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‘The Position of the New Jersey Department of Health and Senior Services (NJ DHSS) on: The Pending New Jersey Conscientious Exemption Legislation’ (NOTE: ALL RESPONSES OF THE DHSS ARE IN BOLD FACE IN THE FOLLOWING REVIEW OF THEIR POSITION ON THIS LEGISLATION – REL)
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Should anyone reading this draft find any significant factual error for which you have published substantiating documents, please submit that information to this reviewer so that he can improve his understanding of factual reality and appropriately revise his views and the final review.
A Draft Response To: “The Position of the New Jersey Department of Health and Senior Services (NJ DHHS) on: The Pending New Jersey Conscientious Exemption Legislation”, as transcribed by the reviewer, Paul G. King, PhD, on 5 November 2008 ….
This response to the NJ DHSS’ position on NJ S1071 addresses the “genuine concern” side for the safety and effectiveness of NJ’s mandated vaccination program as well as the observed impacts of the conscientious and/or philosophical exemptions on the observed background rates for some vaccine-covered diseases in the 18 states with such exemptions as compared to the USA as a whole.
Thus, this response presents factual information that exposes the weaknesses in, and/or the apparent problems with, the broad generalizations made in the NJ DHSS’ position statement.
Lest any take this reviewer’s remarks as those of someone who is anti-vaccine, this reviewer again reiterates that, given the scientific information available to him, he currently supports national vaccination programs for those vaccines that have truly been proven to be both generally safe and at least societaly cost-effective, provided the individual parent’s constitutional right to “due process of law” is not abridged or ignored.
Having made his position as an advocate for:
a. Banning the use of mercury compounds in medicine to safen vaccines,
b. Vaccine safety, and
c. Societaly cost-effective vaccines
clear, this reviewer will now assess the statements made in: “The Position of the New Jersey Department of Health and Senior Services (NJ DHHS) on: The Pending New Jersey Conscientious Exemption Legislation”.
S1071 – Conscientious Exemption to Mandatory Immunizations
The New Jersey Department of Health and Senior Services is opposed to S1071, which provides for a conscientious exemption to mandatory immunizations.
Obviously, the NJ DHHS has made it clear that it “is opposed to S1071” and A260, legislation to provide New Jersey citizens with a limited conscientious exemption to New Jersey’s mandated vaccination programs.
Public health care and medical communities consider vaccinations one of the most important measures in improving the public’s health over the past 100 years.
While there is no dispute that “(p)ublic health care and medical communities consider vaccinations one of the most important measures in improving the public’s health over the past 100 years”, the facts are that, in the industrialized world, vaccines have been a <10% factor in the reduction of the common contagious diseases (where sanitation, hygiene, clean water, safe food, adequate housing account for 90-plus % of the decrease in childhood diseases before vaccines were mandated). Moreover, in less developed countries (e.g., India), repeated vaccination campaigns for diseases such as polio have failed to provide the reductions in polio cases and/or the "elimination" of polio seen in the USA and other industrialized nations). Currently, the evidence in today's USA is: our current vaccination programs have succeeded in reducing several acute childhood diseases and, increasingly, some other diseases - at the cost of creating epidemics of chronic disorders, syndromes and diseases that have a strong autoimmune/immune-system-disruption component (e.g., asthma, type 2 diabetes, childhood MS, neurodevelopmental disorders, and food allergies). Yet most of those "(p)ublic health care and medical communities" continue to: · Deny the preceding realities, · Actively suppress the scientific research establishing these realities, · Attack the character and credibility of those independent scientists who dare to publish the truth about these health realities, and · Publish articles: a) which are based on "junk" science, b) which use knowingly "perverted" study de- signs, or c) which rely upon easily manipulated epidemiological reviews where independent access to the data sets used is blocked or the data sets are "lost" - preventing independent researchers from verifying the soundness of the: · Data sets evaluated, · Study designs used, · Results reported, and/or · Conclusions drawn from those findings. New Jersey has historically only permitted religious and medical exemptions to school entry vaccine requirements.
Here, the NJ DHSS states what has been the New Jersey history without addressing the reality that an exemption for a “sincerely held religious belief” is: a) in essence, a “conscientious” exemption for those who adhere to any religion and b), therefore, an exemption that discriminates against those who are religiously agnostic or atheists – a probable violation of the equal protection guarantees for all Americans.
Were the State of New Jersey to enact this statute, which provides a general conscientious (philosophical) exemption, this statute would end this seemingly illegal form of discrimination.
Broad exemptions to mandatory vaccination weaken the entire compliance and enforcement structure mandating vaccines for school entry and continued attendance.
First, taking this statement at face value, the NJ DHSS is advocating for a position that borders on a
health dictatorship where the “health police” and not the constitutions of the United States of America (USA) and the State of New Jersey control the lives of New Jersey citizens.
Thus, the NJ DHSS appears to be advocating for a society in which the rights to bodily integrity and
informed consent are either non-existent or trampled under by the health care establishment for a “greater good” that essentially benefits the healthcare establishment and ignores the physical, financial, mental and spiritual health of the public that it claims to protect.
Given the wording used, “weaken the entire compliance and enforcement structure”, the NJ DHSS is apparently more concerned about strengthening their control over our children than it is about the overall and individual health of our children.
Second, in other “democratic” nations (e.g., Canada, UK, and Japan), high rates of vaccination compliance have been attained and, provided less-safe vaccines have not been knowingly supplied (e.g., the less expensive MMR vaccine the UK used even though it contained the dangerous Urabe strain of the mumps), these rates have been maintained without any need for general mandatory vaccination programs for their citizens.
Moreover, the flexible Japanese approach to vaccines and vaccination programs has been so successful that the first-year infant mortality rate (IMR) in Japan (2.80 deaths per 1,000 “live births” [all values are CIA 2008 estimates]) is less than half the IMR in the USA (6.30 deaths per 1,000 live births [IMR-UK = 4.93; IMR-Canada = 6.08]), and significantly, chronic childhood disorders and diseases (e.g., childhood asthma, childhood type 2 diabetes, childhood obesity) are not at the epidemic levels seen in the USA.
In fact, on average, the Japanese life expectancy is 4 years longer than the average life expectancy in the USA and, unlike the USA, the life expectancy in Japan is not beginning to decline.
Finally, in the 18 states with a general conscientious/philosophical exemption to vaccination, there is no substantiation of the claim that having “(b)road exemptions to mandatory vaccination” has greatly reduced vaccine uptake rates or led to higher average background disease rates for those vaccines that are apparently safe and at least societally cost-effective in actuality.
If vaccination requirements can be waived by a parent, one may argue that this dissolution sets precedent for other mandatory health screenings (e.g., hearing, lead, tuberculosis) or services to become optional.
In a democratic society that recognizes bodily integrity as a fundamental right, there should be no mandatory health screenings or services unless these is a compelling actual “communicable disease outbreak” reason for such and, even in such instances (e.g., a TB outbreak in a school), the parents should be given the choice of a non-invasive alternative (e.g., a chest x-ray for the TB example) or a definitive blood test (and, in this example, the cheap but problematic and, for some, medically dangerous TINE test should be banned).
Currently, the religious exemption already provides a means by which “vaccination requirements can be waived by a parent”.
Finally, since when is a person’s exercise of any granted legal option a “dissolution” of anything?
No highly or densely populated states in the Eastern United States permit a philosophical exemption to school vaccination requirements.
First, the states with an children-of-all-ages conscientious (philosophical) exemption are (in alphabetical order): 1) Arizona, 2) Arkansas, 3) California, 4) Colorado, 5) Idaho, 6) Louisiana, 7) Maine, 8) Michigan, 9) Minnesota, 10) New Mexico, 11) North Dakota, 12) Ohio, 13) Oklahoma, 14) Texas, 15) Utah, 16) Vermont, 17) Washington State, and 18) Wisconsin.
In addition, Missouri and Nebraska have a conscientious/philosophical exemption for child care entry only.
Though only 5 states [Maine, Michigan, Ohio, Vermont and Wisconsin] of the 18 provide a full “philosophical exemption” in the Eastern United States, one could argue that one of them, Ohio [11.5 million], which has a population one-third larger than New Jersey [8.7 million], is a “highly or densely populated state”.
However, California, the most populous state [36.5 million], and Texas, the second most populous state [23.9 million], both have philosophical exemptions with no evidence of a significant excess of disease cases in children for those vaccines that are vaccines against the disease (e.g., measles, mumps, rubella, polio, hepatitis B) or for vaccines against bacterial toxoids and/or toxins (the diphtheria and tetanus toxoid components and the toxic substances in the acellular pertussis preparations) in the diphtheria, pertussis and tetanus combination vaccines (see Table “1” in the published article or the abbreviated version that follows).
[Note: The cases data was taken from the Florida Department of Health’s April 2008 “Task Force Requests to the Florida Department of Health” report to the Florida Governor’s Task Force on
Autism Spectrum Disorders. The population numbers used are based on the published population data at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_by_population.]
Abbreviated Table “1”: 2006 Comparison of Vaccine-Preventable Disease Cases, Among States with Philosophical Exemptions for Immunizations, Florida andU.S.
State Measles* Mumps** Rubella*
or USA (incidence/ 100,000) (incidence/ 100,000) (incidence/ 100,000)
——— ———————– ———————- ———————-
Arizona 0 40 (0.63) 0
Arkansas 0 8 (0.28) 0
California 6 (0.016) 31 (0.085) 1 (0.003)
[12% of US]
%of US Total 10.9 0.471 9.09
[% of 12%] [90.9] [3.93] [75.8]
Colorado 1 (0.021) 51 (1.04) 0
Idaho 0 7 (0.47) 0
Louisiana 0 3 (0.07) 0
Maine 0 0 0
Michigan 1 (0.001) 84 (0.079) 1 (0.001)
Minnesota 1 (0.019) 180 (3.46) 0
New Mexico 0 3 (0.152) 0
North Dakota 0 14 (2.19) 0
Ohio 0 45 (0.392) 0
Oklahoma 0 10 (0.276) 0
Texas 0 58 (0.243) 0
[7.8% of US]
% of US total 0.88%
[% of 7.8%] [11.4%]
Utah 0 5 (0.189) 0
Vermont 0 0 0
Washington 2 (0.031) 42 (0.649) 0
State
Wisconsin 0 842 (15.0) 0
Total of 18
states 11 (0.008) 1,423 (1.09) 2 (0.0015)
% of US Total 20.0 21.6 18.2
[% of 36%] [55.6] [60.0] [50.5]
{% of 42.5% {47.1} {50.8} {42.8}
est. pop % of the 18 states}
Florida 4 (0.022) 15 (0.082) 1 (0.005)
[6% of US]
% of US Total 7.3 0.23 9.1
[% of 6%] [122] [3.8] [152]
U.S. Total 55 (0.180) 6,584 (2.15) 11 (0.004)
* Confirmed Cases **Confirmed and Probable Cases
In contrast, Florida, the fourth most populous state and one that has no philosophical exemption, shows some evidence that not having a philosophical exemption has led to more than expected cases of measles and rubella cases but a less than expected mumps and pertussis cases (two diseases not well-controlled by the vaccines [the MMR and DTaP/Tdap vaccines] containing components for these two diseases).
Thus, for those diseases well-controlled by their vaccines and for which low levels of cases are still
being reported, it would seem that the states with “philosophical exemptions” have, on average, a lower disease incidence rate than: a) the overall average for the USA and b) the rate for Florida, the fourth most populous state.
Thus, the two most populous states as well as 16 other states have a conscientious/philosophical exemption and less than expected disease levels for those diseases that are well-controlled by vaccines.
Therefore, based on the preceding realities, every state should have a conscientious/philosophical
exemption.
Moreover, like New Jersey, the citizens of New York, the third most populous state [19.3 million], are
also seeking legislation providing this exemption to its citizens.
Based on all of the preceding realities, the evidence favors having a “philosophical exemption” in New Jersey, the eleventh most populous state [8.7 million].
New Jersey has numerous characteristics that make it particularly vulnerable to vaccine-preventable disease, which include a high population density, past history of multiple vaccine-preventable disease outbreaks affecting children, a highly mobile population, high numbers of recently arrived immigrants, and its “corridor state” nature.
As long as there is good sanitation, hygiene (including personal hygiene and hot-water washing for soiled undergarments and bedding), clean air, clean water, and adequate nutrition and housing, none of the cited factors make New Jersey “particularly vulnerable to vaccine-preventable disease”.
When it comes to high population density, the much higher population density in Japan, a nation with less than half the infant mortality as the USA, clearly shows that this factor is not significant unless the aforementioned basics are compromised.
Since there is no post-vaccine-adoption history of any vaccine-preventable epidemic in New Jersey for any disease for which the current mandated vaccine is truly long-term protective, localized sporadic disease outbreaks are:
· A red herring or
· A clear indication that the available vaccines are
not in-use effective in some instances.
Since:
· There are other states, including California and Texas (the two most populous states) that have a
“philosophical exemption” and “a highly mobile population” and a “high numbers of recently arrived immigrants” (including much larger numbers of illegal immigrants),
· Three of these 18 states, Arizona, California, and Texas, are also conscientious/ philosophical exemption states that are also corridor states for the majority of illegal immigrants entering the USA,
and
· None of these states have overall disease rate averages (for those diseases that are truly vaccine-preventable diseases) that are significantly higher than the overall rates for the USA, all of these factors are “red herrings” in today’s USA.
Particularly in light of New Jersey’s special traits, the highest number of children possible must receive vaccines to protect them and others.
Given the data for the states that have conscientious/philosophical exemption and special factors similar to those raised in this NJ DHSS statement, the data do not:
· Support the NJ DHSS’ assertion that “the highest number of children possible must receive vaccines”,
or
· Provide evidence that the mandated vaccines “protect” the implicit children who receive these vaccines or the unidentified “others”.
