Jonathan Campbell, Health Consultant
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On September 28, 2005, a Reuters press release announced that MedImmune, a company that makes a nasal spray vaccine product called FluMist, had "signed up with the U.S. government on Wednesday to try to make a version of its jabless vaccine for avian flu." According to the press release, the development will entail "splicing" of "selected" avian influenza genes into a "weakened" live human flu virus. See this link:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20050928/hl_nm/birdflu_vaccine_dc
There are many things wrong with this idea:
1. Gene splicing, otherwise known as genetic modification, is a very inexact technology. When this kind of genetic modification is done, the results are "statistical," that is, sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't. When it doesn't, the results are unpredictable. The gene "splicers" cannot know for certain whether the "gene selection" process really worked, whether all of the human flu virus were really "weakened," or whether the interaction could cause a "super-flu" that is even more deadly than the original Avian Flu.
2. It is well known that live virus
vaccines cause full-blown disease in a small percentage of those
vaccinated, that is, the "weakened" viruses are strong enough to
reproduce and cause disease in some people - the process is not perfect.
3. If an accident happened or the experimentation went wrong, workers at
MedImmune could become carriers of Avian Flu (or some variant of it) into
the general population, causing an outbreak or epidemic.
4. We are not talking about measles or mumps or chicken pox, which rarely
cause serious illness. We are talking about experimenting with a virus
that causes death in more than half of its victims, extracting genetic
material from it, putting it into supposedly "weakened" human flu virus,
and having people spray it into their noses. Who are going to be the
willing volunteers for this experiment? What happens if the "weakened"
viruses can spread? What happens if the deadly aspects of Avian Flu get
transferred?
This is just craziness. Our government is allowing these companies to
play around with one of the most fearsome viruses known, developing
vaccines that are more likely to cause an epidemic rather than stop one.
Questions to ask, what to do
One needs to question why on earth the Bush Administration is doing this.
Is it just to promote the profits of the vaccine manufacturers? Do they
have personal investments in these companies? Or do they actually want an
epidemic to bring about martial law?
Whatever their reasons, these hare-brained schemes need to be stopped,
and we need to protect ourselves against this influenza, whatever the
outcome.
1. Please call Mike Leavitt, Director of the Department of Health and
Human Services, and tell him that you do not want US companies to develop
Avian Flu vaccines because they will cause an epidemic.
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
200 Independence Avenue, S.W.
Washington, D.C. 20201
Telephone: 202-619-0257
Toll Free: 1-877-696-6775
2. Protect yourself and your family against the possibility of an Avian
Flu epidemic. See the influenza protection web page: http://www.cqs.com/influenza.htm.
Spread the word to friends and neighbors.
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