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Last updated 24 October 2011

Gulf War Illness: A Treatment That’s Working!

Gulf War Illness Treatment Plan

Gulf War Illness Treatment Plan

The following physician supervised, doxycycline-based, treatment plan took me from a couch-ridden invalid to a reasonably active parent of two school-age kids able to maintain a part-time job in 5 months time (circa 1998). I have improved dramatically, recovered an active life, and have continued to steadily improve for the twelve years I have been on this program. Overall, I would say that I am about 98% recovered— dramatically improved!

[Note: This dramatic improvement holds only so far as I continue to strictly follow the rules, which are described below. When I cheat, (indulge in caffeine, sugar, alcohol, or over exertion) I pay a price for it with a relapse. However, so long as I stay on the treatment plan I am indistinguishable from a healthy person in my abilities and in the way I feel.]

With medical insurance that pays over 90%, 100 doxycycline tablets cost me $3.00 (more or less a month's supply)! Three dollars, and this antibiotic has undoubtedly saved my life when millions upon millions of taxpayer dollars supposedly honestly directed at finding the cause of Gulf War Illness has done nothing for me whatsoever!

(Note: I am not a medical professional. This is simply a factual report of what has worked for me. Any program of medical treatment must be supervised by a qualified physician and tailored to your specific needs. However, if you can’t get this plan from your doctor, find another doctor.)

Here are the basics of the treatment program that has worked for me:

1. I consulted a doctor and presented him with copies of all the free medical research information available from Professor Garth Nicolson and Dr. Nancy Nicolson’s Institute for Molecular Medicine Web site at http://www.immed.org/.

2. Took doxycycline 100 mg tablets 3 times a day (one three times daily, or two in the morning/one in the evening). Capsules did not work for me for some reason, probably due to less absorption, so beware the capsules. Don't reject the doxycycline until you have given the tablets many months of trial. I recommend an 18-month test at this point. I didn't notice visible improvement for a few weeks, but somehow at a deeper level I still knew that I was being healed. The first couple weeks I actually felt worse at times. This is the Herxheimer reaction caused by the toxin released by the germs as they die. This is normal and to be expected. Remember, you are fighting for your life here, as well as those of your family. Don't draw any hasty conclusions during the first few weeks. Tough it out and eventually you should see improvement.

Most of the GWI patients I have read about use Nicolsons’ standard protocol. This involves 6-week periods of antibiotic treatment alternating with periods where the medicine is not taken. This cycle is repeated when symptoms return. Most of those patients have done very well. My personal experience over the first twelve years of treatment, however, is that I must take the antibiotic (doxycycline) continuously without break. I suspect that is either because in my case the illness had a full 7-year head-start before I discovered the truth and began treatment, or because I don't absorb the medicine efficiently due to defects in my digestive system. It is possible that other factors are involved that could vary from patient to patient, such as genetic or immune system differences, some of which may have been due to specific damage done by the germ before treatment placed it in check. Such damage may be the reason I don't absorb the medicine well. You will have to work the details of treatment cycles out with your doctor, but don’t hesitate to tell him/her that you feel you need longer cycles of treatment.

3. Eliminated every stressful aspect of my daily routine possible (some will remain of course). The chemistry of stress seriously aggravates this illness, although the illness is caused by a germ, not by traumatic stress.

4. Mild exercise only is the rule for the first 6 months of treatment, 3 times a week, starting at 15 minutes daily. Increase frequency and intensity gradually as stamina builds. Intense exercise makes symptoms worse in the early months, and highly intense exertion will really be impossible for the duration because it will cause relapses of the illness. However, it appears that the ceiling of activity increases as your recovery progresses. If you go beyond that ceiling, which, again, varies at any given point in time during recovery, symptoms will be aggravated even to the point of a major relapse. Be patient and your strength and stamina will come back incrementally until for all intents and purposes you are fully well again. To my thinking, although mild to moderate exercise is necessary for healing, the fact that intense or exhaustive effort causes a debilitating relapse, goes a long way toward demonstrating that this Gulf War Illness germ is an incapacitating biowarfare agent, or at least a similar laboratory product used for long-term bioterrorism (domestic and/or foreign).

To avoid any misunderstandings, I want to make clear that my exercise routine remained very mild for the first two to three years of treatment. At the seven-year point of treatment, however, I could do practically a full workout at the gym, though not with extreme tempo or intensity. Even after this amount of progress I have to ease back incrementally towards a full workout each time I fall off the medicine routine or slip into sugar/caffeine consumption. Either of these medical faux pas will produce a short-lived relapse. During the relapses I have to cut down to less exercise. Contrary to everything we have been taught and even experienced about the beneficial effects of exercise, more is not always better. With GWI too much of it can hurt you as can too little. The trick is to get just enough exercise to increase your circulation, muscle tone, and general health without exhausting yourself. After a year or two of treatment you will develop the ability to read the illness. Then you can tailor the ratio of exercise and rest to the way you feel.

5. It is also good to take a lot of extra C, E & B vitamins, as well as extra basic vitamin/mineral combos, not to overdose levels, but enough to make sure the bases are covered. The joint formulas help a lot with GWI too. Essentially anything that is a legitimate source of nutrition helps because, with GWI, the entire system is falling apart at an accelerated rate one cell at a time and preventative and restorative systems are working at less than optimal efficiency due to disregulation of the larger control systems. Joints and connective tissues are a favorite target of the GWI germ, Mycoplasma fermentans incognitas (MFI for short). Triflex (GNC), Osteo-Biflex, or any of the generic formulas featuring glucosamine and chondroitin do a lot of good for GWI. And, believe it or not, kids chewable vitamins help. They are assimilated the best, and they don’t irritate the stomach. I have found that Flintstones (don't laugh) chewable children's vitamins with immunity support make a noticeable difference in the way I feel.

6. I noticed that I felt better when I ate a lot of good protein source food, mainly eggs, so I initially added eggs to my diet 4 times a week. I have since reduced my egg consumption somewhat out of concern for long-term cholesterol management to 2 or 3 times a week, some weeks not at all. However, during the acute phase prior to seeing any real improvement, I felt strongly that the eggs did in fact boost my strength to the point that I could accomplish more of my essential daily routine as a parent. Beef has much the same effect. So, good quality meat, cheese and lots of fresh vegetables and fruits are now the mainstay of my diet. I strongly feel they are needed in large amounts to maintain strength with this illness, in other words, amounts somewhat beyond what the normal active person who needs a strong diet requires. It may look like you are pampering yourself of overindulging to some around but this is what it takes to be well with GWI, much as with AIDS. Extra rest is also key.

The following foods & supplements have also helped: Ginseng tea & Echinacea tea (both in the same cup, 2 cups a day); fresh garlic; onion; grape seed extract; and even a plain old aspirin once a day is beneficial (antifungal and anti-inflammatory).

The lemon and olive oil drink recommended by Dr. Nicolson helped a lot during the first 3 weeks of doxycycline treatment to get past the Herxheimer reaction. It is also great for an occasional boost. During the Herxheimer period (the first three weeks of antibiotic treatment) sipping the lemon olive drink as needed helps reduce the bacterial toxin-induced fatigue. To prepare the lemon and olive drink, put a couple cups of cranberry juice (or a juice of your choice) in a blender with some crushed ice. Slice a lemon (leave the pealing on it) and put the slices in the blender. Put in a tablespoon or two of olive oil, then blend. Use a strainer to filter the lemon peal from the mixture and sip the rest slowly. It helps. A slice of lemon in hot tea is also therapeutic, especially in flu/virus season, but watch the total caffeine intake. Although alcohol is a problem with GWI, due to the increasingly virulent new flu bugs, some red wine used to combat the flu is good idea to supplement our impaired immune systems. Don't overdue it, but the flu can kill faster than GWI, and red wine is proven help against the flu, as is Echinacea, ginseng and any other tea product.

I recommend occasionally adding an exercise supplement when things are going well and you are getting real exercise, something along the lines of ProLabs Lean Mass Matrix sports drink (something low sugar), Champion Nutrition's MET II sports drink, or Glucerna from Ensure. Glucerna stabilizes blood sugar, and sugar is major problem in GWI. I have found that the chocolate version of Glucerna helps me dramatically for some reason. Glucerna is not a medicine; it is merely a low sugar nutritional supplement with a precise mineral mix that seems to balance blood sugar. Anyone can take this, you don't have to be diabetic, and GWI patients need the special types of collagen building cholesterol contained in chocolate in order to rebuild the linings of the nerves and other crucial components of injured bodily systems.

There is a problem, however, in overdosing on chocolate. So, chocolate is both a blessing and a curse for GWI. It must be closely regulated to small daily amounts, or several small doses weekly. On the other hand too much chocolate seems to aggravate GWI substantially, probably because of the sugar content. Disregulated heart rate is often a problem with GWI and chocolate has been shown to help control heart rate abnormalities. Therefore, one has to pay attention and tailor the amount of chocolate in the diet. Keep it small, but don't avoid chocolate completely. There are other flavors of Glucerna, but chocolate is the best. A good basic rule is no chocolate for the first three months of treatment, then add it back carefully, paying attention to how you feel. If you have heart rate issues, ask your doctor to increase the antibiotic dose temporarily, rest, avoid sugar and get mild exercise while increasing the chocolate just a bit. When the heart rate resolves you can go back to the baseline program or stick with what seems to be working the best. This is a decision for you and your doctor.

Judging from the way I feel the vitamin-mineral mix in Glucerna matches GWI caused nutritional deficits very closely. In fact, many of the nutritional supplement products are enormous strength and energy enhancers for GWI patients. We basically need more of everything because of cell damage. Taking these supplemental products once a week, even at half or a third of the usual serving, will keep you stronger all week. GWI patients do not need anything near the recommended dose of most of these products. They are designed for high-performance athletes and intensively training bodybuilders. One capsule twice a week, for example, of Twinlabs Creatine Fuel, will add a great deal of strength and daily productivity throughout the week, although this is only a small fraction of the recommended dosage for athletes. More is not always better with GWI. Yes, we need intensive nutrition, but there are limits. There are two reasons for this. First GWI has an autoimmune component, and, second, it frequently produces disregulation of the bodily control systems. The best approach is to experiment by minimizing dosage of supplements and gradually increasing until benefits are maximum or negative effects are encountered and then reducing as appropriate. Larger doses of Creatine can irritate the stomach and bowels in any case, so small amounts are recommended here, but you will be amazed as to how strength you will gain from this one dietary aid.

Bearing all of these cautionary provisos in mind, here is a final supplement recommendation that, admittedly, falls into the experimental category, but can do great things for your health. Do not use this product if you have had tumors or have reason to suspect tumors. With that exception noted, those who can safely try it will find it to be just short of the fountain of youth. The product is called "Humagro." It is a homeopathic growth hormone supplement used by bodybuilders and athletes (a legal one). Anywhere from one third to the full recommended dosage (which is still very mild compared to what athletes do illegally), produces amazing improvements to overall health and vitality. The results, while gradual, are just short of miraculous. Everything "tightened up;" my skin has rejuvenated; I have triple the productive energy and vitality. I actually feel twenty years old again (I don't look it but I am rapidly moving in that direction). Fatigue is vastly reduced with this product, though, again, more is not better. It is used in six week cycles, with a six week break after each period of use. This product alone will make a huge difference in the way you feel. Anyone over 50 should consult their doctor about giving it a try, whether they have GWI or not. The real danger GWI-wise with this product is that you will feel so good that you will over-exert and cause a relapse. Control your activity level and you will be amazed at the improvements in your health. Please understand that I am not connected with this company; I am simply reporting what has worked for me. Also, this product, to my knowledge, has not been part of Dr. Nicolson's program, and I don't know his opinion. I just stumbled upon it and it has done wonderful things for my health. Again, those with known risks for tumors should not take this product.

