Plans are being drawn up to ensure under-fives are given a swine flu vaccination.
They are the next at-risk group in line to receive the immunisation from the NHS.
Nationally, the Government and GPs have failed to reach an agreement on the swine flu vaccination programme for under-fives.
Ministers had offered doctors £5.25 per dose plus a "small concession'' to vaccinate healthy children aged from six months to five.
But the two sides have been unable to agree on how doctors will be compensated for carrying out the vaccinations.
The Government has now asked primary care trusts to come up with plans for handling immunisation in their area.
Dr Peter Marks said: "The NHS in Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland is committed to the vaccination of healthy children aged six months up to five years.
"This age group has been identified as being quite vulnerable to the virus and should be given this extra protection.
Staff at GP practices have been doing a magnificent job vaccinating thousands of people in the phase one at-risk groups and still have many patients to see.
"Meanwhile, parents of healthy children who are aged from six months but who are not yet five, should wait until they are invited to attend a vaccination session."
The trust said children's vaccinations would start once the most at-risk group had been immunised, but could not confirm when this would be.
The most at risk include patients with underlying health conditions, such as liver, kidney, heart and lung disease, as well as pregnant women and people who are living with patients with a reduced immunity.
UPDATE 12/10/09 7:51AM
Agreement reached - kids are to get the Swine Flu Vaccine in U.K.
Children in the region will get the swine flu vaccine as the NHS in the North East is the first to reach a deal with GPs for the next phase of the vaccinating campaign.
Plans to vaccinate healthy children aged from six months to five against the virus suffered a setback after talks between the Government and doctors broke down earlier this week.
But Martin Wilson, director of NHS flu resilience in the region, said: "I can confirm that we have reached agreement with GPs via the six local medical committees across the North East to implement the next phase of the swine flu vaccination programme.
"GP surgeries in the region will receive the same payment agreed for the original at risk priority groups.
"This is great news for patients in the North East and I would like to thank GPs across the region for their ongoing hard work in the fight against this virus and their clear commitment to ensure that vaccination of at risk children can begin seamlessly.
"We have committed to further local discussions about actual impact on practices once we see what the uptake of the vaccine is for children in the six months to under five years group.
"The supply of the swine flu vaccine is increasing and we should therefore be able to begin vaccinating children before Christmas. Parents of children in the priority group will receive further information as soon as the vaccination of the original at risk groups in each practice is complete."
Thursday, December 10, 2009
Swine flu: Transmission of Tamiflu-resistant H1N1 on Vietnamese train 'a concern' 12/10/09 7:22am
TORONTO — Seven healthy people on a train from Ho Chi Minh City to Hanoi in Vietnam caught Tamiflu-resistant H1N1 flu, researchers reported Wednesday in a prominent medical journal.
The transmission event, which occurred in July, is one of the largest clusters of cases of resistant H1N1 seen so far and the first time so many linked cases have been seen in previously healthy people who had not been on the drug.
Surveillance since the summer has only turned up three additional drug resistant viruses, the authors note in their letter to the New England Journal of Medicine. But they say they cannot rule out the possibility of ongoing transmission of resistant pandemic H1N1.
The event is a warning that resistant viruses can spread among healthy people and more such events may be in store, an antiviral expert with the World Health Organization said.
"What this looks to be is ... the sort of situation we have been alert for, because it's something that we certainly don't want to see happening but need to know about if it does," Charles Penn said in an interview from Geneva.
Penn said this event is different from two recent clusters, in which severely immunocompromised patients in hospitals in Wales and North Carolina developed and probably transmitted among themselves Tamiflu-resistant H1N1 virus. It's known that resistance develops easily in such patients.
This, however, is a case where healthy people, who weren't taking the drug and who had no known contacts with sick people in the week before they fell ill, were infected with resistant viruses — "which is an apparent transmission of the resistant virus in a more normal community setting," Penn said.
"This is different and it does raise the levels of concern. But it also I think reinforces the message that we do need to be constantly monitoring for this. And reporting it as quickly as it's observed."
The scientists, from Vietnam's National Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology and Oxford University's clinical research unit in Vietnam, reported that the event first hit the radar in early September when routine screening of H1N1 viruses turned up three with the mutation known to confer resistance to Tamiflu.
The ensuing public health investigation uncovered a tale of a 42-hour train trip in which 10 students who didn't know each other prior to the journey socialized on the train.
Six of the 10 became sick a day or two after arriving at their destination. Two didn't develop symptoms and public health officials were not able to trace two others.
Interestingly, a seventh person who travelled in a different carriage on the same train and who doesn't appear to have been in contact with the students also contracted Tamiflu resistant H1N1 during the trip.
"Ongoing transmission from the cluster was not detected, but the tracing of all contacts was not possible, so ongoing transmission (of resistant virus) cannot be ruled out," the authors wrote, adding that careful use of flu antivirals should be stressed to minimize that risk.
Penn said to date there have been over 100 cases of Tamiflu-resistant H1N1 viruses spotted. About a third have been seen in immunocompromised patients. Of the remaining two-thirds, nearly all have been in people who took the drug to treat or prevent illness, or who had close contact with people who took the drug for one of those purposes.
Prior to this report, he said, there have only been four cases spotted in people who hadn't taken the drug and didn't have traceable exposure to someone who had.
The authors reported they were able to grow viruses from samples from three of the cases.
Penn said the WHO will want to know if the viruses have been checked for other mutations that might account for the seemingly easy spread of resistant viruses. "I think we'll be in touch with the authors."
It used to be thought that flu viruses that developed resistance to Tamiflu would be so weakened by the mutation that confers resistance that they would not be able to spread from person to person. But that belief was shattered in the winter of 2008 when Norway reported a startling rate of Tamiflu resistance in seasonal H1N1 viruses.
Over the next year, the resistant seasonal H1N1 viruses virtually crowded out the Tamiflu-susceptible versions of the virus — a precedent public health authorities don't want to see repeated with the pandemic virus.
"But we are expecting and we've said this, that as the pandemic spreads through this Northern Hemisphere winter and as the medicines continue to be used around the world, the number of sporadic cases is going to rise, as it has been at a steady by small rate," Penn said.
"And then the risk of this sort of event occurring is going to increase with more virus around and those infections being treated."
Makes you wonder what happened on the train.
