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Henrietta Lacks

There's a piece of her in all of us

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Marie Lasater
Aug 14, 2025
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First of all, I want to give mountains of credit to the remarkable journalist that published The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks in 1982.

I want to honor Henrietta, and also talk about the Turbo Cancer deaths that are fully explained, at least in my Missouri County, as being linked to recipients of 2 or more Moderna MRNA Covid shots. Henrietta died of a very aggressive cervical cancer in 1951.

The story of Henrietta was first exposed to the outside world, including her family in February of 1976 when The Rolling Stone first published an article entitled “The Double-edged Helix: In the delicate realm of biomedical research, those vigorous cervical cells from Baltimore are creating confusion and, possibly, disaster”. Michael Rogers, the author of the article was looking at the science of cell cultures, and one saved sample in particular was extensively studied and sent to other countries. Named HeLa for Helen Lane, the cultures from the initial speck of material was so indestructible it …

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