Although I have not tried quinine, reports from trusted sources say it helps quite a bit. It must be obtained via prescription from sources in Canada, however. After checking to make sure it is legal in your state (usually is), and consulting with your doctor, it shouldn't hurt to give quinine a try. I intend to do this myself soon and will report the results on my Gulf War Illness Web page at http://matthew1026.com.

7. Rest when you are tired, don't push it. Let the body tell you when your stamina is sufficient for further activity. This may vary a great deal from day to day and week to week, but whatever feels right is right with GWI.

8. Drink a lot of extra fluids (No caffeine for the first year, period; it makes symptoms worse. Unfortunately so does sugar and chocolate when used beyond the minimum. Avoid these things like the plague during the first year of treatment and you will progress at a surprising rate. Inevitably, you will make slips, but don't get discouraged, just get back on the program and move forward again. Different personalities will have different amounts of will power. I have had so many relapses I can't count them, most due to my own lack of will power. My progress has generally been two steps forward one step back, but I have still gone a long way forward in 12 years, though it hasn't been pretty to watch. The rule for painless forward progress is NO SUGAR, NO CAFFEINE, NO ALCOHOL, but no one will be perfect in keeping it. Just keep the rule in mind as much as possible; it could save your life. Each inch of ground you fight for is worth it because, in the advanced stages, GWI tends to produce serious illnesses like ALS and rare cancers as spin-offs. Keeping the rules might actually prevent one of these very serious secondary effects. Along, with caffeine, sugar and alcohol, the other villains of GWI are stress, worry, and too much physical activity, all of which will cause a serious relapse and negate the positive effects of the rest of your treatment plan. There is an obvious connection between all of these factors: adrenalin and sugar production, both critical resources for athletes and warriors in combat. Once again, we see indications that the GWI germ functions as a disabling biowarfare agent, though one with relatively mild short-term effects. It takes months or potentially years for MFI to fully disable a healthy person.

Also, seek out positive interaction with friends and family (fun things, laughter, but not intense physical sports—maybe later for those). Laugh and have fun as much as you can. Laughter and joy actually change your body chemistry. As Reader's Digest used to say, laughter is still the best medicine. "Don't worry be happy" is good advice for GWI. And, trust God; he won't fail you. Prayer can succeed where nothing else does.

9. A good quality prescription antihistamine, believe it or not, also seems to help tremendously. The ones that cause drowsiness can be a problem with GWI, so avoid those. I have had very good results from Claritin, somewhat less with Allegra. I can’t definitely recommend anything else. My allergy season lasts from May through October, but I take the Claritin all year round anyway because it seems to moderate some of the symptoms of GWI. Perhaps it diminishes some of the effects of the autoimmune problems. With GWI, in allergy season I don’t just sneeze and get watery, itchy eyes; I get a systemic type of sick fatigue in addition to the typical allergy symptoms. Claritin seems to counteract some of the systemic issues, though I don't know why. Perhaps there is a reciprocal dynamic involved. GWI makes the allergic response more intense and the allergy then invokes the immune system, which then spreads the germ through infected white blood cells, which then spawns further auto-immune episodes. So, the antihistamine may function as a vicious cycle breaking factor. You may be surprised at how much better you feel when taking one of the good quality antihistamines. Claritin, again, is the only one I know that doesn't have some drowsy side effect. Allegra is second best in defeating classic allergy symptoms, and Zyrtec is also good, but Allegra causes a little drowsiness and Zyrtec causes a lot in my experience. Since both the brain and body chemistry of GWI patients are often abnormal, one shouldn't use medicines that alter them further; so stick with the Claritin when possible.

10. Pray! I believe prayer can have great benefits to your health and impact the course of world events. Pray for relief and protection. Give it some time and then note what changes. Trust in God; he’ll not fail you. I fully credit God’s help as the ultimate source of my survival of this illness. I also think God’s protection is the only reason the Gulf War Illness activists such as ex-Air Force Captain nurse Joyce Riley and Professor Garth Nicolson and Dr. Nancy Nicolson, myself, Dr. Stanley Monteith of Radio Liberty, and a few others, have survived multiple plans and attempts to assassinate us for telling the truth. Please note that in my view our own government is not behind these assassination schemes, as popular accounts might lead one to suspect. It is rather the racial terrorists in the United States and their foreign accomplices (including foreign intelligence operatives, if not their official agencies) who wish to hide the truth about how they contaminated our military vaccines with germs during the first Gulf War—more on this theory below. Yes, we have the antibiotic treatment to thank and also the protection of friendly intelligence and law enforcement agents (may God bless every one of them, and may God bless the Commander in Chief), but at bottom, without God’s help, it wouldn’t be enough to keep us safe and well under the circumstances.

Note: If you start the doxycycline or one of the other antibiotics Dr. Nicolson recommends, eat a serving of yogurt with each meal to replenish the gut flora that the antibiotic kills. Acidophilus tablets can be used in the absence of yogurt and work well for this purpose. Acidophilus tablets are available in the vitamin section of stores or in health food stores. The refrigerated chewable tablets are the best, but the others work OK too.

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Knowledge is power

My startling response to long-term treatment with the doxycycline tablets (and the fact that a series of medical tests did not reveal any standard illness) have led me to conclude that I am suffering from an infection from some kind of new germ which is extremely hard to clear 100% from the body. My symptoms were precisely what Professor Garth Nicolson describes for Mycoplasma fermentans incognitas (MFI) (see Nicolson’s Web page at http://www.immed.org/), and the recovery phase for antibiotic treatment tracks exactly as he describes it. When I first visited my doctor for this illness I was so acutely ill that I couldn't wait for the laboratory tests and too poor due to being out of work as a result of the illness to pay for them (I didn't expect my military retiree insurance to allow those tests due to the intensive cover-up that was obviously underway.). Thus, I started doxycycline treatment on the basis of having ruled out other obvious candidates by conducting an array of medical tests that my insurance would pay for, and then giving the doxycycline a good long trial to see what it would do. During the initial consult I was at the point of near total collapse, and to this day I do not know if I would have lived without the immediate administration of antibiotic therapy. Thankfully, my doctor is a genius with great intuition and common sense; he agreed to do first things first. I started doxycycline immediately on the basis of Nicolson's research studies which I had in hand, and the other diagnostic tests were done shortly thereafter.

I understand that many Persian Gulf War veterans may have other serious health problems derived from exposure to a variety of toxic substances in the Gulf War. Given my own experience though, I would recommend seeing a private physician to discuss a trial period of doxycycline (at least a year, preferably 18 months) to see if it helps. It seems plausible to me that some veterans may have both a toxic exposure problem and an infectious disease, in which case effective treatment of the disease may aid in sorting out exactly which symptoms derive from the toxic exposure(s). The remaining symptoms can then be targeted more precisely with appropriate therapies (once again under guidance of a qualified physician). I wish I could recommend the VA, but after the last totally misguided study, I regret to say that the Veteran's Administration shows no indications of ever gaining any real competency about GWI. (See the further, and very troubling, comments on the VA study below.) Don't quit the doxycycline too soon. Real advances continue to accrue a different long-term milestones such as 18 months, three years, seven years etc. That is assuming the patient follows the rules and avoids sugar, caffeine, alcohol, and over exertion.

Are positive lab tests for MFI mandatory before beginning long term doxycycline treatment? No. A trial is permissible under scientific medical protocols minus a positive lab test in cases where other alternatives have been ruled out by negative tests. In other words, the physician is entitled to explore treatments that might work even where lab tests are unable to identify a specific agent of infection. As I explain below in discussing where this illness came from, the cover-up of Gulf War Illness was only possible because DOD medical labs were either untrained, improperly equipped, politically compromised, or in league with racist domestic terrorists. Professor Garth and Dr. Nancy Nicolson’s expose, Project Day Lily, suggests that the problem involved elements of all the above. Therefore, given the presumptive causes of the GWI cover-up and a potentially wide-ranging compromise/ineffectiveness of laboratories, one would be a fool to assume that all lab results could be trusted on this issue. There is, therefore, only one acid test: take the doxycycline for 18 months or more and see if your health substantially improves.

Be careful not to fall prey to the disinformation overload on the Net. In addition to the Nicolsons’ Web site at http://www.immed.org/, a good site to stick with is Joyce Riley's American Gulf War Veterans Association at http://www.gulfwarvets.com/. Joyce was a USAFR Nurse (Captain) during the Gulf War. While evacuating the wounded from the Gulf War, Riley contracted the illness herself (as did Professor Garth Nicolson and his wife, Dr. Nancy Nicolson). The Nicolsons apparently contracted the illness from their daughter/step daughter, who served in air assault or some other special ops unit during the war. Nurse Riley found Nicolson's treatment information, began antibiotic treatment, and was restored to health. She then initiated an aggressive campaign to get the truth out to the public, going on speaking tours around the nation. Along with Professor Garth Nicolson and Dr. Nancy Nicolson, nurse Riley is one of the primary heroes of the Gulf War Illness saga/tragedy.

Another good Web site to study is Dr. Meryl Nass’s Anthrax Vaccine Web site at http://www.anthraxvaccine.org/index.shtml. Do not dismiss this site as irrelevant; it isn’t. These are the big three sites on GWI. Also see Dr. Nass’s blog at http://anthraxvaccine.blogspot.com/.

Why this treatment plan works.

This is essentially Professor Garth Nicolson's treatment plan (Institute for Molecular Medicine, Huntington Beach, California). He is the hero of the battle to find the truth about Gulf War Illness, one of the few scientists and doctors to recognize the illness as real from the beginning. Nicolson has conducted and published peer-reviewed scientific research that explains the unusual characteristics of the germ involved and identifies the antibiotics that are effective against it. At the time of the Gulf War Illness controversy following the war (circa 1991-1996) Dr. Nicolson was one of the top ten microbiologists in the world, and had been nominated for a Nobel Prize. He held one of the most prestigious chairs in medical research in the nation at the M. D. Anderson Cancer Institute at the University of Texas. Dr. Nicolson and his wife Nancy (also Dr. Nicolson) have written a novel, Project Day Lily, chronically their experiences during the discovery of the cause and treatment for the germ form of Gulf War Illness. Project Day Lily exposes the criminal elements involved in the cover-up, illegal human experimentation in the Texas prisons: criminal shenanigans that ranged from professional and character assassination to poisonings and murder. Nicolson’s studies, his reports to Congress, and his published scientific papers can all be found at his research institute’s Web site at http://www.immed.org/illness/gulfwar_illness_research.html.

