Hep B jab linked to multiple sclerosis

From: Todd Gastaldo (tgastaldo_at_earthlink.net)
Date: 09/15/04 

Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2004 03:27:12 GMT

HEP B JAB LINKED TO MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS

The French stopped recommending Hep B for adolescents in 1998.

See below.

"Ilena Rose" <ilena@san.rr.com> wrote in message
news:5hvek0dijegd84hsgbm83p62uucjhkt7ls@4ax.com...
> ~~~~ Thanks Kathi ~~~~
>
> Jab linked to multiple sclerosis
>
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/3651782.stm
>
> People who are vaccinated against hepatitis B are at increased risk of
> multiple sclerosis, a study shows.
>
> US public health experts found the link when they looked at data on
> more than 1,500 UK patients.
>
> The Harvard team does not know whether the vaccine causes MS in those
> prone to the disease or speeds up MS in those destined to have it.
>
> The benefits of protecting against hepatitis might outweigh any risk,
> wrote the authors in Neurology.
>
> Immunisation against hepatitis B was associated with a three-fold
> increase in the incidence of MS Lead researcher Dr Miguel Hernàn
>
>
> In the UK, people who are at increased risk of hepatitis B because of
> their lifestyle, occupation or other factors such as close contact
> with a case or carrier are advised to be immunised against this virus.
>
> It is passed from person to person through blood contact. The virus
> may also be present in saliva, vaginal secretions, and other body
> fluids.
>
> This means people at high risk include intravenous drug misusers,
> individuals who change sexual partners frequently, health care
> workers, prisoners and prison staff and those travelling to areas of
> high prevalence such as the Far East.
>
> Conflicting evidence
>
> About one in four infected of those with hepatitis B will develop a
> serious liver disease such as chronic hepatitis, cirrhosis or liver
> cancer develops after a number of years.
>
> In recent years, concerns have been raised that the vaccine may
> trigger serious autoimmune diseases, especially multiple sclerosis
>
> These fears were fueled in the 1990s when about 200 people in France
> developed MS shortly after receiving the hepatitis B vaccine.

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THE FRENCH...

In 1998, I asked CDC to translate a French document on the subject...

-----Original Message-----
From: Todd Gastaldo <gastaldo@gte.net>
To: Orenstein, Walt <wao1@cdc.gov>
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Date: Tuesday, October 27, 1998 11:15 PM
Subject: Hep B vaccine might cause MS? English translation please...

