Fumento no friend to sick vets

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Re: If Only There Were a Vaccine for Hysteria

http://www.fumento.com/anthrax.html

Fumento should really invest in a good quality silver spoon

so that he can eat his words in style....as a fellow.

mfumento@... <-------- his e-mail address

EVEN DOD has stopped claiming their is no such thing as GWS

>>>

The reason these fad causes of Gulf war syndrome come and go is that

they are all wrong.

Exhaustive testing of Gulf war vets find they and their offspring are as

healthy or healthier than counterparts who were not deployed to the

gulf. The only difference is Gulf war vets have a somewhat higher level

of complaints commonly associated with psychosomatic illness, such as

aching joints.. "

taken from:

http://www.junkscience.com/apr99/fumlet.htm

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Fumento writes:

" The reference to risk applied not to vaccine recipients,

but to the manufacturer. Pentagon spokesmen have taken

great pains to point this out, yet the story lives on,

in cyberspace and in print. "

**Yes, the 'story' lives on in Cyberspace and in PRINT in it's entirety

for all to read the actual document for themselves I might add.

**AND WHY does he think the manufacturer is at risk anyway?

**Furthermore when he commented on the indemnification document, he

failed

to mention that the only other time the Army has indemnified a vaccine,

was the disasterous swine flu shots. Perhaps Fumento should have

actually read the indimnification

documents!!

1998

" The definition of the unusually hazardous risks to which the

contract indemnification clause will apply is as follows:

" The obligation assumed by MBPI under this contract involves unusually

hazardous risks associated with the potential for adverse reactions in

some recipients and the possibility that the desired immunological

effect will not be obtained by all recipients. Although AVA has been

extensively tested under the auspices of the Food and Drug

Administration, the size of the proposed vaccination program may reveal

unforewarned idiosyncratic adverse reactions. Moreover, there is no way

to be certain that the pathogen used in tests measuring vaccine efficacy

will be sufficiently similar to the pathogen that U.S. forces might

encounter to confer immunity...... "

" The risk of adverse reactions, or the failure to confer immunity

against anthrax, from the administration to any person of the vaccine

manufactured or delivered under this contract. For the purposed of

this clause, the phrase " adverse reactions " includes anaphylaxis and

any other foreseeable reactions, as well as any unforeseen reactions. "

And this language is from a 1991 indemnification document:

" The obligation assumed by PRI under this contract involves unusually

hazardous risks associated with potentially severe adverse reactions and

the potential lack of efficiacy of the anthrax vaccine. These concerns

stem from: a) the limited use of the vaccine to date, i.e., tests prior

to approval of a vaccine by the Food and Drug Administration are on too

small a scale to permit accurate assessments of types and severity of

adverse reactions (only widespread use can provide this assessment;)

and insufficient experience in mass immunization programs to truly

evaluate the efficacy of the vaccine. "

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**Of those ill at Dover, the only symptom in common is NOT just the

sore arm. IF, they are looking for a symptom that absolutely ALL (100%)

would have, that symptom of course might be the case.

" Tom Luna, who supervises the Dover vaccination program.

But the airmen -- who had already heard horror stories -

- were instructed to report anything they felt might be

related to the vaccine. And the only common symptom, Dr.

Luna says, was " local reactions such as sore arm,

redness, swelling at injection site. "

**Lets hope there is somthing accurate in this article such as:

" The stockpile is not yet exhausted, and a delay of up to

a year is expected before more vaccine can be produced.

This may allow vaccination program opponents to halt it

or make it voluntary "

**There is certainly more to comment on in his poorly researched

article. In fact at the site above he actually has a picture of

a cartoonish coffin and a syringe and asks which you would rather

have!! If this character doesn't get a paycheck from DoD, he

should, having made NO attempt to write an unbiased article

(editorial) once again.

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http://www.fumento.com/

ps, He has apparently opened his mouth in the past on the topic

of cell phones NOT causing brain tumors, yet current research has

indicated there are problems. People seem to be developing those

on the side of the brain they are using the phone.... " I am not

sure if the jury is in completely yet on that topic, but there is

certainly cause for some concern at this point.

Gretchen

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