Ruling: Vaccination Caused Boy's Death

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DIPHTHERIA


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http://www.whale.to/a/diptheria1.html

For accurate information on diptheria:
http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dbmd/disea...iptheria_t.htm

There's that drivel again.

http://www.lawyersandsettlements.com...ig_Pharma.html

August 21, 2006. By Evelyn Pringle

In the wake of overhauling the FDA, lawmakers are also cracking down on
conflicts of interest within the Centers for Disease Control.

Last month, Representatives, Dr Dave Weldon (R-FL), and Carolyn Maloney
(D-NY), held a press conference to announce the introduction of a bill that
would give responsibility for vaccine safety to an independent agency within
the Department of Health and Human Services, and remove most vaccine safety
research from the CDC.

Specifically, they said on July 26, 2006, the "Vaccine Safety and Public
Confidence Assurance Act of 2006," will create an independent office to
address, investigate, and head off potential safety problems like the use of
mercury in vaccines, in an objective and non-conflicted office whose sole
purpose is vaccine safety and evaluation.

According to Dr Weldon in a prepared statement, Federal agencies charged
with overseeing vaccine safety research have failed. They have failed to
provide sufficient resources for vaccine safety research. They have failed
to fund extramural research and they have failed to free themselves from
conflicts of interest that serve to undermine public confidence in the
safety of vaccines, he said.

"The American public deserves better," Dr Weldon stated, "and increasingly
parents and the public at large are demanding better."

"There's an enormous inherent conflict of interest within the CDC," he said,
"and if we fail to move vaccine safety to a separate independent office,
safety issues will remain a low priority and public confidence in vaccines
will continue to erode."

He said that similar conflicts have been remedied in other federal agencies,
but in the vaccine program the conflicts persist unchecked. "This bill will
provide the independence necessary," Dr Weldon said, "to ensure that vaccine
safety research is robust, unbiased, and broadly accepted by the public at
large."

"Vaccines do wonders for public health, but when the government requires
them, it must also ensure that they're safe," Ms Maloney said in her
statement. "We need adequate, unbiased research on vaccines, and this
legislation would deliver that."

She applauded Dr Weldon for his tremendous commitment and leadership on the
issue. "He is truly dedicated," she said, "to protecting our children and
the public at large."

While announcing the new bill, Dr Weldon and Ms Maloney were joined by
several groups advocating vaccine safety reform, including the National
Autism Association, A-Champs, and safeMINDS.

According to the National Autism Association: "This landmark legislation
will provide critical government agency oversight and implementation of
vaccine safety research, which has not kept pace with the rise in the number
of vaccines routinely prescribed to consumers including pregnant women and
young children."

Additionally, the Act calls for $80 million in funding to conduct vaccine
analysis and safety research.

Currently the CDC oversees vaccine research, safety and promotion, a
situation that has been drawing more and more public criticism in recent
years. The CDC compiles the list of vaccines that doctors are to give all
children in the US, based on the recommendations of an advisory panel, and
in many states kids can not attend day care or public schools unless they
have received the CDC-endorsed vaccines.

A recommendation by the CDC guarantees a huge market for a vaccine and
enables the drug company to use the government as a marketing device for its
product. The annual global market for vaccines is expected to be over $10
billion this year.

On July 21, 2003, United Press International published a report based on a
four-month investigation that found a pattern of problems linked to vaccines
recommended by the CDC, as well as a web of close ties between the agency's
advisory panel and the pharmaceutical industry.

By investigating members of an advisory panel of outside experts that make
vaccine recommendations, UPI found that members of the panel received money
from vaccine makers through relationships that included: sharing a vaccine
patent; owning stock in a vaccine company; payments for research; money to
monitor vaccine testing; and funding for academic departments.

In fact, according to UPI, the CDC itself is in the vaccine business. Under
a 1980 law, UPI found the CDC had 28 licensing agreements with drug
companies and one university for vaccines or vaccine-related products and
eight ongoing projects to collaborate on new vaccines.

For instance, the CDC and SmithKline Beecham worked together on the
Lyme-disease vaccine. A 1992 CDC activity report, obtained by UPI, says the
agency had an agreement "with SmithKline Beecham that currently funds three
positions at (the CDC) for the purpose of providing information of use in
developing advanced test methods and vaccine candidates."