>Walter Orenstein, MD
>Director
>National Immunization Program
>Centers for Disease Control
>
>Dr. Orenstein,
>
>This is a request for an English translation of the French government's
>October 1998 decision to suspend routine Hepatitis B vaccination of
>adolescents due to the possibility that Hepatitis B vaccine causes Multiple
>Sclerosis...
>
>Dr. Orenstein, your website carries an October 2, 1998 press release from
>WHO titled,
>
>NO SCIENTIFIC JUSTIFICATION TO
>SUSPEND HEPATITIS B IMMUNIZATION
>
>According to WHO:
>
>"On 1 October 1998, the French Ministry of Health announced a decision to
>suspend routine HB immunization of adolescents in French schools, while
>continuing the immunization of infants and high risk adults..."
>
>In a separate article, WHO reports:
>
>"A number of anecdotal reports have linked the administration of hepatitis
>B
>vaccine with the onset of multiple sclerosis (MS)...
>http://www.who.int/gpv-safety/Diseases/hepatitis_b_vaccine_and_multiple.htm
>
>But WHO doesn't think there is any real cause for the French government's
>action; and accordingly, WHO recommends continued Hepatitis B vaccination
>of
>adolescents, "based on demonstrated important benefits - including the
>prevention of cirrhosis and cancer..."
>http://www.who.int/gpv-safety/Diseases/hepatitis_b_vaccine_and_multiple.htm
>
>When did prevention of CANCER become a "demonstrated important benefit" of
>hepatitis B vaccination??
>
>The lastest information I've found (see below), indicates that cancer
>prevention has NOT been demonstrated...
>
>A little relevant history is in order...
>
>As hundreds of millions of Third World children were being injected with
>hepatitis B vaccine, most of the world's physicians were refusing hepatitis
>B vaccine injections - for fear of catching AIDS.
>
>"...[O]ver the next 5 to 10 years...[Third World countries] will need 350
>million doses a year...By the year 2000 we will have accomplished our task
>if we see hepatitis B incorporated as the seventh universal immunogen for
>infant immunization in the Expanded Program on Immunization that is
>sponsored by the World Health Organization." [James E. Maynard, M.D.,
>executive director of a nine physician international task force run by the
>Seattle-based Program for Appropriate Technology and Health (PATH),
>discussing the hepatitis B vaccine produced by Alfred M. Prince, M.D. of
>the
>New York Blood Center. In Marwick C: JAMA, Sept.18, 1987;258(1):1439]
>
>Dr. AM Prince, developer of the hepatitis B vaccine, wrote in 1991:
>
>[M]any high-risk individuals...do not wish to be vaccinated. This applies
>surprisingly to about 50% of physicians and nurses in many countries, who
>despite all assurances remain unconvinced that HBV vaccine will not
>transmit
>unknown agents of disease." [Prince AM: Hepatitis B virus: active and
>passive immunization. In Cryz SJ (ed.): Vaccines and immunotherapy, 1991,
>New York: Pergamon Press.]
>
>In one study MDs refused hepatitis B vaccination - even when it was offered
>free of charge:
>
>"...the majority of physicians...failed to be vaccinated even when offered
>the hepatitis B vaccine free of charge." [Clancy CM, Cebul RD, Williams SV.
>Guiding individual decisions: a randomized controlled trial of decision
>analysis. Am J Med, 1988;84(2):283-8]
>
>Even stranger than doctors not taking their own hepatitis B vaccine is the
>fact that Hepatitis B vaccine researchers discovered early on that nearly
>all the African children on whom they were experimenting, were testing
>positive for hepatitis B virus [The Lancet, May12, 1989, p. 1057-60] - but
>were almost never expressing symptoms of the disease called hepatitis.
>[Cancer Res, 1987;47:5782-87]
>
>And now a 1998 press release reports, in effect, that these same Hepatitis
>B
>vaccine researchers are indicating that unvaccinated infants WERE suffering
>from acute hepatitis - from infancy up to the age of ten years:
>
>"The Gambia Hepatitis Intervention Study has clearly demonstrated that
>protection against persistent hepatitis B infection by infant vaccination
>continues up to the age of ten years. The study of this protection
>against...against acute hepatitis...should be continued into the adolescent
>years when new modes of exposure to the virus will occur."
>http://www.iarc.fr/preleases/121e.htm
>
>Whatever the case with acute hepatitis, the 1998 press release to which I
>am
>referring was titled, "Recommendations for the control of hepatitis
>B-related CANCER" [emphasis added] - but upon reading the press release,
>one
>finds that the Gambian study is being conducted because researchers DON'T