The transmission event, which occurred in July, is one of the largest clusters of cases of resistant H1N1 seen so far and the first time so many linked cases have been seen in previously healthy people who had not been on the drug.
Surveillance since the summer has only turned up three additional drug resistant viruses, the authors note in their letter to the New England Journal of Medicine. But they say they cannot rule out the possibility of ongoing transmission of resistant pandemic H1N1.
The event is a warning that resistant viruses can spread among healthy people and more such events may be in store, an antiviral expert with the World Health Organization said.
"What this looks to be is ... the sort of situation we have been alert for, because it's something that we certainly don't want to see happening but need to know about if it does," Charles Penn said in an interview from Geneva.
Penn said this event is different from two recent clusters, in which severely immunocompromised patients in hospitals in Wales and North Carolina developed and probably transmitted among themselves Tamiflu-resistant H1N1 virus. It's known that resistance develops easily in such patients.
This, however, is a case where healthy people, who weren't taking the drug and who had no known contacts with sick people in the week before they fell ill, were infected with resistant viruses — "which is an apparent transmission of the resistant virus in a more normal community setting," Penn said.
"This is different and it does raise the levels of concern. But it also I think reinforces the message that we do need to be constantly monitoring for this. And reporting it as quickly as it's observed."
The scientists, from Vietnam's National Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology and Oxford University's clinical research unit in Vietnam, reported that the event first hit the radar in early September when routine screening of H1N1 viruses turned up three with the mutation known to confer resistance to Tamiflu.
The ensuing public health investigation uncovered a tale of a 42-hour train trip in which 10 students who didn't know each other prior to the journey socialized on the train.
Six of the 10 became sick a day or two after arriving at their destination. Two didn't develop symptoms and public health officials were not able to trace two others.
Interestingly, a seventh person who travelled in a different carriage on the same train and who doesn't appear to have been in contact with the students also contracted Tamiflu resistant H1N1 during the trip.
"Ongoing transmission from the cluster was not detected, but the tracing of all contacts was not possible, so ongoing transmission (of resistant virus) cannot be ruled out," the authors wrote, adding that careful use of flu antivirals should be stressed to minimize that risk.
Penn said to date there have been over 100 cases of Tamiflu-resistant H1N1 viruses spotted. About a third have been seen in immunocompromised patients. Of the remaining two-thirds, nearly all have been in people who took the drug to treat or prevent illness, or who had close contact with people who took the drug for one of those purposes.
Prior to this report, he said, there have only been four cases spotted in people who hadn't taken the drug and didn't have traceable exposure to someone who had.
The authors reported they were able to grow viruses from samples from three of the cases.
Penn said the WHO will want to know if the viruses have been checked for other mutations that might account for the seemingly easy spread of resistant viruses. "I think we'll be in touch with the authors."
It used to be thought that flu viruses that developed resistance to Tamiflu would be so weakened by the mutation that confers resistance that they would not be able to spread from person to person. But that belief was shattered in the winter of 2008 when Norway reported a startling rate of Tamiflu resistance in seasonal H1N1 viruses.
Over the next year, the resistant seasonal H1N1 viruses virtually crowded out the Tamiflu-susceptible versions of the virus — a precedent public health authorities don't want to see repeated with the pandemic virus.
"But we are expecting and we've said this, that as the pandemic spreads through this Northern Hemisphere winter and as the medicines continue to be used around the world, the number of sporadic cases is going to rise, as it has been at a steady by small rate," Penn said.
"And then the risk of this sort of event occurring is going to increase with more virus around and those infections being treated."
Makes you wonder what happened on the train.
14 Month Old Side Effects From Swine Flu Vaccine - Doctor and CDC say No Link 12/10.09 7:11am
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- A family whose child received the swine flu vaccine claims it had a serious adverse effect, but some doctors doubt it.
Elisha Garcia said her 14-month-old daughter Mykaylah was born premature and suffers from epilepsy.
"We got her to where she needed to be. We got her seizures under control and she was the happiest little girl," said Elisha Garcia.
Both parents claim it all changed after a visit to their daughter's doctor. Her dad, Damian Garcia, said they were told she should get the swine flu vaccine.
"'It is OK. They haven't found anything wrong with it.' And I said, 'Are you sure?'" Damian Garcia said.
Both parents said they were convinced and Mykaylah got the shot.
"In that two-week period after that, she just started gradually going down and going down," Damian Garcia said. "She would stand up and she would just collapse over."
Tests were done and Mykaylah was diagnosed with ataxia, meaning she has trouble controlling her movements. Her parents claim a neurologist told them the swine flu vaccine could possibly have been a factor, maybe the result of an adverse effect.
Both parents said that there was no doubt the vaccine may have caused the side effect, but one doctor refuted their claims.
"There is no evidence, from the close surveillance, that CDC is giving this vaccine, that there is any such reaction," said pediatrician Dr. Lance Chilton.
Chilton said it's a vaccine that could save lives and he tells his patients to get it.
"I think there is good evidence that No. 1: that it is safe; No. 2: that it is effective and No. 3: that the influenza could come back and hit us as hard as it did in 1957," Chilton said.
Elisha Garcia said her 14-month-old daughter Mykaylah was born premature and suffers from epilepsy.
"We got her to where she needed to be. We got her seizures under control and she was the happiest little girl," said Elisha Garcia.
Both parents claim it all changed after a visit to their daughter's doctor. Her dad, Damian Garcia, said they were told she should get the swine flu vaccine.
"'It is OK. They haven't found anything wrong with it.' And I said, 'Are you sure?'" Damian Garcia said.
Both parents said they were convinced and Mykaylah got the shot.
"In that two-week period after that, she just started gradually going down and going down," Damian Garcia said. "She would stand up and she would just collapse over."
Tests were done and Mykaylah was diagnosed with ataxia, meaning she has trouble controlling her movements. Her parents claim a neurologist told them the swine flu vaccine could possibly have been a factor, maybe the result of an adverse effect.
Both parents said that there was no doubt the vaccine may have caused the side effect, but one doctor refuted their claims.
"There is no evidence, from the close surveillance, that CDC is giving this vaccine, that there is any such reaction," said pediatrician Dr. Lance Chilton.
Chilton said it's a vaccine that could save lives and he tells his patients to get it.
"I think there is good evidence that No. 1: that it is safe; No. 2: that it is effective and No. 3: that the influenza could come back and hit us as hard as it did in 1957," Chilton said.
