Anthrax Vaccine
Posted: Wed Jan 02, 2002 11:46 am
Please study the text below and take the appropriate action. Your civil liberties and health are at risk.
Soroush
The Anthrax Vaccine issue is urgent. The public needs all the facts. Even Dr. Joseph Mercola wrote about the Model Emergency Health Powers Act (MEHPA). If legislation passes he says:you will have a mandatory vaccination or you will be charged with a crime.
:
According to Barbara Mullarkey who heads the Illinois Vaccine Awareness Coalition each state can legislate its own bill for emergency vaccination program and compel vaccination in case of an emergency. Make your state legislators aware of the dangers of this emergency act.
With regard to the Anthrax Vaccine from the summary of the vaccine package insert, the ingredients are:
* Filtrates of microaerophilic cultures of an avirulent, nonencapsulated strain of Bacillus anthracin grown in a synthetic liquid medium;
* Aluminum hydroxide;
* Benzethonium;
* Formaldehyde.
* no studies on cancer causing potential;
* no studies on fertility impairment
* no animal reproduction studies
* unknown if anthrax vaccine can cause fetal harm when injected into a pregnant woman,
* unknown if anthrax vaccine can affect reproduction capacity.
As James Turner, Washington, DC atty says: The Anthrax Vaccine is neither safe nor effective.
The FDA needs to be written about Docket No. 01P-0471. See info on www.anthraxvaccine.net andyou can write directly OCTMA@CBER,FDA.GOV, or
Dr. Rudolph Harris at RXH@CFSAN.FDA.GOV and it wouldn't hurt to send a copy to anthrax@mail.house.gov Part of the copy of John Hammell's letter to FDA is below with important info. We are writing to ask the FDA to rule the anthrax vaccine as a Class II dangerous drug, to revoke BioPort's license to manufacture the vaccine, and you support the petition docket No. 01P-0471.
There is an Aspartame-Anthrax Connection when we look at Desert Storm Syndrome, and what we're concerned about with mandatory vaccination is a large proportion of the country experiencing the disabilities of the veterans because 2/3rds of the population is using this deadly neurotoxin. To make matters worse aspartame is a drug that interacts with many of the drugs used to treat the symptoms and diseases it triggers. This is detailed in the new medical text on the global plague of Aspartame Disease by H. J. Roberts, M.D. titled Aspartame Disease: An Ignored Epidemic, www.aspartameispoison.com There is a info on Desert Storm Syndrome as well and he discusses vaccine on page 799. He also says: "The mutagenic and carcinogenic potential of other chemicals might intensify under the influence of aspartame and its breakdown products." He speaks of the ability of aspartame to induce or aggravate the multiple chemical sensitivity syndrome, including pesticide reactions.
Diet drinks became formaldehyde cocktails as they cooked in the 120 degree Arabian sun. According to the servicemen pallets were in the sun as long as 8 weeks at a time and the troops drank them all day. Read the protest of the National Soft Drink Association on www.dorway.com and you will see the pop companies knew the gun was loaded before they ever shipped those drinks. Aspartame destroys the immune systems, mimics MS as it destroys the central nervous system, triggers Lou Gehrigs symptoms, systemic lupus and is a seizure triggering drug. The wood alcohol converts to formaldehyde and formic acid even in the retina of the eye and destroys the optic nerve.
It triggers retinal detachments, macular degeneration, optic neuritis and even blindness for starters. Aspartame breaks down to diketopiperazine, a brain tumor agent, and triggered astrocytomas, pituitary adenomas, etc. in original studies. The symptoms of Desert Storm illness are identical to symptoms of Aspartame Disease listed in the FDA report of 92 triggered by this toxin, and listed in the medical text. Aspartame is a drug that makes you crave carbohydrates and the troops were in the hot sun and thirsty!
