An intriguing aspect of the reported adverse events is the number of lots of anthrax vaccine that have a given number of associated adverse events.  A table can be made up from the Medalerts web site as follows:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Table 1: Number of lots of anthrax vaccine adsorbed with a given number of reported adverse events, as of 13th November 2015, lot numbers FAV001 through FAV 360.

Only three quarters of the reports include the lot number, while some of the reports list more than one lot, and no information is available as to how many shots were administered from each lot.  Nonetheless the pattern is striking and would be consistent with a contaminant causing adverse reactions.

If a more or less even number of shots were administered from each lot, and it is inconceivable that they would have followed the profile of Table 1, then if the adverse events were predominantly coincidental to the vaccine, the number of reports per lot would approximate a Gaussian Distribution with a mean of 16.3.  If the adverse events were caused by the adjuvant, which ought to have approximately the same concentration in each lot, then the reports per lot would approximate the same Gaussian Distribution.

A small subset of reports coincidental to the vaccine would approximate a Poisson Distribution, which would have to have a mean no higher than 0.3 to be consistent with so many zeros in the data, so not many more than 100 of the adverse events can be unrelated to the vaccine.  That is a crude analysis and the figure could change significantly if the number of shots per lot was not uniform, nonetheless the data are entirely inconsistent with the DoD claim that all serious adverse events are a coincidence of timing.

Some direct research also suggests that reactogenicity varies between lots [32], but no research has been conducted as to why.

Bacillus anthracis is capable of existing and multiplying in a cell wall deficient state in which it can form colonies within human immune cells and cause alterations to the cell function.  It has been proposed that such bacterial, viral, and fungal compromise of immune cells plays the dominant role in all chronic inflammatory illness [33-48, 123], with the precise diagnosis depending on such factors as the species involved and which body tissues are susceptible to their resultant molecular mimicry.  Under the model, once the immune system becomes compromised it allows still further organisms to increase in numbers and cause the illness to snowball.  Supporting evidence is incomplete nonetheless it is a model that is remarkably consistent with the nature of illness as observed across the real world, and which if the vaccine is contaminated with cell wall deficient bacteria would predict the very spectrum of illnesses reported following its administration.

The vaccine is manufactured by brewing up the bacteria, killing them with formaldehyde, and filtering them off to leave proteins to which the body creates immunity.  The cell wall deficient bacteria would be small enough to pass through the filters, making their contaminating the vaccine a near certainty.  The level of contamination in each lot would depend on the circumstances of its manufacture, while individual syringes would also be expected to vary due to the tendency of the bacteria to form clusters, so two soldiers standing next to each other for their shots might receive very different levels.

Another species with the same capability is mycobacterium tuberculosis [40] and in 2012 BCG vaccine was found to be contaminated in the very fashion that seems likely of anthrax vaccine [49]; then in 2015 the same researchers detected vaccine strain cell wall deficient mycobacterium tuberculosis in the blood of BCG vaccine recipients. [50]

If indeed cell wall deficient forms contaminating the vaccine are responsible for the disabling illnesses then it might be possible to devise a cure by figuring out how to kill the bacteria within the body.  Work is progressing along those lines, but on a shoestring charity budget while the government is continuing to pretend that no such vaccine reactions happen. [51-56]  There has also been a tiny amount of research into killing cell wall deficient bacteria directly. [124]

It is the kind of emerging science that a Pentagon which were overturning every stone to tind out what was harming the troops would be investigating as a matter of urgency.  The Vaccine Healthcare Centers were made aware of the science in 2009 but military medicine did nothing to investigate it.