JohnDJasper Posted April 11, 2013 Posted April 11, 2013 Natasha Bita, a journalist for The Australian won a Walkley Award (the Australian equivalent of a Pulitzer Prize) in 2011 for an in-depth article series on the CSL Afluria flu vaccine, a shot that caused convulsions in one percent of Australian infants who received it. Last year, the federal government suspended the seasonal flu vaccine for young children after it triggered febrile convulsions in one per cent, resulting in dozens of hospitalisations and a possible death. This suspension may not have taken place if not for Natasha Bita’s reporting of the health scandal and the flaws in the country’s system of approving and monitoring new medicines. Government inquiries have since recommended major reform. In a series of 23 articles for The Australian, including a 4600-word cover story in The Weekend Australian Magazine, Bita exposed manufacturing flaws at Australia’s biggest pharmaceutical company, CSL, as well as potential conflicts of interest between the government’s key immunisation advisers, and wastage at a cost to taxpayers of $65 million. These articles were published in the face of hostility and stonewalling from the federal health department and the Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA). Unfortunately, the efforts of this intrepid reporter faded into insignificance because the medical cartel disregards these small victories for the anti-vaccination movement and people in general and carries on with their arrogant and self-serving agenda. This vaccinate-at-any-cost mentality displays the utter depravity of US vaccine authorities. They really don’t care about vaccine adverse reactions or the victims of defective vaccines. When vaccine regulators are so transparently irresponsible, it is up to individuals and families to defend their own health by rejecting the gung-ho vaccine recommendations of the CDC, FDA and medical profession.
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