NZ Centre for Political Research

This program indicates vaccines can not be trusted because of the elites' agenda to reduce the world population.

Elitists’ Agenda To Reduce World Population By “At Least 80%” Revealed On TV In US
The latest episode of Jesse Ventura's hit TV program, Conspiracy Theory, which was about secret societies this week, revealed the elites' agenda to reduce the world population by at least 80%. The show featured radio talk show host and documentary film maker, Alex Jones, who spoke candidly about the New World Order, and the Bilderberg Group plans, and said that they are using the United Nations, World Health Organization and vaccines, amongst other means, to achieve their anti-human goals.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MoK3lwi1 ... r_embedded

Updates:

Most Britons Reject Swine Flu Vaccine
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/artic ... ccine.aspx

Big Pharma inside the WHO: confidential analysis of unreleased WHO Expert Working Group draft reports, 8 Dec 2009
http://www.wikileaks.com/wiki/Big_Pharm ... 8_Dec_2009


World Health Organisation ‘Mr Swine Flu’ Under Investigation for Gross Conflict of Interest
http://marketoracle.co.uk/Article15655.html

One from a few months ago, but quite instructive:
Dr Rauni Kilde on Swine Flu Vaccine Conspiracy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=185HKE2c5Gg

http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=115719

WND Exclusive

OUTBREAK!
How U.N. redefined 'pandemic' to heighten alarm over H1N1
World Health Organization quietly changed qualification of term in case of 'swine flu'
Posted: November 12, 2009
11:35 pm Eastern

By Chelsea Schilling
© 2009 WorldNetDaily


In light of a perceived swine flu outbreak, the World Health Organization raised its influenza pandemic alert to its second highest level in May – but evidence reveals the agency may have made it easier to classify the flu outbreak as a pandemic by changing its definition to omit "enormous numbers of deaths and illness" just prior to making its declaration.

WHO, a specialized agency of the United Nations, issued its pandemic declaration – the first in 40 years – just as 74 countries had reported 144 deaths from the novel H1N1 infection.

The world was gripped with fears of swine flu as the alert increased from Phase 5 to Phase 6, the highest level. Immediately, pharmaceutical companies began working to develop vaccines, and countries tailored their responses to address the situation.

Dr. Thomas Frieden, who assumed leadership of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, or CDC, on June 8, announced that the U.S. would respond aggressively to the virus.

"There has been excellent global cooperation with the World Health Organization, with countries around the world," Frieden said. "This is one of the many conditions that reminds us that we are all connected and many of our decisions in the U.S. will rely on good information from countries in Latin America, in Africa, in Asia, Australia and elsewhere. It's very important that we confront this jointly."

The current WHO phase of pandemic alert remains at 6, indicating a full-blown global pandemic.

But in early May, just prior to the initial declaration, WHO made little-noticed changes to its definition of a pandemic.

The previous definition of a pandemic stated:

An influenza pandemic occurs when a new influenza virus appears against which the human population has no immunity, resulting in several, simultaneous epidemics worldwide with enormous numbers of deaths and illness. With the increase in global transport and communications, as well as urbanization and overcrowded conditions, epidemics due the new influenza virus are likely to quickly take hold around the world (emphasis added).

[IMAGE: WHO definition of "pandemic" prior to May 2009 (archive located at WayBackMacine)]

The WHO changed that definition, omitting the section indicating "enormous numbers of deaths and illness." It now states:

A disease epidemic occurs when there are more cases of that disease than normal. A pandemic is a worldwide epidemic of a disease. An influenza pandemic may occur when a new influenza virus appears against which the human population has no immunity. With the increase in global transport, as well as urbanization and overcrowded conditions in some areas, epidemics due to a new influenza virus are likely to take hold around the world, and become a pandemic faster than before. WHO has defined the phases of a pandemic to provide a global framework to aid countries in pandemic preparedness and response planning. Pandemics can be either mild or severe in the illness and death they cause, and the severity of a pandemic can change over the course of that pandemic (emphasis added).

[IMAGE:WHO definition of "pandemic" as currently stated on its website.]

WHO's current pandemic phase description chart makes no mention of "enormous numbers of deaths and illlness."

According to CNN, WHO had the "enormous numbers of deaths and illnesses" definition on its website until May 6 when a reporter pointed it out.

WHO spokesperson Natalie Boudou said the definition was in error, according to the report.

"It was a mistake, and we apologize for the confusion," she said. "(That definition) was put up a while ago and paints a rather bleak picture and could be very scary."

Epidemiologist Tom Jefferson, formerly a general practitioner in the British Army, has worked for the Cochrane Collaboration for 15 years. He evaluates all published flu-related studies.

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In a July 21 interview with Der Spiegel magazine, Jefferson asked, "Don't you think there's something noteworthy about the fact that the WHO has changed its definition of pandemic?"

He continued, "The old definition was a new virus, which went around quickly, for which you didn't have immunity, and which created a high morbidity and mortality rate. Now the last two have been dropped, and that's how swine flu has been categorized as a pandemic."

Jefferson said there's money to be made when a pandemic occurs.

"The WHO and public health officials, virologists and the pharmaceutical companies. They've built this machine around the impending pandemic," he said. "And there's a lot of money involved, and influence, and careers, and entire institutions! And all it took was one of these influenza viruses to mutate to start the machine grinding."

He said he saw no difference in the definition between the swine flu and a normal flu epidemic. Jefferson told the magazine that there are hundreds of other viruses that can be deadly, but researchers aren't as interested in those because the money isn't as readily available.

"With rhinoviruses, RSV and the majority of the other viruses, it's hard to make a lot of money or a career out of it. Against influenza, though, there are vaccines, and there are drugs you can sell," he said. "And that's where the big money from the pharmaceuticals industry is. It makes sure that research on influenza is published in the good journals. And that's why you have more attention being paid there, and the entire research field becomes interesting for ambitious scientists."

Teresa Forcades, a nun at the monastery of Sant Benet, in Montserrat-Barcelona, Spain, is a physician specializing in internal medicine who received her education at the State University of New York. She also earned a Ph.D. in public health from the University of Barcelona. Forcades addressed the WHO definition switch in a recent video circulating online.

She noted that the H1N1 virus has a high infection rate but lower mortality rate than the annual seasonal flu virus.

"How could WHO declare a pandemic, taking into account that this virus has a mortality rate lower than the yearly virus?" she asked. "Then how come there isn't a pandemic every year if the yearly virus is worse than this new virus? How come we don't declare a pandemic every year?"