James Bowen, M.D. hearing that Anthrax vaccine could enter the American marketplace and thus the American body on a massive scale said: "The sad history of NutraSweet would indicate we cannot rely on governmental nor corporate integrity to insure this is a safe product. The FDA has stoically refused to listen to the public's experience with this most complained about product. Over 80% of all complaints to the FDA in the past 20 years are about aspartame. The problems concerned with are serious ones. The only reaction coming from the FDA is to trivialize them as insignificant problems and call this anecdotal. However, this experience constitutes significant post market surveillance which is the last resort for protecting the public and the anecdotal nature of it makes it all the more valid because nobody was expecting any adverse reaction from NutraSweet or they wouldn't have used it. Therefore, this is more valid than even a doubleblind study, since the people were expecting good results but got horrible ones. Since post marketing surveillance is not forthcoming from the FDA its ever more important that anybody who gets the Anthrax vaccine must listen very carefully to their own body and be prepared to know and understand that anything that goes wrong can be directly attributed to the vaccine and make this known to their fellow citizens as well as the FDA.
Because aspartame has seeded our public with a high degree of chemical hypersensitivity it would not be surprising that even if the Anthrax vaccine were perfect people would have severe adverse reactions because of the sensitivity problems from aspartame. The government sponsored research on formaldehyde hypersensitivity demonstrated hypersensitive individuals will have severe reactions to as little as 1 billionth of a gram of formaldehyde. Since the amount of formaldehyde in the vaccine far exceeds that numerous severe reactions are logically anticipated therefrom. So the American people must be alert and exercise this opportunity for post marketing surveillance.
The FDA before they clammed up completely listed 92 complaints ranging from memory problems, depression, fatigue, speech problems, headaches, mood problems, dizziness, joint paints and sexual impotence to 4 types of seizures and death. We should not then be surprised if we get these kind of reactions from the Anthrax vaccine. The human organism will never be the same after aspartame nor will future generations with the damaged DNA.."
It's highly likely history may repeat itself if Anthrax vaccine is allowed to be mandated for the US. The Gulf War Syndrome is an outstanding example of how the aspartame and other chemicals can produce toxic synergism.
Reading sites like that of Dr. Garth Nicolson on the Persian Gulf illness and its symptoms and diseases is like reading a site on the dangers of
aspartame. Dr. Nicolson does mention mycoplasmas. Dr. Bowen said about this: " One should read my article on Lyme Disease Sexually Transmitted and Reactivated by Aspartame. NutraSweet is in every case symbiotic with all the things he's talking about. This article illustrates this in some detail and the whole depth of the derangement of the human organism by aspartame is illustrated in my article on Sperm Warfare, Aspartame and the Fireant. Both articles on www.dorway.com where there are also many other excellent ones by many authors that would substantiate the interrelationships that are mentioned by Dr. Nicolson."
All that the Anthrax terror campaign has demonstrated so far is that Anthrax is a rather poor choice of agent. Should an Anthrax vaccination program be conducted at great societal expense and great personal loss, any terroristic organization could merely choose any one of hundreds of far more dangerous chemical or biologic agents that are readily available.
A list of many of these agents is in neurosurgeon Russell Blaylock's new booklet titled BioTerrorism: How You Can Survive -
www.bioterrorismbook.com He is the author of Excitotoxins: The Taste That Kills, www.amazon.com on aspartame and MSG. He wrote the booklet on how to survive bioterrorism because excitotoxins have destroyed the immune system of consumers. And while you're reading this booklet lets get down to the real nitty gritty. What if Anthrax vaccine were safe and the neurotoxin aspartame had not been marketed for human consumption? Dr. Blaylock discusses weaponized Anthrax and says: "These are Anthrax germs that have been genetically altered so as to make them generally antibiotic resistant and resistant to vaccinations methods. "
Thus there is no valid use for an Anthrax vaccination campaign.
And as to the most current information on aspartame, a study published last week in Norway (NTNU, SVT-fakultetet, N-7491, Trondheim, Norway - Elisabeth Hetle and Arnstein Eltervaag, has linked aspartame to brain destruction. And, of course, after being on the market for 20 years this has become common knowledge on aspartame. Martin Frid, Mission Possible Sweden said the newspaper articles say: "Aspartame Kills Brain Cells" and explains 400 tests on a total of half a billion brain cells from rats were performed. Especially areas of the brain responsible for learning were damaged. The researchers were quoted as saying they think no one should ingest aspartame, and especially children. This helps to explain the epidemic of ADD and its mentioned in Excitotoxins: The Taste That Kills by Dr. Blaylock as being triggered by aspartame, as well as autism.
