{"id":2679,"date":"2014-12-18T09:00:16","date_gmt":"2014-12-18T14:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.howpositiveareyou.com\/?p=2679"},"modified":"2014-12-30T12:24:25","modified_gmt":"2014-12-30T17:24:25","slug":"hpay-093-claus_koehnlein","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.howpositiveareyou.com\/hpay-093-claus_koehnlein\/","title":{"rendered":"Episode 93: Dr. Claus Koehnlein Helps You Decide Whether to Get a Flu Shot this Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To flu shot or not to flu shot? Dr. Claus Koehnlein of Kiel, Germany, treats many \u201cHIV positives,\u201d widely considered to have an immune deficiency and therefore to be prime candidates for vaccines of this type. But did you know that a recent flu vaccination is among many factors that could cause a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.virusmyth.com\/aids\/hiv\/cjtestfp.htm\" target=\"_blank\">false \u201cHIV positive\u201d test result<\/a> in the first place? What about that 1918 influenza pandemic we don\u2019t want to repeat? <a href=\"http:\/\/www.who.int\/bulletin\/volumes\/89\/7\/11-086173\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\">What <i>is<\/i> the flu<\/a>, anyway, and isn\u2019t it sometimes fatal?<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/60740204\" target=\"_blank\">Dr. Claus Koehnlein<\/a> has been in private practice in internal medicine in Kiel, Germany, since 1993, treating increasing numbers of \u201cHIV-positive\u201d and hepatitis C-positive patients who seek to avoid antiviral and other toxic drugs. He previously worked, beginning in 1983, in the Department of Oncology at the University of Kiel. Dr. Koehnlein co-wrote, with German journalist Torsten Engelbrecht, a book, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Virus-Mania-Continually-Epidemics-Billion-Dollar\/dp\/1425114679\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1418767614&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=virus+mania&amp;pebp=1418767620134\" target=\"_blank\"><i>Virus Mania: <\/i><i>How the Medical Industry Continually Invents Epidemics, Making Billion-Dollar Profits at Our Expense<\/i><\/a>, which investigates\u00a0questionable claims made about \u201cbird flu\u201d or H5N1, HPV and cervical cancer, SARS, BSE, hepatitis C, \u201cAIDS\u201d and polio \u2013 including whether the historic 1918 flu pandemic really was the flu. He is currently a member of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rethinkingaids.com\/Content\/TheBoard\/tabid\/60\/Default.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">board of directors<\/a> of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rethinkingaids.com\" target=\"_blank\">Rethinking AIDS<\/a> and served as a member of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.virusmyth.com\/aids\/hiv\/panel\/aidsreport.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Presidential AIDS Advisory Panel<\/a> at the request of South African president Thabo Mbeki in 2000.<\/p>\n<p>Although Dr. Koehnlein doesn&#8217;t advise getting a\u00a0flu shot, he downplays its\u00a0dangers statistically. However, he mentions the very recent news in Italy of suspicious deaths, possibly related to flu shots. Italy\u2019s drug regulatory agency, AIFA, has just opened a formal investigation into the deaths of 13 elderly people within 48 hours of receiving Novartis\u2019 vaccine Fluad since November 7, 2014. A December 2\u00a0article in &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/articles\/2014\/12\/02\/did-this-flu-vaccine-kill-13.html\" target=\"_blank\">The Daily Beast<\/a>&#8221;\u00a0noted that, unlike in Italy, where such\u00a0companies are vulnerable to legal action, \u201cIn the United States, pharmaceutical companies cannot be sued for complications resulting from vaccines, thanks to a 1986 <a href=\"http:\/\/healthimpactnews.com\/2014\/government-pays-damages-to-vaccine-victims-flu-shot-most-dangerous-with-gbs-and-death-settlements\/\" target=\"_blank\">Supreme Court ruling that gave immunity to pharmaceutical companies<\/a>.\u201d Instead, a special &#8220;vaccine court&#8221; called the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program considers claims of death or injury.