Forcades expressed concern that countries may subject citizens to mandatory vaccine orders against their will in circumstances where the WHO issues widespread pandemic alerts.

Likewise, MIT doctoral student Peter Doshi argues in a Sept. 3 article published by the British Medical Journal that officials responded to the H1N1 outbreak as an "unfolding disaster."

"Measures were taken that in hindsight may be seen as alarmist, overly restrictive, or even unjustified," he wrote. "The large sums of public money spent on pandemic preparedness underlined the seriousness of the threat, and often repeated phrases such as 'not a question of IF a pandemic will happen, but WHEN' characterized the next flu pandemic as a high probability, high consequence event."

However, Doshi said the 2009 "pandemic," taken as a whole, bears little resemblance to the forecasted pandemic. According to today's estimates from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, at least 22 million Americans have come down with H1N1 since April, 98,000 have been hospitalized and approximately 3,900 have died. In August, White House officials warned the virus could cause 30,000 to 90,000 deaths.

But during an average U.S. winter, normal seasonal flu strains result in an average of 200,000 hospitalizations and 36,000 deaths – about 10 times the current swine-flu death rate reported by the CDC.

As of Nov. 1, WHO reported the global H1N1 death toll at more than 6,000.

Doshi noted that WHO declared a Phase 5 pandemic alert on April 29, only one week after news of the first outbreak.

"Epidemiological information at this time was mixed, suggesting a severe disease in Mexico but mild everywhere else," he wrote. "Actions were thus taken in an environment of high public attention and low scientific certainty."

Doshi warned, "Public health responses not calibrated to the threat may be perceived as alarmist, eroding the public trust and resulting in people ignoring important warnings when serious epidemics do occur."

WHO also acknowledges a 2009 change of the phase descriptions on its website, claiming the phases "have been revised to make them easier to understand, more precise, and based upon observable phenomena."

It is causing miscarriages.

Shocking H1N1 Swine Flu Vaccine Miscarriage Stories From Pregnant Women – Tell Your Doctors That Vaccines And Pregnancy Do Not Mix!
http://organichealthadviser.com/archive ... omment-842

A few days ago the Minister of Health, Tony Ryall reported that free (swine) flu vaccines would be made available to some pregnant women and young children in March 2010. Refer http://infonews.co.nz/news.cfm?l=1&t=0&id=44141
According to the Finland’s Former Chief Medical Officer, who is a leading medical doctor, while the swine flu is not dangerous, the vaccines are, as there is an agenda to reduce the world population by two-thirds or more, using what she regards as toxic vaccines.
She concluded the interview posted by asserting: “I hope nobody does [take the swine flu vaccine]. Especially not children. Especially not pregnant women and actually nobody.”

Refer:
Finland’s Former Chief Medical Officer Talks Candidly About Swine Flu Vaccines & The Depopulation Agenda
http://clareswinney.wordpress.com/2009/ ... on-agenda/

Who's behind it all? Dr Len Horowitz, who is a very well-respected researcher in this area, has investigated.
WARNING: Drug Cartel Exposed Creating, Releasing, Injecting, Infecting and Depopulating Planet with Pandemic H1N1/H5N1 Viruses and Vaccines
http://clareswinney.wordpress.com/2009/ ... -vaccines/

MUST HEAR INTERVIEW WITH DR BLAYLOCK
Swine Flu -- One of the Most Massive Cover-ups in American History
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/artic ... demic.aspx

It's all a load of bollocks. Swine flu indeed! I'm sure there are far more people dying of regular flu each winter. However, I find it all very worrying because it's very obvious they are trying to frighten us for some reason and if it's to take our vaccinations then who's behind it all? Surely the pharmaceutical companies don't have that much influence on the media or the government. I absolutely ignore any article that mentions swine flu.

To justify forcing people to take their vaccinations?
Has Baxter Intentionally Released A Biological Weapon?
http://davidrothscum.blogspot.com/2009/ ... eased.html

Swine-flu hysteria
Joseph Farah
Posted: November 02, 2009
1:00 am Eastern
WorldNetDaily.com
© 2009

It's a global pandemic, says the World Health Organization.

It's a national emergency, says Barack Obama.

U.S. deaths have surpassed 1,000, according to the Centers for Disease Control.

Nearly 5,000 have died worldwide, according to WHO.

That sounds bad.

But is it worth the hysteria?

What is it about these deaths that have government health bureaucracies apoplectic?

Is it time for a little context?

What happens when we turn to the same sources to compare deaths due to swine flu with other leading causes of preventable deaths?

Worldwide, nearly 3,000 people die from malaria every day.

Worldwide, nearly 6,000 people die from AIDS every day.

So what is it about this illness that has government so shook up?

Is it that it is so readily preventable?

Actually, that can't be it. Because malaria could be eradicated much easier and more economically. But the most effective weapon in the arsenal against malaria, DDT, has been banned in the U.S. and much of the rest of the world, even though it saved the lives of tens of millions, because of pseudo-scientific hysteria about alleged, unproven environmental effects.

Also, the vaccine for swine flu is extraordinarily expensive, compared with DDT production and treatments. The U.S. government spent $1 billion just to develop the swine flu vaccine, $7 billion to produce 195 million doses and the cost of administering those doses is projected to cost $11 billion.

While no one disputes DDT's absolute effectiveness against malaria, there are no studies that prove the H1N1 vaccine actually prevents swine flu. In addition, many doctors consider it to be dangerous because it contains aluminum, a toxic metal, thimerosal, a mercury toxin and is believed to contain a squalene product that can injure the immune system.

In other words, the swine flu vaccine may not prevent people from getting the swine flu and it may well cause other problems more serious than the swine flu. The cure could well be worse than the disease.

Who is doing the cost-benefit analysis? Government, of course – in conjunction with vaccine manufacturers who stand to rake in as much as $50 billion if the vaccine is administered throughout the world.

OK, so what other factors might be responsible for the do-something-now hysteria over swine flu? Is it because this illness is hitting all over the world rather than in under-developed Third World countries?

Actually, that can't be it. Because AIDS hits some of the most affluent populations in the West and yet government authorities oppose the use of standard public health measures to block transmission of the disease.

And, to further illustrate the point that government officials don't seem to care about the spread of AIDS, Obama announced the day before Halloween that the U.S. will soon lift the travel ban on foreigners with the disease entering the country.

