Hepatitis B vaccine
In a report in the JAMA (May 94 Vol 271 No 20) from a summary of a
report from the Institute of Medicine which states a causal relationship
with Anaphylaxis and Hepatitis B vaccine and cannot accept or reject
a causal relation with Gullian-Barre' Syndrome, Demyelinating Disease of
the Central Nervous System, Arthritis and SIDS.
JAMA
(May 94 Vol 271 No 20) Hepatitis
B Vaccine May Be Linked to Multiple Sclerosis (MS)
Dr.
David Ayoub, M.D. lectures on the crippling effect of vaccines
When
Your Doctor is Wrong: Hepatitis B and Autism Were your child's
developmental issues triggered by hepatitis B vaccine? Is a booster safe?
For children with signs of autism and multiple gastrointestinal issues
from birth, this shot may have been the first insult. Throughout
the 1990s it was given at birth, often without parental consent or awareness.
It is still given to infants and children today. Learn about this vaccineís
development, safety record, its inappropriateness for infants and children,
and what the CDC and FDA know about it. Your doctor may have been
misinformed about this shot ñ read what he or she should know, before
recommending it for one more child. Does your child need hepatitis B vaccine?
How safe is it? When Your Doctor Is Wrong… scrutinizes reportable data
on the virus and the vaccine as it follows one child through the terrible
maze of adversely reacting to this shot. more on autism
and vaccines.
Warning:
New Hepatitis Vaccine Recs Can Devastate Newborn's Health
Dr. Mercola
The newly released 2002 immunization schedule encourages the routine
use of hepatitis B vaccine for all infants before hospital discharge. I
have seen many dozens of children who were given this vaccine on the first
day of life and subsequently developed autism. Others, like Michael Belkin's
daughter, weren't as likely and died immediately after the vaccine. Michael
is a successful Wall Street Financial analyst with his own company, and
has testified to Congress on this issue and regularly forwards news health
stories to me.
The central fact, and the one that helps to explain these insane recommendations,
is that the maker of hepatitis B vaccine, Merck, makes one billion dollars
a year from this vaccine.A billion dollars a year goes a long way toward
influencing public policy. Who is Behind This? The group that is pushing
this through is called The Hepatitis B coalition. Part of the Immunization
Action Coalition, this group was started by a $750,000 grant from the CDC.
It is supported by the World Health Organization, World Bank, Rockefeller
Foundation and ongoing funding from Smith-Kline, Merck, Aventis and Johnson
and Johnson. more
Excerpt from
Hepatitis
B Vaccine- Experimenting on our Children
Hepatitis B vaccine developed in 1987 is so new that little is known
about it.
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According to the FDA, 45 cases of hair loss after a Hepatitis B vaccination
has been reported to the VAERS [Vaccine
Adverse Event Reporting System]
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In recent years, the annual number of reports to the Vaccine Adverse Event
Reporting System (VAERS) has exceeded the total number of reports of routine
childhood vaccine-preventable disease! more
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The American Journal of Ophthalmology (Sept 96 Vol 122 Pg 431-432) shows
a report of multiple evanescent white dot syndrome ( a retinal condition
) following Hep B vaccination.
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There has been research done on the connection between Diabetes and Hep
B showing a increased risk of developing insulin dependent diabetes when
Hep B is given after six weeks from birth.
-
In a report in the JAMA (May 94 Vol 271 No 20) from a summary of a report
from the Institute of Medicine which states a causal relationship with
Anaphylaxis and Hepatitis B vaccine and cannot accept or reject a causal
relation with Gullian-Barre Syndrome, Demyelinating Disease of the Central
Nervous System, Arthritis and SIDS.
For the 20-month period between November 1, 1990 and July 31,1992, there
were 4,227 reports of side effects from the Hepatitis B vaccine made through
the Vaccine Adverse Effects Reporting System. Of this number, 383 were
characterized as serious, 57 as life-threatening, 241 cases resulted in
hospitalization, 108 individuals were disabled, and 17 died. These figures
represent only the tip of the iceberg, as the FDA estimates that only 10%
of doctors report vaccine injuries and deaths. The number of injuries and
deaths will probably soar when this vaccine is mandated for use in all
newborn babies. Nothing is known about the long-term effects of this vaccine,
as no long-term, large-scale, controlled studies have been conducted.
Hepatitis B vaccine and Sudden Infant Death Syndrome
(SIDS)
Excerpt from the Compleat
Mother website
MICHAEL
BELKIN'S WRITTEN TESTIMONY TO CONGRESS
"My daughter Lyla Rose Belkin died on September 16, 1998 at the age
of five weeks, about 15 hours after receiving her second Hepatitis B vaccine
booster shot. Lyla was a lively, alert five-week-old baby when I last held
her in my arms. Little did I imagine as she gazed intently into my eyes
with all the innocence and wonder of a newborn child that she would die
that night. She was never ill before receiving the Hepatitis B shot that
afternoon. At her final feeding that night, she was extremely agitated,
noisy and feisty -- and then she fell asleep suddenly and stopped breathing.
The autopsy ruled out choking. The NY Medical Examiner ruled her death
Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS). But the NY Medical Examiner (Dr. Persechino)
neglected to mention Lyla’s swollen brain or the hepatitis B vaccine in
the autopsy report. The coroner spoke to my wife and I and our pediatrician
(Dr. Zullo) the day of the autopsy and clearly stated that her brain was
swollen. " Please
read on
More about Hepatitis
B vaccine
Compulsory Vaccinations Put American Children at Risk
by Phyllis Schlafly
The French Health Ministry has stopped immunizing French children for
the adult disease hepatitis B because of evidence that the vaccine can
cause neurological disorders and multiple sclerosis. American infants and
children however, continue to be forced to submit to hepatitis B vaccinations.
Across the country, hospitals routinely inject newborn babies with hepatitis
B vaccine during their first 24 hours of life (even when their mothers
test negative for hepatitis B), and children must present proof of having
received three hepatitis B shots before they can enter school. This includes
daycare, kindergarten, elementary school, high school, or college. According
to the National Vaccine Information Center (NVIC), there is no convincing
medical reason or scientific evidence for this procedure.
Hepatitis
B Vaccine May Be Linked to Multiple Sclerosis (MS)
Findings of Threefold Increased Risk Contradict Most Previous Research
The hepatitis B vaccine series has been administered to more than 20
million people in the U.S. and more than 500 million people in the world.
