Why IS there a
'Gulf War Syndrome?'
Give your
answer here
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Someone, anyone,
tell me what was
different about the
first gulf war, than
any previous war the
US has taken part
in?
And I believe I can
tell you, not only
the most probable
cause of their
health harm, but the
SOURCE, too |
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Someone has to be the advocate for
those less fortunate.
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Anthrax vaccine blamed
for illness, but ...
There's another possibility
That everyone seems to be
overlooking .... for ....
"Auto-immune diseases such as
ALS, lupus and rheumatoid
arthritis are chronic and
increasingly debilitating. They
occur when the body can't
distinguish between itself and
foreign substances it's supposed
to attack."
This is very true; and I believe
the main harm to the gulf war
vets was to the immune system.
Almost everything they have
could be traced back to the harm
to the immune system:
having an
autoimmune functioning
immune system.
HOWEVER, there is another
neurotoxin 'on the list' that
could causes these and all the
other symptoms, too
Pick one of the first 2 links
on this
web page to see the
list of solvents and pesticides
the troops then were exposed to.
In fact the chemical I've been
sharing about is not only a
solvent, it is by some odd
definition a pesticide AND a
neurotoxin that does the
assortment of nervous system
damage that everyone is focusing
on.
AND it causes CFS, CFIDS and
THIS
FATIGUE which is
autoimmune red blood cell
damage. That is the fatigue that
has been fooling the doctors for
over half a century.
So someone answer this question,
"What was different about the
1990 gulf war compared to all
other prior wars the US was
involved in? .... & I
believe I can tell you not only
the most probable chemical of
harm, but also the SOURCE
What would someone answer that
was a kid back then? Best that
a gulf war vet not answer the
question because they would have
too many answers; and the answer
is not a difficult one.
Anyone who listened to the news
at all back then could answer
this question
1-31-05 |
Anthrax vaccine
blamed for Gulf war 1 illness -- new
book
Source
Anthrax vaccine blamed for illness
Book claims Gulf War GIs were guinea
pigs
By Bartholomew Sullivan
sullivanb@shns.com
November 17, 2004
WASHINGTON -- Mark Ammend of
Collierville can't talk about it
now.
The former fire chief for the 164th
Air National Guard unit based at
Memphis International Airport got
vaccinated against anthrax five
years ago. Now, as he lies in a
specially designed bed, the only
thing he can move is his left eye.
Fully conscious and aware, Ammend,
55, is a quadriplegic with
amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
(ALS), or Lou
Gehrig's disease.
A new book suggests he and many
other soldiers immunized against
anthrax during the 1991 Gulf War and
since are suffering auto-immune
diseases after receiving an illegal
chemical adjuvant -- a chemical
designed to boost the immune system
-- called squalene.
The Pentagon adamantly disagrees and
insists that the vaccine is safe.
In his just-published "Vaccine A:
The Covert Government Experiment
That's Killing Our Soldiers and Why
G.I.'s Are Only the First Victims,"
author Gary Matsumoto suggests
Memphis was the key to the
immunological puzzle.
"The whole idea originated in
Memphis," he said in an interview.
That idea came from Pamela B. Asa, a
former Memphis immunologist now
living in Tupelo who collaborates
with Robert F. Garry, a professor of
microbiology at the Tulane
University Medical School in New
Orleans. Asa and Garry made the
connection between squalene, which
has not been authorized for use in
humans in the United States, and
what has been called Gulf War
Syndrome in an article in
Experimental and Molecular Pathology
in 2002.
Auto-immune diseases such as ALS,
lupus and rheumatoid arthritis are
chronic and increasingly
debilitating. They occur when the
body can't distinguish between
itself and foreign substances it's
supposed to attack. Thirty years
of scientific literature has shown
squalene and other oil adjuvants
have induced auto-immune-like
illnesses in four species of lab
animals. Squalene has never been
licensed for use in humans in this
country, although it is an element
of a variety of experimental drugs.
Asa began looking into the
connection between the constellation
of symptoms associated with the
soldiers' syndrome in 1994, and went
to the Pentagon with her concerns.
She said she found that many of the
soldiers complaining of rashes,
fatigue, blackouts, seizures, and
joint and muscle pain looked like
they had systemic lupus
erythematosus, a multi-symptomatic
auto-immune disease.
On the Web
More about anthrax/squalene issues:
Pentagon's position: anthrax.mil/
Squalene
Matsumoto's book:
Vaccine-A.com
She monitored discussions on Gulf
War Syndrome chat rooms, and
recommended medical tests that those
who were suspicious about their
health might take. Word got around,
and some shared seriology data with
her.
Matsumoto wrote about her suspicions
for the first time in 1999, in
Vanity Fair magazine, prompting some
soldiers in bases around the country
to protest taking their anthrax
shots. Many others soldiered on, and
took them.
At least four members of the 164th
Air Guard unit in Memphis quit in
1999 rather than take the shots. But
more than 800 took them, according
to unit officials at the time.
