I was recently contacted by the CBC for an interview regarding swine flu vaccines. After doing a 20 minute phone interview, I set it up for the CBC to come film our street actions with Toronto Truth Seekers. The CBC spent an hour and a half with us gathering information for their story on swine flu vaccinations. Press For Truth documented everything.
For more information visit:
http://torontotruthseekers.com/
http://torontochange.com/
http://pressfortruth.ca/
They must find it difficult, those who have taken authority as the truth, rather than truth as the authority.
Thursday, October 8, 2009
The shot is the pandemic
MSNBC Eugenicist: Health workers must get flu shot or quit
- MSNBC -
The California Nurses Association and the National Nurses Organizing Committee have issued statements that individuals should be able to refuse the vaccine. The New York State Public Employees Federation said that “vaccination for influenza is not as effective in the control of disease as vaccination for diseases such as polio, measles and mumps.” Other health groups wanted to know why those who preferred to shun the shot could not simply wear masks.
Last week hundreds of people showed up in Albany, N.Y., at a rally to protest New York State’s plan to require all state workers to get both an annual flu
Excuse me? What rights might those be?
Apparently the doctor has never read the Constitution of the United States, or the Nuremberg Code.
- The right to infect your patient and kill them? The right to create havoc in the health care workforce if swine flu hits hard? The right to ignore all the evidence of safety and efficacy of vaccines thus continuing to promulgate an irrational fear on the part of the public of the best protection babies, pregnant women, the elderly and the frail have against the flu? Those rights?
Many hospitals in Illinois, Washington, Missouri, Georgia and Maryland are putting in place flu shot mandates. My own institution, the University of Pennsylvania Health System and its affiliated, top-ranked Children’s Hospital are leading the way in getting mandates moving. Why? The answer is simple: The vaccine will save lives.
Only half get vaccine
The annual rate of health care workers getting flu shots has been hovering around 50 percent at most institutions for years. The evidence for the toll this low vaccination rate takes on patients and staff has been mounting year after year.
If you can get close to 100 percent vaccination rates you can cut patient death rates from flu by 40 percent. Sick days among doctors and nurses drop by about the same amount. Eleven babies died of swine flu during the last week of September alone, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. With a potentially potent form of swine flu on the horizon, those kind of grim statistics have made hospital infection disease experts sound the alarm to implement mandates to boost vaccination rates.
Nothing works as well as vaccines to prevent getting the flu and transmitting it others.
Here's where you have to stop, because as soon as a doctor tells you there's nothing better you can do to stay healthy than get jabbed with their Nazi - I mean FDA - approved drugs, you know he's got an ulterior motive. Is it because he's a eugenicist, like his colleague John Holdren, Obama's science czar? Or is it because he's a state-sponsored narcotics dealer? Nothing works better, doctor? Not vitamin C or vitamin D? Oh, you can't prescribe those (not yet anyway). I apologize. Here we see what the good doctor thinks of actually taking care of your body to ward off illnesses:
- There is no evidence that vitamins, special diets, fresh air or any other alternative ideas does anything to make flu viruses less nasty.
He's lying.
- And all we really have to fight swine flu are ventilators, some drugs that may or may not work and the new vaccine.
The medical establishment has been recommending that kids get flu shots forever. The state of New Jersey just put into practice a law requiring flu shots for young schoolchildren in day care and preschool. The U.S. Armed Forces has no time for anyone who will not get a flu shot. If you want to legally immigrate to this country you have to roll up your sleeve. Why should health care workers be treated any differently?
That's an outstanding argument, "Doctor": everyone else has their rights violated, what makes healthcare workers think they're so special? Read more if you like...I'm gonna be - pardon the pun - sick.
Wednesday, October 7, 2009
Top researcher who worked on cervical cancer vaccine warns about its dangers
- NaturalNews -
One of the key researchers involved in the clinical trials for both Gardasil and Cevarix cervical cancer vaccines has gone public with warnings about their safety and effectiveness. This highly unusual warning against these vaccines by one of Big Pharma's own researchers surfaced in an exclusive interview with the Sunday Express in the UK over the last few days. There, Dr. Diane Harper openly admitted the vaccine doesn't even prevent cervical cancer, stating, "[The vaccine] will not decrease cervical cancer rates at all."
