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Today we are going to be delving deep into the background of the Life Sciences company

Emergent BioSolutions, the manufacturer of the controversial anthrax vaccine,

and arguably one of the most corrupt pharmaceutical companies to ever exist.

We'll also be talking about the 2001 anthrax attacks, which conveniently

for emergent bio solutions, rescued them from financial calamity. This company's

past and the anthrax attacks may seem like ancient history to some, but actually the parallels

between what we'll be covering today and the current coronavirus crisis are numerous and of critical

importance, especially since emergent bio-solutions is set to manufacture

several of the leading coronavirus vaccine candidates in the U.S. despite years upon years of

scandals.

Joining me to discuss this and more is Dr. Merrill Nass is an internal medicine physician

with degrees from MIT and the University of Mississippi.

Her areas of expertise include anthrax bio defense, biological warfare, and Gulf War syndrome, as well as vaccine safety and efficacy.

Dr. Nas is also the first person in the world to have studied the characteristics of an epidemic and

prove that it was due to biological warfare.

That epidemic, which was of anthrax, occurred in Rhodesia, which is now Zimbabwe during its civil war between 1978 and 1981.

Dr. Nass has given seven testimonies to six different House and Senate

committees on the anthrax vaccine, the anthrax letters, bioterrorism, mitigation, and Gulf War Syndrome.

She helped form a coalition of service members and their families to investigate the illnesses,

now known as Gulf War Syndrome, and to end mandatory anthrax vaccination for members of the military.

That group filed suit against a vaccine, which was and still is manufactured by

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