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    Exclamation Thousands join class action against Merck over shingles vaccine that gave them shingles

    MARC J. BERN & PARTNERS LLP Files Lawsuits For A Hundred Individuals Against Merck Alleging Shingles/Zostavax Vaccine Is Defective*

    http://bernllp.com/lawsuits-filed-ag...ine-defective/

    MARC J. BERN & PARTNERS LLP, the attorneys who last month filed their first complaint in Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas on behalf of Jorja Bently, today have filed complaints for another 100 plaintiffs against Merck regarding its Shingles vaccine, Zostavax. The assertions are wide ranging and include plaintiffs claiming to have suffered various side effects which include contracting shingles, chickenpox, high blood pressure, intense neuropathic pain, eye injuries, headaches, dizziness amongst others.

    It is alleged by Marc J. Bern & Partners LLP that “Merck knew and had reason to know that its Zostavax vaccine was inherently defective and unreasonably dangerous as designed” that “Merck downplayed the serious and dangerous side effects of its product to encourage sales of the product; consequently, Merck placed its profits above its customers’ safety.” According to founding Partner Marc J Bern, the firm is currently representing nearly 5000 claimants and has thousands more filings to follow. “We have been investigating this drug for quite some time. We steadfastly believe in the merits of this litigation. This vaccination is at best 50 percent effective. Either it is not effective or it causes shingles or a host of other side effects. What is most troubling is that Merck had a better alternative on hand when this product was released.” says Bern.
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    In b4 Angela's denial post,
    “The spirits of darkness are now among us. We have to be on guard so that we may realize what is happening when we encounter them and gain a real idea of where they are to be found. The most dangerous thing you can do in the immediate future will be to give yourself up unconsciously to the influences which are definitely present.” ~ Rudolf Steiner

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    Thousands Sue Merck for Shingles Vaccine “Causing What It’s Supposed to Prevent”

    http://thefreethoughtproject.com/mer...ccine-lawsuit/

    By Annabelle Bamforth - April 22, 2017

    Attorney Troy Bouk was recently interviewed by Ring of Fire’s Farron Cousins to discuss the shingles vaccine Zostavax, the issues related to its effectiveness and the problems that are associated with the product, including the fact that the drugmaker’s vaccine seems to cause the very affliction that it seeks to prevent — and, according to a massive lawsuit, thousands of victims agree.

    While we have everyone from attorneys to biologists, to political scientists who contribute to the Free Thought Project, none of us are doctors, so we do not make recommendations about what you and your family should do in regards to vaccination. That being said, the drug makers have an incentive for you not to see this information which means it will not be reported on in the mainstream media as their advertising dollars are tied directly to these companies. So, we find that it is our duty to spread this information and with your help sharing it, we can have a massive effect.

    In the interview with Cousins, Bouk explained that Zostavax is made with a live strain of the shingles virus and described the complications that are associated with shingles. Shingles is caused by the varicella-zoster virus, which is the same virus that causes chicken pox. The varicella-zoster virus lies dormant in people who have had chicken pox, but sometimes the virus reawakens and produces shingles.

    The virus often manifests as a painful rash, and can also lead to encephalitis, vision loss and postherpetic neuralgia. Bouk said that the virus sometimes “tends to get into your central nervous system, and then, once in there, it wreaks some havoc by usually causing swelling which ends up with these other medical problems. That’s the situation with the vaccine itself, is that Merck hasn’t warned anyone about those indications.”

    Cousins asked Bouk about the effectiveness of Zostavax, to which Bouk replied:

    “The FDA has approved the vaccine for people 50 years of age and older, whereas the CDC only recommends that those individuals 60 years of age and older get it. The reason is that once you have had the Zostavax shot, the FDA says it only lasts for about four years. It’s not proven to last any longer than that. Let’s say you’re 55 years old. It may stay in your system till you’re 60, but you actually are at the greatest risk of getting shingles when you’re in your 60s. That’s why the CDC recommends that you really don’t get it until you’re in your 60s, because that’s probably when you’re going to need it the most.”

    Book’s claim regarding the CDC’s recommendation is indeed correct. According to the CDC’s website, the agency specifically advises Zostavax to be given to people aged 60 and older and does not provide a recommendation for people between the ages of 50 and 59. The CDC warns that people in the 50-59 age group who receive the Zostavax shot may lose the vaccine’s protection benefits by the time they reach age 60, stating that “adults vaccinated before age 60 years might not be protected later in life when the risk for shingles and its complications are greatest.”

    Despite the CDC’s caution against administering Zostavax to people under 60, the FDA approves the vaccine for people age 50 and older, and Merck uses the FDA’s approval to market the vaccine to that age group. Zostamax sales reached $749 million in 2015

    The true efficacy of Zostavax is unclear. The CDC states that the drug “reduced the risk of shingles by 51%” based on a study of 38,000 people age 60 and up. Reuters reported that Zostavax’s effectiveness “varies between 18 and 70 percent, and it declines noticeably in older people.”

    A second shingles vaccine from drug manufacturer GlaxoSmithKline, Shingrix, may be available if the FDA approves their filing. Shingrix, a two-dose vaccine, distinguishes itself from Zostavax because it’s derived from a protein of the virus rather than a live strain. The efficacy of Shingrix is more impressive, as Reuters noted that “in clinical trials, GSK’s vaccine remained 90 percent effective in people over age 70, even four years after injections.”

    Merck has explicitly stated that those who receive the Zostavax vaccine “may still get shingles.” However, Bouk argued that some people may be contracting shingles as a side effect of the vaccine itself due to the live virus strain in the vaccine, not because people are experiencing shingles despite the vaccine.

    Bouk went on to say that “there is a study out there that shows that in 50% of the patients that actually get the vaccine, that sometimes they don’t get shingles — the virus goes straight to manifesting in the central nervous system. It’s possible that you could get the vaccine and get meningitis or encephalitis without ever actually exhibiting shingles.” Bouk advises that patients weigh the risks of Zostavax before receiving the vaccine.

    While GSK seeks approval of Shingrix, which could lead to their product edging out Zostavax, a large number of claims have been filed against Merck. The Mark J. Bern Partners law firm “is currently representing nearly 5000 claimants and has thousands more filings to follow.

    Marc J. Bern said that his firm has been “investigating this drug for quite some time. We steadfastly believe in the merits of this litigation. This vaccination is at best 50 percent effective. Either it is not effective or it causes shingles or a host of other side effects.” Bern added that “what is most troubling is that Merck had a better alternative on hand when this product was released.”

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    Zoster Vaccine, Live
    Zostavax, Frozen and Refrigerator Stable
    Merck & Co., Inc.

    Feb. 2016 -- sucrose, hydrolyzed porcine gelatin, sodium chloride, monosodium L-glutamate, sodium phosphate dibasic, potassium phosphate monobasic, potassium chloride, components of MRC-5 cells (DNA, protein), neomycin, bovine calf serum, urea (refrigerator stable only)
    http://vaccines.procon.org/view.reso...ourceID=005206

    What he found was frightening: Zostavax, a shingles vaccine made by Merck, contains .42 ppb (parts per billion) of glyphosate, while MMR-II, for measles, mumps and rubella, clocks in at 2.90 ppb. A different sample of MMR-II was found to contain a whopping 3.740 ppb.
    http://www.naturalhealth365.com/vacc...sate-1973.html


    Dangers of the Shingles Vaccine

    In 2002, a study published in JAMA pointed out that vaccinating children against chickenpox (varicella) increases the risk that adults develop shingles.

    The team, at Britain's Public Health Laboratory Service (PHLS), said that although vaccination would save thousands of young lives over time (which may also be a total lie, which I’ll explain below), thousands of elderly people could also die from the complications of shingles.

    By attempting to eliminate an essentially harmless childhood disease – chickenpox -- another unnecessary disaster is being created. And Big Pharma is now hard at work, creating vaccines to treat problems caused by vaccines.

    That’s exactly what this shingles vaccine is: a vaccine to treat a delayed side effect of the childhood varicella vaccine.

    Marc Brisson and his team said their research showed that adults living with children have more exposure to the virus that causes chickenpox, and from that enjoy high levels of protection against shingles.

    Being close to children means that adults are exposed to the virus, which acts like a natural booster vaccine against shingles, they believe. But if all children are vaccinated, adults who have had chickenpox are no longer protected against developing shingles.

    Not one to miss an opportunity, Merck – the maker of the varicella vaccine for children – joined hands with the National Institutes of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) and set up The Shingles Prevention Study, which eventually led to the unveiling of Zostavax.

    None of this makes sense, or maybe it does if you want to sell loads of expensive vaccines and increase your sales through the forced mandate of public school exclusion if you aren’t vaccinated.

    Wouldn't the logical solution be to STOP the chickenpox vaccination and allow this mild virus to do its job?

    Chickenpox is a mild childhood viral infection; a self-limiting disease characterized by fever, malaise and an itchy, vesicular rash that covers the entire body that usually resolves within 4 to 5 days, leaving you with lifetime immunity.

    The deaths from chickenpox complications that they scare you with are not caused by the virus itself, but rather by overly aggressive medical “care” in treating the symptoms. Some misguided physicians treat the children with more and more antibiotics, analgesics, or steroidal medications as their condition grows progressively worse. Each new symptom getting another drug until the child dies.

    Unfortunately, there is a notorious lack of compassionate concern when it comes to the development of new vaccines.

    You should also be aware that Zostavax contains live varicella virus that can easily overwhelm your immune system unless you’re in optimal health -- in which case your immune system will likely keep the virus at bay anyway!

    Additionally, the vaccine has only been tested on whites over the age of 60 – on whom the vaccine worked only about half the time -- and according to FDA drug reviewer Dr. David Markovitz, African Americans, Hispanics or Asians may have varying immune responses to the vaccine that have not yet been determined.
    http://articles.mercola.com/sites/ar...lves-soon.aspx
    “The spirits of darkness are now among us. We have to be on guard so that we may realize what is happening when we encounter them and gain a real idea of where they are to be found. The most dangerous thing you can do in the immediate future will be to give yourself up unconsciously to the influences which are definitely present.” ~ Rudolf Steiner

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    That’s exactly what this shingles vaccine is: a vaccine to treat a delayed side effect of the childhood varicella vaccine.
    Actually it is more common in people who DID NOT get vaccinated against chickenpox but were exposed to the virus.

    http://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-c...s/con-20019574

    Anyone who's had chickenpox may develop shingles. After you recover from chickenpox, the virus can enter your nervous system and lie dormant for years. Eventually, it may reactivate and travel along nerve pathways to your skin — producing shingles.
    The Shingles vaccine does not claim to eliminate it but "reduce your risk of getting it by one half".
    Last edited by Zippyjuan; 04-27-2017 at 04:27 PM.

