Showing posts with label science. Show all posts
Showing posts with label science. Show all posts

Tuesday, October 6, 2009

Vasella debates animal-rights extremists

Unlike other victims of animal rights extremists, Daniel Vasella isn't
lying low, the Financial Times reports. Instead, he's personally
warned 140 people who sent him critical emails "willingly or not you
are associating yourself with criminal activity." And he defends his
and his company's pharmaceutical testing, saying that those who try to
prevent medical research should be "ashamed."

The warning and scolding comes via a letter seen by the FT, sent to
people who had emailed the Novartis CEO about the company's animal
research activities. ...

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full story:
http://www.fiercepharma.com/story/vasella-debates-animal-rights-extremists/2009-10-05


SEE ALSO:
Animal research deserves defending, say our members

Mass. company fattens up monkeys for science

Animal rights activists are crying foul about Charles River
Laboratories’ efforts to fatten up and then sell obese monkeys for
medical research.

“It is horrible that these monkeys are induced with diseases that will
make them suffer a terrible death,” said Justin Goodman, a research
supervisor at People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals’ laboratory
investigations department.

But Wilmington-based Charles River Labs said that, with the nation
crippled by an obesity epidemic, its monkey business is increasingly
necessary.

In 30 out of 50 states, at least 25 percent of the population is
obese, health experts say. As obesity and its associated complications
- such as heart disease and type 2 diabetes - wreak havoc on the
nation’s health, researchers are scrambling to create new ways to
treat obesity-related medical conditions.

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full story:
http://www.bostonherald.com/business/general/view/20091005mass_company_fattens_up_monkeys_for_science/srvc=home&position=also


SEE ALSO:
Animal control laws and officers challenge your right to dog ownership

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,

Thursday, July 9, 2009

(US/ia) Regents OK plans for underground lab at UI

AMES -- The Iowa state Board of Regents approved plans Thursday tobuild an underground lab for animal research at the University ofIowa....Tunnels connecting to other facilities will allow researchers theability to access the lab without having to take the animals outside,Cohen said.
UI researchers use a variety of animals in research -- primarily mice,but also fish and larger animals such as pigs and sheep, which provide researchers a better replica of humans, Cohen said.
Having a secure location is an important asset for animal research, Cohen said.
In 2004, vandals broke into animal research laboratories housed in Spence Laboratories and Seashore Hall, causing $450,000 worth of damage. The Animal Liberation Front claimed responsibility for the incident.
--full story:http://www.press-citizen.com/article/20090612/NEWS01/906120319/1079

(UK) Portsmouth MP signs animal rights petition

Portsmouth South MP Mike Hancock took the petition directly to the
prime minister at 10 Downing Street, along with other animal-loving
politicians of all parties.

It calls on the government to end experiments on animals.

Animal welfare group Uncaged, which is behind the petition, collected
1.5m signatures in towns and cities across the UK. It comes as the
European Union is due to revise European law on animal experiments.

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full story:
http://www.portsmouth.co.uk/newshome/Portsmouth-MP-signs-animal-rights.5437713.jp

Monday, July 6, 2009

Debate rages over animal testing in NSW

http://news.theage.com.au/breaking-news-national/debate-rages-over-animal-te
sting-in-nsw-20090703-d6ws.html
Miles Godfrey
Welfare groups are calling for an urgent public debate on animal testing
amid claims millions of creatures are being killed or maimed every year in
Australia in the name of science.

New figures published by the NSW government's advisory body, the Animal
Research Review Panel, show the number of animals killed in NSW experiments
rose by more than 1,000 to 8,813 during 2006-2007.

The NSW Department of Primary Industries (DPI) said the figures were not
surprising, and that compliance with international standards meant the
number of animals affected was unlikely to fall.

The Australian Association for Humane Research estimates more than six
million animals are used in medical and pharmaceutical trials in Australia
annually, with at least 100,000 of those animals dying.

