Behind the Massive Vaccine Scandal in China: Don’t Think America Is Safe

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Behind the Massive Vaccine Scandal in China: Don’t Think America Is Safe


April 26, 2016
Jon Rappoport
No More Fake News


A vaccine scandal has erupted in China.

Time Magazine reports (“China Vaccine Scandal Prompts Angry Backlash From Parents and Doctors,” 3/22/2016):

“Furious parents and health care professionals in China are demanding to know how almost $90 million of improperly stored and potentially fatal vaccines were distributed across some two-thirds of the country over the past five years, in the latest public-health scandal to raise serious questions over the efficacy of the Chinese Communist Party’s rule.

“According to state media, a mother and daughter from eastern China’s Shandong province have been caught peddling 25 kinds of unrefrigerated vaccines — including for polio, mumps, rabies, hepatitis B, encephalitis and meningococcal diseases — to medical facilities across 24 Chinese provinces since 2010.

“Inflaming the public backlash, authorities had apparently known about the case since last April, though only publicized the news late Friday in a belated attempt to trace potential victims. Moreover, the elder suspect, a 47-year-old woman surnamed Pang, had apparently been convicted of the same offense in 2009 but only received a suspended sentence. State media admitted the compromised inoculations could have resulted in paralysis and even death.

“’Twenty-four provinces, five years already, and how many children! It’s been nearly a year and then they reveal this! Isn’t this genocide? Words cannot express how angry I am!’ posted one user of China’s Twitter-like microblog Weibo, reports the BBC.”

“’This is a matter of life and death,’” one Beijing-based doctor told Radio Free Asia. ‘They should make an announcement about this as soon as possible … so we can locate these items and cut off the supply, so no more people are harmed.’”

Just to show how panicked the vaccine establishment is about the current wave of public awakening—sparked in part by revelations in the movie Vaxxed (trailer)—major media can’t even keep their stories straight.

The NY Times, reporting on the China scandal, and relying on the World Health Organization (a PR front for the vaccine industry) takes an assuring tone (“China’s Vaccine Scandal Threatens Public Faith in Immunizations,” 4/18/2016):

“Despite such fears, the tainted vaccines are more likely to be ineffective than harmful…The World Health Organization has said that outdated or poorly stored vaccines rarely if ever trigger illness or toxic reactions. Chinese government investigators said last week that they had not found any cases of adverse reactions or spikes in infections linked to ineffective vaccines.”

Really.

Perhaps editors at the NY Times and the World Health Organization would like to prove their faith and confidence by taking shots in the arm of those spoiled vaccines.

Besides, here in America, nothing like that could happen.

Really?

Here are excerpts from a series of articles I wrote, in 2004, about the “Chiron disaster,” in which a British company shipped millions of tainted flu-vaccine doses to the US.

No one in the British or American regulatory system seemed to be overly concerned. Of course, no one really knew whether Chiron vaccines, once they were stored in US warehouses, had already gone out the door to doctors— or whether, in a parallel to the current China scandal, sales of those dangerous and illegal vaccines were being made in the US for profit.

Rather, the US authorities simply said the millions of doses stored here were “outside the legal chain of regulation.” The doses were in limbo. They belonged to Chiron—but even Chiron was not controlling them.

My 2004 excerpts follow. As you read on, notice how the US regulatory system failed, and how it can be failing in the same ways now, under our noses:

It turns out that a great deal of the Chiron flu vaccine that was banned and held under lock and key in England WAS ACTUALLY SHIPPED TO THE US, WHERE IT IS NOW SITTING IN DISTRIBUTORS’ WAREHOUSES.

http://www.thedailysheeple.com/behin...is-safe_042016

[Zippyjuan]

The FDA stopped shipments of the vaccine into the US once it was identified. The doses which had made it to the US were destroyed before any were distributed. http://www.cidrap.umn.edu/news-persp...-safe-fda-says

Oct 15, 2004 (CIDRAP News) – Federal health officials today ruled out using any of Chiron Corporation's influenza vaccine in the United States this year, following the completion of inspections at the company's plant in Liverpool, England.

Shipment of Chiron's 48 million doses of vaccine was halted last week when the British government shut down the plant because of concerns about contamination. US officials had held out little hope that any of the Chiron vaccine could be used, and today's announcement confirmed the bad news.

"Today we're announcing that none of the flu vaccine made by Chiron for the US market is safe," Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Acting Commissioner Lester Crawford said at a news briefing late this afternoon. The announcement confirms the disappearance of nearly half of the previously projected US supply of 100 million doses.