This is astonishing news. The whole push behind the cervical cancer vaccines is based on the belief that they prevent cervical cancer. That belief, it turns out, is a myth.
Dr. Harper also warned that the cervical cancer vaccine was being "over-marketed" and that parents should be warned about the possible risk of severe side effects from the vaccine. She even concluded that the vaccine itself is more dangerous than the cervical cancer it claims to prevent!
Hysteria over genital warts?
In a New York Times article published last year, Dr. Harper spoke about the fear-based marketing of Gardasil by Merck:"'Merck lobbied every opinion leader, women's group, medical society, politicians, and went directly to the people -- it created a sense of panic that says you have to have this vaccine now..."
This behavior by drug companies -- using fear tactics to promote a particular disease in order to sell the "treatment" -- is called disease mongering. Most of the pharmaceutical profits generated today are based on precisely this tactic: Spread the fear, then sell the treatment. Read more about disease mongering here: http://www.naturalnews.com/disease_...
You can also toy around with the NaturalNews disease mongering engine, where you can invent your own diseases at the click of a button: http://www.naturalnews.com/disease-...
Why is disease mongering so important to the profits of the drug companies? They figured out many years ago that selling drugs only to those people who are sick was a very limited income opportunity. To rake in the real profits, they needed to devise a way to sell drugs to healthy people (i.e. people who don't need them). That's what cervical cancer vaccines really are: A scheme to sell vaccines to people who aren't suffering from any disease at all.
That one of the industry's own researchers is willing to speak out against this is not just highly unusual; it's also highly courageous. It makes you wonder: Who, exactly, is this Dr. Harper?
Dr. Diane Harper
Dr. Harper is a graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She studied additional courses at Stanford and received her medical degree from the University of Kansas. She was a key researcher in both Gardasil and Cervarix vaccines, and she's one of the most experienced researchers in the world on HPV-related diseases. She's done work for both Merck and GlaxoSmithKline.Dr. Harper's warnings about cervical cancer vaccines are especially relevant considering her expertise in the cost/benefit analysis of vaccines. Her conclusion is that cervical cancer vaccines aren't worth the risks, nor are they worth all the effort being put into hyping them to the public. "This may not be the best use of our resources at this time," she said in a Washington Post article.
So why do cervical cancer vaccines continue to be pushed by doctors and health authorities across the US, UK and other first-world nations? Because Big Pharma is the great corporate puppeteer that's pulling the strings of legislators. With enough money and lobbyists, you can always overcome scientific thinking with fear-based marketing and under-the-table deal-making. Science-based medicine has no place in a world where disease is big business.
There's a ridiculous amount of money to be made by pushing vaccines onto people who don't need them. If I had ten bucks for every teenage girl that's been injected with a cervical cancer vaccine, I'd be... well... GlaxoSmithKline.
Sources for this story include:
UMKC
http://www.med.umkc.edu/informatic_...
Dartmouth Medical School
http://dms.dartmouth.edu/faculty/fa...
Washington Post
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dy...
Daily Express
http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view...
Teen girl suffers permanent brain damage after cervical cancer vaccine
- NaturalNews -
As the cervical cancer vaccine continues to maim or kill even more teenage girls across the UK, 18-year-old Stacey Jones is the latest victim to suffer severe harm. Previously in a state of apparent health, Stacey began to suffer severe seizures and brain inflammation within days after receiving the Cervarix vaccine injection. The swelling of her brain was so severe that it cause permanent brain damage, and today Stacey Jones is an "empty shell" of a girl.
Her mother isn't fooled by Big Pharma. "I really feel she has been used as a guinea pig," she said in a DailyMail news article (source below). "I don't think there is enough evidence that the vaccination programme is safe - this all happened days after Stacey was given the vaccine, and we don't have any other explanation for what triggered her brain injury."
Just last week, 14-year-old Natalie Morton died within hours after receiving the same vaccine injection. Medical authorities insisted Natalie suddenly died of a previously undiagnosed tumor in her chest, but NaturalNews was the first to suggest fraud in the pathology report, pointing out that Natalie's real cause of death had to be covered up to protect the lucrative vaccine industry.