"This is going on daily and we really do need the community to be aware of
what is being done in their name and have a real public debate about the
ethics of this industry," Glenys Oogjes, executive director of the Animals
Australia campaign group, said.

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) and the RSPCA have both
demanded a halt to animal testing despite claims by government officials
there is no alternative.

"The European Union has a committee designed just to ensure animal tests are
being moved away from, and to validate alternatives. Australia has not
changed," PETA spokesman Jason Barker said.

"We would like to see the number of animals used in testing reduced, in
fact, we want to see animals replaced with other techniques such as cell,
tissue and organic cultures and even human volunteers, where appropriate,"
RSPCA spokeswoman Lisa Chalk said.

The DPI said it would not change its policy to reduce animal deaths in the
near future.

"If we are to have non-animal testing for a certain product, that has to be
approved on an international level and that process takes a long time," DPI
spokesman Ross Burton said.

However, NSW scientists are already pioneering alternative methods.

Dr Laura Batmanian, from Sydney University's Medicine Faculty, has developed
a computer simulation to scrap tests on 250 rabbits a year.

"There is now solid evidence that not only are non-animal technologies more
humane but they also produce scientifically valid data," NSW Greens MP and
animal welfare spokeswoman Lee Rhiannon said.

The Body Shop, which claims none of its products are tested on animals, said
there were alternatives to animal testing for cosmetics.

To dam the torrential rivers of blood and to silence the cacophony of their agonized cries....

Disclaimer: I am in no way affiliated, allied, aligned, or connected
with the Transformative Studies Institute, the Institute for Critical
Animal Studies, Anthony Nocella II, or Richard Kahn. While I am a
press officer for the North American Animal Liberation Press Office
and am an associate of Jerry Vlasak and Steve Best, I am penning this
piece independently of NAALPO and all of my allies.

Years of introspection and profound soul searching-intrepidly trekking
the seemingly infinite number of unexplored, untamed, thorny and
treacherous paths winding circuitously through my psyche-led me to
naively conclude that I'd sketched out a nearly complete map of who I
am, my worldview, and my purpose.
...
Steve Best commented to me about a year ago that he wanted to make
philosophy dangerous again. With that in mind, I've come to some
radical conclusions about us humans and our largely reprehensible ways
of being as a species. Indulge me as I "philosophize with a hammer,"
driving home some ideologies, thoughts, observations, principles, and
assertions that will bludgeon some of the sacred tenets of the
anthropocentric Judeo-Christian status quo of Western Civilization,
evoke the wrath of hardened speciesists who lash out like spoiled
children when people challenge their "unassailable right" to torture,
murder, and eat other sentient beings, and leave me about as popular
as an agitated, unleashed pit bull at a Cat Fanciers' Association
show.
...
To dam the torrential rivers of blood flowing from the veins of
billions of slaughtered animals; to silence the cacophony of their
agonized and pitiful moans, bleats, squeals, and shrieks; and to
redeem ourselves for this seemingly endless holocaust, one of two
things must happen. The human species has to become universally vegan.
Or if our cravings for flesh consumption, our desires to wear the skin
of another, our cowardly compulsions to stalk defenseless creatures
and riddle them with bullets or pierce them with arrows, or our
perceived need to subject other animals to heinous torture to "advance
our science and medicine" are too strong to overcome, we need to put
human flesh on the menu, stock the store shelves with shoes and coats
fashioned of human skin, turn our hunting rifles on human targets, and
fill our research laboratories with human subjects. After all, if
we're going to use, abuse, and slaughter sentient beings to please our
palates, enhance our lives, and vivisect, in order to restore justice
and to put an end to abject hypocrisy, we need to include our own
species in these activities.
...
Philosophically speaking, the animal liberation movement needs to
embrace 'counter-violence to protect innocent beings' as one of many
tactics in the war to end the animal holocaust. Attacks on
incorrigible, empathy-deficient, sociopathic speciesist animal
torturers and murderers by courageous underground militants are both
necessary and morally acceptable aspects of the fight to liberate
nonhuman animals. From an ethical standpoint, such acts would be
readily justifiable as a form of extensional self-defense on behalf of
voiceless, defenseless sentient beings.
...
Jason Miller is a relentless anti-capitalist, vegan straight edge,
animal liberationist, and press officer for the North American Animal
Liberation Press Office. He is also the senior editor and founder of
Thomas Paine's Corner.

