Pandemic flu preparedness and the
China connection
We received a special visit
from A. True Ott, PhD, ND on July 18. “I have a
very important scoop for you,” he said. Then he
described in detail a compelling scenario that
left us with a curious dilemma: Do we report our
belief that what Dr. True Ott said was true—that
something monstrous associated with the 2008
Olympics in Beijing is being planned—or wait
until we are absolutely certain. But
responsibility outweighs uncertainty because
time, as you will see, is of the essence: If we
wait until we are certain, it will be too late.
When you put all of this together, it feels like
the stage has been set for the 2008 Olympic
Games in Beijing to kick off a global influenza
pandemic with a bioengineered blend of the
“recreated” H7N3 (“Spanish”) flu and the H5N1
(“avian”) flu virus via millions of doses of
vaccines that have been cultured in Chinese
human kidney tissue.
By Ingri Cassel
Health Departments nationwide are preparing for
an influenza pandemic that is anticipated to be
at least as bad as the 1918 influenza pandemic.
The widely-anticipated threat is the H5N1 avian
virus. However, it has been shown that this
particular virus does not have the potential to
trigger a worldwide pandemic since there have
only been 383 cases of avian flu in humans and
241 deaths, primarily in southeast Asia, since
2003. A push to create, test and manufacture
millions of doses of an avian flu vaccine in
preparation for an H5N1 pandemic has no
justification to date.
Health officials are now talking about the H7N3
virus that is the alleged virus responsible for
the 1918 flu pandemic. Will this virus also be
incorporated into the new flu vaccines currently
being stockpiled?
Some researchers suspect that both strains are
being utilized in the creation of millions of
doses of avian flu vaccine. Since the avian flu
vaccine is being produced through a government
contract which includes a clause that the
vaccine cannot be sold on the market,
availability of a package insert revealing the
culture medium, additional viral strains and a
list of preservatives and adjuvants is not
accessible to the public at this time.
In order to prepare for such a pandemic, Health
and Human Services Secretary Mike Leavitt has
awarded contracts for developing and producing
an avian flu vaccine for the U.S. pandemic
stockpile to French pharmaceutical company
Sanofi Pasteur.
An April 28, 2008 press release stated, “Sanofi
Pasteur, the vaccines division of Sanofi-Aventis
Group, announced today that the U.S. Department
of Health and Human Services (HHS) has accepted
H5N1 bulk vaccine antigen to produce
approximately 38.5 million doses of vaccine to
protect against a new strain of avian influenza.
Sanofi Pasteur has a multi-year contract with
HHS as part of its pandemic program, and will
receive a payment of $192.5 million booked in
the second quarter of 2008 for acceptance of the
bulk vaccine lot. In 2007, Sanofi Pasteur
received $126.9 million for its bulk pandemic
vaccine.”
It was reported that 500,000 plastic coffins are
being stored in Georgia near the Atlanta
International Airport—a clue that health
officials are not just “anticipating” a flu
pandemic but are planning for it.
State Preparedness Influenza Response Exercises
(SPIRE) have been conducted in earnest in all 50
states from 2006 to the present with a recent
sense of urgency confirming suspicions that an
outbreak is imminent. An article by A. True Ott,
PhD, a naturopathic physician with a doctorate
in nutrition, has connected the dots on how a
global flu pandemic is most likely to get jump
started in the very near future. Dr. True Ott
reminds his readers that Prescott Bush was
heavily invested in the World War II era
pharmaceutical giant I.G. Farben that is now the
Sanofi Aventis Group, with their vaccine
division being Sanofi Pasteur. Mike Leavitt was
appointed to the position of Secretary of HHS by
George W. Bush and both of them have stated
that, should a flu pandemic occur, 100 to 200
million Americans will die.
