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Dr. Len Horowitz exposes the true cause of AIDS and Ebola. The doctor reveals that AIDS was manufactured in Government sponsored bio-medical labs and spread through Vaccinations to Africa. You can "Like" Danny Vierra's Health Page on Facebook. Here is the link: https://www.facebook.com/DanielJosephVierra/
The deadly Ebola virus, an emerging public health concern in Africa and a potential biological weapon, ranks among the most feared of exotic pathogens.
Due to its virulent nature, and because no vaccines or treatments are available, scientists studying the agent have had to work under the most stringent biocontainment protocols, limiting research to a few highly specialized labs and hampering the ability of scientists to develop countermeasures.
Now, however, a team of researchers from the University of Wisconsin-Madison has figured out a way to genetically disarm the virus, effectively confining it to a set of specialized cells and making the agent safe to study under conditions far less stringent than those currently imposed.
"We wanted to make biologically contained Ebola virus," explains Yoshihiro Kawaoka, a professor of pathobiological sciences in the UW-Madison School of Veterinary Medicine and the senior author of a paper describing the system for containing the virus published today (Jan. 21, 2008) in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. "This is a great system."
The Ebola virus first emerged in 1976 with outbreaks in Sudan and Zaire. There are several strains of the virus, which causes hemorrhagic fever and during outbreaks kills anywhere from 50-90 percent of its human victims.
At present, research on live Ebola virus is confined to the very highest level of biosafety, known as Biosafety Level 4 (BSL 4). Because such laboratories are rare, small and very expensive, basic research that is the basis for any potential drugs or vaccines to thwart the virus has been limited to perhaps half a dozen labs worldwide. The system devised by Kawaoka and his colleagues could provide a way to greatly expand studies of the pathogen and speed the development of countermeasures.
Taming Ebola virus, according to the new study, depends on a single gene known as VP30. Like most viruses, Ebola is a genetic pauper. It has only eight genes and depends on host cells to provide much of the molecular machinery to make it a successful pathogen. The virus's VP30 gene makes a protein that enables it to replicate in host cells. Without the protein, the virus cannot grow.
"The altered virus does not grow in any normal cells," says Kawaoka. "We made cells that express the VP30 protein and the virus can grow in those cells because the missing protein is provided by the cell."
It took years, Kawaoka explains, to find which viral protein was not toxic to cells and could thus be used to develop a system, using monkey kidney cells, to confine the virus.
And Kawaoka, an internationally noted virologist, is convinced of the safety of the new system: "We did this work in a BSL 4, and the altered cells didn't produce any infectious virus after many passages or replication cycles."
With the exception that it is unable to grow in anything but cells engineered to express the VP30 protein, the virus is identical to the pathogen found in the wild, making it ideal for studies of basic biology, vaccine development and screening for antiviral compounds.
"This system can be used for drug screening and for vaccine production," Kawaoka says, noting that getting the equipment and compounds for such work into a BSL 4 lab is extremely difficult. "High throughput screening (for drugs) in a BSL 4 is almost impossible."
Currently, live Ebola virus can be studied only in a BSL 4 laboratory. Any proposal to permit studying the pathogen in lower safety level labs is certain to generate controversy.
But according to Kawaoka, making the agent available for study to a broader cross section of science is essential for thwarting the virus that kills a high percentage of its victims because there is now no defense against it. A new strain of Ebola, which so far has emerged only in remote areas of the world, was recently identified in Uganda and has killed at least 40 people.
"This is an emerging virus and it's highly lethal," Kawaoka says. "But because of the BSL 4 requirement, knowledge of this virus is limited."
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Presidential candidate Ron Paul has spoken out against forced vaccination and the federal government's eagerness to dictate what Americans may and may not put into their bodies. The Congressman, a fully qualified obstetrics and gynecology doctor, made his position plain in an interview with the Huffington Post's election reporter James Freedman: "I don't think anything should be forced on us by the government, [and] immunization is one thing that we're pressured and forced into," he said.'
Ron Paul Speaks Out Against Dangerous Vaccines
Nationwide Revolt continues to grow as Presidential candidate denounces FDA and forced immunization
Steve Watson
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Wednesday, Jan 23, 2008
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Presidential candidate Ron Paul has spoken out against forced vaccination and the federal government's eagerness to dictate what Americans may and may not put into their bodies.
The Congressman, a fully qualified obstetrics and gynecology doctor, made his position plain in an interview with the Huffington Post's election reporter James Freedman:
"I don't think anything should be forced on us by the government, [and] immunization is one thing that we're pressured and forced into," he said.
"A responsible parent is going to say, 'Yeah, I want my child to have that,' [but] when the government makes a mistake, they make it for everybody. You know, that's what worries me. They don't always come up with the perfect answer sometimes... and people have had some very, very serious reactions from these immunizations."
Besides certain laws that apply only to government medical specialists - there is no law that enforces the mandatory use of any vaccine in the United States. Enforced medical treatment is an assault and a violation of the 14th amendment, the reason Ron Paul, a strict Constitutionalist, is so directly against it.
However, some in Washington seem determined to ignore the Constitution and to make some vaccinations (usually the most profitable ones) mandatory.
There has recently been a spate of cases where officials, with the assistance of directed media propaganda, have attempted to cajole parents into believing that laws require vaccination.
Last February one such media hoax fooled parents in Texas and other areas of the country into believing that the HPV vaccine, which experts have slammed as untested and has continued to be linked to dangerous side-effects, is now required by law and that young girls must take it. Merck Pharmaceuticals hit the headlines after it was revealed that the company was set to capitalize on this fraud by making obscene profits from a crony deal with Governor Rick Perry, while children were put at risk.
Last November we reported on a case in Prince George's County, Maryland, where parents of more than 1600 children were told they could be put in jail for failing to get their kids vaccinated. At the time a local Fox News affiliate reported, "A new law was passed last year requiring children from 5th through to 10th grade to have the vaccine," which was a total lie. A state prosecutor involved in the case then admitted that there is no law that mandates any vaccine.
n addition there is a plethora of examples where vaccines containing mercury, live HIV virus, live cancer and other horrors have wrought misery after victims were bullied into taking them by government mandates that they were deluded into thinking was the law.
Concerned parents across the U.S. are leading a nationwide revolt against unnecessary, untested and dangerous vaccines as CDC records show a growing amount of religious exemptions on vaccine forms. Adults too are turning away from personal vaccination.
Ron Paul also spoke of the dangerous precedent being set in allowing the FDA strict controls over the health of Americans and how such a scenario is a dream come true for the big pharmaceutical corporations the FDA shares a bed with:
"If we accept this notion that the federal government is going to dictate what we can put into our bodies, then it leads to the next step: that the government is going to regulate everything that is supposedly good for us. That's where they are. They have an FDA that won't allow somebody who's dying to use an experimental drug which might speed up the process of finding out which drugs are good and which drugs are bad and the federal government comes in and dictates that they want complete control over vitamins and nutritional products and I just think the whole principal of government telling us what we can take in or not take in is just a dangerous position to take... it's related to the drug industry because they'd like to control all of this."
Paul is right to point out that the relationship that now exists between the FDA and big pharma is tantamount to a business partnership.
The FDA now effectively protects and nurtures the monopoly of big pharma in the name of regulating its activities.
It is well known that the giant pharmaceuticals routinely fix and mark up prices of prescription drugs as much as 500,000% over the cost of the raw ingredients, and they engage in monopolistic, mob-like behaviors to block competing, lower cost drugs from other countries.
All of this is effectively sanctioned by the FDA.
Presidential candidates such as Hillary Clinton and John Edwards advocate a continuation of this monopolistic status quo via their visions for a FDA state-managed socialized health care system where every citizen in the U.S. would have to enroll for regular check ups, including mandatory mental screenings, a practice Ron Paul also speaks out against:
"The other thing they're doing right now is the government's doing this mental health testing of everybody in school and they're putting a lot of pressure, in a way forcing kids to be put on psychotropic drugs, which I think are very, very dangerous. So anything medical that is forced on us I think is bad."
The Congressman is the only candidate who has envisioned a health care system without strict federal regulation and without the resulting big pharma monopoly. As consumer health advocate Mike Adams at newstarget has pointed out:
Ron Paul is the only candidate who believes in health freedom. All the other candidates would support the status quo in health care today: Big Pharma dominance, FDA censorship, monopoly prices in medicine and the assault and imprisonment of individuals who dare to tell the truth about the healing properties of the superfoods and nutritional supplements they sell. The other candidates may talk about "reforms," but all they're really talking about is a shell game of shifting who pays for all disease in this country.
Only Ron Paul believes in genuine health freedom. He's the creator of the Health Freedom Protection Act, a bill that would reestablish Free Speech provisions for makers of superfoods, herbs, nutritional supplements and other natural remedies. Under the HFPA, those individuals would be able to state scientifically-validated facts about the health benefits of their products right on the bottle! Today, the FDA doesn't allow that. All truthful statements about nutritional supplements are presently censored! (It's a way to protect Big Pharma and keep the American people ignorant about how plant-based medicines can prevent and even cure degenerative disease.)
The establishment candidates are promoting a huge monopolistic and federalized profit machine when it comes to health care in America, while once again Ron Paul is truly speaking to the needs and desires of the people in accordance with Constitutional law.
Presidential candidate Ron Paul has spoken out against forced vaccination and the federal government's eagerness to dictate what Americans may and may not put into their bodies. The Congressman, a fully qualified obstetrics and gynecology doctor, made his position plain in an interview with the Huffington Post's election reporter James Freedman: "I don't think anything should be forced on us by the government, [and] immunization is one thing that we're pressured and forced into," he said.'
Linda, I'm not sure if you're making a supplementary point, or if you missed the point of my post. Ebola has credibly been suggested as a way of carrying out NWO plans for a 80-90% cull of the world's population. Obviously, before that could be done, they would have to find a vaccine that would protect their own God-forsaken, Luciferian hides. They now virtually have that vaccine in the bag.....Get it? _________________ 'And he (the devil) said to him: To thee will I give all this power, and the glory of them; for to me they are delivered, and to whom I will, I give them'. Luke IV 5-7.
'Yes, Ebola can be spread by inhalation, and yes the Government is preparing for "Inhalation Ebola". Just yesterday the President issued an executive order which allows the CDC to use the guise of infectious pneumonia to quarantine people for Ebola. And today New York held its largest ever unannounced pandemic response drill. Such drills are an effective way to stage logistical pandemic supplies without alerting the public.
To understand the risk of inhaled Ebola and why these actions have been taken, consider that two American medical missionaries appear to have come down with EBOLA by spraying down their protective clothing with disinfectant. It seems that the disinfectant spray aerosolized the infectious contamination on their protective clothing. Now consider what it means for the spread of EBOLA when the people spraying the disinfectant on their protective clothing die from that action.
It seems that this information resulted in the CDC issuing guidance to aircraft crews that focuses on suspected Ebola cases spreading Ebola by actions as minimal as "talking". CDC's guidance even warns against using compressed air to clean aircraft as it will result in the airborne spread of Ebola.
Its this airborne potentiality which makes EBOLA basically untreatable and un-quarantineable in anything but a very few Level 4 Biosafety facilities. Its a situation which has the potential to bring the majority of Zombie Apocalypse vignettists into play.
The current situation is grave enough to scare the pants off even Pentagon Planners. In that regard, If you're easily frightened, or can act without first thinking, now is a good time to stop reading this post as we explain the worst case "Red Team" scenario.
Worst Case:
The act of attempting to treat Ebola victims becomes impossible outside of anything but a level 4 safety facility as it becomes impossible to decontaminate protective clothing without facing a large risk of becoming infected with Ebola. (This appears to be the situation now in Africa as international teams evacuate)
The 2nd or 3rd appearances of Ebola in the USA result in large numbers of people placed in quarantine under the guise of a 'viral pneumonia'. Experts will make claims that Ebola is not "airborne" while taking ethical solace that 'Inhalation Ebola' doesn't meet their technical definition of "airborne" even though the outcomes are similar. Such subterfuges are undertaken to avoid panic and uncontrolled disease spread. If such quarantine fails to stop the spread then whole cities are quarantined and travel is shut down.
At this point, no person with Ebola can expect treatment; and anyone with a fever (and their direct associates) can be expected to be rounded up and placed in isolation with Ebola victims. From this point onward if the spread of the disease is not stopped and death rates remain over 50%, Governments enact Zombie Apocalypse type rules as any potential victims are too high risk to keep alive.
Of course none of this means that the worst case will happen with Ebola, it just means that Governments are making contingencies to do what they believe is required under the worst case; and that alone should scare the cr*p out of you.
Our take:
We don't expect Ebola to be Zombie Apocalyptic; our take is that the Powers-That-Be are currently more afraid of the damage from public panic than from the actual spread of the disease. Unfortunately this sets up a situation where the desire not to be truthful with the public places the public at risk and actually increases the probability of the worst case scenario playing out.
What this situation means is that wise people will realize that Public Health communications could rapidly go from "Everything is okay" to "Shut up and do what you are told". One should not expect to be able to make effective last minute logistical action IF things go bad.'
There are a lot of reference articles to this post, so I suggest interested readers go to the link above.
And given the 'outbreak' in Africa, may I draw your attention to Cathy O'Brien's quoting what she personally heard George HW Bush say whilst he was conversing with Dick Cheney: ''We'll annihilate the nig**rs at their source, beginning in South and East Africa and Haiti'' ('Access Denied - For Reasons Of National Security'' by Cathy O'Brein with Mark Phillips, page 168).
And, of course, the cholera 'outbreak' caused (accidentally??) by Nepalese soldiers after the 'earthquake' in Haiti:
'The cholera epidemic continues to take an unacceptable toll on the lives of Haitian people, following on the heels of the devastating earthquake in 2010. Haiti still hosts the largest number of suspected cholera cases worldwide with 698,893 cases and 8,540 deaths reported from October 2010 to date. If current trends continue, an estimated 45,000 cases could be expected in 2014...' (UN FACT SHEET: COMBATTING CHOLERA IN HAITI
January 2014 (updated in February 2014)) _________________ 'And he (the devil) said to him: To thee will I give all this power, and the glory of them; for to me they are delivered, and to whom I will, I give them'. Luke IV 5-7.
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Many of us believe that the 'Elite' have a 'Human Culling' plan for most of humanity; just as we believe they want a state of 'Perpetual War', at least until they get their NWO 'One World Government', with the ordinary workers not killed just being docile 'slave workers'. So the following is not at all far fetched, to my thinking:
Ebola virus and UN Agenda 21 depopulation run by CFR:
http://checkoutthelatest.com/justinwoolee&watch=VxWXk9L48Bk _________________ 'And he (the devil) said to him: To thee will I give all this power, and the glory of them; for to me they are delivered, and to whom I will, I give them'. Luke IV 5-7.
Just one problem with this information - it was obviously written before it became known that this outbreak CAN spread through the air!
And there are some pictures which most of us are familiar with from Alex Jones and Jesse Ventura videos - stacked-up 'Polymer Vaults' (aka burial caskets). _________________ 'And he (the devil) said to him: To thee will I give all this power, and the glory of them; for to me they are delivered, and to whom I will, I give them'. Luke IV 5-7.
'As health officials downplay concerns about an Ebola outbreak in the US, six people have been quietly tested across the country for the deadly virus, according to a report.
In addition to patients isolated in New York, Atlanta and Ohio, there were six other patients tested without the public’s knowledge, according to a CNN report.
The tests were negative.
“There have been about a half a dozen patients who have had their blood tested because of concern, those particular patients their stories were not made public,” said CNN’s chief medical correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta. “I’m not sure if that’s because of heightened concern by the hospital or what that means exactly.”
City and state health department officials said that only one patient has been tested for the disease in New York. He has been isolated since Monday. Results could come back Wednesday.
“The patient, who remains in isolation, was stable overnight and in good spirits,” a hospital statement said.
“No other patients have presented with similar symptoms and travel history to West Africa. We will continue to work closely with federal, state and city health officials to address and monitor this case, keep the community informed and provide the best quality care to all of our patients.”
The Mt. Sinai case has other hospital patients on edge.
“I’m kind of suspect about going in here right now,” said Willie Westone, 37, of Harlem, who brought his 6-year-old son to the emergency room with a stomach bug.
“A guy walks in here with Ebola. I’m not a fan of this, but my son needs medicine. I’m trying to get his paperwork transferred. I can’t take any risks like this.”
Meanwhile, a woman in Columbus, Ohio, was tested for the Ebola virus after returning from a trip to a West African country plagued by the outbreak, according to NBC.
The woman, 46, was in isolation at a local hospital after showing symptoms of the disease. Her test came back negative.
Medical teams have been on high alert since a missionary working in Liberia contracted the disease and came to the US for treatment.
Kent Brantly, 33, a doctor, was immediately isolated in an Atlanta hospital Saturday. A second Ebola-stricken worker, nurse Nancy Writebol, 58, was isolated in the same ward Tuesday.
Officials said they both showed improvement after being treated with an experimental drug that had been tested only with mice.
Brantly and Writebol are being treated by infectious disease specialists at Emory University Hospital, according to Christian missionary group SIM USA'
BIOLOGICAL WARFARE: Ebola is potentially Airborne according to Scientists:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=49NcCERGzaU _________________ 'And he (the devil) said to him: To thee will I give all this power, and the glory of them; for to me they are delivered, and to whom I will, I give them'. Luke IV 5-7.
'MADRID (AP) — The World Health Organization declared it's ethical to use untested drugs and vaccines in the ongoing Ebola outbreak in West Africa although the tiny supply of one experimental treatment has been depleted and it could be many months until more is available.
The last of the drug is on its way to Liberia for two stricken doctors, according to a U.K.-based public relations firm representing Liberia. The U.S. company that makes it said the supply is now "exhausted."
A Spanish missionary priest who died Tuesday in Madrid was the third person to receive the experimental treatment called ZMapp. Two U.S. aid workers who received it in recent weeks are said to be improving.
The outbreak has killed more than 1,000 people in Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia and Nigeria.
There is no proven treatment or vaccine for Ebola; several are in early stages of development. ZMapp, made by Mapp Pharmaceuticals, is so new that it has never been tested in humans although an early version worked in some monkeys infected with Ebola. It's aimed at boosting the immune system's efforts to fight off Ebola.
"If there are drugs that can save lives — as animal studies have suggested — shouldn't we use them to save lives?" Dr. Marie-Paule Kieny, an assistant director-general at WHO, told a press conference Tuesday.
But it is "very important to not give false hope to anybody that Ebola can be treated now. This is absolutely not the case," she added.
ZMapp is made in tobacco plants, and U.S. officials have estimated that only a modest amount could be produced in two or three months, unless some way to speed up production is found.
The U.N. health agency says 1,013 people have died so far in the Ebola outbreak in West Africa of the 1,848 suspected or confirmed cases recorded by authorities. The killer virus is spread by direct contact with bodily fluids like blood, diarrhea and vomit.
Some experts weren't convinced any novel drugs or vaccines would make a difference in ending the current outbreak.
Once they're put to the test, most experimental drugs that seemed promising in animal studies "don't turn out to benefit people," said Dr. Jesse Goodman, former chief scientist for the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, now at Georgetown University Medical Center.
He said some drugs prove harmful. "Unless we can ascertain that carefully, how do we really help people in the long run?"
After the two Americans received the experimental drug, officials in Liberia requested it. Officials in Sierra Leone and Guinea have expressed interest in getting experimental treatments but haven't yet asked.