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full story:
http://www.opednews.com/articles/To-dam-the-torrential-rive-by-Jason-Miller-090705-696.html

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.

OPPOSE PUERTO RICO'S PLAN FOR A MASSIVE PRIMATE BREDING FACILITY!

Join the Animal Legal Defense Fund and an international coalition of
attorneys, scientists, and animal advocates in opposing the proposed
construction of a massive facility in Puerto Rico for the purpose of
breeding primates for use in painful and traumatic laboratory experiments.

The proposed facility in Guayama City will, according to plans, breed many
thousands of highly intelligent, sensitive macaques for export to research
facilities in the United States and around the world, and potentially for
on-site and/or local experimentation as well.

Let Puerto Rican officials know you are part of the international
opposition to this cruel plan!

Less than one year ago, Puerto Rico enacted a landmark animal protection
law, based in part on a set of model laws drafted by the Animal Legal
Defense Fund. The sweeping set of reforms provided for in Act 154 (P S.
2552) place Puerto Rico among the top tier of U.S. states and
jurisdictions with regards to the strength of their laws protecting
animals. This new law provides specific guidelines for experimentation on
live animals: specifically, scientific research on animals at universities
is allowable only when it meets criteria deeming it “absolutely
essential;” any other experiments are prohibited for educational purposes
at the elementary, intermediate and higher education levels, and
completely banned in facilities outside of university research labs. The
proposed primate breeding facility would violate both the letter and the
spirit of Puerto Rico’s progressive new law, which strictly limits the use
of animals in experimentation.

In addition to troubling questions about its legality, such a facility
would also place Puerto Rico behind the curve in the current context of
scientific debate about laboratory research involving live animals. In
2007, the National Academy of Sciences published a report calling on the
Environmental Protection Agency to make a fundamental shift in its
toxicity testing strategies away from testing on mammals and focusing
increasingly on new, more accurate—not to mention, more ethical—in vitro
toxicity testing.

http://org2.democracyinaction.org/o/5154/t/6562/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=1795


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Sally Tully-Figueroa
http://www.pareeste.org
Defending Those Who Cannot Defend Themselves
http://www.redprotectoresdeanimales.org/
http://www.dogsdeservebetter.org/ PR Rep.

Friday, July 3, 2009

The Humane Society of the United States and USDA Reach Settlement to Improve Animal Research Monitoring

WASHINGTON (July 1, 2009) - The Humane Society of the United States and the
United States Department of Agriculture have reached a settlement in a
lawsuit over access to annual reports of facilities conducting animal
research. The HSUS filed the case in federal court in January 2005 under the
Freedom of Information Act.

The lawsuit alleged that the USDA violated the Freedom of Information Act by
failing to provide The HSUS with numerous reports required by the Animal
Welfare Act concerning painful animal experiments conducted without
anesthetics or other pain or distress relief measures. The suit also sought
to compel the USDA to make annual Animal Welfare Act-mandated animal
research facility reports available online.

Pursuant to the settlement agreement signed by the parties today, all of the
annual reports, including pain and distress information, will be made
available to the public electronically and in a timely manner. USDA will
also have to indicate on its website which facilities did not submit annual
reports, and therefore failed to abide by the Animal Welfare Act. The HSUS
expressed its gratitude to Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack for providing
greater transparency about what is happening to animals at research
facilities across the nation.