Coincidentally, China’s former defense minister
Chi Haotian gave a chilling speech to his
military leaders in February, 2005, revealing
that the Chinese have been developing
non-destructive biological weapons for the
elimination of 100 to 200 million Americans.1
Through Project BioShield and President Bush’s
amended Executive Order 13295, Bush, Leavitt and
DoD Secretary Robert Gates can declare medical
martial law requiring Americans to either be
forcibly vaccinated or be quarantined and/or
imprisoned, with no legal recourse should the
vaccine or drug cause disability or death (See
“HHS/CDC preparing the next flu pandemic,”
The Idaho Observer, August 2005).
On April 17, 2007, the Food and Drug
Administration (FDA) issued an approval letter
to Sanofi Pasteur authorizing them exclusive
rights to produce an avian-flu specific vaccine.2
An “In-Pharma Newsletter” dated November
26, 2007, contained an article that stated,
“Sanofi-Aventis is to build a new influenza
vaccine manufacturing facility in China. An
agreement was signed between Chinese Authorities
and Sanofi-Aventis which would allow the
building of Sanofi Pasteur vaccine facility in
Shenzhen...The plant would be built with the aim
of providing a source of influenza vaccines for
the local American population, which could be
revved up to produce pandemic influenza vaccine
in China in the event of a human influenza
pandemic...Sanofi Pasteur already operates a
facility in Shenzhen.”3
At the online encyclopedia Wikipedia.com,
the information under “pharmaceutical industry
in China” reveals that the pharmaceutical
industry is THE leading industry in China. While
20 percent of the world’s population lives in
China, their consumption of pharmaceutical drugs
is only 1.5 percent.
As of 2007, China has around 3,000 to 6,000
domestic pharmaceutical manufacturers and around
14,000 domestic pharmaceutical distributors. “In
recent years, more and more western
pharmaceutical corporations, such as GSK, Roche,
Novo Nordisk and others have come to China and
set up R&D centers. Many world leading
pharmaceutical companies have established joint
venture manufactories in China. As of 2004,
amongst the largest 500 overseas enterprises, 14
of them are pharmaceutical companies.
“As of 2004 (three years after China’s WTO
entry), nearly all global pharmaceutical
companies have already completed their accession
into the Chinese market and will gradually shift
their focus to research development. The main
reasons for overseas companies coming to China
have been to save costs by using the extensive
science and technology research bases currently
in place in China, the abundant human resources,
and less expensive medical and clinical trials.”
Dr. True Ott reminds his readers that “mutations
of the traditional influenza virus cannot
naturally become deadly virulent. It takes
laboratory assistance and the addition of toxic
adjuvants in a prepared vaccine to accomplish
this task. In short, the only way for a
‘pandemic’ to occur is if it is pre-planned and
lab-induced as a biological weapon.”
Well-prerserved specimens of the 1918 Spanish
flu were found in Alaska and Longyearbyen,
Norway, beginning in 1997. It took a team led by
Army Institute of Pathology researcher Dr.
Jeffrey Taubenberger until 2005 to “recreate”
the Spanish flu virus. Taubenberger has shown
that the recreated virus is “extremely
effective,” killing healthy lab mice within six
days.
Several references to the 1918 Spanish flu
pandemic, which began at Fort Riley, Kansas,
state that an avian virus mutated, jumped into
pigs then into humans to become most lethal
among those between the ages of 15-35 years of
age. Dr. True Ott believes the H7N3 flu virus
was bioengineered, then a test vaccine was
developed and administered to Fort Riley
soldiers who were then packed on a ship and sent
to Spain for training. In Spain the soldiers
were exposed to chemical weapons, deployed, got
sick and died while spreading the illness.
Estimates on how many people died during the
1918 pandemic range from 20 million to 100
million worldwide. The new H7N3 along with H5N1
have been bioengineered and are being cultured
in human kidney tissue in China.
The perfect opportunity to jump start the
pandemic is at the 2008 Olympic Games in
Beijing. American and Canadian athletes could
come home “infected” to all areas of both
countries. The Opening Ceremony for the Olympics
is scheduled for August 8, 2008 at 8:08 p.m.