Further, as Sen. Tom Coburn, a medical doctor, revealed in an article published in the Advocate, a national homosexual magazine, another bill signed by Obama last week earmarking $15 billion for AIDS treatment will ensure, along with a government-controlled health-care system, that AIDS patients will be placed on waiting lists for treatment and that many will be denied appropriate care through rationing of services.

I don't know about you, but I don't trust the government to make medical decisions.

I don't know about you, but I don't trust the government to make rational public health decisions.

I don't know about you, but I don't trust the government to play doctor or, worse yet, play God.

I don't know about you, but I don't trust the government to make decisions that affect the lives and the health of my loved ones.

There's a little too much crisis-management going on here. And, when it comes to swine flu, I'm not even sure there is a crisis to manage.

Only 2 died from swine flu in Sweden before vaccinations began, and they were not in good health anyway..
FOURTH PERSON DIES IN SWEDEN FROM SWINE FLU JAB: NO END IN SIGHT
http://www.theflucase.com/index.php?opt ... 05&lang=en

(US) Local pediatricians against H1N1 vaccine
http://www.theoneclickgroup.co.uk/news. ... 5#newspost


Soldier Who Suffered From Gulf War Syndrome, Warns About Taking “Swine Flu” Jab
http://www.wigantoday.net/wigannews/Sol ... 5768722.jp
WiganToday 27 October 2009 By Natalie Walker

A former soldier who suffered Gulf War Syndrome as a result of anthrax injections is warning people about the use of the swine flu vaccine.

Mike Kirkby, 38, of Dale Grove, Leigh, who served in the Gulf in 1991, has battled with the MOD and health authorities over how he contracted Gulf War Syndrome.

To increase his survival time during chemical warfare, he was given multiple shots of the Plague Vaccine, which he claims contains adjuvant squalene – the same additive that will be used in the new swine flu vaccine.

He endured seizures, vomiting and diarrhoea and was declared medically unfit.

For the rest of the article go here.

Related:
Beyond Treason – an excellent documentary which investigates the causes of Gulf War Illness and continuing deaths of Gulf war veterans.

Thanks Genesis1. I wondered why the mothers-to-be are having particular trouble with the man-made virus called "swine flu."


Report: Another Virus to be Released
I heard an interview yesterday with Mark and Josh of Piercing the Darkness. They research what is going related to the New World Order. They are both Americans and have contacts in the right places it seems. Josh reports at about 48 mins into this interview that he has heard from a number of sources that traitors to humanity are planning on releasing a second virus, which they call a "Christmas present," which will combine with the current one and form one more lethal than the one that's floating around at the moment. To download the very interesting interview, go here:
http://www.corbettreport.com/mp3/2009-1 ... 20Josh.mp3

Herald on Sunday

(With a letter following...)

Swine flu fatal in pregnancy
4:00AM Sunday Oct 18, 2009
By Rachel Grunwell

Swine Flu

Four maternal deaths are among New Zealand's 18 official swine flu deaths - but three of the babies involved survived.

Two of the women who died came from the wider Auckland area, one was from the Waikato and another was from the Wellington region.

All are believed to have contracted swine flu in the third trimester of their pregnancies.

It is understood the baby who died was from the Wellington area.

"All of the babies are doing well - apart from one," said Dr Claire McLintock, the lead clinician of obstetric medicine at National Women's and chair of the Maternal Mortality Working Group.

She said maternal deaths included any women who died while pregnant or up to six weeks after they had their baby.

She could not reveal the particulars about the cases, including at what stage the babies were delivered and how long after the deliveries the women died.

Dr Colin McArthur, clinical director of the department of critical care medicine at Auckland City Hospital, said the Australasian Maternal Outcomes Surveillance System group (which looks at pregnancy complications here and over the Tasman) and the Australia and New Zealand Intensive Care Society were investigating the deaths.

The reviews would also look into the 66 Kiwi and Australian pregnant mothers who were admitted to intensive care units with swine flu between June 1 and August 31 this year - the heightened period of the swine flu pandemic.

The pregnant women affected were among the 722 New Zealand and Australian patients with swine flu who were tracked during these three months and who were admitted to intensive care services.

McArthur hoped the results of the two investigations would help health professionals better understand the at-risk group as they prepared for the next wave of swine flu. This could come at any time but is most likely next winter.

He said pregnant women were seven times more likely than other women of the same age to end up in intensive care if they contracted swine flu.

McLintock said obstetric physicians at National Women's at Auckland City Hospital were also looking at the cases of about 40 pregnant women who had suffered from swine flu during the same three months, whether or not they had been admitted to intensive care units.

The women were from Auckland, North Shore and Middlemore hospitals.

She said most of the pregnant women were admitted into care in the third trimester, when the baby was large and "squashes up" on the mother's lungs, affecting her breathing and trapping fluid.

This explained why pregnant women were at greater risk of an infection, she said. As well, women's immunity was compromised while they were pregnant.

McLintock said the women, aged in their 20s and 30s, were treated with Tamiflu.

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Letter:

Swine flu fatal? Or Tamiflu fatal?

Dear Sir,

A question needing an answer by Dr Claire McLintoch’s study of pregnant women with swine flu, is whether or not Tamiflu is safe in pregnant women. In Australia http://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/a/-/ne ... e-and-son/ Claire Perkins [was given?] became ill and was given Tamiflu. Tests later found she did not have Swine Flu. Two days into the course of Tamiflu, she was having sudden headaches, double vision and stomach cramps and a blotchy red rash, and was rushed to hospital. Her still born baby was later delivered by caesarian and six days afterwards the mother died.

Is “the” flu killing mothers and babies, or “Tami”flu?

Tamiflu has not been tested in pregnant women with swine flu before, because real life 2009 is that “test”. Since women are immunosuppressed in pregnancy, and because swine flu is a “new” virus, Tamiflu’s safety, concurrent with swine flu infection, would seem a fundamental question needing an answer.

H B

Vaccine revolt! Swine flu vaccine support crumbles as flimsy rationale for H1N1 shots becomes apparent
http://www.naturalnews.com/027222_swine ... ccine.html
Monday, October 12, 2009 by: Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, NaturalNews Editor

(NaturalNews) Public support for the swine flu vaccine is evaporating by the day as the rationale for the vaccine appears increasingly ludicrous to anyone paying attention. Moms, nurses, day care workers and members of the general public are increasingly realizing that Big Pharma's rationale for swine flu vaccination just doesn't add up.

Recent polls conducted by the mainstream media indicate that more than fifty percent of moms are refusing to expose their children to the swine flu vaccine, and nurses and health practitioners across the US and UK are going vocal with their opposition to the vaccine.

