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    <title>Poland stands alone in refusing swine flu vaccines</title>
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    <summary> WARSAW, Poland -- The decision seemed fraught with risk: a government refusing to import swine flu vaccines amid worldwide warnings of a spreading epidemic. But Poland did just that, becoming the only country worldwide known to reject the vaccines...</summary>
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WARSAW, Poland -- The decision seemed fraught with risk: a government
refusing to import swine flu vaccines amid worldwide warnings of a
spreading epidemic.
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<p>But Poland did just that, becoming the only country worldwide known
to reject the vaccines over safety fears and distrust in the drug
companies producing them - concerns international health experts reject
as unfounded. <br /></p>]]>
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Now that the current outbreak appears to have peaked in much of Europe,
many Poles feel their government has been vindicated: Countries with
large stockpiles often saw low public interest in the vaccines and face
financial loss from unused doses now set to expire. But Poland's
government didn't spend a cent fighting the epidemic.
</p>
<p>All along, the decision by Prime Minister Donald Tusk and Health
Minister Ewa Kopacz met with broad support. Even with 145 swine flu
deaths in Poland to date, many Poles view the rejection of the vaccines
as a laudable gesture of defiance against pharmaceutical companies,
sentiment shaped by a strengthening anti-vaccine movement and
conspiracy theories about the vaccines circulating on the Internet.
</p>
<p>"I had the impression that the information about swine flu was
manipulated in order to create a panic," said Barbara Lazniewska, a
38-year-old architect who was among the many Poles to applaud the
government's stance.
</p>

<p>Poles take pride in having a strong independent
streak and many respect the government for defying the EU, the World
Health Organization and other international groups that urged countries
to implement vaccination programs - advice that smacked to some of
meddling in internal affairs.
</p>
<p>The prime minister described Poland as a country with the rare
"courage" to refuse a vaccine that he believes has not undergone
sufficient testing.
</p>
<p>"We are making this decision only in the interest of the Polish
patient and the taxpayer," Tusk insisted in December. "We will not take
part because it's not honest and it's not safe for the patient."
</p>
<p>The anti-vaccine movement argues it is untested or contains risky
ingredients, like the preservative thimerosal. However, there is little
difference in the swine flu vaccine's formulation from the regular flu
vaccine, which is available in Poland, and all evidence so far suggests
it is safe and effective. The WHO says more than 150 million people
have been vaccinated in more than 40 countries and that no unusual or
dangerous side effects have been seen.
</p>
<p>"The saving grace for Poland is that this swine flu pandemic is so
far very mild. It would be a big scandal if this were a virus that
would cause many deaths," said Andrew McMichael, an immunologist and
the director of the Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine at
Oxford.
</p>
<p>Other conspiracy theories claim the drug companies making the
vaccine secretly lobbied the WHO to declare swine flu a global epidemic
to fatten their own pockets, a theory unproven but which some Europeans
seem inclined to believe. Even the Parliamentary Assembly of the
Council of Europe recently recommended that the EU investigate WHO's
swine flu pandemic declaration to see if the body acted under undue
influence.
</p>
<p>In an e-mailed statement, WHO said its members "guard against the
influence of any vested interests" but declined any other comment on
the allegations, saying the group's flu chief, Dr. Keiji Fukuda, will
address them during a news conference Thursday.
</p><p>
WHO spokeswoman Karen Mah said the organization has no reports of other
countries rejecting the vaccine outright. Some countries, however,
haven't launched vaccine programs because they lack the money.
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<p>Poland's approach contrasts sharply with steps taken by countries
such as the United States - where President Barack Obama and his family
got swine flu shots to set an example - and European countries like
Austria and Sweden that stockpiled enough for their entire populations.
</p>
<p>Other eastern EU members have also embraced inoculation, with
Hungary and Romania even producing their own domestic vaccines against
H1N1, the official name of the current swine flu strain. Romania has
seen a burst of interest in vaccines in recent days following the death
from swine flu of a well known TV actor, 37-year-old Toni Tecuceanu, on
Jan. 5. Over the weekend, 13,000 people got vaccinated in Bucharest
alone, the Health Ministry said Monday - vastly more than previous
weekends that saw a few dozen at most ask for the jab.
</p>
<p>
But no well-known Pole has died, and flu fears failed to take root in the country of 38 million people.
</p>
<p>Only one leading official, Janusz Kochanowski, the ombudsman for
civil rights, has waged a prominent public fight against the government
over vaccines, condemning its stance as irrational and irresponsible.
He vowed to sue the health minister for a symbolic 1 zloty (35 U.S.
cents/25 euro cents) for what he describes as a human rights offense:
unnecessarily risking the health of the population by refusing to make
vaccines available or take any other steps to fight the spread of swine
flu.
</p>

