For now 81 cases of deaths due to severe anaphylactic-type reactions or hypotension. The most accredited hypothesis speaks not of accidents and errors but of counterfeiting. China would be the main suspect.
By Valdo Vaccaro
Fundamental drug heparin.
Heparin sodium is widely used in medicine as a fundamental drug, as a fluidifier, anticoagulant, postoperative anti-thrombotic, in operating rooms throughout the world, being administered to subjects undergoing any type of intervention involving loss and possible restoration of blood.
It is also used in renal dialysis, in heart attack, in case of phlebitis or pulmonary embolism.
Let's also say that, wanting to select the two fundamental drugs used in the operating room from the myriad of medicines in circulation, the category that comes first in the head are anesthetics and painkillers, and the other is that of anticoagulants.
Heparin is therefore at the center of the pharmaceutical and medical world.
And it could not be otherwise, given that today's population, generally linked to eating habits centered on meat and milk proteins, sees a type of blood flowing through its vascular system that is very different from the one it possessed in other not too distant times. , a dense and heavy blood today, a compromised blood with a high content of the treacherous B12, and therefore led to coagulation and thrombosis, heart attack and stroke, particularly in conjunction with the hot season, and above all in operative emergencies where fluidity and circulatory speed become the basic survival factor.
Although there is a heparin of synthetic derivation, the heparin we are talking about, the one used in the vast majority of cases, is the one extracted from the corpses of animals immediately after their slaughter, and this detail is not really insignificant.
A scandal and contamination of planetary dimensions
We learn from an article by Gianna Milano, which appeared in Panorama in June, that a scandal and a mystery of global dimensions on the drug heparin is underway, with serious damage to thousands of people in various countries during 2007-2008.
On February 28, 2008, the Baxter Int'l-USA (among the major world suppliers of the finished product), has recalled all its lots.
In Germany, 80 suspected cases have been reported, with Rotex Medica withdrawing the drugs in distribution. In France, Sanofi-Avensis had to recall 11 lots of heparin (400,000 packages), and Opacrin did the same in Italy too.
The alert has involved 12 countries in all, still for now.
The latest official toll speaks of 900 people damaged, but this could only be the tip of the iceberg, given that many countries are reluctant to communicate news in a transparent way that creates confusion and embarrassment.
The contaminant of heparin, which according to experts would have triggered these problems, is hypersulphated chondroitin sulphate, which has a similar structure to heparin, but without possessing its anticoagulant effect.
The most accredited hypothesis speaks not of accidents and errors but of counterfeiting.
China would be the main suspect.
But this is where the real scandal comes from.
The global need for heparin has in fact triggered a global business that requires, for example, the sacrifice of over 1.5 billion pigs/year.
75 percent of these pigs are slaughtered in China, and the rest comes from South America, and even some European countries like Spain.
The manufacturing process is slow and begins in the slaughterhouses, where the intestines are recovered and the faeces contained therein are emptied. Part of the intestinal residues is destined for casings to be filled with ground secondary parts of the pig's body (cured meats), and part is crushed and compressed by special rollers to obtain a liquid (raw heparin juice) which is then dried in the sun.
In China then, business acumen is notoriously strong and, to increase the weight of the crude heparin, there is no hesitation in cutting the powder with a cartilage extract, pressed in the same way as guts, which costs one tenth of the heparin and it is not even detectable in laboratory controls.
In the first half of 2007, 85 percent of this Chinese heparin from pigs went to the USA and Europe (Austria, France, Italy and Germany).
According to Stefano Vella, of the Istituto Superiore di Sanità, there may also have been the death of pigs caused by the blue tongue epidemic in 2006. In short, the shortage of animals and their guts would have led Chinese farmers to add the suspected contaminant to the heparin.
Baxter buys heparin from an intermediary, the American SPL (Scientific Protein Laboratories) which in turn owns a Chinese factory, Changzhow SPL in Shanghai, which buys raw heparin from various Chinese artisan producers. Changzhow is listed as a chemical plant and therefore is not subject to health checks.
The American FDA (Food and Drug Administration) is now asking the federal state for an allocation of 250 million dollars/year to adequately inspect the production plants abroad, given that the current 11 million/year is not enough. And he also talks about opening an FDA office in China to deal with the globalization of the drug market.
This, more or less, is the news.
One and a half billion pigs and perhaps one billion cattle/year slaughtered also for heparin:
a scandal within a scandal
There is no exact data on cattle, from whose entrails heparin is also extracted. Making due proportions, we can calculate that bovine heparin is quantifiable in a figure 4 or 5 times greater than that of pigs, so that the global need for heparin would be around 30 t. paid to producers with 3 billion dollars and a market yield of 30 billion.
Once again a glimpse of the truth about what's cooking, about what medicine is creating all over the world.
We are not biochemists and we cannot know to what extent it is really essential to resort to animal heparin as an alternative to the synthetic one.
The serious suspicion is that current choices are always heavily conditioned by commercial factors and the political weight that farmers and butchers continue to have throughout the world, and not by purely scientific reasons, since purity is a very rare value in the world we live in.
Here too, medicine acts as the decisive arbiter, without however possessing the characteristics of independence and objectivity that are required for a role of this magnitude.