"The Liberians can count on their government, but Guineans can only count on God in the face of Ebola," said Assiatou Diallo, a nurse in Conakry, Guinea's capital.
The Spanish missionary, 75-year-old Miguel Pajares, died in Madrid's Carlos III Hospital, the hospital and his order said. A doctor who was part of the team treating the priest confirmed he received the experimental drug. The doctor, an infectious diseases specialist, spoke on condition of anonymity, not being authorized to discuss the treatment.
Pajares' body will be cremated Wednesday to avoid any public health risks, the hospital said. He had worked for the San Juan de Dios hospital order, a Catholic group, helping to treat people with Ebola in Liberia when he became ill and was evacuated.
WHO said the size of the outbreak — the biggest in history and the first in West Africa — made the experimental use of drugs ethical even though there is no evidence they work and it is possible they could be dangerous. The agency convened an expert panel of ethicists, infectious disease experts and patient representatives to discuss the issue on Monday.
"We don't have enough people to rely on the traditional methods if we want to stop the outbreak as soon as possible," Kieny said.
WHO said it was OK to use unproven treatments if patients give their informed consent and are guaranteed confidentiality and freedom of choice.
There was no specific advice on who should get the drug; the panel only said more analysis and discussion was needed.
"I don't think there could be any fair distribution of something available in such small quantities," Kieny noted.
She said some companies were speeding up trials of their new Ebola vaccines and there might be some preliminary safety data by the end of the year.
WHO also said the world had "a moral duty" to collect evidence about the safety and effectiveness of Ebola treatments in scientific trials.
Canada's Tekmira Pharmaceuticals Corp. is developing a drug that targets Ebola's genetic material. The FDA had halted a small safety study with questions about a reaction in healthy volunteers. Last week, Tekmira announced that the FDA had modified its restriction, clearing a roadblock to possible experimental use in patients, and said it was "carefully evaluating options."
West African nations are struggling to control both the deadly outbreak and the fear it has created. Some airlines flying in and out of the region have suspended flights.
The Ivory Coast, which shares borders with Liberia and Guinea, banned direct flights from those countries and said it would increase health inspections at its borders. Guinea-Bissau also announced it was temporarily closing its border with Guinea because of the Ebola outbreak.
On Tuesday, Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf suspended all travel by executive branch officials for one month. She also ordered those already abroad to return home within a week "or be considered as abandoning their jobs," according to a statement.
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Cheng reported from London. Jonathan Paye-Layleh in Monrovia, Liberia; Clarence Roy-Macaulay in Freetown, Sierra Leone; Jorge Sainz in Madrid, AP Medical Writer Lauran Neergaard in Washington, Lassana Cassama in Bissau, Guinea-Bissau and Boubacar Diallo in Conakry, Guinea, contributed to this report.'
We can't say we haven't been warned what the Luciferian NWO Socio/Psychopaths have planned!!! _________________ 'And he (the devil) said to him: To thee will I give all this power, and the glory of them; for to me they are delivered, and to whom I will, I give them'. Luke IV 5-7.
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Lockdown Begins in Sierra Leone to Battle Ebola:
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/20/world/africa/ebola-outbreak.html?_r= 0
'FREETOWN, Sierra Leone — The most ambitious and aggressive government campaign against the Ebola epidemic gripping parts of West Africa began on Friday when Sierra Leone ordered everyone in the country to remain indoors for three days, suspending commerce, emptying the streets and halting this beleaguered nation in its tracks in an attempt stop the disease from spreading.
Calling the struggle against Ebola a matter of life or death, the government mustered police officers, soldiers and nearly 30,000 volunteers to go house to house, hoping to educate the country about the dangers of Ebola and identify people who might pass the disease to those around them.
“Some of the things we are asking you to do are difficult, but life is better than these difficulties,” President Ernest Bai Koroma said in an extraordinary radio address on Thursday night explaining the national lockdown.
From the start, the limits of the government campaign were evident. The warnings, mobilization and exhortations quickly clashed with the reality that cases here are surging and the infrastructure to deal with them hardly exists.
There is no large-scale treatment center for Ebola patients in the capital, Freetown, so many patients have to be placed in a holding center until they can be transported to a facility hours away — that is, if an ambulance can be found to pick them up and if those packed facilities have room.
The countrywide lockdown showed the desperation among West African governments — particularly in the three hardest-hit countries, Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone — as they grapple with an epidemic that has already killed more than 2,600 people and shows no signs of slowing down.
While governments in the region have already cordoned off large swaths of territory in hopes of containing the outbreak, none have attempted anything on the scale of what is being tried here. The government says it wants to visit every residence in this country of about 6 million, with the aim of instructing people in how to stop the disease from being transmitted and to find out who is harboring sick people, with potentially deadly consequences.
“We have been sending lifesaving messages through radio, TV and print, but it’s not enough,” said Roeland Monasch, a representative for Unicef, which supported the government effort, providing money, advice and information materials. “We need to take information to where people are.”
In the streets of the capital on Friday, one woman lay curled in a fetal position, eyes shut, precariously balanced on cardboard sheets next to an open gutter in front of locked storefronts. From a wary distance, the anti-Ebola volunteers said she had high fever. Hours of calls had produced no ambulance.
A small crowd, including the police, soldiers brandishing guns, presidential advisers and spectators taking cellphone pictures of the immobile woman, milled about. A medical worker said two more bodies in the vicinity needed attention. But still there was no ambulance.
“They are not responding; they say they have lots of cases now,” said a volunteer, Alhassan Kamara.
Finally, a rickety ambulance pulled up, more than five hours after the initial calls, the volunteers said. But the loosely outfitted attendants refused to pick up the sick woman: they had no chlorine spray and said it was not their job. A loud anti-Ebola jingle played on a car radio. It took a second ambulance, and the president of a moped club who quickly suited up in protective gear, to get the sick woman bundled off to uncertain care.
On nearby streets, other volunteers were going house to house to warn people of the disease’s dangers. Normally clogged streets in the capital were empty, stores were shut down tight, and pedestrians were rare on the main thoroughfares.
The senior United Nations envoy appointed to work on the Ebola crisis, Dr. David Nabarro, said he was struck by the yawning gap between the spread of the disease and the ability to fight it. The world needed to increase the efforts on the ground many times over, he said.
That would include “the capacity to treat between 9,000 and 10,000 people within the countries at any time,” he said. “To get there, we need to get extra people and cash into the countries, obviously, but also we need fantastic organization and logistics that are second to none.”
Dr. Dan Lucey, an American who volunteered in an Ebola holding center at a Freetown hospital, described the situation as horrific. “There were not enough beds, space,” he said. “When you first see this, you say this is totally intolerable. It can’t be this bad,” he said after returning home. “It was an incredible, searing experience not like anything I’ve ever seen.”
Without treatment units in the capital, he said, patients who tested positive for Ebola had to be driven at least four hours away. Those who tested negative could be exposed to Ebola while they waited. When Dr. Lucey volunteered, there was just one other doctor present. Patients were housed together in open wards with a plastic curtain between beds, awaiting their test results. At the foot of each bed were three buckets — one for urine, one for stool, one for vomit.
“There were body fluids everywhere,” he said. Fuel for the ambulances could be hard to come by. “It’s beyond belief until you see it day after day,” he said.
Dr. Oliver Johnson, a British physician currently working at the hospital with King’s Health Partners, said Friday that the 18-bed unit had received 10 patients during the first day of the lockdown and now had four physicians. He said two other isolation units had opened in the Freetown area in the past several days. “We’re starting to see more beds, more supplies. More staff are coming to work,” he said.
Sierra Leonean health workers, who he said have worked bravely, are now being offered hazard pay. “Things are improving,” he said, but “the real question is whether we can get ahead of the curve. We’ve been seeing more new patients than we’ve been able to build new beds.”
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The United States is planning to build as many as 17 Ebola treatment centers in Liberia, with about 1,700 treatment beds, while the United Nations is planning an expanded mission in the region, based in Accra, Ghana, according to Anthony Banbury, the United Nation’s Ebola operation crisis manager. It is intended to be more nimble than the United Nations’ notoriously bureaucratic operations, bringing in as many as 500 trucks and jeeps from other missions in Africa, possibly paying teams in one country to speed up safe burials, buying fuel for monitoring teams in another country, or offering helicopters to transport health workers where they are needed.
But even with the promises of help, international health officials are worried by what they describe as a rapid growth of cases here in Sierra Leone’s capital — a dense urban environment where containment is difficult and the ability to respond is limited.
“The situation in Freetown is very worrisome as cases increase,” said Michael Goldfarb, a spokesman for Doctors Without Borders. “Without an immediate, massive, and effective response, there could be an explosion of cases as has been witnessed in Monrovia,” he added, referring to the capital of Liberia.
Whether Sierra Leone’s lockdown will constitute an effective response is open to question. Despite the mobilization, the volunteers hardly appeared to be thick on the ground. In some neighborhoods, residents said they were yet to see any of the green-vested young men and women who had volunteered.
In other neighborhoods, the volunteers — many of them students, all working for no pay — complained that there was no response to their knocks at most houses. If they arrived without supplies like soap or chlorine, residents were not interested in speaking with them, the volunteers said.
Where there was a response, it was often followed by cursory admonitions to residents to wash their hands, report on neighbors suspected of illness and wear long-sleeve shirts at the market.
At one house, several volunteers talked loudly at once about hand washing, leaving the residents visibly dazed. At another, they were amazed to discover residents who were supposed to be under quarantine because of their suspected exposure to Ebola, but were actually unguarded and free to roam about. At still another, one gave out questionable information about the Ebola virus — seeming to contradict some basic precautions.
Well into the morning, the house-to-house visits had yet to begin in Kroo Bay, a densely populated neighborhood of iron-roof shanties where roughly 14,000 people live, despite officials saying they would start at dawn. The police cruised into Kroo Bay on a pickup truck, yelling at residents to go indoors and warning of imprisonment. People simply stared at the officers and continued lingering as the police drove off.
“The policeman is doing his thing, and I am doing my thing,” said Kerfala Koroma, 22, a building contractor. “We can’t even afford something to eat on a normal day. How can we get something now?”
To put above in context, there is this talk by a University Professor in 2006:
'AUSTIN -- A University of Texas professor says the Earth would be better off with 90 percent of the human population dead. "Every one of you who gets to survive has to bury nine," Eric Pianka cautioned students and guests at St. Edward's University on Friday. Pianka's words are part of what he calls his "doomsday talk" - a 45-minute presentation outlining humanity's ecological misdeeds and Pianka's predictions about how nature, or perhaps humans themselves, will exterminate all but a fraction of civilization. Though his statements are admittedly bold, he's not without abundant advocates. But what may set this revered biologist apart from other doomsday soothsayers is this: Humanity's collapse is a notion he embraces....'
Indeed, his words deal, very literally, on a life-and-death scale, yet he smiles and jokes candidly throughout the lecture. Disseminating a message many would call morbid, Pianka's warnings are centered upon awareness rather than fear. "This is really an exciting time," he said Friday amid warnings of apocalypse, destruction and disease. Only minutes earlier he declared, "Death. This is what awaits us all. Death." Reflecting on the so-called Ancient Chinese Curse, "May you live in interesting times," he wore, surprisingly, a smile. So what's at the heart of Pianka's claim? 6.5 billion humans is too many. In his estimation, "We've grown fat, apathetic and miserable," all the while leaving the planet parched. The solution? A 90 percent reduction. That's 5.8 billion lives - lives he says are turning the planet into "fat, human biomass." He points to an 85 percent swell in the population during the last 25 years and insists civilization is on the brink of its downfall - likely at the hand of widespread disease. "[Disease] will control the scourge of humanity," Pianka said. "We're looking forward to a huge collapse." But don't tell local "citizen scientist" Forrest Mims to quietly swallow Pianka's call to awareness. Mims says it's an "abhorrent death wish" and contends he has "no choice but to take a stand." Mims attended the educator's doomsday presentation at the Texas Academy of Science's annual meeting March 2-4. There, the organization honored Pianka as its 2006 Distinguished Texas Scientist - another issue Mims vocally opposes. "This guy is a loose cannon to believe that worldwide genocide is the only answer," said Mims, who filed two formal petitions with the academy following the meeting. Joining the crusade, James Pitts, who recieved a Ph.D. in physics from UT-Austin, became the second to publicly chastise Pianka when he filed a complaint Saturday with the UT board of regents. He insists a state university is no place to disseminate such views. He writes: "Pianka's message does not fall within the realm of his professional competence as a biologist, because it is a normative claim, not a descriptive one. Pianka is encouraged to use his ecological expertise to predict the likely consequences of certain technological and reproductive strategies, but to evaluate some as good, bad, or worthy of prevention by genocide is the realm of philosophy or political science, not science. His message falls no more within his professional competence than it would for a physicist to teach religion in class or a musician to encourage racism.Â" But Pianka, a 38-year UT educator, maintains he's not campaigning for genocide. He likens mankind's story to an unbridled party on a luxury cruise liner. The fun's going strong on the upper deck, he says. But as crowds blindly absorb the festivities, many fail to notice the ship is sinking. "The biggest enemy we face is anthropocentrism," he said, describing the belief system in which humans are the central element of the universe. "This is that common attitude that everything on this Earth was put here for [human] use." To Pianka, a human life is no more valuable than any other - a lizard, a bison, a rhino. And as humans reproduce, the demand for resources like food, water and energy becomes more than the Earth can sustain, he says. Ken Wilkins, a Baylor University biology professor and associate dean, agrees the inevitability of a crashing point is unarguable. "The human population is growing," he said. "We will see a point when we reach the carrying capacity - there aren't enough resources." But resources aren't the only threat, Pianka says. It's the Ebola virus he deems most capable of wide scale decimation. "Humans are so dense (in population) that they constitute a perfect substrate for an epidemic," he says. He contends Ebola is merely an evolutionary step away from escaping the confines of Africa. And should an outbreak occur, Pianka assuredly says humanity will quickly come to a "grinding halt." The professor's not the only one who can articulate this concept. Because Pianka includes his doomsday material in his coursework, Ebola and its potential play a notable role in some students' studies. A syllabus for one course reads: "Although [Ebola Zaire] Kills 9 out of 10 people, outbreaks have so far been unable to become epidemics because they are currently spread only by direct physical contact with infected blood. However, a closely-related virus that kills monkeys, Ebola Reston, is airborne, and it is only a matter of time until Ebola Zaire evolves the capacity to be airborne." It is here that some say Pianka ventures from provocative food for thought to, as Wilkins said, "very extreme material" that violate many people's views - including his own - about the treatment of human life. While many praise Pianka's boldness and scientific know-how, others say he crosses an ethical line in his treatment of Ebola's viability as a killer. In an evaluation of Pianka's course - performed anonymously in keeping with university policy - one student offered: "Though I agree that conservation biology is of utmost importance to the world, I do not think that preaching that 90 percent of the human population should die of Ebola is the most effective means of encouraging conservation awareness." Mims says he's seen countless doomsday predictions come and go. But Pianka's is different, Mims said. Pianka, he insists, exhibits genuine cause for alarm. Mims worries fertile young minds with a thirst for knowledge may develop into enthusiastic supporters of a deadly disease, advocating the fall of humanity. "He recommended airborne Ebola as an ideal killing virus," Mims said. "He showed slides of the Four Horsemen of the apocalypse and human skulls. He joked about requiring universal sterilization. It reminded me of a futuristic science fiction movie with a crazed scientist planning the death of humanity." But as confident as Mims is in his assessment, he faces one unarguable fact: Most of Pianka's former students are bursting with praise. Their in-class evaluations celebrate his ideas with words like "the most incredible class I ever had" and "Pianka is a GOD!" Mims counters their ovation with the story of a Texas Lutheran University student who attended the Academy of Science lecture. Brenna McConnell, a biology senior, said she and others in the audience "had not thought seriously about overpopulation issues and a feasible solution prior to the meeting." But though McConnell arrived at the event with little to say on the issue, she returned to Seguin with a whole new outlook. An entry to her online blog captures her initial response to what's become a new conviction: "[Pianka is] a radical thinker, that one!" she wrote. "I mean, he's basically advocating for the death for all but 10 percent of the current population. And at the risk of sounding just as radical, I think he's right." Today, she maintains the Earth is in dire straits. And though she's decided Ebola isn't the answer, she's still considering other deadly viruses that might take its place in the equation. "Maybe I just see the virus as inevitable because it's the easiest answer to this problem of overpopulation," she said. Though listeners like McConnell may walk away with a deadly message, Pianka maintains this is inconsistent with his lecture. One UT official said Pianka is likely well within his rights as a tenured educator. The 1940 Statement of Principles on Academic Freedom and Tenure - a set of guidelines recognized nationwide - guarantees college professors vast classroom liberties. But Neal Armstrong, vice provost for faculty affairs at UT, said even this freedom is not without limits. "Faculty members have the right of free speech like anyone else," he said. "In the classroom, they're free to express their views. There is the expectation, though, that in public - especially when speaking on controversial topics - they must make every effort to be clear that they are not speaking on behalf of the university." Students should be able to discern on their own the validity of views like Pianka's, Armstrong said. But if allegations of Pianka actively advocating human death were to be confirmed, he said "there might be some discussion about the appropriateness of that subject." "I would hope that's not what's intended," he said. "I don't think that's appropriate for the classroom, but that's my personal statement." Robert K. Jansen, chair of the section of integrated biology under which Pianka is classified, said his understanding of the doomsday material left no cause for concern. "It's important for students to get all opinions, and they have to do that on a daily basis," he said. To hold a classroom's attention, Jansen says educators must often "speak their mind" in a fashion bold enough to garner a bit of shock. The Texas Academy of Science uses a similar approach in defending its decision to honor Pianka with the Distinguished Scientist award. Though TAS offered no direct comment to the Gazette-Enterprise, an email sent from TAS President David Marsh to Mims in response to Mims first letter of protest reads: "We select the DTS speaker based on his/her academic credentials and contributions to science. We do not mandate the subject he/she decides to address, nor will we ever. I would suggest that one of the purposes of any such presentation is to stimulate discussion - which indeed it did." In his petitions, Mims inquires about the group's stance on Pianka's talk, asking if the recent honor should be interpreted as an endorsement by TAS. Marsh responded firmly, saying the award does not represent any formal backing of Pianka's ideas. But despite the academy's flat denial of any wrongdoing, Mims maintains his stance. He said thus far, he's seen no response to the second petition. "I completely agree with one assertion made several times by Dr. Pianka: 'The public is not ready to hear that he hopes 90 percent of them will be exterminated by disease,'" Mims said. McConnell said the TAS audience, unlike Mims, was in awe of PiankaÂ's words. They offered a standing ovation, and enthusiastically applauded Pianka's position, Mims said. "There was a good deal of shock and just plain astonishment at what he had to say," the student said. "Not many folk come out and talk about the end of the human population in as candid of a manner as he did. Dr. Pianka received a standing ovation at the end of his talk, if that says anything. What he had to say was radical, no question about it, but that is not to say that at least some of what he had to say is not true." Though Pianka turned down requests for a sit-down interview, he maintains he is not advocating human death. Does he believe nature will bring about this promised devastation? Or is humanity's own dissemination of a deadly virus the only answer? And more importantly, is this the motive behind his talks? Responding to these very questions, Pianka said, "Good terrorists would be taking [Ebola Roaston and Ebola Zaire] so that they had microbes they could let loose on the Earth that would kill 90 percent of people." As of press time, Pitts - who sent his appeal via email Saturday - had received no response from the university, but he says, "It's too early for any responses to have been made." Meanwhile, Pianka urges humanity to heed his call to be prepared, saying "we're going to be hunters and gatherers again real soon." "This is gonna happen in your lifetime," he told his St. Edward's audience. "Do you wanna go there? We've already gone there. We waited too long."
