Vax Attacks

Last week on Capitol Hill, a fast-tracked bill passed committee and sped closer to passage. Unfortunately, this efficient maneuver stands to benefit corporate pharmaceutical giants, at the expense of vaccine injured children and their families. Bill S1873 is being overtly promoted as protecting Americans by assuring that vaccine manufacturers will make vaccines in the case of pandemics. Couched in the bill, however, are provisions to protect manufacturers from being held accountable for injuries caused by their products and vaccines including injections containing the known neurotoxin thimerosal. This new bill —introduced while avian flu and bioterrorism fears run high— is reportedly the worst and most powerful one drafted thus far to benefit giant drug manufacturers, at the expense of the American consumer.

--Mothering.Com action alert

The bill, which is described more thoroughly in this news brief essentially allows drugs like vaccines to be approved more speedily than regular drugs, for reasons of pandemics and bioterrorism threats. It also allows these companies to be exempt from important liability provisions in the state law.

Although the FDA has proposed a ban on thimerosal, a mercury-based preservative since 1982, due to pressure from the CDC (Center for Disease Control) and pharm companies, it has never been given a blanket ban. However, certain states have banned thimerosal in many vaccines although individuals wanting to avoid the substance (which, point being, is a known potent neurotoxin) have to check each vaccine they get for their children/themselves to make sure it is not present.

Flu shots *do* contain thimerosal, and so this bill would make it virtually impossible for anyone to seek recourse against a drug company if they were harmed by this neurotoxin as a result of a flu or other vaccine during a pandemic. Sounds shady to me... first we are warned about the harms of thimerosal and many strides were made to start eliminating it, and now we have a free-for-all?

It's ironic that drug companies already don't have to go through enough testing to ensure that their products are safe. Think about the antidepressants that are being examined because they increase suicide risk, the recent withdrawal of Vioxx, the claims that Viagra causes blindness... already drugs go through a rushed process with a lack of effective long term studies. Now they want to expedite the process even more? For what? Bioterrorism threats? That's great... we get enough of those false alarms already. Pandemics? This graph from the US's historical archives and the CDC's records show that the number of deaths from flu has fluctuated over time but there's oddly no decrease correlating with increased vaccination.

So who stands to benefit here??

The mainstream medical community & their cohorts have yet to gain my trust... and this government collaboration with the pharmaceuticals just drops the chances of that even more.

For More

• Thimerosal News
• Dr. Sherry Tenpenny on Vaccines
• Informative Graph comparing disease mortality rates with vaccine introduction