Montgomery County coroner Dr. Kent Harshbarger said Connor Betts, 24, had a pipe device and a baggie of cocaine with him, and cocaine, alcohol and an antidepressant in his blood. Harshbarger also reported in his preliminary autopsy findings that police stopped Betts with at least two dozen gunshots that hit him at gaps in his body armor.
Five hours ago ten additional lives were confirmed lost to an antidepressant. Of course this news does not surprise me at all since I have been expecting this as each new piece of information about this young man has come out.
“Oh but there was also alcohol & cocaine in his system” is what Pharma & nay sayers will be quick to point out. But the sad truth is that Pharma & AA have been WELL AWARE for three decades that SSRI antidepressants produce overwhelming cravings for alcohol even in those who have never tasted alcohol before – the first adverse reaction to Prozac I ever witnessed. AA has chosen to never warn of this adverse effect of these drugs, while Pharma has danced around the warning every way possible for years.
The cravings for illegal stimulants has also long been reported by some users. Drugs like the cocaine women used to keep in a jar on their nightstands as a popular “brain stimulant”.
The very large majority of mass shooters were on only an antidepressant or a mix of an antidepressant with another prescription medication at the time of the shooting. Couple that with the fact that antidepressants work so similarly to phencycledine (PCP), the most violence producing drug the word has witnessed & I have no problem highlighting the use of antidepressants as the main cause of this tragedy.
A memorial in Dayton, Ohio, where nine were killed in a mass shooting on August 7. The perpetrator, Connor Betts, was found to have various drugs in his system during an autopsy. Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images
CINCINNATI — The Dayton shooter who killed nine people had cocaine on him and in his system during the mass shooting that police stopped in what they described as a combat-like gun battle, a coroner said Thursday.
Montgomery County coroner Dr. Kent Harshbarger said Connor Betts, 24, had a pipe device and a baggie of cocaine with him, and cocaine, alcohol and an antidepressant in his blood. Harshbarger also reported in his preliminary autopsy findings that police stopped Betts with at least two dozen gunshots that hit him at gaps in his body armor.
“This incident involved an intense firefight that is rarely seen other than combat and an active-shooter incident,” Dayton Police Chief Richard Biehl said. “The officers were confronted with a moving shooter wearing body armor, actively executing victims with an AR-15 type weapon and high capacity magazines.”
The coroner said police gunfire hit two people. One of them died, but Harshbarger said the gunman, not police, fired the lethal round.
Meanwhile, Betts’ parents have apologized for the wording in his obituary that didn’t mention the mass shooting whose victims included his younger sister.
Stephen and Moira Betts issued a statement that said the obituary for Connor Betts was “insensitive in not acknowledging the terrible tragedy that he created.”
They said they wanted to reflect the son they knew and weren’t trying to “minimize horror of his last act.”The obituary described Betts as a “funny, articulate and intelligent man with striking blue eyes and a kind smile” before it was taken down Wednesday by a funeral home in their hometown of Bellbrook, Ohio.
Betts opened fire in a popular entertainment district in Dayton. Police shot him as he neared a crowded bar.
It’s not known whether Betts targeted his 22-year-old sister, Megan. They had spent an hour together at a bar in the same area before the shooting.
The family will be holding private memorial services for both of their children.
Ethan Kollie, a longtime friend of Betts who told investigators he bought the body armor, a 100-round magazine and a key part of the gun Betts used in the attack was in court Thursday after a judge balked at releasing him from jail.
Authorities have said there’s no indication Kollie knew Betts was planning the mass shooting. But Kollie is charged with lying on a federal firearms form while buying a pistol not used in the shooting.
Prosecutors said Kollie first spoke with investigators just hours after the shooting.
Kollie’s attorney wants him released on house arrest.
A judge has been reviewing where Kollie would stay under house arrest with electronic monitoring and other conditions.
For anyone thinking the violence induced by antidepressants is affecting only the US. & is only coming from guns, I am sharing with you this Zoloft case out of Australia.
This was not a woman but a transsexual & if someone had recognized those reactions as antidepressant side effects when he wanted to make the change from a man to a woman he could have been withdrawn from the drugs before it turned to a more toxic reaction as this shocking violent attack at a 7/11.
