Military vaccines trigger special treatment for 1,200

[The Straight Story]

Military vaccines trigger special treatment for 1,200

By David Ruppe, Global Security Newswire
Approximately 1,200 U.S. military personnel who received vaccinations against biological agents during the past two years developed complex, in some cases debilitating, illnesses that were assessed or treated by a specialized network of clinics, according to figures released to Global Security Newswire by the Army and a review of some cases.

The cases, corresponding with a massive Defense Department effort to vaccinate U.S. forces against anthrax and smallpox before and after the invasion of Iraq, included muscle and joint weakness and pain, chronic fatigue, intense migraines, cognitive problems, and severe diseases such as multiple sclerosis. Some of these have ended military careers.

More common and less serious side effects from the vaccines are said to include temporary headaches, fatigue, fever, nausea and dizziness.

In light of the large number people who received the vaccines, the number of serious cases treated by the Vaccine Health Care Centers, a network of four clinics at domestic U.S. military bases, is rare. Overall, the military says more than 1.3 million military and civilian personnel have received the anthrax vaccine, called Anthrax Vaccine Adsorbed, since 1998, when it resumed the vaccinations after a hiatus over quality control problems. The military has also vaccinated hundreds of thousands of personnel, many who also received the anthrax treatment, for smallpox beginning in December 2002.

http://www.govexec.com/dailyfed/0505/050605gsn1.htm

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1. thanks for this information

I have someone that needs it! Thank you!

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[sharonking21]

2. Just as an aside

I am a person who has MS. I'm also an ex-epidemiologist. I think there is some truth to the idea of vaccines triggering latent autoimmune disorders in people with genetic susceptibilities.

However, getting the disease (whatever kind of infection it is) seems to be even worse as to triggering. Hence, I routinely get my influenza vaccine each year--after having the flu one year and then practically being incapacitated, I prefer the risk of vaccine, which I think is less.

Of course it is not all clear-cut--I know the smallpox vaccine is far more risky say than the flu vaccine and I am much less likely to get smallpox. Thus would resist getting smallpox vaccine unless there were actually cases of it breaking out in my area. Don't know about anthrax vaccine's risks compared to likelihood of being exposed and actually getting it.

But in any assessment of utility of vaccines, you have to take into account not only its side effects but also, on the whole, what it prevents.

[LostinVA]

3. What military vaccines did to my brother-in-law

He's very fair, and used to have almost zero hair on his body (chest), and what he had was very, very light. He, my sister, and I shared a house for about six months. That's how I know this. I am not a perv! Anyway, about seven years ago he got all of theses shots in the Army -- NO idea what they were, except he knows one was Anthrax -- and he suddenly became very, very hairy... and the hair was DARK, not blond. So... kinda scary. He and my sister"joke" about it, but pretty much figure the shots caused this.

[sharonking21]

4. You know, it's weird

but my daughter-in-law had uncontrollably curly hair until her first pregnancy. During her pregnancy her hair got straighter and straighter and then remained that way afterwards. Straight as a stick. I know there is a link between having way prematurely gray hair and the propensity for having autoimmune disorders. And of course during pregnancy the immune system has to curb itself from attacking the baby as a "foreign invader."