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Teen Dies from Flu after Receiving Flu Shot

A second Minnesota teenager has reportedly died from complications of infection with influenza Type A during this current flu season, prompting health officials across the state to urge the public to get flu shots for their own protection. But missing from many of the news reports on this tragedy is the fact that the child in question, 14-year-old Carly Christenson, had already been vaccinated for influenza before flu season even started, proving the utter failure of flu shots to protect against the flu.
A second Minnesota teenager has reportedly died from complications of infection with influenza Type A during this current flu season, prompting health officials across the state to urge the public to get flu shots for their own protection. But missing from many of the news reports on this tragedy is the fact that the child in question, 14-year-old Carly Christenson, had already been vaccinated for influenza before flu season even started, proving the utter failure of flu shots to protect against the flu.

As reported by CBS 4 News in Minnesota, young Carly passed away on January 8, 2013, not long after she was admitted to urgent care with a bad sore throat. Believing the symptoms to stem from a mild infection, doctors at the response center gave Carly a prescription for Prednisone, a powerful steroid drug used to treat inflammation, and sent her on her way. But by the next morning, things for Carly took a serious turn for the worse.

According to reports, Carly's sore throat evolved into a serious fever that included shortness of breath and wheezing. Her lungs filled with fluid not long after that, and she had to be rushed to the hospital to have a heart and lung bypass with an ACMO machine. In the days that followed, Carly was given regular blood transfusions, but these were ultimately not enough -- she died just a few days later.

Misplaced faith in the flu shot
On the first day when Carly was admitted to urgent care, both her parents and the doctors at the clinic were reportedly not all that concerned about the child's mild throat infection, as she had reportedly already been vaccinated for the flu back in August. The fact that Carly had gotten a flu shot, in other words, was seen by Carly's family and her doctors as a shield of protection for the girl -- after all, authorities would not recommend flu shots if they did not actually work, right?

This misplaced faith in flu shots ultimately provided a false hope for Carly's family that she would be protected against the flu, a faith that was ultimately shattered by the reality of the complete ineffectiveness of the flu shot. Immediately after Carly's death, authorities actually tried to deny that Carly died from the flu, referring to her condition as "flu-like." The head of the Minnesota Health Department, Kris Ehresmann, even went so far as to claim that she "could not confirm" that Carly had ever even had a flu shot, even though other sources had already confirmed that she had, indeed, gotten the shot.

Still others have since tried to reassure the public that flu shots still work, and that Carly's death is some kind of medical anomaly. But the science speaks for itself -- in a best case scenario, flu shots provide protection for only about 1.5 out of every 100 people. The other 98.5 people who get flu shots are needlessly exposed to toxic adjuvants and viral materials that could cause them to develop the flu, or worse.

Consider the case of seven-year-old Kaylynne Matten of Vermont as evidence of the dangers of the flu shot. As reported by investigative journalist Christina England over at Vactruth.com, young Kaylynne died last year in her mother's arms just four days after receiving a flu shot at an annual checkup. According to Kaylynne's parents, the young girl, who had no pre-existing health conditions and was a very healthy child, developed a serious headache and fever the day after getting her flu shot. Three days later, Kaylynne suddenly stopped breathing and died without warning in her mother's arms.

Sources for this article include:

 http://minnesota.cbslocal.com

 http://www.startribune.com/lifestyle/health/186090761.html

 http://vactruth.com/2012/01/14/dies-in-mothers-arms/

 http://www.naturalnews.com

 http://www.7dvt.com

Learn more:  http://www.naturalnews.com/039140_flu_shot_teens_death_risk.html#ixzz2LJNARDTX

That's expected... 20.Feb.2013 08:41

Shaker

and accepted. Vaccines work by forcing the body to manufacture antibodies in the response to the vaccine that the body then can use against the threat. All vaccines, if they have any value at all, work in this method. Some individual's bodies for one reason or another will not be able to combat even the limited threat that the vaccine intentionally creates, and then there are mistakes...Flu vaccines are statistical and empirical guesswork. The flu virus may have general strains, but then there are differences within strains.

Personally, I have a history of adverse and even contrary reactions to many manufactured medicines. Fortunately, I'm a relatively healthy old man, and in the past my body has shown the ability to withstand the flu virus on its own, leaving me quite comfortable that unless there may be a particularly virulent version of a strain, avoiding passing it to others is the proper course for me. I also think that the key to any of this is to simply be healthy in a real sense, not some twisted idea of healthy that we seem to subscribe to today through the use of vitamins, supplements, and rumor that can persist on a page like naturalnews.com. Pay attention to what your body is saying to you, avoid things with excessive amounts of any artifical additive, and, like mom used to say, eat you veggies (making sure to thoroughly wash them first in this day of ubiquitous fertilization and pesticide use).

