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FW: House Passes Bioshield Bill

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From Ingri Cassel:

 

Dear Members and Friends -

 

It is so important to write letters to the editor in your local newspapers

about this issue of BioShield passing -- this bill gives

$5.6 billion of YOUR tax dollars to the pharmas as an incentive to develop

more vaccines. I have an article by Lynne Born that was published in Z

Magazine called Smallpox Vaccine Has the Pox -- Bioshield Bill turns

Pharmaceuticals into BioWeapons Factories.

http://www.zmag.org/ZMagSite/curTOC.htm

 

In her article she starts out with some startling figures that should alarm

everyone regarding the numbers of deaths and chronic illnesses caused by

pharmaceutical products:

 

" The bill [bioshield] pays for the warehousing of drugs and vaccines for

which the FDA has granted a special exemption from the usual approval

process to allow the countermeasures to be fast tracked through FDA approval

and used on the public with no human testing at all, an unprecedented step

for an industry that is already the 3rd leading cause of death in the United

States.

 

The pharmaceutical industry sustains a generally excellent reputation as

most people believe the drug companies always put safety first in their

humane mission to develop medicines to heal the sick. But the facts belie

this gentle reputation - between 100,000 and 200,000 people die each year

from correctly prescribed medications in the hospital alone, not including

drug induced deaths occurring outside the hospital or from incorrectly

prescribed medications. Compare these numbers to the 65,000 dead American

soldiers during the entire Vietnam war or the 20,000 dead from the initial

chemical release in the Bhopal disaster. No other industry is responsible

for such a shockingly high death rate repeated year after year, a death rate

that would probably cause great alarm and Congressional hearings if it

occurred in any other industry. And yet even these numbers are

underestimated as David Kessler who ran the FDA for much of the 1990s has

stated that from 90-99% of all adverse drug reactions are never reported,

which would make the actual death and injury rate from legal drugs

astronomical. "

 

What alarms me about this bill passing is the fact that 9/11 is still being

used as an excuse for Homeland Security, Patriot Acts I and II and now

BioShield -- and all this while we wait for the results of an investigation

into the events of 9/11 that has been met with countless obstacles. It is

high time we expose the illegal actions of our congressmen and the entire

Bush Administration. ~Ingri

 

 

 

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-bioshield17jul17,1,7643

882.story?coll=la-headlines-nation-manual

 

THE NATION

House Passes Bill to Help Combat Bioterrorism

In the Senate, funding questions slow similar

legislation seeking vaccines and treatments against

anthrax and other deadly agents.

 

By Vicki Kemper

Los Angeles Times Staff Writer

July 17, 2003

 

 

WASHINGTON - The House overwhelmingly approved legislation Wednesday

designed to encourage private industry to develop vaccines and other

treatments

needed to protect U.S. residents from acts of bioterrorism.

 

The House's 418-to-2 approval of Project Bioshield, first proposed by

President

Bush in his State of the Union address in January, comes almost two years

after

the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks that killed about 3,000 people and the

mailing of

anthrax-filled letters that killed five people and injured 17.

 

Two Republicans, Reps. Jeff Flake of Arizona and Ron Paul of Texas, voted

against the bill. All members of the California delegation, with the

exception

of Rep. Juanita Millender-McDonald (D-Carson), who did not vote, voted for

the bill.

In the Senate, similar legislation has bogged down on when to fund the

program - all at once or year by year.

 

" This legislation will help spur the development and availability of

next-generation

countermeasures against biological, chemical, nuclear and radiological

weapons, " Bush said in a statement released by the White House. " I urge the

Senate to act on this very important legislation. "

 

The House bill would establish a $5.6-billion, 10-year fund for the

development,

production and stockpiling of vaccines and other drugs to combat such deadly

 

biological agents as smallpox, anthrax, botulinum toxin, Ebola and plague.

A ready supply of such treatments would serve as " both an antidote and a

deterrent to future attacks, " said Rep. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio).

 

The Bush administration conceived of Project Bioshield as a way of giving

pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies financial incentive to develop

products for which there is no commercial market.

 

" Without this clear commitment of funding in future years, private-sector

companies

that are capable of such development simply won't undertake the heavy

investment

and risk, " Rep. W.J. " Billy " Tauzin (R-La.), the bill's sponsor, said

Wednesday.

 

Industry response to the initiative remains unclear.

 

Last month, President Bush addressed the annual meeting of the Biotechnology

 

Industry Organization, telling executives to lobby Congress if they were

" interested in

seeing more flexibility and more research dollars for the sake of national

security. "

Yet the House bill does not provide for one of the industry's key demands:

broad protection against lawsuits.

 

The bill is intended to give the departments of Homeland Security and Health

and

Human Services new powers and personnel for assessing bioterrorism threats

and

responding to them. In addition, the HHS secretary would have the authority

to

declare a national emergency and, under such conditions, make available to

the

public drugs and vaccines that have not been approved by the Food and Drug

Administration.

 

Meanwhile, a smallpox vaccination campaign, the administration's first major

 

post-Sept. 11 effort to prepare the nation for a possible bioterrorist

attack, has all

but stalled. Fewer than 38,000 people had been vaccinated against smallpox

as of

July 4, almost six months after Bush unveiled his plan to inoculate up to

500,000

civilian health workers and 10 million police, fire and other emergency

personnel.

 

The campaign has been hampered by uncertainty about the threat of a smallpox

 

attack, concerns about the safety of the vaccine and a delay in the

provision for the

compensation of people injured by it.

 

Six people who received the vaccine suffered heart attacks some time later,

and two of them died. At least 17 others suffered inflammation of the heart.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which has continued to

investigate a possible connection between the vaccine and heart ailments,

advised people with heart conditions or certain risk factors against being

vaccinated.

 

Last month, the CDC's Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices

recommended that officials suspend the vaccination program until the CDC's

research had been completed.

 

*************************

--

Mary Wulff

Coalition for a Safe Lab

P.O. Box 1803

Hamilton MT 59840

http://www.oiruco.com

 

*************************************

Ingri Cassel, President

Vaccination Liberation - Idaho Chapter

P.O. Box 457

Spirit Lake, ID 83869

(208)255-2307/ fax 255-2607

vaclib

 

www.vaclib.org

" Free Your Mind....

From The Vaccine Paradigm "

 

 

 

 

Sandy Mintz

http://www.vaccinationnews.com

http://www.vaccinationnews.com/Scandals/past_scandals.htm

 

" Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty. " - Wendell Phillips (1811-1884),

paraphrasing John Philpot Curran (1808)

 

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