90 per cent of Germans who haven’t taken the COVID-19 vaccine say they won’t get it, with only the remaining 10 per cent saying they will “probably” get it or remaining undecided.
A recent survey carried out by Forsa on behalf of the Ministry for Health found that 65 per cent of Germans say there is “no way” they will get the COVID vaccine over the next two months.
A further 23 per cent said they would “probably not” get the COVID jab in the near future while 2 per cent said they would “definitely not” get the jab at any point.
Out of 3000 respondents, only 10 per cent were still undecided or said they will “probably” get vaccinated in the near future.
According to the Local, the poll results emphasize how, “people who have until now chosen to remain unvaccinated against Covid are unlikely to be convinced.”
30 For we know him that hath said, Vengeance belongeth unto me, I will recompense, saith the Lord. And again, The Lord shall judge his people. 31 It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.
1 Lord, thou hast been our dwelling place in all generations.
2 Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, thou art God.
3 Thou turnest man to destruction; and sayest, Return, ye children of men.
4 For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night.
5 Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep: in the morning they are like grass which groweth up.
6 In the morning it flourisheth, and groweth up; in the evening it is cut down, and withereth.
7 For we are consumed by thine anger, and by thy wrath are we troubled.
8 Thou hast set our iniquities before thee, our secret sins in the light of thy countenance.
9 For all our days are passed away in thy wrath: we spend our years as a tale that is told.
10 The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labour and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.
11 Who knoweth the power of thine anger? even according to thy fear, so is thy wrath.
12 So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom.
13 Return, O Lord, how long? and let it repent thee concerning thy servants.
14 O satisfy us early with thy mercy; that we may rejoice and be glad all our days.
15 Make us glad according to the days wherein thou hast afflicted us, and the years wherein we have seen evil.
16 Let thy work appear unto thy servants, and thy glory unto their children.
17 And let the beauty of the Lord our God be upon us: and establish thou the work of our hands upon us; yea, the work of our hands establish thou it.
Doctors Who Discovered Cancer Enzymes in Vaccines all Found Murdered
Rory Hall — February 27, 2016
Nagalese prevents vitamin D being produced In the body
Not long ago, Neon Nettle reported on the epidemic of doctors being murdered, most of which were in Florida, U.S. The scientists all shared a common trait, they had all discovered that nagalase enzyme protein was being added to vaccines which were then administrated to humans.(SCROLL DOWN FOR VIDEO)
Nagalese is what prevents vitamin D from being produced in the body, which is the body’s main defence to naturally kill cancer cells.
According to Thebigriddle.com: Nagalase is a protein that’s also created by all cancer cells. This protein is also found in very high concentrations in autistic children. And they’re PUTTING it in our vaccines!!
This prevents the body from utilizing the Vitamin D necessary to fight cancer and prevent autism. Nagalese disables the immune system. It’s also known to cause Type 2 Diabetes. So basically…they weren’t killing these doctors because they had found the cure to cancer or were successfully treating autism… they’re killing them because these Dr’s had been researching and had the evidence that the vaccines they’re injecting our precious children with are CAUSING our current cancer and autism crisis!!
And that it’s obviously being done knowingly and on purpose! The Dr’s they killed in FL had been collaborating and were getting ready to go public with the information.
Depopulation 101..add poison to vaccines…make it law that all children must be injected to attend school. Slow kill methods. They think they’re being fair w/ their “survival of the fittest” type mentality. Only the best genes survive? These people have no souls.
Dr Ted Broer broke it on The Hagmann & Hagmann Report and it took them a whole hour just to get him on air b/c their 3 hour show was brought down and every line they tried to use kept disconnecting…and then their servers were brought down.
Murdered Holistic Doctors Discovered Cancer-Causing Enzyme Being Added to All Vaccines
So apparently the holistic doctors who were all being killed in FL had found out via their research that the nagalase enzyme protein is INTENTIONALLY being added to the population via immunizations. Nagalase STOPS vitamin D from binding to the Gc protein. This completely strips a human being’s body of it’s natural ability to kill cancer cells.