We are now taking case histories for class action on aspartame starting with brain tumors, eye deterioration and blindness and seizures triggered by aspartame. All cases to be forwarded to attorneys should be sent to me at Bettym19@mindspring.com with full contact information.
In conclusion, Dr. James Bowen, an aspartame victim who suffers with Lou Gehrigs symptoms, and who is an expert on the aspartame and hypersensitization issue, researching it for years, makes these points on the vaccine:
"The risks versus the benefits of any vaccine program have to be considered. This is why Smallpox vaccine is no longer widely used. The fact that our population has been so formaldehyde sensitized by NutraSweet, i.e. Persian Gulf Syndrome, makes it no surprise that the Anthrax vaccine is showing a very high incidence of unfortunate reactions. Even though the US has been under full scale terrorist attack with highly crafted weapons grade Anthrax there has been no experience whatsoever that would justify mass immunization under any circumstance. Anthrax has just not been proven to be that effective a terror agent. Indeed, it may produce terror, but that's an emotional reaction and there is no evidence of any epidemic resulting therefrom. And we should not launch into a mass immunization program of any kind because of a terrorific emotional reaction. The other very salient point here is there should be a basic human right to always refuse treatment and the history of vaccination has been that when an individual has a belief based on his own personal experience that the vaccine is dangerous to him, that in many cases this well founded belief should supercedes any other knowledge or logic. As it is, we have many tragic cases around the country, many arising from the US Armed Forces where people were forcibly vaccinated and ended up as a lost to society as a result of the damages that ensued as a result of the reaction to the vaccination. Exemplary of the potential for the sensitization reaction of the vaccine are the 40,000 acknowledged deaths from Desert Storm Syndrome.
And consider over 5000 children and adults died following vaccination. Nowhere have we mentioned the immense personal loss that occurs to each individual or family so affected and this only serves to demonstrate the fact that respecting the individual's right to refuse treatment is the most sane response."
Below is part of John Hammell's letter to the FDA as a guideline.
Betty Martini, Founder, Mission Possible International, 9270 River Club
Parkway, Duluth, Georgia 30097, 770 242-2599 www.dorway.com
Aspartame Toxicity Center, www.holisticmed.com/aspartame
P.S. Trocho Study showing the formaldehyde converted from the methanol in aspartame, accumulates in the cells and damages DNA is on www.presidiotex.comaspartame along with a petition for recall.
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John Hammell's letter:
Reply-To: jham@iahf.com
IAHF Webmaster: Breaking News, Anti Vaccination
IAHF List: Please join me in petitioning the FDA by sending the legal petition below to them at the above email address fdadockets@oc.fda.gov)
See http://www.anthraxvaccine.net/
This is a legal petition, and the FDA cannot ignore it. The petition was generated by attorney Jim Turner, a long time defender of the public health.
The Anthrax vaccine is a killer and the facts below prove it. The FDA must revoke Bioport's license to manufacture it before this dangerous vaccine kills any more people. They must abandon their intention to fraudulently approve it for general use by the public and military troops must be stopped from having it forced on them.
Forward this to everyone you know, post it on your websites, and join me in sending the complaint below to the FDA and to Congress.
To: FDA
cc Congressman Rick Boucher
From John C. Hammell, President International Advocates for Health Freedom
POB 625 Floyd VA 24091,
FDA:
In light of the points below, I agree with the Anthrax Vaccine Network http://www.anthraxvaccine.net/ and totally oppose the Anthrax vaccine. I would like the FDA to ban this dangerous vaccine and revoke Bioport's license to manufacture it. It is clearly a very dangerous drug. You cannot legally justify approving this drug for use by the public, and it is wrong that members of the military are forced to take it.
I would like to know how you intend to handle this matter, and am forwarding this to Congressman Rick Boucher, my congressman, as well as to my email distribution list. I am also posting this letter to you on my website in the Anti Vaccination section. ....
