Save a lot of dogs lives PLEASE

Dear News Editor

I recently became aware of your web site. It's great to know that someone is providing us with truthful and accurate reports while the mainstream media continues to assist with covering up and candy coating what is already misleading information.

I have become aware of a very disturbing situation and was wondering if you would be interested in investigating and informing your readers about this matter. To be honest, much of the investigation is already done and could easily be provided to you. I think the story is quite interesting. Have you ever wondered what happens when a pharmaceutical product is removed from the market in the US due to safety concerns? Quite often those products are used in other countries that aren't quite as modernized as the US. Places where people don't commonly have access to the media or the Internet. This seems to be the case with a product that was removed from the US market in 2004.

In September of 2004, history was made. It was the first time a veterinary pharmaceutical product was pulled from the US market due to safety concerns. The product is moxidectin commonly known as ProHeart6. It was used for the prevention of heartworms in dogs. There were many reports of very severe and horrific adverse reactions including organ damage, blindness and death. ProHeart12 is being marketed in Australia and similar reports are surfacing there. There are reports that although the FDA has stated moxidectin has not been approved for use in humans, it is being used for humans in Ghana in an effort to prevent river blindness. I realize that river blindness is a serious problem and efforts should be made to protect these people but I do have concerns. How can a product that is not safe for dogs and one that has proven to actually cause blindness be safe and effective in preventing river blindness? Why would the World Health Organization agree to allow this product to be administered to humans? How could they do so knowing that the product has been deemed unsafe for dogs? Another question many of us ask is, were we unknowingly paying for our beloved pets to be used as guinea pigs in an effort to test this product prior to human testing?

If you are interested in presenting this story to your readers I will be happy to provide links to FDA adverse event reports, media coverage, FDA correspondence as well as information about river blindness and the use of this product in humans. I will put you in contact with many, many victims who have suffered through the horror of watching their beloved pets suffer and die from this product, some of who even presented statements at the FDA hearing in a successful effort to have it removed from the market.

It seems there is no end to the greed of the pharmaceutical industry and our government officials are just as guilty. They knowingly allow US pharmaceutical companies to sell harmful products to foreign markets and then accept tremendous campaign contributions from these companies. There was a time when I wondered why the people of so many foreign countries hated Americans. Some of the answers are becoming more obvious every day. I believe that corporate America's arrogance, greed, lies and deception which has caused the senseless suffering and deaths of their people plays a major role in their hatred for us.

RIVER BLINDNESS IS DETAILED BELOW

http://www.thebluesheet.net/FDC/Weekly/blue/PrevBriefs.htm?Date=38117


River blindness: World Health Organization will begin a Phase II
trial
of
Wyeth's antiparasitic agent moxidectin for the treatment of river
blindness
(onchocerciasis), Wyeth announces May 4. WHO and the company have had
an
informal three-year cooperative agreement to develop the animal drug
for
human use in an oral form for the disease. The trial will be
conducted
at
WHO's Onchocerciasis Chemotherapy Research Centre in Ghana by the
WHO
Special Progamme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases.
Wyeth
anticipates 18 months of enrollment and another 18 months to complete
the
trial. Currently, Merck's ivermectin is used as a once a year
treatment
for
river blindness in many endemic areas....04470190023_b






The website below shows that the number one concern is about MONEY for The American Veterninairy Medical Association
They got 9 sponsors for $75,000 per year for 5 years the $ sponsors contributed $3,375,000 dollars to the AVMA via world vet ( a group started by AVMA to boost the veterinairy economy). Fort Dodge that makes Proheart 6 and Pfizer that makes Rimady are two of the nine initial sponsors.
More about this can be found in the files section at
at
http://www.groups.yahoo.com/group/vetandpetunhealthcaremalpractice/



http://www.worldvet.org/bull1702/35.htm

Economic commission convenes first meeting The board of directors of the National Commission on Veterinary Economic Issues, a not-for-profit corporation charged with reshaping the US veterinary profession by improving its economic base, will invite to its meetings the allied groups in the AVMA House of Delegates and animal health corporations expressing interest in the commission's purpose. This was one of the decisions made in January, at the first official meeting. The commission was formed to address the findings of the comprehensive economic study, "The Current and Future Market for Veterinarians and Veterinary Medical Services in the United States," also known as the "Megastudy." Among its conclusions, the Megastudy projects that a gap between supply and demand of veterinarians will exist until 2014. Additionally, the board approved the formation of a "sponsors' council" open to any party committing a minimum of $75,000 per year for five years to the economic commission. Aimed at garnering the business experience of the animal health industry, the council will serve the board in a nonvoting, advisory capacity. http://www.worldvet.org/bull1702/35.htm

The website below has so much detail about thousands of dogs dying from drugs that the owners were told were SAFE to use on their dogs.

http://www.dogadversereaction.com

plesase help us get the word out.

Sincerely,
Mike