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Argentina Investigates Deaths of Vaccinated Children

vaccine, vaccinationArgentine authorities are investigating a possible link between the deaths of 14 children and an experimental vaccine they were taking as part of a clinical trial run by GlaxoSmithKline.

The deaths may be tied to the Synflorix vaccine, which is designed to fight pneumonia, ear infections and several other pneumococcal diseases.

A U.S. spokeswoman for GlaxoSmithKline said that the company is not attributing the deaths to the experimental vaccine, which is being tested in three Latin American countries and elsewhere around the world.

Argentine officials report that their national food and drug administration received complaints and witnessed “poor ethical management” regarding the recruitment of babies for the study.

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  Seattle Times August 14, 2008


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GlaxoSmithKline is hoping that it’s experimental vaccine Synflorix, which is intended to fight pneumonia, ear infections and several other pneumococcal diseases, will be the next big blockbuster vaccine. Specifically, they are pitting it against Wyeth's already successful pneumonia vaccine Prevnar, which brought in $634 million in the third quarter of 2007 alone.

What Glaxo wants you to know is only a carefully orchestrated marketing spin. As one of their spokeswomen says, "Safety is our primary concern, always, with the development of any new treatment."

Why, then, are they using unethical practices to recruit babies for their study?

Ana Maria Marchesse, a pediatrician who heads the Health Professionals' Labor Association in the northern Argentine province of Santiago del Estero, pointed out to Argentina’s food and drug administration that parents didn’t know the vaccine was experimental, and many of those who signed the consent forms were illiterate.

“In some cases, they [Glaxo] first gave them the vaccine and then gave them a 13-page consent form to sign that I had to read three times to understand," she told the Associated Press.

Already, 14 children given the experimental vaccine have died. But that didn’t stop Glaxo. They have continued to inject 24,000 infants with the shots, and the trial is still ongoing, despite a temporary suspension that ended in late June.

Do Pneumonia Vaccines Increase Your Risk of Infection?

Synflorix boasts that it targets 10 types of bacteria that can lead to pneumonia, ear infections and other pneumococcal diseases. Prevnar, meanwhile, protects against seven, although they are planning to come out with a new version of Prevnar that’s active against 13 strains by the beginning of 2009.

No doubt these new releases will only revamp the major push that’s already begun in the United States to get your kids vaccinated against pneumonia.

But has anyone stopped to ask whether this is appropriate … or if it even works?

An estimated 2 million children die from pneumonia each year, accounting for almost 1 in 5 deaths of children under the age of 5, worldwide, with South Asia and sub-Saharan Africa bearing the burden of more than half of the total number of pneumonia cases.

So clearly pneumonia is a serious illness.

However, if Synflorix is anything like Prevnar -- and according to Wyeth’s U.S. head of vaccine research and development, Emilio Emini, it is. “Essentially, it is a direct equivalent of the original Prevnar,” he said -- this is a disaster in the making.

Studies have found that Prevnar, though effective against certain strains of pneumococci, increases the number of other infections babies get.

According to researchers, Prevnar replaces infections from the seven strains of pneumococci against which the vaccine is effective with infections from the other 83 strains of pneumococci. Kids and adults routinely carry all 90 strains in their noses and throats, even when they are not sick.

The vaccination also causes a slight increase in middle ear infections due to two unrelated bacteria. The infections can spread easily because the vaccine has wiped out the seven former competitors.

When the Prevnar vaccine eliminates the seven selected strains, all the others proliferate inside babies' noses and throats, waiting for an opportunity to start an infection or to spread to someone else, researchers noted.

And in Britain, a life-threatening form of pneumonia called serotype 1 has increased tenfold in the last 10 years, and experts think Prevnar may be to blame. This issue has gotten so severe that researchers in the United States reported an emergence of "sero-replacement" disease -- types of pneumonia not covered by the vaccine.

Is the Vaccine Really Worth It?

No vaccine is 100 percent safe or effective. If vaccines worked as intended, getting one would mean you're trading your risk of getting the disease for your risk of vaccine side effects. But vaccines only offer temporary inferior immunity and sometimes they fail to work at all, meaning you're taking a risk of vaccine side effects for temporary or no disease protection in return -- making vaccination a questionable proposition.