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    “The spirits of darkness are now among us. We have to be on guard so that we may realize what is happening when we encounter them and gain a real idea of where they are to be found. The most dangerous thing you can do in the immediate future will be to give yourself up unconsciously to the influences which are definitely present.” ~ Rudolf Steiner

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    Quote Originally Posted by Zippyjuan View Post
    The Shingles vaccine does not claim to eliminate it but "reduce your risk of getting it by one half".
    Right, that's not what the suit is about.

    The suit claims that the vaccine induced and caused a shingles outbreak, in thousands of people.

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    Varicella and Shingles Vaccine - For Profit Quackery

    Shingles Vaccine Maker, Merck, Sued In Federal Court

    Merck and Co. are being sued over Zostavax, their vaccine which is marketed as the “shingles vaccine” and is the source of millions in marketing and advertising. Following several cases against Merck whereas individuals claim injury from taking Zostavax, there are said to be even more cases in the works. The plaintiffs have sued in Pennslyvania federal courts.

    “I think Merck has failed terribly … to warn about the very serious side effects and the failure of the vaccine to do what they claim it does,” attorney Marc Bern told FiercePharma.

    Bern, founding partner at Marc J. Bern & Partners, said his firm has “thousands of complaints” yet to be filed in Philadelphia, with the injuries running “the gamut from contracting shingles as a result of the vaccine all the way to serious personal injuries such as blindness in one eye, individuals who have serious paralysis in their extremities, brain damage, all the way to death.”

    In a statement, Merck said it “stands behind the demonstrated safety and efficacy” of the shot, which is licensed in 50 countries.

    “Nothing is more important to Merck than the safety of our medicines and vaccines,” a spokesperson told FiercePharma. She said the company has distributed more than 36 million doses of the shot since its 2006 approval. Before winning a FDA nod, Zostavax’s safety and effectiveness were studied in more than 30,000 patients, and a CDC committee continues to recommend its use, she pointed out.

    “The company has continuously provided appropriate and timely information about Zostavax to consumers and to the medical, scientific and regulatory communities,” according to Merck’s statement.

    This story breaks just days following Dr. Sherri Tenpenny’s latest column, The Full Story About Zostavax, The Shingles Vaccine, whereas she breaks down the dangers and warnings related to the vaccine.

    http://vaxxter.com/shingles-vaccine-...federal-court/

    The Full Story about Zostavax, the Shingles Vaccine
    POSTED BY: SHERRI TENPENNY, DO

    Humans are the only known host for the herpes varicella-zoster virus (VZV) that causes chickenpox. A very benign infection in the vast majority of children, chickenpox used to be called a “right of passage” disease, with most kids contracting the infection between the ages of 8 and 12. Recovery left behind lifetime immunity and in little girls, antibodies to be passed to their infants through breast milk later on life.

    Vaccinated persons can still contract chickenpox. The so-called “breakthrough infection” occurs in approximately 2 percent of vaccinations per year. That may sound like a small number until you do the math. With nearly 4 million live births per year in the US, 2 percent equates to at least 80,000 cases of breakthrough chickenpox. And even though doctors say the infection will be “less serious” if the child has been vaccinated, severe cases have been reported.

    A study released March 2017 examined the incidence of severe breakthrough chickenpox infection. They performed a systematic review of articles published between 1974 and 2016. The study’s abstract reports their disturbing findings:

    “We found 52 to 60 unique cases of breakthrough varicella that involved organs other than the skin. We also found the following complications, with each disorder not unique or mutually exclusive: pneumonia (n = 8–9 cases), neurologic (n = 18–24 cases), hematologic (n = 10–11 cases), ocular (n = 5 cases), renal (n = 2 cases), hepatic (n = 3 cases), secondary infection with bacteremia or sepsis (n = 8 cases), and other complications (n = 4 cases). There were 6 cases of fatal breakthrough varicella.”

    And it gets worse.

    Without re-exposure, the dormant chickenpox virus can reactivate in adults, leading to the painful rash referred to as herpes zoster (HZ) or shingles. The zoster rash is typically unilateral, does not cross the midline and follows a distribution along a dermatome, an area of the skin supplied by nerves from a single spinal root. The painful rash usually lasts 7-10 days but can last 3 to 4 weeks, or more.

    HZ causes acute and chronic complications, with complications occurring in 15%–40% of cases. The most common is post-herpetic neuralgia (PHN), persistent, often permanent pain that remains long after the HZ rash has disappeared. Another severe complication HZ is herpes ophthalmicus (HO), when the virus inflames nerves near or in the eye. If not aggressively treated with antivirals and steroids, HO can result in loss of vision in the affected eye.

    Read more:
    http://vaxxter.com/shingles_vaccine_zostavax/

    The Chickenpox Vaccine: A new epidemic of disease and corruption Paperback – August 14, 2006
    by Mark Orrin (Author), Gary S. Goldman Ph.D. (Editor)

    "The Chickenpox Vaccine: A new epidemic of disease and corruption" is about behind-the-scene health issues and their effect on individuals in Antelope Valley, California-a geographically distinct region consisting primarily of two large cities, Palmdale and Lancaster, with a population of over 300,000. In 1995, the FDA licensed a vaccine to protect against a common childhood disease. Healthcare officials believed it was safe, when in fact, it had not been thoroughly tested. Dr. Goldman, who was studying the effect of the vaccine on the population, was encouraged to generate findings that would lead to publication in peer-reviewed scientific journals. All positive findings were published in a timely manner; however, when Dr. Goldman began to present deleterious outcomes, these seemed to be treated much differently and would portend increased risk of reactivation of a more serious disease harbored by 95% of the adult U.S. population.

    https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/09...22bccc16dab825

    Appendix X. Brief Summary of Chickenpox: A New Epidemic of Disease and Corruption
    http://www.vaccinationcouncil.org/wp...oxVaccine1.pdf

    Shingles Goes Epidemic: Chicken Pox Vax to Blame
    http://www.greenmedinfo.com/blog/shi...-pox-vax-blame

    Shingles Vaccine? Really?

    Meanwhile, some people are filing shingles vaccine lawsuits because they’ve developed a case of full-blown shingles AFTER getting the “vaccine.” Or they’ve dropped their 200-some bucks for the “vaccine,” and then they’ve gotten shingles, and suffered vision damage up to blindness, or postherpetic neuralgia, or other permanent nerve damage.

    Zostavax’ 1.7% Effectiveness (Seriously? Seriously.)

    Health Sciences Institute (HSI) authors published a January 2016 article which reported, in part, “UCLA researchers found that only one in 175 people who get the vaccine will be able to dodge a shingles flare-up.” Merck, meanwhile, claims Zostavax is 50% effective. Merck arrived at that tortured number this way: In the placebo group, 3.3 percent of the study participants developed shingles, compared to 1.6 percent in the vaccine group. Though that does represent a 50% difference; it also means the real, absolute risk reduction is a woeful 1.7 percent. Is that worth $200-some bucks, given the problems with this “vaccine”? Would you bet your eyesight on it?

    Shingles Vaccine Research not Reliable

    And even if you think a woeful 1.7% risk reduction is worth the risk of vaccination based on studies funded by the vaccine maker, consider this point from a former editor of the world’s most prestigious medical publication:

    “It is simply no longer possible to believe much of the clinical research that is published, or to rely on the judgment of trusted physicians or authoritative medical guidelines. I take no pleasure in this conclusion, which I reached slowly and reluctantly over my two decades as an editor of The New England Journal of Medicine.” — Marcia Angell, MD, Drug Companies and Doctors: A story of Corruption. NY Review of Books, Jan. 15, 2009.

    Read more:
    http://dmlawfirm.com/shingles-vaccine-really/

    The Shingles Vaccine: Help or Hype?

    Pharmacies are pushing very hard to promote the shingles vaccine in my local community at the moment. Signs are everywhere for adults 60 and older to get the “recommended” shingles vaccine and that they are available every single day!
    At $219 plus tax per jab, the shingles vaccine is certainly not cheap – that much is certain.

    Very interesting! Mass vaccination of children for chicken pox has apparently triggered a large increase in shingles in the adult population. So what has Merck done? It simply repackaged the chicken pox vaccine as Zostovax and made it approximately 14 times stronger.

    Read more:
    http://www.thehealthyhomeeconomist.c...-help-or-hype/

    Shingles Vaccine Deaths Unreported

    Nearly 90 Shingles Vaccine Deaths Reported

    The National Vaccine Information Center reports that 89 deaths have been linked with the shingles vaccine. The Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System (VAERS) has received reports on shingles containing vaccines since 1990.

    Shingles vaccine promoters will argue that the VAERS system reports adverse events that vaccinated people associate with the shingles vaccine, that those deaths may simply be apriori, or merely incidental to the vaccination. Some, perhaps. But all? And the 90 deaths associated or linked with the shingles vaccine in 15 years may be closer to 900, or even 9,000. This is well known, and here’s why.
    Vaccine Events Wildly Under-reported

    It is common knowledge – except for anyone working in mainstream media – that adverse events from vaccines are wildly under-reported. This well known weakness of VAERS skews all the numbers trotted out by vaccine profiteers and their legions of media and medical shills. Further, federal health officials have done little to increase vaccine provider reporting to VAERS since the 1986 passage of the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act. This act vaccinates vaccine makers against liability with regard to vaccines forced on children, but it also requires that vaccine adverse events be reported. That first part is followed religiously by the courts, that second not so much.