It is more than 95% effective in preventing an infection that kills millions
annually. However anecdotal evidence has linked the vaccine to an increased
risk for multiple sclerosis. more
Find out why
Hepatitis B School Inoculation in France have been suspended since October
1998
It gives new support to doctors claiming there is a link between mass
vaccination against whooping cough in infants and an explosion in the number
of childhood asthma cases.. About one million children have had asthma
diagnosed, while many thousands more have wheezing problems, allergic reactions
and skin rashes caused by eczema. please
read on
More about Hepatitis
B vaccine
A Criminal
Consequence of Vaccine Injury:
Misdiagnosed
Shaken Baby Syndrome
by Allan Phillips
Viera
Scheibner, PhD - "Many infants who suffer the so-called
'shaken baby syndrome' may be victims of undiagnosed vaccine damage Ever
since mass vaccination of infants began, reports of serious brain, cardiovascular,
metabolic and other injuries started filling pages of medical journals.
A great number of babies now die within days or within two to four weeks
of birth after hepatitis B vaccination,
as documented by the records of the VAERS
[Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System] in the USA.) So, the baby
stops progressing, starts deteriorating, and usually develops signs of
respiratory tract infection. Then comes the second and third injections,
and tragedy strikes: the child may cry intensely and inconsolably, may
stop feeding properly, vomit, have difficulty swallowing, become irritable,
stop sleeping, and may develop convulsions with accelerating progressive
deterioration of its condition and mainly its brain function."
This
deterioration may be fast, or may slowly inch in until the parents notice
that something is very wrong with their child and then rush it to the doctor
or hospital. Interestingly, they are invariably asked when the baby was
immunised. On learning that the baby was indeed "immunised", the parents
may be reassured that its symptoms will all clear up. They are sent home
with the advice, "Give your baby Panadol". If they persist in considering
the baby's reaction serious, they may be labelled as anxious parents or
trouble-makers. So the parents go home, and the child remains in a serious
condition or dies.
Until recently, the vaccine death would have just been labelled "sudden
infant death", particularly if the symptoms and pathological findings were
minimal. However, nowadays, with an alarmingly increasing frequency, the
parents (or at least one of them, usually the father) may be accused of
shaking the baby to death" Viera Scheibner,
PhD.
Alan Yurko was charged with aggravated child abuse and first-degree
murder of his infant son, Alan; he is now serving a life sentence without
possibility of parole at Washington Correctional Institution in Chipley,
Florida. Mr. Yurko insists that he did not kill his son; rather, he now
claims that his son died from a combination of medical mistreatment and
an adverse reaction to immunizations. Doctors and scientists from 15 countries
have rallied to support Alan’s innocence, as have members of anti-vaccination/pro-choice
groups from around the world. more
Update
Feb. 18, 2003: A pathologist has uncovered evidence that 'shaken baby'
Alan Yurko was killed by medical staff who massively overdosed the infant
with the drug Heparin, only hours before he died. His father by the same
name is imprisoned in Florida for shaking him causing hemorrhage and death.
Heparin is a blood anti-coagulant very similar to Warfarin --a poison which
kills rats by internal hemorrhaging. more
"The FDA admits that the 12,000 reports it
receives annually on pharmacologic side effects from vaccines represent
only a fraction of what actually occurs."Nicholas
Regush
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VACCINATIONS - DECEPTION and TRAGEDYpart
1
Why are a growing number of parents and health care professionals around
the world questioning vaccination? The controversy stems from the thousands
of deaths and permanent disabilities attributed to vaccination annually,
as well as the many published medical studies, government statistics, congressional
testimonies, and other credible sources that directly contradict commonly
held assumptions about vaccine safety and effectiveness
What
Every Parent Should Know BEFORE Their Childen Are Vaccinated! Why
are a growing number of parents and health care professionals around the
world questioning vaccination? The controversy stems from the thousands
of deaths and permanent disabilities attributed to vaccination annually,
as well as the many published medical studies, government statistics, congressional
testimonies, and other credible sources that directly contradict commonly
held assumptions about vaccine safety and effectiveness.
More pictures of vaccine damage available to view at the
CDC
website
"Bart Classen, a Maryland physician, published data showing
that diabetes rates rose significantly in New Zealand following a massive
hepatitis B vaccine campaign in young children, and that diabetes rates
also went up sharply in Finland after three new childhood vaccines were
introduced." Nicholas
Regush
In fall 1997, two influential professional magazines featured articles
asking the question: Has the decrease of infectious diseases in childhood
through the mass use of vaccines been replaced with an increase in chronic
diseases such as diabetes and asthma? The Economist, a prestigious international
magazine read by world leaders in government, business and public policy,
and Science News, a magazine read by both health care professionals and
the general public, explored the reported links between vaccines and chronic
diseases in their November 22, 1997 issues. Learn
more about vaccine and diabetes connection --- asthma and
vaccine connection --- SIDS and autism and vaccine connection
--- "Shaken Baby Syndrome": the vaccination link Law
suit One hundred years ago, children received 1 vaccine (the smallpox
vaccine). Forty years ago, children received 5 vaccines routinely (diphtheria,
pertussis, tetanus, polio, and smallpox vaccines) and as many as 8 shots
by 2 years of age. Children now receive 52 vaccines, in the form of 15
shots, by the time they are 6 months of age if they receive all the recommend
shots, including the Prevnar pediatric pneumonia shot.
Congressman is calling for criminal penalties for any government
agency that knew about the dangers of thimerosal in vaccines and did nothing
to protect American children.
Congressman Dan Burton (R-Indiana)
during Congressional Hearing: "You mean to tell me that since 1929, we've
been using Thimerosal, and the only test that you know of is from
1929, and every one of those people had mennigitis, and they all died?"
For nearly an hour, Burton repeatedly asked FDA and CDC officials what
they knew and when they knew it. (Thimerosal contains a related mercury
compound called ethyl mercury. Mercury is a toxic metal that can cause
immune, sensory, neurological, motor, and behavioral dysfunctions.)
Please get informed!Enter the vaccine information
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Homeopathy
can be used successfully to prevent and treat smallpox, measles,
whooping
cough, chickenpox, and other ailments.
Would you allow big brother to enforce vaccinations on your kids? Government
Enforced Vaccinations
Vaccination Tracking Registry - Government programs
that limit your choices -and your rights- in health care when it comes
to mandatory vaccination. These mandates last for 40 or so years
and they're impossible to repeal. Also,
learn about Legal Requirements and Exemptions
Are Vaccines Damaging Our Pets?