I grew up with three siblings very alike in age (4 kids in five years; drove my mother into a crazy from which she never recovered) and when one of us would get one of the common childhood diseases for which we vaccinate now she would intentionally expose us all to isolate the misery and work for her into a particular segment of time. Measles, mumps, chicken pox...I suffered with my brothers. But she made the effort to keep us healthy kids, too, making us hot cereal for breakfast each morning, actually cooking food. It's so different today, but I guarantee you my kid grew up with a healthy breakfast, and as little reliance as reasonably possible of junk and overly-processed food. It's the least I could do.

Health Basics: The 11 most toxic vaccine ingredients and their side effects 20.Feb.2013 10:10

S. D. Wells

It's been only 70 years since World War II, and the mad scientists from companies like I.G. Farben, BASF, Hoechst, Dow and Bayer, who created the gas chambers and tested dangerous vaccines on innocent Jews, didn't just go away. In fact, they went to work for U.S. corporations and pharmaceutical companies that run the vaccine industry today. At least a dozen of these cold blooded killers were hired fresh out of prison, just 4 to 7 years after the Nuremberg trials found them guilty of mass murder and enslavement. ( http://frank.mtsu.edu/~baustin/trials3.html)

In fact, at the close of WWII, the IG Farben building in Frankfort was protected from allied bombings by the highest levels of military command. Why? IG Farben was the FDA/CDC type of "pharmaceutical arm" of Hitler's 4th Reich, and the Rockefellers had a financial interest in maintaining and controlling this pharmaceutical empire, which would soon be catapulted on U.S. soil. Research reveals that Hitler also invested heavily in Merck and other pharmaceutical companies.


Nazi convicted mass murderers became executives for major U.S. chemical and pharmaceutical companies
Fritz ter Meer, found guilty of slavery and mass murder at Auschwitz, served only seven years in prison and became Chairman of the Board at Bayer in 1956. Still trust U.S. vaccines?

Carl Krauch, Executive Member of IG Farben and Head of Military Economics for Hitler, found guilty of slavery and mass murder, served just 6 years in prison, then became Chairman of the Board for BASF in 1952. Still want to get those flu shots? How about that HPV shot for your daughter or son?

This is the same vaccine industry today which protected and employed Nazi war criminals. The very industry that produced the Nazi gas chambers was purchased by Bayer. So, exactly whom are you trusting with your children's health and welfare?

Currently, the U.S. Government and the CDC rely solely on the manufacturers of vaccines to report problems, injuries and deaths. This atrocity is like letting murderers be their own judges in court! Where are the checks and balances this country was founded upon? Vaccines have economic and political agendas now, and the FDA does absolutely no testing of their own before making decisions to release vaccines to the masses.

Want more research before you or your child get injected with a new concocted disease for which there is no cure? Listen to stunning admissions by vaccine industry experts, including Dr. Maurice Hilleman (formerly w/Merck), who admitted to the deadly nature of the most trusted vaccines. ( http://www.naturalnews.com/033584_Dr_Maurice_Hilleman_SV40.html)

Today's vaccines not only contain live versions of the diseases you DO NOT WANT, but also contain GMOs, hormones from infected cows, pigs, chickens and monkeys, untested virus combinations (like H1N1), aluminum, mercury, emulsifiers, and crossbred bacteria from animals, mosquitoes, and diseased humans:

Measles Live Virus Vaccine: (Attenuvax) Made by Merck. Two injections are given; one at 1 year and another at 4 years old. Contains gelatin, sorbitol, sodium chloride, bovine cow serum, egg protein and human albumin.

Measles and Mumps Live Virus Vaccine: (M-M-Rvax) Made by Merck. Injected into one year old babies. Contains gelatin, sorbitol, sodium chloride, bovine cow serum, and human albumin.

Diptheria, Tetanus and Polio Vaccine: Five injections given between 2 and 6 years of age, plus boosters "recommended" every 10 years. Contains formaldehyde, phenoxyethanol and aluminum phosphate.

DTaP, IPV, HBV and Hib*: (Diphtheria, tetanus, polio, hepatitis B and Haemophilus influenza type B) Given to infants 2 to 12 months with boosters less than a year later. Contains aluminum hydroxide, formaldehyde, and bovine cow serum.

Gardasil HPV: Human Papillomavirus Vaccine Made by Merck. Administered to children as young as 9 years of age for a rare sexually transmitted disease. Contains polysorbate 80, sodium chloride, aluminum, and a "denatured" (fragmented and weakened) form of the virus.


Toxic vaccine ingredients and their adverse effects:
• Bovine cow serum: Extracted from cow skin. When injected causes connective tissue disorders, arthritis and lupus; also shortness of breath, low blood pressure, chest pain and skin reactions.

