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2 Students Get Swine Flu Vaccine Without Parental Consent

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So much for those parental consent forms! Two public school students, one in Brooklyn and one in Staten Island, were given the swine flu vaccine without signed consent forms. The NYC Health Department told the NY Times, "We are working to determine how this occurred, and to implement additional safeguards."

The Health Department also says it's investigating the incident and noted, in a joint press release with the Department of Education, "The Health Department has trained all nurses to follow a protocol for confirming parental consent and reviewing each child's health screening information before vaccine is administered. These children have had no adverse effects and the Health Department does not expect any future adverse medical effects for these children, but we are working to determine how this misstep occurred, and we will develop additional safeguards to prevent similar instances in the future."

The city started its program to offer swine flu vaccines to all NYC public school students on Wednesday. Students were given parental consent forms and, if signed, were able to get the H1N1 vaccine from the school nurse. At this point, less than half of the parents have signed the form.

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  • potsmoker

    i suggest you look up the story of Joseph Moshe called the white house bomber who had a big standoff with police recently...turns out he wasnt a bomber he was a scientist who threatened to blow the lid on Baxter and their swine flu vaccine & weapons research in the Ukraine, guess what...

    Ukraine now has a giant swine flu outbreak,

    almost half a million infected,thousands hospitalized and almost a hundred dead. strange coincidence?

    dr. Moshe was deported and not charged with any crime? thats strange also?

  • steph1968

    wow, I would give anything to have my child get this vaccination. He is a chronic asthmatic who has been hospitalized numerous times due to phnemonia. I am scared to death about what might happen if he gets this, and we dont have any vaccines available for him. I have decided to homeschool him until he can get a vaccination. It kills me to think about what might happen to him.. really people, you should be thrilled that your child got vaccinated, or are you just hoping for some sort of compensation. Thats really sad

  • I'm so tired of trying to debate with stupid people who think they're smarter than decades of science.

    The logic is the same as: "I would never run out of a burning building in a thunderstorm lest I be hit by lightening."

  • nikki-jo
  • potsmoker

    google "swine flu mind control"

    1st result.

    Startling New Evidence That The 'Swine

    Flu' Pandemic Is Man-Made



    PRIMARY MOTIVE



    The Primary Motive behind this alleged criminal activity is also the primary cause of most murders in the world today, and that motivation is simply: BIG MONEY. Billions of Dollars of windfall profits from government contracts worldwide, as a matter of fact.

    I will provide evidence that will show that Novartis Pharmaceuticals of Basel, Switzerland has conspired with corrupt "scientists" at the U.S. Army Institute of Pathology ­ Ft. Detrick, Maryland, to create a "novel" strain of weaponized "influenza" virus by means of "reverse engineering" the deadly 1918 killer strain ­ which strain was maliciously and surreptitiously released upon the world in March and April of 2009 for the primary purpose of creating a panic-stricken world-wide demand for Novartis vaccine material.



    The evidence will also clearly show that the Novartis vaccine material is in reality designed to facilitate the further mutation of the pandemic into more lethal waves of increasingly virulent and deadly disease, rather than to curtail and limit the existing outbreak. The evidence will show that Novartis is willingly being used, (and extremely well-paid) to facilitate the edicts of the global elite's Club of Rome; which edicts clearly call for a massive and sudden depopulation of certain segments of the earth's human population.



    PRIMARY EVIDENCE



    To realize such windfall profits on an engineered, global flu pandemic, detailed covert planning must take place of course.

    Patents protecting the proprietary flu vaccine must be applied for and secured before the pandemic virus is released in order to minimize the competition and maximize the profit potentials. In a biological attack of this nature, timing is extremely critical.

    Indeed, the evidence is clear ­ Novartis applied for just such a patent on Nov. 4, 2005, and the U.S. Patent Office accepted this application and granted US 20090047353A1 for a "Split Influenza Vaccine with Adjuvants" on February 19, 2009. (See bottom of page).



    With this patent now secured, the conspirators were now free to create the demand for their "novel" split influenza vaccine by releasing a "novel" split-influenza (combining multiple viruses) pandemic virus from a weapons lab test-tube into unsuspecting human hosts. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/06/17/AR2009061703271.html



    The so-called "Swine Flu" grabbing headlines today is actually a recombinant, or "split-influenza" virus consisting of A-strain Bird-Flu (H5N1), Swine Flu (H1N1) and multiple strains of human flu (H3N2). Likewise, the 1918 Killer Flu that killed untold millions of people was a recombinant or "split-influenza" virus composed of Bird flu, Swine Flu, and multiple strains of human flu.



    *read the rest*

  • NannyState

    The swine flu itself usually comes without parental consent.

