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Legal Immunity for Swine Flu Vaccine Makers


Health & Wellness  (tags: h1n1, flu, vaccine, dangers, medicine, risks, treatment, disease, humans, children, protection, safety )

Jelica
- 97 days ago - healthiertalk.com
As I've stated before, I'm not anti-vaccine, but rather pro-vaccine safety and choice. Both of the issues - vaccine makers being inoculated against lawsuits, and the fast-tracking of vaccines that contain documented dangerous ingredients - are surefire wa
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Jelica R. (86)
Friday September 11, 2009, 6:53 am
Accents from Dr. Joseph Mercola's article:

Vaccine makers now have ZERO incentive to ensure safety.

Dr. Mercola: "Drug manufacturers got a major boost in protection and were granted unprecedented powers to experiment on the population with the passing of the 2006 Public Readiness and Emergency Preparedness Act (the PREP Act).

"This law allows the DHHS Secretary to invoke almost complete immunity from liability for manufacturers of vaccines and drugs used to combat a declared public health emergency.

"The PREP Act removes your right to a trial jury unless you can provide clear evidence of willful misconduct that resulted in death or serious physical injury. But that's not all. First you must apply for and be granted permission to sue by the DHHS Secretary.

"The most problematic aspect of the PREP Act is that it removes all financial incentive to make a safe product.

"In fact, vaccine makers now have a negative incentive to test it for safety, because if they are aware of problems, then they could potentially be held liable for willful misconduct!

"As long as they can prove they 'didn't know' of any problem, they will not be liable for damages. Hence it's in their best interest to know as little as possible about the adverse reactions it might cause.

"It seems unimaginable, but you and your children are now being enlisted as an unpaid human trial subjects for experimental, fast-tracked vaccines."
 

JennyLynn W. (124)
Friday September 11, 2009, 1:00 pm
OK, it's time for accountability. The highly paid (overpaid) CEOs of these companies, along with other executives and the Boards of Directors, are the first to be volunteered. If they are going to profit first (and profit big), they should take the first risks. The next round should be those who develop the vaccines and other employees. If they are going to profit, they should take risks too. Finally, the companies should recruit and pay highly groups of volunteers. NO more animal testing and NO more immunity for anyone. Accountability is one of the very best ways to ensure that people behave themselves.
 

Gemma H. (47)
Friday September 11, 2009, 6:57 pm
Scary stuff. Thanks Jelica
 

Christoph Wuth (74)
Saturday September 12, 2009, 2:08 pm
Technical problems keep hindering the development of vaccines. Research is expensive. Vaccines have side effects that can be quite serious for some individuals. Drug companies are sometimes reluctant to produce vaccines because of the threat of lawsuits from those who may be harmed by these side effects. Pandemics sometimes kill millions of individuals in such short periods that there is no time for drug companies to properly test the safety of a specifically manufactured vaccine. Therefore at times one must choose between dying, unprotected, during a pandemic or accepting the eventual side effects of an immature vaccine.
 

Barbara B. (25)
Sunday September 13, 2009, 6:06 am
"Flu shots contain 25 micrograms of mercury. One microgram is considered toxic. By age two, most US children have received around 237 micrograms of mercury through vaccines alone.

Vaccines contain the following toxic and other substances:

– thimerosal (mercury);

– aluminum hydroxide and phosphate;

–ammonium sulfate;

– amphotericin B,

– animal tissues and fluids, including horse blood, rabbit brain, dog kidney, monkey kidney, chick embryo, chicken egg, duck egg, pig blood, and porcine (pig) protein/tissue;

– calf serum and fetal bovine serum;

– betapropiolactone;

– macerated cancer cells;

– formaldehyde;

– formalin;

– synthetic phenol;

– gelatin and hydrolyzed gelatin;

– glycerol;

– human diploid cells (from aborted human fetal tissue);

– MSG;

– the anti-biotics neomycin and neomycin sulfate;

– phenol red indicator disinfectant dye;

– phenoxyethanol (antifreeze);

– potassium monophosphate;

– polymyxin B;

– polysorbate 20 and 80;

– residual MRC5 proteins;

– sorbitol;

– sucrose;

– tri(n)butylphosphate;

– VERO cells, a continuous line of monkey kidney cells linked to the SV-40 virus known to cause leukemia; and

– washed sheep red blood cells.

