"Public health officials have long worried that physicians who say vaccines are harmful can undermine public health efforts. “This is total conspiracy theory,” said Dr. Sean Palfrey, past president of the Massachusetts chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics and a professor of pediatrics and public health at Boston University School of Medicine. “The CDC has a whole website on these kind of hoaxes. There is absolutely no evidence that the flu vaccine, nor any other vaccines, nor exercise is associated with Alzheimer’s or Parkinson’s.”
It will just give you the flu(?).
I'm sorry, but in this day and age anything this government is promoting is suspect.
Yeah, it will just take 50 years for the mercury preservatives to be admitted, and by then vaccine makers and executives will have profited greatly and been $hielded from any harm.
"German drug firm makes 1st apology for thalidomide" by Frank Jordans and Maria Cheng | Associated Press, September 01, 2012
BERLIN — The German manufacturer of a notorious drug that caused thousands of babies to be born with shortened arms and legs, or no limbs at all, issued its first ever apology Friday — 50 years after pulling the drug off the market.
Gruenenthal Group’s chief executive said the company wanted to apologize to mothers who took thalidomide during the 1950s and 1960s and to their children who suffered congenital birth defects as a result. So there is a history
‘‘We ask for forgiveness that for nearly 50 years we didn’t find a way of reaching out to you from human being to human being,’’ Harald Stock said. ‘‘We ask that you regard our long silence as a sign of the shock that your fate caused in us.’’
Stock spoke in the west German city of Stolberg, where the company is based, during the unveiling of a statue symbolizing a child born without limbs because of thalidomide. The statue is called ‘‘the sick child’’ — a name German victims’ groups object to since all the victims are now adults.
The drug is a powerful sedative and was sold under the brand name Contergan in Germany. It was given to pregnant women mostly to combat morning sickness, but led to a wave of birth defects in Europe, Australia, Canada, and Japan. Thalidomide was yanked from the market in 1961 and was also found to cause defects in the eyes, ears, heart, and genitals of developing babies.
It's horrifying, and yet no more horrifying than the depleted uranium malformations or the Fukushima monstrosities.
Thalidomide was never approved for use in pregnant women in the United States.
Freddie Astbury, of Liverpool, England, was born without arms or legs after his mother took thalidomide. The 52-year-old said the apology was years long overdue.
That is what I'm talking about; it is almost as if they fight it so long so they can get out of paying compensation for their criminal conduct because most victims have died.
‘‘It’s a disgrace that it’s taken them 50 years to apologize,’’ said Astbury, of the Thalidomide UK Agency, an advocacy group for survivors. ‘‘I’m gobsmacked,’’ he said. ‘‘For years, [Gruenenthal has] insisted they never did anything wrong and refused to talk to us.’’
Astbury said the drug maker should apologize not just to the people affected, but to their families. He also said the company should offer compensation.
You will have to take 'em to court.
‘‘It’s time to put their money where their mouth is,’’ he said. ‘‘For me to drive costs about $79,000 for a car with all the adaptations,’’ he said. ‘‘A lot of us depend on specialist care and that runs into the millions.’’
See: Autistic NYC boy’s death prompts tracking plan
Astbury said he and other UK survivors have received some money over the years from a trust set up by thalidomide’s British distributor but that Gruenenthal has never agreed to settle.
‘‘We invite them to sit around the table with us to see how far their apology will go,’’ he said. ‘‘I don’t think they’ve ever realized the impact they’ve had on people’s’ lives.’’
Gruenenthal settled a lawsuit in Germany in 1972 — 11 years after stopping sales of the drug — and voiced its regret to the victims.
But for decades, the company refused to admit liability, saying it had conducted all necessary clinical trials required at the time.
Stock reiterated that position Friday, insisting that ‘‘the suffering that occurred with Contergan 50 years ago happened in a world that is completely different from today’’ and the pharmaceutical industry had learned a valuable lesson from the episode.
Oh, well, then it was all worth it!
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And that was what we call a one-day wonder for I never saw the word thalidomide in my Globe again.
