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Small Pox Vaccine History
*1900* In the early 1900s, the capitalist magnate Rockefeller already had a hand in the development of smallpox vaccine. Rockefeller’s pioneering virologist Tom Rivers (1888-1962) undertook to develop a safer vaccine by growing the virus in tissue culture. The result was an attenuated strain of virus that was better than the earlier vaccines produced in England. It was the first vaccine used in humans to be grown in tissue culture. 1)
*1926* American Home Products AHP was formed in 1926 but evolved largely under the same direction as Bayer, Hoechst and BASF, that is, from I.G. Farben /Rockefeller financial interests according to cancer investigator and author G. Edward Griffin.(24) During WWII, Ayerst Laboratories joined AHP and Wyeth International Limited was formed. This company went on to “perfect” the smallpox vaccine according to company promotions.
*1944* Dryvax, a smallpox vaccine, originally licensed in 1944 to Wyeth Laboratories, Inc. of Madison, N.J., was manufactured until the mid 1980s when the World Health Organization declared that smallpox had been eradicated. 2)
*1996* Robert C. Myers, DVM, Chief Operating Officer of BioPort-America's only anthrax vaccine maker-appealed to a Senate Appropriations Committee for urgent funding for both anthrax and smallpox vaccines. In 1996, in his own words, he “was part of a team of organizations, led by Battelle Memorial Institute, which came together to compete for the [Department of Defense's Joint Vaccine Acquisition Program] JVAP. Despite there being dozens of potential *bioterrorist threats 3)
*2000* Rumsfeld was replaced at Gilead by Cordell W. Hull. Hull also serves as a director of Bechtel Group, Inc. Gilead's Smallpox Profits grew in 2001 as policy tries to make the smallpox vaccine REQUIRED by all first responders and military people in the US! Even though, by itself, the vaccine has been shown to be dangerous.
*2007* there is one licensed smallpox vaccine; ACAM2000, licensed on August 31, 2007, which is manufactured by Sanofi Pasteur Biologics Co. of Cambridge, MA and is based on the same strain of virus as Dryvax.
*2016* February 5, 2016 Approval Letter - ACAM2000 - To change the package insert to include clarifying revisions to Section 5 and to reflect the removal of the requirement to have a risk evaluation and mitigation strategy (REMS) Proper Name: Smallpox (Vaccinia) Vaccine, Live Tradename: ACAM2000 Manufacturer: *Emergent Product Development* Gaithersburg, Inc. 4)
Small Pox Bio-warfare Threats
*2001 June 22-23* the Johns Hopkins Center for Civilian Biodefense Strategies, in collaboration with the CSISCenter for Strategic and International Studies, the Analytic Services Institute for Homeland Security, and the Oklahoma National Memorial Institute for the Prevention of Terrorism, held a senior-level exercise entitled “Dark Winter” that simulated a covert smallpox attack on the United States. The first such exercise of its kind, Dark Winter was constructed to examine the challenges that senior-level policy makers would face if confronted with a *bioterrorist attack* that initiated outbreaks of highly contagious disease. 5)
*2002 June 24* Statement on CDC PLAN TO RELEASE SMALLPOX VACCINE National Vaccine Information Center - Barbara Loe Fisher, President
The National Vaccine Information Center (NVIC), the oldest and largest vaccine safety advocacy organization in the U.S., endorses the June 21 decision by the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) of the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) *advising against releasing vaccinia (smallpox) virus vaccine for mass use by the general population. However, we maintain that the federal advisory committee's recommendation to use the live virus vaccine in up to 20,000 health care workers is premature in the absence of actual disease. 6)
*2002 October 12* PENTAGON PLANS SMALLPOX SHOTS FOR UP TO 500,000 By JUDITH MILLER and ERIC SCHMITT - New York Times
With the Bush administration moving closer to military action against Iraq, the Pentagon is expected to begin vaccinating up to half a million troops against smallpox as soon as the vaccine is licensed in mid-November, military and administration officials said today.
The officials said that leading military and civilian advisers to Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld, as well as his top medical experts, had recommended that the troops be inoculated 7)
*2002 November 8* Bush Considers Smallpox Vaccine for Troops By Mike Allen and Bradley Graham Washington Post
President Bush received a recommendation yesterday from Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld to inoculate U.S. troops against smallpox but did not immediately accept it….
The question of whether to immunize U.S. forces is part of a larger dilemma that includes whether to vaccinate civilian health care workers and, eventually, the general public. Although routine smallpox vaccinations stopped in the United States in 1972, the matter has gained new urgency amid heightened concerns about biological warfare and *intelligence reports* citing four nations, including Iraq and North Korea, as having covert stocks of the smallpox pathogen. 8)
*2003 Oct 21* There's Something About Omar - Truth, Lies, and The Legend of 9/11 by Chaim Kupferberg
As for the present smallpox threat, the man charged with overseeing President Bush's mass vaccination policy was another Dark Winter alumnus, Jerry Hauer. Hauer, a former director of Kroll Associates - the security firm at the helm when the Twin Towers fell - is also the man who personally pulled strings in order to get senior FBI official John O'Neill his job as head of security at the World Trade Center….
James Woolsey, for example, was one of just 17 participants in a July 2001 bio-warfare exercise dubbed “Dark Winter,” a simulation of a mass smallpox attack, co-sponsored by the ANSER Institute of Homeland Security and the Center for Strategic and International Studies CSIS. Among the other participants was Benador client Arnaud De Borchgrave and New York Times journalist Judith Miller, who had co-authored a book with Benador client Mylroie in the early '90's. Mylroie's book - an attempt at linking Iraq to 9/11 - was released just weeks after September 11 with a foreword written by James Woolsey. Around the same time, Judith Miller had just launched her own well-publicized book on the germ warfare threat - within a week or two of her own well-publicized role as one of the very few recipients of an “anthrax” mailing (which turned out not to be anthrax). 9)
*2005* Germ Boys and Yes Men ~ The Nation by By Jeremy Scahill Stewart Simonson is a former Amtrak corporate attorney with zero medical experience. So why is he in charge of emergency health and *bioterrorism* in the federal government?
The Administration declared it was taking charge of the nation’s health and security with an all-out war on the flu (to be conducted with vaccines provided by well-connected pharmaceutical companies). “Our country has been given fair warning of this danger to our homeland,” Bush declared. “It’s my responsibility as President to take measures now to protect the American people.” 10)