Nagalase is a protein that’s also created by all cancer cells. This protein is also found in very high concentrations in autistic children. And they’re PUTTING it in our vaccines!! This prevents the body from utilizing the Vitamin D necessary to fight cancer and prevent autism. Nagalese disables the immune system. It’s also known to cause Type 2 Diabetes. So basically…they weren’t killing these doctors because they had found the cure to cancer or were successfully treating autism… they’re killing them because these Dr’s had been researching and had the evidence that the vaccines they’re injecting our precious children with are CAUSING our current cancer and autism crisis!! And that it’s obviously being done knowingly and on purpose! The Dr’s they killed in FL had been collaborating and were getting ready to go public with the information.
12 Holistic Doctors have now died within a little over 90 Days
Tim Brown — October 13, 2015
Back in July, I reported that five holistic doctors had met untimely and suspicious deaths within 30 days and that five more were still missing. Within days of that report, two more doctors were also found dead under suspicious circumstances, which made 7 inside of a month. Now, within the span of 90 days, eleven doctors have been found dead under suspicious circumstances, and just prior to the writing of this article a twelfth holistic doctor, Marie Paas was found dead due to an apparent suicide.
The woman who broke these stories, Erin Elizabeth of Health Nut News, spoke to Luke Rudkowski and recounted that three of the doctors were found outside in the woods, who died of alleged suicide, four established murders and several who died suddenly for no apparent reason. Even family members have questioned their deaths since autopsies don’t seem to confirm a reason for their deaths.
2 More Doctors Go Missing, after 3 Found Dead in 2 Weeks
By Erin Elizabeth – July 5, 2015
UPDATE: Chief Deputy Mcarty of the Sheriff’s Dept in charge of the case of missing Dr. Jeffrey Whiteside MD, is directly asked if there is a tie to the doctor’s disappearance to my breaking stories about other doctors who are missing or were found dead. The Chief says the following about my articles and any correlation:
McCarty said that information has been given to investigators to determine if there’s any correlation to the Whiteside case.
“We haven’t been contacted by any other law-enforcement agency or by the FBI or anything like that,” he said.
Second update:
Just hours or days after authorities said this referencing the stories I broke to the world (as gently as possible) they found Dr. Whiteside’s body right in the *very* area he was last seen (so that’s another mystery) and there was a .22 caliber found discharged by his body, but no other details are being given.
2 More Doctors Go Missing
In the past 2 weeks I’ve reported on 3 alternative doctors (2 MD’s and 1 DC, PhD) who were found dead in less than two weeks (Click through for stories and funds for families as well as numbers to report tips to authorities) It was with heavy heart, as I knew a few of the doctors and have many mutual friends with all three.
Monsanto, Pesticides, Vaccines, & Autism: If We Continue On This Route, “All Children Will Be Autistic By 2025”
Posted on 2017/02/18 By Arjun Walia via Collective Evolution
“Children today are sicker than they were a generation ago. From childhood cancers to autism, birth defects and asthma, a wide range of childhood diseases and disorders are on the rise. Our assessment of the latest science leaves little room for doubt; pesticides are one key driver of this sobering trend.”
— October 2012 report by Pesticide Action Network North America (PANNA)
(source: https://emagazine.com/archive/)
(source: Glyphosate The Elephant in the Room)
The rate at which autism instances have risen in the last 40 years is simply staggering. In 1975, 1 in every 5,000 people developed autism. In 1985, it was 1 in every 2,500, and in 2005, it was 1 in every 166.
Today it is approximately 1 in every 68 children. (source: http://www.nature.com/news/2011/111102/pdf/479022a.pdf)
“If it is an environmental cause that’s contributing to an increase, we certainty want to find it.”
– Craig Newschaffer, an epidemiologist at Drexel University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (source: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/autism-rise-driven-by-environment/)
Research continues to surface indicating that autism goes far beyond just genetics, and that we may need to consider multiple factors (like environmental toxins, prescription drugs, etc) when trying to figure out what’s going on, and why autism rates continue to climb exponentially.
“It’s time to start looking for the environmental culprits responsible for the remarkable increase in the rate of autism in California.”
– Irva Hertz–Picciotto, epidemiology professor at University of California, David
Evidence is now pointing to the fact that agricultural pesticides (among various other environmental toxins) might play a large role in the rapid increase in autism rates over the past few decades. A senior researcher from The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Dr. Stephanie Seneff is doing her part to create more awareness of these facts, which have yet to make big news in the world of mainstream medicine.
