Human Guinea Pig: Irish woman seeks truth about vaccines

APRIL DREW,

Irish Voice Reporter

Published Thursday, September 2, 2010, 9:34 AM

Updated Sunday, September 5, 2010, 8:57 AM

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Mari Steed

From there Steed become involved with the Adopted People’s Association in Dublin (now Adoption Ireland), which lead her on a journey of self-discovery.

Finally through an Irish contact living in England, Steed was able to locate her mother through her marriage certificate to Swindon in England.

Within a matter of days Steed was reunited, via telephone, with her birth mother after 41 years.

Steed recalls the phone conversation so well.

“It was right after 9/11 and I was due to go up to New York that morning when the phone rang. It was Judy, my friend in England, who called to say she had found my mother,” recalls Steed.

“I was a wreck. I didn’t know what to think or do. Finally I called my mother and it was the oddest thing,” she said with a broad smile on her face.

“The minute I heard her voice the nerves melted away. It was like we just spoke last week and we hadn’t in 41 years.

“I told her I still had the doll she made for me. She couldn’t believe it. It was extremely emotional as you would expect.”

A year later Steed went to visit her mother in England, and since then they have maintained a great relationship.

“I couldn’t believe how alike we were both in personality and physically. It really was unbelievable,” she said.

“We talk at least once a week now,” she said.

Josephine has promised to help Steed right the wrong that was done to her as a child in Cork.

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mamaginnty | Feb 14, 2011, 05:48 PM EST

Well said culchiewoman, Kilbarry feels more pity for the poor old profs, than the children who were used, God only knows how many children actually died because of the trials. If all involved were a 100yrs old, I would still drag them through every court in the land and ask "why me, I am not an animal" good luck to Steed and the others, and I hope you get millions as well. They made millions selling those drugs, after testing them on the children. were tested on the childrenn

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culchiewoman | Sep 09, 2010, 03:15 PM EDT

@Kilbarry1: don't get it, do you? This is not about financial gain or tying up courts...it's about seeking legitimate answers and an apology. Why were vulnerable children still under their mothers' legal care used for these trials, rather than the general population (for whom follow-up could be provided)? And why was the mothers consent not given? You're okay with GSK, the State and Church (and two doddering old professors) just randomly selecting children in a mother-and-baby home for these trials? Damn right, we're starting it again. Worried it might come out of your pocket in the form of taxes? Fear not...we're not seeking money. Why did you even comment if it's 'idiocy'?

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Kilbarry1 | Sep 06, 2010, 02:01 PM EDT

Details of these trials were published in Irish and British medical jornals 50 years ago. Two medical professors now in their 70s and 80s who participated in the trials have been subjected to gross harassment as a result of this hysteria: QUOTE from the Irish Independent on 1st August 2003: "A retired UCD professor who was involved in the conduct of vaccination trials in 1960 and 1961 on 58 children in five institutions run by religious orders yesterday won a SUPREME COURT challenge to an order requiring him to give evidence before the Laffoy Commission regarding those trials. The five-judge court unanimously granted the appeal by Prof Patrick Meenan (86) against a High Court order upholding the Commission's direction to him to give evidence before its Vaccine Trials Division." QUOTE from the Irish Independent on 12 June 2004: THE Government's order directing an inquiry into the conduct of vaccine trials on children in State institutions was deemed invalid by the HIGH COURT yesterday. The inquiry was to be held under the aegis of the Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse. Mr Justice Aindrias O Caoimh gave his decision in a challenge brought by retired professor of microbiology Irene Hillary. Professor Hillary worked for 33 years at UCD and participated in tests relating to the method of administration of vaccines in a number of State institutions in the 1960s." This idiocy has resulted in a huge waste of time and money and - no doubt - delays to really important legal cases. And now this lady wants to start it all again!

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Barbaracvm | Sep 06, 2010, 11:55 AM EDT

The oral polio is a live virus vaccine. The Salk polio vaccine is dead virus. The Salk has never been known to give anyone polio. The oral vaccine has documented polio victims from receiving the live virus. Yet the doctors and other medical organizations push the live virus vaccine. I had to fight to get the Salk vaccine for my children. I have been cussed out and yelled at, by nurses, for using the Salk vaccine.

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