OCTOBER 1995
A CALL TO ARMS
THE POLIO VACCINE & GORDON PIERSON
LTR FROM THE DEPT. OF HEALTH & HUMAN RESOURCES -- FUTURE OPV VACCINE REPORT
JANUARY 1996
POLIO VACCINATION VICTORY??
APRIL 1996
POLIO VACCINATION VICTORY?? PART 2
LEDERLE LOBBIES TO STOP POLIO VACCINE POLICY CHANGE
JULY 1996
SURPRISE CDC POLIO VACCINE MEETING
SEPTEMBER 1996
POLIO VACCINE (PARTIAL VICTORY) & COMMENTARY
JANUARY 1997
HOW NAIVE CAN ONE BE?
JULY 1995 -POLIO VACCINE FOLLOWUP
We are now in receipt of a package of correspondence from Phyllis Daenzer, R.N. Owosso, MI reiterating and expanding on which of the two polio vaccines you should
advise everyone to take. Namely, they should have administered only the dead vaccine in lieu of the live vaccine. Otherwise, there is a possibility that either the party who receives the live vaccine can develop Polio or someone who comes in contact with that person developing Polio. See article in Polio Connection Polio Information Booklet on this matter..
Ms.Daenzer expansion includes two new major points.
1. Every time you give the live oral vaccine, you a giving a bit of the disease and eventually, all people who have had this polio vaccine will have some form of Post-Polio Syndrome at some time.
Ed. Note: Our medical doctors, 30 years or later after the vaccine was given will not even suspect that their patients new health problems may have been caused by that vaccine. They will identify the problem as everything but Post-Polio Syndrome, treat the health problem in the manner they suspect and probably cause additional harm.
It would also be interesting to hear what some of the medical polio doctors, (the guest speakers at the many Polio Conferences now going on) have to say on this item.
In addition, it would be interesting if we conducted a survey questioning individuals in regard to PPS comparing those who received the live vaccine verses the dead vaccine. The results should resolve the issue. Anyone interested in joining on a committee to look into this matter? Contact us.
2. Correspondence from the Department of Health and Human Services, Center for Disease Control Prevention (8-10-94) admits to the live vaccine causing paralytic polio. They state that the risk is one case per 2.5 million doses of OPV distributed, or approximately eight cases a year in the United States. One of the other reasons they state for using the inactivated polio vaccine is that it would add four additional injections to the current vaccination schedule.
Ed. Note: It would be more than interesting to find the individuals who developed polio from the live virus vaccine. With that list of individuals maybe we then can get a lawyer who will do a class action suit against the government and force them to abandon the live virus vaccine, establish more research in Post-Polio Syndrome and compensate all accordingly.
Any takers. Let’s hear from the Polio victims who received the live polio virus or anyone who received polio from someone who received the live polio. Also, any Lawyers who are willing to develop this case.
OCTOBER 1995 - A CALL TO ARMS
Why a call to arms. Why, well it is simply because of Gordon Pierson. That was the final drop of water that burst the dam and let out the flow of tears. The tears of anger and frustration caused by the lack of progress and direction in our Polio Movement.
Gordan Pierson noted in our feature article is simply the tip of the
iceberg. He did not have to be turned into a ventilator dependent baby,
requiring tube feeding and breathing through a tracheotomy and made in
addition into a high level quadriplegic. He can now only move one finger and
cannot talk and needless to say requires constant attention.
A review of the information now coming to our attention indicates that there were many opportunities to prevent this from happening but, in the final
analyses the Polio Movement failed him and failed all the others who acquired
Polio through the use of the Sabin live polio vaccine. It is our intention to try
with your help to bring this awful chapter to a close.
JANUARY 1996 - POLIO VACCINATION VICTORY????
Not a complete victory but, we are on the road. This is only thanks to your letters to Congress and and other actions that were done by us and others.
In particular mention should be made of Jessica Sheer, Ph.D, Senior Research
Associate, National Rehabilitation Hospital Research Center who made a presentation at
the Polio Vaccine Workshop sponsored by the Institute of Medicine’s Vaccine Safety
Forum in Washington this past June. She defended the parental choice option and said,
“More and more lives continue to be devastated by polio without good enough reasons.
Safe vaccine protocols exist, but our society continues to claim reasons for not educating
parents to make informed polio vaccine choices and deal with the consequences of their
own choices. We continue to use an out moded policy that guarantees a small number of
human sacrifices every year.”
Applause should also go to Dr. Lauro Halstead of Washington’s National Rehab Hospital who strategically succeeded in getting the case against the oral vaccine on prime time TV while the vaccine protocol was being reviewed. He was presented on TV along with others who received polio from the Sabin oral ‘live’ vaccine.