Routine Vaccination:
Is it really safe and effective? Most recently, an article
appeared in the Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association
entitled "Are We Vaccinating Too Much?"
Subject: Barry Forbe
Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2000 10:57:52 -0700
From: Jeff Green <greenjeff@home.com>
Barry Forbes' follow-up article referring to Senator Dan Burton's Committee
on Government reform and autism:
America's vaccine policy is seriously flawed by Barry Forbes
The Tribune, Mesa, Arizona - July 16, 2000 - Reprinted with Permission
A recent newspaper story pegged the U.S. vaccination rate at 79%, an
all time high. That's good, right?
Wrong. According to the Institute of Medicine, a private group that
provides health policy advice to Congress, the nation's vaccination system
is breaking down. Why? Because we're running out of dough.
Go figure. They blackmail welfare moms in places like Georgia and Maryland.
What, no vaccinations for your kids? Sorry. No welfare checks. With such
rotten, unethical practices as these going on, you'd think the war was
all but won.
It's not, so color the solution "green." If we'll just pour in an extra
$1.5 billion over the next five years, communicable diseases will all but
disappear.
Strangely enough, another story surfaced the same day. Seems that a
couple of key federal advisory committees involved in vaccine approval
got their fingers caught in the cookie jar. These committees advise the
U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and Centers for Disease Control
(CDC) on which vaccines to approve and foist on an unsuspecting public,
and which ones to add to the incredibly lucrative Childhood Immunization
Schedule.
The Committee on Government Reform discovered that 3 out of the 5 FDA
advisory committee members who voted to approve the deadly Rotavirus vaccine
in December, 1997 had financial ties to pharmaceutical companies. Remarkably,
those same companies were developing different versions of the vaccine.
Ditto for 4 out of the 8 CDC committee members in June, 1998.
The vaccine was pulled from the market after it was found to cause severe
bowel obstructions. But you can bet your life - and you very well might
- that the pharmaceutical companies are doing just fine, thank you.
Why? Because no matter how much they harm the public with vaccines,
we can't sue them. In order to manufacture the junk, pharmaceutical companies
wrangled a deal to shield them from lawsuits. The Feds
set-up a national fund to handle vaccine-damage claims.
So if you're 1 of the estimated 100,000 to 200,000 people a year who
experience an adverse vaccine reaction (15% are considered "serious" or
"life-threatening"), go ahead. Sue the fund.
Of course it'll be years before you see a dime.
Naturally, Jane Q. Public isn't aware of all this. Public Health regularly
issues PR "puff" pieces designed to scare the living heck out of new mothers.
Schools demand "proof of vaccinations" and never tell parents that waivers
are available and legal. Some school administrators are so brainwashed
they aren't even aware that waivers exist.
The docs, inadvertently serving as agents of the state, play on the
same tilted, toxic field. If your kids are heading off to kindergarten,
they'll get stuck with a booster mix of polio, DPT and MMR - all at one
sitting.
God alone knows the damage this deadly witches brew inflicts on a child's
immune system, but one thing is for sure: Auto-immune disorders as varied
as asthma, allergies and autism are now the raging epidemics.
The Feds claim 300 kids die every year because they weren't vaccinated.
Contrast that number against a suspected annual vaccine fatality count
that easily exceeds 1,000, plus tens of thousands of "serious" reactions
that can "detrimentally" affect people for life.
Instead of blowing billions pushing questionable vaccines on innocent,
unsuspecting children, why aren't we addressing the safety issues that
exist right now, today? Here's the tip of the iceberg:
Since 1988 autism increased 273% in California and a startling 571%
in Florida. Some researchers suspect the incidence rate is tied to MMR
vaccine. What are we doing about it? Fifty percent of all "reported" adverse
reactions to hepatitis B vaccine have been listed as "serious" vs. the
typical 15% "serious" rate of other vaccines. What's wrong?
Japan isn't into "mandated" infant vaccinations, rarely mixes vaccines,
and dramatically altered their schedule to avoid adverse reactions. The
Japanese now enjoy the lowest infant mortality rate in the world. The U.S.
rate is a distant, embarrassing number 25. How come?
Shouldn't we find out the reasons "why" before we accept even 1 more
of the 35 new vaccines heading our way? There's so much money in the toxic
brew that some 150 more are in various stages of development. Other than
the pharmaceutical companies, who the hell wants them?
Why are our children being "mandated" into human guinea pigs?
Amazingly enough, people roll up their sleeves - and those of their
children - without even batting an eyelash. Please listen carefully to
the words spoken to me by the mother of a seriously vaccine-injured child.
"It never occurred to me that once you squirt it in, you can't get it
out. My daughter will pay the penalty for the rest of her life."
AIDS/HIV/AZT
What if everything you thought you knew about
AIDS was wrong? A growing number of scientists world-wide have
publicly denounced the total failure of the HIV/AIDS hypothesis, questioned
the meaning of the "AIDS test", and criticized the use of AZT which has
been proven to be a toxic poison that makes the patient sicker and is actually
the cause of AIDS deaths. The group includes scientists such as Kary Mullis,
who won the Nobel Prize for chemistry in 1993 for inventing the polymerase
chain reaction used to test for HIV, Peter H. Duesberg, Ph.D., a professor
of molecular and cell biology at the University of California, Berkeley
and Charles Thomas, PhD., Former chair of the Cell Biology Department,
Scripps Research Institute - Healing AIDS: a holistic
approach.approach.
What
Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Children's Vaccinations by Stephanie
Cave, M.D., a family practitioner in Baton Rouge who specializes in children
with autism and related disorders. She has been featured on CNN regarding
children and vaccinations and testified in congressional hearings in July
2000.
"After my infant daughter
had an immediate physical reaction and a prolonged, 4-week neurological
reaction to her routine 4-month vaccinations, I began searching for information
about vaccines and safety that would help me determine the best, safest
course of action with future vaccines. Searching the internet yielded an
enormous amount of information - some of which is very alarmist and frightening
and some of which is overly scientific and hard for a non-scientific parent
to understand. It is very difficult to find information that is easy to
understand, balanced presenting both the pros and the cons, and is comprehensive,
facts-based and well-researched. This book is by far the most comprehensive
and most useful information contained in a single cover that I have found.