Dr. Strangelove, eat your heart out! _________________ 'And he (the devil) said to him: To thee will I give all this power, and the glory of them; for to me they are delivered, and to whom I will, I give them'. Luke IV 5-7.
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First the massacre of aid workers...
Ebola, biological warfare against Africa?
A team of eight experts and journalists visiting the southern region of the West African state of Guinea were found dead in the town of Nzerekore on Sept. 20. Reports indicate that they were there to educate people about the nature of the disease for the purpose of its prevention.
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2014/09/23/379687/ebola-biological-warfar e-against-africa/
This is a call for an immediate, thorough, and independent investigation of Tulane University researchers (see here and here) and their Fort Detrick associates in the US biowarfare research community, who have been operating in West Africa during the past several years.
What exactly have they been doing?
Exactly what diagnostic tests have they been performing on citizens of Sierra Leone?
Why do we have reports that the government of Sierra Leone has recently told Tulane researchers to stop this testing?
Have Tulane researchers and their associates attempted any experimental treatments (e.g., injecting monoclonal antibodies) using citizens of the region? If so, what adverse events have occurred?
The research program, occurring in Sierra Leone, the Republic of Guinea, and Liberia—said to be the epicenter of the 2014 Ebola outbreak—has the announced purpose, among others, of detecting the future use of fever-viruses as bioweapons.
Is this purely defensive research? Or as we have seen in the past, is this research being covertly used to develop offensive bioweapons?
For the last several years, researchers from Tulane University have been active in the African areas where Ebola is said to have broken out in 2014.
These researchers are working with other institutions, one of which is USAMRIID, the US Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases, a well-known center for biowar research, located at Fort Detrick, Maryland.
In Sierra Leone, the Tulane group has been researching new diagnostic tests for hemorrhagic fevers.
Note: Lassa Fever, Ebola, and other labels are applied to a spectrum of illness that result in hemorrhaging.
Tulane researchers have also been investigating the use of monoclonal antibodies as a treatment for these fevers—but not on-site in Africa, according to Tulane press releases.
“In 2009, researchers received a five-year $7,073,538 grant from the National Institute of Health to fund the continued development of detection kits for Lassa viral hemorrhagic fever.
“Since that time, much has been done to study the disease. Dr. Robert Garry, Professor of Microbiology and Immunology, and Dr. James Robinson, Professor of Pediatrics, have been involved in the research of Lassa fever. Together the two have recently been able to create what are called human monoclonal antibodies. After isolating the B-cells from patients that have survived the disease, they have utilized molecular cloning methods to isolate the antibodies and reproduce them in the laboratory. These antibodies have been tested on guinea pigs at The University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston and shown to help prevent them from dying of Lassa fever…
“Most recently, a new Lassa fever ward is being constructed in Sierra Leone at the Kenema Government Hospital. When finished, it will be better equipped to assist patients affected by the disease and will hopefully help to end the spread of it.” [The Kenema Hospital is one of the centers of the Ebola outbreak.]
Here is another release from Tulane University, this one dated Oct. 18, 2007. “New Test Moves Forward to Detect Bioterrorism Threats.”
“The initial round of clinical testing has been completed for the first diagnostic test kits that will aid in bioterrorism defense against a deadly viral disease. Tulane University researchers are collaborating in the project.
“Robert Garry, professor of microbiology and immunology at Tulane University, is principal investigator in a federally funded study to develop new tests for viral hemorrhagic fevers.
“Corgenix Medical Corp., a worldwide developer and marketer of diagnostic test kits, announced that the first test kits for detection of hemorrhagic fever have competed initial clinical testing in West Africa.
“The kits, developed under a $3.8 million grant awarded by the National Institutes of Health, involve work by Corgenix in collaboration with Tulane University, the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases, BioFactura Inc. and Autoimmune Technologies.
“Clinical reports from the studies in Sierra Leone continue to show amazing results,” says Robert Garry, professor of microbiology and immunology at the Tulane University School of Medicine and principal investigator of the grant.
“We believe this remarkable collaboration will result in detection products that will truly have a meaningful impact on the healthcare in West Africa, but will also fill a badly needed gap in the bioterrorism defense.
“…The clinical studies are being conducted at the Mano River Union Lassa Fever Network in Sierra Leone. Tulane, under contract with the World Health Organization, implements the program in the Mano River Union countries (Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea) to develop national and regional prevention and control strategies for Lassa fever and other important regional diseases.
“Clinical testing on the new recombinant technology demonstrates that our collaboration is working,” says Douglass Simpson, president of Corgenix. “We have combined the skills of different parties, resulting in development of some remarkable test kits in a surprisingly short period of time. As a group we intend to expand this program to address other important infectious agents with both clinical health issues and threat of bioterrorism such as ebola.”
The third document is found on the Sierra Leone Ministry of Health and Sanitation Facebook page (no login required), dated July 23 at 1:35pm. It lays out emergency measures to be taken. We find this curious statement: “Tulane University to stop Ebola testing during the current Ebola outbreak.”
Why? Are the tests issuing false results? Are they frightening the population? Have Tulane researchers done something to endanger public health?
In addition to an investigation of these matters, another probe needs to be launched into all vaccine campaigns in the Ebola Zone. For example. HPV vaccine programs have been ongoing. Vials of vaccine must be tested to discover ALL ingredients. Additionally, it’s well known that giving vaccines to people whose immune systems are already severely compromised is dangerous and deadly.
'..While elite US and European families like the Rockefellers, along with their dynastic underlings like Bill Gates continue their obsession with over-population, while investing heavily in vaccines and dispensaries in the Third World, terms continue to become blurred by evermore deceptive labeling of seemingly artificial threats:
“Other lines of current immunological contraceptive research continue to seek what, during the 1930s, Max Mason of the Rockefeller Foundation called “anti-hormones”: vaccines to block hormones needed for very early pregnancy and a vaccine to block the hormone needed for the surface of the egg to function properly.”
Considering current events, this should be a subject of concern to the public at large…
The article below, by author Shepard Ambellas, looks at this influential US foundation/think tank’s idea, or future scenario where a ‘New World’ is be formed following a major biological pandemic. The prestigious Rockefeller Foundation appears to have already mapped out our future for us:
“The pandemic also had a deadly effect on economies: international mobility of both people and goods screeched to a halt, debilitating industries like tourism and breaking global supply chains.”
The present Ebola scare is fast fitting perfectly into Rockefeller’s ‘Flu pandemic’ mind-scaping exercise. As 21WIRE reported last week, the US is setting the pace for hyping the Ebola scare, but at the same time helping to conceal the true nature and lab-based pedigree of this latest deadly outbreak in West Africa. When you combine this with this with traditional Rockefeller funding and support for global government and the eugenics agenda, it’s not hard to see how a pandemic like Ebola could help to fast-track long-term goals and objectives of the Establishment’s family-owned cartels...' _________________ 'And he (the devil) said to him: To thee will I give all this power, and the glory of them; for to me they are delivered, and to whom I will, I give them'. Luke IV 5-7.
This is just too important an article to miss; the whole article is important. so I'll post the lot. And this is the 6th paper in a series! I haven't yet looked for the others, but I'm sure they'll be good, if this one is anything to go by; this guy knows his stuff, knows the dangers he's in by publishing it, and goes ahead anyhow; he has my greatest respect:
'This essay, the sixth in a series on ebola and biowarfare, looks at the findings from a just-completed gene analysis of the ebola virus strain by an international team of microbiologists and medical doctors. Their conclusion is that the RNA structure of the ebola virus raging through West Africa is a direct derivative from the Gabon-Congo outbreaks in 2002 and 2003.
The lineage provides important clues as to how Zaire ebola (ZEBOV-Gabon/Congo) was transferred to West Africa over a distance of 4,000 kilometers and a lapse of 10 years without being detected along the way. Zaire ebola is neither native to West Africa nor could it have arrived via any natural or accidental means without triggering intermediate outbreaks.
Nobody has stepped forward to claim responsibility for an inadvertent release of Zaire ebola in shipment, through a drug trial or a lab accident. The question therefore arises: Why would anyone take the risks and take on the expenses of inserting the virus into a remote district of Gabon a decade after obtaining the sample from Gabon? At this point in the contagion, one of those risks is to be apprehended for manslaughter at minimum or premeditated mass murder. So, if the contagion is a criminal act, the suspect must be as highly educated, trained in science, brilliant and devious as the fictional Dr. Moriarty. What could be his game? Or was the plot hatched by an institute or corporation?
Tracking the Killer
The research team did not interpret their findings any further because so many variables and uncertainties are involved in this outbreak. Whatever the uncertainties, data from Harvard and Broad Institute tend to affirm the possibility of ZEBOV-Gabon/Congo coming from a microbiology lab that was involved in the Central African pandemic a decade ago. Further strengthening the case for an escape from bio-secure confinement, the White House has just ordered an inspection and inventory of all federal laboratories involved in virology in the search for missing or contaminated samples of pathogens.
Much more forensic evidence is needed to determine whether the virus was released in a deliberate act of biowarfare to destabilize resource-rich West Africa or for an illegal “live trial” in humans using an active infectious virus. At this point, the only way to gather more clues is to match the microbiological findings with the natural ecosystem and human social-political environment in Gabon and the Republic of Congo (Brazzaville). The investigative process promises neither a quick solution nor ready conclusions.
This series of forensic articles marshals the scientific facts and background into plausible scenarios for how and why Zaire ebola was inserted into Guinea, epicenter of the first outbreak in late December. In each of these essays, a country involved in biowarfare research is spotlighted to weigh evidence for and against its culpability in triggering the current outbreak. It is now the turn of Canada, especially its hidden research ties with Nazi scientists under postwar Operation Matchbox and more recent cooperation with the military microbiology lab of the Bundeswehr, the army of the German Federal Republic.
While the Canadian equivalent of the notorious MK-ULTRA mind-control program has been partially exposed by its victims and critics, next to nothing has been disclosed about Ottawa’s secret connections with Nazi microbiology. The only foreign medical teams present in the late phase of the Gabon-Congo outbreak were from a German military lab based in Munich and a Canadian microbiology team. The Canadian virologists were from the Manitoba lab that has since animal-tested the ZMapp antibodies for the British Defence Ministry and the Pentagon. Canada’s past record of live trials of German toxic agents on its own citizens is reason enough to list that government among the top suspects behind the present ebola contagion.
Dying for Truth
Before cross-referencing the forensic evidence with political background, highest praise should be accorded to the five African doctors who died of ebola in Sierra Leone while treating patients and gathering samples for the recent genome survey. Scientific truth sometimes demands the ultimate sacrifice for the public welfare. The loss of those brave professionals should compel the world medical community to repudiate the profiteering and instead devote every ounce of effort toward breaking the replication cycle of the ebola virus to save humans and wildlife on the last untamed frontier of this planet.
Kenema Government Hospital in Sierra Leone was the sole collection point for the 99 ebola genomes from 78 patients. Working round the clock for a month, the team analyzed gene sequences that reveal the virus is descended from an ebola strain from the 2002-2003 outbreak in Gabon and the Republic of Congo (Brazzaville). The Middle African variant that erupted in the West Cuvette region of Congo (Brazzaville) emerged in low-land gorillas in 2002, killing an estimated 5,000 apes, before moving into the human population. In the second wave of 2003 at the same location, it recurred, crossing into humans, reportedly through a dead chimpanzee eaten by elephant poachers.
When Numbers Don’t Add Up
A decade later, that same virus strain reappeared in Guinea, in distant West Africa in late January of this year. Two months later, the infection was carried across the border into Sierra Leone by a traditional healer or “witch doctor”who became infected and died in the northeastern Kailahum district. At his funeral, mourning family members and followers were infected, triggering the second and more powerful wave of the regional contagion.
The genome researchers report that 50 genes were altered during cross-infection throughout eastern Sierra Leone in that “second wave” of the outbreak. When highly contagious viruses move into new territory with large populations, they tend to rapidly multiply and, in the haste, experience minor gene mutations. Moving from cluster to cluster of human hosts, genetic variants split off, showing slight differences from the parent genome.
As infections spread across a human population, the map of these paths appears much like the spreading branches of a tree. In this cascade of successive variants, slight changes to the RNA sequence can be used to reconstruct a chronology of dates and places. Tracing the tree branches in reverse is a way to track the virus back to its closest match, it parent stock, which in this case was earlier found in Gabon, Central Africa, in 2004.
A troubling question arises from a larger group of altered genes, 340 in number, mutated away from the 2004 Gabon-Congo predecessor. The first stage of the outbreak in Guinea, affecting fewer patients and a slower rate of transmission, should have produced less genetic changes than during the powerful surge in Sierra Leone. The numbers, 340 gene changes versus 50 later, do not tally with the history of this outbreak. There are too many altered genes. If another unreported outbreak happened between the Gabon and Guinea pandemics, then there are too few gene mutations.
The case for too many mutations: Laboratory samples are stored at freezing temperatures of about minus 40C to preserve the virus RNA unchanged. If Gabon-Congo had been stored in a lab over the past decade, samples should show much fewer changes.
If to the contrary, the Gabon-Congo virus ran wild in the bush for a decade, its genetic sequence should be showing many more mutations.
Something must have happened in between these two extremes. The virus must have gone through a stage of storage in deep freeze and also active transmission across a series of host animals or humans somewhere along the line, before it reemerged in humans and possibly animals in Guinea.
An intermediate infection arises from two possibilities, both involving human agency:
- the virus strain was altered over short periods inside fruit bats or apes in a natural setting or wildlife sanctuary before it was captured and frozen by biologists for many years inside the carcass of an animal specimen or isolated in a tube; or
- the Gabon-Congo pathogen was frozen and then covertly administered for research trials in lab animals, either to create antibodies for a serum or to increase its virulence as a bio-weapon.
The conclusion hits like a hammer blow: This ebola strain was under control of scientists for years before it was released last December into a new and distant population.
The A List
There were three microbiology teams involved in 2002-2003 Gabon-Congo:
- The Bundeswehr Institute of Microbiology (BIM) based in Munich;
- the Laboratory Centre for Disease Control (LCDC), based in Winnipeg, Canada; and
- the International Center for Medical Research (CIRMF), Franceville, Gabon.
The picture is complicated by the presence of many other participants in the World Health Organization (WHO) response to the latter phase of the Gabon-Congo outbreak. These include: the European Union Humanitarian Office (ECHO), French Cooperation, International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) and the National Red Cross Society, Médecins sans Frontières-Holland (MSF-H), and UN High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR).
In the bush as well, there were Apes Incorporated and the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, active in the Gabon-Congo region starting in 2005. That team gathered stool samples from deceased gorillas, which is only a short-term repository for the virus. The possible entry of Zaire ebola from chimpanzee tests at an NIH lab in Lousiana back to Africa, via an illicitly obtained “orphan” lab chimp, was explored in Part 4 of this series. That scenario of a chain of unwitting accidents is, admittedly, the most far-fetched of possible transmission routes.
Level 3+ and Rising
The Centre International de Recherches Medicales de Franceville (CIRMF) is a bilateral research center for infectious diseases in humans and primates, founded in 1979. Its Board of Directors includes officials of the Gabon government and the French-owned petroleum corporation Total. One of the world’s six major oil transnationals, Total extracts oil at Port Gentil in Gabon. Its operations have been at the center of controversy involving unpaid local taxes and riots by local supporters of the opposition parties.
Total has a financial connection with Sanofi pharmaceutical company, which was a key suspect in possible covert drug testing in Guinea, as exposed in Part 3 of this series. Sanofi was founded in 1973 as a subdivision of Elf Aquitaine, a predecessor oil company merged into Total. The French oil corporation still has a less than 5 percent share holding in Sanofi, smaller than before but still quite significant. Total also has major interests in the oil basin of the Gulf of Guinea (Conakry). Therefore, the two pandemics could be motivated by petroleum interests.
Following a 1979 ebola outbreak in Gabon, the French government funded the CIRMF BioSafety Level 3+ lab, designated to handle highly contagious diseases. CIRMF is one of two research centers in Africa qualified to handle Risk 3/4 highly contagious diseases, including ebola. Located in a former uranium-mining town in southeast Gabon, its facilities include a large wild primate research facility housing 450 apes.
As the major center for ebola research in Central Africa connected with French strategic interests, CIRMF joins the suspect list for the West African outbreak. It is not inconceivable from a Machiavellian standpoint that a covert destabilization program was organized to increase French Africa’s dependency on France’s advanced biomedical base.
A Beautiful Friendship
The Francophone factor also puts bilingual Canada on the suspect list for outbreaks in two French African nations. If they couldn’t speak French, Canadian medical experts would not have been posted in Gabon.
Even with a language edge, it is strange that the Winnipeg-based National Microbiology Laboratory (NML-C), the same institute that was working on isolating two of there antibodies in the ZMapp drug cocktail, was operating in the Equatorial tropics in 2003. The research team was completely out of its bailiwick because its lab concentrates on Arctic and cold-climate pathogens of risk to the Canadians. Also, the lab is funded by the Public Health Agency, which supervises domestic medical care and does not function as a foreign-aid program. Canadians are potentially vulnerable to avian influenza and equine encephilitis, but certainly not to the ebola virus, which cannot survive the winter cold.
The public-funded lab was present in Gabon because its then director, Heinz Feldman, has deep background in secret work for the German military, as a graduate of University of Marburg and a researcher at the Bundeswehr’s biowarfare facility, leading centers for the study of ebola as a weapon of mass destruction. His posting in Manitoba, along with fellow German colleagues, is the legacy of top-secret Operation Matchbox, under which the British MI-5 spy service relocated hundreds of Nazi scientists to Canada and Australia to continue their development of weapons of mass destruction.
The Bundeswehr Institute of Microbiology, a military laboratory based in Munich, is traditionally focused on two biowarfare agents:
- Tularemia, a fever in rabbits, which was reportedly used in the Soviet defense against Nazi German forces during the siege of Leningrad in World War II. Those weaponized bacteria spores were introduced to the soils of Eastern Europe and Germany by casualties sent home for treatment and later the many fatalities sustained during the long disastrous retreat from the Eastern Front.
- Marburg virus, part of the filavirus group along with ebola, which was first reported during the mid-1960s outbreak at the Hoechst pharmaceutical plant, a former IG Farben facility, in Marburg, near Frankfurt.
In the search for an antidote to the African hemorrhagic fever, the University of Marburg evolved into a major center for research on the ebola virus. Meanwhile, the “democratic” and “peaceful” Bonn government managed a long-term cover-up as to why postwar Germany was continuing to weaponize hemorrhagic-fever viruses at both its civilian and military research institutes.
A simultaneous outbreak in Belgrade in the 1960s indicates that former Nazi scientists on both sides of the Cold War were developing a biological weapon, whose natural origins are in the pre-World War I colonies of German East Africa. Contrary to the myth of filovirus “discovery” in 1976, the Marburg mystery points to much earlier knowledge of hemorrhagic fevers. In the early 20th century, German scientists were suspected of spreading typhus against the indigenous African tribes confined at the Shark Island labor camp in the German colony of Namibia. Shark Island was also a center for eugenics research on pure-blood natives and mixed-race children.
