Government Concedes Vaccine Damage in "Autism" Case

BONUS POST

Wow am I getting a lot of emails on this. Well, what can I say? Finally, while portraying the "wacko parents" vs. science we have a Johns Hopkins neurologist and his NURSE-LAWYER wife arguing vaccine damage. There you go.

Check out David Kirby's excellent blog on Huffpost:

Posted March 7, 2008 | 01:33 PM (EST)

A big autism bomb went off yesterday, about how US medical personnel
had determined that vaccines had aggravated a little girl's
mitochondrial disorder, resulting in autism. Now, the American
people are left to interpret what it all means.

Here is a handy guide. You can:
A) Blindly trust what government officials are saying (or not saying)
or
B) Invest 30 minutes in the future of your nation's young people

(do it now, over a nice, warm latte!) and go Google for yourself.

Please visit Huffington Post to read the rest of Mr. Kirby's article and share your comments.

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This mitochondrial "disorder" is gussied up language to make you think little old you can't possibly understand the hard and manly science behind this. Mercury fucks up the kreb's cycle, this is well known.

More on OTHER kiddies being compensated quietly from the government slush fund, from Dan Olmsted, UPI report's excellent blog, age of autism.

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AP Probe Finds Drugs in Drinking Water

Actually, we should be worried about what Big Pharma's done to the water here--eeeek! I guess the good news is, for the elderly who can't afford their prescription meds, they can just drink more water (doesn't matter, tap, bottled, well, it's everywhere) and get a little bit o' everything, including antidepressants, antiseizure meds, ibuprophen, sleep meds, various hormones...all in one! (Hm, some one should bottle it and SELL it!).

p.s. they also think chlorine might make the drugs more POISONOUS, too.

From the investigative team at the AP:
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A vast array of pharmaceuticals — including antibiotics, anti-convulsants, mood stabilizers and sex hormones — have been found in the drinking water supplies of at least 41 million Americans, an Associated Press investigation shows.

To be sure, the concentrations of these pharmaceuticals are tiny, measured in quantities of parts per billion or trillion, far below the levels of a medical dose. Also, utilities insist their water is safe.

But the presence of so many prescription drugs — and over-the-counter medicines like acetaminophen and ibuprofen — in so much of our drinking water is heightening worries among scientists of long-term consequences to human health.

In the course of a five-month inquiry, the AP discovered that drugs have been detected in the drinking water supplies of 24 major metropolitan areas — from Southern California to Northern New Jersey, from Detroit to Louisville, Ky.

read more here.

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AP: "Cheney" Water makes US Troops Sick in Iraq

Again, we must trust our government will always have our best interests at heart. Support our troops!! USA #1, etc!

By LARRY MARGASAK, Associated Press Writer

WASHINGTON - Dozens of U.S. troops in Iraq fell sick at bases using "unmonitored and potentially unsafe" water supplied by the military and a contractor once owned by Vice President Dick Cheney's former company, the Pentagon's internal watchdog says.

A report obtained by The Associated Press said soldiers experienced skin abscesses, cellulitis, skin infections, diarrhea and other illnesses after using discolored, smelly water for personal hygiene and laundry at five U.S. military sites in Iraq.

read more here.

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Green Fertility's Article on Guess-what in NATURAL HEALTH

Not sure why the magazine cover looks weirdly green, I have an article on natural ways you can enhance your fertility--including how to decode the new diet info from the Nurse's Health Study (that was the one that said you can increase your fertility by eating ice cream--kind of a stretch there).

It's a cover story: Increase Fertility Naturally. Enjoy! Send me comments and your own stories if you want them considered to be featured on the blog.

And here's the link to Natural Health magazine.

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Lead in Rival Crockpots

Gahhhhhhh! Crockpots are supposed to be energy saving devices. Did you know they also might have lead? We ditched ours last year because of the rumor (who's paranoid NOW?). From KUTV in Salt Lake City, they actually did the tests, and the results aren't pretty.
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SALT LAKE CITY - It's an investigation that started right here in Utah and sparked a fire among lawmakers in our nation's capital.
Bill Gephardt found dangerous lead in the plates and bowls you might eat off every day. And that investigation sparked a flood of calls to the "Get Gephardt" tipline when people realized there could be danger lurking elsewhere in their kitchens.