Tuesday, December 8, 2009
"Corporate employers got scarce flu vaccine" article - Looks Like As much Propaganda articles as possible 12/08/09 5:43pm
Corporate employers got scarce flu vaccine
USA TODAY examined how state health departments distributed H1N1 vaccine after public outcry last month over Wall Street firms such as Goldman Sachs receiving doses while doctors and hospitals encountered shortages. The data show other companies got the vaccine in October and early November. In some cases, early doses went to people not deemed most at risk by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
USA Today is running this story.
A couple of thoughts,
First, they are not stopping the propaganda to try and get people riled up - over those "hated" Wall Street Bankers and Big Corp. people getting the Swine Flu vaccine before all the high risk and normal people.
Second, Makes you wonder what vaccine they got, is the same as all the normal folks are suppose to get? Or is it, like they did in Germany, where the Elite, government and military got one vaccine, but the normal people were getting another?
Paragraph of Article:
A couple of thoughts,
First, they are not stopping the propaganda to try and get people riled up - over those "hated" Wall Street Bankers and Big Corp. people getting the Swine Flu vaccine before all the high risk and normal people.
Second, Makes you wonder what vaccine they got, is the same as all the normal folks are suppose to get? Or is it, like they did in Germany, where the Elite, government and military got one vaccine, but the normal people were getting another?
Paragraph of Article:
Dr. Taubenberger who has worked on recreating the 1918 Spanish Flu is saying found in lungs in Autopsies 12/08/09 11:45am
Dr. Taubenberger who has worked on recreating the 1918 Spanish Flu is saying found in lungs in Autopsies in New York
The team was led by James R. Gill, M.D., of the New York City Office of Chief Medical Examiner and New York University School of Medicine, and Jeffery K. Taubenberger, M.D., Ph.D., of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) at NIH. The findings are reported in the Archives of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, now available online and scheduled to appear in the February 2010 print issue.The above is linked to an Examiner article by Victoria Nicks
UPDATE 12/17/09 - THE LINK IS TO THE ARTICLE DIRECTLY FROM THE GOVT. NOT VICKY NICKS ARTICLE - the above link is from the govt.
I find the little circle going there is very interesting. Let me explain, I have been trying as much as possible to follow a trail, it seems to be coming in a circle.
UPDATE 12/17/09 - Link to Victoria Nicks article -http://ww.examiner.com/x-29228-LA-Health-Technology-Examiner~y2009m12d7-NIH-Bulletin-says-New-York-swine-flu-victim-autopsies-show-lung-damage-similar--to-1918-Spanish-flu
I encourage people to read hers - to she how she references Dr. Taubenberger and she then links to Niman's site as the source of information of the "mutation".
There was no questioning of why a 6 month delay, besides not bringing up Dr. Taubenberger is most likely the reason the Swine Flu is going around the world in the first place. (End of Update 12/17/09)
First, understand almost every Examiner Swine Flu piece is written by Victoria Nicks.
Who is Victoria Nicks? She is an Air Force Military Veteran.
She is a Freelance writer, who seems to have connections and LOVES to Promote ONE Site OVER ALL OTHERS - She Loves to Profile Henry Niman and Recombinomics. She loves to write all about mutations. Also she wrote a book about the Swine Flu Vaccine and what ingredients are in it. I have not read the book - but it seems to be for the vaccine, it seems to give info, so people won't be scared of it. When she has directly written about the vaccine, she says any side effects are mild.
Here she writes how pregnant women should get vaccinated.
Here she writes the very simple differences of the seasonal flu vaccine compared to the Swine flu vaccine and states what the CDC Recommends.
Here she writes about the ingredients in the Swine Flu vaccine - says hardly any mercury AND Says CDC is recommending pregnant women to get vaccinated.
Here she basically recommends the Vaccine for Babies!
from her above article:
She seems to have an IN with the Dr. Taubenberger, who may be directly responsible for what is happening, by him recreating the Spanish Flu - but she has a Definite IN with Henry Niman.
I am going to say this, we are being filled with disinformation - as if the Bacterial Pneumonia has been there all along and the H1N1 is what is causing it. Can viral REALLY go into something Bacterial. OR is it a spin saying there has been Bacterial Pneumonia previously, so no one needs to get all excited about any reports of spraying and then Bacterial Pneumonia afterwards?
So, considering the sources are EX Military - The Doctor WHO most likely helped Create what is going around AND a man who has been well embedded with Institutes - Scripp Institute, Harvard University and those have worked WITH Rockefeller Institute - AND has the INSIDE of the Virus "mutations" from WHO. Henry Niman, Firmly believes in vaccines and he recombines things for vaccines to be made from them. Also MANY others have raised doubts as I have found about Mr. Niman previously, as I have been researching him.
I believe we are being led down a lane that certain Higher people want us to go down.
BUT I will LOOK AT EVERYTHING CRITICALLY - Because I am figuring out, how the Disinfo works - So, Do I Seriously believe the H1N1 mutates to Bacterial Pneumonia or is that part of a "move along, nothing to see here - there have been no sprayings and the plague afterwards?"
Read things Critically! Think about who is making the statements - THEN research their history.
Parts from Article linked in the headline:
The scientists reviewed autopsy reports, hospital records and other clinical data from 34 people who died of 2009 H1N1 influenza infection between May 15 and July 9, 2009. All but two of the deaths occurred in New York City.
UPDATE 12/17/09 - THE LINK IS TO THE ARTICLE DIRECTLY FROM THE GOVT. NOT VICKY NICKS ARTICLE - the above link is from the govt.
I find the little circle going there is very interesting. Let me explain, I have been trying as much as possible to follow a trail, it seems to be coming in a circle.
UPDATE 12/17/09 - Link to Victoria Nicks article -http://ww.examiner.com/x-29228-LA-Health-Technology-Examiner~y2009m12d7-NIH-Bulletin-says-New-York-swine-flu-victim-autopsies-show-lung-damage-similar--to-1918-Spanish-flu
I encourage people to read hers - to she how she references Dr. Taubenberger and she then links to Niman's site as the source of information of the "mutation".
There was no questioning of why a 6 month delay, besides not bringing up Dr. Taubenberger is most likely the reason the Swine Flu is going around the world in the first place. (End of Update 12/17/09)
First, understand almost every Examiner Swine Flu piece is written by Victoria Nicks.