Legal action against the FDA's approval of the swine flu vaccine is already underway (http://www.naturalnews.com/027205_v...), and public protests are gaining momentum in raising awareness about the primary objections to the swine flu vaccine. Intelligent, informed people everywhere are saying NO to this vaccine!

Popular support for the vaccine is crumbling by the day, and health authorities are now turning to exaggerated scare stories to try to drum up demand for their vaccines. Where scientific credibility is lacking, fear is being invoked in its place.

Why the swine flu vaccine doesn't add up
So why is the justification for the swine flu so flimsy? It all comes down to these five crucial reasons being pushed by the vaccine industry... but as you'll see below, each of these five reasons is demonstrably false!

Reason #1) The H1N1 swine flu pandemic is dangerous and deadly!

Why it's flimsy: While the infection rate of H1N1 is currently high, the fatality rate is remarkably low. In fact, it's no higher than a normal, seasonal flu.

Reason #2) The vaccine protects you from the virus!

Why it's flimsy: There is absolutely no scientific evidence demonstrating that the swine flu vaccine offers real-world protection against the circulating H1N1 virus. While there is evidence showing that it produces antibodies, as people who have studied vaccine effectiveness already know, the mere existence of vaccine-induced antibodies doesn't directly translate into functional, real-world immunity! Vaccines are often, in effect, fabricated immunity that often don't provide practical immune defense in the real world.

Reason #3) The vaccine is perfectly safe, even for kids!

Why it's flimsy: This reason is truly laughable. None of these vaccines have been properly safety tested by the FDA or the drug companies. They were approved by the FDA with a waiver, utterly bypassing the normal process of long-term safety testing that the public expects the FDA to enforce. In fact, according to attorney Jim Turner, the FDA's baseless approval of these swine flu vaccines is a violation of federal law. (http://www.naturalnews.com/027205_v...)

Reason #4) There's nothing else you can do to protect yourself from the swine flu (therefore you must take the vaccine shot).

Why it's flimsy: This reason is an outright lie. In order to sell more vaccines, the pharmaceutical industry (and all its bureaucratic cohorts at the CDC and WHO) are intentionally keeping people ignorant of far safer and more effective options such as vitamin D and anti-viral herbal remedies.

Reason #5) If you don't take the vaccine shot, you're being unethical by placing the shot burden on everyone else without taking it yourself.

Why it's flimsy: Hilarious! This is marketing by guilt -- trying to arm-twist people into the vaccine shot by making them feel guilty if they don't. The truth is that you're being unethical if you DO get the shot because you're financially supporting a dangerous and highly deceptive vaccine industry that's causing tremendous harm to children, expectant mothers and other innocent vaccination victims.

Hoping to improve your health by handing money to the pharmaceutical industry through the purchase of vaccines is sort of like hoping to create world peace by writing a check to weapons manufacturers.

No good reason to get the vaccine
Is there any good reason to get the swine flu vaccine? Not based on the current situation, no. Unless you have a strong desire to play Russian Roulette with your health, of course.

Of course, if things dramatically change, there could be increasingly strong reasons for considering a vaccine. If the H1N1 virus mutates into a virus with a very high fatality rate, things might be different. If the vaccine were proven safe with adequate long-term testing, that would be something working in its favor. If the vaccines were scientifically shown to actually protect you from the virus, then that would be different, too.

But to date, none of these things are verifiably true! The vaccines haven't been properly tested at all. There's no honest evidence demonstrating that they protect you from the swine flu. And the flu has such a low fatality rate, why does a vaccine matter in the first place?

Keep in mind that over 2,000 people die each year from taking aspirin. Over 100,000 Americans are killed each year from taking doctor-prescribed, FDA-approved prescription drugs. If the people at the CDC are looking for a pandemic, they should be focusing on the pandemic of disease mongering and pharmaceutical pushing that's taking place across the world right now in the context of the swine flu pandemic.

There is a real pandemic afoot, though... a pandemic of B.S. running rampant across America and the UK. It's an infectious form of pharmaceutical quackery that spreads from one person to another at the speed of propaganda. Symptoms of infection include a loss of rational thinking, swine flu hysteria and an irrational belief in symbols of authority.

What we really need in America is a vaccine that protects consumers' brains from infectious pharmaceutical quackery. Then again, if we actually injected people with that, the whole drug industry would collapse overnight. That's because Big Pharma runs on propaganda. And the propaganda we're seeing with this swine flu vaccine push is so thick with unjustifiable speculation that it probably deserves a Nobel Peace Prize or something.

I received this in an e-mail today.

5 October 2009

Jane Burgermeister replies to, and challenges the NZ Minister of Health - Tony Ryall.

"The Ministry has investigated allegations that Baxter Healthcare Limited supplied H5N1 contaminated seasonal influenza vaccine, and is satisfied that this allegation is not true."

BASED ON WHAT?


DID THE NZ MINISTRY OF HEALTH EVER ASK JANE BURGERMEISTER FOR 'HER SIDE OF THE STORY'?


IF NOT - WHY NOT?



WHAT SORT OF 'INVESTIGATION' WAS THIS?



WHO IS LOOKING AFTER PUBLIC HEALTH AND THE PUBLIC INTEREST?

....................................................................

This is world-breaking news, on the world's most censored story - THE $WINE FLU SCAM!

It includes the New Zealand Ministry of Health Official Information Act (OIA) reply (to which Jane Burgermeister is responding), the original OIA questions, and all relevant BACKGROUND correspondence.

For information you won't find anywhere else on the international fightback against the $WINE FLU SCAM -
www.theflucase.com

(Jane Burgermeister's official website.)

1) After reading and considering all the following information, would YOU as an MP consent to having a Baxter 'SWINE FLU' jab?

2) Would YOU as an MP consent to your children or grandchildren having a Baxter 'SWINE FLU' jab?

3) If 'YES' - WHY would you?

It is my considered opinion that many members of the voting public would be interested in your reply.

(Particularly in light of the very similar issues raised in the documentary 'Making a Killing' shown on Maori Television Sunday 4 October 2009, which exposed the clear 'conflicts of interest' between those who manufacture, regulate and prescribe psychiatric drugs, and who is benefitting, particularly financially, therefrom.)

I look forward to your feedback.

