: Gulf Coast trailers have toxic air --- toxic vaccines are OK

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The following vaccines have formaldehyde/formalin and they are OK but Gulf

Coast trailers have toxic air with formaldehyde.....go figure!!!!

http://www.whale.to/vaccines/ingredients1.html

Acel-Immune

DTaP

Diphtheria and Tetanus Toxoids and Acellular Pertussis Vaccine Adsorbed

Lederle Laboratories

1-800-934-5556

produced using formaldehyde, thimerosal, aluminum hydroxide, aluminum

phosphate, polysorbate 80, gelatin

Act HIB

Haemophilus Influenzae Type B (Hib) Tetanus Toxoid Conjugate

Connaught Laboratories

1-800-822-2463

produced using ammonium sulfate, formalin, sucrose, thimerosal medium:

semi-synthetic

DPT

Diphtheria and Tetanus Toxoids and Pertussis Vaccine Adsorbed

Kline Beecham Pharmaceuticals

1-800-366-8900 ext. 5231

produced using aluminum phosphate, formaldehyde, ammonium sulfate, washed

sheep red blood cells, glycerol, sodium chloride, thimerosal medium:

porcine (pig) pancreatic hydrolysate of casein

Havrix

Hepatitis A

Kline Beecham Pharmaceuticals

1-800-633-8900 ext. 5231

produced using formalin, aluminum hydroxide, phenoxyethanol (antifreeze),

polysorbate 20, residual MRC5 proteins (from medium) medium: human diploid

cells (originating from human aborted fetal tissue)

FluShield

Influenza Virus Vaccine, Trivalent, Types A & B

Wyeth-Ayerst

1-800-934-5556

produced using gentamicin sulfate, formaldehyde, polysorbate 80,

tri(n)butylphosphate, thimerosal

medium: chick embryos

IPOL

Inactivated Polio Vaccine

Connaught Laboratories

1-800-822-2463

produced using 3 types of polio virus, formaldehyde, phenoxyethanol

(antifreeze), neomycin, streptomycin, polymyxin B

medium: VERO cells, a continuous line of monkey kidney cells

Ray Gallup

http://news./s/ap/20080214/ap_on_he_me/toxic_trailers

CDC: Gulf Coast trailers have toxic air

ATLANTA - U.S. health officials are urging that Gulf Coast hurricane

victims be moved out of their government-issued trailers as quickly as

possible after tests found toxic levels of formaldehyde fumes.

Fumes from 519 trailer and mobile homes in Louisiana and Mississippi were

— on average — about five times what people are exposed to in most modern

homes, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. In

some trailers, the levels were nearly 40 times customary exposure levels,

raising fears that residents could contract respiratory problems.

The Federal Emergency Management Agency — which supplied the trailers —

should move people out quickly, with priority given to families with

children, elderly people or anyone with asthma or other chronic conditions,

said Mike McGeehin, director of a CDC division that focuses on

environmental hazards.

" We do not want people exposed to this for very much longer, " McGeehin said.

While there are no federal safety standard for formaldehyde fumes in

homes, the levels found in the trailers are high enough to cause burning

eyes and breathing problems for people who have asthma or sensitivity to

air pollutants, said McGeehin.

CDC officials said the study did not prove people became sick from the

fumes, but merely took a snapshot reading of fume levels. Only formaldehyde

was tested, they added.

FEMA provided about 120,000 travel trailers to victims of the 2005

hurricanes Katrina and Rita. In 2006, some occupants began reporting

headaches and nosebleeds.

The complaints were linked to formaldehyde, a colorless gas with a pungent

smell used in the production of plywood and resins.

Commonly used in manufactured homes, formaldehyde can cause respiratory

problems and has been classified as a carcinogen by the International

Agency for Research on Cancer and as a probable carcinogen by the U.S.

Environmental Protection Agency.

Last May, FEMA officials dismissed findings by environmentalists that the

trailers posed serious health risks. They said the trailers conformed to

industry standards.

By August, about 1,000 families in Louisiana asked FEMA to move them to

other quarters. In November, lawyers for a group of hurricane victims asked

a federal judge to order FEMA to test for hazardous fumes.

The CDC, working with FEMA, hired a contractor. The firm — Bureau Veritas

North America — tested air samples from 358 travel trailers, 82 park model

and 79 mobile homes.

Analysis of the samples, taken from Dec. 21 through Jan. 23, came back

last week, McGeehin said.

They found average levels of 77 parts formaldehyde per billion parts of

air, significantly higher than the 10 to 17 parts per billion concentration

seen in newer homes. Levels were as high as 590 parts per billion.

The highest concentrations were in travel trailers, which are smaller and

more poorly ventilated, McGeehin said.

Indoor air temperature was a significant factor in raising formaldehyde

levels, independent of trailer make or model, CDC officials said. McGeehin

said that's why the CDC would like residents out before summer.

A broader-based children's health study is also in the works, McGeehin said.

Last week, congressional Democrats accused FEMA of manipulating scientific

research in order to play down the danger posed by formaldehyde in the

trailers.

In its initial round of testing, FEMA took samples from unoccupied trailers

that had been aired out for days and compared them with federal standards

for short-term exposure, according to the lawmakers.

Legislators also said the CDC ignored research from — and then demoted —

one of its own experts, who concluded any level of exposure to formaldehyde

may pose a cancer risk. A CDC spokesman has denied the allegations.

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Sheri Nakken, former R.N., MA, Hahnemannian Homeopath

Vaccination Information & Choice Network, Nevada City CA & Wales UK

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