    Only 1-10 % Adverse Events Reported

    The National Vaccine Information Center (NVIC) reports that during the meeting of the National Vaccine Advisory, CDC officials reported that only between one to 10 percent of vaccine adverse events are reported to VAERS. Therefore, the VAERS system that receives some 30,0000 adverse event reports annually should be receiving a minimum of 300,000 adverse event reports (if actual events were really reported), or as many as 3 million adverse events related to vaccines. It’s easy to skew numbers, and nobody skews them better than vaccine profiteers.
    CDC promotes More Under-reporting

    The CDC, sadly, is now proposing that all VAERS reports be submitted online. No more paper forms will be allowed. Much like the new American voting system – a sham if ever there was one (read Mark Crispin Miller and BlackBoxVoting.org) – the paperless trail will be much easier to disappear. Doctors and nurses and others will no longer be able to scribble an adverse vaccine event on paper when they have a moment. They will be forced to go to a computer and jump through all the attendant hoops. This paperless idea from CDC virtually guarantees we will see fewer adverse event reports (all in the name of “Progress,” of course). NVIC therefore opposes the CDC’s proposal to eliminate the option of submitting handwritten reports.

    NVIC writes: “The proposed shift to a completely ‘paperless’ system is likely to result in even more underreporting of vaccine adverse events and penalize those who are not computer literate. These changes could also hinder the effective monitoring and detection of unusual vaccine adverse events occurring in the general population by health scientists.”
    Reporting Doctors feel Threatened

    NVIC further reports that, “CDC officials also stated that doctors viewed language in the current form relating vaccine provider identification as ‘threatening’ and inferred liability. The new language created by CDC officials to address these concerns does more harm than good because it assumes that all Americans are being vaccinated solely by their primary health care provider rather than in pharmacies, grocery and big box stores, senior living facilities, public health clinics, the work place or in school clinics.”

    CDC officials apparently live in a different world than the one you and I inhabit.

    NVIC says what’s also missing from the CDC’s proposed new VAERS form is information about vaccine reactions in siblings. Why is the CDC always erring on the side that favors Big Pharma and other corporate entities, and why is mainstream media always doing the same thing? Follow the money.

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    Singles Vaccine Deaths Unreported

    Read more:
    http://dmlawfirm.com/shingles-vaccin...hs-unreported/

    February, 2012: The Limits of VAERS

    Under reporting. Because the reports are submitted voluntarily, many patients and doctors do not report vaccine reactions. Different estimates exist for the amount of underreporting and range from a factor of 10 to as much as a factor of 100 (meaning that the true number of vaccine reactions is between 10 and 100 times higher than what is reported to VAERS).

    Read more:
    http://www.medalerts.org/analysis/archives/504

    Shingles Vaccine Eye Damage

    The shinglesZostovax vaccine Merck Pharmaceuticals has been marketing since 2006 now comes with a warning that it could cause eye damage. February 17, 2016, the FDA approved a label change to Merck’s Zostamax vaccine prescribing information. The change to the label added “Eye Disorders: necrotizing retinitis.” Merck consequently faces Shingles Vaccine Lawsuits over this dubious vaccine.

    Keratitis Vision Damage from Vaccines

    WebMD reported that researchers found 20 cases of keratitis in children and adults that occurred within a month of receiving a chickenpox or shingles vaccine. Keratitis symptoms for adults developed within 24 days of vaccination, while symptoms in children began within 14 days of vaccination. Researchers concluded there is a probable relationship between the vaccine and the eye inflammation, though the study wasn’t designed to prove the vaccine actually caused the condition. (Of course it wasn’t.)

    Keratitis causes inflammation and scarring of the eye tissue. If one fails to get treated fast, it can lead to permanent vision loss.

    Health Sciences Institute (HSI) points out in a Jan 21, 2016 piece that the researchers say they don’t know why the shingles shot may cause keratitis, but we do know that keratitis has been linked to autoimmune disorders, and that shots like the shingles vaccine can profoundly short circuit the immune system.

    The mainstream media didn’t miss a beat, of course, telling us that despite these little “side effects” (hardly worth a mention, really), it’s still a good idea to get the shingles vaccine, and never mind the fact that it barely works at all, or perhaps causes more cases of shingles than it prevents.

    Read more:
    http://dmlawfirm.com/shingles-vaccine-eye-injury/

    Merck Admits Shingles Vaccine Can Cause Eye Damage…and Shingles

    Two important FDA approved changes to the warning label of Merck Pharmaceutical’s shingles vaccine, Zostavax, have been made since the controversial drug was introduced in 2006. The first was in August 2014, when, in addition to potentially causing chickenpox, another side effect was added: shingles! That’s right. The vaccine that had been – and continues to be -- aggressively marketed to prevent seniors from contracting this excruciating condition was found to actually cause shingles in some individuals.

    In February of this year, the FDA approved a label change to warn those who prescribe the Zostavax vaccine of another potential side effect: “Eye Disorders: necrotizing retinitis.”

    Vision Damage linked to Shingles Vaccine
    This disorder, as well as keratitis, causes inflammation and scarring of the eye tissue and can lead to permanent vision loss if not treated quickly. It was reported by WebMD 20 individuals (children and adults) developed keratitis within a month of receiving a chickenpox or shingles vaccine. Keratitis symptoms for adults developed within 24 days of vaccination, while symptoms in children began within 14 days of vaccination.

    Read more:
    http://info.cmsri.org/the-driven-res...e-and-shingles

    Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp.
    Attention: Long Wang, M.D., Ph.D. February 17, 2016
    351 North Sumneytown Pike
    P.O. Box 1000
    MS UG2CD48
    North Wales, PA 19454-1099

    Dear Dr. Wang:

    We have approved your request to supplement your biologics license application (BLA) for Zoster Vaccine Live (ZOSTAVAX) manufactured at your facility, to include a change to the ZOSTAVAX US prescribing information to add “Eye Disorders: necrotizing retinitis (patients on immunosuppressive therapy)” to Section 6.3 (Postmarketing Experience). Please provide your final content of labeling in Structured Product Labeling (SPL) format and include the carton and container labels. In addition, please submit three original paper copies for carton and container final printed labeling. All final labeling should be submitted as Product correspondence to this BLA at the time of use (prior to marketing) and include implementation
    information on FDA Form 356h.

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    https://www.fda.gov/downloads/Biolog.../UCM486750.pdf

    First Medical Research Textbook Linking Vaccines to Autoimmunity
    http://info.cmsri.org/the-driven-res...o-autoimmunity

    First Medical Textbook on Research Linking Vaccines to Autoimmunity
    http://www.cmsri.org/for-physicians/

    Vaccines and Autoimmunity 1st Edition
    by Yehuda Shoenfeld (Editor), Nancy Agmon-Levin (Editor), Lucija Tomljenovic (Editor)

    In light of the discovery of Autoimmune Syndrome Induced by Adjuvants, or ASIA, Vaccines and Autoimmunity explores the role of adjuvants – specifically aluminum in different vaccines – and how they can induce diverse autoimmune clinical manifestations in genetically prone individuals.

    Vaccines and Autoimmunity is divided into three sections; the first contextualizes the role of adjuvants in the framework of autoimmunity, covering the mechanism of action of adjuvants, experimental models of adjuvant induced autoimmune diseases, infections as adjuvants, the Gulf War Syndrome, sick-building syndrome (SBS), safe vaccines, toll-like receptors, TLRS in vaccines, pesticides as adjuvants, oil as adjuvant, mercury, aluminum and autoimmunity. The following section reviews literature on vaccines that have induced autoimmune conditions such as MMR and HBV, among others. The final section covers diseases in which vaccines were known to be the solicitor – for instance, systemic lupus erythematosus – and whether it can be induced by vaccines for MMR, HBV, HCV, and others.

    Edited by leaders in the field, Vaccines and Autoimmunity is an invaluable resource for advanced students and researchers working in pathogenic and epidemiological studies.

    https://www.amazon.com/Vaccines-Auto...J8Y9SBQC7WKWXQ

    Shingles Vaccine causes Shingles

    People conditioned Zostovaxby years of vaccine propaganda may find it not newsworthy that the shingles vaccine causes shingles. For thinking people, however, this might be a news item. What sense does it make to be “vaccinated” against something when that vaccination gives a person the exact malady it is advertised to resist? In August 2014, the FDA moved to make Merck include on its Zostavax shingles vaccine the “side effect” of “shingles.”

    FDA: add “Shingles” as “Side Effect”

    FDA sent a letter to Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp. August 28, 2014:

    We have approved your request (to) update the Package Insert, Section 6.3 Postmarketing Experience to include “infections and infestations: Herpes zoster (vaccine strain)” and to update the Patient Package Insert to include “Shingles” in the “What are the possible side effects of ZOSTAVAX?” section.

    Read more:
    http://dmlawfirm.com/shingles-vaccine-causes-shingles/

    Shingles Vaccine Lawsuits

    Meanwhile, some people are filing shingles vaccine lawsuits because they’ve developed a case of full-blown shingles AFTER getting the “vaccine.” Or they’ve dropped their 200-some bucks for the “vaccine,” and then they’ve gotten shingles, and suffered vision damage up to blindness, or postherpetic neuralgia, or other permanent nerve damage.
    See also – Shingles Vaccine: Help or Hype?

    Zostavax’ 1.7% Effectiveness (Seriously? Seriously.)

    Health Sciences Institute (HSI) authors published a January 2016 article which reported, in part, “UCLA researchers found that only one in 175 people who get the vaccine will be able to dodge a shingles flare-up.” Merck, meanwhile, claims Zostavax is 50% effective. Merck arrived at that tortured number this way: In the placebo group, 3.3 percent of the study participants developed shingles, compared to 1.6 percent in the vaccine group. Though that does represent a 50% difference; it also means the real, absolute risk reduction is a woeful 1.7 percent. Is that worth $200-some bucks, given the problems with this “vaccine”? Would you bet your eyesight on it?

    Shingles Vaccine Research not Reliable

    And even if you think a woeful 1.7% risk reduction is worth the risk of vaccination based on studies funded by the vaccine maker, consider this point from a former editor of the world’s most prestigious medical publication:

    “It is simply no longer possible to believe much of the clinical research that is published, or to rely on the judgment of trusted physicians or authoritative medical guidelines. I take no pleasure in this conclusion, which I reached slowly and reluctantly over my two decades as an editor of The New England Journal of Medicine.” — Marcia Angell, MD, Drug Companies and Doctors: A story of Corruption. NY Review of Books, Jan. 15, 2009.

