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Wyeth and Premerin Horses

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Now that women have smartened up and no longer use the primative drug, Premerin, which is horse urin gathered in a cruel and inhumane way from the mares, there is now another problem. Wyeth Drug Company, who manufactured and made billions off this horrible drug, is now dumping the farms and the horses and leaving them to be slaughtered. Richard and I have become aware of this horror and have been working with a wonderful woman who has dedicated herself to saving these abandoned and forgotten animals. Her name is Helen Meredith, head of United Pegasus. Another terrific group who is helping these horses is The Fund For Animals who have recently agreed to take 5 pregnant mares, which means they are taking 10 horses at their Black Beauty Ranch in Texas! Please help us- you may contribute to these groups or contact us directly-=but please help us help the horses!CLICK ON THE LINKS!!!thank you -Jennifer and Richard Pryor

http://www.fund.org - The Fund for Animals'
http://www.unitedpegasus.com - United Pegasus Foundation'
http://www.blackbeautyranch.org - Black Beauty Ranch'
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Jennifer,
Ok-Helen needs donations again and soon-she going to go to the auctions up in Canada whre these horses are being slaughtered, and will rescue the lucky of these wonderful horses---rescuing and adopting out to good homes! Please donate....
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Jennifer,
Did you know that Wyeth is the maker of Proheart 6 that has killed over 600 dogs before being pulled from the market in September 04. They are bringing it back as we speak. We are fighting it because we lost our own dogs to this drug.

www.dogsadversereactions.com
click on the moxidectin section to see how Proheart 6 kills
and debilitates animals for life.
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Jennifer,

Wyeth is sending Moxidectin to Africa to cure Riverblindness. This makes no sense because one of the adverse reactions reported to FDA is that it causes blindness in dogs.
"The irony of the whole thing is that we had to have her eye removed (it was so engourged with cancer that her eyelids couldn't close over it to lubricate it) on Jan 21 or somewhere around that date and we were still offered the experience of her writhing in the snow in such pain that she couldn't get away from it on Feb 5, where we made the saddest decision of our life....we decided to never put her thru that again and put her to sleep. Will we ever walk away from PH? Never" This is a quote from another Proheart 6 victim.

Read more victim stories at the petition.

http://www.petitiononline.com/mod_perl/ ... i?ProHeart

and at
www.dogsadversereactions.com

MOXIDECTIN Proheart 6 Heartworm preventive used on humans with WHO
knowledge. PH6 pulled from the market 9-2004 for being unsafe for dogs is used to treat Riverblindness on humans in Africa
Posted: +0000, Wed May 11, 2005 7:47 PM

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While surfing the net I came upon these three posts about Animal drugs being used on humans in third world countries.


1) WHO/aka: Regional Office for the Americas
525, 23rd Street, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20037 - USA

To WHOm IT MAY CONCERN:

While "surfing the Internet", I came across an article at: http://www.thebluesheet.net/FDC/Weekly/ ... 70190023_b

which states:
"River blindness: World Health Organization will begin a Phase II trial of Wyeth’s antiparasitic agent moxidectin for the treatment of river blindness (onchocerciasis), Wyeth announces May 4. WHO and the company have had an informal three-year cooperative agreement to develop the animal drug for human use in an oral form for the disease. The trial will be conducted at WHO’s Onchocerciasis Chemotherapy Research Centre in Ghana by the WHO Special Progamme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases. Wyeth anticipates 18 months of enrollment and another 18 months to complete the trial. Currently, Merck’s ivermectin is used as a once a year treatment for river blindness in many endemic areas."
IF this article is "accurate", I'd like to know if you are knowingly spreading disease, health damage and death on a global scale or if you've been "sold a bill of goods" by the manufacturer of this product, which was taken off the market recently by the FDA/CVM due to it's high death/damage toll.

I would not expect you to take the words in an e-mail from a total stranger, so feel free to:
check with the FDA/CVM's website on Adverse Drug Events, which is at: http://www.fda.gov/,
then go to: "Animal Feed & Drugs", at: http://www.fda.gov/cvm/default.html;
on that page click "Adverse Drug Reactions: for: http://www.fda.gov/cvm/adetoc.htm;
scroll down to the area for the "Annual/Cummulative Rprt": http://www.fda.gov/cvm/ade_cum.htm;
scroll down to: the "MN" section there which will take you to: http://www.fda.gov/cvm/ade_cum.htm, and is their report in ".pdf" file format and
you can click on the little binocular icon, then
type in "moxidectin: and it will take you to that section which lists the adverse drug events that have been reported to the FDA/CVM, which I understand reflect somewhere between 1% and 10% of the likely deaths and reactions as that's all which have been reported, because it's only mandatory for the drug company to report; reports by any health care providers are strictly on a voluntary basis.
You can also see the report on "ivermectin" by using their search engine for that item.
If I start reading about another drug/health crisis in Ghana, I'll know you didn't pay any attention to this e-mail. Thank you.


2) Dear "CDER/DrugInfo - RC"
at: DRUGINFO@cder.fda.gov

Thank you for your response. Apparently you did not understand my letter [below]: I am not asking you for any information about "moxidectin" as I've learned much more about it from the FDA/CVM ADE reports then I ever wanted to know.

I provided YOU with the information that it's apparently being used or going to be used on HUMANS [which it's not been approved for and was additionally removed from the market for dogs due to the ADE reports], and it would appear from your response that doing so is perfectly acceptable to your organization.

It's been my understanding that the FDA is supposed to know what's going on with FDA "approved" drugs and to then monitor both the drugs and the drug companies when these drugs are being inappropriately used - apparently I am very much mistaken and it now makes perfect sense to me why so many FDA and FDA/CVM "approved" drugs are so deadly for both pets and people.

Thank you and have a nice day [at continued taxpayer expense].

3) To Whom It May Concern:

Regarding your study on Wyeth's product moxidectin in preventing river blindness, perhaps you should order a transcript of the FDA/Independent Advisory Committee Panel/Fort Dodge meeting held January 31, 2005, in Rockville, Maryland. This meeting was conducted almost five months after ProHeart 6 was "voluntarily" removed from the U.S. market by Fort Dodge Animal Health, after numerous label changes, Dear Doctor letters, and recalls on a smaller scale, just to mention a few.

Fort Dodge Animal Health, as you probably know, is a subsidiary of Wyeth Pharmaceuticals, makers of the allegedly "safe" human weight-loss drug Fen-Phen, yet another drug removed from the market.

In the January 31, 2005, transcript, you will learn that Fort Dodge ADMITS that ProHeart 6 (moxidectin), the six-month injectable heartworm "preventative" for dogs, has caused BLINDNESS in some dogs.

Now, why would a drug that is being claimed to prevent river blindness in humans CAUSE blindness in dogs? We know the dogs have been guinea pigs for this product the last three-plus years. Apparently it's time to make humans guinea pigs as well.

You should also review the FDA's 17 pages of "adverse events" of what has happened to the dogs administered ProHeart 6, not the least of which is DEATH. Again, these are "reported" cases. In the U.S., only about 10 percent of adverse events get reported to the FDA with human drugs. We can only surmise that far less than that percentage ever gets reported to the FDA regarding animal drugs.

It's bad enough that thousands of consumers in the U.S. have had our dogs take ill and/or die from ProHeart 6. We are also aware of problems with this drug and ProHeart 12 internationally. As consumers, we were never warned by the vets we trusted to tell us there could be any problems with the drug. We've suffered, and so did our dogs. The dogs that managed to live, that is. You, however, should consider yourself warned.

Sincerely,
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