"The public has a right to know whether the USDA is properly enforcing the
Animal Welfare Act and whether research institutions are abiding by the
law," said Kathleen Conlee, director of program management for animal
research issues for The HSUS. "While it became apparent during the suit that
the USDA might be acting to shield animal research facilities from public
scrutiny, we are pleased that the settlement will ensure public access to
animal research information, and shed light on whether USDA is doing its
job."

Reports released to The HSUS prior to the settlement describing procedures
that caused unrelieved animal pain and distress had large amounts of
information redacted. In some cases entire pages were omitted. As a result
of this settlement, the USDA has agreed to provide those reports to The HSUS
with more information so that the public will have more information about
the procedures used and the scientific justification for the unrelieved pain
and distress that some animals experienced.

The settlement will be submitted to the federal district court for the
District of Columbia today for final approval. The HSUS is represented by
the public interest law firm of Meyer Glitzenstein & Crystal.

Facts

. The Animal Welfare Act covers the care and handling of warm-blooded
animals other than laboratory-bred mice, rats and birds at registered
research institutions and licensed animal dealer facilities. It is enforced
by the USDA.

. Birds, mice and rats bred for and used in research are exempt from Animal
Welfare Act provisions.

. An amendment to the Animal Welfare Act in 1970 required the submission of
annual reports by research institutions. Pursuant to this requirement, each
animal research facility must submit a report to the USDA annually regarding
its activities. These reports include information on number and species of
animals used in research protocols; whether pain and distress relief were
provided to the animals during; and justification as to why pain and
distress relief were not provided, when applicable.

. An estimated 20 million to 25 million animals are used each year in
research in the United States and tens of millions more are bred and
subsequently euthanized. Approximately 1 million of these animals used for
research at an estimated 1,275 institutions are protected by the Animal
Welfare Act. Animals used in research include dogs, cats, rabbits, non-human
primates, guinea pigs, mice, rats, birds, farm animals and others.

Timeline

March 2008: USDA discloses to The HSUS that it never received mandatory
annual reports from 81 animal research facilities over the course of five
years.

May 2005: USDA announces that in response to The HSUS's lawsuit, the agency
will again start posting registered research facilities' annual reports to
their website, as required by the Freedom of Information Act.

January 2005: The HSUS files suit against the USDA seeking to restore the
reports.

2002: USDA removes key documents concerning the use of animals in research
from its website.

2001: The HSUS files a request with the USDA for certain documents related
to pain and distress in laboratory animals.

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protection organization- backed by 11 million Americans, or one of every 28.
For more than a half-century, The HSUS has been fighting for the protection
of all animals through advocacy, education and hands-on programs.
Celebrating animals and confronting cruelty - On the web at
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Wednesday, July 1, 2009

Protest Outside Malaysian Embassy In London

Animal welfare groups oppose plans for primate research facility in Johor

London, 30th June 2009. Representatives from the British Union for the
Abolition of Vivisection (BUAV) and the International Primate Protection
League (IPPL) today hand delivered letters of protest to the High
Commissioner of Malaysia in London. The animal welfare groups were
responding to reports that Malaysia is in discussions with a number of
animal testing companies, including an unnamed French company to set up
a primate research facility in Johor using captive-bred long-tailed
macaques (Macaca fascicularis) imported from nearby countries.

The negotiations reported to be underway coincide with the revision of
the Directive that legislates animal testing in Europe, prompting fears
that this may be an attempt to circumvent current efforts to place
increased restrictions on the use of primates within the EU. There are
claims that the monkeys used in the new facility will not be taken from
the wild, but will instead come from breeding farms in countries such as
Vietnam, Indonesia and China. There are, however, already widespread
concerns about the conditions in which some primates are kept in source
countries as well as the validity of many so-called ‘captive-breeding’
facilities, where monkeys are captured from the wild and their offspring
sold for research, thereby still posing a threat to wild populations.

