U.S. Military Starts Producing Vaccines: New Billion Dollar Experimental Vaccine Market? | Health Impact News

U.S. Military Starts Producing Vaccines: New Billion Dollar Experimental Vaccine Market? | Health Impact News

What few people in the United States realize is that the U.S. Government is in the vaccine business. Much of the information regarding the governments ties to pharmaceutical companies is shrouded in secrecy.

For example, in 2010 Dr. Eric Suba, who works with HPV prevention in Viet Nam and developing countries, submitted a Freedom of Information Request to the Office of Government Information Services to discover the amount of money the U.S government earns in royalties from Merck’s sale of Gardasil. His request was denied (read it here), on the grounds that the National Institute of Health was “protected from disclosure.” Dr. Suba was one of the authors of a study published in the Lancet that year: HPV vaccination: waiting for evidence of effectiveness.

Then there is the issue of the revolving door between the government and the pharmaceutical industry. For example, Julie Gerberding was in charge of the CDC from 2002 to 2009, which includes the years the FDA approved Gardasil as a vaccine. Soon after she took over the CDC, she reportedly completely overhauled the agency’s organizational structure, and many of the CDC’s senior scientists and leaders either left or announced plans to leave. Some have claimed that almost all of the replacements Julie Gerberding appointed had ties to the vaccine industry.