• Sorbitol: Synthetic sweetener which metabolizes very slowly and aggravates IBS and gastrointestinal issues.

• Gelatin: Derived from the collagen inside animals' skin and bones. Injecting gelatin poses the risk of infection from synthetic growth hormones and BSE infectivity (mad cow disease).

• Sodium chloride: Raises blood pressure and inhibits muscle contraction and growth.

• Egg protein: Vaccines are prepared in eggs (certainly not organic). May contain growth hormones, antibiotics, and salmonella bacteria.

• Thimerosal: A neurotoxic mercury which causes autism: There are 25 mcg in one average flu vaccine, and the EPA safety limit is 5 micrograms, so children who are vaccinated simultaneously with multiple* vaccines receive over 10 times the safety limit of mercury in one day.

• Human albumin: The protein portion of blood from pooled human venous plasma; when injected causes fever, chills, hives, rash, headache, nausea, breathing difficulty, and rapid heart rate. Injecting "pooled blood" can result in a loss of body cell mass and cause immunodeficiency virus infection, or contain SV40, AIDS, cancer or Hepatitis B from drug addicts.

• Formaldehyde: Highly carcinogenic fluid used to embalm corpses. Ranked one of the most hazardous compounds to human health; can cause liver damage, gastrointestinal issues, reproductive deformation, respiratory distress and cancer. Plus, formaldehyde has been known to fail to deactivate the virus the vaccine is intended to cure, thus enabling a live virus to enter your blood and infect your system.

• Phenoxyethanol: A glycol ether/chemical; highly toxic to the nervous system, kidneys, and liver. The FDA warns "can cause shut down of the central nervous system (CNS), vomiting and contact dermatitis" in cosmetics; imagine when injected into your blood.

• Aluminum phosphate: Greatly increases toxicity of mercury, so caution about minimum mercury tolerance is therefore severely underestimated. CDC scientists and all doctors are well aware of this.

• MSG (monosodium glutamate): When injected becomes a neurotoxin, causing CNS disorders and brain damage in children.

If you especially enjoy being lied to, visit vaccinateyourbaby.org, where they tell you formaldehyde is safe because it is "present in the environment and is a byproduct of metabolism, so it is already present in the human body." They also inform you that aluminum is good for you, because "[a]luminum is also commonly found in food, water, infant formula and even breast milk." Hey, if it's in the environment, it must be safe to inject into your veins (so why not use snake venom, bleach, and plutonium?).

Want the ultimate alternative to vaccines that prevents disease? Buy organic vitamins, minerals, antioxidants, amino acids, and enzymes! ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tH6N7tHGsi8)

Sources for this article include:

 http://www.naturalnews.com/033584_Dr_Maurice_Hilleman_SV40.html

 http://vaxtruth.org

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tH6N7tHGsi8

 http://frank.mtsu.edu/~baustin/trials3.html

 http://www.novaccine.com/vaccine-ineffectiveness/

 http://www.novaccine.com/pdffiles/gardasil_information_HPV.pdf

 http://www.vaccinesafety.edu/components-MMR.htm

 http://www.fda.gov/cber/efoi/approve.htm

 http://www.tetrahedron.org

 http://www.supernutrient.com/articles/fibromyalgia/taf.html

 http://www.whale.to/b/nazi_allopathy.html

 http://www.vaccinateyourbaby.org/about/ingredients.cfm

 http://heinonline.org

 http://www.earthclinic.com/CURES/mad_cow.html



Learn more:  link to www.naturalnews.com


This is the most idiotic thing 20.Feb.2013 12:06

...

The fact that someone who got the flu shot subsequently got the flu doesn't prove ANYTHING. Do you even think about what you're writing before you post here?

I knew someone who ran a lot and ate well and they died of a heart attack. Welp, I guess all that cardio doesn't really help prevent heart attacks after all!

Of course, you should just ignore the fact that the other 99% of people who get flu shots DON'T get the flu. But that is a troubling statistic that would get in the way of your absurd argument.

Hate to trouble you with facts but... 20.Feb.2013 17:55

rex

Her shot was from AUGUST of last year:

 link to blogs.citypages.com

"Just consider the tragic story of Carly Christenson, a 14-year-old 9th grader in St. Louis Park who yesterday became the second otherwise healthy teenager to die in the Twin Cities in the last two weeks from flu complications. Christenson received a flu shot in August, WCCO reports."


I don't know of anyone who relies on flu shot to expect a shot 6 months ago in the summer to protect them against whatever the current mutation is in winter(cold and flu viruses mutate rapidly). My guess would be this a slightly different strain. Unfortunately, deadly influenza strains, unlike many diseases, hit the young and healthy harder than anyone else. So health isn't the defense it is like say with strep throat or the common cold.