    Merck’s Tainted History

    It seems reasonable to evaluate the vaccine’s maker to see if its advertising the effectiveness of its vaccines is believable. It’s helpful to keep in mind that Merck also produced the ill-fated Gardisil vaccine nightmare. A Merck whistleblower recently explained that the company faked measles vaccine data in order to retain lucrative government contracts. See it here: Merck Whistleblower. Merck also produced Vioxx, the four-dollar aspirin that caused thousands of people heart attacks and strokes. The company settled thousands of lawsuits for a collective several billion dollars after Vioxx killed an estimated 500,000 Americans.
    You don’t sell the drug; you sell the disease

    Merck founder George Merck appeared in TIME magazine (the great disinformation rag which helped sell the “lone-nut” theory in the murder of JFK) in 1956. Merck surprisingly told some truth to TIME at the time. He explained that you don’t sell the drug; you sell the disease.

    Merck sells its shingles vaccine in this same old fashioned way, by selling the disease. It uses the oldest trick in the book, the Hegelian dialectic: problem/reaction/solution. Show somebody the problem, then sell them the solution. Since all vaccines are sold with the fear – it’s all about fear – all a company needs do is show the horrors of a potential “outbreak” and then swoop in with the solution. To sell the shingles vaccine, Merck displays shingles problems on its web site. You can watch a vaccine promo video there of how horrible shingles is. Then you get the non sequitur solution clearly implied: Because shingles is really bad, you need the shingles vaccine to stop it from getting you.

    The glaring problem is that when you look closely, there’s no guarantee the shingles vaccine works, certainly no guarantee that it will work for you. Is it worth the risks? The fine print will tell you it appears to lower the risk of contracting shingles for some 50 percent of at least one study’s participants, but look closer and the chance it will work at all is much lower than that. Look closer yet and you can begin to see “side effects,” the great euphemism for things that really do happen, that have happened, and that will happen again to some.
    Pharmacies and television spots are pushing hard to promote the shingles vaccine. Signs tell adults 60 and older to get the “recommended” shingles vaccine. Shingles does represent a threat to seniors.
    Shingles Vaccine 51% Effective?

    The National Vaccine Information Center (NVIC) says of the shingles vaccine on its FAQ page:

    • One live virus shingles vaccine was licensed in the U.S. in 2006 for adults over 50 years, Zostavax, made by Merck.
    • The CDC recommends people 60 and older take one jab of the shingles vaccine.
    • Shingles vaccine reported complications include local swelling, pain and redness at injection site, zoster-like skin rash, headache, joint pain, muscle pain, fever, abnormally swollen glands, hypersensitivity reactions including anaphylaxis (shock).

    • Effectiveness of the shingles vaccine is reported to be about 51 percent. (emphasis ours) The Merck shingles vaccine contains live attenuated varicella zoster virus. Vaccine strain virus transmissions from shingles-vaccinated people to others has been reported.

    • Mass use of chickenpox vaccine by children in the U.S. since 1995 has limited natural boosting of Varicella Zoster immunity in the adult population. Consequently, a significant increase has occurred in cases of
    Herpes zoster among adults.

    Mass Vaccination triggers Shingles Outbreak

    Did you get all that? Mass vaccination of children for chicken pox reportedly triggered a large increase in shingles for adults. Merck’s response was to repackage the chicken pox vaccine as Zostovax and make it some 14 times stronger.

    The shingles vaccine is essentially the chicken pox vaccine 14X stronger. Yet it STILL only boasts an effectiveness rate of 51 percent. When you look closer, that figure is also misleading.
    Contraindications for Shingles Vaccine

    CDC recommends the shingles vaccine not be taken by the following people:
    • Women who are pregnant or who might become pregnant within 3 months.
    • Persons who are immunosuppressed or immune deficient, such as those with a history of leukemia, lymphoma or other • disorders affecting the bone marrow or lymphatic system, AIDS or those on immunosuppressive therapy.

    • Those individuals who are experiencing an acute illness or fever.

    In addition, people who have experienced a previous severe allergic reaction to gelatin or the antibiotic neomycin should not get the shingles vaccine.
    Reported side effects of Shingles Vaccine include:
    • Local swelling, pain and redness at injection site
    • Shingles like rash
    • Headache, joint pain, muscle pain, fever
    • Abnormally swollen glands
    • Anaphylaxis (shock)

    Vaccine not for so-called Pro Lifers

    Shingles vaccine contains con-sensually aborted fetal cell tissue [con-sensually aborted?]

    The shingles vaccine ingredients, according to the product information insert:

    “ZOSTAVAX is a lyophilized preparation of the Oka/Merck strain of live, attenuated varicella-zoster virus (VZV). ZOSTAVAX, when reconstituted as directed, is a sterile suspension for subcutaneous administration. Each 0.65-mL dose contains a minimum of 19,400 PFU (plaque-forming units) of Oka/Merck strain of VZV when reconstituted and stored at room temperature for up to 30 minutes. Each dose contains 31.16 mg of sucrose, 15.58 mg of hydrolyzed porcine gelatin, 3.99 mg of sodium chloride, 0.62 mg of monosodium L-glutamate (MSG), 0.57 mg of sodium phosphate dibasic, 0.10 mg of potassium phosphate monobasic, 0.10 mg of potassium chloride; residual components of MRC-5 cells including DNA and protein; and trace quantities of neomycin and bovine calf serum. The product contains no preservatives.”

    MSG, Aborted Fetal Tissue for You

    The shingles vaccine contains MSG and aborted fetal cell tissue, MRC-5 cells, “developed in September 1966 from lung tissue taken from a 14 week fetus aborted for psychiatric reason from a 27 year old physically healthy woman.” Pro Life advocates might care to pay attention. Is it morally ok to protest against abortion and then use the rancid results for yourself?

    Does the shingles vaccine Work?

    Postherpetic neuralgia from shingles can be debilitating for seniors. Even if the shingles vaccine didn’t help reduce infections at all but significantly reduced postherpetic neuralgia, that would be potentially wonderful. However, the marketing, as usual, clashes with the reality.

    According to Dr. David Brownstein, the reduction in postherpetic neuralgia from the shingles vaccine is so small as to be nearly insignificant.
    Dr. Brownstein says: “Merck touts a 39% decline with the use of the vaccine. Further analysis of the data might lead you to a different conclusion. Approximately 0.4% of unvaccinated persons versus 0.14% of vaccinated people developed postherpetic neuralgia. The 39% decline is the less-than-accurate ‘relative risk’ (0.14/ 0.4). If we looked at the more accurate absolute risk, we come up with a decline of 0.26% of postherpetic neuralgia in those that were vaccinated.”

    Shingles Vaccine? Really?

    Really? A tiny .26% decline in the risk of postherpetic neuralgia for those who receive the shingles vaccine?
    At upwards of $200, the shingles vaccine isn’t cheap. Neither is advertising, but somebody has to pay for that advertising. Will it be you?

    Related
    • Shingles Vaccine Lawsuit
    • Shingles Vaccine CAUSES Shingles
    • Gardisil Vaccine Nightmares
    • 1/2 Million Americans dead from Vioxx
    • Merck Whistleblower: Company forged Documents
    • Merck’s Clinically Meaningless Belsomra
    • Merck fined $321 Million for Illegal Marketing
    • Shingles Vaccine? Really?

    Read more:
    http://dmlawfirm.com/shingles-vaccine-really/
    http://www.vacfacts.info/varicella-a...-quackery.html
    “The spirits of darkness are now among us. We have to be on guard so that we may realize what is happening when we encounter them and gain a real idea of where they are to be found. The most dangerous thing you can do in the immediate future will be to give yourself up unconsciously to the influences which are definitely present.” ~ Rudolf Steiner



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    Vaccine not for so-called Pro Lifers
    MSG, Aborted Fetal Tissue for You

    The shingles vaccine contains MSG and aborted fetal cell tissue, MRC-5 cells, “developed in September 1966 from lung tissue taken from a 14 week fetus aborted for psychiatric reason from a 27 year old physically healthy woman.” Pro Life advocates might care to pay attention. Is it morally ok to protest against abortion and then use the rancid results for yourself?
    The Vatican has said that it is more important to protect people and get vaccinated than to worry about cells derived from a line of cells created from an abortion which happened over 50 years ago.

    http://www.ncregister.com/site/artic...rived_vaccines

    In contrast, doctors and parents who consent to the use of such vaccines, when no alternative is available, are involved merely in “a form of very remote mediate material cooperation, and therefore very mild” cooperation with the original act of abortion, the Pontifical Academy for Life stated.
    “However, the burden of this important battle cannot and must not fall on innocent children and on the health situation of the population.

    Vaccine strain virus transmissions from shingles-vaccinated people to others has been reported.
    Theoretically possible yet not a single documented case has been found for ANY live virus vaccine.
    Last edited by Zippyjuan; 04-27-2017 at 06:19 PM.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Zippyjuan View Post
    The Vatican has said that it is more important to protect people and get vaccinated than to worry about cells derived from a line of cells created from an abortion which happened over 50 years ago.
    I frankly do not care what the Vatican says--they say a lot of things I disagree with and this is a big one.

    Shingles vaccine contains con-sensually aborted fetal cell tissue [con-sensually aborted?]

    The shingles vaccine ingredients, according to the product information insert:

    “ZOSTAVAX is a lyophilized preparation of the Oka/Merck strain of live, attenuated varicella-zoster virus (VZV). ZOSTAVAX, when reconstituted as directed, is a sterile suspension for subcutaneous administration. Each 0.65-mL dose contains a minimum of 19,400 PFU (plaque-forming units) of Oka/Merck strain of VZV when reconstituted and stored at room temperature for up to 30 minutes. Each dose contains 31.16 mg of sucrose, 15.58 mg of hydrolyzed porcine gelatin, 3.99 mg of sodium chloride, 0.62 mg of monosodium L-glutamate (MSG), 0.57 mg of sodium phosphate dibasic, 0.10 mg of potassium phosphate monobasic, 0.10 mg of potassium chloride; residual components of MRC-5 cells including DNA and protein; and trace quantities of neomycin and bovine calf serum. The product contains no preservatives.”