Who is Victoria Nicks? She is an Air Force Military Veteran.
She is a Freelance writer, who seems to have connections and LOVES to Promote ONE Site OVER ALL OTHERS - She Loves to Profile Henry Niman and Recombinomics. She loves to write all about mutations. Also she wrote a book about the Swine Flu Vaccine and what ingredients are in it. I have not read the book - but it seems to be for the vaccine, it seems to give info, so people won't be scared of it. When she has directly written about the vaccine, she says any side effects are mild.
Here she writes how pregnant women should get vaccinated.
Here she writes the very simple differences of the seasonal flu vaccine compared to the Swine flu vaccine and states what the CDC Recommends.
Here she writes about the ingredients in the Swine Flu vaccine - says hardly any mercury AND Says CDC is recommending pregnant women to get vaccinated.
Here she basically recommends the Vaccine for Babies!
from her above article:
The H1N1 vaccine for babies is manufactured by Sanofi Pasteur, Inc. The H1N1 (swine flu) vaccine side effects are expected to be minimal, despite some of the ingredients.
She seems to have an IN with the Dr. Taubenberger, who may be directly responsible for what is happening, by him recreating the Spanish Flu - but she has a Definite IN with Henry Niman.
I am going to say this, we are being filled with disinformation - as if the Bacterial Pneumonia has been there all along and the H1N1 is what is causing it. Can viral REALLY go into something Bacterial. OR is it a spin saying there has been Bacterial Pneumonia previously, so no one needs to get all excited about any reports of spraying and then Bacterial Pneumonia afterwards?
So, considering the sources are EX Military - The Doctor WHO most likely helped Create what is going around AND a man who has been well embedded with Institutes - Scripp Institute, Harvard University and those have worked WITH Rockefeller Institute - AND has the INSIDE of the Virus "mutations" from WHO. Henry Niman, Firmly believes in vaccines and he recombines things for vaccines to be made from them. Also MANY others have raised doubts as I have found about Mr. Niman previously, as I have been researching him.
I believe we are being led down a lane that certain Higher people want us to go down.
BUT I will LOOK AT EVERYTHING CRITICALLY - Because I am figuring out, how the Disinfo works - So, Do I Seriously believe the H1N1 mutates to Bacterial Pneumonia or is that part of a "move along, nothing to see here - there have been no sprayings and the plague afterwards?"
Read things Critically! Think about who is making the statements - THEN research their history.
Parts from Article linked in the headline:
The scientists reviewed autopsy reports, hospital records and other clinical data from 34 people who died of 2009 H1N1 influenza infection between May 15 and July 9, 2009. All but two of the deaths occurred in New York City.
One other question - if these are from autopsies from May and July WHY is it taking 6 MONTHS for the information to all of a sudden come out? When there seems to be information about sprayings and then bacterial pneumonia. They are all of a sudden releasing this info that H1N1 Swine flu is causing it? ALSO considering Ukraine deaths did NOT Test Positive for H1N1 but had bacterial pneumonia!
Just a few things to think about, as you read these various articles.
Teenager Fights For Life After Taking Tamiflu - 12/08/09 7:35am
A PRETTY teenager is fighting for life in hospital after taking Tamiflu to beat suspected swine flu.
Helpline staff told 18-year-old Samantha Millard she probably had the killer bug and to take the antiviral drug.
But after popping just three pills Samantha developed blisters on her body.
Doctors now fear the drug triggered life-threatening Stevens-Johnson syndrome, which causes chunks of skin to fall off.
The horror condition affects just three in a million people.
If it doesn't kill a victim they are left covered in scars.
Samantha's shocked mum Deborah took a photograph of her at home on Friday - two days after taking Tamiflu.
But hours later the teen - who hopes to become an air hostess - was in intensive care unable to breathe on her own.
Last night her condition had deteriorated and she was transferred to a specialist burns unit at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, West London.
Deborah and Samantha's sister Charley, 23, were keeping vigil at her hospital bedside.
Samantha had called her GP in Bicester, Oxon, after suffering flu-like symptoms. But she was told to call the helpline.
An operator said her headache and runny nose was probably swine flu and to take Tamiflu.
Last night angry Deborah, 41, blasted the helpline staff. She said: "It shouldn't be the case that people with no medical background can make these decisions.
"These people are just Joe Bloggs off the street.
"My daughter could die because of this. Her condition is getting worse."
She added: "The doctor said because the rash appeared after she took Tamiflu it was probably caused by Tamiflu."
Tamiflu maker Roche is investigating the case.
A spokesman said it was "difficult to determine the role" Tamiflu played but it could not be ruled out that it played a part in triggering the syndrome.
The Department for Health defended the helpline.
A spokesman added: "Serious reactions to Tamiflu are extremely rare and it should still be taken as soon as possible, especially for very serious swine flu cases."
Helpline staff told 18-year-old Samantha Millard she probably had the killer bug and to take the antiviral drug.
But after popping just three pills Samantha developed blisters on her body.
Doctors now fear the drug triggered life-threatening Stevens-Johnson syndrome, which causes chunks of skin to fall off.
The horror condition affects just three in a million people.
If it doesn't kill a victim they are left covered in scars.
Samantha's shocked mum Deborah took a photograph of her at home on Friday - two days after taking Tamiflu.
But hours later the teen - who hopes to become an air hostess - was in intensive care unable to breathe on her own.
Last night her condition had deteriorated and she was transferred to a specialist burns unit at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, West London.
Deborah and Samantha's sister Charley, 23, were keeping vigil at her hospital bedside.
Samantha had called her GP in Bicester, Oxon, after suffering flu-like symptoms. But she was told to call the helpline.
An operator said her headache and runny nose was probably swine flu and to take Tamiflu.
Last night angry Deborah, 41, blasted the helpline staff. She said: "It shouldn't be the case that people with no medical background can make these decisions.
"These people are just Joe Bloggs off the street.
"My daughter could die because of this. Her condition is getting worse."
She added: "The doctor said because the rash appeared after she took Tamiflu it was probably caused by Tamiflu."
Tamiflu maker Roche is investigating the case.
A spokesman said it was "difficult to determine the role" Tamiflu played but it could not be ruled out that it played a part in triggering the syndrome.