An added benefit is that the information is presented in such a way that
it is a very compelling read - I read the 1st 100 pages within 3 hours
after my amazon box arrived - while tending to a busy, crawling infant!"
book reviewer
The FDA admits that the
12,000 reports it receives annually on pharmacologic side effects from
vaccines represent only a fraction of what actually occurs. Congressman
is calling for criminal penalties for any government agency that knew about
the dangers of thimerosal in vaccines and did nothing to protect American
children. Congressman Dan Burton(R-Indiana) during Congressional
Hearing: "You mean to tell me that since 1929, we've been using Thimerosal,
and the only test that you know of is from 1929, and every one of
those people had mennigitis, and they all died?" For nearly an hour, Burton
repeatedly asked FDA and CDC officials what they knew and when they knew
it. (Thimerosal contains a related mercury compound called ethyl mercury.
Mercury is a toxic metal that can cause immune, sensory, neurological,
motor, and behavioral dysfunctions.)
more
on vaccines
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in the U.S. with a focus on vaccine legal exemptions. See his article Vaccine
Religious Exemption
“A
Dragon By The Tail”
By Lisa Reagan
May 2005, US senators fast-track a bill to protect vaccine
manufacturers from litigation - Seven US Senators introduced a bill
to protect vaccine manufacturers from thousands of
pending federal lawsuits filed by parents of vaccine-damaged children.
On the eve of an historic, billion-dollar world vaccination campaign, a
leaked transcript ignites questions of vaccine safety and research corruption.
Meanwhile, US senators fast-track a bill to protect vaccine manufacturers
from litigation. With millions of lives at stake, and billions of dollars
to lose, will a merger of philanthropy, big business and compromised science
win an epic race between corporate agendas and medical ethics? In this
world exclusive report, byronchild exposes how the most powerful medical
research bodies in the United States compromise their vaccine safety research
for vested interests, as they assist in a global vaccine policy, while
a bill looms in the background to protect it all.
On January 24, 2005 -- the same day the Global Alliance for Vaccines
and Immunization (GAVI) announced the receipt of $750 million for its historic
world vaccination campaign -- seven US Senators introduced a bill to protect
vaccine manufacturers from thousands of pending federal lawsuits filed
by parents of vaccine-damaged children.
The unprecedented act named Senate Bill 3, extends comprehensive liability
protections to vaccine manufacturers, restricts Freedom of Information
Acts on drug/vaccine safety, and preempts states' rights to ban mercury
from children's vaccines, all under the bill's official title: ‘‘Protecting
America in the War on Terror Act of 2005''.
Meanwhile in Texas, a US District Court judge has ordered the worlds'
“big five” vaccine manufacturers to “produce any and all documents relating
to payments made to, or stock ownership” by the seventeen members of the
Institute of Medicine's Immunization and Safety Review Committee who issued
a report last year denying a link between childhood vaccines and the country's
autism epidemic.
The judge issued the order after receiving a leaked internal transcript
in the first civil juried lawsuit against the vaccine manufacturers that
allegedly proves the Institutes of Medicine's committee members “predetermined
the necessity of not finding causality between vaccines and autism and/or
neurological injury” in its official reports on the issue.
Judge T. John Ward also ordered the vaccine manufacturers to produce
all communications with “members of the World Health Organization, the
Center for Disease Control, the Food and Drug Administration, the Institute
of Medicine, the Brighton Collaboration, or the Global Alliance for Vaccines
and Immunization relating to the issue whether the thimerosal contained
in pediatric vaccines causes autism or other neurological disorders.”
The vaccine manufacturer's legal counsel balked at the amount of expense
involved in producing such extensive documentation for the court; however,
Judge Ward reassured the defense that the process could be useful for the
more than 300 pending lawsuits waiting to be tried in the US .
Vaccine manufacturers Aventis Pasteur, Merck, GlaxoSmithKline, Wyeth
and Eli Lilly and Co. are cited as defendants in the lawsuit brought by
the parents of a child who developed autism after receiving mandatory routine
childhood immunizations.
The same IOM reports denying a link between vaccines and the country's
autism epidemic have been used:
• to endorse standardized case definitions for Adverse Events
Following Immunizations for “global dissemination”;
• as justification for Senate Bill 3's sweeping provisions and
protections;
• as a cause for no further federal monies to be spent on research
of the potential vaccine/autism link;
• as a reason to silence media inquiries into vaccine safety issues;
• and as a defense for dismissing over 4,500 petitions for vaccine
injuries in a federal court.
Is it possible that a closed meeting transcript alleged as proof of
a ploy to ignore vaccine risks, a near billion dollar grant for a global
vaccination campaign, emerging lawsuits for vaccine injuries and a sweeping
federal bill to protect vaccine manufacturers are unrelated?
Is it possible that in spite of US Congressional hearings and reports
citing widespread conflicts of interest between federal policy makers and
the vaccine industry that Senate Bill 3 will defy the US Constitution's
provisions for state and civil rights in order to shield vaccine manufacturers
from liability?
And finally, how will a world vaccine policy influenced by allegedly
“predetermined” safety reports implemented through a global alliance of
international governments and vaccine manufacturers with a fund of billions
headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland, support or protect the health and
human rights of targeted Third-World country peoples?
History of the IOM's Immunization and Safety Review Committee
Insight to these questions may lie in the pivotal year of 1999, a year
preceded by a decade of declining vaccine sales, major breakups within
the manufacturing industry, increased requirements for routine childhood
vaccines, a growing autism epidemic, and researchers and media reports
questioning the safety of vaccines and their possible link to autism.
In 1999, as a US Congressional Government Reform Committee initiated
an investigation into the rampant conflicts of interest between federal
vaccine policy makers and manufacturers, a global rescue effort of the
sinking vaccine industry began with the formation of GAVI.
Originally funded by Microsoft billionaire Bill Gates through his Seattle-based
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, GAVI's partnership of international
governments and vaccine manufacturers salvaged lagging sales through an
overhauled world vaccination campaign that placed GAVI, headquartered in
Geneva, Switzerland, at the center of the reorganized alliance.
Also formed in 1999 were the international Brighton Collaboration and
the WHO Global Advisory Committee on Vaccine Safety.
Brighton's sole purpose was to create standardized case definitions
for Adverse Events Following Immunizations for “global dissemination”.
Brighton's steering committee members currently hail from the US FDA, CDC,
and Aventis Pasteur, a vaccine manufacturer and federal lawsuit defendant.
Brighton's website does not include autism among its listed adverse
events.