Vaccines not only protect the child being vaccinated but also the general community and the most vulnerable individuals within the community, including those too young to be vaccinated, the elderly, the immunocompromised, and those who have medical contraindications to vaccination – this fact is well-documented in scientific literature.
The NJ DHSS’ unsupported assertion that “Vaccines not only protect the child being vaccinated but also the general community and the most vulnerable individuals within the community”, is at odds with the reality that inoculation of children with the currently recommended live-virus vaccine components (measles, mumps, rubella, herpes varicella zoster, 3 bioengineered strains of human influenza, and 5 strains of human-cow hybridized rotavirus or a human rotavirus) puts all of the uninoculated and unprotected individuals with whom these recent inoculees have contact at risk of contacting these viral diseases that those inoculated shed after they are inoculated.
For example, although the CDC asserts that all children become “immune” to the human rota virus by the time they are five years of age, the studies on the human-hybrid rota virus reported that up to one-third of “supposedly rota virus-immune” adults who come into contact with a child recently inoculated with this rota virus vaccine (Merck’s RotaTeq®) may contract a case of rota virus – a possibility that some parents have reported experiencing as an all-too-real reality.
Moreover, the use of vaccines that clearly do not protect the children inoculated (the influenza vaccines that offer no real protection to children under 2 years of age and marginal protection to children under 5 years of age) based on a claim that this practice will protect the elderly is not only not supported by the published science on the epidemiology of human influenza but also, if it were true, would amount to an abnormal society where, to “protect” the health of the elderly:
· Children are knowingly put at risk (see the influenza-vaccine-related adverse events, including death, seen for all influenza vaccine formulations, that are reported in the Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System (VAERS) database) and
· The healthcare establishment supports the knowing mercury poisoning of children, which clearly occurs when Thimerosal-preserved influenza vaccines are given to children, pregnant women and nursing mothers and probably occurs when any Thimerosal-containing influenza vaccine is given to pregnant women and/or children because, though the safe dose for Thimerosal in any vaccine has never been established:
· Mercury poisoning has been established in young children who have been given toxic doses of
Thimerosal-preserved serums and/or vaccines, indirectly (in the womb) and directly (in early
childhood), and have subsequently been diagnosed with a neurodevelopmental disorder in the autism spectrum [1] where the mercury bolus doses from the serums and vaccines represent not less than
50% of the mercury dose received by an effected child from conception to age 3, and
· Persistent Thimerosal-derived mercury toxicity has been seen in monkeys [2] (and other mercury-sensitive animals [3]) given just the doses of Thimerosal or one of its ethyl mercury metabolites that, in some instances, mimicked the Thimerosal doses that children given Thimerosal-preserved vaccines at 2, 4 and 6 months would receive under the vaccination schedules recommended in the USA from 1999 through 2001.
Finally, for influenza, the epidemiological evidence is that human influenza viruses are neither highly contagious [4] nor, as discussed in the same reference, easily transmitted from those infected to those who are well – even in close communal groups, including families.
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As an example, in a Journal of the American Medical Association study published in 2000, investigators found that children who did not receive measles and pertussis vaccines for philosophical or religious reasons were 22 times more likely to contract measles and 6 times more likely to get pertussis; also, schools with higher numbers of exempted children were associated with more outbreaks that had community wide-implications.
First, the referenced, but not cited, article’s text appears to be more self-serving propaganda than it is important information because the locations, time periods, and diseases chosen seem to have been knowingly chosen to result in the preordained outcomes that the study was “designed” to find.
Second, the locations in which the researchers at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) chose to do this study (in some counties in Colorado) were areas with relatively small populations as compared to the population of the USA (some percentage of Colorado’s population that overall is only about 1% of the population of the USA) that were/are not representative of the population of the USA or the U.S. population’s overall risks of contracting “vaccine-preventable” diseases.
Though the NJ DHSS fails to cite the study reference, based on a search of “PubMeD”
(http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez), the abstract of the study apparently referenced states (with CAPITALIZATION added for emphasis):
“1: JAMA. 2000 Dec 27;284(24):3145-50. Links Comment in:
JAMA. 2000 Dec 27;284(24):3171-3.
JAMA. 2001 Mar 28;285(12):1573-4.
JAMA. 2001 Mar 28;285(12):1573; author reply 1574.
Individual and community risks of measles and pertussis associated with personal exemptions to immunization. Feikin DR, Lezotte DC, Hamman RF, Salmon DA, Chen RT, Hoffman RE. Respiratory Diseases Branch, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 1600 Clifton Rd, MS-C23,
Atlanta, GA 30333, USA. drf0@cdc.gov
CONTEXT: The risk of vaccine-preventable diseases among children who have philosophical and religious exemptions from immunization has been understudied. OBJECTIVES: To evaluate whether personal exemption from immunization is associated with risk of measles and pertussis at individual and community levels. DESIGN, SETTING, AND PARTICIPANTS: Population-based, RETROSPECTIVE COHORT STUDY USING DATA COLLECTED on standardized forms REGARDING ALL REPORTED MEASLES AND PERTUSSIS CASES AMONG CHILDREN AGED 3 TO 18 YEARS IN COLORADO DURING 1987-1998.
MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: Relative risk of measles and pertussis among exemptors and vaccinated children; association between incidence rates among vaccinated children and frequency of exemptors in Colorado counties; association between school outbreaks and frequency of exemptors in schools; and risk associated with exposure to an exemptor in measles outbreaks. RESULTS: Exemptors were 22.2 times (95% confidence interval [CI], 15.9-31.1) more likely to acquire measles and 5.9 times (95% CI, 4.2-8.2) more likely to acquire pertussis than vaccinated children. AFTER ADJUSTING FOR CONFOUNDERS, THE FREQUENCY OF EXEMPTORS IN A COUNTY WAS ASSOCIATED WITH THE INCIDENCE RATE OF MEASLES (RELATIVE RISK [RR], 1.6; 95% CI, 1.0-2.4) AND PERTUSSIS (RR, 1.9; 95% CI, 1.7-2.1) IN VACCINATED CHILDREN. Schools with pertussis outbreaks had more exemptors (mean, 4.3% of students) than schools without outbreaks (1.5% of students; P =.001). AT LEAST 11% OF VACCINATED CHILDREN IN MEASLES OUTBREAKS ACQUIRED INFECTION THROUGH CONTACT WITH AN EXEMPTOR. CONCLUSIONS: The risk of measles and pertussis is elevated in personal exemptors. Public health personnel should recognize the potential effect of exemptors in outbreaks in their communities, and parents should be made aware of the risks involved in not vaccinating their children.”
Apparently, since none were reported, there were no severe adverse outcomes in any group of children based on the reported 2006 data.
In addition, though this study did report these relative risks for disease as: “Exemptors were 22.2 times (95% confidence interval [CI], 15.9-31.1) more likely to acquire measles and 5.9 times (95% CI, 4.2-8.2) more likely to acquire pertussis than vaccinated children.” it also reported: “After adjusting for confounders, the frequency of exemptors in a county was associated with the incidence rate of measles (relative risk [RR], 1.6; 95% CI, 1.0-2.4) and pertussis (RR, 1.9; 95% CI, 1.7-2.1) in vaccinated children”, indicating that, after the confounding factors were removed, neither of these relative risks was statistically significant (requiring a RR of 2.0 or larger) and, because no other diseases were mentioned, there was no “exemption” effect for the other diseases covered by the MMR vaccine (mumps and rubella) or the DTaP vaccine (diphtheria and tetanus).
Though not mentioned by the NJ DHSS here, the most important fact in this article was: “At least 11% of vaccinated children in measles outbreaks acquired infection through contact with an exemptor” – indicating that, unlike having the measles once, the MMR vaccine is not effective in protecting all those given the MMR vaccine from subsequently contracting measles when exposed to the measles virus.
In the final analysis, there was/is really no statistically significant risk associated with exemptors (religious and medical) and, apparently, the CDC had/has no interest in conducting such studies in the more populous, densely populated, highly mobile, “corridor” states like New Jersey.
All vaccines currently licensed in the United States are safe and effective.
First, the NJ DHSS neither provides nor cites any studies that establish the validity of the preceding
statement.
Second, as cited in previous reviews [5], there is a large and growing body of evidence that some of the current FDA-licensed vaccines are neither truly population safe nor, in some cases, in-use effective even when the effectiveness criterion is loosened to only require that the vaccine be societally cost-effective including:
[5] These reviews are freely available for download from the “Documents” web page of the CoMeD Internet website: http://www.mercury-freedrugs.org/. For example, the most recent 2-part review, “A Draft Review of: ‘Florida Governor’ Task Force on Autism Spectrum Disorders- Task Force Requests to the Florida DoH’, Part 1 (17 October 2008; 68 pages)” and “A Draft Review of: ‘Florida Governor’ Task Force on Autism Spectrum Disorders- Task Force Requests to the Florida DoH’, Part 2 (17 October 2008; 77 pages)” [along with the report that was reviewed, “Florida’s Governor’s Task Force on Autism Spectrum Disorders – Task Force Requests to the Florida DoH (16 Sept. 2008; 49 pages)”], contains a detailed analysis of the current childhood vaccination programs that dispassionately assesses the in-use medical cost-effectiveness of the current vaccines and their associated vaccination programs.
The Current Recommended National Human Influenza Vaccination Program
Published studies have clearly established that the influenza vaccination program is not in-use effective in children, adults and the elderly for a variety of reasons.
Moreover, the majority (greater than 75 %) of the available doses contain a level of Thimerosal that has not been proven safe to administer to either children or adults.
Therefore:
· New Jersey’s mandate for vaccination of young children should be rescinded,
· The current recommended national program for influenza should be abandoned,
· The human influenza vaccines should be removed from the list of vaccines covered by the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program (NVICP), and
· All petitions filed with the NVICP from the time the influenza vaccines were added to the list of compensable vaccines until 3 years after the vaccine was recognized to be not effective and removed from the national vaccination program should be automatically paid, with the government assessing the manufacturer of the putative causal human influenza vaccine for the costs of that compensation because the human influenza vaccines are not effective drugs.
The Current Recommended National Herpes Varicella Zoster Vaccination Program
Since:
· The recommendations for a national varicella vaccination program were based on an unfulfilled promise of marginal societal cost-effectiveness PROVIDED: a) one dose would produce lifetime protection, b) the vaccine was assumed to cause no serious side effects, and c) the vaccination program would not increase shingles cases,
· The CDC is now recommending 2 doses because one dose has failed to control “wild” chickenpox cases,
· Shingles cases in both children and adults have increased and
· The vaccine has not only the highest level of VAERS- reported adverse side effects of any single-component vaccine but has also been shown to cause serious conditions in some who are vaccinated, it is obvious that the chickenpox vaccination program is not societally cost effective.
Thus,
· The recommendation for inclusion of “varicella” (chickenpox) in the national vaccination program should be rescinded,
· New Jersey should remove it from its list of mandated vaccines for children,
· Varicella should be removed from the list of NVICP-covered vaccines, and
· All petitions filed with the NVICP from the time the varicella vaccine was added to the list of compensable vaccines until 3 years after the vaccine was recognized to be not societally cost-effective and removed from the national vaccination program should be automatically paid, with the government assessing the manufacturer of the varicella vaccines for the costs of that
compensation because, though all drugs, including vaccines, are required to be by U.S. law to be both safe and effective, the varicella vaccines are not effective.
The Current Recommended National Rotavirus Vaccination Program
Because:
· The current rota virus vaccination programs have not significantly reduced the risk of severe adverse
effects (intussusception, Kawasaki’s, and pneumonia) in the inoculees as compared to the unvaccinated,
· The vaccines are live virus vaccines that not only infect those inoculated but also, at a high rate,
those who come into contact with recent inoculees or their fecal waste and
· The costs of the vaccine and its administration greatly exceed the societal cost-effectiveness
level established in the 1990s even after correcting for inflation, it is obvious that the rota virus vaccination programs are not societally cost-effective in the USA.
Thus,
· The recommendation for inclusion of rotavirus in the national vaccination program should be rescinded and rota virus removed from the list of NVICP-covered vaccines,
· New Jersey should not add rotavirus to its list of mandated vaccines, and
· All petitions filed with the NVICP from the time the rota virus vaccine was added to the list of
compensable vaccines until 3 years after the vaccine was recognized to be not societally cost-effective and removed from the national vaccination program should be automatically paid, with
the government assessing the manufacturer of the offending rota virus for the costs of that compensation because, though required by law to be both safe and effective, the rota virus vaccines are clearly not in-use effective.
At best, all that the rota virus vaccines do is give clinical cases of the rota virus strains in the vaccines to those inoculated with no significant reduction in either the number or severity of cases of
rota virus compared to the unvaccinated population, even in the carefully contrived clinical trials where the lack of reduction in life-threatening outcomes in the vaccine arm over the unvaccinated arm was perversely turned into positive because, although some of those inoculated had these life-threatening side effects, the elevation in their level was not statistically significant.
Thus, the licensing and approval of the human-bovine rota virus vaccine rests on a knowing perversion of the reality that, to be effective, the vaccine should have produced a statistically significant reduction in the level of cases for these life-threatening adverse effects.
However, like the previous vaccine, Wyeth’s RotaShield®, the current live-virus rotavirus vaccines, Merck’s RotaTeq® and GlaxoSmithKline’s Rotarix® did not significantly reduce the incidence of the following life-threatening adverse outcomes:
· Intussusception (for either of these vaccines).