Be sure to share this video with all your local convenience store workers to wake them up to the dangers they face from these drugs. And then share our database of thousands more cases like this with them if they think this is an isolated case…
With everyone in America wondering where all these mass shootings are coming from they are left with no answers, but only additional questions. Allow the Attorney General of the state of Connecticut to give you a clue from the Sandy Hook school shooting…
Are you aware of why the State of Connecticut REFUSED to disclose what drugs Sandy Hook shooter Adam Lanza was on at the time of the shooting at Sandy Hook? The answer from their Attorney General should give you the pieces of that puzzle & shock the nation. This statement should give you a very good idea why that kind of information is RARELY IF EVER, DISCLOSED!! As usual, it all goes back to protecting the same old thing: Corporate Profits!
PHARMACIST’S COMMENT ON ANTIDEPRESSANTS & MASS SHOOTINGS
Read the chilling prediction two decades ago that this day of mass killings was on its way. Right around the year 2000, I was contacted by a pharmacist you told me the nicest woman in town had come in regularly to his Pharmacy to get her prescription of Prozac. That was until she went to prison for killing her husband. This is one message I received from him that I believe the whole world needs to hear…
“The symptoms I see in patients who use/abuse serotonergic drugs of any form… could aptly be described as the Hitler syndrome overconfidence in ones own policies or decisions, no fear of consequences, criminal behavior, death of people close to the abuser as the preferred method of solving problems in the abusers life, coldness and lack of humanity.
I feel that in 20 years or less we will be confronted not with one Hitler but with thousands or millions… numbers so great that we will be forced to interact with their distorted thinking on a daily basis Littleton Colorado, Riverton Kansas, Jonesboro Arkansas, eventually little Hitlers in every town in America will grow up into BIG HITLERS. It is happening right now.
The most insidious factor about longer-term serotonin abuse is that it enhances that individual’s persona to the point that they are able to manipulate others into their way of thinking just as Hitler did. This causes distorted thinking, abnormal behavior, and loss of morality to spread like a contagion otherwise normal people who have not even been exposed to the drugs. Those on the drugs are converted by the pharmacologic/physiologic processes into sociopathic demagogues.
Do you have any comments on these thoughts Ann? Please respond. Tell me we are not the only ones who see what is happening to our world!“
ANTIDEPRESSANT-INDUCED SUICIDAL & HOMICIDAL IDEATIONS – WHAT ARE THEY?
What are the antidepressant side effects of suicidal & homicidal ideation listed in package inserts of antidepressants?
Methadone is also a serotonin re-uptake inhibitor which has been involved in serotonin toxicity reactions. … These symptoms are characteristic of serotonin syndrome which is often described as mental status changes, autonomic hyperactivity, and neuromuscular abnormalities
Citing her death certificate made available Friday, The Boston Globe, The Boston Herald and local TV station WCVB reported that she had alcohol and a mix of drugs — diazepam, fluoxetine, methadone, nordiazepam and norfluoxetine — in her system.
(The medical examiner’s office referred PEOPLE to the local district attorney, whose spokeswoman was not immediately available.)
No matter who you are, how high profile you may be, & how hard you have fought to educate about this Pharma created nightmare in which we all find ourselves, it still comes through your own back door & draws you into the nightmare!
This is the chilling warning that every family in America would suffer this drug-induced nightmare given to the world in 1991. My good friend pharmacist Maria Malakoff, who lost her own husband, Gary, also a pharmacist, in a horrific Prozac-induced suicide when he stepped between the TV & his family who were watching a movie & shot himself in the head. This is the report Maria shared in the first FDA Advisory Committee Hearing on September of 1991…
The Kennedy family just lost another loved one way too early, a beautiful young woman, Saoirse Kennedy Hill, 22. Police and rescue were called “to reports of an overdose inside the Kennedy Compound.”
Her grandfather, Robert F. Kennedy, & his brother, John F. Kennedy, both lost their lives by assassination while serving our nation. Her mother, Courtney, was the fifth child of Robert & Ethel Kennedy. She was only 11 when she lost her father.
