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At the Holistic Veterinary Center, PLLC., Dr. Pamela Scerba uses acupuncture, biopuncture, spinal adjustments, herbal medicines, nutritional supplements and Tui Na massage therapy to treat pets in the Albany NY metropolitan area. She specializes in diagnosis of acute and chronic diseases, trauma injuries and pain management using traditional Chinese methods. She works closely with primary care veterinarians by providing complementary and alternative treatment strategies.

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05/21/2024

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Posted on: Saturday, May 18th 2024 at 3:00 am
Written By: Children's Health Defense

Originally published on www.childrenshealthdefense.org by Brenda Baletti, Ph.D.

After years of reporting on news about vaccine injuries as "misinformation" and "conspiracy theory," The New York Times today reported that "thousands" may have been injured by the COVID-19 vaccines -- but ran accompanying articles declaring the shots safe and life-saving.

The New York Times today reported that COVID-19 vaccine injuries exist and that vaccine-injured people have been ignored. Those findings resulted from a yearlong investigation into the issue, the paper said.

After years of labeling commentary, articles and even search engine queries about vaccine injuries as misinformation, conspiracy theory, and "far-right," lambasting social media companies for allowing vaccine injury stories on their platforms and even ridiculing a family whose children died from the vaccine, the Times conceded that "thousands" may have been injured by the COVID-19 vaccines.

Under the headline, "Thousands Believe Covid Vaccines Harmed Them. Is Anyone Listening?" Times reporter Apoorva Mandavilli reported that the injuries aren't unexpected because "all vaccines have at least occasional side effects."

The article featured several vaccine-injured people, reporting on their medical issues and the "disbelief and ambivalence" they encountered from doctors and the media.

The Times also published two commentaries related to the investigative feature. One, by Mandavilli, summarized key takeaways from the investigation and the other, by David Leonhardt for "The Morning Newsletter," reassured readers about the safety of the vaccines and downplayed the injuries.

The Times' coverage is "better late than never," Children's Health Defense (CHD) CEO Mary Holland told The Defender. "The mainstream media, including The New York Times, is finally -- three-and-a-half years late -- acknowledging the devastating harm from the COVID shots," she said.

"Their only redemption will be to cover this issue seriously now and to seek to hold those accountable who knowingly pushed extraordinarily dangerous, experimental products onto the whole global community," Holland said.

The feature story included interviews with vaccine-injured doctors, nurses and researchers, like Dr. Gregory Poland, editor-in-chief of Vaccine, who said he could not get his colleagues to investigate his injury.

It also told the story of Michelle Zimmerman, Ph.D., a neuroscientist who experienced brain damage from the vaccine.

Akiko Iwasaki, Ph.D., a vaccine researcher at Yale University, told the Times that people with post-vaccination injuries are "just completely ignored and dismissed and gaslighted."

Dr. Janet Woodcock, former director of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, told the Times she believed that some of the vaccine-injured did in fact experience effects that were "serious" and "life-changing" beyond those officially recognized by federal agencies.

"I'm disappointed in myself," she added. "I did a lot of things I feel very good about, but this is one of the few things I feel I just didn't bring it home."

The article also quoted other unnamed public health officials saying that the side effects -- tinnitus, postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome, Bell's palsy and others described in the article did not result from the vaccine. And it suggested that at least one of the injuries it profiled likely came from a "contaminated" vaccine batch.

Federal agencies may not identify all safety issues associated with a vaccine through their surveillance, the article conceded.

It also discussed the challenges faced by people seeking compensation through the federal Countermeasures Injury Compensation Program, which has compensated only 12 people for COVID-19 vaccine injuries since the pandemic began.

The article and the accompanying pieces reiterated the mainstream COVID-19 vaccine talking points that such injuries were rare -- likely only among thousands of people -- and that the benefits of vaccination outweigh the risks "for most people."

The Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) data show 1,637,441 reports of adverse events following COVID-19 vaccines were submitted between Dec. 14, 2020, and April 26, 2024. The data includes a total of 37,061 reports of deaths.

Shifting the 'Overton Window'?

The articles are part of a shift in mainstream media coverage that has begun to acknowledge some limitations to the COVID-19 narrative that has dominated the mainstream media since the onset of the pandemic.

Dr. Pierre Kory, who has published recent op-eds in mainstream outlets said this week on "The Defender In-Depth" podcast that he thought the "Overton Window" was shifting because injuries and deaths following vaccination have become so widespread that mainstream media can no longer ignore them.

Kory has published op-eds in USA Today, Newsweek, The Hill, TrialSite News and The Washington Times, he said, seeking to "bring forth a discussion of caution around these [COVID-19] vaccines."

"We had to be very careful [when] approaching mainstream outlets to try to engender this discussion," Kory said.

Brianne Dressen, who was injured by the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine during a clinical trial, told The Defender that she wasn't surprised that the Times emphasized the alleged success of the vaccine program in an article about vaccine injuries.

"A few mainstream outlets are beginning to take a peek behind the curtain, albeit it is happening through a painstaking process of editors and lawyers to verify each and every word of copy," she said. "Of course they cannot possibly write about injuries without hailing the great success of the COVID vaccine program."

Dressen, founder of React19, a nonprofit organization advocating for vaccine injury victims, said the article was more honest than she expected, adding that:

"The sad reality is that these are the hardest pieces for these reporters to make it to print. For every mainstream piece, there are dozens of other articles that never make it to print. For several of these articles, the injured spend years working with reporters.

"This is a painstaking process but necessary if we are going to get the majority of the country to talk about this. The injured that end up in these articles are pretty brave. They don't know how these articles are going to be spun or twisted. Will it hurt the injured community? Or help the injured community? It's impossible to know.

"Is it because it's not newsworthy? Certainly no.

"Now is the time for the injured to reach out to their local and national news outlets. Now is the time to speak out loud and forcefully: We are real, we need recognition, we need compensation."

Times makes some concessions, but perpetuates false narrative, researchers say

Leonhardt's article said the vaccine injury subject is "uncomfortable" to read and write about because "it feeds into false stories about the COVID vaccines that many Americans have come to believe."

He cited Robert F. Kennedy Jr., independent presidential candidate and CHD's chairman on leave as a primary source for this "misinformation," the scale of which is "staggering" he wrote, quoting Dr. Joshua Sharfstein of Johns Hopkins University.

To avoid any misinterpretation of the feature article -- which he encouraged readers to check out -- he clarified the takeaway in a summary statement:

"The benefits of the Covid vaccines have far outweighed the downsides, according to a voluminous amount of data and scientific studies from around the world. In the U.S. alone, the vaccines have saved at least several hundred thousand lives and perhaps more than one million, studies estimate.

"Rates of death, hospitalization and serious illness have all been much higher among the unvaccinated than the vaccinated."

He added, "Not only are the vaccines' benefits enormous, but the true toll of the side effects may be lower than the perceived toll," because people suffer "mysterious ailments" all of the time and may be incorrectly associating those with the vaccine.

Data scientist and immunology researcher Jessica Rose, Ph.D., disagreed.

She told The Defender that in her research, she has been unable to locate any case or published study "where there are no conflicts of interest involved," supporting the claim that COVID-19 injectable products saved lives.

All-cause mortality researcher Denis Rancourt, Ph.D., told The Defender, "The claims that vaccines saved lives are vast and groundless exaggerations, modeling fantasies," as his research has shown.

Rose added the claim that rates of death, hospitalization and serious illness were higher among the unvaccinated -- which Leonhardt presented with no citation at all -- is false.

She also said the Times' admission of harms associated with the COVID-19 injectable products after years of mandated rollouts, "is a stark indication of just how bad the problem of injection injuries really is in the context of these products, in my opinion."

