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Nancy Hokkanen

Bloomington, MN
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4 years 43 weeks

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Posted on 04/16/13 at 01:59 pm in response to Vaccine fear-mongering has muffled legitimate research on vaccine safety

Consumers would be less skeptical of vaccination if the CDC, physicians and industry would stop treating vaccine injury victims like roadkill. Would journalists let Toyota get away with sudden acceleration problems in "just a small minority" of its vehicles?

MinnPost and other MSM promote investigation into the U of M's Markingson research abuse case, yet these same reporters have a huge blind spot when it comes to vaccine research. Journalists seem to feel that a percentage of...

Posted on 12/05/12 at 10:47 pm in response to Scientist criticizes congressional panel for perpetuating myths about vaccines

“There are unanswered questions about vaccine safety. We need studies on vaccinated populations based on various schedules and doses as well as individual patient susceptibilities that we are continuing to learn about. No one should be threatened by the pursuit of this knowledge. Vaccine policy should be the subject of frank and open debate, with no tolerance for bullying. There are no sides — only people concerned for the well-being of our children.”

— the late Bernadine Healy, M.D...

Posted on 12/05/12 at 10:57 pm in response to Scientist criticizes congressional panel for perpetuating myths about vaccines

"I called the editor of The Washington Post when they said, you know, 'Well, this is the newest mythology, they've removed the Thimerosal from the vaccines and autism rates have not gone down.' How many times have you read that repeated by these people from the press? That is an industry talking point that the industry knows is a lie — everybody knows that's a lie. The amount of Thimerisal today in the flu vaccines is about sixty percent of what they claim to have removed from all the other...

Posted on 11/30/12 at 12:21 pm in response to Sasha McHale's death brings attention to little-understood autoimmune disease

Research has shown that in some individuals, vaccination can trigger autoimmune conditions such as Guillain–Barré syndrome. McHale's onset of lupus began after an overseas trip, which generally necessitates a prior round of vaccinations.

In March 2011, the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program paid the estate of Tambra Harris $475,000 because "petitioner alleged that she had suffered as a result of receiving a hepatitis B vaccination was systemic lupus erythematosus."

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Posted on 06/21/12 at 03:21 pm in response to More parents delaying children's vaccinations; health officials concerned

For one example:
- “A positive correlation between the percentage of refrigerators with freezing temperatures and the pertussis rate for each county health region was statistically significant."
- "No good excuse currently exists for a hamburger from France to have a better cold chain than the US vaccine supply."

Quotes by Patrick J. McColloster, Baylor College of Medicine; Family and Community Medicine, in "US vaccine refrigeration guidelines: Loose links in the cold...

Posted on 03/30/12 at 11:17 pm in response to Autism rates rise nationally, but reasons remain unclear

The National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program has settled many cases of vaccine-induced autism; note the 2011 Pace Law Review article. Thus MDH's Diebold's statement is incorrect but a predictable bureaucratic non-response.

The only question is how many children have suffered autism via vaccine-induced neuroimmune damage. But we won't know because MDH and CDC sit reading industry-tainted epi studies rather than pursuing physical examinations of the 1 in 88 sick children with...

Posted on 02/23/12 at 07:10 pm in response to U of M ethicists respond to latest conflict-of-interest scandal

Falsehoods about Dr. Andrew Wakefield are listed in his defamation lawsuit against the UK reporter and journal.
http://www.courthousenews.com/2012/01/04/BritMedJ.pdf

Here's how the GMC framed Doctors Wakefield, Walker-Smith and Murch:
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Posted on 12/26/11 at 11:58 pm in response to Minnesota experts name the most significant health-related events of 2011

Demyelinating disease and polyvalent human papilloma virus vaccination
J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry doi:10.1136/jnnp.2010.214924

We encountered two cases whose initial presentation of CNS demyelination followed in close time relationship the administration of Gardasil vaccine and we discuss their possible association.
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Posted on 12/09/11 at 04:44 pm in response to How U student with MS came to doubt her neurologist's motives

FDA testimony on multiple sclerosis from mercury tooth fillings
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-qhxa-3Wbw

Posted on 09/16/11 at 03:48 pm in response to Bachmann's vaccine blunder is a trademark of her public life

Cardiologist Dr. Scott Ratner, whose wife is also a physician, told CBS News in 2009 that his daughter became severely ill after a shot of Gardasil:
"My daughter went from a varsity lacrosse player at Choate to a chronically ill, steroid-dependent patient with autoimmune myofasciitis."

Vaccine-induced encephalitis can lead to brain damage, which can retard function and intellect.

Also read HPV vaccine injury reports to the Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System (...