American Association of Physicians and Surgeons

August 15, 2007

8/14/2007

Israeli soldiers complain of adverse anthrax vaccine effects,

unethical human experimentation

Soldiers from elite unit have submitted a petition to Israel’s High

Court of Justice, demanding that the army accept responsibility for

treating the illnesses allegedly resulting from an experimental

anthrax vaccine, and that it reveal the secret experiment’s decision-

making process and supervision mechanism.

Petitioners suffer from skin and respiratory complaints, among other

ailments.

In the course of an 8-year experiment code-named Omer 2, which began

in 1998, 25% of the soldiers were injected with American-made vaccine

and 75% with a previously untested Israeli vaccine. Soldiers in both

groups suffered persistent symptoms.

Public health laws require that physicians may not conduct

experiments on persons subject to their authority except under the

supervision of the Helsinki Committee and the Health Ministry’s

pharmaceutical division. Omer 2 is said to have violated both

conditions. (Haaretz 2/27/07).

U.S. research on anthrax vaccine was criticized in oral testimony

before the House Veterans’ Affairs Committee, Subcommittee on Health,

by Meryl Nass, M.D., on July 26. She stated that research on Gulf War

syndrome and anthrax vaccine was unusable because the wrong questions

were asked; data were withheld; sample sizes were inadequate; and

control groups contained exposed subjects while exposed groups

contained unexposed subjects.

Additional information:

* “Pentagon Concealed 20,000 Hospitalizations Related to Anthrax

Vaccine,” AAPS News of the Day 1/3/06.

* AAPS testimony on anthrax immunization program, Apr 1, 1999.

Meryl Nass, MD

Mount Desert Island Hospital

Bar Harbor, Maine 04609

207 288-5081 ext. 220

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