Flu Vaccine

I was just reading about an oil-based adjuvant that is being added to a flu vaccine called FLUAD recommended for adults 65 and over. There is information at https://www.fluad.com/ and the adjuvant is known as MF59C.1:

Adjuvant: MF59C.1 which is an exclusive adjuvant: 9.75 mg squalene, 1.175 mg polysorbate 80, 1.175 mg sorbitan trioleate, 0.66 mg sodium citrate, 0.04 mg citric acid, water for injections. 

For one dose of 0.5 ml 

This vaccine complies with the WHO recommendations (Northern Hemisphere) and EU decision for the 2018/2019 season. 

Fluad may contain traces of eggs such as ovalbumin or chicken proteins, kanamycin and neomycin sulphate, formaldehyde, cetyltrimethylammonium bromide (CTAB), barium sulphate and hydrocortisone, which are used during the manufacturing process.

The key ingredient is squalene which is found throughout the body and also in olive oil where its antioxidant properties have health benefits. It might seem that injecting squalene into the body would prove innocuous because it's already in the body. However, it's the route of entry that is the problem. If we consume it orally, all is well but injecting it directly into the bloodstream along with the virus and a cocktail of contaminants is a different matter entirely.

The idea is that because the immune system is weaker in older people, it needs to be given an extra "kick" and this is the purpose of the squalene. However, it has been proposed that the immune system, having mounted a defence against the squalene-containing FLUAD, is now primed to attack squalene wherever it encounters it in the body. This can have drastic consequences. Here's an overview of what goes into normal flu vaccines (taken from here) taken by those who are below 65 years of age:

1. Influenza viruses 

The flu vaccine contains tiny amounts of the viruses it protects against. The presence of these viruses in the vaccine triggers the body's natural defense mechanism to produce antibodies to fight them. This means that the body quickly recognizes them when exposed to the disease in "real life." 

• Different influenza viruses contained in a flu shot are:
• Influenza A virus H1N1 called the Michigan strain
• Influenza A virus H3N2 called the Hong Kong strain
• One or two influenza B viruses called the Brisbane and Phuket strains

Traditional flu shots are trivalent (three-component) vaccines because they protect against three viruses: two influenza A viruses (H1N1 and H3N2), and one influenza B virus. 

A person can also get a quadrivalent (four-component) vaccine, which protects against an additional B virus. 

2. Formaldehyde 

Formaldehyde is toxic and potentially lethal in high doses. However, it is present in such small amounts in a flu vaccination that it is harmless. 

Formaldehyde's role in the flu shot is to inactivate toxins from viruses and bacteria that may contaminate the vaccine during production, as well as the viruses naturally present in the vaccine. 

Formaldehyde is typically present in the human body and is a product of healthy digestive function. 

3. Aluminum Salts 

Aluminum has been used in vaccines for over 70 years. 

Aluminum salts are adjuvants, meaning that they help the body to develop a stronger immune response against the virus in the vaccine. Because they boost the body's response, this means that the vaccine can contain smaller amounts of the virus. 

Similar to formaldehyde, and to most ingredients in the flu shot, the amount of aluminum present in the vaccine is extremely small. 

This compound is not always present in flu vaccines, some of which are aluminum-free. 

4. Thimerosal

Thimerosal is not found in all flu vaccines. 

Thimerosal is a preservative that keeps the vaccine free from contamination by bacteria and fungi. Without this, the growth of bacteria and fungi is common when a syringe is in a multi-dose vial (a vial that contains more than one dose).

Thimerosal is made of an organic form of mercury known as ethylmercury, a safe compound that usually only stays in the blood for a few days. 

It is different from the standard mercury that can cause illness in large doses, and from the mercury found in seafood (called methylmercury), which can stay in the body for years. 

Flu shots will only contain thimerosal when they are in a multi-dose vial. Single-dose vials, pre-filled syringes, and nasal sprays do not need to include this preservative because contamination is not an issue. 

5. Chicken egg proteins 

Proteins from chicken eggs help viruses to grow before they go into the vaccine.

Influenza viruses used in vaccines are usually grown inside fertilized chicken eggs, where the virus makes copies of itself. After that, the viruses are separated from the egg and placed in the vaccine; this means that the finished vaccine may contain small amounts of egg proteins. 

The CDC say that the flu shot is typically safe for people with egg allergies, but those who have an egg allergy must mention it to the doctor before receiving the shot. A person with a severe egg allergy may require monitoring by a doctor following the injection. 

Egg-free flu shots are also available. 

6. Gelatin 

Gelatin is present in the flu shot as a stabilizer. Stabilizers keep the vaccine effective from the point of production to the moment of use. 

Stabilizers also help to protect the vaccine from the damaging effects of heat or freeze-drying. 

Most flu vaccines use pork-based gelatin as a stabilizer. 

