Biolabs exposed

Earlier this year, during an audit of the nation's largest Level-4 BioSafety Lab (BSL-4) at Fort Detrick in Frederick, Maryland, 9,220 vials of ebola, anthrax, botulinum, equine encephalitis virus, and other deadly germs were discovered in the proverbial dusty old storage area. No one even knew the vials existed and thus no one knows for sure whether any are missing.

But not to worry, according to officials. The vials were old and lost long before new documentation procedures were put in place. Besides, the lab is being expanded and updated with the latest security devices. Such reassuring mantras resound after every oil and chemical spill, radioactive discharge from nuclear power plant (more frequent than generally realized), black-market uranium sale, and mishandled nuclear bomb: "It may seem dangerous, but trust us - there wasn't enough poison to hurt a fly and besides, we're sure we recovered everything."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/barton-kunstler-phd/biolabs-multiplying-like_b_358985.html

How safe are vaccines?

‘Girls were in tears in the corridors and everyone was in shock...They never told us that there was any danger in these jabs.

I didn’t know you could get sick or die from them.”

The words were Charmaine Dunn-Myria’s, a 15-year-old schoolgirl in the same year at the Blue Coat Church of England school in Coventry as Natalie Morton, who died on Monday just hours after receiving the cervical cancer vaccine. Read more..

BASIC FACTS TO KNOW ABOUT VACCINATIONS

Mercks New ProQuad Vaccine Linked To More Convulsions

ATLANTA - Children suffered higher rates of fever-related convulsions when they got a Merck & Co. combination vaccine instead of two separate shots, according to a new study presented Wednesday.

The results prompted a federal advisory panel on vaccines to water down their preference for the combo vaccine ProQuad, which protects against measles, mumps and rubella as well as chickenpox. Read more..
http://www.startribune.com/lifestyle/health/16054722.html


ONCE AGAIN..FOLLOW THE MONEY. VACCINATE YOUR CHILD AND WORRY ABOUT THE SIDE AFFECTS LATER. WOULD YOU EAT OR FEED YOUR CHILD SOMETHING FROM AN UNMARKED PACKAGE WITHOUT KNOWING WHATS INSIDE?
THEN WHY WOULD YOU CONTINUOUSLY LET SOMEONE EXPERIMENT ON THEM BY POKING THEM WITH NEEDLES AND INJECTING THEM WITH A FOREIGN SUBSTANCE THAT YOU DON'T EVEN KNOW WHAT IT CONTAINS?

All Kids Must Get Flu Vaccine, Panel Says To CDC

All U.S. children aged from six months up to 18 should be immunized every year against influenza, a panel of federal vaccine advisers said on Wednesday.

The panel, which advises the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on vaccine matters, agreed unanimously at its regular meeting in Atlanta that the new recommendations should go into effect as soon as possible, but no later than the 2009-2010 flu season.

The vote from the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices would add about 30 million children to the list of those who should be vaccinated, CDC spokesman Curtis Allen said. The current recommendations cover children aged 6 months to 5 years old.
Read more..
http://news.aol.com/health/story/_a/all-kids-must-get-flu-vaccine-panel-says/20080227152609990001?ncid=NWS00010000000001

EVIDENTLY, THEY DID NOT MAKE ENOUGH MONEY FROM THEIR VACCINATIONS THAT WERE INEFFECTIVE? LET'S SEE...THEY WON'T DISCLOSE CURES FOR CANCER AND THE MANY OTHER DIS-EASES THAT HAVE BEEN AROUND FOREVER, THEY SPEND TAX MONEY ON CLONING AND REPLICATING HUMAN ORGANS..AND NOW, THEY'RE COMING UP WITH A VACCINE FOR EVERYTHING. I WOULD NOT PUT THAT AMOOUNT OF UNKNOWN BACTERIA AND LIVING VIRUSES INTO A PET MUCH LESS A CHILD.

Japan says Tamiflu/psychiatric link unclear

The announcement comes after an investigation following earlier reports of abnormal behaviour and self harming in younger patients who had taken the Roche-manufactured flu drug.