Sadly two of Courtney’s brothers, Saoirse’s uncles, Douglas & Robert, have done far, far more than most to wake people up to the dangers of Pharma with her Uncle Douglas doing more mainstream media than anyone else has on the dangers of antidepressants when he was with Fox News National (You can see several of those very informative news clips on our ICFDA YouTube Channel.)
And her Uncle Robert Kennedy, Jr. has been an incredible voice for children damaged by vaccines and has just recently won some of the biggest court cases ever against the chemical giant, Monsanto, for cancer causing effects of Glyphosate, the main ingredient in the popular weed killer, Round Up. While her aunt Mary gave her own life as a warning when she lost her life in an antidepressant-induced suicide.
But in spite of their best efforts yet another family member has apparently lost her life to these deadly drugs. Also happening at a time most would never suspect it coming as she spent time enjoying her family at Hyannis Port, Massachusetts.
And leaving yet another family to mourn the loss of yet another beautiful soul her family & our world has been robbed of:
‘The world is a little less beautiful today.’ She lit up our lives with her love, her peals of laughter and her generous spirit. Saoirse was passionately moved by the causes of human rights and women’s empowerment and found great joy in volunteer work, working alongside indigenous communities to build schools in Mexico. We will love her and miss her forever.”
The same is true in my own family in spite of all of my efforts to bring the negative effects of these deadly drugs to light. While doing so we too have suffered serious suicide attempts, devastating life long birth defects, numerous divorces, the estrangement of family members, the gender altering effects, etc.
The whole truth about these drugs must be made known, the hidden things brought to light & all that be made very clear so that everyone fully understands the extent of the damage associated with them BEFORE they ever put one of these pills in their mouths! There has never been a patient who has taken one of these drugs who has done so with a fully informed consent & very few who have survived those effects who have ever gone on to be given the full information as to the extensive negative effects of these so called “antidepressant drugs”!
The gag orders MUST end! This is a public safety issue! The full truth of the involvement of these drugs in the school & mass shootings & every other case of violence needs to be disclosed! And their involvement in all the military suicides & sudden death cases among these young people needs to be brought to light. Use of these mind altering drugs, which affect judgment, among lawmakers & judges whose decisions affect so many lives for years to come, needs to be made public. With all of us being kept from seeing the end result of the use of these drugs where is our warning? There is none! This is why I have devoted every minute of the last 30 years of my life & every penny to my name in investigating, gathering, and making public the effects of these drugs upon unsuspecting patients who have become victims of these drugs. Here is the proof, here is the blood of those crying out to the world as a warning to not fall victim to the same fate they have fallen victim:
www.SSRIstories.NET (previously posted and publicised since 2006 since under .com and .org as well, neither of which is now endorsed or associated with our work in any way)
WAKE UP YOUR LOCAL AREA TO KEEP YOUR LOVED ONES SAFE
What you can do to help wake up others to this antidepressant nightmare by sharing with your local neighborhood watch groups, police & fire departments, domestic violence groups, apartment managers, etc., to keep your local areas safe. I have been trying to decide where to go to live & have not been able to find anywhere safe because of these deadly drugs. Besides creating our own drug-free community, the only choice we have is to clean up our own by educating our friends, family & neighbors.
So please share the following everywhere you can. With email, it is only a copy, paste & click away. For the sake of our children & grandchildren, who will be left to deal with an even worse nightmare as it progresses, PLEASE SHARE!
Author: Prozac: Panacea or Pandora? OUR serotonin Nightmare!
Withdrawal Audio: Help! I Can’t Get Off My Antidepressant!
LETTER OR EMAIL TO SHARE WITH LOCAL & STATE AUTHORITIES
Dear ________________,
I am concerned about the increasingly bizarre & out of character violence in our neighborhoods & our society when I see the following documentation leading right back to some of the most commonly prescribed medications today! These are in fact the drugs which are being most commonly prescribed to those who are being dangerously dropped far too rapidly off opioids as a means to “cope” with their rapid withdrawals!
My fear is that too many individuals remain unaware that heroin, cocaine, amphetamines, steroids, Ecstacy, opioids, & one of the most violence producing drugs in history, PCP (Angel Dust) all had their beginnings as “safe & effective” prescription drugs & were commonly prescribed by doctors. And even in some of the most health conscious communities LSD was given without concern to pregnant women by their totally uninformed OBGYNs! To this day we remain unaware of those effects upon those offspring exposed to LSD while their bodies & brains were forming! And the same holds true for these drugs now.
