In March 1933, the Fascist authorities selected the town of Gruaro to experiment with a newly developed diphtheria vaccine, and 253 children aged between thirteen months and eight years were recruited in this prophylactic operation despite the village doctor’s opposition.
Immediately after the vaccine’s administration, however, the patients began to experience symptoms of varying severity; they were promptly admitted to the hospital of Portogruaro and the pediatric hospital run by Prof. Gino Frontali in Padua where, despite the implementation of emergency measures, twenty‐eight of the children died. Later somebody discovered that a container of serum, prepared in a laboratory of the National Serum Therapy Institute of Naples, had been insufficiently boiled, thus exposing the patients to the still active and unattenuated bacterium.
The Fascists let the incident go unpublished and no-one opened a judicial inquiry into it. Few people today, even in Italy, remember it.
The following is a mildly edited machine translation of one news article’s description:
‘In 1933, the children of Gruaro were sacrificed on the altar of knowledge: human guinea pigs to whom not even a gravestone was dedicated.’ Exactly eight decades have passed since that tragedy, but those who lived through it have not forgotten it at all.
Adamo Gasparotto, 85 years old and a very lucid mind, decided to report to the Gazzettino his testimony on what is known among local history experts as ‘La Strage di Gruaro’. A resident of Spinea for many years after having toured Italy with various excavation companies, Gasparotto is one of the two direct witnesses still alive. He has chosen to retrace this poignant story in detail so that it will not be forgotten, then we shall all know what happened to the innocent children of Gruaro during the Fascist era.
The story is also documented by some historical research published in recent years. In March 1933, the Fascist authorities of the time chose the municipality of Gruaro to test a new vaccine against diphtheria, a dangerous infectious disease.
The town’s doctor was against it and there was great scepticism in Gruaro, but that vaccine had to be field tested. Full stop. The parish priests were asked to inform the population about the goodness and reliability of this trial, and 253 children were summoned to the municipal clinic. Then came the terrible part of the procedure, the one retraced by scholars and recounted by Gasparotto in the Gazzettino.
‘The injection was given to 253 children and as many as 28 died in the following days. Almost in silence. Back home, we all felt sick,’ the elderly man recounted, quoting the testimonies of adults at the time. ‘We fell to the ground, and while eating we risked suffocating. Everyone was crying, we had to be hospitalised in Portogruaro, where the hospital was full and makeshift wards were organised. We were all terrified, every now and then some child died.’
Gasparotto and his three‐year‐old sister survived, and in the following years someone explained to their parents what had happened. It seems that in a laboratory in Naples a container of serum was unboiled and so the vials that ended up in Gruaro contained intense vaccine, a lethal substance. ‘Seeing what was happening, the authorities went up to Gruaro to remove all traces of that vaccine. They went from family to family to collect all the empty boxes,’ Gasparotto himself later explained.
The same version of the facts is also reported in the historical research on the diocese of Concordia published by historian Gianni Strasiotto and in the book ‘Gruaro, Venti secoli di storia’ (Gruaro, Twenty Centuries of History) by Ariego Rizzetto, from which the photograph we publish is taken.
The vaccine was administered to children from thirteen months to eight years of age, and the deaths occurred due to paralysis, but there is no evidence of any judicial enquiry launched to ascertain responsibility. Now Gasparotto is only asking for one thing: a plaque to remember those victims. ‘A plaque would suffice. In those graves there is not a word to explain how and why those creatures died.’ That is why he has also been in touch with the municipal administration.
(Emphasis original. Source.)
See also: ‘Bimbi usati come cavie: sparito il fascicolo sulla strage di Gruaro’
‘Quel dottore che salvò migliaia di bimbi rifiutandosi di vaccinarli’
Yes, this is one of the real "satanic ritual abuse, along with trafficking.
On another note, with vaccine wtfery domestically and abroad, there are collectives of people who are vaccine adverse, even hostile, and I really find it difficult to be upset about it.