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Natural Health Newsletter

Randall Neustaedter OMD

Vaccines in the News

War Declared Over Anthrax Vaccine

A federal judge has issued an injunction that prohibits the Pentagon from

continuing to force anthrax vaccination on military personnel without their

consent. More than 900,000 servicemen and women have received the anthrax

vaccine, but 500 active-duty service personnel have refused the vaccine, and

nearly 200 have been court-martialed. An additional 500 pilots and flight crew

members have quit, resigned or transferred from the Air National Guard or

Reserves rather than take the vaccine because of fears of severe illness and

adverse effects following vaccination.

The vaccine has been approved for prevention of anthrax contracted through the

skin, but not for inhaled anthrax according to district judge Emmet Sullivan. He

agreed with the plaintiffs' class action lawsuit attorneys that the vaccine is

being " used for an unapproved purpose. " He said, " The United States cannot

demand that members of the armed forces also serve as guinea pigs for

experimental drugs. "

The Pentagon fired back with its own salvo. The US top military officer Air

Force Gen. Myers (chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff) disagreed with

the judge's ruling. Myers declared the anthrax vaccine is not experimental, and

it is essential to protect our troops.

Rep. Shays, R-Conn. jumped into the fray, requesting that the

Defense Department begin an immediate review of disciplinary actions taken

against service members who refused the vaccine.

President Bush could still have the final say. Although medical researchers must

obtain informed consent before giving anyone an investigational or unapproved

drug, the president may waive this requirement if he determines that obtaining

consent is not in the interests of national security.

Flu Panic and Profits

The media-generated fear of this year's flu has sent a panicky public scrambling

for flu shots. No one cares that the vaccine does not work, does not contain

this year's dreaded virus, and causes significant adverse reactions. People want

their flu shot, and manufacturers have run out of supply. That shortage has

created a supply and demand environment for inflated prices and illegal price

gouging. A vial of vaccine that cost $40 to $80 in October is now selling for up

to $215 dollars. According to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, the sales manager for

CT International, which is selling vaccine vials for $215, justified these

prices because the market is willing to pay. Missouri's attorney general has

promised not to allow illegal price gouging, quoting an anti-gouging law that

prevents extraordinary profits from extreme, temporary conditions. Expect other

states to follow suit. Just another example of outrageously high drug prices

foisted on a public unaware of other, safer alternatives.

On average 38,000 people in the US die each year from influenza. Deaths occur

primarily in the elderly. Every year newspapers predict a terrible flu season.

Drug ads appear on television for useless concoctions with fancy names like

Theraflu. Learned scientific articles appear in the media characterizing the

offending virus as a mass murderer probably able to surpass all those other

foreign viruses (Spanish, Asian, and Hong Kong) in deadly combat with our immune

systems. This year it is a mutant strain of the Panama virus first identified by

Chinese scientists in the Fujian province in 2002. The San Francisco Chronicle

informed us this week that researchers have found flu viruses in humans from

three bird flu strains, which portends another global influenza pandemic similar

to the Spanish flu of 1918 or the Hong Kong flu of 1968. Such speculation sells

newspapers, and flu vaccines.

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Randall Neustaedter OMD, LAc

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Author of The Vaccine Guide, North Atlantic Books, 2002