Vaccine taken off the market due to poor sales.
JWismille
studies have failed to find any evidence of specific adverse events associated
with Lymerix."
After a decade of research and pressure from patient advocates and Congress
[29], the FDA licensed the first vaccine for Lyme borreliosis on December 21,
1998. The vaccine, called Lymerix, was derived from a recombinant version of
the OspA lipoprotein of B. burgdorferi. Lymerix was intended for "at-risk"
individuals between the ages of 15 and 70 years. Given in three separate
injections and an annual booster, the vaccine appeared to be effective in
preventing infections.
Yet, after years of pre-license clinical trials and three years of commercial
sales, the manufacturer, GlaxoSmithKline, pulled the vaccine off the market on
February 26, 2002. Glaxo cited poor sales and a projected market this year of
less than 10,000 people [30] as the basis for their decision to end production
and distribution of Lymerix. The suddenly demise of Lymerix may give other
vaccine manufacturers pause in considering the development of future vaccines
against infections that readily respond to common antibiotic therapies, have
little associated morbidity, and almost no associated mortality.
Ironically, many of the original advocates for a vaccine turned against Lymerix
as soon as it hit the market. Citing its less than perfect efficacy and
anecdotal evidence of vaccine-induced arthritis and other injuries, they
crowded FDA hearings with tales of personal injury, flooded the Internet with
anti-vaccine tautologies, and jointed lawsuits seeking compensation from Glaxo
and Pasteur Mérieux Connaught, the maker of a second, but never licensed
vaccine [31].
Despite the lawsuits and the web site tales of personal anguish, repeated
studies have failed to find any evidence of specific adverse events associated
with Lymerix. Neal Halsey, who helped monitor the first vaccine trial, said, an
"active, aggressive search for patients who developed arthritis" after
vaccination found no evidence of increased arthritis risk [32]. A CDC study
published in the February 2002 issue of Vaccine also failed to detect any
"unexpected or unusual patterns" of adverse reactions to vaccination [33].
Reports of adverse reactions to Lymerix, and other vaccines, can be searched
for on the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) Web site.
As another tick season approaches, it is interesting to note the results of a
recent survey of parental attitudes toward Lymerix [34]. The survey authors
found that respondents in Nassau County, New York indicated they would
"definitely" (23%) or be 'likely" to (65%) request Lymerix for their children.
The positive response to Lymerix may be due to the fact that most survey
respondents got their information about Lyme disease and the vaccine from a
friend or an advertisement (49% and 44%, respectively). The Internet was not
identified as a source of information. Yet, the survey found that most
respondents were "surprisingly misinformed" about Lyme infections. For example,
they considered Lyme infections to be a chronic, difficult-to-treat disease.
"Chronic Lyme disease" is a term favored by support groups and patient
advocates, but has no basis in medical fact or practice [35]. The endless
public repetition of this misleading mantra may have influenced parental
opinions in favor of vaccination as a prevention to a chronic infection that
does not exist. That option ceased to exist on February 26, 2002.
Kathleen
at the FDA meeting, and Luft alluded to the fact that
the advserse events reporting system and HMO forms did
not allow for the multisystem result of a Lyme-like
illness to be reported. The majority of our complaints
were NOT that people got arthritis- but "LYME DISEASE AGAIN"
It's like the CDC continuing to answer the non-question
about MMR vaccines and autism. It is NOT the mercury,
correct. It is the antigens themselves, which is why
there is the EXACT warning label that there is, on the MMR
vaccine vials, and why immune compromised kids like HIV
babies get fully dead vaccine and not attenuated antigens.
*OR*, they stand by with antibodies, such as was the case with
Bush getting the smallpox vaccine.
Also in the local newspaper, THEDAY, SmithKline flat out
admitted that the vaccine caused problems. Here (Below), they
later change their story.
Aw far as I know, no one has gotten much better at all
from the illness they got from LYMErix. THAT is
significant data, that NEVER gets reported. WHAT is the
dose of these toxins that ruins your particular immune
system.
