Subject: [Anthrax-no] Similarity of Hep B chronic syndrome to that of anthrax vaccine's
Date: Sun, 11 Jul 1999 08:30:29 -0400
From: Meryl Nass <mnass@anthraxvaccine.org>
Reply-To: Anthrax-no@onelist.com
To: "Anthrax-no@onelist.com" <Anthrax-no@onelist.com>
From: Meryl Nass <mnass@anthraxvaccine.org>
Extracted from the testimony of Barbara Loe Fisher, President of the
National Vaccione Information Center, to the Subcommittee on Criminal
justice, drug policy and human resources of the House Committee on
Government Reform, May 18, 1999:
"...Hepatitis B reaction symptoms can take many days or weeks to develop
and include fevers that come and go, open skin lesions and rashes,
severe joint and head pain, loss of vision, muscle strength and memory,
and crushing debilitating fatigue which leads to chronic disability."
This sounds very like what many people have reported to me following
anthrax vaccinations. It also sounds like the illness experinced by
many Gulf War veterans and vaccinated, non-deployed Gulf era vets.
Of interest, no one has ever asserted that squalene or another
experimental adjuvant has been added to Hepatitis B vaccine, which is
mandatory for all children beginning at birth in nearly all states. I
don't mean to imply that experimental adjuvants which highly stimulate
the immune system, have no role in this illness. I believe they
definitely can and do contribute to chronic immune dysfunction in some
of those vaccinated. But I believe they are not NECESSARY to cause an
illness of this type.
If this post-Hep B vaccine illness is the same syndrome as the
post-anthrax vaccine illness, (and I suspect it is) it will help explain
why there is no "unique" Gulf War Syndrome: why it is alleged the same
syndrome occurred with soldiers returning home after other wars, for
example. It also may explain why chronic fatigue syndrome, fibromyalgia
and multiple chemical sensitivity, as well as other syndromes, appear to
strongly overlap with Gulf War illness symptoms. The syndrome for all
these conditions is likely to be multifactorial in etiology (cause), but
vaccination, and perhaps multiple vaccinations, are likely to play a
large contributory role. The pathophysiology (what causes disease on
the molecular or cellular level), however, is likely to be the same.
And we do not know what that is yet, although I for one believe
mitochondrial dysfunction plays a large role.
Meryl Nass
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