What also gets me is the endless parade of excuses trotted out for the cause of autism, from diet to genes to the age of your father to induced labor to the way the kid looks at you! It reminds me of the $hitty economy and all the excuses rolled out for that save the real reason: private central banking and that printing press the Fed runs. The test is a glass of milk and a dose of Jenny McCarthy because the odds are now 1 in 50 that the kid will be over diagnosed with it.
Sorry for wandering off and drowning you with links.
Maybe I should just stop whooping it up and get focused, huh?
"US may have worst year for whooping cough in 5 decades" by Mike Stobbe | Associated Press, July 20, 2012
ATLANTA — The Untied States appears headed for its worst year for whooping cough in more than five decades, with the number of cases rising at an epidemic rate that specialists say may reflect a problem with the effectiveness of the vaccine....
Whooping cough has generally been increasing for years, but this year’s spike is startling.
Health investigators are trying to figure out what’s going on, and theories include better detection and reporting of cases, some sort of evolution in the bacteria that cause the illness, or shortcomings in the vaccine.
I $ee. Some theorizing is okay.
The vaccine that had been given to young children for decades was replaced in the late 1990s following concerns about rashes, fevers and other side effects. While the new version is considered safer, it is possible it is not as effective long term, said Dr. Anne Schuchat, who oversees the CDC’s immunization and respiratory disease programs.
What do you mean it once was not?
Some parents in California and other states have rebelled against vaccinations and gotten their children exempted from rules that require them to get their shots to enroll in school....
Most of the youngsters who got sick had been vaccinated.
What? Sure looks like a cause and effect situation!
Whooping cough, or pertussis, is a highly contagious disease that can strike people of any age but is most dangerous to children.
It used to be a common threat, with hundreds of thousands of cases annually. Cases gradually dropped after a vaccine was introduced in the 1940s, and the disease came to be thought of as a relic of another age....
The numbers started to climb again in the 1990s....
The government recommends that children get vaccinated in five doses, with the first shot at age 2 months and the final one between 4 and 6 years. A booster shot is recommended around 11 or 12....
That will boo$t profits for pharmaceuticals.
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"Whooping cough vaccinations urged
The Rhode Island Department of Health has confirmed four cases of whooping cough in Coventry students and is recommending vaccinations for both children and adults in town. Three pertussis cases have been confirmed in students at Alan Shawn Feinstein Middle School. One case has been confirmed in a student at Tiogue Elementary School. Dr. Michael Fine, health department director, said Friday that any child who is not up to date with the pertussis vaccination should be vaccinated. Adults are also being encouraged to get the vaccine. A community vaccination clinic is scheduled for Saturday from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. at Coventry High School."
They say insurance is not required, but people who have coverage are asked to bring their insurance cards(?).
Hope you paid your Obummercare premiums, and I hope they were recorded in the $y$tem.
Guess what else is back, kids:
Mass. issues measles warning
Health alert issued over measles cases
Hospital issues measles warning
"Measles cases on rise in US" by Mike Stobbe | Associated Press April 25, 2014
NEW YORK — There has been a small but growing trend of parents seeking exemptions for their children from school-entry vaccination requirements for religious or philosophical reasons. Other parents have tried to space out, or delay, measles vaccinations because of fears that the shot will trigger autism or other problems.
It's a well-founded fear, especially when you consider the cocktail of concoctions kids get these days.
Outbreaks are more common in communities where such beliefs are more common, specialists say. ‘‘It’s often concentrated there. Folks who think similarly tend to live in the same neighborhood or attend the same religious organization,’’ Dr. William Schaffner, an infectious disease specialist at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, said.
That's a lie. The rates are lower and the kids healthier.
The CDC national tally may already be outdated....
Pfft!
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Related: Lead poisoning affects 500,000 children in US, officials say
I thought that problem was outdated.
What is always a problem with adolescents:
"HPV vaccination rate still lagging" by Mike Stobbe | AP Medical Writer July 26, 2013
ATLANTA — Only about half of US teenage girls have received a controversial cervical cancer vaccine — a rate that’s changed little in three years.
‘‘We’re dropping the ball,’’ said Dr. Thomas Frieden, head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. ‘‘This is a huge disappointment.’’
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A big part of the problem: Family doctors aren’t prodding patients to get HPV shots as forcefully as they recommend other vaccines.
Even they are recognizing the unnecessary dangers.
