Guest guest Posted July 3, 2005 Report Share Posted July 3, 2005 I wonder what pharmaceutical companies fund the Hudson Institute (never heard of it). Someone whould ask him to take that thimerosal challenge (adult takes weight-equivalent dose of thimerosal containing vaccines as what kids with mercury poisoning got. I think whoever posed the challenge was offering a million but has had no takers last I heard. S S <BR> Brought to you by AutismLink<BR> ---------------------------------------------------------------------<BR> -----------<BR> <BR> Ignore Anti-Vaccination Conspiracy<BR> _______________________________________________ Join Excite! - http://www.excite.com The most personalized portal on the Web! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 4, 2005 Report Share Posted July 4, 2005 Thanks, that's exactly what I was hoping for :-) _____ From: [mailto: ] On Behalf Of mwagnit Sent: Monday, July 04, 2005 3:12 PM Subject: [ ] Re: here's the article My letter to the author. Dear ,If you had bothered to check the package insert (or the Physicians Desk Reference) of the 2004-2005 flu vaccine or current tetanus booster, you would find the concentration of thimerosal listed at 1:10,000. The same amount of thimerosal was used in about 50 childhood vaccines from 1988-2002 (the Hepatitis B vaccine contained only 1:20,000). This is equal to a concentration of 100,000 parts per billion (ppb). Since thimerosal is 50% mercury, this would put the mercury concentration at 50,000 ppb. In Wisconsin, if a liquid that needs to be disposed of contains more than 200 ppb, it needs to be sent to a hazardous waste landfill. If you looked at the research, you would have come across a paper recently published from the University of Washington which shows ethylmercury leaves twice as much mercury in the brain of primates as opposed to methylmercury. The mercury becomes same form after it is deposited in the brain. Could you or one of your experts from the CDC, FDA, AAP, AMA, IOM or NIH please explain to me and the 7500 parents I correspond with why you feel it is safe to inject newborns, infants and pregnant women with vaccines that contain 2,500 times more mercury than liquids classified as hazardous waste. Michae Wagnitz Chemist Madison, Wi (p.s. I dare you to print this) > > > Brought to you by AutismLink > -------------------------------------------------------------------- - > ----------- > > Ignore Anti-Vaccination Conspiracy > http://www.rednova.com/news/health/161320/ignore_antivaccination_cons > piracy/ > > If you have small kids, you may have heard dire warnings about the > perils of childhood vaccinations. The clamor has been driven lately > primarily by an article from Natural Resources Defense Council > (inventors of the Alar scare) attorney F. Kennedy Jr. A new > book called " Evidence of Harm : Mercury in Vaccines and the Autism > Epidemic: A Medical Controversy " makes similar hysterical claims. > Ignore them. The life you save may be your child's -- or somebody > else's. > > Some of these fear mongers mean well but are woefully ignorant. > Others are so obsessed with bringing others into the conspiracy- > theory fold that they will say and do anything. > > For example, they claim childhood vaccines cause the neuro- > developmental disorder autism because they contain a mercury-based > preservative called thimerosal. Never mind that production of > childhood vaccines with thimerosal ended several years ago, or that > the fear mongers are also rabidly against the measles-mumps-rubella > vaccine, which never contained thimerosal. > > The only relationship they can really draw between these vaccines > and autism is that the disorder appears by age four and the shots > are given before then -- the hoary old fallacy of " after this, > therefore because of this. " > > But every actual argument they make, however sensible it may first > seem, crumbles like a vampire exposed to sunlight. Here's what the > vaccine fear mongers and the more than 150 Web sites they operate > won't tell you. > > The most comprehensive review of the medical literature appeared > last year in a 214-page report from the Institute of Medicine > concluding " The evidence favors rejection of a causal relationship > between thimerosal-containing vaccines and autism. " The European > Medicines Agency and the World Health Organization have also given > thimerosal a clean bill of health. > > The most recent review of the published work appeared in the > September 2004 issue of Pediatrics. It concluded " Studies do not > demonstrate a link between thimerosal-containing vaccines and > autistic spectrum disorders. " > > It also said the way and speed in which the body absorbs and > disposes of ethyl mercury (that which comes from thimerosal) " make > such an association less likely. " It rejected epidemiological > studies from the father-son team of Mark and Geier " that > support a link " to autism, citing " significant design flaws that > invalidate their conclusions. " > > Some major foreign studies have even shown autism rates climbing > after thimerosal use ended. > > The IOM review also dismissed the findings of the Geiers, darlings > of the conspiracy theorists who make their living as expert > witnesses and consultants for lawyers filing claims under the > National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program. Pumping out studies > alleging the dangers of thimerosal keeps them in business. > > Other health professionals (and often federal courts) have also > harshly dismissed their work, with the American Academy of > Pediatrics condemning them for " numerous conceptual and scientific > flaws, omissions of fact, inaccuracies, and misstatements. " > > The conspiracy theorists stop at nothing. Thus in his June 21 > appearance on Fox TV's Scarborough Country, Kennedy told Joe > Scarborough, " We are injecting our children with 400 times the > amount of mercury that FDA or EPA considers safe. " He thereby > confused the ETHYL mercury from thimerosal and for which there is no > evidence of harm and no EPA standard with a different > chemical, " METHYL mercury. " > > Worse, he ignored the correction to his piece appended five days > earlier by the publications that