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Posted on Sun, Nov. 09, 2003 HEPATITIS C: SILENT ALARM By KAREN DILLON and MIKE McGRAW 2003 The Kansas City Star Michael Douglas, a Kansas City truckdriver, got it during an operation. South Carolina technician Dale Muir got it while inspecting used catheters. Teresa Cox, who works for a Kansas City radio station, got it from a transfusion while giving birth. These Americans, and at least 4 million more, have been infected with the hepatitis C virus. Ten thousand or more of them will die from it this year -- about 35 times the toll from last year's much-publicized...

Two inmates at the Elkhart County Jail who police believe are brothers were able to escape the county facility Sunday morning by squeezing through a hole in the wall. According to Elkhart County police and Sheriff Michael Books, David S., 34, 2208 Pleasant Plain, Elkhart, and Roger A. Delucenay, 33, 58120 C.R. 29, Goshen, apparently broke out of jail between 9 and 11:45 a.m. “They breached an interior wall,” Books said in describing how the two men got out of their jail ward. Books said investigators are not sure exactly how the two men hid their escape plan, but said...

Deadline runs out for blood patients By Auslan Cramb, Scotland Correspondent (Filed: 29/05/2003) Patients who contracted hepatitis C and HIV from contaminated blood products could lose the chance to claim compensation because their medical records have been lost. More than 150 haemophiliacs in Britain are suing American drug companies who supplied the NHS with infected products in the late 1970s and early 1980s. But lawyers representing scores of patients whose records have disappeared, or are incomplete, said they could miss tomorrow's deadline for filing claims against the manufacturers. Without the records, the patients will be unable to prove in an...

Not for commercial use. Solely to be used for the educational purposes of research and open discussion. 2 Paths of Bayer Drug in 80's: Riskier One Steered Overseas By WALT BOGDANICH and ERIC KOLI The New York Times Section A; Page 1; Column 5; Business/Financial Desk May 22, 2003, Thursday, Late Edition - Final A division of the pharmaceutical company Bayer sold millions of dollars of blood-clotting medicine for hemophiliacs -- medicine that carried a high risk of transmitting AIDS -- to Asia and Latin America in the mid-1980's while selling a new, safer product in the West, according to...

Are Bill and Hillary Clinton sweating now that the Supreme Court today revived the controversy over Vince Foster's death? Urged by the Bush administration, the court said it would decide in autumn whether the government must release post-mortem pictures of the Clinton White House attorney's "suicide." At stake is "the privacy interest of millions of individuals, about whom personal and sensitive information is stored in government files," Solicitor General Theodore Olson told the court. Olson insisted that five investigations had showed Foster killed himself and that a sixth inquiry "by an unsatisfied private citizen" seemed unnecessary. But for the whole...

BUBBA UNIVERSITYFormer President Bill Clinton and the University of Arkansas are considerating the creation of a new 'Clinton School of Public Service.'Already being called 'UACS,' it would provide and undergraduate degree for students who attend the classes at Clinton's new library and museum facility in Little Rock.Friend Bruce Lindsay is high on the idea and is mulling a weekend retreat where friends, advisors and educators would develop a curriculum.

FR posted articles on UN Food for Oil program MASTER list THIS TOP ONE IS THE LATEST REPORT OUT OF THE USELESS NATIONS ON THE OIL FOR FOOD PROGRAM UN OIL FOR FOOD PROGRAM REPORT (what UN is really raking in) 2/22-28/03 UN deal leaves Iraq Kurds at Baghdad's mercy Oil, Food and a Whole Lot of Questions The Oil-for-U.N.-Jobs Program Kofi Annandersen: Enron-style accounting at the U.N. Oil-for-Food Program William Safire: Follow the money Bum's Rush for Butcher's Big, Bad Debts Don’t expect UN to clean up Iraq (a sane German alert!) U.N. crambles to Reclaim Role Amid Debate...

Genetic "smart bomb" knocks out hepatitis   19:00 20 April 03   NewScientist.com news service   Human liver cells harbouring the hepatitis C virus can be selectively targeted and destroyed by a new gene therapy approach, according to new research. The key is a genetically-engineered "suicide" gene, delivered aboard a harmless virus, which is triggered only when it enters a hepatitis-infected cell. The two current treatments for the debilitating liver disease - alpha interferon and ribavarin - can reduce the level of infection, say researchers, but the virus usually comes back. The new gene therapy approach could one day "offer the potential of...

George Galloway, the Labour backbencher, received money from Saddam Hussein's regime, taking a slice of oil earnings worth at least £375,000 a year, according to Iraqi intelligence documents found by The Daily Telegraph in Baghdad. A confidential memorandum sent to Saddam by his spy chief said that Mr Galloway asked an agent of the Mukhabarat secret service for a greater cut of Iraq's exports under the oil for food programme. He also said that Mr Galloway was profiting from food contracts and sought "exceptional" business deals. Mr Galloway has always denied receiving any financial assistance from Baghdad. Asked to explain...

The International Red Cross has temporarily suspended its humanitarian efforts in Baghdad due to the current chaotic conditions there. A spokesman said the unpredictable situation was making it almost impossible to travel around the city. Ambulances have been unable to get to casualties due to heavy firefights between US troops and pockets of Iraqi resistance. A Canadian Red Cross worker was earlier shot dead after his vehicle was caught in a crossfire. The Red Cross is also warning of worsening conditions in Baghdad's hospitals. Many hospitals are said to operating at breaking point and lacking basic medicines, with some cut...