#1 Antidepressants, many sleep medications, & stop smoking medications are designed to increase serotonin. Yet Serotonin is what LSD & PCP increase which is the means by which hallucinations/psychosis is produced by those drugs! Increasing serotonin is also known to produce extreme out of character violence as this research below demonstrates:
#2 Here is a database of thousands of cases of violence in normal everyday people (your neighbor?) produced by these drugs … many cases which you will recognize: www.SSRIstories.net
#3 The overwhelming majority of school shooters were on or had just stopped taking antidepressants which increase serotonin…
Database of shootings & documentation of antidepressant use:
#4 Amazing insight into deadly medication-induced & rapid medication withdrawal induced REM Sleep Disorder by the only school shooter to ever speak out. A short 10 minute video clip to show you what can happen to a 16 year old, very well behaved farm boy, never in trouble before, whose only fault was shyness for which he was given these drugs. This led to him suffering a REM Sleep Disorder RBD (86% being diagnosed with RBD are taking antidepressants) where you act out nightmares in a dream state & long known to include both murder & suicide – the perfect formula for out of character violence: Why I took a gun to school?
WARNING: These drugs have severe withdrawal which must be avoided by a VERY, VERY GRADUAL withdrawal generally taking months to years to safely avoid RBD
This is only a quick overview of this problem. Any additional information can be found at www.drugawareness.org
Ft. Lauderdale shooter thought the government was using mind control on him & he was right!
Back in 1995, the editor of the Washington Post admitted that 45% of their reporters were on the first SSRI antidepressant, Prozac. This is a drug known to turn brain cells into corkscrew shapes & produce hallucinations via serotonin the same way LSD & PCP do, although more gradually thereby producing the psychosis more subtly. This makes it appear the patient is going gradually insane, rather than it being a drug effect. This is the type of drug behind every mass shooting in the past several decades with side effects known (documented) to produce both suicidal & homicidal ideation. These drugs alter both the thinking as well as behavior!
These reporters basically give every piece of evidence that this shooter was being “treated” with these drugs & THEN THEY ASK WHAT THE MOTIVE WAS???!!!! HELLO?!!!!! After 30 years of working as an expert in these cases, I pray for juries with more brain function than what these reporters have demonstrated in this news report!!
Now take a look at this database of thousands of cases & see if you can see the common denominator!! www.SSRIstories.net
Royal College of Psychiatrists: “Antidepressant Withdrawal Severe, Not Mild”
Royal College of Psychiatrists: “Antidepressant Withdrawal Severe, effects of withdrawing from antidepressants were branded ‘mild’
But the Royal College of Psychiatrists has now changed its position to ‘severe’
This is yet another very serious aspect of antidepressants I have been screaming about at the top of my lungs & streaming across the top of our website www.drugawareness.orgwarning to microtaper off these drugs for a QUARTER OF A CENTURY NOW….but lets make this point very clear….I do NOT make that statement to gloat. I make that statement to point out HOW VERY LONG this information has been available to both doctors who have been jeapordizing their patients lives & health, both mental & physical, by taking them off abruptly & also available to so many patients who so desperately needed it. All the while far too many doctors have dismissed patients who have tried to tell them this, while labeling those patients “delusional” or “hypocondriacs” for reporting this severe withdrawal to them which we have long referred to as a quick trip to hell! Sadly, how many have lost their lives & suffered immeasurably as a result during all that time!
The shock of the abrupt withdrawal can produce suicidal ideation, psychosis, mania or bipolar, homicidal ideation, akathisia, severe insomnia, REM Sleep Disorder, etc.
MY MESSAGE TO DOCTORS HAS LONG BEEN: STOP ‘LISTENING TO PROZAC’ & ITS CLONES & LISTEN TO YOUR PATIENTS INSTEAD!!!!
