Evidence that the "H1N1 Flu" diseases suffered by countless Gulf War vets. [x]
vaccine is toxic, especially the The Department of Defense made every attempt to
deny that squalene was indeed an added
adjuvant Squalene contaminant in the anthrax vaccine administered to
Persian Gulf war military personnel – deployed
and non-deployed – as well as participants in the
The willful use of toxic substances known to more recent Anthrax Vaccine Immunization
cause injury and death in a vaccine or injection is Program (AVIP).
prohibited. The prohibition of such use is a
However, the FDA discovered the presence of
universally accepted as a part of national and
squalene in certain lots of AVIP product. A test was
international law.
developed to detect anti-squalene antibodies in
There is scientific evidence that the swine flu GWS patients, and a clear link was established
vaccine, especially the adjuvants, specifically between the contaminated product and all the
squalene, cause serious injury and death. GWS sufferers who had been injected with the
vaccine containing squalene.
Adjuvants have not been approved by the FDA
for use in the USA . A study conducted at Tulane Medical School and
published in the February 2000 issue of
According to Dr. Meryl Nass, there are only three Experimental Molecular Pathology included these
vaccines in existence using an approved squalene stunning statistics:
adjuvant. None of the three are approved for use in
the U. S. Novartis’s proprietary squalene adjuvant “ … the substantial majority (95%) of overtly ill
for their H1N1 vaccine is MF59. Glaxo’s is ASO3. deployed GWS patients had antibodies to
MF59 has yet to be approved by the FDA for use squalene. All (100%) GWS patients immunized for
in any U. S. vaccine, despite its history of use in service in Desert Shield/Desert Storm who did not
other countries. deploy, but had the same signs and symptoms as
those who did deploy, had antibodies to squalene.
A 2000 study published in the American Journal of
Pathology demonstrated a single injection of the In contrast, none (0%) of the deployed Persian
adjuvant squalene into rats triggered “chronic, Gulf veterans not showing signs and symptoms of
immune-mediated joint-specific inflammation,” GWS have antibodies to squalene. Neither patients
also known as rheumatoid arthritis. with idiopathic autoimmune disease nor healthy
controls had detectable serum antibodies to
Specific evidence of the dangers of the swine flu squalene. The majority of symptomatic GWS
vaccine with adjuvants, especially squalene, patients had serum antibodies to squalene.”[xi]
include
• Adjuvants are used in vaccines designed
• The UK Health Protection Agency to impair fertility in animals according to
warnied that the "swine flu" vaccine could patents.
cause neurological damage in a letter
leaked to The Mail on Sunday, a UK WO/1999/034825) FERTILITY IMPAIRING
newspaper, which was not made public. VACCINE AND METHOD OF USE This
application claims the benefit of U. S. Provisional
Dr Mercola explains: "Gulf War veterans with Gulf Application No. 60/070,375, filed January 2,1998,
War Syndrome (GWS) received anthrax vaccines U. S. Provisional Application No. 60/071,406,
which contained squalene. [ix] MF59 (the Novartis filed January 15,1998 “The vaccine of the
squalene adjuvant) was an unapproved ingredient invention preferably additionally includes an
in experimental anthrax vaccines and has since immunological adjuvant to enhance the
immunological response of the subject to the • The report in the Mail on Sunday: Swine
glycoprotein antigen. Examples of adjuvants flu jab link to killer nerve disease: Leaked
include Freund’s Complete Adjuvant, Freund’s letter reveals concern of neurologists over
Incomplete Adjuvant, and an adjuvant comprising 25 deaths in America
an immunostimulant such as synthetic trehalose
dicorynomycolate (STDCM) and an oil such as By Jo Macfarlane Last updated at 11:05 PM on
squalene oil (see P. Willis et al., J. Equine Vet. Sci., 15th August 2009
14,364-370 (1994)). An adjuvant comprising
Prevention: Is the swine flu jab safe?
