What Killed Eliza Jane?
Not AIDS according to this article:
His report concluded that Eliza Jane had died of anaphylactic shock due to amoxicillin and not pneumonia. Anaphylactic deaths due to so-called beta-lactam antibiotics result in up to 1,000 deaths per year.
The savagery of the attacks on Christine Maggiore are beyond the pale. For the open minded, they trigger an immediate “red flag” indicating an apparent weakness in the attacker’s arguments.
Tara:
Scott,
I’m away with extremely limited ‘net access, but just wanted to note that the author of that article is Celia Farber—harldy an unbiased source. Have you read the coroner’s report? I don’t have time to look it up at the moment but Orac has a good write-up of it on his old blog. Additionally, the “expert” Maggiore hired to do her own autopsy is also a noted AIDS denier.
All I’ll say is, buyer beware, and the Maggiore story ain’t over yet.
15 June 2006, 1:29 pmccr5cxcr4:
Do you know how we KNOW the 2nd autopsy of EJ is bullshit? Anaphalactic shock requires at least two exposures to an allergen, at least 2 weeks apart. It takes 14 days after the initial exposure to produce antibodies and class switch from IgM to IgE, and sensitize the mast cells.
ONLY THEN can you have an anaphalactic reaction. According to maggiore, EJ had never taken amoxicillin or ANY antibiotic before. So she COULD NOT have been sensitized to the antibiotic. So unless maggiore was lying (and maybe she was, she lied so often) then it definatively was NOT anaphalactic shock. Not to metion it was the 2nd day when she got sick. EVEN IF she had been exposed, and sensitized before, the anaphalactic reaction would have taken minutes, not 24 hours.
Just more evidence that the veterinary toxicologist had no fucking clue what he was talking about. He was hired to give the party line, and was too incompetent to come up with a plausible story.
5 August 2009, 6:53 pm