The Department for Health defended the helpline.
A spokesman added: "Serious reactions to Tamiflu are extremely rare and it should still be taken as soon as possible, especially for very serious swine flu cases."
Monday, December 7, 2009
Experts: Swine Flu Pandemic - Mildest in History! 12/07/09 6:11pm
Experts: Swine Flu Pandemic - Mildest in History!
With the second wave of H1N1 infections having crested in the United States, leading epidemiologists are predicting that the pandemic could end up ranking as the mildest since modern medicine began documenting influenza outbreaks.Yet, the authorities and WHO are still insisting people get the Swine Flu vaccine?!
Article:
Article:
Experts warn that influenza is notoriously unpredictable, but several recent analyses, including one released late Monday, indicate the death toll is likely to be far lower than the number of fatalities caused by past pandemics.
The predictions are being met with a mix of skepticism, relief and trepidation: Public health officials worry people may get complacent about getting vaccinated, which could prove disastrous if a third wave of infections swells later this winter or the virus mutates into a more dangerous form.
"I think it is very likely to be the mildest pandemic on record," said Marc Lipsitch, a professor of epidemiology at the Harvard School of Public Health, who led a federally funded analysis with researchers at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and elsewhere published online Monday by the journal PLoS Medicine.
The analysis, based on data collected in New York City and Milwaukee, indicates that the virus might directly cause between 6,000 and 45,000 deaths by the end of the winter, with the final toll probably falling somewhere between 10,000 and 15,000, Lipsitch said.
In the worse-case scenario, the swine flu pandemic would claim no more than about 60,000 lives, Lipsitch's new analysis concluded.
Even if the overall death toll does end up being relatively low, several experts noted that the pandemic has already taken an unusually high tally among children and young adults.
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"We've had hundreds of deaths among children, which is a tragedy any way you look at it," said Anne Schuchat, director of the CDC's National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases.
A typical flu season is associated with an average of 36,000 deaths in the United States, and an estimate released in August by a presidential advisory panel that Lipsitch was involved in predicted the novel 2009 H1N1 virus could kill between 30,000 and 90,000 Americans.
"Those were the best estimates we could make at the time based on the data available at the time," Lipsitch said. "We now have much better data to make estimates from."
When the presidential council's estimate was made, experts thought the virus could make up to 30 percent of the population sick. So far the virus appears to be causing symptoms in much smaller proportion, perhaps 15 percent, Lipsitch said.
The new analysis also indicates that the pandemic's "symptomatic case-fatality ratio" -- the percentage of those who become ill that die -- has been far lower than the previous three pandemics.
"If things continue as they've gone so far, this could turn out to be quite mild," said Ira M. Longini Jr., a professor of biostatistics at the University of Washington in Seattle who has calculated a similarly low case-fatality rate based on CDC data. Several experts praised the new analysis as the most sophisticated and therefore reliable to date.
"From what we know now, it would appear this is the mildest, both compared to 1968 and 1957 and certainly 1918," said Neal M. Ferguson, an epidemiologist at Imperial College in London who advises the World Health Organization and the Health and Human Services Department. The pattern appears to be consistent in other developed countries, such as Britain, he noted.
Others, however, cautioned that previous pandemics have produced deadly late-winter waves, which could occur in this case, pushing up the death toll dramatically. More older people could also start to get infected, which could also increase the toll.
To encourage Americans to continue to get vaccinated, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius Monday unveiled a new multimedia advertising campaign aimed at countering complacency. After a slow start, more than 80 million doses of vaccine are now available, she said.
"We have to seize this opportunity as disease is going down slightly to remind folks how important this is," Sebelius said.
While agreeing that people should continue to get vaccinated, Lipsitch and others said they doubted a major increase of deaths would occur in a third wave without some major change in the virus.
"I doubt very much it will get very much worse," Ferguson said. "There's a faint possibility, but I don't think there will be a major change."
One major reason for the relatively low death toll is that the elderly, who tend to be most vulnerable to dying from complications from the flu, have largely been spared so far, apparently because many have some immunity against the disease. The 36,000 deaths blamed on a typical flu season include many that are actually caused by heart attacks, strokes and other complications associated with the flu among the elderly and people with other health problems. Only about 9,000 deaths are directly caused by the flu virus during a typical flu season.
"Sometimes Mother Nature throws us a break," said Howard Markel, director of the Center for the History of Medicine at the University of Michigan.
But other factors may also be playing a role, including the virus being less likely to cause illness and severe illness than viruses involved in previous pandemics as well as better medical care available than in previous decades, such as antiviral drugs and more sophisticated intensive care techniques.
"In 1918 it was really prehistoric medical care," Markel said. "In 1957, we really didn't have intensive care. In 1968 we were starting to have it but it was nothing like we have today."
Nonetheless, Lipsitch and others stressed that the massive multibillion dollar vaccination campaign and other intense responses were appropriate, given the uncertainty of what the nation and world was facing.
"You have to err on the side of caution to some extent," Lipsitch said. "We got lucky. But if we didn't have a plan in place and we had 60,000 or 70,000 deaths, people would have been justifiably outraged."
CDC warns about rise in serious pneumococcal disease 12/07/09 2:33pm
(CIDRAP News) - In a worrisome but not unexpected pandemic-related development, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said today that it is seeing a spike in serious pneumococcal disease, particularly in younger patients.
Anne Schuchat, MD, director of the CDC's National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, told reporters at a press...
What is Pneumococcal Disease?
What is pneumococcal disease?
Pneumococcal disease is caused by bacteria (Streptococcus pneumoniae) that can attack different parts of the body. The bacteria can cause serious infections of the lungs (pneumonia), the bloodstream (bacteremia) and the covering of the brain (meningitis).
Pneumococcal pneumonia is a serious illness, accounting for 10 percent to 25 percent annually of all pneumonias. Nationally, about 40,000 persons die as a result of pneumococcal pneumonia each year, but the illness is particularly dangerous for the very young, the elderly and persons with certain high-risk conditions. For example, among people 65 years of age and older with pneumococcal pneumonia, about 20 percent to 30 percent develop bacteremia. At least 20 percent of those with bacteremia die from it, even though they receive antibiotics.
West Virginia Woman Dies From Bacterial Pneumonia 12/07/09 2:30pm
Article:
For days, 33-year-old Lisa Briggs had symptoms. She had chills, fatigue, spiking fevers -- but she didn't want to go to the hospital and leave her family.
