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Government Documents Reveal
Serious Anthrax Vaccine Trouble
By Jon Rappoport
JnthnRpp@aol.com
www.nomorefakenews.com

2-4-01


It is rare that government documents openly reveal problems with vaccines. But such a document has just been released by the the US General Accounting Office (GAO) and the US State Department.
 
ADD: It is "GAO document 01-21 State Department." I have obtained a copy of it. It concerns a small pilot project in which anthrax vaccine was given to State Dept. employees...and, without official high-level sanction, to military personnel.
 
ADD: Problem number one--When the State Dept. tried to redistribute some of its vaccine to the US Dept. of Defense (DOD) for use on soldiers, the DOD refused to take the batch "when State could not provide assurances of the vaccine's 'cold chain of custody'--that is, whether it was properly refrigerated at required temperatures..."
 
ADD: "None of the US [State Dept.] missions where the anthrax vaccine was prepositioned had refrigeration units with automatic temperature monitoring alarms that could ensure the cold chain of custody for the anthrax vaccine was maintained."
 
ADD: "Despite DOD's refusal to accept the vaccine because of the lack of assurances that it met the cold chain of custody, State Department medical personnel at the US mission where the pilot program was conducted made a series of anthrax vaccine exchanges with a nearby US military installation...it is possible the vaccine rotated may have been substandard."
 
ADD: "...The Head Nurse at the [State Dept.] pilot site's medical unit said that these vials [which had been stored without proper precautions] were used to immunize US military service members at the [military ] installation."
 
ADD: Apparently the State Dept. denies that any of its exchanged or unexchanged batches of anthrax vaccine were kept in a substandard way. But these batches obviously WERE kept in a substandard way.
 
ADD: Who knows what the effects of the vaccine were on the soldiers who received it?
 
ADD: The State Department did give anthrax vaccine to 53 volunteers among its own personnel. Which batch was that? The State Dept. seems to claim it was a good and safe batch.
 
ADD: There were 9 reported adverse reactions. That's a very high stat.
 
ADD: 8 of the adverse reactions were among females.
 
ADD: What were the reactions reported? "...symptoms such as 'hard nodules,' 'lumps,' or 'knots' on the site of injection, prolonged soreness of the arm, and for three recipients, the knot or nodule was described as lasting 4 to 6 weeks. State [Department] records also show that three additional female recipients also had reactions, but chose not to report them..."
 
ADD: First of all, 4 to 6 weeks is a very long reaction. Second, who knows how many reactions actually went unreported? We so far know about 12 reactions out of 53 people. That is very, very high.
 
ADD: The report clearly suggests that most of the reactions were of the same general type: lumps at the site of injection. But then, later in the report, here comes a shocking statement. A contradiction.
 
ADD: "The nurse at the [State Dept.] pilot mission's medical clinic said that there have been a wide range of reactions to the vaccine among the participants, but only adverse reactions known to be associated with the anthrax vaccine, as indicated in FDA instructions accompanying the vaccine, were documented."
 
ADD: This is typical FDA lunacy. The FDA is notorious for arbitrarily limiting what can be called a vaccine reaction and what can't be. And the FDA is famous for defining a reaction to a vaccine so that delayed reactions are never attributed to the vaccine.
 
ADD: Therefore, for example, a baby who develops neurological damage from the Hepatitis B vaccine is claimed to have a disease by another name. Doctors on the case blame the mother for "excessive breastfeeding" or some such. Don't think I'm exaggerating.
 
ADD: Sure enough, in this GAO/State Dept. document, we come to this piece: "[The nurse on duty at the State Dept.'s anthrax pilot program] said that because the burden is on the [vaccine] recipients to report adverse reactions in a passive reporting system, she did not encounter any unusually delayed reactions, but believed she could have obtained more information on reactions using procedures to actively monitor recipients." To track them over a period of time, in other words.
 
ADD: Yeah.
 
ADD: For the US government to admit as much as squeezes out in this report suggests that a lot more went on here that wasn't found out, that was swept under the carpet.
 
ADD: The anthrax vaccine itself, in pristine and perfect refrigerated form, is shunned by many for good reason. It is a toxic piece of Russian roulette. But traded back and forth, quite possibly unrefrigerated and spoiled?
 
ADD: No major media outlet has as yet reported this story.
 
ADD: As I keep saying, the war is against the people. All the people. It is a bio/chem war, globally.
 
 
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