· Kawasiki’s [6] (for the RotaTeq vaccine), or
· Pneumonia (for the Rotarix vaccine,
even though the test populations for the Phase 3 clinical trials were selected to be in areas where the back-ground rate of disease was significant to mask the level of harm caused by vaccination so that it would not produce a statistically significant increase in life-threatening outcomes.
[6] Geier DA, King PG, Sykes LK, Geier MR. RotaTeq vaccine adverse events and policy considerations.
Med Sci Monit. 2008 Mar; 14(3): PH9-PH16.
The Current Recommended National Vaccination Programs For Other Vaccines
For discussions of other vaccines, the reader should study the prior applicable posts on the
CoMeD website: http://www.mercury-freedrugs.org/.
The Department only mandates vaccines licensed by the FDA and recommended for universal use by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, American Academy of Pediatrics, and other government and professional organizations.
While the preceding states what the NJ DHSS is doing vis-Ã -vis setting vaccination mandates, one should note that these actions are seemingly at odds with the NJ DHSS’ constitutional duty to only support the use of preventive medicines, including vaccines, that are proven to be effective in protecting the health of New Jersey citizens – a duty that the NJ DHSS and elected state officials, including the governor, have obviously failed to discharge in those instances where vaccines, which have been proven to be in-use ineffective, are being mandated for New Jersey’s children.
The Department, medical experts and practitioners believe that using available vaccines is highly preferable to control individual cases and outbreaks of vaccine-preventable diseases.
Here, it is unambiguous that the “Department, medical experts and practitioners believe” in what they are doing.
Unfortunately, public health policy should not be based on what the NJ DHSS, “medical experts and
practitioners believe”.
Public health policy should only be based on proof that the mandated vaccines are safe and in-use cost-effective when all the costs (including the costs of the adverse events associated with the vaccination program for them) are accurately assessed and included.
Thus, the NJ DHSS should:
· Abandon its unsupported belief-based policies, which have elevated vaccination to quasi-religious prominence, and
· Return to mandating only those vaccines that, based on in-use outcomes that include the costs
of the adverse reactions to a given vaccine or vaccine component and the need for “boosters” and their risks, are proven safe and at least in-use societally cost-effective for New Jersey’s children.
For many of these diseases, effective therapies are not available to treat sick individuals or are ineffective when given at the time of diagnosis.
Since the mandated childhood vaccines are supposedly intended to “protect against” “native” diseases by giving the children:
· “Weakened” strains of the disease (e.g., the live-virus measles, mumps, rubella, varicella,
rotavirus and influenza vaccines),
· Inactivated strains of the disease (e.g., the inactivated-virus polio and influenza vaccines),
· Manufactured components derived from superficial components of the disease organisms (e.g., the hepatitis B, hepatitis A, meningococcal, pneumo-coccal, and HPV vaccines), or
· The modified toxins (“toxoids”) or toxic components produced by the disease (e.g., the diphtheria, tetanus, and pertussis vaccines), the NJ DHSS’ broad “(f)or many diseases” generalization here is, at best, problematic.
Moreover, for those diseases for which the available preventive vaccines have not been shown to be
truly in-use cost-effective, it is wrong to waste public health dollars vaccinating our children because, at best, the vaccine only postpones the age at which our children contract the disease – a move that, for some of the contagious viral childhood diseases, only increases the probable severity of the disease as well as the costs to treat that disease in those instances where our children finally contract that disease.
In addition, the NJ DHSS’ statement ignores:
· The potential long-harm to our children’s developing immune system that injecting them with
vaccines containing not only the disease-related components but also other immune-system-reactive components may cause in some of those injected,and
· The long-term immune-system imbalance that occurs when our developing children are abnormally exposed to disease components by injection rather than by the “natural” exposure routes.
Furthermore, though it is clear that aluminum-based adjuvants may over-stimulate the macrophagic portion of the immune system and, for some, lead to autoimmune disorders and increased susceptibility to some chronic medical conditions, vaccine formulations containing such aluminum-based adjuvants (or other adjuvants that are known to be capable of causing immune-system dysfunction) continue to be approved when, by increasing the level of the disease-related antigens or making other formulation changes, it is, or should be, possible to make an effective vaccine without adding any adjuvant.
Finally, even though the vaccine makers have, as the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the vaccine makers have repeatedly admitted [7], failed to prove that the Thimerosal in Thimerosal-preserved vaccines is safe to the explicit “sufficiently nontoxic …” standard required by law in 21 C.F.R. §610.15(a) and such Thimerosal-preserved drugs are “deemed adulterated” drugs under 21 U.S.C. §351(a)(2)(B), the FDA and the vaccine makers have colluded to continue to approve and market these adulterated vaccines to the American public.
[7] Subcommittee on Human Rights and Wellness, Committee on Government Reform of the House of Representatives, “Mercury in Medicine Report – Taking Unnecessary Risks,” Washington, DC, as published in the Congressional Record, pgs. E1011- E1030, May 21, 2003.
Thus, the NJ DHSS’ decision to be an active party to the preceding collusive actions that expose our children to adulterated vaccines is particularly egregious in the case of the inactivated influenza
vaccines given to our children, where:
· Several publications, including: Geier DA, King PG, Geier MR. Influenza Vaccine: Review of
Effectiveness of the U.S. Immunization Program, and Policy Considerations, Journal of American
Physicians and Surgeons, 2006 Fall; 11: 69-74, have established that the influenza vaccines are
not in-use effective,
· Several studies have clearly established that Thimerosal is not an effective preservative in
any vaccine formulations that contains proteins or other sulfur-containing compounds,
· More than a dozen recent studies have established that injection of Thimerosal-preserved vaccines mercury poisons all of those injected to varying degrees,
· Most of the available doses of these inactivated influenza vaccines are still unnecessarily pre-
served with Thimerosal or contain a lower level of Thimerosal that has been proven to be toxic to
our children, and, worse,
· Studies have shown that daily supplementation with vitamin D-3 [8] apparently protects almost all
adults who take daily 2000-IU vitamin D-3 supplements during the influenza season against most all
strains of influenza while, at best, the current influenza vaccines only provide limited protection:
· For a few of the probable circulating influenza virus strains,
· To only some of those inoculated with them.
[8] Preventive dietary supplementation with vitamin D-3 (1,000 to 5,000 IU per day depending on the child’s or adult’s size, skin color, age, sun exposure, and overall health) has been proven to protect against contracting all strains of human influenza (while the vaccines, at best, only protect against a few strains of influenza) as well as to have other health benefits. [Note: The short-duration administration of high-doses of vitamin D-3 (ca. 50,000 IU per day) has also been shown to be effective in treating influenza cases. References: a. Cannell JJ, Hollis BW. Use of vitamin D in clinical practice. Altern Med Rev. 2008 Mar; 13(1): 6-20. b. Cannell JJ, Vieth R, Umhau JC, Holick MF, Grant WB, Madronich S, Garland CF, Giovannucci E. Epidemic influenza and vitamin D. Epidemiol Infect. 2006 Dec; 134(6): 1129-1140.]
Thus:
q IF the NJ DHSS were truly interested in preventing cases of influenza, as this statement asserts,
q THEN the NJ DHSS would be mandating that all children and the elderly be: a) appropriately tested for their level of vitamin D-3 and b), based on the test results, given an appropriate added daily dose of vitamin D-3 during the “flu” season, which the NJ DHSS would then supply for each child whose family could not afford the cost.
Though diseases still occur among the vaccinated, many more vaccine-preventable illnesses would occur if fewer persons were vaccinated.
Here, the NJ DHSS’ statement is a classic example of Orwellian doublespeak – a statement that begins with a muted truth, “diseases still occur among the vaccinated” – which embodies the reality that even multiple doses of the current vaccines do not provide either short-term or long-protection to all those who have been vaccinated against contracting these diseases when those fully (multiply) vaccinated with them are exposed to the actual disease – and connects that truth to an unclear statement, “many more vaccine-preventable illnesses would occur if fewer persons were vaccinated”, that falsely speaks of “more vaccine-preventable illnesses”.
However, for “vaccine-preventable illnesses”, the truth is:
· There could only be more cases of the illnesses that are claimed to be “vaccine-preventable” – not more “illnesses” (diseases) and
· The evidence is clear that the current USA recommended vaccination programs are, for whatever reasons, major causal factors for the current epidemics of chronic childhood medical conditions (e.g., asthma, severe food allergies and intolerances, type 2 diabetes, MS, certain leukemias, idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy (IDCM), obesity, and neurodevelopmental and behavioral disorders) that were either rare or non-existent in our children before 1980.
The return and resurgence of vaccine-preventable diseases translates to significant economic and human costs related to time lost from work, medical care, and public health interventions.
Since, except for smallpox, the diseases of which the NJ DHSS speaks have not been reduced to laboratory specimens in every nation on the Earth, it is false to speak of the “return and resurgence of vaccine-preventable diseases” when all that is happening in the USA today, for those diseases where the vaccines seemingly provide effective “long-term” protection, are sporadic isolated outbreaks.
Moreover, except for the disease cases caused by herpes varicella zoster, most of these outbreaks in the USA are being triggered by exposure to recentlyinfected carriers coming from countries where, for whatever reason,
· The native disease is still endemic, or
· A recent live-virus-vaccine inoculee was sheddingthe vaccine’s live viral components and infected
the carrier just before their return to the USA, and
· Those exposed to these returning outbreak initiators:
· Were not vaccinated or,
· If vaccinated, were not adequately protected from contracting the disease by the vaccinations they received.
Second, the actual data for those diseases that the federal government and the NJ DHSS have labeled
“vaccine-preventable diseases” fails to show any nationwide disease resurgence for those few diseases for which the vaccines apparently are at least in-use societally cost-effective.
Third, the “economic and human costs” from the chronnic illnesses that the USA’s current vaccination programs have engendered are orders of magnitude greater than the short-term “economic and human costs” for the current levels of these acute childhood diseases (e.g., measles, mumps, rubella, diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis [whooping cough], rota virus and pneumonia).
The more exemptions we allow, the more difficult it will be to prevent vaccine-preventable diseases from affecting our communities.
The data presented by the Florida Department of Health along with the added information provided to address incidence levels and relative disease levels to address the “philosophical exemptions” issue (see Abbreviated Table “1”) does not support the NJ DHSS’ assertion that the “more exemptions we allow, the more difficult it will be to prevent vaccine-preventable diseases …” in today’s America in the 18 states, including the two most populous states, California and Texas, that have a “conscientious/philosophical exemption” option.
Hopefully, after reviewing this response and the referenced and cited publications, the NJ DHSS will not only drop its opposition to S1071 (and A260) and support the passage of this legislation, but also immediately revoke its mandates for influenza vaccination and, after reviewing the in-use effectiveness data for each of the currently mandated vaccine components, adjust the vaccination mandates to eliminate those other vaccines that are not in-use cost effective, starting with the current vaccines for herpes varicella zoster and rota virus.
Finally, after reviewing this response and all of the cited publications, if the NJ DHSS ignores any of the factual realities set forth in this review, then the people of the state of New Jersey should, in mass, rise up and demand that the New Jersey State Legislature pass and the Governor of the State of New Jersey sign into law a statute that:
q Repeals all vaccination mandates, and
q Simply states that:
All vaccination programs shall be voluntary, and
For those vaccines that are truly provably cost-effective:
· The state will provide the vaccine doses for all of it residents, vaccination programs where vaccination is provably societally cost-effective by truly independent investigators, and
· The NJ DHSS will initiate and support programs for all of the alternative disease-preventive measures, including:
· Better hygiene and sanitation,
· Dietary supplementation and healthy diets, which have been proven to reduce the risk of the initiation and spread of communicable-disease outbreaks,
· Setting the state’s recommendation for daily intake of vitamin D-3 to no less than 1,000 IU (25 micrograms), and
· Requiring:
o All school-related health-screening blood tests include an assessment of serum 25-hydroxy-vitamin D levels, and
o The healthcare provider to furnish or prescribe appropriate vitamin D-3 supplement levels when the measured level is below 45 ng per milliliter (mL) of serum with appropriate follow- ups to ensure that the child’s serum 25-hydroxy-vitamin D levels exceed 45 ng per mL.
Concluding Remarks
As a supporter of vaccines and vaccination programs that are reasonably safe and at least societally cost-effective, the author understands that the current New Jersey mandated vaccination programs have severe problems, which the NJ DHHS should immediately address.
Moreover, the NJ DHSS should address the problems with its vaccination program mandates in a manner that is:
· Truly public-health cost-effective and
· Free of the pernicious influence of those who directly and/or indirectly profit from:
· More vaccines and/or
· Expanding mandated vaccination programs that are intentionally blind to the rise in, and the costs of, the chronic childhood diseases, which the affected children and their families must bear for the rest of their lives.
If the NJ DHSS fails to act in the responsible manner being recommended, then the NJ DHSS should be prepared to be the proverbial “last straw” that will trigger a movement to repudiate all vaccination mandates because it will be knowingly ignoring the actual fiscal and physical harm that its scientifically indefensible vaccination mandates have caused, are causing and will cause.
Finally, in conjunction with this response, the NJ DHSS should carefully study the in-depth two-part review of the September 2008 report issued by the Florida Department of Health, and the report itself, as posted in the “Documents” section on the CoMeD Internet website: http://www.mercury-freedrugs.org (see footnote 5).
About the Reviewer:
Information about this reviewer, Paul G. King, PhD, can be found on the Internet at:
http://www.dr-king.com/.
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conflicts of interest.