<p>Kochanowski came down with swine flu himself over the
Christmas holidays, a turn of bad luck he viewed as deeply ironic.
During a recent interview in his office he sneezed into a tissue from
time to time, and his voice was raspy as he strongly denounced the
government.
</p>
<p>"In a normal country the media would attack a government that
doesn't want to buy vaccines and which doesn't give citizens the right
to choose. It's a basic right," Kochanowski told The Associated Press.
"The constitution obliges the government to counteract and prevent
epidemics. But rather than attacking the government, the media are
attacking me."
</p>
<p>Though there have been no recent opinion surveys on the matter,
Kochanowski and several doctors say there is abundant anecdotal
evidence showing that most Poles support the government's approach.
</p>
<p>
"Unfortunately most people are on the side of the government," Kochanowski said.
</p>
<p>Kochanowski says he worries that the government's luck in dodging
massive problems with swine flu will only encourage it to ignore future
epidemics as well.
</p>
<p>"This flu will pass, but there is a new flu every year and the
government should prepare every year. However, this government is not
only not preparing, but it's making a special point of not being
prepared and then claims glory," he said.
</p>
<p>
In Poland, doctors are deeply divided on the matter, but some are clearly critical of the government.
</p>
<p>"It should be the patient's rights to choose - that would be
democracy in health care," said Maria Ciesielska, a family doctor whose
disapproval only intensified when her 7-year-old son was laid up for a
week with swine flu in November. "Even Hippocrates said it's not
ethical to not offer a cure if you know that one exists."
</p>
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<p>Associated Press Writers Alison Mutler in Bucharest, Romania, Frank
Jordan in Geneva and Monika Scislowska in Warsaw contributed to this
report.
</p>
</div><p><br /></p>Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/13/AR2010011300770.html]]>
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    <title>Legal immunity set for swine flu vaccine makers</title>
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    <published>2009-08-12T08:26:13Z</published>
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    <summary>By MIKE STOBBE (AP) - Jul 17, 2009 ATLANTA -- The last time the government embarked on a major vaccine campaign against a new swine flu, thousands filed claims contending they suffered side effects from the shots. This time, the...</summary>
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        <![CDATA[<p><i><small>By MIKE STOBBE (AP) - Jul 17, 2009</small></i></p>
<p>ATLANTA -- The last time the government embarked on a major vaccine
campaign against a new swine flu, thousands filed claims contending
they suffered side effects from the shots. This time, the government
has already taken steps to head that off.</p><p>Vaccine makers and
federal officials will be immune from lawsuits that result from any new
swine flu vaccine, under a document signed by Secretary of Health and
Human Services Kathleen Sebelius, government health officials said
Friday.</p><p>Since the 1980s, the government has protected vaccine
makers against lawsuits over the use of childhood vaccines. Instead, a
federal court handles claims and decides who will be paid from a
special fund.</p> ]]>
        <![CDATA[<p>The document signed by Sebelius last month grants immunity to those
making a swine flu vaccine, under the provisions of a 2006 law for
public health emergencies. It allows for a compensation fund, if needed.</p><p>The
government takes such steps to encourage drug companies to make
vaccines, and it's worked. Federal officials have contracted with five
manufacturers to make a swine flu vaccine. First identified in April,
swine flu has so far caused about 263 deaths, according to numbers
released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Friday.</p><p>The
CDC said more than 40,000 Americans have had confirmed or probable
cases, but those are people who sought health care. It's likely that
more than 1 million Americans have been sickened by the flu, many with
mild cases.</p><p>The virus hits younger people harder that seasonal
flu, but so far hasn't been much more deadly than the strains seen
every fall and winter. But health officials believe the virus could
mutate to a more dangerous form, or at least contribute to a
potentially heavier flu season than usual.</p><p>"We do expect there to
be an increase in influenza this fall," with a bump in cases perhaps
beginning earlier than normal, said Dr. Anne Schuchat, director of the
CDC's National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases.</p><p>On
Friday, the Food and Drug Administration approved the regular winter
flu vaccine, a final step before shipments to clinics and other
vaccination sites could begin.</p><p>The last time the government faced
a new swine flu virus was in 1976. Cases of swine flu in soldiers at
Fort Dix, N.J., including one death, made health officials worried they
might be facing a deadly pandemic like the one that killed millions
around the world in 1918 and 1919.</p><p>Federal officials vaccinated
40 million Americans during a national campaign. A pandemic never
materialized, but thousands who got the shots filed injury claims,
saying they suffered a paralyzing condition called Guillain-Barre
Syndrome or other side effects.</p><p>"The government paid out quite a
bit of money," said Stephen Sugarman, a law professor who specializes
in product liability at the University of California at Berkeley.</p><p>Vaccines
aren't as profitable as other drugs for manufacturers, and without
protection against lawsuits "they're saying, 'Do we need this?'"
Sugarman said.</p><p>The move to protect makers of a swine flu didn't
go over well with Paul Pennock, a prominent New York plaintiffs
attorney on medical liability cases. The government will likely call on
millions of Americans to get the vaccinations to prevent the disease
from spreading, he noted.</p><p>"If you're going to ask people to do
this for the common good, then let's make sure for the common good that
these people will be taken care of if something goes wrong," Pennock
said.</p>
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<p><em>AP Medical Writer Lauran Neergaard contributed to this report from Washington.</em></p>
<div id="hn-links-header">On the Net:</div>
<ul class="hn-links"><li>CDC:
<a href="http://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.cdc.gov/H1N1flu/&amp;usg=AFQjCNGQGDy8kZQcWOqGIhnUXH5sUsB6VQ" onclick="pageTracker._trackPageview('/outgoing/related_links');">http://www.cdc.gov/H1N1flu/</a></li></ul><br /><i>Source: <a href="http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hjdCHrP82YTFser5vD6CzTK1az6wD99GH8580">http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hjdCHrP82YTFser5vD6CzTK1az6wD99GH8580</a></i><br />]]>
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    <title>Retired Vax Scientist Would  Never Vaccinate His Kids</title>
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    <summary><![CDATA["If I had a child now, the last thing I would allow is vaccination."-Retired Vaccine Researcher to Jon Rappoport&nbsp;Editor's Note -- This interview was posted by Jon Rappoport in early January 2002. You will discover by reading it that the...]]></summary>
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        <![CDATA[<b><i>"If I had a child now, the last thing I would allow is vaccination."</i><br />-Retired Vaccine Researcher to Jon Rappoport</b><br />&nbsp;<br />Editor's Note -- This interview was posted by Jon Rappoport in early January 2002. You will discover by reading it that the very issues we now face of FORCED vaccination of a laboratory-created vaccine to "protect" us against a laboratory-created "disease" (Swine Flu, Bird flu, etc.) was set into motion a long time ago.<br /><br />The vaccine researcher quoted here flat out says that the World Homicide Organization, WHO, is driven by a DEPOPULATION agenda, and that many African leaders know full well that the explosive spread of HIV and AIDS in Africa was caused by WHO-sponsored vaccinations of the 1970s.<br /> ]]>
        <![CDATA[This former pharmaceutical insider also debunks the widespread ASSUMPTIONS of vaccine "safety" promoted by orthodox medicine, the CDC, the National Institute of Health, state health departments, and their compliant media propagandists who are all parroting SUPERSTITIONS, rather than FACTS.&nbsp; --Ken Adachi<br />&nbsp;<br />From Jon Rappoport (www.nomorefakenews.com)<br />&nbsp;<br />http://educate-yourself.org/cn/rappoportinterviewvaccineresearcherjan2002.shtml<br />&nbsp;<br />January 2002<br />&nbsp;<br />Retired Vaccine Researcher to Jon Rappoport: "If I had a child now, the last thing I would allow is vaccination." (Aug. 6, 2009)<br />&nbsp;<br />Jon Rappoport (Q) Interviews a Retired Vaccine Researcher (A) (given the pseudonym of "Dr. Mark Randall")<br />&nbsp;<br />Q: You were once certain that vaccines were the hallmark of good medicine.<br />&nbsp;<br />A: Yes I was. I helped develop a few vaccines. I won't say which ones.<br />&nbsp;<br />Q: Why not?<br />&nbsp;<br />A: I want to preserve my privacy.<br />&nbsp;<br />Q: So you think you could have problems if you came out into the open?<br />&nbsp;<br />A: I believe I could lose my pension.<br />&nbsp;<br />Q: On what grounds?<br />&nbsp;<br />A: The grounds don't matter. These people have ways of causing you problems, when you were once part of the Club. I know one or two people who were put under surveillance, who were harassed.<br />&nbsp;<br />Q: Harassed by whom?<br />&nbsp;<br />A: The FBI.<br />&nbsp;<br />Q: Really?<br />&nbsp;<br />A: Sure. The FBI used other pretexts. And the IRS can come calling too.<br />&nbsp;<br />Q: So much for free speech.<br />&nbsp;<br />A: I was "part of the inner circle." If now I began to name names and make specific accusations against researchers, I could be in a world of trouble.<br />&nbsp;<br />Q: What is at the bottom of these efforts at harassment?<br />&nbsp;<br />A: Vaccines are the last defense of modern medicine. Vaccines are the ultimate justification for the overall "brilliance" of modern medicine.<br />&nbsp;<br />Q: Do you believe that people should be allowed to choose whether they should get vaccines?<br />&nbsp;<br />A: On a political level, yes. On a scientific level, people need information, so that they can choose well. It's one thing to say choice is good. But if the atmosphere is full of lies, how can you choose? Also, if the FDA were run by honorable people, these vaccines would not be granted licenses. They would be investigated to within an inch of their lives.<br />&nbsp;<br />Q: There are medical historians who state that the overall decline of illnesses was not due to vaccines.<br />&nbsp;<br />A: I know. For a long time, I ignored their work.<br />&nbsp;<br />Q: Why?<br />&nbsp;<br />A: Because I was afraid of what I would find out. I was in the business of developing vaccines. My livelihood depended on continuing that work.<br />&nbsp;<br />Q: And then?<br />&nbsp;<br />A: I did my own investigation.<br />&nbsp;<br />Q: What conclusions did you come to?<br />&nbsp;<br />A: The decline of disease is due to improved living conditions.<br />&nbsp;<br />Q: What conditions?<br />&nbsp;<br />A: Cleaner water. Advanced sewage systems. Nutrition. Fresher food. A decrease in poverty. Germs may be everywhere, but when you are healthy, you don't contract the diseases as easily.<br />&nbsp;<br />Q: What did you feel when you completed your own investigation?<br />&nbsp;<br />A: Despair. I realized I was working a sector based on a collection of lies.<br />&nbsp;<br />Q: Are some vaccines more dangerous than others?<br />&nbsp;<br />A: Yes. The DPT shot, for example. The MMR. But some lots of a vaccine are more dangerous than other lots of the same vaccine. As far as I'm concerned, all vaccines are dangerous.<br />&nbsp;<br />Q: Why?<br />&nbsp;<br />A: Several reasons. They involve the human immune system in a process that tends to compromise immunity. They can actually cause the disease they are supposed to prevent. They can cause other diseases than the ones they are supposed to prevent.<br />&nbsp;<br />Q: Why are we quoted statistics which seem to prove that vaccines have been tremendously successful at wiping out diseases?<br />&nbsp;<br />A: Why? To give the illusion that these vaccines are useful. If a vaccine suppresses visible symptoms of a disease like measles, everyone assumes that the vaccine is a success. But, under the surface, the vaccine can harm the immune system itself. And if it causes other diseases -- say, meningitis -- that fact is masked, because no one believes that the vaccine can do that. The connection is overlooked.<br />&nbsp;<br />Q: It is said that the smallpox vaccine wiped out smallpox in England.<br />&nbsp;<br />A: Yes. But when you study the available statistics, you get another picture.<br />&nbsp;<br />Q: Which is?<br />&nbsp;<br />A: There were cities in England where people who were not vaccinated did not get smallpox. There were places where people who were vaccinated experienced smallpox epidemics. And smallpox was already on the decline before the vaccine was introduced.<br />&nbsp;<br />Q: So you're saying that we have been treated to a false history.<br />&nbsp;<br />A: Yes. That's exactly what I'm saying. This is a history that has been cooked up to convince people that vaccines are invariably safe and effective.<br />&nbsp;<br />Q: Now, you worked in labs. Where purity was an issue.<br />&nbsp;<br />A: The public believes that these labs, these manufacturing facilities are the cleanest places in the world. That is not true. Contamination occurs all the time. You get all sorts of debris introduced into vaccines.<br />&nbsp;<br />Q: For example, the SV40 monkey virus slips into the polio vaccine.<br />&nbsp;<br />A: Well yes, that happened. But that's not what I mean. The SV40 got into the polio vaccine because the vaccine was made by using monkey kidneys. But I'm talking about something else. The actual lab conditions. The mistakes. The careless errors. SV40, which was later found in cancer tumors -- that was what I would call a structural problem. It was an accepted part of the manufacturing process. If you use monkey kidneys, you open the door to germs which you don't know are in those kidneys.<br />&nbsp;<br />Q: Okay, but let's ignore that distinction between different types of contaminants for a moment. What contaminants did you find in your many years of work with vaccines?<br />&nbsp;<br />A: All right. I'll give you some of what I came across, and I'll also give you what colleagues of mine found. Here's a partial list. In the Rimavex measles vaccine, we found various chicken viruses. In polio vaccine, we found acanthamoeba, which is a so-called "brain-eating" amoeba.<br />&nbsp;<br />Simian cytomegalovirus in polio vaccine. Simian foamy virus in the rotavirus vaccine. Bird-cancer viruses in the MMR vaccine. Various micro-organisms in the anthrax vaccine. I've found potentially dangerous enzyme inhibitors in several vaccines. Duck, dog, and rabbit viruses in the rubella vaccine. Avian leucosis virus in the flu vaccine. Pestivirus in the MMR vaccine.<br />&nbsp;<br />Q: Let me get this straight. These are all contaminants which don't belong in the vaccines.<br />&nbsp;<br />A: That's right. And if you try to calculate what damage these contaminants can cause, well, we don't really know, because no testing has been done, or very little testing. It's a game of roulette. You take your chances. Also, most people don't know that some polio vaccines, adenovirus vaccines, rubella and hep A and measles vaccines have been made with aborted human fetal tissue. I have found what I believed were bacterial fragments and poliovirus in these vaccines from time to time -- which may have come from that fetal tissue. When you look for contaminants in vaccines, you can come up with material that IS puzzling. You know it shouldn't be there, but you don't know exactly what you've got. I have found what I believed was a very small "fragment" of human hair and also human mucus. I have found what can only be called "foreign protein," which could mean almost anything. It could mean protein from viruses.<br />&nbsp;<br />Q: Alarm bells are ringing all over the place.<br />&nbsp;<br />A: How do you think I felt? Remember, this material is going into the bloodstream without passing through some of the ordinary immune defenses.<br />&nbsp;<br />Q: How were your findings received?<br />&nbsp;<br />A: Basically, it was, don't worry, this can't be helped. In making vaccines, you use various animals' tissue, and that's where this kind of contamination enters in. Of course, I'm not even mentioning the standard chemicals like formaldehyde, mercury, and aluminum which are purposely put into vaccines.<br />&nbsp;<br />Q: This information is pretty staggering.<br />&nbsp;<br />A: Yes. And I'm just mentioning some of the biological contaminants. Who knows how many others there are? Others we don't find because we don't think to look for them. If tissue from, say, a bird is used to make a vaccine, how many possible germs can be in that tissue? We have no idea. We have no idea what they might be, or what effects they could have on humans.<br />&nbsp;<br />Q: And beyond the purity issue?<br />&nbsp;<br />A: You are dealing with the basic faulty premise about vaccines. That they intricately stimulate the immune system to create the conditions for immunity from disease. That is the bad premise. It doesn't work that way. A vaccine is supposed to "create" antibodies which, indirectly, offer protection against disease. However, the immune system is much larger and more involved than antibodies and their related "killer cells."<br />&nbsp;<br />Q: The immune system is?<br />&nbsp;<br />A: The entire body, really. Plus the mind. It's all immune system, you might say. That is why you can have, in the middle of an epidemic, those individuals who remain healthy.<br />&nbsp;<br />Q: So the level of general health is important.<br />&nbsp;<br />A: More than important. Vital.<br />&nbsp;<br />Q: How are vaccine statistics falsely presented?<br />&nbsp;<br />A: There are many ways. For example, suppose that 25 people who have received the hepatitis B vaccine come down with hepatitis. Well, hep B is a liver disease. But you can call liver disease many things. You can change the diagnosis. Then, you've concealed the root cause of the problem.<br />&nbsp;<br />Q: And that happens?<br />&nbsp;<br />A: All the time. It HAS to happen, if the doctors automatically assume that people who get vaccines DO NOT come down with the diseases they are now supposed to be protected from. And that is exactly what doctors assume. You see, it's circular reasoning. It's a closed system. It admits no fault. No possible fault. If a person who gets a vaccine against hepatitis gets hepatitis, or gets some other disease, the automatic assumption is, this had nothing to do with the disease.<br />&nbsp;<br />Q: In your years working in the vaccine establishment, how many doctors did you encounter who admitted that vaccines were a problem?<br />&nbsp;<br />A: None. There were a few who privately questioned what they were doing. But they would never go public, even within their companies.<br />&nbsp;<br />Q: What was the turning point for you?<br />&nbsp;<br />A: I had a friend whose baby died after a DPT shot.<br />&nbsp;<br />Q: Did you investigate?<br />&nbsp;<br />A: Yes, informally. I found that this baby was completely healthy before the vaccination. There was no reason for his death, except the vaccine. That started my doubts. Of course, I wanted to believe that the baby had gotten a bad shot from a bad lot. But as I looked into this further, I found that was not the case in this instance. I was being drawn into a spiral of doubt that increased over time. I continued to investigate. I found that, contrary to what I thought, vaccines are not tested in a scientific way.<br />&nbsp;<br />Q: What do you mean?<br />&nbsp;<br />A: For example, no long-term studies are done on any vaccines. Long-term follow-up is not done in any careful way. Why? Because, again, the assumption is made that vaccines do not cause problems. So why should anyone check? On top of that, a vaccine reaction is defined so that all bad reactions are said to occur very soon after the shot is given. But that does not make sense.<br />&nbsp;<br />Q: Why doesn't it make sense?<br />&nbsp;<br />A: Because the vaccine obviously acts in the body for a long period of time after it is given. A reaction can be gradual. Deterioration can be gradual. Neurological problems can develop over time. They do in various conditions, even according to a conventional analysis. So why couldn't that be the case with vaccines? If chemical poisoning can occur gradually, why couldn't that be the case with a vaccine which contains mercury?<br />&nbsp;<br />Q: And that is what you found?<br />&nbsp;<br />A: Yes. You are dealing with correlations, most of the time.Correlations are not perfect. But if you get 500 parents whose children have suffered neurological damage during a one-year period after having a vaccine, this should be sufficient to spark off an intense investigation.<br />&nbsp;<br />Q: Has it been enough?<br />&nbsp;<br />A: No. Never. This tells you something right away.<br />&nbsp;<br />Q: Which is?<br />&nbsp;<br />A: The people doing the investigation are not really interested in looking at the facts. They assume that the vaccines are safe. So, when they do investigate, they invariably come up with exonerations of the vaccines. They say, "This vaccine is safe." But what do they base those judgments on? They base them on definitions and ideas which automatically rule out a condemnation of the vaccine.<br />&nbsp;<br />Q: There are numerous cases where a vaccine campaign has failed. Where people have come down with the disease against which they were vaccinated.<br />&nbsp;<br />A: Yes, there are many such instances. And there the evidence is simply ignored. It's discounted. The experts say, if they say anything at all, that this is just an isolated situation, but overall the vaccine has been shown to be safe. But if you add up all the vaccine campaigns where damage and disease have occurred, you realize that these are NOT isolated situations.<br />&nbsp;<br />Q: Did you ever discuss what we are talking about here with colleagues, when you were still working in the vaccine establishment?<br />&nbsp;<br />A: Yes I did.<br />&nbsp;<br />Q: What happened?<br />&nbsp;<br />A: Several times I was told to keep quiet. It was made clear that I should go back to work and forget my misgivings. On a few occasions, I encountered fear. Colleagues tried to avoid me. They felt they could be labeled with "guilt by association." All in all, though, I behaved myself.I made sure I didn't create problems for myself.<br />&nbsp;<br />Q: If vaccines actually do harm, why are they given?<br />&nbsp;<br />A: First of all, there is no "if." They do harm. It becomes a more difficult question to decide whether they do harm in those people who seem to show no harm. Then you are dealing with the kind of research which should be done, but isn't. Researchers should be probing to discover a kind of map, or flow chart, which shows exactly what vaccines do in the body from the moment they enter. This research has not been done. As to why they are given, we could sit here for two days and discuss all the reasons. As you've said many times, at different layers of the system people have their motives. Money, fear of losing a job, the desire to win brownie points, prestige, awards, promotion, misguided idealism, unthinking habit, and so on. But, at the highest levels of the medical cartel, vaccines are a top priority because they cause a weakening of the immune system. I know that may be hard to accept, but it's true. The medical cartel, at the highest level, is not out to help people, it is out to harm them, to weaken them. To kill them. At one point in my career, I had a long conversation with a man who occupied a high government position in an African nation. He told me that he was well aware of this. He told me that WHO is a front for these depopulation interests. There is an underground, shall we say, in Africa, made up of various officials who are earnestly trying to change the lot of the poor. This network of people knows what is going on. They know that vaccines have been used, and are being used, to destroy their countries, to make them ripe for takeover by globalist powers. I have had the opportunity to speak with several of these people from this network.<br />&nbsp;<br />Q: Is Thabo Mbeki, the president of South Africa, aware of the situation?<br />&nbsp;<br />A: I would say he is partially aware. Perhaps he is not utterly convinced, but he is on the way to realizing the whole truth. He already knows that HIV is a hoax. He knows that the AIDS drugs are poisons which destroy the immune system. He also knows that if he speaks out, in any way, about the vaccine issue, he will be branded a lunatic. He has enough trouble after his stand on the AIDS issue.<br />&nbsp;<br />Q: This network you speak of.<br />&nbsp;<br />A: It has accumulated a huge amount of information about vaccines. The question is, how is a successful strategy going to be mounted? For these people, that is a difficult issue.<br />&nbsp;<br />Q: And in the industrialized nations?<br />&nbsp;<br />A: The medical cartel has a stranglehold, but it is diminishing. Mainly because people have the freedom to question medicines. However, if the choice issue [the right to take or reject any medicine] does not gather steam, these coming mandates about vaccines against biowarefare germs are going to win out. This is an important time.<br />&nbsp;<br />Q: The furor over the hepatits B vaccine seems one good avenue.<br />&nbsp;<br />A: I think so, yes. To say that babies must have the vaccine-and then in the next breath, admitting that a person gets hep B from sexual contacts and shared needles -- is a ridiculous juxtaposition. Medical authorities try to cover themselves by saying that 20,000 or so children in the US get hep B every year from "unknown causes," and that's why every baby must have the vaccine. I dispute that 20,00 figure and the so-called studies that back it up.<br />&nbsp;<br />Q: Andrew Wakefield, the British MD who uncovered the link between the MMR vaccine and autism, has just been fired from his job in a London hospital.<br />&nbsp;<br />A: Yes. Wakefield performed a great service. His correlations between the vaccine and autism are stunning. Perhaps you know that Tony Blair's wife is involved with alternative health. There is the possibility that their child has not been given the MMR. Blair recently side-stepped the question in press interviews, and made it seem that he was simply objecting to invasive questioning of his "personal and family life." In any event, I believe his wife has been muzzled. I think, if given the chance, she would at least say she is sympathetic to all the families who have come forward and stated that their children were severely damaged by the MMR.<br />&nbsp;<br />Q: British reporters should try to get through to her.