In order to avoid having to repeat myself over & over & over again in helping people learn the method we had learned through our own research & through trial & error over the years I put out my CD on safe withdrawal, “Help! I Can’t Get Off My Antidepressant!” That was back in June of 1999 when I was about to do a radio interview with Coast to Coast radio with 20 million listeners on the subject of the Columbine High School massacre. After all those people learned about the effects of these drugs in producing Columbine I did NOT want to repeat myself millions of times to those wanting to know how to come off these drugs!! So a CD that could repeat that for me seemed to be the smartest way to go.
Here is the link to that CD/MP3 on safe withdrawal:
“The attack happened just two days after Adams was released from prison, KPHO reports. Adams’ attorney Jacie Cotterell said he has a history of mental illness and should not have been released without proper medication.”
Jails & prisons have been causing cases like this for decades now because no one is warning them about the extreme danger of just dropping people off these drugs as they leave prison. And they have also caused many suicides by not insuring the prisoners are getting the medications they have been taking as they enter jail or prison thinking they will be fine for several days without it!
Abrupt withdrawal can produce suicidal ideation, psychosis, mania, bipolar, homicidal ideation, akathisia, severe insomnia, REM Sleep Disorder – many of which can produce very violent acts including homicide.
(And PLEASE use his reaction to this case as a warning to NOT vote for Cory Booker! All we need is yet another politician who is this ignorant about these cases!)
Man slit teen’s throat because “rap music made him feel unsafe,” police say
BY CHRISTOPHER BRITO
JULY 9, 2019 / 12:41 PM / CBS NEWS
Authorities have charged a white man recently released from prison with murder after he slit a teen’s throat inside a convenience store in Arizona last week. According to court documents obtained by CBS affiliate KPHO, Michael Adams, 27, allegedly did it because he felt “unsafe” listening to the child’s rap music.
Adams entered a Circle K store just outside Phoenix on Thursday when he walked up behind Elijah Al-Amin, 17, and allegedly stabbed him on the right side of his neck, police said. After Adams was arrested, he told officers that Elijah “did not do anything to threaten him” and heard him listening to rap music in the parking lot.
Michael Adams, 27, was charged with murder after allegedly cutting a teen’s throat.MARICOPA COUNTY JAILCourt documents said Adams yelled at detectives and stated that “rap music made him feel unsafe because in the past, he was attacked by people who listened to that music genre.” He also told investigators that he “needed to be proactive than reactive and protect himself and the community from the victim.”
Adams was booked into the Fourth Avenue Jail with a count of first-degree premeditated murder, online records show. Adams’ bond was set at $1 million cash.
The attack happened just two days after Adams was released from prison, KPHO reports. Adams’ attorney Jacie Cotterell said he has a history of mental illness and should not have been released without proper medication.
However, the Arizona Department of Corrections said he wasn’t designated a seriously mentally ill and released on an absolute discharge on July 2.
Outcry erupted on social media following the death of Al-Amin. A hashtag #JusticeforElijah emerged on Twitter, where many users said he was the victim of a hate crime, including 2020 presidential candidate Cory Booker.
“Another one of our children has been murdered in a heinous and unprovoked way—the DOJ must investigate this hate crime immediately. RIP Elijah,” Booker wrote on Monday.
Areanna Ivery, who worked with Elijah at Taco Bell for a year, told KPHO and Al-Amin bonded over his passion for rap.
“He talked about rap music all the time. He loved rap artists,” she said. “He just always said that rap artists spoke to him, that [rap] just gave him a sense of purpose, that he went through a lot of the things that [the artists] went through.”
What a huge pile of disinformation!!!! I cannot believe how people have fallen for all this garbage about bone broth! Talk about a witches brew! I am so sick of hearing this garbage! Does anyone have a functioning brain any longer to think things through logically? Here is just one point…this is supposed to boost the immune system?!! How does putting a foreign protein into your system boost your immune system? Foreign proteins trigger autoimmune disease. What happens in an organ transplant? The body automatically rejects that foreign protein & they have to give you drugs to prevent that natural reaction. Next, you will see Pharma trying to sell you drugs to keep you from rejecting your bone broth! After fighting them in court cases for 30 years, I can tell you that I would certainly not put that past their marketing department!
Merck just put up $48 Million to build a new facility & bring in 115 New jobs to Albany New York the very day before lawmakers they took away religious exemptions for vaccines! Coincidence? After testifying as a court witness against these companies & their drugs for three decades I can tell you there are no coincidences!