Sarah Kite, Director of Special Projects for the BUAV says “We are
concerned that European research companies, in an effort to avoid the
growing public criticism of animal experimentation and attempts to
impose tighter restrictions on the use of primates within the EU, may be
looking to set up primate facilities in countries where regulations are
more lax. This appears to be the case in Malaysia, where there is
reportedly no legislation governing the use of animals in research. The
use of non-human primates in research is being questioned
internationally most recently in the European Union, by scientists as
well as others. The establishment of a primate facility in Malaysia
would encourage further use of these animals at a time when this very
practice is being challenged.”

Dr Shirley McGreal, Founder and Chairwoman of the International Primate
Protection League says: “The Malaysian government recently decided that
it would not allow the export of its own indigenous population of
macaques for research purposes so it would be inconsistent for them if
they considered allowing a foreign company to do the very same with
macaques imported from neighbouring countries. We urge Malaysia to put
an end to these reported negotiations and to distance itself from this
industry which inflicts such great suffering on our primate cousins.”

ENDS

Notes for Editors

Photographs of the event and copies of the letters to be handed in are
available on request

Contacts

Ms Sarah Kite
Director of Special Projects, British Union for the Abolition of
Vivisection (BUAV)
Email: sarah.kite@buav.org

Web: http://www.buav.org/



Dr. Shirley McGreal, OBE
Chairwoman, International Primate Protection League (IPPL)
Tel: +1 843 871 2280
Email: smcgreal@ippl.org

Web: http://www.ippl.org/



About the British Union for the Abolition of Vivisection (BUAV)
The BUAV is the UK’s leading organisation campaigning to end animal
experiments. It has been campaigning for over 100 years to achieve a
world where nobody wants or believes we need to experiment on animals.
We are committed to achieving our aims through reliable and reasoned
evidence-based debate. For further information, visit
http://www.buav.org/



About the International Primate Protection League (IPPL)
Founded in 1973, IPPL is the only organisation in the world that works
to protect and conserve all species of primate. A grassroots
organisation, IPPL works with local organisations in habitat countries
to promote community participation and effective conservation practices.
IPPL has field representatives in more than 25 countries and an advisory
board which includes renowned experts in primate behaviour, ecology,
rescue and rehabilitation. For further information, visit www.ippl.org

Monday, June 29, 2009

ACTION ALERT!DON'T LET GENETICALLY ENGINEERED CROPS TAKE OVER!

Take Action http://action.foodandwaterwatch.org/t/741/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=1164
Ask the Obama Administration to protect consumers from the biotech industry!In the last months of the Bush Administration, the U.S. Department of Agriculture proposed some bad rules that significantly weaken the oversight of genetically engineered crops. These rules are bad for consumers, the environment, and would allow the biotechnology industry to regulate itself. Can you demand that the Obama Administration ditch the Bush rules, and make rules that will adequately regulate genetically engineered crops?The rules USDA has offered further endanger your right to choose the foods you and your family eat and farmers' right to their chosen livelihoods. If implemented the rules would virtually ensure more contamination of organic and conventional crops, and would continue to allow the dangerous practice of producing drugs and industrial chemicals in food crops grown in the open environment, and in many cases even allow the biotechnology industry to decide whether their GE crops are regulated at all.We have an extremely important opportunity to have the Obama Administration create rules that could be stronger than anything we've had for the last 15 years. We need real regulation and oversight of genetically engineered crops that are being created and planted every day with new toxins, poisons, and drugs. Can you submit a comment now requesting that Obama's USDA scrap the Bush Administration rules and create real rules for change in the biotech industry?
http://action.foodandwaterwatch.org/t/741/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=1164
Thanks for taking action,Sarah, Alex, Noelle and the Food TeamFood & Water Watchgoodfood(at) fwwatch.orgFood & Water Watch is a nonprofit consumer organization that works to ensure clean water and safe food. We challenge the corporate control and abuse of our food and water resources by empowering people to take action and by transforming the public consciousness about what we eat and drink.

