Showing posts with label doctors. Show all posts
Showing posts with label doctors. Show all posts

Wednesday, December 9, 2009

Animal transplants imminent




AUSTRALIA has lifted its five-year ban on the transplantation of
animal cells and organs into humans, allowing hospitals to use pig
cells to treat diabetes, Parkinson's disease and strokes within
months.

The National Health and Medical Research Council made its decision
despite pleas from animal rights activists and transplant specialists
that the procedure had not been proven safe and could result in the
creation of deadly viruses.

Xenotransplantation was banned in 2004 because of concerns that pig
endogenous retrovirus could spread to humans.

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full story:
http://www.smh.com.au/national/animal-transplants-imminent-20091209-kk3g.html

Sunday, September 13, 2009

The Great Swine Flu Cover-Up

Laura Carlsen
Mexico has been considered the laboratory of globalization since it initiated the North American Free Trade Agreement in 1994. In April of 2009 a deadly virus germinated in that laboratory, finding ideal conditions to move quickly into a global pandemic.
The first outbreaks of the new swine flu were discovered in a small town in the state of Veracruz. Carroll Farms, the massive industrial farm animal production facilities co-owned by Smithfield Foods and AHMSA of Mexico is located near La Gloria, in the municipality of Perote. A Carroll Farms representative called the fact that the first swine flu case was located within a few miles of the pig farm "an unfortunate coincidence." To reinforce the "coincidence" thesis, international health authorities renamed the outbreak the "H1N1 human flu" and began a concerted effort to hide the swine role. Scientists agree that the virus does in fact contain a swine component and that its predecessor viruses mutated in a livestock facility...
Read more...

Laura Carlsen the director of the Americas Program www.americaspolicy.org for the Center for International Policy in Mexico City.
This article originally appeared in Third World Resurgence www.twnside.org.sg/twr.htm
Related articles from the Americas Program:

South America's Swine Flu Winter
http://americas.irc-online.org/am/6316
Swine Flu Reveals Flaws in Global Public Health System
http://americas.irc-online.org/am/6108
Mexico's Swine Flu and the Globalization of Disease
http://americas.irc-online.org/am/6091
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Tuesday, August 4, 2009

FLU IS NOT THE BIGGEST DANGER ....IT'S THE VACCINE

http://www.davidicke..com/content/view/25191


We are told that the drug companies and the World Health Organisation have been working at fever pitch to develop a vaccine for the 'new' swine flu strain known as H1N1, but ... wait for it ... Baxter International filed a patent for the H1N1 vaccine on August 28th 2008. Click here to read ....

Baxter Vaccine Patent Application US 2009/0060950 A1 says:

'... In particular preferred embodiments the composition or vaccine comprises more than one antigen ... such as influenza A and influenza B in particular selected from of one or more of the human H1N1, H2N2, H3N2, H5N1, H7N7, H1N2, H9N2, H7N2, H7N3, H10N7 subtypes, of the pig flu H1N1, H1N2, H3N1 and H3N2 subtypes, of the dog or horse flu H7N7, H3N8 subtypes or of the avian H5N1, H7N2, H1N7, H7N3, H13N6, H5N9, H11N6, H3N8, H9N2, H5N2, H4N8, H10N7, H2N2, H8N4, H14N5, H6N5, H12N5 subtypes.'

The patent was published in March 2009, a month before the virus was released in Mexico in April, but it was filed seven months before this 'new strain' was officially known about. It is the most blatant set-up you could ever see.

'Past swine flu outbreaks have been spread from pigs to humans, who then passed the flu on to other humans. However, with A-H1N1, there have been no reported infections of pigs. In fact, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), A-H1N1 has gene segments from North American swine, bird and human flu strains and a segment from Eurasian swine flu.'

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Another Big Pharma corporation involved is Novartis in Switzerland. Chief executive, Daniel Vasella, is a regular attendee of the secretive Bilderberg meetings that I have long exposed in my books. The Bilderberg group , named in Jane Bürgermeister' s FBI submission, is the creation of the Rothschild dynasty and has been administered for decades by people like David Rockefeller and Henry Kissinger.

It answers to a Rothschild secret society in Britain called the Round Table. This was first headed by the Rothschild agent, Cecil Rhodes, who plundered southern Africa on the family's behalf .. Vasella attended the last Bilderberg meeting last May, just as the swine flu scare was being engineered, and bingo, his company comes up with the vaccine.

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Jane Bürgermeister' s / journalist/ evidence has been supported by Wayne Madsen, a former US Naval Intelligence officer aand now an investigative journalist. He said that a top United Nations scientist concluded that the H1N1 swine flu virus has certain transmission 'vectors' that suggest the new flu strain has been genetically- manufactured as a military biological warfare weapon. The UN expert believed that Ebola, HIV/AIDS, and the current A-H1N1 swine flu virus are all biological warfare agents. Madsen writes:

'Past swine flu outbreaks have been spread from pigs to humans, who then passed the flu on to other humans. However, with A-H1N1, there have been no reported infections of pigs. In fact, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), A-H1N1 has gene segments from North American swine, bird and human flu strains and a segment from Eurasian swine flu.'

Wayne Madsen also says that his sources confirm that the Centers for Disease Control and the US Army recovered the body of an Inuit woman who died in 1918 in Brevig Mission, Alaska, from an outbreak of Spanish flu that killed 100 million people worldwide in 18 months.

Madsen was told that genetic material from the corpse provided the basis for the development of the H5N1 avian, or 'bird flu', strain at the US Army Medical Institute of Infectious Diseases laboratory at Fort Detrick, Maryland. This lab was the origin of the anthrax attacks on US Congress and media targets shortly after September 11th in 2001.

All this will sound way out in the Twilight Zone to those new to this sort of information. ...

Saturday, July 25, 2009

Press Office Communique: ALF Attacks HLS Supplier

Animal Liberation Front Attacks Huntingdon Life Sciences Supplier
Phenomenex Who Provides Chemical Reagents Used in Torture of 500 Animals Daily

Torrance, CA: In a communique accompanied by photographs that was received by the North American Animal Liberation Press Office, animal liberationists claim to have attacked a Torrance, California firm that supplies chemical reagents to notorious contract animal testing company Huntingdon Life Sciences. Huntingdon Life Sciences (HLS, Ticker: LSR), is Europe's largest animal testing company with laboratories in New Jersey and the United Kingdom. The campaign to stop animal abuse at HLS is global, being waged in at least 22 countries throughout the world.

The communique reads, in part:
In solidarity with SHAC North America's launch, the underground of Los Angeles made note and paid a quick visit to Phenomenex's Torrance location on 7-18 to leave a calling card. Fliers were taped to the windows and their flowerbeds were trashed and their lawn signs bent up and ripped from the ground. It's hard to stomach the idea of what Phenomenex provides Huntingdon Life Sciences, and to ask them to merely quit working with HLS is what we demand - Phenomenex, you're in that quiet little business park in Torrance and your building is a nice safe distance from others. This was just a calling card - a friendly request - we suggest you take it.

Huntingdon Life Sciences has been exposed in seven consecutive undercover investigations which exposed lab technicians simulating sex with the animals, punching beagle puppies and violating numerous animal welfare regulations. . The company kills 500 dogs and other animals every day testing such products as oven cleaners, pesticides and pharmaceuticals. Before losing their NYSE listing several years ago, HLS lost their listing on the London Stock Exchange, after UK campaigners exposed atrocities occurring inside HLS facilities; the company currently teeters on the brink of bankruptcy.

To read the original ALF communique and see photos of the action, visit
http://www.animalliberationpressoffice.org/communiques/2009/2009-07-21_phenomenex.htm

Friday, July 24, 2009

STOP THE USE OF LIVE CATS IN TTUHSC LABS!ACTION ALERTS

Please end the inhumane use of cats in your training labs

John C. Baldwin, M.D.
PRESIDENT'S OFFICE -- HSC
3601 4th Street Stop 6258
Lubbock, TX 79430
ph: 806-743-2900
email: john.baldwin@ttuhsc.edu


The thinking [person] must oppose all cruel customs no matter how deeply rooted in tradition and surrounded by a halo. When we have a choice, we must avoid bringing torment and injury into the life of another... ~Albert Schweitzer ~

Dear Sir,

I was horrified to learn that TTUHSC has been conducting painful intubation training procedures in which cats have hard plastic tubes repeatedly forced down their wind pipes and also have air forced into their chest cavities so that course participants can repeatedly practice inserting a needle into the animals and removing the excess air. The cats are then killed afterwards.

Despite the availability of non-animal alternatives like CPR training manikins or other human-like simulators (used in training by the American Academy of Pediatrics, the American Heart Association and others), Texas Tech purchases lost and homeless cats from Odessa Animal Control to use in intubation training.

