Anthrax Shots for Civilians in Emergency?

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BIOLOGICAL WAR-FEAR

Civilians could be facing mandatory anthrax shots

Expert warns government has 10 million doses for 'emergency'

World Net Daily

April 04, 2007

By Bob Unruh

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Not only has the highly controversial anthrax vaccine returned as

mandatory for members of the U.S. military, but now a medical expert who

testified before Congress on the dangers of those shots is warning that

under some circumstances civilians could be facing government-ordered

anthrax vaccinations.

Dr. Meryl Nass, a diplomate of the American Board of Internal Medicine,

told WND that should there be another anthrax attack, such as the

powder-laden envelopes that arrived at a U.S. Senate office building and

other offices in 2001, such an order is legally and technically possible.

If a handful of people were to be exposed in an office building in Los

Angeles, for example, the government could issue an order for vaccination

for " everybody in the building, maybe everybody in Los Angeles. That's what

people now are facing, " she said.

The highly controversial shots were first mandated for U.S. military troops

heading to the Middle East for the Gulf War in 1991, and again for the Iraq

War in 2003. But according to investigative journalist Matsumoto's

book, " Vacccine-A, " many of the military service members were given an

experimental anthrax vaccine without their knowledge or consent.

There have even been questions raised by medical experts about what was

approved by the Food and Drug Administration “ and how it was approved “ as

well as the side effects that went undocumented, and the thousands of cases

of sometimes-horrific reactions that allegedly have resulted.

Matsumoto, a New York-based war correspondent who won 10 journalism awards

during his years working for NBC and Fox News Channel, in 1998 drew a

connection between the vaccine and the Gulf War Syndrome. His book

describes several cases, including an Army sergeant whose skin became so

diseased that doctors, in a desperate attempt to cure him, removed every

square inch of skin from his body. Then there was the Green Beret colonel

who suffered walking blackouts that left him unable to find his way home,

and the man whose brain literally shrank until he could no longer write his

name or walk straight.

Matsumoto's book goes further than the simple administration of medicine

that somehow went wrong; he alleges that members of government at the

highest levels knew the drugs were experimental and had not been tested

adequately, but decided anyway to go ahead and use the vaccine on 1.4

million members of the military.

The reason? Matsumoto claims the existing anthrax vaccine was too weak to

confer immunity in a timely way “on U.S. troops about to be deployed to

Iraq a week or two later, facing a possible threat of biological weapons in

the hands of Saddam Hussein. So a more potent, fast-acting vaccine was

deemed necessary, even if it meant using an untried formulation on

America's fighting forces, he says.

Anthrax loomed large on the public's consciousness when anthrax-laced

letters were received by U.S. Sen. Tom Daschle's government office, and

several media offices, resulting in several human cases of anthrax. " Death

to America. Death to Israel. Allah is Great, " was the theme in the letters,

which were investigated by the FBI, although no one ever was charged.

Now Dr. Nass is suggesting that not only should members of the military be

raising objections, but civilians at large should be clamoring for a

government that protects them, not subjects them to questionable medical

processes.

The doctor, who for years has specialized in the care of military personnel

suffering from brain and immune system dysfunctions subsequent to anthrax

vaccinations, has provided expert testimony to Congress, the National

Institutes of Health and the FDA on the issue.

She also vigorously opposes the anthrax vaccine, and her website at

www.military- biodefensevaccines.org to participate as plaintiffs in a new

lawsuit against the government over the restart of the vaccine program.

" I think what's important for the average person to know is that the

military has vaccinated 1.4 million people, and there have been thousands

of people with adverse reactions, " she told WND.

And she said there undoubtedly are many more cases that have gone

unreported or misdiagnosed as another disease.

Worse yet, the urgent need for the vaccine never has been documented by the

government, meaning that military service members “ and possibly civilians

“ could be getting a dangerous and life-threatening vaccine for no reason.

" The threat [of anthrax] is nebulous. It's a good terror weapon, but a poor

strategic weapon. It's very unlikely to be used, " she said. That's because

the anthrax, if released on a large scale, would follow the line of the air

currents, and be confined to that very narrow area.

An accidental release in Russia in 1979 did kill several dozen people,

primarily because little or no treatment was available, but all in a very

narrow pathway directly downwind from the release point. For a large-scale

disaster to develop, someone would have to be flying an airplane

back-and-forth over a target area, with a continuous release of the

anthrax, she said.

And with the medicines that are available for treatment after the fact, the

impact of such an unlikely attack probably could be kept to a minimum with

the common-sense application of those treatments, she said. " If somebody

sees that airplane [flying back and forth], then take the treatments, " she

said. She said her concern was that the government, instead of taking all

reasonable precautions to treat people, now has stockpiled 10 million doses

of anthrax vaccine for civilians.

" This has stopped just being a military issue. If there were a threat or

the potential for that threat, civilians could be subjected to mandatory

vaccinations, " she told WND.

The history of using biological agents in war primarily include instances

during World War II where the Japanese used such attacks in China “on a

small scale, she said. There never was developed an ability to release them

over large areas. " If they are viruses, they may or may not be sensitive to

a number of anti- virals that are available. If it is bacteria, there are

antibiotics that can be used for most biological threats, and in fact many

are responsive to doxycyclin, " she said.