7. Antibiotics 

Antibiotics are present in the flu vaccine to keep bacteria from growing during the production and storage of the vaccine. 

Vaccines do not contain antibiotics that may cause severe reactions, such as penicillin. Instead, vaccines contain other forms of antibiotics, such as gentamicin or neomycin. Neomycin is also an ingredient in many topical medications, such as lotions, ointments, and eye drops.

The lucky 65 and overs get all this and squalene to boot! It seems that squalene or similar oil-based adjuvants are being added to other vaccines as well. As this article puts it:

From their inception, mass vaccinations have acted as a biological weapon, undermining health, manipulating and crippling the immune system, and instigating cycles of new and debilitating diseases. Monopoly medicine’s solution? Inject us with more powerful, genetically engineered high potency vaccines. Never mind they are seeding us with “nano-bombs” that will further attack our already compromised immune systems. 

The concept of stimulating a hyperactive immune response by using oil-based adjuvants has clearly backfired since we now know that the stronger the antigenic response, the more damaging the adjuvant itself is to the normal functioning of the brain and nervous system. The precedent for mass medical experimentation via an ever increasing recommended vaccine schedule has been set. We can now predict the grim future of mankind: an epidemic of neurological disorders and autoimmune diseases never before imagined.

It was squalene that was also added to the anthrax vaccine that was administered to US personnel during the Gulf War and that is suspected of being the cause of the so-called Gulf War Syndrome. The characteristics of the syndrome are:

Referring to squalene in her extensive article on adjuvants, Dr. Scheibner writes, “This adjuvant contributed to the cascade of reactions called “Gulf War syndrome”, documented in the soldiers involved in the Gulf War. The symptoms they developed included arthritis, fibromyalgia, lymphadenopathy, rashes, photosensitive rashes, malar rashes, chronic fatigue, chronic headaches, abnormal body hair loss, non-healing skin lesions, aphthous ulcers, dizziness, weakness, memory loss, seizures, mood changes, neuropsychiatric problems, anti-thyroid effects, anaemia, elevated ESR (erythrocyte sedimentation rate), systemic lupus erythematosus, multiple sclerosis, ALS (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis) also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease, Raynaud’s phenomenon, Sjorgren’s syndrome, chronic diarrhoea, night sweats and low-grade fevers.

Like a reverse lottery, if you're unlucky after receiving your flu shot, you could end up with some of the reactions just mentioned. If you're particularly unlucky, you could develop multiple sclerosis years later or some other chronic condition. If you're a solid citizen and line up for your flu shot every year, your chances of succumbing to something eventually are certainly improved.

Over the past months, I've tended to avoid reading anti-vaccine news because I find it too unsettling. I can't accept that this sort of abuse, especially of children, is accepted and actively promoted. The pro-vaccine news is predictable and relentless. For example, this news article appeared in the Jakarta Post on May 23rd 2019:

Vaccine doubts spread like disease, must be taken offline: Vaccine chief 

Doubts about vaccines have spread across social media like a disease and false information that 'kills people' should be taken down by the companies running digital platforms, the head of global vaccine alliance Gavi said on Tuesday. 

The new term being bandied about is "vaccine hesitancy" and it must be combated at all costs by the medical mafia and a compliant media. A book that delves deeply into the Gulf War Syndrome is Vaccine A by Gary Matsumoto:

Here is the Amazon review:

In this provocative look at the US military from the Persian Gulf War through the 2003 invasion of Iraq, investigative journalist Gary Matsumoto contends that an anthrax vaccine dispensed by the Department of Defense was the cause of Gulf War Syndrome and the origins of a massive cover-up. Matsumoto calls it the worst friendly-fire incident in military history. A skillfully-woven narrative that serves as a warning about this man-made epidemic, Vaccine A is a much needed account of just what went wrong, and why.

Crohn's Disease

 "In Germany, it is estimated that one to two in 1,000 people suffer from Crohn's disease.

The number of Crohn's disease cases is increasing worldwide," Atreya said. "You could say that it has changed from a disease of the western world to a global disease. Crohn's disease now exists in countries where it has not been described before." 

Genetic predisposition and environmental influences play a role in the development of Crohn's disease. In addition to that, there's the influence of the microbiome, which is the totality of microorganisms that colonise us and our stomach and intestines. 

"The interaction of these factors ultimately leads to the immune system overreacting in the intestine, and this is how these inflammations occur," Atreya explained. 

This was an excerpt from DW and the date is 11.07.2018. Atreya has been the senior physician at the Heisenberg Professor of Immunology for Chronic Inflammatory Bowel Diseases at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg since 2016. The statistic is insane: at least one person in a thousand in Germany is afflicted by this crippling digestive disorder. The numbers of those afflicted are growing worldwide.

Tellingly, Atreya observed that:

"More is happening in this area than ever before. We expect more and hopefully better drugs to come onto the market."

