Re: [AVN] Swine flu vaccine tossed

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Disgusting.

Winnie [AVN] Swine flu vaccine tossedRecipient list suppressed: ;> and what happens to the mercury in it when it is > burned? Goes into our air and then our bodies> And it is $260 million dollars, Winnie> http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gcx9bjqSn_mHLMw5rb3eoY32TZdQD9GMFDPO0> see here> Sheri> > > At 04:45 PM 7/1/2010, you wrote:> >> >> >Even at a buck a pop, we're talking $40 million > >of our taxes wasted because someone > >overestimated the "need." I'm surprised it > >didn't occur to them to donate the vaccine to > >other countries which are now going through their flu season.> >> >Winnie> >> >(> vaccine-tossed/>http://pagingdrgupta.blogs.cnn.com/2010/07/01/swine-flu-vaccine-tossed/)> >> >July 1st, 2010> >03:22 PM ET> >> vaccine-tossed/>Swine > >flu vaccine tossed> >[]> >> >> >An estimated 40 million doses of H1N1 vaccine > >expired Wednesday and will be thrown away, the > >U.S. Department of Health > >and Human Services, says. Federal officials say > >the expired vaccine accounts for nearly 25 > >percent of the 162 million doses of swine flu > >vaccine that were available for public use. The > >vaccine will be crushed and then incinerated.> >> >According to HHS, an estimated 90 million doses > >of the vaccine was dispensed in 2009-2010. > >Eighty million Americans were vaccinated–about > >25 percent of the population–children under 9 > >years old got two doses. Approximately 32 > >million doses remain in storage, set to expire at various times > next year.> >> >Manufacturing the vaccine in large numbers was > >justified, says HHS spokesperson Bill Hall. "Our > >decisions regarding vaccine production were in > >line with the existing threat at the time such > >decisions were made. Although there were many > >doses of vaccine that went unused, it was much > >more appropriate to have been prepared for the > >worst case scenario than to have had too few > >doses. As we have said repeatedly, the risk of > >influenza disease is far greater than the risk > >of vaccination either for seasonal or pandemic influenza."> >> >For the upcoming flu season, manufacturers > >expect to produce about 175 million doses of the > >2010-2011 seasonal vaccine that will include the > >2009 H1N1 strain. But HHS is encouraging states > >to keep any H1N1 vaccine they have in stock in > >the event cases begin to spike before that seasonal vaccine is > available.>> > Sheri Nakken, R.N., MA, Hahnemannian Homeopath> Vaccination Information & Choice Network, Washington State, USA> Vaccines - > http://vaccinationdangers.wordpress.com/ > Homeopathy http://homeopathycures.wordpress.com> Vaccine Dangers, Childhood Disease Classes & > Homeopathy Online/email courses - next classes start September 2010>