THIS is the BIG PICTURE. This damned vaccine, because it
is not just the money from royalties, for Yale but that L2
Diagnostics was set up to take all the Lyme testing forever,
after the vaccine(s) was on the market. $250 a pop for the L2
Diagnostics Lyme testing, no doubt. TIMES A NATIONAL EPIDEMIC.
Too bad I am too sick to even get out of the house now, or I
would sue Yale myself for this, THE YALE CORPORATION FRAUD.
http://www.actionlyme.com/BRAINLESS_BUREAUCRATS.htm
Yale being worth several billions.
Oh well, this is what everyone gets for NOT HELPING ME
when I asked, OR DOING WHAT I SAY TO DO. Now all the ILADS
LLMDs can be TOAST, and people can continue to be delivered
ALL KINDS OF ABUSE AND MISERABLE DEATHS, like the Lou Gehrig's
disease version of Lyme, and have permanently mentally handicapped
children.
ILADS: TOO STUPID FOR WORDS. Greed. Sucking up to
Pat Smith, who is NOT A SCIENTIST. Greenwich Lyme are
NOT SCIENTISTS. They are neauveau riche housewives and
Stepford Wives at that, as someone pointed out. Plastic
people. 'Wrote a negative critique of the Lyme Foundation's
http://www.lyme.org
LIFT bill, in 2002, destroyed it, and then later said they did
not EVEN READ the LIFT bill. That's as close to a lie as it gets.
Pat Smith. Ruined us all. And TONS of LIES, from her.
'Said Karen snuck a bill through, when it was the opposite.
It *HAD* to be, ALL ABOUT PAT. Therefore we are nowhere in
New York with the OPMC, and now the S will hit the fan for ILADS.
Disgusting. 'Reminds me of Nancy Martin. Nothing ever
happens that isn't ALL ABOUT NANCY. Remember how we had
to listen to 20 minutes of ALL ABOUT PAT SMITH, in the first
RI Hearing in April 2002. I was like, "OH MAAAANnn, why can't she
HEAR herself.... *When* are we going to get to the point about
why we need Lyme legislation?" She was making ME run out
of breath...with all of her talking about herself and her
whole famous life. That was like Nancy Martin. The Eulogy
was not about the deceased. Relentlessly shockingly stupid.
No one ever successfully taught these people any manners.
Not Pat Smith, not the Stepford Wives, not Nancy Martin.
Now we are *all* toast, and my kids are with a total maniac.
Kathleen
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jwis...@aol.com (JWismille) wrote in message news:<20040229224803...@mb-m04.aol.com>...
Lisam01502
"The rotavirus recommendation is not the only controversial call made by the
CDC. Another involves a vaccine to fight Lyme disease, a tick-borne illness
that can cause profound fatigue, headache, fever and severe muscle pain.
"It was after the booster shot that I absolutely collapsed," said Lewis Bull, a
farmer from East Lyme, Conn. Bull, now 49, volunteered in 1996 to take shots
during a clinical study for a new vaccine to prevent Lyme disease developed by
SmithKline Beecham, now GlaxoSmithKline. Clinical studies are tests on humans
to make sure vaccines are safe and work before going on the market.
In the study, Bull first received placebo shots containing no vaccine and felt
fine.
But soon after his second shot of the real vaccine he began to suffer from
debilitating arthritis, memory loss and fatigue. Some doctors believe the Lyme
vaccine side effects mirror the disease itself.
"For the first six months I could not get out of bed. The memory loss was
incredible. I've played guitar all my life and I could not remember how to play
guitar. I could not find the town hall and I used to go there four times a
week," he said in a recent telephone interview.
Bull said his fatigue was so severe he would sleep for stretches of 22 hours or
more. Without medical insurance, Bull was forced to sell his farm.
On Feb. 18, 1999, the CDC endorsed Lyme disease vaccine for people age 15-70
who work or recreate in possible tick-infested areas.
By October of 2000, more than 1.4 million people had received the vaccine,
according to the CDC.
But 19 months later, in February 2002, SmithKline Beecham pulled the vaccine
off the market because "sales of LYMERIX are insufficient to justify the
continued investment."
The company also faced hundreds lawsuits by people who said they suffered side
effects, many similar to Lewis Bull's.
