Merck Accused of Lying About Mumps Vaccine - MMR - Mercola, BLF - shingles vax

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Merck Accused of Lying About Mumps Vaccine - MMR - Mercola, BLF

http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2012/07/10/merck-lying-about-\

vaccine-effectiveness.aspx

Story at-a-glance

* Two virologists have filed a federal lawsuit against Merck, their

former employer, alleging the vaccine maker overstated the

effectiveness of their mumps vaccine, which may have cost the US

government hundreds of millions of dollars over the past decade.

They claim they " witnessed firsthand the improper testing and data

falsification in which Merck engaged to artificially inflate the

vaccine's efficacy findings "

* Chatom Primary Care has also filed a federal antitrust class action

lawsuit against Merck, alleging Merck went to great lengths to

manipulate test procedures and falsifying results to prop up

fraudulent efficacy claims, thereby maintaining its monopoly on the

MMR vaccine

* These two lawsuits couldn't come at a more precarious time for

Merck, as the Italian Health Ministry recently conceded the MMR

vaccine caused autism in a now nine-year old boy---albeit this news

has been effectively censored in the US

* A recent review of the varicella (chickenpox) vaccination program in

the U.S. [1] concluded that the vaccine has not proven to be

cost-effective; increased the incidence of shingles; failed to

provide long-term protection from the disease it targets--chicken

pox--and; is less effective than the natural immunity that existed

in the general population before the vaccine. Vaccine efficacy was

found to have declined well below 80 percent by of 2002.

[1] open access:

Review of the United States universal varicella vaccination program:

Herpes zoster incidence rates, cost-effectiveness, and vaccine efficacy

based primarily on the Antelope Valley Varicella Active Surveillance

Project data. <http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22659447>

Goldman GS, King PG.

Vaccine. 2012 Jun 1.

pdf & html:

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0264410X12007761

> *Scientists Sue Merck: allege fraud, mislabeling, and false

> certification of MMR vaccine. Suzanne Humphries, MD

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<http://www.vaccinationcouncil.org/2012/06/25/scientists-sue-merck-allege-fraud-\

mislabeling-and-false-certificaion-of-mmr-vaccine-suzanne-humphries-md/>*

> Suzanne Humphries, MD

> June 25, 2012

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