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Children of God for Life - August Update * MMR Titre test may show booster not needed... * Judie Brown, Jay Carpenter, MD, join CoG for Life Board... * Tainted smallpox vaccine will not be used in US... * Volunteers Needed for Pro-Life Project ... * Japan's efforts to license ethical rubella vaccine in US - update... * Merck Boycott having an effect ... * Choose Life plates and frame available for all cars... *************************** MMR Titre test may show booster not needed... If your child received the MMR as an infant and is due for a booster we...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: March 25, 2003 Contact: Debi Vinnedge, Executive Director Children of God for Life (727) 538-5558 Email: debi@cogforlife.org http://www.cogforlife.org MERCK REQUESTS SHAREHOLDERS VOTE AGAINST RESOLUTION TO STOP THE USE OF ABORTED FETAL TISSUE IN VACCINES (Clearwater, FL; Front Royal, VA) Pro-life organizations, Children of God for Life and Human Life International charged today that pharmaceutical giant, Merck & Co. has betrayed their stockholders by refusing to include language in Shareholder Proposal No. 7. that would have revealed: - An organized boycott of all Merck products - A resolution by the Catholic Medical Association to use alternatives to their...

A pro-life group is warning that thousands of Americans might refuse a smallpox vaccine created from a stem cell line derived from an aborted fetus.A British company -- the Cambridge, England-based Acambis Plc.-- is one of three companies bidding to produce 250 million doses of smallpox vaccine, enough for every American, after Health Secretary Tommy Thompson announced the vaccine stockpile plan. Also in the running are Merck & Co. of Whitehouse Station, N.J., and the London-based GlaxoSmithKline Plc.A spokeswoman for the British company told CNSNews.com Tuesday that the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has asked the company to ...

SPECIAL ALERT:  New Smalllpox Vaccine May Use Aborted Fetal Cell Line, MRC-5 The Washington Post announced the award of a contract for the development of a new smallpox vaccine to Oravax/Acambis Corporation. The proposal presented to the CDC and FDA would encompass using "human fibroblasts."  We checked the proposed ingredients through the CDC and found they intend to use aborted fetal cell line MRC-5 as the cell substrate for growing the virus. The CDC report also stated that other established animal substrates such as chick embryo, (used in Rabies vaccine) Vero Cell Lines and FRHL-2 Cell lines were viable ...