The number eight is very symbolic and sacred to
the Chinese people. Five sequential eights in
Chinese numerology equals the pinnacle of
destiny. With this in mind, what better way to
emerge triumphant as the new world super power
than to open the Olympic Games before the entire
world at this auspicious time (08-08-08, at
08:08 p.m.)?
Since many of you do not have access to the
Internet, we will close this article with the
highlights of Chi Hoatian’s speech as summarized
by John Derbyshire on The National Review
website: Sino-Fascism:
“A reader has asked me to comment on the rather
alarming document reproduced on August 8, 2005
in Epoch Times. It purports to be the
transcript of a speech given, presumably to
high-level Party cadres, by old Party warhorse
(and China’s SecDef until the 2003 musical
chairs) Chi Haotian (pronounced “Chrr How
Tee-en”) early last year [2005]. Some samples:
* ‘Hitler was “too soft.’
* ‘Our ancestors left us with the two most
essential heritages, which are atheism and great
unity.’
* ‘If we let all Chinese people listen to God
and follow God, who will obediently listen to us
[i.e. the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)] and
follow us?’
* ‘But the term “living space” (lebensraum) is
too closely related to Nazi Germany. The reason
we don’t want to discuss this too openly is to
avoid the West’s association of us with Nazi
Germany, which could in turn reinforce the view
that China is a threat. Therefore...“living,”
but not “space”...Western countries established
colonies all around the world, therefore giving
themselves an advantage on the issue of living
space. To solve this problem, we must lead the
Chinese people outside of China, so that they
could develop outside of China.’
* ‘Whether we [i.e. the CCP] can forever
represent the Chinese people depends on whether
we can succeed in leading the Chinese people out
of China.’
* ‘Our economic development is all about
preparing for the need of war! Publicly we still
emphasize economic development as our center,
but in reality, economic development has war as
its center!’
* ‘Comrade Mao Zedong taught us that we must
have a resolute and correct political
orientation. What is our key, correct
orientation? It is to solve the issue of
America.’
• ‘Only countries like the United States, Canada
and Australia have the vast land to serve our
need for mass colonization.’
• ‘In the long run, the relationship of China
and the United States is one of a life-and-death
struggle.’
• ‘We must put up with America; we must conceal
our ultimate goals, hide our capabilities and
await the opportunity.’
• ‘In the past years we have seized the
opportunity to master weapons of this kind [i.e.
biological]. We are capable of achieving our
purpose of “cleaning up” America all of a
sudden. When Comrade Xiaoping was still with us,
the Party Central Committee had the perspicacity
to make the right decision not to develop
aircraft carrier groups and focus instead on
developing lethal weapons that can eliminate
mass populations of the enemy country.’
* ‘This yellow land [i.e. China] has reached the
limit of its capacity.’
• ‘Here some people may want to ask me: “What
about the several millions of our compatriots in
the United States?”’
‘They may ask: “Aren’t we against Chinese
killing other Chinese?”’
‘These comrades are too pedantic; they are not
pragmatic enough. If we had insisted on the
principle that the Chinese should not kill other
Chinese, would we have liberated China?’1
It should be highlighted that the HHS pandemic
plan requires all first responders to be
inoculated with the experimental vaccine first.
Remember the lessons from Katrina: When the bulk
of our military is overseas and there is a
domestic emergency, mercenaries such as
Blackwater will be hired to enforce martial law.
Dr. True Ott is to be commended for raising the
alarm on this important and developing story.
For a more detailed analysis of this looming
threat, Dr. True Ott has produced a Powerpoint
presentation available on DVD that is available
by emailing him directly at atrueott@msn.com
1.
English
translation of speech by Mr. Chi Haotian,
Minster of Defense and vice-chairman of China’s
Central Military Commission.
http://en.epochtimes.com/news/5-8-8/31055.html
2.
FDA approval letter
www.fda.gov/cber/approvltr/h5n1san041707L.htm
3.
