Hilary's Desk

There is no place for pro/anti vaccine divides, when it comes to allegations of corporate fraud. Yet all across the media, the focus of the discussion about the Merck lawsuit is not to really discuss the issue, but to slap the "vaccine foes". The first example came out loud and clear in Forbes magazine. You don't have to read further than the title, to know where Gergana Kole...

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There is no place for pro/anti vaccine divides, when it comes to allegations of corporate fraud. Yet all across the media, the focus of the discussion about the Merck lawsuit is not to really discuss the issue, but to slap the "vaccine foes". The first example came out loud and clear in Forbes magazine. You don't have to read further than the title, to know where Gergana Kole...

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Way back in 2004, a group of New Zealanders learned what it meant to be hit over the head by Big Pharma. Pfizer to be precise. While IAS was Pfizer's actual target, in reality, I was the bull's eye, because the information was written by me, and therefore, I had most of the references in order to defend the complaint. I had written, and made comments based on the very well d...

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So what's the big deal, if as alleged in my previous blog, Merck did actually seriously muck around with the efficacy test, cook the books, invent figures, and produce MMR with a dud Mumps component? After all...when did you last hear of anyone dying from Mumps?  (I never did even before the MMR was introduced in 1991, but that's another story.)  Will this court case succeed?&...

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On April 27, 2012, a formal complaint was filed in the Eastern Pennsylvania District Court accusing Merck of a longstanding scheme to mislead and defraud Government health authorities worldwide. Two of Merck’s former employees have accused the pharmaceutical giant of marketing multivalent MMR vaccines under false pretenses. According to the complaint, these vaccines have been mislabe...

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This morning, someone asked me, "Why are the whooping cough rates so high in Europeans?"  I answered that I didn't know.  But while studying the Whooping cough weekly report, dated 8th June 2012, something jumped out like a bolt out of the blue and it was this graph:   Hmmm... interesting.  Then later in the report came this series of graphs which rang more bells and ...

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This blog is a follow on from the MOH diagnosis change taking effect from 21 May 2012 blog. Up until yesterday, the reports I'd concentrated on, were the ESR WEEKLY PERTUSSIS.  After reading the diagnostic change blog, a vigilant reader gave a timely reminder that the reports needing reviewing, were the ESR MONTHLY REPORTS . Solomon's mine, indeed. Starting from January 201...

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On 31 May, 2012, the New Zealand Ministry of Health made the astonishing decision to change the diagnostic criteria for whooping cough. These were the old criteria for a confirmed or probable case: "Confirmed: A clinically compatible illness that is laboratory confirmed by isolation of B. pertussis from a pernasal swab, or epidemiologically linked to a confirmed case. Probable: Cough...

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You have got to love it when Canadian scientists spend taxpayers money to come up with "science" like this: PLoS One. 2012;7(5):e36880. Epub 2012 May 30. Mentalizing deficits constrain belief in a personal god. Norenzayan A, Gervais WM, Trzesniewski KH. Department of Psychology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada. Abstract: Religious believers intuitively conc...

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Predicting the future of whooping cough is pretty simple. It will follow the mantra of the past, because to do otherwise would involve massive loss of face. Mainstream treatment: More of the same. Antibiotics on antibiotics without regard to the fact that they don't work and cause far bigger problems. A continual refusal to look at any treatment that doesn't come from the "Merck Manual". ...

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You will better understand these blogs if you study each link.  In a letter dated 18 May 2012, the Ministry of Health wrote: The pertussis containing vaccines are effective but do not protect all babies. The pertussis vaccine currently used in New Zealand and other developed countries offers protection of around 84 percent after three doses….. Adults immunisation is recommended for...

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Mainstream medical treatment of whooping cough is using antibiotics and "palliative" care.  First up...., it doesn't work.  They know that..., I know that..., but they won't tell you that, for the simple reason that... they have NOTHING else to offer you. When you walk into your doctor's office, the first thing they do- assuming they are even able to diagnose whooping cough co...

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There are none so blind as the medical profession who both refuse to see, and cannot understand why they CANNOT see. Over the last few weeks, the phone lines have run hot in this house, with many families contacting us for advice. My husband and I have talked with parents dealing with whooping cough over the last 30 years. We've also watched, first hand, the INABILITY of many doctors to eithe...

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(You will better understand these blogs if you study each link).  In a letter dated 18 May 2012, the Ministry of Health wrote: The pertussis containing vaccines are effective but do not protect all babies. The pertussis vaccine currently used in New Zealand and other developed countries offers protection of around 84 percent after three doses….. Adults immunisation is rec...

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It will be easier to understand this blog if you read all the material embedded.  In a letter dated 18 May 2012, the Ministry of Health wrote: The pertussis containing vaccines are effective but do not protect all babies. The pertussis vaccine currently used in New Zealand and other developed countries offers protection of around 84 percent after three doses….. Adults immunisatio...

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Edited on 4th September 2013. You will better understand these blogs if you study each link.  In a letter dated 18 May 2012, the Ministry of Health wrote: The pertussis containing vaccines are effective but do not protect all babies. The pertussis vaccine currently used in New Zealand and other developed countries offers protection of around 84 percent after three doses….. Adults ...

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(The purpose of this blog series - and all other blogs I do -is to educate the public, using medical literature which the medical profession has, but does not usually provide to parents, to show parents that there is other information you need to know in order to make an informed choice about vaccination.  Remember, this is medical information, not "opinion".).  You would think, ...

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(While you will get the gist of this blog in the text a much fuller understanding will come from reading the embedded articles).  In a letter dated 18 May 2012, the Ministry of Health wrote: The pertussis containing vaccines are effective but do not protect all babies. The pertussis vaccine currently used in New Zealand and other developed countries offers protection of around 84 percent ...

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