Up to 100% Vaccinated Sheep Contract Chronic Neurological Syndrome

Up to 100% Vaccinated Sheep Contract Chronic Neurological Syndrome

Bluetongue can be a deadly disease of sheep. The standard
approach to an outbreak is vaccination, vaccination, & more
vaccination. A new study shows that these vaccines cause an autoimmune
neurological disorder called ASIA—the same that vaccines can induce in
humans. This study of Spanish sheep provides a frightening look into its
frequency and severity. What does it mean in humans?


Photo by Anne Marie Cunningham


by Heidi Stevenson

The powers-that-be refuse to do studies comparing the health of
vaccinated against unvaccinated children. However, Spanish animal
pathology researcher, Lluís Luján, was concerned with serious health
problems in sheep following mass vaccination to combat bluetongue, a
viral disease spread by insects. So, a study was done to compare
vaccinated versus unvaccinated sheep. The results should concern
everyone. Though the percentages of affected sheep varied widely, as
many as 100% of some flocks were devastated by the vaccine-induced
disease called autoimmune/inflammatory syndrome induced by adjuvants
(ASIA).

ASIA in Sheep


Researchers of the study, published in the journal Immunology Research,
describe a syndrome that has an acute phase in only about one-half of
one percent of sheep, from which most recover. However, a chronic phase
develops later, and that is devasting, both in numbers and severity of
illness. The economic impact is enormous. They describe it like this:

<blockquote>The chronic phase of the ovine ASIA syndrome is a more
frequent event in our local conditions of ovine production and causes a
neurological and cachectic process that has no parallel in ovine
pathology, and it is a serious but unexplained concern for farmers and
veterinarians. The chronic phase does not necessarily follow an acute
episode, and it is
triggered by the combination of multiple alum adjuvantcontaining inoculations over the years and external stimuli.
</blockquote>
Severity is generally related to stress. Conditions like cold
weather, poor nutrition, and high levels of milk production result in
significantly worse disease.


Sheep with Cachexia Resulting from ASIA


Frequency of chronic ASIA is about 50-70% of flocks, and up to 100%
of the sheep within a flock. The syndrome runs through phases. It starts
with “an excitatory period where affected animals show constant
movement, abnormal behavior, restlessness and compulsive wool biting,
resulting in animals with a very poor wool coat, a diffuse redness of
the skin and thinning of the affected sheep.” During this time, the
sheep exhibit a normal appetite or even an excessive one. However, this
phase ends dramatically with sudden weakness, head tilting to one side,
muscle tremors, and weight loss that moves toward cachexia.


Thickened Peripheral Nerves


In the terminal phase, the animals suffer from lack of response to stimuli, ataxia, and tetraplegia.
They then fall into a stupor or coma, and die. They’re also known to
have spontaneous abortions. They suffer from lesions of fat deposits, serous fat atrophy, ascites, hydrothorax, hydropericardium,
and atrophy of skeletal muscles. Peripheral nerves become thickened in
most animals. This can include primary nerves, like the sciatic, also.

Nerves in the spinal cord become necrotic. Most animals suffer from
meningoencephalitis. Thickened peripheral nerves tend to be surrounded
by fluid and mucous. Some demyelination and neuron loss was noted. About
half the sheep were found to have membranous glomerulonephritis.

Stress conditions, such as winter lambing and cold weather, can
trigger chronic ASIA. When there is an acute phase, it appears that it’s
always followed by the chronic phase.

The Study


The
researchers took 6 castrated 3-month old male lambs from an organic
farm. They were divided into two groups of 3, one acting as controls
remaining unvaccinated, and the other vaccinated according to the
schedule on the right. The vaccines were for
a variety of ovine pathogens, including bluetongue (10 doses), Clostridium
(2 doses), Chlamydophila spp, Salmonella spp and abortive bacteria
(2 doses). Each vaccine dose contained 4 mg aluminum salts and 0.2 mg
thimerosal (thiomersal), for a total of 56 milligrams of aluminum and
2.8 mg of thimerosal. The controls were injected with a phosphate
buffered saline solution.

The lambs were all kept together with their flock in their normal
situation. The experiment ran from 28 June 2010 through 18 March 2011,
which took the lambs through a winter cycle with their flock. On days
177, 254, and 261, pairs of control and vaccinated animals were killed
for post mortem examination.


Weight of Vaccinated vs Unvaccinated Sheep


Weight Differences


The weight of the lambs was tracked and reported on the graph to the
left. Almost immediately, the vaccinated lambs weighed less, though not
by a lot. However, notice how the weights diverge with the weighing on
the 177^th day, and the weight of the vaccinated sheep remains
signigicantly lower. Winter temperatures started on day 164, causing
stress that the vaccinated lambs were less able to withstand. Even after
the weather started to warm again, you can see that, though both the
controls and the vaccinated lambs gained weight, the vaccinated ones
never made up the 8.5% difference lost during the stressful cold time.

