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It comes as no surprise that the most recent mass polio vaccination programs fuelled by Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation resulted in increased cases of vaccine-associated paralytic poliomyelitis (VAPP). In India, two paediatricians, Dr Neetu Vashisht and Dr Jacob Pulliel of the Department of Paediatrics of St Stephens Hospital in Delhi noted that another major ethical issue raised by the campaign is the failure to thoroughly investigate the increase in incidence “of non-polio acute flaccid paralysis (NPAFP)” in areas where many doses of vaccine were used, while noting that these cases are clinically indistinguishable from polio paralysis and twice as deadly. They also noted that while India was declared polio-free in 2011, at the same time there were 47500 cases of NPAFP, which increased in direct proportion to the number of polio vaccine doses received. Independent studies showed that children identified with NPAFP “were at more than t wice the risk of dying than those with wild polio infection”. Ron Law (Assaulting alternative medicine: worthwhile or witch hunt? BMJ.com 10 March 2012) recently addressed the polio situation in India: eradication has been achieved by re-naming the disease. Poliomyelitis paralysis which occurs even after 30+ vaccination doses, is now called acute flaccid paralysis (AFP) or polio-like paralysis; hardly a great success of vaccination or comfort to the parents of the more than 60 000 affected children. The only way to eradicate paralytic poliomyelitis is to stop vaccinating.
Dr Viera Scheibner (PhD), British Medical Journal
Related Links:
* Polio programme: let us declare victory and move on
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Neetu Vashisht & Jacob Puliyel, Indian Journal of Medical Ethics
* Polio to stay with collateral damage
Savita Verma, India Today
* Polio Vaccines Now The #1 Cause of Polio Paralysis
Sayer Ji, Activist Post
* WHO scandal: India announces polio vaccines are paralysing children
The Telegraph, Calcutta
2. Swine flu vaccine leaves my son (15) with chronic sleep disorder
Mary Fitzpatrick
The mother of a Dublin teen who collapses when he laughs or cries, fears he could be suffering from a serious sleeping disorder as a result of the swine flu vaccine. Mary Fitzpatrick says her son Conor (15) can't be left on his own since he developed the debilitating condition narcolepsy. His school work has suffered severely as he can fall asleep in any place, at any time. Ms Fitzpatrick spoke to the Herald days after it emerged that two countries, Finland and Norway, have linked the swine flu vaccine Pandemrix to narcolepsy but an Irish investigation into the situation remains stalled. "Conor had been like every other child his age until he got the vaccination which initially caused him to get very ill, and then over the coming months he got tired and would fall asleep more often," said Mary. There are now more than 30 Irish families who believe their children have suffered the serious sleeping disorder from the vaccine. Mary believes that if the link between the vaccine and narcolepsy is confirmed, Conor and all other affected children should be compensated for the "life they could have led."
Conor Feehan, Herald.ie
Related Links:
* No government progress for children failing at school after flu vaccine
Clodagh Sheehy, Herald.ie
* Report on link between narcolepsy and vaccine
RTE News, Ireland
* Rise In Narcolepsy Cases From GSK Swine Flu Vaccine
Jerome Reilly, Independent.ie
3. Drug Data Shouldn’t Be Secret
In the fall of 2009, at the height of fears over swine flu, our research group discovered that a majority of clinical trial data for the anti-influenza drug Tamiflu — data that proved, according to its manufacturer, that the drug reduced the risk of hospitalization, serious complications and transmission — were missing, unpublished and inaccessible to the research community. From what we could tell from the limited clinical data that had been published in medical journals, the country’s most widely used and heavily stockpiled influenza drug appeared no more effective than aspirin. We should not have to wait for patients to be hurt by the medications they take, as recently happened with the diabetes drug Avandia, before reviewing this wealth of data.
Peter Doshi & Tom Jefferson, The New York Times
Related Links:
* Roche's Tamiflu scandal questions the entire process of systematic review
Michael Smith, medpage TODAY
* Side effects and effectiveness of 'wonder-drug' Tamiflu under the microscope as Department of Health faces awkward questions over mass prescriptions
Daily Mail Reporter, Daily Mail
* 14 Year-Old Boy Jumps From Apartment Window After Taking Tamiflu
BERNAMA, Malaysian National News Agency
* Fatal Reactions And Injuries Occurring With Tamiflu 'Swine Flu' Drug
Jeremy Laurance, New Zealand Herald
* US reviews risks of Tamiflu after 12 children die
Jeremy Laurance, The Independent
4. Hacked Off: Motorman data leaks are 'inevitable'
News International: transactions with private investigator Steve Whittamore have been leaked.
A group representing some of the alleged victims of tabloid malpractice has stepped up its campaign for the Operation Motorman files to be published "as soon as possible", after part of the data was leaked online last night. Hacked Off said in a statement that it was not involved in the initiative and was not in possession of the files, which list thousands of transactions by newspaper journalists seeking personal information including ex-directory telephone numbers and vehicle registrations from private investigator Steve Whittamore. The campaigners said the latest leak strengthened the case for the full documents to be professionally redacted and officially made public - to avoid giving "a partial and possibly misleading or unfair picture of press data-mining". The spreadsheet, published last night on the Guido Fawkes blog, listed more than 1,000 transactions from News International journalists that were logged in a book by Whittamor e, whose home was raided by police in 2003 and who was later convicted of conspiring to commit misconduct in public office. Hacked Off, which has been campaigning for the Leveson inquiry to make the Motorman files public, said in a statement: "This material is a secret only from the public and in our view partial disclosures of this kind, and of the kind published by ITN days earlier, were inevitable given the official refusal to redact and disclose."
