Vaccine pulled over bacteria fear

[dipsydoodle]

Thousands of doses of the meningitis C vaccine have been withdrawn by the manufacturer Novartis following fears of contamination.

It is understood that the move was taken after samples from two batches were found to contain a bacterium.

The government's medicines agency said contaminated vaccine had not been distributed to the UK and the move was "entirely precautionary".

And there is "no reason" for UK children to be at any risk, it added.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/7911733.stm

[WillYourVoteBCounted]

1. How many of the bad batch were used?

how many children exposed to this risk?

[Warpy]

2. None, this is how the system is supposed to work

with every batch sampled for things like bacterial contamination before it is released to the public.

[varkam]

3. Are you on her ignore list?

I know I am.

[Why Syzygy]

5. Sucks when one's delivery method insures one's case is never heard.

People tune out after innumerable bouts of incendiary bullshit.

[varkam]

6. I know, because I called her so many names.

Like "shill" and "troll" and a "sick puppy" and a "republican" and a "pro-pharma whore"...

Oh...wait a minute...those are the names that she called me! How silly of me to get that reversed...

See, my theory is that people tune out when they can't argue the facts. They'd just rather pretend that they don't exist. If you ignore all the people that have different opinions, then the world is a pretty bright and sunny place, isn't it? Hey - isn't that how this whole Iraq war thingy got started?

I guess I'll be getting slapped onto your ignore list soon, then.

[Why Syzygy]

7. Everyone's entitled to their own theories.

You don't have to believe me :shrug:

[varkam]

8. Well thank you for your permission.

Don't worry - I was never in danger of it.

[thejokerwasme]

12. I like that: 'propharma whore...' Suits so many on here to a T!

:woohoo:

[varkam]

14. Wow! Didn't even make it into double digits this time.

Good work, mods!

[Warpy]

9. Some minds are not only closed, they're nailed shut

and I post to other people who read the thread whose minds might still be open a crack.

Disinformation has to be corrected.

[LeftishBrit]

4. None - they checked it out before use. As they should.

[flyingobject]

22. actually NO. from the article: " GPs who received the batch which has been recalled..."

"GPs who received the batch which has been recalled have been contacted by the Department of Health."

Wonder if the docs are calling parents?

[uppityperson]

10. None, this is how the system is supposed to work

None, this is how the system is supposed to work with every batch sampled for things like bacterial contamination before it is released to the public

[EvolveOrConvolve]

11. "The government's medicines agency said contaminated vaccine had not been distributed to the UK"

"and the move was entirely precautionary."

Did you read the article?

[trotsky]

13. "Did you read the article?"

They rarely do. It's all about the shock value of headlines.

[NickB79]

15. Good. The system works like it is supposed to work

For all those freaking out over this, how about an example from my line of work.

I work as a lab tech in the food industry. A few weeks ago we found coliform bacteria in a batch of sour cream. Did we tear out our hair, scream "Sour cream is toxic, no one should ever eat sour cream again!" and shut down the plant that produced it? No. We put the sour cream on hold, ensuring that none of it reached the store shelves. We retested, and re-retested numerous samples to confirm the contamination. We tested the products run before and after this batch to ensure there was no cross-contamination. When we were satisfied that we had caught all the bad sour cream, we ordered it destroyed. The plant made a new batch of sour cream to replace that which was lost, it tested clean, and it was shipped on it's way.

Novartis did exactly what where supposed to do, and ensured that none of this vaccine reached the public. Note that they didn't wait until reports started coming in of sickened children. They were proactive in their approach, and they should be commended for this.

[toliveanddieinla]

16. Baxter International shipping live avian flu viruses mixed with vaccine material

I'm new here and not allowed to start a new thread so I thought I'd piggy back on this one as it's about vaccines.

http://www.naturalnews.com/025760.html

[mzmolly]

17. Welcome. Highly disturbing...

Here is more information on this -

http://www.lifegen.de/newsip/shownews.php4?getnews=2009-02-26-5323&pc=s01

http://www.google.com/hostednews/canadianpress/article/ALeqM5iV_RT6oBK3tOhtsWf5pnu5OIby9w

[toliveanddieinla]

18. not their first problem

Hopefully there will be a major investigation of their operations by the FDA!!

"If Baxter's name sounds familiar it may be because almost exactly a year ago they were in the news over a series of fatal allergic reactions among dialysis patients who used the blood thinner heparin they manufactured. It turned out their heparin came from China and contained an adulterant, oversulfated chondroitin sulfate. Patients in six countries and over a dozen states in the US had serious adverse reactions and more than 80 deaths."

http://scienceblogs.com/effectmeasure/2009/02/baxter_bird_flu_botch.php?utm_source=sbhomepage&utm_medium=link&utm_content=channellink

[mzmolly]

19. Indeed.

I remember that as a relative was in the hospital on Heparin at the time and the staff was not yet aware of the recall. :crazy:

[flyingobject]

23. oh, is the Federal Govt recommending or mandating sour cream?

will I find it at the Dr. office? Can I get free samples?

[flyingobject]

24. IT MADE IT TO DOCTORS OFFICES ACCORDING TO THE ARTICLE

MAYBE THE BUSY DRS GOT THE MESSAGE IN TIME, MAYBE NOT.

I GUESS THATS JUST COLLATERAL DAMAGE FOR THE ANTI VACCINE SAFETY FOLKS

[flyingobject]

20. how much of the "bad batches" was already given

before the "contamination" was discovered?

[flyingobject]

21. next big Pharma will scream that there is a DEADLY INCREASE in meningitis

and blame activists who oppose triple vacs.

and the deaf dumb blind mainstream media will fail to see that
oh - the big pharma caused a shortage.

Its all about Big Pharma Fuckups.