Nov. 26, 2007 InPharma Newsletter
www.in-pharmatechnologist.com/news/ng.asp?n=81626-sanofi-aventis-sanofi-pasteur-influenza-vaccines-pandemic-influenza-china
Timeline for the perfect
pandemic storm
Dr. True Ott (see previous page) also
contacted Dr. Rima Laibow and explained his
Beijing Olympics influenza pandemic “scoop” to
her. She, too, was seized with the urgency of
the moment and put together a detailed timeline
of events that supports Dr. True Ott’s “perfect
pandemic storm” theory for the 2008 Olympic
Games—which is only a few weeks away. Below is
an excerpted and edited version of Dr. Laibow’s
timeline.
By Dr. Rima Laibow
Let’s start with the basics: H5N1 [“avian
flu”] is a benign, commonplace virus that most
birds carry with no harm to themselves or
humans. Humans also have viruses we have no
problem with; these viral companions keep our
immune systems healthy and humming. Only under
the stimulus of novel and dangerous toxins which
your body has no way to get rid of (detoxify)
and stress which overwhelms your coping
capacity, does an innocuous virus mutate and
become something that can make you sick or kill
you.
All human cases of H5N1 have occurred in areas
of sick birds in large concentrations such as
factory farms where handlers come into contact
with stressed and sick birds in toxic
surroundings where toxic residues are
concentrated at high levels.
For example, in Vietnam, where thousands of
gallons of Monsanto chemicals such as Agent
Orange were dumped in huge amounts during the
Vietnam war, outbreaks of avian flu are not
uncommon. These outbreaks occurred in highly
toxic environments, where crowded, sick factory
farm chickens have been inoculated [supposedly]
against Avian Flu.
It will also become deadly, of course, when labs
are employed to alter it so that it becomes an
efficient weapon of mass destruction. The U.S.
has had a program to accomplish exactly that for
over a century now.
Our best intelligence estimate is that
pandemic-capable avian flu already exists. It
appears to have been turned into a massive viral
threat through bioengineering by the U.S.,
fusing the deadly genome of the 1918 “Spanish”
flu pandemic with the DNA of the H5N1 virus in a
growth medium of human kidney cells to make sure
that the virus recognizes human cells and knows
how to invade them.
The 1918 flu
pandemic rides again
The genome of the 1918 pandemic so-called
“Spanish flu” was recently intentionally
resurrected. Because of that resurrection, the
avian flu and its vaccine are now a U.S.
government-instigated threat to human life.
The flu of 1918 was created in the U.S. through
an early bioweapons program and injected into
healthy young men as the first mandatory
vaccination in the military during WWI. The
“Spanish flu,” which originated in Kansas on
U.S. Military bases, killed a an estimated 50
million people worldwide. It was one of the
deadliest pandemics in modern history. It was
also one of the most successful biological
weapons ever created.
Time Line To
Disaster
April 6,
1917
• U.S. declares war on Austria-Hungary,
Bulgaria, Germany and the Ottoman Empire.
• America swings into full production of war
material.
• American men are drafted into military service
and deployed for training in Spain.
• ALL NEW RECRUITS ARE GIVEN MANDATORY
VACCINATIONS—including a “broad-spectrum” live
virus influenza vaccination.
• Rockefeller makes millions in vaccine sales
while consolidating Standard Oil contracts
worldwide.
• The first British soldiers committed to World
War I are deployed to Iraq to protect American
oil interests there.
• Following mass vaccine injections, U.S.
soldiers are crowded into troop ships and sent
to “train” in Spain. Seasick and stressed,
soldiers aged 18-34 exhibit influenza symptoms
on the voyage.
• Immediately after arriving in Spain, U.S.
soldiers are “trained,” that is, exposed to the
various forms of gas they will experience in the
trenches in France
• Exposure to these highly toxic gasses causes
the live-virus influenza organisms to mutate
into an extremely lethal and highly communicable
form of virus.
• Millions of young, healthy men and women aged
18-34 die worldwide as a result of vaccinations
combined with novel and highly toxic chemicals.