The vaccine, introduced in 2006, protects against human papillomavirus, or HPV. The sexually transmitted disease can cause cervical cancer and genital warts. The vaccine was first recommended for girls ages 11 and 12 because it works best if given before a teen starts to have sex. In 2011, it was also recommended for boys that age to help prevent the virus’s spread.
More than 20 states have considered adding HPV to the vaccines required for school attendance but only Virginia and the District of Columbia did so. Most states abandoned it after political fights triggered by funding woes, concerns about the vaccine’s safety, and worries that the shots would promote promiscuity.
CDC studies have shown no significant side effects and girls who got the shots did not start having sex earlier.
I would expect them to say that!
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Related:
"The decline surprised public health experts because US vaccination rates for human papillomavirus — the most common sexually transmitted infection in the United States and a principal cause of cervical cancer — are relatively low."
Maybe this had something to do with it. Time to go back to the Pap smear.
By the time you get to college:
"Princeton University has begun vaccinating nearly 6,000 students to try to stop an outbreak of type B meningitis in an unusual federal government-endorsed administration of a drug not generally approved for use in the United States."
Meaning they are EXPERIMENTING on you kids!
Related: Student’s death tied to N.J. outbreak
More deaths tied to meningitis:
"$100m settlement reached over meningitis cases; Deal struck with insurers, owners of firm that made tainted prescription drugs" by Todd Wallack | Globe Staff May 06, 2014
Bankruptcy lawyers have reached a settlement worth more than $100 million with insurers and the family that owns the defunct Framingham pharmacy that manufactured tainted drugs blamed for killing 64 people and sickening hundreds more in 2012, a deal that paves the way to eventually providing compensation for victims.
Also see: Compounding Conundrum
Related: $100 million agreement close in meningitis outbreak case
Under the proposed settlement filed in US Bankruptcy Court in Boston on Tuesday, New England Compounding Center owners Barry Cadden and his wife, Lisa Conigliaro Cadden, will contribute $21 million to a fund for creditors. Lisa’s sister-in-law and co-owner Carla Conigliaro will add $24 million, and Lisa’s brother and co-owner Greg Conigliaro will contribute $2.75 million.
Barry Cadden, who married into the Conigliaro family, was also the pharmacist who helped oversee the firm’s operations.
The court had already frozen about $21 million in family bank accounts.
A family in crisis.
In addition, insurers for New England Compounding and its landlord are expected to contribute $29 million. And $20 million is expected to come from tax refunds New England Compounding will receive as a result of its losses. Lawyers hope to raise up to $10 million more by selling Ameridose, a defunct sister company that manufactured and repackaged drugs for hospitals and medical centers....
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If you are lucky you will become a whiz kid before slipping into dementia.
This is nuts, readers:
"The research supports that theory that women who eat nuts or peanut butter during pregnancy are not raising the risk that their children will have nut allergies, according to a study released Monday. Children whose mothers ate nuts most often were actually less likely to have problems consuming them, researchers found. Peanut allergies are on the rise and affect up to 2 percent of the population in the United States and other Western countries."
It's because of the peanut oil adjuvants to the vaccines, although a big caveat is "researchers had no information on fathers’ nut allergies" -- but they did have his age!
Maybe that is how they caught malaria, and although I can not see the bite I sure can feel it. It draws an itch and that is about it.
And the use of all these vaccines is destroying their effectiveness:
"Genes that are resistant to antibiotics widespread" by Brady Dennis | Washington Post May 09, 2014
WASHINGTON — From Antarctic lakes to forest soil in Puerto Rico to the guts of mice, scientists are finding antibiotic-resistant genes almost everywhere they look, according to a new study that examined environmental samples from around the globe.
The findings, published Thursday in the journal Current Biology, revealed how widespread antibiotic-resistant genes are in nature. They also raised questions about how the prevalence of resistant genes might relate to a major health problem: bacterial infections in humans that increasingly do not respond to antibiotics....
Scientists have long known that antibiotic-resistant genes are present in nature. Such organisms existed long before humans began using bacteria to help produce antibiotics....
I'm wondering how we survived this long. Must have built up an immunity.