Vaccines = the new holocaust
As the deaths mount, vaccines are becoming the new chemical holocaust of our time. Children and teens are lined up to be injected with chemicals made by some of the very same companies that once conducted medical experiments on Jewish concentration camp prisoners during the Nazi era (http://www.naturalnews.com/019189.html).Did you know, for example, that one of the chemotherapy drugs still used in cancer centers today was originally developed under the chemical weapons program of Nazi Germany? (http://www.naturalnews.com/News_000...)
Vaccines don't kill as many people as the Nazi gas chambers, but the number of people being targeted by the vaccination holocaust is many times larger than the number imprisoned in Nazi Germany.
The corporations behind all this, of course, are much the same. So are the people. A 10-year Chairman of Bayer, for example, was a convicted Nazi war criminal. As explained on another NaturalNews article:
"Dr. Fritz ter Meer, a director of IG Farben who was directly involved in developing the nerve gas, Zyklon-B, which killed millions of Jews, was sentenced to seven years in prison but was released after four years through the intervention of Rockefeller and J.J. McCloy, then U.S. High Commissioner for Germany. An unrepentant Fritz ter Meer, guilty of genocide and crimes against humanity, returned to work in Bayer where he served as Chairman for more than 10 years, until 1961.
(http://www.naturalnews.com/024534_h...)
Whether we're talking about Nazi war crimes or mass vaccination campaigns, the intent is the same: power and control over people. If you're a new reader on NaturalNews and not yet familiar with the historical involvement of the pharmaceutical industry in Nazi Germany, read the above article link to get up to speed.
Being injected with a vaccine is a lot like being branded with an identification number tattoo in a prison camp. They are both administered via threats and intimidation (a mandatory vaccine push is now under way in the U.S.), they both involve government power over the freedoms of the people, and they both seek to control and corral the people into narrowly-defined realms of "acceptable" state-approved behavior.
When you allow yourself to be injected with a vaccine, you are in effect labeling yourself a medical slave of the Big Pharma-dominated system of western medicine. You are making a statement that you don't believe in your own body's immune system and you don't believe in health freedom. You are, in effect, acting like "a good little Nazi" with a hail to the Big Pharma fuhrer.
Human guinea pigs
I stand firm on the belief that anyone who truly knew the details of the history of Big Pharma would never allow their bodies to be invaded with vaccines. The only people who are allowing themselves to be injected are those who are utterly ignorant of the last hundred years of human medical experimentation that has been undertaken by the pharmaceutical industry.Did you know, for example, that Pfizer used Nigerian children for medical experiments? (http://www.naturalnews.com/023654.html)
Did you know that Pfizer also pleaded guilty to a felony crime in the fraudulent marketing of one of its top drugs?
(http://www.naturalnews.com/026963_P...)
Were you aware that GlaxoSmithKline (GSK), one of the key manufacturers of the swine flu vaccine, ordered the continuation of a vaccine trial even after 12 babies died?
(http://www.naturalnews.com/023669.html)
Did you also know that GSK was sued for price-fixing fraud by 40 states?
(http://www.naturalnews.com/019947_G...)
Read more shocking (but true) reports about GSK here:
http://www.naturalnews.com/GlaxoSmi...
There's an undeniable pattern of behavior in the pharmaceutical industry that simply must be acknowledged: It is a greed-driven corporate monstrosity that routinely commits fraud, kills children, engages in monopolistic marketing behavior, intimidates scientists and conducts pharmaceutical medical experiments on human patients (among other crimes).
In fact, takers of the swine flu vaccine are unwittingly taking part in the largest global medical experiment ever conducted. The results of that experiment won't be known for many years, but they will almost certainly include neurological impairment, seizures, and many deaths. Watch for reports on the side effects of the swine flu vaccine at www.SwineFluVaccineReport.com
In future history books, today's mass vaccination campaigns will be seen in much the same way as the Nazi holocaust: A terrible, avoidable atrocity that suckered in almost everyone (including lots of intelligent people). One day, I truly believe the CEOs of drug companies will be arrested and tried for their crimes against humanity, perhaps in a venue similar to the Nuremberg Trials (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuremb...).
Sources for this story include:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...
Friday, October 2, 2009
Big Pharma Covering Up Deaths?