Yours sincerely,

Penny Bright
waterpressure@gmail.com

____________________________________________________

For the attention of Tony Ryall, Health Minister
jane burgermeister <jmburgermeister@gmail.com> Sat, Oct 3, 2009 at 4:22 AM
To: Peter.Maciver@parliament.govt.nz, Penny Bright <waterpressure@gmail.com>, editor <editor@uncensored.co.nz>

Dear Tony Ryall,



I am writing to you concerning claims made in an email by Dr Janice Wilson from the New Zealand Ministry of Health that your ministry has carried out an investigation into Baxter’s contamination of 72 kilos of vaccine material with the live bird flu virus -- supplied by WHO -- in February in Austria, so nearly sparking a global bird flu pandemic.



Dr Wilson wrote an email in response to a query on the incident.



„The Ministry has investigated allegations that Baxter Healthcare Limited supplied H5N1 contaminated seasonal influenza vaccine, and is satisfied that this allegation is not true."



But how can the Ministry claim to have investigated the allegation and found it not true when Baxter itself admitted that it manufactured and distributed live bird flu contaminated seasonal influenza vaccine as confirmed by media reports around the world?



To quote just a few reports:



“Baxter Sent Bird Flu Virus to European Labs by Error (Update2),” Bloomberg report, Febuary 24th.



”Officials investigate how bird flu viruses were sent to unsuspecting labs,” Canadian Press report, Febuary 25th, 2009.



„Virus mix-up by lab could have resulted in pandemic.“ the Times of India, March 6th, 2009.



“Pharmakonzerns Baxter, hat vor einigen Wochen mehrere mit dem Grippevirus kontaminierte Impfproben an Labors im In- und Ausland verschickt. Wie sich jedoch herausstellte, haben die für wissenschaftliche Tests vorgesehenen Proben versehentlich das gefährliche Vogelgrippevirus H5N1 beinhaltet. Die Panne fiel zuerst im tschechischen Labor BioTest in Konarovice auf, wo es zum unerwarteten Sterben von Frettchen kam, an denen der Impfstoff aus Österreich getestet wurde. Eine Untersuchung brachte die Diagnose: Vogelgrippe,“

Nach Berichten tschechischer Medien wurden ähnliche Tests auch in Slowenien, Deutschland und Österreich durchgeführt - mit dem gleichen Ergebnis,“ von Aureliusz M. Pedziwol.

„We intended to send a pure virus of common flu for testing to the Czech Biotest; by accident, we sent the bird flue virus. The experimental material got mixed up,” said Baxter spokesperson Richard Tischler.

Specific process that was used during the production of this testing material will be never used again, he said, but without giving any details of what the specific processes were or how the use of those specific processes would be discontinued.”

http://zpravy.idnes.cz/rakouska-ptaci-c ... o-ceska-i-

nemecka-fmn-/domaci.asp?c=A090303_214331_domaci_abr
In einem Interview mit Lifegen.de am März spricht Frau Jutta Brenn-Vogt (Manager Communications Baxter Deutschland) von einer einmaligen Kombination von Prozessen, technischen und menschlichen Fehlern als Ursache für den Vorfall.


"The root cause of the incident has been identified. It was due to a unique combination of process, technical and human error in a procedure used for this specific research project in our facility in Austria (Orth)."

“Cross-contamination of commercial product, clinical material or other experimental material has been absolutely excluded. The public health authorities in Austria performed an audit at Baxter's research facility in Austria (Feb. 16) and Baxter's corrective and preventative actions were found appropriate by the auditors. The contamination occurred only during the process for this specific research project for AVIR Greenhills in Baxter's facility. Further details about the process will not be discussed as it is proprietary information.

The company has cited propreitary information as the reasonw hy it refuses to divulge details of the way that the contaminated material could have been produced in ist biosafety level 3 laboratories where commeercial vaccine production and clinical and experimental trials presumably take place under high biosecurity conditions to prevent just such a cross contamination. Can we accept this level of secrecy and this superficial investigation which seemed to just rubber stamp what Baxter had done when the contaminted virus posed a real threat to the health of the general public?

LifeGen.de: Will the contamination in Europe lead to management changes in your company?

Brenn-Vogt: No.“


In addtion to these media reports, the Austrian Health Minister Alois Stöger answered parlaimentary questions on the contamination of seasonal flu material with the live bird flu virus by Baxter, further underlining that the contamination is not an allegation as Dr Janice Wilson claims but proven fact.

See parliamentary questions of Dr. Dagmar Belakowitsch-Jenewein: http://www.parlament.gv.at/PG/DE/XXIV/J ... 153739.pdf

And the parliamentary nswers of Alois Stöger, Health Minister: http://www.parlament.gv.at/PG/DE/XXIV/A ... 58854.html

In answering question 14 and 15, the Health Minister Stöger admited that 72 kilos of material was contaminated with the live bird flu virus by Baxter.

„The material meant for research purposes – 72 kilos were to be viewed as contaminated – were returned to the company and destroyed under controlled conditions.“ (Das für Forschungszwecke bestimmtes Material - 72 kg waren als kontaminiert anzusehen - wurde in die Firma zurück geholt und kontrolliert vernichtet.“)



However, in another set of parliamentary answers, the Health Minister said that the contaminated material was either destroyed or returned to the manufacturer, Baxter.



http://www.parlament.gv.at/PG/DE/XXIV/A ... 164980.pdf



That Baxter's subsidiary in Austria contaminated 72 kilos of vaccine material with the live bird flu virus and then sent it to 16 labs under a false label is, therefore, a verifiable, unambiguous fact, also stated by the Austrian Health Minister in official parliamentary documents.


The Health Minister has given parliamentary answers that are full of contradictions.

For example, in an answer from May 20th, 2009 to the question: „What is the reason why no information has reached the public yet?“, Alois Stöger said

“There was and is no reason to inform the general public about the contamination with the bird flu virus (Influenza A/H5N1) of a material produced for research purposes. There was no danger for the general public.”


But how can the Health Minister claim that there was no danger to the general public when 18 people in Vienna were treated preventatively for the bird flu in hospital and the incident nearly triggered a global bird flu pandemi according to experts and the media?

A press release from 11 February, 2008, issued by the City of Vienna said that 18 people had had to be treated preventatively for bird flu in the Otto Wagner Spital.

