Dear Goanetters, At 11:25 AM 5/23/02 -0600, goanet-digest V1 #4009 wrote:
>Please note the following categorical statement issued by the tax >payer supported U.S. National Center for Infectious Diseases of the >Centers For Disease Control and Prevention, one of World's most >prestigious infectious diseases research institutions. > >"QUESTION: >Is There an Association Between Hepatitis B Vaccine and Serious Side >Effects? > >ANSWER: >There is no confirmed evidence that Hepatitis B vaccine causes: >1. chronic illness >2. multiple sclerosis >3. Guillain-Barre syndrome >4. transverse myelitis >5. optic neuritis >6. seizures >7. sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) >8. chronic fatigue syndrome >9. rheumatoid arthritis >10. autoimmune disorders" Accepted... But which brand of Hep B Vaccine are we talking about? The one presently peddled in Goa? The last one hawked by Lions Club International-Shanta Biotechnics? Who has certified that these brands are safe? Certainly not the Health Services of the Goa govt. How do we know that Goa is not being made a dumping ground for expired/sub-standard drugs like so many other products? One has to live in Goa to experience the sub-standard drugs/equipment used by the Health Services in our hospitals/Health Centres and those sold across our pharmacy counters. It is something of a nightmare for the informed citizen to get sick in Goa/India. Between the average medical professional and the pharmaceutical industry, one is safest either completely healthy or just plain dead! And then, out of nowhere and without being asked, come pharmaceutical companies and their club-agents take a sudden interest in our health and frighten us into buying their products. "Use our Hep B Vaccine or else..." they scream. One has to be quite frightened or very gullible to fall for that one... Thankfully, some of the populace will not get taken in...and live to warn the rest ;-) But keep the scientific debate alive. It only shows why the *present type* of mass marketing/administering of any drug/vaccine is unethical and should not be foisted on a simple, trusting, unsuspecting group of people. Educate people. Give them the objective, scientific facts - no marketing/advertising hype. Then let them make an *informed choice* to be vaccinated or not. Or like other vaccines, make it routine at birth/infancy...*if* necessary. If medically, scientifically necessary...not because some pharmaceutical company needs to push its product. If we talk with a certain intensity, it is because we live in Goa's villages. We live close to the quack-medical mercenary who has sold himself/herself to the pharmaceutical industry and its cold blooded profit god. We have had the misfortune - common to so many local people - of falling into the hands of the government's health care system at Goa Medical College. With our own eyes we have seen death slowly claim its victims under the callous gaze of medical staff because the was no oxygen cylinder available in the whole hospital. One of us nearly died there...but thankfully made good our escape, before being discharged. And have survived to tell the tale! Don't think we need say more... M&M. ================================ Information Is Power. Share It e-quitably. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Muriel & Mario. Saligao. Goa. 403511. India. Tel:0832-278276. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---------------------------------------------------------------- Think gLoBaLLY - Link Locally. Think Locally - elink gLoBaLLY ================================ =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-W-E-B---S-I-T-E-=-=-= To Subscribe/Unsubscribe from GoaNet | http://www.goacom.com/goanet =================================================================== For (un)subscribing or for help, Contact: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dont want so many e=mails? Join GoaNet-Digest instead ! =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Help support non-commercial projects in Goa by advertizing!! * * * * Your ad here !!
