Bayer Exposed ( HIV Contaminated Vaccine )

Bayer Sells AIDS-Infected Drug Banned in U.S. in Europe, Asia.

I've been meaning to do a write up on this for some time. I'm glad I finally got to it. I feel it's very important to understand what American businesses are doing at the expense to it's consumers. Our world is the way it is today, because WE the American people are so ignorant and blinded by greed.

Cutter Biological, unit of Bayer AG, apparently sold millions of dollars of blood-clotting medicine for hemophiliacs that carried high risk of transmitting AIDS to Asia and Latin America in mid-1980's, while selling new, safer product in West.

Cutter Biological introduced its safer medicine in Feb 1984 as evidence mounted that earlier version, Factor VIII, was infecting hemophiliacs with HIV. The company continued to sell old medicine overseas; records show Cutter officials were trying to avoid being stuck with large stores of product that was proving increasingly unmarketable in US and Europe. Bayer company continued to make old medicine for several months after it began selling new product. There obviously was a motive for Bayer to do this since it had several fixed-price contracts.

The precise human toll of these marketing decisions two decades ago may be impossible to document now; in Hong Kong and Taiwan alone, more than 100 hemophiliacs got HIV after using Cutter's old medicine, and many have since died.

Cutter continued to sell older product after Feb 1984 in Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, Japan and Argentina; figures are from Cutter documents produced in connection with lawsuits filed by American hemophiliacs.

Bayer issues statement defending Cutter, saying company continued to sell old medicine because some customers doubted new drug's effectiveness, and some countries were slow to approve its sale.

In the US, AIDS was passed on to thousands of hemophiliacs, many of whom died, before new product was developed.

Bayer and three other companies, while admitting no wrongdoing, have paid hemophiliacs about $600 million to settle more than 15 years of lawsuits. Bayer knew about the fact that the drug was tainted and told the FDA to keep things under wraps while they made a profit off of a drug that infected its patients.

Both Bayer and the FDA are at fault for this catastrophe. FDA regulators helped to keep the continued sales hidden, asking the company that the problem be ''quietly solved without alerting the Congress, the medical community and the public,'' according to the minutes of a 1985 meeting.

"Anyone with any business sense can understand that Bayer wanted a "return on investment" since they had already spent the money. The ethics of capitalism! ....this is what is taught at any college business class. There are plenty of examples in which multinationals exploit loopholes or ignorance in other countries to make profits." - Phoenix

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The Black and White pictures were taken from a friend Ken Baxter's Facebook site, where he states:

"I have made the last 20 years to make a difference in the hemophilia community. Some of the photos you saw I recorded myself. They were pictures of my friends and those were the hardest photos to do. I had to ask their wives for permission to record the death bed moments...

...I explained to their wives how important it was to create a historical record of events. I truly believe everyone needs to see the images as well as know the story of mass murder in the hemophilia community. Many fellow hemophiliacs are angry at me for showing those images. Someone has to do the “dirty” work of facing the ugly truth, and ignoring the emotional pain that comes from pushing the truth forward."

Most people are still unaware of the "hemophilia holocaust" that has claimed the lives of thousands. This book sheds light on the dark horror of a preventable disaster.

Blood transfusions have always been a tricky business, and since the emergence of HIV, they have been downright deadly to hemophiliacs who rely on plasma clotting factors to survive. As the CDC and corporations, for reasons of political correctness and profit, refuse to address the source issues, the public remains insidiously vulnerable to blood-born diseases. In Dying in Vein, Mackay and Milbouer construct a testament in pictures and words to the legacy of ignorance and greed and the terrible personal cost for the innocent. Through compelling photographs, by MacKay, and a moving narrative, by Milbouer, this book will help readers understand why this travesty DIDN'T have to happen! Each of the stories of the hemophiliacs contaminated with HIV through blood clotting factor, will move the reader to ask the question, "Why did our country let this nightmare happen when they knew ways to test the blood?" Why didn't they listen to those who were advising them to take extra measures in testing the blood and blood clotting products? Why should people read this book? The simple answer is that ALL Americans must know the TRUTH about what happened during the early and mid-1980s in the blood banks. As the Institute of Medicine stated in its investigation, the FDA was slow to act on a treatment proven to prevent transmission of the virus. Also, the FDA was negligent because it failed to test for hepatitis b core antibodies. The CDC recommended the FDA use certain screening procedures, but they chose not to test. Was expense an issue? Thus, thousands of hemophiliacs and non-hemophiliacs were contaminated with HIV, and eventually died of AIDS, hepatitis C, or AIDS related illnesses. Kathy MacKay is a strong and courageous woman, who watched her hemophiliac husband die needlessly of hepatitis C as a result of his HIV infection. David MacKay was only 33 years old and a loving father and special needs teacher. A life snuffed out much too soon, because not enough action was taken to protect the blood products. The pictures of children, women, and men of all ages will touch your heart and cause anger that this happened in America. This book struck a chord within me, since my own elderly mother,a non-hemophiliac, was transfused with HIV contaminated blood in 1983 while undergoing heart bypass surgery. She felt like a leper. The Institute of Medicine in 1995 criticized the blood banks for not informing the people that the risk of infection was much higher than it had stated. MacKay, my mother and thousands of others were not told the truth. When people say, "We didn't know much about the safety of the blood supply in the early or mid-1980s," I feel compelled to answer, "Well, maybe society didn't know, because no one informed them. However, the blood banks, CDC, and FDA certainly were aware of the dangers and risks, yet failed to act on screening the blood to make it safer." This holocaust must never be forgotten! Too many innocent lives were lost. Every American must read this book to know the truth. It is part of the history of the U.S.A. As we view the pictures and read the stories of each individual in this shocking book, we say, "This didn't have to happen! Related Articles Generation Rx Making a Killing: The Untold Story of Psychotropic Drugging Mansanto, US Drug War and Round Up Pesticide Addicting Congress Pneumonic Plague H1N1 Ukranian Outbreak H1N1, Swine Flu - Probes False Pandemic Big Pharma Reseacher Pleads Guilty to Fraud A Dirty Health Care Bill - Blame Obama