„Wien (OTS) - Am vergangenen Montag [Februar 9th] wurden im Wiener Otto-Wagner-Spital 18 MitarbeiterInnen eines externen Unternehmens

ambulant behandelt, da vorerst nicht ausgeschlossen werden konnte,

dass sie im Rahmen ihrer Arbeit mit einem Vogelgrippe-Erreger in

Kontakt gekommen seien. Bei keinem der umfassenden Tests wurde eine

Infektion festgestellt.****

Darüber hinaus wurden die PatientInnen umgehend mit einer

Grippe-Vorsorge behandelt. "Weder für die Patientinnen und Patienten

noch für Personen, die mit ihnen in Kontakt waren, bestand eine

Gefährdung. Selbstverständlich haben wir aber alle zuständigen

Behörden informiert", erklärte Dr.in Susanne Drapalik von der

Generaldirektion der Spitäler der Stadt Wien.“

Underlining the danger, the company Panasonic ordered Japanese employees in some foreign countries to send their families home to Japan because of fears of a bird flu pandemic that same day as an AP press release shows.



“Panasonic to fly home workers' families over bird flu fears

Feb 9, 2009

TOKYO (AFP) — Panasonic Corp. has ordered Japanese employees in some foreign countries to send their families home to Japan in preparation for a possible bird flu pandemic, a spokesman said Tuesday.”

The firm decided to take the rare measure "well ahead of possible confusion at the outbreak of a global pandemic," he said.

"The bird flu cases reported so far are infections from bird to human, but once an infection between human beings is reported, things can get chaotic with many other companies trying to bring back their employees," Kadota said.


"We wanted to take action early before it gets difficult to book flight tickets," he said.”

It is, therefore, a verifiable fact, too, that people had to be treated prevenatively for bird flu in Austria and also in the Czech Republic as a result of coming in contact with this contaminated material and that Panasonic was planning emergency measures to bring its employees back to Japan, underlining that it posed a threat to the general public and to human beings.



It is a fact that a global bird flu pandemic was nearly sparked by Baxter in the opinion of experts and the media such as the Times of India.



The only issue is whether the contamination of the seasonal flu material was deliberate or not.



Because biosafetly level 3 regulations apply when handling the bird flu virus under the European Directive 90/679/EWG on the protection of workers from risks related to exposure to biological agents at work, the contamination must have been deliberate.



The EU directive 90/679/EWG classifies biological agents in four groups according to how dangerous they are for people who work with them and requries appropriate working conditions meeting four different criteria:



Article 2 makes this clear:



Article 2
Definitions

For the purpose of this Directive:

(a) ‘biological agents’ shall mean micro-organisms, including those which have been genetically modified, cell cultures and human endoparasites, which may be able to provoke any infection, allergy or toxicity;

(b) ‘micro-organism’ shall mean a microbiological entity, cellular or non-cellular, capable of replication or of transferring genetic material;

(c) ‘cell culture’ shall mean the in-vitro growth of cells derived from multicellular organisms.

‘Biological agents’ shall be classified into four risk groups,according to their level of risk of infection:

1. group 1 biological agent means one that is unlikely to cause human disease:


2. group 2 biological agent means one that can cause human disease and might be a hazard to workers; it is unlikely to spread to the community; there is usually effective prophylaxis
or treatment available;

3. group 3 biological agent means one that can cause severe human disease and present a serious hazard to workers; it may present a risk of spreading to the community, but there is usually effective prophylaxis or treatment available;


4. group 4 biological agent means one that causes severe human disease and is a serious hazard to workers; it may present a high risk of spreading to the community; there is usually no effective prophylaxis or treatment available.“


The bird flu virus has a 60 per cent mortality rate and is, therefore, classified as a group 3 biological agent that can cause severe human disease and present a serious hazard to workers.

In addition, when it is mixed with the seasonal flu as happened with Baxter, it becomes highly transmissbale and presents a risk of spreading to the community.

Baxter has to use biosafety level 3 or 4 regulations when handling the bird flu virus according to the law and Baxter has itself stated it adheres to these biosafety level 3 regulations.

Biosafety level 3 agents such as the bird flu virus require labs with double door entries, biosafety cabinets for all technical manipulations etc.



More details on the kind of special safety features of biosafety level 3 labs can be found here, for example:



PHYSICAL CONTAINMENT
BIOSAFETY LEVEL 3

At Biosafety Level 3 (BL 3), facility design plays a significant role in safety. BL 3 activity involves organisms or systems which pose a significant risk or represent a potentially serious threat to health and safety of workers. Such facilities include special engineering design features and containment equipment. These facilities are usually separated from the general traffic flow by controlled access corridors, air locks, locker rooms, or other doubledoor entries. Biosafety cabinets are required for all technical manipulations that involve viable cultures (no work is allowed on an open bench).

The surfaces of all walls, floors and ceilings are sealed and, therefore, impervious to liquids that may spill onto them. This means that all penetrations (telephone, lights, plumbed lines for gas, vacuum, electrical lines, electrical switches, etc.) are caulked, collared or sealed to prevent leaks. The collars and seals are also made of material which can be cleaned.

The ventilation system in the Risk Group 3 facility is designed to exhaust more air than is supplied, resulting in a directional airflow from the outer corridors, which are regarded as clean, into the laboratory which is regarded as contaminated.
The air is discharged to the outdoors and not recirculated to other parts of the building without appropriate filtration treatment.


This laboratory design is suitable for experiments involving:
· Recombinant DNA molecules requiring physical containment at the Risk Group 3 level including animal studies with BL 3 and some BL 2 agents.

· Microorganisms of moderate biohazards potential such as those in Risk Group 3 or BL 3.

· Oncogenic viruses that have human cells in their host range.


· The production of large volumes or high concentrations of certain Risk Group 2 and all Risk Group microorganisms or viral infected cells (where the virus is infectious for man and requires BL 3 containment).

· Production activity which involves Risk Group 3 and some Risk Group organisms.

http://www.lbl.gov/ehs/biosafety/Biosaf ... el_3.shtml“





There is, therefore, overwhelming evidence that Baxter deliberately contaminated the 72 kilos of seasonal flu with the live bird flu virus supplied by WHO in its biosafely level 3 lab in Orth an der Donau to create a bioweapon that was transmissible and deadly.



This overwhelming evidence was the reason why the Vienna state prosecutor launched an investigation after I filed criminal charges against Baxter and Avir on April 8th.



I filed another set of criminal charges against the Austrian Health Minister for his role in a cover up in June.



Have you been in contact with the Austrian police concerning the Baxter investigation? When? With whom? Please give details to substantiate the claim that you have undertaken a proper investigation.





You say; „This investigation found that a batch of virus produced by Baxter Healthcare Limited for research purposes, but not for use in humans, had been contaminated with influenza H5N1. „


What investigaiton are you referring? There was only a prefunctory investigation by a vetinary surgeon and a representative from the department of human medicine belonging to the Austrian Health Ministry that resulted in no action as the Austrian Health Minister himself stated.

