2,000 vaccinated at clinic
Published Monday November 2nd, 2009
H1N1 | Province expects to receive more vaccine soon
An estimated 2,000 people were immunized at an H1N1 vaccination clinic in Fredericton over the weekend.
The priority group clinic was held at Fredericton High School on Saturday and Sunday. The focus of the clinic was to immunize those individuals who have a heightened risk of contracting the H1N1 virus, especially young children.
Women more than 20 weeks into pregnancy, pregnant women who are less than 20 weeks along, but with underlying medical conditions, and First Nations individuals who live on a reserve were also able to receive vaccination shots over the weekend.
Health-care workers who haven't received their shot will receive the H1N1 vaccination over the next few days.
Other groups at risk, such as First Nations individuals who don't live on reserves and people with chronic illnesses, were asked to wait and attend specialized clinics that will be announced in the weeks to come.
People who attended the weekend clinic were able to wait inside the cafeteria at FHS until it was their turn to receive the shot.
Wait times varied from three hours Saturday morning to a mere 10 minutes later in the afternoon.
Kerri Leblanc's children Sadie, 2, and Jack, 5, had both received the vaccine by 2:30 p.m. on Saturday.
Leblanc said she checked out the lineup at FHS ahead of time to see if she could expect a long wait.
"We drove by to see what the lineup looked like, and it seemed short," she said. "We only waited about 25 minutes. It was all very efficient."
Leblanc said she decided to have her children vaccinated after considering a number of different factors.
"I did research, and I felt like if the children ever got very, very sick, I couldn't live with that," she said.
"I weighed the pros and cons and decided this was the right choice for us based on the information that's currently available."
A news release from the office of Dr. Eilish Cleary, chief medical officer of health for New Brunswick, states that the response to the vaccine program so far has been "extraordinarily positive."
"This is good because it will contribute to overall immunity levels in the population," she said in the news release. "This means that there will be fewer people contracting and spreading the virus."
More doses of the vaccine are expected to arrive in New Brunswick this week, and more clinics will be scheduled accordingly.
For more information, and for an updated list of clinics, visit www.gnb/flu or call the toll-free hotline at 1-800-580-0038.
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The earlier vaccine administrations are responsible for setting up the victims to even have chronic health issues. In children and adults, vaccine administration also ties up our Vitamin C, also so necessary for fighting off infections.
Dr S T Wali
J N Medical College, AMU, Aligarh
Consultant Epidemiologist Medical Officer [IDSP]-Govt of India
INDIA
Since 2009 Influenza A H1N1 is a milder than normal flu virus, and it is the state of your immune system – not the virus itself – that matters more whether or not you will get sick, even if you come in contact with the virus.
Further our own studies suggest that in a preliminary Pan-Indian review of mortality and morbidity figures, the co-morbidities were found to be significant like co-morbidity with HIV; pathological obesity; immunocompromised clinical states like pregnancy.
Age extremes [<5 years and >65 years]; co-infection with MRSA and/or S.aureus; and steroid intake. Urban preponderance of the H1N1 cases also point out to a possible link of urban stress. We are also sending these findings to a few journals for publication.
Dr S T Wali is a consultant pediatrician with specialization in Forensic Toxicology and is based in India.
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In order to protect their greed,
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MedImmune's corporate offices and research labs are located in Gaithersberg, Maryland - just down the road from the U.S. Institute of Pathology labs at Ft. Detrick, Maryland where Dr. J. Taubenberger successfully reverse-engineered the deadly 1918 "recombinant" pandemic virus. Shortly after finishing the "resurrection" project, Taubenberger leaves the employ of Ft. Detrick and goes to work for the National Institutes of Health's "National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases." (NIAID).
http://www3.niaid.nih.gov/labs/aboutlabs/lid/respiratory/VirusesSection/Taubenberger.htm
So a new virus in 2009 was first patented in 2007, shortly followed by a patent for the vaccine. Gee if I had that foresight I would buy this Wednesday's Winning Lotto ticket today.
I know the truth is hard to grasp but evil walks beside you.