synthetic trehalose dicorynemycolate, squalene oil,
and a surfactant such as lecithin is preferred. A warning that the new swine flu jab is linked to a
Lecithin typically includes phosphatidyl choline. deadly nerve disease has been sent by the
In a preferred embodiment the vaccine comprises Government to senior neurologists in a
oil, preferably a biodegradable oil such as squalene confidential letter.
oil. Typically, the vaccine is prepared using an
adjuvant concentrate which contains lecithin in The letter from the Health Protection Agency, the
squalene oil. The aqueous solution glycoprotein is official body that oversees public health, has been
typically a phosphate-buffered saline (PBS) leaked to The Mail on Sunday, leading to demands
solution, and additionally preferably contains to know why the information has not been given to
Tween 80.” the public before the vaccination of millions of
people, including children, begins.
• There is clear evidence all vaccinations
It tells the neurologists that they must be alert for
are bad and that vaccine companies have
an increase in a brain disorder called Guillain-
been involved in concealing the dangers
Barre Syndrome (GBS), which could be triggered
from us by systematically manipulating
by the vaccine.
data. Dr Rebecca carley, court qualified
expert on vaccines, has called GBS attacks the lining of the nerves, causing
innoculations, the true weapons of mass paralysis and inability to breathe, and can be fatal.
destruction.
The letter, sent to about 600 neurologists on July
In spite of the scientific evidence that vaccines, 29, is the first sign that there is concern at the
especially those with adjuvants, particularly highest levels that the vaccine itself could cause
squalene, are dangerous, the WHO prescribed by serious complications.
virtue of the authority vested in it by its
Constitution and the International Health It refers to the use of a similar swine flu vaccine in
Regulations 2005 that vaccinations against the the United States in 1976 when:
swine flu must contain adjuvants. * More people died from the vaccination than from
Scientific evidence offers proof that adjuvants such swine flu. * 500 cases of GBS were detected. *
as squalene are dangerous just as there is The vaccine may have increased the risk of
substantial proof a loaded gun will be dangerous contracting GBS by eight times. * The vaccine
when fired at you without getting hold of the was withdrawn after just ten weeks when the link
specific bullets and exminaing them in a lab - and with GBS became clear. * The US Government
yet the WHO choses to include that dangerous was forced to pay out millions of dollars to those
substance even though vaccine company's own affected.
published clinical trials show that adjuvants are Concerns have already been raised that the new
deletrious. vaccine has not been sufficiently tested and that
Reports in full length the effects, especially on children, are unknown.
It is being developed by pharmaceutical companies handed around experts within the NHS. We need a
and will be given to about 13million people during vaccine but we also need to know about potential
the first wave of immunisation, expected to start in risks.
October.
‘Our job is to make sure that the public knows
Top priority will be given to everyone aged six what’s going on. Why is the Government not being
months to 65 with an underlying health problem, open about this? It’s also very worrying if GPs,
pregnant women and health professionals. who will be administering the vaccine, aren’t being
warned.’
The British Neurological Surveillance Unit
(BNSU), part of the British Association of Two letters were posted together to neurologists
Neurologists, has been asked to monitor closely advising them of the concerns. The first, dated July
any cases of GBS as the vaccine is rolled out. 29, was written by Professor Elizabeth Miller, head
of the HPA’s Immunisation Department.
One senior neurologist said last night: ‘I would not
have the swine flu jab because of the GBS risk.’ It says: ‘The vaccines used to combat an expected
swine influenza pandemic in 1976 were shown to
There are concerns that there could be a repeat of be associated with GBS and were withdrawn from
what became known as the ‘1976 debacle’ in the use.
US, where a swine flu vaccine killed 25 people –
more than the virus itself. ‘GBS has been identified as a condition needing
enhanced surveillance when the swine flu vaccines
A mass vaccination was given the go-ahead by are rolled out.
President Gerald Ford because scientists believed
that the swine flu strain was similar to the one ‘Reporting every case of GBS irrespective of
responsible for the 1918-19 pandemic, which vaccination or disease history is essential for
killed half a million Americans and 20million conducting robust epidemiological analyses
people worldwide. capable of identifying whether there is an
increased risk of GBS in defined time periods after
The swine flu vaccine being offered to children has vaccination, or after influenza itself, compared
not been tested on infants with the background risk.’