Now, Gephardt found that a slow cooker, something that heats food for many hours, might also contain lead. Is it possible that it's actually cooking the lead right into our food?

Stacia Stuart is raising three young daughters in her Weber County home. She is one of many mothers shocked by what I found last fall. Lead in the paint and glaze on dinnerware leaching into food.

“I saw your story... I knew I wanted to try my dinnerware,” she said. “I thought… the crock pot!"

Stacia wondered about her paint-covered cooking appliance that she has regularly used for years.

"I use it twice a week,” she said.

Stacia took her plates and "crock pot" down to the Weber County fairgrounds during a free lead test day and lead was found; a lot of lead.

“The crock pot I have, the rival crock pot [was] full of lead," she said.

I took Stacia's crock pot, along with several new and used slow cookers, to be tested by Jim Kenyon at "Kenyon Consulting." He used an XRF gun -- or "x-ray fluorescent" device -- to peer into the surface of the cookers to determine if they have lead.

Of the small sampling of slow cookers tested for me, 20 percent tested with a measurable amount of lead. But is lead actually leaching out of the cookers that contain lead?

I took Stacia's crock pot cooker to DataChem labs in Salt Lake City to find out. This is the same place where we tested plates I purchased from stores last fall and discovered lead was actually leaching into food.

Not only that, but when ceramic ware was heated to just 80-degrees, it released nearly 10-times the amount of lead as a plate at room temperature. Slow cookers heat up to more than 250-degrees.
read more here.

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Official: CDC late on FEMA trailer issue

Someone made a comment recently that how could it be that something the government makes you do (ie.., vaccines) could possibly not be checked out and deemed to be totally safe and therefore parents who say it's not are wacko?


Well, I bring you the formaldehyde-y FEMA trailers. Don't forget a man DIED while complaining about the fumes (from the AP:)
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The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention should have reacted sooner to concerns about hazardous fumes in government-issued trailers housing thousands of Gulf Coast hurricane victims, a CDC official told a congressional panel Tuesday.

"In retrospect, we did not engage the formaldehyde issue as aggressively and as early as we should have," Howard Frumkin, director of the CDC's National Center For Environmental Health, told a Senate subcommittee on disaster recovery. The committee met in Washington.

The CDC announced last month that tests on hundreds of occupied Federal Emergency Management Agency trailers and mobile homes found formaldehyde levels that were, on average, about five times higher than what people are exposed to in most modern homes. The results prompted FEMA to step up efforts to move roughly 35,000 families still living in the trailers after the 2005 hurricanes Katrina and Rita....

"FEMA takes very seriously our responsibility to provide for the safety and security of disaster victims," he said. "Our primary focus is to help those households relocate from temporary housing to more permanent solutions as quickly as possible."

In mid-2006, FEMA enlisted the CDC's help in analyzing the results of air-quality tests on unoccupied trailers. But the CDC didn't start testing the air quality in occupied FEMA trailers — or study the possible health effects of long-term formaldehyde exposure — until late last year.

Frumkin said the safety of trailers should have been a top priority soon after the hurricanes hit, but that CDC scientists were "extremely engaged" in other environmental health issues.

"Formaldehyde in trailers didn't rise to the top of our priority list at that time, and if I could roll the tape back, I would change that," he said.

"This is a little too late," Sen. Mary Landrieu, D-La., told Deputy FEMA Administrator Harvey Johnson Jr. during Tuesday's hearing.

read more here.

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Vaccine Companies Investigated for Manslaughter

With the mandatory "shoot first" roulette of vaccines, people who are injured have very little recourse. The U.S. is not the only place where vaccines are entering the legal arena, this is from the Reuters New Service:

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Vaccine Companies Investigated for Manslaughter

A formal investigation has been launched by French authorities against two managers from drug companies GlaxoSmithKline an

d Sanofi Pasteur. A second investigation for manslaughter has also been opened against Sanofi Pasteur MSD.

The investigations are in response to allegations that the companies failed to fully disclose side effects from an anti-hepatitis B drug used between 1994 and 1998.

During this time, close to two-thirds of the French population, and almost all newborn babies, received a hepatitis B vaccine. The vaccination campaign was halted after concerns rose over the shot’s side effects.

Thirty plaintiffs, including the families of five people who died after the vaccination, have launched a civil action in the case against the drug companies.

Sources:

• Reuters February 1, 2008

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