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became alarmed when they discovered that at least 500 soldiers on the base were infected without
becoming ill.

The incident recalled 1918, when infected soldiers returning from the trenches of World War I
triggered a contagion that spread quickly around the world, killing at least 20 million people. The
nation's health officials urged Ford to authorize a mass inoculation program aimed at reaching
every man, woman and child.

Mass vaccinations started in October, but within weeks reports started coming in of people
developing Guillain-Barré syndrome, a paralyzing nerve disease, right after taking the shot.
Within two months, 500 people were affected, and more than 30 died. Amid a rising uproar and
growing public reluctance to risk the shot, federal officials abruptly canceled the program Dec. 16.

In the end, 40 million Americans were inoculated, and there was no epidemic. A later, more
technically advanced examination of the virus revealed that it was nowhere near as deadly as the
1918 influenza virus. The only recorded fatality from swine flu itself was the unfortunate Pvt.
Lewis.

Healthy men, women and children went to receive the untested swine flu injection and died as a
result of the injection. Others received permanent injuries.

The programme was stopped. An Australian doctor, Archie Kalokerinos, gave his account of his
involvement in the 1976 swine flu pandemic:

„In 1976 I was working in the far north of Australia amongst Aborigines. I observed, in one
community of only a few hundred people, when they were given the flu vaccine (probably the
Victorian strain but this detail does not really matter because nobody outside a few selected
individuals really knows what is in any particular batch), six men died suddenly soon afterwards.
They were not all 'old’. One was in his early twenties. A few weeks later, in another community I
found that individuals with heart or potential heart problems or diabetes were particularly likely to
drop dead soon after being given the vaccine.

Obviously, there was a problem with some batches of the flu vaccine.

A few months later I was in America. President Ford had been told by his health advisers that
there was going to be a huge epidemic of ‘swine flu’, that this could kill may thousands and the
only way to prevent this catastrophe was to vaccinate the entire population of America – every
man woman and child - with a specific vaccine.

So the vaccine was manufactured and the biggest vaccination campaign in history was begun. I
was concerned because the vaccine could not be properly tested in a short period. None of the
recipients would know anything about what they were being injected with and the chances were
that many would die suddenly. Furthermore, it was extremely unlikely that an epidemic of swine
flu would occur. So I spoke out. At first the newspapers got hold of what I said and headlined,
‘Australian Physician Call It Mass Murder’. Then I appeared on Kathy Crosby’s television
program.

Watching that was a man in New York who did not like a gentleman named Gambino the Mafia
boss. Gambino was about 70 years old and had a history of heart problems. It was a simple matter
to get someone to persuade Gambino to have the flu shot and Gambino obliged by dropping dead.
The newspapers got it right when they stated, ‘Mafia Flu Jab Conspiracy’.

People were dropping dead in the buildings where they received their shots. Others became