The WHO Global Advisory Committee on Vaccine Safety has “ concluded
that there is currently no evidence of mercury toxicity in infants, children,
or adults exposed to thimerosal in vaccines” and “that current WHO immunization
policy with respect to thimerosal containing vaccines should not be changed.”
The Brighton Collaboration has been cited as being “fraught with pitfalls
and merges regulators and the regulated into an indistinguishable group.”
“ I am very concerned about the development of the Brighton Collaboration,”
stated US Congressional Representative Dave Weldon, MD, (R-FL) at an Autism
One Conference in May 2004. “Particularly troubling is the fact that serving
on the panels defining what constitutes an adverse reaction to a vaccine,
are vaccine manufacturers. What is even worse is the fact that some of
these committees are chaired by vaccine manufacturers. It is totally inappropriate
for a manufacturer of vaccines to be put in the position of determining
what is and is not an adverse reaction to their product. Do we allow GM,
Ford and Chrysler to define the safety of their automobiles?”
In 1999, with GAVI's international partnership and Bill Gates' billions
on the way to rescue the industry, the CDC hired the IOM's Immunizations
and Safety Review Committee to examine multiple “vaccine safety challenges”.
In its public report, the CDC specifically sited a 1998 British Lancet
study recommending more research into a potential link between the Measles,
Mumps, Rubella (MMR) vaccine and autism, negative press, public information
vaccine conferences, the Rotavirus vaccine recall and seven congressional
hearings questioning vaccine safety as impetus to employ the IOM.
However, the CDC's ability to objectively and fairly evaluate vaccine
risks has been denounced by a three year long US congressional investigation:
“To date, studies conducted or funded by the CDC that purportedly dispute
any correlation between autism and vaccine injury have been of poor design,
under-powered, and fatally flawed. The CDC's rush to support and
promote such research is reflective of a philosophical conflict in looking
fairly at emerging theories and clinical data related to adverse reactions
from vaccinations…
“The CDC in general and the National Immunization Program in particular
are conflicted in their duties to monitor the safety of vaccines, while
also charged with the responsibility of purchasing vaccines for resale
as well as promoting increased immunization rates,” states the congressional
report. (View the report at http://www.nomercury.org/science/documents/GRC_6-15-00.pdf
)
“They serve as their own watchdog -- neither common nor desirable when
seeking unbiased research,” Weldon has stated in describing the CDC. “An
association between vaccines and autism would force CDC officials to admit
that their policies irreparably damaged thousands of children. Who among
us would easily accept such a conclusion about ourselves? Yet, this is
what the CDC is asked to do,” Weldon said.
When byronchild asked CDC spokesperson Curtis Allen for a copy of the
contract that would detail the agreement between the IOM and the CDC, Allen
stated that the contract would be available only in a heavily “redacted”
or blacked-out format.
The IOM stated “no comment” to byronchild about the leaked transcript
or its use in the pending civil court case.
The Transcript of the First Organizational Meeting of the IOM Committee
click here to see full IOM transcript
On January 11, 2001, the IOM's Immunization and Safety Review committee
members gathered for its first organizational meeting in Washington, DC.
It is this meeting's transcript that has been submitted as an exhibit by
Waters and Kraus, a Dallas, Texas law firm.
During the IOM's open meeting, Walter Orenstein, MD, the Director of
the National Immunization Program at the CDC, charged the committee to
specifically address: “the causal relationship between the vaccine and
adverse effect; the biologic mechanisms that could account for the adverse
effect; and the significance of the safety concern in the context of society
at large.” ( Orenstein presided over another leaked CDC transcript from
June 2000, see sidebar 1. )
However, according to Gordon Douglas, MD, Director of Strategic Planning
for the Vaccine Research Center at the National Institutes of Health (NIH)
the IOM committee was hired by the CDC to “rule out the proposed links”.
The NIH serves as America's medical research agency.
Douglas stated in a Princeton University lecture summary that, “Four
current studies are taking place at the CDC in collaboration with the NIH
to rule out the proposed links between immunizations and autism, immunizations
and possible developmental regression, inflammatory bowel disease and the
MMR vaccine, and thimerosal and the risk of autism. In order to undo the
harmful effects of research claiming to link the MMR vaccine to an elevated
risk of autism, we need to conduct and publicize additional studies, strengthen
the program to assure parents of MMR's safety, and further educate pediatricians
and primary care physicians.”
Formerly Douglas served as the president of vaccine manufacturer and
federal lawsuit defendant Merck Vaccines from 1991 to 1999. According to
an LA Times story on February 8, 2005, while serving as president of Merck,
Douglas received a memo from Maurice R. Hilleman, MD, an internationally
renowned vaccinologist, who told Douglas that six-month-old babies who
received their vaccines on schedule would receive a mercury dose 87 times
higher than the Environmental Protection Agency deemed safe. (The NIH announced
a “sweeping ethics reform” on February 1, 2005, see side bar 2. To view
the Merck memo: http://www.nomercury.org/science/documents/LATimes-Merck_Memo_2-8-05.pdf
)
From the beginning of the IOM committee's meeting behind the closed
doors of the National Academies of Science building on January 12, 2001,
committee members repeatedly expressed their “need for reassurance” and
concern over their charge, evidence, methodology, and public communication
goals, especially to parents.
“We've got a dragon by the tail here,” states a committee member in
the transcript. “At the end of the line, what we know is – and I agree
– that the more negative that presentation [the report] is, the less likely
people are to use vaccination, immunization, and we know what the results
of that will be. We are kind of caught in a trap. How we work our way out
of the trap, I think, is the charge.”
Instead of focusing on scientific data which could possibly tarnish
the current routine childhood vaccine policy, “The transcript sets forth
in significant detail stated biases, preferences and/or predetermination
of various committee members in January, 2001, i.e. before any medical
or scientific evidence had been presented to the committee (emphasis added),”
states t he court document.
Specifically sited are statements by the IOM's study director Kathleen
Stratton, PhD, and committee chair Marie McCormick, MD. These statements,
the law firm says, strongly suggest Stratton and McCormick deliberately
railroaded their committee into specific outcomes (all in italics directly
from court document):
Dr. McCormick, for example, in speaking of the CDC, noted that the agency
“wants us to declare, well, these things are pretty safe on a population
basis.” (See Exhibit 1 at page 33).
“The committee's bias and predetermination of the causality issues presented
are found at page 74 in a comment from Dr. Statton:
Dr. Stratton: “We said this before you got here, and I think we said
this
yesterday, the point of no return, the line we will not cross in public
policy is to pull the vaccine, change the schedule. We could say it is
time to revisit this but we will never recommend that level. Even recommending
research is recommendations for policy. We wouldn't say compensate,
we wouldn't say pull the vaccine, we wouldn't say stop the program.”