Within days, symptoms of GBS were reported The second letter, dated July 27, is from the
among those who had been immunised and 25 Association of British Neurologists and is written
people died from respiratory failure after severe by Dr Rustam Al-Shahi Salman, chair of its
paralysis. One in 80,000 people came down with surveillance unit, and Professor Patrick Chinnery,
the condition. In contrast, just one person died of chair of its clinical research committee.
swine flu.
Halted: The 1976 US swine flu campaign
More than 40million Americans had received the
vaccine by the time the programme was stopped It says: ‘Traditionally, the BNSU has monitored
after ten weeks. The US Government paid out rare diseases for long periods of time. However,
millions of dollars in compensation to those the swine influenza (H1N1) pandemic has
affected. overtaken us and we need every member’s
involvement with a new BNSU survey of Guillain-
The swine flu virus in the new vaccine is a slightly Barre Syndrome that will start on August 1 and run
different strain from the 1976 virus, but the for approximately nine months.
possibility of an increased incidence of GBS
remains a concern. ‘Following the 1976 programme of vaccination
against swine influenza in the US, a retrospective
Shadow health spokesman Mike Penning said last study found a possible eight-fold increase in the
night: ‘The last thing we want is secret letters incidence of GBS.
‘Active prospective ascertainment of every case of Jackie Fletcher, founder of vaccine support group
GBS in the UK is required. Please tell BNSU Jabs, said: ‘The Government would not be
about every case. anticipating this if they didn’t think there was a
connection. What we’ve got is a massive guinea-
‘You will have seen Press coverage describing the pig trial.’
Government’s concern about releasing a vaccine of
unknown safety.’ Professor Chinnery said: ‘During the last swine flu
pandemic, it was observed that there was an
If there are signs of a rise in GBS after the increased frequency of cases of GBS. No one
vaccination programme begins, the Government knows whether it was the virus or the vaccine that
could decide to halt it. caused this.
GBS attacks the lining of the nerves, leaving them ‘The purpose of the survey is for us to assess
unable to transmit signals to muscles effectively. rapidly whether there is an increase in the
It can cause partial paralysis and mostly affects the frequency of GBS when the vaccine is released in
hands and feet. In serious cases, patients need to be the UK. It also increases consultants’ awareness of
kept on a ventilator, but it can be fatal. the condition.
Death is caused by paralysis of the respiratory Panic over? The number of swine flu cases has
system, causing the victim to suffocate. It is not fallen sharply in the past few weeks
known exactly what causes GBS and research on ‘This is a belt-and-braces approach to safety and is
the subject has been inconclusive. not something people should be substantially
However, it is thought that one in a million people worried about as it’s a rare condition.’
who have a seasonal flu vaccination could be at If neurologists do identify a case of GBS, it will be
risk and it has also been linked to people logged on a central database.
recovering from a bout of flu of any sort.
Details about patients, including blood samples,
The HPA said it was part of the Government’s will be collected and monitored by the HPA.
pandemic plan to monitor GBS cases in the event
of a mass vaccination campaign, regardless of the It is hoped this will help scientists establish why
strain of flu involved. But vaccine experts warned some people develop the condition and whether it
that the letters proved the programme was a is directly related to the vaccine.
‘guinea-pig trial’.
But some question why there needs to be a
Dr Tom Jefferson, co-ordinator of the vaccines vaccine, given the risks. Dr Richard Halvorsen,
section of the influential Cochrane Collaboration, author of The Truth About Vaccines, said: ‘For
an independent group that reviews research, said: people with serious underlying health problems,
‘New vaccines never behave in the way you expect the risk of dying from swine flu is probably greater
them to. It may be that there is a link to GBS, than the risk of side effects from the vaccine.
which is certainly not something I would wish on
anybody. ‘But it would be tragic if we repeated the US
example and ended up with more casualties from
‘But it could end up being anything because one of the jabs.
the additives in one of the vaccines is a substance
called squalene, and none of the studies we’ve ‘I applaud the Government for recognising the risk
extracted have any research on it at all.’ but in most cases this is a mild virus which needs a
few days in bed. I’d question why we need a
He said squalene, a naturally occurring enzyme, vaccine at all.’
could potentially cause so-far-undiscovered side
effects.