<br />&nbsp;<br />A: They have been trying. But I think she has made a deal with her husband to keep quiet, no matter what. She could do a great deal of good if she breaks her promise. I have been told she is under pressure, and not just from her husband. At the level she occupies, MI6 and British health authorities get into the act. It is thought of as a matter of national security.<br />&nbsp;<br />Q: Well, it is national security, once you understand the medical cartel.<br />&nbsp;<br />A: It is global security. The cartel operates in every nation. It zealously guards the sanctity of vaccines. Questioning these vaccines is on the same level as a Vatican bishop questioning the sanctity of the sacrament of the Eucharist in the Catholic Church.<br />&nbsp;<br />Q: I know that a Hollywood celebrity stating publicly that he will not take a vaccine is committing career suicide.<br />&nbsp;<br />A: Hollywood is linked very powerfully to the medical cartel. There are several reasons, but one of them is simply that an actor who is famous can draw a huge amount of publicity if he says ANYTHING. In 1992, I was present at your demonstration against the FDA in downtown Los Angeles. One or two actors spoke against the FDA. Since that time, you would be hard pressed to find an actor who has spoken out in any way against the medical cartel.<br />&nbsp;<br />Q: Within the National Institutes of Health, what is the mood, what is the basic frame of mind?<br />&nbsp;<br />A: People are competing for research monies. The last thing they think about is challenging the status quo. They are already in an intramural war for that money. They don't need more trouble. This is a very insulated system. It depends on the idea that, by and large, modern medicine is very successful on every frontier. To admit systemic problems in any area is to cast doubt on the whole enterprise. You might therefore think that NIH is the last place one should think about holding demonstrations. But just the reverse is true. If five thousand people showed up there demanding an accounting of the actual benefits of that research system, demanding to know what real health benefits have been conferred on the public from the billions of wasted dollars funneled to that facility, something might start. A spark might go off. You might get, with further demonstrations, all sorts of fall-out. Researchers -- a few -- might start leaking information.<br />&nbsp;<br />Q: A good idea.<br />&nbsp;<br />A: People in suits standing as close to the buildings as the police will allow. People in business suits, in jogging suits, mothers and babies. Well-off people. Poor people. All sorts of people.<br />&nbsp;<br />Q: What about the combined destructive power of a number of vaccines given to babies these days?<br />&nbsp;<br />A: It is a travesty and a crime. There are no real studies of any depth which have been done on that. Again, the assumption is made that vaccines are safe, and therefore any number of vaccines given together are safe as well. But the truth is, vaccines are not safe. Therefore the potential damage increases when you give many of them in a short time period.<br />&nbsp;<br />Q: Then we have the fall flu season.<br />&nbsp;<br />A: Yes. As if only in the autumn do these germs float in to the US from Asia. The public swallows that premise. If it happens in April, it is a bad cold. If it happens in October, it is the flu.<br />&nbsp;<br />Q: Do you regret having worked all those years in the vaccine field?<br />&nbsp;<br />A: Yes. But after this interview, I'll regret it a little less. And I work in other ways. I give out information to certain people, when I think they will use it well.<br />&nbsp;<br />Q: What is one thing you want the public to understand?<br />&nbsp;<br />A: That the burden of proof in establishing the safety and efficacy of vaccines is on the people who manufacture and license them for public use. Just that. The burden of proof is not on you or me. And for proof you need well-designed long-term studies. You need extensive follow-up. You need to interview mothers and pay attention to what mothers say about their babies and what happens to them after vaccination. You need all these things. The things that are not there.<br />&nbsp;<br />Q: The things that are not there.<br />&nbsp;<br />A: Yes.<br />&nbsp;<br />Q: To avoid any confusion, I'd like you to review, once more, the disease problems that vaccines can cause. Which diseases, how that happens.<br />&nbsp;<br />A: We are basically talking about two potential harmful outcomes. One, the person gets the disease from the vaccine. He gets the disease which the vaccine is supposed to protect him from. Because, some version of the disease is in the vaccine to begin with. Or two, he doesn't get THAT disease, but at some later time, maybe right away, maybe not, he develops another condition which is caused by the vaccine. That condition could be autism, what's called autism, or it could be some other disease like meningitis. He could become mentally disabled.<br />&nbsp;<br />Q: Is there any way to compare the relative frequency of these different outcomes?<br />&nbsp;<br />A: No. Because the follow-up is poor. We can only guess. If you ask, out of a population of a hundred thousand children who get a measles vaccine, how many get the measles, and how many develop other problems from the vaccine, there is a no reliable answer. That is what I'm saying. Vaccines are superstitions. And with superstitions, you don't get facts you can use. You only get stories, most of which are designed to enforce the superstition. But, from many vaccine campaigns, we can piece together a narrative that does reveal some very disturbing things. People have been harmed. The harm is real, and it can be deep and it can mean death. The harm is NOT limited to a few cases, as we have been led to believe.In the US, there are groups of mothers who are testifying about autism and childhood vaccines. They are coming forward and standing up at meetings.They are essentially trying to fill in the gap that has been created by the researchers and doctors who turn their backs on the whole thing.<br />&nbsp;<br />Q: Let me ask you this. If you took a child in, say, Boston and you raised that child with good nutritious food and he exercised every day and he was loved by his parents, and he didn't get the measles vaccine, what would be his health status compared with the average child in Boston who eats poorly and watches five hours of TV a day and gets the measles vaccine?<br />&nbsp;<br />A: Of course there are many factors involved, but I would bet on the better health status for the first child. If he gets measles, if he gets it when he is nine, the chances are it will be much lighter than the measles the second child might get. I would bet on the first child every time.<br />&nbsp;<br />Q: How long did you work with vaccines?<br />&nbsp;<br />A: A long time. Longer than ten years.<br />&nbsp;<br />Q: Looking back now, can you recall any good reason to say that vaccines are successful?<br />&nbsp;<br />A: No, I can't. If I had a child now, the last thing I would allow is vaccination. I would move out of the state if I had to. I would change the family name. I would disappear. With my family. I'm not saying it would come to that. There are ways to sidestep the system with grace, if you know how to act. There are exemptions you can declare, in every state, based on religious and/or philosophic views. But if push came to shove, I would go on the move.<br />&nbsp;<br />Q: And yet there are children everywhere who do get vaccines and appear to be healthy.<br />&nbsp;<br />A: The operative word is "appear." What about all the children who can't focus on their studies? What about the children who have tantrums from time to time? What about the children who are not quite in possession of all their mental faculties? I know there are many causes for these things, but vaccines are one cause. I would not take the chance. I see no reason to take the chance. And frankly, I see no reason to allow the government to have the last word. Government medicine is, from my experience, often a contradiction in terms. You get one or the other, but not both.<br />&nbsp;<br />Q: So we come to the level playing field.<br />&nbsp;<br />A: Yes. Allow those who want the vaccines to take them. Allow the dissidents to decline to take them. But, as I said earlier, there is no level playing field if the field is strewn with lies. And when babies are involved, you have parents making all the decisions. Those parents need a heavy dose of truth. What about the child I spoke of who died from the DPT shot? What information did his parents act on? I can tell you it was heavily weighted. It was not real information.<br />&nbsp;<br />Q: Medical PR people, in concert with the press, scare the hell out of parents with dire scenarios about what will happen if their kids don't get shots.<br />&nbsp;<br />A: They make it seem a crime to refuse the vaccine. They equate it with bad parenting. You fight that with better information. It is always a challenge to buck the authorities. And only you can decide whether to do it. It is every person's responsibility to make up his mind. The medical cartel likes that bet. It is betting that the fear will win.<br />&nbsp;<br />Dr. Mark Randall is the pseudonym of a vaccine researcher who worked for many years in the labs of major pharmaceutical houses and the US government's National Institutes of Health.<br />&nbsp;<br />Mark retired during the last decade. He says he was "disgusted with what he discovered about vaccines."<br />&nbsp;<br />As you know, since the beginning of nomorefakenews, I have been launching an attack against non-scientific and dangerous assertions about the safety and efficacy of vaccines.<br />&nbsp;<br />Mark has been one of my sources.<br />&nbsp;<br />He is a little reluctant to speak out, even under the cover of anonymity, but with the current push to make vaccines mandatory -- with penalties like quarantine lurking in the wings -- he has decided to break his silence.<br />&nbsp;<br />He lives comfortably in retirement, but like many of my long-time sources, he has developed a conscience about his former work. Mark is well aware of the scope of the medical cartel and its goals of depopulation, mind control, and general debilitation of populations.<br />&nbsp;<br />Jon Rappoport<br />&nbsp;<br />To learn more about Jon Rappoport and his work as a journalist, you can visit his site here: NoMoreFakeNews.com.<br />&nbsp;<br />More on the Phony Swine Flu 'Pandemic' and the Issue of Forced Vaccinations<br />&nbsp;<br />June 13, 2009<br />&nbsp;<br />from GlobalResearch Website<br />&nbsp;<br />http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/ciencia/ciencia_influenza20.htm<br />&nbsp;<br />It looks like governments around the world will either force these vaccinations on the public or launch a massive propaganda campaign to trick you into submitting to a jab.<br />&nbsp;<br />If they attempt to force these untested and essentially experimental vaccinations on you, cite the Nuremberg Code, which states:<br />&nbsp;<br />"The voluntary consent of the human subject is essential."<br />&nbsp;<br />No experimental vaccine should be,<br />&nbsp;<br />"conducted where there is an a priori reason to believe that death or disabling injury will occur, except, perhaps, in those experiments where the experimental physicians also serve as a subjects."<br />&nbsp;<br />In addition to the "experimental physicians" submitting to their own toxins, Obama, every member of Congress, the CEOs of the drug companies, all members of WHO and the United Nations, all members of the CFR and Bilderberg, etc., should submit to a jab.<br />&nbsp;<br />A third party should be on hand to make sure these folks do not get a saline injection instead of the vaccine:<br />&nbsp;<br />(Agence France-Presse (AFP), June12, 2009)<br />Swiss drugs giant Novartis has completed a first batch of swine flu vaccine for pre-clinical trials and aims to make a version available from September, the company said.<br />&nbsp;<br />"Novartis has successfully completed the production of the first batch of influenza A(H1N1) vaccine, weeks ahead of expectations," the company said. The 10-litre batch "will be used for pre-clinical evaluation and testing and is also being considered for use in clinical trials".<br />&nbsp;<br />Novartis hopes to start clinical trials in July and "expects licensure in the fall (September to November) of 2009Åç, it said. It added that "more than 30 governments have made requests to Novartis to supply them with influenza A(H1N1) vaccine ingredients."<br />&nbsp;<br />The company used cell-based technology to produce the vaccine, a faster method than the traditional technology that uses eggs, according to Novartis.<br />&nbsp;<br />Read full AFP report below...<br />&nbsp;<br />First swine flu vaccine ready for testing<br />http://www.news.com.au/story/0,27574,25627061-23109,00.html<br />From correspondents in Basel<br />Agence France-Presse<br />June 12, 2009<br />&nbsp;<br />from News Website<br />&nbsp;<br />SWISS drugs giant Novartis has completed a first batch of swine flu vaccine for pre-clinical trials and aims to make a version available from September, the company said.<br />&nbsp;<br />"Novartis has successfully completed the production of the first batch of influenza A(H1N1) vaccine, weeks ahead of expectations," the company said.<br />&nbsp;<br />The 10-litre batch,<br />&nbsp;<br />"will be used for pre-clinical evaluation and testing and is also being considered for use in clinical trials".<br />&nbsp;<br />Novartis hopes to start clinical trials in July and,<br />&nbsp;<br />"expects licensure in the fall (September to November) of 2009", it said.<br />&nbsp;<br />It added that,<br />&nbsp;<br />"more than 30 governments have made requests to Novartis to supply them with influenza A(H1N1) vaccine ingredients."<br />&nbsp;<br />The company used cell-based technology to produce the vaccine, a faster method than the traditional technology that uses eggs, according to Novartis.<br />&nbsp;<br />Novartis received $US289 million ($352.96 million) last month from the US Department of Health and Human Services for the development of the vaccine. The World Health Organization (WHO) declared a swine flu pandemic today, ratcheting up its alert to the maximum level of six.<br />&nbsp;<br />WHO declares official swine flu pandemic<br />&nbsp;<br />Swine flu has infected almost 30,000 people in 75 countries and claimed 144 lives since it was first detected in Mexico in April.<br />&nbsp;<br />Return to Influenza - Virus H1N1 - Unintentional Contamination or Bioterrorism?<br />http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/ciencia/ciencia_influenza.htm#contents<br />&nbsp;<br />Return to Industry "Weapons" for Earth's Depopulation<br />http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/ciencia/ciencia_<br />industryweapons.htm#Additional_Information<br />&nbsp;<br />Return to Killer Vaccines - Vacunas Que Matan (in Spanish)<br />http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/salud/salud_vacunas.htm#contents<br /><br /><i>Source: <a href="http://rense.com/general87/retired.htm">http://rense.com/general87/retired.htm</a></i><br />]]>
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    <title>H1N1 Vaccination: A Eugenics Weapon for &quot;Massive &amp; Targeted Reduction of the World Population.&quot;</title>
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    <summary>Canadian doctor Ghislaine Lanctôt, author of the Medical Mafia, has underscored the lawsuit recently filed by Austrian journalist Jane Bürgermeister against the WHO, the UN, and several high ranking government and corporate officials. Bürgermeister has documented how an international corporate...</summary>
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        <![CDATA[<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;" align="justify"><a href="http://vaccine.immunodefence.com/2009/07/h1n1-vaccination-a-eugenics-we.html"><img src="http://globalresearch.ca/coverStoryPictures/14312.jpg" align="left" hspace="2" width="100" border=0 /></a>Canadian doctor <a href="http://vaccine.immunodefence.com/2009/07/h1n1-vaccination-a-eugenics-we.html" target="_blank">Ghislaine Lanctôt</a>, author of the Medical Mafia, has underscored the lawsuit recently filed by Austrian journalist <a href="http://www.infowars.com/journalist-fired-over-flu-pandemic-lawsuit/" target="_blank">Jane Bürgermeister</a>
against the WHO, the UN, and several high ranking government and
corporate officials. Bürgermeister has documented how an international
corporate criminal syndicate plans to unleash a deadly flu virus and
institute a forced vaccination program.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;" align="justify">"I
am emerging from a long silence on the subject of vaccination, because
I feel that, this time, the stakes involved are huge. The consequences
may spread much further than anticipated," writes Lanctôt, who believes
the A(H1N1) virus will be used in a pandemic concocted and orchestrated
by the WHO, an international organization that serves military,
political and industrial interests.</p>]]>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;" align="justify">Lanctôt
warns that the elite and their minions will introduce a compulsory
vaccination that will contain a deadly virus and this will be used
specifically as a eugenics weapon for "massive and targeted reduction
of the world population." Moreover, a pandemic will also be used to
further establish martial law and a police state, according to Lanctôt,
and activate concentration camps "built to accommodate the rebellious"
and eventually transfer power from all nations to a single United
Nations government and thus fulfill the sinister plans of the New World
Order.<br /><br /></p>
<div><embed src="http://www.dailymotion.com/swf/x9mh9f_swine-flu-1976-propaganda_webcam&amp;related=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" height="381" width="480"><br /><b><a href="http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x9mh9f_swine-flu-1976-propaganda_webcam">Swine Flu 1976 &amp; Propaganda</a></b></div>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;" align="justify"><br />In
her book The Medical Mafia, Lanctôt writes about the ineffectiveness
and dangers of vaccination. "Because of my professional status, my
words weighed significantly in the public eye. The Medical Board's
reaction was immediate and strong. Its leaders demanded that I resign
as a physician. I answered that I would do so as long as they could
prove that what I had written was false. The Medical Board replied with
a call for my expulsion," she writes. "As I witnessed the
disproportionate reaction of the Medical Board, I realized that, for
the health establishment, the subject of vaccination was taboo.
Unknowingly, I had opened a Pandora's box. I discovered that, despite
official claims, vaccines have nothing to do with public health.
Underneath the governmental stamp of approval, there are deep military,
political and industrial interests."</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;" align="justify">During
her trial in 1995, Lanctôt used an episode from the March 11th, 1979,
60 Minutes TV show covering the massive vaccination program foisted on
the American public supposedly in response to the 1976 swine flu
outbreak. It was later established by the CDC that the virus originated
out of Fort Dix in New Jersey. "The Fort Dix outbreak may have been a
zoonotic anomaly caused by introduction of an animal virus into a
stressed population in close contact in crowded facilities during a
cold winter," note <a href="http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/EID/vol12no01/05-0965.htm" target="_blank">Joel C. Gaydos, Franklin H. Top, Jr, Richard A. Hodder, and Philip K. Russell</a>.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;" align="justify">It was also characterized "a rare example of an influenza virus with documented human to human transmission," according to <a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17412677" target="_blank">Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health</a> in Baltimore. The virus is "thought to be a direct descendant of the virus that caused the pandemic of 1918," explained <a href="http://www.cidrap.umn.edu/cidrap/content/influenza/panflu/news/apr2209swine.html" target="_blank">Richard Krause</a>, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases at the time.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;" align="justify">"Public
health experts, fearing a possible replay of the 1918 pandemic, engaged
in an intense debate about how to respond. Eventually they launched a
nationwide vaccination campaign, which was announced by President
Gerald Ford in March. By the end of the year, 48 million people had
been vaccinated," write <a href="http://www.cidrap.umn.edu/cidrap/content/influenza/panflu/news/apr2209swine.html" target="_blank">Robert Roos and Lisa Schnirring</a> of the Center for Infectious Disease Research &amp; Policy. "But the feared pandemic never materialized."</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;" align="justify">Instead,
numerous people came down with Guillian-Barre syndrome, a paralyzing
neurologic illness, after receiving the government-hyped vaccination.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;" align="justify">More than 33 years later, according to <a href="http://socioecohistory.wordpress.com/2009/04/30/dr-russell-blaylock-on-1976-swine-flu-and-current-outbreak/" target="_blank">Dr. Russell Blaylock</a>,
a board certified neurosurgeon, "we are hearing the same cries of alarm
from a similar lineup of virology experts. The pharmaceutical companies
are busy designing a vaccine for the swine flu in hope that this
administration will make the vaccine mandatory before another
vaccine-related disaster can ruin their party.... Like SARS and bird flu
before it, this swine flu scare is a lot of nonsense. Just take your
high dose vitamin D3 (5000 IU a day), eat a healthy diet and take a few
immune boosting supplements (such as beta-1, 3/1, 6 glucan) and you
will not have to worry about this flu."</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;" align="justify">According to a source known to former NSA official <a href="http://www.prisonplanet.com/is-swine-flu-a-biological-weapon.html" target="_blank">Wayne Madsen</a>,
"A top scientist for the United Nations, who has examined the outbreak
of the deadly Ebola virus in Africa, as well as HIV/AIDS victims,
concluded that H1N1 possesses certain transmission "vectors" that
suggest that the new flu strain has been genetically-manufactured as a
military biological warfare weapon.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;" align="justify">In
April, Army criminal investigators were looking into the possibility
that disease samples went missing from biolabs at Fort Detrick. "Chad
Jones, spokesman for Fort Meade, said CID is investigating the
possibility of missing virus samples from the U.S. Army Medical
Research Institute of Infectious Diseases," the <a href="http://www.fredericknewspost.com/sections/news/display.htm?StoryID=89293" target="_blank">Frederick News Post</a>
reported. "Obviously, in light of the current swine flu scare, and the
new strain's possible synthetic origin, the fact that virus samples may
have gone missing from the same Army research lab from which the 2001
anthrax strain was released is extremely disturbing," <a href="http://www.prisonplanet.com/is-swine-flu-a-biological-weapon.html" target="_blank">Paul Joseph Watson</a> wrote at the time.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;" align="justify">Jane
Bürgermeister "charges that the entire 'swine flu' pandemic business is
premised on a massive lie that there is no natural virus out there that
poses a threat to the population," writes <a href="http://www.naturalnews.com/026503_pandemic_swine_flu_bioterrorism.html" target="_blank">Barbara Minton</a>
for Natural Health News. "She presents evidence leading to the belief
that the bird flu and swine flu viruses have, in fact, been
bioengineered in laboratories using funding supplied by the WHO and
other government agencies, among others. This 'swine flu' is a hybrid
of part swine flu, part human flu and part bird flu, something that can
only come from laboratories according to many experts."</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;" align="justify">Minton continues:</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;" align="justify">Using
the "swine flu" as a pretext, the defendants [in Bürgermeister's
lawsuit] have preplanned the mass murder of the U.S. population by
means of forced vaccination. They have installed an extensive network
of FEMA concentration camps and identified mass grave sites, and they
have been involved in devising and implementing a scheme to hand power
over the U.S. to an international crime syndicate that uses the UN and
WHO as a front for illegal racketeering influenced organized crime
activities, in violation of the laws that govern treason.<br /></p><br /><div style="margin-right: 10px;" class="bigArticleText"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/hLqHmIVDLwM&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" height="340" width="560"><br /><br />
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;" align="justify">Obama's
Bilderberg Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius -- and
Bilderberg member -- wants to make it easy for kids to get their
toxin-laden eugenicist "swine flu" vaccine this fall. "Schoolchildren
may be first in line for swine flu vaccine this fall -- and might even
be able to get the shot right at school," the <a href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/31386720/ns/health-swine_flu/" target="_blank">Associated Press</a> reported on June 16.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;" align="justify">As <a href="http://www.infowars.com/mandatory-h1n1-vaccine-may-be-in-the-works/" target="_blank">we noted last month</a>,
the government appears to be planning a mandatory flu vaccination
program. In a recent article on the unfolding economic collapse, Rep.
Ron Paul warns that the hysterically hyped H1N1 flu "pandemic" may
result in the government requiring mandatory flu vaccinations. "Nearly
$8 billion will be spent to address a 'potential pandemic flu' which
could result in mandatory vaccinations for no discernible reason other
than to enrich the pharmaceutical companies that make the vaccine,"
writes Paul.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;" align="justify">Considering
the track record of the global elite, the government-mandated
vaccination program now in the works -- as Ghislaine Lanctôt and Jane
Bürgermeister warn -- will serve the eugenicist plan to depopulate the
planet. A contrived pandemic will also set the final stage for the
implementation of martial law and a high-tech surveillance and police
state grid.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;" align="justify">Original: <a href="http://globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&amp;aid=14312">http://globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&amp;aid=14312</a><br /></p></div> ]]>
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    <title>Children Who Get Flu Vaccine Have Three Times Risk Of Hospitalization For Flu, Study Suggests</title>
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    <published>2009-05-20T10:32:40Z</published>
    <updated>2009-05-20T11:46:47Z</updated>