    MSG, Aborted Fetal Tissue for You

    The shingles vaccine contains MSG and aborted fetal cell tissue, MRC-5 cells, “developed in September 1966 from lung tissue taken from a 14 week fetus aborted for psychiatric reason from a 27 year old physically healthy woman.” Pro Life advocates might care to pay attention. Is it morally ok to protest against abortion and then use the rancid results for yourself?
    “The spirits of darkness are now among us. We have to be on guard so that we may realize what is happening when we encounter them and gain a real idea of where they are to be found. The most dangerous thing you can do in the immediate future will be to give yourself up unconsciously to the influences which are definitely present.” ~ Rudolf Steiner

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    So you are free not to receive the shingles vaccine.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Zippyjuan View Post
    So you are free not to receive the shingles vaccine.
    Most people are not aware of this:

    Testimony Submitted by:
    Dr. Theresa A. Deisher
    Sound Choice Pharmaceutical Institute
    President
    AVM Biotechnology
    CEO and Managing Member

    This is an excellent and informative read, as to the situation we are talking about here, in regard to aborted fetal cell production types of vaccines. You can easily see how strong this research is. And the CDC is doing what? Noth

    Excerpted:

    Some childhood vaccines that are mandated prior to entering kindergarten are only available in the US produced using aborted fetal cells, these include MMR (mumps measles rubella) and chickenpox. Other mandated childhood vaccines are available from both animal or human sources, and yet parents and grandparents are not informed of this so that they can choose a vaccine compatible with their consciences.

    When pharmaceutical companies switched from using animal cell lines to using aborted human fetal cells lines to produce these vaccines, in the mid to late 1970s, they assumed, without any evidence, that using aborted fetal cells would result in a more efficient production system. Brief discussions about potential adverse health consequences of using aborted human cell lines for vaccine production were captured in minutes from FDA advisory meetings about this switch. However, no studies have been done to actually measure the extent of those potential adverse consequences.

    Vaccines and biologics (engineered proteins as drugs) are too large to make in a test tube, so companies harness the normal machinery used to make these, cells. No final drug is ever completely ‘pure’ and you will find contaminating DNA and cellular debris from the production cell in your final product. When we switch from using animal cells to using human cells we now have human DNA in our vaccines and our drugs.

    Shouldn’t parents and grandparents know that when they immunize their children with a particular vaccine they are also injecting their children with DNA from an aborted fetus? Yet there are no laws that require drug manufacturers to inform the public of this. The package insert for the MMR II vaccine (mumps, measles, rubella) states : “MERUVAX* II (Rubella Virus Vaccine Live), the Wistar RA 27/3 strain of live attenuated rubella virus propagated in WI-38 human diploid lung Fibroblasts”, but doesn’t tell you that contaminating DNA from the WI-38 propagation strain is found in the final product. The package insert for Varivax, a chickenpox vaccine, states that the vaccine contains “residual components of MRC-5 cells including DNA and protein”, but how many parents or grandparents, let alone pediatricians and pharmacists, would know that MRC-5, or WI-38, is a cell line derived from an aborted fetus, and that the contaminating DNA and protein listed on the package insert is the DNA and protein of an aborted fetus? If we have the legal right to know what is in our Big Macs, don’t we have the right to know what is in our vaccines and medicines? Contaminating human DNA in these vaccines has the potential to trigger auto-immune responses and also the potential to become incorporated into our own genes, a process called homologous recombination.

    Read more:
    https://bioethicsarchive.georgetown...._statement.pdf

    Exhibit BN. Theresa A. Deisher, Ph.D (another good informational read)
    http://www.health.state.mn.us/divs/i.../exhibitbn.pdf

    Testimony Submitted by: Dr. Theresa A. Deisher
    Sound Choice
    Pharmaceutical Institute
    President: AVM Biotechnology
    CEO and Managing Member

    Excerpts:

    Aborted human DNA in our vaccines is not the end, it is only the beginning, as the creation of human-animal hybrids demonstrates. A new aborted fetal cell line has been developed, called PerC6, and licenses have been taken by over 50 partners, including the NIH and the Walter Reed Army Institute, to use this cell line for new vaccine and biologics production. The goal of the company that created the PerC6 is to become the production cell line for ALL vaccines, therapeutics antibodies, biologic drugs and gene therapy. We must know the consequences of contaminating human DNA before we wake up and discover that all newly approved recombinant drugs are produced by aborted fetal cells.

    Aborted fetal cells are also now used to discover new food additives and flavor enhancers. Imagine that; the cells from an aborted fetus used to make your candy sweeter. Isn’t that disgusting? And furthermore, as the company that performs this research states, one may never know these additives will someday be in our food products due to the current labeling guidelines which would allow these new additives to be captured under the generic label of ‘artificial flavors’.

    The conscience rights of almost half of the US population are being denied by our current labeling guidelines for biologics and food additives. A lack of information forces people to be complicit in a practice that many would find reprehensible if they only knew that aborted fetal cell lines are being used for drug discovery and production.

    Thank you for your attention.
    http://bioethics.georgetown.edu/pcbe..._statement.pdf

    AVM Biotech
    http://avmbiotech.com/team/​

    Human Diploid cells: MRC5 proteinshuman diploid cells, aborted fetuses)

    Derived from normal lung tissue of a 14-week-old male fetus by J. P. Jacobs in September 1966 (Nature 227: 168-170, 1970), the MRC-5 cell line was established in a growth medium consisting of Earle's Basal Medium in Earle's balanced salt solution supplemented with 10% calf (bovine) serum. The MRC-5 cell strain (like the WI-38 cell line) is susceptible to a wide range of human viruses.

    Viral vaccines are often cultured on aborted fetal tissue. There are several types of fetal cells in which the virus is grown: MRC5, WI-38, WI-26 VA4, RA273, PER C and HEK 293. This has raised concerns, with reports of some individuals with religious objections to abortion refusing vaccination because they feel this makes them complicit with the original act of abortion.

    Some deem it unethical to use vaccines from fetal cell lines for the following reasons:

    1) If abortion is immoral then profiting from it must also be immoral.
    2) The unborn child was unable to give consent for its body
    parts to be used, so it is therefore disrespectful to the dead.
    3) The argument that "the fetal tissues would just go to waste if they were not used" was not accepted at the Nuremberg trials of scientists who used body parts from concentration camp victims. This abuse of the child's body only compounds the
    injustice of the original abortion, even if the vaccine producers were in no way connected to the abortion.
    4) Use of this vaccine implies acceptance of the legality of abortion, and does nothing to discourage the use of fetal parts or
    cell lines in vaccine manufacture or other branches of medicine.

    Vaccines that use aborted fetuses in production:
    Acambis 1000 (smallpox) Acambis -- MRC5
    Avaxim (hepatitis A) Pateur Merieux -- MRC5
    Biavax (mumps, rubella) Merck -- RA273, WI-38
    Ervevax (rubella) Smithkilne Beecham -- MRC5
    Havarix (hepatitis A) Smithkilne Beecham -- MRC5
    Imovax HDCV, DCO (rabies) Pasteur Merieux Connaught -- MRC5
    Meruvax II (rubella) Merck -- RA273, WI-38
    MMR II (Measles, mumps, rubella) Merck Sharp & Dohme -- WI-38
    MR VAX (measles, rubella) Merck -- RA273, WI-38
    Poliovax (polio, IPV) MRC5
    Priorix (measles, mumps, rubella) Smithkline Beecham -- MRC5
    Proquad (mmr, chickenpox/varicella) Merck -- RA273, WI-38, MRC5
    Twinrix (hepatitis A and B) GSK -- MRC5
    VAQTA (hepatitis A) MSD -- MRC5
    Varivax (chickenpox, varicella) MSD -- WI-38
    Zostavax (shingles) Merck -- MRC5, WI-38
    http://www.vacfacts.info/vaccine-pro...---tissue.html
    “The spirits of darkness are now among us. We have to be on guard so that we may realize what is happening when we encounter them and gain a real idea of where they are to be found. The most dangerous thing you can do in the immediate future will be to give yourself up unconsciously to the influences which are definitely present.” ~ Rudolf Steiner

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    Basically four vaccines were created using the stem cell lines- those for Hepatitis A, Rubella, chickenpox, and shingles. Those have to be made using live (but weakened) viruses because other methods have failed. The baby was not aborted to create the cell lines but the cells were donated by the mother (like somebody donating organs following an accident). She wanted something good to come from her difficult decision. Cells used today are thousands of generations after the original cells.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Zippyjuan View Post
    Basically four vaccines were created using the stem cell lines- those for Hepatitis A, Rubella, chickenpox, and shingles. Those have to be made using live (but weakened) viruses because other methods have failed. The baby was not aborted to create the cell lines but the cells were donated by the mother (like somebody donating organs following an accident). She wanted something good to come from her difficult decision. Cells used today are thousands of generations after the original cells.
    Do you have links to support this?
    “The spirits of darkness are now among us. We have to be on guard so that we may realize what is happening when we encounter them and gain a real idea of where they are to be found. The most dangerous thing you can do in the immediate future will be to give yourself up unconsciously to the influences which are definitely present.” ~ Rudolf Steiner

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    Quote Originally Posted by donnay View Post
    Do you have links to support this?
    Still looking for confirmation that they were donated but did find more specifics on the two lines- it was not for the purpose of creating any stem cell lines or vaccines: https://vaccinequestions.wordpress.com/tag/mrc-5/

    MRC-5: “The MRC-5 cell line was developed in September 1966 from lung tissue taken from a 14 week fetus aborted for psychiatric reason from a 27 year old physically healthy woman. The cell morphology is fibroblast-like. The karyotype is 46,XY; normal diploid male. Cumulative population doublings to senescence is 42-48. G6PD isoenzyme is type B.”
    WI-38: “The WI-38 cell line was developed in July 1962 from lung tissue taken from a therapeutically aborted fetus of about 3 months gestational age. Cells released by trypsin digestion of the lung tissue were used for the primary culture. The cell morphology is fibroblast-like. The karyotype is 46,XX; normal diploid female. A maximum lifespan of 50 population doublings for this culture was obtained at the Repository. A thymidine labelling index of 86% was obtained after recovery. G6PD is isoenzyme type B. This culture of WI-38 is an expansion from passage 9 frozen cells obtained from the submitter.”

    https://www.historyofvaccines.org/co...ne-development

    In 1941, Australian ophthalmologist Norman Gregg first realized that congenital cataracts in babies were the result of their mothers being infected with rubella during pregnancy. Along with cataracts, it was eventually determined that congenital rubella syndrome (CRS) could also cause deafness, heart disease, encephalitis, mental retardation, and pneumonia, among many other conditions. At the height of a rubella epidemic that began in Europe and spread to the United States in the mid-1960s, Plotkin calculated that 1% of all births at Philadelphia General Hospital were affected by congenital rubella syndrome. In some cases, women who were infected with rubella while pregnant terminated their pregnancies due to the serious risks from CRS.

