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Hello, this is a comment from The Netherlands. First of all: a brilliant article, detailed and easy to read, special when the reader can translate it in the browser.

Under the photo from ex pres. Ford you write:

"The next month, Minnesota health officials began to notice another disturbing trend when they recorded the first known instance of Guillain-Barre syndrome—a rare but potentially serious autoimmune condition in which the body attacks its own nerves— in a vaccinated patient. "

I am working in the health field: the body never attacks itsself. Autoimmune illness is a concoction term (they have many: e.i. 'safe and effective') from the pharma to blame the patient (his/her body). Why dont you write: "Guillain-Barre is the cause of injecting poison to a patient, who has to less resistance to eliminate the poison from his body." Because that is exactly what it is; and all the side-effects.

History repeats: this happens again with the poison-injection the last 4 years.

Thanks for reading. Regards Kees

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Hello, thank you for reading.

GBS is an autoimmune disease and in many cases post-infectious following a viral or bacterial infection. In others the cause remains difficult to determine and hence labelled “idiopathic”

As a general rule, I stay away from making sweeping proclamations the kind you suggest. Instead, the reader is allowed to come to their own conclusions.

In the case of post-vaccine GBS there was a reasonable triggering event and the presumptive cause cause was determined in hindsight. Which is typically what happens in GBS.

Autoimmunity is a vast field that remains poorly defined and characterized primarily because of the difficulty in separating disorders of innate immune response dysregulation versus exogenous insults leading to an exuberant immune response that spills into the realm of autoimmune disease processes. And therefore making iron clad statements that always put blame on exogenous factors is at best scientifically disingenuous.

Thank you again for your readership and thoughtful comments.

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Again, a very worthy well-structured piece which should be more widely disseminated.

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Thank you.

Please feel free to spread it far and wide.

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I don't have too many followers, but I do re-post your pieces when I see anyone referring to the similar subject. Thing is you are very detailed, but easy to read.

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That is indeed the highest compliment one could give an author.

Thank you very much for your patronage.

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