Both the American Academy of Pediatrics and the American Heart Association exclusively endorse the use of manikins, not live animals, for this kind of training because it more accurately represents the human anatomy and better prepares medical providers to treat sick and injured children.

Over 90% of U.S. medical schools no longer use live animals for teaching purposes.

I urge you to put an end to these cruel and outdated training procedures immediately and to embrace true compassion and civilization into your attitude towards ALL lives.

Sincerely,

Monday, July 13, 2009

Swine Flu Vaccine !Public Warning!

Dear all, This is not the first warning I've received about this subject, thus I feel obliged to post this to all our groups so you will have an opportunity to do some research on this issue.
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VIDEO: Swine Flu & "60 Minutes"

Come this fall, many governments will have a great deal
of swine flu vaccine stocked and ready to go.

There's big money to be made selling vaccines (just ask major Swine
Flu vaccine shareholder, Donald Rumsfeld
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1176743/Donald-Rumsfelds-controversial-links-drug-company-Tamiflu.html
) . The
government and media fear-mongering is already starting.

On Thursday, July 9, US health officials said the government would
like to institute mass vaccinations of school-aged children
starting in October.
http://www.webmd.com/cold-and-flu/news/20090709/swine-flu-vaccination-may-target-schools
Should this happen, we will be removing our children from school
rather than let them receive this vaccine.

Why? Well just watch the two videos below, from the last time
the government got into the swine flu vaccine business.

The two videos are a 1979 "60 Minutes" story about some
of the people who became seriously ill, permanently paralyzed, or
died due to the vaccine.

Before letting yourself or your loved ones be vaccinated with
this new, untested vaccine, before you let them become
fodder for Big Pharma profits, do some research and
seriously question the need for this -- or any government
vaccine schemes.

The 1976 mass vaccination was stopped, but only after
thousands of people became massively ill.
Nothing has changed between then and now.


http://www.vegsource.com/articles2/media_swine2.htm

Saturday, July 11, 2009

The effect of animal fats on the human body

The effect of animal fats on the human body
The Real Food
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Journalist Files Charges against WHO and UN for Bioterrorism and Intent to Commit Mass Murder

by Barbara Minton, Natural Health Editor



(NaturalNews) As the anticipated July release date for Baxter's A/H1N1 flu pandemic vaccine approaches, an Austrian investigative journalist is warning the world that the greatest crime in the history of humanity is underway. Jane Burgermeister has recently filed criminal charges with the FBI against the World Health Organization (WHO), the United Nations (UN), and several of the highest ranking government and corporate officials concerning bioterrorism and attempts to commit mass murder. She has also prepared an injunction against forced vaccination which is being filed in America. These actions follow her charges filed in April against Baxter AG and Avir Green Hills Biotechnology of Austria for producing contaminated bird flu vaccine, alleging this was a deliberate act to cause and profit from a pandemic.

Summary of claims and allegations filed with FBI in Austria on June 10, 2009

In her charges, Burgermeister presents evidence of acts of bioterrorism that is in violation of U.S. law by a group operating within the U.S. under the direction of international bankers who control the Federal Reserve, as well as WHO, UN and NATO. This bioterrorism is for the purpose of carrying out a mass genocide against the U.S. population by use of a genetically engineered flu pandemic virus with the intent of causing death. This group has annexed high government offices in the U.S.

Specifically, evidence is presented that the defendants, Barack Obama, President of the U.S, David Nabarro, UN System Coordinator for Influenza, Margaret Chan, Director-General of WHO, Kathleen Sibelius, Secretary of Department of Health and Human Services, Janet Napolitano, Secretary of Department of Homeland Security, David de Rotschild, banker, David Rockefeller, banker, George Soros, banker, Werner Faymann, Chancellor of Austria, and Alois Stoger, Austrian Health Minister, among others, are part of this international corporate criminal syndicate which has developed, produced, stockpiled and employed biological weapons to eliminate the population of the U.S. and other countries for financial and political gain.

The charges contend that these defendants conspired with each other and others to devise, fund and participate in the final phase of the implementation of a covert international bioweapons program involving the pharmaceutical companies Baxter and Novartis. They did this by bioengineering and then releasing lethal biological agents, specifically the "bird flu" virus and the "swine flu virus" in order to have a pretext to implement a forced mass vaccination program which would be the means of administering a toxic biological agent to cause death and injury to the people of the U.S. This action is in direct violation of the Biological Weapons Anti-terrorism Act.

Burgermeister's charges include evidence that Baxter AG, Austrian subsidiary of Baxter International, deliberately sent out 72 kilos of live bird flu virus, supplied by the WHO in the winter of 2009 to 16 laboratories in four counties. She claims this evidence offers clear proof that the pharmaceutical companies and international government agencies themselves are actively engaged in producing, developing, manufacturing and distributing biological agents classified as the most deadly bioweapons on earth in order to trigger a pandemic and cause mass death.

In her April charges, she noted that Baxter's lab in Austria, one of the supposedly most secure biosecurity labs in the world, did not adhere to the most basic and essential steps to keep 72 kilos of a pathogen classified as a bioweapon secure and separate from all other substances under stringent biosecurity level regulations, but it allowed it to be mixed with the ordinary human flu virus and sent from its facilities in Orth in the Donau.

In February, when a staff member at BioTest in the Czech Republic tested the material meant for candidate vaccines on ferrets, the ferrets died. This incident was not followed up by any investigation from the WHO, EU, or Austrian health authorities. There was no investigation of the content of the virus material, and there is no data on the genetic sequence of the virus released.

In answer to parliamentary questions on May 20th, the Austrian Health Minister, Alois Stoger, revealed that the incident had been handled not as a biosecurity lapse, as it should have been, but as an offence against the veterinary code. A veterinary doctor was sent to the lab for a brief inspection.

Burgermeister's dossier reveals that the release of the virus was to be an essential step for triggering a pandemic that would allow the WHO to declare a Level 6 Pandemic. She lists the laws and decrees that would allow the UN and WHO to take over the United States in the event of pandemic. In addition, legislation requiring compliance with mandatory vaccinations would be put into force in the U.S. under conditions of pandemic declaration.

She charges that the entire "swine flu" pandemic business is premised on a massive lie that there is no natural virus out there that poses a threat to the population. She presents evidence leading to the belief that the bird flu and swine flu viruses have, in fact, been bioengineered in laboratories using funding supplied by the WHO and other government agencies, among others. This "swine flu" is a hybrid of part swine flu, part human flu and part bird flu, something that can only come from laboratories according to many experts.

WHO's claim that this "swine flu" is spreading and a pandemic must be declared ignores the fundamental causes. The viruses that were released were created and released with the help of WHO, and WHO is overwhelmingly responsible for the pandemic in the first place. In addition, the symptoms of the supposed "swine flu" are indistinguishable from regular flu or from the common cold. The "swine flu" does not cause death anymore often than the regular flu causes death.

Burgermeister notes that the figures for deaths reported for the "swine flu" are inconsistent and there is no clarity as to how the number of "deaths" has been documented.

There is no pandemic potential unless mass vaccinations are carried out to weaponize the flu under the guise of protecting the population. There are reasonable grounds for believing that the mandatory vaccines will be purposely contaminated with diseases that are specifically designed to cause death.

Reference is made to a licensed Novartis bird flu vaccine that killed 21 homeless people in Poland in the summer of 2008 and had as its "primary outcome measure" an "adverse events rate", thereby meeting the U.S. government's own definition of a bioweapon (a biological agent designed to cause an adverse events rate, i.e death or injury) with a delivery system (injection).

She alleges that the same complex of international pharmaceutical companies and international government agencies that have developed and released pandemic material have positioned themselves to profit from triggering the pandemic with contracts to supply vaccines. Media controlled by the group that is engineering the "swine flu" agenda is spreading misinformation to lull the people of the U.S. into taking the dangerous vaccine.

The people of the U.S. will suffer substantial and irreparable harm and injury if they are forced to take this unproven vaccine without their consent in accordance with the Model State Emergency Health Powers Act, National Emergency Act, National Security Presidential Directive/NSPD 51, Homeland Security Presidential Directive/HSPD-20, and the International Partnership on Avian and Pandemic Influenza.

In the U.S. since 2008, Burgermeister charges that those named in her allegations have implemented new and/or accelerated the implementation of laws and regulations designed to strip the citizens of the U.S. of their lawful constitutional rights to refuse an injection. These people have created or allowed provisions to remain in place that make it a criminal act to refuse to take an injection against pandemic viruses. They have imposed other excessive and cruel penalties such as imprisonment and/or quarantine in FEMA camps while barring the citizens of the U.S. from claiming compensation from injury or death from the forced injections. This is in violation of the laws governing federal corruption and the abuse of office as well as of the Constitution and Bill of Rights. Through these actions, the named defendants have laid the groundwork for mass genocide.