    <summary>ScienceDaily (May 20, 2009) -- The inactivated flu vaccine does not appear to be effective in preventing influenza-related hospitalizations in children, especially the ones with asthma. In fact, children who get the flu vaccine are more at risk for hospitalization...</summary>
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        <![CDATA[<p id="first"><i><span class="date">ScienceDaily (May 20, 2009)</span></i> --
The inactivated flu vaccine does not appear to be effective in
preventing influenza-related hospitalizations in children, especially
the ones with asthma. In fact, children who get the flu vaccine are
more at risk for hospitalization than their peers who do not get the
vaccine, according to new research that will be presented on May 19, at
the 105th International Conference of the American Thoracic Society in
San Diego.</p>

				
				

				
<p>Flu vaccine (trivalent inactivated flu vaccine--TIV) has unknown effects on asthmatics.</p>

<p>"The concerns that vaccination maybe associated with asthma
exacerbations have been disproved with multiple studies in the past,
but the vaccine's effectiveness has not been well-established," said
Avni Joshi, M.D., of the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN. "This study was
aimed at evaluating the effectiveness of the TIV in children overall,
as well as the children with asthma, to prevent influenza-related
hospitalization."</p>
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        <![CDATA[The CDC's Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) and
the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) recommend annual influenza
vaccination for all children aged six months to 18 years. The National
Asthma Education and Prevention Program (3rd revision) also recommends
annual flu vaccination of asthmatic children older than six months.
<p>In order to determine whether the vaccine was effective in reducing
the number of hospitalizations that all children, and especially the
ones with asthma, faced over eight consecutive flu seasons, the
researchers conducted a cohort study of 263 children who were evaluated
at the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota from six months to 18 years of age,
each of whom had had laboratory-confirmed influenza between 1996 to
2006. The investigators determined who had and had not received the flu
vaccine, their asthma status and who did and did not require
hospitalization. Records were reviewed for each subject with
influenza-related illness for flu vaccination preceding the illness and
hospitalization during that illness.</p>
<p>They found that children who had received the flu vaccine had three
times the risk of hospitalization, as compared to children who had not
received the vaccine. In asthmatic children, there was a significantly
higher risk of hospitalization in subjects who received the TIV, as
compared to those who did not (p= 0.006). But no other measured
factors--such as insurance plans or severity of asthma--appeared to
affect risk of hospitalization.</p>
<p>"While these findings do raise questions about the efficacy of the
vaccine, they do not in fact implicate it as a cause of
hospitalizations," said Dr. Joshi. "More studies are needed to assess
not only the immunogenicity, but also the efficacy of different
influenza vaccines in asthmatic subjects."</p><p><br /></p><p>Source: <a href="http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090519172045.htm">ScienceDaily</a></p><p><br /></p>]]>
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    <title>The Gardasil Scam: HPV Does NOT Cause Cancer</title>
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    <published>2009-03-09T20:38:50Z</published>
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    <summary><![CDATA[Some time ago at Matewan I expressed doubts about Gardasil, the&nbsp;vaccination that was being forced on teenage girls supposedly because it acted to prevent cervical cancer. I suggested then that there was something fishy about all the political wheeling and...]]></summary>
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        <![CDATA[<p>Some time ago at Matewan I expressed doubts about Gardasil,
the&nbsp;vaccination that was being forced on teenage girls supposedly
because it acted to prevent cervical cancer. I suggested then that
there was something fishy about all the political wheeling and dealing
behind the scenes that had resulted in various governors - Texas' Rick
Perry for one - making Gardasil vaccinations mandatory.</p>
<p>It all sounded cooked. To begin with, Perry had very heavy
connections with the pharmaceutical industry, including the companies
that manufacture and distribute Gardasil. Secondly, studies show that
some 94% of sexually active&nbsp;women have some form of HPV and in almost
all those cases, <strong>it goes away by itself</strong>. Why, I
wondered, would we be making the injections mandatory for a disease
that cures itself without troubling the patient for the sake of <em>maybe</em> protecting the small slice of the population that <em>might</em> develop cervical cancer from HPV?</p>
<p>It sounded like another Bog Pharma scam but it may be far worse. Turns out that studies actually show that not only does HPV <strong>NOT</strong> cause cervical cancer, the Gardasil itself <strong>does</strong>.</p>
<blockquote><p><span style="font-size: 9pt; color: rgb(50, 50, 50); font-family: Verdana;">This
revelation should be quite shocking to anyone who has been following
the debate over Gardasil and mandatory vaccinations of teenage girls.
First, it reveals that <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Gardasil appears to <em><i><font face="Verdana"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">increase</span></font></i></em> disease by 44.6 percent in certain people</span></b> -- namely, those who were already carriers of the same HPV strains used in the vaccine.</span></p>
<p>In other words, it appears that <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">if
the vaccine is given to a young woman who already carries HPV in a
"harmless" state, it may "activate" the infection and directly cause
precancerous lesions to appear</span></b>. The vaccine, in other words, may accelerate the development of precancerous lesions in women.</p></blockquote>
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        <![CDATA[<p>This was sent to me via email from a friend and comes from a websight called
NaturalNews. Below is the entire text, with links. Read it and make up your own mind. It's long but if you have or know a teenage girl or her family, it's crucial information worth taking the time to read.</p>

<p><span style="font-size: 9pt; color: rgb(50, 50, 50); font-family: Verdana;"><font color="#323232" face="Verdana" size="1"><span style="font-size: 9pt; color: rgb(50, 50, 50); font-family: Verdana;">NaturalNews)
For the last several years, HPV vaccines have been marketed to the
public and mandated in compulsory injections for young girls in several
states based on the idea that they prevent cervical cancer. Now,
NaturalNews has obtained documents from the FDA and other sources (see
below) which reveal that the FDA has been well aware for several years
that Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) has no direct link to cervical cancer.</span></font></span></p>

<p><font color="#323232" face="Verdana" size="1">NaturalNews has also
learned that HPV vaccines have been proven to be flatly worthless in
clearing the HPV virus from women who have already been exposed to HPV
(which includes most sexually active women), calling into question the
scientific justification of mandatory "vaccinate everyone" policies.</font></p>

<p><font color="#323232" face="Verdana" size="1">Furthermore, this
story reveals evidence that the vaccine currently being administered
for HPV -- Gardasil -- may increase the risk of precancerous cervical
lesions by an alarming 44.6 percent in some women. The vaccine, it
turns out, may be far more dangerous to the health of women than doing
nothing at all.</font></p>

<p><font color="#323232" face="Verdana" size="1">If true, this
information reveals details of an enormous public health fraud being
perpetrated on the American people, involving FDA officials, Big Pharma
promoters, and even the governors of states like Texas. The health and
safety of tens of millions of young girls is at stake here, and what
this NaturalNews investigative report reveals is that <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">HPV vaccinations may not only be medically useless; they may also be harmful to the health of the young girls receiving them.</span></b></font></p>

<p><font color="#323232" face="Verdana" size="1">This report reveals startling facts about the HPV vaccine that most people will find shocking:</font></p>

<p><font color="#323232" face="Verdana" size="1">• How it may actually increase the risk of precancerous lesions by 44.6 percent.</font></p>

<p><font color="#323232" face="Verdana" size="1">• The FDA has, for four years, known that HPV was not the cause of cervical cancer.</font></p>

<p><font color="#323232" face="Verdana" size="1">• Why mandatory HPV vaccination policies may cause great harm to young girls.</font></p>

<p><font color="#323232" face="Verdana" size="1">• Why HPV infections are self-limiting and pose no real danger in healthy women</font></p>

<p><font color="#323232" face="Verdana" size="1">• Little-known FDA documents that reveal astounding facts about Gardasil</font></p>

<p><font color="#323232" face="Verdana" size="1">• How Big Pharma promoted its Gardasil vaccine using disease mongering and fear mongering</font></p>

<p><font color="#323232" face="Verdana" size="1">Click the NEXT button below to continue reading...</font></p>


<h1><font color="#000000" face="Arial" size="4"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 120%;">The Trail of Evidence</span></font></h1>

<p><font color="#323232" face="Verdana" size="1"><span style="font-size: 9pt; color: rgb(50, 50, 50); font-family: Verdana;">This story begins at a company called HiFi DNA Tech, LLC (<a target="_blank" href="http://www.hifidna.com/"><font color="#0000cc">http://www.hifidna.com</font></a>)
a company involved in the manufacture of portable HPV testing devices
based on DNA sequencing analysis. HiFi DNA Tech has been pushing to get
the FDA to classify its HPV detection technology as a "Class II"
virology testing device. To understand why this is a big deal, you have
to understand the differences between "Class II" and "Class III"
virology testing devices.</span></font></p>

<p><font color="#323232" face="Verdana" size="1">Based on FDA rules, a
Class III virology testing device is one that is considered by the FDA
to have "premarket approval," meaning that it cannot yet be sold to the
public. In order for such a device to be marketed to the public, it
must be downgraded to Class II status, which is considered a "special
controls" status. Class II devices are, "...those devices for which the
general controls by themselves are insufficient to provide reasonable
assurance of safety and effectiveness, but for which there is
sufficient information to establish special controls to provide such
assurance, including performance standards, postmarket surveillance,
patient registries, development and dissemination of guidelines,
recommendations, and any other appropriate actions the agency deems
necessary."</font></p>

<p><font color="#323232" face="Verdana" size="1">In other words, a
Class II device may or may not actually be safe, but the FDA considers
is safe enough to release to the public.</font></p>

<p><font color="#323232" face="Verdana" size="1">HiFi DNA Tech has been trying to get its HPV detection device downgraded to a Class II device based on the following arguments:</font></p>

<p><font color="#323232" face="Verdana" size="1">• For more than 20 years, the FDA had regulated the HPV test as a "test for cervical cancer."</font></p>

<p><font color="#323232" face="Verdana" size="1">• But since at least
2003, the FDA has changed its position on the relationship between
Human Papilloma Virus and cervical cancer, stating that the HPV strain
is "not associated with cervical cancer."</font></p>

<p><font color="#323232" face="Verdana" size="1">• Accordingly, HiFi DNA Tech is arguing that the HPV test it has developed <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">is no longer a test for cervical cancer, but is merely a test for the presence of Human Papilloma Viruses</span></b>
-- a shift that makes the test far more reliable in its primary purpose.
In other words, the test is merely detecting the presence of a virus,
not making a diagnosis of a disease (which would be a much higher
standard to meet).</font></p>

<p><font color="#323232" face="Verdana" size="1">On October 12, 2007,
HiFi DNA Tech sued the Food and Drug Administration in an attempt to
force it to downgrade its HPV detection technology to Class II (see <a target="_blank" href="http://www.news-medical.net/?id=31180">http://www.news-medical.net/?id=31180</a> ). Earlier in the year -- on March 7, 2007, HiFi DNA Tech filed the HPV PCR test reclassification petition with the FDA. <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">It is the information in this petition document that led us to the FDA's knowledge that HPV is not linked to cervical cancer.</span></b></font></p>

<p><font color="#323232" face="Verdana" size="1">Got all that? This is a somewhat complex story to follow, so here it is again in summary:</font></p>

<p><font color="#323232" face="Verdana" size="1">• A company that
manufacturers a DNA testing device that can detect the presence of HPV
(Human Papilloma Virus) is petitioning the FDA (and suing the FDA) to
get it to reclassify its medical device as a "Class II" device based on
the revelation that the FDA has already adopted the position that HPV
infections do not directly cause cervical cancer.</font></p>

<p><font color="#323232" face="Verdana" size="1">• This would mean that <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">the FDA has been aware for years that HPV does not cause cervical cancer</span></b>,
which means that the FDA's approval of the Gardasil vaccine -- as well
as the national push for Gardasil vaccinations -- is based on a grand
medical hoax that, not surprisingly, appears to be designed to exploit
the fear of cancer to sell vaccines. The victims in all this, of
course, are the young girls who are apparently being subjected to a
medically useless (and potentially dangerous) vaccine.</font></p>

<p><font color="#323232" face="Verdana" size="1">• None of this
information was apparently known during the more recent debates over
the safety and efficacy of Gardasil, the HPV vaccine now in use. This
means that the public debate over mandatory HPV vaccinations lacked key
elements that now seem essential to reaching rational, evidence-based
conclusions over the safety and efficacy of such vaccines.</font></p>

<p><font color="#323232" face="Verdana" size="1">Next, we reveal the FDA's statement that HPV is "not associated with cervical cancer."</font></p>

<h1><font color="#000000" face="Arial" size="4"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 120%;">The Text of the Petition</span></font></h1>

<p style="margin-bottom: 12pt; line-height: 12.75pt;"><font color="#323232" face="Verdana" size="1"><span style="font-size: 9pt; color: rgb(50, 50, 50); font-family: Verdana;">The Reclassification Petition, dated March 7, 2007, is still posted on the FDA's website: <a target="_blank" href="http://www.fda.gov/ohrms/dockets/dockets/07p0210/07p-0210-ccp0001-01-vol1.pdf">http://www.fda.gov/ohrms/dockets/dockets/07p0210/07p-0210-ccp0001-01-vol1.pdf</a></span></font></p>

<p><font color="#323232" face="Verdana" size="1">In case the FDA
removes this document (as it has been known to do), we've posted a
backup copy of the document on our own servers: <a target="_blank" href="http://www.naturalnews.com/downloads/FDA-HPV.pdf">http://www.NaturalNews.com/downloads/FDA-HPV.pdf</a></font></p>

<p><font color="#323232" face="Verdana" size="1">This document reveals the following text:</font></p>

<p><font color="#323232" face="Verdana" size="1"><em><i><font face="Verdana"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">The
FDA news release of March 31, 2003 acknowledges that "most infections
(by HPV) are short-lived and not associated with cervical cancer", in
recognition of the advances in medical science and technology since
1988. In other words, since 2003 the scientific staff of the FDA no
longer considers HPV infection to be a high-risk disease when writing
educational materials for the general public whereas the regulatory arm
of the agency is still bound by the old classification scheme that had
placed HPV test as a test to stratify risk for cervical cancer in
regulating the industry.</span></font></i></em></font></p>

<p><font color="#323232" face="Verdana" size="1">NaturalNews sought to
verify the existence of the FDA news release referenced by this
petition reclassification document and found that, indeed, the FDA news
release exists. In fact, it's still posted on the FDA website at <a target="_blank" href="http://www.fda.gov/bbs/topics/NEWS/2003/NEW00890.html">http://www.fda.gov/bbs/topics/NEWS/2003/NEW00890.html</a></font></p>

<p><font color="#323232" face="Verdana" size="1">In it, the FDA says,
"The HPV DNA test is not intended to substitute for regular Pap
screening. Nor is it intended to screen women under 30 who have normal
Pap tests. Although the rate of HPV infection in this group is high, <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">most infections are short-lived and not associated with cervical cancer</span></b>." (Emphasis added.)</font></p>

<p><font color="#323232" face="Verdana" size="1">In other words, the FDA knew in 2003 that HPV infections are not associated with cervical cancer.</font></p>

<p><font color="#323232" face="Verdana" size="1">Furthermore, the FDA
states, in the same press release, "Most women who become infected with
HPV are able to eradicate the virus and suffer no apparent long-term
consequences to their health."</font></p>

<p><font color="#323232" face="Verdana" size="1">In other words, <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">HPV infections do not cause cervical cancer!</span></b>
Remember, the entire push for mandatory HPV vaccinations of young girls
across the country has been the urgent call to "save" these young girls
from cervical cancer. The vaccine push has been about "savings lives."
But as these documents clearly reveal, HPV is no threat to the lives of
young girls. In fact, as you will see below, HPV infections are
naturally self-limiting!</font></p>

<h1><font color="#000000" face="Arial" size="4"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 120%;">HPV Infections Resolve Themselves, Without Vaccines</span></font></h1>

<p><font color="#323232" face="Verdana" size="1"><span style="font-size: 9pt; color: rgb(50, 50, 50); font-family: Verdana;">As
the reclassification petition reveals, HPV infections are naturally
self-limiting -- meaning that they are controlled naturally, without
requiring intervention with drugs or vaccines. It is not the HPV virus
itself that causes cervical cancer but rather a persistent state of
ill-health on the part of the patient that makes her vulnerable to
persistent infections.</span></font></p>

<p><font color="#323232" face="Verdana" size="1">As the petition states:</font></p>

