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Posted on 07/01/2002 3:02:28 PM PDT by WakeUpChristian
UK babies given toxic vaccines, admits Glaxo
Antony Barnett and Tracy McVeigh
Sunday June 30, 2002
The Observer
British drug giant GlaxoSmithKline has finally admitted that thousands of babies in this country were inoculated with a batch of toxic whooping cough vaccines in the 1970s.
Some experts believe that these Trivax vaccines - which had not passed critical company safety tests - may have caused permanent brain damage and even fatalities in young children.
In 1992, the family of an Irish boy, Kenneth Best, who suffered brain damage from one of these toxic vaccines, was awarded £2.7 million in compensation by the Irish Supreme Court.
Despite a long and fierce battle with the drug giant, the boy's family finally won this historic case after his mother Margaret made a startling find when sifting through tens of thousands of company documents.
She discovered that the Trivax vaccine used on her son, from a batch numbered 3,741, had been released by the company despite it having failed to pass a critical safety test. Documents revealed that the 60,000 individual doses within this batch were known to be 14 times more potent than normal.
At the time the Irish judge accused GlaxoSmithKline - then known as Glaxo Wellcome - of negligence and attacked the company's poor quality control at its Kent laboratory. Immunology experts condemned Glaxo in court for what one US scientist described as an 'extraordinary event'.
Last year an investigation by The Observer found evidence to suggest that vaccines from this faulty batch, which may have wrecked Kenneth Best's life, had also been used in Britain.
Liberal Democrat MP Norman Baker raised questions in the House of Commons, asking whether vaccines from this batch had been given to British babies. Then Health Minister Yvette Cooper wrote to the company asking for information.
Now, almost a year later, GlaxoSmithKline has replied that it is 'highly probable' the toxic batches had been used in Britain.
The Department of Health is under pressure to make efforts to trace the children who received the suspect vaccines.
Last week in the House of Commons, Health Minister Hazel Blears said: 'Unfortunately they no longer have details of the quantitites of vaccine or the places where the vaccine was supplied.
'Since vaccines were not centrally purchased and distributed at that time there are no central records either. Information on individuals who received these vaccines will only exist if the general practioner at the time of the immunisation recorded the batch number and the patient's notes are still available.'
Baker will now write to the Minister to demand that she asks health authorities to check the records to find out who received the vaccine. It is believed that at least one boy from Wales died after receiving a jab from toxic batch 3,741, although the parents have never been informed.
A spokesman for GlaxoSmithKline told The Observer : 'We do not accept that these batches were harmful.'
And ofcourse there are implications about autism too.
I have not given my daughter the hepatitus vaccine either, altho the college was insisting.
State laws are now on the books that if you don't give your child ALL the shots they demand, your child won't be allowed in school. Next step will be taking the child away from the parents.
TERRIFYING
1. No school mandates vaccines. There are exemptions for religious reasons. Technically, if you want to opt out of vaccines, you may do so. However, as a physician, I fully immunize all children in our office. Parents who do not immunize are poorly informed.
2. Hepatitis vaccine has no risk profile that should cause a person to not be immunized. I've been immunized with the vaccine and any healthcare worker who is not immunized is gambling with their life.
3. Your friend's baby probably had a seizure related to the fever after the original DTP whole cell vaccine. The vaccine was more potent than the existing vaccine and caused fevers. The end result is that parents should be giving Tylenol or Motrin for fevers. When the parent does not dose the Tylenol appropriately (or when the doctors do not inform the parent of the need for it), you end up with kids having febrile seizures. Febrile seizures are common occurances and do not cause long term disability.
The problem I have with the hepatitis vaccine is that while the risk of the vaccine is small, the risk of your average child of non-promiscuous, non-drug using parents contracting hepatitis is nil.
I think it should be given perhaps before entering school for most kids, and only in infancy for high risk babies.
I am not a doctor, I came to that conclusion after reading the hepatitis vaccine literature the doctor gave me.
more like hepatitis B spreads forever.
vaccinate your kids because it is a good vaccine with NO problems. The only problem with HepB vaccine is with the vacuous heads of the paranoids. They would be better off wearing tin foil.
My kids are vaccinated against hep B.
All vaccines have some problems. We vaccinate because the downside of the vaccine isn't nearly so bad as the disease, not because vaccines are perfect. Anything you put in your body has the potential for a reaction, from peanuts to penicillin. Telling people there are "NO" problems is a lie, and sets people up for a loss of faith in the medical profession when the lie is exposed.
If you don't know that then you need a less challenging field than medicine, like changing oil at jiffy lube.
Otherwise, cease your mindless, tin-foil laden name calling!
Just what is in your own literature. You know, the stuff you throw in my face when you send nurse ratchet down with the needle? What, you never expected anyone to read that stuff?
Thanks for the ping. Nice to see the anti-vac Freepers seem to be taking the weekend off. Not much action.
The fact of the matter is that we have a wonderful opportunity to eradicate HepB. We should do it. Especially considering the saftey of this vaccine.
As far as the article goes, I'm not sure what relevance it has now, other than to stir up fears. And considering the Freeper who posted it has been booted, we can safely assume that that was his goal.
Have a great Fourth.
Independence is a right because others paid the price.
Fight on.
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