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08/05/03
Vaccine not virus
responsible for Spanish flu
RYLE
DWYER writes on the horror of the
1918-20 pandemic which the propaganda
says was caused by Spanish flu (Irish
Examiner, May 1).
How did they know it was the virus
of Spanish flu that killed millions of
civilians and soldiers?
This disaster occurred when viruses
were unknown to medical science.
It took a British science team to
identify the first virus in man in
1933.
As regards the origin of the outbreak,
he relates that a senior US army
officer suggested that the Germans
might have been responsible
for the bug as part of their war
effort, by spreading it in theatres or
where large numbers of people
assembled.
Did they also spread it among their
own people, killing 400,000 as
reported?
Ryle would have us believe that all
those American soldiers who died from
non-combatant causes may have died
from Spanish flu.
But US Army records show that seven
men dropped dead after being
vaccinated.
A report from US Secretary of War
Henry L Stimson not only verified
these deaths but also stated that
there had been 63 deaths and 28,585
cases of hepatitis as a direct result
of yellow fever vaccination during
only six months of the war.
That was only one of the 14 to 25
shots given to recruits.
Army records also reveal that after
vaccination became compulsory in the
US Army in 1911, not only did typhoid
increase rapidly but all other
vaccinal diseases increased at an
alarming rate.
After America entered the war in
1917, the death rate from typhoid
vaccination rose to the highest point
in the history of the US Army.
The deaths occurred after the shots
were given in sanitary American
hospitals and well-supervised army
camps in France, where sanitation had
been practised for years.
The report of the Surgeon-General of
the US Army shows that during 1917
there were admitted into the army
hospitals 19,608 men suffering from
anti-typhoid inoculation and vaccinia.
This takes no account of those
whose vaccine diseases were attributed
to other causes.
The army doctors knew all these cases
of disease and death were due to
vaccination and were honest enough to
admit it in their medical reports.
When army doctors tried to suppress
the symptoms of typhoid with a
stronger vaccine, it caused a worse
form of typhoid paratyphoid.
But when they concocted an even
stronger vaccine to suppress that one,
they created an even worse disease
Spanish flu.
After the war, this was one of the
vaccines used to protect a
panic-stricken world from the soldiers
returning from WWI battlefronts
infected with dangerous diseases.
The rest is history.
Patrick J Carroll,
Lady Lane House,
Waterford. |
