“ALERT: Special Swine Flu Update”

“ALERT: Special Swine Flu Update”

Posted on October 23, 2009
by Boulderdash
By Dr. Joseph Mercola

There are far too many points of criticism to respond to them all, but let’s review one point that has come up — a point that is commonly heralded by mandatory vaccination advocates.
Many of them take serious issue with my claiming that the swine flu vaccine is not deadly, and use that to insinuate that I’m spitting on the graves of the children who have died.
Nearly all of them, just like the CDC and mainstream media, use the statistic that 36,000 people die from the influenza every year. I actually wrote an article about this fallacy more than five years ago.

Interestingly that number has remained static as if carved into stone all these years.
However, the truth is that less than 1,000 people actually died from type A or type B influenza. The other 35,000 died from pneumonia. This is actually clearly listed on the CDC’s own website, yet virtually everyone ignores this fact.
Dr. David Rosenthal, Director of Harvard University’s Health Services, brings further clarity to this confusion.

Most of these so-called influenza deaths are in fact bacterial pneumonias — not even viral pneumonias — and secondary infections. Furthermore, a study in the Journal of the American Medical Academy shows that many of these deaths are a result of pneumonias acquired by patients taking stomach acid suppressing drugs.
So, for example, if we are to take the combined figure of influenza and pneumonia deaths during the flu season of 2001, and add a bit of spin to the figures, we are left believing that 62,034 people died from influenza.

The actual figures are 61,777 died from pneumonia and only 257 from influenza.
Even more amazing, in those 257 cases, only 18 were lab confirmed as positive for the influenza virus!

Full Analysis Here