The two keywords in the above quote are drugs and market. The pharmaceutical companies fund research for the development of new drugs to combat this scourge and hopefully some will find their way into the marketplace. These drugs will of course produce side effects but further drugs can be developed to combat these. It's madness but that is the state of modern medicine's approach to the management of chronic diseases like Crohn's. My previous post discussed Forrest Maready's book "Crooked" in which he has this to say about the disease:

Your body contains a few areas of specialised lymph tissue that provide an early warning for your immune system. Some of this tissue surrounds your tonsils and adenoids and because they tend to hold a lot of white blood cells, they will also accumulate aluminium. 

Peyer’s patches are kind of like the tonsils and adenoids of the gut — they help the immune system identify invaders in your intestine. Multiple studies have confirmed that aluminium tends to accumulate in this particular area. This is significant because Peyer’s patches are located in the terminal ileum — the same location from which Crohn’s disease nearly always originates.

Could the fact that Crohn's disease now exists in countries where it has not been described before be due to the increasing frequency of vaccinations containing aluminium in these countries? This hypothesis of course will never be tested because it would be an admission of doubt, an acknowledgment that perhaps vaccines can be harmful. Instead, modern medicine will battle a bewildering array of disorders: autism, attention deficit disorder, autoimmune diseases, Alzheimers and so on, some or all of which may well be man-made: a result of a cruel rite of passage that treats babies and infants as pin-cushions in the pursuit of pharmaceutical profits.

This is in spite of concerns being raised within medical circles about the link between the aluminium as an adjuvant in vaccines and the development of Crohn's disease. This is an abstract from a 2012 paper:

Alum (AlK(SO(4))(2)) is an adjuvant commonly utilized in vaccines, and is a ubiquitous element used extensively in contemporary life. Food, air, water, waste, the earth's surface, and pharmaceuticals all represent pathways of aluminum (Al) exposure. Crohn's disease (CD) is a chronic relapsing intestinal inflammation in genetically susceptible individuals and is caused by yet unidentified environmental factors. Al is a potential factor for the induction of inflammation in CD, and its immune activities share many characteristics with the immune pathology of CD: many luminal bacterial or dietary compounds can be adsorbed to the metal surface and induce Th1 profile cytokines, shared cytokines/chemokines, co-stimulatory molecules, and intracellular pathways and stress-related molecular expression enhancement, affecting intestinal macrobiota, trans-mural granuloma formation, and colitis induction in an animal CD model. The inflamation plays a central role in Al mode of action and in CD pathophysiology. It is suggested that Al adjuvant activity can fit between the aberrations of innate and adaptive immune responses occurring in CD. The CD mucosa is confronted with numerous inappropriate bacterial components adsorbed on the Al compound surface, constituting a pro-inflammatory supra-adjuvant. Al fits the diagnostic criteria of the newly described autoimmune/inflammatory syndrome induced by adjuvants. If a cause and effect relationship can be established, the consequences will greatly impact public health and CD prevention and management.

The last sentence is the most telling: If a cause and effect relationship can be established, the consequences will greatly impact public health and CD prevention and management. Despite the gap of six years since that abstract was written, it would seem that a cause and effect relationship is yet to be established. If all this does not seem crazy enough, then the following story takes the madness even further:

Professor John Hermon-Taylor of St. George’s Hospital, London, has developed a vaccination which targets MAP (Mycobaterium avium paratuberculosis) found in animals and passed into the food chain. Professor Hermon-Taylor believes that the pathogen MAP is the cause of 80% of the cases of Crohn’s disease, based on the fact that most individuals with Crohn’s tested positively for MAP. 

The Crohn’s vaccine has been tested on animals and plans exist to start human trials. The vaccine would target current sufferers of Crohn’s disease, by stimulating their bodies to rid themselves of MAP. More than 100,000 people suffer with Crohn’s disease in the UK. 

Hav Vaccines, LTD, began in 2009, is developing the vaccine which will be available for current Crohn’s sufferers along with those considered to be at high risk for developing Crohn’s disease. The phase 2 trials are predicted to be completed by January 8th, 2018.

The story from which the quote is taken however, is highly critical of this medical initiative:

While the intent of the researcher may be honourable, it is highly debatable whether another vaccination is the answer for this serious disease. 

Vaccinations have in fact been blamed for causing autoimmune disorders including Crohn’s disease. It makes little sense to use a vaccine to target a disease caused by vaccines. Crohn’s disease is a progressive, life-threatening illness correlated with gut dysbiosis and inflammation of the intestines.

It will be interesting to find out if this vaccine contains any aluminium adjuvant. It's fairly clear that this medical circus is not going anywhere except round and round. Meanwhile the vaccines containing aluminium adjuvants are still being administered to the young, the old and those in between, and more are planned.