Glaxo's Vaccine Trials survivor speaks out
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5j3tvMtatcw

I found this when rereading -- "Polio- An American Story"

Notice the very bottom of this quote:

Here is a bit from "Polio; American Story"


"Hilary Koprowski a scientist in the private industry at Ledele Laboratores. All three were ambitious competitive men who got caught up in the growing clamor for a cure. All were Jewish, two having emigrated from Eastern Europe. All were lavisly financed: Sabin and Salk by the National Foundation, Koprowski by Lederll'e parent company, American Cyanamid. All faced ticklish moral questions about the safety of their vaccines as wess as the role of human testing.

Sabin and Koprowski championed a live-virus vaccine designed to trigger a natural infection strong enough to generate lasting antibodies against polio, yet too weak to cause a serious case of the disease. Salk favored a killed-virus version intended to stimulate the immune system to produce the desired antibodies without creating a natural infection. Most polio researcher backed the former strategy, contending that the live virus would provide better immunity against polio and lead to its complete eradication over time. The National Foundation remained officially neutral, though its leaders privately supported the simpler killed-virus vaccine believing it could be marketed more quickly and with fewer health risks to the public. Speed and safety apperad to be on Salk's side.

Acting mostly on it won, with little government support or oversight, the National Foundation conducted the largest medical experiment in American history---the so- called Salk Vaccine Field Trials of the 1954 involving almost two million elementary school children throughout the country. Never before had a public health experiment been subject to such intense media scrutiny. When the trials proved largely successful, Jonas Salk's life changed forever. He became an instant hero, a celebrity=scientist whose white lab coat and elf-effacing demeanor symbolized the concrete benefits fo medical research.

His competitors didn't give up the race; They simply chose a new course. having done what he could to undermine the 1954 Salk trials, Albert Sabin would wind up testing his own vaccine inside the Soviet Union -- a remarkable story of scientific copperation and intrigue in the midst of the cold war. Hilary Koprowski would continue his experiments in Ireland, Eastern Europe and Africa, with results and consequences that reverberate eerily to this day ."


So you see Ireland was a most loved place to prey upon test subjects too. Geeeeeee was not Koprowski - thought to have used the great apes instead of the green monkeys when making up polio vaccines for the people in Africa where AIDs did seem to have it's beginnings.

Poor Ireland -- The people lived there so poor that even the blackest slave in America was considered far better off.

Fièvre;
I am sorry to say - it probably will go quietly into the nightt.

The Medellin tragedy, that occured at Las Salas-Cunas in Medellin on the 14th of november 1930 after a third injection is investigated in this article from Historia Critica in 2012. It provides [ in spanish] an overview of what was known and practised at these times. http://www.google.fr/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0CCAQFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fhistoriacritica.uniandes.edu.co%2Fdatos%2Fpdf%2Fdescargar.php%3Ff%3D.%2Fdata%2FH_Critica_46%2Fn46a07.pdf&ei=nsunU8fEFMSZPbvbgYgG&usg=AFQjCNFX7xWFUWnxFOucEpcHOr6-1sVHcw&bvm=bv.69411363,d.ZWU

In 1930, the Florida State Board of Health reported "The death of a number of children at Medellin [48 children are said to have died of this error early in 1930 a few weeks before the Lübeck tragedy (bcg) was made public], Colombia, due to the injection of diphtheria toxin instead of antitoxin is to be deplored. Such an error could scarcely be made by anyone experienced in giving these treatments, especially since the toxin and toxin-antitoxin mixtures are put up in packages quite different from those containing antitoxin." http://archive.org/stream/193022/1930_22_djvu.txt

Waiting for more precise information to come - mainly from the commission, but also from other sources...- I found an article from the Sunday World which was published the same day as the article from the MailOnline that is reported on this present page.

The Sunday World report some facts missing in the MailOnline : Dr. Dwyer is said to have sorted 25,000 medical journals during three years before establishing that 2,051 children and babies in residential care homes had been subjected to these controversial vaccinations.

The Sunday World adds :
"According to a 1932 medical journal, Wellcome lab workers who prepared the vaccine for diphtheria had a “complete lack of experience of its use with human beings”.

The initial trials were carried out on 436 kids from the general child population in cork

Some of the original batches of the alum-toxoid vaccine, which comprised of 9 per cent aluminium, caused severe reaction like fatal abscesses and hard lumps at the injection site.

As over one third of children vaccinated didn’t return for subsequent treatments, the severity of many of the side-effects were not known.

A controlled population of test subjects was required, the attending medical officer John Saunders said “There are but two suitable institutions in Cork, both of them orphanages, and they were placed at our disposal by the authorities. “

These orphanages are un-named in Saunders’ report but are thought to be St Joseph’s Industrial School for Boys and St Finbarr’s Industrial School for Girls."
https://www.sundayworld.com/top-stories/news/children-in-state-care-used-as-guinea-pigs-for-secret-drug-testing

[The Sunday World didn't precise where these informations come from : did they get ithem after contacting Dr Dwyer or did they extract them from the conference sourced here http://rcpilibrary.blogspot.fr/2013/11/rcpi-history-of-medicine-research-award.html ?]

