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 (91av, 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 claims contaminated vaccines could be responsible for the recent rise in kidney stones – and perhaps other diseases too.
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Nanobacteria’s unusual properties make them hard to study, explains Ciftcioglu. “If you apply standard methods, you find nothing,” she says. “We know that there must still be more evidence,” adds Ari Tuuri, managing director of Nanobac, a company selling equipment for nanobacteria research in Kuopio. He compares nanobacteria to prions, pointing out that until recently not everyone believed they existed.