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Related:
WHO reports global antibiotic problem
Deadly plagues, centuries apart, are linked
There can be only one explanation: terrorists.... or aliens.
US, 26 countries launch effort to fight outbreaks
Are they fighting them or loosing them?
ATLANTA — The Untied States appears headed for its worst year for whooping cough in more than five decades, with the number of cases rising at an epidemic rate that specialists say may reflect a problem with the effectiveness of the vaccine....
Whooping cough has generally been increasing for years, but this year’s spike is startling.
Health investigators are trying to figure out what’s going on, and theories include better detection and reporting of cases, some sort of evolution in the bacteria that cause the illness, or shortcomings in the vaccine.
I $ee. Some theorizing is okay.
The vaccine that had been given to young children for decades was replaced in the late 1990s following concerns about rashes, fevers and other side effects. While the new version is considered safer, it is possible it is not as effective long term, said Dr. Anne Schuchat, who oversees the CDC’s immunization and respiratory disease programs.
What do you mean it once was not?
Some parents in California and other states have rebelled against vaccinations and gotten their children exempted from rules that require them to get their shots to enroll in school....
Most of the youngsters who got sick had been vaccinated.
What? Sure looks like a cause and effect situation!
Whooping cough, or pertussis, is a highly contagious disease that can strike people of any age but is most dangerous to children.
It used to be a common threat, with hundreds of thousands of cases annually. Cases gradually dropped after a vaccine was introduced in the 1940s, and the disease came to be thought of as a relic of another age....
The numbers started to climb again in the 1990s....
The government recommends that children get vaccinated in five doses, with the first shot at age 2 months and the final one between 4 and 6 years. A booster shot is recommended around 11 or 12....
That will boo$t profits for pharmaceuticals.
--more--"
"Whooping cough vaccinations urged
The Rhode Island Department of Health has confirmed four cases of whooping cough in Coventry students and is recommending vaccinations for both children and adults in town. Three pertussis cases have been confirmed in students at Alan Shawn Feinstein Middle School. One case has been confirmed in a student at Tiogue Elementary School. Dr. Michael Fine, health department director, said Friday that any child who is not up to date with the pertussis vaccination should be vaccinated. Adults are also being encouraged to get the vaccine. A community vaccination clinic is scheduled for Saturday from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. at Coventry High School."
They say insurance is not required, but people who have coverage are asked to bring their insurance cards(?).
Hope you paid your Obummercare premiums, and I hope they were recorded in the $y$tem.
Guess what else is back, kids:
Mass. issues measles warning
Health alert issued over measles cases
Hospital issues measles warning
"Measles cases on rise in US" by Mike Stobbe | Associated Press April 25, 2014
NEW YORK — There has been a small but growing trend of parents seeking exemptions for their children from school-entry vaccination requirements for religious or philosophical reasons. Other parents have tried to space out, or delay, measles vaccinations because of fears that the shot will trigger autism or other problems.
It's a well-founded fear, especially when you consider the cocktail of concoctions kids get these days.
Outbreaks are more common in communities where such beliefs are more common, specialists say. ‘‘It’s often concentrated there. Folks who think similarly tend to live in the same neighborhood or attend the same religious organization,’’ Dr. William Schaffner, an infectious disease specialist at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, said.
That's a lie. The rates are lower and the kids healthier.
The CDC national tally may already be outdated....
Pfft!
--more--"
Related: Lead poisoning affects 500,000 children in US, officials say
I thought that problem was outdated.
What is always a problem with adolescents:
"HPV vaccination rate still lagging" by Mike Stobbe | AP Medical Writer July 26, 2013
ATLANTA — Only about half of US teenage girls have received a controversial cervical cancer vaccine — a rate that’s changed little in three years.
‘‘We’re dropping the ball,’’ said Dr. Thomas Frieden, head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. ‘‘This is a huge disappointment.’’
*************
A big part of the problem: Family doctors aren’t prodding patients to get HPV shots as forcefully as they recommend other vaccines.
Even they are recognizing the unnecessary dangers.
The vaccine, introduced in 2006, protects against human papillomavirus, or HPV. The sexually transmitted disease can cause cervical cancer and genital warts. The vaccine was first recommended for girls ages 11 and 12 because it works best if given before a teen starts to have sex. In 2011, it was also recommended for boys that age to help prevent the virus’s spread.