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You’ve heard of “Breakthrough Bleeding,” right? That’s when someone starts to bleed in spite of the fact that the body, or a drug, should be keeping them from doing that. Well, there’s another “Breakthrough” problem, and we are all vulnerable to it: “Breakthrough Death” which occurs when the latest medical “breakthrough” is so dangerous, so poorly tested, so poorly understood and so rapidly embraced by the ever-compliant media (“Ask your doctor is it’s right for YOU”) along with the ever time-pressured and sheepish medical practitioner that you, or someone you love, winds up dead or damaged because of a poorly understood, but hastily taken-up “Medical Breakthrough”.
The article posted below questions the wisdom of new medical “wisdom”. Indeed, the bone-fields of Medicine are littered with discarded ” breakthroughs”, too hastily approved, too gleefully adopted, too poorly tested. Of course, the graveyards of medicine are littered with the patients who blindly rushed to line up for the newest alleged “advances” and trusted the “wisdom” of the usually-well-meaning, carefully preselected and obedient sheep in MD’s clothing who blithely make their livings by being there with the new whatever-it-is-this-time. For example, in my educated opinion, the new chemotherapy which turns out to damage your heart and not work any better than any of the other ineffective conventional cancer approaches and, like every form of conventional chemotherapy, is a leading cause of NEW cancer in long term survivors; or the new antibiotic that turns out to cause your body to stop making any blood cells, red or white, or causes you to go deaf, or damages the dental integrity of your unborn child; or the new vaccine that turns out to cause healthy young girls and women to die or develop life threatening conditions; or the vaccine overload that turns so many happy young families into tragic families coping with the vaccine injury called autism, asthma, ADD/ADHD and a host of other names.
You get the idea.
What you may not know yet is that “fast track” approval for drugs and especially vaccines means that even the woefully inadequate safety assurances used by the FDA are shunted aside. And whether a drug, device or vaccine has been fast-tracked or not, that FDA approved-whatever is not deemed safe until after Phase IV Clinical Trials are completed and evaluated. And you may also not know that the FDA review committees and advisory committees, panels and boards are filled with people who have stocks, bonds, shares, patents and other direct financial conflicts of interest in the very products they are regulating, or seeking to evaluate and forbid if dangerous. Good system? For them, maybe. Just look at the state of American health and the trillions of dollars made by the illness care industry using things that make you sick and kill you although they have been through Phase I, II and II Clinical Trials. And although these devices, drugs and vaccines are now in their much-vaunted “Phase IV Clinical Trials”
What is a Phase IV Clinical Trial? It is the voluntary reporting, over time, of adverse reactions in the public. In other words, when doctors notice that patients are dying, or having strokes or heart attacks, or getting rather more cancer than “normal” or having more life-threatening asthma attacks or other reactions and the doctors involved bother to report (and often incriminate themselves if they were the ones who gave the drug or used the device in the first place), and these results pile up and the scientists reviewing these data do not have too many conflicts of interest, and their superiors in the system do not have too many conflicts of interest (which are now officially permitted by the agencies of the US Government charged with protecting our safety), then perhaps something will happen to remove this item from sale. But usually not. I need only say the word “Vioxx” and you get the idea. Or “Gardasil” or “Avienda”.
Or core systemic corruption and inability to protect the public… you get the idea. *
We like to think that clinical trials and other strategies protective of the public when using drugs, pesticides, vaccines and other toxins are iron clad and powerful. Nothing could be further from the truth. The FDA, EPA and USDA, the principle “guardians” of public health, do not allocate their funding efficiently to do their jobs. Congressional report after Congressional report, investigative piece after investigative piece makes that very clear. But the structure of these agencies themselves makes it even more clear.
For the FDA, a large proportion of whose operating budget comes from “user fees” which Pharmaceutical companies pay to have their products approved. Those user fees mean that the FDA is the client, not the regulator, of the drug industry.
Now it looks like the food industry will be asked to pay the same sort of user fees so the food side of the house will also become a client of the industry it allegedly regulates. Wonder what will happen to small local, organic producers in that regulatory world, where only the big and powerful are “too big to fail…”
Between the revolving door policy of the FDA, USDA, EPA and other federal agencies (through which high level employees are recruited from, revolve into, and continue to move back and forth between government, academia and industry as their careers develop) and the lack of oversight allowed or engaged in by these agencies, allowing “new breakthroughs” to create “new wealth” and “new disasters”.
Read the article below by a concerned and thoughtful Mom and take the Action Steps at the head of this article to make sure your State and National Legislators know that you do not want to be exposed to compulsory vaccination, a form of compulsory drugging.
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Sometimes ‘new breakthroughs’ in medicine are too new
October 12, 2008
By Kimberly A. Brehm
Every time the medical community changes its mind and announces yet another way to care for your child, I’m amazed that my children made it out of their early years unscathed.
When my babies were young, they slept on their tummies, until the American Medical Association said the position could lead to sudden infant death syndrome. I bathed them in cool water when their fevers ran high, until I heard the tried-and-true practice could cause a seizure. And I gave them over-the-counter cold medicine when they had persistent, hacking coughs and sore throats.
Turns out that wasn’t a good idea, either.
On Tuesday, in response to concerns from medical experts that questioned whether cold and cough remedies do more harm than good to children, drug companies agreed to no longer make such medications for kids younger than 4.
Leading brands like Pediacare, Dimetapp, Robitussin, Triaminic and Little Colds no longer will continue to include dosage information for anyone younger than 4, and some pediatricians are asking the government to go further and ban such medicines for children younger than 6.
Each year, more than 7,000 children – mostly 2- and 3-year-olds – make a trip to the emergency room because of problems with over-the-counter cough and cold medicines. They usually have symptoms such as hives, drowsiness and unsteady walking. The Federal Drug Administration in 2007 pulled over-the-counter cough and cold medications for children younger than 6 to weigh their risks and effectiveness, but it could take another year or more before a final decision is reached.
Since it seems like every decade or so the medical community reverses previous decisions on particular medicines and medical treatments, it’s made me wonder when I can trust “new breakthroughs” and “innovative advances.”
A reversal about something like a cough suppressant – once seen as a benign drug – is the exact reason I have not yet allowed my teen daughters to be vaccinated with the HPV vaccine. It’s too new and hasn’t been researched enough for me to give my approval and feel comfortable.
In 2005, the Food and Drug Administration OK’d Gardasil as a vaccine against four strains of the human papillomavirus, or HPV, which can cause cervical cancer. Since then, more than 8 million girls ages 11 to 14 have been given the vaccine, and some states are considering making the shot mandatory for school enrollment, similar to other immunizations.
When Gardasil was approved a few years ago, my oldest daughter was 11, the ideal age to begin the shots. But I hesitated, thinking about other “new and improved” medicines that later proved to cause harm.
Remember when pregnant women were prescribed Thalidomide for nausea, then it was discovered to cause miscarriages and birth defects? Or when vaccines routinely included mercury, until that too proved to be dangerous? Or how about Fen-phen and Ephedra, which were supposed to be safe weight-loss drugs, and women began dying? In the 1990s, infants were given the rotavirus vaccine, until too many babies died after receiving it, and it was pulled from the market. I could go on and on listing dozens of examples like this, including strong, antidotal evidence of a link between immunizations and autism.
Thousands of parents of autistic children, including my brother and his wife, are firmly convinced their child’s autism was caused by vaccines and no amount of denial from drug companies would convince them otherwise.
And now, three years after young girls starting getting the Gardasil vaccine, it’s being investigated. There have been more than 9,000 complaints of serious ill effects filed with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, including blood clots, genital warts, paralysis and death.
The CDC said the deaths are not linked to Gardasil, but who knows what they’ll discover after further investigation? I personally am not willing to let my daughters be guinea pigs for the fairly new vaccine when even the CDC agrees the vaccine responds differently to each individual’s immune system and should not be mandatory for school participation.
“The overall effect of the vaccines on cervical cancer remains unknown. The real impact of HPV vaccination on cervical cancer will not be observed for decades,” the New England Journal reported in August. “With so many essential questions still unanswered, there is good reason to be cautious.”
When the wrong decision could cause your child harm – or maybe even result in death – it would be negligent not to be cautious. And when the medical experts change their minds every few years on what’s good and what’s harmful, it’s hard to make the right decision.
http://www.southtownstar.com/news/brehm/1213902,101208brehm.article
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Footnote:
* Less than a year ago, a government study of the FDA concluded:
1) The FDA cannot fulfill its mission because its scientific base has eroded and its scientific organizational structure is weak.
2) The FDA cannot fulfill its mission because its scientific workforce does not have sufficient capacity and capability.
3) The FDA cannot fulfill its mission because its information technology (IT) infrastructure is inadequate.
4) FDA does not have the capacity to ensure the safety of food for the nation.
5) The development of medical products based on “new science†cannot be adequately regulated by the FDA.
6) There is insufficient capacity in modeling risk assessment and analysis.
7) The FDA science agenda lacks a coherent structure and vision, as well as effective coordination and prioritization.
8) The FDA has substantial recruitment and retention challenges.
9) The FDA has an inadequate and ineffective program for scientist performance.
10) The FDA has not taken sufficient advantage of external and internal collaborations.
11) The FDA lacks the information science capability and information infrastructure to fulfill is regulatory mandate.
12) The FDA cannot provide the information infrastructure support to regulate products based on new science.
[From: the November 2007 Report of the Subcommittee on Science and Technology, FDA Science and Mission at Risk]
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4. PAINLESS GIVING IN A DRASTICALLY ILL ECONOMY
5.NATURAL SOLUTIONS FOUNDATION GOES TO DC CODEX MEETING. SHALL WE GO TO AFRICA? IT’S UP TO YOU.
6. PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE QUESTIONNAIRE
7. WEAPONIZED AVIAN FLU SMOKING GUN? PRESS RELEASE CENSORED – AGAIN!
NJ Dietitian Licensing Gags Others’ Free Speech, Stifles Nutrition Information – to Make You Sicker Longer, and Help You Die Sooner?
It stands to reason, doesn’t it, that if you want people to be sick as long as possible, and as profitably as possible, you would want to make sure that they do not know how to stay well?
If you are Big Pharma, or work for them and do their bidding, you will want to criminalize, that’s right, criminalize, telling people about how they can use natural options, like nutrition, to get healthy and stay that way. So what do you do? You convince/buy/rent/bribe state regulators and legislators to do what New Jersey is trying to do right now by passing NJ Assembly Bill A2933 / Senate Bill S1941.
While 46 other states have some sort of Dietitian’s licensing law, New Jersey is trying (like Ohio and a few others) to make Registered Dietitians (RDs) the ONLY people, that’s right, the ONLY ones who can discuss food, food components, nutrition, health benefits and other food related concepts and practices with anyone at all under just about any circumstances (“with or without compensation…”). RDs are the people responsible for the diets served in hospitals, nursing homes and other similar institutions. The pitiful lack of nutritional support and sophistication, to say nothing of life sustaining nutrition, in those feeding situations should make the point all by itself: Whatever it is that RDs do, it is NOT about the advanced nutrition upon which so many of you rely.
If this bad bill passes the Legislature (it has already passed the Assembly committee), nutrition will belong to these untrained people who will be responsible for something called “Medical nutritional therapy” which, according to the statute, means “nutritional diagnostic, therapeutic and counseling services for the purpose of disease management.”
Now, I know that I am only a physician practicing drug free psychiatry and medicine, much of it nutritionally based, for nearly 40- years. I would however, very much appreciate it if someone would please enlighten me what qualifies RDs to practice disease management through nutritional diagnostic, therapeutic or counseling services? Say what? But no one else in a state with this type of law may use the word nutrition, nutritionist, nutrition counselor or similar terms without violating the licensing monopoly and provisions of this statue and this profession. Naturopaths, Biochemists, Nutritionists, Environmental and other Physicians, and all others, would be legally prohibited from discussing food or nutrition with people who need or seek this knowledge.
So give nutritional counseling, disease management, diagnostic evaluations and interpretations and therapy to a group of people whose professional activities make it clear that they are deeply ill-suited for this responsibility and you have a guarantee that people will get sicker sooner and stay sicker longer to the abundant profit of the professional illness care industry, created as a distribution system for the left-overs of the Rockefeller oil empire. Remember that when the allopathic medical system was created, most drugs were coal-tar derivatives, that is, chemicals made from the goo left over when petroleum processing was completed. Rockefeller did not believe that the internal combustion engine would consume his output and he wanted to find a productive use for the left-overs.
This is absolutely consistent with Codex and the FDA’s persistent attempts to prohibit the dissemination of any information which links food and food components (including supplements) with health. If you are old enough, you will recall that before the unanimous passage by the US Congress of the 1994 Dietary Supplements Health and Education Act (DSHEA), it was literally illegal to combine the words “Food” and “Health” in the same sentence or on a sign like “Health Food Store”. FDA Marshals would break down such signs and burned such books. Yes, here in the US.
Well, when special interests in Congress tried to make ALL dietary and food supplements illegal, the American public rose up and roared “NO!” with such force that the Congress did an about face and passed the legislation which treats supplements as foods and, as such, as not subject to close regulation. DSHEA is certainly not perfect legislation, but it did give us the right to have whatever dose of whatever supplements we want.
It also gave us the right, which we also have through the First Amendment of the Constitution of These United States, to truthful information about the impact of food and food components on health and the benefits to be derived from them.
The FDA, however, was not deterred in its determination to make sure that you do not have that information. Both domestically, through regulation of so called “health claims” and in Codex through regulation of “advertising” and “health claims”, the FDA still seeks to make it a crime, yes, a crime, for anyone to tell you about the health benefits, supported by science.
47 States (if New Jersey joins their ranks), will also limit speech telling you what helps and what heals. That way, your eating patterns will not reflect healthy choices based on scientific information and you will develop the chronic, preventable epidemic degenerative diseases of under nutrition, as defined by the World Health Organization (WHO): cancer, cardiovascular disease, stroke, diabetes and obesity.
