[MedicalConspiracies] Lawsuit against Merck and HomeAgain over pet chip cancer! (all the id chips cause cancer!)

Dear CASPIAN Members and Supporters,

I have big news! A lawsuit has been filed against pharmaceutical giant
Merck& Co. and implant maker Digital Angel over a cancerous tumor that
formed around a HomeAgain pet ID microchip. The victim was a cat named
Bulkin, who miraculously survived the ordeal after surgery,
chemotherapy, and radiation.

We are breaking the news today on our brand new www.ChipMeNot.com
website, featuring Bulkin's story, along with a copy of the lawsuit. Our
press release, which has already gone out to thousands of media outlets
and personal press contacts, is posted below, and at
http://www.chipmenot.org/mercksued.htm.

The Boston Globe has already picked up our story:
http://www.boston.com/community/pets/articles/2010/10/13/suit_alleges_tracking_chip_caused_cancer_in_cat/

As has Bruce Sterling of Wired:
http://www.wired.com/beyond_the_beyond/2010/10/arphid-watch-rfid-implant-lawsuit-for-a-cat/

Steven Wise, the attorney who filed the suit, will be a guest on my
radio show tomorrow (Thursday 10/14) at 5:00 PM Eastern to discuss the
case. (See: www.KatherineAlbrecht.com for details on how to stream the
show live online, or catch the archives afterwards.)

Our new website, ChipMeNot.com, is an adverse reaction registry where
pet owners can report harm caused by implanted microchips. It features
Bulkin's story and the stories of other other cats, dogs, mice, rats,
and small animals that have been injured -- and even killed -- by
implanted chips.

Our inspiration for the website came from Seamus and Scotty, the two
brave dogs that died from microchip-induced tumors earlier this year,
Charlie Brown, the adorable chihuahua who bled to death in his owners'
arms last year, and Leon the bulldog whose owner first alerted us to the
cancer problem. We pay tribute to their memory through this new website,
and pray that by telling their stories we can help protect other pets
from their fate.

As you can imagine, it has taken months of hard work to put the website
together. I want to thank our unflappable graduate intern Lidiya
Prorochuk, tenacious pet owners Howard Gillis and Linda Hawkins, our
steadfast volunteer Brian Wiegand, our fountain of knowledge Jeanne, and
our cheerful webmaster Robin Abbate for a job extraordinarily well done.

I also want to thank each of you -- the CASPIAN members, supporters, and
radio show listeners who regularly send prayers, encouragement, and
financial support to keep us going. You guys are what makes it possible
for us to work on important issues like this.

In freedom,
Katherine Albrecht, Ed.D.

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
October 13, 2010

MERCK SUED: HomeAgain® PET CHIP IMPLICATED IN CANCER
New website, ChipMeNot.com, features details on cancer case and other
adverse reactions

Online at: http://www.prweb.com/releases/2100/01/prweb4643884.htm
and http://www.chipmenot.org/mercksued.htm.

Nashua, NH -- Pharmaceutical giant Merck& Co. has been served with a
lawsuit over claims its HomeAgain® pet microchip induced cancer in a
cat. Animal rights attorney Steven Wise seeks "reasonable compensatory
damages" for a malignant tumor "likely" induced by a HomeAgain® ID chip
implanted in his client's cat, Bulkin.

The complaint, "Andrea Rutherford v. Merck Sharp& Dohme Corp. and
Digital Angel, Inc." (case # 1052CV1147) was filed last week in
Cambridge (MA) District Court. The complaint named implant maker Digital
Angel Corporation as a co-defendant.

"Based on the alarming number of microchip-linked cancers we're
discovering, I predict this lawsuit will be just the tip of the
iceberg," said Dr. Katherine Albrecht, a consumer advocate and expert on
adverse reactions associated with implantable microchips.

Bulkin's case is featured at www.ChipMeNot.com, a new website launched
by Albrecht's consumer group CASPIAN to bring attention to the plight of
animals who have developed cancer and other adverse reactions from ID
microchips. Albrecht documents several of these cases in
"Microchip-Induced Tumors in Laboratory Rodents and Dogs: A Review of
the Literature 1990–2006," a peer-reviewed academic paper she presented
at a June conference of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics
Engineers devoted to concerns about implantable microchips.

Albrecht's paper and a copy of the complaint are also posted
at www.ChipMeNot.com. The site, co-developed with graduate intern Lidiya
Prorochuk, spotlights a growing number of adverse reactions to
microchips, including the chip-related cancer deaths of two dogs within
the past year. The site also features a form where pet owners can report
adverse microchip reactions, since there is currently no official
registry in the US to collect such data.

"Merck and organizations that advocate pet chipping should take this
lawsuit seriously and start warning pet owners of the risk of
microchip-induced cancer," Albrecht advised. "As Andrea Rutherford and
other pet owners can tell you, it's not a statistic when it's your pet."

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