Swine flu vaccinations may begin in three weeks, earlier than previously anticipated, after the first U.S. tests found a single shot to be effective in eight to 10 days, U.S. health officials said.
The first shots may be available by the end of this month and administered to patients the first week of October, said Nancy Cox, director of the flu division at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta. Health officials had previously planned for vaccinations to begin in mid-October, requiring two shots administered three weeks apart.
Swine flu outbreaks have rippled across U.S. schools and universities after pupils returned to classes in the past few weeks. Washington State University reported more than 2,500 cases, and the CDC last week reported a nationwide spike of influenza cases months earlier than the past three flu seasons. The test results are boosting hopes the vaccine may be available in time to curb the first pandemic in 41 years, Cox said.
“We were anticipating that it would begin mid-October,” Cox told reporters today at the Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy in San Francisco. “This was a conservative estimate but it was a necessary conservative estimate. We now feel that we will have vaccine for more people earlier and this is extremely good news.”
New Virus
Health authorities in the U.S. and U.K. anticipated that two shots would be required because people were being exposed to the new virus for the first time. Critics said a multidose regime wouldn’t come in time to slow widespread outbreaks in the U.S. already triggered by the start of schools. Shots now also may be available in time to bring relief in the Southern Hemisphere, where swine flu recently peaked.
The U.S. study was the first report from five government- sponsored trials initiated July 22 to test safety and proper dosing of a pandemic vaccine. They bolster similar results published by Melbourne-based CSL Ltd., said Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease in Bethesda, Maryland, in an interview. The CSL study found that more than 95 percent of 240 patients who were given a single shot had protective antibodies three weeks later.
The successful test results may double anticipated stockpiles of the vaccine and make more shots available in developing countries, Cox said today. The U.S. is in “very active discussions” about donating some of its supply to countries that need it, she said.
One Dose Effective
The results of the vaccine studies suggest one dose of the formula used by drugmakers should offer H1N1 protection similar to the seasonal flu shot. Paris-based Sanofi Aventis SA, London- based GlaxoSmithKline Plc, and Basel, Switzerland-based Novartis AG are among the other companies making the vaccine.
Vaccine supplies in early October will be limited and targeted at health-care workers and those most vulnerable to severe illness, such as pregnant women and children, Cox said.
“We’re on track to have an ample supply rolling by the middle of October,” Kathleen Sebelius, U.S. secretary of health and human services, said today on ABC’s “This Week” program. “We’ll get the vaccine out the door as fast as it rolls out the production line.”
Most shots in the studies of healthy adults ages 18 to 64 contained 15 micrograms of antigen, the same level as for seasonal flu vaccines. The vaccinations had similar side effects to regular flu shots, the most common being headache and pain at the injection site.
CSL said it plans to donate the vaccine to developing nations in Asia and the South Pacific and is discussing a pilot program with the World Health Organization to start by providing as many as 100,000 doses.
The vaccines in both studies didn’t use ingredients called adjuvants included by some countries in formulations to boost effectiveness. No serious side effects were reported, though the trials are too small to detect rare conditions. The shots are being studied further and will be closely monitored once vaccination campaigns begin, according to U.S. officials.
They are so determined to administer their poison they have decided to give it away!!!! WAKE UP !!!!!!!!!
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“The vaccines in both studies didn’t use ingredients called adjuvants included by some countries in formulations to boost effectiveness.” As one might expect, different formulations; it wouldn’t look good to kill off the test guinea pigs. The real killer shots come later… when the unsuspecting are lulled into false security.
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You are fools who take these poisons into your blood system. This is genocide, pure & simple. There is no shortage of non-government funded unhindered test results flooding the true patriot websites online now; these studies and the true healing professionals are SCREAMING not to take these toxic injections. There is NO pandemic, there is only a small group behaving as souless predators who intend to destroy us, and in the process achieve more self gain at our expense.
As huge waves of more of us awaken to the truth of what we face today– slow & painful death by injections is a way for these criminally insane to take care of their problem– once and for all– while getting wealthier in the process. They want our children, our lives terminated, our properties, all public lands totally theirs to control as they will– they want it all.
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They never got rid of the 72 kilos shiiped to Austria. The one’s that were to be used to start a pandmic folks. So maybe that’s why it’lll only take one shot instead of two.
I left a heart felt comment to Dr. Hesham Tillawi article and pushed “submi” which took to to the article. I didn’t see my comment so I pushed “SUBMIT” a 2nd time an told I had said that already. Thirty minutes later I went to see if my comment was posted an seen Fred Flintstones being the first to comment. My comment was no where to be seen folks. I didn’t use bad/ harsh words. So here it goes again.
I thanked the Doctor for standing up against these evil creatures. An for the two most important reason for killing both Kennedy’s. I requested for the “american people” to protect (literally) the men that are going to stand-up to this evil that has control of us/country. They have control through unlawful laws as the income tax that is not a “LAW”. They can destroy anyone that stand-up against them by what they take from us through that unlawful law, money equals power. If they didn’t have that money they couldn’t destroy people that are brave enough to stand-up against.
What Jim plans to do needs our support and our protection. Others may come out because of what these evil people have done to us and them. If your in a town where these people may rise up, consider literally protecting them. The two million people’s march is a great start folks to fight back for what belongs to us and our children, our freedom! They can destroy several people at a time but not an entire nation that knows of their evils from history, on how they destroyed Britian, France, Russia, Germany, and now it’s our turn folks. Their using the same tactic’s as they used than folks, by invading our country with numerous nationalities from all over the world. Having foriegn troops on our soil! They haven’t left folks, their still here for the flu shots! Lets see if my comment gets posted this time.
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Vaccines are an insurance policy – they ensure a sick and/or cancerous host-people later on in life – which subsequently means expensive drugs and surgeries as the medical protocol to “treat”, not cure, the disease – a practice that means millions for the medical estrablishment.
Wake-up the American People! The accepted administration of ANY vaccines in children and adults is a barbaric and insane concept; God would not put us into this world with insufficient immune systems.
Assert your First Amendment Rights, saying that you “consider the shot(s) unsafe and a threat to your health and life” and thus you can avoid the shots using the existing Constitutional Law at-hand!
Additionally, carry with you and FORCE said vaccinator(s) to sign a statement of total liability for any and all illness or death to your body coming from the shots…
YOU DO NOT HAVE TO TAKE THE SHOTS, no matter what any State Governor or Usurper President or World Health Organization (WHO) says… Stand-up to the fear and intimidation efforts. You need not have to fire your guns if you know your rights (not privileges).
Spread the word.
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Tell the person who is administering this shot to sign a form taking full responsibility if anything goes wrong. You can’t sue the drug company so you can sue the doctor or medical professional.
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Warning! Warning! SWINE FLU VACCINE IS VERY DANGEROUS TO YOUR HEALTH!!! JUST SAY “HELL NO!”
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Swine flu vaccines are rarely harmful,esp if the virus has been killed.the risk of influenza vaccines is much smaller than the
risk of h1n1 itself!
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