Immunoglobulins have been used in medicine for years
to help prevent or reduce the risk of infections
(for example serum immune globulin,
Vaccinia,,Tetanus,
Hepatitis B, Varicella Zoster immune globulin,
immune globulin, etc.).
In addition, anti-D immune globulin (Rhogam)...
the fact that these immune globulin products
come from pooled plasma where some donors
probably carry transmissible infections. Click here
Immunoglobulins transmit
Hepatitis C and other bloodborne pathogens
Lawsuit Says Companies Sold Tainted Blood
Cutter goes to trial
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Plaintiffs’ claims arise
out of the most egregious misconduct in the
history of the pharmaceutical industry, which
resulted in the killing of thousands of
hemophiliacs worldwide, with a continuing death rate
of hundreds of victims per year. Defendants are
American corporations which manufactured blood
products ...sold these products to hemophiliacs
worldwide, despite knowledge that the products were
manufactured from sick, high risk donors and/or
known to be contaminated with the viruses that cause
AIDS and Hepatitis C (now known as HIV and HCV
respectively). Defendants continued selling these
products to hemophiliacs abroad even after the
products were no longer being used in the United
States due to the known risk of AIDS and Hepatitis C
transmission. Plaintiffs are hemophiliacs from
countries outside the United States who contracted
HIV and/or Hepatitis C through use of Defendants’
contaminated products.
Immunoglobulin
Transmits Hepatitis C. True or False?
Intramuscular immunoglobulin preparations are
prepared according to the Cohn fractionation
process, which separates the fraction containing
antibodies that neutralize various infectious
agents. The resulting preparations are highly
concentrated (16% in solution and containing 160 mg
of protein/mL). Other manufacturing procedures do
not ensure the same safety.
The safety of HCV-RNA-positive
Intramuscular immunoglobulin preparations can be
attributed to several factors:
(1) partitioning of viruses away
from immunoglobulin,
(2) inactivation of viruses by
the fractionation process, and
(3) a high concentration of
neutralizing antibodies
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1995 Philadelphia Inquirer
final Section: EDITORIAL REVIEW & OPINION Page:
E01 SUNDAY April 16, It is one of the
little-known stories of World War II. Had
more attention been paid to it, hemophiliacs
in the United States might not be dying now at
the rate of one a day. It was 1944, five years
into the war
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1969 New York Times
Washington, July 28 -- that gross contamination
was apparent in the areas where the largest
blood plasma operations were conducted. The
rooms were "sloppy," he observed...The gamma
globulin from most donors contains enough
antibodies against such diseases as measles and
hepatitis to be effective when it is reinjected
into a person who has been exposed to those
diseases. ....Groups of donors receive
vaccinations to build up the antibodies in the
gamma globulin intended to treat these
illnesses. The result is known as hyperimmune
gamma globulin ........... By April, 1963,
five months after Dr. Stough had opened his
plasmapheresis center at Kilby, the incidence of
viral hepatitis an often fatal disease of the
liver, was climbing sharply. ................At
Kilby, for example, 28 per cent of the men who
participated in Dr. Stough's program came down
with the disease. For those who did not take
part, the rate was only 1 percent.
1999 - Benefits and
risks due to animal serum used in cell culture
production.
The use of contaminated cells for vaccine
production may result in contaminated vaccines,
which may lead to seroconversion or disease in the
vaccinated animal. Contaminated serum or cell
cultures may also interfere with the diagnosis of
viral infections. PMID: 10404869
Although
the public has heard about side effects of vaccines,
most people are clueless about the manufacture of
vaccines. Few people know that viruses used in
vaccine production need to be grown on animal parts
like monkey kidneys, or in chicken embryos, or in
human and fetal “cell lines.” Harvesting viruses in
human cell-lines can be perilous because some human
cell lines are derived from cancer cells. Most
people assume vaccines are “sterile” and germ free.
But sterilizing a vaccine can destroy the necessary
immunizing protein that makes it work. Thus,
contaminating viruses or viral “particles” can
sometime survive the vaccine process.
Vaccine Dangers
In the mid 1990’s, there were
reports of Hepatitis C transmission following
the administration of some brands of serum
immune globulin. ....this underscores the
importance of having a clear indication for the
use of these products.
Read more:
Study
Outbreak of Hepatitis C Associated with
Intravenous Immunoglobulin Administration —
United States, October 1993–June 1994
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INTRAVENOUS (HUMAN) Rho(D) IMMUNE GLOBULIN
For transfusion related
sensitization, treatment is recommended for
Rh-negative children and women of
childbearing age who received Rh-positive
red cell containing components
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Did the Shots Cause HCV
"Intramuscular immune globulin is
safe and has never transmitted hepatitis C
or any other infectious disease as licensed
in the United States," said Miriam Alter,
the CDC's chief hepatitis epidemiologist.
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Hepatitis C Origin
Points to Possible Military Link Copyright
1999 by Forward Times- DOCUMENTS RAISE
QUESTIONS ABOUT VIETNAM ERA EXPERIMENTS ED
WENDT-Documents obtained by Forward Times
under the Freedom of Information Act, for an
investigation of the hepatitis C epidemic,
reveal that U.S. servicemen were used to
test experimental vaccines while they were
in Basic Combat Training during the Vietnam
Era” “ blood samples of American servicemen
taken in 1948 were recently reviewed during
a study. Those samples detected the
hepatitis C virus.”
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Citizens
Against Legal Loopholes
A Speech Before the Citizens Against Legal
Loopholes Rally, The Capitol Mall,
Washington, D.C., Labor Day Weekend, 1996 By
Leonard G. Horowitz, "So I began by
investigating the Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention's (CDCs) official
investigation reports on the case. ..reports
to be scientifically bogus. ... government
had covered-up key evidence in the tragedy
in an effort the maintain the case an
unsolvable mystery.... committed scientific
fraud and misconduct .....
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EMERGING VIRUSES
1996 by Leonard G. Horowitz AIDS & EBOLA:
Nature, Accident or Intentional" Tetrahedron
Inc. Rockport, MA . Foreword written by W.
John Martin, M.D., Ph.D. The mixing of
vaccine viruses with others found in the
cells and tissues used to develop the
vaccine can potentially lead to the
development of new recombinant mutants that
are more adaptive and have wider host range
than either of the original viruses. This
can especially happen when a live viral
vaccine produced in cells from one species
is then given to another species.
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MORATORIUM ON VACCINES
THE SAN FRANCISCO MEDICAL RESEARCH
FOUNDATION
Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
officials, in charge of testing and
approving vaccines for drug makers, have
known of these contamination problems since
the early 1970s”
