Action Alert - National Vaccine Information Center

Action Alert - National Vaccine Information Center

As the holidays approach and Congress gets ready to adjourn, some Senators and Representatives in Congress with financial ties to the pharmaceutical industry are trying to pull a fast one on you and your family. These same politicians did the same thing in 2002 when they tried to sneak in liability protection for Big Pharma by inserting the thimerosal rider into the Homeland Security Bill.

Last night, legislators writing the Department of Defense (DOD) Appropriations Bill slipped in language in the Conference Report AT THE LAST MINUTE giving vaccine manufacturers TOTAL LIABILITY protection if experimental vaccines injure or kill citizens whenever the Secretary of Health declares an "emergency." That "emergency" could include everything from a "potential" bioterrorism attack to a potentially bad flu year.

And you may not have a choice about whether or not to take those experimental vaccines if your Governor follows the lead of the Secretary of Health, declares an "emergency" in your state and trots out the state militia to arrest, quarantine and forcibly vaccinate you and your family. Laws passed at the state and federal level since September 11, 2001 allow all of this to happen (go to www.nvic.com and read a letter to Col. Robert P. Kadlec, M.D., a staffer to Senator Burr which summarizes state and federal legislation since 9-11.).

But YOU can stand up TODAY and CALL YOUR OWN SENATOR AND CONGRESSPERSON and make your voice heard before it is too late. CALL NOW AND PROTECT YOURSELF AND YOUR LOVED ONES FROM BEING VICTIMIZED BY DRUG COMPANIES AND THEIR ALLIES WHO WANT TO ESCAPE ALL RESPONSIBILITY FOR VACCINE INJURIES AND DEATHS.

To find out who your Senator is, go to www.senate.gov

To find out who your Representative is go to www.house.gov .

CALL YOUR SENATOR OR REPRESENTATIVE by dialing 202-224-3121. Capitol Switchboard Toll-free number is 800-839-5276.

Every call or fax makes a difference. DON'T GIVE UP! OUR VOICES ARE BEING HEARD!

http://search.csmonitor.com/search_content/1215/p13s02-uspo.html
The Christian Science Monitor
December 15, 2005 edition

A measure to shield drug manufacturers from lawsuits in an effort to encourage them to develop new vaccines is likely to be quietly attached to a "must pass" defense appropriation bill within the next few days.

"It looks like the liability-protection language is in [the defense bill], which will be very difficult for [members of Congress] to vote against," says Barbara Loe Fisher, president of the National Vaccine Information Center, a consumer watchdog group in Vienna, Va. Backers of the liability shield, led by Senate majority leader Bill Frist (R) of Tennessee, "were very smart in that strategy," says Ms. Fisher, who calls it "a threat to civil rights, to access to the judicial system, and to human rights."
The possibility of an avian flu epidemic, as well as the use of biological weapons, have spurred interest in stepping up production of new vaccines. Shield-law proponents has argued for years that the world's giant drugmakers, so-called Big Pharma, would never take much interest in that arena until they were given strong protections against lawsuits.
You "want to harness" Big Pharma "to really kick this thing off," says Christopher-Paul Milne, assistant director of the Center for the Study of Drug Development at Tufts University in Medford, Mass. "They have the resources and the expertise and the manufacturing capacity to get [development of new vaccines] done in a short period of time."

Today, five or six big companies are making vaccines compared with more than 20 several decades ago, Dr. Milne says. "Some of that is because of the consolidation of the companies," he says, but some is the result of the high risk. To attract Big Pharma, "the potential rewards are going to have to be high," he says. In a national emergency, vaccines might have to be produced quickly, and perhaps without sufficient testing. In that kind of high-risk scenario, "you're talking about the need for liability protection," he says.

Excerpts from full article available at: http://search.csmonitor.com/search_content/1215/p13s02-uspo.html


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