UK Approves Untested Flu Vaccine With Dangerous Additives for Use in Children

Pandemrix vaccine contains squalene, has not been tested on children under 18, has limited efficacy, and was tested with bird flu, not swine flu.

by Heidi Stevenson

27 September 2009

Pandemrix, the GlaxoSmithKline influena vaccine recently purchased and approved by the UK, is a seriously flawed product. Although approved by the UK for children as young as six months, it has neither been tested on nor approved for children under age 18 years. The EMEA's documentation⁽¹⁾ shows that it includes two dangerous adjuvants, squalene and polysorbate, and that its efficacy is limited.

Even more mind-boggling is that Pandemrix trials used the H5N1 virus, which is bird flu. The pandemic that's being hyped is H1N1 swine flu, a different kind of flu. There has been no testing of any sort for the vaccine virus that will be utilized in the final product!

A spokesman for the Department of Health stated, "We plan to start vaccination in October, subject to vaccine being licensed and manufacturers' delivery schedules." The only holdup, other than delivery, is the European Commission's marketing authorisation.

Adjuvants and Excipients

Additives to the vaccine include adjuvants, which are used to boost efficacy, and excipients, which are used to dilute and preserve the final product.

Adjuvants

The adjuvant used is called AS03. It consists of squalene and polysorbate, both of which carry risks. Polysorbate has been linked to infertility. It is a common emulsifier in a variety of products that most people are now exposed to, including cosmetics and ice cream. Of course, being dosed with it through an invasive injection likely adds a significant level of risk.

Squalene carries very significant risks. It has been linked to a host of immune and neurological system disorders. Animal tests have definitively shown it causes rheumatoid arthritis, lupus erythematosus, and other immune system disorders in mice. Gulf War syndrome has been strongly linked to squalene, and only those troops who received anthrax vaccinations laced with squalene have suffered.

According to a study in the February 2000 journal of Experimental and Molecular Pathology,

All (100%) GWS patients immunized for service in Desert Shield/Desert Storm who did not deploy, but had the same signs and symptoms as those who did deploy, had antibodies to squalene. In contrast, none (0%) of the deployed Persian Gulf veterans not showing signs and symptoms of GWS have antibodies to squalene.⁽²⁾

The study further noted that symptoms of Gulf War syndrome were also noted in those who had received squalene-laced anthrax vaccine, but were not deployed. In other words, the connection between exposure to squalene and Gulf War syndrome is extremely strong. All those who were exposed to it developed Gulf War syndrome and those who weren't exposed did not develop it.

Read Squalene—Is New Vaccine Additive the Worst Yet? for more information and theory of why it's so risky.

Excipients

Excipients include:

• Polysorbate 80, as noted above, has been linked to infertility.
• Octoxynol 10, often used in cosmetics, is an emulsifier. It is a spermicide, and may cause a variety of problems, including chills, confusion, dizziness, fever, lightheadedness, muscle aches, and skin peeling.
• Thimerosal contains mercury, which supposedly is no longer in use for children's vaccinations. Obviously, there's little truth in the claim that it's no longer used Mercury is a noted neurotoxin strongly linked to causing autism.
• Sodium chloride (NaCl), simple salt, is a preservative.
• Disodium hydrogen phosphate (Na2HPO4) causes skin irritations on contact. Ingested, it causes abdominal pain and diarrhea.
• Potassium dihydrogen phosphate (KH2PO4) is a pesticide used to kill mildew, a kind of mould, on plants.
• Potassium chloride (KCl) is the lethal agent used in executions. It interrupts the heart's electrical signals, thus stopping it.
• Magnesium chloride (MgCl2), unlike all the other excipients, is a healthy substance, though injecting it is not the normal way it's absorbed into the body.
• Water

Official Warnings

EMEA specifies several concerns you should know. These include:

• Pandemrix is grown in eggs. No one with a sensitivity to any part of eggs should take it. These include chicken protein and ovalbumin.
• Pandemrix is contrainidicated if you have a history of anaphylactic shock to formaldehyde, gentamicin sulphate, or sodium deoxycholate—although these chemicals are not listed as ingredients. The reason appears to be concern that these chemicals may reach the final product from the eggs used to grow the vaccine. Obviously, the eggs used are battery-grown.
• No one with severe fever or acute infection should receive Pandemrix, though EMEA seems to think that this rule might be lifted "if the pandemic situation allows".
• It should never be injected into a vein or artery.
• It should not be given when other immunisations are given.
• It is unknown whether anyone who is immunosuppressed will receive any benefit. This means that anyone with an immune system problem takes the risks associated with the vaccine, but without any knowledge of whether it might be effective. It also means that anyone taking an immunosuppressive drug, such as cancer chemotherapy or steroids, as are routinely used for a host of problems, including eczema, asthma, Crohn's disease, HIV/AIDS, and others. Naturally, of course, many of these people are the very ones who will be targeted to take the vaccine.

Finally, EMEA warns

There are no data on administration of AS03-adjuvanted vaccines before or following other types of influenza vaccines intended for pre-pandemic or pandemic use.

In other words, the EMEA has approved mass use of Pandemrix without having any information on its safety on one of its most significant ingredients!

Pregnancy and Lactation

The EMEA's official document on Pandemrix states:

No data have been generated in pregnant women with Pandemrix or with any other vaccine that contains the AS03 adjuvant.

In spite of that, the EMEA leaves the decision about using Pandemrix on pregnant and lactating women open.

Pandemrix Efficacy

The BBC claims, "Early trial data had suggested good immune responses with just one dose of the vaccines." However, the EMEA's data suggests otherwise.

Seroprotection rate 21 days after 1st dose of Pandemrix	Seroprotection rate 21 days after 2nd dose of Pandemrix
44.5%	94.3%

It takes three weeks to reach less than 50% seroprotection rate. It then takes another vaccination and another three weeks to reach 94.3% These figures do not mean that one is either 44.5% or 94.3% protected against disease. The EMEA defined seroprotection for this vaccine as the "proportion of subjects with haemagglutination inhibition (HI) titre ≥1:40." Another flu vaccine that the EMEA is investigating, Celvapan, and which will likely also be approved by the UK, utilises a different measure, in which a "single radial haemolysis" rate of ≥25 mm² is referenced instead. Why these particular—and different—methods were used is unexplained.

It is interesting that two different methods of measuring serum levels of antibodies are used for the two vaccines. Also interesting is that no testing to see how effective the vaccines are in preventing disease are being done.

The Point

The Pandemrix approval and testing process was accelerated because of the hyped influenza pandemic. The definition of a pandemic has nothing to do with a disease's severity, but only its spread. If influenza is pandemic, then colds must be also. If there were a vaccine for colds, would they also be hyped as a pandemic?

Other than all the risks of Pandemrix, the most significant factor may be that the virus that will be used in the final product, the one that we care about, H1N1 Swine Flu, has not been tested at all!

The real point is that a vaccine that has not been tested is about to be pressed on the general public. As noted in England Is Planning on Forced Vaccinations, there is little doubt that the intention is to force children to have them.

Without question, the UK has left any sense of sanity behind when it comes to health. The country is purchasing massive quantities of a vaccine that has never been tested, uses ingredients known cause terrible illness, and intends to force this drug and chemical hodgepodge on the most innocent members of society. Small children, on whom the product has never been tested, are to be subjected to Pandemrix. The ill with immunosuppressed systems, such as those with cancer, are to be targeted, in spite of reason to believe the vaccine can't be effective in them, thus subjecting them to all the risks with little chance of gaining any benefit.

And all this is being done for a disease that is relatively minor, thus far less virulent than the routine flu bugs that make the rounds every year.