"Questionable cattle products have gone into baby food, pet chow, beauty preparations and vaccines.
     Only last month, Britain withdrew supplies of polio vaccine after discovering that they were cultivated
     from British bovine serum produced when mad cow disease was at its height. Eleven million children
     and travelers have received the oral vaccine. Vaccines against measles, mumps, rubella, diphtheria and
     whooping cough also were made from British-sourced bovine material until at least 1993.

     The government said the risk of contracting variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease from vaccine was
     "incalculably small," but this is not what was said by the author of the first major British mad cow
     investigation, Sir Richard Southwood. He warned in an internal memorandum that the danger of
     infection from vaccines was "moderately high." He recommended that the removal of bovine material
     from vaccines should be a priority area for action."

http://www.iht.com/cgi-bin/generic.cgi?template=articleprint.tmplh&ArticleId=3596

http://www.fda.gov/cber/bse/bse.htm#toc

Updated August 6, 2003

Current list of vaccines using bovine-derived materials from countries on the 
USDA's BSE list or from unknown countries

Vaccines that use bovine-derived materials from countries on the USDA list 
include:

Aventis Pasteur, Inc.’s Diphtheria and Tetanus Toxoids and Acellular 
Pertussis (DTaP) Vaccine, Tripedia 

Aventis Pasteur, S.A.’s Haemophilus Influenzae Type b Conjugate Vaccine, 
ActHIB (ActHIB is also marketed as OmniHIB by SmithKline Beecham
Pharmaceuticals) 

North American Vaccine Inc.’s DTaP Vaccine, Certiva 

GlaxoSmithKline Biologicals Hepatitis A Vaccine, Havrix.

GlaxoSmithKline Biologicals combined Hepatitis A Vaccine and Hepatitis B 
(Recombinant) Vaccine, TWINRIX. 

Vaccines that use bovine-derived materials of unknown geographical origin 
include:

Aventis Pasteur, S.A.’s Polio Vaccine, Inactivated, IPOL 

Lederle Laboratories’ Pneumococcal Vaccine, Polyvalent, PNU-IMUNE 23. 1This 
information will be periodically updated to reflect the most current status. 

Revealed: full scale of vaccine blunders 

US authorities horrified by conditions at factory in BSE-tainted polio drug
scare

Martin Bright and Antony Barnett 
Sunday October 22, 2000
http://www.observer.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,6903,386177,00.html 

The drug factory at the centre of the polio vaccine scandal has a history
of contamination and production blunders, leading to fears that its
vaccines against other diseases are unsafe. 
The lives of thousands of old people and children have been put at risk by
drug shortages caused by a catalogue of problems that have plagued the
Medeva vaccines plant on Merseyside. One serious incident led to British
soldiers being sent abroad without protection against Yellow Fever. 

Last year, investigators from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
were horrified by the conditions they found at the plant in Speke, near
Liverpool, which also makes vaccines against flu, tuberculosis, tetanus and
Hepatitis B. 

On Friday, the Department of Health was forced to recall Medeva's oral
polio vaccine after it was discovered that the firm had potentially been
using BSE-infected material. 

This weekend, an investigation by The Observer can reveal that the problems
surrounding the polio vaccine may prove to be the tip of the iceberg. 

A week-long inspection by the FDA last summer into the production of the
flu vaccine Fluvirin at the plant found Medeva had failed to: 

. 'clean, maintain and sanitise equipment at appropriate intervals to
prevent malfunction or contamination'; 

. maintain systems to prevent unacceptable levels of toxins and bacteria
contaminating the production process; 

. ensure batches of vaccines 'conformed with all established standards,
specifications and characteristics'; and 

. prove that vaccines on doctors' shelves would be free from 'bacteria and
fungi'. 

Last October the FDA's director of compliance, Steven Masiello, fired off
an official warning letter to Medeva's head of primary production, John
O'Brian, telling him to sort out the problems or have its product banned
from entering the US. Fluvirin is used by some 20 million Americans and
more than a million British people, many of them elderly. 

