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"Military men are just dumb stupid animals to be used as pawns in foreign policy."
SOURCE: Henry Kissinger, quoted in "Kiss the Boys Goodbye: How the United States Betrayed Its Own POW's in Vietnam"

The American Free Press dropped a “dirty bomb” on the Pentagon by reporting that eight out of 20 men who served in one unit in the 2003 U.S. military offensive in Iraq now have malignancies. That means that 40 percent of the soldiers in that unit have developed malignancies in just 16 months.

Terry Jemison of the Department of Veterans Affairs reported this week to the American Free Press that “Gulf-era veterans” now on medical disability since 1991 number 518,739, with only 7,035 reported wounded in Iraq in that same 14-year period.

Israel does not force its military to take anthrax vaccine. Neither does France. Neither does England. No country in Europe or Asia forces this vaccine on its soldiers.

The ongoing inoculation of military personnel with smallpox, anthrax, and others is purely that of scientific experimentation before such vaccines are introduced or re-introduced to the general public. Neither smallpox or anthrax have ever been used by the enemies of the United States as the Pentagon alleges the case could be before each war we've engaged in. We are approaching the governments schedule for when the hideously deadly anthrax and smallpox vaccines will be recommended for the general public....without the right to informed consent.

AND WHY IS THIS ON THE "WHAT YOUR PEDIATRICIAN DOESN'T TELL YOU" website? Parents of highschoolers desiring to enlist in the military need to have this information at their fingertips. Don't turn away. Read all the historical and present risk factors. Far too many military personnel have been rushed to urgent care on account of a stroke and other adverse reactions to the anthrax vaccines. Even more disturbing, countless family members have lost their husbands, wives, fathers,mothers, sons and or daughters to the deadly cocktail. Within 18 months, military personnel are inoculated with a total of 6 doses. More dangerous, it's another inoculation every year after. There is no safety data on which this guideline is based. Purely experimental. Don't let what has happened to thousands of service members happen to you or yours looking to enlist. Be sure to read the listed adverse reactions on the product insert and other information.

Anthrax Vaccine Facts
The Government Doesn't Want You to Know

1. According to the FDA product information leaflet, NO scientific studies have been performed on the Anthrax Vaccine to determine if it causes cancer.

2. According to the FDA product information leaflet, NO scientific studies have been performed on the Anthrax Vaccine to determine if it has any effect on fertility. This applies to both males and females. It is NOT known if this drug will effect your fertility or, if successful in conceiving, the fetus.

3. According to the FDA product information leaflet, NO scientific studies have been performed on the Anthrax Vaccine to determine if it will protect you from inhaled anthrax spores.

4. According to the U. S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases of Fort Detrick, MD, there is NO scientific evidence to suggest that this vaccine will protect you from aerosolized anthrax.

5. A principal chemical component of the Anthrax Vaccine, formaldehyde, is not approved for human consumption according to the U. S. Government Material Data Safety Sheet. (This is also in childhood "recommended" vaccines)

6. A principal chemical component of the Anthrax Vaccine, benzethonium chloride, has not been evaluated for human consumption according to the U. S. Government.

7. The one and only facility licensed to produce the Anthrax Vaccine has been cited by the FDA for quality control problems (Bioport)

8. On March 3 1998, Secretary Cohen mandated (Sec Def Briefing No. 094-98) "supplemental testing, consistent with Food and Drug Administration standards, to assure sterility, safety, potency and purity of the vaccine," before further immunizations take place. These tests were ordered because the lab was having quality control problems. These tests did NOT further evaluate the vaccine to see if it causes cancer or impairs fertility, they only assured the vaccine met the FDA approved guidelines.

9. Most physicians know very little about the vaccine, other than what they are told by the government in preparation for implementation of this program.

10. There are a number of common reasons NOT to take the vaccine. Read the product information leaflet and talk to your civilian doctor.

