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1.) Anthrax Scare
Did the military secretly doctor its anthrax vaccine?
BY JON COHEN
NOV 16, 20044:00 PM

https://slate.com/technology/2004/11/did-the-military-secretly-doctor-the-anthrax-vaccine.html

https://newrepublic.com/article/92281/anthrax-biochemical-weapons-germs

https://gulflink.health.mil/va/va_s04.htm

In Vaccine A: The Covert Government Experiment That’s Killing Our Soldiers—and Why GI’s Are Only the First Victims, Gary Matsumoto struggles for nearly 300 pages to justify his book’s subtitle. Matsumoto’s contention, as he first reported in a 1999 Vanity Fair article that triggered a congressional hearing, is that the U.S. military’s anthrax vaccine causes a constellation of autoimmune diseases and symptoms such as lupus, rashes, hair loss, and aching joints that fall under the rubric known as Gulf War Syndrome. He makes the case that the military secretly spiked the vaccine with squalene, a fat naturally found in the body that, when injected as part of a vaccine, supercharges the immune system’s ability to make antibodies. He accuses the Department of Defense of slipping this experimental vaccine past the Food and Drug Administration and involving unwitting troops in a human test that Matsumoto repeatedly equates with Nazi experimentation and the infamous Tuskegee syphilis study. The vaccine harmed “possibly tens of thousands” of troops, he warns, and millions of doses now are being prepared for public use.