  • felixthecat2

    Farm factories has caused all these and vaccinations won't help. Vaccinations are the bread and butter of the pharmaceuticals. For all those who claims people who don't have their children vaccinated are selfish, It really all of us who support the cruelty of animals in farm factories. Avian flu, swine flu, and more will continue and all the vaccinations in the world won't help you.

  • Shinobi Shaw

    Absolutely appalling that the Parents were not warn, there have been plenty of cases of this Vaccine have severe side-effects.

    This Vaccine was rushed by BIG PHARMA to make a lot of money on a flue scare that has been completely extrapolated by the media.

  • Spirit of 76

    Citations, please? From reputable websites, not from blogs and websites written by people with absolutely no credentials whatsoever.

  • Spirit of 76

    So, what's to keep a concerned kid from forging the an idiot parent's signature? Are these nurses supposed to double-check the signature against records? I seem to remember some kids doing the same on their own report cards back in the day instead of risking the parents' wrath with bad grades.

  • farleft

    It's one thing for a kid to forge a signature. It's another for the school to administer without a signature at all. You can fault the kid for the former. You can fault the school for the latter.

  • Neverhaditsogood

    And the parents would give their consent based on???...Art Bell???...their religion???...whether they came out of a drunken stupor long enough to sight the form???...definitely a states rights issue.

  • JacqueMehoff

    this is another sticky issue at PTA's.

    2 camps of thought facing off at a meeting is not a pretty sight.

    still this shouldn't have happened. it can't be that difficult, I mean you need a consent form for class trips.

  • whitecastlerock

    This is a pretty big fuck up. Whether or not the vaccine is deemed safe or not, without the consent form they should not have been given the shots. There are plenty of parents who refuse to immunize their children as babies-which ruffles feathers when they want to send their kids to public schools and have no immunization history...

  • hotstepper

    it's all about training folks. you try to stick anything into my kid and he'll come at your ballbag like a pissed off mystical ninja.

  • Don

    I agree, it is ridiculous. Parental Consent should be needed for those who do NOT want their kid to get the shot. Vaccines have saved more lives than all other medical discoveries combined. If you do not want to be part of the modern world, by all means, home school upstate, but if you want the benefits of living in a large community, out here where the world is round, the community has the right to protect itself against your Typhoid Mary kids.

    Here is a great piece on WNYC where a researcher who has an autistic child by the way, systematically shoots down each of these ridiculous superstitions: http://bit.ly/3HXbCd

    Flame away.

  • farleft

    "Parental Consent should be needed for those who do NOT want their kid to get the shot."

    Are you kidding? There are certain immunizations that are required by law for kids to have in order to attend public school. There are others that are not required by law, including the flu vaccine. Why would you establish a policy whereby an OPTIONAL immunization, which some parents wish to avoid for their kids, be automatically administered unless there is written parental objection? That transfers parental control of invasive procedures into the hands of the public school and the CDC, who have not been the most reliable organization in approving safe drugs and immunizations. Sorry...but your comments are just plain dumb.

  • Don

    "There are certain immunizations that are required by law for kids to have in order to attend public school."

    This should be one of them. There, that wasn't so hard, was it? And gee, I wonder why those other immunizations are required? Could it be because significant percentages of the human population died during previous epidemics? That society learned a lesson and progressed forward?

  • nikki-jo

    For the record:

    about one out of every million people will have a severe reaction to a flu vaccine, including anaphylaxis or Guillain-Barré Syndrome

    Second to that is the CDCs FAQ page on the h1n1 side effects and risks involved.. you will note that ALL of their wording is phrased in a manner that indicates they clearly 'DO NOT KNOW'. Phrases like "We expect" and "past studies SUGGEST' -- Sorry, but no - it's all inconclusive.

    The problem w/ half of the people dependent on various prescriptions (and im not talking about drug addicts here) is that they do not do the research they should before beginning a pharmaceutical regimen. Just because a doctor gives you something doesn't mean it's good for you, people. Educate yourselves and stop listening to the damn media and medical professionals who most often tell you whatever the pharma-companies ask them to - It's all about that $$

  • roe

    As per the European Center for Disease Control and other sources: There have been approximately 440,000 H1N1 confirmed cases worldwide, and that number is rising very quickly. The number of children in the United States killed by swine flu has jumped 20% in the last WEEK.

    Yes, it is entirely your choice to vaccinate your child or not. However, based on these statistics alone, the likelihood of your child contracting swine flu, and suffering severe consequences from it, is far higher than the one in a million risk your child faces from the flu vaccine.

    http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601103&sid=aGpsHhxmS5uU

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/8334723.stm

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