    Following one such abortion, the fetus was sent to Plotkin at the laboratory he had devoted to rubella research. Testing the kidney of the fetus, Plotkin found and isolated the rubella virus. Separately, Leonard Hayflick (also working at the Wistar Institute at that time) developed a cell strain using lung cells from an aborted fetus. Many viruses, including rubella, grew well in the resulting cell strain, and it proved to be free of contaminants and safe to use for human vaccines. The strain was called WI-38.

    http://www.drwile.com/lnkpages/render.asp?vac_abortion

    The cells that were taken from the two aborted babies more than 35 years ago are much like my loved one's heart. Two innocent babies were killed. However, they were able to donate something that has been used not only to make vaccines, but in many medical research projects over the years. Thus, these cells have been saving millions of lives for almost two generations! Although the babies were clearly murdered, the fact that their cells have been saving lives is at least a silver lining in the dark cloud of their tragic murder.

    It is important to note that Federal law is quite specific in the matter of donated fetal tissue. The law does not allow for an abortion to be performed for the purpose of donating tissue, and the law even explicitly states that the abortion procedure cannot be changed in order to collect the tissue4. It also prohibits the baby's family or the doctor from profiting from the donation5. Thus, these cells were truly donated, just as any organ might be donated. If a person is an organ donor and he or she is murdered, it is not immoral for you to use those organs. Once again, at least something good will come out of the murder if those organs are used.
    Last edited by Zippyjuan; 04-27-2017 at 08:11 PM.

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    Annnnd the conversation wanders far away from the shyster lawyers and into abortion.



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    Quote Originally Posted by angelatc View Post
    Annnnd the conversation wanders far away from the shyster lawyers and into abortion.
    Yeah because no discussion on vaccines are allowed in your world.

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    “The spirits of darkness are now among us. We have to be on guard so that we may realize what is happening when we encounter them and gain a real idea of where they are to be found. The most dangerous thing you can do in the immediate future will be to give yourself up unconsciously to the influences which are definitely present.” ~ Rudolf Steiner

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    Quote Originally Posted by Anti Federalist View Post
    MARC J. BERN & PARTNERS LLP Files Lawsuits For A Hundred Individuals Against Merck Alleging Shingles/Zostavax Vaccine Is Defective*

    http://bernllp.com/lawsuits-filed-ag...ine-defective/

    MARC J. BERN & PARTNERS LLP, the attorneys who last month filed their first complaint in Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas on behalf of Jorja Bently, today have filed complaints for another 100 plaintiffs against Merck regarding its Shingles vaccine, Zostavax. The assertions are wide ranging and include plaintiffs claiming to have suffered various side effects which include contracting shingles, chickenpox, high blood pressure, intense neuropathic pain, eye injuries, headaches, dizziness amongst others.

    It is alleged by Marc J. Bern & Partners LLP that “Merck knew and had reason to know that its Zostavax vaccine was inherently defective and unreasonably dangerous as designed” that “Merck downplayed the serious and dangerous side effects of its product to encourage sales of the product; consequently, Merck placed its profits above its customers’ safety.” According to founding Partner Marc J Bern, the firm is currently representing nearly 5000 claimants and has thousands more filings to follow. “We have been investigating this drug for quite some time. We steadfastly believe in the merits of this litigation. This vaccination is at best 50 percent effective. Either it is not effective or it causes shingles or a host of other side effects. What is most troubling is that Merck had a better alternative on hand when this product was released.” says Bern.
    None of this is particularly surprising.
    freedomisobvious.blogspot.com

    There is only one correct way: freedom. All other solutions are non-solutions.

    It appears that artificial intelligence is at least slightly superior to natural stupidity.

    Our words make us the ghosts that we are.

    Convincing the world he didn't exist was the Devil's second greatest trick; the first was convincing us that God didn't exist.

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    Shingles Vaccine Dangers Exposed In FDA Letter to Merck

    By: Anne Dachel



    The CDC claims the shingles vaccine is safe, but a letter the FDA wote to Merck paints a different picture.

    I recently wrote about the news of a suit against Merck over damage from the shingles vaccine. There are claims of serious side effects, including death associated with this vaccine.

    The Zostavax vaccine is recommended for every adult “fifty years of age and older” in the Merck TV ad, yet the CDC says “people 60 years of age or older should get shingles vaccine.” [1]



    On the CDC website it also states that the shingles vaccine is safe. “No serious problems have been identified with shingles vaccine.”

    Despite the CDC claim that the shingles vaccine carries no real risks, the FDA wrote to Merck in February 2016 telling them to add, ‘Eye Disorders: necrotizing retinitis (patients on immunosuppressive therapy)’ to their product information.' [2]



    KP Stoller, a physician in San Francisco and author of the book, Incurable Me (Skyhorse 2016), is a strong critic of the current vaccine program because of its lack of safety science and oversight. He has coined the word Adversonomics to describe this neglected area of vacinology. I asked him about the safety of this vaccine.



    Q. Dr. Stoller, what concerns do you have about the way this vaccine is being sold to the public, especially with regard to what Merck says about it in their product information sheet? [3]



    A. There is ZERO credible safety data on "vaccines" [defined as (adjuvants etc. + antigen)] when there are no saline vs. vaccine comparisons have been done. Vaccines are not tested for safety against a saline placebo, they are tested against a solution that contains all the adjuvants, metals, DNA, and other toxins etc. but just minus the infectious disease antigen itself - in this case the varicella virus. So, the safety data and adverse event data Merck cites in their package insert does not have a lot of meaning.



    It would be the same as if Monsanto tested RoundUp for safety and compared it not to water but to RoundUp sans Glyphosate (the reported active ingredient). Even without Glyphosate, RoundUp is very toxic... one of the ingredients is 10,000 times more toxic than Glyphosate itself. Would comparing those two substances RoundUp with Glyphosate vs RoundUp without Glyphosate be a fair comparison for safety purposes?

    Yet that is exactly what the vaccine manufacturers are allowed to pass off as an adequate safety comparison. RoundUp without Glyphosate isn't anymore a placebo than the varicella vaccine without the varicella.



    Q. What is the connection between the live virus chicken pox vaccine, now universally recommended for every child, and shingles in the adult population, which Merck claims will affect one in three adults in their lifetime.?



    A. It has been two decades since the USA implemented Universal Varicella (Chicken Pox) vaccination. And we now know a whole lot more information about what this program has caused because what happened when children are no longer circulating wild Chicken pox virus (varicella or VZV) in the population is that adults who once had VZV as children but were unable to eradicate the virus completely from their bodies are no longer exposed to the wild virus and their own immunity drops.



    When these adults lose their immunity to the virus, it comes out of its hiding places (the body’s dorsal-root ganglia) and that adult develops herpes zoster (HZ). Before VZV vaccination there were about 4 million cases per year and 1 million cases of HZ. Fifty children would die each year from complications (90 people die each year from lightening sticks just as a point of reference).



    Now, initially the vaccine was found to be very effective but that was because not everyone was vaccinated so those that were vaccinated kept getting their vaccine induced immunity boosted by the wild virus just like the adults were keeping the HZ at bay for the same reason. Ten years after its introduction the efficacy of the vaccine had dropped to less than 60%, because there were almost no unvaccinated kids circulating the wild virus. At the same time HZ cases among adults went up 90%.

    Big Pharma's ever ready answer was to vaccinate the adults to replace the natural immune boosting presence of circulating wild virus.


    The cost of vaccinating adults with a VZV vaccine to achieve protection close to that which occurs naturally when VZV incidence could cost as much as $40 billion dollars – that is a lot a chicken scratch to Big Pharma for a vaccine that wasn’t really needed in the first place.

    Essentially, the VZV vaccine shifted the disease from children to an older age group and the vaccine lost efficacy in the childhood age group as well for the same reason - vaccinated children benefited from exposure to their peers who caught wild chicken pox.

    In other words, while it would not be in Big Pharma's interest to let kids opt out of the VZV vaccine it would benefit those who did get vaccinated if there were a lot of other kids who weren't vaccinated.

    But to Big Pharma this isn't about disease control this is about money only. The cost-benefit of universal VZV vaccination needs to take into account the risk of off-setting the natural balance that results in continual disease and expensive remediation’s for illnesses that would never have taken place without the vaccination being given in the first place. With the meningitis vaccine is it worth killing three children and making 1000 more seriously ill to prevent one case of the disease?

    This is a perfect example to demonstrate that vaccinology is far more nuanced than physicians and the public understand. It is not that vaccines are bad, it is you don't force them on everyone, because you end up working against public health interests. The goal should not be to vaccinate everyone, the goal should be to protect the public health and in this case we get better disease control if everyone isn't vaccinated. Additionally, most people think that most vaccines control the spread of disease, but they don't. Many control how sick any one person gets should they come down with the disease, but the vaccine does not control the spread of that disease.

    This is just not information Big Pharma wants politicians and the public to know. They want to sell their vaccines to everyone and many times over and over... it is all about the money to them. The IPV vaccine for polio is not capable of stopping the spread of polio, so why force it on the population? I could keep listing examples, but I think I made my point.



    Q. Merck now faces mounting complaints of injuries and a lawsuit over damage from the shingles vaccine. How does the Zostavax controversy relate to the claim that our mandated childhood schedule is linked to epidemic increases in autoimmune disorders and autism in our kids?



    A. The simple answer is vaccines set off autoimmune reactions in many who receive them - some vaccines more than others and some people are more vulnerable than others because of the makeup of their HLA genes, for example. That would be the area where Adversonomics concerns itself with.

    The public doesn't hear about all the weird and often tragic reactions to vaccines because you can't sue anyone if you have a bad vaccine reaction.

    The public is hearing about Zostavax lawsuits because that vaccine is currently not protected by the Vaccine Injury Compensation Program (VICP). The National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act (NCVIA) created the Vaccine Injury Compensation Program, provides a legal mechanism for determining whether vaccine injuries for covered vaccines should be compensated; albeit, an unfair and dysfunctional mechanism. To be a covered vaccine for which compensation is available under the VICP a vaccine must be added to the vaccine Table either by legislation or through administrative rule making by the Secretary of Health and Human Services. This applies to all vaccines, whether for adults or childhood. While the NCVIA includes the term "Childhood" in its title, this is misleading as adult vaccines may be covered under the Vaccine Act. In fact, in recent years most cases that have been compensated have been filed by adults, primarily due to the increased number of doses of the flu shot that have been administered, mostly to adults.

