Source: Ex-NYC health commissioner tapped for FDA
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090311/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/fda_chief
By LAURAN NEERGAARD and ERICA WERNER, Associated Press Writers – Wed Mar 11, 6:49 pm ET
WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama intends to name former New York City Health Commissioner Margaret Hamburg to lead the troubled Food and Drug Administration.

Hamburg and Baltimore Health Commissioner Joshua Sharfstein have been talked about for weeks as the leading candidates for the top two spots at the agency, with Sharfstein as Hamburg’s deputy commissioner.
Wednesday, a person close to Hamburg said that announcement was imminent. The person spoke on condition of anonymity because there was no White House confirmation. Spokesmen for the White House and the Health and Human Services Department declined to comment on the nomination.
The two physician-outsiders will be tasked with restoring credibility to an agency that has suffered a string of failures such as repeated food recalls — including the massive salmonella outbreak in peanut products.
Hamburg is a well-known bioterrorism expert who served as an assistant health secretary during the Clinton administration and helped lay the groundwork for much of the government’s bioterrorism preparations and pandemic flu planning. 
But she may be best known as the chief health officer of the nation’s largest city during the early 1990s, when she designed a program that cut high rates of drug-resistant tuberculosis, supported needle-exchange to cut the spread of the AIDS virus and helped introduce smoking restrictions.
Sharfstein is a pediatrician who has been outspoken in efforts to improve oversight of children’s cold and flu medications. Before becoming Baltimore’s health chief in 2005, he served as health policy adviser to Rep. Henry Waxman, D-Calif., a congressional health leader.
Neither is steeped in the drug-approval process that is FDA’s best-known function. But public health specialists had been pushing for outsiders who could bring a conflict-free perspective to an agency that struggles to balance the need for new treatments with ensuring that they’re as safe as possible. Several praised the choices, first reported by The Wall Street Journal.
“What this to me represents is leadership at the Food and Drug Administration that will keep the public health first and foremost in mind,” said Dr. Harvey Fineburg, president of the prestigious Institute of Medicine. He called Hamburg “a person committed to the public well-being, and that’s the value you really want represented at the FDA.”
“You’ve got an organization that’s demoralized and one that wants to enhance its scientific integrity,” said Dr. Georges Benjamin of the American Public Health Association. “She’s all about integrity and science. … She can be tough when she needs to be, and she’s going to need to be real tough in that job.”
Sharfstein declined to comment Wednesday; Hamburg, currently a senior scientist at the Nuclear Threat Initiative think tank, didn’t immediately return e-mails seeking comment.
Hamburg will require Senate confirmation; Sharfstein won’t.
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Avian flu or bird flu is feared to create the next pandemic and wipe out millions of people around the globe..
That link you posted “avian” goes to a site that recommends that people “Get a flu shot if there’s any available before traveling.” BUT it neglects to mention the Baxter case of the flu vaccine being deliberately contaminated with live avian flu virus. I wonder why not? Let me guess, the site is a government, or World Health Organization disinformation one.
It must be -there is no mention of the importance of having a healthy diet or vitamin C, …but take your vaccines (laced with mercury and live viruses) before you go travelling.
1. How much ethylmercury do you get from vaccinations?
2 How much methylmercury do you get from vaccinations.
3. How long does the ethylmercury stay in the body?
4. How much mercury does the average non vaccinated person ingest in a year from food and the environment?
Find the answers to those questions Clare and you will realise that your fear of mercury poisoning is unfounded.
“Proponents of the alleged link between vaccines and autism charge that vaccines contain mercury, which in large enough doses, kills cells and causes neurological damage. What some vaccines contain is actually not plain mercury, but the preservative thimerosal. Thimerosal’s main active ingredient is an organic version of mercury called ethylmercury. Ethylmercury is naturally expelled from the body quickly. Methylmercury, on the other hand, is not. It stays in the body. High doses of methylmercury will cause physiological damage. However, ethylmercury and methylmercury are not the same thing, despite the similar names. Methylmercury is not present in thimerosal. In short, vaccines preserved with thimerosal do not even contain the type of mercury that activists say is dangerous. And even if they did, the amount would be too small to be considered a risk.”
http://skeptoid.com/episodes/4055
Gary, you really like pushing the idea that a highly neurotoxic heavy metal is safe to be injected.