<p><font color="#323232" face="Verdana" size="1"><em><i><font face="Verdana"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">"Based
on new scientific information published in the past 15 years, it is now
generally agreed that identifying and typing HPV infection does not
bear a direct relationship to stratification of the risk for cervical
cancer . Most acute infections caused by HPV are self-limiting [1,
4-7]. ...Repeated sequential transient HPV infections, even when caused
by "high-risk" HPVs, are characteristically not associated with high
risk of developing squamous intraepithelial lesions, a precursor of
cervical cancer.</span></font></i></em><i><span style="font-style: italic;"></span></i></font></p>

<p><font color="#323232" face="Verdana" size="1"><i><em><i><font face="Verdana"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">A
woman found to be positive for the same strain (genotype) of HPV on
repeated testing is highly likely suffering from a persistent HPV
infection and is considered to be at high risk of developing
precancerous intraepithelial lesions in the cervix . It is the
persistent infection, not the virus, that determines the cancer risk."</span></font></i></em></i></font></p>

<p><font color="#323232" face="Verdana" size="1">The FDA agrees with
this assessment of the relationship between HPV and cervical cancer, as
evidenced by its 2003 news release quoted above.</font></p>

<p><font color="#323232" face="Verdana" size="1">Next, we reveal evidence that HPV vaccines actually <em><i><font face="Verdana"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">cause</span></font></i></em> precancerous lesions in women.</font></p>

<p><font color="#323232" face="Verdana" size="1"><span style="font-size: 9pt; color: rgb(50, 50, 50); font-family: Verdana;"></span></font></p>

<h1><font color="#000000" face="Arial" size="4"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 120%;">Do HPV Vaccines Increase the Risk of Precancerous Lesions?</span></font></h1>

<p style="margin-bottom: 12pt; line-height: 12.75pt;"><font color="#323232" face="Verdana" size="1"><span style="font-size: 9pt; color: rgb(50, 50, 50); font-family: Verdana;">The
reclassification petition cited above also reveals that Gardasil
vaccines may increase the risk of developing precancerous lesions by
44.6 percent in some groups of women. This is found in a quote
referencing a document mentioned in the petition, which states:</span></font></p>

<p><font color="#323232" face="Verdana" size="1"><em><i><font face="Verdana"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">"PCR-based
HPV detection device with provision for accurate HPV genotyping is more
urgently needed now because vaccination with Gardasil of the women who
are already sero-positive and PCR-positive for vaccine-relevant
genotypes of HPV has been found to increase the risk of developing
high-grade precancerous lesions by 44.6%, according to an FDA VRBPAC
Background Document : Gardasil HPV Quadrivalent Vaccine. May 18, 2006
VRBPAC Meeting. <a href="editor-content.html?cs=utf-8" target="_blank">www.fda.gov/ohrms/dockets/ac/06/briefing/2006-4222B3.pdf"</a></span></font></i></em></font></p>

<p><font color="#323232" face="Verdana" size="1">NaturalNews tracked
down the correct URL of the document referenced above and found it in
the FDA docket archives. We have placed a safe backup copy at: <a target="_blank" href="http://www.naturalnews.com/downloads/FDA-Gardasil.pdf">http://www.NaturalNews.com/downloads/FDA-Gardasil.pdf</a></font></p>

<p><font color="#323232" face="Verdana" size="1">Sure enough, this
document reveals startling information about the extreme dangers
apparently posed by Gardasil vaccinations. On page 13, this document
states:</font></p>

<p><font color="#323232" face="Verdana" size="1"><em><i><font face="Verdana"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">"<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Concerns Regarding Primary Endpoint Analyses among Subgroups</span></b></span></font></i></em><i><span style="font-style: italic;"></span></i></font></p>

<p><font color="#323232" face="Verdana" size="1"><i><em><i><font face="Verdana"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">There
were two important concerns that were identified during the course of
the efficacy review of this BLA. One was the potential for Gardasil to
enhance disease among a subgroup of subjects who had evidence of
persistent infection with vaccine-relevant HPV types at baseline. The
other concern was the observations of CIN 2/3 or worse cases due to HPV
types not contained in the vaccine. These cases of disease due to other
HPV types have the potential to counter the efficacy results of
Gardasil for the HPV types contained in the vaccine.</span></font></i></em></i></font></p>

<p><font color="#323232" face="Verdana" size="1"><i><em><i><font face="Verdana"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">1.
Evaluation of the potential of Gardasil™ to enhance cervical disease in
subjects who had evidence of persistent infection with vaccine-relevant
HPV types prior to vaccination. The results of exploratory subgroup
analyses for study 013 suggested a concern that subjects who were
seropositive and PCR-positive for the vaccine-relevant HPV types had a
greater number of CIN 2/3 or worse cases as demonstrated in the
following table:</span></font></i></em></i></font></p>

<p><font color="#323232" face="Verdana" size="1"><i><em><i><font face="Verdana"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">Observed Efficacy</span></font></i></em><br />
<em><i><font face="Verdana"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">- 44.6%</span></font></i></em></i></font></p>

<p><font color="#323232" face="Verdana" size="1"><i><em><i><font face="Verdana"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">It
appeared that subjects in this subgroup of study 013 who received
Gardasil™ might have had enhanced risk factors for development of CIN
2/3 or worse compared to placebo recipients."</span></font></i></em></i></font></p>

<h1><font color="#000000" face="Arial" size="4"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 120%;">Revealing the Dangers of Gardasil</span></font></h1>

<p><font color="#323232" face="Verdana" size="1"><span style="font-size: 9pt; color: rgb(50, 50, 50); font-family: Verdana;">This
revelation should be quite shocking to anyone who has been following
the debate over Gardasil and mandatory vaccinations of teenage girls.
First, it reveals that <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Gardasil appears to <em><i><font face="Verdana"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">increase</span></font></i></em> disease by 44.6 percent in certain people</span></b> -- namely, those who were already carriers of the same HPV strains used in the vaccine.</span></font></p>

<p><font color="#323232" face="Verdana" size="1">In other words, it appears that <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">if
the vaccine is given to a young woman who already carries HPV in a
"harmless" state, it may "activate" the infection and directly cause
precancerous lesions to appear</span></b>. The vaccine, in other words, may accelerate the development of precancerous lesions in women.</font></p>

<p><font color="#323232" face="Verdana" size="1">This is information
that has simply not been made available in the debate over Gardasil
vaccination policies. The pro-vaccination rhetoric has always been
about "saving lives" and it carried the implied statement that Gardasil
is perfectly safe for all women, posing absolutely no increased risk of
cancer. What these documents reveal, however, is that Gardasil may, in
fact, pose a serious increase in the risk of cervical cancer in some
recipients of the vaccine.</font></p>

<p><font color="#323232" face="Verdana" size="1">Next: Will health
authorities "interrogate" young virgins over their sexual activity (or
lack thereof)? What are the bioethical ramifications of this vaccine
being mandated to all teenage girls?</font></p>

<p><font color="#323232" face="Verdana" size="1"><span style="font-size: 9pt; color: rgb(50, 50, 50); font-family: Verdana;"></span></font></p>

<h1><font color="#000000" face="Arial" size="4"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 120%;">Interrogating Young Virgins</span></font></h1>

<p><font color="#323232" face="Verdana" size="1"><span style="font-size: 9pt; color: rgb(50, 50, 50); font-family: Verdana;">The
FDA directly admits the vaccine is utterly useless in these women,
stating in the same document, "Finally, there is compelling evidence
that the vaccine lacks therapeutic efficacy among women who have had
prior exposure to HPV and have not cleared previous infection (PCR
positive and seropositive)."</span></font></p>

<p><font color="#323232" face="Verdana" size="1">What this essentially means is that the "safe" administering of the Gardasil vaccine requires that <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">it be administered only to virgins</span></b>
(because virtually all women who are sexually active carry HPV
strains). That, of course, would require the direct questioning of the
sexual habits of all young girls before administering the vaccine.</font></p>

<p><font color="#323232" face="Verdana" size="1">Is this what the
Governor of Texas really had in mind when he mandated such vaccinations
for all young girls in Texas? ... a male doctor with a vaccination needle
in his hand and a thirteen-year-old girl sitting in a private clinic
room behind closed doors, with the male doctor asking her, "Have you
ever had sex?"</font></p>

<p><font color="#323232" face="Verdana" size="1">Clearly, this kind of patient questioning crosses all kinds of ethical barriers when such vaccinations are made <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">mandatory</span></b>
(as they have been made in Texas). It puts the State in the positioning
of ascertaining the sexual habits of very young teenage girls and then
potentially causing them harm. It's not hard to suppose that most
sexually active teenage girls would claim to still be virgins
(especially if their parents were present), creating a situation where
vaccines would be routinely administered to precisely the HPV carrier
subgroups for which it has been demonstrated to greatly increase the
risk of precancerous lesions.</font></p>

<p><font color="#323232" face="Verdana" size="1">In other words, under
a mandatory Gardasil vaccination scenario like what exists in Texas
today, a sexually-active young teenage girl has to make a tough choice:</font></p>

<p><font color="#323232" face="Verdana" size="1">1) She can lie to her
doctor, claim to be a virgin, receive the vaccine and thereby
potentially increase her risk of cervical cancer.</font></p>

<p><font color="#323232" face="Verdana" size="1">2) She can tell her
doctor she's sexually active, thereby surrendering her privacy and
possibly subjecting herself to various consequences from her sexual
status being learned by her parents or guardians. (One would hope, of
course, that such sexual habits were not secrets, but alas, we live in
the real world where many teenage girls do indeed have sex at a very
early age...)</font></p>

<p><font color="#323232" face="Verdana" size="1">Furthermore, the young
girl is unlikely to be given accurate information about the health
risks associated with the vaccine, since virtually all health
authorities are heavily involved in promoting pro-vaccination
propaganda, routinely ignoring scientific evidence that might give
reasonable people pause.</font></p>

<p><font color="#323232" face="Verdana" size="1">Naturally, the better
scenario here is that the young girl is not sexually active to begin
with, but in a society where 8th and 9th graders are already routinely
engaged in sexual activities -- almost always unbeknownst to their
parents -- it seems naive to expect that such girls would suddenly honor
pledges of celibacy in order to protect themselves from possible future
dangers posed by a present-day vaccine (especially when doctors blindly
claim the vaccine is harmless).</font></p>

<p><font color="#323232" face="Verdana" size="1">There are also serious
questions about the safety of the vaccine for non-sexually-active young
women. Yet even if the vaccine poses no increased risk of cervical
cancer for non-sexually-active young girls, there's still the more
serious question of: Does the vaccine work? Does it really prevent
cervical cancer in the first place? And that question has already been
clearly answered by the FDA's own admission that HPV infections are not
the cause of cervical cancer in the first place.</font></p>

<p><font color="#323232" face="Verdana" size="1">Next: Do HPV
vaccinations help anyone? We reveal a four-quadrant comparison that
shows the vaccine to be more harmful than helpful.</font></p>

<h1><font color="#000000" face="Arial" size="4"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 120%;">The Four Quadrants of Garsadil Vaccinations</span></font></h1>

<p style="margin-bottom: 12pt; line-height: 12.75pt;"><font color="#323232" face="Verdana" size="1"><span style="font-size: 9pt; color: rgb(50, 50, 50); font-family: Verdana;">When
considering the safety and effectiveness of Gardasil vaccinations on
young teens, there are essentially four quadrants to consider, as shown
in the table below:</span></font></p>

<div align="center">
<table style="width: 100%;" border="1" cellpadding="0" width="100%">
<tbody><tr>
<td style="padding: 6pt; width: 50%;" width="50%">
<p style="line-height: 12.75pt;"><font color="#323232" face="Verdana" size="1"><span style="font-size: 9pt; color: rgb(50, 50, 50); font-family: Verdana;">Quadrant I: Non-Sexually Active<br />
No Gardasil Vaccine</span></font></p></td>
<td style="padding: 6pt; width: 50%;" width="50%">
<p style="line-height: 12.75pt;"><font color="#323232" face="Verdana" size="1"><span style="font-size: 9pt; color: rgb(50, 50, 50); font-family: Verdana;">Quadrant II: Non-Sexually Active<br />
Receives Gardasil Vaccine</span></font></p></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="padding: 6pt; width: 50%;" width="50%">
<p style="line-height: 12.75pt;"><font color="#323232" face="Verdana" size="1"><span style="font-size: 9pt; color: rgb(50, 50, 50); font-family: Verdana;">Quadrant III: Sexually Active<br />
No Gardasil Vaccine</span></font></p></td>
<td style="padding: 6pt; width: 50%;" width="50%">
<p style="line-height: 12.75pt;"><font color="#323232" face="Verdana" size="1"><span style="font-size: 9pt; color: rgb(50, 50, 50); font-family: Verdana;">Quadrant IV: Sexually Active<br />
Receives Gardasil Vaccine</span></font></p></td>
</tr>
</tbody></table>
</div>

<p><font color="#323232" face="Verdana" size="1"><span style="font-size: 9pt; color: rgb(50, 50, 50); font-family: Verdana;"></span></font></p>

<p><font color="#323232" face="Verdana" size="1">Based on what we've learned from the FDA's own documents, here are the likely outcomes of each of the four quadrants:</font></p>

<p><font color="#323232" face="Verdana" size="1"><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Quadrant I: Non-Sexually Active, No Gardasil Vaccine</span></b><br />
Outcome: No risk of cervical cancer.</font></p>

<p><font color="#323232" face="Verdana" size="1"><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Quadrant II: Non-Sexually Active, Receives Gardasil Vaccine</span></b><br />
Outcome: No medical benefit from vaccine.</font></p>

<p><font color="#323232" face="Verdana" size="1"><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Quadrant III: Sexually Active, No Gardasil Vaccine</span></b><br />
Outcome: HPV presence is self-limiting and does not lead to cervical cancer.</font></p>

<p><font color="#323232" face="Verdana" size="1"><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Quadrant IV: Sexually Active, Receives Gardasil Vaccine</span></b><br />
Outcome: 44.6% Increased risk of precancerous lesions. No reduction in cancer risk.</font></p>

<p><font color="#323232" face="Verdana" size="1">In other words, <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Gardasil adds no benefits to any quadrant!</span></b>
There is no subgroup that actually benefits from a Gardasil
vaccination. But there is at least one quadrant in which Gardasil
achieves an increased risk of disease. Put another way, Gardasil helps
no one, but it harms some.</font></p>

<p><font color="#323232" face="Verdana" size="1">This is hardly a
position from which to mandate the vaccine for everyone, especially
since the vaccine has been widely prescribed as "completely safe" for
everyone. It is widely claimed by medical authorities that the vaccine
has no downside: No health risks, no increased risk of disease and no
potential to cause harm in women. Clearly, these assumptions have no
basis in scientific fact.</font></p>

<p><font color="#323232" face="Verdana" size="1">Keep in mind, too, that Merck, the manufacturer of Gardasil, has publicly suggested that <em><i><font face="Verdana"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">young boys</span></font></i></em>
should receive Gardasil vaccinations! Why? Because they might engage in
oral sex with girls who carry the virus. Therefore, the story goes,
young boys should be vaccinated against this virus that they claim
causes cervical cancer! (Never mind the fact that boys don't have a
cervix...) There is no end, it seems, to the pseudoscientific nonsense
that will be spouted in an effort to sell more Garsasil vaccines to
people who don't need them.</font></p>

<p><font color="#323232" face="Verdana" size="1">Next: New clinical study shows Gardasil to be medically useless.</font></p>

<h1><font color="#000000" face="Arial" size="4"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 120%;">Research Shows Gardasil to be Useless</span></font></h1>

<p><font color="#323232" face="Verdana" size="1"><span style="font-size: 9pt; color: rgb(50, 50, 50); font-family: Verdana;">To further investigate this conclusion, NaturalNews took a closer look at research published in the <em><i><font face="Verdana"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">Journal of the American Medical Association</span></font></i></em>
(August, 2007), entitled, "Effect of Human Papillomavirus 16/18 L1
Viruslike Particle Vaccine Among Young Women With Preexisting Infection"</span></font></p>

<p><font color="#323232" face="Verdana" size="1">This research sought
to determine the usefulness of the HPV vaccine among women who already
carry HPV (which includes virtually all women who are sexually active,
regardless of their age).</font></p>

<p><font color="#323232" face="Verdana" size="1">This document can currently be found at a University of Louisville document archive reprinted from JAMA. <a target="_blank" href="http://louisville.edu/medschool/med-peds/residents/journal-club/11-07%20Article.pdf">Click here to read the PDF yourself.</a></font></p>

<p><font color="#323232" face="Verdana" size="1">Just in case that copy disappears, we've also hosted the PDF here: <a target="_blank" href="http://www.naturalnews.com/downloads/HPV-Vaccine-Effects.pdf">http://www.NaturalNews.com/downloads/HPV-Vaccine-Effects.pdf</a></font></p>