Using the "swine flu" as a pretext, the defendants have preplanned the mass murder of the U.S. population by means of forced vaccination. They have installed an extensive network of FEMA concentration camps and identified mass grave sites, and they have been involved in devising and implementing a scheme to hand power over the U.S. to an international crime syndicate that uses the UN and WHO as a front for illegal racketeering influenced organized crime activities, in violation of the laws that govern treason.

She further charges that the complex of pharmaceutical companies consisting of Baxter, Novartis and Sanofi Aventis are part of a foreign-based dual purpose bioweapons program, financed by this international criminal syndicate and designed to implement mass murder to reduce the world's population by more than 5 billion people in the next ten years. Their plan is to spread terror to justify forcing people to give up their rights, and to force mass quarantine in FEMA camps. The houses, companies and farms and lands of those who are killed will be up for grabs by this syndicate.

By eliminating the population of North America, the international elite gain access to the region's natural resources such as water and undeveloped oil lands. And by eliminating the U.S. and its democratic constitution by subsuming it under a North American Union, the international crime group will have total control over North America.

Highlights from the complete dossier

The complete dossier of the June 10th action is a 69 page document presenting evidence to substantiate all charges. This includes:

Factual background that delineates time lines and facts that establish probable cause, UN and WHO definitions and roles, and history and incidents from the April, 2009 "swine flu" outbreak.

Evidence the "swine flu" vaccines are defined as bioweapons as delineates in government agencies and regulations classifying and restricting vaccines, and the fear of foreign countries that "swine flu" vaccines will be used for biological warfare.

Scientific evidence the "swine flu" virus is an artificial (genetic) virus.

Scientific evidence the "swine flu" was bioengineered to resemble the Spanish flu virus of 1918 including quotes from Swine Flu 2009 is Weaponized 1918 Spanish Flu by A. True Ott, Ph.D., N.D., and a Science Magazine report from Dr. Jeffrey Taubenberger et.al.

The genome sequence of the "swine flu"

Evidence of the deliberate release of the "swine flu" in Mexico

Evidence as to the involvement of President Obama that delineates his trip to Mexico which coincided with the recent "swine flu" outbreak and the death of several officials involved in his trip. Contention is made that the President was never tested for "swine flu" because he had been previously vaccinated.

Evidence as to the role of Baxter and WHO in producing and releasing pandemic virus material in Austria includes a statement from a Baxter official stating the accidentally distributed H5N1 in the Czech Republic was received from a WHO reference center. This includes delineation of evidence and allegations from Burgermeister's charges filed in April in Austria that are currently under investigation.

Evidence Baxter is an element in a covert bioweapons network

Evidence Baxter has deliberately contaminated vaccine material.

Evidence Novartis is using vaccines as bioweapons

Evidence as to WHO's role in the bioweapons program

Evidence as to WHO's manipulation of disease data in order to justify declaring a Pandemic Level 6 in order to seize control of the USA.

Evidence as to the FDA's role in covering up the bioweapons program

Evidence as to Canada's National Microbiology Lab's role in the bioweapons program.

Evidence of the involvement of scientists working for the UK's NIBSC, and the CDC in engineering the "swine flu".

Evidence vaccinations caused the Spanish killer flu of 1918 including belief of Dr. Jerry Tennant that the widespread use of aspirin during the winter that followed the end of World War I could have been a key factor contributing to the earlier pandemic by suppressing the immune system and lowering body temperatures, allowing the flu virus to multiply. Tamiflu and Relenza also lower body temperatures, and therefore can also be expected to contribute to the spread of a pandemic.

Evidence as to manipulation of the legal framework to allow mass murder with impunity.

Constitutional issues: the legality vs. illegality of jeopardizing the life, health and public good by mass vaccinations.

The issue of immunity and compensation as evidence of intent to commit a crime.

Evidence as to the existence of an international corporate crime syndicate.

Evidence of the existence of the "Illuminati".

Evidence as to the depopulation agenda of the Illuminati/Bilderbergs and their involvement in the engineering and release of the artificial "swine flu" virus.

Evidence that weaponized flu was discussed at the annual Bilderberg meeting in Athens from May 14-17, 2009, as part of their agenda of genocide, including a list of attendees who, according to a statement once made by Pierre Trudeau, view themselves as genetically superior to the rest of humanity.

Media is keeping Americans clueless about the threat they are under

Jane Burgermeister is a dual Irish/Austrian who has written for Nature, the British Medical Journal, and American Prospect. She is the European Correspondent of the Renewable Energy World website. She has written extensively about climate change, biotechnology, and the ecology.

In addition to the charges currently under investigation that she filed against Baxter AG and Avir Green Hills Biotechnology in April, she has filed charges against WHO and Baxter among others concerning a case of exploding "swine flu" vials meant for a research lab on a busy IC train in Switzerland.

In her view, control of the media by the ruling elite has allowed the world crime syndicate to further its agenda unabated while the rest of the people remain in the dark about what is really going on. Her charges are an attempt to get around this media control and bring the truth to light.

Her greatest concern is that "in spite of the fact Baxter has been caught red handed nearly triggering pandemic, they are also moving ahead, together with allied pharma companies, with supplying the vaccine for pandemics." Baxter is hurrying to get this vaccine to market some time in July.

For more information:
http://www.naturalnews.com/025760.html

http://birdflu666.wordpress.com/200...

http://in.news.yahoo.com/137/200906..
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http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/...

Sunday, July 5, 2009

Improving Military Medicine!Action Alert


Monkeys Poisoned, Goats Maimed in Gruesome Military Training





CNN’s Wolf Blitzer calls it a growing controversy. Last month, The Situation Room aired military videos obtained by PCRM through the Freedom of Information Act that reveal the unlawful use of live animals for medical training. But Congress and PCRM are asking the military to switch from these inhumane exercises to nonanimal teaching methods.

The Situation Room’s coverage of PCRM’s campaign to improve military medicine also included an interview with Charles J. Rosciam, M.H.A., a retired captain with the U.S. Navy’s Medical Service Corps. A companion piece was published on CNN.com.

“You can … say it’s not torture, it’s not cruelty ... I don't know of any other word when the end result is that these animals are suffering,” said Capt. Rosciam, a Purple Heart recipient who risked his life to save fallen Marines during the Vietnam War.

The two military training videos reveal this unlawful use of live monkeys in chemical casualty care courses at Aberdeen Proving Ground in Maryland and live goats in combat trauma training courses at Fort Sam Houston in Texas and other military facilities.

In one video, a vervet monkey is given a toxic dose of the drug physostigmine. This simulates the effects of a nerve agent attack. Seizures, diarrhea, and death can result. In another video, an instructor cuts a live goat with a scalpel. This creates traumatic wounds that cause severe bleeding.

Last month, Rep. Henry C. "Hank" Johnson, D-Ga., a member of the House Armed Services Committee, wrote a letter to the secretary and surgeon general of the Army. Rep. Johnson called for an end to the use of live animals in military medical training.

Johnson wrote, “We acknowledge the vital importance of preparing medical personnel with the most educationally effective training methods, and we also are prepared to facilitate a full transition away from the use of animals for the purposes of training.” He also asked other members of Congress to cosign the letter.

His letter followed Capitol Hill briefings earlier in the month. In the House and Senate, Capt. Rosciam, medical simulation experts, and civilian trauma center leaders joined PCRM experts in calling on Congress to end the military’s unnecessary use of animals. They asked that military medical training move to superior nonanimal training methods such as the increased use of medical simulators and embedding military medical personnel in hospitals that see high numbers of trauma cases.

During the briefings, Hope Ferdowsian, M.D., M.P.H., PCRM’s director of research policy, presented an overview of the military’s reliance on live animals to train soldiers and corpsmen. Capt. Rosciam and others also discussed their personal experiences with combat trauma training and opportunities for reform.

“Because animals have significant anatomical and physiological differences from humans, training soldiers on goats and monkeys can cost the lives of America’s fighting men and women,” said Capt. Rosciam. “On the battlefield, a casualty may die in the time it takes a medic to translate the lifesaving techniques they have learned on an animal to a human victim.”

The same day, 17 former military doctors and medics joined PCRM to file a Petition for Enforcement with the Army surgeon general and other military medical leaders. The petition seeks to halt the inhumane practices that violate Department of Defense animal welfare regulations.

