IOM Request for Information on Thimerosal

[Guest guest]

I obtained my son's vaccinations

records, along with manufacture and lot number. My

son was given three DPT shots and the office did not

record the number of one of them. The other three are

on the VAERS (Vaccine Adverse Reporting System) a/k/a

the " Hot Lot List " . Before I received the list I just

knew one of them would be on there, but never imagine

three out of four...even could be four out of four,

who knows?

I realize this is not the only factor involved but my

questions would be.....

How much mercury is that all together?

How many of you have children that were given shots

that were on that list?

And am I alone in thinking that there should be some

kind of recall on the lots?

For instance, if so many children had a reaction/died

from a certain lot number ...shouldn't it be recalled?

I was quite stunned to find that there is no amount

of reports/reactions/deaths that constitutes a recall.

Lederle #no number listed on report DTPH(DPT HIB combo

- 1/10/94

Lederle #366949 DTPH(DPT HIB combo) - 3/14/94

32 reports of reactions

12 emergency room visits

0 Life threating

2 hopitalized

1 no recov(don't know what that means)

2 died ( I don't know how 2 died if there was zero

life threating??)

Lederle #372932 DTPH(DPT HIB combo) - 5/16/94

37 reports of reactions

16 emergency room visits

2 Life threatening

7 hopitalized

1 no recov(don't know what that means)

1 died

Lederle #386910 DTP - 11/6/95

2 reports of reactions

1 emergency room visits

0 Life threatening

IOM Request for Information on Thimerosal

>

>

> > May 3, 2001

> > Institute of Medicine

> > Immunization Safety Review

> >

> > The Institute of Medicine's Immunization Safety Review Committee will

hold

> a

> > workshop on the hypothesized relationship between thimerosal and

specific

> > neurodevelopmental disorders on July 16-18, 2001 in Boston,

Massachusetts.

> As

> > part of the committee's data gathering activities, we are seeking input

on

> the

> > following:

> >

> > 1) Information on specific adverse outcomes that may be related to

> thimerosal

> > exposure.

> > 2) Biological mechanisms that explain the hypothesized relationship

> between

> > adverse outcomes and thimerosal exposure.

> >

> > We welcome information such as original articles (or citations),

> suggestions of

> > key researchers with expertise on this issue, and other types of

> information.

> > Please note that the National Academy of Sciences' complies with

Section

> 15 of

> > the Federal Advisory Committee Act (FACA), and therefore, all materials

> that are

> > distributed to the committee will be submitted to a public access file.

> >

> > Thank you in advance for your assistance on this matter. Please send

your

> > materials to us by Monday, May 14 via email (imsafety@...), fax

> > (202-334-2939), or by mail to

> >

> > Immunization Safety Review

> > National Academy of Sciences

> > Institute of Medicine, FO 3031

> > 2101 Constitution Ave., NW

> > Washington, DC 20418

> >

> >

> >

>

>

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[Guest guest]

Anyone can order the list off of the site

http://www.909shot.com/hotlots.htm

If you have any kind of problem with it e-mail me privately.

IOM Request for Information on Thimerosal

>

>

> > May 3, 2001

> > Institute of Medicine

> > Immunization Safety Review

> >

> > The Institute of Medicine's Immunization Safety Review Committee will

hold

> a

> > workshop on the hypothesized relationship between thimerosal and

specific

> > neurodevelopmental disorders on July 16-18, 2001 in Boston,

Massachusetts.

> As

> > part of the committee's data gathering activities, we are seeking

input

on

> the

> > following:

> >

> > 1) Information on specific adverse outcomes that may be related to

> thimerosal

> > exposure.

> > 2) Biological mechanisms that explain the hypothesized relationship

> between

> > adverse outcomes and thimerosal exposure.

> >

> > We welcome information such as original articles (or citations),

> suggestions of

> > key researchers with expertise on this issue, and other types of

> information.

> > Please note that the National Academy of Sciences' complies with

Section

> 15 of

> > the Federal Advisory Committee Act (FACA), and therefore, all

materials

> that are

> > distributed to the committee will be submitted to a public access

file.

> >

> > Thank you in advance for your assistance on this matter. Please send

your

> > materials to us by Monday, May 14 via email (imsafety@...), fax

> > (202-334-2939), or by mail to

> >

> > Immunization Safety Review

> > National Academy of Sciences

> > Institute of Medicine, FO 3031

> > 2101 Constitution Ave., NW

> > Washington, DC 20418

> >

> >

> >

>

>

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[Guest guest]

Okay...who can help here???

IOM Request for Information on Thimerosal

[From an organizational press release from

the Institute of

Medicine Immunization Safety Review.]

http://www.iom.edu/IOM/IOMHome.nsf/Pages/immunization+safety+review

The Institute of Medicine's Immunization Safety

Review Committee

will

hold a workshop on the hypothesized relationship

between thimerosal and

specific neurodevelopmental disorders on July 16-18,

2001 in Boston,

Massachusetts. As part of the committee's data

gathering activities, we

are

seeking input on the following:

1) Information on specific adverse outcomes that

may be related

to

thimerosal exposure.

2) Biological mechanisms that explain the

hypothesized

relationship

between adverse outcomes and thimerosal exposure.