Studies of parental attitudes toward vaccination have repeatedly demonstrated that, in the worst-case scenario, parents prefer their child dying from an actual disease than dying from side effects associated with vaccination.

But in the case of pneumonia, and most other diseases, you can drastically lower your risk through natural methods, and without a vaccine.

Preventing Pneumonia Naturally

Excellent natural techniques for preventing pneumonia, which even UNICEF recommends, include:


This is a great reminder of the therapeutic value of zinc. The lozenges are excellent for colds and upper respiratory infections, but you should also consider zinc for more severe problems like diarrhea or pneumonia.

Bear in mind, however, that it is very easy to overdose on zinc, particularly for children. If you get nauseous shortly after taking zinc, it is highly likely that you already have enough zinc and should hold off on taking any more.

Another little-known pneumonia-buster is good old fashioned essential oils.

Researchers have found that some essential oils -- oregano, thyme and rosewood oils in particular -- create an autolytic reaction in organisms, including Streptococcus pneumonia. Spraying these essential oils in the laboratory simply made the pneumonia cells fall apart!

The best results occurred with oregano, thyme and rosewood, and intermediate results were achieved with cinnamon oil and clove oil. You can pick up pure essential oils at most health food stores, and experiment with using them as room and fabric fresheners and even as tinctures, with professional guidance.


Related Links:

  12 Babies Die During Vaccine Trials in Argentina

  Pneumonia Vaccine Not as Effective as Thought

  Zinc May Prevent Pneumonia, Diarrhea In Children




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Posted On Aug 19, 2008
Of course they wouldn't!

I find it bemusing that deaths linked to vaccines are so easily overlooked and brushed over, when it is reported on the news nightly when someone dies in a car accident.  Is that not totally bizarre????

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Posted On Sep 06, 2008

"A few deaths, well look at the greater good.  We just made a billion dollars."  Said BIG PHARMA.

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Posted On Aug 19, 2008
Quite right, organicmum. It's not the first time they denied it, and it won't be the last. Argentine officials ought to ban them and then bring charges against them.

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Posted On Aug 19, 2008
Argh! This has got to stop! Is the rest of the world living in The Matrix or something?! Really?! When will everybody just wake up!!

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Posted On Aug 19, 2008
Most likely a drug-company induced matrix.  The medicinal fog is still shrouding way too many people's minds.  The way to lift the fog, as Weston A. Price said many years ago is, you educate, you educate, you educate.

Papa Lee

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Posted On Aug 19, 2008
Interesting that you bring up the Matrix. Do you know that the story behind the Matrix is about a pocket of resistance against an evil government? A destroyed world, subjugated population made docile, an illusion world of deception that everyone is living in (Matrix), the enemy in the form of sinister Agents and SWAT.

No, it's not just the drug companies. You have social conditionings even at a very young age which I think practically brainwashes people to only think vaccine=good. You have the parents who were taught the same way who tells their children that, you have schools, doctors, saying that, you have picture books merrily showing it, you have field trip tours to the hospital to try it out on a doll so you "feel comfortable". Add to that the drug industry's ads and other articles designed to make you see that it's "good". So you grow up thinking it's normal and good.

But there's still hope. Me for example. I got the shots as a little kid like most kids-it was very traumatic for me. And I remember it as clearly as if it happened yesterday.  But I grew up not thinking about such things like most people. I thought about other things. Then one day, I saw and I heard (was only 16). Of what they actually put in them, that it's sickening and killing children, that it sickened me. And then as my knowledge of it grew, so did my anger of what they did to me, what they did to those around me, and what they're doing to the innocent. I realize how corrupt the industry and government is. And I became enlightened, and searched for the answers. So here I am.

And yet, still there are some who are incorrigible...

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Posted On Aug 20, 2008
All Under Heaven, I could've written that myself!! I too was jabbed as a kid a few times, but thankfully my parents stopped once the 'new' 'experimental' ones came out. I started questioning things when I was about 15 or 16 - what's in that? What does that do? Why are they telling us these things all the time? Why do we assume the things we assume without questioning? Why would an industry who make so much out of illness want anyone to be healthy?!

