The US Army is renewing its attack on suggestions that Gulf War syndrome was
caused by experimental vaccines containing squalene, a polymer of fatty acids
(New Å®ÉúСÊÓƵ, 10 April 1999, p 5). Evidence of anti-squalene
antibodies in people with the syndrome was published this month in
Experimental and Molecular Pathology(vol 68, p 55). However, John
Grabenstein, deputy head of the army’s anthrax vaccination drive, says the
evidence is invalid because the study was not properly controlled. The report’s
authors dispute this claim.
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