One, or a combination, of these substances can play havoc with the human immune and neurological systems and cause deadly autoimmune and other diseases."

(SOURCE: http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=14937)
 

Arielle S. (115)
Monday September 14, 2009, 11:20 am
legal immunity?? Say what?? That sounds like a license to kill....
 

Mark G. (30)
Monday September 14, 2009, 5:51 pm
You are correct. They should triple the price of their vaccines to cover their legal exposure rather than ask for immunity. Or they should just quit making vaccines and make something else. After all just because vaccines have contributed greatly to life expectancy due to protection against those once common deadly diseases of polio, pertussis, measles, smallpox, meningococcal disease, etc that's no reason to keep vaccine makers around. Sue them out of the business. We can always dance around the campfire and chant instead to ward off deadly diseases.
 

Barbara B. (25)
Saturday September 26, 2009, 12:58 am
Vaccines are the quackery of modern medicine. Mass vaccination programs not only fail to protect the population from infectious disease, they actually accelerate the spread of disease in many cases.

Many websites have cropped up over the last few years to counter the pro-vaccine propaganda put out by drug companies (who profit from vaccines) and health regulators (who serve the drug companies). One of those sites is www.VaccinationDebate.com , which lists the following historical facts about vaccines:

• In the USA in 1960, two virologists discovered that both polio vaccines were contaminated with the SV 40 virus which causes cancer in animals as well as changes in human cell tissue cultures. Millions of children had been injected with these vaccines. (Med Jnl of Australia 17/3/1973 p555)

• In 1871-2, England, with 98% of the population aged between 2 and 50 vaccinated against smallpox, it experienced its worst ever smallpox outbreak with 45,000 deaths. During the same period in Germany, with a vaccination rate of 96%, there were over 125,000 deaths from smallpox. (http://www.soilandhealth.org/02/020…)
The Hadwen Documents

• In Germany, compulsory mass vaccination against diphtheria commenced in 1940 and by 1945 diphtheria cases were up from 40,000 to 250,000. (Don’t Get Stuck, Hannah Allen)

• In 1967, Ghana was declared measles free by the World Health Organisation after 96% of its population was vaccinated. In 1972, Ghana experienced one of its worst measles outbreaks with its highest ever mortality rate. (Dr H Albonico, MMR Vaccine Campaign in Switzerland, March 1990)

• In 1977, Dr Jonas Salk who developed the first polio vaccine, testified along with other scientists, that mass inoculation against polio was the cause of most polio cases throughout the USA since 1961. (Science 4/4/77 “Abstracts” )

• In the UK between 1970 and 1990, over 200,000 cases of whooping cough occurred in fully vaccinated children. (Community Disease Surveillance Centre, UK)

• In the 1970’s a tuberculosis vaccine trial in India involving 260,000 people revealed that more cases of TB occurred in the vaccinated than the unvaccinated. (The Lancet 12/1/80 p73)

• In 1978, a survey of 30 States in the US revealed that more than half of the children who contracted measles had been adequately vaccinated. (The People’s Doctor, Dr R Mendelsohn)

• The February 1981 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association found that 90% of obstetricians and 66% of pediatricians refused to take the rubella vaccine.

• In 1979, Sweden abandoned the whooping cough vaccine due to its ineffectiveness. Out of 5,140 cases in 1978, it was found that 84% had been vaccinated three times! (BMJ 283:696-697, 1981)

• In the USA, the cost of a single DPT shot had risen from 11 cents in 1982 to $11.40 in 1987. The manufacturers of the vaccine were putting aside $8 per shot to cover legal costs and damages they were paying out to parents of brain damaged children and children who died after vaccination. (The Vine, Issue 7, January 1994, Nambour, Qld)

SOURCE: http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=14974
 

Road LessTraveled (3196)
Friday October 23, 2009, 5:49 am
http://www.care2.com/c2c/groups/disc.html?gpp=41&pst=1236733

discussion about safety and effectiveness of vaccines

Blog: Scandal; German Government buys 2 types of H1N1 vaccine; one for peasants, another for government officials
Link to story about German government purchasing 2 different vaccine types; one version without additives for government, then they are buying another one full of mercury and chemical 'boosters' for the common peasants.

http://www.care2.com/c2c/share/detail/1281570
 
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