The same five diseases are the major killers of those of us who live in the US, Europe and other developed parts of the world. The same diseases are becoming endemic wherever the American diet becomes prevalent. And, of course, it will come as no surprise to you that cancer, cardiovascular disease, stroke, diabetes and obesity are the five most productive disease conditions for the illness care industry, keeping hospitals and doctors and, most important, drug companies, afloat and very, very economically buoyant.
You will remember that in my lecture ” Nutricide”
(http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5266884912495233634 )
I defined that word as –
1. The death of the body of information about the relationship between health and food and
2. The death of large populations through the manipulation of the quality and availability of food.
You can view that lecture for free on our website, www.HealthFreedomUSA.org , our YouTube channel, http://Youtube.com/naturalsolutions or our special media page, www.NaturalSolutionsMedia.TV.
You can purchase this informative and important disc ( http://drrimatruthreports.com/index.php?page_id=156 ) which also includes a lecture on how to take action by General Stubblebine and a special discussion with two experienced attorney om how the Codex Two Step Process can be used to protect any country in the world against any of the disastrous and ill-advised standards and guidelines created by Codex. Of course, the Codex eBook (http://drrimatruthreports.com/index.php?page_id=220 ) is an example of how that Two Step Process works and can be app and is the same document presented to Codex delegates, Ministers of Health and other government officials and heads of state all over the world by the Natural Solutions Foundation.
Congress to the Rescue, Three at a Time
Three members of Congress have taken brave and critically important steps to protect the rights that New Jersey, 46 other states and the FDA are all trying to take away from you. Denis Kucinich (D-OH), Ron Paul (R-TX) and Chris Cannon (R-UT) are on our side with 6 bills of great importance to you.
Your Congressmen and women need to know that these issues are hot buttons for you that you care enough about to write to them on and to mobilize your friends and contacts to do the same. These are deeply important issues.
You know that we spend a good deal of effort bringing your concerns to the US Congress and asking you to do the same through powerful and high-impact Action Alerts. Right now there are at least 6 good bills before Congress to protect your right to know and your right to speak/write/learn about the science of food and health! It is essential that you take a moment to send your Congressmen and women your urgent direction to support mandatory safety assessment and labeling of GM foods here in the US as other countries in the world, NOW INCLUDING SOUTH AFRICA!, require.
Here is a summary of Rep. Kucinich’s exceptionally important GMO safety and labeling bills:
• H.R. 6636, The Genetically Engineered Food Right To Know Act would require mandatory labeling of all foods that contain or are produced with GM material. No such labeling is permitted at this time in the US and the FDA even seeks to forbid truthful “GM Free” labeling!
• H.R. 6635, The Genetically Engineered Safety Act would require that GE foods follow a food safety review process to prevent contamination of food supplies by pharmaceutical and industrial crops. This Act would also require that the FDA screen all GE foods to ensure they are safe for human consumption. No such safety review is permitted at this time in the US.
• H.R. 6637, The Genetically Engineered Technology Farmer Protection Act, places liability from the impacts of GM crops on the biotechnology companies that created the GMOs, and protects farmers from lawsuits by biotechnology companies. No such liability exists at this time for pharmaceutical plants and animals once approval is granted by the acting agencies for the organism and the same is true for non drug modifications as well.
Click http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/t/1128/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=25920 to pressure your Congressional legislators to support and co-sponsor Denis Kucinich’s 3 excellent bills mandating safety studies and labeling for Genetically Modified foods. let your legislators know that you want their co-sponsorship now. It’s us against the Bio Tech industry, I am afraid. They have money. We have voices. Let’s use them!
If you would like to learn more about the dangers of GM foods (and there are many), go to www.HealthFreedomUSA.org , click on the Health Freedom Blog button (second button down on left), then click on GMOs on the right hand index and you will be in the Natural Solutions Foundation’s extensive Health Freedom Blog GM Files.
In addition, there are two other excellent bills (one sponsored by Ron Paul (R-TX) and one by Chris Cannon (R-UT)) before Congress which protect your right to know about the relationship between health and food! Sad that we need these protections, but how wonderful that some heroes in Congress is willing to go toe to toe with the powerful, but woefully dysfunctional and destructive FDA!
Both Ron Paul (R-TX) and Chris Cannon (R-UT) are deeply concerned about your constitutional and personal right to have accurate health information. Both of them have introduced bills to protect those rights and freedoms. They need your help.
Rep. Ron Paul introduced HR 2117, the Health Freedom Protection Ac. Click http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dvknc7z_183gtpwt5nh” to read Congressman Cannon’s Science Free Speech Act, HR 7120 and http://docs.google.com/fileview?id=F.00a10d0c-947d-43a0-ab30-ab9f7bc222ff ) to read his very important and articulate “Dear Colleague” letter and attachments which document how irrational and destructive the FDA’s lopsided war on supplements and truthful statements has become. Then click here (http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/t/1128/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=26028) to urge your legislators to become co-sponsors and vote for this bill.
THIS IS NO TIME FOR THE FAINT OF HEART
Click http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/t/1128/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=25920 ) to pressure your Congressional legislators to support and co-sponsor Denis Kucinich’s 3 excellent bills mandating safety studies and labeling for Genetically Modified foods. If you would like to learn more about the dangers of GM foods (and there are many),
1. Go to www.HealthFreedomUSA.org
2. Click on the Health Freedom Blog button (second button down on left)
3. Click on GMOs on the right hand index and you will be in the Natural Solutions Foundation’s extensive Health Freedom Blog GM Files.
Mouse Warriors! The Time For Action is Here
Free speech, freedom, your health and the free flow of information are at stake.
Take action and tell everyone you know to do the same. It is our freedoms and our health which are at stake. Nothing less.
EAT LOCALLY, FIGHT GLOBALLY
VALLEY OF THE MOON TM COFFEE COULD HELP CENTRAL AMERICAN COFFEE GO ORGANIC!
As you may know, General Bert and I are based in Panama right now in order to bring the Natural Solutions Foundation’s Valley of the Moon TM Eco Community Demonstration Project, complete with its BeyondOrganicâ„¢, BioDynamic, Zero Emissions Farm and Farm School, natural health treatment and spa, homes and hotel facilities, community center, to birth and reality. If you are interested in this profound development of the Foundation’s International Decade of Nutrition, visit www.NaturalSolutionsFoundation.org. Or better yet, come visit us here in beautiful, bountiful, temperate Volcan!
We are literally reclaiming food production for people and for farmers who feed them. That is, after all, a large part of the Mission of the Foundation’s International Decade of Nutrition.
We selected Panama for a variety of reasons, not the least of which was the extraordinary fertility of the land in the beautiful, bountiful, temperate Chiriqui Highlands and the stability of the government and economic system here. But Panama is not paradise and there are laws which are not very forward looking, like the official definition of electromagnetic safety: if you are more than 6 meters – 18 feet! – from the base of a cell tower, you are “safe,” by definition. The fact that Sweden says that the first level of danger exists in a circle with a diameter of 3 km around a cell tower means nothing here: 18 feet and that’s that.
So imagine our horror when a neighbor came by to ask us if we would come to a meeting about a huge cell tower being built literally down the street from us. Of course we would. Although most of the meeting was conducted in Spanish, we made out enough to understand that this tower was one of 400 being built across Panama for a new cell system. We gave our advice on how to organize this community against the cell tower, including using Youtube.com to get the word out.
Well, I am proud to tell you that through our joint efforts, the cell tower will not be finished! The 10 children under 5 within about 200 feet of the tower’s base do not have to worry that their immune systems will be crushed under the continuous toxic energy output of the tower! And neither do we! Our tactics and collaboration stopped the construction!
Local action with clever tactics, joined hands, raised voices and determination can work near miracles.
Eat/Act/Organize Locally: Consider the Big Picture and Be Part Of It!
That’s what the Natural Solutions Foundation does. And we are proud that you are doing it with us.
There’s another side to this community development. Coffee. Now I love coffee and so does General Bert. In fact, we travel with a supply of organic coffee and a coffee press so that we can have some clean, bracing brew every single morning. Given where we go on Codex business, it is a small comfort that means a lot to us. But that is not why we are talking coffee here.
We came to Panama to accomplish the development of a seed community and one of the first things we learned was that coffee, the “black gold of Central America”, is regularly poisoned by synthetic fertilizers, pesticides, herbicides and, most of all, fungicides. Fertilizers can be replaced by more effective, fish meal and compost plus nutrient minerals. The farmers know how to eliminate the herbicides like glyphosate (Roundup TM) – use a machete to trim the grass under the coffee trees.
They know how to avoid pesticides: use pepper spray and other natural pest control. What they do not know how to avoid is fungicides since the devastating fungus ‘Ojo de Gallo,’ (Mycena citricolor) “eye of the rooster”, destroys their crops at a disastrous level. In fact, in Costa Rica, 50% of the crop is destroyed each year by this coffee plant plague.
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Healthy Coffee on the branch
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Leaves infected with Ojo de Gallo
Well, I am a natural physician and have treated mold in people for a long time. I think I know how to do that pretty well so I set a goal for us of finding a natural, wholesome and organic way of curing this problem for ever and sharing our solution to their problem with the farmers in the coffee trade. We personally, General Bert and I, bought a small coffee finca so that we could experiment without threatening the livelihood of subsistence farmers until we had perfected our method. After all, if a farmer’s kids will go hungry because we don’t have our formula quite right this year and his crop is destroyed in spite of our experiment, that would not be acceptable to any of us. We are here to help, not harm. So we decided to experiment on our own farm. The experiment is going really, really well!
Coffee Trees Bearing Fruit for Sustainable Organic Pleasure and Elimination of Chemicals!
Imagine our delight and joy when we learned that there is a “campesino”, a farmer, here who is already doing the very thing that we thought would take us several years to perfect: he is using totally natural means which he has developed to control, to kill, to eliminate ojo de gallo! We went to see him as soon as we could arrange a visit. We found a very smart, very poor farmer who had figured it out and was making the stuff to spray on the plants AND the fertilizer to feed them. That’s the good news. We said, “Why aren’t you the richest man in Panama?” Then he told us the bad news: he makes the fungus control spray in a plastic 55 gallon drum, one 55 gallon drum at a time. He’s hand crafting this magic, natural elixir because he is too poor to make any more at one time!
We agreed with each other that we could bring exposure and dissemination to his wonderful innovation and he could bring experience and the secret formula to our foundation’s determination to find natural solutions like this one to the problems that keep food contaminated and keep farmers poor.
He agreed to make enough to treat our coffee farm (we are paying him for the material, of course) and we went to see how it was working last week. It is working beautifully. We have to see what happens through the harvest, which is starting now, but what a beginning! In fact, I just learned a few minutes ago that we have harvested 3 latas (@ 32 lbs each) of our own Valley of the MoonTM Coffee harvest! We’ll be roasting and grinding and bagging it for you soon. Every bean is chemical free, treated with love and nature’s own tools for health. AND in spite of the fact that there is a labor shortage, we now have 4 workers ready to pick. Our first task is to improve the camp and hygienic facilities and we have begun that today!
If you are a coffee drinker (or use it for detox purposes – or both!) you will want some of our wonderful, chemical free, high altitude specialty Panamanian coffee, produced with the help of the world-renowned Hartmann family, you can have some! If you are a coffee drinker, you’ll love it. If you are giving it as a gift to coffee lovers, they will love it and thank you. You can do your Christmas/Hanukah/Kwanza/etc. shopping early this year. By November we will have our extraordinary coffee, from our own Valley of the MoonTM Coffee Finca available for you and your holiday gift giving! You’ll be able to drink your support for health freedom!
Click http://drrimatruthreports.com /index.php?page_id=189 to order as many ½ pound (500 g) bags of this wonderful gift to yourself and every coffee lover on your gift list. Every bag comes with a certificate to let you know what you are buying and what we are doing with the donation that goes with every bag of high altitude, chemical free coffee. Right now, while our web master is away on vacation, we don’t have a special page to order your coffee through set up yet so every donation in multiples of $25 will be considered a coffee donation unless you tell us differently.
We’ll send you a confirming email to let you tell us whether you meant to give us a straight donation or a donation WITH coffee attached. We’ll also be asking for your shipping addresses. But just as soon as Julian, our webmaster, is back from vacation we’ll have a separate page up for coffee orders. Bear with us, please, but do get your order in early: Valley of the MoonTM chemical free coffee production is limited to our one small finca [farm]!
Each bag allows you to make a substantial tax exempt donation to the Natural Solutions Foundation – $20 donation for your purchase price of $25. As I am fond of saying, Valley of the MoonTM is the only coffee in the world that Uncle Sam pays you to drink! Buy 4 bags or more and we’ll throw in the shipping free.
What a gift! Valley of the MoonTM – A little taste of heaven in a cup! Your mornings are going to be a lot better from now on!
Click http://drrimatruthreports.com/index.php?page_id=189 ) to order your Valley of the Moon Coffee TM and support the most effective health freedom organization in the world! Your donation to support health freedom can put clean, chemical free premium Panamanian coffee in your cut! Now that’s a deal! Order yours now and get the health freedom coffee, Valley of the Moon TM
And while you are at it, why not make your recurring donation here: http://drrimatruthreports.com/index.php?page_id=189 ) to the Natural Solutions Foundation? It’s completely tax deductible and your health freedoms are worth it, even when the economy is shaky! When you go to our Donations Page, you will find several ways to help. We’ve even joined a new system that lets you donate the little left-over amounts from gift cards.
Click http://www.donatemycard.com/index-2.php?cid=12″> http://www.donatemycard.com/index-2.php?cid=12 ) to learn more. Those small amounts on Starbucks, TJ Max, Sears and other gift cards sure can add up – painlessly. Why not use them to help your favorite humanitarian charity along? Us!