Listen to this leading Merck vaccine researcher admit to causing AIDS, Cancer, & the issues with SV40 with the polio vaccine. I was given the polio vaccine about age 6 & I developed terminal cancer in my early 20’s. Thank heavens for God given remedies that saved my life!
Cancer is the major killer of my generation. There were 98 Million of us exposed to cancer through the Polio vaccine! I will let you add up the toll both financially & in the senseless loss of lives to determine the full impact. And to those who are LDS allow me to paraphrase a statement which should be familiar to you as coming from Satan himself…”I will buy up EVERYONE & reign in blood & horror on this earth!”
“Among the discoveries he made at Merck, are vaccines for mumps, rubella, and measles…”
As you watch this video keep in mind this is the same man who developed today’s popular MMR vaccine! Makes me wonder what surprises this upcoming generation is in for with that one?!
Watch him admit to all of this & then laugh about doing it while never disclosing it to the public at the time because of the expected backlash …
“worlds leading vaccine expert Dr. Maurice Hilleman, Chief of the Merck Pharmaceutical Company’s vaccine division relay this problem he was having with imported monkeys. He best explains the origin of AIDS, but what you are about to hear was cut from any public disclosures.
Dr. Maurice Hilleman: and I think that vaccines have to be considered the bargain basement technology for the 20th century.
Narrator: 50 years ago when Maurice Hilleman was a high school student in Miles City Montana, he hoped he might qualify as a management trainee for the local JC Penney’s store. Instead, he went on to pioneer more breakthroughs in vaccine research and development than anyone in the history of American medicine. Among the discoveries he made at Merck, are vaccines for mumps, rubella, and measles…
The New York Times ran an article recently on Dr. Maurice Hilleman, a top vaccine developer who worked for Merck. The article was entirely positive, calling Dr. Hilleman “A Forgotten Pioneer of Vaccines.” The article states:
To a remarkable extent, we owe our well-being, and in many cases our lives, to the work of one man and to events that happened 50 years ago this spring.
Dr. Mercola ran an article on Dr. Hilleman back in 2011, which portrayed a completely different story from what the mainstream media reports regarding Dr. Hilleman. He featured a censored video of Dr. Hilleman that has circulated on Youtube for years. That video has since disappeared from Youtube, but others exist broadcasting the same interview with Dr. Hilleman. We have copied one below, along with the transcript.
Dr. Hilleman was the developer of Merck’s vaccine program. He developed over three dozen vaccines, more than any other scientist in history. He was a member of the U.S. National Academy of Science, the Institute of Medicine, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the American Philosophical Society. He received a special lifetime achievement award from the World Health Organization. Hilleman was one of the early vaccine pioneers to warn about the possibility that simian viruses might contaminate vaccines. In the interview below he states: “vaccines have to be considered the bargain basement technology for the 20th century.”
Dr. Mercola’s article reveals 60 different lab studies that linked the Salk Polio vaccine to cancer, which Helleman admits was the responsibility of Merck:
In 2002, the journal Lancet published compelling evidence that contaminated polio vaccine was responsible for up to half of the 55,000 non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma cases that were occurring each year.
What was it contaminated with?
SV40, a cancer-causing monkey virus. The puzzle began in 1994, when Dr. Michele Carbone, a Loyola University researcher, found the virus SV40, which had never before been detected in humans, in half of the human lung tumors he was studying. Since then, 60 different lab studies have confirmed the results, and SV40 has been found in a variety of human cancers, including lung-, brain-, bone-, and lymphatic cancer.
At first, no one could fathom how the virus had been transmitted into the human population.
But in the censored interview with Dr. Maurice Hilleman, Hilleman admits Merck’s responsibility in unleashing this virus via their polio vaccine, as well as the likelihood that there was an importing and spreading the AIDS virus in the same manner.
Here is the interview, along with the transcript:
Transcript
Dr. Len Horowitz: Listen now to the voice of the worlds leading vaccine expert Dr. Maurice Hilleman, Chief of the Merck Pharmaceutical Company’s vaccine division relay this problem he was having with imported monkeys. He best explains the origin of AIDS, but what you are about to hear was cut from any public disclosures.
