US soldier in Iraq needs advice on refusing Oct 06 mandatory anthrax vaccine.

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Friends,

Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

This is an exceprt from an email from my family member stationed in Iraq for the

USArmed forces.

" DoD has made the anthrax vaccine mandatory again for all service members in

southwest

Asia (i.e., Iraq). Therefore, I will soon be ordered to receive a series of

anthrax vaccine

shots over an 18-month span and an annual booster thereafter. Ironically, a

federal court

enjoined the administration of this vaccine in 2004 after finding that the FDA

had

approved the vaccine for DoD use without first following mandatory FDA testing

procedures.

The DoD was able to have the injunction lifted in early-2006 by proving that the

FDA had

re-examined the anthrax vaccine and validated its safety. The vaccine remained

optional

for DoD service members. Few service members opted for the optional (and

arguably still

dangerous) vaccine, so in October 2006 the DoD made it mandatory again.

I don't trust the vaccine, and I don't want to take it. I must explore my

options. "

We all know the dangers inherent in Mercury in Vaccines. In addition there is

an unknown

danger in Blood products in general.

I had forwarded an article from a nurse who was concerned about prion

contaminated

Vaccines and other blood products coming from Britain:

The British BANNED their own Vaccines and blood productbut can and

have been selling them in the US unfettered by our ever-vigilant FDA.

US has had a steady increase in Mad Cow disease starting with 1 in

1968, 44 in 1997, the last report available stopped tracking in mid

1998 with-17 deaths to date.

Noone knows how Mad cow translates to humans. The infectious agent

behind mad cow is considered to be a proteins that become misaligned

by coming in contact with perfectly other healthy proteins who are

influential.

more info. on this additional blow to the vaccine controversy is available on

www.CJDvoice.org

JIFSAN TSE Workshop Baltimore, MD, June 1998 - Zambenini RN

Hello my name is Zambenini. I am a registered nurse representing

CJD Voice and until this spring I worked in the Immunization and State

Yellow Fever Center of a large Midwestern university.

Firstly before I begin I would like us all to take a moment to

remember why we are here. I'm here because of my concern for the

Public Health and the prevention of any future spread of IATROGENIC

CJD and NVCJD VIA BLOOD PRODUCTS. Any contribution I can make to this

effort I would like to dedicate to the memory of the victims of CJD

but more personally to SEBASTIAN ROUSSEL, the 19 year old son of my

good friends Michelline and Roussel in MONTREAL. He died,

tragically, just this February 5th of IATROGENIC CJD from a LYODURA

DURA MATER GRAFT. I am sure he is with us here in spirit.

From March 1996 with the announcement of the original 10 NVCJD VICTIMS

IN ENGLAND , until last fall my interest in prion disease was merely

academic centering around BSE and a fascinating new pathogen. But

last fall after the release of the Swiss B-LYMPHOCYTE STUDY and this

winter after attending the Blood Safety and Screening Conf in McLean

VA. and then reading Dr Cashman's Monocyte Study on March 1 st. my

interest became much more personal and professional for me as I became

increasingly CONCERNED about the safety of the international blood

supply and the current and future safety of our blood products and

vaccines that I personally administered. A mere 3 days after

returning from the Conference in February the the British took the

UNPRECEDENTED STEP of banning their own POOLED BLOOD PRODUCTS AND

VACCINES PRODUCED USING THOSE BLOOD PRODUCTS. I AM concerned about

the transmission of CJD via blood products but much more so about the

possible transmission of NVCJD.

The university town I live in has 30,000 students and many many

international students. My concern is that at this time any one of

them from the UK CAN SELL THEIR PLASMA or DONATE BLOOD without any

restriction in this country even though they are banned from doing so

in ENGLAND and the European Union is now taking steps to ban UK

donors. I did an informal phone survey of all the donor centers, the

American Red Cross and the Plasma Collection Center in my town more

than a a month AFTER the UK Blood Ban to find out if they had heard of

it and if they had received any guidelines from anyone to screen out

UK or EU donors. NONE OF THEM HAD EVEN HEARD OF IT. MOST HAD NEVER

HEARD OF A PRION. A COUPLE OF THEM DID WANT MORE INFORMATION BUT A

COUPLE OF THEM TREATED ME LIKE I WAS CRAZY EVEN THOUGH I GUARANTEED

THEM I WAS A REGISTERED NURSE AND ALL THE INFO WAS AVAILABLE ONLINE

ABOUT THE UK SITUATION.

NONE had been advised by the FDA or the CDC about the situation in the

UK and NONE had any Guidelines for screening out UK donors. I WAS AND

AM HORRIFIED. The plasma collection center said that they screen out

donors from 7 African Countries. This was the only restriction as to

country of origin. I also spoke to the Chief Medical Officer in

charge of the Blood Donor Association for the entire south-central

area of my state and asked him the same questions . He stated

DISBELIEVINGLY and I quote:

" What do you mean guidelines about screening out UK donors... why? "

After I explained to him about the blood ban in the UK he shot back:

" Well, if that WERE true, I am SURE the FDA would have notified us of

it " He then asked me dismissively to fax him " whatever PROOF I had "

from the London times and hung up.

My mission here is to get UK and EU donors banned in NORTH AMERICA.

Prior to the development of the HIV ANTIBODY SCREENING TEST We

screened out Haitian donors .....and currently residents of some

African Countries are automatically screened out. At least where I

live. So this move would not be unprecedented to protect the blood

supply here. I urge you to do so as soon as possible . Finally, I

want to leave you with my favorite quote and the essence of why I

persist in this battle..... It is from the former US SURGEON GENERAL,

DR WM. H STEWART:

" IN PROTECTING THE PUBLIC HEALTH

ABSOLUTE PROOF COMES TOO LATE.

TO WAIT FOR IT IS TO INVITE DISASTER

OR TO PROLONG SUFFERING UNNECESSARILY. "

THANK YOU .