UNCLE SAM's Lucky Finds

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Tom Paine

Friday, March 29, 2002 10:56 AM

70-90 Million Doses of Smallpox Vaccine Discovered

 

 

NOW WE HAVE MORE OF UNCLE SAM's Lucky Finds.

These people are dangerous. Tommy Thompson of the New Homeland Security has said

he has a " smallpox vaccine with your name on it " . Now all they have to do when

people die is claim the old vaccine must have been contaminated. THE NIH & WHO

are implicated in 10 books (suppressed in US) of starting AIDS epidemic with the

HepB Vaccine Trials in 1979 on Africans and Manhattan gays. These groups

immediately developed AIDS. I am a pharmacist. I am truly thinking of moving to

France. They will pull another fake terrorist attack soon. We just had a 1940s

old bomber buzzing Seattle yesterday...scared people to death.....and it

" crashed " in Puget Sound (water). (The four guys were fine). Front of paper

stating it was good this wasn't a terrorist attack etc. Scared people further.

It is nothing more than more fear inducing crap they are pulling. They are

having fighters fly low over the houses here etc.

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Made Fun of It Britian's #1 Paper

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> Smallpox Vaccine Turns Up

> Discovered Doses Buy Time for U.S.

> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A28223-2002Mar27.html

>

> By Rick Weiss

> Washington Post Staff Writer

> Thursday, March 28, 2002; Page A01

>

> A pharmaceutical company has discovered 70 million to 90 million

> long-forgotten doses of smallpox vaccine in its freezers, instantly

> increasing the known U.S. inventory of the vaccine six-fold and ensuring

> the nation an adequate supply in the event of a bioterrorist attack,

> according to government sources familiar with the find.

>

> The immediate impact of the discovery is to buy time for the federal

> government and its pharmaceutical contractors, which together have been

> racing to produce tens of millions of smallpox vaccine doses as part of

the

> new biodefense initiative. Companies will be able use that cushion of time

> to fine-tune some of the new vaccine candidates under development, instead

> of rushing effective but perhaps less-than-perfect vaccines into

production

> as an emergency stopgap measure.

>

> " It's a great insurance policy, " said D.A. Henderson, director of the

newly

> created federal Office of Health Preparedness.

>

> The liquid vaccine doses were produced by Aventis Pasteur of Lyon, France,

> which has its U.S. operations in Swiftwater, Pa. The vaccine has been

> stored in freezers since it was made decades ago, sources said. It

remained

> unclear yesterday why its existence had gone undiscovered for so long,

> exactly when it was discovered or by whom.

>

> Sources said the company is negotiating with the Department of Health and

> Human Services with the goal of giving the U.S. government access to the

> supply. Among the issues to be worked out are how much money, if any,

would

> change hands in the transaction, and the extent to which the company may

be

> relieved of liability should problems with the vaccine arise.

>

> Calls to Aventis were referred to HHS, which volunteered few details.

>

> " There are legal things that still need to be finalized, " said HHS

> spokesman Bill Hall. HHS Secretary Tommy G. Thompson hopes to settle the

> deal before next week, Hall said. " Until then, our hands are tied. "

>

> A global vaccination effort rid the world of naturally occurring smallpox

> in 1977, after which the vaccine fell out of production. But a few vials

of

> smallpox viruses were saved in the United States and the Soviet Union.

Some

> experts fear that small amounts of the highly infectious, often fatal

agent

> -- which can be expanded with relative ease in a laboratory -- may have

> fallen into terrorist hands.

>

> The possibility that smallpox might reemerge as an agent of terror

recently

> inspired U.S. health officials to take stock of existing vaccine supplies.

> That inventory concluded that the nation has about 15.4 million doses --

> barely enough to deal with an attack on a major city or two.

>

> The federal government contracted with various companies to make more of

> the standard vaccine and to begin work on new and safer versions. But no

> one knows whether the goal of producing 155 million new doses this year is

> reachable, and even that would leave the nation far short.

>

> At the same time, in an effort to make more with less, federal scientists

> have been diluting samples of existing stocks and testing them to see if

> they are still potent. U.S. health officials have said in recent weeks

that

> studies involving five-fold and ten-fold dilutions are looking very

> promising. Final results of those tests are to be released today. But even

> a ten-fold expansion of the previously documented 15.4 million doses would

> produce only half the doses needed to vaccinate every American.

>

> That shortage is more than covered by the Aventis discovery.

>

> The Aventis vaccine is essentially identical to the previously inventoried

> vaccine, which was made by Wyeth and went by the name Dryvax. Both were

> grown from the same seed stock of vaccinia, a virus so similar to the

> smallpox virus that it primes the immune system against both. The key

> difference between the two products is that Dryvax is stored as

> freeze-dried powder, which must be reconstituted by adding a liquid

> diluent, while the Aventis product was reconstituted and then frozen in

its

> liquid form.

>

> Ongoing studies strongly suggest that the Aventis product is fully potent,

> according to one government scientist familiar with the work. Indeed, the

> official said, it's likely that the Aventis product can itself be diluted

> five-fold if necessary, creating far more doses than would be needed in

> this nation even in the face of a full-blown bioterrorist attack.

>

> That does not mean it will be easy to defend against such an attack or

that

> deaths would be rare. The vaccine must be given within a few days after

> exposure to smallpox, posing a logistical nightmare if outbreaks were to

> occur in several locations simultaneously. Smallpox has historically

killed

> about a third of those it infects.

>

> Another problem is that both the Wyeth and Aventis vaccines can be deadly

> in people whose immune systems are suppressed by AIDS or other diseases or

> as a result of their taking drugs for cancer or organ transplantation. In

> fact, such patients are at risk of life-threatening vaccinia infection

> simply by coming in contact with others who have been vaccinated, since

> live viruses are shed from the injection site on the arm.

>

> The discovery of the extra doses could escalate an already heated debate

> over the wisdom of vaccinating doctors, public health workers and other

> " first responders, " a strategy that some have proposed as a way of

ensuring

> that key personnel would be protected in the event of a covert attack.

>

> One expert yesterday expressed concern that the discovery of the added

> doses, while reassuring, might lead to a federal decision to offer

> prophylactic vaccination before a careful analysis of such a program's

> scientific and social impact is conducted.

>

> " Doing that without proper foresight and planning could be a disaster. It

> could kill people, that's for certain, and it could undermine the

> government's credibility, " said Tara O'Toole, director of Johns Hopkins'

> Center for Civilian Biodefense Studies in Baltimore. " There are very

> significant ethical issues involved in saying, 'Okay, you can have it and

> you can't.' This is no small challenge. "

>

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