The Nicolsons' research indicates that approximately 40-45% of the Gulf War Veterans who became ill suffer from an infection of what is apparently a "new" biowarfare agent, a germ called Mycoplasma fermentans incognitus (MFI). This disease can eventually affect any and all systems of the body. It is frequently misdiagnosed as something else, or not diagnosed at all. The primary symptoms of MFI infection are conveniently listed at http://www.immed.org/signsympt.htm. Everyone should get familiar with this list. MFI infection is not restricted to veterans; it is a disease of the public domain now, though still little known outside the circle of Gulf War Illness and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome activists, journalists and researchers.

As a result of the propaganda campaign to redirect the public away form Nicolson’s findings, tens of thousands of families whose ill veterans could have received effective antibiotic treatment were unnecessarily destroyed by the death or failed health of their breadwinner. Many family members contracted the illness themselves. Project Day Lily is available on the Internet from Barnes & Noble and Xlibris, and is further described at http://www.projectdaylily.com/.

If you wish to confirm the expertise of Professor Nicolson, his scientific credentials are academically awesome. They can be seen at http://www.immed.org/reachus.htm - faculty. Scroll down to "Complete Curriculum Vitae" and click on the link to see 40 pages of impressive scientific achievements. Nicolson's achievements distinguish him as one of the very top scientists in the world. Dr. Nancy L. Nicolson's credentials are linked from the same page and clearly place her into the who's who of science. This is the quality of research that underlies the treatment protocol described here, the same quality of research that absolutely impugns the immoral and illegal cover-up of Gulf War Illness perpetrated by (possibly criminal) elements within biowarfare research, military medicine, the VA, and Department of Defense (and, most likely, the Public Health Service).

The germ involved, Mycoplasma fermentans incognitas (MFI), has no cell wall and therefore the immune system cannot identify it. Normal germs have a protein coat on the cell wall that has a unique signature for each germ, something like Braille writing. For this reason, and probably due to some other novel features as well, MFI is extremely hard to fully eradicate from the body. It is as if the germ was continually reconstituting itself like the mythical Phoenix that rises alive again from the fire.

The primary component of the treatment plan, doxycycline, effectively stops the germ population from reproducing, and the individual life span of a germ isn’t long. Continued use of doxycycline (or ciprofloxacin) generates a gradual but continuous and ultimately quite substantial improvement in health up to a point where the patient feels and acts pretty much normal. The antibiotics are capable of reaching into the cells where the MFI hides, but in ways still partially unknown some of the germs seem to always find a means to survive. The course of treatment, therefore, depending on how soon treatment is begun after the onset of symptoms, may be for years, or even for life. On the other hand, doxycycline treatment does restore health and productivity; it gives the patient his or her life back and makes them noncontagious to the people around them.

My version of Nicolson's treatment plan does not vary from any of the core requirements; it merely expands a bit on supplementary dietary aids. However, I feel it can make a very significant additional improvement in the health of the GWI patient. It essentially amounts to nutritional pampering, and hitting the germ with the "kitchen sink." The most important supplementary rule is low sugar intake. Sugary foods seriously aggravate GWI. Closely restricting sugar intake in a very consistent and disciplined fashion will make an amazing difference in how a GWI patient feels. I don't know if Dr. Nicolson has fully explained why this is so, but after ten years of treatment and careful tests, I know that it is so. I suspect low sugar levels in the cell under certain conditions can trigger apoptosis, programmed cell death, which may turn out to be one of the few occurrences that can finally offset the more recalcitrant aspects of MFI infections. In other words, low blood sugar may be a natural means to encourage the death of MFI germs that would otherwise continue to find a means to defeat both the antibiotic and the immune system. To implement the low sugar rule it is also necessary to restrict alcohol and caffeine consumption because these substances release stored sugar into the blood. Intense activity is also a problem, perhaps for similar reasons; the production of adrenaline compounds triggers additional sugar release, which then aggravates the illness. Reducing stress is similarly important, probably because stress generates adrenalin.

It is important to avoid sweets and eat solid high protein food, meets, eggs, and cheeses with lots of quality salads. This kind of diet levels out blood sugar. To get even more results, I suggest going a little further by choosing one day a month to fast: no food at all for the first six to twelve hours, followed by a light sugar-free meal in the evening. I am not recommending artificial sweeteners here. Chemicals of all kinds cause problems with GWI. Customizing your own approach to a low blood sugar strategy should generate substantial further improvement in how you feel. Experiment, pay attention, and do what works for you.

GWI seems to affect different people differently. Be alert to your body's signals and tailor your treatment program to what you learn. If your body seems to be responding negatively to something, cut it out of your routine for a few months, notice how you feel, then put it back and check again. Ultimately you will find some things that make a big difference, and will be able to customize your regimen for optimal results. By doing a start and stop like this even with the antibiotic doxycycline (or Cipro) every so often, you will absolutely confirm the validity of the antibiotic treatment for yourself. But don’t stay off the antibiotic for more days than required to be certain that the symptoms have returned or you will lose much ground in your health and pay a price making it back up again.

Don't make any assumptions with this illness—none. We are not normal. Routine nutritional advice given by normal people for normal people may or may not apply to those of us suffering from GWI—such as less cholesterol is always better. This may be true for some but not for others. It does not seem to be true for me. I seem to require both a high protein and high cholesterol diet to maintain my strength and health. If you feel you need to eat more meat and eggs to feel well, I recommend you go ahead and eat them but try to push the amounts back incrementally to the minimum extra necessary to produce strength and health. More may be better, but not more and more and more. With GWI “Cholesterol is our friend,” as Mel Gibson says about coffee, because it is needed to repair damaged cells; but you can still overdose on it. So, use trial and error, check the results closely, repeat the same test multiple times to be sure, then do what is proven to work and never look back. Tune up the plan a bit every few months to make it more precise. Hold to the plan in as disciplined a manner as possible and you will see amazing improvements. Everyone cheats a little, a bit of chocolate here, a soda there, but with GWI we cannot cheat very often; the price is too high.

Additional treatment considerations are given by Professor Nicolson at http://www.gulfwarvets.com/treatment.htm. These include such things as the hydrogen peroxide and Epsom salt bath (it seems to help), the dry sauna, etc. Remember, doxycycline is the cornerstone of this plan, as is prayer. Never underestimate the power of prayer. Don’t underestimate the love of God for his children. "Ask and you will receive."

To get an honest blood test for MFI, consult VIP Dx laboratories in Reno Nevada: http://www.vipdx.com/.

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Is GWI a National Security Threat? Yes!

What is this disease and where did it come from?

My own situation suggests that at least a good part of Gulf War Illness is indeed an infectious disease, not a toxic chemical exposure. I say this because I did not deploy to the Gulf. My team was diverted to Europe after receiving the shots (vaccines) for deployment to a hostile fire area in Saudi Arabia just after the air war began. I was involved with processing personnel for deployment to and from the battlefield, both in the U.S. and Europe. I came into contact with personnel and equipment returning from the Gulf. I was also issued a gas mask that had recently returned from the Gulf (after the air war started). I had no exposure to chemical attacks, pesticides, PB pills, oil well fires, fallout from our bombing of Iraqi munitions dumps, etc.—or to excessive stress for that matter. We worked exceptionally long hours, were somewhat vulnerable to terrorism in our deployed location in Europe, but did not serve in a hostile fire zone.

Casual one-time contact with personnel and equipment would normally not suffice to spread this illness. The MFI germ of GWI is not easily transmitted by human contact, but it is possible to very effectively pass these germs via contaminated vaccines. The skin itself is a major component of our immune system. Bypassing the skin via hypodermic injection gives any germ a much better chance of success. Therefore, on a logic of mode of transmission, the vaccines become the prime suspect.

In theory, veterans who deployed to the hostile fire areas of the battlefield could have contracted the germ from either the battlefield or from contaminated vaccines, or both. Chemical/biological weapons sprayers or scud missiles could have delivered a more potent concentration of the germ than casual contact with contaminated personnel or equipment would produce. However, for personnel like myself who were given the vaccines for the battlefield but never arrived in the Middle East due to last-minute reassignments, contaminated vaccines remain the only likely source of the disease. In support of the thesis that MFI is not easily transmitted (many germs are not easily transmitted) I refer the reader to one of the United States Department of Transportation's security planning documents, "The Role of the Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO) In Preparing for Security Incidents and Transportation System Response," by Michael D. Meyer, Ph.D., P.E. Here DOT only considers anthrax in its planning for potential terrorist incidents involving biological warfare: see http://www.planning.dot.gov/Documents/Securitypaper.htm.

In other words, most germs are not effective weapons even in enclosed environments. They have to be delivered just right, and in heavy concentrations. There are a few highly contagious exceptions such as Ebola, but MFI is not one of them. Something as virulent as Ebola however is no good as a weapon because it can't be contained; its path cannot be predicted and it may wind up hitting the sender's community as well as the target. It also stands to evoke an ultra-severe response that defeats the purpose of using it—the user loses more than he or she gains.

This particular germ that Professor Garth Nicolson and Dr. Nancy Nicolson identified as the cause of much of GWI, Mycoplasma fermentans incognitas (MFI), has been the subject of a substantial amount of scientific research—Gulf War Illness activists didn't just make it up in their imaginations. The U.S. Army holds a patent on MFI (issued 1993), and there are reports that scientific research samples of the MFI germ were sold to Iraq (by a lab in Florida) before the first Gulf War under a scientific license.

The question then, is not, "Is this germ real?" but "Where did it come from; how did the Gulf vets acquire it?" Although Professor Nicolson, in a trip to the Middle East after the war found the illness in the civilian population of the region, and the burial details of coalition forces were hit hard by mysterious illnesses that quickly disabled and killed many of them (they may all be dead by now), the general population of our deployed forces on the battlefield never reported being ill with anything other than routine, well-established health problems. Thus, there was no evidence of serious germ warfare induced illness on the battlefield commensurate with heavy spraying or missile attacks. It looks like the burial detail problem derived from the fact that some of the Iraqi units had deployed with germ weapons that they never got a chance to use because the coalition air strikes blew them up in place in the entrenched Iraqi defensive positions. The Iraqi soldiers then became exposed to their own germs (the germs may, in fact, have only infected Iraqi soldiers already dead or dying from the air strikes). Our burial detail personnel then picked up the germs from the Iraqi dead in the process of burying them.

Battlefield weapons, to be of any real use, have to immediately and fully disable the warrior. But MFI is a slow growing infection. Therefore, yes, MFI might have remained undetected had it been used on the battlefield, but there is little purpose for a nation at war to use such a germ. With little early warning signs and no rapid effect, MFI essentially “wimps out” as a battlefield weapon. Thus, the only viable role of MFI is as a racial terrorist, eugenics, or long-term economic warfare agent. Groups with such agendas might effectively employ MFI, but nations would hesitate to use this germ, even for such purposes, because, as a germ weapon it falls into the category of a weapon of mass destruction (WMD). In using it, a nation risks retaliation that employs a much more effective WMD such as nuclear bombs or missiles. They risk fully losing in the exchange due to the long time required for MFI to work, which time remains available for their opponent to strike them back with a much more potent weapon system.