<\/p>\n<p>The linked\u00a0article on\u00a0the 1986 court ruling, above, calls\u00a0the flu vaccine &#8220;the most dangerous vaccine in America,&#8221;\u00a0as, in one\u00a0three-month period alone, 55 of\u00a078 settlements awarded for vaccine injuries concerned\u00a0the flu shot and included\u00a0one death. It continues: &#8220;Most of the settlements for injuries due to the flu shot were for\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/healthimpactnews.com\/2013\/flu-shot-causes-polio-like-guillain-barre-syndrome-are-rates-higher-than-the-government-admits\/\" target=\"_blank\">Guillain-Barr\u00e9 Syndrome<\/a>. [See Episodes <a href=\"http:\/\/www.howpositiveareyou.com\/2013\/10\/07\/hpay069-trishamorrison1\/\" target=\"_blank\">69<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.howpositiveareyou.com\/2013\/10\/23\/hpay070-trishamorrison2\/\" target=\"_blank\">70<\/a> for evidence that this terrible, paralysis-causing illness, rather than &#8220;AIDS,&#8221; helped cause\u00a0the untimely death of boxer Tommy Morrison.] Other flu vaccine injuries included:\u00a0Chronic Inflammatory Demyelinating Polyneuropathy,\u00a0Rheumatoid arthritis,\u00a0Shingles,\u00a0Brachial plexus neuropathy,\u00a0Bell\u2019s Palsy,\u00a0Brachial neuritis,\u00a0Transverse myelitis, Lichenoid drug eruption, and\u00a0Narcolepsy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em>Nota\u00a0bene!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Reference was also made in this Episode to Chicago&#8217;s battle against cholera in the 19th century. \u00a0A history appears\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org\/pages\/432.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>, with a slightly different view\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Chicago_1885_cholera_epidemic_myth\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>. Either way, cholera was a serious threat to Chicago in the 19th century &#8212; not because of\u00a0a lack of vaccines but because of the polluted waters of the Chicago River. We\u00a0in the West live in far more fortunate environments today.<\/p>\n<p><strong>RELEVANT NEWS:<\/strong>\u00a0Why do physicians, in America anyway, keep administering these useless shots? We thank <a href=\"http:\/\/www.healio.com\/pediatrics\/news\/online\/%7B18579419-444d-423a-9555-333878c5a06e%7D\/influenza-vaccination-makes-sense-for-everyone\" target=\"_blank\">Dr. Richard Lander of northern New Jersey<\/a> for his unusual candor.\u00a0After a few paragraphs of the usual alarmism about all these flu patients in the emergency room (recall that Dr. Koehnlein says Germany documented exactly <i>five<\/i> deaths one year), he gets straight to the point: &#8220;<em>Giving influenza vaccine is also good for the financial health of your practice<\/em>.&#8221; His back-of-the-envelope calculation puts the annual profit\u00a0at &#8220;25,000 to $42,500, which is not bad!&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To flu shot or not to flu shot? Rethinking AIDS board member Dr. Claus Koehnlein of Kiel, Germany, treats many \u201cHIV positives,\u201d widely considered to have an immune deficiency and therefore to be prime candidates for vaccines of this type.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":160,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[876,20,620,243,879,21,16,722,531,877,873,875,11,874,878,861],"class_list":["post-2679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hpay-podcast","tag-1918-flu-pandemic","tag-aids","tag-christine-johnson","tag-claus-koehnlein","tag-dr-claus-koehnlein","tag-false-diagnosis","tag-false-positive","tag-false-positive-hiv-diagnosis","tag-false-positive-hiv-test","tag-flu-epidemic","tag-flu-shot","tag-flu-vaccination","tag-hiv-testing","tag-influenza","tag-torsten-engelbrecht","tag-vaccines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.howpositiveareyou.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.howpositiveareyou.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.howpositiveareyou.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.howpositiveareyou.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/160"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.howpositiveareyou.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2679"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/www.howpositiveareyou.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2679\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2723,"href":"https:\/\/www.howpositiveareyou.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2679\/revisions\/2723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.howpositiveareyou.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.howpositiveareyou.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.howpositiveareyou.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}