A news report out of China, where about 125 million people are hepatitis B carriers, reveals that any child or adult found to be hepatitis B positive faces severe discrimination and societal sanctions while news reports out of Japan reveal that mandatory hepatitis B vaccination programs have transmitted hepatitis B infection. In France, families of hepatitis B vaccine victims are suing drug giants GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) and Sanofi Pasteur for aggravated deceit and involuntary homicide for the crippling and killing of children and adults, who were required to take the vaccine. The families have been barred from suing two former French government health officials who initiated and promoted the mandatory hepatitis B vaccination program.
For more than 20 years, the National Vaccine Information Center (NVIC) has been receiving reports that adults,children and infants are suffering serious reactions to hepatitis B vaccine. Hepatitis B vaccine reaction reports began to come in to NVIC's Vaccine Reaction Registry in the late 1980's from adult health care workers, who reported extreme fatigue, muscle weakness, joint pain, loss of vision, memory loss, heart problems, and development of multiple sclerosis after hepatitis B vaccination.
When the CDC recommended in 1991 that all healthy newborns at 12 hours of age be given hepatitis B vaccine in the newborn nursery, reports of infants dying after hepatitis B vaccination started coming in and continued all through the 90's. When states started mandating the vaccine for all school children in the late 1990's, parents began reporting that their bright, healthy, honor roll students and star athletes were becoming brain damaged, bed ridden and unable to attend school.
In 1999, NVIC published a report that in the U.S. there were more reported cases of hepatitis B vaccine reactions than reported cases of hepatitis B disease in children under 14 years old, an infection that is primarily transmitted in the U.S. among adult high risk groups such as IV drug users and those with multiple sexual partners.
The U.S., Europe and Canada have had historically low rates of hepatitis B disease. In 1990, one year before the CDC told doctors to give every American child three doses of hepatitis B vaccine, there were 21,102 cases of hepatitis B reported in the U.S. out of more than 300 million Americans. In 2005, there were 5,119 hepatitis B cases reported (MMWR, March 30, 2007)
http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mm wrhtml/mm5453a1.htm
During the past century, medical doctors in positions of power inside and outside of governments around the world have developed an irrational fear of infectious microorganisms, such as hepatitis B virus, and have instilled that fear in the people they counsel. When irrational fear overtakes rational thought, the first casualty is usually the truth; the second is freedom.
The people in China, who are facing cruel discrimination for testing positive for hepatitis B infection, are being persecuted because of myths and misinformation perpetuated by doctors pushing mass use of hepatitis B vaccine and pharmaceutical drugs. The hype that surrounded CDC-inspired mandatory hepatitis B vaccination laws in the late 1990's had doctors declaring to the media that hepatitis B is highly contagious and could be transmitted in school settings, even though they knew transmission was impossible unless there was a direct exchange of blood. When questioned in a public hearing in 1997, CDC official Eric Mast, M.D. admitted "although [the hepatitis B] virus is present in moderate concentrations in saliva, it's not transmitted commonly by casual contact."
Infants who contract hepatitis B, either from their infected mother or infected blood transfusions, are at highest risk for chronic infection. But for the majority of healthy teenagers and adults, who come down with hepatitis B infection, symptoms include nausea, vomiting, low grade fever, pain and swelling in the joints, headache, and cough for two weeks before the onset of jaundice and enlargement/tenderness of the liver that lasts for three to four weeks. Fatigue can last up to a year but "most patients do not require hospital care" and "95 percent of patients have a favorable course and recover completely" with the case fatality ratio being "very low (approximately 0.1 percent)" according to Harrison's Principles of Medicine (11th Edition).