"She didn't want to be in the hospital, away from the kids," said her husband, Chris Briggs.
On Halloween night, Lisa, a mother of two, agreed to go to the hospital.
After days in Wheeling Hospital, Lisa was life-flighted to Ruby Memorial Hospital in Morgantown, W. Va. Her condition was so bad she was quarantined in a glass room.
"She was in an isolation room. They did a wash-out of her lungs and she did test positive for swine flu," said Briggs.
Doctors also discovered that Lisa had bacterial pneumonia. Doctors induced a coma after her condition deteriorated. Before she went under, her husband of 11 years came to her side.
"I just told her I loved her and to get better," said Briggs.
She never regained consciousness.
"We saw them do CPR on her and everything," said Briggs
On Nov. 14 at 10:35 a.m., the doctor told Lisa's family she had passed.
"His exact words were, 'She played good ball, but the game was over'," said Briggs.
Lisa and her husband had just bought a new house in Weirton, W. Va. She never lived in it. Now, her family fills the walls of their new home with lasting memories of her.
"She loved kids. Pretty much her life revolved around me, the kids and church," said Briggs.
He said her only underlying medical condition was sleep apnea. It's unclear where she contracted the virus.
What I Think is Happening Personally - My Thoughts on Ukraine and Spraying 12/07/09 10:22am
These are my thoughts on what is happening.
After spending the hours/days/weeks on investigating what is happening in Ukraine and other areas, I am now going to voice my thoughts on the situation.
These thoughts include many aspects including those, some would call conspiracies.
The plague/bacterial pneumonia that has been in Ukraine AFTER Spraying was done trying to cause a Major outbreak of disease. I firmly believe it was done on purpose and Ukraine was the testing place for the first spraying!
I firmly believe it is being done by TPTB - WHY?
With all the economic breakdowns and Ukraine has many problems with many complicated aspects involved with their breakdown. From the Presidential elections and power plays, to their money problems, to Russia wanting their resources of gas, to so many other internal problems they have, after I researched what is going on there, they were the perfect testing ground in TPTB eyes. I feel very bad for Ukraine's people, after all I have read about their situation. Their political situation is sickening - it is not about the people there, it is about the power players. The country is underwater financially, trying to get loans from the IMF and they do not have good medical care overall.
Poland - the Health Minister has remained firm (which is awesome) against vaccines - could their spraying (still not sure, it actually happened) be part of a retaliation against the Polish people?
I also believe this spraying did not have the complete effect TPTB have wanted, the amount of spreading of the disease/plague has decreased from all that I have read (unless the numbers are being hidden).
What does that mean?
It means TPTB may have used the spraying of Ukraine as a test - to see how effective the disease sprayed was and how well it would spread.
Are they now refining the disease, so it will be more lethal for the coming sprayings planned?
I believe there will be 9 times of spraying, which we will hear about with sickness afterwards.
I also believe there have been 4 so far (by my count).
One - Ukraine
Two - Paraguay
Three - Poland (though not sure about that one)
Four - Saratov
Considering a certain program stated a long time ago "ill winds" would start at the end of Oct. - and then the spraying of Ukraine happened - says the program was exactly correct in it's predictions.
The prediction says 9 times around the world with these "ill winds". I thought about it many times on how it could be 9 times. After hearing of more incidents of spraying - beginning in Paraguay with the spraying of a tribe there and them being sick afterwards, made me realize, we would hear about spraying and then people being sick afterwards 9 times.
It was somewhat confirmed after I read the newest Web bot alta report that came out yesterday. You can get it here: www.halfpasthuman.com for $10.00, it is 58 pages. BUT I warn you - Do not get it - if you can not handle some extreme changes in the world coming up.
It mentioned the "ill winds" saying the 9 times was SET in the language and the "ill winds" WILL be around the world 9 times!
Now, think about the one place that would be the best to spray.... where people from every corner of the world will be there, thus the disease is set to absolutely travel to every single country of the world. After the testing of Ukraine and the refining of the disease to make it more contagious, it could then spread around the world, from this one event. Which is also mentioned in the report, as having spraying being done and disease following that spraying. Now, you guess which event is coming up that will have people from Every corner of the world, in February and is an ideal place to set off a world wide plague/disease! The language from the web bot - has the Olympics firmly within it - as spraying of disease!
Now, I have been contacting Medical Examiners and even though information SHOULD BE Public about what caused deaths, I am Getting Nowhere! I have now been asking ONE SIMPLE QUESTION - Which is: "Did the People die of Bacterial Pneumonia?" The people I talk to will NOT answer that One question nor will others call me back. I have challenged the people at the examiners offices, asking WHY they will not answer that? Also, isn't that information suppose to be available to all?
NOW - I have to Ask EVERYONE - For ALL OF US TO WORK TOGETHER!
Those of you in Iowa, North Carolina, Texas and in the countries of Poland, Ukraine, Russia, Norway to contact your medical examiners office and DEMAND to know - if Bacterial Pneumonia was the cause of death with the Bleeding Lungs!
Bacterial Pneumonia, is the Plague/1918 Spanish Flu causes of death.
WHO and the governments of the World Need to Be Honest about the deaths and what has caused them, without giving us the same old tired story of "Swine flu and Get your vaccine"!
Bacterial Pneumonia CAN BE SPRAYED - I have posted many things about it, even from the U.S. government about using it as bio terrorism.
There comes the question of WHY - WHY would governments do this - sounds way too conspiracy minded - right?
This part gets into all the other things going on right now.
Consider the amount of FRAUD the banks and governments have committed and are still hiding AND when the full information of all the Tungsten Filled FAKE Gold that is out there in 400 oz bars.
All the banks, governments and Media shrills are saying "We are over the worst" BUT the TRUE Facts are - they are HIDING the Worst. The WORST of the economic situation is yet to come.
To me, this is like what Enron did, they hid for years the REAL Books, they manipulated the numbers - BUT finally they could be manipulated no longer and they Fell with a Big Bang! That is what is happening, I believe in the U.S and other places in the world. The governments are hiding it all - along with the banks.
Do the governments want mass riots when people realize they have been fooled and Lied to? NO
How can they lessen the impact the most? Make people sick.