Other kids were busy only asking what the new flavoured vodka was like or if the new Brad Pitt film was coming out soon. Which of course are ok and there's nothing wrong with that (I don't mind Brad Pitt either and a good drink is always ok once in a while!) but nobody seems to really ask anything worthwhile in the long run...

I'm barely 22 but I feel like I already know so much more than 95% of the adults I encounter, and it's not because I'm anything overly special - it's because I question rather than accepting things with blind faith. Once you question you learn, and once you learn you want to keep learning, and then you can help things change. 

I do find though that occasionally you find someone like-minded, and we're the ones who are going to have to take on the role of educator and help the next generations move on through the Matrix and see the other side. Knowledge really is power.

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Posted On Sep 06, 2008

WE BECAME A "FASCIST" NATION UNDER THE WILSON ADMINISTRATION, AND NO ONE REALIZED THAT FACT.  EVEN TODAY WITH WHAT IS CALLED THE "FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE SURVAILANCE ACT" OR FISA, AND THE "MILITARY COMMISSIONS ACT" WE HAVE TRAVELED FURTHER INTO THE DARKNESS OF GOVERNMENT CONTROL OF EVERYTHING WE DO.  EVERYTHING FROM WHAT SOAP YOU USE, TO WHOSE ASPIRIN YOU WANT TO RISK.  THE WORD EXTREMIST, IS VERY TELLING, THAT IS PEOPLE LIKE US WHO DO NOT CONFORM TO WHAT IS CONSIDERED TO BE THE NORM.  THAT IS WHAT MAKES FISA SO VERY DANGEROUS, AND THE MILITARY COMMISSIONS ACT MEANS THEY THE GOVERNMENT CAN TOSS YOU IN SOME GULAG, AND THEY DO NOT HAVE TO TELL ANYONE.

OUR HEALTH AGENDA AS IT NOW STANDS IS KILLING MANY WITH THIS GARBAGE CALLED DRUGS, AND SOON TO COMPLAIN WILL BE A VIOLATION, BECAUSE YOU ARE FOSTERING DECENT.  WAKE UP AMERICA, AND HAPPY LIVING.

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Posted On Aug 20, 2008
How about suing the drug company until it's broke, and has to shut down?

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Posted On Sep 06, 2008

curlilox...that (getting sued) is what they are afraid of...that is why they have chosen to do this testing on poor, illiterate folks in another country.


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Posted On Sep 06, 2008

They will only declare themselves bankrupt, reorganize, and do business under a different name.

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Posted On Sep 14, 2008

The "sue-happy society" is particular to the US not abroad. Henceforth that is why the experiments are being done in the less developed countries.

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Posted On Sep 18, 2008

That would be an ideal and foregone conclusion, but as we all know, Big Pharma has deep pockets and our government with all their lobbyist keep these drug companies in business. If only to kill of 80% of the population and keep the drug users in a database.

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Posted On Aug 19, 2008
For a very scary look at the vaccine industry watch the video "On Lies We Trust"  
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8674401787208020885&hl=en

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Posted On Aug 19, 2008
Mussolini had it right about fascism being the same as corporatism. Our government's fascism masquerading under democracy and using conditioning and deniability tactics to hide their twisted agenda to slowly control, poison, and reduce the population.

God, I miss 1776. Better were the days when you had a few brave good men fighting for what's right not by protest, politics, or bargain but by their rifles.  

I wish that I could build a time machine and go back, and to tell all of America's founding fathers of the future world, and what this country has become. A country rife with people too obedient and gullible, with a big government slowly taking away or making loopholes around the rights of the people, a government who brainwashes the people through propaganda and conditioning, who starts wars for no reason but for economic gain and population control, a government that is run by sinister agents and industrialist elites, and a government who condones the poisoning of millions of people and children through toxic chemicals and vaccines.

I think it's high time for another revolutionary war.

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Posted On Sep 18, 2008

This movie is not opening either at Yahoo Video, Google Video or YouTube. I really would like to see it and pass it on too.

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