Behavioral Differences


The researchers report that the vaccinated lambs exhibited different
behaviors, including “an array of nervous clinical symptoms”, which
worsened as time went on. They demonstrated periods of “depression with
reluctance to move, light stupor and tendency to collapse when
handling.” These periods of stupor and little movement alternated with
“periods of excitement and abnormally stimulated behavior.” Note that
this is much like what’s described for sheep in the early stages of ASIA
syndrome.

Tissue Differences


The lambs were sacrificed and their tissues examined. The post mortem studies showed:

• Accentuated depletion of fat deposits.
  
• Mild hydroperitoneum and hydropericardium.
  
• Small increase in the diameter of peripheral nerves.
  
• Part of the spinal cord showed lesions indicative of early stage degeneration.
  

Aluminum and Mercury


The amount of mercury and aluminum in blood was examined in the 6
experimental animals, and also in 5 sheep with advanced ASIA disease:

• The 5 sheep with advanced disease had 266.75 to 289.76 ng/mL of aluminum in their blood. No mercury was found.
  
• Control animals had trace amounts of aluminum and no mercury in their blood.
  
• Scanning electron microscopy found that the vaccinated animals had
  8.445% aluminum weight, while controls had only 3.825% aluminum weight
  in their spinal cords.
  

Bluetongue Vaccine


The researchers’ primary concern is that the bluetongue vaccine was
mandated for all sheep in Spain. After it was implemented, the effects
on sheep flocks were devastating. Spanish sheep were inoculated four
times per year for bluetongue—2 vaccines for different varieties of
bluetongue, and then boosters for both each year. Each injection
included aluminum adjuvant.

This study injected lambs with a more aggressive vaccination program
in their first months of life. However, the total number of vaccines
that each sheep receives year-on-year is greater than the lambs were
given. They received a total of 14, while sheep in the flock normally
received 4 standard vaccines each year, plus another 4 vaccines for
bluetongue, reaching a total of 8 vaccines per year. So, any sheep past a
year in age has already received more vaccinations than the seemingly
over-vaccinated trial lambs.

Those 14 vaccines triggered an immediate acute ASIA response in the
trial lambs, and experience has shown that it almost certainly would
have turned into chronic ASIA, had the animals not been killed for the
study.

As the results demonstrate, the toxic load of adjuvant aluminum that
accumulates in blood and the central nervous system is very high over
time, and its effect in the form of ASIA is devastating.

The question that must be addressed is whether the bluetongue vaccine
makes sense in the face of ASIA syndrome. A natural part of the life
cycle of these sheep involves the stress of winter cold. Its effect on
the lower weight of vaccinated lambs is clear, and this study
demonstrates that the stress will result in a significant number of
sheep being lost—and in a particularly cruel manner.

So, let’s take a look at bluetongue. It’s caused by a virus that’s
carried by some insects, such as midges. It can never infect humans, so
protection for people is not necessary.

Bluetongue primarily affects sheep, then goats, and some cattle. In
sheep, the disease can range from quite mild to deadly. It causes a
nasal mucous discharge and fluid buildup around the mouth. In severe
cases, the lips and tongue can be badly swollen, causing the tongue to
protrude and become cyanotic—that is, turn blue, which gives bluetongue
its name. The rest of the head and ears can develop edema. Excess blood
can build up around the hooves, and if the animal is driven to keep
moving, it can result in loss of the hoof. In severe cases,
torticolis—twisting of the neck—can occur, along with vomiting,
pneumonia, and conjunctivitis. The disease does need to be taken
seriously.

However, death is not a given, and the death rate can be nil. The
average mortality usually runs from 0-30 percent, though in particularly
susceptible sheep, it can reach 100 percent. Only about 5% of cattle
become ill from bluetongue, and death is rare.

Compare bluetongue with the devastating effects of its vaccine, and
it doesn’t make much sense to be vaccinating against it. If a sheep has
been infected and survives, then that sheep will be fine. However, when a
sheep gets ASIA, then that sheep has a death sentence—and the reality
is that it doesn’t appear to be any more likely that sheep will be
harmfully infected with bluetongue than that they’ll be hit with ASIA
from the vaccination.

Human Implications


ASIA is not simply a disease of sheep. Human versions of it are
becoming better recognized, and their severity is much like that in
sheep. Macrophagic myofasciitis (MMF) is one of them. Others may include
Gulf War syndrome and other vaccine-related conditions. MMF is known to
be induced by the vaccine adjuvant aluminum.

It’s certainly true that the fact aluminum in vaccines causes
debilitating and deadly ASIA in sheep does not necessarily translate to
humans. However, the evidence that aluminum adjuvants do cause ASIA-like
syndromes in humans, coupled with how devastating ASIA is in sheep, not
to mention how common, should trigger a regulatory response to
eliminate aluminum from vaccines. Indeed, it ‘s truly impossible to find
any reason other than selling out to explain why it’s still in them.


Source:-


http://gaia-health.com/gaia-blog/2013-05-01/up-to-100-vaccinated-sheep-contract-chronic-neurological-syndrome-study/