Although he never sued, Bull said he complained to the CDC to report what he
says were obvious side effects from the vaccine, called LYMERIX.
The government's database of possible side effects for LYMERIX lists 640
emergency room visits, 34 life-threatening reactions, 77 hospitalizations, 198
disabilities and six deaths after people took the shots since the CDC endorsed
it.
According to CDC meeting transcripts where the advisory committee weighed its
recommendation, five of 10 committee members disclosed their financial
conflicts of interest with vaccine manufactures. Three of the five had
conflicts of interest with SmithKlineBeecham.
The committee ignored a plea from a consumer advocate to delay a recommendation
on LYMERIX because it might not be safe, according to a February 1999
transcript.
"We are just saying there is a wealth of information out there that is
different than the information you have been provided. I think the honorable
thing to do would be to wait," said Karen Vanderhoof-Forschner, founder of the
Lyme Disease Foundation, a patient's advocacy group that eventually opposed the
vaccine.
UPI found that the CDC and SmithKline Beecham worked together on a Lyme
vaccine. A 1992 CDC activity report obtained by UPI says the agency had an
agreement "with SmithKline Beecham that currently funds three positions at (the
CDC) for the purpose of providing information of use in developing advanced
test methods and vaccine candidates."
In June 2001, the General Accounting Office delivered a report to Sen. Chris
Dodd, D-Conn., on this issue. It says that CDC employees "are listed on two
Lyme-disease related patents" including "a 1993 joint patent between CDC and
SmithKline Beecham Corporation." The report also said that six of 12
consultants working for the CDC on Lyme vaccines "reported at least one
interest related to a vaccine firm."
Lisa
Chuck P Adams
>Date: 3/1/2004 4:56 AM Eastern Standard Time
>ILADS: TOO STUPID FOR WORDS.
>ILADS: TOO STUPID FOR WORDS. Greed. Sucking up to
>Pat Smith, who is NOT A SCIENTIST. Greenwich Lyme are
>NOT SCIENTISTS. They are neauveau riche housewives and
>Stepford Wives at that, as someone pointed out. Plastic
>people.
I agree with you on that Kathloon. Its sick to see the way Lyme is used as a
topic at "Tea parties" in Greenwich. Guess what LLMD hangs out in Greenwich and
that area all the time....hmm
You know who is the real lyme victims in Fairfield county? Not the rich
housewives...Its the south American workers they use to landscape the million
dollar homes for $5 a hour.
Lisam01502
>
>I agree with you on that Kathloon. Its sick to see the way Lyme is used as a
>topic at "Tea parties" in Greenwich. Guess what LLMD hangs out in Greenwich
>and
>that area all the time....hmm
>
>You know who is the real lyme victims in Fairfield county? Not the rich
>housewives...Its the south American workers they use to landscape the million
>dollar homes for $5 a hour.
>
Stop playing games. You're part of the machinery that sponsored decades of
mass murder, rape and fascism in Latin America.
Why did you learn Spanish, vulture?
Lisa
JWismille
derdrittemann
> Extract from UPI article by Mark Benjamin
>
> farmer from East Lyme, Conn. >
> ">
> >
I am NOT saying that it was NOT the vaccine shots that caused his
problem...
...but isn't it curious that he lives in perhaps the most endemic area
in the U.S.
Did he, perhaps have a latent asymptomatic infection that was
triggered by the vaccine?
Was it the vaccine itself?
Did he get bit after reciving the vaccine?
This cause-and-effect stuff is a bitch.
Lisam01502
>I am NOT saying that it was NOT the vaccine shots that caused his
>problem...
>
>...but isn't it curious that he lives in perhaps the most endemic area
>in the U.S.
>
>Did he, perhaps have a latent asymptomatic infection that was
>triggered by the vaccine?
What, that wonderful vaccine that your best friend and his homeboys Steere ,
Shapiro, the gang from SmithKline etc assured us was so safe? Surely not.
>
>Was it the vaccine itself?
>
See above.
>Did he get bit after reciving the vaccine?
