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The whitepaper also lists some possible short and long term side effects.

I've TLDR'd most of them here for everyone:

-Immune tolerance: diminished immunity resulting from exposure to an antigen

-Vaccine-enhanced disease (VED): A small number of injected vaccines have led to enhancement of disease, meaning that infectivity is enhanced, or the disease is made more serious in people who have been vaccinated.

-Adjuvant hyperstimulation or toxicity: ..certain adjuvants have caused hyperstimulation and other serious side effects. For example, alum produces a robust Th2 immune response, but an unbalanced ratio of Th2:Th1. A Th2 polarized response, and alum in particular, have been implicated in immunopathology, including ADE. Adjuvants can also be toxic. As one example, the intranasal use of a detoxified mutant form of Escherichia coli Heat Labile Toxin has resulted in transient Bell’s palsy, or facial nerve paralysis.

The whitepaper then argues the following: "And it becomes clear why the formulation described here has not been used in a commercial product; it is not lack of safety or efficacy, but other factors.."



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