Dr. Maurice Hilleman: and I think that vaccines have to be considered the bargain basement technology for the 20th century.
Narrator: 50 years ago when Maurice Hilleman was a high school student in Miles City Montana, he hoped he might qualify as a management trainee for the local JC Penney’s store. Instead, he went on to pioneer more breakthroughs in vaccine research and development than anyone in the history of American medicine. Among the discoveries he made at Merck, are vaccines for mumps, rubella and measles…
Dr. Edward Shorter: Tell me how you found SV40 and the polio vaccine.
Dr. Maurice Hilleman: Well, that was at Merck. Yeah, I came to Merck. And uh, I was going to develop vaccines. And we had wild viruses in those days. You remember the wild monkey kidney viruses and so forth? And I finally after 6 months gave up and said that you cannot develop vaccines with these damn monkeys, we’re finished and if I can’t do something I’m going to quit, I’m not going to try it. So I went down to see Bill Mann at the zoo in Washington DC and I told Bill Mann, I said “look, I got a problem and I don’t know what the hell to do.” Bill Mann is a real bright guy. I said that these lousy monkeys are picking it up while being stored in the airports in transit, loading, off loading. He said, very simply, you go ahead and get your monkeys out of West Africa and get the African Green, bring them into Madrid unload them there, there is no other traffic there for animals, fly them into Philadelphia and pick them up. Or fly them into New York and pick them up, right off the airplane. So we brought African Greens in and I didn’t know we were importing the AIDS virus at the time. [emphasis added]
Miscellaneous background voices:…(laughter)… it was you who introduced the AIDS virus into the country. Now we know! (laughter) This is the real story! (laughter) What Merck won’t do to develop a vaccine! (laughter)
Dr Maurice Hilleman: So what he did, he brought in, I mean we brought in those monkeys, I only had those and this was the solution because those monkeys didn’t have the wild viruses but we…
Dr Edward Shorter: Wait, why didn’t the greens have the wild viruses since they came from Africa?
Dr. Maurice Hilleman: …because they weren’t, they weren’t, they weren’t being infected in these group holding things with all the other 40 different viruses…
Dr. Edward Shorter: but they had the ones that they brought from the jungle though…
Dr. Maurice Hilleman: …yeah, they had those, but those were relatively few what you do you have a gang housing you’re going to have an epidemic transmission of infection in a confined space. So anyway, the greens came in and now we have these and were taking our stocks to clean them up and god now I’m discovering new viruses. So, I said Judas Priest. Well I got an invitation from the Sister Kinney Foundation which was the opposing foundation when it was the live virus…
Dr. Edward Shorter: Ah, right…
Dr. Maurice Hilleman: Yeah, they had jumped on the Sabin’s band wagon and they had asked me to come down and give a talk at the Sister Kinney Foundation meeting and I saw it was an international meeting and god, what am I going to talk about? I know what I’m going to do, I’m going to talk about the detection of non detectable viruses as a topic.
Dr. Albert Sabin …there were those who didn’t want a live virus vaccine… (unintelligible) …concentrated all its efforts on getting more and more people to use the killed virus vaccine, while they were supporting me for research on the live viruses.
Dr. Maurice Hilleman: So now I got to have something (laughter), you know that going to attract attention. And gee, I thought that damn SV40, I mean that damn vaculating agent that we have, I’m just going to pick that particular one, that virus has got to be in vaccines, it’s got to be in the Sabin’s vaccines so I quick tested it (laughter) and sure enough it was in there.
Dr. Edward Shorter: I’ll be damned
Dr. Maurice Hilleman: … And so now…
Dr. Edward Shorter: …so you just took stocks of Sabin’s vaccines off the shelf here at Merck…
Dr. Maurice Hilleman: …yeah, well it had been made, it was made at Merck…
Dr. Edward Shorter: You were making it for Sabin at this point?