    Zostavax is NOT a covered vaccine under the NCVIA and, therefore, cannot be subject to a claim for compensation for vaccine injury under the VICP. The vaccine could be covered under NCVIA, but it is not yet...that could change.

    The herpes zoster vaccine that is covered under NCVIA/VICP is Varivax, or varicella, also manufactured by Merck. As you know, this is the vaccine that is included in the ACIP/CDC recommended childhood vaccine schedule. (Usually, but not always, when ACIP recommends a vaccine, steps are taken to add the vaccine to the NCVIA/VICP Table of covered vaccines.) Both Varivax and Zostavax are diploid human cell line manufactured vaccines, manufactured using the MRC-5 (Medical Research Council cell strain 5) cell line. The Varivax has been shown to contain human DNA contamination. Zostavax also likely contains human DNA contamination. It has been theorized that the DNA contamination can cause injury by either DNA insertion or by provoking autoimmunity, although this theory is controversial and unaccepted to date in science or legal venues. There is an Omnibus proceeding pending in the VICP in which claimants allege that the diploid human cell line vaccines cause autism.

    Thank you to Dr. Stoller for this explanation.



    I also contacted Robert Krakow for a response. He was one of the principle authors of "Unanswered Questions", the revelation in 2011 that our federal government had for years been compensating children for vaccine injuries that included autism, and he is a former prosecutor who now specializes in vaccine injury cases.



    This is what he had to say about Zostavax.

    Given the obvious risk of serious injury from the Zostavax vaccine, any person over 50 should proceed with caution regarding the commercially promoted recommendation to get this vaccine. While shingles can sometimes be serious in rare cases, my view is that efforts to maintain good health and a strong immune system will serve us better than obtaining this vaccine, which has the undeniable risk of serious injury. There are almost 5000 reports of adverse events after Zostavax. The vaccine contains substances that can provoke autoimmunity, including human DNA contamination, gelatin, neomycin and other problematic substances. As with many other vaccines, I am not convinced that the vaccine or its components have been properly tested.

    The promotion of Zostavax on television and other places is as irresponsible as it is inappropriate. The value of the vaccine is overstated, while the risk of adverse reactions is downplayed. This skews the benefit/cost analysis that all of us must employ when we individually decide to take any vaccine or drug.



    The result of all this is that an individual’s right to make informed decisions about his or her health is being overridden by bloated claims of efficacy and safety coupled with risks that are hidden from view. Because of misinformation, our informed consent is, effectively, being overridden. This is not an acceptable situation for any American.



    Our emerging experience with Zostavax mirrors our experience with childhood vaccines. Benefits are exaggerated while risk is minimized, all in the context of relentless promotion. The difference with Zostavax is that we can more easily see when injury occurs as compared with developmental injuries that are difficult to recognize and diagnose, and are often confused with unrelated disorders. The result is the same for both adults and children: unnecessary injury and suffering, often lifelong.



    It is the policy of our nation that vaccine injuries do occur and the victims of vaccines should be compensated. For the most part, it is unknown how such injuries occur and how often they occur. Despite this reality, there exists relentless commercial promotion of vaccines. For the sake of the health of our people, this must stop. Public education regarding vaccine risk should be increased, and more rigorous testing of all vaccine brought to market should be applied. Unless this happens, the disturbing trend of increasing vaccine injury will persist as new and exotic vaccines are introduced into the marketplace with dubious justification, except for the bountiful commercial windfall it confers on vaccine manufacturers.
    Our thanks also to Robert for telling the truth about a vaccine being sold as safe and effective.

    References
    [1] https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/vpd/shi...lic/index.html

    [2] https://www.fda.gov/downloads/Biolog.../UCM486750.pdf

    [3] https://www.merck.com/product/usa/pi...stavax_pi2.pdf
    http://www.greenmedinfo.com/blog/shi...a-letter-merck
    “The spirits of darkness are now among us. We have to be on guard so that we may realize what is happening when we encounter them and gain a real idea of where they are to be found. The most dangerous thing you can do in the immediate future will be to give yourself up unconsciously to the influences which are definitely present.” ~ Rudolf Steiner

  23. #20
    A Pox on the CDC’s Vaccination Agenda: The Rise of Herpes Zoster (Shingles)

    By: Sayer Ji



    A new systematic review published in PLoS titled, "Herpes Zoster Risk Reduction through Exposure to Chickenpox Patients: A Systematic Multidiscplinary Review," confirms that the widespread adoption of chickenpox vaccine over the past 30 years, which has resulted in a decline in chickenpox cases associated with infection from the wild-circulating virus, has lead to a concerning increase in the incidents of herpes zoster (shingles), a far more serious expression of chickenpox virus (varicella zoster) infection.

    This new review brings to the forefront a few critically important questions: are natural infectious challenges essential for establishing a healthy immune system, and is the chicken pox vaccine doing more harm than good?

    The Vaccines Don't Work As Advertised

    Despite the largely politically- and economically-motivated immunization agenda of the CDC, there is a growing body of clinical research establishing that vaccination does not effectively 'improve upon' or 'replace' natural immunity in the way that the masses have been made to assume; to the contrary, there are now hundreds of diseases that have been linked to commonly administered childhood and adult vaccines; and when we say "linked" we don't mean anecdotally, but in the biomedical literature itself [see the data set establishing the dangers of vaccines]. Additionally, the highly respected Cochrane Database Review repeatedly contradicts the CDC's claims by demonstrating that there is a conspicuous lack of unequivocal scientific evidence supporting their claim that influenza vaccines are safe and effective. Even worse, despite the hundreds of thousands who receive them every year, virtually no research has been performed showing them safe in children under two, the most vulnerable population.

    It is therefore no surprise nor secret that the chickenpox vaccine has failed to live up to its promises. Even the CDC's Manual for the Surveillance of Vaccine-Preventable Diseases admits that "As vaccination rates have increased, the majority of varicella cases now occur among vaccinated persons."[1] Wouldn't an effective chickenpox vaccine result in the majority of varicella cases occurring in non-vaccinated persons?

    The Vaccines Cause The Disease They Are Supposed To Prevent

    Indeed, since the introduction of universal chickenpox vaccination in the US in 1995, the vaccine has been found to have only limited effectiveness,[2] with 1 in 5 children receiving the original vaccine experiencing "breakthrough" infections."[3] This is why, at present, children on the CDC's immunization schedule receive two doses. But increasing the number of doses isn't working either. For example, in 2006, a chickenpox outbreak occurred in a population of Arkansas schoolchildren with 97% immunization compliance. When the researchers looked at the difference in outbreak cases between one-dose and two-dose children, none could be found.[4]

    Another glaring problem is the fact that the chickenpox vaccine itself is clearly a source of infection. The CDC states "Chickenpox vaccines contain weakened live VZV, which may cause latent (dormant) infection."[5] When the goal is to prevent infection, injecting children with the very infectious and communicable pathogen the vaccine is supposed to prevent seems like the very definition of quackery, does it not? We forget that there was a time when injecting infectious disease material into otherwise healthy children was considered a bad idea. And then there were the hundreds of millions of years of bodily evolution where no such option existed, but which nonetheless enabled us through our own well-adapted innate and acquired immune apparatus to survive as a species up unto this point in time, where now we flagrantly cast our biological inheritance to the wind in favor of mass experimentation with 60+ vaccines given to our childen by age 6.

    Buy One Get One: The Hidden Pathogens In Live Vaccines

    Another problem is the use of euphemisms like 'weakened' or 'attenuated' to describe live-virus containing vaccines, implying that they are less virulent. One of the basic methods used to create these 'weakened' vaccines is to serially passage the infectious agent through both and/or either animal and human biological fluids (e.g. bovine serum) and cells, giving the vaccine master seed stock an opportunity to become contaminated along the way with hidden disease vectors, including cancer-causing viruses.

    Endogenous retroviruses, for instance, are RNA-based 'fossil viruses' that incorporated their genetic material into the infected species' germline DNA many million years ago, and now harmless to that species, make up a significant portion of the total DNA sequences within most animal genomes. For example, the human genome is believed to be 8% endogenous retroviral in origin.[6] These retroviruses are normally not capable of infecting other species, but during the vaccine manufacturing process where viable biological materials from different species are often cultured together, or undergo accidental admixture, they can become reactivated and infectious to another species. One of the most carefully guarded secrets within the history of vaccinology is that the original vaccine master seed stocks, whose components are either still being used to create live vaccines, or which have contaminated oral vaccines still be used today, contain retroviruses and other hidden pathogens. One reason for this terrible fact is that reverse transcriptase was not even discovered until 1970, so there was no way of knowing there was a problem when the original vaccines were being developed. There is also the case of the simian virus known as SV-40 which contaminated the original oral polio vaccines, and which is responsible for the infection of millions around the world with a cancer-causing virus, and which is still being passed down from parent-to-child today. [See the Simian Virus 40 research here]

    They Know "Weakened" Vaccines Are Not Safe

    These problems and controversies drove the vaccine industry to develop presumably "safer" vaccines, such as the "killed," "toxoid," "subunit," "conjugate," and now DNA-based vaccines. The earnest push towards these latter "improvements" tacitly reveal the original danger behind using the so-called "weakened" vaccines. And nowhere is this problem more evident today than in India where despite the Global Polio Eradication Initiative's claims of "mission accomplished" in that country, over 45,000 reported vaccine-strain induced cases of polio-like disease have been reported as occurring in 2011 alone. For the same reason that the wealthier countries like the US already phased them out, increasingly educated Indians are now outraged to learn that the billions of doses of oral polio vaccine given to their children actually contain a live virus twice as lethal as the wild one that has supposedly been eradicated. If only their proponents and active promoters, like the Dalai Lama, knew the harm they are capable of doing.

    Chicken pox vaccine is also grown with living cells from aborted fetal tissue. Known as "diploid" vaccines, they carry their own set of biological and obviously moral risks. As far as the precautionary principle stands, injecting virus-infected human cells, alongside powerful immunotoxic adjuvants, into the bodies of healthy children in order to 'protect' them from a benign, immune-strengthening bout of chickenpox, sounds like the very definition of insanity. But as it stands today, millions of parents and their pediatricians consider this not only sound practice, but necessary to prevent infecting others.