Those who recover completely from hepatitis B infection acquire life-long immunity. One medical textbook (Robbins Pathologic Textbook of Disease) points out that among those who do not recover completely from hepatitis B infection, fewer than 5 percent become chronic carrriers of the virus, with just one quarter of these in danger of developing life threatening disease later in life. For more information on hepatitis B disease and the vaccine, go to http://www.nvic.org/Diseases/hepbnlr.htm
The tragic consequences of doctors promoting mass hysteria about infectious diseases, like hepatitis B, and insisting on "no-exceptions" vaccine mandates, are becoming clearer every day. The only hope that citizens of every country have to protect their health and the health of their children is to stand up and pass laws which allow informed, voluntary use of vaccines and prohibit discrimination against those who have a disease or are vaccine injured.
No forced vaccination. Not in America.
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Robert: injured by Hepatitis B Vaccine and reported to NVIC ( www.VaccineMemorial.org )
"Risk of [hepatitis B] infection through casual contact is minimal, and in many places worldwide, most carriers go about their own business whether in school or at work, facing little or no discrimination. But in China, fear of the virus has reached hysterical proportions, health experts say. Ignorance and relentless advertisements by drugmakers making misleading claims about the disease and touting all kinds of magic cures have built a climate of terror surrounding the virus, and discrimination against carriers, they add. Many schools, universities and companies now subject students and staff to regular health checks to screen for the virus. Toddlers who test positive are refused entry to school, older students are expelled, men and women can't find work and some couples are forced into separation by terrified in-laws....."You can't imagine the situation if your colleagues come to know you're a carrier. People are selfish and ignorant because of misleading (information) from the government and some doctors," said Shuai, who works at a scientific institute in South Africa." - Tan Ee Lyn, Reuters (March 18 2008) htt p://www.reuters.com/article/healthNews/idUST257138 20080319? feedType=RSS&feedName=healthNews&sp=true
"Hundreds of hepatitis B patients [in Japan] who contracted the virus in their childhood through mandatory vaccinations against diseases will file a series of damages suits against the government next month, a group of lawyers said Saturday.....Lawsuits will be filed at a total of 11 district courts across Japan, starting with Sapporo, as the government has presented no concrete measures for redress to other patients following a Supreme Court ruling in 2006 ordering the state to compensate five such victims....In the ruling, the top court recognized causal links between the plaintiffs' inoculations and infections, and found the state responsible for leaving physicians to use the same hypodermic needles repeatedly when giving group vaccinations at public health centers. Vaccinations against several diseases had been mandated by the government prior to 1994, but are now only recommended following a number of lawsuits involving side effects from inoculations." - Associated Press (February 23, 2008) http://progressivenewsdaily.com/? p=2297
"Two drug companies are facing charges in France over a hepatitis B vaccine blamed for the death of a 28- year-old woman in 1998 and which caused serious side effects among 1,300 patients. Smithkline Beecham, now GlaxoSmithKline GSK, and Pasteur Merieux MSD-Aventis Pasteur, now Sanofi Pasteur MSD, are accused of aggravated deceit for failing to disclose the possible side effects from the vaccine, justice officials said Thursday. Pasteur MSD is also charged with involuntary homicide in the 1998 death of Nathalie Desainquentin, who allegedly contracted multiple sclerosis from the vaccine.....Lawyer Bernard Fau representing Desainquentin's family and other victims expressed satisfaction with the decision to press charges, saying "this supports our theory that the recommended use of the vaccination was not in line with the real risks." - Yahoo News (Canada) (February 1, 2008) http://ca.news. yahoo.com/s/afp/080201/health/france_health_hepatiti s_pharma_justice
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| China's Hepatitis B carriers face gloomy future Reuters
March 18, 2008
by Tan Ee Lyn
Click here for the URL: HONG KONG (Reuters) - Madam Yan and 11 other mothers in China turned to the All-China Women's Federation for help after their toddlers were denied places in kindergarten after testing positive for the Hepatitis B virus.
"When I see other children going to school happily and mine is alone, my heart drips with blood," Yan wrote.
Hepatitis B is preventable through vaccination and there are drugs to control the replication of the virus in carriers, such as Yan's child, who shows no symptoms.