Dr. Maurice Hilleman: …Yeah, it was made before I came…
Dr. Edward Shorter: yeah, but at this point Sabin is still just doing massive field trials…
Dr. Maurice Hilleman: …uh huh
Dr. Edward Shorter: okay,
Dr. Maurice Hilleman: …in Russia and so forth. So I go down and I talked about the detection of non detectable viruses and told Albert, I said listen Albert you know you and I are good friends but I’m going to go down there and you’re going to get upset. I’m going to talk about the virus that it’s in your vaccine. You’re going to get rid of the virus, don’t worry about it, you’re going to get rid of it… but umm, so of course Albert was very upset…
Dr. Edward Shorter: What did he say?
Dr. Maurice Hilleman: …well he said basically, that this is just another obfuscation that’s going to upset vaccines. I said well you know, you’re absolutely right, but we have a new era here we have a new era of the detection and the important thing is to get rid of these viruses.
Dr. Edward Shorter: Why would he call it an obfuscation if it was a virus that was contaminating the vaccine?
Dr. Maurice Hilleman: …well there are 40 different viruses in these vaccines anyway that we were inactivating and uh,
Dr. Edward Shorter: but you weren’t inactivating his though…
Dr. Maurice Hilleman: …no that’s right, but yellow fever vaccine had leukemia virus in it and you know this was in the days of very crude science. So anyway I went down and talked to him and said well, why are you concerned about it? Well I said “I’ll tell you what, I have a feeling in my bones that this virus is different, I don’t know why to tell you this but I …(unintelligible) …I just think this virus will have some long term effects.” And he said what? And I said “cancer”. (laughter) I said Albert, you probably think I’m nuts, but I just have that feeling. Well in the mean time we had taken this virus and put it into monkeys and into hamsters. So we had this meeting and that was sort of the topic of the day and the jokes that were going around was that “gee, we would win the Olympics because the Russians would all be loaded down with tumors.” (laughter) This was where the vaccine was being tested, this was where… so, uhh, and it really destroyed the meeting and it was sort of the topic. Well anyway…
Dr. Edward Shorter: Was this the physicians… (unintelligible) …meeting in New York?
Dr. Maurice Hilleman …well no, this was at Sister Kinney…
Dr. Edward Shorter: Sister Kinney, right…
Dr. Maurice Hilleman: …and Del Becco (sp) got up and he foresaw problems with these kinds of agents.
Dr. Edward Shorter: Why didn’t this get out into the press?
Dr. Maurice Hilleman: …well, I guess it did I don’t remember. We had no press release on it. Obviously you don’t go out, this is a scientific affair within the scientific community…
Voice of news reporter: …an historic victory over a dread disease is dramatically unfolded at the U of Michigan. Here scientists usher in a new medical age with the monumental reports that prove that the Salk vaccine against crippling polio to be a sensational success. It’s a day of triumph for 40 year old Dr. Jonas E Salk developer of the vaccine. He arrives here with Basil O’Connor the head of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis that financed the tests. Hundreds of reporters and scientists gathered from all over the nation gathered for the momentous announcement….
Dr. Albert Sabin: …it was too much of a show, it was too much Hollywood. There was too much exaggeration and the impression in 1957 that was, no in 1954 that was given was that the problem had been solved , polio had been conquered.
Dr. Maurice Hilleman: …but, anyway we knew it was in our seed stock from making vaccines. That virus you see, is one in 10,000 particles is not an activated… (unintelligible) …it was good science at the time because that was what you did. You didn’t worry about these wild viruses.
Dr. Edward Shorter: So you discovered, it wasn’t being inactivated in the Salk vaccine?
Dr. Maurice Hilleman: …Right. So then the next thing you know is, 3, 4 weeks after that we found that there were tumors popping up on these hamsters.
Dr. Len Horowitz: Despite AIDS and Leukemia suddenly becoming pandemic from “wild viruses” Hilleman said, this was “good science” at that time.
A memorial in Dayton, Ohio, where nine were killed in a mass shooting on August 7. The perpetrator, Connor Betts, was found to have various drugs in his system during an autopsy. Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images
Michael Adams, 27, was charged with murder after allegedly cutting a teen’s throat.MARICOPA COUNTY JAILCourt documents said Adams yelled at detectives and stated that “rap music made him feel unsafe because in the past, he was attacked by people who listened to that music genre.” He also told investigators that he “needed to be proactive than reactive and protect himself and the community from the victim.”