Professor Miller at the HPA said: ‘This monitoring The mother of two, 57, from Maryport, Cumbria,
system activates pandemic plans that have been in had been in good health until she developed a
place for a number of years. We’ll be able to get chest infection in March 2006. She gradually
information on whether a patient has had a prior became so weak she could not walk downstairs.
influenza illness and will look at whether influenza
itself is linked to GBS. Doctors did not diagnose Guillain-Barre until her
condition worsened in hospital and tests showed
‘We are not expecting a link to the vaccine but a her reflexes slowing down. It is impossible for
link to disease, which would make having the doctors to know how she contracted the disorder,
vaccine even more important.’ although it is thought to be linked to some
infections.
The UK’s medicines watchdog, the Medicines and
Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency, is already Mrs Wilkinson said: ‘It was very scary. I couldn’t
monitoring reported side effects from Tamiflu and eat and I couldn’t speak. My arms and feet had no
Relenza and it is set to extend that surveillance to strength and breathing was hard.
the vaccine.
I was treated with immunoglobulin, which are
A Department of Health spokesperson said: ‘The proteins found in blood, to stop damage to my
European Medicines Agency has strict processes in nerves. After ten days, I still couldn’t speak and
place for licensing pandemic vaccines. had to mime to nurses or my family.
‘In preparing for a pandemic, appropriate trials to ‘It was absolutely horrendous and I had no idea
assess safety and the immune responses have been whether I would get through it. You reach very
carried out on vaccines very similar to the swine dark moments at such times and wonder how long
flu vaccine. The vaccines have been shown to have it can last.
a good safety profile.
But I’m a very determined person and I had lots of
‘It is extremely irresponsible to suggest that the support.’
UK would use a vaccine without careful
consideration of safety issues. The UK has one of After three weeks, she was transferred to a
the most successful immunisation programmes in neurological ward, where she had an MRI scan and
the world.’ nerve tests to assess the extent of the damage.
I COULDN''T EAT OR SPEAK... IT WAS Still unable to speak and in a wheelchair, Mrs
HORRENDOUS Wilkinson eventually began gruelling
physiotherapy to improve her muscle strength and
Victim: Hilary Wilkinson spent three months in movement but it was exhausting and painful.
hospital after she was diagnosed with Guillain-
Barre Syndrome When Hilary Wilkinson woke up Three years later, she is almost fully recovered.
with muscle weakness in her left arm and difficulty She can now walk for several miles at a time, has
breathing, doctors initially put it down to a stroke. been abroad and carries out voluntary work for a
GBS Support Group helpline.
But within hours, she was on a ventilator in
intensive care after being diagnosed with Guillain- She said: ‘It makes me feel wary that the
Barre Syndrome. Government is rolling out this vaccine without any
clear idea of the GBS risk, if any. I wouldn’t wish
She spent three months in hospital and had to learn it on anyone and it certainly changed my life.
how to talk and walk again. But at times, when she
was being fed through a drip and needed a ‘I’m frightened to have the swine flu vaccine if
tracheotomy just to breathe, she doubted whether this might happen again – it’s a frightening illness
she would survive. and I think more research needs to be done on the
effect of the vaccine.’
Hotline staff given access to confidential records Per Dr. Nass, there are only three vaccines in
existence using an approved squalene adjuvant.
Confidential NHS staff records and disciplinary None of the three are approved for use in the U. S.
complaints could be accessed by hundreds of
workers manning the Government’s special swine What Squalene Does to Rats
flu hotline.