In June 2001, the General Accounting Office delivered a report on the issue
to Senator Chris Dodd, (D-Conn), that noted that CDC employees "are listed
on two Lyme-disease related patents" including "a 1993 joint patent between
CDC and SmithKline Beecham Corporation." The report also said that six of 12
consultants working for the CDC on Lyme vaccines "reported at least one
interest related to a vaccine firm."

According to CDC meeting transcripts where the committee weighed its
recommendation, 3 had conflicts of interest with SmithKlineBeecham. The
LYMERIX lyme-disease vaccine was approved by the CDC on February 18, 1999,
and by October of 2000, more than 1.4 million people had received the
vaccine.

But 18 months later, according to UPI, in February 2002, SmithKline Beecham
pulled the vaccine off the market claiming that sales of LYMERIX were
insufficient to justify the continued investment. However, according to UPI,
the company also faced hundreds of lawsuits by people who said they suffered
side effects from the vaccines.

The government's database at the time, listed possible side effects from
LYMERIX as 640 emergency room visits, 34 life-threatening reactions, 77
hospitalizations, 198 disabilities and six deaths after people took the
shots since the CDC endorsed it, according to UPI.

UPI also found other cases where vaccines endorsed by the panel were pulled
off the market after a number of people suffered devastating side effects,
and some died.

Congressman Dan Burton, (R-Ind), had already been investigating the advisory
panel for several years, and told UPI that the conflicts of interest were a
major problem. "This presents a real paradox," he said, "when the CDC
routinely allows scientists with blatant conflicts of interest to serve on
influential advisory committees that make recommendations on new vaccines,
as well as policy matters."

"All the while these same scientists," Representative Burton said, "have
financial ties, academic affiliations, and other vested interests in the
products and companies for which they are supposed to be providing unbiased
oversight."

An August 2001 report on the investigation by Rep Burton's House Government
Reform Committee, stated that "four out of eight CDC advisory committee
members who voted to approve guidelines for the rotavirus vaccine in June
1998 had financial ties to pharmaceutical companies that were developing
different versions of the vaccine."

Critic say the conflicts of interest of Dr Paul Offit while sitting on the
advisory panel could not be more blatant. He was part of the team that
mandated the use of the RotaVirus vaccine, even though he received a
$350,000 grant from Merck to develop the vaccine, shared the patent, and was
paid to go around the country teaching doctors that vaccines were safe,
according to the Wall Street Journal.

UPI discovered that Merck also had bought and distributed copies of a book
written by Dr Offit titled, "What Every Parent Should Know About Vaccines,"
to physicians with a Dear Doctor letter that stated:"Merck Vaccine Division
is pleased to present you with a copy of the recent publication, 'What Every
Parent Should Know About Vaccines.'"

"The authors designed the book," Merck's letter told doctors, "to answer
questions parents have about vaccines and to dispel misinformation about
vaccines that sometimes appears in the public media."

The book had a list price of $14.95, and Dr Offit told UPI that he did not
know how many copies Merck had purchased.

In 2001, Congressman Burton's investigation also found conflicts of interest
with the then chairman of the advisory panel, Dr John Modlin, a Professor at
Dartmouth Medical School, who owned $26,000 worth of Merck stock.

In a phone interview in 2003, Dr Modlin told UPI that he had sold the Merck
stock, but that he had recently agreed to chair a committee to oversee Merck
vaccine clinical trials.

"Meeting transcripts over the past decade," UPI says, "showed that at some
meetings, half of the members present had potential conflicts with vaccine
manufacturers."

For instance, at a June 2002 meeting, four of the 11 members on the panel
acknowledged conflicts with Wyeth, GlaxoSmithKline, Merck, Pfizer, Aventis
Pasteur, and Bayer. Two of the four conducted research or vaccine trials and
one member was a co-holder of a patent.

The agency is currently facing a major credibility crisis over the issue of
whether vaccines containing the mercury-based preservative, thimerosal, are
responsible for the epidemic of neurological disorders ranging from ADHD to
autism in children all across the country.

