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Press Release: Ministry of Health Gets Dirty; IMAC Lies.
Ron Law & Barbara Sumner Burstyn
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full background on this issue please read: http://www.ahf-au.org/meningococcal.nz.htm
It's an old PR trick - if you can't fault the evidence you discredit the
whistle-blower.
Yesterday the MOH dropped to a new low when they called Independent risk &
policy analyst Ron Law 'self-styled' and trundled out once again the
'anti-immunisation' label as a personal attack.
For the record neither Ron Law nor Barbara Sumner Burstyn are
anti-immunisation, neither belongs to anti-immunisation groups and Mr Law
works full time as a risk and policy analyst. He has clients in New
Zealand, Canada, the United Kingdom and Australia, and has been an advisor
to the Ministry of Health in this capacity.
The ministry further attempted to muddy the issues surrounding the
MeNZB(tm) vaccine by refuting that one of the principal MeNZB trial
investigators was a Chiron employee. This despite the fact that his name
was attached to Chiron documents as a clinical investigator (in his role as
a member of the Medicines drugs licensing committee), and his GP practice
colleague was also a Chiron investigator.
The nature of Dr Reid's employment contract with Chiron is obviously
private; he may well be an independent contractor to Chiron, as opposed to
an employee, in which case the Ministry is splitting hairs rather than
seeking answers to this major conflict of interest. It is also relevant
that Dr Reid was also involved in the Medicines Assessment Advisory
Committee that approved the MeNZB(tm) drug.
Approving your own research is a major conflict of interest. This conflict
was not declared in the MAAC minutes released under the OIA.
To add to the deepening crisis for the MeNZB(tm) campaign IMAC, the
Immunisation Advisory Centre, funded by the Ministry of Health and the
pharmaceutical industry, has weighed in on the argument.
IMAC has provided a new graph that clearly shows the meningococcal epidemic
is abating. IMAC claims this and other evidence shows the MeNZB(tm) vaccine
is working in South Auckland and calls the 68 percent drop in meningococcal
disease in New Zealand's Pacific Island under one year olds in 2004,
"FANTASTIC!!" (IMAC's emphasis.)
Of course the fact that the so-called epidemic is folding naturally is
fantastic news, but it has nothing to do with the roll-out of the
MeNZB(tm) vaccine. The evidence clearly shows that the collapse in meningococcal
disease cases in South Auckland began well before the MeNZB(tm) vaccine
could have had any effect, even if it works.
The facts are simple:
There were six confirmed cases of all types of meningococcal disease in
Pacific Island children in the whole of New Zealand in 2004. The first
children received their third dose in mid October... by which time 90% of
all cases for the year had been notified. Sixty percent of cases in under
one year olds occurred in the under six month old group who were not
vaccinated.
In a further discrepancy, the Ministry of Health has said frequently that
the last big influenza year was 1987. But historical Ministry data shows
that there was no influenza epidemic that year. Is it a co-incidence that
this is the first year in over 25 years that three 1-20 year old children
have died of 'flu-like' illnesses being categorised as influenza?
Using the Auckland University research ethical guidelines IMAC's claims
amount to scientific misconduct, providing further evidence of an
orchestrated litany of lies that needs to be investigated by a Royal
Commission of Inquiry.
An interesting insight into the Ministry of Health's and Wairarapa District Health Board's claims of an epidemic in Wairarapa...2004... zero cases of epidemic strain...1 Case of men B... not
targeted by the vaccine and in an over 20 year old...Typically
the three tables, 12, 22, 28 below show No Epidemic in Wairarapa!
And our children are being scared to death thinking that a meningococcal monster is going to get them...
MeNZB(tm) Making No Impact In Counties Manukau
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