Nice to see you again. We hope your week got off to a good start. As always, there is much to do and, right now, we are readying the short people for the schoolhouse, where budget cuts are the main topic of discussion. Meanwhile, there is much to do. As you prepare for your own deadlines and meetings, here are a few events worth noting. Have a good day and stay in touch...
Merck KGgA Suspends Stimuvax Vaccine Studies (Bloomberg News)
Germany's Ruling Party Plans Three-Year Price Freeze (PharmaTimes)
Former J&J Manager Jailed For Mail Fraud (MyCentralJersey)
FDA Suspends Use Of Glaxo's Rotarix Vaccine (Reuters)
Pfizer Suggests Scientist Is To Blame For Her Illness (TheDay)
Virginia Seeks To Join J&J Lawsuit (The News Leader)
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Is there really such a thing as a vaccine for children not being dangerous even though it is infected with a harmless pig virus? Is there a harmless pig virus?
Doctors should temporarily stop using GlaxoSmithKline Plc's (GSK.L) (GSK.N) Rotarix vaccine against a diarrhea-causing virus called rotavirus because it is contaminated with an apparently harmless pig virus, regulators and the company said on Monday.
FPMD -- The whole concept is, I agree, decidely mind-bending. Pig Virus? Where did that come from? At a minimum, we may deduce that GSK wasn't as careful as it ought to be.
Reminds me of the various contaminants found in Baxter's wafarin two years ago -- out of China. . . .
Namaste
Of course it is just a harmless pig virus and of course it will just be a coincidence (if anyone recalls that their child was vaccinated with it)if these children begin to suffer from any autoimmune diseases in the future. Your body just begins to attack itself for no reason, whether you have harmless pig virus or not.
No wait, I've got it figured out now. The rotavirus was actually Crohn's, so it was autoimmune all along, never mind about that harmless pig virus. It made no difference because your child never had rotavirus to begin with. Sigh.
Heparin Condor. And substituting in another raw material for crude heparin is not contamination...pretty much outright intentional fraud.