>KNOW whether Hep B vaccine prevents cancer...
>
>According to the press release:
>
>"GHIS should ensure that cancer registration in The Gambia and linkage of
>individuals with liver cancer to vaccine records is made as effective as
>possible, in order for the study to fulfill its *ORIGINAL AIM* of measuring
>vaccine efficacy against liver cancer." [emphasis added]
>http://www.iarc.fr/preleases/121e.htm
>
>Dr. Orenstein, most of the world public is unaware that millions
>(billions?)
>are being spent to innoculate children to MAYBE prevent the adult cancer
>called hepatocellular carcinoma - as 50% of African children in some areas
>starve to death. [50% mortality rate is from Sachs MY and Martin AS (Eds.):
>Worldmark Encyclopedia of the Nations, Volume 2: Africa, 7th ed., 1988, New
>York: Worldmark Press, Ltd., John Wiley & Sons, Inc.]
>
>Interesting side note: I am truly surprised that the 1998 press release
>about The Gambian experiment (see above) did not explicitly mention the
>woodchuck studies and the epidemiologic studies being used to claim that
>Hep
>B vaccine prevents cancer. Also interesting is Duesberg and Schwartz's
>1992
>claim that "there is no convincing evidence that hepatitis B viral DNA is
>functionally relevant for the initiation and maintenance of hepatomas."
>[Duesberg PH and Schwartz JR: Latent viruses and mutated oncogenes: no
>evidence for pathogenicity. Progress in Nucleic Acid Research and Molecular
>Biology, 1992;43:135-204]
>
>Back to the matter at hand...
>
>Dr. Orenstein, your CDC web site contains ENGLISH-language press releases
>and articles that in effect pejorize the recent French action as
>unscientific and unnecessary.
>
>You link to French government health minister Bernard Kouchner, MD's "Point
>sur la vaccination contre l'Hépatite B jeudi 1er octobre 1998" - without
>any
>translation into English.
>http://www.cdc.gov/nip/vacsafe/vaccinesafety/Hot%20Topics/hepb.htm
>
>MS is a serious disease, Dr. Orenstein. *Any* evidence - even anecdotal -
>that Hepatitis B vaccine causes MS should be available in English.
>Americans should be FULLY informed. I certainly do not take lightly
>vaccination decisions of the country (France) that produced Prof. Claude
>Bernard, the father of experimental medicine...
>
>Could you please have someone at CDC IMMEDIATELY translate the French
>government's explanation into English?
>
>Will you notify me when this is done?
>
>It is a long shot, but, in addition to copying the e-mail address of the
>webmaster@sante.gouv.fr , I have copied martine.aubry.ttt@wanadoo.fr .
>Hopefully, this latter e-mail address is the e-mail address of Madame
>Martine Aubry, Ministre de l'Emploi et de la Solidarité. If I have reached
>Madame Aubry, hopefully she will forward this e-mail to the above mentioned
>Bernard Kouchner, MD, Secrétaire d'Etat à la Santé. I would like Dr.
>Kouchner to know that at least one U.S. citizen is interested in reading
>his
>side of the story - in English... (My apologies to
>martine.aubry.ttt@wanadoo.fr if I have not reached the Ministre de l'Emploi
>et de la Solidarité.)
>
>Thank you for replying Dr. Orenstein - and thanks also to ncehinfo@cdc.gov
>for forwarding my e-mail to you...
>
>I look forward to hearing back from you regarding the English translation
>requested above...
>
>Todd D. Gastaldo, D.C.
>
>P.S. Before you replied with your e-mail address, I found some other e-mail
>addresses of CDC employees. I will blind copy them. Perhaps one or more
>of
>them are fluent in French and can assist you in translating the words of
>Bernard Kouchner, MD, Secrétaire d'Etat à la Santé.
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Orenstein, Walt <wao1@cdc.gov>
>To: 'Gastaldo, Todd' <gastaldo@gte.net>
>Date: Tuesday, October 27, 1998 12:55 PM
>Subject: Your email request
>
>
>>Mr. Gastaldo,
>>
>>Your email was forwarded to us, stating that you were looking for the
>>email
>>address of the Director of the National Immunization Program.
>>
>>You can reach me at:
>>
>> Walter A. Orenstein, M.D.
>>
>> wao1@cdc.gov
>>
>>
>>

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>
> In February 2001, the results of a long-term study of hepatitis B
> vaccine and MS in nurses were published in the New England Journal of
> Medicine.
>
> This study, by researchers at Harvard School of Public Health, found
> no link between the two.
>
>

Still, there was no reason CDC couldn't have translated the French
document...

Thanks for reading.

Sincerely,

Todd

Dr. Gastaldo
todd@chiromotion.com

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