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A thriller on Gulf War Syndrome and flawed vaccinations
Steven Dunbar is asked to investigate the death of a lecturer in molecular biology at Leicester University. The man’s death had been thought to have been suicide but the police are now treating it as murder. Sci-Med’s interest lies in the fact that the man once worked at Porton Down and there is a suspicion that his death might have had something to do with this. Steven becomes involved in a trail of intrigue, deceit and cover up at high government level. He discovers that ....
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As seen through the eyes of medical scientist and thriller-writer, Ken McClure.
Some 250,000 of the returning allied forces from the first Gulf War in 1991 (~15%) went down with illness they insist was related to their service in the first Gulf War.Of these, ten thousand are already dead. Successive governments over the years have refused to recognise the existence of a single condition called Gulf War Syndrome and so the impasse continues.
In the United Kingdom, both sides have clear standpoints. The veterans remain adamant that their illness is a direct result from their service in the Gulf while officialdom maintains that the sheer breadth and range of symptoms and illness reported by the veterans rules out the possibility of any one single syndrome being responsible. On this absolutely crucial point the medical authorities have resolutely backed them up - crucial because without the recognition of a single definable condition there can be no machinery for assessing either degree of disability or compensation due. Rather than be helped or treated as a special group, sick veterans must seek assistance on an individual basis through the normal channels of the welfare state i.e. sickness and unemployment benefit.
Damage to Immune System?
Could
Gulf War Syndrome therefore be the result of damage to the immune system of the
troops? If so, the vaccines must be a prime suspect. We know that the UK’s chemical and biological weapons research
establishment at Porton Down was involved in vaccine formulation and that
experimental vaccines against the threat of biological weapons were
incorporated into the schedule. Porton were also working on HIV virus at the
time and experimenting with ways of enhancing immune response. Could it be that
they were experimenting at the time with a new vaccine against AIDS? Could some
accident have occurred?
Flawed Vaccinations?
The alternative to asking technical questions about
the vaccines, which will – for whatever reason – remain unanswered, is to ask
one very simple but scientifically valid question. Was there any group of
people – statistically significant in number - who went to the first Gulf War without
first receiving the cocktail of vaccines that the other troops were given? – in
scientific terms, a control group. The answer comes as a scientist’s dream. The
French forces who went to the Gulf were not vaccinated. Ironically, their commander in chief did not
believe the vaccines were safe. French troops were deployed everywhere that
other elements of the coalition went and were therefore exposed to CB weapons
and depleted uranium to and all other hazards to much the same extent. The question now is obvious: did 15% of the French
troops come down with Gulf War Syndrome on their return like the other allied forces?
The answer is, no they did not.
The naïve among us might think that this should constitute game set and match in the case against Gulf War vaccines as being the cause of Gulf War Syndrome but of course, there is that official government position to consider. If Gulf War Syndrome does not actually exist in the United Kingdom then why should it come as a surprise to anyone that it doesn’t exist in France either?
In an ideal (scientific) world there should be a second control group to support the theory that the vaccines were to blame – this would comprise a group of soldiers who received the vaccines but did not actually go to the Gulf War. There was such a group. A significant number of British troops serving in Germany were vaccinated prior to being sent to the Gulf. The war however ended before they could be deployed and they never saw service in Iraq. Some of them did however, contract Gulf War Syndrome and one of their number, ex Corporal Alexander Izett has been a tireless campaigner for justice on their behalf despite years of debilitating illness and the break-up of his marriage. Mr Izett went on hunger strike in 2004 to draw attention to the continuing plight of Gulf War Syndrome victims, only ending it when news broke that an independent inquiry was to be held into the problem. That inquiry, headed by Lord Lloyd of Berwick, has now reported, its findings being that there is a condition that can and should be referred to as Gulf War Syndrome and that its sufferers should be helped and compensated by Government.
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THE GULF CONSPIRACY is a thriller and a work of fiction but it uses the above as its foundation of fact as I see it. I simply imagined what might have happened during the production of Gulf War vaccines to have resulted in the problem of Gulf War Syndrome and what might have given Government the reason to cover it all up.
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