Vaccine coverup - US Medics admit role.

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Dear Friends,

 

This is a New York Times article that openly admits the following;

 

1. The medical community is fully aware of the dangerous side effects of

vaccines.

2. They admit that the departments involved in the vaccination process should

not

be assigned the duty to probe vaccine related deaths.

3. This move too is being opposed as critics from WITHIN the medical community

arguing for stricter probes say that handing a medical agency the probe is

like, " the fox guarding the hen house " . The medical community obviously

will never

admit that vaccines are dangerous.

4. There exists a heavily guarded " Vaccine safety datalink " that contains that

holds

SEVEN MILLION cases of reported vaccine damages. Even doctors probing

vaccine dangers are not being allowed access to this database.

5. The studies and probes, though backed by the medical community itself,

faces

resistance and has not made an significant headway despite efforts since

2003.

6. The official version continues to be that " there is no link between

thimerosal and

autism.

 

Read the full article please.

 

Regards,

Jagannath.

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Health Agency Splits Program Amid Vaccination Dispute

 

By ANAHAD O'CONNOR and GARDINER HARRIS; Anahad O'Connor reported from New York

for this article, and Gardiner Harris from Washington.

 

Published: February 25, 2005

 

 

Responding to growing concerns about its ability to monitor the side effects of

vaccines, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention decided last week to

separate its national immunization program, which advocates vaccination, from

its vaccine safety branch, which monitors the potential risks of the vaccines.

The action comes at a time of increasing public outcry over the government's

handling of drug safety issues. Earlier this month, the Food and Drug

Administration announced that it would create a board to advise it on drug

complications and to warn patients about unsafe drugs.

 

Critics of the disease-control agency have argued for some time that the

advocacy nature of its immunization program hinders its ability to monitor and

investigate any adverse reactions to vaccines.

Much of the pressure has come from lawmakers and parents of autistic children,

who are concerned about a possible link between rising rates of autism and a

mercury preservative, thimerosal, once widely used in childhood vaccines. They

have argued that the agency's dual role in promoting vaccines and overseeing

their safety is a serious conflict of interest.

The decision to separate the offices was announced last Friday, a day after a

panel of medical experts urged the agency to improve access to a database of

patient information that is at the center of a dispute over whether vaccines can

cause autism.

Dr. Julie L. Gerberding, the director of the agency, said that shifting the

safety branch was intended to improve its ''credibility and capability,'' and

that the branch would now be led by Dr. Dixie E. Snider Jr., the agency's chief

of science.

''We believe the best practice for the safety monitoring program is to keep it

in a separate locus from the large-scale program,'' Dr. Gerberding said.

Representative Dave Weldon, Republican of Florida and a physician who has a

strong interest in autism issues, called the move ''a step in the right

direction.''

''You can't have an organization whose primary charge is getting kids

vaccinated also have credibility in looking at side effects,'' Dr. Weldon said.

''Their primary mission is getting lots of kids vaccinated. I don't think they

should be the same people looking at safety.''

But Dr. Paul Offit, who was a member of a federal advisory panel on

immunization practices, said the idea that the agency would be less concerned

about whether vaccines were safe than with seeing that every child received a

shot was absurd.

''The notion has been that this is the fox guarding the henhouse,'' said Dr.

Offit, who is also a pediatrician at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia.

''That's not true. They care as much about vaccines being safe as they care

about them working. They wouldn't recommend them unless they felt the benefits

clearly outweighed the risks.''

But Dr. Weldon and others say the agency has made it difficult to assess what

those risks might be, particularly as they relate to autism.

Their concerns were echoed on Feb. 17 by a panel of medical experts assembled

by the Institute of Medicine, an arm of the National Academy of Sciences. The

committee recommended that the C.D.C. ease some restrictions on outside

scientists who want to use its heavily guarded Vaccine Safety Datalink, which

holds more than seven million medical records that the agency uses to monitor

adverse reactions to vaccines.

Dr. Thomas Verstraeten, a former researcher at the agency, used the database

to carry out a large study that was published in 2003. Many scientists have said

the study shows no statistical link between thimerosal and autism.

But Dr. Weldon and the parent groups, through the Freedom of Information Act,

later obtained an earlier draft of the study that had not been made public. The

early findings did suggest a relationship between exposure to thimerosal and

some developmental delays, and Dr. Weldon and the groups say the results were

deliberately ''watered down.''

Two outside researchers, Dr. Mark Geier and his son, David Geier, who were

expert witnesses for parents seeking damages from the National Vaccine Injury

Compensation Program, have fought for access to the database. The agency has

been hesitant, fearing that doing so could violate the privacy of those whose

medical histories are in it.

Dr. Stephen E. Fienberg, a professor at Carnegie Mellon University and a

member of the committee that weighed in on the dispute, suggested the Geiers be

granted further access.

Now, outside researchers who want access must submit a proposal and obtain

permission from the more than a half-dozen health maintenance organizations that

provide the centers with their medical records. The report determined that the

inquiry process should be streamlined, and listed steps the disease-control

agency could follow to balance patient privacy with the need to open the

database to some outside researchers.

Tom Skinner, a C.D.C. spokesman, said his agency would consider all of the

committee's recommendations and work to carry them out.

''We're going to continue to deliberate on them as we strengthen our vaccine

program,'' Mr. Skinner said. ''All of this supports our desire to continue to

place a high priority on vaccine safety.''

The agency has come under fierce criticism for its handling of the preliminary

findings from the 2003 Verstraeten study. Dr. Weldon has alleged wrongdoing,

pointing to transcripts of a private meeting where agency staff members shared

Dr. Verstraeten's findings with representatives of the vaccine industry,

government officials and physicians.

The study's authors have argued that later phases of the study were intended

to replicate earlier findings, but found no association between thimerosal and

developmental delays. Numerous epidemiological studies conducted in Europe have

also shown no link between autism and vaccines containing thimerosal.

 

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