[NVIC] Poisoning Our Children

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BL Fisher Note:

 

On the National Vaccine Information Center

website, www.nvic.org, there

is a letter to Col. Robert Kadlec. M.D.

(USAF-ret.), staff director, Senate

Subcommittee on Bioterrorism and Public Health

Preparedness, which outlines

just how outrageous the legislation giving drug

companies immunity really

is. Click on " Libability Shield Given to Pharma "

at the top of the front

page.

 

 

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2006/04/10

/EDGNSGUA0G1.DTL

 

San Francisco Chronicle

 

Poisoning our children

Lewis Seiler, Dan Hamburg

Monday, April 10, 2006

 

Top Republicans -- Senate Majority Leader Bill

Frist, R-Tenn., and House

Speaker Dennis Hastert, R-Ill., -- recently sold

the future of our children

to Big Pharma for a paltry $4 bucks a pop.

 

That's the additional cost to produce a safe

vaccine, a vaccine minus the

mercury-based preservative thimerosal. Mercury is

a deadly neurotoxin that

has long been known to cause serious learning

disabilities and death, and is

strongly suspected in contributing to autism.

According to the California

Public Schools Autism Prevalence Report for the

School Years 1992-2003, the

increase in autism prevalence is systemic across

the entire United States

" and should be an urgent public-health concern

.... The disease frequency of

autism now surpasses that of all types of cancer

combined. " The report notes

a 1,086 percent cumulative growth rate of autism

over the period, with a 23

percent average annual growth rate.

 

A recent study published in the spring 2006

volume of the peer-reviewed

Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons shows

that the rate of

neurodevelopmental disorders in children has

decreased following the removal

of thimerosal from most American childhood

vaccines. However, only about

one-third of the 11 million children vaccinated

for influenza this year will

receive mercury-free vaccines.

 

At the end of last year, President Bush signed

the Public Readiness and

Emergency Preparedness Act (PREPA), granting

blanket immunity to

pharmaceutical companies for vaccine-induced

injuries. The measure is a

carte blanche for industry, allowing it even to

reintroduce mercury in

vaccines that are clean, and under the behest of

the World Health

Organization, to continue shipping tainted

vaccine to the " developing

world. "

 

The federal government has known enough to

stop the use of mercury in

vaccines for more than a decade. Industry has

known of the dangers of

thimerosal since at least 1991.

 

But using the preservative made the sale of

vaccines more profitable. In

fact, the Centers for Disease Control and

Prevention has at times seemed

just as concerned about these profits as the

companies themselves. Cynics

have noted the " revolving door " between industry

and government that seems

to alter the perspective of both. In 1999, the

Centers for Disease Control

and Prevention recommended " the elimination of

thimerosal as soon as

possible. " In 2002, the CDC stated in a press

release " all vaccines will be

thimerosal-free as soon as adequate supplies are

available. " Yet, last year

the CDC refused to live up to its own policy by

claiming " no preference for

thimerosal-free vaccines. "

 

Laden with millions in campaign contributions

from the industry, some

members of Congress are eager to plead that

Merck, GlaxoSmithKline, Wyeth,

and Eli Lilly might have to close up shop if they

were forced to take

responsibility for injuries caused by their

products. These companies hardly

need the help. Pharmaceuticals, despite their

whining about risk and R & D

costs, are some of the most profitable businesses

in the country with the

median profit margin of the top 10 companies more

than five times that of

all other industries on the Fortune 500 list.

 

In order to secure passage of the PREPA, Sens.

Frist and Ted Stevens,

R-Alaska, joined by Speaker Hastert, assured

their colleagues in the

House-Senate conference committee that immunity

for the drug companies would

not go forward as a tack-on to the 2006 defense

appropriations bill. There

were no public hearings on the immunity

provision, no debate, no disclosure

of the proceedings of the committee. Press

coverage was virtually

nonexistent.

 

According to one prominent member of the

committee, Rep. David

Obey, D-Wis., " That legislation was unilaterally

and arrogantly inserted

into the bill after the conference was over in a

blatantly abusive power

play by two of the most powerful men in

Congress. " Sen. Ted Kennedy,

D-Mass., called the legislation " a blank check

for the industry. " Sen.

Robert Byrd, D- W. Va., dean of Senate rules,

opined: " There should be no

dispute. The processes leading to passage of this

bill [was] an absolute

travesty. "

 

The PREPA is unconstitutional. It removes the

right to due process and

judicial review for persons injured by vaccines,

thus granting a virtual

license to kill. Under the new law, companies

making vaccines can be grossly

negligent and act with wanton recklessness and

still escape liability as

long as they can show that their misconduct

wasn't " willful. " It is

impossible to conceive of a lower standard for

the drug companies or a

higher burden of proof for injured parties.

 

The refusal of the drug companies to take

responsibility for the products

they produce, and the complicity of the highest

levels of government in

their refusal, will diminish public confidence in

the entire U.S.

vaccination program. Already, thousands of

mothers, including our own

daughters, are fearful of having their infants

and toddlers vaccinated.

 

The PREPA also pre-empts the laws of states,

including California, which

have passed legislation outlawing mercury in

childhood vaccinations.

Meanwhile, the CDC continues to send its

officials into state legislatures

around the country in attempts to abort measures

banning mercury.

 

It's worth considering why the drug companies

feel they need such

treatment.

Is it because they have known for decades that

their product is harmful? As

we learned with Big Tobacco, denial is the first

defense. Eventually, the

truth will come out about mercury and the

depravity of injecting a

neurotoxin into the bodies of infants and

toddlers.

 

 

Lewis Seiler is president of Voice of the

Environment. Dan Hamburg, a

former

U.S. representative, is executive director

 

 

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