Finally, we would like to also applaud Phyllis Daenzer, RN who traveled all the way from Michigan to make a presentation at the Workshop. In particular she asserted, “ Isn’t it about time we stopped using the ‘live’ vaccine and start using the ‘dead’ vaccine, the Salk vaccine? Aren’t our children worth the switch?”
Anyway after 30 or so years of switching away from the safe Salk ‘dead’ vaccine and causing undo hardships the Center for Disease Control is finally relenting a bit. According to the NY Times the new protocol will be 2 Salk ‘dead' vaccinations followed by two Sabin ‘live’ vaccinations. Needless, to say we are totally against this and our commentary is noted elsewhere in this bulletin.
In view of this new protocol and our incomplete victory we will again have to
consume a considerable amount of our time and at great expense fight this unsatisfactory
situation. To those who helped and others who wrote to your congressman, etc. and you
know who you are again our thanks. To those who did nothing and again you know who
you are you see the results.
Our politicians only respond to pressure. The ‘AIDS’ people know how to unite, so they get results. Let’s correct our faults and push forward. Enclosed also in this bulletin is a ‘warning’ flyer we now had to design. Make copies, distribute but don’t sit back.
APRIL 1996 - POLIO VACCINATION VICTORY??2?
Not a complete victory but, we are on the road. So began our January Newsletter issue. However, as noted in our recent flyer to you and all polio groups throughout the nation even this limited victory is up in the air.
Nobody was ‘Minding the Store’ so we lost. Are we going to continue to be
losers? What are you going to do???
LEDERLE LOBBIES TO STOP POLIO VACCINE POLICY CHANGE
The Vaccine Reaction Jan/Feb. 1996
JULY 1996 - SURPRISE CDC POLIO VACCINE MEETING
For some unknown reason a notice was received announcing that another meeting
was to be held by the Department of Health & Human Services, Center for Disease Control
and Prevention (CDC), Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices. The purpose of
this meeting was to allow Public Comment on their Polio Vaccination Recommendations
and Schedule implying that the announced recommendations may be subject to change.
We, of course, were not to pleased with the announced CDC recommendations
because it still permitted the use of the Sabin ‘live’ oral polio vaccine (OPV). This OPV as
you know can produce paralytic polio in an individual (usually the baby) receiving this OPV
or someone else (usually the parent or relative) who comes in contact with that individual. .
Therefore, as you know, we began a campaign opposing the use of the Sabin ‘live'
oral polio vaccine. We mailed to you in our prior two newsletters and to all our contacts a
flyer on the matter. We are again sending you a copy of that flyer. In addition, we
compiled a 60 page booklet with the dual title “Polio Vaccine Cover-up Booklet or the
New Polio Deception” and sent it to those who requested it.
On the other side of the coin the present manufacturer was not pleased with the
proposed change for obvious reasons. Neither was the UN WHO and various other groups
with their own vested interests.
Obviously, we were now involved in a ‘power’ struggle. Do we fight to stop the
existing condition of sacrificing many individuals to paralytic polio and who knows what
else or do we do nothing and let the existing situation with their vested interests continue.
From our moral high ground the answer was to fight and with our limited resources
planned a program. Basically, we searched for the individual Sabin polio vaccine victim or
the individuals parents, found a number and convinced some of them to appear before the
CDC. Most could not testify because of their lawyer’s advice since they were still in
litigation. Those who agreed to testify were asked to describe their plight and inform how
they and their families quality of life was effected. We therefore owe our gratitude to those
who came and testified, the Piersons from Tennessee, Bosed Hick from Georgia, Harvey
Wilcox from Alabama, George Moormon from California, the Daenzers from Michigan and
last but not least John Salamone from Virginia who also coordinated the group.
To aid and assist this operation we secured the support of the local Post-Polio
Support Group in Atlanta. Our thanks therefore go out to their leader Bonnie Bonham and
her helpers.
TV broadcasters were contacted by us and we used the Internet Post-Polio Bulletin
Board (PPBB) to also support us. Members of PPBB utilized their e-mail service by which
method everyone who was anyone was contacted starting with the President of the US
Mention should also be made of those who were absent and did not testify in behalf
of our cause. Those who also have there vested interests to consider. To our knowledge
no one was there from the March of Dimes and you can extend the list to many others who
you know should have been there to plead to end our governments outdated policy that
guarantees a number of human sacrifices.
Of course, there were also those who we closely associate with who also did
nothing. We suggest that you review the action noted in the other polio newsletters that
you have received and will receive and see if anything was done or said. If we cannot work
on a moral issue like this together in our Polio Movement what can we expect in the future
on issues that will effect us all personally. Ask what they did, and if you do not receive a
satisfactory answer, you should take whatever action you deem necessary. You are entitled
to this!