She added:

"Anyone who has looked at a pharmacovigilance database can see immediately that there is disproportionate reporting of hospitalizations, serious illness and death, when comparing the COVID-19 products with all vaccines combined, going back 30 years (in the case of VAERS).

"This pattern is also seen in the EudraVigilance database. It is absolutely evident that millions of people are suffering at the hands of the COVID-19 injectable products.

"Even if one does not delve into pharmacovigilance databases to obtain a clear picture of the 'anomalies', it is enough to just listen to what the people are saying."

Many of the comments in the comments section of the feature article come from people sharing their own vaccine injuries.

M. Nathaniel Mead, public health research scientist and lead author of the "Lessons Learned" paper summarizing issues with the COVID-19 shots, told The Defender that while the article did "a good job commenting on the human side to the COVID-19 vaccine harms," IT was "heavily biased in favor of the COVID-19 modified mRNA injectables."

"The sources they cite in the article for the claims of millions of deaths and hospitalizations prevented are just government website reports, not primary sources from valid peer-reviewed studies," he said. "When you have once esteemed publications like the Times completely whitewashing what the published science has shown, you continue to perpetuate misinformation on a massive scale."

Mead added:

"The author points out the challenges posed by the lack of a centralized repository for vaccine recipient and medical records, but then repeatedly echoes official assertions that adverse reactions are exceedingly rare and emphasizes the millions of lives purportedly saved by injections.

"Paradoxically, these claims appear to be based on databases that, according to Mandavilli's initial assertion, do not exist for tracking vaccine injuries."

He added that the article, "completely sidesteps the critical issues of cancer, autoimmune disease, immune dysfunction, and excess deaths, conveniently failing to mention the various relevant analyses."

"The public deserves to know about the true harms caused by these gene-based drugs that are being called vaccines," he said.

Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) tweeted that the article is a "limited hangout." And that vaccine injuries "are real and impossible to hide."

Mandavilli part of Times Pulitzer Prize-winning COVID coverage

Mandavilli was part of the Times team that won a Pulitzer Prize for its 2021 coverage of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Her reporting repeatedly overstated numbers of hospitalizations and deaths.

Dr. Vinay Prasad wrote in a blog post that Mandavilli "is incompetent as a science journalist. She has her own views on covid policy. She is pro mask, pro boosting kids, and pro school shutdown. She seems as if she favors partisan Democratic positions on COVID policy. Her own views color her journalism and lead to one-sided errors."

In another blog post, "Why is Apoorva Mandavilli giving lectures on misinformation when her own articles require so many corrections?" Prasad compiled some of her most egregious overstatements of COVID-19 illness and death that the paper was forced to correct.

These included stating on Oct. 8, 2021, that 900,000 children had been hospitalized for COVID-19 rather than 63,000.

In May 2022, she reported that 4,000 children had died from "multisystem inflammatory syndrome," when in fact 4,000 had been diagnosed with it. They had not died.

In February 2024, she reported that last winter there were 1,500 deaths per day, when in fact that number was estimated per week.

She also tweeted that the lab-leak theory had "racist roots," a tweet she later deleted after backlash.

Prasad also pointed to more recent distortions and unsupported claims in Mandavilli's articles. Including, for example, a claim that vaccination decreases the chances of long COVID, and another one implying that COVID-19 continues to be a serious public health threat. She also asserted that improving indoor air quality stops the spread of respiratory viruses, which no studies have shown and that people still ought to mask.

Dressen was more sympathetic to Mandavilli, who she said has been trying to cover the issue since 2021.

