Johns Hopkins Scientist, Peter Doshi, Ph.D., Reveals Shocking Report on Flu Vaccines
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Johns Hopkins scientist has issued a blistering report on influenza
vaccines in the British Medical Journal (BMJ). Peter Doshi, Ph.D.,
charges that although the vaccines are being pushed on the public in
unprecedented numbers, they are less effective and cause more side
effects than alleged by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
(CDC). Further, says Doshi, the studies that underlie the CDC’s policy
of encouraging most people to get a yearly flu shot are often low
quality studies that do not substantiate the official claims.
Promoting
influenza vaccines is one of the most visible and aggressive public
health policies in the United States, says Doshi of the Johns Hopkins
School of Medicine. Drug companies and public officials press for
widespread vaccination each fall, offering vaccinations in drugstores
and supermarkets. The results have been phenomenal. Only 20 years ago,
32 million doses of influenza vaccine were available in the United
States on an annual basis. Today, the total has skyrocketed to 135
million doses.
“The
vaccine may be less beneficial and less safe than has been claimed, and
the threat of influenza seems to be overstated,” Doshi says. Mandatory
vaccination polices have been enacted, often in healthcare facilities,
forcing some people to take the vaccine under threat of losing their
jobs.
The
main assertion of the CDC that fuels the push for flu vaccines each
year is that influenza comes with a risk of serious complications which
can cause death, especially in senior citizens and those suffering from
chronic illnesses. That’s not the case, said Doshi.
When
read carefully, the CDC acknowledges that studies finding any perceived
reduction in death rates may be due to the “healthy-user effect” — the
tendency for healthier people to be vaccinated more than less-healthy
people. The only randomized trial of influenza vaccine in older people
found no decrease in deaths. “This means that influenza vaccines are
approved for use in older people despite any clinical trials
demonstrating a reduction in serious outcomes,” says Doshi.
Even
when the vaccine is closely matched to the type of influenza that’s
prevalent, which doesn’t happen every year, randomized, controlled
trials of healthy adults found that vaccinating between 33 and 100
people resulted in one less case of influenza. In addition, says Doshi,
no evidence exists to show that this reduction in the risk of influenza
for a specific population — here in the United States, among healthy
adults, for example — extrapolates into any reduced risk of serious
complications from influenza, such as hospitalizations or deaths, among
seniors.
“For
most people, and possibly most doctors, officials need only claim that
vaccines save lives, and it is assumed there must be solid research
behind it,” says Doshi. Unfortunately, that’s not the case, he says.
Although
the CDC implies that flu vaccines are safe and there’s no need to weigh
benefits against risk, Doshi disagrees. He points to an Australian
study that found one in every 110 children under the age of five had
convulsions following vaccinations in 2009 for H1N1 influenza.
Additional investigations found that the H1N1 vaccine was also
associated with a spike in cases of narcolepsy among adolescents.
Doshi’s concerns echo those of Dr. Russell Blaylock, a neurosurgeon and author of “The Blaylock Wellness Report” who has deep concerns over the safety and efficacy of the flu vaccine.
Not
only is the vaccine not safe, Dr. Blaylock tells Newsmax Health, it
doesn’t even work. “The vaccine is completely worthless, and the
government knows it,” he says. “There are three reasons the government
tells the elderly why they should get flu shots: secondary pneumonia,
hospitalization, and death. Yet a study by the Cochrane group studied
hundreds of thousands of people and found it offered zero protection for
those three things in the general community. It offered people in
nursing homes some immunity against the flu — at best one-third — but
that was only if they picked the right vaccine.”
A
study released in February found that the flu shot was only 9 percent
effective in protecting seniors against the 2012-2013 season’s most
virulent influenza bug.
What’s
even worse is that small children who are given the flu vaccine get no
protection from the disease. “The government also says that every baby
over the age of six months should have a vaccine, and they know it
contains a dose of mercury that is toxic to the brain,” says Dr.
Blaylock. “They also know the studies have shown that the flu vaccine
has zero — zero — effectiveness in children under five.”
For
most people, says Dr. Blaylock, flu vaccines don’t prevent the flu but
actually increase the odds of getting it. The mercury contained in
vaccines is such a strong immune depressant that a flu shot suppresses
immunity for several weeks. “This makes people highly susceptible to
catching the flu,” he says. “They may even think the vaccine gave them
the flu, but that’s not true — it depressed their immune system and then
they caught the flu.”
Mercury
overstimulates the brain for several years, says Dr. Blaylock, and that
activation is the cause of Alzheimer’s and other degenerative diseases.
One study found that those who get the flu vaccine for three to five
years increase their risk of Alzheimer’s disease 10-fold.
Doshi
asserts that influenza is a case of “disease mongering” in an effort to
expand markets. He points to the fact that deaths from flu declined
sharply during the middle of the 20th century, long before the huge
vaccine campaigns that kicked off the 21st century.
Why
do drug companies push the flu vaccine? “It’s all about money,” says
Dr. Blaylock. “Vaccines are a pharmaceutical company’s dream. They have a
product that both the government and the media will help them sell, and
since vaccines are protected, they can’t be sued if anyone has a
complication.”
Doshi’s
article “is a breath of fresh air,” says Dr. Blaylock. “This article
exposes in well-defined and articulate terms what has been known for a
long time — the flu vaccine promotion is a fraud.
“Here’s
the bottom line,” says Dr. Blaylock. “The vast number of people who get
the flu vaccine aren’t going to get any benefit, but they get all of
the risks and complications.”
Article by SYLVIA BOOTH HUBBARD / Real Farmacy
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