Although the extent of the excess levels of toxins and bacteria at the
Speke factory is not known, in extreme cases, contaminated vaccines can
lead to severe adverse reactions, including toxic shock and fever. In the
old and fragile, the impact could be lethal. 

The FDA letter, seen by The Observer , contains the disclosure that instead
of dealing with the problems, managers at the plant wanted to raise the
level of contamination deemed to be acceptable. 

Sources familiar with the company's operations claim that there were
serious production problems running through the factory and abuses were
routinely ignored. 

Although it is not known what other contamination problems the factory had,
it is known that production difficulties were not confined solely to the
manufacture of the flu vaccine. 

The Observer has learned that the company was forced to stop making its
Yellow Fever vaccine Arilvax, leading to a widespread shortage throughout
the country. The Ministry of Defence last night confirmed that the
situation became so serious that earlier this year it sent British soldiers
on overseas missions without protection against Yellow Fever. Many
travellers were also unable to get vaccinated against the horrifying
tropical disease, which attacks the stomach and kidneys. The company has
still not restarted production. 

This March, The Observer revealed that production problems at the Medeva
factory had led to warnings of a tuberculosis epidemic after the company
failed to supply sufficient quantities of vaccine to health authorities.
Three months after the FDA inspection the shortage of TB vaccines led to
the suspension of routine school vaccinations. 

Liberal Democrat consumer affairs spokesman Norman Baker is now calling for
an immediate investigation into events at the Speke factory and a full
explanation from the Department of Health. 

He also said that the Medicines Control Agency (MCA), the body which
regulates drug companies, had serious questions to answer about why it had
failed to take any action. 

Baker said: 'The Department of Health and the MCA have completely failed to
act in the interests of public health. 

'In their desperate attempts not to undermine the vaccination programme,
they have tried to sweep all problems under the carpet. As a result, public
confidence has been shattered. 

'When will they learn that the answer is not to cover up, but to identify
problems and deal with them immediately?' 

The Medicines Control Agency refused to answer any questions posed by The
Observer about Medeva's vaccines and production at the Merseyside factory. 

A spokeswoman for the Department of Health said: 'The MCA would not have
allowed vaccines to be produced at this factory unless it was sure it was
safe.' 

The troubled Speke plant has changed hands twice over the past year. When
the problems were first identified by the FDA, it was owned by Medeva
Pharma, which was bought by Celltech in January. Just last month, the
vaccine business was sold on to Oxford-based Powderject and is now called
Evans Vaccines. 

A spokesman for Powderject said the company had first looked at buying the
business last year, but pulled out after reading the FDA report. After
receiving reassurances that the problems had been resolved it went ahead
with the purchase: £56 million has been spent on improvements and the
management team has been changed, although a number of senior personnel
remain with the firm. 

The FDA confirmed that it had not reinspected the plant since its October
warning letter, but was satisfied that problems were now being dealt with.
It has authorised the import of the flu vaccine this year. 

A spokeswoman said: 'The FDA would not allow this vaccine to enter the
country if it was not safe.' 

Subject:           [AVN] A soldier's tale: Military misdiagnosis
     Date:           Tue, 02 Dec 2003 16:52:44 +0000
    From:           Sheri Nakken <vaccineinfo@tesco.net>
 Reply-To:          AVN@yahoogroups.com
       To:           Sheri Nakken <vaccineinfo@tesco.net>

Vaccines could be the source......
 

http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,23055,00.html
Vaccine Recalled over BSE fears (Mad Cow Disease)

This could potentially be the tip of an iceberg. Read the next story ('Mad
Cow'-type disease risk may be higher outside UK). Could bovine blood
products in US and European vaccines be introducing Mad Cow
disease into the population? If so, then vaccine programs and vaccine
manufacturers are in big trouble. (or actually WE are in big trouble - they
really seem to be teflon-coated)

Reminds me of how SV40 was introduced
into the population through Polio vaccines.

http://www.reutershealth.com/archive/2000/10/19/eline/links/20001019elin035.html     
'Mad Cow'-type disease risk may be higher outside UK

SV40 info
http://www.ccid.org/stealth/svintro.htm
http://www.ccid.org/safety.htm#
http://www.TheAtlantic.com/issues/2000/02/002bookchin.htm
The Virus and the Vaccine': Atlantic Monthly - February, 2000 Friday,
January 28, 2000