What the results will be of our action and those who supported us we do not
know. All we can say is that for all our children and theirs we did the best we could. We
will let you know the outcome when we hear. We call upon each and every one of you who know the effects of Polio to write and e-mail or mail letters to as many of the below listed as possible.
Government Offices
1- President Clinton - president@whitehouse.gov
2- Secretary of the US Department of Health & Human Resources, Donna Shalala
3- Gloria A. Kovach, Committee Management Specialist, CDC (16-4346)
TV Networks
1- ABC TV
2-NBC TV
3- CBS TV
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If the results of this survey are that the live vaccine causes Post-Polio Syndrome can you imagine what will happen. Most importantly, major research grants will be forthcoming to solve the problem which could help all Polio Survivors.
Now, just what is going on? For some strange reason, the Center for
Disease Control, after years of succeeding with delaying the end of utilizing
the Sabin live polio vaccine they are now again considering to act on the Polio
Vaccine Protocol.
I really don’t believe it. Do they expect me to believe that they want to
end this immoral situation and put themselves, all the lawyers involved in the
polio cases, the polio vaccine manufactures and all the rest of the bureaucracy
out of the business of Polio after all these years. Do you believe it?
Read what we have received and considered it. Write your
Congressman. Send us a copy of your letter or your comments or any
additional information.
We hope that you as individuals and more so you as grass roots local
independent organizations who receive this newsletter will join us in our
Agenda to put an end to the Sabin live polio vaccine once and for all.
Remember only we know and feel the pain of Polio. No one else!
The present manufacturer of the Sabin ‘live’ vaccine does not want to see their
production (profits) reduced in any manner and the UN World Health Organization has
their reasons to keep the Sabin ‘live’ vaccine. Obviously, they have vested interests and
are willing to fight in any manner they can to secure their desired results.
In regard to the prior we have just received a report from one of our allies in this battle. They have informed us that Lederle is up on the hill (Congress) in full force trying to get Senators to put pressure on the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) and the Secretary Shalala. See enclosed article on this topic.
And, in the Pan American Health Organization, EPI (Expanded Program on
Immunization) Newsletter is the statement, “At US$ 0.08 per dose, the cost of a single dose of OPV procured by UNICEF is less than one tenth the cost of a dose of IPV.” Obviously, the UNICEF is trying to influence someone with this claim on cost which we believe is way out of line. Finally, guess who pays the UNICEF bills to a large extent.
If we do not come out strongly in support of the Center for Disease Control (CDC) recommendations our limited victory may also be lost. Therefore, it is necessary that you write to your representatives in Congress. Tell them that we want Secretary Donna Shalala to sign the order establishing that parents can determine what kind of Polio vaccine they can give to their children. Parents should not be limited only to the Sabin 'live' vaccine which can possibly cause paralytic polio, death and other problems to their children. They should have the option to choose the Salk ‘dead’ vaccine. Who’s child is it anyway?
Write congress today!!
Tell your Polio Organization to also write to Congress and send you a copy or else you will withdraw your support.
Finally, I would like to quote from the 3/96 New Mobility article by R. L. Bruno
Ph.D “Both the March of Dimes Birth Defects Foundation and the US Congress have
refused to set aside funds for PPS Research”
In a surprising game of hardball, Lederle Lab came out swinging after the Advisory
Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) voted at its June 1995 meeting to make a
transition from the live oral polio vaccine {OPV) to the inactivated polio vaccine (IPV) in
order to prevent cases of OPV-associated polio in the U.S. As the sole provider of OPV in
the U.S., Lederle is fighting to retain its monopoly market and has been vigorously lobbying
members of Congress and HHS officials to prevent AClP from going forward with its
recommendation.
Lederle engaged a high profile Washington, D.C. law firm which sent a letter to
ACIP challenging its right to make policy change without publishing it first in the Federal
Register and charged ACIP members with violating conflict of interest rules. A law firm
retained by Connaught Lab, a manufacturer of IPV vaccine, sent a letter to ACIP blasting
Lederle for their "desperate attempt.. . to maintain its monopoly at the expense of the public
health."
At a February FDA advisory committee meeting during which NVIC made a
statement endorsing the switch from OPV to IPV, one CDC official defended ACIP's
recommendation, suggesting that the U.S. should not be "held hostage" by developing
countries or anyone else and should make the policy change in order to prevent vaccine
associated polio in the U.S.
Ed Note:Voice your complaint with Lederle at 1-800-526-7870
Insist that your Polio Group also write and send us a copy of all letters.
Do it now!!! All the noted contacts below need lead time to act.
If you know of others who should be contacted please do it and advise us
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