Thus, MFI is basically an irrelevancy to the battlefield. It doesn't have enough "Um! Pa! Pa!" to win a war. A smart field commander or national command authority would not use such a weapon. They would get little in the way of disabling effects on the battlefield while risking their opponent retaliating with more potent weapons of mass destruction. A more reasonable hypothesis is that, even if Saddam had made preparations to attack with more potent germs and failed to deliver them in effective ways and quantities, since MFI infections turned out to be widespread in deployed veterans beyond the scope that documented battlefield events could account for, the MFI component was delivered via vaccines. And remember, some of the ill vets never even made it to the battlefield.

Given the findings of Professor Urnovitz that Gulf vets were suffering from retroviral infections, there is good reason to believe that retroviral agents were added to the contaminated vaccines in addition to the MFI germ. Bacteria themselves can carry multiple viruses. Similar to MFI, retroviruses are themselves relatively slow growing. At worst they might produce flu-like symptoms at a lower chronic type level, but even then only after some time. In the heat of battle, both Army doctor and frontline warrior would be inclined to shrug these off with aspirin, fluids and rest—dismissing any distraction from the primary battlefield mission in deference to the adrenalin rush that accompanies combat conditions. Once again you have the presence of a germ agent in GWI that is a wimp on the battlefield, suggesting that the purpose of these germ weapons was not battlefield use but some other more insidious type of attack, such as racial terrorism or economic meltdown of the United States workforce.

In sum, MFI does not present a good risk/benefit profile for war planners. It was, therefore, probably not intentionally used on the battlefield. To make battlefield employment worthwhile, MFI would have to be combined with more nasty components having seriously disabling and nearly immediate effects. The absence of acute illnesses of this type en mass on the battlefield suggests that such combinations of more effective germ weapons were never delivered upon U. S. and coalition force battlefield positions. Yes, there were trace amounts of germ warfare agents such as anthrax and brucella, but the fact that the illnesses themselves never fully developed on the battlefield suggests an inadvertent route of exposure that was much milder than the level of exposure that would result from direct delivery of a weapon system on the battlefield. More likely, these trace amounts of germ warfare agents that were found in Gulf vets came from exposure to dead Iraqi soldiers whose germ weapon systems were blown up along with the soldier in their defensive positions, or from our blowing up the storage bunkers/laboratories of the Iraqis that contained biowarfare stockpiles and germs agents. However, brucella infection tends to cause abortions and, for that reason, qualifies as a weapon for racial eugenics. Thus brucella may have been placed into the terrorist stocks of contaminated vaccines but the illness developed slowly in infected vets due to its concentration being diluted for some reason, or perhaps the diagnosis on the battlefield was missed for some reason, including the symptoms not being reported by gung-ho patriotic and physically very strong veterans who didn't want to abandon their comrades with whom they had trained and were interdependent upon for effective combat performance.

Thus, a vaccine-transmitted MFI/retroviral cocktail manufactured and deployed by our own domestic terrorists is a more likely cause of GWI than direct battlefield attack by enemy forces. Such a theory best fits the symptoms and lab test results of Gulf vets. It also fits the logic and battlefield doctrine for the use of germ agents in war. Domestic terrorists would, in fact, prefer such weapons for a number of reasons. A delayed effect suits their purposes because so much time elapses between vaccine administration and onset of symptoms that they and their contaminated vaccines are not implicated. If the effects were immediate and noticeable shortly after the vaccine was given, very few veterans would be affected before smart epidemiologists would raise the alarm and enforce a vaccine recall. The military would then have to implement a quality control review of vaccine stockpiles and enforce more strict security procedures for vaccine production. Consequently, anyone wishing to infect large numbers of troops via vaccines must use slow-growing delayed-effect germs. MFI is such a germ. It is useless for warring parties on the battlefield, but imminently useful for terrorists via vaccine delivery. Given what we know of how GWI has manifested itself in ill vets, vaccine-delivered bioterrorism becomes a more probable hypothesis than battlefield germ warfare as the source of the germ version of GWI.

All things considered, GWI, seems to have resulted, at least in major part (~40-45 % minimum) from an intentional terrorist contamination of military vaccines with MFI and retroviruses. Obviously our foreign enemies would stand to gain from hitting our military so hard, particularly enemies who are very competitively engaged in long-term economic warfare with the U. S., such as the Chinese. However, they also stand to lose much if they get caught. I don't rule out foreign complicity in this, but my favored theory is that domestic terrorists ala McVeigh/Nichols are primarily responsible. Foreign terrorists have never demonstrated the level of access to our sensitive military programs required to do such a thing, though there is a first time for everything. If they had had such access, the results, while bad enough, would conceivably have been much worse and more immediate than what we actually witnessed. To implement treaties and mutual defense agreements with Saddam, a foreign enemy would wish to accrue more forceful effects on the battlefield in real time to the benefit of Saddam’s forces in the field. Thus, our foreign enemies allied with Saddam would, one would presume, have preferred to deliver a much more potent and immediate blow than what we saw in GWI.

On the other hand, MFI is seriously aggravated by stress, and the battlefield is a sure source of that. So it remains possible that foreign enemies may have arranged to co-opt our racial terrorist’s access to vaccines, then used MFI under the mistaken presumption that it would produce more striking effects on the battlefield than it actually did produce, only to see it fizzle before their eyes. There was, in fact, a rumor published after the war that one of Saddam’s biowarfare scientists intentionally weakened the MFI germ out of humanitarian concern, without informing Saddam, thus providing one possible explanation as to why the germ fizzled during the Gulf war. For these reasons, battlefield exposure and foreign enemy involvement cannot be completely ruled out, but such an hypothesis still does not explain why those of us who never made it to the battlefield came down with MFI infections. The vaccines, therefore, remain the prime suspect as delivery method, even if the MFI germ was thought to be a useful battlefield weapon at the time and was n fact deployed, or at least positioned, on the battlefield before going up in smoke in coalition air strikes.

You may want to ask at this point, "Why would domestic terrorists risk vaccine contamination that would, once discovered, point to a domestic source with access to sensitive military programs, thus revealing their presence in key places in our military industrial complex, a presence they would more likely wish to protect due to its long-term value?" Well, perhaps they no longer see that presence as long-term due to the inexorable play of the social dynamics of aculturization. Our culture’s continuing move towards racial tolerance leaves racial terrorists little hope of finding committed recruits to replace the old hands, recruits who are willing to use violence against minorities, gays, and the "liberal" federal government that supports their rights—and willing to risk a death penalty or going to jail for life. In other words, young racists are still willing to "talk the talk" but they are not willing to "walk the walk." So, the domestic terrorists may have reconciled themselves to the inexorable march of time and resolved to play the cards they had while they still could.

So, it is a real possibility that our racial terrorists saw the social foundations for racism going away and elected to use the few loyal members they had left deep within the military medical-scientific research-public health-defense contracting system when the prime opportunity of a massive military deployment presented itself. Having nothing better to strike with, they seized upon the last moments of a once in a lifetime opportunity to deploy a new germ while standard medical tests would still not reveal its presence. They had one last and, from their point of view, magnificent, chance to deliver an effective racial eugenics weapon to a massive number of targets before the inexorable advance of medical science made routine testing for MFI available nationwide—and they took it. In the situation of racial terrorism via MFI two clocks were ticking (dude). The racists felt pressured to act before their secret germ became a public germ, and they felt pressured to act before they ran out of volunteer human agents with sufficient commitment to their cause to build a network capable of acting at all.

If foreign agents stepped in and offered the racial terrorists substantial sums of money to do this, so much the better. The racial terrorists are a cash-poor organization that desperately needs funds for continued operation. Such a foreign-source windfall would provide some of the old hands in key positions who were making decisions a "golden parachute" for their personal retirement plans, thus making the decision much more palatable personally.

And, yes, incredibly, during the height of the Gulf War controversy, 1991-2004, no one was routinely and effectively testing for MFI, although the Army held a patent on the germ as of 1993, and Professor Garth Nicolson had strongly associated the germ with GWI as of 1996. Availability of competent MFI testing is still minimal, even today.

There is another possibility, though it is still a variation on the same theme. Even if the domestic terrorists chose not to risk attacking federal troops, contamination of military vaccines with terrorist germs could have happened unintentionally anyway. In the rush to expand vaccine stocks in time for an unknown kick-off date for battle in the Gulf, the contaminated vaccines or vaccine components intended to be given to targeted groups of civilians by the racists may have unintentionally gotten mixed in with the clean military vaccine stocks. In this version of the racial terrorism theory, the GWI tragedy was produced by accident. There is some logic to support the accidental scenario, for an attack on the scale of GWI would a big move for domestic terrorists, heretofore viewed by the public perhaps as “penny-ante” players. However, the long drawn out and carefully orchestrated cover-up of GWI after the fact was certainly no accident.

If the attack on federal troops on such an enormous scale was in fact intentional, however, it would seem to indicate one of two things. Either the domestic terrorists saw themselves moving closer to their end game, running out of time as our culture advances beyond racism, or our government and the public has been underestimating these groups, the scope of their agenda, and their resolve to carry it out all along—possibly both.

Whatever the finer points of the event history of GWI, its sources and cover-up, may turn out to be, there is a lot that we do know for certain at this point. Peer-reviewed scientific research studies have identified MFI as a cofactor in AIDS and the primary cause of death in many AIDS patients. This is almost certainly no coincidence. Mycoplasmas have been described as able to transport the HIV virus into cells and signal rapid reproduction of the HIV virus, thus giving AIDS a secure foothold in a newly infected victim. MFI not only enhances the chances of the AIDS (HIV) virus getting a good start in the human body, but MFI will often kill the patient when the AIDS virus has been unable to do so. This makes HIV and MFI the perfect combination as a bioterrorism binary weapon set—and practically no one has ever been testing for it, not even after the Nicolsons’ research was published!

Since we now have a test for AIDS, but the test for MFI (the Nicolsons’ new version that works reliably) is only available in a handful of specialized labs unknown to most physicians, MFI is a germ weapon domestic terrorists may continue to use with little risk of getting caught. There are few properly trained and equipped (and honest labs), and no risk of exposure in the labs where the good 'ol boy racial terrorists have gained influence.

Under such conditions it was not so difficult for domestic terrorists to compromise the few military labs that even attempted to check the veterans’ blood for MFI during the Gulf war and its aftermath. Old and unreliable test methods often failed outright, and when the rare positive finding would develop, its disclosure was prevented by a variety of means. One of those methods, which has actually been reported to have occurred, is to leave the samples set too long or expose them for a period of time to open air room temperature environments where the MFI germ presence in the sample is rapidly degraded.

This very thing happened to me as I lay seemingly dying in an Air Force hospital circa 1992-93, a year or two after the first Gulf War. I was suffering from some mysterious infection that produced an acute dysentery type illness. Three weeks of powerful intravenous antibiotics saved my life (barely), but when I asked the physician what germ had been identified in the test results from stool samples sent to the laboratory he said they weren’t able to identify the germ because the lab technicians mishandled the sample, leaving it exposed too long. The lab test was spoiled either by intention or incompetence.

