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Study: Vaccine adjuvant aluminum hydroxide causes neurological disease

Wednesday, January 22, 2014 by: J. D. Heyes



  

  
(NaturalNews) For years following the first Gulf War (1991), scores of returning American and Western military personnel suffered through a set of mysterious symptoms that doctors and scientists eventually described as "Gulf War Syndrome" (GWS), if for no other reason than because they simply could not identify a core set of causes for a variety of different symptoms.

There have been a number of definitions for GWS, but perhaps the most comprehensive of them can be found at Wikipedia:

Gulf War syndrome (GWS), also known as Gulf War illness (GWI), is a chronic multisymptom disorder affecting returning military veterans and civilian workers of the Gulf War. A wide range of acute and chronic symptoms have been linked to it, including fatigue, muscle pain, cognitive problems, rashes and diarrhea.

Aluminum hydroxide

The percentage of veterans of that conflict who ultimately suffered from GWS was astounding: More than one-third, or approximately 250,000 of the 697,000 vets who served in the first Gulf War campaign, are afflicted, according to the National Academy of Sciences.

In 2009, a study published in the Journal of Inorganic Biochemistry posited that that the substance aluminum hydroxide could be the primary GWS culprit, as documented at Science.NaturalNews.com:

Gulf War Syndrome is a multi-system disorder afflicting many veterans of Western armies in the 1990-1991 Gulf War. A number of those afflicted may show neurological deficits including various cognitive dysfunctions and motor neuron disease, the latter expression virtually indistinguishable from classical Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) except for the age of onset. This ALS "cluster" represents the second such ALS cluster described in the literature to date. Possible causes of GWS include several of the Adjuvants in the Anthrax vaccine and others. The most likely culprit appears to be Aluminum hydroxide.

The study, conducted by Canadian researchers from the Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, involved a set of experiments in which researchers examined the potential toxicity of aluminum hydroxide in male mice that had been injected subcutaneously with two doses that were equivalent to that given to humans.

Later, researchers examined the animals' spinal cord and motor cortex using immunohistochemistry:

Aluminum-treated mice showed significantly increased apoptosis of motor neurons and increases in reactive astrocytes and microglial proliferation within the spinal cord and cortex. Morin stain detected the presence of Aluminum in the cytoplasm of motor neurons with some neurons also testing positive for the presence of hyper-phosphorylated tau protein, a pathological hallmark of various neurological diseases, including Alzheimer's disease and Frontotemporal Dementia.

Multiple additional causes of GWS?

In a second set of experiments, scientists injected mice with six doses of aluminum hydroxide and then conducted behavioral analyses, which "revealed significant impairments" in several motor functions, as well as diminished memory capacity.

The ground combat phase of the Gulf War lasted a mere 100 hours and began in late February 1991, but troops were on the ground in a toxic environment in Kuwait and Iraq for several months. As such, from 1995 to 2005, the health of combat vets got worse compared to military members who had not been deployed to the combat zone.

Those affected experienced a host of problems ranging from new chronic diseases to functional impairment, repeated clinic visits and hospitalizations, chronic fatigue and related symptoms, posttraumatic stress and other problems.

In addition to the 2009 study, other research has suggested that the syndrome may also have been caused by depleted uranium (which was used by U.S. tanks against Iraqi tanks, as well as U.S. Air Force planes like the A-10), sarin gas, smoke emanating from oil wells that had been set on fire by retreating Iraqi forces, predeployment vaccines and psychological factors. That said, only two substances - pyridostigmine (an antitoxin for nerve agents) and organophosphate pesticides have been strongly, and routinely, associated causally with Gulf War Syndrome, according to the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs.



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In addition to the 2009 study, other research has suggested that the syndrome may also have been caused by depleted uranium (which was used by U.S. tanks against Iraqi tanks, as well as U.S. Air Force planes like the A-10), sarin gas, smoke emanating from oil wells that had been set on fire by retreating Iraqi forces, predeployment vaccines and psychological factors. That said, only two substances - pyridostigmine (an antitoxin for nerve agents) and organophosphate pesticides have been strongly, and routinely, associated causally with Gulf War Syndrome, according to the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs.

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Another report, funded by the Norwegian government, recently found that depleted uranium was used against civilian targets in populated areas in Iraq in 2003. It emphasizes a lack of transparency by coalition forces over the use of depleted uranium, but also describes one incident in Najaf where a Bradley armored fighting vehicle fired 305 depleted uranium rounds in a single engagement.

“We know that uranium is genotoxic, that it causes these levels of genetic damage, and because of that it also causes cancer. The only source of uranium was the use by the American-led forces of uranium weapons. Not only depleted uranium weapons, but as we later found out slightly enriched uranium weapons, which we believe they were using in order to cover their tracks. So, I think we have more or less proved that these effects are a result of the use during the two wars of uranium, and the particles that the uranium weapons produced,” Dr. Busby explained.

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Depleted uranium (DU D-3 is uranium with a lower content of the fissile isotope U-235 than natural
uranium.[2] (Natural uranium is about 99.27% U-238, 0.72% U-235—the fissile isotope, and 0.0055%
U-234). Uses of DU take advantage of its very high density of 19.1 g/cm3 (68.4% denser than lead).
Civilian uses include counterweights in aircraft, radiation shielding in medical radiation therapy and
industrial radiography equipment and containers used to transport radioactive materials. Military uses
include defensive armor plating and armor-piercing projectiles.

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The World Health Organization, the directing and coordinating authority for health within the United
Nations, states that no risk of reproductive, developmental, or carcinogenic effects have been reported
in humans due to DU exposure. This report has been criticized for not including possible long term effects
of DU on the human body

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Depleted uranium is very dense; at 19,050 kg/m³, it is 1.67 times as dense as lead, only slightly
less dense than tungsten and gold, and 84% as dense as osmium or iridium, which are the densest known
substances under standard (i.e., Earth-surface) pressures. Consequently a DU projectile of given mass
has a smaller diameter than an equivalent lead projectile, with less aerodynamic drag and deeper penetration
due to a higher pressure at point of impact. DU projectile ordnance is often inherently incendiary because
of its pyrophoric property