Dr Jenner's Incredible Smallpox Vaccine Experiment

Dr Edward Jenner (1749 - 1823) was the first medical researcher to perform controlled experiments on the protective efficacy of a preventive vaccine. He was, moreover, the first person to use human beings as research subjects in testing a vaccine. He did not do any preliminary laboratory research nor any preliminary animal studies before experimenting with human beings, his subjects were small children well below the age of consent, and he deliberately infected them with an extremely virulent, often fatal, disease-causing agent. (The 200th anniversary of Jenner's first smallpox vaccination experiment was May 14th, 1996.)


Jenner's experiments were of course performed well before the formulation of any statements of ethical principles for the protection of human research subjects, i.e., well before the Nuremberg Trials which condemned medical experiments on children. These trials following World War II resulted in the Nuremberg Code for the protection of research subjects, and later the World Health Organization's International Ethical Guidelines for Biomedical Research Involving Human Subjects, (1993).

Tolerance levels for the majority of pesticides on the market have been established based on adult eating habits, but risk assessments have failed to take into account the fact that children are exposed to pesticides from multiple sources. A growing body of evidence - from case reports and epidemiological studies - shows links between pesticide exposure and the development of adverse health effects:

* A 1992 National Cancer Institute review of two dozen epidemiological studies found pesticides to be one of five likely carcinogens explaining why farmers had elevated risks of several forms of cancer including Hodgkin's disease, multiple myeloma, leukemia, melanoma, and cancers of the lip.[4]
* According to the Office of Technology Assessment, [5] an estimated 4 to 9 percent of agricultural and other workers acutely poisoned by pesticides experience delayed persistent neurological and psychiatric effects including agitation, insomnia, weakness, nervousness, irritation, forgetfulness, confusion, and depression.
* In 1993 the National Academy of Sciences issued a report3 documenting the special vulnerability of children to pesticides, and that government standards for residues in food do not adequately protect children. Children's exposure to pesticides is greater than adults because of their distinctive diet and play activities.
* Based on experiments in laboratory animals, the EPA has identified at least 96 different pesticide ingredients registered for use that are potential human carcinogens.[6]
* The California Department of Pesticide Regulation[7] Of the sixty-three chemicals evaluated by the DPR, fifteen have tested positive for birth defects and twenty-two have tested positive for other reproductive effects in experimental studies.
* According to the National Research Council, [8] concern about children's exposure to pesticides is valid because "exposure to neurotoxic compounds at levels believed to be safe for adults could result in permanent loss of brain function if it occurred during the prenatal and early childhood period of brain development."

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New York's HIV experiment
By Jamie Doran
Reporter/producer, Guinea Pig Kids

HIV positive children and their loved ones have few rights if they choose to battle with social work authorities in New York City.

Incarnation Children's Center, Harlem
Jacklyn Hoerger worked at the Incarnation Children's Center

Jacklyn Hoerger's job was to treat children with HIV at a New York children's home.

But nobody had told her that the drugs she was administering were experimental and highly toxic.

"We were told that if they were vomiting, if they lost their ability to walk, if they were having diarrhoea, if they were dying, then all of this was because of their HIV infection."

In fact it was the drugs that were making the children ill and the children had been enrolled on the secret trials without their relatives' or guardians' knowledge.

As Jacklyn would later discover, those who tried to take the children off the drugs risked losing them into care.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/this_world/4038375.stm

ADULTS who were in care as children are claiming they were used as medical guinea pigs.

More than 1,000 people have applied to the Child Abuse Commission saying they were used in drug vaccine trials in childcare institutions over a period of almost 50 years.

In 2000, the Government asked the Commission to set up a separate division to probe the claims

The Government asked the Commission to establish the "circumstances, legality, conduct, ethical propriety and effects" of the trials.

They trials were undertaken to test the efficiency of vaccines, methods of admin-istering them and any side-effects.

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn41...14/ai_n12839782

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/6768799.stm

Many other children who were used in the controversial 1996 drug trial by US pharmaceutical giant Pfizer died.


Muhammadu Mustapha
The Americans and some local Nigerian doctors gave Anas this evil drug
Anas's father
Anas, then only three years old, was the first child to be given the experimental antibiotic Trovan at the Infectious Diseases Hospital, Kano, during the drug trial.

Pfizer tested the then unregistered drug in Nigeria's north-western Kano State during an outbreak of meningitis which had affected thousands of children.

Officials in Kano say more than 50 children died in the experiment, while many others developed mental and physical deformities.

But Pfizer says only 11 of the 200 children used in the drug trial died.

On a different angle, there's much talk here in the UK about the MMR vaccine and autism.