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
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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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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

http://www.wanttoknow.info/870511vaccineaids
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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."

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Vegan “Bones” Star Emily Deschanel Asks Waxman To Help Chimps

http://www.ecorazzi.com/2009/06/24/vegan-star-emily-deschanel-asks-waxman-to
-help-chimps/

Vegan “Bones” Star Emily Deschanel Asks Waxman To Help Chimps

Bones star and one of Ecorazzi’s Top 5 Vegans of 2009 Emily Deschanel
is speaking out on behalf of chimps.

Deschanel recently wrote a letter to California congressman Rep. Henry
Waxman urging him to cosponsor the Town-Reichart Great Ape Protection
Act, which was introduced in a House health subcommittee that is part
of the Waxman-chaired Committee on Energy and Commerce.

This legislation would phase out “invasive scientific research” on
chimpanzees and also release federally owned apes to chimpanzee
sanctuaries.

In the letter, Emily writes:

“This legislation would allow about 500 chimpanzees to live their
remaining years in sanctuaries. They could form bonds with other
chimpanzees, bask in the sunlight, and feel the grass and the earth.
That’s the least we can do for chimpanzees, our species’ closest
living relatives.”

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

Wednesday, June 24, 2009

OF SCIENCE AND FETAL WHALING

Science News - Of Science and Fetal Whaling
By Janet Raloff
More than one-quarter of the 679 whales taken from Antarctic waters by Japanese research crews, during the past seven months, were pregnant, according to a report released Monday at the International Whaling Commission meeting, in Madeira, Portugal. Another four of the females killed as part of this whale “sampling” program were lactating; so there’s concern that their calves were additional casualties of Japan’s Austral summer “research program.”
Although commercial whaling is all but banned, Japan has maintained an active “scientific” whaling program for years. On March 22, it completed the second year of what it terms a six-year research program. Its .. to gauge population sizes of various species of whales in southern waters, identify their age at maturity, assess their diet, measure tissue-contaminant levels and study various internal organs, such as ovaries and “earplugs,” according to Shigetoshi Nishiwaki of the Institute of Cetacean Research in Tokyo and his colleagues this week. “Governments of [organizations] engaged in whale fishing claim that they are not engaging in ‘commercial fishing’ but ‘scientific fishing,’” notes the International Union for Conservation of Nature, based in Gland, Switzerland. In fact, most cetacean biologists argue, whale populations exist at only a fraction of their former abundance and are far from large enough to sustain commercial harvesting for meat or oil — or even the culling of some 1,000 whales a year for science. Australia, a party to the IWC, campaigned this year to end any "scientific whaling" that involves the deliberate killing of whales.
On its website, the Japan Whaling Association counters that “No whales have ever been hunted to extinction, nor are they likely to be. . . . [And] there are species which are abundant enough that marine management is needed,” such as for the Antarctic and northwestern Pacific minke whales and northwestern Pacific Bryde's whales. Marine management, presumably, is whaling lingo for harvesting.