No official from New Zealand has ever contacted me concerning my criminal charges.



The Health Minister Stöger said that vetinary rules would be tightened only as a result of this incident. However, vetinary rules do not apply in these case. Biosafetly level 3 rules apply, and there was no mention of these biosafetly level 3 rules being tightened.



In addition, the fact is that the 72 kilos of contaminated material resulted in 36 people having to be treated preventatively for the bird flu, and could have sparked a pandemic.


To classify it as „research material“ is an inviduous classification. Whether material for research or not for research is irrelevant in as far as it almost sparked a pandemic and harmed human beings.

There are credible reports from the Czech lab BioTest that they received the material under the label "seasonal flu" - not research material.
Have you investigated those claims?



The unambiguous, verifiable fact is Baxter manufactured and spread contaminated material and nearly triggered a global bird flu pandemic among humans – and it did it deliberately.



Baxter itself said the live bird flu virus was supplied by WHO, implicating the very organisation that you, Tony Ryall, are associated with as a member of WHO's executive board.



„The batch of virus concerned was not required to be produced under conditions required for the manufacture of products used in humans,“ Dr Janice Wilson says.



However, all material using the bird flu virus MUST be handled under biosafety level 3 regulations irrespective of its alleged end purpose.



Biosafely level 3 regulations means the virus cannot be mixed with any other material or leave a facility irradiated irrespective of whether it is designated for human use or not.



Furthermore, any such material must leave the facilities irradiated and with correct labelling. This did not happen.



„Remedial action has been instituted in conjunction with international regulators, to prevent any future event of this nature,“ says Dr Janice Wilson.



What remedial action? The Austrian Health Minister said he has tightened vetinary laws but, as mentioned before, this was not a violation against the vetinary code. It was a violation against biosafety level 3 regulations.



There was no mention of any contact with international regulators by the Austrian Health Minister in his parliamentary answers. What information do you have on this that the Austrian parliament does not?“



„The Ministry is therefore satisfied that this incident does not suggest any risk may be posed by a Baxter pandemic, or seasonal vaccine,“ says Dr Janice Wilson.



How can the NZ Ministry conclude there is no risk to the people of New Zealand from Baxter vaccines when Baxter is being investigated by the Austrian police for criminal intent in manufacturing 72 kils of seasonal flu material contaminated with the bird flu virus when biosafety level 3 regulations apply? When no credible investigation has taken place?



Why did the Ministry not ask questions about why Baxter patented a vaccine to the H1N1 virus in 2008 long before the so called new virus appeared in April in Mexico City not far from Baxter’s lab?



„In April and May 2009, after H1N1 pandemic influenza developed, the question of a second supply was visited. The Ministry contacted a number of vaccine providers for a review of their products and anticipated delivery schedules. Baxter Healthcare Limited again emerged as the preferred provider and it was decided that the Ministry would enter into a contract with Baxter Healthcare Limited,“ says Dr Janice Wilson.



On what basis was Baxter selected as the preferred provider in view of ist poor safety record not just with the incident in Austria but also in France?



Please give the reasons why Baxter was chosen.



What do you say to the fact that the „swine flu“ vaccine will not be tested for safety or effectiveness before it is released into the general public according to the EU regulators own documents?



Why are adjuvants, which have not been tested for safety on pregnant women and children, to be given to pregnant women and children?



What do you say to the huge body of evidence linking squalenet to the Gulf War Syndrome, suffered by 25 per cent of US soldiers given the anthrax vaccine with adjuvants and in doses a million times smaller than those planned for the „swine flu“?



What do you say to the fact that the 1976 US „swine flu“ mass vaccination programme had to be abandoned because it proved so dangerous?



What do you say to two WHO memos dating from 1972 which prove the intentional creation of the killer technology used in the swine flu vaccine by switching off the immune system, loading the body with virus and then switching on the immune system with an adjuvant to create a cytokine storm?


Another important document is the 7/16/09 article published in the New England Journal of Medicine entitled „The Persistent Legacy of the 1918 Influenza Virus". In this article it is stated that "one of the viruses (in the present H1N1 strain) is a derivative of the 1918 Virus".

One of the authors is Jeffrey Taubenberger, who is interviewed in the documentary "Killer Flu" which you can obtain from www.pbs.org...in that documentary he describes how he and a team of scientists went to Alaska to dig up dead bodies of people who died of the 1918 flu and then decoded it.



What do you say to that further proof that this present H1N1 virus was engineered in a lab?



Can you explain why WHO said the virus was a not to be called the swine flu but the H1N1 virus because it has nothing to do with pigs?



Why did virologist Adrian Gibbs say it had escaped from a lab?



What do you say to Dr Marc Girard who said this vaccine could kill 60,000 people in France, above all pregnant women and children?



What do you say to a survey showing 65 % of French nurses would refuse the swine flu shot over safety concerns?



What do you say to the fact that nurses in New York would rather face the sack than take this vaccine?



What do you say to the way WHO changed the pandemic criteria in April 27th loosening them to make a pandemic level 6 declaration possible?



What do you say to the fact that pharmacentuticl exectives sat as observery on a key vaccinary advisory group of WHO that recommended mass vaccinations on July 7th?



It has come to my attention that you are a member of the executive board of WHO, as mentioned above.



Why is this fact not mentioned in your biography on your website? Are you aware that your concealing this fact from the people of New Zealand might give rises to questions concerning whether you are involved in a conflict of interest?



The French Health Minister Roselyne Bachelot also concealed her 12 years of employment for the pharmaceutical industry from the French general public? Is this acceptable?



What measures, specifically, have you put in place to ensure that the Baxter swine flu is independently tested? Please list all procedures.



Do you have financial or personal links with pharmaceutical companies that sit on WHO’s vaccine advisory board as „observers“? Have you ever worked for them? Do any of your family? Do you own shares in them?



I would like to apply for information on all government files concerning the investigation you allegedly carried out on Baxter’s contamination of 72 kilos of vaccine material because this issue has major implications for the New Zealand public and the public health.


I request that you please provide a copy of all documentation upon which the Ministry of Health is relying which substantiates:


"The Ministry has investigated allegations that Baxter Healthcare Limited supplied H5N1 contaminated seasonal influenza vaccine, and is satisfied that this allegation is not true.“



Although I am not a New Zealand citizen, I understand that I can, and hereby am, formally requesting all information held by the NZ Government / Minister of Health/ Ministry of Health relating to myself, Jane Burgermeister; pertaining to the criminal charges I have filed against Baxter International Inc and Avir, the Austrian Minister of Health and the World Health Organisation in respect of the „bird flu“ and „swine flu“.



