Antidepressants with your vaccine???

Merck Study Pushes Antidepressant Use with Vaccines.

Melissa Melton
Infowars.com
February 15, 2013

Sign, sign, everywhere a vaccine sign…

A new study published in the journal Clinical Infectious Diseases actually claims taking antidepressants will increase vaccine effectiveness.
The two-year study compared immune responses in 40 elderly participants with major depressive disorder to 52 control subjects in regard to Merck’s Zostavax, the herpes zoster (shingles) vaccine. According to an Infectious Diseases Society of America press release:

“Depressed patients not being treated with antidepressants (selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors) had lower cell-mediated immunity to the varicella-zoster virus—and were less able to respond to the shingles vaccine—compared with patients who were not depressed or who were depressed but were receiving treatment with antidepressants, the researchers found.”

The implications here are much more frightening, as the press release continued:

“The possible connection, however, is potentially significant: If antidepressants increase the efficacy of the shingles vaccine in those who are depressed, such treatment may have a similar effect on the immune response of depressed patients to other important vaccines, such those against influenza.”

So, let’s get this straight: it isn’t the ineffectual vaccines themselves we should be concerned with, it’s the fact that, if we get depressed, we all need to take antidepressant medications in order to make our vaccines work better?
As it stands, America consumes more psychotropic drugs than any other country in the world, a fact surely not missed by pharmaceutical companies. In fact, antidepressants were recently named the nation’s number one prescription for adults aged 18-44.
Big Pharma giant Merck & Co. is currently responsible for the production of nine vaccines, including the ‘live vaccine’ Zostavax for shingles. But what’s more, while the mainstream media is readily reporting that untreated depression is hurting vaccine efficacy in the study’s wake, many forgot to mention that, of the 20 authors listed on this study, four of them work for guess who?
Merck.
How Shingles Became So Prevalent
Adverts on pharmacy signs everywhere urge people to get their shingles shot right away, but this vaccine wasn’t even around until 2006. Why develop such a vaccine? Were incidences of shingles really all that common?
Both chickenpox and shingles are caused by related viruses. New York Times bestselling author and licensed physician and surgeon Dr. Joseph Mercola has written extensively on the connection between the widespread release of the varicella (chickenpox) vaccine and the 90 percent increase in reported shingles cases in the five years following it. As chickenpox is nature’s way of protecting people from contracting shingles, with so many kids walking around with weakened chickenpox strains due to vaccination, adults were no longer receiving the booster immunities the live, wild virus real chickenpox provided.
Dr. Mercola fears a shingles epidemic is now underway in America:

“All evidence points to the fact that we have traded a relatively mild illness (chickenpox), which does NOT involve complications for 99.9 percent of healthy children, for a more serious illness in our elderly (shingles) that has the potential for compromising the health of an entire population.”