Oh, by the way, there is an impenetrable wall between donations/contributions for the Panama project and the donations/contributions for our other health freedom work in the US and abroad. If you want to donate or contribute for the Panama project or become a participant, please contact Ralph Fucetola, ralph.fucetola@usa.net, to discuss how to do that using money, assets, securities, precious metals or IRA / 401k accounts.
In addition to being able to visit or live on the site of our wonderful, clean Eco Community, you will also be able, through the Beneficial Interest Certificates generated by donations, to reap the financial rewards of our success.
Please visit our website, www.NaturalSolutionsFoundation.org , to learn more or contact Ralph Fucetola for more information and answers to specific questions.
Going to Codex (or Maybe Not!) — It’s Up To You
Speaking of our Co-Trustee Ralph, you can read his Vitamin Lawyer Health Freedom Blog entry about his trip last week to Washington to attend the US Codex Delegation meeting, with links to a copy of our White Paper comments he submitted to the Delegates on behalf of the Foundation, telling them in no uncertain terms that we expect the US Delegation to Codex to conform to US law — we do not want our freedoms “HARMonized” to international restrictions!
It’s easy to find the Health Freedom Blogs. Just Google “Health Freedom Blog” and you will find my Health Freedom Blog and Ralph’s Blog in the #1 and #2 position… we’re there because of your support!
The blog entry: http://vitaminlawyerhealthfreedom.blogspot.com/2008/09/us-codex-delegation-upbraded-for.html
Our comments to the Codex Delegation: http://drrimatruthreports.com/index.php?p=1059
With your support we sent Ralph to Washington last week. But right now, because of the combination of economic chaos and the election cycle, our donations are painfully low. So low, in fact, that unless we get an infusion of money, we will not be able to attend the next Codex meeting. It’s a very important one in a very important location: late October – early November the Codex Committee on Nutritional Foods for Speacial Dietary Uses (CCNFSDU) meets in South Africa.
Since the Foundation was formed in 2004 we have attended about 4 Codex meetings abroad and several in the US per year, offering the only real voice for health and freedom in the Codex context. Due to the state of the economy, our donations this quarter are less than 1/3 what they were last year at this time. Without your generous emergency help we will not be able to go to the Codex meeting this time, leaving no one to represent your views and leaving your voices unheard.
PLEASE, PLEASE, make any donation you can afford to help us NOW. We attended the Codex meeting in Ottawa, Canada last May because of the generous support of a family who donated $20,000 to cover our expenses. Without large or small donations to add up to what we need, we simply cannot attend this vitally important Codex meeting in Africa, where so much of our work is bearing fruit.
Donate ( http://drrimatruthreports.com/index.php?page_id=189 ) IF you care about what happens at Codex. We are ready to go. But you need to send us.
Presidential Candidates’ Health Freedom Questionnaire
Hey, Senators Obama, Biden and McCain and Gov. Palin, Where Do YOU Stand on Health Freedom? The Public Wants to Know!
Back when there were 16 Presidential hopefuls, the Natural Solutions Foundation sent a detailed, 19 item to all 16 candidates asking for the candidate’s stands on mandatory vaccination, medical privacy, “HARMonization” of US laws and regulations with Codex and other critically important health freedom issues. Only one candidate, Ron Paul, responded in full to our questions. Others, including Obama, promised to respond but never did despite more than 93,000 people faxing them with our questions — or never responded at all.
This time around, there are only 4 major party candidates [for President and Vice President], plus the candidates of what Dr. Ron Paul has called the “four principled third parties.” So instead of faxing, we are sending each candidate, plus Ron Paul, who has very clear thoughts on health freedom, our updated questionnaire and will report their response, or lack thereof, to you.
Read the Natural Solutions Foundation’s Presidential/Vice Presidential Health Freedom Questionnaire here: http://drrimatruthreports.com/index.php?p=1068″ ( http://drrimatruthreports.com/index.php?p=1068 ). After all, we reason, the man or woman occupying the White House will have massive influence on legislation and regulation through appointments, veto power, arm twisting and deal making which go with the office. And the ripple effect to other countries will be significant as well. We want to know the Candidates’ positions and we are sure you do, too. Stay tuned!
Weaponized Avian Flu “Smoking Gun” Surfaces Months After the Events.
Our Press Release is Censored!
Every time the Natural Solutions Foundation makes a connection that the Powers that Be (PTB) do not want made, we either find our website shut down, the system it is housed on knocked off line or our information censored.
This time a press release we wrote was censored to keep it off the web , as others have been, by a news service. That tells us that the smoking gun we think we may have found concerning the weaponisation of BOTH the Avian Flu virus AND the vaccines supposedly designed to combat or prevent it may very well have been tinkered with at the genetic level to render BOTH capable of killing people in great numbers when the much touted, but still invisible, Avian Flu Pandemic finally rears its death head.
Here’s what the PTB apparently do not want you to know: The brutal torture murder last June of two leading virology researchers, both described as students, in London may hold the key to the Weaponization of Avian Flu AND the vaccines designed around it. The two were stabbed hundreds of times after being tortured by a British-Mossad assassination team now in custody because of the joint efforts of a US-French special security team allegedly headed by General Colin Powell.
The virological team has supposedly discovered the double weaponization of both the Avian flu H5N1 virus and a vaccine designed to prevent it had ties to laboratories in Israel, the US, the World Health Organization system and elsewhere. Their laptop had been stolen the week before and it may have been there that the information of what they had learned came into the hands of the assassination team.
This story was overlooked/suppressed by the American press despite its usual willingness to dwell fondly on gore and mystery. However, the story was prevalent in the European press. Only when the conservative American Free Press brought the story to light in the US did we learn of it.
The Natural Solutions Foundation realized that, if true, this story was of earth-shattering importance and wrote a press release asking for corroboration or refutation by the sources who had brought it forward, including the American Free Press which included details not available in the European versions of the story. Extraordinary claims demand at least ordinary proof.
Our press release is here: http://drrimatruthreports.com/?p=1055 ) was censored and prevented from release despite the fact that the Natural Solutions Foundation paid for the distribution service and that the service does not hold itself out as a service for censorship or news “quality” maintenance. When this happens, we note, the pattern is clear: important information is being suppressed by those PTB to further their own ends.
We expect that this website may also go down and if it does, we will take that as confirmation that the allegations and suppositions presented by the American Free Press are, indeed, true. Read the censored Press Release HERE: http://drrimatruthreports.com/?p=1055) and make sure you forward this widely so it cannot disappear again.
Despite the fact that untold billions of dollars are being invested in a pandemic which supposedly does not exist, and vaccines for it are being created for organisms that have allegedly not evolved yet, there is no pandemic to date caused by Avian Flu. In fact, despite the fervent efforts of many, the pandemic virus may be another dud like SARS. Researchers are actually seeking to understand why the H5N1 virus has failed to recombine into a deadly strain so far. And despite the fact that all H5N1 viruses tested against it appear to be resistant to Donald Rumsfeld’s profitable, but failed anti-viral drug, Tamifluâ„¢, huge amounts of money are being dumped into stockpiling that worthless drug as a “treatment” for a disease which does not exist and may well, according to the Julie Gerberding, PhD, head of the CDC, not even be the disease to worry about.
But not for trying. The normally benign Avian Flu has been “bio-messed with” to make it deadly. The vaccines, which are being so expensively developed, are, we suspect, also being engineered to create disease, rather than prevent it (assuming, as we do not, that any vaccine can prevent any disease).
The Natural Solutions Foundation was the first to point the finger to the possible Weaponization of the Avian Flu to alter its natural characteristics to make it more contagious and to integrate genetic material from the world’s most successful bio-weapon, the 1918 flu.
This may give you another level of understanding about why the widest possible dissemination of information through the internet, while we still have it, is of utmost importance in maintaining our freedom and our understanding of what is happening in the world to threaten, or support, our health and our freedom.
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In all the smoke and mirrors… shards of truth.
The Natural Solutions Foundation continually updates and expands it coverage of the breaking news, information and disinformation about the forthcoming, supposedly “inevitable pandemic” which is now acknowledged by such luminaries as the head of the CDC to be certain and very rapidly approaching, although whether it will be from Avian Flu or not, what the strain will be if it is, and exactly when and where it will appear are unknowns, at least to the general public. The logical impossibility of these statements is overlooked by frantic members of the public, who are officially advised to avoid complacency (whatever that means) and lay in stocks of food, water and medicines (which insurance companies will not cover if they will supply people for more than 30 days).
Links to the previous Estimates of Situation:
Internet Abuzz over Weaponized Avian Flu – http://drrimatruthreports.com/index.php?p=846
Estimate of Situation 2.1 – http://drrimatruthreports.com/?p=794
Estimate of Situation 1 – http://drrimatruthreports.com/index.php?p=755
The announcement of a new Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus or MRSA organism across Australia that appears to target healthy adolescents and not only infect, but kill them makes the waffle wording of the CDC’s latest statement particularly ominous. Has MRSA also been weaponized?
Since the causal role of industrial food production practices (including vaccinating birds “against” Avian Flu) is coming under scrutiny as a principle cause of Avian Flu outbreaks, it is relevant to note that antibiotic resistent organisms like Staphylococcus aureus are made that way through the subclinical administration of antibiotics to the animals we eat. The antibiotics they receive, and which we eat, either changed or rendered more toxic, in their eggs, flesh and milk, are given to them to keep them alive in the inhumane and unsanitary conditions in which they live. They are so crowded and poorly nourished that their immune systems collapse from the filth, “food” and stress under which they are reared so that the profit of the “farms” will be increased.
Food and health experts have long warned that the use of sub clinical antibiotics, and the “farming” practices that make them necessary would create plagues of resistant organisms which we had no bullets left to fire at once they made their way into the population. MRSA is only the first of many.
How interesting that MRSA vaccines have been under development for several years. For example, on Feb. 2, 2007, a new company devoted to producing MSRA vaccines was created in the UK. See commercialization items below.
http://bulletin.sciencebusiness.net/ebulletins/showissue.php3?page=/548/2230/7170
In 2007, Dr. Anthony Fiori presented a lecture refrenced by the CDC called “Introductory Session on Influenza Vaccines” presented to its influential Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices in which he noted:
Compared to previous 2 seasons [2004-2005 and 2005-2006 – REL]
– Increase in mean age to 7 years (from 4-5 years in 2004-2006)*
– Increase in proportion with invasive MRSA-associated co-infection
from <5% to 27% -preliminary data L Finelli, R Dhara, CDC- REL]
What he did not note was that the proportion of vaccinated children has been going up along with increased pediatric influenza deaths:
“As of June 22, 2007, CDC has received 67 reports of
influenza-associated pediatric deaths this influenza
season (2006-2007)
– 2005-2006: 45 deaths
– 2004-2005: 46 deaths
– 2003-2004: 153 deaths”.
Dr Fiore did, however, note that MRSA influenza, which presents itself as a bacterial co-infection, is now a significant cause of death in children
Also included in this interesting presentation is the anticipated schedule for revised influenza schedules:
“Potential Time-Frame for Modifying Influenza Vaccination Recommendations
• 2007-2008: Consider expanding recommendations to include school-age children
• 2010-2011: Consider expansion of recommendations to include household contacts and caregivers of school-aged children
• 2012-2013: Consider expansion to universal vaccination”
www.cdc.gov/vaccines/recs/ACIP/downloads/mtg-slides-jun07/26-influenza1-fiore.pdf
You might find it instructive to review the section of this presentation following the one cited above in which, despite clear evidence of dangers and deaths in young children receiving Flu Mist vaccine, the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices voted to approve it for young children anyway.
If you have no financial interest in vaccines, as the Natural Soluitons Foundation and I do not, you might find the evidcence compelling AWAY from approval. If, on the other hand, you do have a fninanciaql interstes in the sale of vaccines, which is permitted under the FDA/CDC rules, you might have voted as the ACIP members did.
Also, remember that live virus vaccines in general, and inhaled ones like Flu Mist in particular, cause live, infective viruses to be shed for as long as 3 months. Thus, the sibling, friend or relative of a susceptible child, for example, a wheezing baby, can infect, and potentially kill, the child.
The drums beat louder every day and the manipulation of information and statistics continues to build and impel the juggernaut of pandemic panic. You are the primary target of this flood of disinformation. We are here to help you sort through it all; to become prepared in meaningful ways.
Based on our best assessment of information and events, here is our current Intelligence Estimate of Situation, starting with some important notes of interest.
NOTES:
1. It is becoming increasingly clear to us at the Natural Solutions Foundation that whether or not there is a pandemic reality attached to Avian Flu, this opportunity for commercialization and social control has taken on a life of its own in the political establishment. We foresee that the necessity to allow, create or synthesize a pandemic will drive the process in the very near future into a deadly reality. Ask yourself: just how many government and foundation grants to “study” weaponizing the flu, to how many labs around the world, would be necessary before it was certain that one of those engineered bugs would be released, by “accident” or by a disgruntled employee, as with the Anthrax panic of 2001?
2. The inflammatory propaganda designed to panic and intimidate you into accepting whatever comes next once a “Pandemic” is declared consistently fails to differentiate between human cases of Avian Flu and animal cases. That way, the impression is ceaselessly reinforced that the Pandemic is already here, jut not on your block yet. The reality is that no human to human transmission has been demonstrated.
3. Exercises like the one in New Mexico (see below) are taking place in every State. Nearly every State has passed Emergency Medical Powers Acts which make refusing vaccination a felony once the Governor identifies a state of Pandemic. The property of felons, and those who hold strategic assets in a pandemic can be seized/nationalized according to various Homeland Security Directives and Executive Orders cited in our earlier discussions of this issue.