Similarly, Dr. McCormick, at page 97 in discussing whether autism could
be associated with vaccines, stated that “we are not ever going to come
down that it is a true side effect,” despite the fact that the committee
had not yet considered any evidence on this issue.
At page 123, Dr. Stratton indicated that, despite not having heard any
of the evidence, the probable conclusion was going to be that the evidence
was “inadequate to accept or reject a causal relation.” “Chances are, when
all is said and done, we are still going to be in this category. It is
just a general feeling that we probably still are not going to be able
to make a statement.”
Stratton joined the IOM in 1990 and was later awarded the IOM's Cecil
Research Award for her contributions to vaccine safety. McCormick is the
Sumner and Esther Feldberg Professor of Maternal and Child Health at the
Harvard School of Public Health.
Congressmen, researchers and parents petitioned the IOM Committee to
delay their final meeting and report last year until an animal study demonstrating
a link between mercury and autism by Mady Hornig, MD, an associate professor
at Columbia University, could be completed.
The IOM refused to delay their final meeting and issued their “no link”
report on May 2004. The Columbia University study confirming the link between
mercury and autism was completed and presented to the public in June 2004.
“This is a perfect example of the scientific findings that the IOM ignored
when creating their recent report on the potential of the vaccine-autism
link,” stated Lyn Redwood, RN, MSN, NP, president of Safeminds, an independent
nonprofit organization. “The IOM was well aware that studies like these
were due for release, but chose to ignore them…The findings in this study
make clear that the IOM was more interested in regurgitating CDC spin than
incorporating hard science like Dr. Hornig's report. Such information would
force the government to face the reality of the mercury threat and take
definitive action to protect countless children from potential neurological
damage.”
The US Office of Special Counsel (OSC) – an independent investigative
and prosecutorial agency that serves as a channel for whistleblowers --
forwarded hundreds of disclosures “alleging public health and safety concerns
about childhood vaccines that include a mercury-based preservative known
as thimerosal, and its possible link to neurological disorders, including
autism” to the US Congress on May 20, 2004, the day after the IOM issued
its “no link” report.
The OSC letter requesting congressional action was addressed to US Senator
Judd Gregg (R-NH) – who introduced Senate Bill 3 and its provisions for
liability protection for vaccine manufacturers on January 24, 2005.
The OSC's letter to Gregg stated, “it appears there may be sufficient
evidence to find a substantial likelihood of a substantial and specific
danger to public health caused by the use of thimerosal/mercury in vaccines
because of its inherent toxicity…”
“Due to the gravity of the allegations, I am forwarding a copy of the
information disclosed to you in your capacity as Chairmen of the Senate
Committee and House Committee with oversight authority for HHS. I hope
that you will review these important issues and press HHS for a response
to this very serious public health danger,” states the OSC letter to Gregg.
(To view the OSC letter: http://www.nomercury.org/science/documents/OSC_Press_Release_5-20-04.pdf
)
Conflict of Interest in IOM Governing Council
Currently, members of the IOM's governing Council include, among 19
others , Gail H. Cassell, PhD, of Eli Lilly and Company and Helene D. Gayle,
MD, from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation – the same foundation that
donated the world's sixth largest charitable gift of $1.5 billion to create
and sustain GAVI.
Lilly is the original manufacturer of thimerosal, a mercury derivative
used in childhood vaccines as a preservative. The result of a discovery
process by law firm Waters and Kraus showed that Lilly knew of mercury's
toxicity as early as 1930 but nonetheless “secretly sponsored a human toxicity
study on patients already known to be dying of meningococcal meningitis.”
“Lilly then cited this study repeatedly for decades as proof that thimerosal
was of low toxicity and harmless to humans," states a press release from
the law firm.
While Lilly ceased the sale of thimerosal in 1991, their licensing agreements
demonstrate continued profits from the product until at least 2010.
Lilly is the single biggest contributor to the Republican Party from
the pharmaceutical industry donating $1.6 million in the last US election.
Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-TN), co-sponsor of Senate Bill
3, was the author of a controversial bill that contained a provision that
would protect Eli Lilly and other vaccine manufacturers from lawsuits over
mercury in the 2002 Homeland Security Act.
Frist's other notable tie to Lilly is the fact that the vaccine manufacturer
bought 5,000 copies of the senator's book on bioterrorism and distributed
them to physicians after September 11, 2001.
The basis of the Frist family fortune is the Hospital Corporation of
America (HCA), the largest for-profit hospital chain in the country, which
was founded by Frist's father and brother. (For more on Senator Frist see
sidebar 3).
GAVI – Using Corrupt Research to Vaccinate the World?
GAVI's public and private sector partners include governments in industrialized
and developing countries, UNICEF, the World Health Organization, WHO, the
World Bank, non-governmental organizations, foundations, vaccine manufacturers,
and public health and research institutions. WHO and GAVI's headquarters
are both in Geneva, Switzerland.
To date a total of almost $1.3 billion, in addition to the Gates endowment,
has been raised from international governments and private sources as well
as an additional $1.19 billion in pledges toward GAVI's goal of a 90% routine
immunization rate by 2010 for all of its 70 underdeveloped countries/grantees.
For vaccine manufacturers, the Gates' billions for GAVI represent a
guaranteed pipeline of money. For governments of undeveloped countries,
the funds may be used for any aspect of health as long as their country's
vaccine rate increases. If the rates drop, so do the funds.
According to GAVI figures, 4 million children have been vaccinated for
diphtheria, tetanus, and whooping cough; 42 million more children have
been vaccinated with hepatitis B; and 991 million single-use disposable
syringes have been produced for the program.
“ GAVI relies on technical and scientific information and advice from
the Global Advisory Committee on Vaccine Safety. Based on the committee's
findings, GAVI and its partners will continue to support the use of vaccines
that contain thimerosal,” responded Gates Foundation spokesperson Jenny
Sorensen to byronchild's inquiry.
If the accusation that the IOM “predetermined” the outcome of their
reports is true, what does this bode for a worldwide vaccine policy that
is now being routinely employed through GAVI's partners and the governments
of undeveloped countries who rely on the IOM's vaccine safety information
to be accurate?
World Economic Forum questions GAVI's Global Vaccine Campaign
Is the solution for creating a healthy world a global vaccine campaign?