On the one hand it continues to make people ill with its pro-protein nutritionism, buggy and bankruptcy, hateful and perverse, which incites people, all equipped with vegetarian-type gastrointestinal tracts, to eat beef and pork (and other various land and water animals) which cause severe gastric-hepatic and renal crises, and consequent hospitalizations and operations.
On the other hand, it makes the world heparin-dependent, and forces it to be the slave of Chinese and non-Chinese butchers for billions of innocent victims, to be disembowelled and disemboweled in order to extract those pressed entrails juices that will serve to cure the people themselves. from the evils caused by the same bodies of slaughtered animals, smuggled for food ideal for human nutrition.
A vicious, perverse and diabolical circle that every responsible citizen of the world should denounce and fight.
It would be odious to compare 100 dead humans, between 100 unfortunate bipeds killed by cheap heparin, and several billion animals, even endowed with dignity, soul, and sensitivity to pain and fear, yet slaughtered without scruple to cure a humanity precipitated by now in the last circles of Hell.
Yet it is a mandatory comparison.
Nothing new under the pale and freezing sun of the irresponsible planet Earth
The merciless fight that animalism is waging against today's cannibals, against meat-eaters of all species, appears at this point even centered and off-target.
Even if the tide of cannibals suddenly repents with a wave of a magic wand, even if the carnivores transform themselves back into real men endowed with all their values and attributes, and stop gorging themselves on morgue corpses packaged in elegant stuffed guts called cured meats, butcher shops would still continue to work at full capacity to supply raw material to the global pharmaceutical industry.
How to say the virtuous and heroic path of medical research, increasingly focused on the wicked exploitation of weak creatures without legal-social-religious-political defence.
Leonardo Da Vinci warned that disrespecting a single animal meant committing a heinous crime.
Giuseppe Garibaldi rightly equated each animal to a delicate child, in need of affection and protection.
How should we call these horrible and mammoth massacres, if not with terms of nausea and apocalyptic disgust, of monstrous and sadistic planetary conspiracy?
Someone dares to accuse the vegetarian world of being detached in some way from the reality of the facts.
How do you dispute the use of heparin in the medical field. Aren't we going to turn our heads? Don't we want to contest operations and transplants and cloning? This would be cursing and going backwards like shrimp.
Does it perhaps make sense and logic to live in the nightmare of a land paved with corpses and sacrificial victims?
If we wanted to sanctify every slaughtered cattle and pig with a simple cross, we would find ourselves covered with crosses on the front door, in the kitchen, in the bathroom and in the bedroom.
The imagination of Mary Shelley would not be enough, who in one of her novels launched the myth of a hallucinating monster built with the bones of a dead man and the brain of an insane one. That despicable and terrifying being was called Frankenstein, but it was nothing compared to the medical apparatus of our times.
Agreed that the medicine that intervenes, that operates, that transplants and that clones, is stimulated in convincing and expeditious ways to do so.
No drive is more decisive than that of money, in an unbridled consumerist society like today's.
I also agree with the fact that even the best, most prudent and most responsible surgeon has no choice but to resort to the heparin of the poor beings who have had their throats slaughtered.
But one cannot conceive and set up a world health organization basing it on a distinctly chilling and criminal structure such as that of the international network of slaughterhouses, and then expect to get away with it and perhaps be respected and acclaimed as geniuses and benefactors of humanity.
Nor can a serious and irreproachable therapeutic program be started by basing it on the sadomasochistic principle of mors tua vita mea.
Fortunately, there are still no ogres who love to feed on the tender flesh of babies and children. Continuing at this rate we could still get there.
The bovine is exploited more than the others because it weighs and yields, and because its goodness of mind makes it infinitely obedient and patient.
The pig is slaughtered more than the others for a reason that should make us think. In medical terms it is used to say that it is the animal bio-chemically most similar to man.
The extraction of insulin from the pancreas, of heparin from the intestines and various internal organs, and of who knows which and how many other biological substances for therapeutic uses, is proven not to be the method to solve the problems of human health worldwide.
Giving heparin can be indispensable in certain emergencies, but as always, it causes side effects that outweigh the damage resulting from any non-use.
Not to mention that there are certainly less extreme, less immoral, less cruel and disgusting alternatives than that of pig and bovine intestines pressed to obtain juices.
For example, synthetic heparin can be used, or some substance derived from plants can be used.
The best alternative, however, remains that of keeping one's blood healthy, alkaline and flowing as much as possible, and therefore not getting sick, as entire vegetarian populations do in this world.
But living and healing in simpler and more natural ways unfortunately continues to be a bad deal from a commercial and financial point of view for too many people and too many companies.
That's the least interesting thing. The one that most shocks and terrifies fans of profit at any cost.
The medicine and pharmacology of the still notorious Talinomide of phocomelic children, or that of the equally lethal Azt used against diseases invented from scratch and surreptitiously kept alive for pure speculative reasons, such as AIDS, medicine and pharmacology anchored to experimentation and vivisection, intimately associated with places of detention, torture and barbaric animal execution, medicine and pharmacology in inextricable cahoots with animal-killers from all over the world, are very capable of losing their hair, wearing elegant clothes and distinguished airs of heroic benefactors and geniuses of science, but they are unable to lose their habit of always.
Nothing new under the pale and chilling sun of the irresponsible planet Earth.
Ed.: CEO of Baxter is Robert L Parkinson Jr. which in 2013 received a total fee of $ 16,162,128