Monday, May 27, 2013

The VVA Veteran and Vaccines

The VVA Veteran:

'via Blog this'
Two major health workers unions and 80 hospitals have pledged not to give or take the vaccine without an actual smallpox case. The health workers' pledge
(www.healthworkers.org/pledge.htm) says the military shots should be stopped.

Respected medical journals, such as the January 2003Journal of the American Medical Association, are addressing the administration's poor risk/benefit analysis. One author personally observed the dynamics of smallpox transmission in crowded Pakistan. He noted that infectious smallpox victims are too sick to be in public. Their symptoms are sufficiently visible to enact effective containment measures, as was done with a German smallpox outbreak in the
late 1980s. Another JAMA article pointed out the high risk of inducing a self-inflicted epidemic. In the December 2002American Medical News, Dr. Jeffrey Sartin characterized smallpox vaccinations given prior to the outbreak of smallpox cases as tantamount to "giving dangerous chemotherapy before cancer has been diagnosed." Also, the Institute of Medicine has concluded the administration's policy is too rushed and lacks adequate safeguards (New York Times, 1/15/03).

The administration's biowarfare vaccine policies fail to be compassionate, conservative, or considerate of military family concerns. Everyone should become thoroughly knowledgeable about the dangers of smallpox and anthrax vaccinations that are premature, forced, used improperly, or outright illegal. Homeland Security Bill provisions allow Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson to declare even a potential bioterror "emergency" and call for nationwide, pre-emptive injections for all citizens.

As for now, the administration's bioterror vaccine policy itself is already too much bioterror.

After meeting vaccine victims and conducting extensive research, Redmond Handy retired in protest of the anthrax shot policy from his Pentagon position as a colonel in the Air Force Reserve. He testified twice before Congress and is a consultant with the National Gulf War Resource Center. Handy can be reached at 
rhandy@ngwrc.org
   
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