While the German military stationed a mobile laboratory in the ebola-affected Gabon-Congo region, villagers in West Cuvette assaulted African medical workers dispatched from Brazzaville. The locals feared that they were being targeted in repeated biowarfare attacks. Across Africa, more and more ordinary citizens are convinced that the increasing frequent epidemics, amid military-style vaccination campaigns, are actually part of a genocide program. Paranoia? This is a grain of truth behind the rumors.
Perhaps the fear-mongers are correct, considering the reality, as pointed out by Professor Francis Boyle at the University of Illinois law school, that every major urban hospital in Africa is attached to a WHO-approved laboratory linked to Western military services. Among these army outfits was the Bundeswehr. Absent were the medics, orderlies and ambulance drivers who could have saved victims. Present instead were microbiologists and communications staff, there to collect blood samples, run field tests, upload data and ship materials back to Munich. Whatever the humanitarian intentions, it all looks bad, considering Germany’s part record with human experiments.
The distinguished microbiologist from Marburg University and the Bundeswehr institute, Professor Dr. Feldman, has since moved on to the Great Plains region at the Rocky Mountain Laboratory in Montana, under the National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Disease (NIAID), which also sponsors the Office of Biodefense Research Affairs. Feldman is an example of how German scientists have moved freely between Britain, the US and Canada ever since the 1950s.
At the Canadian National Microbiology Laboratory in Winnipeg, his students conducted trials of monoclonal antibodies (Mab) on chimpanzees the only basis for the efficacy claims for ZMapp. The antibody serum is nothing new, but quietly isolated and adapted by Feldman’s team from goat serum produced at Russia’s premier biowar lab called VECTOR, as reported in Part 5 of this series. The work on ebola in the remote prairie city of Winnipeg was disclosed in 2009 when the Canadian lab expressed an antidote dosage to the Bernard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine in Hamburg, where a German lab assistance needle-pricked her finger while working with a vial of active ebola.
The “rogue states” in Europe and North America impose censorship over disclosure of this sort of biowarfare development, which is disguised as public-funded “civilian research” at universities and national science institutes. Why? Because they are guilty of violating the UN Convention Against Biological Weapons. Scientists working on the well-rewarded secret research project are at an ethical level no better their predecessors at IG Farben, Unit 731 and Aralsk-7, the only difference being that their condemned human test subjects are not penned inside a neighborhood labor camp but remain unseen in far-off Africa.
Professor Feldman and his circle of research colleagues are the living personification of the German-Canadian virology cooperation established by his professional “forefathers” from the Nazi germ-warfare program, who were secretly relocated to Manitoba and Alberta under Operation Matchbox.
Inside the Dustbin of History
Kransberg Castle atop a monolith over the Rhineland cannot be called a fortress of the Third Reich since its legacy is as a fantasy retreat for Herman Goring and then a luxury detention center for Nazi scientists, engineers and war industrialists. After the Allied forces broke through the Siegfried Line, the last rampant of armor and artillery between the Eternal Reich and total defeat, the British and American counter-intelligence services took over the imposing medieval structure to wine and dine Nazi notables.
A sanctuary away from the flames, bomb blasts, unheeded cries for mercy and executioner gunshots, the banquet guest list included the crumbling regime’s most illustrious: rocket scientist Werner von Braun, Hitler’s architect Albert Speer, speed demon Ferdinand Porsche, Reichsbank boss Hjalmar Schacht and spymaster Reinhart Gehlen.
Kransberg was the Davos of its era, the seedbed for globalism, the birth of a new dawn of everlasting conviviality and confidentiality between the insiders who control the Great Powers. In the most disparaging terms, however, this highest-level joint intelligence project was called Operation Dustbin. Perhaps the indelicate reference to rubbish was intended to hide the fact from Uncle Joe Stalin that it was actually a gold mine of information.
While cordial to their German guests, the American and British officers were near the breaking point with each other. The disdain felt by generals Eisenhower and Montgomery toward each other was by then legendary. Each side at Kransberg tried to outdo its partner to impress their German guests with promises of leniency and remuneration. Despite the mutual distrust, both victors were in agreement that Germany’s brain trust should be spared severe punishment, whatever the crimes against humanity as propagandized to the world audience over the BBC and CBS.
The Yanks and the Brits had divergent opinions on what to do with their useful captives. The practical Americans adored the power of technology, especially when manifested in speed and strength. The Yanks were determined to grab the lion’s share of shiny futurist inventions that could transform their parochial and isolationist nation into the paragon of the future. Jet engines, rotor craft later renamed the helicopter and rockets were the very symbols of progress and world leadership. Hundreds of German aerospace experts were sent to Fort Bliss, Texas, including von Braun, Bernhard Tessman and Arthur Rudolph.
The British, on the other hand, were from a tiny island with a tenuous grip on a sprawling yet half-collapsed Empire. Their imperial mission was to restore the mirage of Rule Britannia over their reluctant subjects who just witnessed how the Japanese, Germans and Italians had smashed the myth of British invincibility. To reinvent the legitimacy of kingship, the the Freudian center in London called the Tavistock Institute aimed for an acquisition and merger of the Reich’s arsenal of psychiatric methods, pharmaceutical drugs, media propaganda and even occult studies. The British gave their utmost attention to winning hearts and minds, while the Yanks could care the less about making impressions when tossing over a pack of Lucky Strikes or a Hershey’s bar will do.
To sway the colonials in South Asia and Africa with feigned sincerity, the British had to return as saviors bearing the balm of tropical medicine. (The political role of vaccines in the colonial project is discussed in the last section below.) For invention of better and cheaper drugs, the Germans were indispensable.
Most of the senior chemists and microbiologists with the villainous Farben combine were also treated with courtesy at the castle, including Reich cancer research chief Kurt Blome and top virologist Erich Traub, who had conducted live experiments on Auschwitz prisoners. To make good on the wartime propaganda about German death camps, the Allied Tribunal at Nuremberg organized a show trial for medical researchers, chemists and microbiologists, which came to called alternatively the Doctor’s Trial or the IG Farben Trial.
The legal challenge for the Allied prosecutors was that Nazi Germany never released chemicals or biological agents on the battlefield, due to Adolf Hitler’s aversion to mustard gas from his soldiering experience in World War I. Punishing the Germans for medical experimentation on humans was also problematic, because live-testing was accepted as a standard practice in hospitals and prisons across Europe and North America. The prosecution was left with the weak argument that many procedures on prisoners were acts of sadism and not real science, charges vigorously denied by the defense team.
Most of the guilty served less than four years imprisonment, while the rest of the German scientific community, practically all of them comprised by research for the Reich, were questioned and then soon allowed to resume their careers. While the IG Farben scientists were serving out their short prison terms, the CIA converted Kransberg Castle from interrogation center into a finishing school for the Gehlen organization. The Wehrmacht spy agency for the Eastern Front was reborn in 1956 under CIA tutelage as the Bundesnachrichtendiest (BND), the intelligence agency for the new democratic Federal Republic of Germany.
Following the advice of experienced spymaster von Gehlen and with Vatican support, the Catholic-dominated CIA crafted an anti-Soviet strategy of running a secret war of espionage and sabotage inside Soviet-occupied Eastern Europe. With Allied sponsorship, Gehlen ran clandestine programs including Operation Gold to wiretap Soviet phone lines in Germany and Operation Bohemia to restore fascist movements in Soviet-occupied Eastern Europe, a legacy that continues to this day with the NATO exercises in Ukraine.
A massive secret program of subversion demands the dark arts of psychological manipulation with pharmacology, electric shock and electromagnetic mesmerism, along with invisible biological weapons to incapacitate Soviet counter-strikes. Advanced technologies is what black magic was supposed to be.
The once-belittled German microbiologists and pharmacologists were recontacted and soon put under civilian cover as executives with BASF, Bayer and other German chemical, pharmaceutical and veterinary products companies. Under assumed identities, senior scientists were given generous stipends, foreign passports and the extraordinary privileges of travel and access to major corporations in the West and Allied military labs and proving grounds. Otto Ambrose, the notorious IG Farben organic chemist, was appointed as science adviser to the CIA-affiliated J. Peter Grace Corporation, Dow Chemical and Grunenthal, the producer of a tranquilizer called thalidomide, which destroyed a postwar generation of infants.
The CIA and US Army would have hired on many more German microbiologists were it not for their acquisition of the Japanese Army’s Unit 731, whose exploits went beyond the unthinkable from unloosing plague, typhus and hantavirus on the battlefield and against cities in China. US officers admired their high-risk decisions that also killed thousands of their own soldiers. In comparison with these Japanese tigers, the German scientists were seen as no more courageous than laboratory mice. The US Army, which showed no respect for those introverts, perfectionists and armchair theorists, cherry-picked the most ruthless and sent them to Plum Island.
Bereft of the big names in German chemistry and bioscience, the British had to scrape the leftovers from the bottom of Dustbin, most of these being anonymous lab technicians. Thanks to the Unit 731 daredevils, there was still plenty of choice material in the dregs.
Then came Operation Matchbox, nominally an Anglo-American project (the Americans with their Paperclip played along only to keep a wary eye on the Brits). Matchbox was the code name for the relocation of hundreds of German scientists to Australia and Canada. One of the observers shopping for talent at the Nuremberg doctors’ trial was psychatrist Ewan Cameron, founder of McGill University’s Allen Memorial Institute.
Tavistock’s prize candidate, Dr. Werner Kohlmeyer, was sent to McGill University in Montreal to get Ewan Cameron up to speed on electroencephalography, or targeted electroshock “therapy”, which both scientists believe could re-engineer the mental structure of unwilling patients. The electromagnetism theories of Ukrainian-German bio-physicist Boris Rajewsky, a Nazi party member who often took short trips from Berlin, were tested at McGill-Allen, where patients were bombarded with a range of mood-altering radio frequencies, including those of the same wavelength in the synapses of the human brain. Stanley Kubrick’s “A Clockwork Orange” ends with a reference to behavioral modification through forcible listening to “music”.
German development of pharmacological agents for behavior modification were of intense interest to the administrators of Operation Matchbox. The synthetic opiate pentidine, developed at IG Farben by chemists Otto Eislib and Otto Schaumann, was one of the earlier mind-control drugs, prior to the invention of LSD and ketamine.
Cameron’s no-holds-barred experiments with German mind-control methods on the homeless, orphans and even patients quickly attracted the attention of the CIA, which was dabbling with chemical truth serums under Project Bluebird. The British and Canadian psyops researchers, on the leading edge of mind control, were welcomed back under Operation Artichoke by the cash-dispensing CIA. German science had fixed the broken machinery of the postwar Alliance.
With suitcases full of CIA dollars for psychological operations, Cameron worked with the superstars of German pharmacology in Montreal, whereas the non-glamorous slow-lane field of virology was shunted into the shadows in an era when most Americans and Canadians were not even aware that the common cold is caused by viral infection.
The obscure no-names of German toxicology, bacteriology and virology were packed off to remote Alberta where the Canadian Ministry of Agriculture was preparing eviction notices for 110 farm families in Suffield township to prevent their extermination by nerve gas and lethal viruses. For the German exiles, there were at least a couple of ratskellers for a stein of beer and liverwurst to relieve the monotony, but entertainment was sparse since Suffield lacked a theater with anything close to Prairie Home Companion.
As for names of those pedestrian lab workers, a handful are suspect through their scientist sons, who have a tendency to choke when asked in phone interviews. The official list will not be made public until the Official Secrets Act is rescinded or hell freezes over. The Commission of Inquiry on War Criminals, convened by Justice Minister Jules Deschênes, estimated that 76 accused scientists and technicians immigrated to Canada. After visa restrictions against Nazis was rescinded in the early 1960s, hundreds more flocked to the New World. The names, professions, job titles and places of employment are under Royal seal.
An intriguing story from a woman who claims she was abducted as child from Ireland provides a faint ray of light into Suffield’s role in psychological modification. She recalled being subjected to experiments there and at the Lincoln Park sector in Calgary, where US Air Force personnel were stationed. Verification of such stories in monarchist Canada is well nigh impossible, considering what was done in a Paris tunnel to a member of the Royal circle. It’s a tight ship with a short plank.
The nervous denials, sweaty palms and the faraway gaze of the second-generation science whiz are all due to the luck of the loon, none of it good. The waterfowl is stamped on the backside of the Canadian dollar coin. Head’s the Queen, tail’s a loon.
A Little Soused on the Prairie
Whenever the regal griffins spread their prodigious wings to take predatory flight, the Canadian loons were sure to follow, even sometimes outdoing their masters, if only in folly. On a drizzly spring morn, British Army microbiologists decided they needed more breathing space than inside the cramped quarters of Porton Down in old Salisbury. With modest curtsies when summoned, their colonial subjects and upstart cousins stepped forward to offer the wide open spaces of the North American hinterland.
So it came to pass that the three allies bound by tradition and blood, that being the blood of Germany and Russia, swore an oath of secrecy to save the world, for themselves. Fair England would remain focused in a temperate clime, brash America under the desert heat, and freezing Canada, well, frozen. Every bioweapon in their arsenal had to pass muster in three climatic zones, thereby leaving the dastardly enemy nowhere to hide on this planet.
The Yanks boasted of their vast Utah cantonment in Provo, the Dugway Proving Ground. Not to be outdone by their longtime rival, the Canadians promised to build the biggest military base in North America and the Commonwealth. With evil cackles, the three purveyors of witch’s brew stumbled back to their alchemist labs.
Stuck with a grandiose commitment made before sizing up the real estate prospects along the continental rail line, the loonies at the National Department of Defense with deepest sympathy told farmers in Cypress County, Alberta, in May and August 1941, that it was a patriotic duty to surrender their land and homes. In contrast with the still neutral United States, Canada was on a war footing nearly two years into World War II.
The Suffield Experimental Station was known to the locals as British Block, because quiet men from Porton Down often blocked the roads for some unannounced purpose. In addition to the farmlands, Ottawa threw in Wawaskesy National Park, which conveniently came with buffalo. Here, at last, was an incomparable site to gas, inject or poison animals and men without the annoyance of Druids and Wiccans seeking directions to Stonehenge on every equinox. Silence was guaranteed because the rural population was of ethnic German descent from Eastern Europe who were taught to keep their heads low by the anti-Bosch Anglicization campaign during World War I.
In the 1950s, Canadian servicemen were coaxed into volunteering for live tests of antidotes against the “common cold.” Later conceding that only “60 to 75” men had been live-tested with sarin nerve gas, Ottawa eventually came closer to the actual number of victims when it paid out $30 million to 1,350 survivors. The remaining 650 participants are unaccounted for, presumably dispatched to an early grave after suffering blisters, profuse bleeding, blindness and lung damage. The organophosphate toxin was brought over from Germany after the end of World War II by former Nazi scientists to test an antidote called atropine.
The Government of Canada, under pressure from prosecutors, paid compensation to their soldiers even though the secret human tests were ordered by the UK Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl) at Porton Down and supervised by British scientist Emlyn Llewelyn Davies. Decades later, a Canadian Defence Minister unveiled a plaque at Suffield in recognition of the 2,000 servicemen whose health and careers were wrecked by a misbegotten experiment in scientific sadism.
Buffalo Closure
One of the mysteries of wartime research at Suffield is the curious presence of anthrax in the soils of the Canadian Plains, which has killed hundreds of buffalo at Wood Bison Park on Alberta’s northern boundary and at the Mackenzie River range west of Great Slave Lake in the Northern Territories.
Anthrax did not naturally occur in the pristine North American wilderness. The bacteria was introduced inadvertently into Quebec from Europe via non-sterilized animal hides sent to the province’s leather tanneries. The prairie region remained clear of anthrax until the opening of Suffield Block.
The herds at Mackenzie and Wood parks, originally from the Flathead Indian territory in neighboring Montana, were transferred from three former Canadian national parks in southern Alberta in the Medicine Hat region, near Suffield. For a while, the bison herds fared better in the colder pastures.
Was anthrax, a bioweapon used by Germany in World War I, tested on bison at Suffield? A damning clue is found in the type of anthrax that infects the middle provinces. The Sterne strain is a lab-modified bacteria type that is endemic to South Africa. Canadian bison anthrax is a weaponized subtype of the Sterne strain.
In the mid-1930s, South African veterinary pathologist Max Stern isolated a mutant of an aberrant bacteria spore that shed its coat when exposed to dry oxygen-rich air, becoming non-lethal. Once that strain was put into a carbon dioxide loaded atmosphere, the spores regained their potency. After Max Stern altered the bacteria to prevent its production of a replacement coat, his “avirulent” or non-infectious strain was used as a vaccine to trigger an immune reaction in cattle.
In the hands of military microbiologists, however, the Sterne strain was perfect in its normal state. Dry, it could be handled without harming friendly troops. Released from airplanes or artillery shells, the spores were easily ingested into the lungs of enemy troops, where carbon dioxide and moisture revive its toxicity. With a bit of tweaking of its bonds to increase its potency, the Sterne strain became a standard part of the bacterial arsenal.
Notably, it was the Sterne strain from Texas A&M University sent to the US Army Medical Research Institute for Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID) that was the actual agent used in the post-911 anthrax attacks against the American political elite. The anthrax was not the so-called “Ames” strain allegedly from the Department of Agriculture station in Iowa.
Here is an excerpt from The Washington Post, dated November 30, 2001, that disclosed Canadian, British and German cooperation with the Pentagon in biological weapons development:
“A report suggests that the strain of anthrax used in the attacks likely originated from USAMRIID and was shared with only a small number of other labs. USAMRIID gave it to Battelle Memorial Institute, in Columbus, Ohio; the University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center, in Albuquerque, New Mexico; the Defense Research Establishment Suffield, in Canada; the US Army Dugway Proving Ground, in Utah; and the Chemical Defense Establishment at Porton Down, Britain. These in turn sent it to seven more labs, for a total of a dozen. But only five labs total received the virulent form.”
Some of those seven additional labs had to be biowar research centers in Germany. Canada had to be used as a conduit due to certain sensitivities among congressional lobbyists about how German scientists conducted themselves during the war.
The Sterne bacterial outbreaks happen during long droughts, when infected soil is powderized as a rising dust that lifts up anthrax spores. Inhaled by the buffalo, the spores revive in the mixture of moisture and carbon dioxide in their lungs. Mature bulls are more prone to fatal infection, perhaps due to their larger lung capacity.
This entire episode of biowar experiments on bison is deep buried with the carcasses, while death will forever stalk the prairie. Moving along to happier subjects, Operation Matchbox was a puzzling code name for biowarfare since it is better suited to the pyromaniacs at Dow who invented napalm.
Under the Guise of Public Health
In June 1967, the Block was redesignated as the Defence Research Establishment Suffield. In 1971 Suffield was promoted to a full-grade military base under contract with the British Defence Ministry for live-fire exercises of tank units and artillery. In Operation Vacuum, chemical-warfare field exercises resumed with improved gear to make up “for shortcomings brought out in previous trials.”
The improvement on shortcomings was not meant as better protection for troops. The objective was to test the effectiveness of more potent sarin against troops wearing improved protective suits and gas masks. The goal was still to kill. A request from Porton Down inquired about lethality data at Suffield. Presumably, the field reports in question concerned human casualties, since Suffield staff had already sent test results on pigs and monkeys that died of sarin effects.
