Indonesia plan to halt vaccinations

[Coventina]

Source: Press Association

Indonesia's health minister wants to end vaccinating children against meningitis, mumps and some other diseases because she fears drug companies are using the country as a testing ground.

Siti Fadillah Supari - who first drew widespread attention by boycotting the World Health Organisation's 50-year-old virus sharing system in 2007 - said she wanted "scientific proof" that shots for illnesses like pneumonia, chicken pox, the flu, rubella and typhoid were "beneficial".

"If not, they have to be stopped. We don't want our country to be a testing place for drugs, as has been the case in Africa," she said.

Ms Supari said she still would advocate immunisation against measles, polio, tetanus, hepatitis B and tuberculosis.



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[indimuse]

1. K&R!

Thanks for the post. :)

[cali]

4. yes indeed, let's hear it for dead infants and children.

WTF?

[WriteDown]

2. This has all kinds of FAIL written all over it...

At least the manufacturers of baby sized coffins will end up making huge profits in Indonesia.

[OhioChick]

8. You're right. Sad. n/t

[ohio2007]

9. Taliban in Pakistan have banned children from small pox vaccination's

talk about "a pox" on their house

[cobalt1999]

3. Nice of them to help with the world's overpopulation problem

Maybe she'll want to get rid of all modern medicine and doctors until they are proven to be "beneficial".

I'm willing to bet if she has children, THEY are already vaccinated.

[kestrel91316]

5. Well, if nothing else this plan will provide a Koran-approved means

of population control. Too bad about all the children who are going to die, though.

[RaleighNCDUer]

6. She does have a point.

I thought the immunisations for rubella and typhoid were long-since proven effective, but pneumonia? Chicken pox? Flu shots are old news, but must be tailored for a specific strain - are they testing out a new flu shot that is more generalized? Is the mumps vaccine something different than what we've been using for decades?

Africa HAS been used as a lab for human testing - not necessarily by the WHO but by pharmaceutical companies, and if the pharma company 'donates' vaccines to the WHO, who then is culpable if there is a problem with the vaccine? And it is because of such things that there is mistrust of international pharma companies today.

[kimmerspixelated]

7. Good for her.

The bottom line/point is to be more informed about what is going on in those vials filled with mostly viral junk, and other stuff like monkey kidneys, etc.(nice, huh?)They, like all nations need to amp up boosting immunity in natural ways and to boost hand-washing as well.Preventative education goes a long way to disease evictions.

[Pavulon]

11. Sounds like a great idea

overpopulation is a bitch. This should help out with that problem.

[Mojorabbit]

12. The woman is crazy.

I have been following the bird flu news for years and she is certifiable. She is also under investigation for corruption.

[Pavulon]

10. Choices have consequences, that is why polio exists in shithole

countries with some silly crap like this. Poor choices.

But hey they can help out with overpopulation.

[kimmerspixelated]

14. Truly sickening.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

13. In a country without clean drinking water

typhoid shots are a good idea--as is cleaning up your water supply.