Vaccine Patch Pitched as Safe: Don't Believe It!

by Heidi Stevenson

19 July 2010

Vaccine patches, the next great vaccination delivery technology, is already being pushed as safe. A journal with the oxymoron name, Nature Medicine, has published a study that claims delivering vaccinations through skin patches with tiny plastic needles is both effective and safe. The safety claim is both premature and demonstrably untrue.

The study, done by researchers at Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University, used microneedle skin patches with a flu vaccine on mice. The vaccine impregnated needles, made of polyvinyl pyrrolidone (PVP), a mere .625 micrometers long, literally melt into the skin.

Although microneedle patches won't be available for another two years or so, the hype is already in full gear. It's obvious in the recent study that resulted in glowing press reports. It throws caution aside and declares microneedles safe—based on only a three-month study of use on mice.

It's claimed that these patches will increase the efficacy of vaccines, be painless, so easy and convenient that they could be mailed to people for self-application, and of course, they'll be safe. This last claim is hyperbole of the worst sort.

These facts about PVP were documented by the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC)⁽¹⁾:

• Subcutaneous injections of PVP into mice, rats, and rabbits resulted in sarcomas. Just one implantation of PVP peritoneally can result in multiple local tumors.
• Intravenous PVP injections into rats were associated with multiple tumors at distant locations in the body.
• Rats exposed to PVP vapors were underweight, and suffered from adenomas and adenocarcinomas in the nasal cavity and carcinomas of the liver. Squamous carcinomas of the larynx were found in high-dose groups. There were increased incidences of inflammation, olfactory epithelium atrophy, nasal cavity hyperplasia and metaplasia, hepatitis, and epithelial hyperplasia in the larynx.
• In cancer patients, PVP accumulates in the kidneys, lungs, liver, spleen, and lymph nodes.

Sarcomas. Carconomas. Inflammation. Atrophy. Hyperplasia. Hepatitis. These are not innocuous side effects. These are life-threatening damage caused by PVP, which is the vehicle for introducing vaccines into the body.

It gets worse, though. The vaccines to be used with microneedle patches are not the traditional sort. Instead, they are genetically modified, and consist of only bits of a virus. As documented in Scientist Works on GM Viruses for Vaccines, Gets Sick, Sues, Wins $1.37 Million, there is no doubt that genetically modified viruses can cause severe disorders.

The vaccination industry is playing roulette with our lives. Big Pharma and its acolytes, the tame scientists who do their bidding, are allowed to hide behind the mantra,

No one has proven that...

Of course, they conveniently don't see the data that proves their drugs' dangers. When their own pseudo-studies uncover the dangers, they hide them.

The hype of microneedle patches as the wave of the future for vaccine delivery clarifies that Big Pharma and Big Medicine are in conflict with the needs of the people.

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