10 Questions To Ask Your Doctor
Before You Take The Anthrax Vaccine

I request a copy of the Anthrax Vaccine product advisory leaflet that comes in the box with the vaccine?
In the product advisory leaflet's REFERENCES paragraph, "These recommendations are prepared by the Michigan Department of Public Health only for the guidance of the physician. They do not replace the experience and judgement of the physician, who should be familiar with the pertinent medical literature before administering any biologic product." Can you summarize your recent readings on the vaccine and explain any new developments?
What gaurantee is there that I will not develop an auto immune or chronic illness shortly after inoculation?
Could you summarize the studies performed on the anthrax vaccine's potential carcinogenic effects?
The vaccine's advisory leaflet says in the paragraph labeled PRECAUTIONS, the vaccine might affect reproduction capacity. What are the vaccine's potential effect on fertility?
The advisory leaflet says nothing about the vaccine's ability to protect me from inhaled exposure to the anthrax bacteria. So, how do YOU know this still has the potential to protect me?
What is your understanding of anthrax and it's use as a weapon?
What can you tell me about the long term effects?
Have you personally completed the 18 month course of shots which constitute the FDA approved anthrax vaccination program? If not, why?
On March 3 1998, Secretary Cohen mandated (Sec Def Briefing No. 094-98) "supplemental testing, consistent with Food and Drug Administration standards, to assure sterility, safety, potency and purity of the vaccine," before further immunizations take place. Do you have the unedited results of these additional tests for me to review before receiving the vaccine?

Summary of the 2/20/98 FDA Inspection Report
on the Michigan Biological Products Institute

[All Anthrax Vaccine produced for U. S. use is manufactured by this lab. The FDA recently issued a notice of intent to revoke the license of the lab’s governing body, a research arm of the University of Michigan.]

Summary of the 2/20/98 FDA Inspection Report on the MBPI [Michigan Biologic Products Institute, Lansing, Michigan], Meryl Nass, M.D. May 19, 1998

Essentially all the issues in the report have to do with grossly inadequate quality control. However, it appears that the production process was carried out in a particularly cavalier manner, as if the product would never be used on human beings, and was being manufactured solely to meet production quotas. The issue of how MBPI was allowed to carry on despite repeat violations of standards over many years is another story; here I am trying only to list in a brief but comprehensible manner the issues enumerated in the FDA's report.

1. MBPI did not test the suitability of their own procedures, nor validate them:
a. storage times for bulk anthrax preparations in tanks lasted from a week to 4 months, before filling of containers;
b. mixing times not standardized; the product settles quickly in the tank and homogeneity of the suspension has not been demonstrated;
c. testing for contamination was sporadic;
d. the sporicide used was not validated;
e. sublots are held for 3 years or longer before being used in a lot (Stability data to support this hold time do not exist);
f. the filters used to harvest the vaccine were neither validated nor integrity tested prior to August, 1997;
g. validation of microbial retention by the filters was performed using inappropriate media, used for production of tetanus, not anthrax;
h. there is no validation of cleaning for the equipment which is in contact with the vaccine materials;
i. "there is no documentation of testing for container/closure integrity or container/closure compatibility for periods up to seven years."

2. Inadequate analytical methods:
a. the reference standard used for potency testing was from a lot produced in 1991;
b. "the analytical methods for determination of *** and *** in anthrax vaccine are not validated with respect to accuracy, precision, linearity, specificity and limit of detection;"
c. "potency testing of anthrax vaccine requires either testing one finished product vial, an aliquot from the formulated bulk tank, or a pilot bulk sample. There are no data demonstrating that these samples are representative of the lot."

3. Lack of written operating procedures:
a. for examination, rejection and disposition of anthrax sublots;
b. for redating expired vaccine to extend the expiration period; Example: Lot FAV023 was tested twice for redating (presumably potency) and twice for stability in 1997 and failed all tests. It was scheduled to be retested for redating on 4/21/98.
c. for time limits for which product can be exposed to room temperature;
d. "The firm's SOP (standard operating procedure) for handling manufacturing deviations/departures does not address when a lot should be monitored on stability."

4. Inadequate testing procedures:
a.sublots are tested when produced, but not retested prior to formulation, which may occur several years later;
b. Test results are reported as "unsatisfactory" or "no test", indicating an invalid test, apparently in addition to frank "failed" results. What do these results mean, and are lots with these designations used or retested?

5. Quarantined materials (what precisely is meant by quarantined? Failed testing?
a. These are held for extended periods; examples are given of a sublot quarantined in 1992 which was held, and only destroyed in 1997 due to mold contamination;
b. Other sublots failed potency tests but are still held in quarantine.