November 11,
1918
• Armastice with Germany and its Allies
• Following the end of “The Great War,” the
heads of the various multi-national banks met at
San Remo, Italy, in 1924 to assess war
reparations for Germany.
• John D. Rockefeller and the Rothschilds have
consolidated and vastly increased their wealth
through actively funding both sides of the war.
March 28,
1924
• Rockefeller forms a French oil conglomerate
calling it “Total,” the “French Company of
Petroleums” aka CFP.
• TOTAL is awarded a controlling interest via
Deutsche Bank’s stock in the Turkish Petroleum
Company in Baghdad which was eventually renamed
the “Iraq Petroleum Company.”
• The Iraq Petroleum Company was confiscated and
nationalized by Saddam Hussein in 1990.
• TOTAL, Inc., is a true multi-national
mega-corporation operating in more than 130
countries and has over 110,000 employees.
Here’s the Play: Oil to Drugs to Death
One of TOTAL’s prime, wholly-owned subsidiaries
is the pharmaceutical giant Sanofi-Aventis and
its vaccine division, Sanofi-Pasteur. Sanofi-Pasteur
is the world’s leader in the development and
testing of experimental vaccines, manufactured
primarily in China.
On March 23, 2005, the National Institutes of
Health (NIH), through the National Institute of
Allergy and Infectious Disease (NIAID),
announced trials for testing Sanofi Pasteur’s
experimental avian flu vaccine on 450 adults in
three U.S. cities.
Bear in mind that most influenza strains and
their hosts adapt to each other after roughly
two years, so that the same strain of flu no
longer causes symptoms. But once a strain has
been weaponized, there is little reason to think
it will revert as natural strains do. The
vaccine-initiated strain will go on killing and
killing and killing. Or is the correct word
“culling?”
To date, there have only been around 385 human
cases of avian flu “identified,” with only 243
deaths. To put the absurdity of this effort into
perspective, Sudden Cardiac Death (SCD), which
researchers have shown is associated with
aspartame consumption, is a leading cause of
death. According to the CDC, SCD killed 460,000
Americans in 1999 and the numbers keep rising
annually. But aspartame is not under the gun.
Instead, avian flu is. To quote Dr. Ott, “There
are 6.7 billion humans on planet earth. This
equates to a statistical infection rate of
.000000004215 percent. In other words,
statistically speaking, you are over 100,000
times more likely to be hit by lightning in your
home than to contract the bird flu.”
Given the shockingly obvious lack of a real
threat from an unweaponized H5N1 virus, how can
we explain the Bush administration spending
billions of dollars preparing each of the 50
States for what it drums into us as the
“inevitable bird flu pandemic” anticipated to
kill half or more of all Americans and similar
numbers of people around the globe?
March 1997
• Zero confirmed “H5N1” human cases exist
anywhere in the world
• The U.S. Armed Forces Institute of Pathology,
Ft. Detrick, Rockville, Maryland, the U.S.
research center for biological weaponry,
commissions Dr. Jeffery Taubenberger to lead a
research team to ISOLATE the genetic code of the
most lethal pathogen in history—the 1918
“Spanish” flu virus [H3N7].
Aug. 24,
1997
• Brevig, Alaska. Research Team member Johan
Hultin sends well-preserved 1918 flu virus
specimens (from a frozen body killed by the 1918
flu) to Dr. Taubenberger’s lab in Maryland
• Days later, Taubenberger detects the genetic
fragments for which he has been searching.
• The 1918 virus’ RNA-based gene fragments are
analyzed by computer sequencing in order to
reveal its complete genetic code. Even with a
super-computer, this code sequencing will take
years to complete.
October,
2003
• Taubenberger’s team finally deciphers the
deadly 1918 flu virus’ entire genetic
code—completing a 6-year project.
• Taubenberger’s colleague, R.G. Webster,
publishes article in American Scientist
magazine declaring: “The world is teetering on
the edge of a flu pandemic that could kill a
large fraction of the human population”.