<p><font color="#323232" face="Verdana" size="1">This document reveals startling information about the ineffectiveness of the Gardasil vaccine. It reveals that <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">the HPV vaccine often caused an <em><i><font face="Verdana"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">increase</span></font></i></em> in the presence of HPV strains</span></b> while utterly failing to clear the viruses in most women.</font></p>

<p><font color="#323232" face="Verdana" size="1">These shocking results caused the study authors to publish this sobering conclusion, printed in JAMA:</font></p>

<p><font color="#323232" face="Verdana" size="1"><em><i><font face="Verdana"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">"No
significant evidence of a vaccine therapeutic effect was observed in
analyses restricted to women who received all doses of vaccine or those
with evidence of single HPV infections at entry (Table2). We observed
no evidence of vaccine effects when we stratified the analysis on
selected study entry characteristics reflective of [various parameters]
(TABLE3). Similarly, no evidence of vaccine effects was observed in
analyses stratified by other study entry parameters thought to
potentially influence clearance rates and efficacy of the vaccine,
including time since sexual initiation, oral contraceptive use,
cigarette smoking, and concomitant infection with C trachomatis or N
gonorrhoeae (Table 3)."</span></font></i></em></font></p>

<p><font color="#323232" face="Verdana" size="1">In other words, the
authors found no evidence that the vaccine worked at all. This
observation led the authors to offer this damning conclusion that
appears to render Gardasil nothing more than a grand medical hoax:</font></p>

<p><font color="#323232" face="Verdana" size="1"><em><i><font face="Verdana"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">"... rates of viral clearance over a 12-month period are not influenced by vaccination."</span></font></i></em></font></p>

<p><font color="#323232" face="Verdana" size="1">The study goes on to
state words that should cause every doctor, Governor and health
authority across the United States (and around the world) to rethink
Gardasil vaccination policies:</font></p>

<p><font color="#323232" face="Verdana" size="1"><em><i><font face="Verdana"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">"...given
that viral clearance rates did not differ by treatment group and that
persistent viral infection is the best established predictor of risk of
progression, it is unlikely that vaccination could have a significant
beneficial impact on rate of lesion progression.1,17</span></font></i></em><i><span style="font-style: italic;"></span></i></font></p>

<p><font color="#323232" face="Verdana" size="1"><i><em><i><font face="Verdana"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">Results
from our community-based study provide strong evidence that there is
little, if any, therapeutic benefit from the vaccine in the population
we studied. Furthermore, we see no reason to believe that there is
therapeutic benefit of the vaccine elsewhere because the biological
effect of vaccination among already infected women is not expected to
vary by population.</span></font></i></em></i></font></p>

<p><font color="#323232" face="Verdana" size="1">In other words, the
vaccines didn't work on the population studied, and there is no reason
to believe that those same vaccines would magically work on other
populations, since the biology of women and HPV is so similar across
various populations.</font></p>

<p><font color="#323232" face="Verdana" size="1">Next: Is Gardasil a grand medical hoax?</font></p>

<h1><font color="#000000" face="Arial" size="4"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 120%;">The Conclusion: HPV Vaccinations a Medical Hoax</span></font></h1>

<p style="margin-bottom: 12pt; line-height: 12.75pt;"><font color="#323232" face="Verdana" size="1"><span style="font-size: 9pt; color: rgb(50, 50, 50); font-family: Verdana;">It
is difficult to take an honest look at this scientific evidence and the
statements made by the FDA and not come to the conclusion that
mandatory Gardasil vaccination policies being pushed across U.S. states
right now are based on something other than science.</span></font></p>

<p><font color="#323232" face="Verdana" size="1">There are many theories exploring the motivation for such vaccination policies. Possible theories include:</font></p>

<p><font color="#323232" face="Verdana" size="1"><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Financial benefit:</span></b>
Big Pharma is pushing mandatory Gardasil vaccination policies so that
it can profit from selling more vaccines to the states. This idea is at
least partially supported by the fact that the first state Governor to
mandate such vaccines (Texas Gov. Rick Perry) had undisclosed ties to
Big Pharma. (A top official in Perry's administration worked directly
for Merck, the manufacturer of Gardasil.)</font></p>

<p><font color="#323232" face="Verdana" size="1"><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Conspiracy to poison the people:</span></b>
This theory, which may stretch the bounds of belief in some readers,
proposes that such mandatory vaccines are put in place in order to
create future disease by poisoning the people with dangerous chemicals
and DNA fragments that are knowingly added to vaccines. The poisoning
of the people, it is said, will pay off in future profits for Big
Pharma when those people develop other serious diseases requiring
"treatment" with medications. Many people who support this theory
currently believe, for example, that AIDS was engineered by human
scientists and then administered to the gay population in New York in
the late 1980's through vaccines.</font></p>

<p><font color="#323232" face="Verdana" size="1"><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Control the sheeple:</span></b>
This theory supposes that the main purpose of mandatory vaccines is to
train the American public to get used to submitting to compulsory
medicines. Once a certain segment of the population is targeted and
effectively injected with mandatory medicines, these policies can be
extended to other groups and, eventually, can encompass the entire
population.</font></p>

<p><font color="#323232" face="Verdana" size="1">The first theory --
Financial Benefit -- is the simplest and easiest theory to believe. It
requires nothing more than simple greed on the part of Big Pharma,
along with the usual level of corruption at the FDA. NaturalNews
believes this is the most likely explanation for events surrounding
Gardasil vaccination policies, but we do not rule out other possible
explanations, either.</font></p>

<h1><font color="#000000" face="Arial" size="4"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 120%;">Profits at Any Cost</span></font></h1>

<p><font color="#323232" face="Verdana" size="1"><span style="font-size: 9pt; color: rgb(50, 50, 50); font-family: Verdana;">What's
clear in all this is that mandatory HPV vaccination programs are not
based on anything resembling good science. They seem to be based on a
carefully planted <em><i><font face="Verdana"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">meme</span></font></i></em>
-- an idea that, coincidentally, spreads from one person's mind to the
next much like a virus, gaining momentum as the mainstream media (MSM),
health authorities, FDA and drug company reps repeat the meme on a
regular basis. And what is that meme? That HPV causes cervical cancer,
and, therefore, HPV vaccinations could halt cervical cancer and save
lives.</span></font></p>

<p><font color="#323232" face="Verdana" size="1">This meme appears to
have no real scientific basis. It is more of an urban legend than
anything resembling scientific fact. Furthermore, it appears to have
been conjured by those in a position to financially benefit from the
adoption of that meme (the drug companies who manufacture, sell, and
profit from the sale of HPV vaccines). In this case, that drug company
is Merck, a powerful corporation with a dubious history rife with
charges of price fixing, large-scale tax avoidance (it set up offshore
accounts to avoid billions in U.S. taxes), widespread biopiracy,
conspiring with the FDA to discredit its critics, burying negative
evidence about its drugs (see the history of Vioxx at <a target="_blank" href="http://www.naturalnews.com/vioxx.html">www.NaturalNews.com/vioxx.html</a> ) and numerous other actions that many consider to be criminal in nature.</font></p>

<p><font color="#323232" face="Verdana" size="1">There is no question
that Merck has the lack of ethics, the willingness and the means to
commit medical fraud on an unprecedented scale. Based on the
information revealed in this report, the mandatory vaccination of young
girls with Gardasil appears to be the boldest medical hoax yet
perpetrated by the company. You can read the true history about Merck
and its crimes at: <a target="_blank" href="http://www.naturalnews.com/Merck.html">http://www.NaturalNews.com/Merck.html</a></font></p>

<p><font color="#323232" face="Verdana" size="1">NaturalNews believes
Merck is currently engaged in a massive medical fraud, and that it has
influenced, corrupted or otherwise recruited FDA officials and state
health authorities in a grand scheme to sell vaccines that are at best
medically worthless, and at worst medically dangerous. Halting cervical
cancer seems to have nothing to do with the marketing and prescribing
of Gardasil. The entire campaign push for mandatory HPV vaccinations
seems to be based entirely in the realm of sales and marketing.</font></p>

<p><font color="#323232" face="Verdana" size="1">The "marketing" of HPV
vaccines involves classic disease mongering -- spreading fear about a
disease as a way of corralling patients into begging for the "solution"
that just happens to be readily available from the same pharmaceutical
company that promoted the disease in the first place. The hype over
cervical cancer and Gardasil seems to be nothing more than a classic
case of fear-based marketing designed to create such consumer fear over
cervical cancer that a massive public outcry would result in
legislation mandating the vaccines.</font></p>

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<p><font color="#323232" face="Verdana" size="1"><span style="font-size: 9pt; color: rgb(50, 50, 50); font-family: Verdana;">HiFi DNA Tech files lawsuit against FDA<br />
<a target="_blank" href="http://www.news-medical.net/?id=31180">http://www.news-medical.net/?id=31180</a></span></font></p>

<p><font color="#323232" face="Verdana" size="1">Reclassification Petition - Human Papillomavirus (HPV) DNA Nested Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) Detection Device (K063649 )<br />
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<p><font color="#323232" face="Verdana" size="1">FDA Approves Expanded Use of HPV Test<br />
<a target="_blank" href="http://www.fda.gov/bbs/topics/NEWS/2003/NEW00890.html">http://www.fda.gov/bbs/topics/NEWS/2003/NEW00890.html</a></font></p>

<p><font color="#323232" face="Verdana" size="1">VRBPAC Background Document, Gardasil™ HPV Quadrivalent Vaccine, May 18, 2006 VRBPAC Meeting<br />
<a target="_blank" href="http://www.fda.gov/ohrms/dockets/ac/06/briefing/2006-4222B3.pdf">http://www.fda.gov/ohrms/dockets/ac/06/briefing/2006-4222B3.pdf</a></font></p>

<font color="#323232" face="Verdana" size="1">Effect of Human Papillomavirus 16/18 L1 Viruslike Particle Vaccine Among Young Women With Preexisting Infection<br />
Journal of the American Medical Association, August, 2007<br />
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Source: <a href="http://trenches.wordpress.com/2008/03/14/the-gardasil-scam-hpv-does-not-cause-cancer/">http://trenches.wordpress.com</a><br />
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    <title>Deaths Associated with HPV Vaccine Start Rolling In, Over 3500 Adverse Affects Reported</title>
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    <published>2008-02-16T16:39:19Z</published>
    <updated>2008-08-09T15:55:57Z</updated>

    <summary>TORONTO, September 20, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) - As Canada, in large part due to aggressive behind the scenes lobbying, rolls out the not-comprehensively-tested Merck HPV vaccine for girls as young as nine, a look at developments on the vaccine south of...</summary>
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        <![CDATA[<p><img src="http://immunodefence.com/ii/01f1.gif" border="0" hspace="2" vspace="2" width="100" height="100" align="left" />TORONTO, September 20, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) - As Canada, in large part due to aggressive behind the scenes lobbying, rolls out the not-comprehensively-tested Merck HPV vaccine for girls as young as nine, a look at developments on the vaccine south of the border should cause Canadians serious concern.&nbsp; In the United States a similar lobby campaign by the same company launched the mass HPV vaccination of girls beginning in June last year. &nbsp;<br /><br />In just little over a year, the HPV vaccine has been associated with at least five deaths, not to mention thousands of reports of adverse effects, hundreds deemed serious, and many that required hospitalization.</p>]]>
        <![CDATA[<p>Judicial Watch, a U.S. government watchdog, became concerned while noting large donations to key politicians originating from Merck.&nbsp; A freedom of information request from the group in May of this year discovered that during the period from June 8, 2006 - when the vaccines received approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) -&nbsp; to May 2007 there were 1,637 reports of adverse reactions to the HPV vaccine reported to the FDA. <br /><br />Three deaths were related to the vaccine, including one of a 12-year-old.&nbsp; One physician&#39;s assistant reported that a female patient &quot;died of a blood clot three hours after getting the Gardasil vaccine.&quot; Two other reports, on girls 12 and 19, reported deaths relating to heart problems and/or blood clotting.<br /><br />As of May 11, 2007, the 1,637 adverse vaccination reactions reported to the FDA via the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) included 371 serious reactions.&nbsp; Of the 42 women who received the vaccine while pregnant, 18 experienced side effects ranging from spontaneous abortion to fetal abnormities. &nbsp;<br /><br />Side effects published by Merck &amp; Co. warn the public about potential pain, fever, nausea, dizziness and itching after receiving the vaccine.&nbsp; Indeed, 77% of the adverse reactions reported are typical side effects to vaccinations.&nbsp; But other more serious side effects reported include paralysis, Bells Palsy, Guillain-Barre Syndrome, and seizures. &nbsp;<br /><br />Judicial Watch informed LifeSiteNews.com that a subsequent request for information on adverse reactions to the HPV vaccine, covering the period from May 2007 to September 2007, found that an additional 1800 adverse reactions have been reported, including more deaths.&nbsp; Exactly how many more deaths occurred will be released in the coming days, Judicial Watch&#39;s Dee Grothe informed LifeSiteNews.com.<br /><br />The LifeSiteNews.com report on the moneyed lobbying efforts of Merck in the U.S. was reported in February.&nbsp; (see <a href="http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2007/feb/07020204.html">http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2007/feb/07020204.html </a>)<br /><br />However the Canadian lobby effort by Merck&#39;s Canadian affiliate Merck Frosst Canada has been underway using powerful lobbyists with close connections to the politicians who have signed off on massive government funded vaccination programs. &nbsp;<br /><br />The Toronto Star recently reported that Merck Frosst Canada Ltd hired public relations giant Hill &amp; Knowlton to push the immunization strategies using some well-connected lobbyists: Ken Boessenkool, a former senior policy adviser to Prime Minister Stephen Harper; Bob Lopinski, formerly with Premier Dalton McGuinty&#39;s office; and Jason Grier, former chief of staff to Health Minister George Smitherman.<br /><br />Harper&#39;s Conservative Government approved Merck&#39;s HPV vaccine Gardasil in July and later announced a $300 million program to give the vaccine to girls from ages 9-13. That of course is only the beginning of what Merck likely hopes will be a much larger vaccination of all potentially sexually active women in Canada who are not already HPV infected. In August, McGuinty&#39;s Ontario Liberals, on the advice of his Health Minister George Smitherman, announced that all Grade 8 girls will have free access to Gardasil.<br /><br />One of the major complaints by physicians is that the HPV vaccination program has been implemented before adequate testing has been completed.&nbsp; Long-term effects of the vaccine remain unknown.&nbsp; Many are asking why the seemingly reckless rush?<br /><br />At least one answer to that question comes from the fact that Merck currently is the sole provider of an HPV vaccine with its Gardasil product.&nbsp; A competing HPV vaccine, Glaxo Smith Kline&#39;s Cervarix, is set to hit the market in January 2008. As more children are vaccinated with Gardasil, fewer will be able to later receive the necessary repeat boosters of a competing, incompatible vaccine. Merck is in a race to capture as much of the market as it can, consuming many millions of taxpayer dollars.<br /><br />U.S. sales of Gardasil are expected to reach $1 billion in the first year of its availability.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><em>Original: <a href="http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2007/sep/07092004.html">http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2007/sep/07092004.html</a>&nbsp;</em></p>]]>
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    <title>Novartis inks $500M anti-smoking vaccine pact</title>
    <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://vaccine.immunodefence.com/2007/04/novartis-inks-500m-antismoking.html" />
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    <published>2007-04-25T21:40:18Z</published>
    <updated>2008-10-19T11:41:58Z</updated>

    <summary>Novartis has demonstrated its commitment to the vaccine market with a $500 million (600 million Swiss francs) global licensing deal for Switzerland&#39;s Cytos Biotechnology&#39;s anti-smoking vaccine. Cytos gains 35 million Swiss francs up front for CYT002-NicQb, which is scheduled to...</summary>
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        <![CDATA[<p><img src="http://vaccine.immunodefence.com/i/smoking.gif" border="1" hspace="2" vspace="2" align="left" />Novartis has demonstrated its commitment to the vaccine market with a $500 million (600 million Swiss francs) global licensing deal for Switzerland&#39;s Cytos Biotechnology&#39;s anti-smoking vaccine. Cytos gains 35 million Swiss francs up front for CYT002-NicQb, which is scheduled to go into late-stage trials in 2008. The rest of the money will be paid in scheduled milestones for a successful development program. Novartis takes over all development costs and responsibilities. NicQb works by spurring the development of antibodies that attach to nicotine molecules, making them too big to penetrate the blood-brain barrier, thereby reducing nicotine stimulation.</p>]]>
        <![CDATA[<p>&quot;The vaccine market, including therapeutic vaccines, represents an increasingly attractive segment of the health care market and is an additional source of growth for large pharmaceutical companies,&quot; comments Dr. Mark Dyer, EVP Business Development of Cytos Biotechnology.</p><p><em>Source:&nbsp; <a href="http://www.fiercebiotech.com/story/novartis-inks-500m-anti-smoking-vaccine-pact/2007-04-25#comment">FierceBiotech</a></em></p>]]>
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    <title>Senate votes to overturn Perry&apos;s vaccination order</title>
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    <published>2007-04-24T14:31:05Z</published>
    <updated>2008-08-09T15:55:56Z</updated>