co-published it, Rolling Stone and > Salon.com. " The article also misstated the level of " mercury infants > received, it stated. It was " 40 percent (or 0.4 times), not 187 > times, greater than the EPA's limit for daily exposure to methyl > mercury. " Thus having been caught overstating exposure by almost 500 > times he then doubled even that for Scarborough. > > The real conspirators here are the Kennedys of the world, the 150 > Web sites, and all those desperate to kill off childhood > vaccinations. Sadly, they're also killing off kids. As more > frightened parents refuse to have their children vaccinated, " 'hot > spots' are cropping up across the U.S., " observed a recent article > in the University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform, such > that " outbreaks of measles, whooping cough, mumps, rubella and > diphtheria are reoccurring, costing hundreds of lives and > hospitalizing thousands more. " > > Keep America's children healthy. Send the anti-vaccination > conspiracy packing to Area 51 in Roswell where they can harmlessly > pontificate about flying saucers and that eye in the pyramid on the > back of the dollar bill. > > Fumento is author of " The Fat of the Land: The Obesity > Epidemic and How Overweight Americans Can Help Themselves. " He is > also a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute. E-mail > fumento@p... > > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- - > ----------- > > > Join our listserv! Don't get your news second hand! 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Guest guest Posted July 10, 2009 Report Share Posted July 10, 2009 This isn't the email I was thinking of re my previous email but this may be a good one to take to the Rumy.El _____ From: rheumatic [mailto:rheumatic ] On Behalf Of Beckman Sent: Friday, September 05, 2008 6:13 PM rheumatic Subject: rheumatic Here's the article FDA orders stronger warnings for 4 arthritis drugs Associated Press/AP Online By RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR WASHINGTON - The Food and Drug Administration ordered stronger warnings Thursday on four medications widely used to treat rheumatoid arthritis and other serious illnesses, saying they can raise the risk of possibly fatal fungal infections. The drugs - Enbrel, Remicade, Humira and Cimzia - work by suppressing the immune system to keep it from attacking the body. For patients with rheumatoid arthritis, the treatment provides relief from swollen and painful joints, but it's " a double-edged sword, " said the FDA's Dr. Siegel. That's because the drugs also lower the body's defenses to various kinds of infections. Siegel, who heads the office that oversees arthritis drugs, said the FDA became concerned after discovering that doctors seemed to be overlooking a particular kind of fungal infection called histoplasmosis. Of 240 cases reported to the FDA in which patients taking one of the four drugs developed this infection, a total of 45 died - about 20 percent. The infection, which mimics the flu, is prevalent in much of the middle part of the country. It can have particularly grave consequences if it isn't caught early and spreads beyond the respiratory system to other organs of the body. Siegel said the investigation began with a single case of a woman taking one of the drugs who died of histoplasmosis. Delving into the case, doctors at the FDA found that the woman had been sick with the fungal infection for a long time. " This case led us to be concerned that there may be other situations in which physicians may not recognize histoplasmosis, " said Siegel. FDA officials searched the agency's database and found the 240 cases of patients taking the medications who had also developed the fungal infection. Of those, at least 21 appeared to involve a late diagnosis, and 12 of them - more than half - ultimately died. Siegel said the FDA's order Thursday means that the risk of histoplasmosis will be flagged in a " black box, " the strongest warning information in a drug's prescribing literature. The four medications already have black box warnings about the risk of infections, but the language varies from drug to drug. Patients should call their doctors if they develop persistent fever, cough, shortness of breath or fatigue, which can be signs of the fungal infection. And the FDA is also urging doctors to consider aggressive use of antifungal drugs in patients who develop such symptoms, even if the infection has not been confirmed by a laboratory test. Siegel said such a decision should not be taken lightly, since antifungal drugs can also have dangerous side effects. Doctors should consider stopping treatment with the immune-suppressing drugs if patients develop infections. The four drugs belong to a class known as TNF-alpha blockers, and are considered a mainstay for treating rheumatoid arthritis, a disabling disease in which the immune system attacks the joints. They are also used to treat Crohn's disease, juvenile arthritis, certain types of psoriasis, and other immune system disorders. All are taken by injection. Separately, the FDA is investigating a possible link between the four medications and cancer in young patients. The agency said earlier this year it has received 30 reports of cancers, mainly lymphomas, in patients who began taking the medications when they were 18 or younger. That investigation is expected to take the rest of the year. Three of the drugs, Enbrel, Humira and Remicade, are considered blockbusters, with sales of over $1 billion annually for each. Cimzia is newer and less widely used. Humira is sold by North Chicago, Ill.-based Abbott Laboratories Inc; Cimzia by Belgium-based UCB; Enbrel by Thousand Oaks, Calif.-based Amgen Inc. and Madison, N.J.-based Wyeth; and Remicade by Horsham, Pa.- based Centocor, a unit of & , and Kenilworth, N.J.- based Schering-Plough Inc. Abbott shares fell $1.36, or 2.4 percent, to close at $56.64 Thursday; Amgen fell $2.22, or 3.5 percent, to $60.88; Wyeth fell $1.54, or 3.6 percent, to $41.47; and & fell $1.06 to $70.45. --- On the Net: http://tinyurl. <http://tinyurl.com/6aw662> com/6aw662 . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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