The CDC is being accused of research manipulation and cover-ups of vaccine
maker culpability by an ever increasing number of activist groups and is
also facing tough questions from some of the powerful members of Congress,
both Republicans and Democrats alike.

The CDC continues to claim that there is no evidence to support a connection
between the epidemic and thimerosal, which they say is no longer used in
most pediatric vaccines.

It is however, included in the flu vaccine currently recommended for all
pregnant women and children more than 6 months old.

Earlier this year, a group of lawmakers initiated a new investigation of the
matter and basically directed the CDC to butt out. On February 22, 2006,
they stated in a letter: "If the federal government is going to have a study
whose results will be broadly accepted, such a study cannot be led by the
CDC," in a letter to Dr David Schwartz, Director of the National Institute
of Environmental Health Sciences.

The letter was signed by Senators, Joe Lieberman (D-Conn) and Debbie
Stabenow (D-Mich), and members of the House Representatives including, Dr
Dave Weldon, (R-Fla) Chris Smith, (R-NJ), Carolyn Maloney, (D-NY), Dan
Burton, (R-Ind), Joseph Crowley, (D-NY), and Maurice Hinchey, (D-NY).

The Institute of Environmental Health Sciences is part of the National
Institutes of Health, and was asked to convene a panel to decide how to
analyze the CDC database to determine whether autism rates have dropped
since thimerosal was removed from most vaccines.

The controversy picked up traction in April, "National Autism Month," when
world renowned heavy metal experts, researchers, and physicians traveled to
Washington and rallied on Capital Hill moving the debate beyond just the
parents of autistic children.

This spring, a full-page ad appeared in USA Today, the most
widely-circulated newspaper in the US, and accused the CDC of "causing an
epidemic of autism" by recommending that kids receive a series of
vaccinations that contained thimerosal at least as late as 2001.

The ad quoted one of the most recent and famous advocates to join the cause,
environmental lawyer, Robert F Kennedy Jr, as saying: "It's time for the CDC
to come clean with the American public."

The ad was funded by a coalition of advocacy groups led by Generation
Rescue, and directed readers to the web site, www.PutChildren First.org, to
view internal CDC documents, many of which were obtained under the FOIA,
that includes transcripts of meetings and e-mails that the groups contend
support their allegations of a CDC cover-up.

Congressman Weldon has a theory about why the CDC continues the charade of
denying the link between vaccines and autism. "If it is eventually
determined that an entire generation of kids was essentially poisoned," he
says, "a class-action suit against the federal government could be on the
order of hundreds of billions of dollars, and so there's very good reason
for them to try to cover this up."

And Dr Weldon's prediction is proving true. Vaccine injury lawsuits are
being filed and won against the vaccine makers and the government.
Implemented in 1988, the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act of 1986,
established a mandatory, federally administered no-fault claims process for
individuals who allege that they were harmed by the administration of
childhood vaccines.

The vaccine compensation fund was created to supposedly ensure an adequate
supply of vaccines, and to stabilize vaccine costs. A small fee charged on
each vaccines funds the program. According to statistics on the vaccine
compensation web site, in fiscal year 2006, a total of $38.2 million has
been paid out in cases involving 47 awards.

In what is reported to be one of the largest settlements ever, in July 2006,
a quadriplegic boy was awarded $43.1 million. The case alleged that now
7-year-old, Mario Rodriguez, became a quadriplegic after receiving a
measles, mumps and rubella vaccine on January. 25, 2000.

Under the guidelines of the vaccine compensation fund program, the lawsuit
was filed against the Department of Health and Human Services. Kansas City
attorney, Leland Dempsey, who represented the child, told the Kansas City
Star: "One unusual aspect of the case is that Mario is expected to have a
normal lifespan, and therefore will require more years of care that will
cost more money."

"He will need round-the-clock care, including extensive medical
intervention, throughout his life," Mr Dempsey said.

Many other vaccine related lawsuits have been filed against drug makers. For
instance, Eli Lilly, the company that invented thimerosal back in the 1930s,
informed its shareholders in its 2005 Annual Report filed with the SEC on
April 1, 2006: "We have been named as a defendant in approximately 340
actions in the U.S., involving approximately 1,020 claimants, brought in
various state courts and federal district courts on behalf of children with
autism or other neurological disorders."

