Related: The Xmas Gift I Did Not Receive
A New Year's Toast to Your Health, AmeriKa
Yeah, haven't heard much since except for these:
"Wellesley school staff given insulin in flu-vaccine error; Some became ill; no students at risk" by John M. Guilfoil, Globe Staff | January 19, 2010
Several staff members at Schofield Elementary School in Wellesley who were expecting to receive H1N1 vaccine shots Friday were mistakenly injected with insulin meant for students with diabetes, school officials said yesterday.
Yeah, you just keep that needle to yourself, doc.
In a letter to parents, faculty, and staff, school administrators said some of the staffers became ill and had to be hospitalized after receiving the blood sugar-glucose hormone, but all recovered. No students were at risk, as Friday’s vaccine clinic was only for faculty and staff, said Bella Wong, Wellesley superintendent of schools....
Millions of H1N1 vaccines have been distributed across the state as residents of all ages had jockeyed late last year for an immunization to the flu strain that has killed nearly 13,000 people across the globe....
I think I'll pass.
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Yeah, they can't give the stuff away so they are looking to inject it into anything that moves:
Little Joe didn’t even flinch.
When the zookeeper in the surgical mask showed him the needle, Joe gave her a nonchalant look, glancing up and down. When she asked for his shoulder, he rotated slowly, munching on granola in a show of teenage toughness and indifference. By the time he stopped chewing and stared at his arm, the shot was already over.
“Goooood boy,’’ cooed Brandi Baitchman, who administered the shot. “Nice job!’’
That was how it went when Joe, the best-known gorilla at the Franklin Park Zoo, got his H1N1 vaccination yesterday. Not so different from a person, but without the paperwork and tiny bandage.
Yeah, if you object to their poison you are not a "man."
I'd rather be an ape.
“We couldn’t really give him a Band-Aid, because he’d eat it,’’ Baitchman said after Joe had sauntered off to the far reaches of the gorilla habitat at the zoo’s Tropical Forest, an indoor enclave kept at 72 degrees.
The zoo vaccinates each of its six Western Lowland gorillas annually against the flu, using vaccine donated from human hospitals. This year, the primates are getting both the standard flu shot - to be administered next week, courtesy of Children’s Hospital - and the H1N1 vaccine.
“Gorillas share over 98 percent genetic homology to humans, so they’re susceptible to the same diseases, the same viruses that humans are, so we often use human developed vaccines to protect them against the same diseases,’’ said Dr. Eric Baitchman, director of veterinary services for Zoo New England, which oversees the Franklin Park and Stone zoos....
Related: A Day at the Boston Zoo
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While Joe went through the medical routine, Kira, a 10-year-old female, sat nearby and gaped. Across the way, Joe’s nephew Okie - born just a few months behind him, in 1993, at the Bronx Zoo - crossed his arms and leaned against a rock wall, looking sullen.
Yes, they HAVE PERSONALITIES just as YOU and I!!!!
Joe, a particularly social gorilla, turns 17 Saturday and will be feted at 10:30 a.m. with a party and a birthday cake fashioned from monkey chow, as the zoo does for all of its gorillas. They live in a three-year-old, $2.3 million habitat erected after Joe made a high-profile escape in 2003, attacking and injuring a teenager and a toddler and alarming the neighborhood before he was captured.
Yeah, NO ONE likes living in a CAGE!!!
The gorillas have enjoyed good health, the Baitchmans said, save for the occasional cold, when they show typically human symptoms: runny nose, cough, low energy. “The boys tend to be really mopey,’’ Brandi said.
Does my blogging style reflect that, or.... ?
The flu vaccines are typically administered in the fall. They were delayed this year until a sufficient supply could be produced for people. At Franklin Park, the annual rite is at once more and less dramatic than the human version.
Just before the shot, Joe flashed his rear end at Baitchman....
Yeah, HE KNOWS!! He may be a gorilla, but HE KNOWS!!!
So does this guy:
- Just a different gesture is all.
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And why bother getting a shot now?
Immunity has built up and flu on the wane.
"Many see H1N1 as waning; But US officials warn swine flu remains a risk" by Elizabeth Cooney and Stephen Smith, Globe Correspondent | Globe Staff | February 6, 2010
Almost half of Americans believe the global swine flu epidemic is over, according to a Harvard survey released yesterday that found children were more likely to be inoculated than adults. But federal health officials cautioned that the H1N1 virus that causes swine flu is still circulating....
Robert J. Blendon, director of the Harvard Opinion Research Program, said in a statement released with the survey:
“.... There remains a steady core of adults who, regardless of messaging and other efforts, has chosen not to get the H1N1 vaccine. This group’s set of attitudes has proven very difficult for public health officials to change.’’
Translation: SOME of us will NOT BE FOOLED by lying government again!
Federal health authorities reported yesterday that swine flu continues to circulate....
“We don’t seem to be seeing the disappearance of this virus,’’ Dr. Anne Schuchat, a flu specialist of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said in a telephone briefing for reporters. “The past several weeks, there’s really been steady transmission, rather than a disappearance.’’
In Massachusetts, where flu accounted for up to 9 percent of medical office visits in the fall, the viral disease accounted for barely 1 percent of visits last week.
Even as the swine flu epidemic appears to be waning, the number of deaths traced to pneumonia and influenza remained above typical levels for this time of year, creating a conundrum for disease trackers. Schuchat said investigators are “trying to understand whether those deaths we’re hearing about are caused by influenza or caused by other infectious agents.’’ Some of the pneumonia deaths, for example, could have been ignited by cold viruses or other germs before evolving into pneumonia.
Translation: We don't really know squat.
Nationally, nine children succumbed to flu last week - with at least eight of those deaths attributed to H1N1. No flu deaths were reported last week in Massachusetts; since swine flu emerged in the state in late April, four children and 27 adults have died from the viral illness.
The Harvard swine flu survey found that people who chose not to get the vaccine for themselves or their children said their decision was influenced by a belief that the disease was not as serious as once thought, concerns about safety, or confidence that they wouldn’t catch the virus.
All because of lying newspapers and government.
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But when this guy puts his name behing something you know it is for the greater good, right?
DAVOS, Switzerland - The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation will donate $10 billion over the next decade to research new vaccines and bring them to the world’s poorest countries, the
See: Gates' EndGame
Yeah, he's one of them!
“We must make this the decade of vaccines,’’ Bill Gates said in a statement....
Then you won't mind us pumping you full of the crap, 'eh?
Margaret Chan, head of the World Health Organization, called the Gates contribution unprecedented and urged governments and private donors to add to the initiative.....
Yeah, the "health" leg of the global government tripod.
The global bank (financial crisis) and tax (global warming/carbon tax) are the others.
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Related:
"Glaxo’s profit soars on vaccine demand
Related: A $7 Billion Dollar Shot in the Arm
Investigation Chief: Swine Flu Pandemic Was A Hoax
I guess it worked, huh?
And they have the TAXPAYERS to THANK!!!
In the three months ended Dec. 31, Glaxo turned a profit of $2.6 billion, compared with $1.54 million a year earlier.
Thank you, taxpayers of the world!!!
The strong finish pushed full-year profits up 20 percent.
Total vaccine sales were up 30 percent for the year....
Also see: Glaxo's Ghostwriters
Looks like they have someone's balls in their pockets, huh?
Gates going to make sure profits stay high.
