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On December 20, 2012, a vaccination tragedy hit the small village of Gouro, located in northern Chad, Africa. According to the newspaper La Voix, out of five hundred children who received the new meningitis vaccine MenAfriVac, at least 40 of them between the ages of 7 and 18 have become paralyzed. Those children also suffered hallucinations and convulsions.
Since this report, the true extent of this tragedy is coming to light, as parents of these vaccinated children have reported yet more injuries. The authorities in the area are shaken, as citizens set fire to a sanitary administration vehicle in a demonstration of their frustration and anger at the government’s negligence.
ATLANTA, 14 November 2012—Signaling a potential breakthrough for immunization
programs in resource-poor countries, researchers today announced at the American
Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (ASTMH) conference that regulatory
authorities—after conducting a rigorous review of stability data—will for the first time
allow a vaccine in Africa to be transported and stored for as long as four days without
refrigeration or even an icepack.
The meningitis A vaccine known as MenAfriVac®, created to meet the needs of Africa’s
meningitis belt, can now be kept in a controlled temperature chain (CTC) at
temperatures of up to 40°C for up to four days, a decision that could help increase
campaign efficiency and coverage and save funds normally spent maintaining the
challenging cold chain during the “last mile” of vaccine delivery.
The outcome of the review and decisions of the Drugs Controller General of India
(DCGI), supported by a Health Canada analysis and confirmed by the World Health
Organization (WHO) Vaccines Pre-qualification Programme, was revealed during a
presentation this afternoon at the ASTMH conference in Atlanta by Godwin Enwere, MD,
medical director for the Meningitis Vaccine Project. The regulatory approval has the effect of permitting the re-labeling of MenAfriVac®, while ensuring that the vaccine remains effective and safe throughout its life cycle.
Costing less than US$0.50 per dose, the innovative vaccine that is manufactured by
Serum Institute of India Ltd. (SIIL) has dramatically reduced disease burden in the first
countries to introduce it, according to recently-published findings. MenAfriVac
® is the first vaccine designed specifically to help health workers eliminate meningococcal A
epidemics from Africa’s “meningitis belt,” which includes 26 countries from Senegal to
Ethiopia.
www.meningvax.org...
Developed by the MVP partnership between the WHO and PATH—with support from the
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation―the meningococcal A conjugate vaccine MenAfriVac®
provides African health authorities, for the first time, with an affordable, long-term
solution that protects even young children against meningitis A (group A Neisseria
meningitidis).
Revolutionary meningitis vaccine breaks another barrier; first to gain approval to travel outside cold chain
New flexibility to help expand access to MenAfriVac®, as Benin prepares to roll out vaccine that scientists say is having dramatic impact on disease
14 November 2012 | ATLANTA - Signaling a potential breakthrough for immunization programs in resource-poor countries, researchers today announced at the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (ASTMH) conference that regulatory authorities—after conducting a rigorous review of stability data—will for the first time allow a vaccine in Africa to be transported and stored for as long as four days without refrigeration or even an icepack.
www.who.int...
It’s 7:30 a.m. on Thursday November 15, the first day of the MenAfriVac campaign in Banikoara, in northern Benin. People are excited, the “disease that makes your neck stiff,” or as we know it, meningitis, is unfortunately well known here, and the chance to be vaccinated against it is one people are lining up to seize.
Usually on campaign days, the staff at Kokey health center would already be on their motorbikes, travelling down a dusty, pothole-filled dirt road to the district capital in order to pick up vaccines and icepacks. Kokey has no functional cold chain at the health center. As vaccines are generally required to be kept in a cold chain, between 2°–8°C, each immunization campaign day requires a run to the district capital and back again. On a good day, in dry season, it takes an hour.
But with this campaign, things are different.
www.impatientoptimists.org...
Mr. M., the cousin of two of the vaccine-injured children, who currently remain critically ill and hospitalized, explained that many of the children reacted within 24 hours of receiving the vaccine. He said that at first the children vomited and complained of headaches, before falling to the floor with uncontrollable convulsions while bent over with saliva coming from their mouths.
He shared that on December 26, 2012, the Minister of Health and the Minister of Social Security visited Gouro, bringing with them two Members of Parliament. He said that after some discussion, they decided to evacuate approximately 50 paralyzed children to a hospital over three hundred miles away in N’Djamena, the capital city of Chad.
