CONTROL GROUP

Contents

— Let’s lighten the mood – Zoonotic wordsearch!
— Have you recorded your childhood vaccinations?
— SYSTEM UPDATES AND IMPROVEMENTS
    – Remove Blood Group from Health Card
    – Need your own account?
— Are you a translator?
— Do you know your blood type?

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Let’s lighten the mood a little…

Like many people, I like to keep up-to-date with what is happening in the world, but often find myself ‘doom-scrolling’. I know it isn’t good, but with so much going on in the world, and seemingly constant new ‘threats’ to our health, our security and our future, it is sometimes difficult to stay positive. So, I decided to start September with something a little silly – a disease themed wordsearch!

This wordsearch is about zoonotic diseases (diseases of animal origin that affect humans.) We are told each week that a new zoonotic disease threatens to cause another pandemic. First it was COVID, reported to be from bats. Then it was Monkeypox and now Bird Flu is said be making a resurgence.

What will it be next?

See if you can find all the zoonotic diseases below. (HINT: Not all of the diseases are real – yet!)

• AVIAN FLU
• BADGERITIS
• BIRD FLU
• CAT SCRATCH DISEASE
• FISH FOOT
• MAD COW DISEASE
• MONKEYPOX
• RABBIT RASH
• STOAT FEVER
• SWINE FLU

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Have you recorded your childhood vaccinations?

Many participants ask that we release data comparing the health of the COVID unvaccinated to the COVID vaccinated ­– but we can only do that if we have clear data about who has and has not been vaccinated.

If you have not recorded any vaccinations in your health record, our data will list you as NEVER vaccinated – which may not actually be the case!

At the moment, our database reports that more than 70 per cent of participants have never had any kind of vaccine in their life, which is extremely unlikely! Whilst you may not have had any COVID jabs, it is important for us to understand what vaccines you HAVE had – such as your childhood vaccines or travel vaccines.

The benefit of this information is two-fold:

1) Comparing the health of the vaccinated and unvaccinated – if you have had your childhood vaccines but no COVID jab and are in general health, and someone else has their childhood vaccines, the COVID jabs, and has been in bad health since the pandemic, this could corroborate evidence of the COVID jab side effects. 2) Identifying problems with other vaccines – by reporting that you had your childhood vaccines, we can also identify any common health complaints had between people who had their childhood vaccines, and this help to identify potential side effects in these vaccines, too.

Please help us to ensure the accuracy of our data by recording your childhood vaccines.

We have made it easy for you to record your vaccine status by creating a ‘Childhood Vaccinations’ option. This way, you do not need to know what specific childhood vaccines you had in order to report that you did have SOME childhood vaccines.

• Simply go to your Health Record
• Click the ‘Vaccination’ link, or scroll down to the Vaccinations section
• Click the green ADD button
• Type ‘childhood’ in the SEARCH to see the CHILDHOOD VACCINATIONS option
• Select this and complete the rest of the questions
• This tells us you have been previously vaccinated, though you may not know what with.

THANK YOU

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SYSTEM UPDATES AND IMPROVEMENTS

Remove Blood Group from Health Card

Don’t want to display your blood group on your Control Group Health Card? Not a problem!

When you create a new Health Card, you now have the option to switch off the blood group – this only applies to any new cards that you create and not existing one. Instead of your blood group, the Control Group logo will be displayed on your card. If you change your mind later, you can switch it back on and create a new card.

Need your own account?

Things change, kids become adults and people move on. There are many reasons why you may wish to remove yourself from your family Control Group account into an account of your very own. Unfortunately, this hasn’t been possible – until now! So, if you, or a family member would like to be transferred to a brand-new account of your own, we can now do this for you. To arrange a transfer, email support@controlgroup.coop from your existing account email address, with the subject line TRANSFER.

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Are you a translator?

The Control Group are looking for volunteers!

German, Bulgarian, Finnish – these are just some of the languages in which the Control Group participation certificates and letters are available!

Help people assert their freedom, wherever they are in the world, by joining our volunteer translations team!

Volunteers with strong English language skills help the Control Group by translating short letters and certificates into their preferred or native language so that participants in our vaccine study can assert their right to freedom of choice and body autonomy in non-English speaking countries.

If you are interested in volunteering a short amount of your time to help us, please email our team with the subject line ‘Volunteer’, specifying the language skills you have to offer!

support@controlgroup.coop

Thank you in advance!

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DO YOU KNOW YOUR BLOOD TYPE?

Discover your blood type instantly from the comfort of your own home with the EldonCard finger-prick test, and add it to your Control Group profile! INSTANT RESULTS – EldonCard is the most trusted and accurate diagnostic tool for point-of-care (near patient-testing) and home-testing of blood typing of the ABO-, and Rhesus systems. The Home Blood Type Test Kit contains everything you need to test your blood type: EldonCard for blood test Single use sterile lancet Pipet (dropper) Alcohol prep pad Four EldonSticks Illustrated instructions EldonFoil Find the EldonCard blood type test kit at the Control Group Shop – UK DELIVERY ONLY Order the test kit here: https://controlgroup.uk/product/blood-type-test/

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Diny
Co-founder
Control Group