We didn't think it was possible, but it seems the French are even more degenerate than previously believed: A Paris judge has opened an inquiry into allegations a French company exported HIV-tainted blood to impoverished nations. The investigation into this long-running scandal is prompted by charges filed in November by a Tunisian couple whose son died 14 years ago. The death of 19-year-old Abdelkader Fradi in Sousse, Tunisia was officially blamed on a "cerebral hemorrhage." But the young hemophiliac had in fact contracted the AIDS virus, a taboo subject in Tunisia, his parents say. According to French news reports, the...

Two International Red Cross workers attempted to prevent the IDF from arresting a senior Islamic Jihad terrorist today. An IDF Egoz unit entered the Red Cross building in Jenin today, arrested the terrorist's accomplice, and found two Kalachnikov rifles at the site. When the soldiers asked to enter the offices, the two female workers - from the U.S. and Britain - would not allow them to do so, saying no one was inside. The Israelis insisted on entering, and found the terrorist, Shadi Sukiya, armed with a pistol. They arrested him without incident. Sukiya has long been wanted for his...

<p>The federal Food and Drug Administration says about half a dozen adverse reactions, including one death, have occurred after blood transfusions from bags linked to blood recently quarantined in Nashville and Atlanta.</p> <p>The agency stressed that it's unclear whether the reactions, which have included a bacterial infection and an allergic reaction, were caused by possible contaminants in the bags or routine complications.</p>

WASHINGTON, Feb 05, 2003 (AP Online via COMTEX) -- Adulterated imported honey was seized Wednesday from a Texas company after the Food and Drug Administration confirmed the presence of an unapproved food additive. U.S. marshals seized 266 drums of honey, each containing 639 pounds of bulk honey, and five totes, each containing a net weight of 3,000 pounds, from Hoyts Honey Farm in Baytown, Texas. The additive, chloramphenicol, is prohibited by the FDA in food because of concerns about the potential for serious blood disorders in humans. Cloramphenicol is an antibiotic used to control disease in shrimp, crawfish and bees....

LifeSite Daily News Thursday January 30, 2003 NEW WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION CHIEF INVOLVED IN POPULATION CONTROL VACCINE SCANDAL GENEVA, January 30, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Dr. Jong Wook Lee, a relatively unknown World Health Organization (WHO) insider beat out high profile competitors to become the head of the World Health Organization Tuesday. Other candidates for the post included Dr. Julio Frenk Mora - currently Mexico's Minister of Health and Dr. Pascoal Mocumbi - the Prime Minister of Mozambique. However, Lee's work with WHO included being in charge of and weathering one of the most scandalous accusations to be brought against the...

A little known fact is the only person to ever ask Clinton a public question about the events in Mena Arkansas, while he was President, was Sarah McClendon in 1994. She also drilled Mike McCurry over the issue in September of 1996, an interesting exchange, in which a person named Helen (my guess is Helen Thomas) told McClendon to "put a sock in it" so she could get her question in. [both transcripts are bellow] Hats off to this little old lady, not to mention prayers. --------------------------------------------------------- October 7, 1994, Clinton Speech on His Administration's Progress. CLINTON: Yes, Sarah? SARAH...

OTTAWA (CP) -- Blood products possibly carrying the West Nile virus are being withdrawn from hospitals in all provinces and territories except Quebec, Canadian Blood Services announced Friday. "We have taken this initiative in response to the growing number of probable and confirmed cases of West Nile virus," Dr. Graham Sher, chief executive officer for the agency said in a statement. The agency said that: "As of Dec. 10, 2002, the Ministry of Health in Ontario advised Canadian Blood Services that there were a total of 148 probable and 77 confirmed cases in the province. Over the past month, these...

Who Owns Your Heart, Baby? by Bill Walker Most Americans would say that they own their own internal organs. Of course, most Americans would say that they own their houses, when actually American houses are co-owned by banks and property tax authorities. So, as usual, we can't find the truth by taking a vote. This shouldn't surprise us; if you try to solve any physics, biology, or political problem by taking a mass popular vote you won't get reasonable answers either. So who really owns your heart, baby? One obvious way of determining ownership of a thing is to find...

Dole praised as Red Cross head, but problems from her time remain By SCOTT MOONEYHAM, , Associated Press Writer RALEIGH, N.C.(AP) - When Elizabeth Dole took control at the American Red Cross, the organization had never been more troubled. Tainted blood collected by the charity had infected hundreds of people with AIDS and hepatitis. Congressional hearings were under way to examine blood handling procedures and the safety of the blood supply. Soon, the Food and Drug Administration was breathing down the agency's neck to try to bring the problems under control. In Dole's own words, "Blood was about to...

LINK TO THE STORY.Now that four Canadian doctors have been charged in the tainted blood scandal, perhaps the relative of a victim will finally go after Bill Clinton. This is a story that needs to be told and once for which Clinton must pay. Is there an attorney who is handling these cases? How can we convince a relative that he needs to go after Clinton? Any ideas?