The forced vaccination of hundreds of thousands of Philippine children with Dengvaxia was halted after the children started dying. I have been covering this unfolding case as it has developed and now we can finally see that charges are being leveled against employees of the manufacturer Sanofi Pasteur?
Why do the charges stop at the Philippine employees of Sanofi and not continue up to the head office and those who made the most profits from these deaths?
As they plan to roll out Dengvaxia around the world it behooves us to analyze this current development and see if we can spot the chain of financial corruption and where it leads.
The Chain Of Profits = The Chain Of Corruption!
After a proposed roll out of 1 million vaccinations to school children in the Philippines the project was halted after the children started dying. It turned out that those children who had previously not had dengue fever were much more likely to have strong reactions if they contracted dengue after having the Dengvaxia vaccine for dengue.
Firstly that doesn't make sense - after being vaccinated for dengue they can now get dengue? Secondly as most of the vaccines were given to children a much higher proportion would not have had dengue than if the vaccine had been given to adults. Finally the manufacturer Sanofi claims that the vaccine had been in development for 20 years - how could they then not have realized this dangerous fact.
The drive for profits is a powerful motivator to lie, deceive and corrupt. Perhaps there are other frightening driving forces such as a reduction in populations in the developing world and trialing the vaccine on unsuspecting populations.
In many of my analysis of corruption in the health industry I am always calling for accountability. If the bosses and major profiteers of Dengvaxia had to face the possibility of sitting for years in a Philippine prison it may cause them to think twice before force vaccinating these unsuspecting children.
Sanofi makes getting these images so easy with their rubbish PR. Responsible for all these deaths - Dengvaxia = Disgrazia!
Accountability Creeping Closer To Home...
Finally the Quezon City Regional Trial Court has found sufficient basis to take action on the lawsuit against officers of Dengvaxia maker Sanofi Pasteur Inc and distributor Zuellig Pharma Corporation.The case was filed by the family of Abbie Hedia, who died in February 2018 allegedly after receiving the Dengvaxia vaccine.
The Sanofi officers named are: Carlito Realuyo, Conchita Santos, Jazel Anne Calvo, and Pearl Grace Cabali. All of whom operate for Sanofi locally in the Philippines. However that only addresses the local issue and not the real culprits behind the scheme, namely the CEO and other senior executives and shareholders in Switzerland who profited handsomely from this scheme. Why only go after the local employees and not the owners and profiteers? Who are they?
As I have written before the CEO of Sanofi Pasteur should really be one of the first but by no means the last to have to answer in criminal court for these deaths. Switzerland should not guard these guys. The CEO of Sanofi Pasteur is currently Olivier Brandicourt but the entire list of Sanofi's Executive Committee is here. They all bear some responsibility for these deaths in my mind along with those who really own Sanofi.
I wrote a previous post Naming & Shaming Sanofi's Executive Vice President David Loew which can be found here.
An Unexpected Benefit - Falling Vaccination Rates
I wish to state here that in theory I am not opposed to vaccinations however I believe that the concept could be made much safer that it is currently being used in practice. It is only natural that more parents in the Philippines are choosing not to vaccinate their children. They love their children and are frightened that vaccinations may harm or kill their children like they witnessed in the Dengvaxia vaccine.
The vaccination rate in the Philippines plummeted last year from 70% to 40%. This is only natural. I know many people will disagree with what I am about to say, especially people who live in places like Australia with its "no jab, no play" legislation that bars children from going to school if they have not been vaccinated. However I know many children, mostly from enlightened parents living on Bali who were never vaccinated for anything, they are some of the most amazing and healthy young people I know. That is even with living in Indonesia.
My personal position is that the concept of vaccination is sound but that the practice is highly questionable and the rise in autism and other afflictions combined with the number of deaths from vaccines convince me that we need to be very cautious of vaccines. The potential for greater harm than benefit is there and I would not personally vaccinate children until they have reached puberty and their immune systems are fully developed.
Dengvaxia Gets FDA Approval
Dengvaxia is the world's first dengue vaccine. It has just been approved by the FDA in the US but with some conditions to mitigate deaths from the vaccine. This approval has been granted even though former president Benigno "Noynoy" Aquino III and several Cabinet secretaries were charged during 2018 with plunder, malversation and graft in the Philipines for involvement in the Dengvaxia program.
Who is running these approval processes? To my eyes it seems as if Sanofi tested Dengvaxia on the poor children of the Philippines and now that the risks have been identified they can cover themselves better and roll it out in the US territories.
This is sadly an approach to vaccinations we have seen time and again. Test it on the poor people and then bring it to the wealthier countries. This is done with the hope of reducing the amount of damage payments and lawsuits that the company must bear and improves its profits.
I will continue to follow this story as it progresses!
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