The
Pattern Benefit Book I is 145 pages of Betsy, Bleuette, Fashion Dolls, Ginny,
Hitty, Kripplebush Kids, Mary Houer and Travel Doll patterns and is $27.95
including postage. Pattern Benefit Book II is 200 pages of Betsy McCall,
Bleuette, Miscellaneous, Patsy, Sasha and Shirley Temple patterns and is $34.50
including postage. Email with questions, moddoll@yahoo.com
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Many
of you may have rejoiced back in the era of 1955-1963 when at long last Dr. Salk
unveiled his polio vaccine. You may have thought how wonderful science was! Your
child would not have to face the terror of polio and perhaps even life in an
iron lung. Of course, we were thankful eyen then that a child could live and be
able to breathe in one of those big metal respirators barrels-on-wheels that was
known as an iron lung. I was one of those mothers that rushed my kids down to
the pediatrician to get those shots or sugar cubes because I wanted to save them
from having polio. Little did I know that the polio vaccine would jump up some
40 years later as a possible ugly demon in our lives.
Unknown
to me and almost everyone alike, those exalted early polio vaccines were grown
in Thesus monkey kidneys. The monkey kidneys seemed a good culture in which to
grow the polio vaccine, but unfortunately, the polio vaccine picked
In the early 1960s,
Bernice Eddy, a government researcher, found that SV40 produced tumors in rats
and realized that the monkeys may not have been the best place to grow the
vaccine. She tried to blow the whistle to the government, but was hushed up. The
polio vaccine was a government-sponsored program - and you guessed it, no way
did anyone want any of the responsibility for any errors or even that there was
an error. Years passed and everyone guessed that the 98 million children and
adults who got the early vaccine during 1955-1963 had escaped unscathed.
Fast-forward
to 1993 and an Italian doctor, Michele Carbone. Carbone was a young Italian
researcher at the National Cancer Institute and had come up with a theory on
the origin of mesothelioma, a cancer of the lining of the lungs. Mesothelioma
was practically unheard of before 1950 and has since become associated with
asbestos exposure. One thing was wrong, though, while only 10 percent of those
who had contact with asbestos contacted cancer, some 20 percent of those with
asbestos related cancer had never been exposed to asbestos. Carbone contacted
Dr. Harvey Pass also with the NCI, because Pass as chief of thoracic surgery had
saved biopsies of mesothelioma surgeries: Carbone looked at the DNA of the large
collection of biopsies and found that 60 percent of them contained SV40 and was
capable of causing cancers.
Turkey
and Finland are the only two countries that did not use monkey kidneys to grow
the polio vaccine and have found no SV40 in domestic mesothelioma samples.
More
bad news - certain states in the U.S. got more powerful dosages of SV40 in their vaccines and if
you lived in Washington, Oregon, Wyoming, Utah, Minnesota, Iowa, Wisconsin,
Illinois, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Washington D.C., Maryland, Delaware, New York,
Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Vermont and New Hampshire, you got the
higher dose. Studies have also shown SV40 in bone and brain cancers and the
sneaky little thing can lie dormant for 20 to 40 years.
Brain
tumors, like mesothelioma have been dramatically on the increase in recent
years. Researchers believe that SV40 is transmitted in bodily fluids just like
AIDS and so could be transmitted from husband to wife and from wife to child.
Today
SV40 is found in 45 percent of human sperm samples and researchers found SV40
antibodies in 10 percent of the population. Children born between 1980-1995
tested 6 % positive to SV40.
SV40
can be found in a large percentage of brain tumors, including glioblastomas,
astrocytomas, ependymomas and papillomas. Our daughter (left) was born m 1956 and
received the polio vaccine in Wyoming, one of the high dose states. At age 41,
she developed an astrocytoma in her frontal lobe; no other cancers have been
found in either side of our families in the past four generations.
Recently it seems like
everyone you talked to know someone who has a brain tumor. The deadly brain
tumors hit double with Pat and Stan Schuda in 2001 as they lost two sons, Mike
South and Mike Schuda, both in their early 40s. We can only hope that one of the wonders just completed in
2000, the genetic code map, will help researchers come up with a cure for this
and other cancers. In the meantime, if you would like to help battle the deadly
brain tumor killer, you may do so by purchasing a joint labor of love from Pat
Schuda and Patsy Moyer who have made a 145-page doll pattern book from patterns
donated by a group of wonderful doll costumers.
These kind and generous
collectors have donated patterns on Betsy McCall, Bleuette, Fashion Dolls, Hitty,
Mary Hoyer, Kripplebush Kids and Travel Dolls. We donate all profit to the American Brain Tumor Association - our
way of trying to do a little something to help.
You can order the Pattern Benefit Book I by using Paypal or sending your check for $27.95 or $34.50 for pattern Benefit Book II to Patsy Moyer, PO Box 311, Deming, NM 88031. We print the books on demand and have them bound and shipped to you within two-three weeks.
Thank you for your
participation and go get that dolly dressed.
Cheers!
Patsy Moyer
American Brain Tumor Association