I can only speak as I find and my son, who now is profoundly autistic - can't speak a word and is still in nappies at 7, could respond and speak BEFORE his MMR and I have home video to prove this. We have him waving when asked to and clapping, calling his brother's name, singing and he had fantastic eye contact. He couldn't wave or clap if I asked him to now. He regressed quickly after the MMR but the medical response to this is that autism is a regressive condition in some cases. However, his consultant doesn't dismiss the MMR debate.

The debate about the MMR rages here in the UK.

This study provides three strong arguments against a causal relation between MMR vaccination and autism. First, the risk of autism was similar in vaccinated and unvaccinated children, in both age-adjusted and fully adjusted analyses. Second, there was no temporal clustering of cases of autism at any time after immunization. Third, neither autistic disorder nor other autistic-spectrum disorders were associated with MMR vaccination.

There is uncertainty about whether the prevalence of autism is increasing. 18 Our study is consistent with an increase in the incidence of autism in recent birth cohorts. This increase may be real or a reflection of other factors such as better recording arrangements in recent years, the increasing recognition of higher functioning children with autism and Asperger's syndrome, together with an increasing number of professionals trained to recognise the disorders. However, whether real or artifactual, the trend in increasing incidence with successive birth cohorts to 1992 was not related to the introduction of MMR vaccine or to vaccine coverage, which reached a plateau during a period in which autism incidence was apparently increasing.

Because the incidence of autism among 2 to 5 year olds increased markedly among boys born in each year separately from 1988 to 1993 while MMR vaccine coverage was over 95% for successive annual birth cohorts, the data provide evidence that no correlation exists between the prevalence of MMR vaccination and the rapid increase in the risk of autism over time. The explanation for the marked increase in risk of the diagnosis of autism in the past decade remains uncertain.

These data do not suggest an association between MMR immunization among young children and an increase in autism occurrence.

A report in this issue of the Journal (pages 1477–1482) provides an objective analysis of the rates of autism in relation to MMR-vaccination status in a well-defined population of more than half a million children in Denmark, about one fifth of whom had not received the MMR vaccine. This careful and convincing study shows that there is no association between autism and MMR vaccination. Other studies have also found no such association.

Unfortunately, objective data are not likely to put an end to the controversy. Strongly held beliefs are difficult to change. We live in an era in which the public does not have a high degree of trust in the vaccine manufacturers, the government, or the medical establishment. Consumers have become highly sensitive about safety, and their confidence has not been bolstered by recent recalls of approved drugs or by controversies such as that over mercury-containing preservatives in vaccines (thimerosal, which has now been removed). The large number of approved vaccines and the laws that require vaccination for school entry only increase the tension. Some anti-vaccine groups have received wide publicity, and they try to convince worried parents that avoiding vaccination is "playing it safe." Internet sites are filled with accusations about damage from the MMR vaccine and other vaccines. Some parents tell moving stories about their children who showed the first signs of autism in the months after vaccination. Such experiences have already led to congressional hearings. But however painful these stories may be, anecdotes are not proof. The association of autism with MMR vaccination appears to be only a predictable coincidence, since nearly 90 percent of children in this country receive the MMR vaccine at about 15 months of age.

Unsubstantiated accusations that a vaccine causes harm can have serious consequences. Some people begin to avoid vaccination, increasing the number at risk, particularly in communities where anti-vaccine activists are most successful. Once a vaccine has been tied repeatedly to even an unsupported claim of an adverse effect, costly legal action usually follows, even if the vaccine is eventually proved to be safe. The companies that produce vaccines come to associate vaccines with adverse economic effects for themselves, with little profit and huge liability. Effective vaccines may be withdrawn from the market. It becomes harder to run vaccination programs, including those in developing countries where the needs are greatest.

Those arguing against vaccination forget how bad the illnesses and their complications can be. They forget that in this country before the development of the measles vaccine, thousands of children had severe illness from measles, sometimes resulting in permanent disability. In 1960, 400 children died from measles. But the biggest tragedy is that outside of the developed countries, more than a million children still die from this disease each year. Those deaths are preventable by a measles vaccine that is cost effective and safe. Children everywhere deserve the protection that carefully developed, carefully monitored vaccines can provide against so much disease.

The thing is - and it's hard unless you've witnessed it - my son's regression was alarming after his MMR, I'm not scare mongering, but telling you what happened.

I don't need to get into the MMR debate here and I'm not going to, I've never told anyone not to give their children the MMR, if I'm asked I tell people our timeline of what happened which happens to be a fact. Though people who know William can see with their own eyes how he changed.

I also really believe that time will tell on this one.

http://health.org.nz/vacgen.html
THE ONLY WHOLLY SAFE VACCINE IS THE VACCINE THAT IS NEVER USED."
(Dr J. Shannon of the National Institute of Health, U.S.A., June 23 1955.)

