A CONTROVERSIAL VACCINE PROGRAM

SUMMARY: A Reserve USAF NCO writes about his concerns for the Anthrax program.

By An Air Force SNCO

Our troops need to hear more information on the Anthrax Vaccine Immunization Program that is being forced upon them. Interestingly, the State Department changed their Anthrax vaccination program from mandatory to voluntary, in May 99. If Madeleine Albright and Strobe Talbot don't have to get the shots forced on them, why do our troops? This controversial vaccine program has weakened our Reserve Force. 

Lots of well trained, motivated troops have already opted out of the service. The long-term safety of this vaccine has many wondering what their health will be like five or ten years down the road. Problem is, there has been no long term testing of this vaccine, and even though the DOD says it has been safely giving this shot to veterinarians across the country for years, if you try to find a veterinarian who has received this shot, you will come up empty. 

The vaccine manufacturer has been cited for purity and quality control problems, contaminated lots of the vaccine, and if you ever read the FDA reports on the Vaccine manufacturer, Michigan Biologic, Lansing, Michigan, you would be appalled. The vaccine manufacturer has given a special deal. They are exonerated from lawsuits against them, due to adverse reactions from shot recipients. There are about 50 different adverse reactions to this vaccine according to the FDA'S own adverse reaction reporting system. Some of the heaviest reactions, or biggies include meningitis, lymphoma, and Hodgkin's Disease. Lots of GI's have gotten sick from this shot and on 29 June 99 CBS's Dan Rather aired a segment on the news about the horrors of this Vaccination Program. People from the GAO have testified in congressional hearings that this Anthrax vaccination Program should be stopped because of the fact that this Vaccine doesn't have any kind of track record over the long haul. Those who submit to taking this vaccination are "rolling the bones," with their health. 

There are US Congressman who have called for an end to this program, they want this insanity stopped. If the threat of Anthrax from Saddam Hussein is real, then the Pentagon has saved the Iraqis millions of dollars in research and development. They know which type of Anthrax we have vaccinated against, and if we ever meet them face to face on the battlefield, you can bet that they will throw the other strain of Anthrax against our troops. You know, the one we didn't vaccinate against! 

Force protection doesn't apply here if the enemy has other weapons systems that they will surely use against us. Inoculating all 2.5 million Active duty and Reservists with this "witches brew" will cost the taxpayers $130 Million Dollars. Write your congressmen, or call and ask him to defund the Anthrax Program. This is a waste of the taxpayers money, and it is tearing our Military apart, and making many sick. Remember the Atomic testing our troops endured years ago, Agent Orange, and the hallucinogenic drugs our troops were given as part of an experiment? The Anthrax vaccine could quite possibly be categorized with some other things that did more harm than good to our American men and women in Uniform. Without long term testing of this vaccine in human beings, it is a DOD Policy that needs cease and desist.

ARTICLE 5

IS THERE HANKY-PANKY BEHIND MANDATORY VACCINES?

By Phyllis Schlafly, August 25, 1999, The Eagle Forum

After parents whose children had been severely damaged from vaccines attended a couple of congressional hearings, we might have thought Bill Clinton's response would have been, "I feel your pain." Not on your life. The Clinton Administration instead floated plans to gut the federal trust fund that compensates the families of children who are injured or killed by reactions to vaccines.

Surgeon General David Satcher told a House committee this month that Health and Human Services Secretary Donna Shalala might recommend that a large portion of the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program's $1.4 billion trust be turned over to vaccine research. That would be a cruel betrayal of the parents who financed this trust fund by a 75 cents per dose assessment on vaccines and were promised compensation from it in exchange for virtually eliminating the pharmaceutical companies' financial liability for injuries caused by their products.

The Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) received 11,000 complaints last year from doctors or parents. In presenting their claims of vaccine damages, parents must face a battery of 17 full-time, veteran Justice Department lawyers assigned to argue against them.

These lawyers have been successful in denying compensation to all but 1,300 of 5,300- plus families. The Clinton Administration has tightened the screws to make it become more and more difficult for parents to get any compensation.

Since most children today get up to 33 immunizations before they can be admitted to public school, parents are starting to ask a fundamental question. Which is the greater risk: getting and being injured by the disease, or being injured from the vaccine that purports to protect us from it?

For example, serious adverse events after receiving the hepatitis B vaccine, including 48 deaths, are reported three times as frequently as cases of hepatitis B in children under the age of 14. And, the only polio cases in the United States since 1991 have been those caused by the oral polio vaccine, whose use was discouraged only a few weeks ago!

Adults are free to assume risk for reasons of their choice: health, safety, protection of family or property, entertainment, or even excitement. But risk is not something that government, in a free society, should ordinarily force people to accept.

The Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS) has just written Secretary Shalala a letter charging that "federal vaccine policy results in the violation of informed consent, and is based on incomplete studies of efficacy and potential adverse effects of the vaccines." The AAPS letter points out that federal vaccine "recommendations" are transformed into "mandates by state health departments," and that schools often require many vaccines "as a condition of attendance."

These adverse events include not only immediate reactions to the vaccines, such as seizures and even death, but also possible long-term effects from damage to a child's immune system. We urgently need an independent study to discover if there is a relationship between vaccines, especially when so many are given to infants in multiple doses, and the dramatic recent increases in autism and asthma.

The peremptory demand that all infants be immunized, regardless of whether they are at risk, is now being imitated by the U.S. Armed Forces. In May 1998, the Department of Defense mandated anthrax vaccination -- requiring six shots in the first 18 months followed by annual booster shots -- for all 2.4 million service personnel.

Serious questions have been raised about the vaccine's safety. The vaccine was approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) back in 1970 after being tested on only 26 human recipients, and the long-term effects are unknown.

Israel does not force its military to take this vaccine. Neither does France. Neither does England. No country in Europe or Asia forces this vaccine on its soldiers.

There is so much opposition to the anthrax vaccination among the military that morale and combat readiness are suffering. This vaccine policy has caused an ominous exodus of some of our most experienced pilots from the reserves and the Air National Guard.

There is something drastically amiss when hundreds of servicemen with exemplary records are accepting court martial, dishonorable discharge, pay reduction, and time in the brig rather than obey an order to be vaccinated.

So who is profiting from this gigantic vaccine mandate? The Pentagon contracted with a single supplier, BioPort Corp., and recently agreed to pay $10.64 per dose even though the contractual obligation was only $4.36 per dose.

ABC News reported that Admiral William J. Crowe Jr. owns 22.5 percent of Intervac, which gives him a 13 percent share of BioPort, even though he hasn't "invested a penny" in the venture. Crowe was Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff under President Bush, but made big news in 1992 when he gave Clinton cover for his draft dodging. Clinton rewarded Crowe with the prize plum of appointment as Ambassador to England.

The Pentagon badly needs Congressional supervision, and Rep. Benjamin Gilman (R- NY) and Rep. Walter Jones (R-NC) have introduced separate bills to halt the mandatory anthrax vaccinations.

Posted by http://www.tetrahedron.org -Dr. Len Horowitz

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