Since 2005, there have been more than 100 reports of abnormal behaviour in people taking Tamiflu (oseltamivir), including eight deaths.

According to the Health Ministry report, almost 60 per cent of people showing abnormal behaviour had taken the drug. Read more..
http://www.in-pharmatechnologist.com/news/ng.asp?n=82101-roche-chugai-tamiflu-abnormal-behaviour-h-n-influenza

2 More Girls Die Following Gardasil Vaccination

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/health/healthmain.html?in_article_id=510221&in_page_id=1774

GSK Announces Trial To Compare Effectiveness Of Gardasil And Cervarix

GlaxoSmithKline has revealed that it will be conducting a clinical trial to determine whether its human papilloma virus vaccine Cervarix is more effective than rival Merck's HPV vaccine Gardasil, according to Philadelphia Inquirer.

GSK said that it will be focusing on the effectiveness of both the drugs on HPV strains 16, 18, 31 and 45. Brian Lortie, GSK's vice president for Cervarix operations, said his company is confident that Cervarix will prove to be the more effective vaccine among the two.

"We're quite confident Cervarix has a stronger immune response and broader protection than Gardasil", he said. Reacting to the news of the trial, officials at Merck released a statement saying that the study is limited to only immune response which can never reveal the true efficacy data of a drug.

The trial can further dent Gardasil's reputation, which due to its high cost ($360 for three doses) has not been widely prescribed. Gardasil is the most expensive vaccine on CDC's list of recommended childhood vaccines which has seen many of the private insurance companies not making adequate reimbursement to cover physicians' costs to purchase, store and administer the vaccine.

Merck has already said that it will be offering the vaccine for free to low-income women aged between 19 to 26 years and are not insured. New Hampshire and South Dakota are also thinking of offering the vaccine at no cost to women who are under 18 years of age.

Independent clinical trials have proved that both Gardasil and Cervarix are 100 percent effective in preventing the infection of strains 16 and 18 of HPV, which cause around 70 percent of known cervical cancer cases. Gardasil was approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) last year with CDC's Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices saying that girls aged 11 and 12 should be given the vaccine.

A study published in the April 2006 online edition of the Lancet said that Cervarix successfully prevented the infection of HPV strains 31 and 45. Strains 16 and 18 along with 31 and 45 account for nearly 80 percent of cervical cancer cases. Meanwhile Merck has claimed that Gardasil is 99 percent effective in preventing strains 6 and 11, which when combined with strains 16 and 18 are responsible for 90 percent of genital wart cases.
http://www.vaccinerx.com/news/cervical-cancer/gsk-announces-trial-to-compare-effectiveness-of-gardasil-and-cervarix-20070124-62-56.html

Merck's Cervical Cancer Vaccine, Gardasil®, Added To The Cdc Vaccines For Children Contract

Merck & Co., Inc. today announced that the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has added Merck's cervical cancer vaccine, GARDASIL® [Quadrivalent Human Papillomavirus (Types 6, 11, 16, 18) Recombinant Vaccine] to the CDC's Vaccines for Children (VFC) contract for girls and women aged 9 to 18. GARDASIL was approved on June 8 by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for use in girls and women ages 9 to 26 years. GARDASIL is the world's first and only vaccine available for the prevention of HPV types 16- and 18-related cervical cancer, cervical pre-cancers (CIN 2/3 and AIS), vulvar pre-cancers (VIN 2/3) and vaginal pre-cancers (VaIN 2/3) and for the prevention of genital warts and low-grade cervical lesions (CIN 1) caused by HPV types 6, 11, 16 and 18.

"The addition of GARDASIL to the VFC program is a very positive step towards protecting the future health of girls and young women in this country against cervical cancer caused by HPV types 16 and 18," said Mark Feinberg, M.D., Ph.D., vice president, Policy, Public Health and Medical Affairs in the Merck Vaccine Division. "Inclusion of GARDASIL in the VFC program, coupled with private insurance coverage and Merck's Vaccine Patient Assistance Program, represent important means to facilitate broad and equitable access to GARDASIL."