"The first task of every carefully planned conspiracy is to convince the world that no conspiracy exists. That's why very few people know, or believe, that the chemo-medical combine, whose economic and political clout is comparable to that of the war industry, has long since placed special trained agents into the mass media, government, the judicial system, humane societies, liberal churches, unions and businesses. Through them the combine can control everything."
(Hans Ruesch, Bullet-in, Nr. 1.)

Almost sixty years later this obsession with profits from immunisation programmes rather than natural prevention is still evident:

"Before long 15-month-old infants will get nine different vaccines - All on one visit to the doctor."
(Democrat and Chronicle, New York, April 1987.)

"A dramatic leap in income from one quarter to the next proved the result when GPs in one Cheshire practice set up an immunisation clinic."

"We should be able to get 100 percent for rubella. We intend to contact people who don't turn up and find out the reason: whether they have had it done elsewhere or whether they just haven't bothered. Certain areas within Warrington can be difficult and we can get the health visitor to go round and follow up."
(Financial Pulse, October 10 1987.)

Meanwhile - on March 23 1987 the Wellington Evening Post, in an article by Dr Kenneth Warren, Director of Health Sciences at the Rockefeller Foundation promises "a volcanic eruption of vaccines within the next 15 years... even a vaccine against tooth decay"!

"Animal derived and 'safety-tested' vaccines are the greatest threat to human health the world has ever known, war, pestilence, famine, and pollution included. As immune strength declines due to other dangerous medical measures, faulty nutrition, old age etc, the ever-worsening epidemic of vaccine-induced cancer, leukaemia, lymphoma, birth defects, asthma, eczema, convulsions, personality changes, multiple sclerosis, AIDS, arthritis, cot-death etc... will eventually bring the health services to a halt."
(Patrick Rattigan of the CAMPAIGN TO END FRAUDULENT MEDICAL RESEARCH in the book Blood Poison.)

Rattigan goes on:-

"Although antibiotics, antipyretics, steroids, analgesics, x-rays, water fluoridation, cigarettes etc, can all claim credit for the out of control world-wide epidemic of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS)... nothing is in the same class as vaccination."

"Monster Experiment" taught orphans to stutter

The results of a covered up, 1939 children's experiment demonstrates why AHRP calls for greater caution and mandatory safeguards in research involving children--even non-invasive research studies may cause children harm for life.

The San Jose Mercury News (below) found evidence and victims of an unethical experiment that resulted in lifelong emotional suffering. Institutionalized orphans in Iowa were deliberately pressured psychologically to induce the children to stutter--some had stuttered, others spoke fluently before the experiment.

The experiment was designed and supervised by Dr. Wendell Johnson who became one of the nation's most prominent speech pathologists, and conducted under his supervision by a graduate student.

The Mercury News reports that during the war years, some of Johnson's graduate students were concerned about the ethics of the orphan study. They had begun calling it the "Monster Experiment'' or the "Monster Study.'' "They warned him that in the aftermath of World War II, observers might draw comparisons to Nazi experiments on human subjects, which could destroy his career."

Child medical experiments at the EPA
In October 2005, the American Chemistry Council gave the EPA $2.1 million to study how children ranging from infancy to three years old ingest, inhale or absorb chemicals. Like IG Farben was for the German pharmaceutical companies of Nazi Germany, the American Chemistry Council acts much like a front group for chemical industry bigwigs like Bayer (which was incidentally also a member of IG Farben), BP, Chevron, Dow, DuPont, Exxon, Honeywell, 3M, Monsanto and Procter & Gamble. Studies have already proven that the chemicals made by these companies have long-term effects on children and adults. A short, two-year study like CHEERS would of course fail to reveal these long-term effects and the American Chemistry Council could then publicize these findings as "proof" that its chemicals were safe.

This represents an ethical problem in itself, but the demographic of the proposed child test subjects worsen the issue, especially in light of the use of foster children (the majority of which were African-American and Hispanic) by both the New York City ACS and the Tuskegee Syphilis Study. http://www.newstarget.com/019192.html

http://www.newstarget.com/019187.html
(1992)
Columbia University's New York State Psychiatric Institute and the Mount Sinai School of Medicine give 100 males -- mostly African-American and Hispanic, all between the ages of six and 10 and all the younger brothers of juvenile delinquents -- 10 milligrams of fenfluramine (fen-fen) per kilogram of body weight in order to test the theory that low serotonin levels are linked to violent or aggressive behavior. Parents of the participants received $125 each, including a $25 Toys 'R' Us gift certificate (Goliszek).