    Instead of looking to the origin of the herpes zoster problem: both the (paradoxical) infectivity and the lack of efficacy of the chickenpox vaccine itself, the vaccine industry and its cheerleading arm, the CDC, are now promoting a new "shingles" vaccine which contains more of the same: another live varicella virus. And already there is indication that the shingles vaccine causes ... you guessed it ... reactivation of the herpes zoster virus. Read a 2012 case study on this connection here.

    [1] Lopez, Adriana; Schmid, Scott; Bialek, Stephanie (2011). "Chapter 17: Varicella". In Roush, Sandra W.; McIntyre, Lynne; Baldy, Linda M. Manual for the Surveillance of Vaccine-Preventable Diseases (5th ed.). Atlanta GA: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

    [2] Sandra S Chaves, Paul Gargiullo, John X Zhang, Rachel Civen, Dalya Guris, Laurene Mascola, Jane F Seward. Loss of vaccine-induced immunity to varicella over time. N Engl J Med. 2007 Mar 15 ;356(11):1121-9. PMID: 17360990

    [3] Sandra S Chaves, John Zhang, Rachel Civen, Barbara M Watson, Tina Carbajal, Dana Perella, Jane F Seward. Varicella disease among vaccinated persons: clinical and epidemiological characteristics, 1997-2005. J Infect Dis. 2008 Mar 1 ;197 Suppl 2:S127-31. PMID: 18419385

    [4] Philip L Gould, Jessica Leung, Connie Scott, D Scott Schmid, Helen Deng, Adriana Lopez, Sandra S Chaves, Meredith Reynolds, Linda Gladden, Rafael Harpaz, Sandra Snow. An outbreak of varicella in elementary school children with two-dose varicella vaccine recipients--Arkansas, 2006.Pediatr Infect Dis J. 2009 Aug;28(8):678-81. PMID: 19593254

    [5] Center for Disease Control http://www.cdc.gov/vaccinesafety/vaccines/varicella/.

    [6] Genome Biology 2001, 2:reviews1017-reviews1017.5
    http://www.greenmedinfo.com/blog/pox...oster-shingles
    “The spirits of darkness are now among us. We have to be on guard so that we may realize what is happening when we encounter them and gain a real idea of where they are to be found. The most dangerous thing you can do in the immediate future will be to give yourself up unconsciously to the influences which are definitely present.” ~ Rudolf Steiner

  24. #21
    Um.... why are people getting this vaccine? It's not in the schedule, is it?

    I never got the varicella vaccine and I sure as $#@! won't be getting a shingles vaccine... neither will my kids. I had chickenpox as a kid and it was not bad. If I get shingles, I'll be in pain for a few weeks, but no permanent damage. I simply refuse to inject myself with a cocktail of $#@! made by companies that test their vaccines on third world populations killing thousands in the process, purchase the politicians to get the government safety stamp, buy the ads on TV, then sell it sell it sell it!
    There are only two things we should fight for. One is the defense of our homes and the other is the Bill of Rights. War for any other reason is simply a racket.
    -Major General Smedley Butler, USMC,
    Two-Time Congressional Medal of Honor Winner
    Author of, War is a Racket!

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  25. #22
    Quote Originally Posted by jllundqu View Post
    Um.... why are people getting this vaccine? It's not in the schedule, is it?

    I never got the varicella vaccine and I sure as $#@! won't be getting a shingles vaccine... neither will my kids. I had chickenpox as a kid and it was not bad. If I get shingles, I'll be in pain for a few weeks, but no permanent damage. I simply refuse to inject myself with a cocktail of $#@! made by companies that test their vaccines on third world populations killing thousands in the process, purchase the politicians to get the government safety stamp, buy the ads on TV, then sell it sell it sell it!
    From above article:
    Indeed, since the introduction of universal chickenpox vaccination in the US in 1995, the vaccine has been found to have only limited effectiveness,[2] with 1 in 5 children receiving the original vaccine experiencing "breakthrough" infections."[3] This is why, at present, children on the CDC's immunization schedule receive two doses. But increasing the number of doses isn't working either. For example, in 2006, a chickenpox outbreak occurred in a population of Arkansas schoolchildren with 97% immunization compliance. When the researchers looked at the difference in outbreak cases between one-dose and two-dose children, none could be found.[4]
    “The spirits of darkness are now among us. We have to be on guard so that we may realize what is happening when we encounter them and gain a real idea of where they are to be found. The most dangerous thing you can do in the immediate future will be to give yourself up unconsciously to the influences which are definitely present.” ~ Rudolf Steiner

  26. #23
    Quote Originally Posted by donnay View Post
    From above article:
    I know Varicella is on the schedule... but the shingles vaccine isn't, right?
    There are only two things we should fight for. One is the defense of our homes and the other is the Bill of Rights. War for any other reason is simply a racket.
    -Major General Smedley Butler, USMC,
    Two-Time Congressional Medal of Honor Winner
    Author of, War is a Racket!

    It is not that I am mad, it is only that my head is different from yours.
    - Diogenes of Sinope

  27. #24
    Quote Originally Posted by jllundqu View Post
    I know Varicella is on the schedule... but the shingles vaccine isn't, right?
    The very vaccine is causing the increase in shingles:

    Increase in Shingles Predicted from the Beginning

    Before and after the licensing of the chickenpox vaccine, many researchers and consumer advocates predicted that reducing the childhood incidence of varicella zoster infections by vaccinating every child could have the unwelcome result of increasing the incidence and severity of herpes zoster infection (shingles).3

    The concern was so widespread that many countries opted out of child mass vaccination campaigns to prevent chickenpox. The rationale behind the hesitation lies with the phenomenon known as “exogenous boosting,” meaning that exposure to children with active varicella zoster infection leads to a passive (asymptomatic) natural boosting of an individual’s chickenpox immunity and protects against later reactivation of the virus as herpes zoster (shingles).4

    Numerous studies published within the first decade following introduction of the chickenpox vaccine have borne out the validity of the hypothesis, many of them outlined in a book by medical journalist Neil Z. Miller, Critical Vaccine Studies (New Atlantean Press, Santa Fe, NM, 2016). One study from 2002 looked at data from 244 patients and 485 controls and reported that re-exposure to varicella-zoster virus via contact with children offered as much as a 20 per cent reduction in risk for herpes zoster (shingles). These researchers warned that,

    “Reduction of childhood varicella by vaccination might lead to increased incidence of adult zoster.”5

    Also in 2002, other researchers reported that exposure to the chickenpox virus experienced by adults living with children prior to the introduction of the vaccine was “highly protective against zoster (Incidence ratio=0.75, 95% CI, 0.63–0.89),” and they too predicted that “mass varicella vaccination [would be] expected to cause a major epidemic of herpes-zoster, affecting more than 50% of those aged 10–44 years at the introduction of vaccination.”6

    A study was published in 2005 reporting that,

    “Some studies suggest that re-exposure to [chickenpox] after primary infection may decrease the risk of herpes zoster through immunologic boosting. If this is the case, widespread use of varicella vaccine could, by reducing circulating [chickenpox], increase the incidence of herpes zoster over the first few decades of universal childhood vaccination.”7
    http://www.thevaccinereaction.org/20...shingles-risk/
    “The spirits of darkness are now among us. We have to be on guard so that we may realize what is happening when we encounter them and gain a real idea of where they are to be found. The most dangerous thing you can do in the immediate future will be to give yourself up unconsciously to the influences which are definitely present.” ~ Rudolf Steiner



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  29. #25
    Quote Originally Posted by jllundqu View Post
    I know Varicella is on the schedule... but the shingles vaccine isn't, right?
    Are you talking about the shot schedule for kids? Its not there, as kids don't generally get shingles, adults (especially elderly) do.

  30. #26
    Quote Originally Posted by jllundqu View Post
    I know Varicella is on the schedule... but the shingles vaccine isn't, right?
    If you got the chicken pox vaccine, you don't need the shingles one. It is for unvaccinated people who got chicken pox.

  31. #27
    Quote Originally Posted by Zippyjuan View Post
    If you got the chicken pox vaccine, you don't need the shingles one. It is for unvaccinated people who got chicken pox.

    That's a lie

    Chickenpox (Varicella) Vaccine: This Is Why a Shingles Epidemic Is Bolting Straight at the U.S.
    http://articles.mercola.com/sites/ar...-epidemic.aspx

    Surprise! Shingles risk increased by chickenpox vaccine
    https://www.sott.net/article/317199-...kenpox-vaccine

    Shingles Vaccine? Think Again!
    http://www.vaccinationcouncil.org/20...e-think-again/

    Herpes Zoster (Shingles) & Shingles Vaccine
    http://www.nvic.org/vaccines-and-diseases/Shingles.aspx
    “The spirits of darkness are now among us. We have to be on guard so that we may realize what is happening when we encounter them and gain a real idea of where they are to be found. The most dangerous thing you can do in the immediate future will be to give yourself up unconsciously to the influences which are definitely present.” ~ Rudolf Steiner

  32. #28
    I know a man who went blind following a bout of shingles (he used to be a photographer so his sight was very important to him). He is not 100% blind but needs a very powerful magnifying glass to try to read anything. He wishes he had received the shingles vaccine and encourages others to do so.

  33. #29
    Quote Originally Posted by Zippyjuan View Post
    I know a man who went blind following a bout of shingles (he used to be a photographer so his sight was very important to him). He is not 100% blind but needs a very powerful magnifying glass to try to read anything. He wishes he had received the shingles vaccine and encourages others to do so.
    Hmm...could be he was around someone who got the vaccine.

    Merck Admits Shingles Vaccine Can Cause Eye Damage…and Shingles
    http://info.cmsri.org/the-driven-res...e-and-shingles
    “The spirits of darkness are now among us. We have to be on guard so that we may realize what is happening when we encounter them and gain a real idea of where they are to be found. The most dangerous thing you can do in the immediate future will be to give yourself up unconsciously to the influences which are definitely present.” ~ Rudolf Steiner

  34. #30
    Quote Originally Posted by donnay View Post
    Hmm...could be he was around someone who got the vaccine.

    Merck Admits Shingles Vaccine Can Cause Eye Damage…and Shingles
    http://info.cmsri.org/the-driven-res...e-and-shingles
    No, he wasn't. ("study" was by a class-action law suit firm- not a scientific study) Shingles is not contageous.
    Last edited by Zippyjuan; 05-02-2017 at 10:27 PM.

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