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Women of the fetus has been suspended and replaced Although there may not be any worthy pre-

vaccinated with an assumption that vaccination during licensure studies, there have been some notable
studies on flu vaccines post-licensure. The CDC
pregnancy is safe.”
with the published a study in 2017 titled, “Association of
inactivated INFLUENZA VACCINE spontaneous abortion with receipt of inactivated
influenza RECOMMENDATIONS AND EVIDENCE influenza vaccine containing H1N1pdm09 in
In the past, clinicians generally considered 2010-11 and 2011-12.” The study showed
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vaccine in it too risky to vaccinate pregnant women. Obste- that women vaccinated with the inactivated
the 2010-11 tricians largely ignored CDC recommendations influenza vaccine in the 2010-11 flu season
flu season introduced in the 1970s advising them to give had a 3.7-fold greater chance of experiencing a
influenza vaccines to pregnant women in the spontaneous abortion within twenty-eight days
had a 3.7-fold second or third trimester of pregnancy. In 2006, compared to women not receiving the vaccine.

greater CDC officials strengthened their recommenda- It also showed that for women who received
chance of tions, directing doctors to give all pregnant the H1N1 flu vaccine in the previous flu sea-
women—healthy or not—a flu shot during any son, their odds of spontaneous abortion within
experiencing a trimester. Today, the CDC’s website advertises twenty-eight days of receiving a flu vaccine
spontaneous in bold print, “Protect yourself and your baby were 7.7 times greater. Another study, conducted

abortion within by getting a flu shot!” Not advertised in bold in 2009 by the Canadian government, found ad-
print is the fact that influenza vaccines have ditional fault with H1N1 vaccines. Researchers
twenty-eight never been properly studied, carry a high rate reported evidence that seasonal influenza vac-
days compared of side effects, are made from toxic ingredients cination actually increased the risk and severity
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to women and have a terrible efficacy rate. of pandemic influenza type A (H1N1) illness.
In addition to its overt advertising cam-
At a presentation at Belhaven College in
not receiving paign, the CDC assures the public that flu vac- 2008, Russell Blaylock, MD said, “I cannot
the vaccine. cines are safe by stating, “The flu shot has been think of anything more insane than vaccinating
given to millions of pregnant women over many pregnant women.” Dr. Blaylock explained that
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years. Flu shots have not been shown to cause the campaign to administer the flu vaccine to
harm to pregnant women or their babies.” The pregnant women arose out of the observation
problem with this statement is that it is not based that women who get the flu during their second
on anything scientific. How can the CDC make trimester of pregnancy have children with a
such claims when vaccine manufacturers them- higher incidence of subsequent schizophrenia
selves readily admit that their vaccines were not or autism. But is the flu virus responsible for the
studied in pregnant women before they were increased neurological damage? According to
licensed? Package inserts for flu vaccines clearly Dr. Blaylock, it’s not. Blaylock explains, “It is
read: “Safety studies and effectiveness have not when the mother’s immune system reacts to the
been established in pregnant women or nursing virus. The immune chemicals called cytokines
mothers.” In fact, no flu vaccine (or any other transfer through her placenta into the baby,
vaccine) has ever undergone a gold standard, and it’s the cytokines—the immune reaction
double-blind, placebo-controlled study in any of her body—that causes the destruction in the
population. Whereas it takes years for a new baby’s brain and the altered development of the
drug to be clinically tested and approved, the baby’s brain.”
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seasonal influenza vaccines that manufacturers A paper published in The Journal of
create each year are exempt from this lengthy Neuroscience in 2006 supports Dr. Blaylock’s
process. Every year, after the influenza vac- statement. Titled “Maternal infection and the
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cines are tested in several hundred people at offspring brain,” the author wrote, “Cytokines
most, the FDA grants them automatic approval, released by the maternal immune system can
skirting around the need to demand more than cross the placenta and enter the fetal circulation.
a few safety or efficacy tests by defining the It is well known that cytokines can modulate
new vaccine formulations as “manufacturing neuronal proliferation, survival, differentiation
supplements” instead of new products. 10 and function. Thus, cytokines released by the

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