1. The vaccine's manufacturer, Bioport of Lansing, Michigan, has never passed an FDA inspection. Numerous problems include
lack of sterility, contamination problems, quality
control problems, lack of consistency in manufacturing, falsification of the expiration dates on some lots of the vaccine (labels were switched), and the presence of squalene, an adjuvant which is illegal in the United States.
2. Adverse reactions to this vaccine range from 40% in men to 70% in women, according to an Army study. Yet when the program began the FDA-approved product label admitted to only a 0.2% adverse reaction rate; now it says 5-35%. Adverse reactions range from severe bone and joint pain, to loss of vision, severe skin problems, blackouts and loss of consciousness (crashing from a standing position leads to other injuries, of course), grand mal seizures, internal organ problems, ALS, multiple sclerosis -- and death. If this was a civilian vaccine, it would long ago have been taken off the market.
3. The current vaccine, licensed in 1970, failed to meet federal requirements to prove efficacy in humans prior to licensure; the required trials to prove safety were conducted, but were of limited scientific validity. The only trial of an anthrax vaccine in humans, in the late 1950's, was for a different vaccine and showed efficacy only for cutaneous, or skin contact. The Dept. of Defense wanted a vaccine against aerosolized anthrax - that which would be "weaponized" - and for mass inoculation, and in 1996 submitted to the FDA an Investigational New Drug (IND) application requesting permission to use it for this purpose. By law (10 USC 1107), an IND requires informed consent, or a Presidential waiver of that consent, neither of which currently exist. Absent either, a military order to take the vaccine is illegal. Yet, if troops refuse the vaccine, they are most often fined, court-martialed, jailed, and separated from the service under less than honorable conditions.
4. The General Accounting Office last year (October, 2000) came out with a report that in the the Air National Guard and Air Force Reserve units that were required to be vaccinated, 25% of its pilots resign rather than take it.
5. Even if this vaccine were not so dangerous, it may be of limited value in the short-term. The FDA-approved protocol for taking it calls for three shots each spaced 2 weeks apart; then three more shots at 6, 12, and 18 months, then annual boosters for life.
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Soroush
The Anthrax Vaccine issue is urgent. The public needs all the facts. Even Dr. Joseph Mercola wrote about the Model Emergency Health Powers Act (MEHPA). If legislation passes he says:you will have a mandatory vaccination or you will be charged with a crime.
:
According to Barbara Mullarkey who heads the Illinois Vaccine Awareness Coalition each state can legislate its own bill for emergency vaccination program and compel vaccination in case of an emergency. Make your state legislators aware of the dangers of this emergency act.
With regard to the Anthrax Vaccine from the summary of the vaccine package insert, the ingredients are:
* Filtrates of microaerophilic cultures of an avirulent, nonencapsulated strain of Bacillus anthracin grown in a synthetic liquid medium;
* Aluminum hydroxide;
* Benzethonium;
* Formaldehyde.
* no studies on cancer causing potential;
* no studies on fertility impairment
* no animal reproduction studies
* unknown if anthrax vaccine can cause fetal harm when injected into a pregnant woman,
* unknown if anthrax vaccine can affect reproduction capacity.
As James Turner, Washington, DC atty says: The Anthrax Vaccine is neither safe nor effective.
The FDA needs to be written about Docket No. 01P-0471. See info on www.anthraxvaccine.net andyou can write directly OCTMA@CBER,FDA.GOV, or
Dr. Rudolph Harris at RXH@CFSAN.FDA.GOV and it wouldn't hurt to send a copy to anthrax@mail.house.gov Part of the copy of John Hammell's letter to FDA is below with important info. We are writing to ask the FDA to rule the anthrax vaccine as a Class II dangerous drug, to revoke BioPort's license to manufacture the vaccine, and you support the petition docket No. 01P-0471.
