“The jab fried my brain and transported me to within a whisper of death and paralysis.”

In November, I reported on the sad story of loved BBC reporter, Malcolm Brabant, whose life was upended by a yellow fever vaccination. In this update, we learn that he will never again be okay.

Malcolm Brabant has written about his ongoing ordeal in the Daily Mail. Sad, isn’t it, that the BBC, which had relied on his work for years, hasn’t bothered?

He has suffered from three psychotic episodes and his health has deteriorated drastically. He states:

It has taken my little family and me to the gates of hell. Since April, I have spent more than three months in the intensive care units of psychiatric hospitals in three countries, and there is a possibility that I will never fully recover.

Brabant had been a freelance journalist for 22 years, acting as a BBC foreign correspondent. He’d lived in Athens, Greece for eight years and would have covered the unrest related to the austerity demands placed on that benighted country’s citizens, but the vaccination ended his career.

He believed that he “had to have” the Stamaril vaccine, made by Sanofi Pasteur, to protect himself against yellow fever for a then-upcoming trip to Africa to cover and produce film for Unicef about victims of the Ivory Coast’s civil war.

Within a short time, Brabant was very ill, with a fever that spiked as high as 104.5°F (40.3°C). He describes it like this:

I was gripping on to the duvet for dear life because I was simultaneously freezing and drenched in a cold sweat.

After much testing, he was admitted to a hospital for abnormal liver function. No infectious disease could be found, and his first episode of psychosis happened 11 days after the illness’s start. After 13 days, the doctors gave him steroids in an attempt to bring his fever down. It worked, but at a huge price: psychosis.

Brabant’s Psychosis

Malcolm Brabant’s frank and courageous discussion of his psychosis describes days of complete insanity.

He believed he had supernatural powers … and then it got worse. The next day, he was watching the wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton on television. He stood up and saluted every time someone in a uniform was shown. He went into floods of tears from a feeling of hyper-patriotism. He wept over the flowers and music. His wife, Trine, turned the TV off because of his distress.

An hour later, she returned to find him still sobbing.

Later that day, the violent shaking of his bed from his own activity convinced him that he was the Messiah. He phoned his wife and told her he was Jesus. In his own words:

There were times when I was confused about whether I was Christianity’s Joseph figure or the Messiah himself. It was excruciating trying to persuade Trine that our son Lukas was in line to save the world like me. …

… I thought I had been chosen because of my understanding of the media and new technology. I decided to test my powers and flushed my Kindle in the lavatory, then picked it up and turned it on. The display flickered briefly and then it expired permanently. I thought perhaps this was just teething trouble and was certain that other miracles would ensue.

For a week, I disappeared into a mental black hole and had no inkling of just how mad I had become. Then, gradually, I returned to consciousness and became self-aware.

He was also extremely paranoid during that time, convinced that there was a video camera in the bathroom reporting directly to 10 Downing Street (home of the Prime Minister), Buckingham Palace, and the White House. At one point, he believed that the Queen Mother had returned from the dead. He believed that the royal family would step aside in favor of his own son, Lukas.

His son James had died of sudden infant death syndrome  33 years ago [Another vaccination victim?], but his psychosis convinced him that James was sending messages.  Guardian angels spoke to him, announcing their presence with an electronic buzz. They gave him tests, including drinking his own urine and cleaning his teeth with a toilet brush, to which he complied. He did, though, refuse to eat his own feces.

His frustration at not being taken seriously as the Messiah caused him to attempt to fake stigmata with crushed strawberries, paint strawberry “blood marks” on the bathroom wall, and telling his wife to dress him in a diaper made from a sheet so he could appear as a divine infant in bed. She was also expected to polish his halo.

Brabant has suffered two more severe psychotic episodes, which grew ever worse, to the point of needing to be protected from himself. He says that he’s kept from further such events by the aggressive use of antipsychotics. Of course, those drugs carry extremely devastating adverse effects, so ultimately can only add to his trauma.

His Family’s Suffering

Brabant’s wife, Trine Villemann, and his son, Lukas, have also suffered as a result of his decline. He states:

Lukas has witnessed things no 12-year-old should see, such as my episode in July when I thought I was being targeted by the Greek government. Trine had to quickly get him out of our house in Athens as I ranted and raved, wearing a helmet and a bulletproof jacket over the top of a stab vest.

‘How are we going to survive if Dad dies?’ he has asked his mother on more than one occasion.

His son’s fears are based on reality. The family has been forced to move from Greece to his wife’s native Denmark to access their free medical care. They also hope that Trine can find a job to support them, as he is no longer able. However, she’s severely limited because she must help care for him, sometimes managing all his needs.

He says that he sees his:

… beautiful wife, Trine, the love of my life, … ageing before my eyes as she acts as the glue binding our family together—trying to present a facade of normality for Lukas while being my nursemaid. …

‘I want my life back,’ she wept the other day.

Lukas has had to leave his school in Athens, leaving friends of a lifetime behind. He couldn’t keep his dog because the only place they could find to live is a small and poor apartment that doesn’t allow pets. Lukas wants to go back home to Greece, but that cannot happen. Brabant says:

It breaks my heart to see my charming, upbeat son looking pale, with rings around his eyes. He’s become withdrawn and defiant. I just hope that he is not permanently damaged. Yet, despite being forced to give up so much, he doesn’t blame me for what has happened.

The Coverup

Both Malcolm Brabant and his wife have been sure all along that the trigger was the Stamaril vaccine.  One specialist suggested that it might have been a bad batch. Another said that he was simply “hypersensitive”. Though it happened in Greece, the authorities there have shown no interest in investigating. [That will sound familiar to the parents of vaccine-harmed children.]

The maker of the vaccine, Sanofi Pasteur, claims that there’s no link between the vaccine and Brabant’s illness. [And that, of course, will be especially familiar to parents of vaccine-damaged children.]

Sanofi Pasteur also claims that Brabant has interfered and prevented them from getting access to data about his case. Brabant is adamant that it’s not true, and states that his wife sent them an e-mail giving permission to talk to his doctors.

The Reality

Malcolm Brabant is not only dealing with psychosis, he also battles pulmonary emobolisms and deep-vein thrombosis. He now says:

Death, my death, has become a subject we feel we no longer have the luxury of ignoring.

Though his preference is cremation, Trine insists that his body be thoroughly examined to find out what happened to him. In the meantime, Malcolm Brabant’s life has been upended, and his wife and son also suffer. Three people who had lived a dream type of existence are now living lives of desperation.

And the responses of his birth nation, the United Kingdom; his freelance employer, the BBC; his expatriot home, Greece; and the maker of the vaccine, Sanofi Pasteur, have all been to deny and obfuscate and dismiss him. There is no official explanation for what happened to Malcolm Brabant, and there’s clearly no intent to find out.

Just like all the families of autistic children, Malcolm Brabant and his family have been pushed out to struggle on his own.

Read Brabant’s own description here.

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