Right As Usual

Here's a link about incubators in the 3rd world - often, the developed world is quite generous about donating medical equipment, but the donated items are expensive to run, require training to use, and VERY expensive to repair. So, essentially, they are worthless to the recipients. The low-cost device is built from auto parts.

From The Washington Times Negative side effects of Gardasil, a new Merck vaccine to prevent the sexually transmitted virus that causes cervical cancer, are being reported in the District of Columbia and 20 states, including Virginia. The reactions range from loss of consciousness to seizures. "Young girls are experiencing severe headaches, dizziness, temporary loss of vision and some girls have lost consciousness during what appear to be seizures," said Vicky Debold, health policy analyst for the National Vaccine Information Center, a nonprofit watchdog organization that was created in the early 1980s to prevent vaccine injuries. Following federal approval of the vaccine in July 2006, a storm of legislation was introduced across the nation that would make the vaccine mandatory in schools. The same article is reporting lower stats than other sites – I'm generally reading 11K+ cases of invasive cervical cancer projected for 2007. That's a major jump, especially...

I've been checking out what other sites have written since I posted, previously, about the executive order by Texas Governor Perry to mandate ALL girls in Texas be given the new vaccine. First, most sites write about the "anti-cancer" vaccine. It isn't - it works against about 70% of the sexually-transmitted Human Papilloma viruses. 2 of them are suspected of causing SOME cervical cancers. Texas Governor Ignores the Zealots is the all caps heading of Truthdig - Ear to the Ground site. For a map of the US that shows where legislation has been introduced to MANDATE vaccination, click here . The legislation is being aggressively pushed by a group called Women in Government. What's really interesting is the following, from their site: Most women will have HPV, but few will develop cancer . and Only HPV that persists can lead to cancer. So, why are ALL girls in Texas being FORCED to be vaccinated?

I first thought I was on a news parody site. But it's true. MSNBC reports, that, by executive order of Texas governor Perry, Beginning in September 2008, girls entering the sixth grade — meaning, generally, girls ages 11 and 12 — will have to receive Gardasil, Merck & Co.’s new vaccine against strains of the human papillomavirus, or HPV. Perry is quoted as saying the cervical cancer vaccine is no different from the one that protects children against polio. Why did the governor mandate the vaccine? Merck is bankrolling efforts to pass state laws across the country mandating Gardasil for girls as young as 11 or 12. It doubled its lobbying budget in Texas and has funneled money through Women in Government, an advocacy group made up of female state legislators around the country. So, why are just girls being targeted? A recent study found that 90 percent of cervical cancer cases could be eliminated if boys and girls got the vaccine. If only girls get it, just more than three quar...