Monday, December 26, 2005

TAMIFLU DEATHS AND THE TAP-DANCE

Date: 12/22/05 Author: Jon Rappoport Source: NoMoreFakeNews.com

TAMIFLU DEATHS AND THE TAP-DANCE

DECEMBER 22, 2005. Below you will find an excerpt from the Sydney Morning Herald, reporting two cases of "death from bird flu," despite treatment with Tamiflu, the drug that is being stockpiled all over the world against the hoax-pandemic.

I was reminded of an interview I did some years ago with retired propaganda pro Ellis Medavoy, who, in his time, worked the press to spread lies about medical issues.

Here is a piece from that Medavoy interview:

Q: So you're saying that when people die after a drug is given, there is a standard spin that is published.

A: Of course. The words "resistance" and "mutation" are hauled out and used. They are painted on the story.

Q: And how are these words employed?

A: "The germ has developed resistance to the drug." "The germ mutated rapidly, so the effective drug was no longer effective."

Q: Which means the drug can't be blamed for not working.

A: Not only that, but the drug can't be blamed for killing the patient. "It was the germ."

Q: What about proof that the germ really did mutate?

A: Try and find it. Normally, the mutation cover story is announced to the press with no proof at all. It's just a tale. They simply assume the germ must have evolved into a new form---overnight---and that's why the drug didn't work.

Q: There is another question, too. Did they ever really find the germ in question in the ill patient?

A: Right. Or did they find antibodies to the germ---

Q: Which are a sign of health.

A: Yes. In most cases, they don't isolate the actual germ at all. And when they do, they don't show that the germ existed in sufficient numbers in the body to cause any harm. It's all nonsense and obfuscation.

Q: So you could get a patient who is mildly ill, no real problem. Then he is given a drug and he dies. The story is spun so that the patient is said to have died from some germ, whereas the only logical explanation of death is that the drug killed him.

A: Absolutely. See, the drug makers always have a theory about how a drug works to cure a disease. They have a technical step-by-step story about the mechanism of cure. This happens, then that happens, then that happens over there, and then you have a cure. But they don't have a step-by-step story about how the drug can kill someone, because they don't want to know about THAT. So when a patient does die after being given a drug, the manufacturer always says, "There is no step-by-step chain of evidence that the drug actually led to the patient's death. There could have been other factors involved. Therefore, we're exempt from blame." It's a tap dance.

end of interview excerpt

In the case of Tamiflu, it's interesting to note that even conventional assessments of the effeciveness of the drug admit that it only shortens the length of the flu by 1.5 to 2.5 days, if it is given after the person already has the flu.

However, the proponents of the drug don't want to bring this up as a reason for a flu death after treatment with Tamiflu. "Hey, it only shortens the length of the illness by a little bit, so yes, people can die anyway." No, instead they want to say the germ mutated and developed resistance to the drug. That suits them better. Otherwise, people might begin to say, "Why are we bothering with this drug at all? It does almost nothing."

Yeah. Almost nothing. Except it can have dire negative effects.

Here is an excerpt from the Sydeny Morning Herald article. Notice how closely it follows the pattern Medavoy laid down:

Deaths of treated patients alarm bird flu experts
By Mark Metherell and agencies
December 23, 2005

THE deaths of two bird flu patients in Vietnam who had been treated with Tamiflu has raised questions about the drug Australia has stockpiled as a front-line medicine to combat an influenza pandemic.

To the dismay of medical experts and those responsible for the worldwide efforts to fight a pandemic occurring, the H5N1 bird flu virus in the bloodstream of the two patients in Vietnam rapidly developed resistance to the drug.

Concerns about resistance problems with Tamiflu suggested by an earlier case in Vietnam had already prompted the Australian Government to acquire more stocks of a rival antiviral drug, Relenza, a Health Department official revealed yesterday.

In one of the latest cases, a 13-year-old girl appeared to be stable but then rapidly worsened as the virus mutated, became more aggressive and eventually killed her.

Reports of the deaths are published in the New England Journal of Medicine by doctors funded by the British Wellcome Trust working in Vietnam. They urge changes to the global plans for fighting a flu pandemic. Other antiviral drugs are needed alongside Tamiflu, they say. [NOTE: THE WELLCOME TRUST IS VERY CLOSELY TIED TO GLAXO. GLAXO WAS GLAXO WELLCOME, UNTIL 2000, WHEN IT MERGED WITH SMITH KLINE BEECHAM TO BECOME GLAXO SMITH KLINE BEECHAM. WHY IS THIS IMPORTANT? BECAUSE GLAXO MANUFACTURES RELENZA, ANOTHER "ANTI-FLU DRUG," WHICH IS IN COMPETITION WITH TAMIFLU. SO WE HAVE A SITUATION WHERE THE WELLCOME TRUST TRASHES TAMIFLU AND CALLS FOR OTHER FLU DRUGS TO BE USED. SUCH AS RELENZA, WHICH HAD FALLEN ON HARD ECONOMIC TIMES. IT HELPS GLAXO TO TRASH TAMIFLU.---JR]

An Australian authority on influenza, Graeme Laver, said: "What is so worrying is that it looks as though it [the mutation] happened very quickly."

Dr Laver, whose research contributed to the development of the antiviral drugs, said while it was not surprising that a flu strain should develop resistance to the drug, the speed of the mutation was surprising as it was very difficult to develop resistant strains, even in the laboratory.

He said one possible comfort was that any future flu pandemic may not be the same as the current H5N1 strain, meaning it might not have the same potential to develop resistance rapidly.

The H5N1 strain has so far killed 71 people in South-East Asia, most of whom have been in close contact with infected birds. Scientists say the risk of a pandemic of the lethal disease would arise if the strain were to develop the ability to spread easily from human to human.

The Health Department's spokeswoman, Kay McNiece, said officials had been told of an earlier case of apparent resistance to Tamiflu and that was one of the reasons for the recent decision to order 1.81 million courses of the alternative antiviral, Relenza.
Australia has 3.95 million courses of antivirals held in secret stockpiles, most of them Tamiflu, as part of the 5 million anti-pandemic measures...

end Sydney Morning Herald excerpt

JON RAPPOPORT www.nomorefakenews.com

As you can see, Tamiflu or any other "anti-virals" are not the answer to the bird flu. The only true defense is a strong immune system. The people who survive illnesses all have a strong immune system in common. Drugs don't cure disease, your body does when provided with the tools of nutrition. Strengthen your immune system.