4. Industrial animal rearing practices and genetic engineering are the causes of the Pandemic Avian Flu threat, to whatever extent that threat is real. See Kennedy Shortridge, PhD’s important quote below.
Remembering the distinction between pandemic human Avian Flu and poultry disease would help to bring accuracy and proportion to the reports. Since all headlines uniformly refer to the occurrences by the same term, “Avian Flu”, a casual, hurried or frightened reader will glean the global dangers of this “inevitable pandemic” when, in fact, human cases are still exceedingly rare.
5. Discussions of “Who Lives, Who Dies” and “Necessary Restrictions of liberties” Beginning to Surface. Expect a pounding barrage of items telling you to let others decide your future and restrict your freedoms. Personal freedom and survival will be decided by “Public Health and Emergency organizations” like FEMA. The preparation for this totalitarian culling will begin with articles, meetings and propaganda and then become public policy at the UN level as well as in the US.
See Tucson, AZ Daily Star article below. Becoming aware of the propaganda is important for your survival.
6. 2 Recent Avian Flu Fatalities in Indonesia Reported, First Since July. (For Comparison, 700,000 People Die Annually In US From Cardiac Disease). While we believe that a disseminated, intentional pandemic is highly likely, early alerts devoted to the “Natural Evolution” of this danger are irrational and illogical. However, to the propagandists, making sure that the public stays primed is of importance in softening resistance to control measures and forced vaccination. Two deaths globally in the last 6 weeks is a pretty poor showing for a Pandemic disease which is consistently billed in that fashion. Is this really the next Plague? This indicates to us the careful propaganda push behind these perceptions.
http://www.avianflutalk.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=21052
7. Powerful and influential forces are at work to both convince you that the Pandemic is inevitable and to set up the situation so that self-fulfilling prophecy is fulfilled. This August 29, 2008 article is worth repeating: “Scientists funded by the Wellcome Trust are to examine what is preventing the H5N1 avian influenza virus from causing a human pandemic and what mutations are required to realise its deadly potential. The research could hold the key to early identification of a potential influenza pandemic…”
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2008-08/wt-seb082908.php
8. Drug-Resistant ‘Superbug’ in Australia Fueling Fear of Epidemic
By Jill Stark, Melbourne Age (Australia), September 8, 2008
“Australia is facing an epidemic of a drug-resistant superbug that attacks healthy teenagers and can be fatal, leading scientists have warned. A summit of 350 international microbiologists will converge on Cairns today to discuss the global health threat posed by resistant staphylococcal infections — also known as MRSA superbugs. Of particular concern is a new virulent form of the flesh-eating bug that can lead to a severe form of pneumonia that causes death in up to 50% of cases.
Unlike hospital-acquired MRSA, which affects mostly elderly patients, the community strain of the bug carries far more toxic genes and can be picked up in communal settings. Similar bugs in the U.S. have led to the deaths of several teenagers and schools being shut and disinfected. Experts at the conference say the bug is on the rise in Australia and patients are presenting to emergency departments with infected boils that can lead to abscesses and gaping wounds.
Associate Professor Keryn Christiansen, director of microbiology at Royal Perth Hospital and co-ordinator of the conference, said antibiotics seemed to have no effect. ‘We’re looking at a major epidemic. These are much more virulent strains of these bugs We’re seeing more people coming to our emergency departments, more people admitted with more severe infections and we’re seeing people die. It’s happening right across Australia,’ she said.”
http://www.organicconsumers.org/articles/article_14536.cfm
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Listen to the Music: Pandemic Drum Beats:
The World Health Organization (WHO) notes that the drum beats for Pandemic Panic are not sufficiently arousing “Flu Fatigue’ Poses Public Health Threat, WHO Says.” http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601124&sid=at0oOdQTLVE0&refer=home. [We can expect an increase in dire stories and more urgent warnings, whether or not they have any basis in reality. -REL]
1. New Bird Flu Strain Detected In Nigeria
A strain of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza previously not recorded in sub-Saharan Africa has been detected in Nigeria for the first time, FAO [Food and Agriculture Organization- REL] said today. Nigeria has recently reported two new Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza outbreaks in the states of Katsina and Kano.
Laboratory results from Nigeria and an FAO reference laboratory in Italy show that the newly discovered virus strain (H5N1, clade 2, EMA3) is genetically different from the strains that circulated in Nigeria during earlier outbreaks in 2006 and 2007. [Note that previous outbreaks represented zero danger to humans – REL] The new strain has never been reported before in Africa; it is more similar to strains previously identified in Europe (Italy), Asia (Afghanistan) and the Middle East (Iran) in 2007.
“It seems to be unlikely that wild birds have carried the strain to Africa, since the last migration of wild birds from Europe and Central Asia to Africa occurred in September 2007 and this year’s southerly migration into Africa has not really started yet,†Newman said. “It could well be that there are other channels for virus introduction: international trade, for example, or illegal and unreported movement of poultry. This increases the risk of avian influenza spread to other countries in Western Africa….
“Uncertainty about virus spread and transmission is a major challenge for control campaigns. [Indeed – REL] …. Since the avian influenza epidemic caused by the H5N1 strain started five years ago in Asia, the disease has affected over 60 countries [with virtually no human deaths despite deceptive statistics and media hype – REL]; the vast majority of countries have succeeded to eliminate the virus from poultry. In Nigeria, the virus was first confirmed in February 2006 and infected poultry in 25 states before being contained.” [Note: industrial poultry operations are paid more than market price for birds slaughtered “because” of Avian Flu, real or imagined. Subsistence farmers are paid nothing at all. WHO wants to eliminate backyard flocks totally despite the fact that Avian Flu infections do not occur in outdoor flocks AND almost always occur in previously vaccinated birds. Globalizing and industrializing the food supply is greatly assisted by these economically disastrous culls for peasant farmers which are, at the same time, highly profitable for industrial food producers. – REL]
Food And Agriculture Organization Of The United Nations – Fri, 08/15/2008
http://www.emaxhealth.com/90/24003.html
2. New Mexico Helps Business Community Prepare For Pandemic Flu
About 130 business and health leaders in New Mexico attended “Economic Consequences of Pandemic Influenza along the United States – Mexico Border†this week as a part of the State’s efforts to help organizations mitigate the effects of a pandemic flu. The New Mexico Department of Health partnered with the New Mexico Economic Development’s Office of Mexican Affairs to explain how companies can prepare for the impact a pandemic flu could have on their business.
http://www.emaxhealth.com/90/23957.html
“We are looking for every opportunity to meet with different sectors of our community to make sure New Mexico is prepared for the disruption to services and businesses during a pandemic flu,†said Health Secretary Dr. Alfredo Vigil. “We appreciate businesses taking the time to learn about how they can develop plans to ensure minimal disruption to trade and commerce in the region….
‘Business leaders have a responsibility to be part of the solution in dealing with a potential pandemic. We must have measures in place that will prevent disruptions in the supply chain and have a plan to deliver goods and services if the workforce gets sick.’†[Perhaps there is another way to interpret this, but we see this as a clear preparatory step for government forces to nationalize supplies and distribution of goods and services when, not if, the pandemic is declared. This possibility is already embodied in various Homeland Security Directives and Executive Orders that allow for the nationalization of assets, resources, transportation and distribution property and systems. REL]
3. American Lung Association Urges Vaccination “Each and Every Year” In Its Influenza Prevention Program
Welcome to Faces of Influenza
[Reading this item, please ask yourself how much of the budget of the American Lung Association derives from the pharmaceutical and vaccine industry. And then ask yourself how the vaccine prevents influenza when the symptoms of the reaction to the vaccine are identical to the flu – a neat “escape hatch for the unpleasant, and unprofitable reality that vaccines frequently cause diseases they are designed to protect against. – REL]
“Welcome to Faces of Influenza—an educational Web site of the American Lung Association. This site is designed to put a face on influenza in the United States and show firsthand the seriousness of this potentially deadly infectious disease.
This site features special portraits of famous and not so famous Americans, who represent each of the influenza high-risk groups—persons health officials recommend receive an influenza vaccination, with its “trace” amount of mercury poison, each and every year.
Along with these dramatic portraits are compelling stories about their experience with influenza and the importance of annual immunization.
You will likely see yourself, family members and others among the many Faces of Influenza. You also will come to realize that influenza is not the common cold. It’s serious. Each year, approximately 226,000 Americans are hospitalized with complications from influenza. An average of 36,000 people, it is alleged, die from the virus and its complications. [As previously discussed by the Natural Solutions Foundation, these statistics are highly deceptive since ALL lung related deaths which could potentially, not actually, be associated with flu of ANY type are listed as deaths CAUSED BY influenza. – REL]
http://www.facesofinfluenza.org/home.php?utm_source=msn&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=Philadelphia
4. “Bird Flu – A Virus of Own Hatching” by Michael Greger reinforces Industrial Fowl Production Cause of the Coming Pandemic.
[Note the continuing conflation of human and poultry infection which is described as “rampaging west to Russia, the Middle East, Africa and Europe.” despite the lack of a single human case in any of these areas of pandemic flu. -REL]
Kennedy Shortridge, PhD, DSc(Hon), CBiol, FIBiol has issued a critical statement in the introduction to this book:
“Indeed, molecular and genetic evidence suggests that the chicken is not a natural host for influenza. Rather, the domestic duck is the silent intestinal carrier of avian influenza viruses being raised in close proximity to habitation.”
“It is the siting of large-scale chicken production units, particularly in southern China where avian influenza viruses abound, that is the crux of the problem. There, domestic ducks have been raised on rivers, waterways, and, more recently, with the flooded rice crops cultivated each year. The importation of industrial poultry farming into that same region introduced millions of chickens—highly stressed due to intensive production practices and unsanitary conditions—into this avian influenza virus milieu. The result? An influenza accident waiting to happen. The H5N1 virus signaled its appearance in Hong Kong in 1997, and has since made its way into dozens of countries, infected millions of birds, and threatens to trigger a human catastrophe.”
“Michael Greger has taken on the formidable task of reviewing and synthesizing the many factors contingent upon chicken production that have brought us to the influenza threat the world now faces. Drawing upon scientific literature and media reports at large, Dr. Greger explores the hole we have dug for ourselves with our own unsavory practices.”
“Indeed, while governments and the poultry industry are quick to blame migratory birds as the source of the current H5N1 avian influenza virus, and to view pandemics as natural phenomena analogous to, say, sunspots and earthquakes, in reality, human choices and actions may have had—and may continue to have—a pivotal role in the changing ecology. Now that anthropogenic behavior has reached unprecedented levels with a concomitant pronounced zoonotic skew in emerging infectious diseases of humans, H5N1 seems like a cautionary tale of how attempts to exploit nature may backfire. The use of antibiotics as farm meal growth promoters leading to antibiotic-resistance in humans or the feeding of meat or bone meal to cattle leading to mad cow disease are cases in point: profitable in the short term for animal agriculture, but with the potential for unforeseen and disastrous consequences. Intensified, industrial poultry production has given us inexpensive chicken, but at what cost to the animals and at what heightened risk to public health?”
“We have reached a critical point. We must dramatically change animal farming practices for all animals.”
http://birdflubook.com/a.php?id=115
An excerpt from Dr. Greger’s introductory comments: “H5N1 took its first human life in Hong Kong in 1997 and has since rampaged west to Russia, the Middle East, Africa, and Europe. It remains almost exclusively a disease of birds, [Emphasis added – REL] but as the virus has spread, it has continued to mutate. It has developed greater lethality and enhanced environmental stability, and has begun taking more species under its wing. Influenza viruses don’t typically kill mammals like rodents, but experiments have shown that the latest H5N1 mutants can kill 100% of infected mice, practically dissolving their lungs. The scientific world has never seen anything like it. [This supports the bio-engineered origin of this virus – REL] We’re facing an unprecedented outbreak of an unpredictable virus….”
“Currently in humans, H5N1 is good at killing, but not at spreading. There are three essential conditions necessary to produce a pandemic. First, a new virus must arise from an animal reservoir, such that humans have no natural immunity to it. Second, the virus must evolve to be capable of killing human beings efficiently. Third, the virus must succeed in jumping efficiently from one human to the next. For the virus, it’s one small step to man, but one giant leap to mankind. So far, conditions one and two have been met in spades. Three strikes and we’re out. If the virus triggers a human pandemic, it will not be peasant farmers in Vietnam dying after handling dead birds or raw poultry—it will be New Yorkers, Parisians, Londoners, and people in every city, township, and village in the world dying after shaking someone’s hand, touching a doorknob, or simply inhaling in the wrong place at the wrong time….”
[While Dr. Greger does an admirable job of pulling information together, he does not critically analyze the statistical slight of hand which creates the panic perception of a disease which apparently has a very low mortality, despite what appear to be the best efforts of sophisticated scientists. -REL]
http://birdflubook.com/a.php?id=114
5. Lead In To Surrender of Choice for Personal Safety and Liberty Re: Pandemic Flu Beginning.
Arizona Daily Star, Tucson, AZ, September 14, 2008
“In global flu outbreak, who gets saved? “In the event of a global flu outbreak, some government leaders could have higher priority to receive vaccines than infants and toddlers…..The department, which has been preparing for the possibility of a massive pandemic flu outbreak for more than four years now, is adding a new component to its plan — input from the public… [What a novel departure! -REL]
If people understand what’s going on, there’s a bigger chance of buy-in, if and when if happens,” said Dr. Michelle McDonald, the department’s chief medical officer.
“There will be three major ethical issues — short supplies of critical things, restrictions of freedom (as) places will be closed [including your home as you are “detained” for quarantine or other purposes? – REL], and there will be personal and community interests to balance.” [Early justification for marshal law – REL]…. ‘Many people will be asked to make choices,’ McDonald said.