Crawford said FDA officials who finished inspecting Chiron's Liverpool plant this afternoon found violations of "good manufacturing practices." "We did enough testing to conclude that we couldn't guarantee the safety of any of the vaccine," he said. "The contamination appears to be from the filling of the vials; that has to be done in a sterile way, and we're not sure that was the case." He said the contamination involved the bacterial species Serratia marcescens.

About a million doses of Chiron vaccine that had already been shipped to the United States probably can't be used either, Crawford said. "Our inclination and intention here is to test and retest those lots and see if some of it can be used. We are not optimistic about that and in fact do not believe it can be used," he said.

The Chiron disaster has left Aventis Pasteur as the only supplier of injectable vaccine for the US market. Aventis has produced 55.4 million doses, about 33 million of which have already been shipped to customers, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

Because of the shortage, the CDC has recommended that healthy people forgo flu shots so the doses can be saved for people at high risk for flu complications, such as the elderly, infants, and people with chronic illness. The agency is working with Aventis to assure that the remaining doses go to those groups.

Crawford said the Department of Health and Human Services is hunting everywhere for more vaccine. "Literally every flu vaccine manufacturer in the world is being contacted, and some progress is being made," he said, without giving specifics.

China has fewer regulations and less supervision of all industries including vaccines. The issue there was improper refrigeration.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-35878624

The China office of the World Health Organization (WHO) said vaccines needed to be handled properly or they can become less effective.

But it stressed that improperly kept vaccines did not in themselves present much danger.

"It is important to note, however, that improperly stored or expired vaccine seldom if ever causes a toxic reaction. Therefore there is likely to be minimal safety risk in this particular situation,'' the WHO said.

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“Baylor also confirmed that 27 bulk lots — nearly half of the 60 produced by the Chiron plant — had been ‘released’ by the FDA prior to the company’s discovery that some finished product was contaminated. The actual number of doses that can be produced from each lot varies.”

Although the federal agency does not conduct tests on the final product, companies are liable for the safety of their medicines and have powerful incentive to test them thoroughly before releasing them from quarantine, Baylor explained.

http://www.sfgate.com/health/article...-S-2719407.php

No they're not responsible, they are given a pass by Congress while the FDA looks the other way.

[Zippyjuan]

http://www.sfgate.com/health/article...-S-2719407.php

No they're not responsible, they are given a pass by Congress while the FDA looks the other way.

Really? From that tiny paragraph you just posted:

companies are liable for the safety of their medicines and have powerful incentive to test them thoroughly before releasing them from quarantine, Baylor explained.

https://www.nae.edu/Publications/Bri...xperience.aspx

Regulatory agencies are also responsible for reviewing changes in product labeling, labeling for new products, and changes in packaging and product inserts for new virus strains. In the United States, monovalent bulk vaccine requires a regulatory review and lot release. Standardization laboratories are responsible for the calibration of potency reagents.

[donnay]

Really? From that tiny paragraph you just posted:

They are not liable for their vaccines, Congress made sure of it.

National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act of 1986.

[Zippyjuan]

The act did not remove liability. It did reduce it, but did not eliminate it. Putting out a bad product can still cost them millions if not billions.

[donnay]

The act did not remove liability. It did reduce it, but did not eliminate it. Putting out a bad product can still cost them millions if not billions.

The bill was their safety net.

1986 Law: Pharma Liability Was The Safety Net

Parents successfully argued that, if Congress was going to give drug companies partial liability protection through the creation of a federal vaccine injury compensation alternative to a lawsuit, then language had to be written into the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act of 1986 that protected a citizen’s right to sue drug companies when federal compensation was denied, or the company had the technological ability to make a vaccine less toxic but refused to do it. 36

Continued civil liability was the safety net for American consumers in that law. Continued civil liability was the leverage that gave some financial incentive for drug companies to make vaccines safer and gave some political incentive for government officials to award federal compensation to the vaccine injured. 37

Supreme Court Wrote Pharma A Blank Check

Now, six activist Supreme Court judges have ripped the liability safety net from the U.S. mass vaccination system and written Big Pharma a blank check by deliberately ignoring the language and legislative history of the 1986 Vaccine Injury Act. Only Justices Sotomayor and Ginsburg, in an accurate and brilliant dissenting opinion, stood up for the people. 38

Every American Pays Surcharge on Every Vaccination

Now it will be much easier for employees in government health agencies and the U.S. Department of Justice and the Vaccine Court to deny vaccine victims federal compensation, which 308 million Americans pay for through a surcharge on each one of the annual flu shots and the dozens of doses of vaccines public health officials say we all should get. 39

There is $3 billion dollars waiting to be awarded in the Vaccine Injury Trust Fund, which has already been raided by federal agencies dragging vaccine victims through years of litigation and looking for ways to deny vaccine risks. 40

http://www.nvic.org/NVIC-Vaccine-New...Mandates-.aspx