“Battlefield medics and others caring for our troops should receive training that is state-of-the- art and human-centered,” says Dr. Ferdowsian. “Training with goats and monkeys is inhumane and offers an inferior educational experience. Treating a goat with an artificially created wound is very different from caring for a human casualty.”

These practices continue despite the existence of superior nonanimal training methods. So PCRM is asking the military to follow the civilian medical community’s lead and move away from animal-based training to thuman-based methods that simulate human anatomy and injuries.

Visit BetterMilitaryMedic ine.org to watch the training videos and learn more about improving military medical training.

Monday, June 29, 2009

CHAINED DOG WITH PROLAPSED RECTUM NEEDS SURGERY ASAP!HELP!!!!!!

Here it is:
PLEASE READ, POST, AND FORWARD!!!
Boo has lived on a short chain starved and had never been de-wormed... After years of diarhea from whipworm and hookworm, his rectum prolapsed. He was taken to a Youngstown, Ohio heartstick "shelter" as a cruelty case but was rescued after sitting there for a week with that prolapsed rectum; bleeding and laying in his urine and feces. He is very sweet, friendly, and gentle despite all he has endured. He is also strong so I know he can get through all of this if we all help him!!! He also has heartworm but we can treat that after his rear end is healed. We need to get donations to get his surgery ASAP!! We took him to our vet for a "purse-string" surgery 2 weeks ago, as soon as we got him out of that shelter, and his stitches came out a week later. He then was taken to the ER vet and the same surgery was done again. Thursday the stitches were taken out but his rectum prolapsed again Friday. He now has to have that part of him taken off completely or have it tacked from the inside so it doesnt come out again. Both are major surgeries. Every a little donation can all add up to saving his life!!!! We do not want to euthanize him because of this but he obviously cant live like this. He just needs the surgery ASAP. If it gets septic, he could die. He deserves our help.
He is a wonderful friendly kissy gentle boy who just wants to be touched and hugged...He melts into anyones hands who pet him!
Here is a You Tube Video link of him:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vuw6cXjWTzc

A fellow Ohio all breed rescue (Thirdtyme Rescue http://www.petfinder.com/shelters/OH437.html) has offered to take him to their vet for surgery this Monday (they get a big discount) so please call Horizon Animal Hospital Inc. 419.468.2169 to donate over the phone! !! If you want to mail in a donation please send it to:
Horizon Animal Hospital Inc
933 Bucyrus Road
Galion, OH 44833

We thank you all greatly for any help!!!
Sincerely,
Almost Home Bullies Volunteers
http://www.petfinder.com/shelters/OH814.html

Saturday, June 27, 2009

THE SHORT,SAD LIFE OF MINNESOTA'S 00FP8



The short, sad life of Minnesota's 00FP8
chronicled by Tag Wearer, Jared J. Karow
Hello,
Sometimes we believe there's nothing one person can do to change things but one person can be amazing. Jared Karow wears the Freedom Tag for a primate who lived in Minnesota and after considerable effort, was finally able to get the documents for the long-tailed macaque on his Tag.

Below is 00FP8's life story as recorded in lab reports and shared by her friend, Jared Karow. You can view Jared's actual letter and 00FP8's lab records here.

Please read on.....
To Whom It May Concern:

I am the Primate Freedom Tag-Wearer for 00FP8, a female long-tailed macaque that was held captive at the University of Minnesota for about one recorded year. During her time at the University of Minnesota, 00FP8 was held mostly within quarantine. Her origin was from Sierra Biomedical, a subsidiary of Charles River Laboratories, Inc. which is a multi-national conglomerate that is the largest breeder of animals for experiments and is one of the largest importers of non-human primates into the United States.

According to the Primate Freedom Tag 00FP8 was born in 1997, however the actual date and year of her birth is unrecorded, and thus unknown.
According to the documentation, 00FP8 arrived at the University of Minnesota in June 1, 2000. At the time of her arrival she weighed about 4.5 pounds. After ger arrival she was placed into quarantine procedures, she was tested for tuberculosis on June 9, 2000 and her left eye was monitored. The monitoring of her left eye lasted three days where the researchers reported that her eyes were neither swollen nor were they red. She was sedated and tested for tuberculosis in the right eye on June 26, 2000 where, afterwards, she had been reported as recovering well. Her right eye was monitored for three days where no redness or swelling of the right eye was reported She was administered 0.05mls pf Telazol amd 0.02mls of Ivermectin. These two drugs are used in the typical care routines of most animals. Ivermectin typically acts as an anti-parasitic, which is a common preventative routine and Telazol acts as an anesthetic. It is important to note, however, that this was the only time that 00FP8 received any recorded medications throughout her stay at the University of Minnesota. On June 29, 2000 she was tested negative for tuberculosis. A plan was noted to transfer her to the St. Paul campus where the vivisector's group would finish her quarantine.

After being transferred to the St. Paul campus, 00FP8 was observed on September 22, 2000 where her case was discharged by a veterinarian. On October 24, 2000 she received a tuberculosis test where she tested as negative. Her weight was recorded for the final time on this date where she weighed about 4.6 pounds. There were no other recorded visits to 00FP8 after this date. According to documnetation, she was killed in June of 2001, presumably on June 4, 2001 as the terminal study of 00FP8 ended on June 3, 2001. Her case was discharged by a veterinarian again on August 13, 2001.

Due to a lack of availale documentation, 00FP8's life will never be fully recorded. Her life prior to the University of Minnesota was also left unrecorded; however while using the records provided we can only assume that her life ended after five years. 00FP8 was allowed to live only a portion of her life, as a typical age of death for a primate of her sort is in the late 30's. It is rather unfortunate that her life will only be a vivid memory in the minds of those that subjected her to experimentation and confinemen, if even that.

Records of her confinement are attached to this document; hopefully they will provide a small documentaiton of 00FP8's existence. Also attached are the letters of correspondence from the University of Minnesota's Office of General Council: Records & Information Management.

As one may see, it takes dedication and patience to obtain records of this sort. May we never forget our non-human brothers and sisters that are exploited for vivisection, and look to the future for a day when we do not rely upon studies based off innocent creatures such as these.

For all animals,
Jared J. Karow

Read more primate life stories at http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?et=1102623747612&s=1079&e=001tONaVrz00LdHsgROkF437zjzWD1DwJJFsSq3l6pnjvsuDxoL2eeuPedVv0dEbkUQG61-lAKCCn4yxdDwMOGMHOER_vbTBo5XF0aU5QkbyX4y_sSQ6_8rcFZZpm5FhBmg

Friday, June 26, 2009

DO VACCINES HELP?-ARCHIVE

London Times
Edition 1 MON 11 MAY 1987

Smallpox vaccine 'triggered Aids virus'
http://www.wanttoknow.info/870511vaccineaids

BY PEARCE WRIGHT, SCIENCE EDITOR

The Aids epidemic may have been triggered by the mass vaccination
campaign which eradicated smallpox. The World Health Organization,
which masterminded the 13-year campaign, is studying new scientific
evidence suggesting that immunization with the smallpox vaccine
Vaccinia awakened the unsuspected, dormant human immuno defence virus
infection (HIV).

Some experts fear that in obliterating one disease, another disease
was transformed from a minor endemic illness of the Third World into
the current pandemic. While doctors now accept that Vaccinia can
activate other viruses, they are divided about whether it was the main
catalyst to the Aids epidemic.

But an adviser to WHO who disclosed the problem, told The Times: 'I
thought it was just a coincidence until we studied the latest findings
about the reactions which can be caused by Vaccinia. Now I believe the
smallpox vaccine theory is the explanation to the explosion of Aids.'
'In obliterating one disease, another was transformed.'

Further evidence comes from the Walter Reed Army Medical Centre in
Washington. While smallpox vaccine is no longer kept for public health
purposes, new recruits to the American armed services are immunized as
a precaution against possible biological warfare. Routine vaccination
of a 19-year-old recruit was the trigger for stimulation of dormant
HIV virus into Aids.

This discovery of how people with subclinical HIV infection are at
risk of rapid development of Aids as a vaccine-induced disease was
made by a medical team working with Dr Robert Redfield at Walter Reed.
The recruit who developed Aids after vaccination had been healthy
throughout high school. He was given multiple immunizations, followed
by his first smallpox vaccination.

Two and a half weeks later he developed fever, headaches, neck
stiffness and night sweats. Three weeks later he was admitted to
Walter Reed suffering from meningitis and rapidly developed further
symptoms of Aids and died after responding for a short time to
treatment. There was no evidence that the recruit had been involved in
any homosexual activity.

In describing their discovery in a paper published in the New England
Journal of Medicine a fortnight ago, the Walter Reed team gave a
warning against a plan to use modified versions of the smallpox
vaccine to combat other diseases in developing countries.