" It's old and cheap, doxycyclin. You should go out and buy a month's worth.

It attacks tularemia plague and the like, " she said.

She said " mass treatments " should only be done when there is a risk-benefit

analysis that has been defined, and the Advisory Committee on Immunization

Practices for the National Centers for Disease Control has found that's

never been done for anthrax. She said she found it interesting that the

military chose not to make its anthrax efforts a medical campaign, but

instead made it a command program.

" The guy who teaches the soldiers how to shoot now is the one who has to

force everyone to get [the anthrax vaccine] and punish them if they don't. "

Nass said the attraction to terrorists is that in some ways anthrax could

be used clandestinely, but " you can do that with other bombs too, " she

said. Her only explanation for the continuing pursuit of the vaccination

program by the military was financial. " There's a lot of money involved,

the price of the vaccine has increased tenfold since they started, " she

said. Several other websites noted the same explanation, specifically

citing retired Navy Adm. Crowe, who owned part of Bioport, in

Lansing, Mich., which produced the vaccine.

" The whole program has never made sense, " she told WND. " We've got a

lawsuit pending again to fight them on the science. I feel “actually I

don't know why, I've been involved with this for nine years “ but I feel

optimistic this year we're going to end it. "

" Almost everybody has a big problem with this vaccine, " she said.

Matsumoto's book documents the development of the anthrax vaccine by the

Pentagon starting in 1978, to which eventually was added an oil called

squalene, which has been linked to autoimmune diseases such as lupus,

multiple sclerosis and arthritis. His book also warned then of just what is

developing now: the mandatory program for military members as the inclusion

of the civilian population in plans for the vaccination. He warns that will

result in a " man-made epidemic of unprecedented size. "

A website called Miliary Corruption described the court ruling that decided

the first wave of mandatory inoculations for the military. " Judge Emmet

Sullivan of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia fired a

torpedo into the highly controversial program when he declared that the

Food and Drug Administration failed to follow its own regulations when it

approved the 'vaccine' to specifically protect against 'aerosolized

anthrax' that could be used in a biological attack, " the site said.

" The FDA failed to properly classify the vaccine as 'safe and effective'

for us against the inhalation type anthrax, Judge Sullivan wrote. 'Unless

and until' the federal agency does that, the judge ruled, 'the involuntary

anthrax vaccination program, as applied to all persons, is rendered

illegal.' The judge said service members must have their 'informed consent

rights' protected in view of what he called forced submission to 'an

investigational drug,' " the website concluded.

Nass confirmed that the military had made a very quiet announcement late in

2006 that the mandatory military program would be resumed soon, and in fact

it has been relaunched. " While the Defense Department maintains that the

anthrax vaccine is safe and poses no long-term risks to recipients, a

little-known program at Walter “ the National Vaccine Healthcare

Center “ seems to contradict the military's assertions, " the report said.

" Documents show that military medical personnel have known since at least

1998 that there are genetic triggers between illnesses and some required

immunizations, including the anthrax vaccine. They also reveal the military

knew and did not implement routine pre-screening which could help reduce

vaccine- related illnesses, " the report said.

Nass said whatever results such research has generated should be made

public. " This could save more people from becoming ill, " she said. During

the earlier mandatory injections, a number of service members simply

refused, choosing to take the punishment rather than the inoculation.

Airman Horjus was one. In 2004 she told the Washington Post that if

there's no documentation of a threat, or confirmation that the vaccine is

safe and effective, what's the point? " I have a kid to take care of, " she

told the newspaper. " The Air Force can always fill my slot with someone

else, but who's going to fill the mommy slot? " She was demoted.

Nass now warns that the government stockpile exists, and the laws allow

mandatory orders, not only for service members, but civilians.

" There's no more emergency than there has been for the last seven years,

but the laws require only the potential for an emergency, " she told WND.

" You can make that decision as head of HSS [the Department of Health and

Human Services], or governors can give a vaccine on that basis. " " Under a

standing emergency, officials can say, 'We don't have to tell you. We get

to make the determination¦ ' There's a lot of scary things that have

happened since 9/11, " she said.

She said she still is contacted regularly “ at least several times a week “

by soldiers who were sickened by the vaccines. And she noted that with the

process for producing the anthrax vaccine, each lot has different

characteristics, and can produce different results.

" Many studies of Gulf War veterans suggest anthrax vaccine caused or

contributed to chronic illness in those veterans. The only studies that

claim the vaccine is safe were performed by the Defense Department. Most of

those students were supervised by the same individual, Col.

Grabenstein, who was the director of the military's vaccine program.

" Col. Grabenstein claimed that no chronic illnesses resulted from anthrax

vaccine. Yet on the anthrax vaccine package insert, FDA explains why those

military studies had serious problems and cannot be relied upon, " she

wrote. In her estimate, up to one-third of the soldiers vaccinated

developed problems ranging from muscle and joint pain and short-term memory

loss to lupus and thyroid disorders.

" What can soldiers do when faced with the anthrax vaccine? It seems we are

in a legal gray area now. Personally, I would ask to be given informed

consent. I would ask for a copy of the vaccine label to review. "

Bob Unruh is a news editor for WorldNetDaily.com

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