The worst pandemic flu in the last century was the 1918 “Spanish flu,” which infected between 30 and 40 percent of the population and resulted in more than a half-million deaths in the United States and between 20 million and 100 million deaths worldwide. [Which makes its intentional recreation highly puzzling -REL]
“Is there going to be another pandemic? Yeah, there is absolutely, no question,” said Dr. Bob England, director of the Maricopa County Health Department…. If it gets going, it’s going to go very fast. … But panic does not have to happen if you communicate well, tell the truth and give people something rational to do.”
http://www.azstarnet.com/me
tro/257459
6. Avian Flu Found in Togo, West Africa [Note that this item refers to the virus in birds, not in people, but it is written to sound like Avian Flu is among us humans now. Note the misuse of the word “deadly’ in the following headline. – REL]
Togo: Recent bird flu outbreak is deadly H5N1
LOME, Togo (AP) — Tests performed after the first ever outbreak of bird flu in the West African nation of Togo have confirmed the presence of the virulent H5N1 strain of the virus, state media said Monday.
The virus was detected at a poultry farm housing more than 4,500 birds in the village of Agbata outside the capital, Lome, according to the government.
The presence of the deadly strain raises special concern because it has the potential to infect humans. At least 235 people have died of bird flu worldwide since 2003, according to the World Health Organization.
However, the disease remains hard for humans to catch, with most cases linked to contact with infected birds. But scientists worry the virus could mutate to a form that spreads more easily among people.
Togo state television reported the lab tests were carried out by experts in Ghana and Italy after the outbreak was discovered last week.
The Health Ministry says “precautionary measures have been taken to contain the situation.” [Whatever that means -probably slaughtering backyard flocks and paying nothing, as in Nigeria, but paying above market value for industrial flocks which are killed. – REL]
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5ijHXcssRTwpilkrwuURZECPGZ_bgD937G5500
Commercializing the Pandemic Opportunity [This is but a small sampling of the rush for profit by pharmaceutical companies and others to profit from the predicted, but not yet real, Pandeic Flu (or Pandemic anything else) hysteria.
The gold rush is on!
1. IntefleCSâ„¢ Bio Surveillance
A Pandemic Surveillance program called “IntefleCSâ„¢ Bio Surveillance has been designed for the early detection and effective management of an epidemic or pandemic outbreak of infectious disease. The solution steers consumers and clinicians successfully through the complex healthcare delivery process to ensure that patients are referred to the most appropriate level of care. [Whatever that might mean -REL]” Their website banner repeats the now-familiar harrangue, “No one knows what or when the next pandemic outbreak will be but healthcare services need to be fully prepared.” [The logical absurdity of this does not seem to bother either this company or those who repeat this illogical statement over and over. – REL]
http://www.csdss.com/solutions/bioSurveillance/index.aspx?gclid=COi_yq_p25UCFQGVGgodYlEyYw
2. Novavax Today Reported that it’s VLP Pandemic Influenza Vaccine, Joined With Innovative Vaccine Preparation, Pas the Potential to Address Aaps in Global Flu Pandemic Preparedness.
Novavax, Inc. (NASDAQ: NVAX) announced today favorable results from the second stage of the Phase I/IIa human clinical trial of its pandemic influenza virus-like particle (VLP) vaccine candidate. The vaccine, [produced in insect cell culture – REL] which does not contain an adjuvant, induced robust neutralizing antibody responses. Novavax’s VLP candidate is directed against the H5N1 A/Indonesia/05/2005 avian influenza strain. Avian influenza emerged in humans in Indonesia in 2005 and has caused 135 documented human cases, 81% of which have been fatal. [As previously discussed, the number of cases mentioned is the number of SYMPTOMATIC cases. Asymptomatic cases, those without any symptoms or mild ones, are totally ignored although there may be thousands of such cases for every one reported, altering the statistics profoundly. This precision would undermine the frantic, and profitable, “media reality” being created. -REL]….
[The point of this commercialization is presented at the end of this article – REL] “These data are also supportive for moving forward with development of another Novavax vaccine candidate: against seasonal influenza. Seasonal influenza causes over 500,000 deaths worldwide and over 36,000 deaths in the U.S. each year, most of which occur in adults 65 years of age and older, a population in which currently licensed vaccines have only modest efficacy.
Novavax has developed a vaccine candidate against seasonal (human) influenza strains. While current seasonal vaccines consist almost entirely of HA, the Novavax VLP contains HA, NA, and M1 with the potential of inducing neutralizing antibody to prevent infection and reduce the severity of influenza illnesses.”
http://www.emaxhealth.com/90/1/24265.html
3. New Drugs in the Offing – H5N1 Already Resistant to Current Ones
New drugs to fight bird flu, other influenza epidemics
Researchers at Rutgers University and The University of Texas at Austin have reported a discovery that could help scientists develop drugs to fight the much-feared bird flu and other virulent strains of influenza.
The researchers have determined the three-dimensional structure of a site on an influenza A virus protein that binds to one of its human protein targets, thereby suppressing a person’s natural defenses to the infection and paving the way for the virus to replicate efficiently. This so-called NS1 virus protein is shared by all influenza A viruses isolated from humans – including avian influenza, or bird flu, and the 1918 pandemic influenza virus….
“Our work uncovers an Achilles heel of influenza A viruses that cause human epidemics and high mortality pandemics,” said Montelione, professor of molecular biology and biochemistry. “We have identified the structure of a key target site for drugs that could be developed to effectively combat this disease.”
http://www.emaxhealth.com/90/1/24222.html
4. Self Immunize to Find Out if Avian Flu Vaccine Works [Or Might Kill You -REL], Suggests Anonymous Blogger,
“The newly introduced way to prevent avian infection is the bird flu vaccine. [This is factually incorrect – REL] Through years of experimentation, health experts have finally put a solution to our problems [This is factually incorrect. One of the largest studies of an Avian Flu vaccine ever reported is now in progress. St. Louis University has enrolled just 167 people in the trial. -REL]. Although it has been released with great certainty, how are we going to know if the vaccine works? How will we know if the new influenza virus vaccine promises immunity from avian flu contamination? Well, there can only be one way to find out and that is through self-immunization.” [This is bizarre reasoning -REL]
Is The Influenza Virus Vaccine Effective Against Bird Flu
“Among the many tests [What tests? -REL] conducted by several health agencies from all over the globe, the efficacy of the flu vaccine is said to be very successful. About eighty percent of the group tested showed positive results [Antibody production is NOT disease protection – REL]. Although it still needs to be tried and tested by many people, the influenza virus vaccine can probably be our great defense against the killer disease. [It is not a killer disease. It is billed as a killer disease. No one who is talking knows the real statistics: people infected vs. kill rate. All we have is the oft-repeated statistic of people seriously ill vs. kill rate. The difference is massively important. REL] Through this newly crafted ounce of fluid, we can remove our fears of getting infected with the deadly virus. [There is no way to create a vaccine against a virus that does not yet exist. IF the Pandemic Flu virus does not exist, there is no assurance whatsoever that these vaccines provide any measure of protection. Vaccines often cause the diseases they are supposed to protect against. What would the implications of such a chain of events be with the Pandemic Avian Flu? REL] Perhaps in a year’s time, we can know even more about the effectiveness of the vaccine.” [And perhaps not, perhaps with tragic consequences – REL]
5. Vaxin Gets Funding for Bird Flu Vaccine Experiments
Birmingham News, Birmingham Alabama 09/12/2008
Alabama-based biotech firm Vaxin has received a $995,000 grant from the NIH to conduct experiments on its genetically engineered bird-flu vaccine designed to inoculate in-ovo poultry populations. [This means that eggs used for human consumption would be vaccinated before they are consumed and that chickens hatched from these eggs would already be vaccinated. The health hazards of these process are not characterized or understood. A large percentage of the poultry consumed is already being inoculated with untested vaccines against various diseases including the supposedly dangerous Avian Flu. Please note that only vaccinated flocks develop Avian Flu. -REL] The company’s CEO says it could be possible to vaccinate “70,000 to 80,000 eggs an hour,” because the process can be automated. He also noted that the company is separately developing a human vaccine, and they’re preparing for human trials. Birmingham News (Ala.),
http://birdflubreakingnews.com/templates/birdflu/window.php?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.smartbrief.com%2Fnews%2Faabb%2FstoryDetails.jsp%3Fissueid%3D59CD5B23-32D2-42EA-851D-E9E95F579F5B%26copyid%3D12DF01FC-0BBD-453C-ADC7-080F2649CD3D
And on it goes… But remember, we at Natural Solutions Foundation are here for you, to help you sort the hype from the threat. To continue to do so, we need your generous, tax-deductible support.
6. MRSA Vaccines under development for several years.
Nabi Biopharmaceuticals and NIAID to Advance PentaStaph Vaccine Research
Collaboration to Focus On Protecting Against Life-Threatening Staphylococcus aureus Infections
ROCKVILLE, Md., Sept. 9, 2008 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Nabi Biopharmaceuticals (Nasdaq:NABI) announced today that the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), one of the National Institutes of Health, has entered into a collaboration with Nabi to advance the Company’s promising PentaStaph(tm) vaccine candidate for the prevention and treatment of S. aureus infections in the community and hospital settings. The focus of the collaboration is to conduct pre-clinical toxicology evaluations of two new S. aureus antigens as components of the first-in-class, multivalent vaccine, targeting S. aureus infections. NIAID will fund the pre-clinical toxicology evaluations of the vaccine components manufactured and provided by Nabi. The two novel antigens are designed to protect against two of the most virulent and debilitating toxins produced by the bacteria: Panton-Valentine Leukocidin, found predominantly in community-acquired methicillin-resistant S. aureus (MRSA), and alpha toxin, produced by almost all S. aureus isolates. Pre-clinical toxicology testing of these components will help enable the initiation of Phase 1 clinical trials for these new antigens in early 2009 which is one of the Company’s three development milestones for 2008.
http://www.fiercebiotech.com/press-releases/nabi-biopharmaceuticals-and-niaid-advance-pentastaph-vaccine-research
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Big Pharma is all heart. Here is a striking example of its deep concern for our collective and individual well being: In New Delhi, 49 babies died in clinical trials in just 30 months. That’s one baby every 0.61 months, a little over half.
Did no one notice? Did no one want to give up the payments they were getting? How much as the premier All India Institute of Medicine getting per baby? Who was getting it?
How many of the responsible people will go to jail?
What do you learn in this type of trial from a baby? Or are they simply the most vulnerable and helpless group so they make great experimental subjects.
I have a lot more questions, and I bet you do, too.
But the answers that are clear are pretty grim. I am reminded of the Polish vagrants, more than 300 of them, who for $1 or $2 were injected with the Sanofi-Pasteur vaccine. That dollar cost many of them their lives and the doctors and nurses involved are on trial for murder (as is a sister company, Sanofi Aventis, for homicide because of the contaminated Hepatitis B Vaccine they were given.
The stories go on and on and on of Big Pharma and the Illness Care industry using us as their guinea pigs wth no regard for us and our well-being.
Be warned. The next time you hear that a vaccine or a pharmaceutical is good for you, ask if the pronoun is correct or if what you are really being told is “the Vaccine or pharmaceutical is good for ME, the doctor or the hospital or the Drug company.”
Yours in health and freedom,
Dr. Rima
Rima E. Laibow, MD
Medical Director
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49 babies died during clinical trials at AIIMS
Sunday, August 17, 2008
New Delhi: As many as 49 babies have died during clinical trials at the premier All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) during the last two-and-a-half years, the reply to a Right to Information (RTI) query has revealed.
The AIIMS paediatrics department conducted 42 sets of trials on 4,142 babies – 2,728 of them below the age of one – since Jan 1, 2006.
Forty-nine babies died during the trials. AIIMS says the deaths amounted to a 1.18 percent mortality rate, according to its reply to the RTI query.
“A total of 49 deaths corresponding to 1.18 percent mortality among the enrolled patients were recorded in the studies. These include deaths both in the control and intervention groups, as per the designs of individual studies,” the reply says.
The reasons for the babies’ deaths, their ages or their gender are not contained in the reply – since these were not specifically asked by the applicant, Rahul Verma, founder of NGO Uday Foundation for Congenital Defects and Rare Blood Groups.
Verma, in fact, had filed separate queries with the same set of questions with the paediatrics department and the paediatrics surgery department. He says he received an unsatisfactory reply from the latter and is going to file an appeal in the case.
Clinical trials are research studies that test how well new medical formulations work on people. Each study attempts to find better ways to prevent, screen for, diagnose, and treat a disease.
If carefully conducted, clinical trials are the safest and fastest way of finding treatments that work.
In reply to a query on who the five top funding agencies for the trials were, AIIMS named the institute itself, the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), the Department of Biotechnology (DBT), the World Health Organisation (WHO) and the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in the US.
Five foreign-manufactured medicines were tested during the trials. They were:
* Zinc tablets for treating Zinc deficiency and serving as a nutritional supplement,
* Olmesartan and Valsartan for treating blood pressure related problems,
* Rituximab for treating chronic focal encephalitis, a condition affecting the brain, and
* Gene-activated human glucocerebrosidase – for treating Gaucher disease that affects the liver.
In reply to another query, AIIMS said that before conducting the trials, it had taken clearance from its own Ethics Committee, the Health Ministry Steering Committee (HMSC) on ethics and the National Ethics Committees of ICMR and DBT.
Verma, however, maintained that there were legal and ethical lacunae in the system as permissions had to be sought from different agencies depending on the nature of the trials.
http://news.indiainfo.com/2008/08/17/0808171932_49_babies_died_during_clinical_trials_at_aiims_in_last_30_months.html
