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To: pocotrader who wrote (1315102)	8/24/2021 2:01:13 AM
From: Bonefish	1 Recommendation Recommended By Winfastorlose Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 1570103

polio is still around. only smallpox is eradicated. had a 30% death rate ,btw

To: pocotrader who wrote (1315102)	8/24/2021 2:08:30 AM
From: Winfastorlose	1 Recommendation Recommended By FJB Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1570103

Can’t make this up! Scientists now researching a “vaccine-for-the-vaccine”…

To: pocotrader who wrote (1315102)	8/24/2021 2:22:20 AM
From: Winfastorlose	3 Recommendations Recommended By Broken_Clock FJB isopatch Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1570103

Tough on Crime? Pfizer and the CIHR The appointment of Dr. Bernard Prigent, vice-president and medical director of Pfizer Canada, to the Governing Council of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, outraged many Canadian health researchers. Pfizer has been a "habitual offender," persistently engaging in illegal and corrupt marketing practices, bribing physicians and suppressing adverse trial results. Since 2002 the company and its subsidiaries have been assessed $3 billion in criminal convictions, civil penalties and jury awards. The $2.3-billion settlement in September 2009 - a month before Dr. Prigent's appointment - set a new record for both criminal fines and total penalties. A link with Pfizer might well advance the commercialization of Canadian research - unhindered by law or morality. Is that now the only mandate, Dr. Beaudet?

To: pocotrader who wrote (1315102)	8/24/2021 3:27:25 AM
From: Broken_Clock	1 Recommendation Recommended By Winfastorlose Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1570103

You can take polio off your list LONDON — Four African countries have reported new cases of polio linked to the oral vaccine, as global health numbers show there are now more children being paralyzed by viruses originating in vaccines than in the wild. In a report late last week, the World Health Organization and partners noted nine new polio cases caused by the vaccine in Nigeria, Congo, Central African Republic and Angola. Seven countries elsewhere in Africa have similar outbreaks and cases have been reported in Asia. Of the two countries where polio remains endemic, Afghanistan and Pakistan, vaccine-linked cases have been identified in Pakistan. In rare cases, the live virus in oral polio vaccine can mutate into a form capable of sparking new outbreaks.All the current vaccine-derived polio cases have been sparked by a Type 2 virus contained in the vaccine. Type 2 wild virus was eliminated years ago. Polio is a highly infectious disease that spreads in contaminated water or food and usually strikes children under 5. About one in 200 infections results in paralysis. Among those, a small percentage die when their breathing muscles are crippled. Donors last week pledged $2.6 billion to combat polio as part of an eradication initiative that began in 1988 and hoped to wipe out polio by 2000. Since then, numerous such deadlines have been missed. To eradicate polio, more than 95% of a population needs to be immunized. WHO and partners have long relied on oral polio vaccines because they are cheap and can be easily administered, requiring only two drops per dose. Western countries use a more expensive injectable polio vaccine that contains an inactivated virus incapable of causing polio. The Independent Monitoring Board, a group set up by WHO to assess polio eradication, warned in a report this month that vaccine-derived polio virus is “spreading uncontrolled in West Africa, bursting geographical boundaries and raising fundamental questions and challenges for the whole eradication process.” The group said officials were already “failing badly” to meet a recently approved polio goal of stopping all vaccine-derived outbreaks within 120 days of detection. It described the initial attitude of WHO and its partners to stopping such vaccine-linked polio cases as “relaxed” and said “new thinking” on how to tackle the problem was needed. abcnews.go.com