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'Chronic illness in our children keeps mounting—while the authorities wear blinders, clap their hands over their ears, and chant, “It’s safe it’s safe it’s safe it’s safe…” as if saying it often enough, loudly enough, and with the right inflection of condescension makes it so. With the hubris typical of conventional medicine’s scientists, they are already describing it as safe, though it has yet to go through any safety testing. Human serum albumin (HSA) has many medical uses, including treatment for serious burns, hemorraghic shock, hypoproteinemia, ascites (edema) in advanced liver cirrhosis, and as an excipient (carrier) in vaccines.' Read more...
By EDMUND H. MAHONY
The Hartford Courant
March 14, 2010
'MEDICAL EXPERTS WILL BE WATCHING CLOSELY Monday when a scientist who says she has been intermittently paralyzed by a virus designed at the Pfizer laboratory where she worked in Groton opens a much anticipated trial that could raise questions about safety practices in the dynamic field of genetic engineering.
Organizations involved in workplace safety and responsible genetic research already have seized on the federal lawsuit by molecular biologist Becky McClain as an example of what they claim is evidence that risks caused by cutting-edge genetic manipulation have outstripped more slowly evolving government regulation of laboratories.
McClain, of Deep River, suspects she was inadvertently exposed, through work by a former Pfizer colleague in 2002 or 2003, to an engineered form of the lentivirus, a virus similar to the one that can lead to acquired immune deficiency syndrome, or AIDS. Medical experts working for McClain believe the virus has affected the way her body channels potassium, leading to a condition that causes complete paralysis as many as 12 times a month.'Read more...