Think they would not do that? Look at history, Governments do whatever needs to be done, to get to the end result THEY WANT!
Look at Pearl Harbor (U.S. govt. KNEW it was going to happened and allowed it - to get into World War 2) - The U.S. Govt. ALLOWED Thousands to DIE - and the Naval Ships Destroyed.
Earlier in history, they gave Indians blankets with small pox, because they WANTED the land!
The LIE of Iraq being involved with 9/11 - just to go to war with them and take over the country.
The Fact that has just been released that Bin Laden had been cornered in Afghanistan, BEFORE the U.S. went into Iraq, so they let him go - otherwise the Iraq war would not be warranted nor accepted by the people.
The Official FACTS of 9/11from the U.S. government - are NOT True - research it - you will find that statement I just made is TRUE! I am not going to get into 9/11 here - But I will say.... aren't you curious WHY so many pilots/architects/engineers/politicians/t.v. personalities - the list goes on and on - Say 9/11 could NOT have Happened as the official government statement says it did? The buildings collapsing is the KEY part - ESPECIALLY Building 7 and the Pentagon hit! RESEARCH IT - FIND OUT - The Truth WILL SET YOU FREE - But then you will QUESTION Everything else - which is what I have been doing!
Vietnam war was based on Lies in the beginning.
The list goes on and on - all confirmed (except for 9/11) at this time.
So does it make sense, considering the world's economic situation is breaking down that Now - people are being sprayed and made to get sick, so there will be less mass rioting when TRUTH comes out?
The above is filled with conspiracies, yet - if you research all above mentioned, you will find they are not really conspiracies, but reality.
Also mentioned in the new alta report out yesterday.... is a Fashion change slated for around February of 2010 - where faces are hidden under mask - INCLUDING EYES - with glasses/goggles, for around the world.
So, I will say again - get prepared for this - while supplies are available.
BUT - I also believe there are ways to combat this by us all.
First getting information OUT that spraying has and is occurring to cause disease BESIDES the Chemtrails that are laid across the Earth's skies every day.
If in your area - if there are Low flying planes and helicopters - that Are actually spraying something - Alert people around you and get the information Out.
I believe if we all come together with Actual Knowledge - Truth and Knowledge is the Key to Combating what may be planned, we can survive the "ill winds" planned.
Also, I have been spending literally Hours investigating a certain person - which I have hinted at before in a previous post - I have come up with some very interesting information, which I am not ready to release yet. There is ONE key information I have yet to find, which would be Absolute Proof of what looks to be the Truth of the site/person that they are Part of the PTB/vaccine companies/WHO game! Their plays of the game are to cause constant Fear - be quoted by MSM and release information of Mutations all the time, but Not the Real Truth! They have embedded themselves in the alternative media too - being quoted by them all the time - they were set there to do that, so they control the information on BOTH sides! BUT history shows how embedded the site/person is with the vaccine makers and Big Institutions, supported by Rockefeller etc, of which I DO Have Proof of. Again, there is ONE Thing I want to find, before I post my findings.
The Following IS TO THOSE INVOLVED IN THE SPRAYINGS, who may be reading this:
How can you Live with yourself, knowing you will cause suffering and death around the world?
Be it your job of a pilot, bioengineer, virologist, government worker, Military personnel, WHO worker, etc - Do you Really feel your job to follow orders and not lose it, is more important than saving Millions of lives, by NOT following orders? Do you realize what you are doing and will do, affects your OWN family and friends?! Don't you think your Own Soul Salvation and Karma is important? If you did, you would Stop doing what you are doing!
Please, if you are involved in Chemtrails or the Spraying of Disease - Quit your job - Leave the Military - Come out in the Opened about it - HELP combat it - for your good of your own soul, the good of your family and friends AND the good of the World! All of us out here, WILL help you get the message out. Can you live with yourself for the rest of your life and can you live with yourself after you die, do you Really know where you will be going then, if you are part of a plan to cause disease and death around the world?
After spending the hours/days/weeks on investigating what is happening in Ukraine and other areas, I am now going to voice my thoughts on the situation.
These thoughts include many aspects including those, some would call conspiracies.
The plague/bacterial pneumonia that has been in Ukraine AFTER Spraying was done trying to cause a Major outbreak of disease. I firmly believe it was done on purpose and Ukraine was the testing place for the first spraying!
I firmly believe it is being done by TPTB - WHY?
With all the economic breakdowns and Ukraine has many problems with many complicated aspects involved with their breakdown. From the Presidential elections and power plays, to their money problems, to Russia wanting their resources of gas, to so many other internal problems they have, after I researched what is going on there, they were the perfect testing ground in TPTB eyes. I feel very bad for Ukraine's people, after all I have read about their situation. Their political situation is sickening - it is not about the people there, it is about the power players. The country is underwater financially, trying to get loans from the IMF and they do not have good medical care overall.
Poland - the Health Minister has remained firm (which is awesome) against vaccines - could their spraying (still not sure, it actually happened) be part of a retaliation against the Polish people?
I also believe this spraying did not have the complete effect TPTB have wanted, the amount of spreading of the disease/plague has decreased from all that I have read (unless the numbers are being hidden).
What does that mean?
It means TPTB may have used the spraying of Ukraine as a test - to see how effective the disease sprayed was and how well it would spread.
Are they now refining the disease, so it will be more lethal for the coming sprayings planned?
I believe there will be 9 times of spraying, which we will hear about with sickness afterwards.
I also believe there have been 4 so far (by my count).
One - Ukraine
Two - Paraguay
Three - Poland (though not sure about that one)
Four - Saratov
Considering a certain program stated a long time ago "ill winds" would start at the end of Oct. - and then the spraying of Ukraine happened - says the program was exactly correct in it's predictions.
The prediction says 9 times around the world with these "ill winds". I thought about it many times on how it could be 9 times. After hearing of more incidents of spraying - beginning in Paraguay with the spraying of a tribe there and them being sick afterwards, made me realize, we would hear about spraying and then people being sick afterwards 9 times.
It was somewhat confirmed after I read the newest Web bot alta report that came out yesterday. You can get it here: www.halfpasthuman.com for $10.00, it is 58 pages. BUT I warn you - Do not get it - if you can not handle some extreme changes in the world coming up.
It mentioned the "ill winds" saying the 9 times was SET in the language and the "ill winds" WILL be around the world 9 times!
