African genocide: African Children Still Paralyzed After Mandatory Vaccines, Government Says “All in Their Head”

<div style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 16px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">African government is denying vaccines harmed children.<br /> <span class="text_exposed_show">It has now been officially confirmed that in December 2012, 38 children were hospitalized after receiving the meningitis vaccine, MenAfriVac, during a vaccination campaign arranged by the Chadian government. News program France 24 stated that Saleh Ahmat Bodoumi, a former Member of Parliament in Chad, confirmed that seven of the most seriously affected children have since been evacuated from hospitals in the capital city of Ndjamena to the Republic of Tunisia in northern Africa to undergo further investigation and specialized treatment. [1]<br /> </span></span><img alt="African government denying vaccines harming children." height="266" src="http://vactruth.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/african-children-paralyzed-300x199.jpg" width="400" /> <span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="text_exposed_show"><br /> This news was confirmed by the ‘Medical Xpress’ a health news service, which said Health Minister Mamouth Nahor N’Gawara made the following statement to the Agence France-Presse, the largest French news agency in the world (AFP):<br /> <br /> “During the last phase of the vaccination campaign organized at Gouro (near the Libyan border) on December 11 to 15, 2012, unusual reactions were noted.”<br /> <br /> N’Gawara added that “their state of health is not worrying.” [2]<br /> <br /> FORCED VACCINATIONS<br /> <br /> However, the Medical Xpress, along with other websites, followed this story the next day by backtracking and stating the following information:<br /> <br /> “In a statement, the country’s health ministry said tests “failed to establish a causal link between the clinical manifestations observed in the patients and the MenAfriVac vaccine.”<br /> <br /> According to the statement, one child who never received the meningitis shot ‘complained of suffering from the same symptoms’ found in the other children.” [3]<br /> <br /> However, a contact in Chad gave VacTruth an extremely different version of events. He said:<br /> <br /> “The government and the World Health Organization have made up these facts.<br /> <br /> The government banned journalists from visiting the hospital since the children brought in. (sic) All the children from Gouro received the vaccine.<br /> <br /> Firstly, they (Government/WHO) collaborated with the school’s headmaster who locked the school’s main door before vaccinating all the children. The school headmaster told the children that anyone who refused the vaccine would be banned from school and be arrested.</span></span></div><div style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 16px;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://draft.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=5959300518432319010" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a></div><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="text_exposed_show"> <br /> Secondly, they went door to door and injected the babies over one year.”<br /> <br /> If you find this event difficult to believe, then cast your mind back to 2007 when the news broke that children in Maryland had been forcibly vaccinated at gunpoint under orders from the state Attorney General, various state judges and the local school board director, all of whom illegally conspired to threaten parents with imprisonment if they did not submit their children to vaccinations. [4]<br /> <br /> Another example of these bully boy tactics was seen in Malawi last year, where 131 children were vaccinated at gunpoint after their parents had refused the measles vaccine. [5] [6]<br /> <br /> A TRAGIC TIMELINE<br /> <br /> Interestingly, the health minister ended his official statement by saying that the state of the paralyzed children’s health is not worrisome. If that is true, then why did the Chadian government move them to another hospital and why was this move done in secret?<br /> <br /> Our Chadian contact informed me that the parents were not even allowed to know where the children were being evacuated to prior to evacuation. He confirmed that on the day that the children were evacuated, the N’Djamena International Airport had been closed to visitors!<br /> <br /> VacTruth reported on the Chadian tragedy on January 6, 2013. [7] However, a team of experts in Chad did not begin to investigate the situation fully until January 9. The Prime Minister of Chad did not visit the sick children in hospital until a few days later. On January 13, VacTruth released a film of the TV footage of this visit that had been copied and forwarded to us. [8]<br /> <br /> So, why did the Chadian government take so long to act on this appalling situation? According to France 24, the Health Minister did not make his announcement until January 9, five weeks after the incident occurred.