Then the unthinkable happened. British Prime Minister Edward Heath did a U-turn on biological weapons for reasons still are kept under wraps. Historians have yet to decipher whether he proposed a worldwide ban against biowarfare as part of his trade overtures to China, which had suffered the outrages of Unit 731, or in an attempt to appease black Africans opposed to an increasingly desperate Rhodesian army. After the UN passage of the UN convention, Rhodesia unleashed the biggest anthrax attack ever, killing at least 86 people between 1978 and 1980. The attack did not influence the liberation fighters, but was a gratuitous gesture as if to send the message to the British that bioweapons were developed for a larger purpose that cannot be denied.
The Canadian response to the UN Biological Weapons Convention of 1972 was to reassign military lab work from Suffield to the Public Health Agency’s new Biosafe Level 4 National Microbiology Laboratory in Winnipeg, Manitoba. The University of Manitoba inaugurated a new microbiology department to provide indentured labor for the labs.
To this day, to his hour of West Africa’s need, the tripartite relationship among Britain, Canada and the United States continues to thrive under German scientific leadership. In microbiology, at least, Germany won the battle for minds, if not hearts. And, still, the larger purpose cannot be denied.
A Therapeutic Global Order
Though we are closer to the truth through this series, the question “Who specifically released ebola in West Africa?” continues to elude us. At this point, we can only ask “Why?”
That answer is: To bring social-economic order to less-developed and poorly managed continents through a modern medical-procedural system. If political reforms persistently fail, then a life-threatening crisis is the most convincing means to effect regime change and reinforce obedient discipline among the local elite and its bureaucracy. Great epidemics motivate nation-states and municipalities to radically improve hospital systems, invest in public hygiene and impose vaccination. Bad habits must be destroyed. Biological warfare can be an agent of creative destruction.
That is the outlook from the therapeutic state with its pharmaceutical arsenal and advanced electromagnetic diagnostic systems. The globalized medical system, enshrined in the WHO with its many institutional allies and corporate partners, has the power of life or death over billions of humans and animals. Africa, like China before it, is the “sick man” of the world, where radical social surgery is required so that orderly financial administration and corporate management can take root. Ebola is the deadly boogeyman that will bring a lost continent back into the fold.
This unspoken program, which nonetheless functions as the operating system for global management, should explain why so much investment goes to the global medical authority from misanthropic sources like the Gates Foundation and the Wellcome Trust. The motivation does not arise from charity or compassion. It is power.
Borderline Medicine
Biological warfare is therefore not for battles between armies, but deployed instead for the nonstop globalist war against national sovereignty, now being rolled back from the high-water mark of African liberation in the 1970s. The relationship between the West African outbreak and British-German biowarfare cooperation in Canada illustrates the role of modern medicine, especially vaccination campaigns, as an instrument for the (re-)colonization of the developing world.
As for citizens of the developed economies, they are the captive role models of the globalist therapeutic system, which transforms people into patients and translates health into disease, and social problems as sickness. Each month, the patient dutifully deposits an exorbitant share of household income into health insurance plans and swallows medication dosages on schedule, while every visit to a clinic is tracked electronically by an unidentified data service provider. Insurance funds and old-age pensions transfuse wages like blood into the arteries of the stock exchanges and bond markets, with profits to be harvested along with human organs by the tycoons and high bureaucrats.
The health-maintenance system is, by historical standards, the biggest gulag archipelago ever. It would an complete tragedy if not for the comic punchline: None of the above protects your personal health, when it is society that is sick.
The following excerpt, describing the early stage of medical imperialism, is from “Anthrax in South Africa: Economics, Experiment and the Mass Vaccination of Animals” by Daniel Gilfoyle, Medical History (Cambridge, Oct. 2006):
“The history of anthrax control in South Africa, which concerns public policy and technical innovation, relates to the wider historiography of medicine, science and technology in the British Empire. If Daniel Headrick has interpreted various innovations in science and medicine as ‘tools of empire’, which enabled colonists to conquer indigenous populations and overcome hostile environmental conditions, historians have more recently been concerned with the ways in which Western medicine assisted colonial administrations in extending social control over the colonized.
“Medical science underpinned militaristic public-health policies and sanitary measures, in which vaccination, particularly against smallpox, at times played a significant part. In Africa, such interventions sometimes disrupted long-established methods of disease control based on environmental regulation, with disastrous results for the health of the colonized.
“In South Africa too, historians have been concerned with the relation of racially biased medical institutions, public policies and private practice to the imposition and development of segregation and apartheid. In this regard, however, Harriet Deacon has suggested a contradiction between the analysis of Western medicine as a means by which the state extended control over Africans and the argument that Africans have suffered because they have been excluded from the benefits to health that it has potentially offered.”
The news media narrative from the ebola crisis is entertaining, as fiction should be. A secret serum is express-delivered, a chartered aircraft leased and luxury isolation wards provided for American missionaries versus local patients forced to rot inside a barbed-wire quarantine zone in a Monrovia slum. GlaxoSmithKline announces the start of production of an ebola vaccine, sending pharmaceutical shares through the ceiling in the City of London and on Wall Street. West African nations, rich in oil and minerals, are economically devastated by travel bans and rioting. Meanwhile, the chain of CDC and WHO research laboratories across the “dark continent” methodically collect blood samples for air-shipment to the CDC and other Western labs, but offer no effective public-health support, while African doctors and nurses die in droves. When nervous exhaustion finally sets in, African leaders will meekly come to terms and sign on the dotted line. Then the contagion will suddenly end, as if by magic.
Ebola is conquest by other means, through biological warfare. The hunt for the specific perpetrators continues, that is, if they don’t soon join the Dead Microbiologists Society.
Yoichi Shimatsu, a science journalist based in Hong Kong and Thailand, organized a medical-systems consulting team that promoted stopping contagion in the environment during the SARS and avian influenza outbreaks.
Yoichi Shimatsu has joined a lot of dots, with copious info to boot. I'm going to add another few dots, as Yoichi does not seem to be aware of the 'human culling' plans of the NWO Luciferians:
Cathy O'Brien's story dovetails with a lot of his information, re Ewan Cameron, MK-Ultra, 'Paperclip' etc., but in one important area goes beyond his assessment of the object of the biowarfare deployment.
Cathy was a Mind-Controlled Pentagon and White House level sex slave, as well as a personal Presidential envoy and drug mule.
Here is a good introduction to her story, in a video talk, opened by her husband, an ex-CIA guy who rescued her and her daughter just before Cathy was to be killed, having reached 30 years old, which is when the brain can start to naturally break through the Mind Control 'training' (torture and hideous abuse would be a better description).
Mind Control Out Of Control MK ULTRA Cathy O Brien PT 1:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1JP0U9IVbw
She and Mark Phillips have written two books, 'Trance Formation of America' and 'Access Denied: For Reasons Of National Security' (this is the better book, as the first was basically a compendium of information meant for a Congressional Inquiry, which was blocked. However, every Congressman and Senator was sent one of the original books when it was printed).
Here is a verbatim quote from 'Access Denied', which deals with 'wiping out the 'n*ggers' (that was the word George H.W. Bush used):
'According to New World Order plans being discussed at the Grove, plans for reducing the earth's population was a high priority. Mass genocide of so-called ''undesirables'' through the proliferation of AIDS was high on Bush's agenda. ''We'll annihilate the n*ggers at their source, beginning in South and East Africa and Haiti.'' Having heard Bush say those words is by far one of the most torturous things I ever endured. Equally as torturous to my being were the discussions on genetic engineering, human cloning, and depletion of earth's natural resources for profit. Cheney remarked that no one would be able to think to stop technology's plan. ''I'll destroy the planet first,'' Bush had vowed.'
(Copied verbatim apart from asterisk instead of an 'i' in 'n*ggers' which Cathy uses in her book, page 168 'Access Denied: For Reasons of National Security' by Cathy O'Brien with Mark Phillips. A footnote also points to Chapter 23, 'Whirled Vision', of 'Trance Formation of America' by same authors.)
Notice that Haiti was listed as one of the first for depopulation, and remember the (HAARP?) earthquake, and the 'accidental' epidemic of cholera spread by the Nepalese troops? (http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2012/11/20121115101554961482 .html ). _________________ 'And he (the devil) said to him: To thee will I give all this power, and the glory of them; for to me they are delivered, and to whom I will, I give them'. Luke IV 5-7.
'...That a nation of 11 million people, with a GDP of $6,051 per capita, is leading the effort says much of the international response. A brigade of 165 Cuban health workers arrived in Sierra Leone last week, the first batch of a total of 461. In sharp contrast, western governments have appeared more focused on stopping the epidemic at their borders than actually stemming it in west Africa. The international effort now struggling to keep ahead of the burgeoning cases might have nipped the outbreak in the bud had it come earlier....'
As always, of course! Cuba sends the doctors, US sends the Marines. Still, it's a turn-up for the book to have the Guardian admit it, instead of denigrating Cuba. !Cuba si! !Yanqui no! Fidel Castro is one of the few country leaders I have ever truly respected; Hugo Chavez, Patrice Lumumba and Samora Machel are a few others.
If you watch it, you can easily see it is all set up (the news team probably didn't want to risk catching Ebola, so didn't go within miles of real victims!!). I'll post another video, based on above, where the guy explains it is a hoax, but jumps to the wrong conclusion that just because the video is faked, then the whole outbreak is faked. But I agree with his assessment of any 'vaccines' introduced by the US or West: Ebola Hoax: 100% REVEALED! CNN + NYT caught using CRISIS ACTORS! MUST SEE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ZonCVRQ-2s
Once again, I want to make it VERY CLEAR I do not agree with him regarding the Ebola hoax; I have posted this because he points out some very obvious fakery in the CNN footage. _________________ 'And he (the devil) said to him: To thee will I give all this power, and the glory of them; for to me they are delivered, and to whom I will, I give them'. Luke IV 5-7.
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While Delaware State University professor Cyril Broderick published a letter in Liberia’s Daily Observer in September, 2014 accusing the US government of manufacturing the Ebola virus. Broderick alleges that Ebola is a genetically modified organism that America weaponized and tested in Africa under the guise of distributing vaccines. He further names Canada, the UK, and France as being in cahoots with America, with the WHO and the UN somehow involved as well.
Len Horowitz said: “I investigated the Department of Defense’s germ warfare appropriations request and learned that the option to develop synthetic biological agents bioweapons as alternatives to nuclear weapons came from Dr. Henry Kissinger, who was gradually placed in his position of authority as National Security Advisor under Richard Nixon, the most powerful man in government, by Nelson Rockefeller and his affiliates at the Council on Foreign Relations.
Moreover, I traced where the money went. It went, in fact, to a firm called Litton Bionetics, a subsidiary of the mega-military contractor Litton Industries, whose President, Roy Ash, was being considered as an alternate to Henry Kissinger for the National Security Advisor post. Instead, Roy Ash became Richard Nixon’s chairman of the Presidents Advisory Council on Executive Organizations, and Assistant to the President of the United States.
And Litton Industries was given over $5 billion in military contracts during the first term of the Nixon administration, $10 million of which went towards the development of AIDS like viruses.”
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Lie #5) Ebola came out of nowhere and was a random fluke of nature
The modern-day version of Ebola that's so aggressively circulating today may actually be a bioengineered virus, according to one scientist who wrote a front-page story in Liberia's largest newspaper.
"Ebola is a genetically modified organism (GMO)," declared Dr. Cyril Broderick, Professor of Plant Pathology, in a front-page story published in the Liberian Observer. [2]
He goes on to explain:
[Horowitz] confirmed the existence of an American Military-Medical-Industry that conducts biological weapons tests under the guise of administering vaccinations to control diseases and improve the health of "black Africans overseas."
Further supporting this genetic engineering research claim, the U.S. government patented Ebola in 2010 and now claims intellectual property ownership over all Ebola variants. That patent number is CA2741523A1, viewable at this link.
Read more about the patenting of Ebola and control over its research in this Natural News article.
It's all scripted! Ebola outbreak and impossibly rapid vaccine response clearly scripted; U.S. govt. patented Ebola in 2010 and now owns all victims' blood
Friday, September 19, 2014 by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger http://www.naturalnews.com/046946_ebola_outbreak_vaccines_patents.html
This means the U.S. government claims all control over Ebola research, too, because any research project involving replication of the virus would violate the government's patent.
In fact, the vastly improved transmission ability of the Ebola strain currently circulating (compared to previous outbreaks in years past) has many people convinced this strain is a "weaponized" variant which either broke through containment protocols at government labs or was intentionally deployed as a population control weapon.
Several U.S. scientists have openly called for global depopulation using genetically engineered bioweapons such as Ebola. Dr. Eric Pianka of the University of Texas at Austin reportedly advocated the use of Ebola to wipe out 90% of the human population, according to Life Site News. [3]
It appears he may soon get his wish. If the current Ebola explosion continues, the global population may be in serious jeopardy and many millions could die.
Those who wish to live through a global pandemic should learn how to get prepared now by listening to the audio chapters at www.BioDefense.com
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I have read a number of articles from your Internet outreach as well as articles from other sources about the casualties in Liberia and other West African countries about the human devastation caused by the Ebola virus. About a week ago, I read an article published in the Internet news summary publication of the Friends of Liberia that said that there was an agreement that the initiation of the Ebola outbreak in West Africa was due to the contact of a two-year old child with bats that had flown in from the Congo. That report made me disconcerted with the reporting about Ebola, and it stimulated a response to the “Friends of Liberia,” saying that African people are not ignorant and gullible, as is being implicated. A response from Dr. Verlon Stone said that the article was not theirs, and that “Friends of Liberia” was simply providing a service. He then asked if he could publish my letter in their Internet forum. I gave my permission, but I have not seen it published. Because of the widespread loss of life, fear, physiological trauma, and despair among Liberians and other West African citizens, it is incumbent that I make a contribution to the resolution of this devastating situation, which may continue to recur, if it is not properly and adequately confronted. I will address the situation in five (5) points:
1. EBOLA IS A GENETICALLY MODIFIED ORGANISM (GMO)
Horowitz (1998) was deliberate and unambiguous when he explained the threat of new diseases in his text, Emerging Viruses: AIDS and Ebola - Nature, Accident or Intentional. In his interview with Dr. Robert Strecker in Chapter 7, the discussion, in the early 1970s, made it obvious that the war was between countries that hosted the KGB and the CIA, and the ‘manufacture’ of ‘AIDS-Like Viruses’ was clearly directed at the other. In passing during the Interview, mention was made of Fort Detrick, “the Ebola Building,” and ‘a lot of problems with strange illnesses’ in “Frederick [Maryland].” By Chapter 12 in his text, he had confirmed the existence of an American Military-Medical-Industry that conducts biological weapons tests under the guise of administering vaccinations to control diseases and improve the health of “black Africans overseas.” The book is an excellent text, and all leaders plus anyone who has interest in science, health, people, and intrigue should study it. I am amazed that African leaders are making no acknowledgements or reference to these documents.
2. EBOLA HAS A TERRIBLE HISTORY, AND TESTING HAS BEEN SECRETLY TAKING PLACE IN AFRICA
I am now reading The Hot Zone, a novel, by Richard Preston (copyrighted 1989 and 1994); it is heart-rending. The prolific and prominent writer, Steven King, is quoted as saying that the book is “One of the most horrifying things I have ever read. What a remarkable piece of work.” As a New York Times bestseller, The Hot Zone is presented as “A terrifying true story.” Terrifying, yes, because the pathological description of what was found in animals killed by the Ebola virus is what the virus has been doing to citizens of Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia in its most recent outbreak: Ebola virus destroys peoples’ internal organs and the body deteriorates rapidly after death. It softens and the tissues turn into jelly, even if it is refrigerated to keep it cold. Spontaneous liquefaction is what happens to the body of people killed by the Ebola virus! The author noted in Point 1, Dr. Horowitz, chides The Hot Zone for writing to be politically correct; I understand because his book makes every effort to be very factual. The 1976 Ebola incident in Zaire, during President Mobutu Sese Seko, was the introduction of the GMO Ebola to Africa.
3. SITES AROUND AFRICA, AND IN WEST AFRICA, HAVE OVER THE YEARS BEEN SET UP FOR TESTING EMERGING DISEASES, ESPECIALLY EBOLA
The World Health Organization (WHO) and several other UN Agencies have been implicated in selecting and enticing African countries to participate in the testing events, promoting vaccinations, but pursuing various testing regiments. The August 2, 2014 article, West Africa: What are US Biological Warfare Researchers Doing in the Ebola Zone? by Jon Rappoport of Global Research pinpoints the problem that is facing African governments.
Obvious in this and other reports are, among others:
(a) The US Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID), a well-known centre for bio-war research, located at Fort Detrick, Maryland;
(b) Tulane University, in New Orleans, USA, winner of research grants, including a grant of more than $7 million the National Institute of Health (NIH) to fund research with the Lassa viral hemorrhagic fever;
(c) the US Center for Disease Control (CDC);
(d) Doctors Without Borders (also known by its French name, Medicins Sans Frontiers);
(e) Tekmira, a Canadian pharmaceutical company;
(f) The UK’s GlaxoSmithKline; and
(g) the Kenema Government Hospital in Kenema, Sierra Leone.
Reports narrate stories of the US Department of Defense (DoD) funding Ebola trials on humans, trials which started just weeks before the Ebola outbreak in Guinea and Sierra Leone. The reports continue and state that the DoD gave a contract worth $140 million dollars to Tekmira, a Canadian pharmaceutical company, to conduct Ebola research. This research work involved injecting and infusing healthy humans with the deadly Ebola virus. Hence, the DoD is listed as a collaborator in a “First in Human” Ebola clinical trial (NCT02041715, which started in January 2014 shortly before an Ebola epidemic was declared in West Africa in March. Disturbingly, many reports also conclude that the US government has a viral fever bioterrorism research laboratory in Kenema, a town at the epicentre of the Ebola outbreak in West Africa. The only relevant positive and ethical olive-branch seen in all of my reading is that Theguardian.com reported, “The US government funding of Ebola trials on healthy humans comes amid warnings by top scientists in Harvard and Yale that such virus experiments risk triggering a worldwide pandemic.” That threat still persists.
4. THE NEED FOR LEGAL ACTION TO OBTAIN REDRESS FOR DAMAGES INCURRED DUE TO THE PERPETUATION OF INJUSTICE IN THE DEATH, INJURY AND TRAUMA IMPOSED ON LIBERIANS AND OTHER AFRICANS BY THE EBOLA AND OTHER DISEASE AGENTS.
The U. S., Canada, France, and the U. K. are all implicated in the detestable and devilish deeds that these Ebola tests are. There is the need to pursue criminal and civil redress for damages, and African countries and people should secure legal representation to seek damages from these countries, some corporations, and the United Nations. Evidence seems abundant against Tulane University, and suits should start there. Yoichi Shimatsu’s article, The Ebola Breakout Coincided with UN Vaccine Campaigns, as published on August 18, 2014, in the Liberty Beacon.
5. AFRICAN LEADERS AND AFRICAN COUNTRIES NEED TO TAKE THE LEAD IN DEFENDING BABIES, CHILDREN, AFRICAN WOMEN, AFRICAN MEN, AND THE ELDERLY. THESE CITIZENS DO NOT DESERVE TO BE USED AS GUINEA PIGS!
Africa must not relegate the Continent to become the locality for disposal and the deposition of hazardous chemicals, dangerous drugs, and chemical or biological agents of emerging diseases. There is urgent need for affirmative action in protecting the less affluent of poorer countries, especially African citizens, whose countries are not as scientifically and industrially endowed as the United States and most Western countries, sources of most viral or bacterial GMOs that are strategically designed as biological weapons. It is most disturbing that the U. S. Government has been operating a viral hemorrhagic fever bioterrorism research laboratory in Sierra Leone. Are there others? Wherever they exist, it is time to terminate them. If any other sites exist, it is advisable to follow the delayed but essential step: Sierra Leone closed the US bioweapons lab and stopped Tulane University for further testing.