Now, think about the one place that would be the best to spray.... where people from every corner of the world will be there, thus the disease is set to absolutely travel to every single country of the world. After the testing of Ukraine and the refining of the disease to make it more contagious, it could then spread around the world, from this one event. Which is also mentioned in the report, as having spraying being done and disease following that spraying. Now, you guess which event is coming up that will have people from Every corner of the world, in February and is an ideal place to set off a world wide plague/disease! The language from the web bot - has the Olympics firmly within it - as spraying of disease!
Now, I have been contacting Medical Examiners and even though information SHOULD BE Public about what caused deaths, I am Getting Nowhere! I have now been asking ONE SIMPLE QUESTION - Which is: "Did the People die of Bacterial Pneumonia?" The people I talk to will NOT answer that One question nor will others call me back. I have challenged the people at the examiners offices, asking WHY they will not answer that? Also, isn't that information suppose to be available to all?
NOW - I have to Ask EVERYONE - For ALL OF US TO WORK TOGETHER!
Those of you in Iowa, North Carolina, Texas and in the countries of Poland, Ukraine, Russia, Norway to contact your medical examiners office and DEMAND to know - if Bacterial Pneumonia was the cause of death with the Bleeding Lungs!
Bacterial Pneumonia, is the Plague/1918 Spanish Flu causes of death.
WHO and the governments of the World Need to Be Honest about the deaths and what has caused them, without giving us the same old tired story of "Swine flu and Get your vaccine"!
Bacterial Pneumonia CAN BE SPRAYED - I have posted many things about it, even from the U.S. government about using it as bio terrorism.
There comes the question of WHY - WHY would governments do this - sounds way too conspiracy minded - right?
This part gets into all the other things going on right now.
Consider the amount of FRAUD the banks and governments have committed and are still hiding AND when the full information of all the Tungsten Filled FAKE Gold that is out there in 400 oz bars.
All the banks, governments and Media shrills are saying "We are over the worst" BUT the TRUE Facts are - they are HIDING the Worst. The WORST of the economic situation is yet to come.
To me, this is like what Enron did, they hid for years the REAL Books, they manipulated the numbers - BUT finally they could be manipulated no longer and they Fell with a Big Bang! That is what is happening, I believe in the U.S and other places in the world. The governments are hiding it all - along with the banks.
Do the governments want mass riots when people realize they have been fooled and Lied to? NO
How can they lessen the impact the most? Make people sick.
Think they would not do that? Look at history, Governments do whatever needs to be done, to get to the end result THEY WANT!
Look at Pearl Harbor (U.S. govt. KNEW it was going to happened and allowed it - to get into World War 2) - The U.S. Govt. ALLOWED Thousands to DIE - and the Naval Ships Destroyed.
Earlier in history, they gave Indians blankets with small pox, because they WANTED the land!
The LIE of Iraq being involved with 9/11 - just to go to war with them and take over the country.
The Fact that has just been released that Bin Laden had been cornered in Afghanistan, BEFORE the U.S. went into Iraq, so they let him go - otherwise the Iraq war would not be warranted nor accepted by the people.
The Official FACTS of 9/11from the U.S. government - are NOT True - research it - you will find that statement I just made is TRUE! I am not going to get into 9/11 here - But I will say.... aren't you curious WHY so many pilots/architects/engineers/politicians/t.v. personalities - the list goes on and on - Say 9/11 could NOT have Happened as the official government statement says it did? The buildings collapsing is the KEY part - ESPECIALLY Building 7 and the Pentagon hit! RESEARCH IT - FIND OUT - The Truth WILL SET YOU FREE - But then you will QUESTION Everything else - which is what I have been doing!
Vietnam war was based on Lies in the beginning.
The list goes on and on - all confirmed (except for 9/11) at this time.
So does it make sense, considering the world's economic situation is breaking down that Now - people are being sprayed and made to get sick, so there will be less mass rioting when TRUTH comes out?
The above is filled with conspiracies, yet - if you research all above mentioned, you will find they are not really conspiracies, but reality.
Also mentioned in the new alta report out yesterday.... is a Fashion change slated for around February of 2010 - where faces are hidden under mask - INCLUDING EYES - with glasses/goggles, for around the world.
So, I will say again - get prepared for this - while supplies are available.
BUT - I also believe there are ways to combat this by us all.
First getting information OUT that spraying has and is occurring to cause disease BESIDES the Chemtrails that are laid across the Earth's skies every day.
If in your area - if there are Low flying planes and helicopters - that Are actually spraying something - Alert people around you and get the information Out.
I believe if we all come together with Actual Knowledge - Truth and Knowledge is the Key to Combating what may be planned, we can survive the "ill winds" planned.
Also, I have been spending literally Hours investigating a certain person - which I have hinted at before in a previous post - I have come up with some very interesting information, which I am not ready to release yet. There is ONE key information I have yet to find, which would be Absolute Proof of what looks to be the Truth of the site/person that they are Part of the PTB/vaccine companies/WHO game! Their plays of the game are to cause constant Fear - be quoted by MSM and release information of Mutations all the time, but Not the Real Truth! They have embedded themselves in the alternative media too - being quoted by them all the time - they were set there to do that, so they control the information on BOTH sides! BUT history shows how embedded the site/person is with the vaccine makers and Big Institutions, supported by Rockefeller etc, of which I DO Have Proof of. Again, there is ONE Thing I want to find, before I post my findings.
The Following IS TO THOSE INVOLVED IN THE SPRAYINGS, who may be reading this:
How can you Live with yourself, knowing you will cause suffering and death around the world?
Be it your job of a pilot, bioengineer, virologist, government worker, Military personnel, WHO worker, etc - Do you Really feel your job to follow orders and not lose it, is more important than saving Millions of lives, by NOT following orders? Do you realize what you are doing and will do, affects your OWN family and friends?! Don't you think your Own Soul Salvation and Karma is important? If you did, you would Stop doing what you are doing!
Please, if you are involved in Chemtrails or the Spraying of Disease - Quit your job - Leave the Military - Come out in the Opened about it - HELP combat it - for your good of your own soul, the good of your family and friends AND the good of the World! All of us out here, WILL help you get the message out. Can you live with yourself for the rest of your life and can you live with yourself after you die, do you Really know where you will be going then, if you are part of a plan to cause disease and death around the world?
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