A precious, innocent child’s life came to a cruel, sudden end. The Wall Street Journal reports that Natalie Morton, who died in England shortly following a Cervarix injection, did not die from the vaccination.The WSJ, in fact, almost appears to be swaggering behind its words. So you see, says the WSJ, no need to fear or stop the H1N1 vaccination program. There are pathology reports that absolve the vaccination and its maker. The HPV vaccinations are perfectly safe, as are the swine flu jabs. Thank goodness—I feel better already.
The pathology report states that she had an undiagnosed condition that was “so severe that death could have arisen at any point.” What was that condition? A “tumour in her chest involving her heart and her lungs.” A tumor (don’t like the Brit spelling) that just suddenly lashed out at her and attacked and killed, after producing no symptoms of a cancer tumor whatsoever? Is there a single person who is dumb enough to swallow this very inadequate version of her death?
I mentioned the other day that GlaxoSmithKline is working to get approval to sell Cervarix in the U.S. to compete against Merck’s Gardasil. Of course they wouldn’t allow a truthful report of this death, caused by the vaccination, to be revealed and thus deny its approval in the U.S., causing the loss of billions of dollars in revenue streams. As Mike Adams says, “This explanation is obviously a cover story to protect the vaccine industry; and it’s not even a convincing cover story at that.” Remember, this is a global vaccination program, with mandates growing and billions at stake. This is from the Wall Street Journal piece:
That sad case is a reminder to be wary of confusing proximity in time with cause and effect — a concept public-health officials have been citing in advance of the imminent roll out of the swine (H1N1) flu vaccine.
Ahh yes, coincidence! People, you see, may now fear the massive swine flu forced vaccination program the government is trying to shove down our throats. Can’t have that—declaring a worldwide pandemic and triggering hysteria means the growth of government control and a healthy, wealthy pharmaceutical industry.
FDA Approved H1N1 Vaccines Contain Ingredients Known to Cause Cancer and Death
Most health experts will agree that vaccine reactions can occur. It is estimated that roughly 1 in every million people will react to their vaccine. Even then, health officials maintain that it is usually a simple case of inflammation at the injection site and/or a slight fever. On a rare occasion, anaphylactic shock may occur due to the patient reacting to a substance that they are allergic to. However, the FDA recently approved four H1N1 vaccines that not only contain very questionable ingredients, but some of those ingredients have even been proven to cause cancer and death.
The FDA has awarded H1N1 contracts to the following companies: MedImmune, LLC (1), CSL Limited (2), Novartis Vaccines and Diagnostics Limited (3), and Sanofi Pasteur (4). Their package inserts became public knowledge in recent weeks.
All four vaccines list hypersensitivity to eggs as a contraindication (1) (2) (3) (4). This means that it is not advisable to administer any one of these products to a person suffering from a severe egg allergy or egg protein allergy. This contraindication may affect as many as 15 million people (based on a population of 300 million). (5). While parents are instructed not to feed their infant eggs until 1 year of age, these same infants will be exposed to eggs by way of their H1N1 vaccine and/or seasonal flu vaccine beginning at 6 months of age.
CSL’s vaccine (2) also lists hypersensitivity to chicken protein as a contraindication. “While most people who are sensitive to eggs can eat chicken, there is one protein that is present in both eggs and poultry — alpha-livetin, or chicken serum albumin — that can cause allergies to both foods.” (6) It is unknown at this time how many people are allergic to the aforementioned proteins. Going into anaphylactic shock is a very real possibly if one were to receive an ingredient that he/she is allergic to.