Oil-based vaccination adjuvants like squalene have
They were able to browse through a database of been proved to generate concentrated, unremitting
emails containing doctors’ and nurses’ National immune responses over long periods of time. [vi]
Insurance numbers, home addresses, dates of birth,
mobile phone numbers and scanned passport pages A 2000 study published in the American Journal of
– all details that could be used fraudulently. Pathology demonstrated a single injection of the
adjuvant squalene into rats triggered “chronic,
And private and confidential complaints sent by immune-mediated joint-specific inflammation,”
hospitals about temporary medical staff – some of also known as rheumatoid arthritis. [vii]
whom were named – were also made available to
the call-centre workers, who were given a special The researchers concluded the study raised
password to log in to an internal NHS website. questions about the role of adjuvants in chronic
inflammatory diseases.
It could be a breach of the Data Protection Act.
What Squalene Does to Humans
The hotline staff work for NHS Professionals,
which was set up using taxpayers’ money to Your immune system recognizes squalene as an oil
employ temporary medical and administrative staff molecule native to your body. It is found
for the health service. throughout your nervous system and brain. In fact,
you can consume squalene in olive oil and not only
The not-for-profit company runs two of the will your immune system recognize it, you will
Government’s swine flu call centres – with 300 also reap the benefits of its antioxidant properties.
staff in Farnborough, Hampshire, and 900 in
Watford, Hertfordshire. The difference between “good” and “bad”
squalene is the route by which it enters your body.
Shadow Health Secretary Andrew Lansley Injection is an abnormal route of entry which
described the revelations as ‘disturbing’. incites your immune system to attack all the
squalene in your body, not just the vaccine
Anne Mitchell, a spokeswoman for Unison, said: adjuvant.
‘There’s no excuse for such a fundamental breach
of personal security. Action needs to be taken as Your immune system will attempt to destroy the
soon as possible to make sure this does not happen molecule wherever it finds it, including in places
again.’ where it occurs naturally, and where it is vital to
the health of your nervous system. [viii]
A spokeswoman for NHS Professionals would not
confirm whether access to the confidential files Gulf War veterans with Gulf War Syndrome
had been granted. (GWS) received anthrax vaccines which contained
squalene. [ix] MF59 (the Novartis squalene
• This is a report by Dr Mercola on adjuvant) was an unapproved ingredient in
squalene: experimental anthrax vaccines and has since been
linked to the devastating autoimmune diseases
“Novartis’s proprietary squalene adjuvant for their
suffered by countless Gulf War vets. [x]
H1N1 vaccine is MF59. Glaxo’s is ASO3. MF59
has yet to be approved by the FDA for use in any The Department of Defense made every attempt to
U. S. vaccine, despite its history of use in other deny that squalene was indeed an added
countries. contaminant in the anthrax vaccine administered to
Persian Gulf war military personnel – deployed multiple sclerosis, ALS (amyotrophic lateral
and non-deployed – as well as participants in the sclerosis), Raynaud’s phenomenon, Sjorgren’s
more recent Anthrax Vaccine Immunization syndrome, chronic diarrhoea, night sweats and
Program (AVIP). low-grade fevers.”[xii]
However, the FDA discovered the presence of Post Vaccination Follow-Up Might as Well Be
squalene in certain lots of AVIP product. A test was Non-Existent
developed to detect anti-squalene antibodies in
GWS patients, and a clear link was established There is virtually no science to support the safety
between the contaminated product and all the of vaccine injections on your long-term health or
GWS sufferers who had been injected with the the health of your children. Follow-up studies last
vaccine containing squalene. on average about two weeks, and look only for
glaring injuries and illnesses.