    <summary><![CDATA[AUSTIN &mdash; The Senate Monday passed a bill overturning Gov. Rick Perry&#39;s order that middle-school girls be vaccinated against a sexually transmitted virus linked to cervical cancer, with a requirement that the issue be reviewed in four years. After a...]]></summary>
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        <![CDATA[<p><img src="http://immunodefence.com/ii/senate.jpg" border="0" alt="senate" title="senate" hspace="4" vspace="2" width="107" height="100" align="left" />AUSTIN &mdash; The Senate Monday passed a bill overturning Gov. Rick Perry&#39;s order that middle-school girls be vaccinated against a sexually transmitted virus linked to cervical cancer, with a requirement that the issue be reviewed in four years.</p> <p>After a brief debate, the Senate voted 30-1, with Sen. Leticia Van de Putte, D-San Antonio, casting the lone &quot;no&quot; vote.</p> <p>The bill would prevent the HPV vaccine from being required for school enrollment until 2011. The version passed by the House has no expiration date.</p>]]>
        <![CDATA[<p>Sen. Glenn Hegar, R-Katy, who is sponsoring House Bill 1098 in the Senate, said the bill would provide a &quot;resting period&quot; for lawmakers to decide whether vaccinating girls against the human papillomavirus should be state policy.</p> <p>Perry angered lawmakers and many of his social conservative supporters with his February order making Texas the first state to mandate Merck&#39;s Gardasil vaccine. Under his order, parents would be allowed to opt out their daughters.</p> <p>Some feared the vaccine could send a message to girls that premarital sex is safe. Others argued that the vaccine is too new and that only parents should decide whether their daughters should be inoculated.</p> <p>&quot;The governor is disappointed by today&#39;s actions; and is sad for the lives that will not be saved,&quot; said spokeswoman Krista Moody.</p> <p>Texas has one of the highest incidences of cervical cancer in the nation, with nearly 400 Texas women expected to die of the disease this year.</p> <p>Van de Putte tried unsuccessfully to have the ban against the HPV mandate expire in 2009, the next regular session. &quot;I would ask that you consider the young women in this state, especially those who are exposed to this virus and will eventually die of this illness.&quot;</p> <p>The House sponsor, Rep. Dennis Bonnen, R-Angleton, said it is a good idea to revisit the issue in four years. If the House concurs, the bill would go to Perry, who would have 10 days to sign it, let it become law without his signature or veto it.</p><p><em>source Houston Chronicle</em>&nbsp;</p>]]>
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    <title>Taking A Jab At Cancer By Stimulating The Immune System</title>
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    <published>2007-04-24T14:28:15Z</published>
    <updated>2008-08-09T15:55:56Z</updated>

    <summary><![CDATA[As the first FDA-approved cancer vaccine, designed to protect against human papillomavirus, has moved from scientific discussion to social debate, other vaccine studies are continuing to make progress. While HPV vaccine efforts had the &quot;benefit&quot; of a viral source for...]]></summary>
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        <![CDATA[<p><img src="http://immunodefence.com/ii/clinical_trials1.jpg" border="0" alt="clinical trials" title="clinical trials" hspace="4" vspace="2" width="100" height="150" align="right" />As the first FDA-approved cancer vaccine, designed to protect against human papillomavirus, has moved from scientific discussion to social debate, other vaccine studies are continuing to make progress. While HPV vaccine efforts had the &quot;benefit&quot; of a viral source for the disease, other researchers are developing vaccines for cancers that are not virally based, in an effort to coax the immune system into attacking cancerous cells. </p><p>At the 2007 Annual Meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research, presentations on ongoing HPV trials and other new approaches to stimulating the immune system are injecting momentum into cancer vaccine research. </p>]]>
        <![CDATA[<p><strong> Substantial impact on precancerous lesions and HPV infections through 5.5 years in women vaccinated with the HPV-16/18 L1 VLP AS04 candidate vaccine: Abstract 4900</strong>  <br /><br /> Ongoing evaluation of a phase II trial of a human papillomavirus vaccine, developed to prevent cervical cancer, shows that the vaccine continues to protect against HPV types 16 and 18 at five and a half years into the study, according to researchers from the University of Louisville. Their findings also show that the vaccine offers significant cross-protection for HPV types 45 and 31. <br /><br />The study follows 1113 women between the ages of 15 and 25 in North America and Brazil randomized to receive three doses of either the vaccine or the control. The vaccine, made by GlaxoSmithKline, which funded the study, is designed to protect against two strains of HPV, types 16 and 18, which together are thought to cause nearly 72 percent of all cases of cervical cancer. <br /><br />At over five years into the study&#39;s follow-up, the researchers found that approximately 98 percent of subjects still maintained protection against HPV types 16 and 18. Regardless of HPV status, the vaccine also appears to prevent most occurrences of cervical intraepithelial neoplasia lesions - abnormal, precancerous cell growths found in the cervix. <br /><br />They also found that the vaccination offered significant protection against genetically similar viruses. They determined the vaccine to be 88 percent effective against HPV type 45 and 54 percent effective against HPV type 31. <br /><br />&quot;Overall, it is not a surprise that the vaccine offers protection against additional types of human papillomavirus, as they are all related genetically,&quot; said Stanley Gall, M.D., professor at the University of Louisville. &quot;However, as you get genetically farther from types 16 and 18, you would expect to see less cross-protection.&quot; <br /><br />According to Dr. Gall, effective preventative treatment with the vaccine will depend on the long-term and broad protection the vaccine can offer against cancer-causing HPV types. <br /><br /> <strong> High Sustained Efficacy of a Prophylactic Quadrivalent Human Papillomavirus (HPV) (Types 6, 11, 16, 18) L1 Virus-Like Particle (VLP) Vaccine against Cervical Intraepithelial Neoplasia (CIN) grades 2/3 and Adenocarcinoma in situ (AIS): Abstract LB-187</strong>  <br /><br /> Note: This is a placeholder abstract. Researchers will present follow-up efficacy data on an FDA-approved HPV vaccine. The full embargoed abstract will be available to reporters on Saturday, April 14. <br /><br /> <strong>  Analysis of the immunological response to a MUC-1 loaded DC vaccine for human pancreatic cancer: Abstract 4896</strong>  <br /><br />Results from a Phase I study of a pancreatic cancer vaccine may offer clues toward promoting long-term survival from the disease, according to researchers from the University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute. <br /><br />The researchers gave a dendritic cell vaccine to 12 pancreatic cancer patients. Four of the subjects have shown no signs of recurrence in the three years since the study began. <br /><br />&quot;The trial was a look at the toxicity and feasibility of using a dendritic cell-based vaccine against pancreatic cancer,&quot; said Andrew Lepisto, Ph.D, post-doctoral researcher in the University of Pittsburgh&#39;s Department of Immunology. &quot;While we are unlikely to run large-scale trials with this particular form of the vaccine due to difficulty in its manufacturing, we have learned a tremendous amount from the subjects that benefited from the trial, which may translate well into more practical vaccine formulations.&quot; <br /><br />The dendritic cell vaccination strategy combines a cancer protein with the patient&#39;s own dendritic immune cells. These cells are antigen presenting cells that, in effect, advertise the presence of the antigen molecule to the rest of the immune system. The antigen, MUC-1, is a protein that is over-produced by pancreatic cancer cells. By presenting patients with MUC-1 on dendritic cells, the researchers expected that they could influence the white blood cells to attack pancreatic cancer cells. <br /><br />The study data suggests that the key to the effectiveness of the vaccine could be in controlling the regulatory T cells, which suppress the immune system, says Lepisto. Prior to vaccination, the pancreatic cancer patients had significantly more regulatory T cells than normal, which then increased following each injection. Likewise, the patients also experienced an increase in effector T cells, white blood cells that respond against antigen. <br /><br />&quot;Our next step is to create a strategy that allows us to downplay the regulatory T cells while still benefiting from the increase of effector T cells,&quot; Lepisto said. <br /><br />Each year, pancreatic cancer kills approximately 32,000 people in the United States alone. Pancreatic cancer is notoriously resistant to conventional cancer therapies and has one of the lowest five year survival rates of all cancers. <br /><br /> <strong>  Wild type sequence p53 as a vaccination target for squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck: Abstract 5113</strong>  <br /><br />Researchers from the University of Pittsburgh and the Gunma University School of Medicine have developed a vaccine that enlists multiple parts of the immune system into targeting p53 in head and neck squamous cell cancer. A phase I clinical trial of the vaccine is currently underway at the University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute. <br /><br />According to researchers, this is the first vaccine that takes a multi-pronged approach to stimulating the immune system with derivatives of wild type - or non-altered - p53, a tumor suppressor gene. Loss of suppressor function or alteration of the p53 gene factors into nearly 80 percent of human tumors. Tumor cells with altered p53 generally tend to accumulate the protein, which led the researchers to create a strategy that would allow the immune system to destroy tumor cells by targeting p53. <br /><br />&quot;Instead of creating a vaccine based on mutant p53, which would require a custom vaccine for every patient, our strategy is to target parts of the unaltered p53 protein that can best activate the immune system,&quot; said Theresa Whiteside, Ph.D., professor at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. &quot;We are using different unaltered portions of the p53 molecule to entice the immune system into attacking tumors.<br /><br /> According to the investigators, their vaccine uses three different p53-derived peptides to elicit responses from different aspects of immune system. The vaccine currently in trial uses autologous (patients&#39; own) dendritic cells (DC) pulsed with a combination of three peptides: two that trigger cytotoxic T cells, which directly kill targeted tumor cells, and one peptide that stimulates helper T cells. <br /><br />Altogether, it is an approach that not only excites the killer T cells into action, but also influences the helper T cells, which are instrumental in sustaining the killer T-cell response. The combined strategy has already shown great promise in studies using animal models and human cells in culture, according to the researchers. <br /><br />The phase I trial, which will eventually enroll 24 patients with head and neck cancer, has three experimental arms, each including a DC-based vaccine containing p53-derived T cell-specific peptides. The three groups vary on whether the cytotoxic p53 peptides are delivered alone or in combination with a helper T cell-activating peptide that is either specific to p53 or not specific to p53. <br /><br />&quot;Despite great medical progress, the survival rate in head and neck cancer still remains very poor, at about 50 percent, and there is a definite need for new treatment modalities like vaccination,&quot; Whiteside said. &quot;Targeting of p53, however, is a strategy that could also work in treating a number of different cancer types, since p53 loss of function is such a common feature of many cancers.&quot;</p><p><em>source AACR via MedicalNewsToday</em>&nbsp;</p>]]>
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    <title>Italy to Offer Cervical Cancer Vaccine</title>
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    <published>2007-03-28T23:42:17Z</published>
    <updated>2008-08-09T15:55:56Z</updated>

    <summary>A vaccine against the sexually transmitted virus that can cause cervical cancer went on sale Wednesday in Italy, the first European Union nation to offer the vaccine free for 12-year-old girls, the Italian Health Ministry said.The ministry said a campaign...</summary>
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        <![CDATA[<p><img src="http://immunodefence.com/ii/01f1.gif" border="0" hspace="2" vspace="2" width="100" height="100" align="left" />A vaccine against the sexually transmitted virus that can cause cervical cancer went on sale Wednesday in Italy, the first European Union nation to offer the vaccine free for 12-year-old girls, the Italian Health Ministry said.<br /><br />The ministry said a campaign will be launched soon to encourage the free vaccination of 12-year-olds but that the vaccine for the human papillomavirus, of HPV, will not be mandatory. Older girls and women who want the vaccination will have to pay for it.</p><p>Proponents of the vaccine say it will be most effective when given before girls become sexually active. Ministry officials said the vaccine is being supplied by Sanofi-Pasteur, the vaccine division of Sanofi-Aventis. </p>]]>
        <![CDATA[<p>Efforts to make the vaccine mandatory have triggered controversy in parts of the United States. Last month, in Texas, the governor ordered that schoolgirls going into sixth grade in 2008 be vaccinated against HPV. Conservatives contended that requiring the vaccine would encourage premarital teenage sex and erode parental rights.<br /><br />HPV infection can lead to cervical cancer in women. It rarely causes cancer in men.</p><p><em>Source: <a href="http://www.newsday.com/news/health/ats-ap_health13mar28,0,2843432.story?coll=ny-leadhealthnews-headlines">Newsday.com</a>&nbsp;</em></p>]]>
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    <title>Merck’s Miracle Vaccine –What Is This Story Really About?</title>
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    <published>2007-03-07T12:33:22Z</published>
    <updated>2008-08-09T15:55:56Z</updated>

    <summary>By Maggie Mahar, The Health Care BlogFebruary 22, 2007 - Yesterday, Merck announced that it is no longer going to try to persuade states to make its new $360 cervical cancer vaccine mandatory for all pre-teens. (At least, not publicly)....</summary>
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        <![CDATA[<em><img src="http://immunodefence.com/ii/merck_logo.jpg" border="0" alt="merck" title="merck" hspace="4" vspace="2" width="100" height="100" align="right" />By Maggie Mahar</em>, The Health Care Blog<p>February 22, 2007 - Yesterday, Merck announced that it is no longer going to try to persuade states  to make its new $360 cervical cancer vaccine mandatory for all pre-teens. (At  least, not publicly). The company wouldn&rsquo;t divulge how much it has spent, to  date, on its lobbying campaign.</p> <p>Virtually everyone has heard about &ldquo;Gardasil.&rdquo; Planned Parenthood backs it.  Women in Government extols its virtues. (Both organizations receive significant  contributions from Merck). Not long ago, a glowing New York Times editorial  congratulated Texas governor Rick Perry for mandating &ldquo;<a href="http://select.nytimes.com/search/restricted/article?res=F60615F9385B0C758CDDAB0894DF404482%29">A  Vaccine To&nbsp; Save Women&rsquo;s Lives</a>.&rdquo;( So far as I know, Merck makes no  contributions to The New York Times, but Perry&rsquo;s former chief of staff is a  Merck lobbyist.) At this point, twenty states have drafted plans to follow  Perry&rsquo;s example.</p>]]>
        <![CDATA[<p>Last summer, I wrote about the vaccine on <a href="http://72.14.209.104/u/Prospect?q=cache:TU_hpCieUakJ:www.prospect.org/web/viewweb.ww%3Fid%3D11842+%22Maggie+Mahar%22+and+cervical&amp;hl=en&amp;ct=clnk&amp;cd=2&amp;gl=us&amp;ie=UTF-8%29">American  Prospect Online</a>. At the time, I tried to make two points. First, while  Merck&rsquo;s vaccine could cost U.S. patients, insurers and state governments  billions of dollars, it will not be saving millions of lives&mdash;because, in the  countries where it will be available, there are not millions of lives to be  saved.</p> <p>In the U.S., we already have come close to winning the war on cervical cancer  with the $30 Pap smear -- a simple test that has proven remarkably effective.  Thanks to screening, between 1955 and 1992 the number of cervical cancer deaths  plunged by 74 percent, and the numbers are still shrinking. From 1997 to 2003,  deaths fell by an average of 3.8 percent each year. In 2006, it&rsquo;s estimated that  cervical cancer will account for just less than one percent (.65% to be exact)  of the anticipated 273,560 cancer deaths among American women.</p> <p>That said, the numbers suggest that more than 2000 American women could&nbsp; die  of the disease this year&mdash;an&nbsp; unacceptable number. According to a study published  in JAMA, most will be women who rarely had Pap smears; a disproportionate share  will be poor or members of minorities. But how many of these women are likely to  get a $360 vaccine? Rather than contributing billions to Merck&rsquo;s coffers, we  might better take part of that money to launch a campaign to try make sure that  every young woman in the U.S. gets in the habit of going for regular Pap  smears.</p> <p>In the emerging world, where Pap smears are not readily available, cervical  cancer remains a scourge.&nbsp; But, in that world, who can afford a $360 vaccine?  Last summer, when I asked Merck whether it planned to make the vaccine available  at a discount to women in poorer countries, I was told that the question was  &ldquo;premature.&rdquo; For now, a company spokesperson explained, the company is eying the  &ldquo;118 to 120 million women in the 11 to 26 age range in the U.S., the EU, and  other high-income countries.&rdquo; Merck still hasn&rsquo;t announced a plan to make  Gardasil affordable where it is needed most.</p> <p>The second point that I tried to highlight last summer is that Merck&rsquo;s  miracle vaccine guards against viruses that account for just 70 percent of all  cases of cervical cancer. In the media, Gardasil is usually described as a  vaccine that protects against &ldquo;most&rdquo; viruses that lead to the cancer. Okay, 70%  is more than 50%, so technically, it&rsquo;s &ldquo;most,&rdquo; but the phrase is misleading.</p> <p>Girls and young women who are immunized still will be vulnerable to the viral  strains that account for 30% of all cases of cervical cancer. This is why, as  even Merck acknowledges, girls who receive the vaccine still need regular Pap  smears.</p> <p>Meanwhile, a 2003 study published in JAMA points to the danger that &ldquo;women  who are vaccinated [will] perceive themselves to be at low risk for developing  cancer and, as a result [will] not participate in screening as recommended.&rdquo; If  they are lulled into a false sense of complacency, the study acknowledges &ldquo;gains  from the vaccination may be offset.&rdquo; Last week, Bloomberg News reported that in  the U.K. health officials have similar concerns .</p> <p>Less than weeks ago, a report on NBC put flesh on their fears. It featured a  young girl in Texas explaining why she is happy to have been vaccinated: &ldquo;Now  this is one cancer I don&rsquo;t have to worry about fighting.&rdquo; No one corrected  her.</p> <p>Finally, as Merrill Goozner (author of The $800 Million Pill: The Truth  Behind the Cost of New Drugs and director of the Integrity in Science project at  the Center for Science in the Public Interest) ) pointed out on <a href="http://www.gooznews.com/archives/000624.html">Gooznews last Monday</a>, we  don&rsquo;t know much about the possible side effects of the vaccine. Like Merck&rsquo;s  other famous drug, Vioxx, Gardasil&nbsp; was &ldquo;fast-tracked&rdquo; by the FDA. Goozner, who  is the father of a 13-year-old daughter, has no plans to have her  vaccinated.</p> <p>In the mainstream media, the only publication that seems to have truly  understood, from the outset, what this story is really about is The Wall Street  Journal. This is after all, a business story.&nbsp; As the Journal explained more  than three weeks ago: &ldquo;Mandatory vaccination across the U.S. would make Gardasil  an automatic blockbuster for Merck at a time when the patents on some of its  bestselling drugs are expiring and it&#39;s desperate to replace their revenue  streams.&rdquo;</p> <p>Meanwhile, the Journal noted, &ldquo;A growing number of parents are worried about  exposing their children to the unforeseen side effects of a new vaccine to  protect them from a disease that is no longer very common in the U.S. and often  doesn&#39;t develop until much later in life. . . . Adding to some parents&#39; concern,  82 adverse events among both teens and adult women have been reported since  Gardasil became available last June. . . . Of the more than 25,000 patients who  participated in clinical trials of Gardasil, only 1,184 were preteen girls.  &lsquo;That&#39;s a thin base of testing upon which to make a vaccine mandatory,&rsquo; says  Barbara Loe Fisher, co-founder of the National Vaccine Information Center, an  advocacy group that lobbies for safer vaccines. . . Merck declined to say how  much money it has funneled into its lobbying campaign, or contributed to Women  in Government,&rdquo; the Journal reported..&nbsp; &ldquo;A spokeswoman for Women in Government,  Tracy Morris, declined to say how much it had received from Merck.&rdquo;&nbsp; </p> <p>The campaign to vaccinate every girl and young women in the U.S. is not about  saving women&rsquo;s lives. It is, as the Journal so clearly understands, about money.  It is about Merck&rsquo;s desperate need to replace the revenue that it lost when it  was forced to pull Vioxx off the market.&nbsp; Some call Gardasil the &ldquo;Help Merck Pay  For Vioxx Vaccine.&rdquo;</p> <p>Finally, Merck&rsquo;s campaign stands as an example of a for-profit corporation  trying to set healthcare spending priorities for the nation. This is not Merck&rsquo;s  job.</p><p><a href="http://www.thehealthcareblog.com/the_health_care_blog/2007/02/pharma_mercks_m.html" target="_blank">source</a>&nbsp;</p>]]>
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    <title>Deaf girl sues over MMR vaccine</title>
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    <published>2007-03-07T12:28:31Z</published>
    <updated>2008-08-09T15:55:56Z</updated>