Lilly also stated, we believe that "the majority of the cases should not be
prosecuted in the courts in which they have been brought because the
underlying claims are subject to the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act
of 1986."

Under the Act, claims must first be brought before the US Court of Claims
for an award determination under the guidelines established by the Act.
However, as Lilly points out in its filing, "Claimants who are unsatisfied
with their awards under the Act may reject the award and seek traditional
judicial remedies."


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http://www.who.int/topics/diphtheria/en/

And on the diptheria vaccine:
http://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/vpd-vac/...ia/default.htm

Another example of true drivel, lies and heartless.


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"JOHN" wrote:


"Myrl" wrote in message
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DIPHTHERIA


pharma crap deleted

http://www.whale.to/a/diptheria1.html


There is a good side to diphtheria. If the anti-vaccination liars
catch a dose it might make them shut up for a while.
--
Peter Bowditch

Get over your control problem.

JOHN wrote:
"Jeff" wrote in message
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The Humanics Foundation has been ranked as a "Cranky site" by
www.Crank.net.

Surprisingly, the whale was not included as a cranky site.

Thought those of you who love the Humanics Foundation as much as I do
would be interested.

Crank net is just another pharma controlled shill along with most of the
disease charities and skeptic websites

So anyone who disagrees with you is a pharm controlled shill?

The American Cancer Society was founded at the New York Harvard Club in 1913
by none other than John D. Rockefeller Jr.
http://www.whale.to/cancer/charities.html

Lots of drugs sold by those oil companies, huh?

Jeff

Jan Drew wrote:
...

There's that drivel again.

http://www.lawyersandsettlements.com...ig_Pharma.html

I have to agree. Any site where there are lawyers trying to make money
is likely be drivel.

copyrighted letter deleted


Jeff

"Jan Drew" wrote:

Another example of true drivel, lies and heartless.


"Peter Bowditch" wrote in message
.. .
"JOHN" wrote:


"Myrl" wrote in message
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DIPHTHERIA


pharma crap deleted

http://www.whale.to/a/diptheria1.html


There is a good side to diphtheria. If the anti-vaccination liars
catch a dose it might make them shut up for a while.
--
Peter Bowditch

Get over your control problem.

And what control problem would that be?

Have you ever seen a child with diphtheria, Jan? Have you heard them
gasping for breath? Have you heard the hymns at the funeral?

What I want controlled are controllable, life-threatening diseases.
How is that a problem?
--
Peter Bowditch aa #2243
The Millenium Project http://www.ratbags.com/rsoles
Australian Council Against Health Fraud http://www.acahf.org.au
Australian Skeptics http://www.skeptics.com.au
To email me use my first name only at ratbags.com

In article ,
JOHN wrote:

"Jeff" wrote in message
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For accurate information on diptheria:
http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dbmd/disea...iptheria_t.htm
http://www.who.int/topics/diphtheria/en/

And on the diptheria vaccine:
http://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/vpd-vac/...ia/default.htm

"The CDC would be the last place in the world to go for information
regarding health. The CDC is a government bureacracy funded by theft
(taxation that has reached confiscatory levels) and run by white collar
criminals who regularly misinform and misdirect the public while creating
pandemonium in the marketplace (unnecessary destruction of livestock,
recalls etc) and conspiring to incite public panic on an almost daily basis,
in violation of the constitution of the United States."--Dr Duffy DC

John, no matter how many times you repost the same quotation from some
nitwit DC, it will not magically be transformed into a sensible
statement.

-- David Wright :: alphabeta at prodigy.net
These are my opinions only, but they're almost always correct.
"[Republicans] talk about Reagan the way gay guys talk about
Barbra Streisand." -- Bill Maher

In article , JOHN wrote:

"Jeff" wrote in message
news:mLrzi.5970$iA.322@trnddc05...
The Humanics Foundation has been ranked as a "Cranky site" by
www.Crank.net.

Surprisingly, the whale was not included as a cranky site.

Thought those of you who love the Humanics Foundation as much as I do
would be interested.