The catch? Not only does shingles result in five times more hospitalizations and three times as many deaths as chickenpox, but shingles is much more costly to treat. The shingles vaccine is pricey as well at over $200 a jab. While expensive, according to the National Vaccine Information Center, the shingles shot is only 51 percent effective.
The icing on this high-priced cake?
Both the chickenpox vaccine Varivax that preceded this shingles epidemic and the shingles vaccine Zostavax that was created to accommodate it were developed by none other than guess who?
Merck.
Where’s the Logic in Ineffective Vaccine = Take Antidepressants?
So, one vaccine was created and mass released, a medically expensive and dangerous health epidemic ensued, another (more expensive) vaccine was then developed to fight that, and now we have a study explaining that to make that vaccine effective, we need to take more pharmaceuticals (selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors aka SSRIs, specifically)?
Sadly, it was not much of a surprise to learn four of the authors on this new “study” claiming depressed people need to take antidepressants to make their vaccines work came from the same company who manufactured said vaccine. Merck has a history of paying medical journals to advance the company’s agenda.
During a personal injury lawsuit over Merck’s multi-billion-dollar painkiller Vioxx, The New York Times reported a Merck affiliate sponsored eight issues of a medical journal between 2002 and 2005 to reprint favorable Merck articles while hiding under the guise of being an independent, peer-reviewed publication. The Legal Examiner also reported, “An April 2008 issue of The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) article reveals how Merck compensated ghostwriters, who were not doctors, to create articles for professional journals that have the potential to influence doctors and popularize drugs prescribed to the public.”
Not only does this current journal article state that antidepressants make vaccines more effective, but these people actually claim antidepressants are good for this purpose even if they don’t help the person with their depression!
SSRI drugs come with a barrage of horrible potential side effects, including fatigue, nausea, headaches, erectile dysfunction, decreased sexual desire, diarrhea, confusion, hallucinations, anxiety, agitation, mood swings, impulse-control disorder, paranoia, psychosis and hostility, not to mention the FDA requires a black box warning on antidepressants for possible increased suicidal tendencies.
Now add those side effects to the potential side effects of the shingles vaccine — headache, joint and muscle pain, fever, abnormally swollen glands, a shingles-like rash and hypersensitivity reactions including life-threatening anaphylaxis (shock).
Sounds like fun.
Antidepressant Adjuvants, Anyone?
So what now? Are pharmaceutical companies going to start adding antidepressants to vaccine shots to ensure better efficacy?
Wouldn’t be much of a stretch from what is already being considered. Scientists have recently been discussing other “designer” adjuvants including toxins, bacterial DNA and genetically engineered e. Coli bacteria to boost vaccine effectiveness as well. One such promising candidate is a cholera toxin.
Just last month, Natural News reported that a Freedom of Information Act request brought to light 30 years of secret British government documents showing vaccine schedules to be a totally contrived hoax based on covering up bad data on vaccine ineffectiveness to gain public compliance.
Apparently if you are depressed and your vaccines don’t work, there’s no need to worry; a study with a grand total of 40 elderly people taking antidepressants suggests you should be too.
(In other related news, Merck has just been slammed with a new $39 million lawsuit for consumer fraud and deceptive marketing practices…)

Obama Care puts Christian people out of work

A Letter from Hobby Lobby Stores CEO

By David Green, the founder and CEO of Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc. When my family and I started our company 40 years ago, we were working out of a garage on a $600 bank loan, assembling miniature picture frames. Our first retail store wasn't much bigger than most people's living rooms, but we had faith that we would succeed if we lived and worked according to God's word. From there,Hobby Lobby has become one of the nation's largest arts and crafts retailers, with more than 500 locations in 41 states. Our children grew up into fine business leaders, and today we run Hobby Lobby together, as a family. We're Christians, and we run our business on Christian principles. I've always said that the first two goals of our business are (1) to run our business in harmony with God's laws, and (2) to focus on people more than money. And that's what we've tried to do. We close early so our employees can see their families at night. We keep our stores closed on Sundays, one of the week's biggest shopping days, so that our workers and their families can enjoy a day of rest. We believe that it is by God's grace that Hobby Lobby has endured, and he has blessed us and our employees. We've not only added jobs in a weak economy, we've raised wages for the past four years in a row. Our full-time employees start at 80% above minimum wage. But now, our government threatens to change all of that. A new government health care mandate says that our family business MUST provide what I believe are abortion-causing drugs as part of our health insurance. Being Christians, we don't pay for drugs that might cause abortions, which means that we don't cover emergency contraception, the morning-after pill or the week-after pill. We believe doing so might end a life after the moment of conception, something that is contrary to our most important beliefs. It goes against the Biblical principles on which we have run this company since day one. If we refuse to comply, we could face $1.3 million PER DAY in government fines. Our government threatens to fine job creators in a bad economy. Our government threatens to fine a company that's raised wages four years running. Our government threatens to fine a family for running its business according to its beliefs. It's not right. I know people will say we ought to follow the rules; that it's the same for everybody. But that's not true. The government has exempted thousands of companies from this mandate, for reasons of convenience or cost. But it won't exempt them for reasons of religious belief. So, Hobby Lobby � and my family � are forced to make a choice. With great reluctance, we filed a lawsuit today, represented by the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, asking a federal court to stop this mandate before it hurts our business. We don't like to go running into court, but we no longer have a choice. We believe people are more important than the bottom line and that honoring God is more important than turning a profit. My family has lived the American dream. We want to continue growing our company and providing great jobs for thousands of employees, but the government is going  to make that much more difficult. The government is forcing us to choose between following our faith and following the law. I say that's a choice no American � and no American business � should have to make. The government cannot force you to follow laws that go against your fundamental religious belief. They have exempted thousands of companies but will not except Christian organizations including the Catholic church. Since you will not see this covered in any of the liberal media, pass this on to all your contacts. Sincerely, David Green, CEO and Founder of Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc