The expected "second wave" of H1N1 flu has hit on the west coast of Vancouver Island, according to the Canadian Medical Association Journal.
The CMAJ website quotes Tofino family doctor John Armstrong as saying the largest outbreak has been in Ahousat, on Flores Island--part of the Ahousaht First Nation whose chief, Shawn Atleo, is now national chief of the Assembly of First Nations.
But a "big community effort kept a lid on that," as Aboriginal leaders and health officials held public meetings and urged measures to contain the spread, Armstrong says. "But now that school is starting, it's changed again. We're also seeing the same flu patterns in other communities."
Armstrong says there has not been a flu-related death within the area he serves: Tofino and the nearby communities of Hot Springs Cove and Ahousat. But another BC doctor says privately that one Vancouver Island death is "suspected" as being caused by H1N1, although "it is not yet officially confirmed by health authorities in Vancouver."
News of the Vancouver Island outbreak comes as Manitoba First Nations have protested the delivery of body bags to their reserves by Health Canada as part of "flu kits." That has become an instant political issue, with Liberal leader Michael Ignatieff reportedly outraged by the Conservative government's treatment of H1N1 on First Nations reserves.
Crawford Kilian is a contributing editor of The Tyee.


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freebear
2 years ago
West coast body bags?
Did Health Canada screw up in BC as well by sending body bags, or was the bone headed move just in Manitoba?
Christopher-Peter
2 years ago
OIL and Water Won’t Mix - ADJUVANT
The Greatest Story Never Told – Chapter Three
For the past 17 years, the U.S. Army has been working on a new anthrax vaccine that contains no anthrax, and is made with an ingredient that it does not want to name. That ingredient is called squalene. Squalene is an oil. Without it, the new vaccine will not work any better that the old one. In fact, for all intents and purposes, without squalene the new vaccine is the old one. What makes squalene so important is it’s proven ability to stimulate a strong response from the immune system.
Immunologist have a special name for substances used to boost feeble vaccines. They are called ADJUVANTS. Adjuvants are arguably the most extensively researched pharmaceutical product in the last quarter century that you NEVER HEARD OF.
I have used the word adjuvant three times in this paragraph so far and that is probably three times more than you have ever seen it in print. This is partly because the most effective adjuvants, those formulated with oils, ARE TOO DANGEROUS FOR HUMAN USE. That is squalene’s other proven ability, causing incurable disease, which is why it is such a touchy subject with the Department of Defense.
The above is an excerpt from a fabulous book written by Gary Matsumoto...everyone should read it!
VACCINE.A
The Covert Government Experiment
That’s Killing Our Soldiers
and Why GI’s Are Only the First Victims.
A free preview of the complete Chapter Three is available on line…you must read this…NOW!
http://books.google.com/books?id=Irw82Iv5nyoC&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_navlinks_s#v=onepage&q=&f=false
Christopher-Peter
2 years ago
Oily VACCINES
CTV.ca News – September 1, 2009
H1N1 plan fails at-risk groups, journal warns.
The federal government is ill prepared to protect vulnerable populations in Canada, warns the Canadian Medical Association Journal (CMAJ).
The journal’s editor, Dr. Paul Hebert says; the PUBLIC HEALTH AGENCY of CANADA (PHAC) plans to immunize the entire Canadian population.
But Herbert, and vaccine expert Dr. Noni MacDonald, write that the federal government needs to fast-track the vaccine for pregnant women, children and people with chronic diseases.
PHAC has opted to order a version of the vaccine containing ADJUVANT, a chemical additive that ramps up the response the immune system generates to the vaccine.
"An adjuvant allows you to take a full dose of the vaccine and divide it in four... and vaccinate four people," Hebert explained.
But that type of vaccine also takes longer to approve than vaccines without adjuvant because it needs to be reviewed more thoroughly.
www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTV.../20090831?hub=Health
Information compiled and provided by Christopher-Peter: Maingot; without prejudice, malice aforethought, ill will, vexation, or frivolity.
Christopher-Peter
2 years ago
OIL and Water Won’t Mix - ADJUVANT
Today, (this has since changed-mine) only one adjuvant—an aluminum salt called alum—is licensed for human use. All the oil adjuvants are so noxious that their use are restricted to experiments with animals, and even then, governments have written strict regulations to govern how they are used.
The classic oil adjuvant, called Freund’s Complete Adjuvant can cause permanent organ damage and incurable disease. As early as the 1930s, these oil additives were notorious for inducing illness. By the 1950s, scientist knew these illnesses were specifically AUTOIMMUNE. Today that is their chief use in research—inducing disease instead of preventing it. Scientist studying autoimmune disease cannot wait around for it’s spontaneous appearance in a lab animal.
Autoimmune diseases are chronic and progressively debilitating ailments; some, like Multiple Sclerosis and Lupus, can be fatal. They occur when the immune system looses its ability to distinguish what is “self” from what is foreign. Under normal circumstances, your immune system ignores the constituents of your own body; immunologist call this “tolerance.” But, IF TOLERANCE IS BROKEN, the immune system turns relentlessly self-destructive, attacking the body it is suppose to defend.
Here is what they were not telling anyone. By 1964, the year when everyone in the military was supposed to get immunized with an OIL-BOOSTED INFLUENZA VACCINE, the Army already knew the risks this vaccine presented for a very specific type of illness. AFEB’s Colonel Abram S. Benenson had drawn up a list of diseases that investigators should watch out for in veterans injected with the oily flu vaccine at Fort Dix. Benenson’s list read like the contents of a chapter on autoimmune disease in an immunology text book. It included Multiple Sclerosis, Myelitis, Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS), Uveitis, Neuro-Dermatitis Circumscripta and Disseminata, Amyloidosis, Lupus- Erythematousus, Dematomyositis, Scleroderma, Chronic Pericarditis, Raynaud’s disease, Rheumatoid Arthritis, Rheumatoid Myositis and acute Glomerulonephritis—all of them AUTOIMMUNE DISEASES.
Epidemiologists, mainly working for the National Research Council And the American Cancer Society, reported a “significant excess of deaths” in soldiers (TROOPS) given the OIL-BOOSTED VACCINE, which the investigators related to “ill-defined vascular lesions of the central nervous system.” They attributed this fact to the greater number of autopsies performed on the soldiers given the oil-boosted vaccine.
VACCINE.A
The Covert Government Experiment
That’s Killing Our Soldiers
and Why GI’s Are Only the First Victims.
http://books.google.com/books?id=Irw82Iv5nyoC&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_navlinks_s#v=onepage&q=&f=false
Christopher-Peter
2 years ago
LAWMAKERS…breaking the law!!!
See OFFICIALS of GOVERNMENT; voting fraudulently -
LAWMAKERS…breaking the law – 4:00 video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hfhO38CPlAI
So much is going on during a vote on the “HPV” - VACCINE MANDATE; you really have to pay attention (1 minute and 11 seconds into the video). Watch the fraudulent voting; it takes place in the Texas Legislature. It continues without objection, or reprimand…what do you think would happen to you, or me, if we were caught doing this?
Information compiled and provided by Christopher-Peter: Maingot; without prejudice, malice aforethought, ill will, vexation, or frivolity.
Christopher-Peter
2 years ago
ADJUVANT – VACCINE booster or “nano-bomb”???
GARDASIL is currently, at this time, still in its testing or evaluation phase, of its trials on our children.
Already there have been numerous cases reported…serious side effects and fatalities relative to the HPV VACCINE.
One great concern with this, and other (INFLUENZA, HERPES, HPV, HIV etc) VACCINES which many overlook, and too few are willing to own up to, is the horrendous neurological attack, and self destructive or disabling ability, of an additive known as SQUALENE.
Whether this squalene formula is the MF59 or AS03 brand, it does not matter, because it has been determined to cause irreparable chaos to the immune system in both human beings and animals, as well.
Not only did squalene leave its mark on the UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT of DEFENSE as from the beginning of the “Gulf War Conflict,” but much more importantly, on thousand of un-suspecting and, un-informed soldiers of the UNITED STATES, the UNITED KINGDOM and CANADA.
This squalene, AKA ADJUVANT, apart from being an extremely controversial and covert subject, has been medically determined, by many expert researchers (scientists) as the leading cause of extremely debilitating and, fatal health effects, once known simply as: “Gulf War syndrome.”
This OIL & WATER mixture, “adjuvant,” SQUALENE, administered to 10s of thousands of human beings via the U.S. Army’s experimental ANTHRAX VACCINES, is strongly believed to have been the cause of every conceivable neurological autoimmune disease, and then some, to emerge.
It has also been used to increase the efficacy of influenza vaccines…since 1984 and onward.
Information compiled and provided by Christopher-Peter: Maingot; without prejudice, malice aforethought, ill will, vexation, or frivolity.