More than 20 states have considered adding HPV to the vaccines required for school attendance but only Virginia and the District of Columbia did so. Most states abandoned it after political fights triggered by funding woes, concerns about the vaccine’s safety, and worries that the shots would promote promiscuity.
CDC studies have shown no significant side effects and girls who got the shots did not start having sex earlier.
I would expect them to say that!
--more--"
Related:
"The decline surprised public health experts because US vaccination rates for human papillomavirus — the most common sexually transmitted infection in the United States and a principal cause of cervical cancer — are relatively low."
Maybe this had something to do with it. Time to go back to the Pap smear.
By the time you get to college:
"Princeton University has begun vaccinating nearly 6,000 students to try to stop an outbreak of type B meningitis in an unusual federal government-endorsed administration of a drug not generally approved for use in the United States."
Meaning they are EXPERIMENTING on you kids!
Related: Student’s death tied to N.J. outbreak
More deaths tied to meningitis:
"$100m settlement reached over meningitis cases; Deal struck with insurers, owners of firm that made tainted prescription drugs" by Todd Wallack | Globe Staff May 06, 2014
Bankruptcy lawyers have reached a settlement worth more than $100 million with insurers and the family that owns the defunct Framingham pharmacy that manufactured tainted drugs blamed for killing 64 people and sickening hundreds more in 2012, a deal that paves the way to eventually providing compensation for victims.
Also see: Compounding Conundrum
Related: $100 million agreement close in meningitis outbreak case
Seems like a $lap on the wri$t to me.
Under the proposed settlement filed in US Bankruptcy Court in Boston on Tuesday, New England Compounding Center owners Barry Cadden and his wife, Lisa Conigliaro Cadden, will contribute $21 million to a fund for creditors. Lisa’s sister-in-law and co-owner Carla Conigliaro will add $24 million, and Lisa’s brother and co-owner Greg Conigliaro will contribute $2.75 million.
Barry Cadden, who married into the Conigliaro family, was also the pharmacist who helped oversee the firm’s operations.
The court had already frozen about $21 million in family bank accounts.
A family in crisis.
In addition, insurers for New England Compounding and its landlord are expected to contribute $29 million. And $20 million is expected to come from tax refunds New England Compounding will receive as a result of its losses. Lawyers hope to raise up to $10 million more by selling Ameridose, a defunct sister company that manufactured and repackaged drugs for hospitals and medical centers....
--more--"
If you are lucky you will become a whiz kid before slipping into dementia.
This is nuts, readers:
"The research supports that theory that women who eat nuts or peanut butter during pregnancy are not raising the risk that their children will have nut allergies, according to a study released Monday. Children whose mothers ate nuts most often were actually less likely to have problems consuming them, researchers found. Peanut allergies are on the rise and affect up to 2 percent of the population in the United States and other Western countries."
It's because of the peanut oil adjuvants to the vaccines, although a big caveat is "researchers had no information on fathers’ nut allergies" -- but they did have his age!
Maybe that is how they caught malaria, and although I can not see the bite I sure can feel it. It draws an itch and that is about it.
And the use of all these vaccines is destroying their effectiveness:
"Genes that are resistant to antibiotics widespread" by Brady Dennis | Washington Post May 09, 2014
WASHINGTON — From Antarctic lakes to forest soil in Puerto Rico to the guts of mice, scientists are finding antibiotic-resistant genes almost everywhere they look, according to a new study that examined environmental samples from around the globe.
The findings, published Thursday in the journal Current Biology, revealed how widespread antibiotic-resistant genes are in nature. They also raised questions about how the prevalence of resistant genes might relate to a major health problem: bacterial infections in humans that increasingly do not respond to antibiotics....
Scientists have long known that antibiotic-resistant genes are present in nature. Such organisms existed long before humans began using bacteria to help produce antibiotics....
I'm wondering how we survived this long. Must have built up an immunity.
--more--"
Related:
WHO reports global antibiotic problem
Deadly plagues, centuries apart, are linked
There can be only one explanation: terrorists.... or aliens.
US, 26 countries launch effort to fight outbreaks
Are they fighting them or loosing them?
