ANIMAL RESEARCH T A K E S LIVES
- Humans and Animals BOTH Suffer
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If New Zealanders had a fright with the 1960s polio vaccine catastrophe when, centre stage under the world's spotlight, the N.Z. Health Department looked silly for allowing the bungle to take place, they were due for another fright in 1987 when the meningococcal meningitis mass immunisation campaign had to be called off mid-stream as it left some children suffering "alarming neurological effects"1 and others were given the meningitis they had been vaccinated against.
The papers of the time were full of it... refer to the headlines of Dominion, July 27 1987.
Despite the debacle caused by this vaccine-gone-wrong and the long aftermath as distressed parents of damaged children picked up the pieces, the New Zealand Government with a persistence that could only be described as fanatical proceeded with Hepatitis B. immunisations that same year as if nothing had happened.
"It would be a shame if people didn't get their children vaccinated"
... said the New Zealand Medical Association, July 29 1987.
A shame indeed for Connaught, Wellcome, Wyeth, Lederle and other vaccine producers, whose "safe" vaccines are dubbed "unreasonably dangerous" by Allen McDowell, U.S. lawyer, who according to New Scientist, February 26 1987 has won millions of dollars in out-of-court settlements from damages ensuing from vaccinations.
Footnote
1. Evening Post, July 24 1987. (Reported children fainting, debilitated and suffering from nausea after vaccination.)
Dominion, July 29 1987. Headline article says that "some children are now suffering from viral meningitis since having the vaccine". That the Health Dept has an assurance from the producers of the vaccine, Connaught Laboratories (U.S.A.), that "they did not have any information to suggest there was a problem with the vaccine".
AUTHOR'S NOTE: The polio vaccine which "put the health of the entire nation at risk" also came from Connaught Laboratories U.S.A..
N.Z. Listener, August 29 1987. Headlines entitled "Meningitis: A Campaign Goes Astray", by Finlay MacDonald.
"Meningococcal meningitis hit the headlines recently when the Health Dept conducted its first mass vaccination campaign for 25 years. Some children suffered side-effects that have still not been explained. The department has been accused of using bribery instead of informative publicity to get its message across. And a large question remains: why is a killer disease associated with poverty posing such a threat to our children?"