<br /> <br /> Another false representation of the facts being portrayed to the public is the following information which has been reported by several websites:<br /> <br /> “In total, more than 100 million people in ten African countries have been vaccinated against the disease.”<br /> <br /> It is a possibility that tens of millions of people were vaccinated with MenAfriVac, although highly unlikely. However, it is a total impossibility, by the WHOS’s own admission, that this number was vaccinated using the controlled temperature chain (CTC) implementations. In November 2012, WHO stated:<br /> <br /> “Evidence of the heat stability of MenAfriVac® was validated by a team of experts from WHO, PATH, SIIL, and Health Canada. In collaboration with the government of Benin, the Meningitis Vaccine Project (MVP), Optimize, and the WHO regional office for Africa, a pilot use of the MenAfrivac® vaccine in a CTC will be conducted during the upcoming MenAfriVac® campaign in the northern part of the country, from November 15 through 25. Benin is the 10th country to introduce the vaccine, as well as the first country to work with the new CTC implementation guidelines, developed through WHO’s Immunization Practices Advisory Committee”. [9] (emphasis added)</span></span></div><script async src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js"></script><br /> <!-- wakeupcallnews_main_Blog1_300x250_as --><br /> <ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:inline-block;width:300px;height:250px" data-ad-client="ca-pub-8084439033195179" data-ad-slot="3482606840"></ins><br /> <script> (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script><br /> <div style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 16px;"><img height="640" src="http://www.savethechildren.ca/image/advocacy/Immunisation-for-All-EO-Africa-cover.jpg" width="451" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="text_exposed_show"><br /> <br /> BREAKING THE RULES, AT LEAST TWICE<br /> <br /> So, what has been going on behind the scenes?<br /> <br /> MenAfriVac was a pre-licensed vaccine still in the testing stages. It had been advertised by all the major organizations involved in the campaign, including UNICEF, FDA, CDC, The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, PATH, Meningitis Vaccine Project and WHO, as a vaccine that could be kept in a controlled temperature chain (CTC) at temperatures of up to 40 degrees Celsius for up to four days. However, according to the manufacturer, this information was not strictly true because they state:<br /> <br /> “MenAfriVac should be stored and transported between 2-8ºC. Protect from light. The diluent should be stored at 25°C. It is recommended to protect the reconstituted vaccine from direct sunlight.” [10]<br /> <br /> According to a report of a meeting which took place in October 2012 between the World Health Organization’s Immunizations, Vaccines and Biologicals group and the Immunization Practices Advisory Committee (IPAC), the MenAfriVac vaccine had not been fully licensed and would not be due to be fully endorsed until 2013, at the earliest. [11]<br /> <br /> The children of Gouro were vaccinated in December 2012, apparently with a vaccine that was still being tested which had not yet gained approval to be used outside of a cold temperature chain. According to sources, Dr. Diego Buriot read this message in French on Chad TV, a local television station:<br /> <br /> “We have done all analyses, we believe that the vaccine was not the cause of the paralysis and the children are not in danger. It is clear that the vaccine is not the cause. All seems to show that the vaccine, which already has been largely used on the whole of the chain, does not produce vaccinal complications.<br /> <br /> We have retested the vaccine, both at the level of the producer, as well as at the level of random checks, which are undecided. These will give their results within several weeks, but actually we are sure that the vaccine is not the cause.<br /> <br /> What we are sure of is first of all that there is no danger whatsoever for the children, that is very important to say. All the clinical trials that we have done are completely normal other than this agitation, which is real, it translates the fear of the children.” [translated from French]<br /> <br /> This is the first public acknowledgement admitting that the children had became ill and paralyzed after they had received the vaccination, as well as the first of likely many denials that the vaccine is not to blame.<br /> <br /> So, who is Dr. Diego Buriot and who does he represent?<br /> <br /> IT’S ALL IN THEIR HEAD<br /> <br /> Dr. Diego Buriot is the Director of the WHO Office in Lyon, France. He is in charge of the Department of Communicable Disease Surveillance and Response and with impressive credentials and “considerable experience in the public health problems of developing countries.” [12]<br /> <br /> Of course he would say that the vaccines did not cause the children’s injuries, even though he has admitted that all the test results have not yet been received and won’t be for several weeks. Remember his words?