A study conducted at Tulane Medical School and
published in the February 2000 issue of Autoimmune disorders like those seen in Gulf War
Experimental Molecular Pathology included these Syndrome frequently take years to diagnose due to
stunning statistics: the vagueness of early symptoms. Complaints like
headaches, fatigue and chronic aches and pains are
“ … the substantial majority (95%) of overtly ill symptoms of many different illnesses and diseases.
deployed GWS patients had antibodies to
squalene. All (100%) GWS patients immunized for • This is a patent for a vaccine to impair
service in Desert Shield/Desert Storm who did not fertility in animals contains squalene.
deploy, but had the same signs and symptoms as
The plan to use this fertility-impairing adjuvant in
those who did deploy, had antibodies to squalene.
the “swine flu” vaccine underscores concerns
In contrast, none (0%) of the deployed Persian
Adjuvants made of monophosforyl lipid A (MPL)
Gulf veterans not showing signs and symptoms of
MF59TM (containing a polysorpate TweenTM 80)
GWS have antibodies to squalene. Neither patients
or AS03, AS04 also known as squalene in the
with idiopathic autoimmune disease nor healthy
proposed vaccines, which are immunosterilant or
controls had detectable serum antibodies to
an immunocontraceptive, says Daniel Solis.
squalene. The majority of symptomatic GWS
patients had serum antibodies to squalene.”[xi] The patent of the veterinary FERTILITY
IMPAIRING VACCINE can be found on-line. It
According to Dr. Viera Scheibner, Ph. D., a former
mentions both, the lipoid adjuvans squalene and
principle research scientist for the government of
the polysorbate TM80.
Australia:
Below are the quotes from the patent and
“… this adjuvant [squalene] contributed to the
further some clinical studies about the toxicity
cascade of reactions called “Gulf War Syndrome,”
of both.
documented in the soldiers involved in the Gulf
War. (WO/1999/034825) FERTILITY IMPAIRING
VACCINE AND METHOD OF USE This
The symptoms they developed included arthritis,
application claims the benefit of U. S. Provisional
fibromyalgia, lymphadenopathy, rashes,
Application No. 60/070,375, filed January 2,1998,
photosensitive rashes, malar rashes, chronic
U. S. Provisional Application No. 60/071,406,
fatigue, chronic headaches, abnormal body hair
filed January 15,1998 “The vaccine of the
loss, non-healing skin lesions, aphthous ulcers,
invention preferably additionally includes an
dizziness, weakness, memory loss, seizures, mood
immunological adjuvant to enhance the
changes, neuropsychiatric problems, anti-thyroid
immunological response of the subject to the
effects, anaemia, elevated ESR (erythrocyte
glycoprotein antigen. Examples of adjuvants
sedimentation rate), systemic lupus erythematosus,
include Freund’s Complete Adjuvant, Freund’s The Endogenous Adjuvant Squalene Can Induce a
Incomplete Adjuvant, and an adjuvant comprising Chronic T-Cell-Mediated Arthritis in Rats Barbro
an immunostimulant such as synthetic trehalose C. Carlson*, Åsa M. Jansson*, Anders Larsson,
dicorynomycolate (STDCM) and an oil such as Anders Bucht and Johnny C. Lorentzen*
squalene oil (see P. Willis et al., J. Equine Vet. Sci., http://ajp.amjpathol.org/cgi/content/abstract/156/6/
14,364-370 (1994)). An adjuvant comprising 2057
synthetic trehalose dicorynemycolate, squalene oil, _________________________________________
and a surfactant such as lecithin is preferred. _________________ Now, how can WHO claim
Lecithin typically includes phosphatidyl choline. the adjuvans is harmless:
In a preferred embodiment the vaccine comprises http://www.who.int/vaccine_safety/topics/adjuvant
oil, preferably a biodegradable oil such as squalene s/squalene/questions_and_answers/en/index.html
oil. Typically, the vaccine is prepared using an
adjuvant concentrate which contains lecithin in when there is clear evidence of its effects
squalene oil. The aqueous solution glycoprotein is provoking AI deseases: ANTI-SQUALENE
typically a phosphate-buffered saline (PBS) ANTIBODIES LINK GULF WAR SYNDROME
solution, and additionally preferably contains TO ANTHRAX VACCINE
Tween 80.” http://www.autoimmune.com/GWSGen.html
Jane Burgermeister