He added that the government responded to the tragedy by paying the parents money in a desperate bid to silence them, further stating that many of the parents are traumatized and confused.
As reported in La Voix, according to a member of the medical staff, as well as a comment from Dr. Daugla Oumagoum Moto, the director of the Center of International Health Support (CSSI), the reactions that these children have suffered are not typical of this type of vaccine against meningitis, which they say are normally fever, vomiting, and headaches, not the adverse reactions experienced by the hospitalized children.
vactruth.com...
Originally posted by Wertdagf
reply to post by Corruption Exposed
It says that 40 children has adverse effects those of which that are listed halucinations, convultions, and paralysis. This could mean that 37 of them just felt tired and 3 of them had real side affects that went away after a few hours.
None of that claims any of these effects were permanent or that they werent potentialy caused by something else. When your village has a hard time health wise anyway... its easy for someone to come in with ill intent and make outrageous claims. You got to remember that news is FOR PROFIT.
"...et-finissent par etre paralyes."
Originally posted by Wertdagf
reply to post by Corruption Exposed
It says that 40 children has adverse effects those of which that are listed halucinations, convultions, and paralysis. This could mean that 37 of them just felt tired and 3 of them had real side affects that went away after a few hours.
None of that claims any of these effects were permanent or that they werent potentialy caused by something else. When your village has a hard time health wise anyway... its easy for someone to come in with ill intent and make outrageous claims. You got to remember that news is FOR PROFIT.
Originally posted by Wertdagf
reply to post by Corruption Exposed
It says that 40 children has adverse effects those of which that are listed halucinations, convultions, and paralysis. This could mean that 37 of them just felt tired and 3 of them had real side affects that went away after a few hours.
None of that claims any of these effects were permanent or that they werent potentialy caused by something else. When your village has a hard time health wise anyway... its easy for someone to come in with ill intent and make outrageous claims. You got to remember that news is FOR PROFIT.
Originally posted by Rezlooper
reply to post by Corruption Exposed
And yet the sheeple keep lining up. It's too bad.
Deliberately concealing information from the parents for the sole purpose of getting them to comply with an “official” vaccination schedule could thus be considered as a form of ethical violation or misconduct. Official documents obtained from the UK Department of Health (DH) and the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) reveal that the British health authorities have been engaging in such practice for the last 30 years, apparently for the sole purpose of protecting the national vaccination program.
Assertions
In summary, the transcripts of the JCVI/DH meetings from the period from 1983 to 2010 appear to show that:
1) Instead of reacting appropriately by re-examining existing vaccination policies when safety concerns over specific vaccines were identified by their own investigations, the JCVI either a) took no action, b) skewed or selectively removed unfavourable safety data from public reports and c) made intensive efforts to reassure both the public and the authorities in the safety of respective vaccines;
2) Significantly restricted contraindication to vaccination criteria in order to increase vaccination rates despite outstanding and unresolved safety issues;
3) On multiple occasions requested from vaccine manufacturers to make specific amendments to their data sheets, when these were in conflict with JCVI’s official advices on immunisations;
4) Persistently relied on methodologically dubious studies, while dismissing independent research, to promote vaccine policies;
5) Persistently and categorically downplayed safety concerns while over-inflating vaccine benefits;
6) Promoted and elaborated a plan for introducing new vaccines of questionable efficacy and safety into the routine paediatric schedule, on the assumption that the licenses would eventually be granted;
7) Actively discouraged research on vaccine safety issues;
8) Deliberately took advantage of parents’ trust and lack of relevant knowledge on vaccinations in order to promote a scientifically unsupported immunisation program which could put certain children at risk of severe long-term neurological damage;
Notably, all of these actions appear to violate the JCVI’s own Code of Practice (http:// www.dh.gov.uk/prod_consum_dh/groups/dh_digitalassets/@dh/@ab/documents/digitalasset/ dh_115363.pdf).
Originally posted by Openeye
reply to post by ntech
You can't be serious...
You are implying that a group of religious zealots were justified in the murder of six innocent people, and this is some how morally acceptable to you how? Because you have arbitrarily branded the vaccine harmful without consulting any medical professional, biochemist, immunologist, or evolutionary biologist?
Shame on you.