Today, John Dalhuisen, Europe and Central Asia Programme Director at Amnesty International, expressed the firm wish that the ‘Mother and baby homes’ investigation should be robust and comprehensive : http://www.amnesty.org/en/news/ireland-mother-and-baby-homes-investigation-robust-comprehensive-2014-06-19

Yesterday night Minister Charlie Flanagan made a statement wherein I digg this :
"Questions remain unanswered about the nature of adoptions and vaccine trials. Significant legal difficulties have been identified in seeking answers to these questions in the past and it is my intention that the Commission of Investigation can make progress where past investigations have failed....
...today Cabinet agreed to establish a Commission of Investigation, with statutory powers, to investigate mother and baby homes. The work of the interdepartmental group will continue no later than 30th June and its completed work will inform the Government’s decisions on the Terms of Reference and composition of the Commission of Investigation."

I hope AoA will recall this story at the end of the month...

Accordind to Alliance Support Group, "Amnesty International has joined calls for an investigation into the deaths. The human rights organisation said the investigation must consider whether ill-treatment, neglect or other abuses were factors in the deaths...research carried out by Amnesty International in 2011 found that the issues of mother-and-baby homes and vaccine trials were not investigated fully."

It should be noted that this new scandal is occuring whereas "the Catholic church and the four religious orders that ran Magdalene Laundries in Ireland (Sisters of Charity, Sisters of Mercy, Good Shepherd Sisters, Sisters of our Lady of Charity) HAVE refused to accept unanimous survivor testimony that they were imprisoned and subjected to forced labour and torture or other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment. None of the orders have offered an apology to Magdalene survivors, nor have they contributed to the compensation fund. The Catholic Church has not made any attempt to instigate an internal investigation into Magdalene abuse, nor has it held anyone accountable for what happened" ( according to http://www.magdalenelaundries.com/press_releases.htm#280514 )

"In June 2001 an inquiry was ordered into trials on 58 children in 1960 and 1961, at six homes – including Bessborough. Results of those trials were published in the British Medical Journal in 1962. But that inquiry was halted when Professor Patrick Meenan, one of six authors of the study and then aged 86, said he should not have to appear on grounds of his age and ill health. A subsequent inquiry was blocked by Irene Hillary, a former professor of microbiology, in 2004. "
"The government of Prime Minister Enda Kenny, which has had rocky relations with the Vatican since taking power in 2011, already has authorised police and government record-trawling efforts into the Tuam home."http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/ireland/10887561/Irish-care-home-scandal-grows-amid-allegations-of-vaccine-testing-on-children.html

"In a related story, GSK — formerly Wellcome — revealed Monday on Newstalk Radio that 298 children in 10 different care homes were involved in medical trials in the ’60s and ’70s that left “80 children ill after they were accidentally administered a vaccine intended for cattle." http://www.salon.com/2014/06/09/the_catholic_irish_babies_scandal_it_gets_much_worse/

In one of the trials, 80 children became ill after they were accidentally administered a vaccine intended for cattle. Monday,on Dublin radio station Newstalk, Pharmaceutical company GlaxoSmithKline uncovered the experiments after it purchased one of the labs involved [ what was the name of the lab ? Who run it at the time ? When did GlaxoSK discover the error ? What action did GlaxoSK take when the error was discovered ?]....Documentation from the British Medical Journal thanks the Chief Medical Officers for their consent for the trials, however does not state whether parental consent was sought....There was no laws on medical testing in Ireland until 1987 cf : Nun admits care home children were involved in medical trials http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/local-national/republic-of-ireland/nun-admits-care-home-children-were-involved-in-medical-trials-30339431.html

How do you know that the children ranging from small infant - to 9 year olds piled in a septic tank did not die from a vaccine experiment instead of neglect?

They interviewed an elderly man who was raised in the same orphanage, and I think he was suprised when they told him. He -- he did not say -- Oh yes, they were horrible people that did not feed me and beat me -- he said he was lucky they did not kill him too -- Seems like he was at a lose of why they would have died unless the nuns were out right murdering kids was the only explanation that came to his mind.

Vaccine experiments and tricking nuns by pharma companys is hardly the first thing that would come to some one's mind - because vaccines are so hidden in the name of saving lives (not the opposite) .

Jenny thanks for the explaination. But it could be that you cannot keep such evil hiden things have a tendency to show up in a septic tank.

I see everyone is wanting to bash the Catholic Church -- but they did provide a hoe or at least tried to, when there was no state or government that would. This was the time of the great depression. A time when grown men were starving- and encouraged good people to follow a monster like Hilter. .

Is the Alliance for Human Research Protection still functionning ?

Mari Steed in her comments to an article tackling the subject confirms that the practise continued far beyond the 1930's : http://www.irishcentral.com/news/Religious-orders-allowed-over-2000-Irish-children-to-be-used-in-medical-experiments.html

That the Taioseach was in the United States was probably used by the journalists to frame their article in a way to give it a large audience and to prevent the affair(s) to finish in some media orphanage.

