Guest guest Posted June 22, 2001 Report Share Posted June 22, 2001 List: There is absolutely no justification for forcing this vaccine on anyone! But, when they start trying to justify it, the Hep B vaccine use (also unjustified) may be compared to it. Neither of these diseases can possibly be placed in the same category as something like Smallpox. Someone with Aids could hardly walk into an airport and start a major epidemic. When the public at large didn't challenge vaccines like Hep B, a precident has been set. The supporters of an HIV vaccine will take advantage of this fact. It's a little like letting the camel stick his head in the tent, then trying to keep the rest of the beast from entering. Gretchen List owner > Needless to say, this article stirred the pot at work today, even among those that have taken the anthrax vaccine. I do believe that more folks are now going to start looking a little closer into what others say is good for them. I have no doubt that there will be those that continue to believe that every ounce of goo that the DoD shoves into their bodies will be the golden cure. I also happen to take the opportunity to mention the JVIP again and it's soon to be reality and the fact that the DoD wants and will build their own vaccine production facility. Starting to get others attention here in OKC!!! > > Bill > > > Report Predicts Massive Resistance to Mandatory AIDS Vaccine > Wes Vernon > Thursday, June 21, 2001 > WASHINGTON - A new report predicts massive resistance to a mandatory AIDS vaccine is coming in the U.S. in the next few years. > Millions of parents would refuse to have their children vaccinated by any variation of an HIV/AIDS shot, the Committee to Protect Medical Freedom said at a news conference Wednesday. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 22, 2001 Report Share Posted June 22, 2001 PROJECT: Services to Establish and Operate Laboratory and Repository Facilities Located in Bangkok, Thailand CLIENT: Walter Army Institute of Research (WRAIR) DESCRIPTION: MBS together with Bangkok Pathology Laboratory (BPL) as our subcontractor established laboratory and repository facilities in Bangkok, Thailand for the collection, processing, and storage of biological specimens in support of HIV clinical trials. These samples are mainly in the form of whole blood but may include some other body fluids, e.g., oral secretions, central spinal fluids, and semen. Samples are transported to our conveniently located BPL facility for archiving, storage, and shipment upon request to MBS' Rockville, MD biological specimen repository. Clinical trials of prophylactic HIV-preventative vaccines will require testing a large population with a high and increasing prevalence of HIV-infection. Most AIDS vaccine trials are expected to take place in lesser developed (Third World) countries experiencing uncontrolled epidemics of HIV-infection. Inductees in the Royal Thai Army initially will be the primary population for these HIV trials. Thai men are subject to a draft lottery and those inducted are screened for HIV. Prevalence is about 3% overall and up to 20% for those from the northwest portion of the country. In some areas, prevalence of HIV-infection reaches 10- 20%. A recent JAMA article based on a 1991 survey of 2,417 conscripts from six provinces in northern Thailand indicated that 12.0% were HIV-seropositive. Most transmission is from heterosexual contact with HIV-infected prostitutes. Two different strains of HIV (Chiang Mai and North American) are prevalent in Thailand with the Chiang Mai or northwest region virus showing only about 70% nucleotide sequence homology with the North American strain, which is prevalent in other parts of the country and is similar to US strains. A two- year vaccine trial in 2-3,000 inductees from the Chiang Mai area where the incidence rate is 30/100/year could provide statistically significant prophylactic efficacy data. Prior to this, a Phase I trial in seronegative general population volunteers to determine safety and immunogenicity will be performed in Bangkok and other trials using vaccines customized for indigenous HIV strains will also be tested in healthy seronegatives. In accomplishing the overall objectives of the procurement, the following subobjectives are met: catalog all samples arriving at the processing and storage facilities; process all whole blood samples at the processing/working storage facility promptly; properly store the following substances: serum, plasma, other non-cellular body fluids, other cellular body fluids, and peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs); furnish frozen and fresh samples to Government personnel upon request; transport specimens to our storage facility in Rockville, MD; and provide weekly and monthly data reports. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 22, 2001 Report Share Posted June 22, 2001 PROJECT: Army-Navy Serum Repository (ANSR) CLIENT: US Army Center for Health Promotion and Preventive Medicine (CHPPM), formerly Walter Army Institute of Research DESCRIPTION: The ANSR contains over 18,000,000 sera specimens collected from active duty and reserve personnel. The repository is the world's largest collection of normal human sera representing all race and ethnic groups, and all geographic areas in the US. The ANSR supports the clinical and research programs of the CHPPM, which serves the health needs of over 1.5 million military and civilian personnel stationed throughout the world. The ANSR provides the Army with a powerful capability to assess exposures to infectious and toxic agents during deployment; to estimate immunity prevalence for such diseases as AIDS, Hepatitis, Dengue, Q Fever, Measles, and Cancer; and to determine the causes of, risk factors for, and determinants of acute and chronic diseases associated with military operations. The CHPPM provides world-wide scientific expertise and services in the areas of: Preventive Medicine, Environmental and Occupation Health, Health Promotion and Wellness, Epidemiology, and related laboratory sciences. The CHPPM's mission is to strengthen the military capabilities by rapidly detecting and minimizing health risks through programs focused on improving health and countering man made or natural occurring medical threats. The Command develops, implements, and evaluates programs that permit the US Army to be on the leading edge of disease prevention. The CHPPM maintains an up-to-date personnel and medical event surveillance system. Through the operations of the Command's Medical Surveillance Activity, personnel information and potential high risk exposure and medical event data are maintained over the course of the soldier's career. This provides a database for a comprehensive soldier medical surveillance system that is summarized in a monthly publication of CHPPM's The Medical Surveillance Monthly Report. ANSR sera are collected from Military Entry Processing Stations, active duty personnel and their dependents, the Navy, the Army Reserve, National Guard, and the US Coast Guard. MBS' repository operations are in compliance with current Good Manufacturing Practice and current Good Laboratory Practice guidelines and include: transport of specimens from sites throughout the US; cataloging specimens using a highly accurate computer double-data entry system; employing a relational database for processing, storing, shipping, and documenting sera transactions; providing a specimen retrieval within 48 hours; and providing weekly on- line sera transaction reports and quarterly data summary reports. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted October 15, 2009 Report Share Posted October 15, 2009 This is really interetsing! I found it here: http://www.vaxaids.com when I was looking for info about the new HIV Vaccine Natural killer, or NK cells, are part of our innate immune system. A healthy body produces them to respond early during infection. They are activated and they kill cells infected with a given virus. It turns out NK cells are even more important to the body than previously thought. Researchers from Brown University and McGill University now know that the cells also help keep T cells - major players in cell-mediated immunity - from over-responding. I didn't want to put too much in here, so if you're interested just pop over to http://www.vaxaids.com and see the rest. The site does have a lot of usefull links about the latest HIV vaccine. Warm Wishes dennis sinned ... . .. . .. . .. .. ... .... . . . ... . .. ... . ________________________________________ type_N .. ... .. . ... . . . .... ... .. .. . .. . .. . .. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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