A new study links the H1N1 flu vaccine to a 14-fold increase in risk for an incurable brain condition: narcolepsy.

A disturbing new study published in the journal Eurosurveillance links the Pandemrix flu vaccine with a 14-fold increase risk for developing narcolepsy, an incurable brain disorder believed to be triggered by the autoimmune destruction of brain cells responsible for maintaining ‘wakefulness.’

Titled, “Investigation of an association between onset of narcolepsy and vaccination with pandemic influenza vaccine, Ireland April 2009-December 2010,” Irish researchers conducted a retrospective population-based cohort study in order to examine the association between vaccination against influenza A (H1N1) with Pandemrix and narcolepsy, after numerous reports linking them alerted the Irish Medicines Board in 2011.

After pandemic vaccination status was obtained from vaccination databases, and reviewed by two independent experts, the incidence of narcolepsy in vaccinated and non-vaccinated individuals was compared.

The results were reported as follows:

“Of 32 narcolepsy cases identified, 28 occurred in children/adolescents and for 24 first healthcare contact was between April 2009 and December 2010. Narcolepsy incidence was 5.7 (95% confidence interval (CI): 3.4–8.9) per 100,000 children/adolescents vaccinated with Pandemrix and 0.4 (95% CI: 0.1–1.0) per 100,000 unvaccinated children/adolescents (relative risk: 13.9; absolute attributable risk: 5.3 cases per 100,000 vaccinated children/adolescents).”

The researchers concluded:

“This study confirms the crude association between Pandemrix vaccination and narcolepsy as observed in Finland and Sweden. The vaccine is no longer in use in Ireland. Further studies are needed to explore the immunogenetic mechanism of narcolepsy.”

Narcolepsy: A Vaccine-Induced Form of Brain Destruction?

Narcolepsy is characterized by excessive sleepiness during the daytime, and is also tied to sudden but temporary muscle weakness (cataplexy), often induced by strong emotions.

According to the University of Maryland Medical Center, it comes with the following behaviors:

Patients typically have periods of drowsiness every 3 or 4 hours that usually end in short naps.

Patients may sleep for a few minutes during the day, particularly if they are in an awkward position, or for a few hours if they are lying down.

Patients often underestimate the duration of their drowsy periods and may not recall clearly their behavior during that time.

It is believed that the main cause of narcolepsy is a deficiency in the neurotransmitter hypocretin (orexin) precipitated by an autoimmune attack against cells containing this brain peptide – there are normally only about 70,000 cells containing hypocretin in the hypothalamus which are either missing or profoundly reduced in people with narcolepsy.

Just how this autoimmune destruction of the regions of the brain containing hypocretin occurs was suggested by a provocative 2013 ScienceDaily report titled, “H1N1-triggered narcolepsy may stem from ‘molecular mimicry,'” wherein is described the findings of Stanford medical researchers: “narcolepsy can sometimes be triggered by a similarity between a region of a protein called hypocretin and a portion of a protein from the pandemic H1N1 virus.”

According to the report,

“The Pandemrix vaccine mixed portions of viral proteins with a non-viral “adjuvant” to induce a stronger and presumably more effective immune response. All told, it may have precipitated narcolepsy in a few thousand cases in Europe.”

Essentially, their research indicates that the Pandemrix H1N1 flu vaccine is capable of inducing an autoimmune attack against molecular features of the brain – specifically hypocretin secreting cells in the hypothalamus – responsible for causing narcolepsy. Incidentally, this is not the first vaccine to be linked to the phenomena of autoimmunity: we have indexed research on the link between molecular mimicry/vaccine-induced brain damage in connection with the Hepatitis B and MMR vaccines here.

Authorities and Media Oblivious To The Obvious Problem

Vaccines have been linked with a wide range of autoimmune reactions in the biomedical literature, despite being almost universally characterized by dominant health authorities like the CDC and the WHO as not only safe but also an effective way to improve on the natural immunity conferred by millions of years of evolution and successful adaptation and daily interaction with a biological landscape containing billions of potentially pathogenic viruses, fungi, bacteria and other microorganisms.

The Pandemrix Flu Vaccine/Narcolepsy Link Already Established

In 2011, The Swedish Medical Products Agency (MPA) reported the results of am investigation initiated in 2010 after they received an unexpectedly large number of reports of cases of narcolepsy in children and adolescents receiving the Pandemrix vaccine. They found a 6.6-fold higher incidence of narcolepsy among vaccinated children/ adolescents than those unvaccinated.[1]

What we are seeing in this new report is simply additional confirmation of an already established link between the H1N1 vaccine and narcolepsy. Like far too many vaccines prematurely released onto the market – and administered to millions of our most susceptible and fragile populations (0-36 months of age)– vaccine approval is not based on RCTs conducted with a true control group, i.e. a non-vaccinated group; that is to say, it is not ‘evidence-based’ and scientific; rather, the control group in these vaccine studies are administered another vaccine which also contains toxic adjuvants, biological, preservatives and related chemicals (minus the target antigen), effectively making it impossible to ascertain the true adverse health effects of the vaccine in question. Only after many years of passive post-marketing surveillance, where the burden of proving a vaccine unsafe is on the injured – injuries which are hard if not impossible to ascertain, subclinical, and chronic injuries, compounded and confounded by dozens of other simultaneous adverse environmental exposures – it is the parents of the vaccine injured, who, after witnessing a clear signal of harm in their progeny, must fight from the bottom up to have the reality of these vaccines’ irreparable harm exposed.

Considering the recent revelations of William Thompson, a senior CDC vaccine safety scientist, that data connecting vaccines to autism was manipulated and/or omitted and otherwise falsified, for well over a decade, who can we trust? The published vaccine research itself, in this case, provides clear evidence: not the CDC, who egregiously maintains the safety and efficacy of all of the vaccines in its ever-expanding immunization schedule a priori.

Reader, it is time to wake up. The mainstream media, whose biggest funder is the pharmaceutical industry (and vaccine industry subset), will not advocate for the truth on the topic; nor will government health authorities, who not only have trillions of dollars of liability on their hands, but are criminally liable, for violating their constitutional mandate: to protect and serve the health interests of the public.

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[1] “The MPA investigates reports of narcolepsy in patients vaccinated with Pandemrix”. The Swedish Medical Products Agency. 2010-08-18. Retrieved 2010-08-19.

Article Contributed by Sayer Ji, Founder of www.GreenMedInfo.com.

Sayer Ji is an author, researcher, lecturer, and advisory board member of the National Health Federation. He founded Greenmedinfo.com in 2008 in order to provide the world an open access, evidence-based resource supporting natural and integrative modalities. It is internationally recognized as the largest and most widely referenced health resource of its kind.