BSE info

Children 'face BSE risk from infected jabs'
Daily Express March 30, 2000
"MILLIONS of children could have been put at risk from vaccinations made
from potentially infected material taken from cattle at the height of the
"mad 
cow" scare. The Express has been told some pharmaceutical companies
continued to use UK 
sourced bovine material to make vaccinations even after others had obtained
alternative material from abroad."

http://www.fda.gov/cber/ltr/bse041900.htm
FDA Recommendations regarding biologicals and BSE.
Note: the only country where BSE has not been noted is New Zealand.

British Government warning of vaccines and other biologicals made from
infected cows:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/et?ac=000884107622286&rtmo=au5JKdqJ&atmo=ttttttyd&pg=/et/98/12/15/nbse15.html
 

Note: BSE equivalents (prions) are crossing animal species barriers,
spreading from sheep, cows, deer, elk, horses, etc. (and zoo animals), and
now humans.
http://www.hugo-international.org/users/dcurtis/lectures/bsecjd1.html
 

http://www.healthscout.com/cgi-bin/WebObjects/Af?ap=55&id=99479
Human Mad Cow Cases on the Rise 
Experts in Britain examining increase, especially among the young 

BSE Sets Agenda for Imported Gelatin 

THE FALLOUT from "mad cow disease" continues, although incidence of the
disease itself has been decreasing steadily since January 1993
(JAMA.1996;276;438-440). "The latest worry is a renewal of the
uncertainties surrounding the risk of human exposure to the agent or agents
of spongiform encephalopathy in gelatin, which is manufactured from the
bones and hides of cows and pigs"(JAMA. 1997;277:1659-1660) 

Fears of mad cow disease spreading

http://www.abc.net.au/news/science/health/2000/09/item20000915181609_1.htm
State and federal health officials are holding an urgent meeting following
the release of scientiic evidence suggesting mad cow disease might be able
to be spread through blood transfusions.

Concerned citizens on transmissable BSE and Petition Requesting Immediate
Action by the Food & Drug Administration to Combat Transmissible Spongiform
Encephalopathies :
http://www.cyber-dyne.com/~tom/jan99_petition.html#CDC

Blood ban to hit supplies
http://news.com.au/0,4780,1210481%255E421,00.html
By John Kerin and AAP 18sep00
http://www.jhu-prion.org/index.shtml
 

Other:
http://mad-cow.org/~tom/blood_cjd.html
http://www.nccn.net/~wwithin/bse.htm
http://www.purefood.org/cjd6.18.html
http://www.zetatalk3.com/food/tfood28n.htm

SV40/polio vaccine
http://www.nccn.net/~wwithin/polio.htm
 

At 05:55 PM 12/01/2003 -0500, you wrote:
>http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/news/nation/7386671.htm
>
>Posted on Mon, Dec. 01, 2003
>
>A soldier's tale: Military misdiagnosis
>BY NANCY BARR CANSON
>The Dallas Morning News
>
>KARNACK, Texas - (KRT) - Staff Sgt. James Alford can't talk. He doesn't
>recognize his wife. His head shakes, his hands tremble.
>
>He is agitated, restless, diapered and helpless, requiring round-the-clock
>care from his family. Unable to coordinate his fingers and hands, the former
>marathon runner can still walk, with assistance, and his daily ritual is to
>unsteadily "walk the floor," as his wife, Army Spec. Amber Alford, describes
>it.
>
>In April, the Green Beret and Bronze Star recipient was sent home from Iraq
>by the Army. But it wasn't because he badly needed medical care.
>
>"They sent him home to be court-martialed," said his mother, Gail Alford, a
>former Army nurse. "They wanted to strip him of his special forces tab. They
>wanted him out of the Army."
>
>Army officials say they did not realize the 24-year-old soldier's
>increasingly erratic behavior was an early symptom of the
>difficult-to-diagnose Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease. CJD is a fatal,
>degenerative brain disorder that attacks the human brain in the same way
>that "mad cow" disease attacks cattle.
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