Biowarfare agents used on innocent unvaxxed/placebo as controls?
I posted this late last night and it was at the end of a bread. There is a lot that can be implied here. Inhalation anthrax is something that rarely naturally occurs. It’s a bacteria that thrives in the ground and causes skin infections. There is more to each of these characters but this sidetracked me from what I am working on. I came across it and was “wtf”. They used a fatal bioengineered substance on innocent unvaxxed people as controls- imo So I’ll post it one more time.
May 1957-
At a goat hair mill in Manchester New Hampshire, 630 workers volunteered to participate in a live anthrax vaccine. The remainder had refused. 300 had 3 intervals of the vaccine while the rest had placebo. Boosters were to be 3 boosters in 6 month intervals but the trial was terminated. This was because in Aug 1957 an outbreak of inhalation anthrax occurred which was termed “the first in the twentieth century”. There were 5 inhalation cases (4 had died) and 4 cutaneous (which is moderately rare but not dangerous). Of the 5 inhalation cases, 4 were not vaccine participants and the 5th was a placebo.
One of the many “possibilities” (with vague rationale)for this epidemic was a batch of black goat hair from India that contained highly virulent anthrax spores with a virulence-enhancing substance. Also a new detergent was noted to coincidentally been used at the time of outbreak, which the detergents are shown to enhance virulence. There are no references in the journals to experimental live virus that was used 3mo prior. Although this trial was terminated, there were earlier trials in a few other mills and the effectiveness of the vaccine was concluded to be 92.5 percent effective.
Stanley Plotkin co-authored the journals about the incident and is listed as being Anthrax Investigations Unit, CDC, Wistar Institute, Philadelphia, and supported by U.S. Army Chemical Corps. U.S. Army Chemical Corps had a preoccupation with biological warfare agents in the 50s. Hilary Koprowski became director of the Wistar Institute with Plotkin joining him in 1957. The Institute had a fortune upturn afterwards, with renovations and increase in staff, and had begun receiving military contracts. One of the footnotes in the papers cites a member of the U.K.’s Microbiological Research Department at Porton Down as producer. This department was a major biowarfare research center that dealt with infecting animals with airborne anthrax with a factor of ten increase of infectivity of anthrax spores contained in commercial detergent spray.
Oddly, Phillip Brachman was lead author of the article about the 1st epidemic of the 20th century but not a whole lot of info is out there, not even a pathetic wikipedia. His obituary page list him as joining the CDC in 54, Epidemiology Intelligence Service 1970-81, Professor of Global Health and Epidemiology at the Emory University Rollins School of Public Health after retiring from CDC, director of the Hubert H. Humphrey Fellowship program, founding parents of The Paideia School in Atlanta (chairman of the board of trustees), and worked with booksforafrica.org that supplies books to a school library in Kenya which he funded.
https://archive.org/details/riverjourneytoso00hoop p.555-559
https://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/10.2105/AJPH.52.4.632
https://www.jimmunol.org/content/73/6/387
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2073057/pdf/brjexppathol00084-0010.pdf
https://www.jimmunol.org/content/84/6/626.short
http://www.ph.ucla.edu/epi/bioter/millepid/millepidemic_intro_a.htm
http://www.ph.ucla.edu/epi/bioter/millepid/millepidemic_nytimes_a.htm
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/0002934360900796
https://www.amjmed.com/article/S0002-9343(01)01050-6/abstract
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/13212061
https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/atlanta/obituary.aspx?n=philip-brachman&pid=180266659&fhid=5281
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC378258/pdf/bactrev00060-0176.pdf