Children's Health Defense
The Children’s Health Defense Team is devoted to the health of people and our planet. Our mission is to end the childhood health epidemics by working aggressively to eliminate harmful exposures, hold those responsible accountable, and establish safeguards so this never happens again. We do what we do for many reasons, but the one thing we all share is our passionate belief that we have public health policies and practices that are harming our children. For the future good health of our children and planet, we call for more research and transparency. Visit us at www.childrenshealthdefense.org

Disclaimer: This article is not intended to provide medical advice, diagnosis or treatment. Views expressed here do not necessarily reflect those of GreenMedInfo or its staff.
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I will now be doing Housecalls only for my current and past patients as my schedule allows  we will be accepting new pup...
04/30/2024

I will now be doing Housecalls only for my current and past patients as my schedule allows we will be accepting new puppies and kittens and well animals in a case by case basis that live within a 15 mile radius of halfmoon
Our phone number is the same and we will continue to do supplement refills and will be able to do standard process supplements to both clients and non clients please text 518-383-5697 to get a link to order yourself it is less expensive to get them through our office and pick them up here but if you like having them shipped directly to you is is a great option
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Seresto Pet Flea and Tick Collars Still on the Market but with Mitigation MeasuresOctober 14, 2023 / Infectious Diseases...
10/17/2023

Seresto Pet Flea and Tick Collars Still on the Market but with Mitigation Measures
October 14, 2023 / Infectious Diseases & Vaccines / By Dodds

Seresto pet flea and tick collars were implicated for possibly causing almost 1,700 companion pet deaths for almost 10 years in 2021. This placed a much-needed spotlight on the regulatory agency, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), that apparently had sat on the data.

The expos by Investigative Midwest’s intrepid journalist, Johnathan Hettinger, caused an outcry from companion pet parents and environmentalists who were subsequently also alarmed that the EPA would not initiate a recall. On top of that, the product’s manufacturer (Elanco) held fast and refused to withdraw the collars from the market even after public pressure. Congress even became involved and demanded a recall but to no avail.

Skipping forward to 2023, the EPA analyzed the data, decided not to pull the collars off the market, and imposed mitigation measures.

During that 2-year period of time, Hettinger continued regularly to chronicle the journey to the EPA’s decision. We provide links to several of his articles below.

For this post, we will be concentrating on narratives.

Key Takeaway

Per the EPA’s memorandum:

“During the review of the reported cases of potential deaths associated with the collar the Agency found that critical details of incidents were often missing from case narratives, often preventing the Agency from determining the cause of the incident. Where sufficient details were provided, there were no cases where high confidence existed in a correlation between the collar use and the death, often due to confounding factors such as concurrent medical conditions.”

Alarming

That is alarming because by November 7, 2022, Hettinger stated that more than 100,000 Seresto incidents had been reported involving both companion pets and humans.

Did the EPA’s 2023 memorandum provide some statistics? Yes; from but based on a subset of the data.

Of the 1,477 companion dog and cat death cases reviewed, it was determined 4 cases for canine and 9 cases for feline were found to be probably or definitely related to the collar. These cases were associated with mechanical strangulation or trauma caused by the collar, rather than from the active ingredients contained in the collar.

The most common clinical adverse event reported for companion dogs was itchy skin. Regarding cats, application site hair change was the most reported adverse event at 32%.

The most common major adverse events associated with the Seresto collar were neurological such as ataxia (loss of coordination), seizures, muscle tremors, and convulsions. The EPA did drill down on the numbers. In essence, the determination was that some of those events were possibly or probably due to the collars, but there was overall low confidence to rule definitively due to insufficient information such as a complete medical history and record.

The EPA concluded, “In a number of cases with moderate or severe clinical signs, removal of the collar often seemed to alleviate symptoms, and/or reapplication of the collar coincided with a reoccurrence of symptoms.”

In our opinion, that sentence is dismissive of the physical, emotional and financial burden placed by the collars on companion pets and their families.

Data Collection

Overall, data collection was the problem.

How was the data initially collected? Companion pet parents have many options to report pet incidents involving pesticides. They can contact their state’s pesticide regulatory agency, file a report with the manufacturer who is required by law to submit adverse events to the EPA, contact the EPA directly, or call the National Pesticide Information Center (NPIC) which provides summary reports to the EPA. The NPIC has a cooperative agreement between Oregon State University and the EPA. Veterinarians have a separate reporting portal with NPIC.