I, personally, have other reasons not to trust military labs. Since the first Gulf War (when I received the deployment vaccines for the battlefield prior to being diverted to Europe in support of another task for Operation Desert Storm) I have developed a recurring and increasing health problem with desert terrain. Something in the desert environment makes me severely ill within two days of exposure. While unpleasant and risky, I have tested this many times because I have to go into the Mojave desert to visit my son and daughter (I live in Indiana). The only thing unique to the Mojave that can cause a rapid and systemic illness of the kind I experience is a germ called Coccidioides immitis. These infections are well-known in the desert communities under the moniker of "Valley Fever," though the technical name of the illness is coccidioidomycosis. Valley fever is quite serious and potentially fatal. Thus, I have concluded that my problem in the desert has been Valley Fever all along, yet I have been tested for this germ by military labs and the finding was negative.

Coccidioides immitis (immitis means "merciless") is also a germ that has been weaponized in previous biowarfare research. The MFI germ of Gulf War Illness likely predisposes a person to Coccidioides infection (and many others) by compromising the effectiveness of immune system T-cells. (See the scientific journal article entitled, "Coccidioides immitis fractions which are antigenic for immune T lymphocytes" in the journal Infection and Immunity, vol. 59 issue 11, pages 3952-3961, November 1991.) It is therefore possible that our biowarfare research (or that of some other nation) had previously identified MFI as a good partner to one or more offensive germ warfare agents under research at one time (back when such research was legal), perhaps HIV or C. immitis, and the racial terrorists, learning of this co-opted the strategy for their own purpose.

Prof. Garth and Dr. Nancy Nicolson tell a fascinating story of these kinds of inexplicable lab anomalies occurring around the Gulf War Illness inquiry—and much more, including foul play ranging all the way to contract killings and poisonings—in their recent GWI expose written as a novel, entitled Project Day Lily. Given the Nicolsons' excellent background information, my own experience of living with this illness, and first hand experience of the tragically inept and heavily propagandized government response to Gulf War Illness, I have settled on the racial terrorism hypothesis as the most explanatory theory of what happened. I only came to this on the surface unlikely theory after close analysis of all aspects of the Gulf War Illness mystery over the past 12 years, especially the science. In other words, the hard data forced me to this conclusion, especially the inescapable logic of the abnormally high incidence of HIV and MFI in minority and gay populations. (Lyme Disease is caused by another suspect germ that is being found more recently in populations with chronic fatigue. It will be interesting to see how the demographic statistics turn out for this germ when sufficient numbers of patients have been tested. On the surface, Lupus is another disease associated with GWI that seems to have afflicted minority populations more heavily than white Caucasians.) In other words, like everyone else, I have not been naturally predisposed to the racial terrorism theory. I naturally tended to look to the battlefield like everyone else. But a closer analysis of the facts shows the racial terrorism hypothesis to be far more explanatory of what we know.

There are potentially quite a few other germs involved in the arsenal of our domestic terrorists, but to stay on topic, here is what I think happened in the event of the germ side of Gulf War Illness. (There is a chemical injury side to Gulf War Illness that appears to account for roughly half the problems, and there are a few smaller subgroups afflicted by a handful of other things). By using the good ’ol boy network in the military and defense contracting communities that President Eisenhower warned us of in his farewell speech all the way back in the '60s (see Michael Korda's recent biography of Eisenhower, Ike: An American Hero, New York: HarperCollins, 2007, at pages 717-720), domestic terrorists with friends and collaborators in the military industrial complex have been pursing a racist eugenics program using contaminated vaccines to infect minority and gay populations with harmful germs. This has been going on since the '60s when the AIDS epidemic began to emerge in Africa. Apparently MFI-contaminated vaccine made its way into the deployment stockpiles for Operation Desert Storm—whether intentionally or accidentally is unclear. Already having an informal network of friends and allies within the military medical, intelligence, and scientific communities, the racial terrorists were able to replace or compromise laboratory technicians in the few military and VA labs that were set up to test for MFI.

MFI was then a new germ, at least in the public domain, and few labs were set up to test for it. To compound the problem, MFI is an intracellular germ and cannot be detected with a microscope. It takes complex and expensive DNA-based tests to discover this germ. At the time of the first Gulf War even the handful of labs that might have looked for MFI were using ineffective methods that would frequently miss the germ in a veteran's blood sample.

This domestic racial terrorism theory explains all the known data on Gulf War Illness (and quite a bit more including statistical health anomalies among minorities and gays going back to the '60s). It explains the findings of squalene (an experimental vaccine additive), the findings of retroviruses, the odd genetic illnesses, and the MFI infections.

Foreign enemies or domestic terrorists, or some collaboration between the two, dumped a variety of destructive agents into our military vaccine serums, “hitting us with the kitchen sink,” as it were. There is an established military tactical precedent for doing this in the long-known concept of the “Russian doll cocktail,” which is the Soviet battlefield doctrine of using a mixture of chemical agents or biological agents in the same weapons system to maximize damage to the enemy.

The MFI germ does not survive long in the open blood stream, but requires a host cell for protection; it penetrates a cell and lives inside of it. Oddly, MFI seems to prefer (in addition to the connective tissues of skeletal joints) white blood cells as hosts. The very defensive system tasked to eliminate germs, the immune system’s white blood cells, are the favored hosts for MFI, similar to AIDS. To increase the chances of a successful infection, then, substances were added to accelerate white blood cell production (squalene) to ensure the immediate availability of a sufficiently large number of host cells to protect the newly injected MFI germs. Squalene may be performing the accelerant function for MFI that MFI itself performs for HIV.

MFI can also carry retroviruses as “payloads,” thus increasing its destructive capacity. Both retroviruses and MFI are capable of producing destructive genetic changes in the body, resulting in genetic illnesses such as ALS, etc. While a combined bio-chemical solution of this kind could have been sprayed directly on our forces on the battlefield, it would give little advantage because of the weeks, months or years of delay required for the illness to reach incapacitating stage. Such spraying would likely be detected and therefore the enemy would risk complete annihilation in our responding with nuclear weapons to the germ attack. The risk-benefit ratio doesn’t work for Saddam.

For domestic terrorists, however, the reverse is true. It is the perfect crime for them. They need a war to generate massive and hurried use of vaccines, and perhaps a willingness to deploy immature not fully tested experimental vaccines. Both toxic battlefield exposure and experimental vaccines can be used as a smokescreen—someone else will be blamed. If the crime is eventually detected, and even if we find out who did it, we can’t nuke our own territory in response, for the terrorists are blended all across America among our own people. They don’t want or need immediate incapacitation of U.S. forces; gradualism works best for them, although they would have been glad to have crushed U.S. forces in the Gulf War. But the slower method has its own advantages in the long run. This way they can move their people into the key positions in our military that are vacated by those falling ill (to the extent they have resources and otherwise qualified personnel), step by step increasing their presence and power within our own system. They can even individually target the key individuals they hope to replace by using this germ to contaminate their personal vaccine dose. The bottom line is, the Gulf War Illness event and cover-up has domestic terrorism written all over it.

These racist domestic terrorists, who there is every reason to believe had intentionally spread AIDS in minority and homosexual communities (and in Africa) for decades, were somehow able to "pull strings" within the good 'ol boy network sufficiently to dissuade key scientific and medical experts on the GWI research advisory boards and committees from giving credence to the Nicolsons’ work. Proper scientific evaluation, however, reveals the Nicolsons’ studies to have been fully credible and deserving of immediate follow-up. Whether they used some "national security" story as a smokescreen or simply cited the inability for military labs to reproduce Nicolson's findings is unclear, but they were able to divert government research from the proper path and Nicolson received no funds to expand his research as he should have.

The cover-up of MFI in GWI initially got off the ground by referencing the negative blood tests generated by compromised labs and old unreliable test methods. The honest doctors and scientists in VA and military medicine then had their hands tied by the empiric protocols of science; they could not go against the lab tests and survive critical scrutiny by their peers in the medical profession. Further pressure was placed on VA and military physicians through the top-down authoritative military hierarchy after the terrorists used their influence in the good ’ol boy network in the military and intelligence systems to pooh-pooh away the credibility of the Nicolsons’ research or convince the DOD/VA that is was a matter of national security to keep the whole thing secret.

Was the recent VA study compromised by similar means beyond stacking the deck in the selection of the wrong participants in the study? I don’t know. False positives for the participants? Bad batches of doxycycline or placebos masquerading as a real antibiotic? Terrorist sympathizers pretending to have symptoms they don’t actually have? Would the use of such methods that blatantly flaunt law and medical integrity be off limits to those crazy enough to use germs to contaminate our public and military vaccines, killing or disabling hundreds of thousands of innocent and honest citizens, including children who trust their doctors and their vaccines, and honorable warriors who have just returned from defending the rights and freedoms of those very same criminals in time of war? Not hardly. These people will stop at nothing. The whole thing evinces a Nazi mentality, a cold, calculating pseudo-scientific attempt to eradicate genetic “undesirables” from the human gene pool. This group is (probably) not just southern racist, although such people almost certainly comprise the majority of its membership. The visible, or at least inferable, pogrom of this group involves Nazi eugenics, as well as other less central aspects of various ultra-conservative American/European ideologies.

Yes, there was a cover-up, but the United States government as such was not the perpetrator of that cover-up (I hope). The criminal elements just described who have over the years entrenched themselves in a network of sympathizers throughout the military, law enforcement, intelligence, and scientific research communities are the perpetrators of the cover-up. Yes, they were in government, and in allied research contractors, but there was probably no official United States policy to cover-up Gulf War Illness (unless this network managed to deceive the national security apparatus somehow with a cover story that sounded good enough to justify the sacrifice of the health of several hundred thousand veterans and the well-being of their families). Even if such a deception has occurred, our government has merely been manipulated; it does not have an innate philosophy of racism or eugenics, or a cruel disregard for human rights and the veterans’ health as is evidenced in the tragedy of Gulf War Illness. This evil is the product of Nazi or Nazi-like domestic terrorism, pure and simple.

An even greater risk than the monumental tragedy we have already seen lies dormant in this event scenario. Our foreign enemies may have partnered with these domestic terrorists in certain ways to contaminate our military vaccines with MFI and other germs including viruses and retroviruses, or they wish to in the future if they haven’t already. One might object that ultra-conservative Americans would not do such a thing, not even the violent racists. While that is true as stated in many cases, genuine Nazis are not patriotic Americans; they are fascists.

The Nazis have always maintained active American and British branches of their organization (in addition to the one still alive in Germany)—before, during, and after WWII. No doubt it is present in other nations as well. The Nazi philosophy has a deep psychological appeal to many people due to its offering control over a troubled and threatening world that reveals no other quick and easy solutions. The solution offered by Nazis is simple and based on the universal human instinct to fear strangers and others who are not like oneself: xenophobia. For them the solution is kill the foreigners, kill the strangers, kill the undesirables; they are the problem. In the case of Nazis, they use mistaken views of genetics, outdated since the 1960s, to “justify” their views and to identify the undesirables. For the Nazi solution to be implemented, obviously the United States as we know it, the defenders of freedom and democracy and human rights around the globe must fall.

