Influential bodies such as the Global Advisory Committee on Vaccine Safety (GACVS), the World Health Organization and America’s Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) have maintained the vaccines are safe by hiding data, misinterpreting results and relying on blogs for scientific evidence.

Dr Sin Hang Lee, a director at the Milford Molecular Diagnostics Laboratory in Milford, Connecticut, is calling for an immediate independent public enquiry to restore public trust in medicine.

He made the claims after seeing private emails exchanged between the health agencies before a presentation to Japanese health officials in 2014.

In a letter to Dr Margaret Chan, Director-General of the World Health Organization, Dr Lee says the organizations “may have been actively involved in a scheme to deliberately mislead” Japanese health officials who were considering the safety of the two vaccines.

Their subsequent pronouncements, based on the original cover-up, have influenced other government agencies and doctors, who have been convinced the vaccines are safe and can be included in national vaccination programmes.

Far from being safe, Dr Lee’s own analysis of the two vaccines has demonstrated they cause inflammatory proteins, such as cytokines and tumor necrosis factor (TNF), which can cause serious adverse reactions, even including death, in those with a genetic predisposition.