Health insurers covering approximately 94 percent of privately insured lives in the US (currently more than 95 insurance plans) have decided to reimburse GARDASIL. Many lives not covered by Managed Care will now be covered under the VFC Program. Merck has also initiated a new patient assistance program for vaccines. Through this new program, currently available in private physicians' offices, Merck is making available, free of charge, GARDASIL and other Merck vaccines indicated for use in individuals aged 19 and older who are uninsured and who are unable to afford vaccines.

Since 1994, the VFC program has provided vaccines to children through age 18 who are Medicaid-eligible, uninsured, underinsured or Native American. After the CDC's Advisory Committee for Immunization Practices (ACIP) has made a recommendation for the use of a given vaccine, the ACIP votes on whether the vaccine should be included in the VFC program. At the June 2006 meeting of the ACIP, the committee voted unanimously to recommend GARDASIL to the VFC program. Eligible adolescents may receive recommended vaccines through VFC once the CDC contracts for the purchase of the vaccine, a process that is now complete. Read more..
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/55737.php

CDC Purchasing 10 Million Doses of Gardasil

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) latest round of acquisitions under its Vaccines for Children program includes the purchase of 10 million doses of Merck’s human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine Gardasil, according to CDC solicitation documents.

The agency’s planned purchase is the same as its 2007 procurement.

Merck is the only FDA-approved manufacturer of quadrivalent HPV, which is called for in the procurement specifications. Gardasil (HPV quadrivalent [types 6, 11, 16 and 18] vaccine, recombinant) protects against four different strains of the virus, unlike GlaxoSmithKline’s (GSK) Cervarix (HPV, AS04 adjuvant-adsorbed).

Cervarix, approved in Europe, provides 100 percent protection against strains 16 and 18 only, according to the company. Although GSK has indicated that the product provides broader protection against cancer-causing HPV strains, the firm’s marketing authorization from the European Medicines Agency only references strains 16 and 18.

The FDA recently issued a complete response letter for Cervarix, requesting more information about the product. Results from a head-to-head trial comparing Cervarix with Gardasil could be available later this year.

The anticipated performance period of the contract starts April 1 and continues through March 31, 2009. Only measles, mumps and rubella and Hib vaccines are subject to statutory price ceilings. Bids close Jan. 28. The solicitation can be accessed at fs1.fbo.gov/EPSData/HHS/Synopses/2965/2008-N-19196/VFC2008Solicitation.doc.
http://www.fdanews.com/newsletter/article?artueId=11210icleId=103084&iss

FDA and HPV -- when did they know the truth?

What I have done is read all 68 pages of this document. What I am going to show you is that the FDA knew back in 2003 that a HPV is not the actual cause of cervical cancer. The actual cause is a "persistent HPV infection that may act as a tumor promoter in cancer induction [8-11]. Read more....

http://www.renewamerica.us/columns/janak/071212

Gardasil Causing Pain and Fainting?

Health officials have touted the Gardasil vaccine as an important new protection against a cancer-causing sexually transmitted virus. In recent months, they've also noted reports of pain and fainting from the shot.

During its first year of use, reports of girls fainting from vaccinations climbed, but it's not clear whether the pain of the cervical cancer vaccine was the reason for the reaction.

Officials at Merck & Co., which makes the vaccine, acknowledge the sting. They attribute it partly to the virus-like particles in the shot. Pre-marketing studies showed more reports of pain from Gardasil than from dummy shots, and patients reported more pain when given shots with more of the particles.

Meanwhile, U.S. health officials have noticed a rise in reports of vaccine-associated fainting in girls. From 2002-2004 there were about 50 reports of fainting; from 2005 until last July, there were about 230. About 180 of those cases followed a shot of Gardasil, which came on the market in 2006.