During the World Economic Forum's 2003 Annual Meeting in Davos, Switzerland,
GAVI's global vaccine campaign was intensely debated by panelists.
WEF panelists were not convinced that GAVI's goals were realistic or
a panacea for the complex needs of underdeveloped countries.
"There is a strong tendency to see vaccines as a cure-all that can work
in isolation," said Geoffrey Foster, Founder and Consultant, International
Child Welfare and Health, Family AIDS Caring Trust, FACT, Zimbabwe, and
Social Entrepreneur. “Instead, vaccines must be set firmly within a realistic
and holistic context. In the past, in Europe, death and disease dropped
because of nutrition and education. Vaccines must accompany poverty alleviation
or children will be stunted both physically and intellectually.”
The World Economic Forum is a global community of business, political,
intellectual and other leaders of society. The forum is an independent
international organization incorporated as a Swiss not-for-profit foundation
and has NGO consultative status with the Economic and Social Council of
the United Nations.
Autism – An Epidemic Too Big To Ignore
During the years that the IOM reports were drafted, 2001 to 2004, more
than 4,500 petitions for “vaccine injuries resulting in autism spectrum
disorder”, piled up in an Omnibus Autism Proceeding with the US Court of
Federal Claims.
Currently, autism is the fastest growing developmental disability in
the United States, with one in 166 US children diagnosed with Autism Spectrum
Disorder, up from 1 in 2500 a decade ago, and over 1.77 million affected.
In the last four years alone, the number of cases of autism has nearly
doubled in California. “It is growing much faster than the growth of the
population and other forms of childhood disabilities,” states Cliff Allenby,
director of the State Department of Development Services.
A report by the independent Environmental Working Group issued in December
2004 found that autistic children had less glutathione, an antioxidant
that helps rid the body of toxic metals, when compared to a sample of healthy
children. The study, led by Jill James, PhD, a professor of biochemistry
and pediatrics at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, found
that a glutathione deficit “may contribute to the development and clinical
manifestation of autism."
Autism is not a disease but a ‘condition' often characterized by a failure
to bond, lack of social interaction, avoidance of eye-to-eye contact, difficulties
in language development, and repetitive behaviors known as stimming (self-stimulation).
Milder forms of autism are Asperger's Syndrome , Pervasive Developmental
Disorder and Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder . Collectively they
are known as Autism Spectrum Disorder, ASD.
States Take Matters Into Their Own Hands
After multiple congressional hearings on conflicts of interest within
the vaccine industry and government, repeated IOM reports stating no link
between vaccines and autism, and with no official FDA recall for mercury
containing vaccines, US citizens and state legislators took matters into
their own hands and in May 2004, Iowa became the first state to ban mercury
in vaccines.
During the same three-year period the IOM committee reviewed its data
on the vaccines and autism link, the Iowa Human Resources Committee reviewed
scientific and biological data from independent researchers.
‘After three years of review, I became convinced there was sufficient
credible research to show a link between mercury and the increased incidents
in autism,' said Iowa Senator Ken Veenstra. ‘The fact that Iowa's 700 percent
increase in autism began in the 90s, right after more and more vaccines
were added to the children's vaccine schedules, is solid evidence alone…The
IOM has not convinced me this action is not needed. I feel strongly we
need to pursue a use of alternative vaccines.”
US Congressional Representative Dave Weldon, MD, (R-FL), called the
IOM reports “heavily biased and unrepresentative of all the available scientific
and medical research.” Weldon said the reports discounted the biological
evidence presented by US Congressional investigative reports and university
studies. It also discounted thousands of parent activists who pointed to
the parallel increase in vaccination requirements and the rise in autism
rates starting in the early 1990s.
California Governor Arnold Swcharzenegger signed his state's mercury
ban last year and more than a dozen other states are currently considering
their own bans.
Senate Bill 3 would seek to repeal the current states bans and to prohibit
more states from enacting their own bans on mercury, a violation of the
US Constitution's Tenth Amendment . (See side bar 4 for a complete list
of the bill's proposals.)
Senate Bill 3 – Dissolution of Civil Rights?
Citing the IOM reports' green light to justify the act's proposed sweeping
protections for the vaccine industry, the bill states that, “ After considering
recent changes in the litigation environment with respect to vaccines as
well as recent scientific evidence and reports by the Institute of Medicine
(italics added) and others with respect to the safety of vaccines and their
components and ingredients, the Secretary of Health and Human Services
and the Attorney General shall, not later than 6 months after the date
of enactment of this Act, jointly submit recommendations to the appropriate
committees of Congress concerning necessary modifications to the Vaccine
Injury Compensation Program and Federal rules regarding litigation involving
vaccines.”
“The war on terror is a different kind of war and requires a different
kind of preparedness,” US Senator Judd Gregg (R-NH) said in a press release
about the bill. “Specifically, this bill encourages development of products
needed to protect the nation against biological, radiological or nuclear
agents as well as infectious diseases. It expands the availability and
accessibility of vaccines. Finally, it strengthens capacity and coordination,
so we can respond effectively during public health emergencies.”
“This bill is labeled as an ‘anti-terror' bill, but it is power grab
by the federal government and an assault on self-governance and the informed
consent ethic. It takes away the freedom of the people to make their voices
heard through their elected state representatives and protect themselves
from unsafe drugs, such as Celebrex and Vioxx, and unsafe vaccines, such
as those that contain high levels of mercury. It gives unprecedented liability
protection to the drug industry and broad powers to federal officials to
hide the truth from the people about vaccine and prescription drug risks,”
said Barbara Loe Fisher, president of America's largest and oldest vaccine
safety and consumer watchdog organization the National Vaccine Information
Center.
“Protecting the public health was not delegated to the federal government
and public health laws, including laws governing use of vaccines, have
always been under the control of citizens residing in each state,” said
Fisher. “The irony of this bill is that it is using the families of citizens
who have given their lives to defend our nation's freedom in order to take
rights and freedoms away from other families. Military veterans should
not be used to protect the drug industry and take away the freedom for
all Americans to have their voices heard through their elected state representatives…
This bill does not serve justice or freedom.”
An internationally renowned bio-ethicist who has previously spoken on
vaccine policy issues at the National Vaccine Information Center conference,
told byronchild magazine that people should not be surprised by the contents
of the IOM transcript or Senate Bill 3. ‘Old paradigms do not die easily,'
he said. ‘This is just the nature of the beast.'