The world must be alarmed. All Africans, Americans, Europeans, Middle Easterners, Asians, and people from every conclave on Earth should be astonished. African people, notably citizens more particularly of Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone are victimized and are dying every day. Listen to the people who distrust the hospitals, who cannot shake hands, hug their relatives and friends. Innocent people are dying, and they need our help. The countries are poor and cannot afford the whole lot of personal protection equipment (PPE) that the situation requires. The threat is real, and it is larger than a few African countries. The challenge is global, and we request assistance from everywhere, including China, Japan, Australia, India, Germany, Italy, and even kind-hearted people in the U.S., France, the U.K., Russia, Korea, Saudi Arabia, and anywhere else whose desire is to help. The situation is bleaker than we on the outside can imagine, and we must provide assistance however we can. To ensure a future that has less of this kind of drama, it is important that we now demand that our leaders and governments be honest, transparent, fair, and productively engaged. They must answer to the people. Please stand up to stop Ebola testing and the spread of this dastardly disease.
Thank you very much.
Sincerely,
Dr. Cyril E. Broderick, Sr.
About the Author:
Dr. Broderick is a former professor of Plant Pathology at the University of Liberia’s College of Agriculture and Forestry. He is also the former Observer Farmer in the 1980s. It was from this column in our newspaper, the Daily Observer, that Firestone spotted him and offered him the position of Director of Research in the late 1980s. In addition, he is a scientist, who has taught for many years at the Agricultural College of the University of Delaware. _________________ 'And he (the devil) said to him: To thee will I give all this power, and the glory of them; for to me they are delivered, and to whom I will, I give them'. Luke IV 5-7.
'...The first of the four front companies established by Basson was Delta G Scientific Company in November 1982. Delta G. was primarily responsible for the research, production and development of biological and chemical agents that ranged from irritating to lethal. Philip Mijburgh headed Delta G. and reported directly to Basson. A majority of the products developed at the company were tested at Roodeplaat Research Laboratories (RRL) which was established in November of that same year.
RRL, initially headed by Daan Goosen, was primarily responsible for the research, development and production of a range of biological and chemical pathogens to be used for defensive and allegedly offensive purposes. Some of the agents produced and tested at RRL during the 1980s included, anthrax, botulinum, cholera, plague, ricin, E. coli, Ebola and Marburg virus. Burgess and Purkitt state that genetic engineering research was also a component of Project Coast and led to the research of lethal bacterial agents which would affect only non-white people....'
'...During the 1980s Basson continued to travel to many countries in an effort to obtain information and make contacts about foreign chemical and biological weapons programs. Basson was known to have traveled to countries, such as Denmark, Switzerland, Iraq, Israel, North Korea, Iran, Columbia, the Philippines, U.S., U.K., Germany and other European countries. It is believed that he was able to obtain a substantial amount of information that could be utilized in South Africas CBW program. In fact, it has been suggested that many of the countries Basson visited could have assisted in the development of South Africas CBW program, although there is little substantiating evidence....'
'AUSTIN -- A University of Texas professor says the Earth would be better off with 90 percent of the human population dead. "Every one of you who gets to survive has to bury nine," Eric Pianka cautioned students and guests at St. Edward's University on Friday. Pianka's words are part of what he calls his "doomsday talk" - a 45-minute presentation outlining humanity's ecological misdeeds and Pianka's predictions about how nature, or perhaps humans themselves, will exterminate all but a fraction of civilization. Though his statements are admittedly bold, he's not without abundant advocates. But what may set this revered biologist apart from other doomsday soothsayers is this: Humanity's collapse is a notion he embraces.'
'..Though his statements are admittedly bold, he's not without abundant advocates. But what may set this revered biologist apart from other doomsday soothsayers is this: Humanity's collapse is a notion he embraces. Indeed, his words deal, very literally, on a life-and-death scale, yet he smiles and jokes candidly throughout the lecture. Disseminating a message many would call morbid, Pianka's warnings are centered upon awareness rather than fear. "This is really an exciting time," he said Friday amid warnings of apocalypse, destruction and disease. Only minutes earlier he declared, "Death. This is what awaits us all. Death." Reflecting on the so-called Ancient Chinese Curse, "May you live in interesting times," he wore, surprisingly, a smile. So what's at the heart of Pianka's claim? 6.5 billion humans is too many. In his estimation, "We've grown fat, apathetic and miserable," all the while leaving the planet parched. The solution? A 90 percent reduction. That's 5.8 billion lives - lives he says are turning the planet into "fat, human biomass." He points to an 85 percent swell in the population during the last 25 years and insists civilization is on the brink of its downfall - likely at the hand of widespread disease. "[Disease] will control the scourge of humanity," Pianka said. "We're looking forward to a huge collapse..."
'..Mims says he's seen countless doomsday predictions come and go. But Pianka's is different, Mims said. Pianka, he insists, exhibits genuine cause for alarm. Mims worries fertile young minds with a thirst for knowledge may develop into enthusiastic supporters of a deadly disease, advocating the fall of humanity. "He recommended airborne Ebola as an ideal killing virus," Mims said. "He showed slides of the Four Horsemen of the apocalypse and human skulls. He joked about requiring universal sterilization. It reminded me of a futuristic science fiction movie with a crazed scientist planning the death of humanity." But as confident as Mims is in his assessment, he faces one unarguable fact: Most of Pianka's former students are bursting with praise. Their in-class evaluations celebrate his ideas with words like "the most incredible class I ever had" and "Pianka is a GOD!" Mims counters their ovation with the story of a Texas Lutheran University student who attended the Academy of Science lecture. Brenna McConnell, a biology senior, said she and others in the audience "had not thought seriously about overpopulation issues and a feasible solution prior to the meeting." But though McConnell arrived at the event with little to say on the issue, she returned to Seguin with a whole new outlook. An entry to her online blog captures her initial response to what's become a new conviction: "[Pianka is] a radical thinker, that one!" she wrote. "I mean, he's basically advocating for the death for all but 10 percent of the current population. And at the risk of sounding just as radical, I think he's right." Today, she maintains the Earth is in dire straits. And though she's decided Ebola isn't the answer, she's still considering other deadly viruses that might take its place in the equation. "Maybe I just see the virus as inevitable because it's the easiest answer to this problem of overpopulation," she said...' _________________ 'And he (the devil) said to him: To thee will I give all this power, and the glory of them; for to me they are delivered, and to whom I will, I give them'. Luke IV 5-7.
Could Ebola Have Escaped From US Bio-warfare Labs? American law professor Francis A. Boyle, answers questions for tvxs.gr and reveals that USA have been using West Africa as an offshore to circumvent the Convention on Biological Weapons and do bio-warfare work.
Is Ebola just a result of health crisis in Africa - because of the large gaps in personnel, equipment and medicines - as some experts suggest?
That isn’t true at all. This is just propaganda being put out by everyone. It seems to me, that what we are dealing with here is a biological warfare work that was conducted at the bio-warfare laboratories set up by the USA on the west coast of Africa. And if you look at a map produced by the Center of Disease Control you can see where these laboratories are located. And they are across the heart of Ebola epidemic, at the west coast of Africa. So, I think these laboratories, one or more of them, are the origins of the Ebola epidemic.
US government agencies are supposed to do defensive biological warfare research in these labs. Is there any information about what are they working on?
Well, that’s what they tell you. But if you study what the CDC and the Pentagon do… They say it is defensive, but this is just for public relation purposes than anything. It’s a trick. What it means is what they decide at these bio-warfare labs. They say, “well we have to develop a vaccine”, so that’s their defensive argument. Then what they do is to develop the bio-warfare agent itself. Usually by means of DNA genetic engineering. And then they say, “well to get the vaccine we have to develop the bio-warfare agent” - usually by DNA genetic engineering - and then they try to work on the vaccine. So it’s two uses type of work. I haven’t read all these bio-warfare contracts but that’s typical of the way the Pentagon CDC has been doing this since at least the 1980’s. I have absolute proof from a Pentagon document that the Center of Disease Control was doing bio-warfare work for the Pentagon in Sierra Leone, the heart of the outbreak, as early as 1988. And indeed it was probably before then because they would have had to construct the lab and that would have taken some time. So we know that Fort Detrick and the Center for Disease Control are over there, Tulane University, which is a well-known bio-warfare center here in USA - I would say notorious for it - is there. They all have been over there.
In addition, USA government made sure that Liberia, a former colony of the USA, never became a party to the Biological Weapons Convention, so they were able to do bio – warfare work over there - going back to 1980’s - the USA government, in order to circumvent the Biological Weapons Convention. Likewise, Guinea the third state affected here - and there is an increase now – didn’t even sign the Biological Weapons Convention. So, it seems to me, that the different agencies of the US government have been always there try to circumvent the Biological Weapons Convention and engage bio-warfare work. Indeed, we had one of these two lab bio-warriors admit in the NY Times that they were not over there for the purpose of either screening or treating people. That’s not what these labs are about. These labs are there in my opinion to do bio-warfare work for different agencies of the US government. Indeed, many of them were set up by USAID. And everyone knows that USAID is penetrated all up and down by the CIA and CIA has been involved in bio-warfare work as well.
Are we being told the truth about Ebola? Is that big outbreak began all of a sudden? How does it spread so quickly?
The whole outbreak that we see in the west coast of Africa, this is Zaire/Ebola. The most dangerous of five subtypes of Ebola. Zaire/Ebola originated 3500 km from the west coast of Africa. There is absolutely no way that it could have been transmitted 3500 km. And if you read the recently published Harvard study on the DNA analysis of the west Africas’ Zaire/Ebola there is no explanation about how the virus moved there. And indeed, it’s been reported in the NY Times that the Zaire/Ebola was found there in 1976, and then WHO ordered to be set to Porton Down in Britain, which is the British equivalent to Fort Detrick, where they manufacture all the biological weapons for Britain. And then Britain sent it to the US Center for Disease Control. And we know for a fact that the Center for Disease Control has been involved in biological warfare work. And then it appears, at least from whatever I’ve been able to put together in a public record, that the CDC and several others US bio-warriors exported Zaire/Ebola to west Africa, to their labs there, where they were doing bio-warfare work on it. So, I believe this is the origins of the Zaire/Ebola pandemic we are seeing now in west Africa.
Why would they do that?
Why would they do that? As I suggested to try to circumvent the Biological Weapons Convention to which the US government is a party. So, always bio-warriors do use offensive and defensive bio-warfare work, violating the Biological Weapons Convention. So effectively they try to offshore it into west Africa where Liberia is not a party and Guinea is not a party. Sierra Leone is a party. But in Sierra Leone and Liberia there were disturbances which kept the world from really paying attention of what was going on in these labs.
USA sent troops to «fight» Ebola. What do you think about that move?
The US military just invaded Liberia. They send in the 101st Airborne Division to Liberia. That’s an elite division of combat and they have no training to provide medical treatment to anyone. They are there to establish a military base in Liberia. And the British are doing the same in Sierra Leone. The French are already in Mali and Senegal. So, they’re not sending military people there to treat these people. No, I’m sorry.
Weren’t they afraid Ebola’s going to go out of control even in the USA or EU in a massive way?
It’s already gone in the USA and the European Union. So, there it is. Which raises the question: Was this Zaire/Ebola weaponized at any of these labs? I don’t have an answer to that question. I am trying to get an answer. And therefore it is much more dangerous than the WHO and the CDC are telling everyone. The WHO and the CDC are up to their eyeballs in this. They know all about what ‘s going on. It was the WHO that ordered the original Zaire/Ebola in 1976 to be sent to Porton Down for biological warfare purposes. So this could be more dangerous than the WHO and the CDC are saying.
And you can’t believe anything they telling you because they are involved in that. But certainly I can’t say it has been weaponized. I don’t know that yet for sure. I have the Harvard genetic analysis of it. When I was in college I had very good courses in genetics, and biochemistry and population biology but I am not a professor of genetics. I have a friend who is a professor of genetics and he is going to take a look at this and try to figure out if there’s been DNA genetic engineering perpetrated or performed on the Zaire/Ebola. Is there a genetically modified organism at work, a GMO? I don’t know. But if a GMO is at work that’s a pretty good sign it’s been weaponized. But in anyway, it is far more dangerous than the CDC and the WHO are telling anyone, because it’s clearly transmitted for a certain distance - we don’t know how far - by air. Breathing and coughing and sneezing. So, anyone treating people, seems to me, are going to need not only a protective suit but probably a breathing apparatus, at minimum. And you saw what happened to that Spanish nurse and that Spanish priest that were brought in, infected with Ebola. So right now the WHO and the CDC are telling healthcare workers that in addition to suits they need breathing apparatuses. So, again, I don’t believe you can trust anything the WHO or the CDC are telling you. And I really don’t know about the European Health Agency… If they‘re believing the WHO and the CDC then, in my opinion, they ‘re not properly protecting the health of the European people. And it’s simply bizarre that the CDC and WHO are relegating the screenings to the people in west Africa. It’s just bizarre. They need to be protecting health of their own people and they aren’t doing that. I read some of the European press but I’m not sure precisely what the European Health Agency is recommending but they certainly can't rely upon the WHO and the CDC. As for Greece, I know you have your own Health Ministry there and they cannot rely upon them at all, as well.
Some experts told recently the Forbes magazine that even ISIS could use Ebola as a biological weapon. I would like to have your comment on that.
This is total propaganda. These people are trying to distract public opinion from the fact. My opinion is that the origins of the current pandemic came out of the USA bio-warfare labs in west Africa. That’s what is going on here. ISIS has nothing to do with this. That’s just propaganda which is trying to scare and distract public attention away of what really is going on here. They doing the same thing here in USA. That’s what we need to concentrate on. Number one. And number two? We have to find out: was this Zaire/Ebola GMOed by either Porton Down or CDC or these US bio-warfare labs? It is far more dangerous than it currently appears. That’s the real issue. And I don’t have an answer to that question. It was the US government labs that research here. I’m not saying that Ebola was released deliberately by these labs. I have no evidence to that. It could have escaped. But this is really what we need to be focusing on. Not ISIS. It’s ridiculous, it’s preposterous.
What do you think should be done?
I would encourage the Greek government to convene an emergency meeting of your top health science people and to look into this on comprehensive bases and figure out what to do under these circumstances to protect the health of people of Greece. In particular they must not believe anything they are being told by the WHO and CDC. There is a need of open objective minds here about what is really going on. I think this needs to be done.
Back in 1985, I was down in Nicaragua investigating atrocities of the Contras there and all of a sudden the country was hit with an outbreak of a hemorrhaging Dengue Fever which is similar to Ebola. And it seemed pretty suspicious to me. So I met with some of the highest level officials of the Nicaraguan government and said: “you know, this very well could be US bio-warfare against Nicaragua. They did the same thing to Cuba. And my advice is you convene health care medical experts, not politicians, to look into this. And if you agree with me and that’s the result, file a complaint with the UN Security Council for violation of the Biological Weapons Convention against the USA”. And eventually that is what they did. Here I am not recommending the Greek authorities to file a complaint against the USA. What I am recommending is the same thing I did to the Nicaraguans. That you need to convene some of your top experts geneticists, doctors, etc.
And don’t get anyone in this group who has ever done any type of research for any agency of the US government. They are completely unreliable. Get Greeks experts completely independent of the US government or the British government. It’s funny here in the USA when the media want to get experts on this, all the experts they talk to are people who have done biological warfare work for the USA. And they are up to their eyeballs on this Ebola. And doing research on this Ebola. Of course they’re not going to give you proper advice. So, find this experts and make sure they never done any research for USA or Britain on any of this stuff but are qualified and can give you a qualified opinion of what is really going on and how dangerous this stuff is. And then aim to protect the health of Greek people. You definitely don’t have to wait for the European Union in Brussels to do it for you. I’m not telling Greece what to do. I’m just telling you how to do it. And this should be done immediately. It should have been done already. But ok, better late than ever.
Francis A. Boyle is a leading American professor, practitioner and advocate of international law. He was responsible for drafting the Biological Weapons Anti-Terrorism Act of 1989, the American implementing legislation for the 1972 Biological Weapons Convention. He served on the Board of Directors of Amnesty International (1988-1992), and represented Bosnia - Herzegovina at the World Court. Professor Boyle teaches international law at the University of Illinois, Champaign. He holds a Doctor of Law Magna Cum Laude as well as a Ph.D. in Political Science, both from Harvard University.
In addition, USA government made sure that Liberia, a former colony of the USA, never became a party to the Biological Weapons Convention, so they were able to do bio – warfare work over there - going back to 1980’s - the USA government, in order to circumvent the Biological Weapons Convention.
Likewise, Guinea the third state affected here - and there is an increase now – didn’t even sign the Biological Weapons Convention. So, it seems to me, that the different agencies of the US government have been always there try to circumvent the Biological Weapons Convention and engage bio- warfare work. Indeed, we had one of these two lab bio- warriors admit in the NY Times that they were not over there for the purpose of either screening or treating people.
That’s not what these labs are about. These labs are there in my opinion to do bio-warfare work for different agencies of the US government. Indeed, many of them were set up by USAID. And everyone knows that USAID is penetrated all up and down by the CIA and CIA has been involved in bio- warfare work as well. _________________ --
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Martin Van Creveld: Let me quote General Moshe Dayan: "Israel must be like a mad dog, too dangerous to bother."
Martin Van Creveld: I'll quote Henry Kissinger: "In campaigns like this the antiterror forces lose, because they don't win, and the rebels win by not losing."
At least 785 people have been infected in the DRC's ongoing Ebola outbreak
The disease has had a death rate of 61 per cent since it began in August
Experts have called on the WHO to declare an international public emergency
By SAM BLANCHARD HEALTH REPORTER FOR MAILONLINE and STEPHEN MATTHEWS HEALTH EDITOR FOR MAILONLINE
PUBLISHED: 18:34, 5 February 2019 | UPDATED: 19:50, 5 February 2019
The Ebola outbreak ravaging the Democratic Republic of the Congo has become an international health emergency, experts warn.
More political, financial and technical support is desperately needed to battle the deadly epidemic, the group of experts said.
At least 484 people have died since the virus took hold in August and 785 people have been infected – a death rate of 61 per cent.
A detailed map has revealed how the lethal virus has spread across the African nation as fears grow Ebola may spread to nearby countries such as South Sudan.
Detailed map reveals how Ebola has spread through the Democratic Republic of Congo +6
Detailed map reveals how Ebola has spread through the Democratic Republic of Congo
The rate of infection and death from Ebola has been rising since the outbreak began in August last year – it took more than two months (August 5 to October 21) for the first 200 cases to be confirmed, then 272 people were infected between November 4 and December 25 +6
The rate of infection and death from Ebola has been rising since the outbreak began in August last year – it took more than two months (August 5 to October 21) for the first 200 cases to be confirmed, then 272 people were infected between November 4 and December 25
Health workers continue to track down people who have come into contact with Ebola patients and to vaccinate those living in and around the areas where it's spreading in the North Kivu and Ituri provinces of Democratic Republic of the Congo (Pictured: a health worker takes a woman's temperature) +6
Health workers continue to track down people who have come into contact with Ebola patients and to vaccinate those living in and around the areas where it's spreading in the North Kivu and Ituri provinces of Democratic Republic of the Congo (Pictured: a health worker takes a woman's temperature)
A group of world health experts wrote in British medical journal The Lancet this week and said the outbreak is 'not under control'.