October,
2004
• Dmtry Lvov, head of the Russian Virology
Institute, declares that up to one billion
people around the world could die during the
next pandemic.
June, 2005
• At Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York,
Taubenberger, Peter Palese and Adolfo Garcia-Sastro
create plasmids, or DNA rings, from the 1918
killer virus, permanently “stabilizing” its
genetic material for use as a biological weapon.
• This is the final step in revitalizing the
deadly pathogen but the press is told it will
only be used as a “vaccination tool”—even
though the disease is currently non-existent.
August, 2005
• Taugenberger’s team inserts plasmids into
human kidney cells which then transfers human
DNA into the virus making it “human specific.”
• The 1918 virus is now ready for use as a
bio-weapon in a pandemic flu vaccine.
September 9,
2005
• The UN in New York City issues a world-wide
press release introducing David Nabarro as the
“UN System Senior Coordinator for Avian, Human
Influenza.”
September
29, 2005
• Nabarro issues an “Official U.N. Warning” that
“an outbreak of ‘avian influenza’ would kill
between 5 million and 150 million people on each
continent.”
October,
2005
• Pres. Bush’s newly appointed secretary of
Health and Human Services, former Utah Governor
Mike Leavitt, intensifies $multi-billion
pandemic bird flu preparations.
December,
2005
• Bush solicits Congress for $7.1 Billion to
fund “preparations” - $3.3 billion is
immediately allocated to Leavitt’s HHS.
January 24,
2006
• Department of Homeland Security awards KBR, a
Halliburton subsidiary, a $385 million contract
for U.S. detention centers.
January,
2006
• Leavitt launches website:
www.pandemicflu.gov
• China hosts the “International Pledging
Conference on Avian and Human Influenza” in
Beijing and is promised massive sums of money
from the west; Leavitt alone commits $334
million in U.S. funds to aid China’s research
into “vaccine development.”
• Leavitt has a long history of fostering
Chinese trade activities as Utah’s governor.
March 2006
• Breaking new ground, Leavitt’s HHS allocates
funds to a private television network to produce
a “made-for-TV” movie about the “bird flu.”
• Leavitt declares on HHS website (exactly as
John D. Rockefeller declared in 1916): “The best
defense against influenza is VACCINATION.”
• Leavitt further declares: “The current U.S.
capacity for manufacturing egg-based vaccines is
not sufficient to supply our entire population.
HHS is supporting research into [human kidney]
cell-based vaccine manufacture of producing
vaccine domestically
April, 2006
• HHS announces a $97 million contract for the
development of cell-based flu vaccine.
• Leavitt declares: “The FDA can use its
Emergency Use Authorization authority to permit
the use of unapproved products if there’s a
reasonable belief the products may be
effective.”
• Thirty-two states pass laws which make
resisting inoculation once ordered by the
governor a felony.
• These laws join Patriot Acts I, II, BARDA,
BIOSHIELD I, II in making drug treatment and
inoculation mandatory once a Pandemic is
announced.
• Unlimited quarantine without review is
mandated under these laws for those who resist
inoculation under Pandemic conditions.
• Fully staffed, empty detention centers exist
all over North America. The largest, in Alaska,
is rumored to have a 2.5 million person
capacity.
April 17,
2007
• The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) branch
of HHS utilizes its Emergency Use Authorization
authority and awards a license to produce H5N1
“bird flu” vaccines to Sanofi-Pasteur.
Nov. 26,
2007
• Leavitt’s HHS orders 100 million H5N1
“vaccines [doses]” from Sanofi-Pasteur.
Expected delivery date, August, 2008.
• Sanofi-Pasteur issues a press release
announcing their lucrative HHS contract (100
million vaccines at $15 USD each) and declares
that the cell-based vaccine will be mass
produced in the company’s CHINA facility - then
shipped to Stillwater, PA for hypodermic
syringe-friendly packaging.
• Approval and contract have all been
consummated in the absence of official human
testing.
January,
2008
• Covert “human trials” of Sanofi-Pasteur’s H5N1
vaccine is conducted on 350 homeless vagrants in
Poland.
