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dArKeR Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-21-04 11:31 PM
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Suspicions drive polio-vaccine boycott in Nigeria
Isa Mohammed distrusts doctors, especially white foreign ones.

His suspicions, he says, stem from a 1996 drug study by American pharmaceutical giant Pfizer in which his daughter, now partially disabled, took part.

It is that study that is driving a polio-vaccine boycott, now six months old, among northern Nigerian Muslims. United Nations health workers say polio is returning to eight surrounding African nations where it had been eradicated and is endangering international efforts to wipe out the crippling disease worldwide.

More than 30 Nigerian families are suing New York-based Pfizer, accusing it in a US court of failing to adequately inform them of the risks to their children if they took part in the drug study.

The company repeatedly has rejected allegations of wrongdoing in its study, which tested an experimental antibiotic on children suffering from meningitis. Pfizer says its doctors did a professional and ethical job, saving lives during the meningitis epidemic among the poor in Nigeria's northern city of Kano.

http://www.mg.co.za/Content/l3.asp?ao=32975

Trust America? Why wouldn't anyone trust Bush's America?
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otohara Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-21-04 11:50 PM
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1. As A Polio Survivor
I find this boycott reckless. There are risks with vaccines, period. A life time of polio sucks too.
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DulceDecorum Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-22-04 10:37 AM
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2. But are you sterile as well?
A new defence put up by the federal government experts on the polio vaccine led by Prof. Emeritus Shehu and other WHO experts was that the Estradoil hormone found in the vaccines were not significant enough to cause any reproduction hazards to those for whom it was administered. He even went the extraordinary mile to teach the young JNI scientist, Dr Haruna Kaita, on the other uses of estrogen in the human body.
But Dr Kaita would not agree, said he, "some of the things we discovered in the vaccine are harmful toxic, some have direct effect on human reproductive system. So I was surprised when one of the federal government's doctors was saying something contrary to what I have known, learnt, taught and is a common knowledge to all pharmaceutical scientists, that estrogen cannot induce anti-fertility response in humans. That is the most absurd thing I ever heard from a learned person, who said he is a professor," Kaitra added.
A BBC report last month on the outcome of a well-researched survey on the effect of estrodiol on women of child-bearing age in Glassgow, Scotland further heightened the fears of antagonists on the estradoil-laced polio vaccines administered on the Nigerian child.
According to the report, following the growing number of infertility among younger women in Glasgow, an investigation of the phenomenon was ordered. It was discovered that their source of drinking water was contaminated with the estrodoil hormones which was being discharged in large quantity by young girls using contraceptives.
http://allafrica.com/stories/200403080451.html

Google gives 31,000 responses for the query POLIO CONTAMINATED
and 134,000 responses for VACCINE CONTAMINATED

Preventing Another SV-40 Tragedy:
Are Today’s Polio Vaccine Safety Protocols Effective?
Thursday, November 13, 2003 2:00 PM
Subcommittee Hearing on Preventing Another SV-40 Tragedy
Chairman Burton's Opening Statement
......But, what we perhaps tend to forget, is that immunization is very different than administering a medicine to combat an active illness in a person. Instead of curing a disease, vaccines instead introduce a potentially disease-causing agent into an otherwise healthy body in order to stimulate an immune response. Thus there are always risks associated with taking any vaccine. In some cases, vaccines have even been known to cause the very disease they were created to prevent.
But the risks can be greater still.
In the earliest days of polio vaccine production, laboratory tests were not sophisticated enough to detect the presence of what became known as Simian Virus 40, or SV-40. At least 26 other simian contaminants were detected and eliminated, but SV-40 slipped past quality control testing procedures and into the vaccine pool, potentially infecting millions of Americans. Soon after its discovery, scientists also learned that SV-40 could cause cancerous tumors in hamsters.
So, in society’s zeal to combat one disease we as a society potentially risked exposing millions of Americans to another deadly disease. As the Subcommittee learned at our last SV-40/Polio Hearing on September 10th, we are still trying to uncover the true health impact of the SV-40 contaminated polio vaccines.
For four decades, Federal government officials have insisted that there is no evidence that SV-40 is harmful to humans, or that polio vaccines produced after 1963 were contaminated with SV-40. But, in recent years, dozens of scientific studies have found the virus in a steadily increasing number of rare brain, bone and lung-related tumors – the very same malignant cancers that SV-40 causes in lab animals.
The Subcommittee’s previous Hearing in September examined the intense debate raging within the scientific community between government scientists who claim that SV-40 has had no effect on the human population, and independent researchers from across the globe who believe SV-40 IS a human carcinogen.
http://reform.house.gov/WHR/Hearings/EventSingle.aspx?EventID=605

In Denmark, contaminated polio vaccine has led to high incidences of cancer. See for yourself.

