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Children more vulnerable to harmful effects of lead


Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
Sun, 04 May 2008 14:08 UTC
Contrary to prevailing assumptions, children are more vulnerable to the harmful effects of lead exposure at the age of 6 than they are in early childhood, according to a Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center study to be presented May 4 at the annual meeting of the Pediatric Academic Societies in Honolulu.

"Although we typically worry about protecting toddlers from lead exposure, our study shows that parents and pediatricians should be just as, if not more concerned about lead exposure in school-aged children," says Richard Hornung, Dr.P.H., a researcher in the division of general and community pediatrics at Cincinnati Children's and the study's main author.

The researchers found that blood lead concentrations (BPb) at age 6, compared to those at younger ages, are more strongly associated with IQ and reduced volume of gray matter in the prefrontal cortex of the brain, which is involved in planning, complex thinking and moderating behavior.
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Health

Potentially fatal intestinal virus spreads in China


RIA Novosti
Sun, 04 May 2008 13:57 UTC
A potentially fatal intestinal virus is spreading rapidly in China, with 766 new cases registered in the past 24 hours, national media said on Sunday.

Enterovirus 71 first appeared in March when young children were admitted to hospitals in Fuyung, a city in the central Chinese province of Anhui, suffering from fever, rashes, blisters and mouth ulcers. The virus has so far killed 22 children in the province. Over 4,500 people, mostly children, have also been infected.

China's Health Ministry has now issued a nationwide alert.

Tests revealed that an 18-month-old boy died of the virus on Friday in Guangdong, a province on China's southern coast, some 1,000 miles (1,600 kms) away from the original source of infection, China's Xinhua news agency said. Another suspected death in the same province is being investigated.
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Syringe

Anti-cancer jab shunned: One in three girls refuses vaccine to guard against cervical virus

Jenny Hope
Daily Mail
Thu, 24 Apr 2008 22:50 UTC
A vaccine against the virus that causes cervical cancer may struggle to reach enough girls, a pilot study has found.

Almost one in three schoolgirls offered the Human Papilloma Virus vaccine in the trial failed to take up the jabs.

The results cast doubt on whether a national vaccination scheme, due to start later this year, will fully succeed.

Comment: Parents have every right to be concerned about the HPV vaccine.

The experts have been warning that the HPV vaccine is risky, expensive, lacks proof of efficiency and is unnecessary :
[..] GARDASIL safety appears to have been studied in fewer than 2,000 girls aged 9 to 15 years pre-licensure clinical trials and it is unclear how long they were followed up. VAERS is now receiving reports of loss of consciousness, seizures, arthritis and other neurological problems in young girls who have received the shot," said NVIC President Barbara Loe Fisher. [..] The cost is going to break the pocketbooks of parents and break the banks of both insurance companies and taxpayers, when the reality is that almost all cases of HPV-associated cervical cancer can be prevented with annual pap screening of girls who are sexually active.
HPV vaccine was developed by a pharmaceutical giant Merck and Co. The advancement of this vaccine is solely due to the company's extensive lobbying effort:
The massive drug company Merck and Co. developed the vaccine. Merck is helping to fund efforts to establish state laws mandating immunization of 11 and 12 year olds, according to a report released by the Life Issues Institute Jan.31. The company has admitted to funneling money through the advocacy group Women in Government, with a membership of female state legislators. (go here for one detailed account) Members of the group have backed many of the state measures to introduce mandatory immunization with Gardasil.

Merck has refused to say how much money is being spent on the lobbying efforts, but reports say their budget in Texas alone has doubled to between $150,000 to $250,000.[..]

[T]he financial boon to Merck would be significant. As it stands the company stands to reach at least $1 billion in sales per year, according to estimates by drug-industry analyst Steve Brozak with WBB Securites.
For further information about unproven claims and additional health risk related to HPV, see the following comprehensive overview.

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Heart

We Can Survive but Can We Communicate?

Carolyn Baker and Sally Erickson
carolynbaker.net
Sun, 04 May 2008 06:23 UTC
The distance between us is holy ground
To be traversed feet bare,
Arms raised in joyous dance
So that it is crossed.
And the tracks of our pilgrimage shine in the darkness
To light our coming together
In a bright and steady light.

