options bought in 2005 worth $5.75 in profits today. If all the 150,000 options purchased by Dr. Oz. were exercised today, they would be worth roughly $180,000 in profits (they were bought at different prices, not all at $1.35). This is all revealed in what the SEC website calls an “insider transaction” document (link below).

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