They said 'bold measures' are needed to stop it and called on the World Health Organization to take 'drastic action'.
The African nation's epidemic has been riddled with twists and turns making fighting it more difficult.
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Health workers and quarantine camps have been attacked by militants, some people are distrustful of aid workers, and unofficial medical centres in people's front rooms have contributed to the disease's spread.
'The epidemic is not under control,' said the article's lead auther, Lawrence Gostin, a global health faculty director at Georgetown University in Washington DC.
Professor Gostin and his colleagues say the World Health Organization should consider declaring the outbreak a Public Health Emergency of International Concern.
This alert, a PHEIC, has only been used four times in the past – for the last major Ebola outbreak in 2014, the Swine flu outbreak in 2009, a resurgence of Polio in 2014, and the Zika outbreak in South America in 2016, according to The Telegraph.
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The Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo has been raging on for six months and has killed nearly 500 people – experts warned it should be designated as an international health emergency in an article in the medical journal The Lancet (Pictured: Soldiers have their boots and tyres sprayed with bleach to try and stop the spread of the virus) +6
The Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo has been raging on for six months and has killed nearly 500 people – experts warned it should be designated as an international health emergency in an article in the medical journal The Lancet (Pictured: Soldiers have their boots and tyres sprayed with bleach to try and stop the spread of the virus)
Invoking a PHEIC would require another meeting of the WHO's emergency committee, which last met in October when the death toll was just 139.
The academics wrote: 'WHO, the DRC Government, and non-government organisation partners have shown remarkable leadership but are badly stretched.
'The outbreak remains far from controlled, risking a long-term epidemic with regional, perhaps global, impacts.'
They worry dense populations and regular migration could spread the illness – 300,000 refugees have fled to Uganda since the outbreak began.
THE HISTORY OF EBOLA IN THE DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO SINCE THE KILLER VIRUS WAS FIRST DISCOVERED THERE IN 1976
CASES DEATHS DEATH % STRAIN AREA
1976 318 280 88% Zaire Yambuku (Equater)
1977 1 1 100% Zaire Tandala
1995 315 250 79% Zaire Kikwit
2007 264 187 71% Zaire Luebo/Mweke
2008/09 32 15 47% Zaire Luebo/Mweke
2012 36 13 36% Bundibugyo Orientale
2014 69 49 71% Zaire Equater
2017 8 4 50% Zaire Likati
2018 (May) 54 33 61% Zaire Kinshasa
2018-ongoing 785 484 62% Zaire North Kivu/Ituri
A TIMELINE OF THE CURRENT EBOLA OUTBREAK
Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo is announced by the World Health Organization on August 5th. Most of the cases are in Mabalako.
Within two weeks, the number of cases in Mabalako have doubled to reach 84, while the deaths have jumped from 28 to 48. Nowhere else has double-digit cases.
The killer virus is spotted in Kalanguta on September 2nd. Just one week later, a confirmed case and death crops up in Masareka – another small village.
On September 23, two confirmed cases and one confirmed death are announced in Tchomia – the second town in Ituri province to be struck down.
By the end of September, there are 150 cases and 100 deaths, mostly all occurring in Mabalako (90/65). Ebola is beginning to take hold of the city of Beni, too.
At the beginning of October, aid workers confirm one case in Komanda – another town in the Ituri province, which borders Uganda and South Sudan.
Beni - home to 232,000 people - becomes the hub of the Ebola outbreak by the end of the month, with nearly half of the 274 cases in total.
Between November 4 and November 11, confirmed cases of the lethal virus are spotted in Vuhovi, Kyondo and Mutwonga.
By the end of the fourth month of the outbreak, Beni remains at the centre. However, dozens of cases have been recorded in Kalanguta and Katwa.
In the run-up to Christmas, a case is confirmed in Biena in North Kivu. On Christmas Day itself, a case and death are confirmed in Nyakunde in Ituri.
At the beginning of 2019, there had been 608 cases and 368 deaths because of Ebola in the DRC. Some 225 and 137 of these were in Beni, respectively.
Ebola is spotted in Manguredjipa on January 14 and on January 21 in Kayina – between Beni and Goma, a city home to one million people.
Health workers in Uganda have been vaccinated and travellers are being screened at its main airport, but there is potential for carriers to slip through the net.
Neighbouring South Sudan is thought to be one of the most fragile countries in the world and couldn't tackle the outbreak as well as DRC has, they warned.
Professor Gostin added: 'Taking bold measures to prevent the spread of the disease in this country where violence is prevalent, and a famine is predicted, is critical to preventing a humanitarian disaster.'
WHAT HAVE BEEN THE WORST EVER EBOLA OUTBREAKS?
1. Liberia, Guinea, Sierra Leone + more
YEARS: 2014-16
CASES: 28,652
DEATHS: 11,352
DEATH PERCENTAGE: 39.62%
2. Democratic Republic of Congo
YEARS: 2018-ongoing
CASES: 785
DEATHS: 484
DEATH PERCENTAGE: 61.66%
3. Democratic Republic of Congo
YEAR: 1976
CASES: 318
DEATHS: 280
DEATH PERCENTAGE: 88.05%
4. Democratic Republic of Congo
YEAR: 1995
CASES: 315
DEATHS: 250
DEATH PERCENTAGE: 79.37%
5. Uganda
YEAR: 2000
CASES: 425
DEATHS: 224
DEATH PERCENTAGE: 52.71%
Despite their warning, however, the academics feared declaring a PHEIC could result in travel or trade bans which would damage the country's economy.
In response to the article, the WHO yesterday said the DRC and nearby countries continue to monitor the situations for signs an emergency committee meeting might be needed.
The experts argue the criteria for declaring an international emergency have been met, including the public health impact, size of the outbreak, and movement of people.
Spokesman Tarik Jasarevic said: 'If and when we see those signs, the director general will call a meeting.'
Dr Nathalie MacDermott, an Ebola expert at Imperial College London told MailOnline: 'The declaration of a PHEIC opens the door to increased availability of finances and potentially greater response from the international community.
'However, a PHEIC should only be declared if there is significant concern about containing an epidemic and whether the disease may spread across international borders or to large urban centres.
'While some relatively large urban areas have been affected by the current epidemic, there has not been any confirmed spread across an international border, despite the close proximity of the epidemic to Uganda, Rwanda and South Sudan.
'Should there be spread across this border or any international border the epidemic will likely be declared a PHEIC.'
Dr MacDermott added if health authorities don't manage to get the outbreak under control, the disease could become embedded in the region and cases continue to pop up for years into the future.
Some local communities are distrustful of aid workers, which has impeded efforts to try and stop people passing the contagious virus on to one another. (Pictured: A health worker shows traditional healers how to use protective gloves) +6
Some local communities are distrustful of aid workers, which has impeded efforts to try and stop people passing the contagious virus on to one another. (Pictured: A health worker shows traditional healers how to use protective gloves)
WHO warns of 'perfect storm' for Ebola in the Congo
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'The best case scenario,' she said, 'is that communities start to engage more with responders and gradually the epidemic comes under control to the point where there are no further new cases and the area can be declared Ebola free.'
The call to attention comes as Ebola has spread to 18 separate health zones in DRC.
And although many initial hotspots have been contained, new ones have popped up in recent weeks.
WHAT IS MAKING THIS OUTBREAK DIFFICULT TO STOP?
The current Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo has been continuing for six months.
Dr Nathalie MacDermott, an expert on Ebola at Imperial College London, shared some of her thoughts on the situation with MailOnline.
Dr MacDermott said: 'The current outbreak has posed significant challenges to medical teams on the ground.
'The region has suffered several decades of ongoing conflict and militia activity. This has affected the ability of responders to engage with communities to provide awareness and encourage them to see medical teams early for testing and treatment.
'There has also been significant risk to medical teams, some of whom have been attacked, and in some cases killed, by fearful community members and militia groups operating in the region.
'As such, and despite the use of an effective vaccine, the epidemic has continued to spread to different communities.
'This was recently exacerbated by violence preventing responders accessing affected communities. This resulted from affected communities not being able to vote in national elections.'
The first cases in this outbreak were in the zone of Mabalako, where 71 people have since died.
But the worst hit areas in the Province of North Kivu, where the vast majority of the epidemic has happened, have been the city of Beni, with 234 cases and 147 deaths, and Katwa, with 189 cases and 105 deaths.
Last week two soldiers died of the virus in Beni and three others were put under investigation amid fears it could spread in the military.
Army Major Mak Hazukay told AFP at the end of January: 'Two of our soldiers have died from the Ebola virus in Beni. Three others are under observation.
'All measures have been taken to stop the troops from being contaminated.'
Health officials have described the DRC as 'one of the most complex settings possible' for an epidemic of this kind.
And while political unrest following an election over the Christmas period, warring militias and makeshift medical centres have made it difficult to control the virus in DRC, bordering countries are watching with bated breath.
Front-line health responders in South Sudan – including the capital city of Juba – started receiving vaccines against Ebola on January 28 as a precaution.
Merck – the pharmaceutical company behind the vaccine – delivered 2,160 doses to the African nation.
'It is absolutely vital we are prepared for any potential case of Ebola spreading beyond the Democratic Republic of the Congo,' said Dr Matshidiso Moeti, the World Health Organization's regional director for Africa.
'WHO is investing a huge amount of resources into preventing Ebola from spreading outside DRC and helping governments ramp up their readiness to respond should any country have a positive case of Ebola.'
WHAT CLASSES AS AN INTERNATIONAL HEALTH EMERGENCY?
The World Health Organization has only invoked a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC) four times in the past, according to The Telegraph.
These were during the last major Ebola outbreak in 2014, the Swine flu outbreak in 2009, a resurgence of Polio in 2014, and the Zika outbreak in South America in 2016.
WHO's Emergency Committee must convene to decide on the seriousness of a disease outbreak and the threat it poses to other countries before declaring a PHEIC. These are the incidents it has deemed serious enough in the past:
2009 Swine flu epidemic
In 2009 'Swine flu' was identified for the first time in Mexico and was named because it is a similar virus to one which affects pigs. The outbreak is believed to have killed as many as 575,400 people – the H1N1 strain is now just accepted as normal seasonal flu.
2014 Poliovirus resurgence
Poliovirus began to resurface in countries where it had once been eradicated, and the WHO called for a widespread vaccination programme to stop it spreading. Cameroon, Pakistan and Syria were most at risk of spreading the illness internationally.
2014 Ebola outbreak
Ebola killed at least 11,000 people across the world after it spread like wildfire through Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone in 2014, 2015 and 2016. More than 28,000 people were infected in what was the worst ever outbreak of the disease.
2016 Zika outbreak
Zika, a tropical disease which can cause serious birth defects if it infects pregnant women, was the subject of an outbreak in Brazil's capital, Rio de Janeiro, in 2016. There were fears that year's Olympic Games would have to be cancelled after more than 200 academics wrote to the World Health Organization warning about it.
WHAT IS THE STATUS OF THE ONGOING EBOLA OUTBREAK? WE BREAK DOWN THE STATISTICS TO SHOW ITS SPREAD SINCE AUGUST
CASES TOTAL CASES CONFIRMED DEATHS TOTAL DEATHS CONFIRMED DEATH %*
Aug-05 43 16 34 7 N/A
Aug-12 57 30 41 14 100.00%
Aug-20 102 75 59 32 128.57%
Aug-26 111 83 75 47 46.88%
Sep-02 122 91 82 51 8.51%
Sep-09 132 101 91 60 17.65%
Sep-16 142 111 97 60 0.00%
Sep-23 150 119 100 69 15.00%
Oct-02 162 130 106 74 7.25%
Oct-07 181 146 115 80 8.11%
Oct-15 216 181 139 104 30.00%
Oct-21 238 203 155 120 15.38%
Oct-28 274 239 174 139 15.83%
Nov-04 300 265 186 151 8.63%
Nov-11 333 295 209 171 13.25%
Nov-19 373 326 217 170 -0.58%
Nov-26 421 372 241 194 14.12%
Dec-03 453 405 268 220 13.40%
Dec-10 500 452 289 241 9.55%
Dec-16 539 491 315 267 10.79%
Dec-25 585 537 356 308 15.36%
Jan-01 608 560 368 320 3.90%
Jan-06 625 577 377 329 2.81%
Jan-14 658 609 402 353 7.29%
Jan-21 699 650 433 384 8.78%
Jan-28 743 689 461 407 5.99%
Feb-04 785 731 484 430 5.65%
*Percentage increase in deaths from the previous week
WHAT IS EBOLA AND HOW DEADLY IS IT?
Ebola, a haemorrhagic fever, killed at least 11,000 across the world after it decimated West Africa and spread rapidly over the space of two years.
That epidemic was officially declared over back in January 2016, when Liberia was announced to be Ebola-free by the WHO.
The country, rocked by back-to-back civil wars that ended in 2003, was hit the hardest by the fever, with 40 per cent of the deaths having occurred there.
Sierra Leone reported the highest number of Ebola cases, with nearly of all those infected having been residents of the nation.
WHERE DID IT BEGIN?
An analysis, published in the New England Journal of Medicine, found the outbreak began in Guinea - which neighbours Liberia and Sierra Leone.
A team of international researchers were able to trace the epidemic back to a two-year-old boy in Meliandou - about 400 miles (650km) from the capital, Conakry.
Emile Ouamouno, known more commonly as Patient Zero, may have contracted the deadly virus by playing with bats in a hollow tree, a study suggested.
HOW MANY PEOPLE WERE STRUCK DOWN?
WHICH COUNTRIES WERE STRUCK DOWN BY EBOLA DURING THE 2014-16 EPIDEMIC? (CDC figures)
COUNTRY CASES DEATHS DEATH RATE (%)
GUINEA 3,814 2,544 66.7%
SIERRA LEONE 14,124 3,956 28.0%
LIBERIA 10,678 4,810 45.0%
NIGERIA 20 8 40.0%
SENEGAL 1 0 N/A
SPAIN 1 0 N/A
US 4 1 25.0%
MALI 8 6 75.0%
UK 1 0 N/A
ITALY 1 0 N/A
Figures show nearly 29,000 people were infected from Ebola - meaning the virus killed around 40 per cent of those it struck.
Cases and deaths were also reported in Nigeria, Mali and the US - but on a much smaller scale, with 15 fatalities between the three nations.
Health officials in Guinea reported a mysterious bug in the south-eastern regions of the country before the WHO confirmed it was Ebola.
Ebola was first identified by scientists in 1976, but the most recent outbreak dwarfed all other ones recorded in history, figures show.
HOW DID HUMANS CONTRACT THE VIRUS?
Scientists believe Ebola is most often passed to humans by fruit bats, but antelope, porcupines, gorillas and chimpanzees could also be to blame.
It can be transmitted between humans through blood, secretions and other bodily fluids of people - and surfaces - that have been infected.
IS THERE A TREATMENT?
The WHO warns that there is 'no proven treatment' for Ebola - but dozens of drugs and jabs are being tested in case of a similarly devastating outbreak.
Scientists said the drug could continue to protect people even as Ebola evolves
The efficiency could relieve burden on the frontline health care workers
Many drugs are under trial as the virus spreads, killing at least 377
By VANESSA CHALMERS HEALTH REPORTER FOR MAILONLINE
PUBLISHED: 17:57, 10 January 2019 | UPDATED: 12:28, 18 January 2019
A drug that protects against every strain of the Ebola virus has been developed by scientists who say it has the potential to save thousands of lives.
No cure currently exists for the pathogen – considered one of the most lethal to have ever been discovered.
But tests have shown a new antibody cocktail can protect animals from the killer virus as a vaccine and reverse symptoms once they have taken hold.
It targets all forms of Ebola known to harm humans, including the deadliest strain behind an ongoing outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Researchers hope the experimental drug could control the virus from taking more lives in the African nation, with the death toll standing at least 377.
A drug developed by The University of Texas Medical Branch 'protects against every strain of the Ebola virus' has the potential to save thousands of lives. Pictured, a vaccine being prepared in the Democratic Republic of Congo, where the outbreak is spreading +1
A drug developed by The University of Texas Medical Branch 'protects against every strain of the Ebola virus' has the potential to save thousands of lives. Pictured, a vaccine being prepared in the Democratic Republic of Congo, where the outbreak is spreading
WHO warns of 'perfect storm' for Ebola in the Congo
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Dr Thomas Geisbert, the world-renowned Ebola researcher behind trials of the potential medication, said it could continue to protect even if the virus evolves.
The DRC outbreak, known to be the second most deadly outbreak in history, is expected to rage on into the middle of this year, experts on the ground have warned.
The outbreak has been difficult to control because of armed violence and community protests.
Currently, experimental vaccines are only capable of targeting one strain at a time, said Dr Geisbert, a professor of microbiology and immunology at the University of Texas.
Of the five ebola viruses known to infect humans, the Zaire, Sudan and Bundibugyo strain are known to have caused the most fatalities.
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The team of scientists were keen to abandon the 'one bug, one drug' approach.
They made a two-antibody cocktail, called MBP134, that would work against the unpredictable nature of Ebola.
Dr Geisbert told MailOnline: 'Three of these species are medically important and have been associated with outbreaks in Africa and caused death in humans.
'MP134 targets all three of these species.'
This suggests, he said, 'that it will continue to protect people if the Ebola viruses evolve over time'.
The vaccine was tested on animals with promising results, which were published in the journal Cell Host & Microbe.
Monkeys and ferrets were fully protected against a lethal Ebola virus infection, and sickness was even reversed once they had begun to take hold.
'MP134 was developed primarily to treat people already infected with Ebola,' Dr Geisbert said. 'Our data suggests MBP134 can likely save a lot of people already infected with Ebola.'
The monkeys gradually got better and were perfectly healthy at the end of the study a few weeks later.
'We were able to protect the nonhuman primates against all the Ebola species plaguing people at a single low dose ,' said Larry Zeitlin, study author and president of Mapp Biopharmaceutical Inc - responsible for the research of ZMapp, a vaccine that was used in the 2014 Ebola outbreak.
'Further studies exploring even lower doses could open the door to treatment via auto-injectors like the kind used for allergic reactions,' he said.
The drug offers hope for health workers at the forefront of the epidemic, who have been the victims of ongoing conflict.
Mr Zeitlin said: 'The ability to quickly and efficiently provide protection against all Ebola viruses in a single dose would reduce the burden on health care workers in the field during outbreaks, especially in regions that have a less-developed infrastructure.'
It is difficult to say when the drug, manufactured by Mapp and the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA), could become available, but it is hoped to come into effect within the next few years or sooner.
The Zaire strain also caused the 2014 West African Ebola epidemic, in which 11,000 people died worldwide.
The WHO warns that there is 'no proven treatment' for Ebola - but dozens of drugs and jabs are being tested in case of a similarly devastating outbreak.
Currently four experimental drugs are being used to try and combat the disease – mAb 114, ZMapp, Remdesivir and REGN-EB3 - in a real-time study to assess how well pioneering drugs are working.
Patients will get one of the four, but researchers will not know which they were given until after the study.
The World Health Organization is urging a vaccine manufacturer to make more in a bid to try and control the spread, as deaths accelerate in numbers.
WHAT IS EBOLA AND HOW DEADLY IS IT?
Ebola, a haemorrhagic fever, killed at least 11,000 across the world after it decimated West Africa and spread rapidly over the space of two years.