In July 2023, the EPA made the Incident Data System (IDS) available to the public, but had limited confidence in its accuracy. It is basically just raw, top-line data.

The data can be extracted either in Aggregate Incidents or Individual Incidents. The aggregate data divvies up the level of severity of the incident reported for an animal, human or something else like groundwater. However, the Aggregate does not provide the collector’s name of the data.

The database from Individual Incidents contains a field called “Overall Submission Description (may describe multiple incidents)”, which starts with the collector of the report. Bear in mind we could not identify some of the submitting collectors because they were listed by their acronyms.

The collector’s identity is followed by either a detailed description of the incident or minimal information.

However, the data do reveal how the separate entities report the data to the EPA.

In fact, we noticed that the majority of the reports submitted by the manufacturer prior to the 2023 mitigation measures gave minimal information.

As an example, incident report number 034220-00002, dated on January 1, 2018, states, “Elanco: Includes 1 H-B(-003) and 8 H-C. Symptoms include muscle tremor, dyskinesia, urticaria, etc. (JK)”.

They all read like that. Granted, more details may have been provided to the manufacturer or the EPA from the manufacturer, but they do not appear in this particular database.

If you are wondering, H-B describes a human major event, while H-C describes a human moderate event. Since the manufacturer’s data were submitted in bulk, we suppose that the submission may include animal adverse events that were not separated out in the Individual Incidents report. Empirically, human adverse events take precedence.

Other collectors also summarized the incidents occasionally, but many of them were more descriptive. We provide a few examples from the identifiable collecting office. Additionally, we only have provided incidents with dates preceding 2021.

028031-00001; July 1, 2015: U.S. DEPT. OF HEALTH & HUMAN SERVICES, FOOD AND DRUG ADMIN: Owner reports dog becomes lethargic whenever collar placed on him. The suspected product is Seresto Collar (Bayer Product)

029481-00001; November 1, 2016: U.S Consumer Product Safety Commission: received Dec 6, 2016, another dog death involving Seresto.

029952-00001; May 5, 2017: U.S. DEPT. OF HEALTH & HUMAN SERVICES: an Australian Shepard experienced stroke like symptoms after collar was place on dog.

029999-00001; June 2, 2017: NPIC: a dog became lethargic and uncoordinated each time the owner placed the collar around the dog’s neck.

030621-00001; November 12, 2017: NPIC: Nov. 2017, Seresto, another dead pet.

030799-00001; March 1, 2018: Incident Reporting Portal: March 2018, an 18 week old puppy became very lethargic and cried within hours of putting a new Seresto collar on. The owner took off the collar and she started acting normal within a few hours. The owner tried the collar on her again about a week later and she was lethargic within an hour.

030898-00001; April 4, 2018: Incident Reporting Portal: Apr 2018, another dog death allegedly from the use of the Seresto dog collar.

033005-00001; August 1, 2019: NPIC: An owner reported lethargy and diarrhea for her two dogs one day after application of Seresto Flea Collars (flumethrin, imidacloprid). She reported the collars were removed, both dogs were treated by a veterinarian, and both dogs recovered, but wished to report the incident.

034033-00001; May 1, 2019: NPIC: a Maltese lost use of his hind legs after Seresto collar was applied, soon after the dog died.

Mitigation Measures

Several mitigation measures have been imposed such as a 5-year registration that expires in mid-2028, education for veterinarians and companion pet parents, and a warning label that lists every condition that may be associated with the product.