At a recent event sponsored by the holistic-focused Groton Wellness Organization, she stated that “At today’s rate, by 2025, one in two children will be autistic.”
Seneff presented slides showing a remarkably consistent correlation between the rising use of Monsanto’s Roundup herbicide (with its active ingredient glyphosate) on crops and the rising rates of autism. Her research also reveals that the side effects of autism mimic glyphosate toxicity and deficiencies.
Most scientists ‘can’t replicate studies by their peers’
By Tom Feilden 22 February 2017
Science is facing a “reproducibility crisis” where more than two-thirds of researchers have tried and failed to reproduce another scientist’s experiments, research suggests.
This is frustrating clinicians and drug developers who want solid foundations of pre-clinical research to build upon.
From his lab at the University of Virginia’s Centre for Open Science, immunologist Dr Tim Errington runs The Reproducibility Project, which attempted to repeat the findings reported in five landmark cancer studies.
“The idea here is to take a bunch of experiments and to try and do the exact same thing to see if we can get the same results.”
You could be forgiven for thinking that should be easy. Experiments are supposed to be replicable.
The authors should have done it themselves before publication, and all you have to do is read the methods section in the paper and follow the instructions.
Sadly nothing, it seems, could be further from the truth.
After meticulous research involving painstaking attention to detail over several years (the project was launched in 2011), the team was able to confirm only two of the original studies’ findings.
Two more proved inconclusive and in the fifth, the team completely failed to replicate the result.
“It’s worrying because replication is supposed to be a hallmark of scientific integrity,” says Dr Errington.
Concern over the reliability of the results published in scientific literature has been growing for some time.
An Open Letter to Daniel Summers, MD
Note: Thanks to Anne for this open letter to Massachusetts Pediatrician Dr. Daniel Summers. We need to ask doctors by name how they can justify vaccine injury without batting an eye.
By Anne Dachel
Toxicity studies have never been done on either the mercury additive thimerosal or the aluminum used in vaccines. (And yes, thimerosal is still in large amounts in the flu vaccine given to pregnant women and babies as young as six months. In addition, while American children have reduced levels of mercury in their other vaccines, no such protection is afforded children in poor countries where vaccines are laced with full doses of thimerosal.)
The Danish research that you cited as independent comes from Dr. Poul Thorsen, the principal researcher who is under indictment for 22 counts of wire fraud and money laundering by the U.S. government, having stolen over $1 million in research funding paid for by the U.S taxpayers. How reliable do you think his work is?
What Kennedy is offering is $100,000 for anyone who can produce the reputable science showing that injecting mercury into humans is safe. (And the 19 easily flawed and manipulated population studies that officials use just don’t make it. They are proof of nothing.) Where are the toxicity studies? Where are the animal studies?
There are none.
Parents who’ve looked into the issue of vaccine safety see huge holes in your arguments and a lot of omissions.
The Effect of Aluminum in Vaccines on Humans
Dietary Aluminum vs. Injectable Aluminum – Dietary Aluinum is excreted fairly rapidly, where injectable Aluminum stays around damaging the bodies nervous system(circuitry)… Educate before you vaccinate and watch The Greater Good @ http://www.greatergoodmovie.org
Vaccine Test Results
First results of vaccine investigations
Translated by Erwin Alber from the German original Erste Ergebnisse der Impfstoffuntersuchungen published in Hans Tolzin’s newsletter impf report
(ht) In 2016, several thousand euros were donated to the non-profit association AGBUG e. V. for the investigation of the contents of currently used vaccines. We would like to thank all those who have contributed to this.
Originally, it was intended to only test the vaccines for their mercury content. The association has then however extended the focus of the investigation to include all searchable elements.
AGBUG has now published the results of the first batch on its website, so far without any evaluation! All those of you who have are knowledgeable about the toxic effects of particular elements are invited to contribute their expertise. Please send your feedback by e-mail to redaktion@impf-report.de or post under this article as a comment.
Erste Ergebnisse der Impfstoffuntersuchungen
(ht) Im Jahr 2016 wurden dem gemeinnützigen Verein AGBUG e. V. mehrere Tausend Euro für die Untersuchung gängiger Impfstoffe auf die enthaltenen Elemente gespendet. Allen, die dazu beigetragen haben, sei an dieser Stelle noch einmal herzlich gedankt.