Thus the motive, the opportunity, and the modus operandi (use of science and genetically engineered germs to eradicate the opposition) for this major attack on U.S. forces by contaminating our military vaccines with germs during the Gulf War all fit the Nazis, or a Nazis-like philosophy of our racist community. It was an attempt to make a major blow against the U.S. military during time of war. Had it been more successful, it may have incapacitated our deployed forces in the Gulf. This would give Saddam the opportunity to overrun them, in theory giving him possession of our powerful military hardware, causing us to redeploy a similar force. The second deployed force, which we could hardly afford to muster, might have been incapacitated by delayed vaccine effects as well. Had this occurred it would have left us open to a coordinated attack at home by a partnership between the American Nazis in our military and police networks and our foreign enemies, such as China and/or Iran, any nation who is fascist (brown shirt) oriented, dictatorial authoritarians opposed to democracy.

Yes, we won a startling and demonstrative victory in the Gulf, but we may never know how close we came to a very different result. Many veterans had to heroically work through a horrific vaccine- induced illness that they could not prove was real in order to produce that victory. No one except themselves will ever know how difficult and painful achieving that victory was. The MFI germ partially fizzled, it didn’t completely knock down the veterans, but it did give them a tortuous illness that produced untold misery.

Did most of the ill vets experience an acute phase during the war, or was it primarily delayed (MFI infection can take three to seven years to fully manifest itself)? I don’t know. I experienced an acute phase during the war in my deployed location in Europe. It knocked me down: diarrhea, intense headaches, and fatigue. Had I not been given powerful antibiotics then I could not have performed my work at all. The military doctors did not volunteer to help me, however, it took several visits and outright demands to support my part of the mission to get the necessary antibiotic issued. I don’t know how common this experience was for other deployed veterans, but I do know that until such time as they received the correct antibiotics, they were potentially performing as supermen and superwomen through intense suffering to get the wartime mission accomplished. I honestly believe that our nation has no idea just how heroic those veterans were and how much they went through to win that war. I am not patting myself on the back here; my job was merely to operate a computer in Europe; I am talking about those people on the battlefields.

Since our military either denied or was unaware of the reality of the problem, those troops had no place to turn for help. They just had to suffer. While trying to gear themselves up to superhuman effort in the face of the enemy, this illness was tearing them apart inside, depriving them of even normal abilities—and they knew it because they could feel it. But they couldn’t prove it. To claim an illness, no matter how bad, without the ability to prove it in the military is taboo; one is automatically presumed to be a wimp. In the military one basically has to prove to the doctor that he or she is ill to get treatment. This is true in the best of times, at home during peace. During war, forget it. You will be dismissed by the medical system as a faking coward, and your own fellow troops will likely follow the doctor’s mistaken diagnosis and view you the same way.

So what can you do when something like Gulf War Illness occurs? You can only suffer through it and pray God shows you a way out. The extreme degree to which the veterans suffered will simply never be known. And that doesn’t even include their being branded as mental cases when they came home after a heroic effort most likely unmatched at anytime in history due to the extra burden they carried of this invisible illness. It doesn’t include watching themselves deteriorate before the eyes of their families, communities and employers and increasingly looking like incompetents or crazies because this germ was incrementally disabling their bodies and brain (MFI is one of the few germs that can get past the blood-brain barrier). One thing you can do is try to get the truth out, which is my purpose here.

All things considered, the prime suspect is the good ’ol boy racist-ultraconservative network within our own military, law enforcement, and intelligence communities. Given the statistical prevalence of AIDS in minority and gay communities during the early years of the AIDS outbreak, it certainly appears that racial terrorists are responsible for launching that epidemic. Although this particular germ, MFI, has been the subject of scientific research, and the U.S. Army holds a patent on it, for some reason (perhaps the expense and the fact that MFI mimics so many other illnesses) doctors, hospitals, or laboratories do not routinely test for it. For that reason, it remains a perfect tool for domestic terrorists: they can continue to use it while remaining undiscovered.

What would the good ’ol boy racist/ultraconservatives stand to gain from attacking our own active duty military in such a way? The logic speaks for itself. They can punch away at the overall health of the nation with undetected germ attacks, seriously disabling the workforce in hopes of creating a socio-political-economic crisis that will ultimately, perhaps combined with other measures of economic sabotage, bring down the federal government. Sure, they are hate-motivated, and striking out eases their frustration, even when the effects are minimal. But this kind of strategy is not without real practical teeth. In addition to economic warfare, by causing debilitating long-term illnesses in the active duty military forces, the domestic terrorists, who probably have a stronger presence in the National Guard and Reserve forces than the active duty units due to less emphasis on federal equal opportunity programs, stand to be able to incrementally substitute sympathizers into key vacancies created by GWI fallouts. When a crisis ultimately comes, they will be more effectively postured to maneuver military assets to their advantage. One can be sure that the economic warfare value of MFI has not been lost on our foreign enemies either. Even if they were not involved in the Gulf War Illness in its original occurrence, they are no doubt considering garnering access to our vaccines in a similar manner in advance of any future war against their country.

Whichever theory of GWI turns out to be correct, it is an indisputable fact of the public record that, over the past thirty years the United States has been bombarded with a plethora of new germs. These go well beyond the popularly known Lyme Disease, AIDS, West Nile Virus, Swine Flu and Gulf War Illness. Then we have that series of odd economic system failures, some of which (though probably not all) may be economic sabotage. Then there is that flurry of natural gas line explosions lately—too many, too close, to be coincidence. Even the major oil spills are suspect as potential environmental terrorism. They impact our food supply in key fisheries areas, degrade the health of seafood consumers, and put a lot of fishermen and restaurant people out of work.

Such seemingly unrelated, major environmental catastrophes cause the federal government to expend exorbitant amounts of money not properly budgeted—this increases the deficit, raising the risk of economic insolvency for the nation. Timing a terrorist flurry of activity to coincide with mother nature’s initial rampages of global warming is a smart move also, because it leverages natural events to exponentially increase the effects of the saboteur, which might otherwise be ineffective. Taken to its logical conclusion a prolonged course of similar events can, in theory, cause rampant discontent, economic failure, and even the collapse of federal control over the nation. Because the threat of system collapse is a real possibility, foreign enemies of the United States will be sorely tempted to collaborate in some or all of this. The Marxist game plan to bring down Western nations has always been very similar to what I have just described: artificially create crises of one kind or the other that destabilize government and give armed revolutionists a chance to step in and pretend to have the solution.

In short, whether this whole series of events has been spontaneous or intentionally contrived, we have been visibly hurt. We have taken some real blows. Who is responsible? Al Qaeda or other foreign terrorist organizations have not taken credit as they normally would for such a coup. Why not? Doing so would dramatically raise their popular support in the Arab nations, substantially increase donations to their cause, make recruiting a breeze, and generally result in their being made heroes of the first rank among their own people. Although Jihad enthusiasts genuinely expect to conquer the world, the more seasoned and practical minded intelligence analysts who advise them would have realized that a victory as large as GWI, had they been the architects of it, would be as great a coup against the West as they could ever realistically expect to achieve given our supremacy in military firepower and technology. Jihad would have claimed GWI if it was theirs. They did not. That leaves domestic terrorism as the prime suspect. Either we have a major coincidence on our hands that, nonetheless, poses an enormous threat to national security, or somebody did this on purpose, and that somebody is apparently a rat in our own woodpile: American racial terrorists.

More Problems

Comments on the Recent Flawed VA GWI Study

What’s Wrong With It?

Note: An article on the study in question is listed as bibliography entry #355 in the U.S. government’s Research Advisory Committee on Gulf War Veterans’ Illnesses Gulf War Illness and the Health of Gulf War Veterans: Scientific Findings and Recommendations, Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, November 2008. This large but lightly written and easily read document can be downloaded free from the Boston University Website and from the publisher’s Website.

http://sph.bu.edu/insider/images/stories/resources/annual_reports/GWI and Health of GW Veterans_RAC-GWVI Report_2008.pdf.

http://www.annals.org/content/141/2/85.full.pdf+html

http://www.annals.org/content/141/2/85.full

The bibliographic info for the article is ST Donta, Engel CC, Jr., Collins JF, et al. “Benefits and harms of doxycycline treatment for Gulf War veterans' illnesses: a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial.” Annals of Internal Medicine. Vol. 141, issue no. 2 (2004): 85-94.

Also see Joseph F. Collins, Sam T. Donta, Charles C. Engel Jr., Joel B. Baseman, Lisa L. Dever, Thomas Taylor, Kathy D. Boardman, Suzanne E. Martin, Annette L. Wiseman, John R. Feussner. “The Antibiotic Treatment Trial of Gulf War Veterans' Illnesses: Issues, Design, Screening, and Baseline Characteristics.” Controlled Clinical Trials. Volume 23, issue 3 (2002): 333-353.

This large follow-up study on Nicolson’s MFI research was only offered well over 10 years after the initial exposure. But the President had tasked those looking into GWI to fund all research avenues that were promising at the time GWI first came into the public awareness (early ’90s). None of the other theories of GWI showed relief of 90% of symptoms like the Nicolsons’ doxycycline protocol did. The other studies and lines of treatment produced very little relief and no extended symptom-free periods between treatments as did the Nicolsons’ doxycycline treatment protocol. Yet almost all of the alternative theories of GWI received large government grants to do additional research, while the Nicolsons more than promising approach received none. Fortunately quite a few private studies have been done and published in the scientific journals that confirm Nicolson’s work as the references at the bottom of this page show.

Whatever induced VA to do such a comically flawed study 10 years late if they had real concerns about germ infections? If they had real concerns about germ infections they should have been giving empiric antibiotic treatment from day one. True, there were some additional confirmatory research studies that solidified Nicolson’s case between Nicolson’s initial findings of the MFI germ in 1996 and the new VA study. This cross-corroboration may have been the deciding factor, but the Nicolson’s research was clearly valid in the first instance. I suggest another motivation was probably operating: the evidence trail had gone cold. Domestic terrorists who had used MFI to attack minorities, gays, and probably our own troops by contaminating vaccines with this germ had covered their own criminal culpability as best they could in the meantime. They were now confident that they could rig a study that would “show” that the MFI germ was not the cause of GWI, and that doxycycline was not an effective treatment (or desperate to try before any more proof came out against them). My own well-considered opinion after 12 years of study is that the VA study of MFI involvement in GWI was visibly delayed and invalidly constructed for the express purpose of avoiding a demonstration of the truth of the Nicolsons’ MFI theory of GWI.

But why? Obviously it’s bad science. Presumably it is also illegal to construct a fraudulent government research study. Nicolson’s studies were the paradigm of an etiological study and his credentials were as good as anyone in the world. He incontrovertibly established MFI infections in the ill vets and the causative role of MFI infection for the major symptoms of GWI in those vets. So, yes, the MFI theory should have been checked out further, but why wait ten years to do it? To dissuade further research into the MFI infections as the real cause of a large portion of GWI, that’s why, and to (falsely) justify prior criminal acts or professional incompetence for the public record. That is the only plausible reason for the VA to undertake such a ludicrous parody of scientific method. What specifically is wrong with the study?