BACKGROUND: Early poliovirus vaccines were accidentally contaminated with simian virus 40 (SV40). In Denmark, poliovirus vaccine was administered to most children from 1955 through 1961. SV40 DNA sequences have been detected in several human malignancies, including mesothelioma, ependymoma, choroid plexus tumors, and non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. To clarify whether SV40 infection increases risk of these cancers or of cancers arising in children, we examined cancer
incidence in three Danish birth cohorts.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=12671021&dopt=Abstract

Whose population did the security advisers want controlled? The recommendations for reducing fertility applied only to the developing world -- and to all of it. However, NSSM 200 also states that 13 countries of "special U.S. political and strategic interest" would be primary targets. They are: India, Brazil, Egypt, Nigeria, Indonesia, the Philippines, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Mexico, Thailand, Turkey, Ethiopia and Colombia (page 15 of the introduction).

What were the study's main concerns about population? NSSM 200 states that population growth in the developing world threatens U.S. security in four basic ways: First, certain large nations stand to gain significant political power and influence as a result of their growing populations. Second, the United States and its western allies have a vital interest in strategic materials which have to be imported from less-developed countries. Third, societies with high birthrates have large numbers of young people, who are more likely than older people to challenge global power structures. And last, population growth in relatively-disadvantaged countries jeopardizes U.S. investments.
http://www.africa2000.com/INDX/nssm200.htm

Hence, the polio/cancer-causing/sterility vaccine.
Your tax dollars at work.
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otohara Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-22-04 10:58 AM
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3. No -
You jerk - I got polio - not the vaccine
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treepig Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-22-04 11:22 AM
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4. do you even bother to read what you post?
just wondering, because the link you provide for the denmark study shows a lower (not higher as you claim) incidence of cancer:


RESULTS: After 69.5 million person-years of follow-up, individuals exposed to SV40-contaminated poliovirus vaccine as infants (i.e., born 1955-1961) or children (i.e., born 1946-1952) had lower overall cancer risk (age-adjusted relative risk = 0.86, 95% confidence interval = 0.81 to 0.91 and RR = 0.79, 95% CI = 0.75 to 0.84, respectively; P<.001 for both) than unexposed individuals (i.e., born 1964-1970, after the vaccine was cleared of SV40 contamination). Specifically, SV40 exposure was not associated with increased incidence of mesothelioma, ependymoma, choroid plexus tumor, or non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. After 19.5 million person-years of follow-up, incidence of all cancers combined, of intracranial tumors, and of leukemia among children aged 0-4 years was also not associated with SV40 exposure.
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demdave Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-22-04 11:26 AM
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5. On another thread this person implores blacks not to attend Ivy League
'On another note, I would STRONGLY recommend that NO AFRICAN set foot within ANY Ivy League school or college until further notice.
Do so at your peril."

Maybe they took their own advice.

A mind is a terrible thing to waste.
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otohara Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-22-04 04:12 PM
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6. Someone's Horns Are Showing
that truly is disturbing to read on DU
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NickB79 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-22-04 04:31 PM
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7. Sterility or infertility?
"According to the report, following the growing number of infertility among younger women in Glasgow, an investigation of the phenomenon was ordered. It was discovered that their source of drinking water was contaminated with the estrodoil hormones which was being discharged in large quantity by young girls using contraceptives."

So, excess hormones being secreted into the water supply by women on hormonal contraceptives are decreasing the fertility of women in the same area not on hormonal contraceptives. Is this decreased fertility permanent though? Women who stop taking birth control pills regain their ability to bear children within a few months once the additional hormones are excluded from their systems. I would think that the infertile women in Glasgow, if not further exposed to hormones in their environment, would similarly revert back to being able to bear children within a few months. It would make no sense to argue that exposure to trace amounts of second-hand hormones would render these women sterile for life, but not the women taking much higher levels in their BC pills. That would make it even more unlikely that a single dose of polio vaccine containing a trace amount of estradiol would be able to cause lifelong sterility.

Honestly, if there were a shot available that would render someone sterile for life, or even a few years for that matter, there would be millions of people lining up for it instead of vasecomies or tubal ligation. It would be a massive money-maker for pharma companies, something they would not ignore.
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treepig Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-22-04 05:00 PM
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8. hmm, in the "water" supply . . .
upon further consideration i detect a previously unmentioned connection here that links the polio vaccine, cancer, and infertility.

it's water! water was present in the vaccine, in the cancer cells (see http://www.dhmo.org/cancer.html for more), and also, as you point out, is linked to infertility.

i've also done some further research on this compound known as "water" and found that it's actually a very dangerous chemical whose real name is "dhmo" - please go to http://www.dhmo.org/research.html and sign the petition to ban this nefarious compound - so far the trend is promising, but more responses are needed:

Total people surveyed 228 100%
Ban Dihydrogen Monoxide 224 98.3%
Do not ban Dihydrogen Monoxide 3 1.3%
Undecided about ban 1 0.4%
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