Crank net is just another pharma controlled shill along with most of the
disease charities and skeptic websites

The American Cancer Society was founded at the New York Harvard Club in 1913
by none other than John D. Rockefeller Jr.
http://www.whale.to/cancer/charities.html

In John's world o' lunacy, merely saying the dread name "Rockefeller"
automatically wins all debates.

In the rest of the world, it doesn't.

-- David Wright :: alphabeta at prodigy.net
These are my opinions only, but they're almost always correct.
"[Republicans] talk about Reagan the way gay guys talk about
Barbra Streisand." -- Bill Maher

In article 4ZAzi.8585$wW6.650@trnddc08,
Jeff wrote:
JOHN wrote:
"Jeff" wrote in message
news:mLrzi.5970$iA.322@trnddc05...
The Humanics Foundation has been ranked as a "Cranky site" by
www.Crank.net.

Surprisingly, the whale was not included as a cranky site.

Thought those of you who love the Humanics Foundation as much as I do
would be interested.

Crank net is just another pharma controlled shill along with most of the
disease charities and skeptic websites

So anyone who disagrees with you is a pharm controlled shill?

Of course. As long as John can fling his wild accusations at people,
it saves him the effort of marshalling a coherent argument, which he'd
never be able to do anyway.

(Anyone who doubts me is invited to go read whale.to -- check out the
stuff on chemtrails. Classic lunacy.)

-- David Wright :: alphabeta at prodigy.net
These are my opinions only, but they're almost always correct.
"[Republicans] talk about Reagan the way gay guys talk about
Barbra Streisand." -- Bill Maher

"David Wright" wrote in message
. ..
In article ,
JOHN wrote:

"Jeff" wrote in message
news:N6ezi.8724$ni6.6547@trnddc03...


For accurate information on diptheria:
http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dbmd/disea...iptheria_t.htm
http://www.who.int/topics/diphtheria/en/

And on the diptheria vaccine:
http://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/vpd-vac/...ia/default.htm

"The CDC would be the last place in the world to go for information
regarding health. The CDC is a government bureacracy funded by theft
(taxation that has reached confiscatory levels) and run by white collar
criminals who regularly misinform and misdirect the public while creating
pandemonium in the marketplace (unnecessary destruction of livestock,
recalls etc) and conspiring to incite public panic on an almost daily
basis,
in violation of the constitution of the United States."--Dr Duffy DC

John, no matter how many times you repost the same quotation from some
nitwit DC, it will not magically be transformed into a sensible
statement.

So sad. David is so brainwashed he is blinded.

http://www.lawyersandsettlements.com...ig_Pharma.html

August 21, 2006. By Evelyn Pringle

In the wake of overhauling the FDA, lawmakers are also cracking down on
conflicts of interest within the Centers for Disease Control.

Last month, Representatives, Dr Dave Weldon (R-FL), and Carolyn Maloney
(D-NY), held a press conference to announce the introduction of a bill that
would give responsibility for vaccine safety to an independent agency within
the Department of Health and Human Services, and remove most vaccine safety
research from the CDC.

Specifically, they said on July 26, 2006, the "Vaccine Safety and Public
Confidence Assurance Act of 2006," will create an independent office to
address, investigate, and head off potential safety problems like the use of
mercury in vaccines, in an objective and non-conflicted office whose sole
purpose is vaccine safety and evaluation.

According to Dr Weldon in a prepared statement, Federal agencies charged
with overseeing vaccine safety research have failed. They have failed to
provide sufficient resources for vaccine safety research. They have failed
to fund extramural research and they have failed to free themselves from
conflicts of interest that serve to undermine public confidence in the
safety of vaccines, he said.

"The American public deserves better," Dr Weldon stated, "and increasingly
parents and the public at large are demanding better."

"There's an enormous inherent conflict of interest within the CDC," he said,
"and if we fail to move vaccine safety to a separate independent office,
safety issues will remain a low priority and public confidence in vaccines
will continue to erode."

He said that similar conflicts have been remedied in other federal agencies,
but in the vaccine program the conflicts persist unchecked. "This bill will
provide the independence necessary," Dr Weldon said, "to ensure that vaccine
safety research is robust, unbiased, and broadly accepted by the public at
large."

