Lies about flu deaths - Annual Number of flu deaths: it’s a guess - Sherri Tenpenny, DO

[Sheri Nakken]

this is now 5 years old, but still applies...............

the lies about the regular flu deaths

applies in all other vaccine/disease cases

They always say 36,000 deaths from flu, in the US..................
below is the reality

Annual Number of flu deaths: it’s a guess - Sherri Tenpenny, DO
http://www.whale.to/a/ten12.html

Annual Number of flu deaths: it’s a guess

By Sherri Tenpenny, DO
www.nmaseminars.com

I have received many requests for a specific
reference to the following statement made in my
article “The Flu Season Campaign Begins” :

“Even though less than 175 people actually
died from influenza in 2003, anticipate that
exponentially more messages regarding the “deadly
flu” will be pushed through the news media this year.”

After weeks of intense research to locate the
full source for that statement, I have unearthed
some interesting and powerfully useful information.

Recapping Last Year’s Flu Season

During the 2003--2004 season, influenza activity
in the United States began earlier than usual
(October 2003), peaked between late November and
early December, and then declined rapidly during
January-February, 2004. The CDC scrambled as it
was discovered that neither of the trivalent
influenza vaccines used (Fluzone® or the new
intranasal vaccine, FluMist®) contained the
strain A/Fujian strain, the most prevalent virus
in circulation. By Jan. 15, the CDC issued a
press release admitting that ongoing testing
showed that the year's vaccine "was not effective
or had very low effectiveness" in the test subjects.

As of the week ending March 27, 2004,
laboratories at the World Health Organization
(WHO) and National Respiratory and Enteric Virus
Surveillance System (NREVSS) had tested 115,222
specimens and only 21.0% of the samples were
found to be positive for influenza viruses.
During the four most recent influenza seasons
(1999-00, 2000-01, 2001-02, and 2002-03), the
number of specimens that tested positive for
influenza viruses ranged from 23.9 to 30.9% In
other words, over the last 5 winters, 70-80% of
the sniffles, fevers and body aches generally
characterized as “the flu” were not caused by
influenza viruses, but by organisms not covered
by a vaccine, regardless of the strain that was used.

Influenza-associated pediatric deaths received
considerable attention last year, prompting the
CDC to request state and local health departments
to report influenza-associated deaths in persons
less than 18 years of age. As of May 31, 2004,
152 “influenza-associated deaths” in children had
been reported by 40 states. Most of the children
who died in last year's flu season were younger
than 5 years of age. Because no similarnational
data were collected previously, whether this
numberof pediatric deaths represents a change from previous seasons is unknown.

Beginning in 2002, the Advisory Committeeon
Immunization Practices (ACIP) began to recommend
that all childrenaged 6-23 months and close
contacts of children aged 0-23 monthsreceive
annual influenza vaccination. With the increased
reports of pediatric deaths in 2003, the Council
of State and Territorial Epidemiologists (CSTE)
approved an initiative to add “all pediatric
influenza-associated deaths” to the list of
nationally notifiable conditions on June of 2004.
This will turn out to be a boon for flu vaccine
manufacturers as the media doggedly tracts and
then morbidly reports this season’s statistics,
placing fear in the hearts of parents who will in
turn demand the flu shot for their children.

It should be noted that this initiative was
undertaken after the influenza vaccine was added
to the pediatric vaccination schedule, protecting
the manufacturers from liability under the rules
of the National Vaccine Injury Act.

Therefore, my statement that “less than 175
people who died” was technically incorrect and
should have read, “less than 175 children died”
in last year’s flu season. However, as few as 175
adult deaths could have occurred too. Here’s why…

Predicting 36,000 deaths

The CDC claims that influenza is “a highly
contagious virus that causes an average of 36,000
deaths and 200,000 hospitalizations in the U.S.
every year.” But how does the CDC determine the
number of deaths related to influenza? Where is
the tangible, annual report somewhere in the
CDC’s database with an actual number of reported
deaths among adults, such as the 152 reported
deaths among children? These questions deserve
answers. Upon intense investigation, I uncovered a startling truth.

The CDC receives information on influenza cases
from a several different sources. During each
October to May period, the CDC receives weekly
reports from approximately 120 World Health
Organization (WHO) and National Respiratory and
Enteric Virus Surveillance System (NREVSS)
collaborating laboratories in the United States
regarding influenza virus isolations. In
addition, reports from several hundred “sentinel
physicians” are received regarding the total
number of patient visits and the number of visits
for influenza-like illness (ILI). Sentinel
physicians are randomly selected physicians who
work in the community or for local health
departments who collect nasal swabs on patients
reporting flu-like symptoms. These swabs are sent
to laboratories for organism identification and quantification.

A third source is the state and territorial
epidemiologists who estimate the level of local
influenza activity. The final source, the vital
statistics offices for 122 cities across the
country, report the total number of death
certificates filed and the number of those in
which 1) pneumonia was identified as the
underlying cause of death or 2) influenza was
listed anywhere on the death certificate. These
reports from death certificates are filed
throughout the year. From the number of positive
nasal swabs and the complied data from
epidemiological death certificates, the CDC
“determines” the number of deaths per year from influenza.

A CDC spokesman, Mr. Curtis Allen told Insight Magazine last year,

“There are a couple problems with
determining the number of deaths related to the
flu because most people don't die from influenza
- they die from complications of influenza - so
the numbers [of deaths] are based on mathematical
formulas. We don't know exactly how many people
get the flu each year because it's not a
reportable disease and most physicians don't do
the test [nasal swab] to indicate whether [the
symptoms are caused by] influenza.”

Hence, the oft-repeated “36,000 deaths
nationwide” is nothing more than a
computer-generated, ominous-sounding guesstimate, rather than an actual number.

NOTE: Between Oct 1, 2003 and Apr 9, 2004, the
CDC identified 863 antigenically DIFFERENT
influenza viruses. Therefore, even if one assumes
that the flu vaccines work for the three chosen
strains, it is important to understand that the
vaccineswill not provide protection against the
other 860 influenza viruses known to be in circulation.

Hence the CDC’s statement about the flu is correct:

Yearly, adults can average one to three and
children three to six influenza-like illnesses
(ILIs). The vaccine does not prevent
influenza-like illnesses caused by infectious
agents other than influenza [strains found in the
shot] , and many persons vaccinated against influenza will still get the flu.

Special thanks to Mrs. Lujene Clark
http://www.nomercury.org and Mrs. Dawn Richardson
http://www.vaccineinfo.net for help with this research.
1. CDC fact sheet. Influenza Vaccine Effectiveness Studies. Jan. 15, 2004.
2. MMWR. Update: Influenza Activity ---
United States, 2003--04 Season. April 9, 2004 / 53(13);284-287
3. MMWR. Surveillance for Influenza ---
United States, 1997--98, 1998--99, and 1999--00
Seasons. October 25, 2002 / 51(SS07);1-10.
4. 2003 - 04 U.S. INFLUENZA SEASON SUMMARY.
5. JAMA. Vol. 292, No. 12. Sept 22-29, 2004. Also MMWR. 2004;53:547-552.
6. JAMA. Ibid.
7. MMWR. Surveillance for Influenza ---
United States, 1997--98, 1998--99, and 1999--00
Seasons. October 25, 2002 / 51(SS07);1-10.
8. Insight Magazine. Jan. 19, 2004. ?Flu
Secrets You Should Know?, by Kelly Patricia O?Meara
9. Insight Magazine. Ibid.
10. MMWR. November 9, 2001 / 50(44);984-6
Sheri Nakken, R.N., MA, Hahnemannian Homeopath
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