Paul McNally, journalism.co.uk
Related Links:
* Motorman: Britain's biggest establishment cover-up
Information Release, Guido Fawkes
* Operation Motorman Blue Book (download)
Information Release
* Operation Motorman, the corrrupt establishment story that will not go away
Inforrm's Blog
* Britain's corrupt police are at war with the people
David Gilbertson, The Guardian
* Leveson must publish the Motorman Files
Hacked Off press release
* Police corruption, Murdoch and the Leveson Inquiry
The One Click Group
5. Bravo! Anonymous attack takes down Home Office
Hacking group Anonymous has followed up its threat to stage weekly attacks against the Government by taking the Home Office website offline. The group used social networking sites Twitter and Tumblr to declare the launch of a Distributed Denial-Of-Service (DDoS) attack against the Home Office website on Saturday night. In a series of tweets, published by the Anonymous Operations account, the group said the attack was in protest at the extradition of UK citizens to stand trial in the US. According to a report on the BBC News site, the attack resulted in the site becoming inaccessible for several hours. The Saturday night attack followed an earlier tweet by the group on 4 April, which read: “Expect a DDoS every Saturday on the UK Government sites." Jeremy Nicholls, business development director for Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA) at DDoS protection vendor Arbor Networks, said the Home Office take down should raise awareness of how susce ptible all firms are to attack.
Caroline Donnelly, ITPRO
6. Welsh supporters set for month campaign behind US soldier Bradley Manning
WELSH supporters are set to embark on a month-long campaign to help a Pembrokeshire-schooled US soldier accused of the biggest leak of classified information in American history. Bradley Manning is due in court at Fort Meade in the US between April 24 and 26 where proceedings against him will continue. Charges against the 24-year-old include “aiding the enemy” in relation to 700,000 secret documents released via the WikiLeaks website. The charge carries a maximum sentence of life in prison. Now the Pembrokeshire-based Wise Up For Bradley Manning Campaign Group has organised a touring exhibition to travel across the country throughout April. A campaign group spokesman said: “We’re calling for all charges against Bradley Manning to be dropped and for him to be freed immediately. A fair trial is impossible and in any case blowing the whistle on war crimes is not a crime. For whistle-blowers in the US, as here, the rhetoric is protecti on, the reality persecution.”
Wales Online
7. Charity chief quits over Atos fit-for-work test
Disabled people protesting in Westminster against cuts to their benefits.
Here's the moral dilemma that faced Paul Farmer, chief executive of the mental health charity Mind, last week: should he continue to sit on a government advisory panel, charged with scrutinising a policy that his charity believes to be inhumane? Or should he resign, publicising his anger at the coalition government's refusal to listen to the charity's concerns, and remove himself from the room where improvements are being discussed? Farmer chose to leave the panel responsible for monitoring the functioning of the work capability assessment (WCA), the new fitness-for-work test that determines who is eligible for sickness benefits, frustrated that the government was not paying attention to the growing chorus of alarm over the reliability of the test. Until now, charities have been voicing their concerns but expressing a desire to work with the government to get things right. Farmer's resignation marks a new, tougher stance. Amid the fallout from his departu re last week, there was despondency among campaigners over the government's failure to implement substantial improvements to a system that charities identified as "not fit for purpose" more than 18 months ago, but which is still being used to assess the fitness of 11,000 people a week.
Amelia Gentleman, The Guardian
8. A pack of ATOS ers – I’ll see you in court
We now have a situation where a French IT company, trading in the UK as ATOS Healthcare, has been recruited to provide an assessment of EVERY disability claimant to see if they can work. The assessments are carried out by doctors, nurses and physiotherapists who are not necessarily familiar with the complex needs of people with disabilities. Already figures are emerging that suggest that over 1000 people died within 12 months of having their benefits cut and of the 50% of people who appeal their findings to a tribunal, 50% WIN their appeal. There is now evidence that ATOS is actively looking for criticisms of its work wherever it can find them, particularly on the internet, with some carers groups having to either withdraw materials or take down their web sites in the face of threats to resort to legal action. And we all know that the little people can’t compete, financially, with the rich and powerful when it comes to possible court action. Well, A TOS: Here I am. I am not hidden. I think your bullying tactics to stifle reasonable debate about the work you do on behalf of a government that is supposed to represent its people are appalling. Your assessment regime is flawed (and you know it is) and you are nothing more than a money grabbing business who cares not one jot for the people you interact with. If you want to seek me out, as you are the ‘official IT integrator’ for the Games and official supporter of Glasgow 2012, I will be at the Paralympic games in late August… look out for me in the swimming arena. I should be easy to spot: I will be waving a banner that I don’t think you will like. I will see you in the Royal Courts of Justice!
ashleytiffen, WordPress
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