"Vaccines do wonders for public health, but when the government requires
them, it must also ensure that they're safe," Ms Maloney said in her
statement. "We need adequate, unbiased research on vaccines, and this
legislation would deliver that."

She applauded Dr Weldon for his tremendous commitment and leadership on the
issue. "He is truly dedicated," she said, "to protecting our children and
the public at large."

While announcing the new bill, Dr Weldon and Ms Maloney were joined by
several groups advocating vaccine safety reform, including the National
Autism Association, A-Champs, and safeMINDS.

According to the National Autism Association: "This landmark legislation
will provide critical government agency oversight and implementation of
vaccine safety research, which has not kept pace with the rise in the number
of vaccines routinely prescribed to consumers including pregnant women and
young children."

Additionally, the Act calls for $80 million in funding to conduct vaccine
analysis and safety research.

Currently the CDC oversees vaccine research, safety and promotion, a
situation that has been drawing more and more public criticism in recent
years. The CDC compiles the list of vaccines that doctors are to give all
children in the US, based on the recommendations of an advisory panel, and
in many states kids can not attend day care or public schools unless they
have received the CDC-endorsed vaccines.

A recommendation by the CDC guarantees a huge market for a vaccine and
enables the drug company to use the government as a marketing device for its
product. The annual global market for vaccines is expected to be over $10
billion this year.

On July 21, 2003, United Press International published a report based on a
four-month investigation that found a pattern of problems linked to vaccines
recommended by the CDC, as well as a web of close ties between the agency's
advisory panel and the pharmaceutical industry.

By investigating members of an advisory panel of outside experts that make
vaccine recommendations, UPI found that members of the panel received money
from vaccine makers through relationships that included: sharing a vaccine
patent; owning stock in a vaccine company; payments for research; money to
monitor vaccine testing; and funding for academic departments.

In fact, according to UPI, the CDC itself is in the vaccine business. Under
a 1980 law, UPI found the CDC had 28 licensing agreements with drug
companies and one university for vaccines or vaccine-related products and
eight ongoing projects to collaborate on new vaccines.

For instance, the CDC and SmithKline Beecham worked together on the
Lyme-disease vaccine. A 1992 CDC activity report, obtained by UPI, says the
agency had an agreement "with SmithKline Beecham that currently funds three
positions at (the CDC) for the purpose of providing information of use in
developing advanced test methods and vaccine candidates."

In June 2001, the General Accounting Office delivered a report on the issue
to Senator Chris Dodd, (D-Conn), that noted that CDC employees "are listed
on two Lyme-disease related patents" including "a 1993 joint patent between
CDC and SmithKline Beecham Corporation." The report also said that six of 12
consultants working for the CDC on Lyme vaccines "reported at least one
interest related to a vaccine firm."

According to CDC meeting transcripts where the committee weighed its
recommendation, 3 had conflicts of interest with SmithKlineBeecham. The
LYMERIX lyme-disease vaccine was approved by the CDC on February 18, 1999,
and by October of 2000, more than 1.4 million people had received the
vaccine.

But 18 months later, according to UPI, in February 2002, SmithKline Beecham
pulled the vaccine off the market claiming that sales of LYMERIX were
insufficient to justify the continued investment. However, according to UPI,
the company also faced hundreds of lawsuits by people who said they suffered
side effects from the vaccines.

The government's database at the time, listed possible side effects from
LYMERIX as 640 emergency room visits, 34 life-threatening reactions, 77
hospitalizations, 198 disabilities and six deaths after people took the
shots since the CDC endorsed it, according to UPI.

UPI also found other cases where vaccines endorsed by the panel were pulled
off the market after a number of people suffered devastating side effects,
and some died.

Congressman Dan Burton, (R-Ind), had already been investigating the advisory
panel for several years, and told UPI that the conflicts of interest were a
major problem. "This presents a real paradox," he said, "when the CDC
routinely allows scientists with blatant conflicts of interest to serve on
influential advisory committees that make recommendations on new vaccines,
as well as policy matters."