The VA excluded vets from the study who were on doxycycline or similar drugs that are effective against MFI such as ciprofloxacin. This ensured a failure of the study for the following reasons. Infected vets who had not received antibiotic treatment for those 10 years would be either dead, fully disabled and incommunicado with society (unaware of the study), or fully distrusting of the VA who let them suffer 10 years from a disabling infection before responding to the very same research data that was present since 1996. What rational person would volunteer under that circumstance given the government’s (VA and Public Health Service) track record of human experimentation and bioterrorism against minorities?

Those infected vets who were still alive would be alive only because of one or two reasons: they were genetically predisposed to relative immunity to MFI infection, or they had found natural or medicinal remedies that gave them at least partial relief. In the first case they don’t need the doxycycline treatment, wouldn’t likely believe the illness was even real, and wouldn’t have serious enough symptoms to qualify for the study. In the second case they would understand that they would have to forfeit the self-discovered ameliorative methods that were keeping them alive, and if my experience with this illness is any indication, they would be convinced that they would run a solid chance of not surviving the research study or incurring permanent nerve damage, rare cancers, ALS, or similar problems known to spring from untreated GWI. If the prospective test subject felt there was any chance of the study proving MFI infection and efficacious treatment with doxycycline, the rational course for that person would be to seek immediate doxycycline treatment to arrest the course of a 10 year infection that could now take their life at any time. If they felt there was no substantial merit to the MFI theory, then it would be a waste of their time and resources to participate, resources critical to them because they were seriously ill.

The bottom line: a rational thinking veteran who actually had MFI infection would simply have no reason to participate in such a study. Therefore what subjects the study ended up with were obviously composed of three groups: vets with nerve damage from chemical exposures, disinformation personnel who were not really ill at all, and a hodgepodge of vets who had various “normal” health problems who for whatever reason had not yet achieved a viable diagnosis and treatment.

And why would a rational person believe that VA would undertake this study 10 years late with scientific objectivity? A positive outcome of the study could only demonstrate that MFI was the cause of much of the GWI, thus showing VA and military medicine to have been fully incompetent for missing the MFI infections in the first place. It would also show the research management councils to have been grossly negligent in not immediately awarding funds for MFI research during the mid ’90s, since as of 1996 they were told of the MFI infections in writing by a world-class microbiologist who had performed flawless studies. They were also offered the Nicolsons’ new PCR gene assay testing method to prove out the Nicolson’s results, and, finally, the Army did accept the opportunity to train their people on the new test method. But then the mystery arose that both Nicolson and the DOD were using the same method and Nicolson was finding MFI and the DOD was not finding it.

As disclosed below, the laboratory technicians and biowarfare researchers in the U.S. military are the most likely individuals to have initiated the attack on veterans through contaminating their vaccines with MFI, and they were the only people in a position to cover-up the illness when the veterans came home ill and starting sending blood tests into the DOD labs. This assumes, of course, that military and VA labs were even trained and equipped sufficiently that they could find MFI, and that is by no means clear.

So, in their infinite wisdom and commitment to following the presidential mandate to leave no stone unturned to find the cause of Gulf War Illness, what did the research directors do? They awarded the contract for a large study to follow-up on Nicolson’s promising MFI research 10 years late when little hope of success remained, and gave the job to the most likely suspects, U.S. military/VA medicine (or scientists closely associated).

Even for the largely innocent staff of DOD and VA medicine, confirming the Nicolson’s results would be a politically untenable result, as their organizations would be revealed to be professionally incompetent in not finding the germ in the first place. If there was criminal culpability as I have hypothesized here, the not so innocent staff members would realize that a criminal investigation would be the likely result. There is therefore no reason to believe the VA or military medicine would do an honest study concerning MFI and GWI. Why should a rational person expect the DOD or the VA to do an honest study when the only possible outcome of positive findings on MFI would be an indictment of the entire VA and military medical systems for gross incompetence or criminal liability? So, what did we get? A dishonest study.

There was no real chance of getting enough genuine MFI patients into the study. The most likely MFI infected veterans were either dead or on doxycycline or convinced of a false diagnosis and addicted to psychotropic drugs that they would not be inclined to discontinue since they were the only relief known to be available for a tortuous illness. The only viable candidates for the study that might prove the MFI hypothesis willing to participate and available were the veterans already on antibiotics. But the study excluded their participation! Why was this done? Obviously, to get a negative finding on the MFI hypothesis. The purpose certainly wasn’t to do an open-minded investigation. The only possible explanation for this gross travesty of science is that the criminals in military medicine and VA who perpetrated the cover-up of the MFI component of GWI undertook to spend tens of millions of taxpayer dollars in an attempt to further camouflage the reality of MFI infections in GWI veterans. Their negative finding would dissuade further research on the topic, minimizing the chance of their earlier criminal culpability coming to light.

As the references at the bottom of this page show, there was quite a bit of corroboration of MFI presence in GWI vets, and GWI typically responded to doxycycline treatment very well. This is shown in the Research Advisory Committee report itself. Why all of a sudden after a confirmed 10-year plus pattern of research results proving MFI infections do the results inexplicably change when the DOD/VA begins to control the study? Even the “honest” staff of DOD/VA medicine had much to lose in confirming MFI, for it would show their organizations to be professionally incompetent.

You may object that "It's not really possible to make a fraudulent scientific study; the methods of science rule that out." This is unfortunately not so. There are many methods that can be used to generate a fraudulent study, and gross incompetence or political bias can produce similarly inaccurate conclusions.

One possible reason for the failure to demonstrate MFI infections in the recent VA study is that veterans with chemical exposures of one type or another who had depressed immune systems would not report an improved symptom profile after antibiotic treatment even though the MFI infection they were actually suffering from had in fact been defeated by doxycycline treatment. In other words the study participants, assuming for the moment that they were genuinely ill, had two independent causes for a set of very similar and substantially overlapping symptoms. When the symptoms from cause #1, the germ cause, went away, they still suffered from a similar illness caused by cause #2, the toxic chemical exposures that depressed/damaged their immune system, making them susceptible to chronic infections of various kinds. They were looking for overall restoration to health, disappointed that they didn't get it, and they didn't have sufficient background knowledge to be able to verbally differentiate any change in their health because they had learned to blur the two sets of symptoms in their own minds and verbal descriptions from the outset.

If there was an intent to make a fraudulent study (not necessarily known to all the scientists involved), a possibility is that many participants were coached in advance of signing on for the study on how to describe their symptoms. They reported symptoms that matched the MFI version of GWI when in fact they were either fully healthy or suffering from something substantially different. Some mixture of these compromising factors may have occurred. It is a simple matter for a compromised lab technician to report that the participant had markers for Mycoplasma whether they in fact had such indications in their blood or not. And certainly tens of thousands of persons would have had such markers at that time, even in the civilian population, who never set foot in the Gulf.

The 2004 VA study itself, coming as late as it did, and after so much obvious work to cover-up the truth, is not key to understanding GWI; it is an obvious attempt to defeat understanding of it. Nicolson (see the reference list of scientific articles at the bottom of this page) unequivocally established MFI as one of the primary causes of GWI. Given that that was done as of 1996, the failure to offer empiric doxycycline treatment to ill Gulf War veterans is a gross dereliction of physician responsibility. But, of course, military and VA physicians were being told that they could depend fully upon the military medical laboratory results, which consistently gave negative results for MFI. The failure of the military/VA labs is absolutely the key to understanding the GWI mystery on the germ side of things.

The military and VA doctors should have offered the vets long-term trials of doxycycline anyway. Common sense tells you that a broad-spectrum antibiotic should work on germs. The approved treatment protocols of modern medicine allow physicians to test antibiotics on patients to see if the treatment will give them improved health when nothing else can be found as a cause of their illnesses. This is called empiric treatment, trial and error if you will. It is a fully valid and routinely used approach to medical treatment when direct testing doesn’t turn up the cause of the illness. Yet DOD/VA never offered empiric treatment to veterans when their symptoms were suggestive of germ infections and they had just returned from a foreign battlefield where both rarely seen infections and biowarfare were a known risk factor. Our presidents directed that no stone be left unturned in trying to help the veterans, yet the most promising research was never funded and the most promising treatment was not offered.

From the reports I saw from Gulf War veterans over the last 15 years who talked about their experiences with Gulf War Illness (and trust me I was paying close attention), the majority of those who tried doxycycline treatment for an extended time (several six week cycles of treatment or longer) obtained vast improvements to their health. Yet all of a sudden the same treatment didn’t seem to work for the vets in the VA study when it was working everywhere else. This gross discrepancy remains unexplained. The bottom line is that something is very clearly wrong with that study. The harder question is “Why?”

In proposing the possible answer in the hypothesis of domestic racial terrorism, I don’t mean to indict the entire government, but only a handful (maybe a large handful) of domestic terrorists ala Nichols/McVeigh who had been using the MFI germ along with AIDS to attack minorities and gays since the ’60s. Being already culpable for these enormous crimes, even if cross contamination of the veterans' vaccines was an accident of the rush to battle that mixed the terrorist stocks with standard issue vaccine serums, they wouldn't want their racist germ weapon to be revealed as the cause of Gulf War Illness. This would have produced nation-wide testing for the germ and we would have seen that, just as with AIDS where minorities are 4 to 8 times as likely to have the infection as whites, minorities have clearly been targeted with this germ as well.

There were many factors that caused illnesses in the Gulf War vets, and the 150 million dollars spent pursuing them was not all wasted. But the different factors caused discernibly different illnesses. The total symptomatic and laboratory profiles for each of the hypothesized causes of Gulf War illnesses such as nerve agent/PB pill poisoning, depleted uranium exposures, and a variety of different germs is each discernibly different from the others in its full clinical profile, though each presented many symptoms overlapping the others due to damage to the immune system and nervous systems.

Waiting over 10 years to give the ill veterans a serious look for MFI infections after one of the world's top ten microbiologists unquestionably established the presence of the germ, tied the germ to the major symptoms, and demonstrated an effective treatment, is scientifically bogus. Something is very wrong at VA, Public Health Service, military medicine, and biowarfare research. Every one of those expert systems failed to acknowledge the obvious scientific validity of the Nicolsons’ initial studies. More importantly, they failed in their obligation to the veterans and the nation...and they failed to carry out the President's mandate to leave no stone unturned.

I have studied the GWI phenomenon since 1998 and the behavior of DOD/VA does not reflect the pattern of a concerted effort at logical problem solving. We got delays; we got excuses; we got mysteries; we got contradictions; we got cover stories; we got promises; we got millions of dollars spent on every alternative except the one that offered an effective treatment! Thus, I have personally concluded that whatever is at the root of the cause of the GWI cover-up, it clearly centers around avoiding public implementation of reliable tests for this new MFI germ. Somebody doesn’t want the past and present trail of this germ to be made visible. We already know MFI is strongly implicated in not only the AIDS epidemic, but also MS, ALS, autism, Gulf War Illness, arthritis, chronic fatigue syndrome, and Lyme Disease—yet our private and public health system hasn’t lifted a finger to implement testing for MFI. The few labs that struggled into existence against the political tide through the heroic efforts of right-minded citizens quickly found themselves afflicted by dedicated efforts to compromise the labs reliability.

