See:
Heart
[June
22, 2006] Myocarditis death in soldier may have
been caused by vaccines--DOD press release
Meryl Nass, MD: Please note that CDC found a much
higher rate of myocarditis in smallpox vaccine recipients than did DOD: 1
in 1,725, according to Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report put out by
CDC. In a vaccine trial of smallpox vaccines conducted by Acambis the rate
of myocarditis was 1 in 973. A 1978 study in Finnish military recruits
found a much higher rate using looser criteria (1 in 29).
If DOD had cases occurring at
the same rate, they should have had 580 cases in 1 million vaccine
recipients, not 120. However, DOD likely had even more cases of
myocarditis than 580, since it is believed that people who have never
before received the vaccine are at higher risk of complications than those
previously vaccinated. Nearly all those who were vaccinated through CDC
had been vaccinated in childhood. Relatively few military servicemembers
have been previously vaccinated.
Claiming that no previous
smallpox recipients died with myocarditis is also blatantly untrue.
Twenty-two year old Rachel Lacy died in early 2003, one month after
receiving five vaccines in one day (including smallpox and anthrax) and her
autopsy demonstrated myocarditis. Two panels asked to evaluate her death
for DOD agreed her death was probably vaccine-related.
I wrote something about earlier inaccurate DOD statements about
smallpox vaccine-related myocarditis and death in 2003:
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- Amsel
SG, et al. [See
Related Articles] Myocarditis after triple immunisation. Arch Dis
Child. 1986 Apr;61(4):403-5. PMID: 3486636; UI: 86214173.
We describe a 3 month old infant who developed myocarditis several hours
after diphtheria, tetanus, and pertussis vaccination. The time of occurrence of symptoms,
the clinical course, and the negative virological studies suggest a possible cardiogenic
adverse reaction to the vaccine.