"All the while these same scientists," Representative Burton said, "have
financial ties, academic affiliations, and other vested interests in the
products and companies for which they are supposed to be providing unbiased
oversight."

An August 2001 report on the investigation by Rep Burton's House Government
Reform Committee, stated that "four out of eight CDC advisory committee
members who voted to approve guidelines for the rotavirus vaccine in June
1998 had financial ties to pharmaceutical companies that were developing
different versions of the vaccine."

Critic say the conflicts of interest of Dr Paul Offit while sitting on the
advisory panel could not be more blatant. He was part of the team that
mandated the use of the RotaVirus vaccine, even though he received a
$350,000 grant from Merck to develop the vaccine, shared the patent, and was
paid to go around the country teaching doctors that vaccines were safe,
according to the Wall Street Journal.

UPI discovered that Merck also had bought and distributed copies of a book
written by Dr Offit titled, "What Every Parent Should Know About Vaccines,"
to physicians with a Dear Doctor letter that stated:"Merck Vaccine Division
is pleased to present you with a copy of the recent publication, 'What Every
Parent Should Know About Vaccines.'"

"The authors designed the book," Merck's letter told doctors, "to answer
questions parents have about vaccines and to dispel misinformation about
vaccines that sometimes appears in the public media."

The book had a list price of $14.95, and Dr Offit told UPI that he did not
know how many copies Merck had purchased.

In 2001, Congressman Burton's investigation also found conflicts of interest
with the then chairman of the advisory panel, Dr John Modlin, a Professor at
Dartmouth Medical School, who owned $26,000 worth of Merck stock.

In a phone interview in 2003, Dr Modlin told UPI that he had sold the Merck
stock, but that he had recently agreed to chair a committee to oversee Merck
vaccine clinical trials.

"Meeting transcripts over the past decade," UPI says, "showed that at some
meetings, half of the members present had potential conflicts with vaccine
manufacturers."

For instance, at a June 2002 meeting, four of the 11 members on the panel
acknowledged conflicts with Wyeth, GlaxoSmithKline, Merck, Pfizer, Aventis
Pasteur, and Bayer. Two of the four conducted research or vaccine trials and
one member was a co-holder of a patent.

The agency is currently facing a major credibility crisis over the issue of
whether vaccines containing the mercury-based preservative, thimerosal, are
responsible for the epidemic of neurological disorders ranging from ADHD to
autism in children all across the country.

The CDC is being accused of research manipulation and cover-ups of vaccine
maker culpability by an ever increasing number of activist groups and is
also facing tough questions from some of the powerful members of Congress,
both Republicans and Democrats alike.

The CDC continues to claim that there is no evidence to support a connection
between the epidemic and thimerosal, which they say is no longer used in
most pediatric vaccines.

It is however, included in the flu vaccine currently recommended for all
pregnant women and children more than 6 months old.

Earlier this year, a group of lawmakers initiated a new investigation of the
matter and basically directed the CDC to butt out. On February 22, 2006,
they stated in a letter: "If the federal government is going to have a study
whose results will be broadly accepted, such a study cannot be led by the
CDC," in a letter to Dr David Schwartz, Director of the National Institute
of Environmental Health Sciences.

The letter was signed by Senators, Joe Lieberman (D-Conn) and Debbie
Stabenow (D-Mich), and members of the House Representatives including, Dr
Dave Weldon, (R-Fla) Chris Smith, (R-NJ), Carolyn Maloney, (D-NY), Dan
Burton, (R-Ind), Joseph Crowley, (D-NY), and Maurice Hinchey, (D-NY).

The Institute of Environmental Health Sciences is part of the National
Institutes of Health, and was asked to convene a panel to decide how to
analyze the CDC database to determine whether autism rates have dropped
since thimerosal was removed from most vaccines.

The controversy picked up traction in April, "National Autism Month," when
world renowned heavy metal experts, researchers, and physicians traveled to
Washington and rallied on Capital Hill moving the debate beyond just the
parents of autistic children.

This spring, a full-page ad appeared in USA Today, the most
widely-circulated newspaper in the US, and accused the CDC of "causing an
epidemic of autism" by recommending that kids receive a series of
vaccinations that contained thimerosal at least as late as 2001.

