The pro-vaccination community perhaps should be proud of all the good work that they do.
Mary Lynn Rev. Mary Lynn Schmidt, Ordained Minister ONE SPIRIT ONE HEART TTouch . Reiki . Pet Loss Grief Counseling . Animal Behavior Modification . Shamanic Spiritual Travel . Behavior Problems . Psionic Energy Practitioner . Radionics . Herbs . Dowsing . Nutrition . Homeopathy . Polarity . The Animal Connection Healing Modalities http://members.tripod.com/~MLSchmidt/ http://allcreatureconnections.org > National Vaccine Information Center Newsletter > > e-NEWS > October 26, 2006 > > >"They say almost all the cases have been reported from areas where >sanitation is an issue and most of the children belong to poor families >unable to give them a nutritious diet. In the developed countries, a child >needs three doses for immunisation. But in India, a child may need up to 10 >doses, they say. Officials have confirmed that one child in Delhi has >contracted the virus despite veing given nine shots of the vaccine." - >Geeta Pandey, BBC News, Delhi > > >Barbara Loe Fisher Commentary: > > It is painful to watch doctors and public health officials squirt >unlimited amounts of live oral polio vaccine down the throats of babies in >India rather than address the poor nutrition and sanitation that comes with >poverty, the true cause of most disease. With a religious zeal not seen >since the Crusades, these public health officials bearing live polio >viruses capable of being causing vaccine strain polio and transmitting it >to others through the open sewage pits of poor communities in India, >apparently have no idea what they are doing. > >Have the relentless polio vaccine campaigns in India and other poor >countries put pressure on one or all of the three polio viruses contained >in the live oral polio vaccine to mutute into vaccine resistant forms? Have >the malnourished, poor children repeatedly exposed to live polio viruses >become immune compromised and more vulnerable to other diseases? These and >other questions are ignored as the vaccinators mindlessly conduct one polio >vaccine campaign after another, determined to eradicate a virus from the >earth using a live virus vaccine which gives the virus opportunity to >thrive. > > The people, like lambs led to slaughter, do not know how to stand up to >the officials in white coats. Some run. Others submit, afraid of >retribution. And the highly vaccinated children living in poverty without >enough to eat continue to get sicker and sicker. > >********** > Indian alarm at new polio cases >http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/6082970.stm > > BBC News, Delhi >26 October 2006 > >By Geeta Pandey > >Wednesday, 25 October 2006, 07:48 GMT 08:48 UK >E-mail this to a friend Printable version >Indian alarm at new polio cases >By Geeta Pandey >BBC News, Delhi > >Polio baby >A health worker in India gives polio drops to a baby >Officials in India say they are worried over the growing number of polio >cases in the country. > >They say 119 new cases have been reported in the past month, taking the >total number of infections to 416. > >The disease, which attacks children under five years, affects the nervous >system and can result in paralysis. > >With almost one-third of the total 1,449 cases in the world, India is seen >as a big stumbling block in the struggle against polio. > >Particularly dismal has been the case of the northern state of Uttar >Pradesh where 358 polio cases have been recorded. > >Spreading virus > >Earlier it was believed that the virus was confined to some pockets of >western Uttar Pradesh, but health ministry officials say now it has spread >to 41 of the 70 districts in the state. > >The neighbouring state of Bihar comes second with 28 infections. > >With new cases being reported from the capital, Delhi, and in the western >city of Mumbai, experts say the virus has now travelled out of the region >and is afflicting children in the whole of northern and western India. > >Officials blame it on people moving out of the worst-affected states to >other parts of the country. > >"It is the migrants who have taken it out of Bihar and Uttar Pradesh. All >the cases found in Delhi or Mumbai can be linked to the state as these >children had travelled there in the last few months," a spokesman for the >health ministry told the BBC. > >Experts say the spread of the virus is dependent on three factors - lack of >nutrition, environmental causes and poor hygiene and sanitation. > >Concerned > >They say almost all the cases have been reported from areas where >sanitation is an issue and most of the children belong to poor families >unable to give them a nutritious diet. > >In the developed countries, a child needs three doses for immunisation. But >in India, a child may need up to 10 doses, they say. > >Officials have confirmed that one child in Delhi has contracted the virus >despite being given nine shots of the vaccine. > >"We're still in the process of examining how that happened, but she may >have had diarrhoea at the time she was given the vaccine. In such a >situation, her body will expel the medicine and it will not have the >desired affect," says the health ministry spokesman. > >Last month, India's health minister held an emergency meeting of officials >from the states affected by the disease. > >Last year, only 66 cases of polio were recorded in India and officials say >the current numbers are giving them sleepless nights. > >A huge pulse polio campaign is being launched in November and officials say >they hope the virus will be contained soon. > >Although polio has no cure, it is easily preventable through vaccine. > >Before 1988, when the World Health Organisation (WHO) launched a global >anti-polio campaign, there were more than 350,000 cases worldwide. > >Today the disease has been eradicated in much of the world but is still >found in some countries. > >A strain of the disease, which originated in Uttar Pradesh state, has also >travelled to the neighbouring countries of Nepal and Bangladesh. > >It has also infected people in faraway African countries like Angola, >Namibia and Congo. > >India's failure to contain the virus has caused serious concern to the >World Health Organisation in Geneva. It has written to India's health >minister, seeking a meeting with him. > _______________________________________________ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/