Other doctors who accept the connection between the anti-smallpox
campaign and the Aids epidemic now see answers to questions which had
baffled them. How, for instance, the Aids organism, previously
regarded by scientists as 'weak, slow and vulnerable,' began to behave
like a type capable of creating a plague.

Many experts are reluctant to support the theory publicly because they
believe it would be interpreted unfairly as criticism of WHO. In
addition, they are concerned about the impact on other public health
campaigns with vaccines, such as against diptheria and the continued
use of Vaccinia in potential Aids research.

The coincidence between the anti-smallpox campaign and the rise of
Aids was discussed privately last year by experts at WHO. The
possibility was dismissed on grounds of unsatisfactory evidence.
Advisors to the organization believed then that too much attention was
being focussed on Aids by the media.

It is now felt that doubts would have risen sooner if public health
authorities in Africa had more willingly reported infection statistics
to WHO. Instead, some African countries continued to ignore the
existence of Aids even after US doctors alerted the world when the
infection spread to the United States.

However, as epidemiologists gleaned more information about Aids from
reluctant Central African countries, clues began to emerge from the
new findings when examined against the wealth of detail known about
smallpox as recorded in the Final Report of the Global Commission for
the Certification of Smallpox Eradication.

The smallpox vaccine theory would account for the position of each of
the seven Central African states which top the league table of most-
affected countries; why Brazil became the most afflicted Latin
American country; and how Haiti became the route for the spread of
Aids to the US. It also provides an explanation of how the infection
was spread more evenly between males and females in Africa than in the
West and why there is less sign of infection among five to 11-year-
olds in Central Africa.

Although no detailed figures are available, WHO information indicated
that the Aids league table of Central Africa matches the concentration
of vaccinations. The greatest spread of HIV infection coincides with
the most intense immunization programmes, with the number of people
immunised being as follows: Zaire 36,878,000; Zambia 19,060,000;
Tanzania 14,972,000; Uganda 11,616,000; Malawai 8,118,000; Ruanda
3,382,000 and Burundi 3,274,000.

Brazil, the only South American country covered in the eradication
campaign, has the highest incidence of Aids in that region. About
14,000 Haitians, on United Nations secondment to Central Africa, were
covered in the campaign. They began to return home at a time when
Haiti had become a popular playground for San Francisco homosexuals.

Dr Robert Gello, who first identified the Aids virus in the US, told
The Times: 'The link between the WHO programme and the epidemic in
Africa is an interesting and important hypothesis. 'I cannot say that
it actually happened, but I have been saying for some years that the
use of live vaccines such as that used for smallpox can activate a
dormant infection such as HIV. 'No blame can be attached to WHO, but
if the hypothesis is correct it is a tragic situation and a warning
that we cannot ignore.'

Aids was first officially reported from San Francisco in 1981 and it
was about two years later before Central African states were
implicated. It is now known that these states had become a reservoir
of Aids as long ago as the later 1970s.

Although detailed figures of Aids cases in Africa are difficult to
collect, the more than two million carriers, and 50,000 deaths,
estimated by the World Health Organization are concentrated in the
Countries where the smallpox immunization programme was most
intensive. The 13-year eradication campaign ended in 1980, with the
saving of two million lives a year and 15 million infections. The
global saving from eradication has been put at dollars 1,000 million a
year.

Charity and health workers are convinced that millions of new Aids
cases are about to hit southern Africa. After a meeting of 50 experts
near Geneva this month it was revealed that up to 75 million, one
third of the population, could have the disease within the next five
years.

Some organizations which have closely studied Africa, such as War on
Want, believe that South Africa's black population, so far largely
protected from the disease, could be most affected as migrant workers
bring it into the country from the worst hit areas further north. The
apartheid policy, they predict, will intensify its outbreak by
confining the groups into comparatively small, highly populated towns
where it will be almost impossible to contain its spread.

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III Gerald Ford
Quote:
In February 1976, an outbreak of swine flu struck Fort Dix Army base
in New Jersey, killing a 19-year-old private and infecting hundreds of
soldiers. Concerned that the U.S. was on the verge of a devastating
epidemic, President Gerald Ford ordered a nationwide vaccination
program at a cost of $135 million (some $500 million in today's
money). Within weeks, reports surfaced of people developing Guillain-
Barré syndrome, a paralyzing nerve disease that can be caused by the
vaccine. By April, more than 30 people had died of the condition.
Facing protests, federal officials abruptly cancelled the program on
Dec. 16. The epidemic failed to materialize.
Poster's note: Gerald Ford for other actions was made a billionaire by
a grateful Wall St.

IV West Nile Virus: Mad Bird Disease by Another Name

There have been countless suppressions of
information by the US government's CDC, FDA, USDA,
NIH, etc. one remembers the socalled West Nile Virus.

There was concern about the many carnivorous birds
dropping dead in the national parks and elsewhere.

These birds had eaten park dumpster food such
as factory farmed chicken's legs and breasts, from
birds fed on chicken food (feed is a human chauvinist
word for food given to animals) containing cattle and
pig parts.

The owls were dying of avian spongiform encephalopathy
.. or mad bird disease.

The US government agencies called this West Nile virus
and tried to vaccine scam the public.

http://www.madcowboy.com
http://www.rense.com/health/madcowdata.html
dozens of Mad Cow story links
http://www.rense.com/general6/cow.htm
products which can contain BSE

V Individual Vaccine Stories: A Sliver of the Endless Stream
http://thinktwice.com/allvacs.htm

VI A
The CDC, WHO, Anthony Fauci of NIH, Janet Napolitano, Roche, Gilead
and Glaxo, with help
from NPR, CNN, and other Zionist run media
are promoting a fraud on the world public known as H1N1.

VI B
Now Glaxo Smith Kline and Bill Gates are working
on African vaccinations while Gates has met with
other billionaires about population control.

Glaxo has been held guilty of vaccine deaths by a French
court. It is a primate torturer as is Duke which Gates has
also funded. Whether or not this Glaxo Gates project
is bioterror, it is human chauvinism.

http://www.thinktwice.com/s_polio.htm

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portland.indymedia.org

1918 flu pandemic originated in pigs, study finds

Vivisectors Admit that Flu Epidemic in WW1 was caused by pig flesh

WASHINGTON (AP) - The 1918 influenza virus that killed more than 20
million people worldwide originated from American pigs and is unlike
any other known flu bug, say researchers. They warn that it could
strike again.

Using lung tissue taken at autopsy 79 years ago from an Army private
killed by the flu, scientists at the Armed Forces Institute of
Pathology made a genetic analysis of the virus and concluded it is
unique, though closely related to the ''swine'' flu.

''This is the first time that anyone has gotten a look at this virus
which killed millions of people in one year, making it the worst
infectious disease episode ever,'' said Dr. Jeffery K. Taubenberger,
leader of the Armed Forces Institute team. ''It does not match any
virus that has been found since.''

Although the disease that caused the worldwide epidemic was called
''Spanish flu,'' the virus apparently is a mutation that evolved in
American pigs and was spread around the globe by U.S. troops mobilized
for World War I, said Taubenberger.

The Army private whose tissue was analyzed contracted the flu at Fort
Jackson, S.C. For that reason, Taubenberger and his colleagues suggest
in the journal Science that the virus be known as Influenza A/South
Carolina.

Science is publishing the study today.

Army doctors in 1918 conducted autopsies on some of the 43,000
servicemen killed by the flu and preserved some specimens in
formaldehyde and wax.

Taubenberger said his team sorted through 30 specimens before finding
enough virus in the private's lung tissue to partially sequence the
genes for hemagglutinin and neuraminidase, two key proteins in flu
virus.

''The hemagglutinin gene matches closest to swine influenza viruses,
showing that this virus came into humans from pigs,'' said
Taubenberger.

The finding supports a widespread theory that flu viruses from swine
are the most virulent for humans.

Most experts believe that flu viruses reside harmlessly in birds,
where
they are genetically stable. Occasionally, a virus from birds will
infect pigs. The swine immune system attacks the virus, forcing it to
change genetically to survive. The result is a new virus. When this
new
bug is spread to humans, it can be devastating, said Taubenberger.

Two other flu viruses spread all over the world since 1918 - Asian flu
in 1957 and the Hong Kong flu in 1968 - and both mutated in pigs.
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Flu Epidemic in WW1 was caused by pigs

1918 flu pandemic originated in pigs, study finds

Vivisectors Admit that Flu Epidemic in WW1 was caused by pig flesh

The flesh of murdered pigs is forbidden to observers of Islam, of
Judaism,
of Hinduism, Buddhism, to Sikhs, to Christians following the example
of
Christ.