But it's not clear that Gardasil's sting is related to the fainting increase, said Dr. Barbara Slade, an immunization safety specialist at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080103/ap_on_he_me/painful_shot

Researchers work on cocaine vaccine

HOUSTON - Two Baylor College of Medicine researchers in Houston are working on a cocaine vaccine they hope will become the first-ever medication to treat people hooked on the drug. "For people who have a desire to stop using, the vaccine should be very useful," said Dr. Tom Kosten, a psychiatry professor who is being assisted in the research by his wife, Therese, a psychologist and neuroscientist. "At some point, most users will give in to temptation and relapse, but those for whom the vaccine is effective won't get high and will lose interest."

he vaccine, currently in clinical trials, stimulates the immune system to attack the real thing when it's taken.

The immune system — unable to recognize cocaine and other drug molecules because they are so small — can't make antibodies to attack them.

To help the immune system distinguish the drug, Kosten attached inactivated cocaine to the outside of inactivated cholera proteins.

In response, the immune system not only makes antibodies to the combination, which is harmless, but also recognizes the potent naked drug when it's ingested. The antibodies bind to the cocaine and prevent it from reaching the brain, where it normally would generate the highs that are so addictive.

"It's a very clever idea," says David Eagleman, a Baylor neuroscientist. "Scientists have spent the last few decades figuring out reward pathways in the brain and how drugs like cocaine hijack the system. It turns out those pathways are difficult to rewire once they've seen the drug. But the vaccine just circumvents all that."

Kosten asked the Food and Drug Administration in December to green-light a multi-institutional trial to begin in the spring and is awaiting a response.

Approval would mark a breakthrough in the treatment of cocaine addiction, which now mostly involves psychiatric counseling and 12-step programs. It presumably would be the final clinical hurdle before the vaccine — more than a decade in the making — might be approved for treatment. But one expert warns against expecting too much.

"Addiction vaccines are a promising advance, but it's unlikely any treatment in this field will work for everyone," said Dr. David Gorelick, a senior investigator at the National Institute on Drug Abuse. "Still, if they prove successful, they will give those working in drug addiction an important option."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080102/ap_on_sc/cocaine_vaccine

Studies Fail to Demonstrate Safety or Effectiveness of Influenza Vaccine in Children and Adults

An independent analysis by the internationally renowned Cochrane Collaboration of worldwide influenza vaccine studies, published in the British Medical Journal on Oct. 28, concluded there is little scientific proof that inactivated influenza vaccine is safe and effective for children and adults. Citing the Cochrane Collaboration finding as well as methodological flaws in a child influenza vaccine study published Oct. 25 in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), the National Vaccine Information Center is calling on the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) to stop recommending annual flu shots for all infants and children until methodologically sound studies are conducted.

http://www.nvic.org/PressReleases/pr1031flu.htm

Flu shots required for preschool, day care

Children as young as six months will be required to get annual flu shots to attend preschool or day care following a vote today by the Public Health Council. The council also mandated three other vaccines, including two for sixth-graders.

The vote makes New Jersey the first state to require annual flu shots for children attending preschool or day care. State health officials say the new vaccine mandates -- which take effect in the 2008-09 school year -- will reduce disease, hospitalizations and the need for parents to stay home with sick children.

The council approved the measure 5-2, with one abstention, despite protests from parents concerned about vaccine dangers. The new regulations will not be finalized until state health commissioner Fred Jacobs signs the measure. However, Jacobs has been supportive of the new rules and is expected to sign them soon.

Opponents of the measure say there is inadequate proof the vaccines are both safe and effective. Opponents include the New Jersey Alliance for Informed Choice in Vaccination.

The new rules say:

--Children aged 6 months to 59 months (four years and nine months) must get the flu shot each year to attend preschool or day care.
--Children two months to 59 months old also must get the pneumonia, or pneumococcal, vaccine.
--A Diptheria-Pertussis-Tetanus (DPT shot) booster is now required for sixth-graders to attend school.
--A meningitis shot also is now required for sixth-graders.

http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2007/12/flu_shots_now_required_for_pre.html

Doctors' Group Votes To Oppose Vaccine Mandates

"Our children face the possibility of death or serious long-term adverse effects from mandated vaccines that aren't necessary or that have very limited benefits," said Jane M. Orient, MD, AAPS Executive Director.