• According to London Telegraph and
Examiner articles, this results in 21 “instant”
deaths and over 200 severely incapacitated or
hospitalized. Development and sales of H5N1
vaccine continues.
February 14,
2008
• U.S. Air Force Gen. Gene Renuart, commander of
North American Aerospace Defense Command and
U.S. Northern Command, and Canadian Air Force
Lt.-Gen. Marc Dumais, commander of Canada
Command, sign a Civil Assistance Plan that
allows the military from one nation to support
the armed forces of the other nation during a
civil emergency. ·”Our commands were created by
our respective governments to respond to the
defense and security challenges of the
twenty-first century, and we both realize that
these and other challenges are best met through
cooperation between friends.... The plan
facilitates the military-to-military support of
civil authorities once government authorities
have agreed on an appropriate response.”
• Avian Flu response is part of NorthCom’s
mission, and appears to be the primary element
in its mission. See www.northcom.mil/Avian%20Flu/index.html
June 17,
2008
• Dr. David Nabarro, UN Influenza Coordinator,
welcomes a donation of 60 million doses of H5N1
avian flu vaccine by Sanofi-Pasteur.
• This adds to the stockpile of a previous
donation of 30 million doses by GlaxoSmithKline.
Dr. Nabarro said that good progress had been
made but avian flu could still kill as many
as150 million people.
• Avian Flu still entrenched in Viet Nam,
Bangladesh, India and Egypt says Dr. Nabarro.
• Outbreaks recorded in 60 more countries
according to U.S. Influenza Coordinator.
For the full-length version of this timeline,
go to
www.GlobalHealthFreedom.org
Of homeless and
lab rats
JULY 2, 2008—Three Polish
doctors and six nurses are facing criminal
prosecution after a number of homeless people
died following medical trials for a vaccine to
the H5N1 bird-flu virus. The medical staff, from
the northern town of Grudziadz, are being
investigated over medical trials on as many as
350 homeless and poor people last year, which
prosecutors say involved an untried vaccine to
the highly-contagious virus.
Authorities claim that the
alleged victims received 1-2 British pounds to
be tested with what they thought was a
conventional flu vaccine but, according to
investigators, was actually an anti bird-flu
drug.
The director of a Grudziadz
homeless centre, Mieczyslaw Waclawski, told a
Polish newspaper that, last year, 21 people from
his centre died, a figure well above the average
of about eight.
~London Telegraph
Drug contamination
scandal shows FDA answers to China, not U.S.
Congress
During the first week of May, 2008, the U.S.
Food and Drug Administration (FDA) refused to
disclose to Congress the names of Chinese drug
companies in the supply chain that provided the
tainted heparin which has reportedly killed 81
Americans. “The net effect is that the FDA is
intentionally acting to cover up China’s crimes
against Americans—a new twist that should alarm
any American who takes any medication for any
reason (since many ingredients in brand drugs
are now being made in China),” commented FDA
whistleblower and author Byron Richards.
“The FDA’s working hypothesis is that this was
intentional contamination, but this is not yet
proven,” The New York Times quoted FDA Drug
Center Director Judy Woodcock as stating April
30, 2008.
The heparin in question, manufactured and
distributed by Baxter International (of
Deerfield, IL and Guangzhou, China), was
contaminated with “oversulfated condroitin
sulfate” supplied by Scientific Protein
Laboratories (SPL) of Waunakee, WI and Changzhou,
China. SPL CEO David G. Strunce described the
contamination as, “an insidious act” that “seems
to use an intentional act upstream in the supply
chain.”
FDA inspectors went to China and inspected the
main company that provided the tainted heparin
to SPL, a company with less than clean
operations. When the FDA wanted to inspect two
of the companies that provided raw materials to
this company the Chinese government denied them
access. The FDA refuses to provide Congress
with the names of these companies. The Chinese
government, at least in this instance, has more
authority over the FDA than the U.S. Congress.