Pigs eat the waste of other animals when nothing else is available.

Pigs are a cause of trichinosis. Their cadaver flesh must be cooked
at high temperatures to kill the trichinella worm.

Pig flesh is correlated to heart disease, stroke, cancer, kidney
disease,
arthritis, etc.

Smithfield is perhaps the biggest of the many American factory
farmers of pigs.

The concentration of pig waste from factory farms in NC, NJ, MD, VA
has caused what was called in the bible a 'red tide', otherwise known
as pfiesteria. Nature creates special organisms to process the
concentrations of feces.

http://www.hogwatch.org

Meanwhile John Oxford of St Mary's College, London, and Richard Harris
of NPR, the CBC, BBC, American neocon owned media and pharmaceutically
dominated newspapers continue to promote Roche's toxic tamiflu, in
which Donald
Rumsfeld is illegally and heavily invested.

homepage: http://www.pcrm.org

(Whether or not another institute, USAMRIID
at Ft Detrick, used Inuit autopsies from WW1
flu deaths to develop bioterror weapons
is not known. It is known that swine flu samples
are missing from Ft Detrick, according
to the Frederick Maryland local newspaper.)

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http://www.recombinomics.com
Commentary


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http://www.thinktwice.com
Vaccines: Are They Really Safe and Effective?

1. Monkey kidneys are used to develop polio vaccines.
2. SV-40, a cancer-causing virus, thrived in monkey kidneys.
3. Polio vaccines were contaminated.
4. Millions of people in the USA and throughout the world were
infected.
5. Cancer rates have increased. SV-40 is found in brain tumors, bone
cancers, lung cancers, and leukemia.

Polio information


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The Polio Vaccine is Mutating, Causing Virulent Strains

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Killer Drug Companies..
http://pittsburgh.indymedia.org


International pharmaceutical companies like Glaxo, Roche, Bayer,
Pfizer, Merck, Lilly have killed billions of animals to attempt to
legitimize their products which poison human beings. These companies
have overthrown governments and caused wars, and in the cases in which
their products are beneficial and not toxic, have killed as well by
their pricegouging prices

International pharmaceutical companies like Glaxo, Roche, Bayer,
Pfizer, Merck, Lilly have killed billions of animals to attempt to
legitimize their products which poison human beings. These companies
have overthrown governments and caused wars, and in the cases in which
their products are beneficial and not toxic, have killed as well by
their pricegouging prices

(Bayer of Germany, Roche of Switzerland, Glaxo of the UK,
join Pfizer, Lilly, Merck, etc. in the US)

'Smallpox Vaccine' .. the cause of AIDS by Pearce Wright,
science editor of London Times
http://www.wanttoknow.info/870511vaccineaids

French court rules Glaxo vaccine causes multiple sclerosis
pittsburgh.indymedia.org/news/2007/05/27422.php

War profiteer Glaxo 'vaccines' sickened and killed soldiers

Pfizer's killing of 200 African children used as guinea pigs
causes lawsuit by Nigeria
news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/6907799.stm
(Google's link fraudulently claimed the lawsuit had been delayed)

Roche's Lariam a factor in marines killing their wives
http://www.leatherneck.com/forums/ar...hp/t-8852.html

Roche to whose Tamiflu Rumsfeld has American distribution
rights has been trying to push their ineffective Tamiflu
as a cause of the nonexistent W Nile Virus which is
in reality sometimes Mad Chicken Disease, sometimes
histoplasmosis or any of thousands of other diseases
caused by the overcrowding, urine, f*c*s, nicotinic insecticides,
antibiotics of factory farms

Merck developed WMD's allegedly destroyed at Ft Meade in 2003
groups.google.com/group/ahims...f22b0e337171b3

Merck's Gardasil allegedly an ovarian cancer vaccine attributed to 3
deaths
http://www.theconservativevoice.com/article/25338.html

Brain atrophy, homicide, suicide, weight gain, birth defects
associated with Paxil, Prozac, Zoloft and other antidepressants
http://www.vagusnervestimulation.com...eight_gain.cfm

World's bees killed by Bayer
dc.indymedia.org/newswire/dis...8555/index.php

Gulf War Syndrome
all-natural.com/riley.html

http://www.emorylies.com
http://www.stopanimaltests.com
http://www.neavs.org

Autism comes from mercury laced childhood vaccinations

Tardifdyskinesia or rigidity and shaking.. come from drugs
forced on patients

Thalidomide.. which did not harm dogs.. took off the limbs of
human babies.. it was banned after a series of 1959 birth defects..
but now the pharmaceuticals are trying to get it back

Ritalin.. forced on 3 year olds!

This is an infinite subject.

Hans Ruesch wrote Slaughter of the Innocents about pharmaceutical
sacrifice of animals to attempt to legitimize their killing of humans.
There are thousands of books about the barbaric tortures of
vivisection.

Pfizer incinerates a truckload of research animals daily in
Connecticut.. and has finally shut down their Kalamazoo lab in
which a dog died in a washing machine

Drug companies lobby through cat vivisector exSenator Frist to
have immunity from liability lawsuits

Drug companies spend a billion a year lobbying
and have Medicare drug payments not subject to negotiation

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Nigeria files new Pfizer claims re deaths of Nigerian children.


Nigeria has accused Pfizer of fraud in a fresh court case filed
against the drugs firm over its alleged role in the deaths of Nigerian
children.
The government earlier withdrew the case - just as it was due to begin
in the capital Abuja - to add new charges.

The government is seeking $7bn (£3.4bn) in damages from the US group.

It claims Pfizer conducted illegal trials of an anti-meningitis drug
that killed and disabled children. Pfizer denies the allegations.

Pfizer has denied all wrongdoing and maintains that it had local and
international approval for the drug trial, which it says helped to
save lives.

But government lawyers have now filed a new lawsuit adding a number of
additional charges to the original claims, which follows the recent
discovery of new evidence.

This includes papers that suggest Pfizer committed fraud by not
obtaining consent from the affected families as they were obliged to
do under company rules, government lowers said.

They said the original suit made reference to a softer charge of
"fraudulent representation".

Drug tests

The move came almost a month after the court rejected the government's
request to amend its suit.

The Nigerian government has accused Pfizer of carrying out illegal
trials of its Trovan antibiotic in 1996, which they say caused many
deaths and severe mental and physical disabilities in many of the
people it was given to.

It maintains its regulatory authorities had not approved the then-
unregistered drug, which was tested in Nigeria's north-western Kano
State at the height of a meningitis outbreak.

The Kano regional government is also mounting both civil and criminal
cases against Pfizer, which has undertaken a major public relations
offensive in the country to explain its position.

Story from BBC NEWS:
news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/2/h...ss/6907799.stm

2007/07/20 15:12:41 GMT

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"British Firm to Compensate Two French Multiple Sclerosis Victims"
Agence France Presse (http://www.afp.com) (05/03/01)

A French court has upheld a lower court ruling that found a link
between GlaxoSmithKline's hepatitis B vaccine and multiple sclerosis
(MS) and has ordered the company to pay two women who contracted MS
after receiving the vaccine an as-yet undetermined amount of
compensation. The ruling is important, because it rejected arguments
that a direct and irrefutable link between the vaccine and MS is
needed, said Gisele Mor, the plaintiffs' attorney. "It ruled that
barring scientific evidence, serious, precise, and similar evidence
was enough proof," Mor noted.

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Glaxo H5N1 flu vaccine:
a. like fans at David Bowie concerts
who show up in last year's costume
are vaccine makers.. always obsolete
for the rapidly mutating flu virus
b. there are billions of varieties of flu
... Glaxo vaccines are an obsolete
response to only 1 of them
c. Vaccines are contaminated by
excess heat and cold.. there are
many steps in the transportation process
.. they are also contaminated by
human handling
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Roche, a profiteer re the 'swine flu' scam with its
lethal Tamiflu, has a drug called Lariam
under which influence 4 Marines have killed their wives

By Mark Benjamin and Dan Olmsted
Published 7/10/2003 4:09 PM

WASHINGTON, July 10 (UPI) -- The Food and Drug Administration has
taken the rare step of ordering that patients are warned directly of
serious mental problems and reports of suicide linked to a common anti-
malaria drug called Lariam.

The move -- which the FDA has ordered only 17 times previously --
follows a decade of increasingly dire warnings about the drug, and a
trail of horror stories from people who said they have suffered from
side effects from the drug.

Lariam hit the news last summer after three Fort Bragg, N.C., soldiers
accused of killing their wives after returning from Afghanistan
appeared to have taken the drug. Two of the three shot themselves
after killing their wives; the third hanged himself in his jail cell
in March. A U.S. Army report said the drug was an "unlikely" factor
for the cluster of deaths but did not rule it out in any one case.