Your actions in pushing ahead with mass vaccinations with Baxter’s vaccine with inadequate investigaitons and safetyguards strongly suggests the notion that you are serving not the interests of the people of New Zealand but the interests of Baxter and WHO.



I believe a full inquiry into your actions in respect of ordering the Baxter "swine flu" jabs for mass vaccinations without adequate safety checks would serve the interests of the people of New Zealand.



Regards, Jane



__________________________________________________

OFFICIAL INFORMATION ACT REPLY FROM DR JANICE WILSON, DEPUTY DIRECTOR-GENERAL
POPULATION HEALTH DIRECTORATE
NZ MINISTRY OF HEALTH:

(Although it was dated 10 September 2009 - I didn't receive a copy until 28 September 2009, when it was emailed to me by Peter Maciver, Private Secretary Health. )

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Peter Maciver (MIN) <Peter.Maciver@parliament.govt.nz>
Date: Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 8:46 AM
Subject: Your Official Information Act request
To: "waterpressure@gmail.com" <waterpressure@gmail.com>


Dear Ms Bright

On behalf of Hon Tony Ryall, Minister of Health, thank you for your correspondence of 26 September 2009 about your request for information on swine flu vaccines.

I am advised that Dr Janice Wilson, Deputy Director-General, Population Health Directorate, Ministry of Health, responded to your request with a detailed reply on 10 September 2009. In case this did not reach you, I have attached a copy of this correspondence for your information.

Yours sincerely

Peter Maciver | Office of Hon Tony Ryall
Private Secretary - Health "
___________________________________________________

"10 September 2009

Re: Official Information Act about H1N1 pandemic influenza vaccine and Baxter Healthecare Limited.

Thank you for your emails on 11 July 2009 and 11 August 2009 seeking information under the Official Information Act about H1N1 pandemic influenza vaccine and Baxter Healthecare Limited.

The majority of the information you have requested is not held within the Ministry of Health and is therefore not provided in accordance with Section 18(e) of the Official Information Act 1982 which states "A request made in accordance with section 12 may be refused only for 1 or more of the following reasons, namely:that the document alleged to contain the information requested does not exist or cannot be found."

I can confirm that vaccine produced by Baxter Healthcare Limited has not been approved for use in New Zealand and there is no intention of using an unapproved vaccine.


In accordance with normal practice, certificates of analysis provided by the manufacturer of vaccine will be evaluated before a decision is made about whether to offer vaccine. All prescription medicines including vaccine are required to have a data sheet which is published on the Medsafe website.
The Ministry has no information on selection process or professional criteria for staff responsible for the testing of H1N1 pandemic vaccine manufactured by Baxter Healthcare Limited. For information on the evaluation requirements of medicines including vaccine, please refer to the Medicines Act 1981.

In 2005 the Ministry identified the need for a second supplier of pandemic vaccine to provide insurance against production difficulties or delay in delivery of CSL Biotherapies (NZ) Ltd pandemic vaccine. However no suitable provider could be found at that time. In 2008 the question of a second pandemic vaccine supplier was re-examined. On the basis of the information obtained from GlaxoSmithKline and Baxter Healthcare Limited these companies were invited to tender for the contract for a second supply. Baxter Healthcare Limited was identified as the preferred provider but a contract was not signed at this time. In April and May 2009, after H1N1 pandemic influenza developed, the question of a second supply was visited. The Ministry contacted a number of vaccine providers for a review of their products and anticipated delivery schedules. Baxter Healthcare Limited again emerged as the preferred provider and it was decided that the Ministry would enter into a contract with Baxter Healthcare Limited.

The Ministry has investigated allegations that Baxter Healthcare Limited supplied H5N1 contaminated seasonal influenza vaccine, and is satisfied that this allegation is not true. This investigation found that a batch of virus produced by Baxter Healthcare Limited for research purposes, but not for use in humans, had been contaminated with influenza H5N1. The batch of virus concerned was not required to be produced under conditions required for the manufacture of products used in humans. Remedial action has been instituted in conjunction with international regulators, to prevent any future event of this nature.
The Ministry is therefore satisfied that this incident does not suggest any risk may be posed by a Baxter pandemic, or seasonal vaccine.

Effectively managing conflicts of interest is part of applying good judgment and following sound processes when using public funds and making decisions within the Ministry of Health. It is also about making informed decisions based on clear principles on a case-by-case basis. The Ministry of Health Conflicts of Interest Policy (the Policy) is built on this assumption. It lists the principles to guide decisions about conflicts of interest and the mandatory processes and restrictions that are in place.

Planning for a possible H1N1 pandemic influenza immunisation programme is well underway however there are tasks still being completed. This includes developing an informed consent process. What I can say is that consent is a fundamental concept in the provision of all healthcare services, including immunisation. This is based on ethical obligations, which are, in part supported by legal provisions including the Health and Disibility /Commissioners Act 1994, Code of Health and Disibility Services Consumers' Rights 1996 and Privacy Act 1994. You may also like to refer to the New Zealand Bill of Rights 1990 which identifies rights in relation to medical treatment.

At present there is no information available about compensation for adverse events from any H1N1 pandemic vaccine. However, injury caused by treatment, subject to certain conditions is covered by the Accident Compensation Corporation (ACC).

The list of people who could be offered H1N1 pandemic vaccine in New Zealand is yet to be finalised. The Government has agreed in principle to offer frontline healthcare and emergency personnel vaccinationagainst H1N1 pandemic influenza. The Ministry of Health has ordered an initial supply of 300,000 does of a vaccine from Baxter Healthcare Limited which is sufficient for 150,000 workers, but the individuals within these groups who may be offered vaccine have yet to be determined.

H1N1 pandemic influenza needs to be continually monitored and assessed in relation to the vulnerability of the population. The severity of H1N1 pandemic influenza has so far been mild to moderate and most of those infected have been able to recover without medical attention. However, the severity and magnitude may change and preventative measures such as amending duties at work and remaining home to reduce the chances of infection could be an effective way to protect individuals and the greater population.

There are various measures the Ministry ecourages to reduce the chances of infection, particularly those who could be more vulnerable to severe complications. these include covering your mouth when sneezing, using disposable tissues, scrupulous hand washing and staying at home when sick.

Dr Janice Wilson
Deputy Director General
Population Health Directorate
Ministry of Health"