"This is not a vote against vaccines," said Dr. Orient. "This resolution only attempts to halt blanket vaccine mandates by government agencies and school districts that give no consideration for the rights of the parents or the individual medical condition of the child."

Forty-two states have mandatory vaccine policies, and many children are required to have 22 shots before first grade. On top of that, as a condition for school attendance, many school districts require vaccination for diseases such as hepatitis B -- primarily an adult disease, usually spread by multiple sex partners, drug abuse or an occupation with exposure to blood.

"It's obscene to threaten to seize a child just because his parents refuse medical treatment that is obviously unnecessary and perhaps even dangerous," said Dr. Orient. "AAPS believes that parents, with the advice of their doctors, should make decisions about their children's medical care -- not government bureaucrats. This Resolution affirms that position."

http://www.vaccineinfo.net/issues/vaccinemandates/aaps_opposes_mandates.shtml

Mandating Vaccines: Government Practicing Medicine Without a License?

The issue of mandatory vaccines is becoming increasingly important: Dozens of Americans have given testimony to Congressional committees about adverse effects (including death) of vaccines, particularly in children; military personnel are being court-martialed for refusing required anthrax vaccinations; etc. And yet, the public health establishment in this country has not only downplayed the adverse effects and complications of vaccines, insisting that vaccines are safe and effective, but it continues to support mandatory vaccination programs.

By means of vaccine policy, which was previously discussed in these pages,(1) the federal government is effectively making critical medical decisions for an entire generation of American children. The mechanism is a public-private partnership. "Recommendations" issue from the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP), a small group whose members have incestuous ties(2) with agencies that stand to gain power, or manufacturers that stand to gain enormous profits, from the policy that is made. Even if such members recuse themselves from specific votes, they are permitted to participate in discussions and thus influence the decision.

http://www.vaccineinfo.net/issues/vaccinemandates/nomandates.shtml

N.J. nears mandated preschool flu shots

New Jersey moved toward becoming the first state to require flu shots for preschoolers on Monday after a health advisory board backed new vaccine mandates over the opposition of worried parents.

The Public Health Council voted to require New Jersey children attending preschool or licensed day care to get annual flu shots, and to get three additional vaccines for youngsters starting Sept. 1, 2008.

No other state requires preschool, day care or older students to get flu shots, according to the American Academy of Pediatrics.

Besides the flu shots, New Jersey also will require preschoolers to get a pneumococcal vaccine and sixth-graders to get a whooping cough booster shot and a meningitis shot.

http://www.rawstory.com/news/mochila/N_J_nears_mandated_preschool_flu_sh_12102007.html

Cervical cancer vaccine Gardasil sparks reactions in Australia

Have we not heard enough about the affects of Gardasil to take it off the market? What is the life expectancy of these children that are being over vaccinated? Follow the money trail. It is sickening.

ALMOST 500 girls have had adverse reactions such as seizures, rashes and paralysis after taking cervical cancer vaccine Gardasil in Australia since it was released in April.

Of those, almost 200 Victorian schoolgirls were affected and 10 girls were admitted to hospital after fainting or collapsing following the jabs.

But leading experts defended the benefits of Gardasil and dismissed controversial reports of overseas deaths as unrelated and fictitious.

http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0%2C21985%2C22864043-2862%2C00.html

FDA: 28 Miscarriages No Reason to Reexamine Gardasil

(CNSNews.com) - Since June 2006, when the HPV vaccine Gardasil was approved by the Food and Drug Administration, there have been 28 reported cases in which pregnant women miscarried after receiving the vaccine.

Nonetheless, based on the clinical trials done prior to approval of the drug - which indicated that miscarriages among pregnant women given Gardasil were statistically consistent with miscarriages among women given placebos and in the general population - the FDA remains convinced the vaccine is safe and is not further investigating its effect on pregnant women.

http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewCulture.asp?Page=/Culture/archive/200712/CUL20071206a.html