The FDA on Wednesday required by law that all doctors hand patients a
"medication guide" with the new Lariam warnings. It is the 18th time
the FDA has made the aggressive move.

The new warnings say the drug has been associated with "serious
psychiatric adverse events" that "may persist even after stopping the
medication." It also notes "rare reports have claimed that Lariam
users think about killing themselves" and "rarer reports of suicides."

The FDA says the guides are used for drugs "that pose a serious and
significant public health concern."

"The Lariam Medication Guide is an important new tool for managing the
risks of Lariam, one of the most highly effective means of combating
one of the deadliest diseases in the world," FDA Commissioner Mark B.
McClellan said.

Lariam's manufacturer, Roche Pharmaceuticals of Nutley, N.J., is also
sending letters to U.S. doctors and pharmacists about the new guide.

Critics said the FDA move is late. "This is probably long overdue,"
said Larry Sasich, of Public Citizen, a government and business
watchdog group. "This information should have been in people's hands
years ago."

The FDA also requires that doctors hand out a medication guide warning
of possible suicide risk for another Roche drug, Accutane, which is
used to treat serious cases of acne.

With Lariam, Roche in May 2002 settled a lawsuit brought by an Ohio
woman who claimed her husband had committed suicide after taking the
drug. The terms were not disclosed.

For more than a decade, Peace Corps volunteers and U.S. travelers
given Lariam have complained of frightening episodes of
hallucinations, delusions and suicidal thoughts. Starting in Somalia
in the early 1990s, soldiers from a series of deployments have told
similar stories about the drug, saying it has also caused sudden,
uncontrollable rage and homicidal urges.

Roche has placed increasingly serious warnings on the Lariam's product
label, read by doctors and pharmacists, since the FDA approved it in
1989. It added in 1999 that, "Suicidal ideation has also rarely been
reported, but no relationship to drug administration has been
established."

Last July, the FDA updated Lariam's official product label warning of
"anxiety, paranoia and depression" and "hallucinations and psychotic
behavior" that "have been reported to continue long after (Lariam) has
been stopped." It also said that, "Rare cases of suicidal ideation
(thinking) and suicide have been reported though no relationship to
drug administration has been confirmed."

Roche last September sent a letter to 120,000 doctors about those
label changes.

Following the string of events at Fort Bragg last summer, the drug
company told United Press International that malaria is a dangerous
disease and that, "It is important to note that Lariam is not
associated with violent, criminal conduct."

The FDA told UPI last September that suicide might have to be
tolerated because malaria is such a deadly disease. "Suicide in one in
perhaps -- I don't know -- 1 million or however many cases you can
actually calculate for Lariam may have to be acceptable on the basis
for the risk for malaria," said Dr. Leonard Sacks, a medical officer
with the FDA.

2001-2003 United Press International

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1933 Human Flu in Korean Swine Raise Bioterror Issues

Recombinomics Commentary
February 24, 2005

>> In December, the biologist Henry Niman of Recombinomics, a biotechnology company in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, examined the data as part of an analysis of flu sequences. He concluded that the samples contained genes from a strain of human flu virus that was created decades ago by scientists experimenting with the virus that caused the global flu pandemic of 1918.

Neither the World Health Organization (WHO), which coordinates the
international response to flu, nor the South Korean government have
commented on the claim. But Laurie Garrett, a former journalist and
analyst at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York, says that the
WHO attributes the sequence to an error at the lab that deposited the
information.

Sang Heui Seo, one of the Korean researchers, says he is unable to
comment yet, adding that "further confirmation" of the sequence "is
under way at this moment". <<

As indicated earlier, the lab error story has some significant flaws.
The explanation of computer files sent in error is not credible
because there are over 30 WSN/33 sequences involved. Virtually all are
slightly different from each other as well as WSN/33, although all
share greater than 99% homology. The contamination is hard to
understand because each of the 30 sequences is slightly different,
there is no WSN/33 in the lab, and the viruses were isolated in eggs.

As noted above, the sequences are being independently confirmed.
Confirmation will eliminate the lab error story. However, the route of
the sequences from lab to swine remains open, as does the possibility
of bioterrorism. The inability to resolve the existence of the
sequence after being in the public domain for almost 3 months also
raises serious bioterrorism preparedness issues.



Buried WMDs Found ... In Maryland

FORT DETRICK, May 28, 2003 AP
and the U. S. Army Research Institute
of Infectious Diseases at Fort Detrick. (AP)
"You never know what's there until you start digging."
Col. John Ball,
Fort Detrick garrison commander,
to The Post

(CBS) U.S. weapons experts are struggling to deal with the remnants of
a decades-old biological weapons program.

They are trying to find potentially dangerous materials - once
shrouded in secrecy - with only poorly kept records and fading
memories to go on.

Thousands of tons of hazardous substances like anthrax are at stake.

Only the hunt is not in Iraq.

It's in Maryland.

According to The Washington Post, the U.S. Army has spent two years
and $25 million cleaning up an area of central Maryland's Fort Detrick
that was used as a target range and waste dump.

In what has become the Army's biggest remediation project ever, the
cleanup of Area B has unearthed vials of live bacteria and nonvirulent
anthrax. Some 2,000 tons have been scooped out of the ground to date,
in a project due to end in 2003.

"You never know what's there until you start digging," Col. John Ball,
Fort Detrick garrison commander, told The Post.

The site is so toxic that clean-up crews wear respirators and the
materials sometimes burst into flames as they are dug up. Animals from
the surrounding forest are autopsied when they die to see what killed
them. At one point, digging released a petroleum that sent workers to
the hospital.

The very small amount of anthrax that was found was in vaccine form
and could not have spread the disease. But cleanup crews have also
unearthed old lab rats, syringes, and drums and canisters with
unidentified contents.

"The documentation for where this came from doesn't exist," Lt. Col.
Donald Archibald, Fort Detrick's director of safety, environment and
integrated planning, told The Post.

The dump was used from 1955 into the 1960s. The cleanup began ten
years after tests of monitoring wells near the dump showed dangerous
chemicals. Subsequent testing indicated that wells used by houses near
the site were contaminated.

The United States' biological weapons program ran from 1941, when it
was headed by pharmaceutical magnate George Merck, until President
Nixon ended the research in 1969.

During the intervening 28 years, the U.S. conducted research and
testing on a wide variety of agents at several facilities across the
country, as well as in cities where civilians were unwitting guinea
pigs in tests using harmless bacteria to trace weapons' potential.

According to a history of the program provided by the Henry L. Stimson
Center, research at facilities like Fort Detrick and Pine Bluff, in
Arkansas, included development of 500-pound bombs for anthrax and
botulinum toxin, as well work on strains of tularemia, staph and
encephalitis.

In 1950, open-air tests with apparently harmless agents were conducted
on Navy ships off Norfolk, Va., and over the San Francisco Bay. In
1965, the Army used nonhazardous Bacillus globigii to test the way
germs might spread through Washington DC's National Airport and
Greyhound bus terminal.

In 1969, when Mr. Nixon announced he was halting U.S. research on germ
warfare, national security adviser Henry Kissinger said it was
because, "We have simply not concluded that this is an effective or
proper instrument of warfare."

©MMIII, CBS
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Thursday, June 25, 2009

BAN THE PROVISION OF POUND DOGS FOR RESEARCH!PETITION TO SIGN!

Two Australian councils - Logan City and Moreton Bay - currently providedogs to Queensland University for research purposes. The university hasadvised that they use pound animals for training veterinary surgeons andin feeding trial research.Please sign our petition at
http://www.gopetition.com.au/petitions/ban-the-provision-of-pound-dogs-for-research-and-teaching.html
requesting that the State of Queensland impose an immediate ban on theprovision of lost, unwanted or stray animals by pounds, animal sheltersor other organisations or individuals to research centres.For more information about the campaign and details of who to write to,please visit http://www.aahr.org.au/campaigns/dog_poundsQLD.html
Thank you so much for your support!Helen Marston
www.aahr.org.au

Monday, June 15, 2009

US/MD-ROCKVILLE LAB CITED FOR ANIMAL VIOLATIONS

WASHINGTON, D.C. (AP) - Government inspection reports cited threeresearch laboratories for a host of animal welfare violations, rangingfrom problems with surgeries that forced researchers to euthanize adog and a primate to leaving a live hamster in a walk-in freezer.
The reports, uncovered by an animal rights group, detail violations atBioReliance Corp. in Rockville, Charles River Laboratories Inc. inShrewsbury, Mass., and Tufts University's Cummings School ofVeterinary Medicine in North Grafton, Mass.
The animal rights group, Stop Animal Exploitation Now, based inMilford, Ohio, criticized the U.S. Agriculture Department for not taking tough enforcement action against the facilities.
"These facilities should face serious consequences," said the group'sexecutive director, Michael Budkie.
--full story:http://www.hometownannapolis.com/news/reg/2009/06/14-58/Rockville-lab-cited-for-animal-violations.html

Friday, June 12, 2009

NO OBJECTIONS TO ANIMAL LAB,S SPECIAL PERMIT TO STAY OPEN!