<br /> <br /> “We have retested the vaccine, both at the level of the producer, as well as at the level of random checks, which are undecided. These will give their results within several weeks, but actually we are sure that the vaccine is not the cause.”<br /> <br /> On January 20, 2013, the human rights organization ECOTERRA International and I wrote a letter to the resident representative of WHO in Chad, Dr. Saïdou Pathé Barry. We have checked the WHO website [13] regularly since submitting our inquiry, but we have not found any report or update. For this reason, we have been forced to make a public appeal to WHO and ask them to answer our fourteen questions regarding the MenAfriVac vaccination tragedy at their earliest convenience.<br /> <br /> On January 22, we were given a copy of the original press release signed by The Minister of Public Health, Dr. Mamouth Nahor N’gawara. It makes interesting but predictable reading:<br /> <br /> The findings were the same old same, although the release did admit to the inadequate hospital conditions, the lack of medical follow-up — especially on the psychological level — and the dialogue between the community and the health personnel as being insufficient.<br /> <br /> No cause for the illness of the children appears to have been found. Interestingly, the Experts’ Recommendations stated:<br /> <br /> • Make sure of a progressive yet fast return of the children to their families, and a medical follow up<br /> <br /> • Maintain the dialogue with the families, the actors and the partners of the vaccination<br /> <br /> • Reinforce the medical structure at the local level by adding a doctor and a state registered nurse for a better tracking of the health of the population and the routine activities<br /> <br /> • Reinforce the health personnel capacity in crisis communication and rumor control<br /> <br /> The experts want to stress that the analysis of the epidemiological, medical, clinical and paraclinical data do not permit us to establish a causal link between the clinical manifestations observed in the patients, and the MenAfriVac™ vaccine.<br /> <br /> The symptoms observed in the patients resemble those, which have been described in the literature under several names:<br /> <br /> • collective hysteria<br /> • collective obsessive behavior<br /> • mass psychogenic phenomenon<br /> <br /> In other words, the “experts” are trying to say that the children’s condition is psychological. This move is growing in popularity governments and the medical profession uses the ‘its all in their heads’ phenomenon to minimize vaccine damage, thus shifting the blame to the parents or the victim.<br /> <br /> They finish by stating, translated from French:<br /> <br /> “The independent experts thank the population and the Chadian authorities for the confidence placed in them. They appeal to the diligence of the authorities to put quickly into action the recommendations, which will facilitate the return to a calmed down situation, beneficial to the correct proceeding of the vaccination programs.”<br /> <br /> The press release also says that a final report will be completed by the health services in Tunisia.<br /> <br /> What the press release fails to say is the following: out of the 500 children vaccinated, a total of 106 became ill. Only 38 of the sick children were hospitalized, leaving 62 sick children in Gouro to be cared for by relatives. [13]<br /> <br /> HOW ARE THE CHILDREN DOING?<br /> <br /> When I asked my contact if the conditions of the hospitalized children were improving, he replied:<br /> <br /> “The children in hospital are still paralyzed. Most of the children still can’t stand up. Some have convulsions so badly that they need four people to attend. Those who have convulsions end with their up arms straight and their eyes are fixed and open without reaction.<br /> <br /> We are not receiving enough information about the children the government and WHO took to Tunisia.<br /> <br /> There are sick children left in Gouro who may be evacuated to Libya.”<br /> <br /> CONCLUSION<br /> <br /> We have yet to see the full outcome of the MenAfriVac vaccine tragedy. There is little doubt that these children are very sick and may need lifelong care and attention. They will likely be returned home, if they recover sufficiently, without adequate care and attention and their parents left without help or support to care for their children’s disabilities alone. Unfortunately, many third world countries do not have access to basic equipment such as wheelchairs that we in the Western world take for granted.<br /> <br /> Surely it is now time for the Chadian government and the organizations involved to stop trying to cover up this tragedy and instead, look after all of the sick children properly. I believe that the real tragedy of this whole situation is in a few months, these children like thousands of others, will be forgotten and it will be ‘business as usual’ for all of the organizations involved.