A-CHAMP: Stop Evasion of the Vaccine Mercury Ban in California! Contact Gov. Schwarzenegger and AG Lockyer

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Groups Claim Shortage of Thimerosal-Free Vaccine Despite Ample Notice

of New Law

 

Fabricated Shortage Threatens Spread of

Mercury Vaccines to Infants in California

 

Vaccine makers and Pediatricians

team up to evade anti-mercury vaccine law

 

Vaccine makers and Pediatricians have employed crass manipulation of

vaccine supply and demand  to force California infants and toddlers

into taking mercury-containing flu shots. On October 26 the California

District of the American Academy of Pediatricians, the California

Academy of Family Physicians, the California Medical Association and

Kaiser Permanente requested an exemption from the California law

banning mercury in vaccines, that went into effect on July 1, 2006. To

see the request for an exemption click HERE.

www.a-champ.org/californiathimerosalexemption/

AAP_Cal_exemptionLtr_FINAL.pdf 

Write Governor Arnold Schwarzenneger and Bill Lockyer the California

Attorney General and demand an investigation of this blatant disregard

for the law and the welfare of children.

To easily send an email to Governor Schwarzenegger click Take Action!

if you are reading this message in an email or use the email form right

on this page if you are reading this on our web site.

Or write, fax and call Governor Schwarzenegger or Attorney General Bill

Lockyer to urge them to enforce the California law banning mercury in

vaccines. 

Contact information and a suggested letter appear at the bottom of this

page. 

Despite assurances by vaccine manufacturers that there was plenty of

mercury free flu vaccines to go around Sanofi-Pasteur announced that

they are unable to produce enough due to production problems. At the

same time, only two weeks ago, the American Academy of Pediatrics

decided that children need twice as much of the flu vaccine as last

year – doubling the demand.

Presto-Chango: instant public health crises served up to subvert

California's new no-mercury vaccine law.

Both the American Academy of Pediatrics, and the vaccine manufacturers

who still use Thimerosal preservatives have had active campaigns across

the US to opposed state legislative efforts like the one that passed in

California to remove mercury from vaccines. Although their stated

concern is that such laws could create shortages for the vaccine

programs, their true interest is to avoid legal liability for the

production and distribution of poorly tested, unsafe vaccines. Such

vaccines are at the heart of a number of public health epidemics like

diabetes, asthma, immune disorders and expecially the explosion in

autism.

This is not the first effort to subvert the will of the people and

state laws. Last year, Pharma lobbyists and the Pediatrician partners

sucessfully engineered a shortage of Thimerosal-free vaccine shortage

to circumvent a similar law in Illinois.

The Pediatricians and vaccine manufacturers think they can say what

ever they want, whenever they want to manipulate public health policy

that favors their enterprises. This cynical manipulation is performed

at the expense of vulnerable children.  Their action is immoral and

cannot be allowed to continue.

Write, call or fax California Governor Arnold Schwartzenneger now and

demand an investigation into the real reasons there is surprise vaccine

shortage.

Mercury is a known neurotoxin and has no business being in medicine.

" I think it's absolutely criminal to give mercury to an infant, " said

Boyd Haley, an expert on mercury toxicity and a vocal critic of the

CDC. We do, too. Call California Swartzeneggar today and demand that

vaccine makers and pediatricians stop using children for self-serving

political stunts. Legal exemptions to mercury-free vaccines are for

real, not made-up emergencies.

Click here to contact the Governor and demand that he investigate this

fraud.

Links to pertinent documents:

CALIFORNIA PEDIATRICIANS REQUEST EXEMPTION FROM LAW BANNING MERCURY IN

VACCINES

" Children under three in California are being denied access to

influenza vaccination because of inadequate supplies of thimerosal-free

vaccine. "

www.a-champ.org/californiathimerosalexemption/

AAP_Cal_exemptionLtr_FINAL.pdf

SANOFI-PASTURE ASSURES NO SHORTAGES OF MERCURY-FREE VACCINES FEB. 2006

" Our no preservative formulation will be available until it is fully

committed. "

www.a-champ.org/californiathimerosalexemption/

LaVenda_Email_Sanofi_tfree_supply_2-06.pdf

Kansas City Star: SANOFI SAYS PLENTY OF MERCURY-FREE VACCINES

" While we have on several occasions sold out all of our

preservative-containing (mercury) vaccine in the last several years, we

have

never sold out all of our preservative-free vaccine. "

www.a-champ.org/californiathimerosalexemption/Health_agencies_want

mercury_vaccines_KC Star_10_06.pdf

California Dept. of Health Statement to Pediatricians Directing

Compliance with Law Requiring Mercury-free vaccines for infants and

pregnant women

www.a-champ.org/californiathimerosalexemption/

Cal_health_dept_directive_on_thimerosal_law.pdf

Sacramento Bee Article Reporting that Mercury-free Vaccine law Took

Effect 7/1/06

www.a-champ.org/californiathimerosalexemption/

Cal_Bans_T_Vaccines_SacBee_7_06.pdf

ILLINOIS VACCINE EXEMPTION OUTRAGES MERCURY FOES

Illinois Department of Public Health to delay state lawmakers'

attempts to reduce mercury exposure for those receiving flu shots.

http://tinyurl.com/v9wyn

 

Contact Information for Gov. Schwarzenegger and A.G. Lockyer: 

Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger:

Telephone: (916) 445-2841

Fax: (916) 445-4633

Address:State Capitol Bldg., Sacramento, CA 95814

Email:  governor@...

 

Attorney General Bill Lockyer:

Telephone: (916) 322-3360 or toll-free in California - 1-800-952-5225

Fax:   (916) 323-5341

Email: Go to web form at

http://ag.ca.gov/contact/complaint_form.php?cmplt=PL

Address: Attorney General's OfficeCalifornia Department of JusticeAttn:

Public Inquiry UnitP.O. Box 944255Sacramento, CA 94244-2550

 

Suggested Letter (to Gov. or AG - click Take Action! to use our

automated system to send an email to the Governor.

 

I respectfully request that you act to enforce California's Safety Code

Section 12472 that prohibits the use of mercury-containing vaccines in

children younger than three and pregnant women. Despite having more

than two years notice a group of medical trade associations and Kaiser

Permanente recently petitioned California for a temporary exemption

from this law that took effect on July 1, 2006.

I urge you to refuse the exemption request. I further urge that your

office conduct an investigation to determine the reasons why the

petitioners cannot comply with the law. The State of California must

determine the actual availability of mercury-free vaccines by

developing information from sources other than the medical authorities

that have requested the exemption. The State should also determine

whether petitioners have taken good faith measures to comply with the

law.

Why can’t United States vaccine makers supply mercury-free vaccine when

the same vaccine producers have no problem supplying Britain, the

Scandinavian nations and other countries with mercury-free formulations

of their vaccines? Why has the California affiliate of the American

Academy of Pediatrics requested an exemption when its national

organization in 1999 adopted a policy favoring removal of mercury from

vaccines?

Scientific studies have shown that there is little evidence that the

flu shot provides consistent protective value for young children.

Studies have also shown that the flu vaccine has no protective effect

at all for children under two. A highly significant study just

published in the British Medical Journal seriously questions the

benefits and efficacy of a policy to implement mass flu vaccination.

The health risks of influenza to the young are exaggerated. The risk to

the health of California’s children from exposure to mercury, a highly

toxic neurotoxin, is far greater than from influenza.

I urge you to reject the petitioners’ request for an exemption and hold

hearings into petitioners’ complete disregard for the laws of the State

of California.

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