Raphael Jesus Gonzales
Building community as the world unravels

[As promised in my last article "Peak Civilization And The Winter Of Our Disconnect", my colleague and friend, Sally Erickson and I are offering what we believe are vitally important tools for enhancing communication with our peers as we navigate collapse.-CB]

When we think of preparing our minds, bodies, hearts, and living situations for collapse, the focus is often on our individual or household living situations. Equally important is our need to develop a circle of trusting, mutually interdependent relationships. The culture we live in is based on hierarchies of control and influence. Work relationships, kept in place largely by paychecks and ordered by project managers and bosses, are the most common experience most of us have of being part of an organized group. We have little experience outside of those hierarchies. Even more rare in our hyper-independent culture is to depend on others for mutual aid, support and comfort. So, for most people, it likely feels overwhelming to consider how to build a wider circle of people based on mutuality, as part of preparation for the ongoing collapse of basic life support systems.
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Syringe

Flashback Texas Requires Cancer Vaccine for Girls

Liz Austin Peterson
Associated Press
Fri, 02 Feb 2007 02:39 UTC
AUSTIN (AP) - Gov. Rick Perry ordered Friday that schoolgirls in Texas must be vaccinated against the sexually transmitted virus that causes cervical cancer, making Texas the first state to require the shots.

The girls will have to get Merck & Co.'s new vaccine against strains of the human papillomavirus, or HPV, that are responsible for most cases of cervical cancer.

Comment: This is a great real-time snapshot of "the money trail" that had lead to a far reaching decision in public health policy.

It is also significant that "women's health" issue is being exploited and compromised by "women in power".

A pathocratic agenda in action, yet again.

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Health

WHO denies advising tourists to China for Olympics to pack bird flu drug


The Canadian Press
Thu, 01 May 2008 18:43 UTC
The World Health Organization denies it is recommending that visitors to China for this summer's Olympic Games should pack an antiviral drug to protect themselves against avian flu.

The denial comes in the wake of a report Monday by the Italian news agency Ansa, which said WHO is warning tourists going to Beijing for the August sports event to arm themselves with the drug Tamiflu "in case of exposure to the disease virus."

Comment: So is the article 'playing down' or 'playing up' the threat of H5N1? It seems at first to be one, then the other.

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Syringe

Propaganda Alert! Australia: Parents urged to take advantage of flu vaccination


ABC News
Thu, 01 May 2008 18:35 UTC
The Health Department says it is worried that parents are underestimating how serious influenza can be on children.

The department has revealed that less than 20 per cent of Western Australian children have been vaccinated for this year's flu season.
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Evil Rays

Flashback Vaccines and Medical Experiments on Children, Minorities, Woman and Inmates (1845 - 2007)

Mike Adams
Natural News
Fri, 14 Dec 2007 13:19 UTC


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Think U.S. health authorities have never conducted outrageous medical experiments on children, women, minorities, homosexuals and inmates? Think again: This timeline, originally put together by Dani Veracity (a NaturalNews reporter), has been edited and updated with recent vaccination experimentation programs in Maryland and New Jersey. Here's what's really happening in the United States when it comes to exploiting the public for medical experimentation:
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People

'Emotional inflation' leads to stock market meltdown


UCL
Sat, 03 May 2008 12:11 UTC
Investors get carried away with excitement and wishful 'phantasies' as the stock market soars, suppressing negative emotions which would otherwise warn them of the high risk of what they are doing, according to a new study led by UCL (University College London). Economic models fail to factor in the emotions and unconscious mental life that drive human behaviour in conditions where the future is uncertain says the study, which argues that banks and financial institutions should be as wary of 'emotional inflation' as they are fiscal inflation.

The paper, published in this month's issue of the International Journal of Psychoanalysis, explores how unconscious mental life should be integrated into economic decision-making models, where emotions and 'phantasies' - unconscious desires, drives and motives - are among the driving forces behind market bubbles and bursts.

Comment: It seems that those who are busy manipulating the market are quite aware of this 'lack of understanding of the vital role of emotion in decision-making' and use it for their own advantage.

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Fish

Zebrafish may help solve ringing in vets' ears


Northwestern University
Wed, 30 Apr 2008 12:07 UTC
Ernest Moore, an audiologist and cell biologist at Northwestern University, developed tinnitus -- a chronic ringing and whooshing sound in his ears -- twenty years ago after serving in the U.S. Army reserves medical corps. His hearing was damaged by the crack of too many M16 rifles and artillery explosions. He suspects his hearing also suffered from hunting opossum with rifles as a kid on his grandmother's farm in Tennessee.

Ever since his ears began ringing, Moore has been researching a cure. He's at the forefront of just a small band of such scientists in the country. There's a lot riding on his work.

Half of the soldiers returning from Iraq and Afghanistan exposed to explosive devices suffer from tinnitus. The major cause is exposure to loud noises, which can damage and destroy hair cells of the inner ear. It's the number one war-related disability.

Nearly 400,000 troops collected disability for service-related tinnitus in 2006, which cost $539 million in 2006. The number climbs nearly 20 percent each year. It could hit $1 billion by 2011, according to the American Tinnitus Association.
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