<br /> <br /> The MenAfriVac vaccination will likely be given to millions more third world children across Africa. The vaccination of children with pre-licensed and unlicensed vaccines, which may be life-threatening, needs to cease. This is not health care, but a total disregard for human life in the name of profit.<br /> <br /> Acknowledgement<br /> I would like to thank Namaste UK Publishing and ECOTERRA International; Desiree Rover for translations; and my Chadian contacts.<br /> </span></span></div><script async src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js"></script><br /> <!-- wakeupcallnews_main_Blog1_300x250_as --><br /> <ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:inline-block;width:300px;height:250px" data-ad-client="ca-pub-8084439033195179" data-ad-slot="3482606840"></ins><br /> <script> (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script><br /> <div style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 16px;"><span class="text_exposed_show" style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/Citizens.Action.Network" id="js_2" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Citizens Action Network</a><br /> <br 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African genocide: African Children Still Paralyzed After Mandatory Vaccines, Government Says “All in Their Head”

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Monsanto’s Failed GM Maize Pushed on Africa

<div class="" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #05293d; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Today the African Centre for Biosafety (ACB) released a new report ‘<strong class="" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Africa bullied to grow defective Bt Maize: the failure of Monsanto’s MON810 maize in South Africa</strong>’, showing how Monsanto’s GM maize, which utterly failed in SA, is now being foisted on the rest of the continent, through ‘sleight of hand’.</span></div><div class="" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #05293d; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="gm maize zimbabwe" src="http://sustainablepulse.com/wp-content/uploads/gm-maize-zimbabwe.jpg" /></div><script> (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script> <br /> <blockquote class="" style="background-color: white; border-left-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-left-style: solid; border-width: 0px 0px 0px 5px; color: #05293d; line-height: 20px; margin: 10px 0px 20px 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 16px; quotes: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; line-height: 25px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="" href="http://sustainablepulse.com/wp-content/uploads/BT-Maize-Report-Oct2013.pdf" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgb(204, 255, 102); background-color: transparent; color: #406a15; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"><span class="" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong class="" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Read the Full Report Here</span></strong></span></a></div></blockquote><div class="" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #05293d; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Independent scientists have shown that Monsanto’s GM maize variety, MON810 – which has been growing in SA for 15 years – has completely failed due to the development of massive insect resistance, leading to the GM maize being withdrawn from the SA market. Monsanto has compensated farmers who were forced to spray their crops with pesticides to control the pests, calling into serious question the very rationale for GM crops.</span></div><div class="" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #05293d; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">According to the Director of the ACB, Mariam Mayet, ‘Monsanto got the science completely wrong on this one. Independent biosafety scientists have discovered that the inheritance of resistance in African stem borers is a dominant, not recessive, trait as erroneously assumed. Hence the insect resistance management strategies that Monsanto developed, and accepted by our regulators, based on these erroneous assumptions, were utterly ineffective.’</span></div><div class="" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #05293d; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Undeterred, Monsanto is now pushing its flop GM maize onto the rest of the continent. According to the ACB report, Monsanto has now donated its MON810 GM technology ‘royalty-free’ to a Gates Foundation/Monsanto funded ‘philanthropic’ project, Water Efficient Maize for Africa (WEMA). WEMA is being rolled out in Mozambique, Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania. The defective GM maize is set to be approved for commercial growing by 2015.