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Walter Richard Schumm, PhD

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The authors' research was a welcome start.¹ However, many immune disorders take time to develop. If such disorders were related to vaccinations, symptoms might not develop for many months after the vaccinations; yet the authors limited their time frame to less than 18 weeks. Some research that has suggested a relationship between anthrax vaccination and declines in subjective health reports has involved follow-up periods of several years.² Furthermore, there appears to be a genetic component to many immune disorders. Some research has found that Gulf War illness symptoms were primarily related to vaccinations for those veterans who later reported that adverse reactions to their vaccines had occurred immediately after their vaccinations.³ Therefore, an important control variable not assessed in this study was the presence of adverse reactions subsequent to the vaccinations recorded in the database used. It might also have been useful to assess and report . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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