We welcome information such as original articles

(or citations),

suggestions of key researchers with expertise on this

issue, and other

types of information. Please note that the National

Academy of

Sciences'

complies with Section 15 of the Federal Advisory

Committee Act (FACA),

and

therefore, all materials that are distributed to the

committee will be

submitted to a public access file.

Please send your materials to us by Monday, May

14 via email

(imsafety@...), fax (202-334-2939), or by mail to

Immunization Safety Review National Academy of

Sciences Institute of

Medicine, FO 3031 2101 Constitution Ave., NW

Washington, DC 20418

* * *

The Verge of Vaccine Mania

A Shot for This, a Shot for That. How Much Is Too

Much? With so many

vaccines recommended before children enter school, how

can parents be

sure

that all of the immunizations work together safely?

[by Regush ABCNEWS.com]

Beware old files. They may hold the ingredients

for

gastrointestinal

upset. The file that I just had to stick my nose in

was slugged,

Vaccine

advocates with ties to vaccine makers.

I like to keep tabs on what might be considered

conflicts of

interest

in medicine. At the least, it diminishes the chance

that I'll embarrass

myself by putting on a national TV network news show

someone who is

involved

in public health policy but whose voice, eyes, ears

and perhaps other

anatomical components are leased, if not wholly owned,

by industry.

Flipping through the contents of the file, I

noticed a letter

that had

been sent to ABCNEWS from a well-known vaccine

advocate. It partly had

to do

with a story I had produced for World News Tonight.

The story was a

rather

soft warning, based on preliminary scientific

information, that certain

vaccines given in infancy could potentially cause

long-term harm,

primarily

because the body's immune function could be altered in

some way.

As far as news stories go, it was fairly low-key

and in no way

condemned vaccines, but rather it suggested that more

research on

long-term

effects was imperative. In fact, the story made clear

that vaccines

have

contributed enormously to warding off many diseases, a

view I continue

to

hold strongly today.

Inexpert Analysis? What caused a burning

sensation in my gut in

reviewing the letter was the writer's criticism of

Barbara Loe Fisher,

who,

as co-founder and president of the nonprofit National

Vaccine

Information

Center, has spoken out on vaccine issues affecting

health-care

professionals

and tens of thousands of families affected by

vaccine-related side

effects.

The letter writer suggested that since she wasn't an

immunization

authority,

Fisher shouldn't have appeared in the World News

Tonight story.

(As readers of this column know, I can get quite

annoyed when

so-called health professionals try to bash people who

do not share

their

views. I've noted that this is a practice that has

become increasingly

common and downright shameless.)

In any case, we had checked out Fisher's

credentials, as we do

with

others. She had served on the National Vaccine

Advisory Committee,

chaired

the Subcommittee on Adverse Vaccine Events and written

a highly touted

book

on vaccine safety issues, particularly those

surrounding the whole cell

pertussis or whooping cough vaccine. But what really

caught our

attention at

World News Tonight, and what separated Fisher from the

pool of

academics,

including the letter writer, who advocate vaccine

policy, is that she

had a

history of asking straightforward, pertinent questions

about safety.

Vacuum Filler Questions such as:

Why are there no studies on the long-term

effects of vaccination?

Why are there so few studies that have examined

what happens in

the

body at a cellular/molecular level after vaccination?

Why are we vaccinating children in a vacuum of

scientific

knowledge?

Why are there no long-term studies to assess

illness and deaths

related to vaccination?

These are the kind of fundamental questions that

anyone involved

in

vaccine policy should be addressing, but that is

hardly the case.

People

like Fisher are badly needed on TV and radio news

programs and in

newspaper

stories to raise these questions again and again until

the academics

wake up

and do some real research.

These days, children can get as many as 21

vaccines before they

start

first grade. There are about 200 more vaccines in the

pipeline.

Scenarios

for the future even include consuming vaccines in nose

sprays,

ointments and

fruits and vegetables.

I call it vaccine mania. It has gone beyond what

anyone can

possibly

defend on scientific grounds. Pumping more vaccines

into the body

without

understanding such basics as how they'll affect immune

system function

over

time borders on the criminal.

It's OK to Ask Questions, Right? What it all

boils down to is

that

vaccine makers, their advocates and government

institutions that

promote

vaccines, such as the Centers for Disease Control and

Prevention, have

long

ago abdicated their responsibilities to the public.

They aren't even

bothering to acknowledge the types of questions Fisher

routinely

raises.

And when someone like Fisher goes on television

for a few seconds

to

raise fundamental questions about vaccine safety, one

of the good

soldiers

of the vaccine movement tries to turn off a little

heat by stabbing her

in

the back. (By the way, we at World News Tonight were

informed that

there

were many real experts ready to do business with us

next time we

planned a

piece on vaccines.)

I had planned this week to list some people and

institutions

heavily

tied to the vaccine industry, but I first had to get

this piece of foul

history out of my gut. Tune in next week.

And thanks for the volume of letters that comes

in every week to

Second Opinion. I try personally to answer as many as

I can.

Regush produces medical features for

ABCNEWS. In his

weekly

column, published Wednesdays, he looks at medical

trouble spots,

heralds

innovative achievements and analyzes health trends

that may greatly

influence our lives. His latest book is The Breaking

Point:

Understanding

Your Potential for Violence.

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