I had never seen an image of a shot being injected into the skin of a person or an animal as scary, or at least I had trained myself to not fear shots. Maybe I blocked it out.
The words of Mark Twain come to mind:
How easy it is to make people believe a lie, and how hard it is to undo that
work again!
However, Big Pharma doesn't want to undo their lies. They give us misinformation. Mark Twain in his autobigraphy quoted Benjamin Disraeli, an English politician born in the early 19th century:
"There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics."
Big Pharma gets us to believe their made up statistics, and then they lie about them. It becomes an incredible web of lies upon lies from which we can not discover the truth.
Accra (AFP) - Ghana has suspended a trial for an Ebola vaccine after complaints that locals were being needlessly used as "guinea pigs" in a country currently free of the deadly disease.
The West African nation had agreed to join other countries in hosting trials to test the safety and effects of two experimental vaccines against a virus that has killed more than 11,150 people, mainly in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone.
It
had started Phase 1 safety tests on one vaccine developed by US
pharmaceutical giant Johnson and Johnson and Denmark's Bavarian Nordic
in the southeastern Volta region, giving volunteers a mobile phone and 20 cedis ($4.7, 4.2 euros) each.
Seems Big Pharma is now buying small countries.
But
faced with mounting opposition to the trial, Health Minister Alex
Segbefia, who is currently out of the country, decided to suspend the
tests, his spokesman Tony Goodman told Citi FM radio.
Citi Radio?
I'm glad the Health Minister has suspended the tests.
"The
minister has got a lot of calls from numerous Ghanaians saying that
they are not interested in any trial," he said Wednesday.
"So he said... the trial should be suspended until he returns to look at the issues."
Leaders of the ruling National Democratic Congress in the Volta region said the trial was a "needless experiment".
"We
have cases of malaria, cholera and HIV/AIDS among others. We need
vaccines or remedies for these diseases," they said in a statement.
"Why should a country that is not threatened by Ebola risk the lives of its citizens for an unnecessary experiment?
An African nation not threatened by Ebola. So why do we need the vaccine?
"We would be grateful if the experiment is cancelled completely to prevent the use of innocent Voltarians as guinea pigs."
There
is no licensed treatment or vaccine for Ebola and the World Health
Organization has endorsed rushing potential ones through trials to try
to halt the epidemic.
So far,
two vaccines that are in their most advanced stages of development
appear to be safe, the US National Institute of Allergy and Infectious
Diseases said in March.
The Ghanaian Food and Drugs Authority (FDA) has said the vaccines cannot trigger an outbreak of the deadly haemorrhagic fever.
Another Vaccine with little efficacy.
In
a statement on its website, the FDA pointed out that Ghana is very
close to epidemic areas in West Africa that are still not rid of the
virus.
"Participation in the
trials will give crucial information about whether the tested vaccines
are safe, well tolerated and capable of stimulating adequate immune
responses in people living in Ghana."
Participation in the trials? I wonder if this is going to be another trigger word like terrorist.
The Ebola outbreak that flared up in December 2013 is the worst since the deadly virus was first discovered in 1976.
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