Risk of infection through casual contact is minimal, and in many places worldwide, most carriers go about their own business whether in school or at work, facing little or no discrimination. But in China, fear of the virus has reached hysterical proportions, health experts say.
Ignorance and relentless advertisements by drugmakers making misleading claims about the disease and touting all kinds of magic cures have built a climate of terror surrounding the virus, and discrimination against carriers, they add.
Many schools, universities and companies now subject students and staff to regular health checks to screen for the virus.
Toddlers who test positive are refused entry to school, older students are expelled, men and women can't find work and some couples are forced into separation by terrified in-laws.
Qing Song, an activist who helps carriers fight discrimination at work, related a case where a young pregnant woman discovered her carrier status during a prenatal check.
"Her mother-in-law advised her to abort the child and fix her own health before trying to conceive again. But after the abortion, she was forced into a divorce and driven out of the family home," said Qing, who is based in southern Shenzhen city.
BEIJING ACTS
Hepatitis B is endemic in parts of Asia and Africa.
Worldwide, there are 360 million carriers and a whopping third of that, or between 120-130 million, are in China.
China's hepatitis B rate has historically been high but the reasons are unclear and it is not known if it may be due to genetic susceptibility.
Though 10 percent of its population are carriers, that figure is believed to be as high as 17 percent in its southern provinces, such as Guangdong and Guangxi.
The chief mode of transmission is from mother to child. Others include sex, blood transfusions and contaminated needles, including the reuse of needles to vaccinate children which was a common practice in China up until recently.
While a mature immune system in an older child or adult can flush out the virus, this is not the case for children under the age of 5 who contract the virus. It remains in their bodies, replicating quietly.
Drugs can only control the virus but not get rid of it and most of these younger children become carriers for life.
One in four of them are at risk of developing cirrhosis -- scarring of the liver -- or liver cancer later in life.
The Chinese government introduced free universal vaccinations for newborns in 2002, but actual coverage is inconsistent. Medical experts say more babies are vaccinated in the cities than in rural areas.
DISCRIMINATION
The government has tried to stop discrimination in recent years, reversing an age-old policy banning carriers from the civil service. Last year it banned companies from screening employees for the virus in health checks and using a positive test result as a condition to fire staff or reject new hires.
But these laws are difficult to enforce.
"Employers don't give a reason anymore. They say you are a danger to others or that you will suffer prejudice. They persuade you to resign and they don't have to compensate you," said a lawyer, who carries the virus and declined to be identified.
"It (carrier status) has deep repercussions whether in employment, marriage or social relationships. If people know you have it, they will reject you because they think you will infect them," said Ah Peng, who applied to work at a hotel but was rejected after a pre-employment health check showed he had the virus.
Consequences of such discrimination can be tragic.
Walter Shuai managed to escape health checks at his company for three years, but depression and the constant stress of being found out finally drove him to quit his job and leave China.
"You can't imagine the situation if your colleagues come to know you're a carrier. People are selfish and ignorant because of misleading (information) from the government and some doctors," said Shuai, who works at a scientific institute in South Africa.
Ah Tian, also a carrier, said his childhood friend died at the age 26 from an overdose of drugs that a doctor prescribed with an assurance that it would get rid of the virus.
"There is so much prejudice, suffering, pressure and people are desperate, he was so anxious to get well," said Ah Tian.
"This virus affects my job, family and love life, what else can be closer to us? Even my brother wouldn't sit at the same table with me. I think of suicide sometimes."
(Editing by Megan Goldin)
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Damages suits to target state over vaccine induced hepatitits B+ (AP) Progressive News Daily
Kyodo News Agency
February 23, 2008
Click here for the URL: SAPPORO, Feb. 23 (AP) - (Kyodo) - Hundreds of hepatitis B patients [in Japan] who contracted the virus in their childhood through mandatory vaccinations against diseases will file a series of damages suits against the government from next month, a group of lawyers said Saturday.