Most importantly, Elanco, the manufacturer, has to use an enhanced adverse event reporting template, submit all reports to the EPA, and provide a summary. In regards to the detailed reports, mitigation measure #4 states:

“Elanco US Inc. must develop and implement additional efforts regarding case follow-up, referrals, and necropsies as medically indicated. Annually, Elanco US Inc. must review and update training materials, frequency of training, and technical solutions for collecting and providing data related to the pets involved in adverse event (AE) reports for all Elanco US Inc. staff responsible for taking in these data. Elanco US Inc. will, to the fullest extent possible, include the following information for each AE:

Pre-existing medical conditions (e.g., hypothyroidism, diabetes), including previous history of reported condition.
b. Medications concomitantly administered.
c. Pet’s prior experience with the product.
d. Pet health status.”
The enhanced reporting template’s narrative column states: “This cannot be left blank: Narrative of AE (open ended text). Chronological history that identifies relevant information: relevant medical history, reason for use of products, possible contributing factors, sites of response, severity of response, pertinent lab and diagnostic test values, treatment of AE, date of death (if applicable), necropsy results, pathology findings, comments on assessments from veterinarian, any other significant information.”

Our Thoughts

The EPA reporting was not originally conducive to successfully identify adverse events, but is currently rectifying the problem.

For example, “EPA’s reporting requirements allow registrants to submit domestic animal incidents as aggregate exposure counts and exposure severity without narrative details, the majority of the domestic animal data are merely counts of exposure severity types, by year.”

The agency’s difficulty here is apparent with this statement, “Specific confounding factors in case narratives included a lack of additional data around death reports (e.g., only claim was collar was placed on pet and then, at a later date, the pet died).”

The narratives submitted by governmental agencies and affiliates that we listed above were sketchy and come with limitations. For instance, NPIC does not collect information for enforcement nor does it provide EPA with any personal identifying information that could be used for follow-up.

While we think the EPA has corrected its course, gaps in procedure and collection information have not been fully addressed.

If NPIC cannot collect follow-up data, can any of the other agencies or affiliates do so going forward? Will all Seresto incident reports be directed to Elanco from the other agencies? Will there be audits taken of Elanco’s data collection to ensure the integrity of the data?

Only time will tell.

We would have preferred that the EPA required an independent 3rd party collect the data, and clarified the governmental agency collection methods going forward about Seresto collars.

Hettinger Articles; Investigative Midwest:

March 2, 2021: Popular flea collar linked to almost 1,700 pet deaths. The EPA has issued no warning.

March 18, 2021: House subcommittee seeks voluntary recall of Seresto flea and tick collars

June 2, 2021: Watchdog group finds toxic ‘forever chemicals’ in popular flea and tick collars

September 24, 2021: Seresto flea collar adverse incidents climb after company submits 11,000 more reports to EPA – Apparently, a miscommunication between Elanco and the EPA during the pandemic led to a delay in reporting.

November 4, 2021: SERESTO SHORT-FORM: What we’ve discovered so far about the popular collars linked to pet injuries and deaths – Includes documents that indicate the EPA rushed approval, and that the agency has been investigating Seresto collars since 2015.

March 24, 2022: EPA internally questioned its ability to properly regulate pet collars linked to tens of thousands of injury reports

October 13, 2022: EPA to ban flea and tick collars linked to brain damage in children – EPA to ban pet collars that contain tetrachlorvinphos (TCVP), but the spot-spot-on treatments are still on the market. In August 2023, we found TCVP collars still on the market. Seresto does not contain TCVP; its active ingredients are imidacloprid and flumethrin.

November 7, 2022: Popular flea collar Seresto has been linked to more than 100,000 reports of harm

July 14, 2023: EPA rules popular Seresto flea collar stays on the market, with more reporting requirements – Final article on Seresto collars

July 27, 2023: EPA posts databases of pesticide harm to people, pets and wildlife for first time in agency history

References

Dodds, W. Jean. Seresto Flea and Tick Collars and the EPA, Hemopet, 26 Mar. 2021, https://hemopet.org/seresto-flea-and-tick-collars-and-the-epa/.

Seresto Pet Collar Review, US EPA – U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, 13 July 2023, https://www.epa.gov/pets/seresto-pet-collar-review.

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