Ursprünglich sollten die Impfstoffe nur auf ihren Quecksilbergehalt hin untersucht werden. Der Verein hat den Focus dann aber auf alle untersuchbaren Elemente erweitert.
AGBUG hat nun die Untersuchungsergebnisse der ersten Charge auf seiner Webseite veröffentlicht. Bisher ohne jede Bewertung! Alle, die Ahnung haben über die giftige Wirkung bestimmter Elemente, sind hiermit eingeladen, ihr Wissen einzubringen. Rückmeldungen bitte per Email an redaktion@impf-report.de oder unter diesem Beitrag als Kommentar.
Impfen – (k)eine leichte Entscheidung?
Warum eine Plausibilitätsprüfung notwendig ist
Impfungen sind nicht ohne Risiken und rechtlich gesehen Körperverletzungen, die der mündigen Einwilligung bedürfen. Um diese mündige Einwilligung geben zu können, sollten wir vor unserer Entscheidung zumindest eine Plausibilitätsprüfung vornehmen. Diese sollte sich als Erstes mit der Frage beschäftigen, ob es überzeugende Beweise für den Nutzen der Impfungen und für ihre Sicherheit gibt. Die entscheidende Frage ist also: Sind Geimpfte gesünder als Ungeimpfte?
Kein direkter Wirksamkeitsnachweis
Eigenartig ist nun, dass weder bei der Zulassung eines Impfstoffs noch während seines massenhaften Einsatzes überprüft wird, ob Geimpfte tatsächlich seltener erkranken bzw. gesünder sind als Ungeimpfte. Man misst bei der Zulassung statt dessen die Höhe des sogenannten “Antikörpertiters” im Blut. Meßbare Antikörper sind jedoch kein eindeutiger Beleg für Immunität. Er wird von den zuständigen Experten deshalb auch einen “Surrogatmarker” (“Ersatzmeßgröße”) genannt. Da die Antikörper auch aus schulmedizinischer Sicht nicht der einzige Bestandteil der Immunabwehr sind, kann ein Mensch auch ohne meßbaren Titer immun sein. Dazu kommt, dass es zahlreiche Beispiele (z. B. bei Tetanus) dafür gibt, dass auch vorhandene Antikörper eine Erkrankung nicht verhindern konnten.
Die Frage, welche wissenschaftliche Beweise es dafür gibt, dass die gemessenen Antikörper einen Erkrankungsschutz darstellen, können die befragten Experten regelmäßig nicht beantworten. Entsprechend Beobachtungsstudien wären jedoch jederzeit einfach durchzuführen.
Fehlende Daten über die Risiken
Vaccinated Population Spreads Mumps Across The Country
Rob Dew and Alex Jones expose how fully vaccinated individuals are catching the mumps virus.
Stirile PRO TV – SCANDALOS ! Vaccinul BCG (anti-tuberculoza) cauzeaza… tuberculoza
Inclusiv medicii admit ca acest ser, importat de Ministerul Sanatatii din Danemarca, da reactii mult mai severe fata de cel care se producea in trecut la ”Institutul Cantacuzino”.
In plus, ei sunt nevoiti sa le aplice tratamente extrem de dure unor prunci de cateva luni.
Luca are sapte luni si jumatate. A fost vaccinat in a doua zi de viata cu un ser contra tuberculozei produs in Danemarca. Dupa doua luni au aparut primele reactii adverse.
”Am ajuns la pediatru si ne-a zis adenopatie axilara de la vaccin. Un ganglion umflat. Au fost analize la sange, suc gastric, radiografie la plamani. Ne-a trimis direct la chirurg, la incizie. Era plin de puroi”, spune mama lui Luca.
Apoi a urmat un lung tratament pe baza de antiobiotic. Culmea, acelasi folosit pentru tratarea tuberculozei. Mama lui mai povesteste ca la spital a intalnit si alte femei in aceeasi situatie. Copii de numai cateva luni care sufereau teribil, dupa cum recunosc si specialistii.
Zeci de parinti au facut plangeri la directiile de sanatate publica cerand sa fie schimbat acest vaccin.