There is an Aspartame-Anthrax Connection when we look at Desert Storm Syndrome, and what we're concerned about with mandatory vaccination is a large proportion of the country experiencing the disabilities of the veterans because 2/3rds of the population is using this deadly neurotoxin. To make matters worse aspartame is a drug that interacts with many of the drugs used to treat the symptoms and diseases it triggers. This is detailed in the new medical text on the global plague of Aspartame Disease by H. J. Roberts, M.D. titled Aspartame Disease: An Ignored Epidemic, www.aspartameispoison.com There is a info on Desert Storm Syndrome as well and he discusses vaccine on page 799. He also says: "The mutagenic and carcinogenic potential of other chemicals might intensify under the influence of aspartame and its breakdown products." He speaks of the ability of aspartame to induce or aggravate the multiple chemical sensitivity syndrome, including pesticide reactions.
Diet drinks became formaldehyde cocktails as they cooked in the 120 degree Arabian sun. According to the servicemen pallets were in the sun as long as 8 weeks at a time and the troops drank them all day. Read the protest of the National Soft Drink Association on www.dorway.com and you will see the pop companies knew the gun was loaded before they ever shipped those drinks. Aspartame destroys the immune systems, mimics MS as it destroys the central nervous system, triggers Lou Gehrigs symptoms, systemic lupus and is a seizure triggering drug. The wood alcohol converts to formaldehyde and formic acid even in the retina of the eye and destroys the optic nerve.
It triggers retinal detachments, macular degeneration, optic neuritis and even blindness for starters. Aspartame breaks down to diketopiperazine, a brain tumor agent, and triggered astrocytomas, pituitary adenomas, etc. in original studies. The symptoms of Desert Storm illness are identical to symptoms of Aspartame Disease listed in the FDA report of 92 triggered by this toxin, and listed in the medical text. Aspartame is a drug that makes you crave carbohydrates and the troops were in the hot sun and thirsty!
James Bowen, M.D. hearing that Anthrax vaccine could enter the American marketplace and thus the American body on a massive scale said: "The sad history of NutraSweet would indicate we cannot rely on governmental nor corporate integrity to insure this is a safe product. The FDA has stoically refused to listen to the public's experience with this most complained about product. Over 80% of all complaints to the FDA in the past 20 years are about aspartame. The problems concerned with are serious ones. The only reaction coming from the FDA is to trivialize them as insignificant problems and call this anecdotal. However, this experience constitutes significant post market surveillance which is the last resort for protecting the public and the anecdotal nature of it makes it all the more valid because nobody was expecting any adverse reaction from NutraSweet or they wouldn't have used it. Therefore, this is more valid than even a doubleblind study, since the people were expecting good results but got horrible ones. Since post marketing surveillance is not forthcoming from the FDA its ever more important that anybody who gets the Anthrax vaccine must listen very carefully to their own body and be prepared to know and understand that anything that goes wrong can be directly attributed to the vaccine and make this known to their fellow citizens as well as the FDA.
Because aspartame has seeded our public with a high degree of chemical hypersensitivity it would not be surprising that even if the Anthrax vaccine were perfect people would have severe adverse reactions because of the sensitivity problems from aspartame. The government sponsored research on formaldehyde hypersensitivity demonstrated hypersensitive individuals will have severe reactions to as little as 1 billionth of a gram of formaldehyde. Since the amount of formaldehyde in the vaccine far exceeds that numerous severe reactions are logically anticipated therefrom. So the American people must be alert and exercise this opportunity for post marketing surveillance.
The FDA before they clammed up completely listed 92 complaints ranging from memory problems, depression, fatigue, speech problems, headaches, mood problems, dizziness, joint paints and sexual impotence to 4 types of seizures and death. We should not then be surprised if we get these kind of reactions from the Anthrax vaccine. The human organism will never be the same after aspartame nor will future generations with the damaged DNA.."
It's highly likely history may repeat itself if Anthrax vaccine is allowed to be mandated for the US. The Gulf War Syndrome is an outstanding example of how the aspartame and other chemicals can produce toxic synergism.