Somebody is trying to take the United States apart by bombarding us with new germs, and the only established organization known to operate in this manner is the Nazi organization (excluding for the moment foreign enemies, whom I can't definitively rule out). This all fits the Nazi ideology and mode of operation, while seriously conflicting with the beliefs and motivations of other known groups on at least one aspect or another. Therefore it is a simple logical deduction: the American racists/American Nazis did this, with or without foreign help.

Please contact your representatives in Congress and the President to insist that we establish a continuing investigation of vaccine contamination used as foreign/racial terrorism and put permanent countermeasures in place to ensure that such terrorists are defeated and that our vaccines are effectively secured. The government should also publicize the truth about MFI and the effectiveness of doxycycline treatment by all means so that ill veterans can obtain relief. I am not saying that every ill Gulf War vet has MFI, but given the known obstruction of the laboratories, getting a negative blood test is not enough; one has to try the antibiotic to be sure. At this point a veteran suffering from MFI infection for so long is going to have to stay on the antibiotic at least six to eighteen months to knock the now entrenched germ down sufficient to see unmistakable improvement. Also, from my own experience, I recommend insisting on the tablet form of doxycycline because the capsules did not work for me for some reason.

Once again, to get an honest blood test for MFI, consult VIP Dx laboratories in Reno Nevada: http://www.vipdx.com/.

May God bless and keep you through these troubled times.

Rick Harrison

MSgt Rick Harrison (USAF, Ret.)

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Facts

1. Professor (Dr.) Garth Nicolson was a top ten microbiologist and had been nominated for a Nobel Prize at the time he conducted research studies revealing germ infections as a cause of a large percentage of GWI (~45%), yet DOD chose not to fund large-scale studies until 10 years later.

2. Nicolson Antibiotic treatment worked to resolve symptoms in GWI vets yet the military and VA did not make it available to veterans. (Shades of Tuskegee?)

3. Notable military officers, full Colonels in special operations among them, confirmed Nicolson’s treatment protocol worked to heal them when nothing else did.

4. Dr. Nicolson’s daughter, who was Army airborne during the first Gulf War, brought GWI home and Dr. Nicolson, his wife and his daughter successfully recovered from GWI after several courses of doxycycline treatment.

5. Multiple types of biowarfare germs were found in ill veterans of the Gulf War.

6. The germ Nicolson identified, Mycoplasma fermentans incognitas (MFI), had been discovered prior to the Gulf War in prisoners in Texas.

7. The Untied States Army holds the patent on the germ Nicolson identified as the cause of GWI in a subpopulation of vets (~45%). (Lo, S. C. Pathogenic Mycoplasma. U.S. Patent #5,242,820. Issued September 7, 1993.)

8. There was an obvious attempt at denial and cover-up of GWI by military medicine and the VA, and perhaps other elements of government.

9. French military personnel took doxycycline, the antibiotic of choice for GWI MFI variety, prior to entering the Gulf War battlefield and they did not come down with GWI.

10. Anthrax vaccines have more recently produced illnesses similar to GWI.

11. On the surface, a case can be made that blacks in Africa and gays in America have been targeted by the AIDS virus. This hypothesis is not contradicted by the claim that the AIDS virus originated in nature as opposed to the lab because natural occurring germs can as easily be used for warfare/terrorism as artificial ones.

12. MFI has been identified as a primary cofactor in the death of AIDS patients. Thus it is a plausible phase 2 to bioterrorism targeting those groups previously targeted with AIDS who have creatively managed to string together a plethora of therapies and natural health regimes to survive.

13. Small quantities of MFI were sold to Iraq under medical research licenses by a biomedical firm in Boca Rotan Florida prior to the Gulf War.

14. After publishing his initial research on GWI, Professor Nicolson was harassed and run out of a prestigious research position chair at the University of Texas.

15. No effort was apparently made to test or decontaminate either the public blood supply or vaccine serum stock after Nicolson identified MFI (and other germs) as present in ~45% of ill Gulf War vets, who, as far as I know were not instructed to cease blood donations.

16. A U. S. Air Force Reserve nurse, Capt. Joyce Riley, became ill with GWI after treating veterans of the Gulf War, was treated by Nicolson and recovered, then became a nationally known activist on the issue.

17. Burial detail personnel in the Gulf became even more quickly and intensively ill than others. Most if not all died of their illnesses, indicating the high probability of biowarfare agents on the battlefield.

18. The way the GWI cover-up proceeded over the past 18+ years indicates a desire to obstruct testing and disgnosis viz a viz the biological side of things much more than the other potential causes.

Theories of Most Concern

Although the possibilities of biowarfare on the battlefield or “innocent” problems with military vaccines are both almost certainly players in the larger tragedy of GWI, that war is over and there is no immediate concern of an ongoing threat (the threat of using immature genetic science in vaccines is an ongoing threat, however). The concern about an ongoing threat centers primarily around the hypothesis of domestic bioterrorism against gays and racial minorities. There is also the question of human experimentation minus informed consent that has not entirely been put to bed.

To compound the domestic terrorism concern is the possibility of foreign nations with hostile intentions to the U. S. having sponsored the initial event of GWI via vaccine contamination or their trying to foster and manipulate events of domestic bioterrorism in order to accomplish one or both of two goals: cause a race war at an inopportune time or cause a disability meltdown of the U. S. population from massive MFI infections as an attack on our economy and our national power that derives from it.

Potentially Legitimate Reasons for a GWI Cover-up

Whatever the source of contamination to military vaccines may have been, it is understandable that DOD would fear revealing it for it might evoke a catastrophic reduction in volunteer enlistments at the height of the war on terror and the ever-present risk that that war would spill over into WWIII. Nolo contendre there. There is also the question of a greater problem of a race war being engendered by revealing a statistical bias in the GWI population centered around gays and minority races. Having lived through the cover-up years as an activist paying close attention to the evolution of a plethora of denial tactics in the VA and DOD, the only thing the sum total of those tactics accomplished beyond making the government look ridiculous was to prevent any method of identifying precisely who was genuinely ill with the germ version of GWI and who wasn’t. Even if the U. S. government had discovered that race focused domestic terrorism was part of GWI, DOD might have (legitimately?) chosen not to reveal this to the public to preclude both panic and/or a race war and/or a meltdown of recruitment/draftee inductions into the military.

Troubling Questions

1. If, as the VA now admits, Gulf War vets were truly ill, not merely stressed out or psych cases, why couldn’t our military doctors (in the main) tell the difference at the time? After all, that’s what competent doctors are supposed to do, render accurate diagnoses. Can incompetence have been so rampant within military medicine and the VA that there would not be a statistical predominance of accuracy in a patient base consisting of some 250,000 patients?

2. Who ordered the cover-up and for what reasons?

3. Why did it take 15+ years to admit that the germ hypothesis was credible when the most credible research we had, and have to date, is germ centered viz. Professor Garth Nicolson’s work and Dr. Urnovitz’s work?

4. Why would the recent VA study (70 million dollars worth), which was ostensibly aimed at evaluating the germ hypothesis, ignore the only likely living candidates for germ infections viz. those vets who had embarked upon antibiotic therapy, when everyone else would likely be dead?

5. Why wait more than ten years until natural recovery, antibiotic therapy, and death have obscured the evidence to evaluate what was, based upon scientific protocol and factual substance, the leading contender at the time GWI was first revealed shortly after the war?

6. Why not treat the ill veterans with doxycycline, which has been demonstrated to restore the health of many vets with GWI? This could be done while protecting national security elements at the same time by concocting a fictitious cover story to mask vaccine involvement, and then binding the veteran to secrecy? Granted a public disclosure of vaccine involvement might harm morale and recruitment, but the cover story takes care of that concern. Certainly, a well-crafted cover could not have failed national security any more than the bold face lie we were given. Not only are the vaccines now suspect anyway, but additional harm has been done to both the credibility of our government and the morale of the troops.

What kind of cover story might work? Anything superficially plausible would have been as good as the transparent bold face lie we were given. Something simple, for example, such as saying the veterans had a variety of new germ infections, some nonspecific—germs that were already present in the civilian population. We could have openly identified the germs without any risk of implicating vaccines, for all the GWI germs, including MFI, are presently thought to be naturally endemic to the nation. If we elected to award benefits for service connection for these illnesses (as we should have, although the same vaccine delivered attacks have been perpetrated against plenty of civilians), we need merely have said that DOD had sick building syndrome at various training facilities and/or that chronic infections were a risk of field deployments of various kinds that tend to negatively impact the respiratory health and immune system. We then simply bind the veteran to secrecy regarding the true source of the illness. There is a standard security protocol that actually applies to the GWI situation: denying the enemy battlefield damage assessment to prevent the enemy from effectively evaluating the effectiveness of his weapon systems. Veterans would fully understand doing this from the point of view of national security generally, and from the personal point of view they would not want to see the same problem recur on the next battlefield—or to have their children see it—due to encouraging its repetition by giving positive feedback to the enemy. The veterans would have kept this secret as they have kept all the others, and the tragedy of destroying the health of tens of thousands of veterans (as many as several hundred thousands) could have been avoided.

It is an established fact of history that veterans keep secrets very well indeed, and every day. They are trusted with secrets the exposure of which could gravely damage the security of our nation—and they have justified that trust. Witness our success in concealing research on the atomic bomb and stealth technology. No, the only practically defensible reason for not treating the veterans with a health-restoring treatment such as doxycycline would be a fear of making a matter of record who was and was not ill with the germ form of GWI. Creating such a record allows follow-up studies to both trace the source etiology of the infection to vaccines and show a racial bias and/or a sexual preference bias in the populations suffering from the same illness in the general public. The etiology for the civilian illnesses could then be traced to vaccines as well.

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About the Author

Rick Harrison is a retired MSgt, United States Air Force.  He is newly converted to the Catholic faith, having been raised a Methodist.  He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Philosophy, cum laude, with research honors, from Illinois Wesleyan University.  Air Force assignments included Chief, Officer Appointments, Air Reserve Personnel Center; Chief Personnel Readiness, Air Force Flight Test Center; Chief, Manning Control Edwards Air Force Base, Asst. Quality Assurance Evaluator MAGNUM Munitions Storage Area, Kwang-Ju AB Korea; and Missile Maintenance Crew Chief, George Air Force Base. His two proudest achievements are pictured above. Rick is a Catholic author and has just released a new Catholic novel of the end times with theological commentary, entitled Jacob Shall Be a Fire, available from Barnes & Noble, Xlibris, and Amazon on the Internet. Appendix 3 to Jacob contains the contents of this Web page as a service to ill veterans and their families. He is also drafting a Catholic book on evolution and intelligent design, freely available on the Internet at http://matthew1026.com/. A free ebook version of the Catholic novel is available for download there as well.

The author may be contacted by email by those having honest questions concerning Gulf War Illness. The first part of the email address is rdharrison75. Follow that with the usual "AT" sign, and then add att.net.

NOTE: Corrupt defense contractors, foreign or domestic biowarfare terrorists, Mafia, rogue intelligence agents, and other disinformation specialists seeking to cover the asses of the guilty parties who perpetrated the cover-up of MFI infections in GWI need not apply. Don't waste my time. Both your time and mine will be much better spent at Church confessing our sins. Praised be the Lord Jesus Christ.

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