Shocking!! India continued GM AIDS vaccine trial despite failure.

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Respected Sirs/Madam, It is now known that all vaccine trials are grossly inadequate. Scientists conducting safety trials have admitted that it is not possible to conduct appropriate large scale trials to know the safety & efficacy of vaccines because the amount of time, labour and money the exercise would entail would make such a trial prohibitive. What this essentially means that we are subjecting our children to a lot of untested stuff. Now let us come to Genetically Engineered (GE) vaccines. These vaccines have genetically modified designer viruses that scientists feel would closely match the evolving strains. As far as I remember right now the Hep-B, HPV, and the Flu Vaccines are GE vaccines. There could be more. In a sense all vaccines cause genetic contamination as they contain serum from animals. There is no way to check contamination in serum as all the foreign viruses have

not been identified, isolated and studied. In the following story the doctors aver that the patients subjected to the failed GE AIDS vaccine are not at risk. How far are the doctors qualified to make this statement? What do they know? How do they know? Have any such long term tests been carried out to test the safety of GE drugs or vaccines? Again, such tests would be "prohibitive". Activists fighting GM have irrefutable evidence, backed by actual ground events, that genetic modification should not be allowed. "Science" is not interested in such evidence and has decided to be led by blind belief, faith, and the lure of power and money. Whose interests are we serving here? Certainly it is not the patients who are benefitting from such reckless experiments. Informed consent? Are the doctors informed enough to convey the risks to the patients? Consent?

Do the hapless patients have a choice? Where do they go when things go wrong? They are easily fooled when adverse events resulting from such trials are ascribed to other causes. We in Orissa read of numerous instances where vaccine adverse events are denied. Recently the OPV & the DPT have been in the news. The children are doomed to a life of disability just because the State has forsaken the role of a parent. Much has been said in these forums about the integrity of "experts" in whose hands our lives and fates rest. I believed we should replace such "experts" with informed citizen. If anyone can help save our lives it is us. We alone can bring about the required change. It is high time we, the common citizen of Planet Earth, confronted doctors with the facts and sought answers. Fortunately many members of the medical

community too feel so. Regards, Jagannath. ----------------------- Despite note that AIDS vaccine had failed, India changed rules and continued trials (3) [source : Human Rights News] http://www.isidelhi.org.in/hrnews/dec/2412.htm#HIV/AIDS New Delhi, December 22: The first-ever AIDS vaccine trial in India, flagged off by Union Health Minister Anbumani Ramadoss and Union Science and Technology Minister Kapil Sibal two years ago, ended in failure when it was announced in Pune last month that although it was “well

tolerated,” it did not “elicit the acceptable immune response.” The announcement overlooked one glaring fact: the trial, conducted on 30 healthy volunteers at Pune’s National AIDS Research Institute (NARI), continued for a whole year although it was known within the first fortnight that the same vaccine had failed in tests in Germany and Belgium — with exactly the same conclusions. The trial, a tripartite venture of the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), the

International AIDS Vaccine Initiative (IAVI), and the National AIDS Control Organization (NACO), began on February 7, 2005 at NARI. India was one of the three countries chosen for this “multi-country trial.” When contacted by The Sunday Express, NARI director Ramesh Paranjape said: “The Pune trial ended safely and the health of volunteers has not been compromised at all.” Asked why the trial continued for one year when it was known that the vaccine had failed, he said: “Scientists learnt a lot in how to conduct and manage trials for an AIDS vaccine.” Officially, informed consent and necessary ethical clearances were accorded to the trial. “There was no justification for the trial,” said Pushp M Bhargava, founder-director of the Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology, Hyderabad, and a member of IAVI’s board. “It was unethical and totally uncalled for. The volunteers can’t be treated like guinea pigs, they should have been told that he vaccine being tested on them had failed. We were not shown the data from Germany and Belgium — till date that has not been shared with us.” The vaccine tested was a biotechnologically tamed version of the living Adeno Associated

Virus (AAV) scientifically named tgAAC09. It was sourced by India through the New York-based IAVI from a US pharmaceutical company Targeted Genetics. On February 22, 2005 — 14 days into the trial in India — Targeted Genetics issued an official note on its European trial saying that “the vaccine [AAV — tgAAC09] at the doses evaluated in this initial study did not elicit significant immune responses.” In layman’s terms, the vaccine had failed in Europe even though it had been tested on 50 individuals in a Phase-I trial meant to evaluate safety. Ironically, to accommodate the trial, India departed from its established regulatory procedure. Until this genetically engineered AIDS vaccine was tested in 2005, the policy was that a “phase lag” had to be maintained before any clinical trial of a foreign-made molecule. In other words, a molecule or a vaccine developed in a foreign country could never be tested in India for a Phase-I trial until the host country where the molecule was invented had not undertaken a full fledged Phase-II trial. But this trial went ahead on the grounds that there was a health emergency and the need was to arrest the galloping epidemic of AIDS. Given the

confidentiality clause of the trial, no independent verification has been possible on how the Indian volunteers fared physically and/or psychologically in the Pune trial. (Indian Express 23/12/07) There is no longer any serious doubt that health officials are covering up a big story, trying to side step a growing swell of evidence that threatens the very foundation of medical science and practice. It is obvious that the medical profession cannot afford to have the public ever find out the truth about vaccination for there is simply just too much at stake for them. - Dr Mark Sircus, MD.

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