Bird flu. For years now, we've been 'promised' a disastrous pandemic of the dreaded Avian Influenza - otherwise known as bird flu - which would kill hundreds of thousands and leave millions grievously ill. The medical community has been in a lather about this disease, spreading fear and loathing throughout the community. Big Pharma has been loving every second of it, counting their government grants to develop new vaccines against this illness which, on the face of it at least, has been an absolute non-event.
We've been told time and time again that once this virus gets into the human population, there won't be any stopping it and that it is only a matter of time before it jumps species from birds into humans.
One of the pharmaceutical companies reaping the benefits of these lucrative grants to create a bird flu vaccine, Baxter International, seems to have given this process a bit of a push in their enthusiasm to see this prediction come true. Whoops!
Somehow, they managed to put live Avian influenza virus into batches of normal flu vaccine which were sold to and administered in several European nations. Imagine their embarrassment. (See
Baxter sent Bird Flu to European Labs in Error) Never mind that it is virtually impossible that this could have happened by accident! (
click here to read more) Never mind that the people responsible should be in gaol right now on charges of attempted manslaughter or pharmaceutical terrorism (if there isn't such a classification now, there certainly should be one in the near future). None of this matters if nobody ever finds out.
And that's exactly what is happening. The governments involved are sweeping the whole event under the rug and as far as the media is concerned, it never happened at all.
A press release was sent out from this office last week on this very issue including links to the reports in
Bloomberg News (not exactly an alternative media source!),
Baxter International and
Merck. Not one phone call was received from any media outlet. Not one skerrick of interest was shown. No doubt when the epidemic starts, there will be plenty of media then - all saying that we need to go out and get our bird flu vaccines!
The powers that be seem to love reporting on outbreaks when they can foist the blame for them on the unvaccinated . But when a drug company that has a contract worth billions of dollars plants a virus into a vaccine which is almost sure to kill people and spread the very virus they are supposed to be trying to prevent, thereby drumming up demand for that product, the walls come down and the blinkers are put on.
Well, it's time to get active and I am calling on all of you to put pen to paper (or fingers to keys) and write to your local radio station, newspaper or TV news program. You don't even need to use your own words if you don't want to. Just send them a copy of our media release (copy and paste the text below) and ask them when they are going to wake up and report on real news instead of acting like the PR office of Drug Company XYZ?
Please do this simple thing now before you forget - we need an upsurge in mails and emails to demonstrate once and for all that there are two sides to this issue and each side needs to be heard fairly.
Could this be the start of the Bird Flu epidemic?
It could be the plot line for a Hollywood thriller - shades of I Am Legend. But recently-released information showing that the influenza vaccine produced by Baxter International Inc was
'unintentionally' contaminated with live H5N1 avian influenza virus has shocked the medical world and caused panic in the European nations where the vaccine was distributed and administered.
Interestingly, Baxter has been awarded contracts by several nations around the world to develop an Avian influenza vaccine. This 'error' on their part could be the means by which an epidemic of this fatal form of influenza begins in the community.
This is just one more piece of evidence to show that vaccine manufacturers do not maintain strict controls over their production processes or facilities.
On May 1, 2008, the FDA (Food and Drug Administration) cited Merck & Co. for contamination at their plant which produces the Gardasil vaccine - a vaccine which is credited with causing 17 serious reactions a week in Australian girls who receive it.
The letter which the FDA wrote to Merck in regards to their plant inspection, describes "significant deviations from current good manufacturing practice (CGMP)" and described a failure to "...assure that drug products conform to appropriate standards of identity, strength, quality, and purity."
In addition to the Gardasil vaccine, this plant produces Liquid PedvaxHIB�, RECOMBIVAX HB�, ProQuad�, Gardasil�, VAQTA�, and COMVAX�. Merck is also the manufacturer of the MMR (Measles, Mumps and Rubella) vaccination which we currently use in Australia.
"The government, medical community, and the pharmaceutical companies all have a duty of care to ensure that the vaccines we are administering to our children are as safe and pure as they possibly can be. It is obvious that this duty of care is not being taken seriously. The AVN demands more transparency regarding the vaccine production process and inclusion of representatives of our organisation on the government committees that oversee these processes." says Meryl Dorey, President of the Australian Vaccination Network.
For further information, call the AVN on 02 6687 1699, 0414 872 032 or visit their web site -
www.avn.org.au.