Posted on 01/23/2021 12:04:35 PM PST by NachOsten
When the United States entered WWI in April 1917, the fledgling pharmaceutical industry had something they had never had before:
a large supply of human test subjects.
During the war years of 1918 to 1919, the U.S. Army ballooned to 6 million men, of which 2 million were sent overseas.
The Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research took advantage of this new pool of human guinea pigs to conduct vaccine experiments.
In January 1918, vaccines were administered to soldiers at Ft. Riley, Kansas.
Shortly afterward, the vaccine was offered by the Division Surgeon to the camp at large. The vaccine used was made in the laboratory of The Rockefeller Institute. Between Jan. 21 and June 4 of 1918, Dr. Frederick L. Gates reported an experiment in which soldiers were given three doses of a bacterial meningitis vaccine.
The vaccines were spitball dosages of a vaccine serum derived from horses.
Gates wrote that men in the experiment showed flu-like symptoms, including cough, vomiting and diarrhea, after receiving the vaccine. These symptoms are a disaster for men living in barracks, travelling on trains to the Atlantic Coast, sailing to Europe and living and fighting in trenches.
Wow!
My Dad went over and arrived in France the day after the Armistice was signed.
Being an educated guy, they gave him a job in the General’s office, cashiering out the troops who were going home.
He was 18 years old.
He got to come home in July, 1919.
Just in time for Prohibition!
It saddens me that the sacrifices made are forgotten the rewriting of history or the avoidance of covering it all together.
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