Raspunsul il dau cei de la Ministerul Sanatatii. Vaccinul BCG cu tulpina Coopenhaga a ajuns pe piata din Romania de mai putin de un an, dupa ce Institutul Cantacuzino a incetat sa mai produca serul.
Ministerul admite ca au fost semnalate peste o suta de cazuri cu reactii adverse, dar sustine ca situatia nu este una grava si ca de multe ori ar fi fost vina medicilor care au gresit dozajul.
Specialistii recunosc ca in cazul vaccinului de la Cantacuzino, incidenta de reactii adverse era de sapte ori mai mica.
Adevarul despre vaccinuri. Fostul ministru al Sanatatii din Finlanda rupe tacerea
90% Of Pregnant Women Refusing Flu Shot
Pregnant women are a demographic that pharmaceutical companies rely on for heavy profits. And whenever they are looking to further enhance their bottom lines, it is one of the first demographics they turn to. Pregnant women are typically keen on doing everything they can to make sure they not only have a healthy baby, but maintain the pregnancy. Interestingly enough, however, most pregnant women feel that the health and maintenance of their fetuses means NOT getting the suggested flu shots. According to Waking Times, “most” means 90% of them. Being honest here, that makes me feel pretty happy. Sadly, Doctors feel they have this control, authority over pregnant women and also feel they can expose their internal fears and intuition. This isn’t every Doctor, clearly, but it does seem a good amount of them push the flu shot onto pregnant patients.
But the flu shot is with complications to fetuses.
Getting a flu shot during pregnancy provides unanticipated risks to the baby. Specifically, one study showed that the H1N1 vaccination during the H1N1 pandemic was associated with thousands of cases of miscarriages and stillbirths which the CDC failed to inform vaccine providers.
Current data from a 3-year reporting base is confirming previous reports that the majority of pregnant women are refusing influenza and other related vaccines that may jeopardize their health and that of their baby.
In 2011, Dr. Alessandro Bertoucci who analyzed the practices of 256 physicians treating more than 600,000 patients, reported that a staggering 91% of pregnant women are declining influenza vaccines due to fears of miscarriage and suspected toxins in the vaccine itself.
Vaccinations as a Cause of Spine, Face & Eye Asymmetry
By Erwin Alber
July 23, 2013
Between May 2003 and May 2006, Germany’s highest health authority the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) conducted a large scale survey named KIGGS to assess the physical and mental health of children and youths up to the age of 17. The study comprised 17,641 children and gathered an enormous amount of data, including their vaccination status.
Private citizens were able to obtain the raw data for a fee, which enabled Angelika Kögel-Schauz (now Angelika Müller) to make a statistical assessment of the information pertaining to vaccination, a topic she has a long-standing interest in. She has published the results in her article ‘Impfen macht krank‘.
The results of her investigation clearly show and confirmed that vaccine-free children are healthier than vaccinated children. A scoliosis, which is an abnormal curvature of the spine, was e.g. found in 5.3% of vaccinated children, while among the vaccine-free children the number of scoliosis cases was zero, which from a statistical viewpoint is a highly significant finding.
Vaccines are neurotoxic, meaning they have a particularly detrimental effect on the nervous system, including the brain. If a nerve or nerves going to the muscles which hold the spine in place are damaged by vaccines, the spine is pulled out of alignment, resulting in an abnormal curvature of the spine (scoliosis).
A collection of images of vaccine-injured children in China shows a severe case of vaccine-related scoliosis.
Why vaccinating Children against Chickenpox might give YOU Shingles
After a childhood attack of chicken pox, the virus lies dormant in the nerves until triggered in later life when it flares up as shingles. Children might soon be vaccinated against chicken pox, according to recent reports. But some experts question the need for a vaccine against an infection that’s so mild – especially when it could put thousands of elderly people at greater risk of shingles.
Chicken pox causes up to 50 deaths a year, 40 of them children, and it seems the Government’s Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation is considering adding a vaccine against it to the MMR jab.
But there is widespread concern about this. First because a similar MMR super jab now used in America has been found to double the risk of fits in some children.
Also the jab has raised the rate of shingles among the old – according to one U.S. study, cases have risen by 90 per cent. Here even the Government health watchdog, the Health Protection Agency, has predicted that a vaccine could cause a 20 per cent rise in shingles cases.