Neomycin and polymyxin are listed as contraindications for CSL’s (2) and Novartis’ (3) vaccines. “Neomycin may cause damage to the kidneys and/or nerves. Kidney function and drug levels in the blood may be monitored with blood tests during treatment. Tell your doctor if you experience decreased urination, hearing loss, ringing in the ears, feeling of fullness in the ears, dizziness, numbness, skin tingling, muscle twitching, or seizures which may be signs of kidney or nerve damage.” (7) According to Teva Pharmaceuticals, the effects of neomycin may not be evident until long after the medication has been discontinued. Just exactly how long is unclear at this time. (8) Polymyxin has its own set of possible adverse reactions. “Neurotoxic reactions may be manifested by irritability, weakness, drowsiness, ataxia, perioral paresthesia, numbness of the extremities, and blurring of vision. These are usually associated with high serum levels found in patients with impaired renal function and/or nephrotoxicity.” (9)
Gentamicin (10) is listed as a contraindication for MedImmune’s vaccine (1). It too, has its own list of possible side effects, which may include nephrotoxicity and/or neurotoxicity.Nephrotoxicity is when damage or injury occurs to the kidneys as a result of taking certain medications. This may include kidney failure. (11) Neurotoxicity is when the damage involves the nerve tissue, such as paralysis or encephalitis (brain swelling). (12)
A word of caution to parents is warranted here: several vaccine manufacturers list crying or high-pitched screaming for greater than 3 hours as a sign of a serious vaccine reaction. Though this same warning is not applicable to any one of these H1N1 vaccines, it is still a situation that a parent should be alert to. If your child is crying or screaming for a long period of time, it may be a sign of brain inflammation. You know your child better than anyone. If something doesn’t feel right, have your child evaluated immediately.
It is very important to note that administration of more than one aminoglycoside, such as neomycin, polymyxin, or gentamicin, is not advisable. In fact, it is even listed as a major drug interaction. (13) One can only imagine what could happen if a healthcare professional were to administer an H1N1 vaccine in conjunction with a seasonal flu vaccine or any other vaccines on the same day. Fluarix (14) and Flumist (15) are two U.S. licensed seasonal flu vaccines on the market today that both contain gentamicin sulfate. Common childhood vaccines, Pediatrix (16) and Pentacel (17) contain neomycin and polymyxin b sulfate. Furthermore, when aminoglycosides are administered with any other drugs or chemicals that alter kidney function, the toxicity is far greater, as well as the risk of having complications, such as ototoxicity (ear poisoning). (18) Other medications that may alter kidney function include non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (such as ibuprofen or naproxen) or cholesterol lowering medications. (19) Non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs are also found in many cold and allergy preparations as well. (20)
Gelatin is listed as a contraindication for Sanofi Pasteur’s (1) and MedImmune’s (4) vaccines. A severe allergy to this ingredient is estimated to be present in about 1 in every 2 million doses. (21) Food sources may include jams, yogurt, cream cheese, margarine, ice cream, etc. It would be wise to review the patient’s history prior to the administration of any vaccines containing gelatin.
Arginine and asthma are both listed as contraindications for MedImmune’s vaccine. (1) Apparently, if the patient is suffering from hyperargininemia (elevated arginine levels), this ingredient should be avoided. (22) This metabolic disorder is estimated to affect 1 in every 300,000 babies born in the United States. (23) The vaccine is also not advisable for persons suffering from asthma because it may worsen symptoms. (1) Asthma, by the way, currently affects 20 million people in the U.S. alone and is sharply on the rise. (24)
The method of dosing is quite confusing in my opinion. In certain situations, a toddler will receive twice the amount of vaccine than an adult would. For example, MedImmune calls for a 2 year old child to receive 2 doses of 0.2 mL each, approximately 1 month apart, while an adult will simply receive 1 dose of 0.2 mL. Sanofi Pasteur instructs the medical professional to administer 2 doses of 0.5 mL 1 month apart to children 36 months through 9 years of age, while an adult will only receive 1 dose of 0.5 mL. (1) (4)
An overview of the remaining chemicals may prove to be further unsettling. Sanofi Pasteur’s vaccine (4) also contains formaldehyde (25), which is a suspected carcinogen (cancer-causing), Triton X-100 (26), which is possibly a reproductive toxin, and thimerosal (27), which is mutagenic for mammalian somatic cells (alters DNA).
MedImmune’s vaccine (1) also contains monosodium glutamate (MSG), dibasic potassium phosphate (28), and monobasic potassium phosphate (29). Because so many people are sensitive to MSG, oriental restaurants have taken it upon themselves to serve and advertise food completely free of it! The other two ingredients, dibasic potassium phosphate and monobasic potassium phosphate may be harmful if swallowed or inhaled. They will also be present in CSL’s vaccine (2).