The move comes after the Diet moved to enact relief measures in January for those people who contracted hepatitis C through tainted blood products and fought their cases against the state in court. Lawsuits will be filed at a total of 11 district courts across Japan, starting with Sapporo, as the government has presented no concrete measures for redress to other patients following a Supreme Court ruling in 2006 ordering the state to compensate five such victims, the group said after a meeting in the northern Japan city.
In the ruling, the top court recognized causal links between the plaintiffs' inoculations and infections, and found the state responsible for leaving physicians to use the same hypodermic needles repeatedly when giving group vaccinations at public health centers.
Vaccinations against several diseases had been mandated by the government prior to 1994, but are now only recommended following a number of lawsuits involving side effects from inoculations.
The first group of about 20 patients, who are believed to have contracted hepatitis B through group vaccinations because transmission of the virus from their mothers was unlikely, will go to the Sapporo District Court on March 28. They are seeking compensation worth 15 million to 60 million yen per person.
Other groups will follow in April onward, bringing their cases before the Sendai, Tokyo, Niigata, Shizuoka, Nagoya, Osaka, Tottori, Matsue, Hiroshima and Fukuoka district courts, according to the lawyers.
Hepatitis B, if left unattended, is believed to cause chronic hepatitis in some carriers and could develop into liver cirrhosis or cancer. |
| Two drug firms charged in France over hepatitis vaccine Yahoo News (Canada)
February 1, 2008
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PARIS (AFP) - Two drug companies are facing charges in France over a hepatitis B vaccine blamed for the death of a 28-year-old woman in 1998 and which caused serious side effects among 1,300 patients.
Smithkline Beecham, now GlaxoSmithKline GSK, and Pasteur Merieux MSD-Aventis Pasteur, now Sanofi Pasteur MSD, are accused of aggravated deceit for failing to disclose the possible side effects from the vaccine, justice officials said Thursday.
Pasteur MSD is also charged with involuntary homicide in the 1998 death of Nathalie Desainquentin, who allegedly contracted multiple sclerosis from the vaccine.
More than 20 million French people were vaccinated against hepatitis B from 1994 to 1998.
Lawyer Bernard Fau representing Desainquentin's family and other victims expressed satisfaction with the decision to press charges, saying "this supports our theory that the recommended use of the vaccination was not in line with the real risks".
France's former rightwing government had launched a national vaccination campaign against hepatitis B, which can infect the liver, in 1994 and suspended it in 1998 after several lawsuits were lodged.
A total of 29 victims have filed suit including five who claim the vaccine caused the death of a family member.
In 2005, a court threw out a suit for endangering lives against former health ministers Jean-Francois Mattei, Bernard Kouchner and Philippe Douste-Blazy over the vaccination campaign.
GSK and Pasteur MSD have repeatedly denied any wrongdoing. |
| Report to NVIC's International Memorial for Vaccine Victims www.VaccineMemorial.org Report ID: 157
Name: Robert Topp
Birth Date: 8/2/1988
Death Date:
Birth State: CA
Birth Country: USA
Vaccination Age: 10
Suspected Vaccine: HBV (hepatitis B)
Primary Reaction: mononeuropathy
Secondary Reaction: paralysis
Other Reaction: transverse myelitis
Reaction Description: He had a thorough exam. The doctor said he was in great shape. The the nurse gave him his first "mandatory " Hepatitis B vaccine. The following morning he was different. Different looking, different acting. He was paralyzed on one side, but that for us is only the tip of the iceberg. Mentally, physically, and personality wise he is a different kid. No tolerance to pain or outside stimulation. If he was younger he would have diagnoosed with autism.
Current Health Problems: Robert is much better. No wheat or dairy in his diet. Intense physical and behavioral therapy for years. IG therapy. Excellent chiropractic care. Thank you Doctor Tom! There is still the uncertain future we live with each day of what may happen when Robert grows older and stops remyelinating. This didn't have to happen. |
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