That epidemic was officially declared over back in January 2016, when Liberia was announced to be Ebola-free by the WHO.
The country, rocked by back-to-back civil wars that ended in 2003, was hit the hardest by the fever, with 40 per cent of the deaths having occurred there.
Sierra Leone reported the highest number of Ebola cases, with nearly of all those infected having been residents of the nation.
WHERE DID IT BEGIN?
An analysis, published in the New England Journal of Medicine, found the outbreak began in Guinea - which neighbours Liberia and Sierra Leone.
A team of international researchers were able to trace the epidemic back to a two-year-old boy in Meliandou - about 400 miles (650km) from the capital, Conakry.
Emile Ouamouno, known more commonly as Patient Zero, may have contracted the deadly virus by playing with bats in a hollow tree, a study suggested.
HOW MANY PEOPLE WERE STRUCK DOWN?
WHICH COUNTRIES WERE STRUCK DOWN BY EBOLA DURING THE 2014-16 EPIDEMIC? (CDC figures)
COUNTRY CASES DEATHS DEATH RATE (%)
GUINEA 3,814 2,544 66.7%
SIERRA LEONE 14,124 3,956 28.0%
LIBERIA 10,678 4,810 45.0%
NIGERIA 20 8 40.0%
SENEGAL 1 0 N/A
SPAIN 1 0 N/A
US 4 1 25.0%
MALI 8 6 75.0%
UK 1 0 N/A
ITALY 1 0 N/A
Figures show nearly 29,000 people were infected from Ebola - meaning the virus killed around 40 per cent of those it struck.
Cases and deaths were also reported in Nigeria, Mali and the US - but on a much smaller scale, with 15 fatalities between the three nations.
Health officials in Guinea reported a mysterious bug in the south-eastern regions of the country before the WHO confirmed it was Ebola.
Ebola was first identified by scientists in 1976, but the most recent outbreak dwarfed all other ones recorded in history, figures show.
HOW DID HUMANS CONTRACT THE VIRUS?
Scientists believe Ebola is most often passed to humans by fruit bats, but antelope, porcupines, gorillas and chimpanzees could also be to blame.
It can be transmitted between humans through blood, secretions and other bodily fluids of people - and surfaces - that have been infected.
IS THERE A TREATMENT?
The WHO warns that there is 'no proven treatment' for Ebola - but dozens of drugs and jabs are being tested in case of a similarly devastating outbreak.
Congolese customs agents gather at the gate barriers at the border crossing point with Rwanda following its closure over ebola threat in Goma, eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, August 1, 2019. (Reuters)
Rwandan authorities closed the border with the Ebola-hit Congolese city of Goma on Thursday for all people other than Congolese citizens leaving Rwanda, as a third case of Ebola was confirmed in Goma.
The daughter of an Ebola patient in the eastern Congo city has contracted the virus, Congolese officials confirmed, the third case in a city of at least 1 million people that neighbors Rwanda.
Rwandan state minister for foreign affairs ministry, Olivier Nduhungirehe, told Reuters by phone that the border had been shut at Rwanda’s nearest town of Gisenyi but declined to give further details.
Confirmation of the third case in Goma increased fears the virus could take root in the densely populated city, which is more than 350 km (220 miles) south of where the outbreak was first detected. The second case died after he sought treatment too late and was already bleeding, authorities said on Wednesday.
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Keith Maxwell the “commodore” of mercenary group the South African Institute for Maritime Research.
Keith Maxwell, ‘commodore’ of mercenary group the South African Institute for Maritime Research (SAIMR). Photograph: De Wet Potgieter
A South Africa-based mercenary group has been accused by one of its former members of trying to intentionally spread Aids in southern Africa in the 1980s and 1990s.
The claims are made by Alexander Jones in a documentary that premieres this weekend at the Sundance film festival. He says he spent years as an intelligence officer with the South African Institute for Maritime Research (SAIMR), three decades ago, when it was masterminding coups and other violence across Africa.
The film also explores the unexplained murder of a young SAIMR recruit in 1990, whose family believe was killed because of her work on an Aids-related project run by the group in South Africa and Mozambique.
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And it also claims the group’s then leader had a racist, apocalyptic obsession with HIV/Aids. Keith Maxwell wrote about a plague he hoped would decimate black populations, cement white rule, and bring back conservative religious mores, according to papers collected by the film-makers.
Maxwell had no medical qualifications but ran clinics in poor, mostly black areas around Johannesburg while claiming to be a doctor. That gave him the opportunity for sinister experimentation, Jones says in the film, Cold Case Hammarskjöld. The film-makers were investigating SAIMR because it claimed responsibility for the mysterious 1961 plane crash that killed Dag Hammarskjöld, then UN secretary general.
“What easier way to get a guinea pig than [when] you live in an apartheid system?” Jones says in the film. “Black people have got no rights, they need medical treatment. There’s a white ‘philanthropist’ coming in and saying, ‘You know, I’ll open up these clinics and I’ll treat you.’ And meantime [he is] actually the wolf in sheep’s clothing.”
A sign advertising “Dokotela Maxwell” on the side of the former clinic in Putfontein.
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A sign reads ‘Dokotela Maxwell’ on the side of the former post office in Putfontein. Photograph: Emma Graham-Harrison/The Observer
A sign advertising “Dokotela [doctor] Maxwell” still hangs from the side of an office in Putfontein where locals remember a respected man with a virtual monopoly on the area’s healthcare. He offered strange treatments. including putting patients through “tubes”, which he said allowed him to see inside their bodies. He also gave “false injections”, said Ibrahim Karolia, who ran a shop across the road.
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Any interest Maxwell showed in Aids in public was benevolent. Claude Newbury, an anti-abortion doctor who knew the mercenary leader, confirmed he had no medical qualifications but described a committed humanitarian. “He was against genocide and he was trying to discover a cure for HIV,” Newbury told film-makers.
A bizarre Johannesburg Sunday Times interview with teenage SAIMR “ensign” Debbie Campbell in August 1989 has a photo of a teenager with a halo of curls, taking water pollution measurements and also talking about searching for a cure for HIV/Aids. But the wholesome image has a sinister undertone. She describes being recruited out of school at 13, and it’s hard to imagine any benign interest an international mercenary group could have in signing up prepubescent girls.
Documents collected by the film-makers appear to show that Maxwell’s private views were very different from his public persona. The papers suggest a ghoulish delight in the advent of an epidemic. In one he writes: “[South Africa] may well have one man, one vote with a white majority by the year 2000. Religion in its conservative, traditional form will return. Abortion on demand, abuse of drugs, and the other excesses of the 1960s, 70s and 80s will have no place in the post-Aids world.”
The Sunday Times magazine’s interview with Debbie Campbell from August 1989.
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The Sunday Times of South Africa’s magazine interview with teenager Debbie Campbell in August 1989. Photograph: The Sunday Times
The papers read like the fever dream of a man who aspired to be South Africa’s Josef Mengele. There are detailed, if sometimes garbled, accounts of how he thought the HIV virus could be isolated, propagated and used to target black Africans.
What is less clear is whether he had the expertise or funds to implement his nightmarish visions. Jones, the former SAIMR member, claims he did. “We were involved in Mozambique, spreading the Aids virus through medical conditions,” he says.
At least one other SAIMR member had apparently raised concerns about the group’s medical programmes. Dagmar Feil was a marine biologist who was recruited by her boyfriend. In 1990 she was murdered outside her home in Johannesburg; her relatives believe the killing was linked to her work on SAIMR’s Aids programme.
“My sister came to me, and she said she needed to confide in me,” her brother Karl Feil told the film-makers. “She sat with me and said she thinks they are going to kill her.” She said that three or four others in her team had already been murdered, but when asked what team, Dagmar said “she couldn’t tell me”.
“The topic of Aids research came up several times, quite loosely in conversations, I never put two and two together,” Feil says in the film. Instead Dagmar asked Karl to go with her to church, so she could “make right with God”. Weeks later she was dead.
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SAIMR member Dagmar Feil, who was murdered in Johannesburg in 1990.
Jones says he knew Dagmar Feil and claims her death came after a trip to Mozambique, which he describes as a base for the group’s medical experimentation. “She was recruited to do medical research,” he says. “She progressed and she became part of the inner circle for operations. She went to Mozambique to fulfil her obligations and … word got out that she was going to testify.”
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Feil’s family spent years trying to find out what happened to her, but police showed little interest, her brother says. During that time, the family say another SAIMR member gave them papers believed to be Maxwell’s memoir and his account of SAIMR. They later shared these with the film-makers.
Dagmar Feil’s mother also went to South Africa’s truth and reconciliation commission several times, Karl Feil said. She asked it to investigate her daughter’s killing as part of a wider conspiracy, but was turned away.
Although the commission first revealed the existence of SAIMR to the world, the team was also overworked and had to deal with false confessions, and what the family saw as their best hope of uncovering the truth slipped away. “They would not listen to her,” Karl Feil says. “They would not debate this issue at all.”
24 Nov 2014 / by Chandré Gould , Brian Rappert , Verne Harris and Kathryn Smith
A disciplinary hearing of the Health Professions Council of South Africa (HPCSA) recently found Dr Wouter Basson guilty of unethical conduct for work he did as head of the apartheid state’s chemical and biological warfare programme.
On Wednesday, 26 November, the HPCSA will begin hearing arguments relating to Basson’s sentencing.
Why does this matter? And why is it equally important that Basson receive an appropriate sanction from the HPCSA?
Answers to these questions might be found at the vast laboratory complex that housed military front company Roodeplaat Research Laboratories until 1993.
Today the complex is home to the Agricultural Research Council. Experiments to improve crop yields, or counter agricultural pests have replaced experiments on animals to figure out how much of a particular toxin would be needed to kill a human being. The cages that once held a gorilla, baboons, rats and dogs lie in varied stages of disrepair in the basement and on a nearby farm.
During a recent visit by the authors to the facility we found the complex, located on the banks of the Roodeplaat dam north of Pretoria, ghostly quiet. The architecture is decidedly of the anodyne, bureaucratic 1980s era. Face-brick walls, wooden panelling and carpet tiles. Brown-and-beige colour schemes. Wan fluorescent strip lighting creating pools of light down long, linoleum-clad corridors.
The ex-director’s office is abandoned. Water damage has stained the ceiling and peeled the wallpaper, a few pieces of which are neatly stacked on the desk, like a sheaf of papers awaiting his signature. What was then state-of-the-art equipment now looks quaint, like props from a science-fiction film.
Why bring it up again? Why now? Why do we need to remember this?
Roodeplaat Research Laboratories was one of many front companies that made up Project Coast, the chemical and biological warfare programme that has now become synonymous with Basson, who headed it. It was here, and at a company in Midrand called Delta G Scientific, where researchers worked (unsuccessfully) to find an infertility ‘vaccine’ to be used on black women without their knowledge; to find substances that could kill people leaving no trace post mortem; and where tons of teargas, ecstasy and mandrax were produced.
These details have been in the public domain for many years already. They have been the subject of a public hearing by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission and were reiterated in more detail during the criminal trial of Basson, at the end of which he was found not guilty on all charges. Most recently there has been the HPCSA finding. So, why bring it up again? Why now? Why do we need to remember this?
The answer lies in Marikana, and in each small town and village where South Africans have died at the hands of the police. It also lies in the many failures to bring politicians and senior government officials to trial. What we often forget is that the impetus for the apartheid chemical and biological warfare programme was the international condemnation after the shooting of protesting schoolchildren in June 1976 by the South African Police.
According to General Constand Viljoen, head of the South African Defence Force at the time, the apartheid government was under no illusion that it would be facing increasing protests, and could not afford to repeat the mistakes of June 16. This, along with concern that the Soviet and Cuban troops in Angola might have possessed chemical weapons, are the two reasons why Basson was sent overseas to collect information in preparation for Project Coast.
This is also why a great deal of money was spent developing new forms of teargas and investigating whether street drugs could be used to ‘calm’ crowds. In the mid-1980s, the apartheid government was under tremendous pressure – both at home and internationally. Today the South African government is again under pressure.
The answer lies in the many failures to bring politicians and senior officials to trial
Communities are exerting pressure on the government to realise their expectations of houses, roads, clean water and clean government. The government cannot afford a repeat of Marikana. How tempting it must be to want to silence individuals who seek to ‘destabilise’ the country; to quell riotous crowds with calming agents. In remembering Project Coast, and what motivated it, we hope to remind ourselves of how easy it can be to justify programmes like this when a government comes under pressure.
Basson is the only military person who has been brought to task for his involvement in Project Coast. While inextricably tied to South Africa's chemical and biological warfare programme as its project officer, he was only one individual. In the public discourses since the programme became public knowledge, many of those above and below Basson have largely escaped professional or public scrutiny. The strictures of investigation have resulted in silences and unknowns. Many of those feared to have suffered as a result of the programme have not had their stories told; either because this proved impossible or because we don’t know their names.
While a small number of those in Project Coast have spoken publicly about their involvement, many others have not. Some because they could not find anyone to speak with; some because they felt it would be too troubling; and some because they do not believe they did anything wrong.
The archive on Project Coast, such as it exists, is conspicuously lacking in images. It is an archive of documents: affidavits, memos, reports, the infamous ‘verkoopslys’ (sales list). In the media, it is Basson’s smug countenance that has come to embody this ‘uiters geheim’ (top secret) project, in the absence of anything else we can summon to account for such horrors of the human imagination, and the political freedom to act with such impunity.
Failure to hold anyone accountable for Project Coast will grow the culture of impunity
During our visit, we were told that the facilities are being prepared for a new generation of agricultural research scientists. What will they know of its previous life – if anything? Will they care? How can we ensure that even the most difficult forms of institutional memory are productively engaged for the future good, resonating beyond this particular place to others complicit in similar historical atrocities?
As Jacques Derrida reminds us, ‘there is no political power without control of the archive, if not of memory. Effective democratisation can always be measured by this essential criterion: the participation in and access to the archive, its constitution, and its interpretation.’
Failure to hold anyone accountable for Project Coast will grow the cultures of impunity in South Africa. Moreover, if success in dealing with a troubled past can be gauged by willingness to re-encounter it in ways that offer new possibilities, then experiences with Project Coast can be a prompt for asking many important questions.
How adequate are the opportunities today for scientists, medics, vets, and others to raise ethical concerns? How open are the workings of government agencies for scrutiny? What steps should be taken to ensure attempts to deal with disease outbreaks, such as Ebola, don't result in inadvertent outcomes? What steps should be undertaken to ensure chemical and biological weapons are never resorted to?
Questions like these remind us that the story of Project Coast is ultimately not just a story about South Africa, but one related to upholding the dignity of all humanity.
Chandre Gould, Senior Researcher, Governance, Crime and Justice Division, ISS Pretoria; Verne Harris, Director Research, Nelson Mandela Foundation; Kathryn Smith, Senior Lecturer, Stellenbosch University; Brian Rappert, Professor of Sociology, Exeter University.
'...The first of the four front companies established by Basson was Delta G Scientific Company in November 1982. Delta G. was primarily responsible for the research, production and development of biological and chemical agents that ranged from irritating to lethal. Philip Mijburgh headed Delta G. and reported directly to Basson. A majority of the products developed at the company were tested at Roodeplaat Research Laboratories (RRL) which was established in November of that same year.
RRL, initially headed by Daan Goosen, was primarily responsible for the research, development and production of a range of biological and chemical pathogens to be used for defensive and allegedly offensive purposes. Some of the agents produced and tested at RRL during the 1980s included, anthrax, botulinum, cholera, plague, ricin, E. coli, Ebola and Marburg virus. Burgess and Purkitt state that genetic engineering research was also a component of Project Coast and led to the research of lethal bacterial agents which would affect only non-white people....'
'...During the 1980s Basson continued to travel to many countries in an effort to obtain information and make contacts about foreign chemical and biological weapons programs. Basson was known to have traveled to countries, such as Denmark, Switzerland, Iraq, Israel, North Korea, Iran, Columbia, the Philippines, U.S., U.K., Germany and other European countries. It is believed that he was able to obtain a substantial amount of information that could be utilized in South Africas CBW program. In fact, it has been suggested that many of the countries Basson visited could have assisted in the development of South Africas CBW program, although there is little substantiating evidence....'
'AUSTIN -- A University of Texas professor says the Earth would be better off with 90 percent of the human population dead. "Every one of you who gets to survive has to bury nine," Eric Pianka cautioned students and guests at St. Edward's University on Friday. Pianka's words are part of what he calls his "doomsday talk" - a 45-minute presentation outlining humanity's ecological misdeeds and Pianka's predictions about how nature, or perhaps humans themselves, will exterminate all but a fraction of civilization. Though his statements are admittedly bold, he's not without abundant advocates. But what may set this revered biologist apart from other doomsday soothsayers is this: Humanity's collapse is a notion he embraces.'
'..Though his statements are admittedly bold, he's not without abundant advocates. But what may set this revered biologist apart from other doomsday soothsayers is this: Humanity's collapse is a notion he embraces. Indeed, his words deal, very literally, on a life-and-death scale, yet he smiles and jokes candidly throughout the lecture. Disseminating a message many would call morbid, Pianka's warnings are centered upon awareness rather than fear. "This is really an exciting time," he said Friday amid warnings of apocalypse, destruction and disease. Only minutes earlier he declared, "Death. This is what awaits us all. Death." Reflecting on the so-called Ancient Chinese Curse, "May you live in interesting times," he wore, surprisingly, a smile. So what's at the heart of Pianka's claim? 6.5 billion humans is too many. In his estimation, "We've grown fat, apathetic and miserable," all the while leaving the planet parched. The solution? A 90 percent reduction. That's 5.8 billion lives - lives he says are turning the planet into "fat, human biomass." He points to an 85 percent swell in the population during the last 25 years and insists civilization is on the brink of its downfall - likely at the hand of widespread disease. "[Disease] will control the scourge of humanity," Pianka said. "We're looking forward to a huge collapse..."
'..Mims says he's seen countless doomsday predictions come and go. But Pianka's is different, Mims said. Pianka, he insists, exhibits genuine cause for alarm. Mims worries fertile young minds with a thirst for knowledge may develop into enthusiastic supporters of a deadly disease, advocating the fall of humanity. "He recommended airborne Ebola as an ideal killing virus," Mims said. "He showed slides of the Four Horsemen of the apocalypse and human skulls. He joked about requiring universal sterilization. It reminded me of a futuristic science fiction movie with a crazed scientist planning the death of humanity." But as confident as Mims is in his assessment, he faces one unarguable fact: Most of Pianka's former students are bursting with praise. Their in-class evaluations celebrate his ideas with words like "the most incredible class I ever had" and "Pianka is a GOD!" Mims counters their ovation with the story of a Texas Lutheran University student who attended the Academy of Science lecture. Brenna McConnell, a biology senior, said she and others in the audience "had not thought seriously about overpopulation issues and a feasible solution prior to the meeting." But though McConnell arrived at the event with little to say on the issue, she returned to Seguin with a whole new outlook. An entry to her online blog captures her initial response to what's become a new conviction: "[Pianka is] a radical thinker, that one!" she wrote. "I mean, he's basically advocating for the death for all but 10 percent of the current population. And at the risk of sounding just as radical, I think he's right." Today, she maintains the Earth is in dire straits. And though she's decided Ebola isn't the answer, she's still considering other deadly viruses that might take its place in the equation. "Maybe I just see the virus as inevitable because it's the easiest answer to this problem of overpopulation," she said...'
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