Japan has a long whaling tradition. The Japan Whaling Association likens asking the Japanese to forego whale meat to “Americans being asked to stop eating hamburgers.” It argues that “Attitudes toward animals are a part of national cultures. No nations should try to impose their attitudes on others.”
Where I’m sympathetic to cultural claims is with subsistence hunters, like the Inupiat living on Alaska’s North Slope. They have hunted bowhead whales for millennia, and eat the entire animal. It’s not a luxury. It’s how their communities have survived harsh winters where fish were hard to reach and any crop-growing season lasts a few short months. Moreover, Alaska’s subsistence hunters don’t take more than they can eat.
Currently, the National Marine Fisheries Service allows subsistence hunts by Alaskan native peoples of up to 67 bowheads a year, of which a few takes are allocated to Russian subsistence hunters.
As for whales in Japan being comparable to burgers in the U.S. — the two are hardly parallel. Cows are not wild game but livestock bred expressly as food and in herd sizes meant to meet market demands. Moreover, there’s no question of cows going extinct.
But what I find particularly disturbing about this week’s report on Japan’s whale “science” is the huge number of fetal losses. If 63 percent of the females were pregnant at the time they were sacrificed — we're talking about 192 moms-to-be — then maybe this isn't the season to "sample" southern cetaceans.
Whales are long lived animals. I’ve written about bowheads that appear to have lifespans in the 200-year range. Whales take a very long time to mature. And once they do, they seldom give birth to more than a calf or two every few years. So losing moms — while carrying the next generation — is not good for the species. In fact, I shudder at how the Japanese justify this as good science.
If they need to know pollutant levels, do harpoon biopsies that steal a bit of tissue and leave the animal reproductively sound. Need to know age structures? Take a lesson from orca researchers in Alaskan waters who spend season after season charting populations, their calving success and longevity. But let the babies live. Let lactating moms continue to nurse the next generation until those young’ens can survive on their own.
In a report that Nishiwaki and his colleagues prepared for the IWC meeting, they maintain that certain cetacean data require sacrificing some animals. Towards this end, Japan has obtained permits to annually collect up to 935 Antarctic minkes (Balaenoptera bonaerensis) out of resident populations that the Japan Whaling Association estimates to contain 761,000 animals, 50 humpbacks (Megaptera novaeangliae) and 50 fin whales (B. physalus). But doesn’t 1,000 of these huge specimens seem excessive?
Despite having approval to sacrifice so many whales, Nishiwaki’s group reported Monday that during this year’s 103 day hunting season, as also occurred last year, Japanese researchers were thwarted from acquiring their full legal complement of carcasses. The reason: “the violent actions of an anti-whaling group over 16 days.” Indeed, the scientists named their nemesis: the Sea Shepherd, the principal vessel of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society. (This activist group’s activities are chronicled in weekly installments of "Whale Wars," a television series broadcast on the Animal Planet network.) But Sea Shepherd was hardly the only fly in the researchers' ointment. Nishiwaki's institute hosts videos of other groups that also engaged in "illegal harassment and terrorism" against its research.

