[NVIC] Poisoning our children.

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========== BL Fisher Note: On the National Vaccine Information Center

website, www.nvic.org, there is a letter to Col. Kadlec. M.D.

(USAF-ret.), staff director, Senate Subcommittee on Bioterrorism and Public

Health Preparedness, which outlines just how outrageous the legislation

giving drug companies immunity really is. Click on " Libability Shield Given

to Pharma " at the top of the front page.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2006/04/10

/EDGNSGUA0G1.DTL San Francisco Chronicle Poisoning our

children Seiler, Dan Hamburg Monday, April 10, 2006 Top

Republicans -- Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, R-Tenn., and House Speaker

Dennis Hastert, R-Ill., -- recently sold the future of our children to Big

Pharma for a paltry $4 bucks a pop. That's the additional cost to produce a

safe vaccine, a vaccine minus the mercury-based preservative thimerosal.

Mercury is a deadly neurotoxin that has long been known to cause serious

learning disabilities and death, and is strongly suspected in contributing to

autism. According to the California Public Schools Autism Prevalence Report

for the School Years 1992-2003, the increase in autism prevalence is systemic

across the entire United States " and should be an urgent public-health

concern ... The disease frequency of autism now surpasses that of all types

of cancer combined. " The report notes a 1,086 percent cumulative growth rate

of autism over the period, with a 23 percent

average annual growth rate. A recent study published in the spring 2006

volume of the peer-reviewed Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons shows

that the rate of neurodevelopmental disorders in children has decreased

following the removal of thimerosal from most American childhood vaccines.

However, only about one-third of the 11 million children vaccinated for

influenza this year will receive mercury-free vaccines. At the end of

last year, President Bush signed the Public Readiness and Emergency

Preparedness Act (PREPA), granting blanket immunity to pharmaceutical companies

for vaccine-induced injuries. The measure is a carte blanche for industry,

allowing it even to reintroduce mercury in vaccines that are clean, and under

the behest of the World Health Organization, to continue shipping tainted

vaccine to the " developing world. " The federal government has known

enough to stop the use of mercury in vaccines for more than a

decade. Industry has known of the dangers of thimerosal since at least 1991.

But using the preservative made the sale of vaccines more profitable. In

fact, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has at times seemed just

as concerned about these profits as the companies themselves. Cynics have

noted the " revolving door " between industry and government that seems to

alter the perspective of both. In 1999, the Centers for Disease Control and

Prevention recommended " the elimination of thimerosal as soon as possible. " In

2002, the CDC stated in a press release " all vaccines will be thimerosal-free

as soon as adequate supplies are available. " Yet, last year the CDC refused

to live up to its own policy by claiming " no preference for thimerosal-free

vaccines. " Laden with millions in campaign contributions from the

industry, some members of Congress are eager to plead that Merck,

GlaxoKline, Wyeth, and Eli Lilly might have to

close up shop if they were forced to take responsibility for injuries caused

by their products. These companies hardly need the help. Pharmaceuticals,

despite their whining about risk and R & D costs, are some of the most

profitable businesses in the country with the median profit margin of the top

10 companies more than five times that of all other industries on the Fortune

500 list. In order to secure passage of the PREPA, Sens. Frist and Ted

s, R-Alaska, joined by Speaker Hastert, assured their colleagues in the

House-Senate conference committee that immunity for the drug companies would

not go forward as a tack-on to the 2006 defense appropriations bill. There

were no public hearings on the immunity provision, no debate, no disclosure

of the proceedings of the committee. Press coverage was virtually nonexistent.

According to one prominent member of the committee, Rep. Obey, D-Wis.,

" That legislation was unilaterally and

arrogantly inserted into the bill after the conference was over in a

blatantly abusive power play by two of the most powerful men in Congress. "

Sen. Ted Kennedy, D-Mass., called the legislation " a blank check for the

industry. " Sen. Byrd, D- W. Va., dean of Senate rules, opined: " There

should be no dispute. The processes leading to passage of this bill [was] an

absolute travesty. " The PREPA is unconstitutional. It removes the right

to due process and judicial review for persons injured by vaccines, thus

granting a virtual license to kill. Under the new law, companies making

vaccines can be grossly negligent and act with wanton recklessness and still

escape liability as long as they can show that their misconduct wasn't

" willful. " It is impossible to conceive of a lower standard for the drug

companies or a higher burden of proof for injured parties. The refusal of

the drug companies to take responsibility for the products

they produce, and the complicity of the highest levels of government in their

refusal, will diminish public confidence in the entire U.S. vaccination

program. Already, thousands of mothers, including our own daughters, are

fearful of having their infants and toddlers vaccinated. The PREPA also

pre-empts the laws of states, including California, which have passed

legislation outlawing mercury in childhood vaccinations. Meanwhile, the CDC

continues to send its officials into state legislatures around the country in

attempts to abort measures banning mercury. It's worth considering why the

drug companies feel they need such treatment. Is it because they have known

for decades that their product is harmful? As we learned with Big Tobacco,

denial is the first defense. Eventually, the truth will come out about

mercury and the depravity of injecting a neurotoxin into the bodies of infants

and toddlers. Seiler is president of Voice of

the Environment. Dan Hamburg, a former U.S. representative, is executive

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