Since the
swine flu panic that was widespread in 2009, prompting more than 60
million people to get vaccinated against it, countless amounts of
individuals – predominantly children – have developed a range of health
conditions. Mainly, brain damage has been the issue; everything from
sleep disturbances and memory impairments to hallucinations and mental
illness have been experienced by those who received the swine flu
vaccine.
Most medical professionals and Big Pharma
folks are quick to defend and recommend such vaccines; of course pharma
giant GlaxoSmithKline (GSK), the manufacturers of the swine flu
vaccine, Pandemrix, is a key player in this regard. However, they’ve
come under fire recently and rather than sit under a protective
you-can’t-touch-me cloak, the pharma giant has been ordered to pay about
$60 million to the UK government after it was determined that Pandemrix
played a role in causing brain damage in a range of cases.
“No doubt” swine flu vaccine linked to brain damage
“There’s no doubt in my mind whatsoever
that Pandemrix increased the occurrence of narcolepsy onset in children
in some countries – and probably in most countries,” says Emmanuelle
Mignot, a specialist in sleep disorder at Stanford University who looked into the effects of the vaccine.
About 80 percent of those affected have
been children, but GSK continually turned a blind eye. Even when a study
came out showing that vaccinated children where 13 times more likely to
develop narcolepsy, the company didn’t admit any link. Even when, in
2011, the European Medicines Agency issued a warning that people under
20 should refrain from getting the vaccine, GSK didn’t pay attention.
They maintain that they are professionals dedicated to human health; the
GSK website currently says, “At GSK responsible business is how we do
business. Our mission is to improve the quality of human life by
enabling people to do more, feel better, live longer.”
Sure, tell that to eight-year-old Josh
Hadfield, from Somerset, England. He took Pandemrix and guess what? He’s
now on anti-narcolepsy drugs to help keep him awake in school,
something which costs approximately $15,000 annually.
“If you make him laugh, he collapses. His
memory is shot. There is no cure,” his mother says. “He says he wishes
he hadn’t been born. I feel incredibly guilty about letting him have the
vaccine.”
GSK web site puts emphasis on “delivering financial performance”
Interestingly, the same GSK website that
talks about the company’s responsibility to help others feel good and
live long lives also touches on a more pressing issue, at least for them
– and it’s one that says a mouthful. Just a few sentences below its
statement of health dedication, in larger font that stands out from the
rest of the copy, it says, “How we operate is just as important to us as
delivering financial performance.” The statement is attributed to Sir
Andrew Witty, GSK CEO. So there you have it. That, my friends, is it in a
nutshell, basically as close as we’ll come to “hearing” straight from
the source itself that all Big Pharma truly has in mind is the health of
their numbers.
Of course the fact that GSK will be paying the UK government millions of
dollars to those who now have brain damage from taking Pandemrix also
speaks volumes. It acts as an admission that taking the vaccine is
indeed a health problem; otherwise, why would GSK be on board with
giving money to those who are now hardly able to function in their daily
lives? It they truly felt they were in the right, they’d stand firm and
refuse to make any payments, right?
“There has never been a case like this
before,” says Peter Todd, a lawyer who represented many of the claimants
in the U.K. “The victims of this vaccine have an incurable and lifelong
condition and will require extensive medication.”
It’s expected that even more people will
develop brain injuries associated with taking the swine flu vaccine,
especially narcolepsy and cataplexy, which makes a person lose
consciousness whenever they experience deep emotions such as the basic
act of laughing.
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