    <summary>A TEENAGER is fighting to prove that the MMR vaccine made her deaf. Katie Stephen, 16, fell ill with a fever 10 days after being injected with an early form of the immunisation as a toddler in 1991. Parents Wendy...</summary>
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        <![CDATA[<p align="left"><img src="http://immunodefence.com/ii/mmr_vaccine.jpg" border="0" alt="MMR vaccine" title="MMR vaccine" hspace="4" vspace="2" width="100" height="100" align="left" />A TEENAGER is fighting to prove that the MMR vaccine made her  deaf.</p>  <p align="left">Katie Stephen, 16, fell ill with a fever 10 days after being  injected with an early form of the immunisation as a toddler in 1991.</p>  <p align="left">Parents Wendy and Alistair believe the vaccine, which included a  strain of mumps, was responsible for their daughter losing the hearing in her  left ear.</p>]]>
        <![CDATA[<p align="left">They also believe that the Government knew of health risks  surrounding the vaccine, but carried on using it.</p>  <p align="left">More recent forms of the vaccine have been at the centre of a  separate row over alleged links to autism.</p>  <p align="left">Katie, from Stonehaven, Kincardineshire, said: &quot;I feel quite angry  when I think about it. It shouldn&#39;t have happened to me.&quot;</p>  <p align="left">Mum Wendy added: &quot;I can&#39;t say to Katie &#39;This was an accident, you  were unfortunate&#39;, because I feel the people who authorised this vaccination  knew that someone&#39;s child would be damaged.</p>  <p align="left">&quot;It is time someone took the blame.&quot;</p>  <p align="left">The Stephens are one of a number of families seeking compensation  from the vaccine makers Smith Kline and French Laboratories.</p>  <p align="left">The court battle, launched in the 1990s, is due to be called again  later this month at the Royal Courts of Justice in London.</p><p align="left"><em>source Daily Record UK</em> </p>]]>
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    <title>Nasal flu vaccine works better for kids</title>
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    <published>2007-03-04T00:49:58Z</published>
    <updated>2008-08-09T15:55:56Z</updated>

    <summary>Children given a flu vaccine by nasal spray were better protected against the disease than those given the old shot in the arm, according to new research in the most recent New England Journal of Medicine. The study, which followed...</summary>
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        <![CDATA[<img src="http://www.immunodefence.com/ii/girl_flu.jpg" border="1" hspace="2" vspace="2" width="114" height="110" align="right" /><p>Children given a flu vaccine by nasal spray were better protected against the disease than those given the old shot in the arm, according to new research in the most recent New England Journal of Medicine.</p> <p>The study, which followed nearly 8,500 children in 16 countries, found the vaccine sniffed up the nose reduced the influenza &quot;attack rate&quot; in children by 55 percent compared to the traditional injections.</p><p>The attack rate is the number of people who get sick compared to the total number of people in a study group.</p><p>&quot;Children get the flu twice as often as adults,&quot; said Dr. Robert Belshe of St. Louis University, the study&#39;s lead author. &quot;It&#39;s important to vaccinate kids against influenza -- and to identify new and more effective flu vaccine options -- because kids have a higher attack rate for influenza infection than adults.&quot; </p>]]>
        <![CDATA[<p>Belshe said the nasal flu vaccine may be more effective because it fights the flu bug not only in the bloodstream, but also in the nose, where the disease may first try to invade the body. In addition, Belshe found children given the nasal spray vaccine had significantly fewer ear infections associated with the flu.</p> <p>The study, funded by MedImmune, which makes the FluMist nasal spray vaccine, is the largest of its kind ever done.</p> <p>Abdominal aneurysms</p> <p>Enzyme discorvery may lead to remedy</p> <p>Researchers at Washington University hope a new discovery will lead to a radically new treatment for potentially fatal abdominal aortic aneurysms.</p> <p>Those aneurysms are weak spots in the wall of the body&#39;s main artery that can dilate over time. If that weak spot suddenly ruptures, death comes quickly. Currently, surgery is the only treatment once an aneurysm is found.</p> <p>But the St. Louis researchers have found a key enzyme that that triggers chronic inflammation in the aorta, promoting the growth of an aneurysm. By finding a drug that acts on that enzyme, doctors hope that they can prevent small aneurysms from enlarging to the point where they require a surgical fix.</p> <p>&quot;We think DPPI (dpeptidyl peptidase I) is a viable therapeutic target that may keep the growth of aortic aneurysms in check, so they don&#39;t become life-threatening,&quot; said Dr. Robert Thompson, one of the senior researchers.</p> <p>Already, Thompson and his colleagues have found that specially bred mice which lack DPPI do not develop aortic aneurysms.</p> <p>When Isaac Daniel was informed by his son&#39;s school that the 8-year-old was missing, Dad was understandably frantic.</p> <p>Fortunately, by the time he cut short his business trip in New York to fly back to Atlanta, he found that it had all been a miscommunication. But it immediately led to a brilliant idea: Designing tennis shoes that come with a Global Positioning Satellite (GPS) chip.</p> <p>Next month, a line of adult sneakers called Quantum Satellite Technology, are expected to hit store shelves. They come with a hefty price tag of $350, but they promise to locate the wearer anywhere in the world with the press of a button. A children&#39;s line expected to be added this summer.</p> <p>The sneakers work when the wearer presses a button on the shoe to activate the GPS chip. A wireless alert detailing the location is sent to a 24-hour monitoring service that costs an additional $20 a month. In some emergencies, a parent, spouse or guardian can call the service as well.</p> <p>Don&#39;t worry, teens -- parents can&#39;t call the service just to check up on you. If they do, they&#39;ll incur all law enforcement costs.</p> <p>Lonely individuals may be twice as likely to develop the type of dementia linked to Alzheimer&#39;s disease as those who are not lonely, according to this month&#39;s issue of the Archives of General Psychiatry.</p> <p>Researchers at Rush University in Chicago analyzed the association between loneliness and Alzheimer&#39;s in 823 people with an average age of 80.7. Assessing loneliness on a scale of one to five, they found that the risk for developing Alzheimer&#39;s increased approximately 51 percent for each point higher they were on the loneliness score.</p> <p>The link between loneliness and Alzheimer&#39;s, however, is unclear. Loneliness was not associated with the characteristic brain plaques or &quot;tangles&quot; associated with Alzheimer&#39;s disease.</p> <p>&quot;In human beings, loneliness has been associated with impaired social skills,&quot; the study suggested. &quot;Thus, neural systems underlying social behavior might be less elaborated in lonely persons and, as a result, be less able to compensate for other neural systems compromised by age-related (disease).&quot;</p> <p>There might be good news in the offing for frequent fliers: Scientists in California and Michigan say they are getting closer to a machine that will screen airline passengers for explosive, chemical and biological threats at the same time.</p> <p>In previous research, George R. Farquar and his colleagues tested the effectiveness of a system that could detect chemical and biological agents. The new research includes several kinds of explosives that have been used worldwide in improvised explosive devices (IEDs) and other terrorist attacks.</p> <p>They say the new scanner has the potential to detect the presence of explosives even if only one dust-speck-sized particle weighing one trillionth of a gram.</p> <p>When it comes to heart disease, you may be smarter than your doctor -- and that&#39;s not necessarily a good thing.</p> <p>A new study by the California Pistachio Commission found that 59 percent of women and 44 percent of men know that heart disease is the leading cause of death among women. Moreover, 27 percent of women said they feel protected against heart disease because they see their doctor regularly.</p> <p>But that trust may be misplaced. According to an American Heart Association study from 2005, only 8 percent of primary care physicians and 17 percent of cardiologists knew that heart disease kills more women than men.</p> <p>&quot;Perhaps today&#39;s physicians are more aware about the issue since the AHA study was published two years ago, but millions of at-risk women are relying on their doctor to know ALL the facts about women&#39;s heart disease,&quot; said Dr. Susan Bennett, president of the Association of Women&#39;s Heart Programs.</p> <p>&quot;There needs to be more of an emphasis on reaching the medical community with the message of prevention and treatment.&quot;</p> <p>In the meantime, the new study showed half or more of the 1,000 women questioned were watching their diet, exercising and not smoking. Still, 32 percent said they had high blood pressure and 28 percent had high cholesterol, risk factors for heart disease.</p> <p>Putting the squeeze on milk may be the long-sought solution to killing bacteria and increasing the beverage&#39;s shelf life without introducing unwanted flavors.</p> <p>Michael Qian at Oregon State University says ultrahigh-temperature pasteurization (UHT) does produce milk that stays fresh at room temperature for six months. However, the process leaves a &quot;cooked&quot; flavor that has limited its popularity in the United States.</p> <p>Now, in experiments published in a recent Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, Qian and his colleague describe how high hydrostatic pressure processing (HPP) can crush bacteria without affecting flavor.</p> <p>&quot;Milk processed at a pressure of about 85,000 pounds per square inch for five minutes, and lower temperatures than used in commercial pasteurization, causes minimal production of chemical compounds responsible for the cooked flavor,&quot; they reported. &quot;HPP gives milk a shelf life at refrigerated temperatures of at least 45 days.&quot;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><em>Source: <a href="http://www.belleville.com/mld/belleville/living/16738485.htm">BelleVille News-Democrat</a></em></p>]]>
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    <title>New Powdered Tuberculosis Vaccine May Lead to Life-Saving Aerosol</title>
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    <published>2007-03-04T00:33:50Z</published>
    <updated>2008-08-09T15:55:56Z</updated>

    <summary>Early tests set the stage for health workers to administer the vaccine as an aerosol instead of an injection. A new powdered form of BCG, the tuberculosis vaccine, mixes a mycobacterium [green] with leucine [gray] and may pave the way...</summary>
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        <![CDATA[<p><img src="http://www.immunodefence.com/ii/tuberculosis.jpg" border="0" alt="Powdered Tuberculosis Vaccine" title="Powdered Tuberculosis Vaccine" hspace="2" vspace="2" width="143" height="100" align="left" /><strong>Early tests set the stage for health workers to administer the vaccine as an aerosol instead of an injection.</strong></p><p> 	 		<em>A new powdered form of BCG, the tuberculosis vaccine, mixes a mycobacterium [green] with leucine [</em><em>gray] and may pave the way for more powerful, needle-free forms of the vaccine. <br /></em></p><p>A new powdered form of tuberculosis (TB) vaccine may help save some of the nearly two million lives lost to the disease annually. In preliminary tests, the powdered form contained more active bacterial cells than a freeze-dried version similar to the existing vaccine. The result may pave the way for health workers to administer the vaccine as an aerosol to the lungs instead of as an injection, possibly leading to a more effective treatment. </p>]]>
        <![CDATA[<p>If combined with other changes to the current tuberculosis vaccine, called BCG, the drying technique could help save hundreds of thousands of lives, says Jerry Sadoff, president and CEO of the Aeras Global TB Vaccine Foundation and co-author of a report describing the advance.</p><p>&quot;This is a very important technological advance,&quot; says immunologist Stefan Kaufmann of the Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology in Berlin, who was not involved in the study. &quot;It will allow needle-free administration of BCG, which is particularly important for developing countries.&quot; </p><p>The BCG vaccine, which health workers administer to 100 million infants annually, consists of a weakened mycobacterium from cows that is related to the human TB mycobacterium. Researchers believe that the vaccine saves 40,000 to 100,000 lives annually by preventing the spread of TB from the lungs to the brain and other organs. But BCG is freeze-dried much like instant coffee, which damages the mycobacteria and creates particles that are too big to be inhaled. Researchers suspect than an inhalant vaccine would be more effective, because &quot;tuberculosis is primarily a disease of the lung,&quot; Kaufmann says. </p><p>In an attempt to create such a product, Sadoff and his colleagues turned to a method called spray-drying, used to make powdered milk. In spray-drying, a mixture of water and the material to be dried is forced through a sprinkler into a high-temperature drum, instantly evaporating the water droplets clinging to the material. </p> 		 	  Bacteria tend to die during spray-drying as well, but the researchers suspected that the problem might lie with additives such as salt and glycerol, which are essential to freeze-drying and were used in prior spray-drying procedures. So they left out those chemicals and instead added the amino acid leucine to soak up any remaining moisture. <p>The researchers found that 50 percent of the BCG mycobacteria survived the spray-drying process, compared with 5 percent when the same solution was freeze-dried, according to a paper published online recently by the <em>Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA</em>.  </p><p>&quot;By having less damage in the dried form we should have a better vaccine,&quot; says bioengineer David Edwards of Harvard University, a co-author of the report. He adds that spray-drying would be simpler and cheaper to implement on large scales than freeze-drying. </p><p>The BCG vaccine has over the decades lost its effectiveness against TB lung infections, the most common form of the illness. &quot;Why it doesn&#39;t work anymore is a mystery&mdash;a big mystery,&quot; Sadoff says. Part of the problem, he says, may be BCG&#39;s old-fashioned manufacturing process, including the freeze-drying step, so incorporating spray-drying may help introduce a more effective vaccine. </p><p>Sadoff says clinical tests of spray-dried BCG could begin as soon as late 2008, when his group plans to conduct mid-stage trials of several new forms of the vaccine. Edwards adds that the South African NGO Medicine in Need has begun implementing the manufacturing tools for spray-drying. </p><p><em>Source: <a href="http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?chanID=sa003&amp;articleID=E186D37E-E7F2-99DF-3FB603C04397AC60">Scientific American</a></em></p>]]>
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