The bioterrorism research was to be carried out in a multimillion dollar lab at the university set up specifically for that purpose, the Oklahoman reported Monday.
An internal faculty committee spent a year designing procedure for the use and care of the baboons. University President Burns Hargis sent an e-mail to veterinary medicine researchers saying he would not allow the National Institutes of Health-funded project, the newspaper said.
"This research was not in the best interest of the university. The testing of lethal pathogens on primates would be a new area for OSU that is controversial and is outside our current research programs" said OSU spokesman Gary Shutt.
Veterinarian Michael Davis said using the primates for research is important because they are biologically similar to humans. But after they've been exposed to the anthrax bacterium they must be euthanized so as not to infect others, the Oklahoman said.
"We don't want to, but by the same token we don't want people to be killed by anthrax," Davis said. "Right now, this is the only way and the best way we have of preventing someone from getting killed by anthrax."
Copyright 2009 by United Press International.
Spread of anthrax is exactly what the anthrax vaccine does
The current design center for human anthrax vaccines is to provide temporary 1-year tolerance to low-level anthrax exposure. Tolerance is not immunity. Tolerance allows humans to be bioweapons: Vaccinated persons are able to spread live anthrax bacteria. Immunity implies that a vaccine will provide humans with the ability to kill the disease organism. Instead, the human anthrax vaccine is neither a weakened or killed bactera: It is a refined exotoxin of the anthrax bacteria - a drug masquerading as a vaccine to avoid public disclosure of US Army bio-weapon research data. What non-disclosure has led to is the belief that the human anthrax vaccine is safe, when no controlled human drug tests have ever been conducted in over forty years: It is not safe for at least two in one thousand patients who will develop severe auto-immune diseases and/or malignant cancers as a result of the vaccine's ability to subvert the human immune system by interfering with the FURIN protein. For more info, see Scott Miller's documentary film "A CALL TO ARMS 2009 EDITION." The human anthrax vaccine remains mandatory for all US military personnel deploying to Iraq and Afghanistan under penalty of court-martial for refusing a direct executive order signed by Pres. Bill Clinton in 1999. Please support HR Bill 1478 in honor of the late USMC Sgt. Carmelo Rodriguez who died in 2008 of an aggressive melanoma after receiving the human anthrax vaccine before deploying to Iraq in 2007. Because he received the vaccine under orders, his family could not sue for medical malpractice under the 1950 Feres vs. US Supreme Court Ruling - even under the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program, which is designed to protect vaccine manufacturers from direct liability lawsuits, a legal risk which drug manufacturers must face. Also, please write Secretary of Defense Bob Gates to have the human anthrax vaccine delisted from the mandatory inoculation list for all troops deploying to Iraq and Afghanistan. The human anthrax vaccine must be stopped. Now.
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