Reading sites like that of Dr. Garth Nicolson on the Persian Gulf illness and its symptoms and diseases is like reading a site on the dangers of
aspartame. Dr. Nicolson does mention mycoplasmas. Dr. Bowen said about this: " One should read my article on Lyme Disease Sexually Transmitted and Reactivated by Aspartame. NutraSweet is in every case symbiotic with all the things he's talking about. This article illustrates this in some detail and the whole depth of the derangement of the human organism by aspartame is illustrated in my article on Sperm Warfare, Aspartame and the Fireant. Both articles on www.dorway.com where there are also many other excellent ones by many authors that would substantiate the interrelationships that are mentioned by Dr. Nicolson."
All that the Anthrax terror campaign has demonstrated so far is that Anthrax is a rather poor choice of agent. Should an Anthrax vaccination program be conducted at great societal expense and great personal loss, any terroristic organization could merely choose any one of hundreds of far more dangerous chemical or biologic agents that are readily available.
A list of many of these agents is in neurosurgeon Russell Blaylock's new booklet titled BioTerrorism: How You Can Survive -
www.bioterrorismbook.com He is the author of Excitotoxins: The Taste That Kills, www.amazon.com on aspartame and MSG. He wrote the booklet on how to survive bioterrorism because excitotoxins have destroyed the immune system of consumers. And while you're reading this booklet lets get down to the real nitty gritty. What if Anthrax vaccine were safe and the neurotoxin aspartame had not been marketed for human consumption? Dr. Blaylock discusses weaponized Anthrax and says: "These are Anthrax germs that have been genetically altered so as to make them generally antibiotic resistant and resistant to vaccinations methods. "
Thus there is no valid use for an Anthrax vaccination campaign.
And as to the most current information on aspartame, a study published last week in Norway (NTNU, SVT-fakultetet, N-7491, Trondheim, Norway - Elisabeth Hetle and Arnstein Eltervaag, has linked aspartame to brain destruction. And, of course, after being on the market for 20 years this has become common knowledge on aspartame. Martin Frid, Mission Possible Sweden said the newspaper articles say: "Aspartame Kills Brain Cells" and explains 400 tests on a total of half a billion brain cells from rats were performed. Especially areas of the brain responsible for learning were damaged. The researchers were quoted as saying they think no one should ingest aspartame, and especially children. This helps to explain the epidemic of ADD and its mentioned in Excitotoxins: The Taste That Kills by Dr. Blaylock as being triggered by aspartame, as well as autism.
We are now taking case histories for class action on aspartame starting with brain tumors, eye deterioration and blindness and seizures triggered by aspartame. All cases to be forwarded to attorneys should be sent to me at Bettym19@mindspring.com with full contact information.
In conclusion, Dr. James Bowen, an aspartame victim who suffers with Lou Gehrigs symptoms, and who is an expert on the aspartame and hypersensitization issue, researching it for years, makes these points on the vaccine:
"The risks versus the benefits of any vaccine program have to be considered. This is why Smallpox vaccine is no longer widely used. The fact that our population has been so formaldehyde sensitized by NutraSweet, i.e. Persian Gulf Syndrome, makes it no surprise that the Anthrax vaccine is showing a very high incidence of unfortunate reactions. Even though the US has been under full scale terrorist attack with highly crafted weapons grade Anthrax there has been no experience whatsoever that would justify mass immunization under any circumstance. Anthrax has just not been proven to be that effective a terror agent. Indeed, it may produce terror, but that's an emotional reaction and there is no evidence of any epidemic resulting therefrom. And we should not launch into a mass immunization program of any kind because of a terrorific emotional reaction. The other very salient point here is there should be a basic human right to always refuse treatment and the history of vaccination has been that when an individual has a belief based on his own personal experience that the vaccine is dangerous to him, that in many cases this well founded belief should supercedes any other knowledge or logic. As it is, we have many tragic cases around the country, many arising from the US Armed Forces where people were forcibly vaccinated and ended up as a lost to society as a result of the damages that ensued as a result of the reaction to the vaccination. Exemplary of the potential for the sensitization reaction of the vaccine are the 40,000 acknowledged deaths from Desert Storm Syndrome.
And consider over 5000 children and adults died following vaccination. Nowhere have we mentioned the immense personal loss that occurs to each individual or family so affected and this only serves to demonstrate the fact that respecting the individual's right to refuse treatment is the most sane response."