>
What that wonderful vaccine, that your best friend and his mates assured us was
so EFFECTIVE?
Surely not.
Slimeball.
Lisa
derdrittemann
"CDC-SmithKline Inc...KILL..."
SO...
...who died?
What are you talking about?
(BTW...it's Glaxo-SK, now...gotta know your perps, my dove).
Lisam01502
>"CDC-SmithKline Inc...KILL..."
>
>SO...
>
>...who died?
>
>What are you talking about?
>
Even the government's own figures listed deaths as well as life threatening
events, that was already in the article I posted. So what's with all the
sdkepticism, Mr. I-never-defend-the Steere-camp-I -just-kiss
their-ass-nine-times a day Ritteman?
"The government's database of possible side effects for LYMERIX lists 640
emergency room visits, 34 life-threatening reactions, 77 hospitalizations, 198
disabilities and six deaths after people took the shots since the CDC endorsed
it."
>(BTW...it's Glaxo-SK, now...gotta know your perps, my dove).
I know it's Glaxo, but at that time it was SKB, slimepit.
Lisa
Chuck P Adams
>Date: 3/1/2004 4:04 PM Eastern
>Even the government's own figures listed deaths as well as life threatening
>events
lol, what a lie. Nobody ever died or had a life threatening event using it.
>"The government's database of possible side effects for LYMERIX lists 640
>emergency room visits, 34 life-threatening reactions, 77 hospitalizations,
>198
>disabilities and six deaths after people took the shots since the CDC
>endorsed
>it."
Show me this offical Govt report that says all this happen?
derdrittemann
> >
>>
> Even the government's own figures listed deaths as well as life threatening
> events, that was already in the article I posted. So what's with all the
> sdkepticism, Mr. I-never-defend-the Steere-camp-I -just-kiss
> their-ass-nine-times a day Ritteman?
>
> "The government's database of possible side effects for LYMERIX lists 640
> emergency room visits, 34 life-threatening reactions, 77 hospitalizations, 198
> disabilities and six deaths after people took the shots since the CDC endorsed
> it."
LISA...WE HAVE BEEN THROUGH ALL THIS BEFORE!!!
SEVERAL F---ING TIMES NOW!!!
There were 6,400 some participants.
There were 4, or 6, deaths DURING the trial period.
There were NO deaths CAUSALLY linked to the vaccine.
Period.
HOW CAN YOU POSSIBLY ACCUSE SOMEONE OF "KILLING" PEOPLE UNDER THOSE CIRCUMSTANCES?
YOU ARE JUST FLAT-OUT LYING NOW.
ENOUGH.
FRAUD.
LIAR.
HYPOCRITE.
GIVE A F---ING REST.
WHAT POSSIBLE GOOD DO YOU THINK YOU'RE DOING BY LYING TO PEOPLE LIKE THIS?
>
>
Lisam01502
>
>There were 4, or 6, deaths DURING the trial period.
>
>There were NO deaths CAUSALLY linked to the vaccine.
You're a dirty liar of the Steere camp, the camp RESPONSIBLE. so of course you
deny it.
Why don't you check with Stephen Sheller, the attorney who led the class
action?
Murdering scum.
Lisa
Chuck P Adams
>Date: 3/2/2004 3:02 AM Eastern Standard Time
>You're a dirty liar of the Steere camp, the camp RESPONSIBLE. so of course
>you
>deny it.
>Why don't you check with Stephen Sheller, the attorney who led the class
>action?
Show us the proof Lisa. Please post offical Govt reports on those deaths.
derdrittemann
>> "Why don't you check with Stephen Sheller, the attorney who led the
class
> action"?
>
> Murdering scum.
> Lisa
Well...for one thing...because he's moved on to fry other fish a long
damn time ago.
Case was settled. (Are you paying any friggin' attention)?
And...the plaintiffs...the members of the class, received exactly
$0.00.
The settlement, according to Sheller, removed the vaccine from the
market.
Funny...he didn't mention a damn thing about Kathloon's invaluable
testimony having anything whatever to do with it.
Watch it with the "murdering scum" talk, my turtledove.
