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The tiny villains lurking in vaccines

By Michael Le Page

3 June 2001

VACCINES contaminated with “nanobacteria” are the cause of kidney stones, claim researchers in Finland. But most scientists don’t believe these bacteria exist.

In the 1990s, Olavi Kajander of Kuopio University in Finland said he’d found bacteria as small as viruses in animal blood (Âé¶¹´«Ã½, 21 August 1999, p 32). Kajander said these nanobacteria build themselves a coat of a mineral called apatite – the same stuff that kidney stones are made of. He said he’d found nanobacteria in people with kidney stones.

Now a colleague, Neva Ciftcioglu, says she’s found nanobacteria in samples of human and veterinary vaccines. She…

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