But how could a vaccine for children make old people ill? Chicken pox and shingles are caused by the varicella virus – after a childhood attack of chicken pox, the virus lies dormant in the nerves until triggered in later life when it flares up as shingles.
‘Every time adults come into contact with children who’ve just caught chicken pox, they get the natural equivalent of a booster shot of the virus which strengthens their resistance,’ explains Dr Phillip Welsby, an infectious diseases expert who has just retired from Western General Hospital, Edinburgh.
In the past, when a child got chicken pox their mother would invite neighbours’ children to a ‘chicken pox party’ so they, too, could become infected and get it over with.
‘What the parents usually didn’t realise was they were benefiting as well,’ says Welsby. ‘GPs, for instance, are less likely to develop shingles, because they are regularly exposed to children with chicken pox.’
However, a nationwide campaign to vaccinate children against the disease would mean adults would be exposed to fewer children with chicken pox, so they miss out on this natural booster ‘jab’.
While nearly all cases of chicken pox are pretty mild – a slight fever for a few days and small itchy blisters – shingles is often a nasty condition in the elderly. By the age of 85, 65 per cent of us will have suffered this often extremely painful disease.
It begins as a burning sensation along the nerves down which the virus is moving, followed by the rash and fever, usually lasting three to five days. But in some cases – as many as 20 per cent of those over 50 – severe pain will be there six months later.
40 per cent of sufferers will have long-lasting pain due to permanent nerve damage, according to the Shingles Support Society.
Australia Flu Vaccine Disaster
Natasha Bita
The Australian
May 28, 2011
KIRSTEN and Mick Button were looking forward to a family holiday in Bali when the letter landed in their mailbox. From the West Australian Health Department, it urged them to vaccinate their children against the flu. A killer new strain of influenza, a mutant mix of human, avian and swine influenza viruses, had swept the country the previous winter, and WA was taking no chances. It offered the flu vaccine free to all children, the only state or territory to do so. “It encouraged us to protect our children,” Kirsten says of the letter. “Our four-year-old, Cooper, has asthma so we thought it was the best thing to do. When you get that letter, you are in a situation where if you don’t vaccinate, you feel like you’re not doing the right thing.”
Kirsten took Cooper and his 11-month-old sister, Saba, to their local GP for the flu shot at lunchtime on April 19 last year. On the way home in the car, Saba would not stop screaming. Back in their beachside home in the Perth suburb of Watermans Bay, Kirsten gave her little girl some Panadol to soothe her, and “she was fine all afternoon”.
After dinner, Kirsten went out for a pilates class, leaving Mick to give Saba a bottle and put her to bed at 7pm. An hour later, he heard moaning over the baby monitor. When he checked on Saba in her upstairs cot she was, Kirsten relates, “burning hot, limp like a rag doll”. Mick called his wife to let her hear their daughter’s whimpers over the phone. “I’d never heard anything like it,” Kirsten says. “I was hysterical. I couldn’t drive; my dad had to drive me back home.” While her fretful parents waited for an ambulance, Saba’s temperature was 40.2 degrees, a high fever.
“She was lying very still and groaning and moaning,” Kirsten says. “She was so white.” In the wailing ambulance, as diarrhoea seeped from Saba’s nappy, her parents panicked as they listened to the machine monitoring their baby’s heart, racing at 238 beats per minute – double the usual rate. When the ambulance arrived at Perth’s Princess Margaret Hospital, doctors and nurses were waiting out the front. Kirsten remembers hearing one of them remark, “It’s another Fluvax baby.”
Flu pandemic
When swine flu emerged from Mexico in April 2009, initial reports were that it was killing one in every 20 people infected. Within eight weeks the virus had swept across four continents, Australia included, prompting the World Health Organisation to declare the first global flu pandemic of the century. In July 2009, federal health minister Nicola Roxon warned that in a “worst-case scenario” 6000 Australians could die from the new flu that had already infected 10,000 people, killed 22 and landed 60 others in intensive care. It was highly contagious and it was striking in unpredictable ways: fit, healthy young people normally strong enough to fight off the seasonal flu were being taken down. At its worst it was causing organ failure and brain damage and fears were held for pregnant women, the elderly and people with underlying medical conditions.