6. Expiration dates:
a. "expiration dates are assigned based on the latest valid potency test. There is no correlation between this date and formulation of bulk or filling of the finished product;"
b. expired vaccine lots are "redated", based only on another potency test. There is no analytic testing identifying and demonstrating the absence of degradants;
c. "there are no expiration dates for the working spore concentrations (virulent or avirulent strains)."

7. Labelling issues:
a. anthrax lots approved by CBER for redating are given alternate lot numbers to indicate they have been redated. However, MBPI has used the original lot numbers for labelling, thus concealing the fact that the lot was "redated;"
b. "for anthrax vaccine lots #FAV008 through #FAV016, the firm unpacked the vials from the cartons and removed the labels...the firm does not have documentation of performing reconciliation of the vials before and after this operation." [Does this mean the labels were removed and replaced with new labels and reused? Why?]

8. Stability testing:
a. testing for stability only began in 1997;
b. "stability testing consists only of performing release tests at various intervals;" (What is a release test?)
c. stability testing does not address product degradation;
d. "there is no justification for putting lots manufactured as early as 1991 into the stability program;"
e. "the firm does not have a system in place to investigate and report stability failures."

9. Use of vaccine lots that failed testing. Several examples:
a. lot FAV011 was filled on 10/17/91, redated in 1994, and again retested in 1997. Its potency rating was 11 ppm, below the lower accepted limit, but the lot was not rejected nor placed in quarantine;
b. lot FAV023 was filled on 12/13/94. It failed 3 potency tests in 1997, yet was retested for a 4th time in 10/97, where it was listed as passing by 0.01. There was no investigation into the earlier results or justification for the additional testing;
c. "lot FAV016 had 6570 vials rejected due to particulates during post filling inspection. These particulates were not identified, nor was an investigation conducted. The batch was released;"
d. sublots AV383 and AV390 failed original sterility tests, but passed on repeat testing. It appears that such sublots were included in bulk lots. Part of the report is missing here.

10. Sterility:
a. after harvest from the holding tank, including transfer of sublots to different buildings, samples were not placed on media "to validate aseptic manufacturing after harvest;"
b. "lot FAV035 had 409 vials rejected for faulty closure during post filling inspection; There was no investigation conducted."
c. When environmental monitoring indicates that environmental action limits are exceeded, the firm's procedures do not require that additional cleaning and increased sampling be performed.

11. Missing sections of the report:
a. my copy lacks part of section 9 until section 16; Sections 20 through 25 are completely whited out. Elsewhere, many words and names are whited out as well.

Things you can do to force the government to accept
responsibility for the possible negative effects of the vaccine.

If you have less than 18 months remaining on active duty

-Insist on being exempted from the vaccine to which you do have the right as a military personnel

- insist the government sign a written agreement to incur all travel expenses required to give you the FULL 18 month vaccination series. (The ONLY way the drug is FDA approved is if it is given according to the 18 month schedule).

- Insist the government provide a written statement of purpose for administering the vaccine.

- Insist your case be reviewed by a medical review board prior to being punished for "failure to obey a lawful written order."

- Consider objecting to the vaccine on religious grounds

- Insist the government sign a written statement acknowledging the drug has not been tested for its carcinogenic effects or potential impairment of fertility; acknowledging the drug has not been tested for its ability to protect you from aerosolized (inhaled) anthrax exposure (This is the primary reason DoD says you need the vaccine. In that respect, the vaccine is experimental since it’s ability to protect you has not been proven); agreeing to pay for all medical expenses relating to any future instance of cancer you may develop; agreeing to pay for all medical expenses relating to any future instance of infertility you may experience.

- Write your Congressman or Senator.

-find your Congressman or Senator at http://www.hoboes.com/html/Politics/electednet/

NEVER GIVE IN unless you honestly don't feel there is concern. The military does not have the legal right to force inoculation of biochemical agents of which there is little understanding of it's safety and efficacy. The only explanation they'll never admit to you is that they (Pentagon) spent millions of dollars to have this administered to military personnel under the guise of "protection". The Anthrax vaccine is simply an experimentation for which you are a subject as they look to find something to possibly inflict on their own enemies in the future, without providing service members or the public any definitive reason to believe "the threat" from America's enemies is even real. They rant and rave there is a threat....but there are more questions than there are answers.