GBS = Guillain–Barré Syndrome
The United States’ VICP program will cover GBS injuries if it’s not from a COVID-19 vaccine.
Weirdly enough, people in Gaza are dying from GBS even though the Hamas-Israel war is going on and the Palestinians are not getting vaccinated. There is currently a famine in Gaza as food, fuel, etc. is not being allowed into Gaza.
Maybe this suggests something about the cause of GBS- that it can also be caused by something other than vaccination. The cause is probably not microclots, spike protein from the vaccine, or spike protein from COVID. We should consider:
- things that happen post-infection (such as a flu)
- things that happen post-vaccination (some vaccines like live attenuated viruses are literally an infection)
- things that happen during a war (such as the outbreak of infectious diseases).
Coverage of GBS in Gaza
Bisan from Gaza: Bisan Owda on Instagram: "Share the UPDATES from Gaza‼️"
(Bisan is Palestinian. She was making normal content pre-war.)
UN News
Meanwhile, UN agencies confirmed the deaths of three Palestinians from Guillain-Barré Syndrome (GBS), a rare auto-immune disease that can cause sudden muscle weakness and even paralysis.
Before war erupted in Gaza in October 2023, only a handful of cases surfaced every year.
To date, three deaths out of around 64 cases of GBS have been confirmed by the health authorities in Gaza. Two of the deceased were children.
According to the UN World Health Organization (WHO), 30 per cent of GBS patients require intensive care but there is no available stock of the primary medication needed to treat it, intravenous immunoglobulin.
Guillain-Barré Syndrome (GBS) is a neurological and autoimmune disease that affects the nervous system and causes progressive muscle paralysis. It is not contagious and is often triggered by a prior infection – viral or bacterial – that disrupts the immune system.
In most cases, patients can recover fully within a few weeks. But WHO stressed that even in the best healthcare settings, three to five per cent of patients die from complications of the disease, such as respiratory muscle paralysis, sepsis, pulmonary embolism, or cardiac arrest.
There have been several outbreaks of infectious diseases in Gaza since war erupted following Hamas-led terror attacks in Israel, including polio, cholera, hepatitis A and scabies.