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Side Bar 1: Not The First Leaked Transcript
The 2001 IOM transcript is not the first to be leaked to the public.
Another closed meeting transcript from June of 2000 recorded 53 scientists
from the CDC, FDA, and the vaccine industry at the Simpsonwood Retreat
Center in Georgia to review the findings of a statistically significant
correlation between mercury-containing vaccines and neurological conditions.
The discovery was made by CDC employee Thomas Verstraeten, MD, using
the CDC's own data. The meeting was not open to the public or announced
in the Federal Register, and the CDC has still not made their findings
public. Verstraeten has since left the CDC to work for a vaccine manufacturer
in Belgium. He has also not responded to a US Congressional subpoena.
However the meeting transcript was included in the “Mercury in Medicine:
Taking Unnecessary Risks?” report that was the result of a three year investigation
by the US Congress' Subcommittee on Human Rights and Wellness, Committee
on Government Reform's Report published in April 2003.
The Simpsonwood meeting was presided over by Walter Orenstein, MD, the
Director of the National Immunization Program at the CDC. Orenstein presented
the public charge to the IOM committee on January 11, 2001, the day before
the closed organizational meeting.
To read the Simpsonwood transcript go to: http://www.nomercury.org/science/documents/Simpsonwood_Transcript.pdf
To read the Verstraeten study: http://www.nomercury.org/science/documents/ThimerosalVSDstudy001.pdf
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Side Bar 2: Sweeping Ethics Reform to End Culture of Corruption?
Drug industry influence on medical research and practice and on the
prescribing of drugs is pervasive. After a yearlong investigation into
the “culture” of conflicts of interest between its scientists and manufacturers,
on February 1, 2005, the National Institutes of Health, the US leading
agency for medical research, announced a “sweeping ethics reform”.
Under the new rules which reversed a 1995 decision that allowed “moonlighting”
between the scientists and industry, all NIH employees have been prohibited
from engaging in employment with pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies,
supported research institutions, including NIH grantees, health care providers
and insurers. NIH employees were also required to sell their stock in any
of the above.
In a “town hall” meeting for employees on February 3, 2005, NIH director
Elias A. Zerhouni, MD, announced the need for a summit of government and
academic leaders to address conflicts of interest throughout American medical
research as part of the ethics reform.
The NIH announcement came after a year-long investigation in to conflicts
of interest and the “discovery, made by congressional investigators, that
more than 100 NIH employees had not disclosed various relationships they
had with pharmaceutical and biotech companies, in violation of government
ethics rules” according to a Washington Post article on February 3, 2005.
"I came to the conclusion that we have a systemic problem," Zerhouni
said in an LA Times interview on February 12, 2005. "They were not just
isolated events. They reflected the complete set of rules that had been
adopted over the years, which had transformed the culture. I said, if that's
the case, let's bring back the culture to where it needs to be: That is,
public first.
"That's the hardest part," he said. "It's easy to come up with regulations.
It's not easy to change a culture."
To read the NIH report: http://www.nih.gov/news/pr/feb2005/od-01.htm
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Sidebar 3: Who is Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-TN), co-sponsor
of Senate Bill 3?
According to the Center for Justice and Democracy, these are some facts
about Senator Bill Frist, MD:
• The basis of the Frist family fortune is the Hospital Corporation
of America (HCA), the largest for-profit hospital chain in the country,
which was founded by Frist's father and brother.
• Frist and his wife have $26 million in HCA stock in a so-called
“blind trust.”
• HCA has agreed to pay the federal government more than $1.7
billion in civil and criminal penalties, the largest health care settlement
in history, for massive Medicare, Medicaid and Tricare billing fraud.
• Frist has gotten more than $2.3 million from doctors, health
insurers, drug companies and others in the health care industry, roughly
20 percent of all the contributions to his two Senate races, raising more
cash from health-care interests than 98 percent of his colleagues.
• Frist has voted against patients' rights to sue their HMOs for
failure to provide adequate treatment while supporting tax subsidies to
HMOs and insurance companies to offer prescription drugs to seniors, rather
than providing them through Medicare. Frist has received $123,750 in campaign
cash from HMOS.
• To date, Frist has received $265,023 from the pharmaceutical
industry. The
pharmaceutical industry was also the largest single contributor to
the National
Republican Senatorial Campaign Committee that Frist chaired, giving
about $4 million — and Lilly was the single biggest contributor to the
GOP from that industry, having given $1.6 million in the last election
cycle.
• In 2002, Frist engineered the insertion of a provision into
the Homeland Security bill that would protect Eli Lilly and other pharmaceutical
giants from lawsuits over mercury in vaccines. Not long after Frist introduced
the legislation, the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America,
the drug industry's trade group, gave $10,000 to his political action committee.
This report from: http://www.centerjd.org/free/mythbusters-free/Frist.pdf
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Side Bar 4: Senate Bill 3 – What It Could Do
Of major concern to vaccine safety and civil rights advocates are the
following provisions in Senate Bill 3:
* Eliminates a state's right to more strictly regulate vaccines and
drugs and more fully inform their citizens about vaccine and drug risks
than does the federal government. Laws already passed in California and
Iowa limiting mercury content in vaccines would be repealed.
* Gives comprehensive liability protections to drug companies. Eliminates
a citizen's right to seek justice in state courts for drug and vaccine
injuries and deaths and limits awards in federal courts. Gives tax credits,
grants and patent extensions to the drug industry.
*Allows the Department of Health and Department of Justice, the defendants
in the federal Vaccine Injury Compensation Program, to write the terms
of their own defense in order to further limit awards to vaccine injured
children.
* Creates and funds a mandatory, national electronic tracking system
operated by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) to monitor vital records
of citizens relating to both notifiable and non-notifiable diseases and
"new trends" and "patterns in public health." Creates penalties for states
and health care providers not reporting in a "timely manner" to the national
tracking system. There are no provisions for mandatory reporting of serious
health problems following vaccine and prescription drug use or punishments
for not reporting serious side effects.
S. 3 is being promoted by sponsors as a military veteran benefit bill
because it raises the death benefits and other financial support for the
families of soldiers who lost their lives in the war in Iraq.
From the National Vaccine Information Center's website. For a point
by point examination of the bill, visit the site at http://www.nvic.org/ActionAlerts/S3Article.htm
.
For the actual bill: Senate Bill 3: http://www.nomercury.org/science/documents/S_3_War_on_Terror_Act_2005.pdf
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