JWismille
Lisam01502
CDC. Another involves a vaccine to fight Lyme disease, a tick-borne illness
that can cause profound fatigue, headache, fever and severe muscle pain.
"It was after the booster shot that I absolutely collapsed," said Lewis Bull, a
fine.
The government's database of possible side effects for LYMERIX lists 640
emergency room visits, 34 life-threatening reactions, 77 hospitalizations, 198
disabilities and six deaths after people took the shots since the CDC endorsed
it.
According to CDC meeting transcripts where the advisory committee weighed its
recommendation, five of 10 committee members disclosed their financial
conflicts of interest with vaccine manufactures. Three of the five had
conflicts of interest with SmithKlineBeecham.
The committee ignored a plea from a consumer advocate to delay a recommendation
on LYMERIX because it might not be safe, according to a February 1999
transcript.
"We are just saying there is a wealth of information out there that is
different than the information you have been provided. I think the honorable
thing to do would be to wait," said Karen Vanderhoof-Forschner, founder of the
Lyme Disease Foundation, a patient's advocacy group that eventually opposed the
vaccine.
UPI found that the CDC and SmithKline Beecham worked together on a Lyme
vaccine. A 1992 CDC activity report obtained by UPI says the agency had an
agreement "with SmithKline Beecham that currently funds three positions at (the
CDC) for the purpose of providing information of use in developing advanced
test methods and vaccine candidates."
Mark Benjamin, UPI
JWismille
Sinaj101
off the market so why not drop the whole discussion.
Poor sales is just an excuse our little GlaxoSmithKline uses so people wont
quit buying stock in them. If they said... Ooops we made a vaccine that gives
Lyme to the people instead of prevents it... who would want to buy their stock
or use any of their products?
The true side of the coin is....
http://www.yourlawyer.com/practice/overview.htm?topic=Lymerix
Overview: Lymerix
Federal health authorities are investigating whether some people who received
the Lymerix vaccine against Lyme disease later developed severe cases of
arthritis and even Lyme disease itself as a result.
The Food and Drug Administration has received reports of such problems, mainly
from doctors and researchers in the Northeast. The FDA approved the vaccine,
made by SmithKline Beecham Biologicals, a subsidiary of the British
pharmaceutical giant SmithKline Beecham, two years ago, and about 440,000
Americans have received it.
It is too early to know how many people have been injured by the Lymerix
vaccine. But in interviews, reported in the New York Times, more than a dozen
doctors in areas where Lyme disease is common say they have treated 170 people
with arthritis and Lyme disease that they attribute to the Lymerix vaccine.
expressed concern that the vaccine could set off
The New York Times also reports that some doctors say the FDA should never have
approved the Lyme vaccine or should have responded more quickly to adverse
reports. Dr. Andrea Gaito, a New Jersey rheumatologist and president of the
International Lyme and Associated Disorders Society, said she had told the
agency that 21 patients developed severe arthritis soon after being given the
vaccine by other doctors.
In the New York Times article, Dr. Gaito stated that she believed the vaccine
caused arthritis and Lyme disease itself but that the problems were not always
linked to it because the vaccine took effect only after three immunization
shots given over the course of a year. Dr. Gaito believes the FDA should
withdraw the Lymerix vaccine immediately.
Lisam01502
dangerous vaccine, while employed in a senior public health position. He thinks
that by posting this nonsense about Glaxo dropping it due to "poor sales" , he
will "steer" new people away from listening to Kathleen's allegations against
him and the rest of the gangstas.
Lisa
RMAgricola
Martha A.
Lisam01502
>pretending you are Georgia again?
>
>Martha A.
>
Yes, "Chuck" does that every couple of days or so, because if he used his won
name to post that noxious disinfo written by McSweegan, somebody might suspect
that he IS McSweegan. : )
Lisa
JWismille
Lisam01502
"jwismille" is used by the Steere camp gorillas to impersonate Georgia, a real
Lymie whose email is *JWissmille", (note two s's, not one)., and who is kknown
for poating valuable medical abstracts.
Below an ILADS doctor describes how the LymeRix vaccine CAUSED Lyme arthritis
instead of preventing it.
Lisa