The ad quoted one of the most recent and famous advocates to join the cause,
environmental lawyer, Robert F Kennedy Jr, as saying: "It's time for the CDC
to come clean with the American public."

The ad was funded by a coalition of advocacy groups led by Generation
Rescue, and directed readers to the web site, www.PutChildren First.org, to
view internal CDC documents, many of which were obtained under the FOIA,
that includes transcripts of meetings and e-mails that the groups contend
support their allegations of a CDC cover-up.

Congressman Weldon has a theory about why the CDC continues the charade of
denying the link between vaccines and autism. "If it is eventually
determined that an entire generation of kids was essentially poisoned," he
says, "a class-action suit against the federal government could be on the
order of hundreds of billions of dollars, and so there's very good reason
for them to try to cover this up."

And Dr Weldon's prediction is proving true. Vaccine injury lawsuits are
being filed and won against the vaccine makers and the government.
Implemented in 1988, the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act of 1986,
established a mandatory, federally administered no-fault claims process for
individuals who allege that they were harmed by the administration of
childhood vaccines.

The vaccine compensation fund was created to supposedly ensure an adequate
supply of vaccines, and to stabilize vaccine costs. A small fee charged on
each vaccines funds the program. According to statistics on the vaccine
compensation web site, in fiscal year 2006, a total of $38.2 million has
been paid out in cases involving 47 awards.

In what is reported to be one of the largest settlements ever, in July 2006,
a quadriplegic boy was awarded $43.1 million. The case alleged that now
7-year-old, Mario Rodriguez, became a quadriplegic after receiving a
measles, mumps and rubella vaccine on January. 25, 2000.

Under the guidelines of the vaccine compensation fund program, the lawsuit
was filed against the Department of Health and Human Services. Kansas City
attorney, Leland Dempsey, who represented the child, told the Kansas City
Star: "One unusual aspect of the case is that Mario is expected to have a
normal lifespan, and therefore will require more years of care that will
cost more money."

"He will need round-the-clock care, including extensive medical
intervention, throughout his life," Mr Dempsey said.

Many other vaccine related lawsuits have been filed against drug makers. For
instance, Eli Lilly, the company that invented thimerosal back in the 1930s,
informed its shareholders in its 2005 Annual Report filed with the SEC on
April 1, 2006: "We have been named as a defendant in approximately 340
actions in the U.S., involving approximately 1,020 claimants, brought in
various state courts and federal district courts on behalf of children with
autism or other neurological disorders."

Lilly also stated, we believe that "the majority of the cases should not be
prosecuted in the courts in which they have been brought because the
underlying claims are subject to the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act
of 1986."

Under the Act, claims must first be brought before the US Court of Claims
for an award determination under the guidelines established by the Act.
However, as Lilly points out in its filing, "Claimants who are unsatisfied
with their awards under the Act may reject the award and seek traditional
judicial remedies."


Resources

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-- David Wright ::

On Aug 23, 11:14 pm, Mark Probert
wrote:
Roman Bystrianyk wrote:
On Aug 22, 9:21 pm, Myrl wrote:
DIPHTHERIA

At one time, diphtheria was common in the United States. More than
200,000 cases, primarily among children, were reported in 1921.
Approximately 5%-10% of cases were fatal; the highest case-fatality
ratios were recorded for the very young and the elderly. Reported
cases of diphtheria of all types declined from 306 in 1975 to 59 in
1979; most were cutaneous diphtheria reported from a single state (3).
After 1979, cutaneous diphtheria was no longer notifiable. From 1980
to 1989, only 24 cases of respiratory diphtheria were reported; two
cases were fatal, and 18 (75%) occurred among persons greater than or
equal to 20 years of age.

For your consideration:

This graph shows the decline in deaths from diphtheria from 1900 to
1967. Included is a trend line showing the trend in mortality decline
for diphtheria.

http://www.healthsentinel.com/graphs...aphs_print_lis...

Very interesting...it looks like incidence was leveling off when the
vaccine came along and finished the job of ending the threat of this
disease.

An interesting interpretation. Would you say the same of this graph?

http://www.healthsentinel.com/graphs...rint_list_item

Enjoy your day.
Roman