Topic: GlaxoSmithKline Investigated for Manslaughter- Vaccine
Tincup
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Vaccine Companies Investigated for Manslaughter
A formal investigation has been launched by French authorities against two managers from drug companies GlaxoSmithKline and Sanofi Pasteur. A second investigation for manslaughter has also been opened against Sanofi Pasteur MSD.
Tincup
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My goodness! All this huge nightmare stuff with the Lyme vaccine (SmithKline, et al) and now this manslaughter investigation for another vaccine.
Maybe instead of making license plates in prison they will have enough of these vaccine related people in there to make... well... more vaccines?
Lyme is not a problem in the Boston area... says Steere... so he wouldn't take the vaccine he helped put on the market.
Mayo Clinic doesn't believe the patients were sick when they said they were... no big surprise there.
Well, it MIGHT be a little bit of a problem, maybe, says Steere.
FDA approves vaccine in spite of evidence there were problems and Hopkins backs it up. Shame, shame, everyone knows your name!
Class action suits filed by people in multiple states against vaccine makers, SmithKline.
Sigal feels his vaccine has no side effects but before it could be approved law suits were filed by muliple patients who were in the vaccine trial study.
"Even Dr. Steere has his doubts about the safety of the vaccine, which he has not taken himself, he said, because Lyme is not a serious problem in the Boston area."
Still, other doctors and clinicians challenged the suggestion that the 170 people who developed problems suffered them because of the vaccine. "I would say, `Show me the data,' " said Dr. Gregory A. Poland, chief of vaccine research at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn.
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Dr. Allen C. Steere, who directed SmithKline Beecham's trials of the vaccine, told the committee that it was hypothetically possible that the vaccine could set off an autoimmune reaction in which the body's immune system attacks its own tissue, and that this could cause treatment-resistant arthritis.
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Some 60 patients who believe they were made ill by the Lyme vaccine are suing SmithKline Beecham for monetary damages, said Stephen A. Sheller, a lawyer with Sheller, Ludwig & Badey, of Philadelphia, which is handling the suits. And class-action suits have been filed by the firm in New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania seeking to require the company to warn doctors and patients that it poses possible risks for those who are genetically predisposed to autoimmune arthritis or who have been previously infected with Lyme bacteria.
"Recently the Food and Drug Administration approved the use of OspA for vaccination of humans despite indirect evidence and concerns that OspA is associated with arthritis. In this study, we present direct evidence that vaccination ... can induce severe destructive arthritis in hamsters after challenge with the Lyme borreliosis spirochete."
"Dr. Neal Halsey, director of Johns Hopkins University's Institute of Vaccine Safety, questioned the study's relevance, saying that hamsters are prone to develop arthritis..."
"Dr. Leonard Sigal, chief investigator for the Connaught vaccine trial, said there were no untoward side effects in his study. "Cross-reactivity wasn't seen in the Connaught trial under very controlled conditions." But there were signs that some participants felt they were having bad reactions.
Before the vaccine was approved, at least four lawsuits were filed by people who had participated in the vaccine trials -- highly unusual since participants sign informed consents.
Three were filed against Connaught; the other was filed against SmithKline. In two of the Connaught suits and the SmithKline case, the participants said they had had debilitating arthritic-like problems.
One case was settled for an undisclosed amount, another dropped and two are pending, said Maurer, the lawyer in those suits."
Tincup
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I know how to stop bad vaccines from getting on the market and making the fat cats fatter.
Before a trial can be done... anyone who took part in the research, took grant money, will use their supplies in it, will promote it or sell it, will defend those people in court or make reports about any of it... and the FDA and all those involved in any way ...
AND...
All of these people's family members, relatives and people in their immediate neighborhood will have to have the vaccine first.
Then after 4 years.. if NO problems have been found in any of those people... by an independent group....
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Yep, I was one of the not so lucky guinea pigs to get the lymerix vaccine!
Nothing was ever mentioned to me about it causing problems, or that it was not all that effective in preventing lyme disease. When I got really sick I never even thought of lyme disease because I figured I was pretty well protected with the vaccine.
Hopefully it will not make my case more difficult to treat. i don't think that anyone knows in the end what that vaccine did to people who got it.
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Tincup
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Hopkins appears to be connected to the Lyme vaccine (which we knew) .. but also at least one Hep B vaccine.
Was that the same vaccine? You know.. the one that was possibly given to adults and nearly all newborns in France (mentioned above)?
The Hopkins reseacher (Halsey) who backed the Lyme vaccine in light of evidence indicating it could be a problem, also claims he was involved with a Hep B vaccine... so I don't know.
Uggg.. I just noticed this Hopkins fellow also ... ahhhhhh!!!!
He also claims.. no- you look! Ahhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!
"On-going studies include: persistent poliovirus excretion in immunodeficient children, *** evaluation of Lyme disease vaccine in children ***, evaluation of alternative injection devices, and the safety of preservatives and adjuvants in vaccines."
I'd heard rumors they had planned to take the failed Lyme vaccine from the USA to Europe to do trials on children. I didn't know they really would!!! I didn't think it would be allowed!!!
And I didn't think anyone would approve it for use on children!!! Who is watching these jerks?
"I have conducted or participated in epidemiological studies of vaccine-preventable diseases and phase I, II, and III vaccine trials of ***hepatitis B***,
hepatitis A, inactivated polio virus, pertussis, Haemophilus influenzae type B, tetanus, ***Lyme disease***, rotavirus, Argentina Hemorrhagic Fever, and influenzae vaccine viruses."
Beverly
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Hey Tincup,
I agree with you 100%!!!
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Tincup
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The vaccine did no harm..
Hooey!
J Peripher Nerv Syst. 2004 Sep;9(3):165-7. Links
Neuropathy and cognitive impairment following vaccination with the OspA protein of Borrelia burgdorferi.Latov N, Wu AT, Chin RL, Sander HW, Alaedini A, Brannagan TH 3rd.
Department of Neurology and Neurosciences, Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New York, NY 10022, USA. [email protected]
Neurological syndromes that follow vaccination or infection are often attributed to autoimmune mechanisms.
We report six patients who developed neuropathy or cognitive impairment, within several days to 2 months, following vaccination with the OspA antigen of Borrelia burgdorferi.
Two of the patients developed cognitive impairment, one chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy (CIDP), one multifocal motor neuropathy, one both cognitive impairment and CIDP, and one cognitive impairment and sensory axonal neuropathy.
The patients with cognitive impairment had T2 hyperintense white matter lesions on magnetic resonance imaging.
The similarity between the neurological sequelae observed in the OspA-vaccinated patients and those with chronic Lyme disease suggests a possible role for immune mechanisms in some of the manifestations of chronic Lyme disease that are resistant to antibiotic treatment.
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