Lancaster - Nobody stepped forward to challenge the Board of Appeals’decision April 23 to grant a special permit to DaVinci BiomedicalResearch to continue operations, including tests that involve animals,at 40 Maple St. on the campus of Atlantic Union College.
DaVinci now has a permit that automatically renews every year, unlessthere are significant changes to its the lease or its operations.Yearly safety inspections will be conducted on the site by the town’sBuilding and Fire departments.
The lab came under fire this spring when animal-rights activistscharged that it mistreats its test subjects, and town officialsquestioned whether the lab has a legal right to operate in aresidential area. The special permit addresses that concern.
--full story:http://www.wickedlocal.com/lancaster/news/x702335799/No-objections-to-animal-labs-special-permit-to-stay-open

ANIMAL RIGHTS GROUP WANTS TO NUY SLAIN ABORTION DOCTOR'S CLINIC

CHICAGO (AFP) — An animal rights group said Thursday it wants totransform a Kansas abortion clinic that was shuttered after its ownerwas murdered into an animal cruelty education center.
"We want to take a building that has been a flashpoint for conflict onone moral issue and turn it into a place of dialogue on another one,"said Bruce Friedrich, vice president for policy at People for theEthical Treatment of Animals.
The Nonviolence for All Beings Center would promote vegetarianism by teaching people about the cruel way in which farm animals are treated.
"Most people on the issue of cruelty to animals don't put two and twotogether," Friedrich said.
"It's a reality that anyone who is eating animals is paying people toabuse animals and slit their throats which is something most of uswouldn't do personally."
--full story:http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5ieDNWP-2RLxxz1hlndyAmuszoCbw

US/IA- U of I To Build Underground Animal Research Lab

The Iowa Board of Regents approved $11.2 million for an underground vivarium that will house University of Iowa animal research laboratories.
The 35,000-square-foot facility would connect the Medical Education Research Facility and Carver Biomedical Research Building on the westside of campus. The links would mean researchers would never have totransport animals above ground, said Jordan Cohen, interim U of I vicepresident for research.
“Security is a huge issue with regard to biomedical research,” Cohentold the regents.
A Nov. 14, 2004, break-in at animal research laboratories in the U ofI’s Spence Laboratories and Seashore Hall cost about $425,000 andtemporarily stalled some research. The Animal Liberation Front claimedresponsibility for the attack, in which masked intruders trashedcomputers and other equipment and stole hundreds of laboratoryanimals.
--full story:http://www.desmoinesregister.com/article/20090611/NEWS/90611013

WILL THE RAT REALLY CURE CANCER?

John Pranger



<http://www.straight.com/article-229606/john-pranger-will-lab-rat-really-cure-cancer>http://www.straight.com/article-229606/john-pranger-will-lab-rat-really-cure-cancer

People are very complacent with their animal models. But this begs thequestion of whether there exists a good model of cancer.”— Andy Maniotis (University of Iowa), American Journal of Pathology, 1999
Cancer! It’s our Grim Reaper, today’s Black Death, a dark and terriblehealth threat and destroyer of lives. We hear about it, read about it, andfear it more deeply than any other present disease. Ominously, projectionsindicate that one in every five of us will die of cancer, and 40 percent ofus will have a diagnosis of cancer sometime in life. Considering that thereare more than 200 different forms of human cancer alone, the hope for a“magic bullet” that will cure all is just pie in the sky.
See also
Peter<http://www.straight.com/article-229021/peter-hamilton-every-drop-milk-not-so-delicious> Hamilton: Every drop of milk is not so delicious
Becci<http://www.straight.com/article-203802/becci-gindinclarke-cruel-truth-about-organic-and-freerange-meat-and-dairy-products> Gindin-Clarke: The crueltruth about organic and free-range meat and dairy products
Dave<http://www.straight.com/article-197476/meat-just-doesn%3F%3Ft-cut-it-todays-environment> Steele: Meat just doesn't cut it in today's environment
The disease first went political in 1971, when the Nixon administrationdeclared the “War on Cancer”. We all know the war has not yet been won, evenwith billions poured into it every year. In fact, cancer deaths haveincreased steadily.
This humiliating defeat is in large part due to our addiction to animalexperimentation.
It is an open secret in scientific circles that animal-modeled biomedicalresearch yields results that can’t safely and reliably be applied to humans.Yet it stonewalls and stubbornly persists, misleading doctors and divertingresearch grants that should be going to clinical (human-based) methods ofcuring disease.
Dr. Albert Sabin, famed developer of the polio vaccine, had this in mindwhen he said: “The cancer research bodies cause pain and suffering tohundreds of thousands of animals every year by inducing in the animals,through chemicals and irradiation, large cancerous growths in their bodiesand in their limbs. Inflicting cancer on laboratory animals has not and willnot help us to understand the disease or to treat those persons sufferingfrom it...laboratory cancers have nothing in common with natural humancancers. Tumorous cells are not unrelated to the organism that producedthem. Human cancers are greatly different from the artificial tumors causedby the experimenters in the laboratories.” (Vivisection Unveiled, by TonyPage [Jon Carpenter Publishing, 1997])
Repeatedly, distinguished outspoken authorities such as Dr. Sabin—respected,vested scientists—have insisted that assuming similarities in physiologicaland pharmacological response in different species is wrong, unscientific,and irresponsible. Nevertheless, testing chemicals for carcinogenicity inanimals drunkenly persists, as governments and charities continue lavishingmoney on those trying out new anticancer medications on animals.
The years are filled with uncounted hope-inspiring “miracle drugs”—such asinterferon, interleukin, and taxol—that worked well in animals, mostly mice.They were hyped to the public with great hullabaloo and promise, but whenactually given to human patients they did not live up to expectations. Dr.LaMar McGinnis, an oncologist and medical consultant to the American CancerSociety, stated: “We thought interferon was ‘chicken soup’ in the early’80s. I remember how excited everyone was; it seemed to work miracles inanimals, but it didn’t work in humans.” Johanna Dwyer of Tufts Universityagreed: “The major problems of animal studies are the validity ofcross-species comparisons and relevance to the human disease.” (Fundamentaland Applied Toxicology, 1983)
Commenting on a media pronouncement of yet one more “fantasticbreakthrough”, G. Timothy Johnson, medical editor for ABC News and WCVB-TVnews in Boston, wrote in a letter to the editor of the Boston Globe, on May22, 1998: “My own medical perspective is that animal cancer research shouldbe regarded as the scientific equivalent of gossip—with about the samechance of turning out to be true, i.e. truly effective in humans. Somegossip turns out to be true, but most of it does not...and gossip can causegreat anguish for those affected, in this case millions of desperate cancerpatients worldwide.”
Animal experimentation can’t cure or prevent cancer, but personalresponsibility can—people taking control of their destiny throughprevention. Prevention isn’t glamorous and is viewed by some as not evenscientific. We as people prefer to continue in our less healthful habitsknowing that “Science” is at work on a cure for our dissipated systems.Plus, it must be said that prevention doesn’t finance the charities, theuniversities, and the institutes as animal experimentation does.
It is pointless and dangerous to continue following the old, worn-out paths,for the difference between animals and humans is so great that vivisectionleads us mostly into error. The high standard of medical care we enjoy todaywas made possible not by animal vivisection but by clinical observation andresearch; antisepsis and hygiene; in vitro research with human tissue;post-marketing drug surveillance; serendipity; mathematical modeling;autopsies; computers; epidemiology; pathology; specialization of medicalcare; technology; genetics; basic science research in fields such aschemistry, mathematics and physics; and prevention.
But the momentum of non-human experimentation has such thrust, such habit,and such money behind it that it will die hard. For this reason, legislationbanning animal testing may be required to halt its havoc. Perhaps onlyoutlawing of animal research will have the force to contain theexperimentation contagion.
John Pranger is the director of communications for the Animal Defense<http://vivisectionresearch.ca/> & Anti-Vivisection Society of BritishColumbia. For more information, see the Humane Charity Seal of<http://humaneseal.org/> Approval, Dissection<http://dissectionalternatives.org/> Alternatives, and Animalearn<http://animalearn.org/> Web sites