This is sickening. But the focus on why it's so horrible is being diluted by the fact that the church as involved (not that that is to be dismissed). Now one of the news feeds has pulled up some old "Magdalene laundry" information on how the church dealt with fallen women.
Call me cynical, but I don't think that we'd be hearing about this vaccine trial tragedy in the main stream news if the new Pope wasn't in the process of rocking the boat. First he refuses to get embroiled in the abortion debate and then tells folks that the church does not revolve solely around the idea of the wrongness of abortion and encourages the church to remember the service of the people and the poor. Then he discusses that celibacy is not an original mandate of the priesthood but has only been a part of it's traditions for a thousand years. Then to top things off he fires the whole financial crew in an attempt to re-orient the church bank, in an apparant attempt to weed out those "straw men" account holders (church folk helping non-church folk get their money into the bank - is he implying there might have been some minor money laundering going on here? Who were the players wanting to put their money anonymously into the church's coffers?)

The dude is breaking all the rules, betraying those false dichotomies that partisan politics so loves! Is he maybe knockin' about some major political players behind the scenes? Is he pissing off the Republicans? Diverging from their standard right-wing political messages? Aren't they also some of the major bankers/financial players in the international bank scene? Not that I care, if it brings dirty vaccine history into the forefront for a moment in the limelight. But I think that some people are dredging up these old church scandals to fire a little shot across the pope's bow. That vaccines were involved I think is just a detail to be tolerated, minimized, and then sidelined while the mainstream media gets steered to reporting on the church portion of the story.

I have been sharing AofA's articles on my FB page for years, and it is hard to keep doing when few if any of my friends ever like or comment or apparently read them. I will keep posting, of course, but for this article I decided to post the news source article. Thank you for all you do, Age of Autism!

You only have to read " The River " by Edward Hooper to realise how ill informed people taking part in trials in Africa for the Polio vaccine were. Perhaps as he states in his book the start of Aids. Makes sense as Africa has been the major sufferer and homosexual men being used as guinea pigs for the vaccine to treat genital herpes. Ireland also I believe used babies in orphanages in the 50's and 60's for DPT trials. Dr Wakefield mentions in his book Callous Disregard babies in the late 80's being given MMR vaccine in the UK apparently trial stopped because of a baby death, of course no media coverage and no outcome reported. How do they get away with it.

John Stone, you made it clear that the article is confusing ! One of the co-author, Neil Michael, wrote another article today : no mention what so any of any vaccine trial in it.http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2651766/We-need-dig-babies-graves-Ground-Penetrating-Radar-reveals-lies-beneath-Tuam-Home-site.html

There is a small glimmer of hope.

An innocent little girl has been finally compensated for a vaccine injury.

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/policy/girl-left-disabled-by-flu-jab-wins-millions/story-fn59nokw-1226946277194#

Elizabeth Gillespie

Stories on these trials go back a number of years.

What is amazing is the fact that the vaccine trials have been known about FOR YEARS:

2010, Irish News: More vaccine trials were kept secret by the State http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/more-vaccine-trials-were-kept-secret-by-the-state-26675516.html
THE Government was told about secret vaccine trials at least six years ago but has refused to investigate them ever since.

2010, WordPress.com: A Scandal Emerging: Glaxo's Irish Vaccine Trials
http://truthman30.wordpress.com/2010/08/22/a-scandal-emerging-glaxos-irish-vaccine-trials/
AN INDEPENDENT inquiry should be set up to examine vaccine trials carried out on babies and children in orphanages and mother-and-baby homes in the 1960s and 1970s, a former resident has said.

2012 Belfast (UK) Telegraph: Ireland's hidden scandal: child vaccine trials
http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/local-national/republic-of-ireland/irelands-hidden-scandal-child-vaccine-trials-28553907.html
Suspicions that vaccine trials had taken place on vulnerable Irish children -- many of whom were in state care -- first surfaced in the early 1990s.
As the current decade dawned, former residents of children's homes began to publicly raise concerns that they had been the subject of experimental trials.

However, it was not until 1997 that the State gave an assurance that it would formally inquire into the issue.

These trials were still going on in the 1970s. Stories were out in 2010 about it.
Maybe it's the discovery of all the buried babies that has reopened this horrific event.

Here it is ( the Michael Dwyer's...speach) : http://rcpilibrary.blogspot.fr/2013/11/rcpi-history-of-medicine-research-award.html

Thanks,John. I wonder how much these two sad facts are related. Chances are there were more of these unethical vaccine trials as well.

Jen

Basically we have two stories here - the Michael Dwyer story about unethical Borroughs Wellcome trials and Catherine Corless story about a mass grave (of infants who died between 1925 and 1961) but related by the Irish convent theme.

Benedetta,
Haven't you shared in the past your suspicions about vaccines given to your Appalachian community in that same time period?

Stalin callously observed: "A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic."

Still .. it never ceases to amaze me .. how intelligent, compassionate, educated people .. can be so easily swayed by someone in "authority" .. wearing a white coat .. and .. calling himself a doctor.

As Zed says .. "the more things change, the more they stay the same".

I'm pleased that this is considered scandalous in a general topic newspaper.