Potassium chloride (30), calcium chloride (31), and sodium chloride (32) are also listed as ingredients for CSL. All three are considered mutagenic for mammalian somatic cells. By far, the most disturbing ingredient of all is that which is found in both CSL (2) and Novartis’ (3) vaccines – beta-propiolactone (33). It is a proven carcinogen by OSHA and is toxic to kidneys, lungs, liver, and digestive system. It is also corrosive to skin and eyes on contact. Then of course, there is the monobasic sodium phosphate (34) and sodium taurodeoxycholate (35) to contend with. Both are considered “slightly hazardous” in cases of contact with skin, eyes, ingestion, or inhalation.
During the clinical trials conducted by the makers of said products (1) (2) (3) (4), it was noted that the following reactions occurred: headache, nasal congestion, cough, rhinorrhea, pharyngolaryngeal pain, reactogenicity event, diarrhea, back pain, upper respiratory tract infection, viral infection, lower respiratory tract infection, myalgia, and muscle spasm. Once the products were released onto the market, the following unsolicited adverse events occurred: dizziness, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, transient thrombocytopenia, lymphadenopathy, anaphylactic shock, serum sickness, neuralgia, paresthesia, convulsions, encephalopathy, neuritis or neuropathy, transverse myelitis, Guillian-Barre syndrome, vasculitis with transient renal involvement, pruritis, uticaria, rash, influenza-like illness, Stevens-Johnson syndrome, Epistaxis, and brachial neuritis. However, due to the unknown number of people reporting these events, it is not possible to determine whether or not these events occurred due to the vaccine administered.
Don’t be alarmed folks by all of this medical and chemical jargon. It is not known at this time whether or not these vaccines (1) (2) (3) (4) can cause carcinogenesis (cancer), mutagenesis (alter your DNA) or impairment of fertility because the studies have not been performed.
This disclaimer may be found on all 4 vaccine package inserts in Section 13.1 titled “Carcinogenesis, Mutagenesis, Impairment of Fertility.”
The only logical conclusion is that there must be a reason why they have not been able to conduct these studies. As far as the statistical probability of vaccine reactions are concerned, just who are we to question the Center for Disease Control?
(1) http://www.fda.gov/downloads/BiologicsBloodVaccines/Vaccines/ApprovedProducts/UCM182406.pdf
(2) http://www.fda.gov/downloads/BiologicsBloodVaccines/Vaccines/ApprovedProducts/UCM182401.pdf
(3) http://www.fda.gov/downloads/BiologicsBloodVaccines/Vaccines/ApprovedProducts/UCM182242.pdf
(4) http://www.fda.gov/downloads/BiologicsBloodVaccines/Vaccines/ApprovedProducts/UCM182404.pdf
(5) http://www.chop.edu/consumer/jsp/division/generic.jsp?id=75811
(6) http://foodallergies.about.com/od/eggallergies/p/eggallergies.htm
(7) http://www.drugs.com/mtm/neomycin.html
(8) http://dailymed.nlm.nih.gov/dailymed/drugInfo.cfm?id=2381
(9) http://www.drugs.com/pro/polymyxin-b-injection.html
(10) http://www.drugs.com/pro/gentamicin-sulfate.html
(11) http://www.wrongdiagnosis.com/medical/nephrotoxicity.htm
(12) http://medical-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/neurotoxicity
(13) http://www.drugs.com/drug-interactions/gentamicin.html
(14) http://us.gsk.com/products/assets/us_fluarix.pdf
(15) http://www.medimmune.com/pdf/products/flumist_pi.pdf
(16) http://us.gsk.com/products/assets/us_pediarix.pdf
(17) https://www.vaccineshoppe.com/image.cfm?doc_id=10193&image_type=product_pdf
(18) http://www.vestibular.org/vestibular-disorders/specific-disorders/ototoxicity.php
(19) http://www.medicinenet.com/kidney_failure/article.htm
(20) http://www.medicinenet.com/nonsteroidal_antiinflammatory_drugs/article.htm
(21) http://www.chop.edu/consumer/jsp/division/generic.jsp?id=75813
(22) http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/druginfo/natural/patient-arginine.html
(23) http://www.newbornscreening.info/Parents/aminoaciddisorders/argininemia.html
(24) http://www.asthmacapitals.com/
(25) http://www.jtbaker.com/msds/englishhtml/F5522.htm
(26) http://www.sciencelab.com/xMSDS-TRITON_X_100-9927635
(27) http://www.sciencelab.com/xMSDS-Thimerosal-9925236
(28) http://www.jtbaker.com/msds/englishhtml/s4760.htm
(29) http://www.jtbaker.com/msds/englishhtml/P6038.htm
(30) http://www.sciencelab.com/xMSDS-Potassium_chloride-9927402
(31) http://www.sciencelab.com/xMSDS-Calcium_chloride_Anhydrous-9923251
(32) http://www.sciencelab.com/xMSDS-Sodium_chloride-9927593
(33) http://www.sciencelab.com/xMSDS-beta_Propiolactone-9924729
(34) http://www.sciencelab.com/xMSDS-Sodium_phosphate_monobasic_monohydrate-9925021
(35) http://www.hmdb.ca/labm/servlet/labm.mlims.showFile?tbl=tbl_chemical&id=1132562275777250020
Thursday, October 1, 2009
Canada will protect swine flu vaccine maker from lawsuits
- Toronto Star -
Canada is protecting the drugmaker of swine flu vaccine from lawsuits over potential side effects, Canada's top doctor has confirmed.