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #05293d; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">WEMA was first touted for a good number of years, with much fanfare, as a charitable project intent on bringing drought tolerant maize varieties to resource poor African small farmers. However, with a sleight of hand and stony silence, WEMA has included MON810 into the mix. Field trials with MON810 are already running in Kenya and Uganda. In response to the project, the Mozambican government is now changing its biosafety laws to allow for the cultivation of GM crops while WEMA is pressurising the Tanzanian government to change the country’s biosafety law that will hold Monsanto strictly liable for damages that may arise.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #05293d; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">According to researcher with the ACB, Haidee Swanby, ‘WEMA is a convenient vehicle for Monsanto to gain regulatory approval for its controversial technology in African countries. However, “royalty-free” seed simply means that resource strapped commercial farmers will get the seed at the same price as hybrid seed, which means that these seeds will be prohibitively expensive. The patents on the gene sequences still reside with Monsanto, and farmers will have to pay premium prices for the GM seeds.’</span></div> <!-- Begin BidVertiser code --> <script language="JavaScript1.1" src="http://bdv.bidvertiser.com/BidVertiser.dbm?pid=579098%26bid=1449088" type="text/javascript"></script> <noscript><a href="http://www.bidvertiser.com/bdv/BidVertiser/bdv_advertiser.dbm">marketing</a></noscript> <!-- End BidVertiser code --> <script type="text/javascript"> ( function() { if (window.CHITIKA === undefined) { window.CHITIKA = { 'units' : [] }; }; var unit = {"publisher":"milevski21","width":300,"height":250,"sid":"Chitika Default"}; var placement_id = window.CHITIKA.units.length; window.CHITIKA.units.push(unit); document.write('<div id="chitikaAdBlock-' + placement_id + '"></div>'); var s = document.createElement('script'); s.type = 'text/javascript'; s.src = '//cdn.chitika.net/getads.js'; try { document.getElementsByTagName('head')[0].appendChild(s); } catch(e) { document.write(s.outerHTML); } }()); </script> <script type='text/javascript' src='http://ads.qadserve.com/t?id=a2b34d3a-e07c-4678-a7a8-346319aafab6&size=728x90'></script> <br /> <div class="hover" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #05293d; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The ACB report also highlights that Monsanto’s MON810 GM trait has been genetically engineered into a local Egyptian maize variety called Ajeeb. ‘Ajeeb Yieldgard’ has now been patented by Monsanto and ‘approved’ for commercial growing through circumvention of the Egyptian biosafety law. Significantly, the report highlights that the Egyptian government has published peer reviewed independent and publically funded biosafety studies on MON810 showing serious risks to human and animal health.</span></div><div class="" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #05293d; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Said Swanby, ‘The scariest revelation is that GM producers and regulatory authorities are making it all up as they go along, while the massive biotech PR machinery spreads the myth that these crops are connected to feeding the poor in Africa.’</span></div><br /> <div class="" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #05293d; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Source: </span><a href="http://sustainablepulse.com/2013/10/24/monsantos-failed-gm-maize-pushed-on-africa/#.UmwC_XAy0rV" style="background-color: transparent;">http://sustainablepulse.com/2013/10/24/monsantos-failed-gm-maize-pushed-on-africa/#.UmwC_XAy0rV</a></div> <!-- Begin BidVertiser code --> <script language="JavaScript1.1" src="http://bdv.bidvertiser.com/BidVertiser.dbm?pid=579098%26bid=1449088" type="text/javascript"></script> <noscript><a href="http://www.bidvertiser.com/bdv/BidVertiser/bdv_advertiser.dbm">marketing</a></noscript> <!-- End BidVertiser code --> <script type="text/javascript"> ( function() { if (window.CHITIKA === undefined) { window.CHITIKA = { 'units' : [] }; }; var unit = {"publisher":"milevski21","width":300,"height":250,"sid":"Chitika Default"}; var placement_id = window.CHITIKA.units.length; window.CHITIKA.units.push(unit); document.write('<div id="chitikaAdBlock-' + placement_id + '"></div>'); var s = document.createElement('script'); s.type = 'text/javascript'; s.src = '//cdn.chitika.net/getads.js'; try { document.getElementsByTagName('head')[0].appendChild(s); } catch(e) { document.write(s.outerHTML); } }()); </script> <script type='text/javascript' src='http://ads.qadserve.com/t?id=a2b34d3a-e07c-4678-a7a8-346319aafab6&size=728x90'></script>

Monsanto’s Failed GM Maize Pushed on Africa

Today the African Centre for Biosafety (ACB) released a new report ‘ Africa bullied to grow defective Bt Maize: the failure of Monsanto’s MO...

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