June 6, 2002
ACIP-NVAC Smallpox Working Group
Mailstop E-05
1600 Clifton Rd., N.E.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Atlanta, GA 30333
RE: Smallpox Vaccination Concerns
Dear ACIP-NVAC and CDC Officials:
I am writing to you to register my strongest opposition to the
proposed smallpox inoculation program as a Harvard graduate in
public health (1982) and internationally known authority in
biological warfare and emerging disease research.
My concerns transcend those legitimate issues raised by
widespread opponents to smallpox vaccinations, including: 1)
substantial risks of common side effects from smallpox
vaccination to the general public and especially immune
compromised populations, 2) inadequate smallpox vaccine safety
testing record, 3) inadequate smallpox vaccine efficacy testing,
4) the availability of modern therapies to treat
life-threatening complications associated with smallpox
infection, 5) the risk to unvaccinated populations from shedding
infectious vaccinia virus for up to 21 days post vaccination, 6)
lacking sufficient cost/benefit studies of the proposed
vaccination campaign, and most importantly, 7) entirely lacking
data from no risk/benefit studies having been performed on this
proposed policy.
Must I remind CDC and public health officials that the
cornerstone of legitimate public health policy legislation rest
entirely on this later premise—that above all, more good should
result than harm from the proposed vaccination program. To date,
however, not one scientific assessment of the risk versus the
benefit of smallpox vaccination has been conducted. Therefore,
we simply do not know whether the proposed campaign would help
and save more people that it might kill or maim. Obviously, this
flies in the face of rational public health policy, and presents
risks possibly more pervasive than a threatened or actual
terrorist attack.
The recent editorial in The Lancet (Vol. 359, No. 9313; 2002)
should also be considered in this regard. The editors of this
most esteemed scientific journal asked, “Just how tainted has
medicine become [by pharmaceutical industry payoffs]?” They
concluded, “Heavily, and damagingly so,” urging “doctors who
support this culture for the best of intentions” to “have the
courage to oppose practices that bring the whole of medicine
into disrepute.” This speaks directly to your decision-making
concerning the proposed smallpox campaign, especially reflecting
on the following information.
The little known fact is that the primary smallpox vaccine
producers, Aventis and Baxter corporations, or their parent
companies, are highly untrustworthy. They have been implicated
on more than one occasion in committing genocide. Genocide is
simply defined as “the mass killing of people for economic,
political, and/or ideological reasons.” Baxter, along with other
pharmaceutical firms including Bayer, is infamous for having
committed genocide against the American hemophiliac population
through their known sale of HIV-contaminated blood products.
Both firms settled out of court for what amounted to
economically motivated genocide. As the attached organizational
chart shows, Baxter
is a subsidiary of American Home Products (AHP). AHP, like
Bayer, Hoechst and BASF, is a progeny of I.G. Farben—Germany’s
leading industrial organization that virtually directed the
Third Reich and Hitler’s economic war engine. After World War
II, I.G. Farben was primarily broken up into Bayer, Hoechst and
BASF companies. Aventis is a subsidiary of Hoechst. In summary,
both smallpox vaccine producers—Aventis and Baxter—share hideous
legacies demanding caution, if not certain avoidance.
Please, for the sake of millions of people, public health,
medical respectability, and the future of this great nation, DO
NOT SUPPORT ANY POLICY REQUIRING FORCED SMALLPOX VACCINATIONS.
Sincerely yours,
Leonard G. Horowitz, D.M.D., M.A., M.P.H.
President and Publisher, Tetrahedron Publishing Group
Leonard G. Horowitz, D.M.D., M.A., M.P.H. is an Honorary U.S. Autism Ambassador, Harvard School of Public Health graduate, and award winning author of thirteen books including the national bestseller, Emerging Viruses: AIDS & Ebola-Nature, Accident or Intentional?
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