Dr. David Butler-Jones told a media teleconference Wednesday that Canada will shield GalxoSmithKline in the unlikely event there are problems with the vaccine, but it will not shield health practitioners who make mistakes in administering the shot.
"We're not obviously anticipating problems with it, but indemnification for a vaccine is important if someone does malpractice, basically injects someone the wrong way or causes harm because of their practice," he said.
"That's not a vaccine issue, it's a practice issue," he added.
The Public Health Agency of Canada had initially refused to say if Canada would shield drugmakers the way other G-8 governments have done.
Wednesday, September 30, 2009
Bacteria research scientist suddenly dies of the Plague, apparently caused by a vaccine supposedly to prevent it.
- WLS-TV Chicago (ABC) -
A University of Chicago researcher died after being exposed to a strain of bacteria that causes plague. And Malcolm Casadaban's family wants answers.
The Chicago Department of Public Health says there's no sign anyone else was exposed to the bacteria.
The tragic irony is that Professor Casadaban had been trying to develop a vaccine so that thousands of people around the world wouldn't die a painful, ugly death from a bacterial infection related to the plague. But it was that bacterium that appears to have killed him.
"We really thought he was so strong, we didn't see this coming at all," said Leigh Casadaban, daughter.
Not only did they not see it coming, but sisters Leigh and Brooke Casadaban say their father never knew what killed him.
"It was just so much of a shock, even the time he was in the ER, from the moment he got accepted to the time he passed away. We had no idea, we didn't even get to say goodbye to him," said Brooke Casadaban.
Malcom Casadaban was a professor of molecular genetics at the University of Chicago for 30 years.
For the past eight years, his daughters say, he'd been working with a strain of bacteria called yersinia pestis, trying to develop a stronger vaccine for the plague, once the world's worst health scourge.
The weakened strain he was using, however, isn't supposed to make healthy people sick.
And that is the big mystery now for investigators with the Centers for Disease Control and the state and city public health departments who've been looking for clues at the U. of C. labs.
"Was it a change in the organism, something about the person infected that made him uniquely susceptible? We don't really know the answers yet," said John Easton, University of Chicago Medical Center.
"It was hurtful because we remember our father as very healthy. He rode his bike to work, never smoked, never drank," said Brooke Casadaban.
Brooke and Leigh Casadaban say they're not satisfied with the answers they've been given so far.
How did their father, who had flu-like symptoms, enter the hospital a week ago Sunday morning and die 12 hours later with no one suspecting that it could be related to the plague?
Leigh, who is following in her father's footsteps, now attends her father's alma mater Massachusetts Institute of Technology, says it may be up to her to solve this.
"I plan to go to the lab to read his papers and notes and go and really understand what he was trying to do," said Leigh Casadaban.
Leigh and Brooke say they've been told that their father is the first person in the Chicago area to die from this bacterium, an infection that is usually cured with antibiotics. They say they're not eager to file a lawsuit. But they are wondering now if someone at the hospital or the university should have been able to spot this before it was too late.