Below is part of John Hammell's letter to the FDA as a guideline.
Betty Martini, Founder, Mission Possible International, 9270 River Club
Parkway, Duluth, Georgia 30097, 770 242-2599 www.dorway.com
Aspartame Toxicity Center, www.holisticmed.com/aspartame
P.S. Trocho Study showing the formaldehyde converted from the methanol in aspartame, accumulates in the cells and damages DNA is on www.presidiotex.comaspartame along with a petition for recall.
=============
John Hammell's letter:
Reply-To: jham@iahf.com
IAHF Webmaster: Breaking News, Anti Vaccination
IAHF List: Please join me in petitioning the FDA by sending the legal petition below to them at the above email address fdadockets@oc.fda.gov)
See http://www.anthraxvaccine.net/
This is a legal petition, and the FDA cannot ignore it. The petition was generated by attorney Jim Turner, a long time defender of the public health.
The Anthrax vaccine is a killer and the facts below prove it. The FDA must revoke Bioport's license to manufacture it before this dangerous vaccine kills any more people. They must abandon their intention to fraudulently approve it for general use by the public and military troops must be stopped from having it forced on them.
Forward this to everyone you know, post it on your websites, and join me in sending the complaint below to the FDA and to Congress.
To: FDA
cc Congressman Rick Boucher
From John C. Hammell, President International Advocates for Health Freedom
POB 625 Floyd VA 24091,
FDA:
In light of the points below, I agree with the Anthrax Vaccine Network http://www.anthraxvaccine.net/ and totally oppose the Anthrax vaccine. I would like the FDA to ban this dangerous vaccine and revoke Bioport's license to manufacture it. It is clearly a very dangerous drug. You cannot legally justify approving this drug for use by the public, and it is wrong that members of the military are forced to take it.
I would like to know how you intend to handle this matter, and am forwarding this to Congressman Rick Boucher, my congressman, as well as to my email distribution list. I am also posting this letter to you on my website in the Anti Vaccination section. ....
1. The vaccine's manufacturer, Bioport of Lansing, Michigan, has never passed an FDA inspection. Numerous problems include
lack of sterility, contamination problems, quality
control problems, lack of consistency in manufacturing, falsification of the expiration dates on some lots of the vaccine (labels were switched), and the presence of squalene, an adjuvant which is illegal in the United States.
2. Adverse reactions to this vaccine range from 40% in men to 70% in women, according to an Army study. Yet when the program began the FDA-approved product label admitted to only a 0.2% adverse reaction rate; now it says 5-35%. Adverse reactions range from severe bone and joint pain, to loss of vision, severe skin problems, blackouts and loss of consciousness (crashing from a standing position leads to other injuries, of course), grand mal seizures, internal organ problems, ALS, multiple sclerosis -- and death. If this was a civilian vaccine, it would long ago have been taken off the market.
3. The current vaccine, licensed in 1970, failed to meet federal requirements to prove efficacy in humans prior to licensure; the required trials to prove safety were conducted, but were of limited scientific validity. The only trial of an anthrax vaccine in humans, in the late 1950's, was for a different vaccine and showed efficacy only for cutaneous, or skin contact. The Dept. of Defense wanted a vaccine against aerosolized anthrax - that which would be "weaponized" - and for mass inoculation, and in 1996 submitted to the FDA an Investigational New Drug (IND) application requesting permission to use it for this purpose. By law (10 USC 1107), an IND requires informed consent, or a Presidential waiver of that consent, neither of which currently exist. Absent either, a military order to take the vaccine is illegal. Yet, if troops refuse the vaccine, they are most often fined, court-martialed, jailed, and separated from the service under less than honorable conditions.
4. The General Accounting Office last year (October, 2000) came out with a report that in the the Air National Guard and Air Force Reserve units that were required to be vaccinated, 25% of its pilots resign rather than take it.
5. Even if this vaccine were not so dangerous, it may be of limited value in the short-term. The FDA-approved protocol for taking it calls for three shots each spaced 2 weeks apart; then three more shots at 6, 12, and 18 months, then annual boosters for life.
[Non-text portions of this message have been removed]