Ammend, the Air Guard fire chief in
Memphis for 11 years and a soldier
since 1972, took his first anthrax
shot in 1999. He took the last one
in April 2000. In 2002, he could
still walk, his wife, Mary, said
Tuesday. He now lies, mouth open, in
his living room, on a respirator 24
hours a day.
"I understand why it was done, or
why it was needed," Mary Ammend
said. "But I just feel it could --
there should have been more care
taken for the FDA to study it before
they started dishing it out to the
guys."
Three members of the 164th ANG unit
in Memphis approached Asa after the
Vanity Fair article and asked her to
test their blood for antibodies to
squalene before they were
administered their mandatory anthrax
shots. Before the shots, they had no
antibodies to the substance.
Afterward, two did.
One of them was Sgt. Serge Trullet
of Ripley, Miss. A naturalized
citizen from Argentina, Trullet
wouldn't disobey an order to take
the shot, but he wanted to take
precautions, he told Matsumoto. When
he tested positive for the
antibodies to squalene, then started
getting a rash and swelling, he
didn't blame Uncle Sam. He blamed
the unknown people "somewhere along
the line," who let it happen.
"I don't know what to think about my
commanders," Matsumoto quotes him
saying. "I think that they're just
ignorant -- you know, 'follow the
leader' types that absolutely
question nothing that their
superiors tell them. I feel that
some of them would have probably
done the same things that the Nazis
did to the Jews with the excuse that
they were just following orders."
Trullet did not respond to phone
calls from The Commercial Appeal
Tuesday.
"This (squalene) has not been out in
the public forum because the
Department of Defense has sort of
blown it off and tried to portray
people who spoke about it as
conspiracy nuts," Asa said in an
interview Tuesday.
"Had they (soldiers) not been given
this stuff, we would not be finding
antibodies to it in people who are
sick with auto-immune diseases that
squalene has been chronicled to
cause for decades."
It's complicated science, but Asa
and Matsumoto maintain that the
squalene was used experimentally to
boost the immune response to a very
weak vaccine prepared to ward off a
bio-chemical attack of weaponized
anthrax spores known to have been
developed by Saddam Hussein before
the first Gulf War.
Over the years, symptoms of Gulf War
illness have been blamed on stress
or nerve gas exposure, flea collar
insecticides and other factors, but
anthrax vaccine has usually been
among them. More than $100 million
has been spent to find its cause.
James Turner, a Department of
Defense spokesman specializing in
health matters, said Tuesday that he
was familiar with Matsumoto's book
but called the concerns it raises
"an old, old issue" being pushed by
his publisher. Turner directed
specific questions about anthrax and
squalene to a department Web site.
The site acknowledges that the Food
and Drug Administration found
squalene in some vaccines for
anthrax, but says the amount was
probably from fingerprint
contamination by lab technicians and
too small to cause concern.
Before ending the call, Turner
added: "The fact is that we do not
put squalene in our vaccines and
never have. ... The notion that
we're using military people as
guinea pigs without their knowledge
is absurd."
Absurd or not, it is Matsumoto's
most explosive claim, and it's
backed by Asa. He says in the book
that FDA tests show that the amounts
of squalene found in different
"lots" or batches of the vaccine
administered to some troops shows a
pattern. That pattern establishes
someone was trying to determine the
response to a progression of
different doses, he claims.
"This is an experiment," Asa said
Tuesday. "This is a dose-range
experiment."
Perhaps the strangest set of facts
revealed in his exhaustive history
of anthrax's use as a potential
weapon is Matsumoto's claim that the
vaccine administered to soldiers
might protect against anthrax
encountered by contact, but would
never work effectively against
inhaled anthrax spores such as the
threat foreseen from Saddam.
Asa agrees, and so does a federal
judge in Washington. U.S. Dist.
Judge Emmett Sullivan ruled Oct. 27
that the mandatory use of anthrax
vaccine on soldiers is illegal and
must stop because authorities can't
prove it actually works against the
inhaled anthrax expected to be used
as a weapon in wartime.
Since the mid-1980s, the FDA had
never found the vaccine effective in
other than occupational settings,
such as for protection of workers
exposed to infested animal hides.
But in December 2003, after the
mandatory inoculations had been
under way for five years, the FDA
found that the vaccine was effective
for inhaled anthrax. Sullivan said
the agency failed to follow its own
protocols in reaching that
conclusion and ruled the vaccine can
be used only in the case of informed
consent or a presidential waiver.
Asked Tuesday why the Pentagon would
want to vaccinate soldiers with a
shot that couldn't accomplish its
purpose, Asa said she doesn't know.
But in her decades of research, she
knows the Department of Health and
Human Services has been looking for
an oil adjuvant to boost potential
anti-AIDS vaccines. She says agency
researchers are trying to "make the
science fit their wish list."
Contact Washington correspondent
Bartholomew Sullivan at (202)
408-2726. |
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MS is
autoimmune ... yes and ALS
and ... a hint
amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS),
or Lou Gehrig's disease |
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The reason the USA
can't find the real cause of 'gulf war syndrome,' in my opinion, is
www.valdezlink.com/usa_hoodwinked.htm
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