Australia - Parents criticize government for not acting sooner

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Australia - Parents criticize government for not acting

sooner

Christina England

American

Chronicle

05/04/2010

 

Parents have heavily criticized the Western Australian government for not

acting sooner, after the flu vaccine caused hundreds of children to

suffer convulsions and vomiting. One angry parent told the Australian

that all three of her children were taken to hospital suffering from

vomiting and fits after the vaccine saying that it was ‘a frightening

experience’.

It later emerged however, that this vaccine, which was a combination of

the seasonal flu and the swine flu vaccine was never actually tested.

Australian reported:-

“Peter Richmond, associate professor at the University of Western

Australia’s school of pediatrics and child health, said the vaccine was

not subjected to trials.”

He was reported to have said:-

“As with each year’s seasonal influenza vaccine, this year’s seasonal

influenza vaccine isn’t subject to specific trials in children before

it’s used”.

So there we have it ,our children are being used as guinea pigs while the

governments hope that they will be OK. It makes you wonder just how many

other vaccines are also not tested before use on the public.

It was not until hundreds of small children suffered horrendous side

effects from this untested vaccine that action was finally

taken.

Sydney Morning Herald reported today that-

“WA Health Minister Kim Hames said the inquiry would scrutinise systems

used to identify public health risks, including vaccine side-effects and

disease outbreaks, after criticism of the government’s slow

response”.

Note the phrase ‘after criticism of the government’s slow

response’.

It took hundreds of children to become seriously ill and a few deaths

before an inquiry in to what went wrong actually took place, honestly,

what does she expect?

CORTLAN BENNETT for the Herald reported that Mr Hames continued by

adding:-

“There has been concern expressed by members of the public regarding the

process and the time taken by the Health Department in reaching a

conclusion that there was a problem with the vaccine and proceeding to

closing that vaccination program,”

Parents have every right to be angry.

One parent Mrs Flint told the WA News that she was petrified.

“Mrs Flint said that after the 9am vaccination she noticed Avery had a

minor temperature about 2pm. She treated him with Panadol and by Avery’s

7pm bedtime he seemed “OK”.

However, at 7.45pm, Avery started whimpering and moaning.

When Mrs Flint got to his cot the baby had vomited and was lying on his

side having a seizure.

“In the car driving to the hospital he was just whimpering,” she

said.

“He couldn’t cry – his head was hanging down in the car seat and he

couldn’t move.

“I was petrified – it was one of the worst experiences of my

life.”

By the time Avery arrived at St John of God Hospital in Murdoch, he was

burning up with a fever of 39.5 degrees.

The doctor who treated Avery told Mrs Flint her baby was the fifth child

with similar symptoms admitted to the hospital that day.”

Roger Cook Shadow Minister for Health demanded for data collection and

procedures to be investigated, saying in a report that ’shattered

confidence of parents’ needed to be restored.

Government must restore confidence after immunisation bungle

“Mr Cook called on Health Minister Kim Hames to reveal what the Barnett

Government and its public servants knew ahead of the suspension of the

immunisation program that caused 251 children to receive hospital

treatment.

“The shattered confidence of parents across Western Australia can only be

restored if the Barnett Government discloses what it knew about the

vaccine and how long it waited to act,” he said.

Mr Cook said the protocols and data collection procedures needed to be

investigated.

“In this instance, the connectivity between each of the health services,

including doctors, the WA Health Department and the Health Direct

helpline, seems to have broken down and therefore parents and health

officials were unaware of the warnings,” he said.

Parents must be able to access information that is current and

accurate.”

Mr Cook said he had been contacted by parents who were angry about the

level of information available.

There are only so many vaccine disasters that parents will tolerate

before they decide it is safer not to have their children vaccinated. How

many babies need to die before our Governments wake up and ensure that

the vaccines are fully tested in proper vaccine trials before they are

used on millions of innocent babies? Parents deserve far better than

this.

 

Sheri Nakken, R.N., MA, Hahnemannian

Homeopath

Vaccination Information & Choice Network, Washington State, USA

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