Monday, June 1, 2009

Scientists create genetically modified monkeys

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/05/27/AR2009052701798.html
The Washington Post
Glowing Green Monkeys Illustrate Important but Controversial Advance
By Rob Stein, Washington Post Staff Writer

Scientists have created the first genetically modified monkeys that can pass their new genetic attributes to their offspring, an advance designed to give researchers new tools for studying human disease but one that raises many thorny ethical questions.
In this case, Japanese researchers added genes that caused the animals to glow green under an ultraviolet light -- and beget offspring with the same spooky trait -- to test a technique they hope to use to produce animals with Parkinson's, Huntington's and other diseases.
The work, described in today's issue of the journal Nature, was hailed by some medical researchers as a long-sought milestone that could lead to crucial insights into many ailments and provide invaluable ways to test new treatments.
But because the work marks the first time members of a species so closely related to humans have had their genetic makeup permanently altered, the research set off alarms that it marked a troubling step toward applying such techniques to people, which would violate a long-standing taboo.
"It would be easy enough for someone to make the leap to trying this on humans," said Lori B. Andrews, who studies reproductive technologies at the Illinois Institute of Technology's Chicago-Kent College of Law. "If you make this kind of change, it's passed on to all future generations. Many people think it's hubris to have people remaking people in this way."
The approach could tempt some to use the technique to try to engineer desirable traits in people, creating a society of genetic haves and have-nots, Andrews said. Others worried that the work could have additional disturbing implications, such as potentially blurring the line between species.
"It's hard to put your finger on what is it about this research that is likely to stimulate ethical debate besides the sort of gut feeling that this is not the right thing to do," said Mark A. Rothstein, a bioethicist at the University of Louisville. "But I think we'd better contemplate where this research is going and develop policies to deal with it before it slaps us in the face."
Scientists have genetically engineered many other species to be research tools. Mice in particular have been created with a wide assortment of characteristics and diseases that mimic human ailments. But because mice are so genetically different from humans, scientists have long sought to breed primates to provide better disease "models." Although scientists have been able to genetically modify individual monkeys, they had never been able to make the new traits hereditary -- a crucial step for breeding large enough numbers of research animals.
In humans, researchers have tried to correct genetic defects in individual patients, but there has always been a strict prohibition against making changes that would be passed on.
In the new work, Erika Sasaki of the Central Institute for Experimental Animals in Kawasaki and her colleagues conducted experiments using marmosets, small monkeys common in South America that mature and reproduce quickly.
The researchers modified a virus called a lentivirus to carry a jellyfish gene known as GFP (green fluorescent protein) into the genetic material of the marmosets' cells. The gene is widely used in research because it is easy to track -- cells in which the gene is active glow green when exposed to ultraviolet light.
The researchers used the genetically engineered virus to insert the jellyfish gene into 80 marmoset embryos, which they then transferred into the wombs of 50 females. Seven pregnancies resulted in five offspring, four of which showed signs of the jellyfish gene in their hair roots, skin, blood cells and other tissues. Under ultraviolet light, the skin on the soles of their feet glowed green.
Most important, eggs from one of the females and sperm from one of the males had the gene, and the researchers reported that the male's sperm was used to produce at least one second-generation offspring with the gene -- a male named Kouichi whose skin glowed green under the light.
In a telephone briefing for reporters yesterday, the researchers said they had produced four offspring -- two from the male and two from the female. Three of the offspring glowed green.
"We believe this is the first case that is ever established in the world that has an introduced gene that is successfully translated to the next generation in a primate," said Hideyuki Okano of Keio University School of Medicine.
Several researchers deemed the research landmark work.
"I think it's a pretty big advancement," said Shoukhrat Mitalipov of the Oregon Health and Science University, who co-authored an article published with the Japanese paper. "Primates are the only species you can faithfully use to make models of some very important human diseases involving higher brain function and neurological functions."
But others criticized the work. Animal rights advocates said it paves the way for producing colonies of primates conceived expressly to suffer cruel illnesses and undergo potentially painful and dangerous medical experiments.
"Instead of manipulating the genes of marmosets or other non-human primates, why aren't scientists harnessing the power of the human genome or any of the other technology that has exploded over the last 10 years?" said Eric Kleiman of In Defense of Animals, an international animal protection organization based in San Rafael, Calif. "This is a step backward, not a step forward."
Even some who do not necessarily oppose the use of animals in research said the work raised other concerns.
"At some point, how many human genes in a marmoset or rhesus monkey or macaque or whatever does it take to form a new species -- a species that is part human at its basis?" bioethicist Rothstein said.
And although there has long been a taboo against making genetic changes in people that could be hereditary, the new work makes that prospect more likely, others said.
"This is proof of concept in a closely related species," Andrews said.
"Some in the future might want to put a gene into humans to give them the running speed of a cheetah, for example, or maybe create the potential for night vision." Andrews noted that reproductive technologies are largely unregulated in the United States.
"This is just another reason why we need to go behind the doors of the [fertility] clinics and create an oversight mechanism that works," Andrews said.
Other researchers dismissed such concerns, saying marmosets were much more distantly related to people than other primates, such as chimpanzees. And although several researchers agreed that animal research should be limited, they said it is impossible to get answers to many key questions any other way. Creating better animal models could reduce the number of animals needed for research, they said.
"In the end, if we have good models, we may end up using less animals and we may end up having better answers," said Anthony Chan, a geneticist at Emory University who helped to create a rhesus monkey with Huntington's disease.
But Chan agreed that steps should be taken to make sure the technology is not used on people.
"We should never do it in humans," Chan said. "We don't want to change our evolutionary path. That would have a profound impact on the next generation."

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