Thimerosal contains almost 50 percent ethyl mercury by weight.
Quote: “The [flu] vaccine contains formaldehyde, a known cancer-causing agent. It also contains the preservative thimerosal, a derivative of mercury, a known neurotoxin linked to brain damage and autoimmune diseases. Aluminum is another flu vaccine ingredient and is also a toxic heavy metal that has been associated with an increased incidence of Alzheimer’s Disease.
The influenza epidemic that hit North America so strongly in January 2000 was the worst in 5 years.
Of interest is the fact that a large percentage of the elderly that contracted the flu did so despite having had their flu shots. One nursing home in Toronto recorded 32 cases of the flu; of those who became ill, 31 had been vaccinated against the flu the month before.”
See: Alzheimer’s Disease 10 Times
Greater After Flu Shots?
http://www.rense.com/general45/tentimes.htm
Just answer the questions Clare.
1. How much ethylmercury do you get from vaccinations?
2 How much methylmercury do you get from vaccinations.
3. How long does the ethylmercury stay in the body?
4. How much mercury does the average non vaccinated person ingest in a year from food and the environment?
You continue to avoid answering the questions Clare. Perhaps I need to rephrase them slightly for you.
1. How much ethylmercury would you get in your body from vaccinations?
2 How much methylmercury would you get in your body from vaccinations.
3. How long does ethylmercury stay in your body?
4. How much mercury does the average non vaccinated person ingest in a year from food and the environment?
Yet more good news on the vaccine front:
http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/tre5214fs-us-birdflu-vaccine/
I think the point is that Clare is right 100% for the line i quote on “formaldehyde, a known cancer-causing agent. It also contains the preservative thimerosal”.
If you dont believe this please visit in one of many proven cases by example, the health reivew of a new American pandemic in presidential directive on executive order of the president of the USA, to be exact #51, and P section 25 of the articles which were presented to Congress, which Bush disregarded and Obama hasn’t done anything to fix. Just recalling that China purchased a manufacturing concept of formaldehyde which was used in Russia and Germany back in WW2, though it was nastier, it was alongside mass production plan just like Mustard Gas concept. This is where the clothing was meant to be tainted, which was also present in the the plague in which the nursery rhyme gets told, which shouldnt need explaining if your not a kid and remember that.
Red Pill, perhaps you can answer these simple questions as Clare seems unwilling (or unable).
1. How much ethylmercury would you get in your body from vaccinations?
2 How much methylmercury would you get in your body from vaccinations.
3. How long does ethylmercury stay in your body?
4. How much mercury does the average non vaccinated person ingest in a year from food and the environment?
” a toxic heavy metal that has been associated with an increased incidence of Alzheimer’s Disease”
Correlation is not causation. Repeat after me “Correlation is not causation”.
Bird flu is a serious illness that affects birds. Especially chickens, that can be spread from birds to humans and that can cause death. Recently the breaking out of bird flu has taken us aback. We could never think of such kind of problem in our country. However thanks to the Almighty that it could not break out in an epidemic form because of the timely intervention of the government and people’s consciousness about the matter. The cause of bird flu in our country could not be detected. It was thought that it might have been carried and spread by the imported chickens from our neighboring countries like Thailand and China. Because the breaking out of bird flu in an epidemic form has been seen in China and Thailand. Poultry farming has had a positive effect on the social economic condition in our country. It helped many rural poor women to break the chain of poverty and see better days to their lives. But the recent breaking out of bird flu has shadowed their smiling faces into gloomy ones and clouded their foreheads. It has emptied their fertile farms and turned the firms into barren hands. We have seen the hearts. However, it is heartening that our government has taken an all out efforts to give loans to the people engaged in poultry farming on easy terms to keep their income generating industry on and to bring about better days and see the gloomy faces glowing with beatific smile and keep their heads above all consuming poverty.
Bird flu is a serious illness that affects birds. Especially chickens,
Avian flu or bird flu is feared to create the next pandemic and wipe out millions of people around the globe..