Obama Administration Seeks to Test Anthrax Vaccine in Children

[Jan Klimkowski]

According to BioPrepWatch.com , the Obama administration is seeking to obtain a green light to conduct an anthrax vaccine safety experiment on US children. The stated rationale for such a trial, articulated by Dr. Nicole Lurie, US Dept. of Health and Human Services, is that there are no data about the safety of exposing children to the anthrax vaccine. And if an emergency arises, a trial "would present an array of logistical, clinical and communication challenges during a public health crisis."

I can think of no benign interpretation of this proposed anthrax vaccine experimentation on children.

The malign interpretations include:

i) a blatant military-intelligence-multinational-complex financial scam at the taxpayer's expense;

ii) a precursor for a false flag biological warfare attack on the continental USA;

iii) a yet more sinister agenda, given that anthrax vaccine is one of the suspected causes of Gulf War Syndrome.

So, I took a look at Emergent BioSolutions Inc. Sourcewatch is a good start.

Emergent BioSolutions Inc. (formerly BioPort Corporation) is an global biopharmaceutical company specializing in development, manufacture and marketing of vaccines and immune system pharmaceuticals. BioThrax® is the only vaccine licensed by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for the prevention of anthrax. The company's development pipeline anthrax, botulism, tuberculosis, typhoid, hepatitis B and chlamydia programs. [1]

Emergent BioSolutions has an exclusive license to produce the anthrax vaccine in the United States. In September of 1998, Bioport took over the formerly public Michigan Biologics Products Institute (MBPI), created in 1996 with a two-year lifespan. Less than a month later, the company gained a $29 million contract with the Department of Defense (DoD) to "manufacture, test, bottle and store the anthrax vaccine." [2] The company supplies BioThrax primarily to the DoD and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). Chairman and CEO Fuad El-Hibri controls half of the company.[3]

In the fiscal year ending in December of 2009, the company reported sales of approximately $234.8 million dollars and had 652 employees

So, Emergent BioSolutions is a for profit biological warfare "vaccine" producer, with an EXCLUSIVE military contract for anthrax.

In other words, a MONOPOLY SUPPLIER.

The corporation's predecessor, BioPort, got into some trouble:

Regulations allowed the DoD to "provide extraordinary relief" to BioPort Corporation during late FY 1999, in spite of "significant risks." [7] Between 1998 and 2002, the DoD pumped over $130 million into the company, in hopes of stockpiling enough anthrax vaccines for all 2.4 million U.S. soldiers and reservists. The Pentagon continued paying BioPort even after the company repeated failed FDA inspections and was prohibited from shipping any vaccine. [8]


Mandatory experimental vaccinations & related deaths
In 2003, six soldiers filed suit against the government for experimenting on them with the BioPort anthrax vaccine. According to the charges, the vaccine was considered experimental; therefore its mandatory administration was illegal. On Dec. 22, 2003, the US District Court for the District of Columbia ordered the military to stop experimenting on soldiers for dangerous anthrax vaccines. In 2003, army sergeant Rachel Lacey died of complications from the vaccine, according to an autopsy report from the Mayo Clinic. Despite strong evidence that the vaccine was causing pneumonia-like symptoms in military personnel, the Pentagon denied the possibility. Instead, they blamed cigarette smoking as the leading factor. The vaccination is a series of 6 shots over 18 months.

Staff Sgt. Neal B. Erickson Sr. didn't smoke, yet had pneumonia-like symptoms 10 days after his fourth anthrax shot. He required hospitalization 10 days after his next shot; where he tested negative for viruses. The Pentagon referred to the illnesses as a "mysterious pneumonia cluster". According to Sgt Erickson, there were at least four other cases in his squadron, as well as another hospitalization. There were at least one hundred similar cases as well as multiple deaths; many of which were not investigated.

I know of many similar accounts to Sgt Erickson's from British Gulf War veterans exposed to multiple vaccinations, including Anthrax.

According to Bob Evans in a December of 2005 article in the Newport News Daily Press, the only licensed U.S. anthrax vaccine maker, BioPort, turned government contracts into "a gold mine ...with help from the "right lobbyists and public relations professionals." In 2002, following questions about vaccine safety and its financial practices, BioPort nearly quadrupled spending on lobbyists (from $30,000 to $110,000) and hired Ruder Finn and Fleishman-Hillard, "high-powered public relations firms staffed by many former government officials." The company began "sponsoring 'public education seminars' and studies."

In September 2002, a report released by "bioterrorism experts" encouraged the government "to purchase millions of doses of BioPort's product." According to Evans, the report was written by either BioPort or its public relations agent. BioSolutions pays $40,000 a year to maintain a website that advertises that it is sponsored by the Partnership for Anthrax Vaccination Education and touts the company's product. In 2005, BioPort won a $122.7 million dollar contract with the HHS. [10]


Maryland bankruptcy court approves purchase of Antex
On March 17, 2003, BioPort Corporation announced that it had executed a discretionary loan agreement and a non-binding letter of intent with Antex Biologics, Inc., with the intent of acquiring all assets of the Maryland based company.

On March 27, Antex filed for bankruptcy under Chapter 11. The purchase of Antex $3.4 million was approved by Maryland's bankruptcy court.

Fuad El-Hibri is CEO of Emergent BioSolutions:

In his June 30, 1999, testimony before "The Subcommittee on National Security, Veterans Affairs, and International Relations of the House Committee on Government Reform," El-Hibri stated that:[1]

"Three companies currently hold voting equity in BioPort: Intervac LLC and Intervac Management LLC, which are both Maryland limited liability companies, and ichigan Biologic Products, Inc., a Michigan corporation. Intervac LLC is the controlling shareholder. Intervac LLC is owned by Admiral William J. Crowe, Jr., my wife Nancy and me, and I and F Holdings N.V., a Netherlands Antilles investment company owned by my father Ibrahim El-Hibri. As mentioned earlier, I and F Holdings is an investment company in biotech operations, which previously had invested in the management buy-out of Porton Products Ltd. Admiral Crowe and I are the controlling members of Intervac LLC."

Suber says that, "While Fuad El-Hibri was [sic] needed no financing to take over the State of Michigan biologic lab, he did need a front man to reassure the military with respect to their Anthrax contract. He already had the perfect front man in former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Adm. William J. Crowe Jr. Adm. Crowe had a long history of involvement with the El-Hibri family. Crowe owns 22.5 percent of Intervac shares, although he hasn't invested a penny in the venture."

Yessirreeee!

This goes straight back to a former Chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

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