SARS, Bioterrorism and the Media By Alan Cantwell

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SARS, Bioterrorism

and the Media

 

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By Alan Cantwell

 

The new pandemic of SARS (severe acute respiratory syndrome) should come as

no surprise. For more than two decades health officials have warned about

new diseases caused by “emerging” viruses. With each new disease outbreak we

are reminded the ‘Big One’ will kill millions of people in the future. And

with each new outbreak health officials blame Nature or animals.

 

Many people seem reassured the number of SARS cases is still small

when compared to the world population. As of May 28, 2003, there are 8,240

probable cases with 745 deaths. The virus has broken out in 30 countries,

although 90% of cases are in Asia. The death rate is reported at 12%, but in

people over the age of 60, it can go as high as 60%. SARS spreads more

rapidly than HIV. In the US it took 5 years for AIDS to infect that many

people; in Asia it took SARS 6 months.

 

Except for mild cases, SARS is unlike the common cold and flu. In more

severe cases pneumonia rapidly develops, along with great difficulty

breathing (“acute respiratory distress”). Some victims require a mechanical

respirator to breath, and patients who recover are often left with lungs

that are permanently damaged. Unlike the AIDS virus, which greatly depresses

the immune system, the SARS virus stimulates it so much that the overactive

immune system causes damage to vital lung tissue.

 

The mysterious SARS virus, reportedly a member of the coronavirus

family, is a new virus never before seen by virologists. The air-borne

contagious disease, spread by droplets from coughing, is an entirely new

illness with devastating effects on the immune system, and there is no known

treatment. Certainly SARS has the hallmarks of a bioweapon. After all, aren’

t new biological warfare agents designed to produce a new disease with a new

infectious agent?

 

According to the Washington-based Jamestown Foundation, at least one

Russian scientist has suggested a link between SARS and biowarfare, On April

3, the Russian Interfax-AVN news service quoted Sergei Kolesnikov, a member

of the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences, as saying: “The propagation of

the atypical pneumonia [sARS] may well be caused by a leak of a combat virus

grown in Asian bacteriological weapons labs.” Later, on April 12, Kolesnikov

claimed the virus was a mixture of measles and mumps – one that could not

occur naturally and could only be made in a laboratory.”

 

This accusation was never reported by the mainstream media, but brings

to mind similar accusations Russian scientists made in December 1985 when

they concluded the AIDS epidemic was caused by experiments carried out in

the USA as part of the development of new biological weapons.

 

SARS in China, SARS in Africa

 

Amazingly, we are repeatedly reminded about bioterrorists and

bioweapons, yet with SARS not a word about biowarfare. Certainly proof the

media are controlled by powerful forces that refuse to recognise what many

citizens are thinking privately, and posting on the Internet.

 

The earliest April 2003 media reports detailed a mysterious lung

disease (acute respiratory syndrome or ARS) that broke out in Guangdong

province in mainland China, close to the island of Hong Kong. Shortly

thereafter, I received an email describing similar epidemics of ARS with

many deaths in the Congo and on the island of Madagascar, off the coast of

Eastern Africa, in the summer of 2002. In the beginning of the epidemic, the

Chinese scientists claimed the lung disease was caused by a bacterium (a

chlamydia); Western scientists and the World Health Organisation (WHO)

suspected a coronavirus.

 

For anyone doing research, an Internet “search-engine” like google.com

is invaluable. I typed-in “acute respiratory syndrome African cases 2002”,

and quickly discovered WHO reports of ARS in the summer and fall of 2002. In

civil war-torn Congo, there were 4000 cases of ARS reported in October 2002,

with 500 deaths, making the death rate 12%. In contrast, the Chinese

mortality rate from SARS was initially (and erroneously) reported as 3-4%.

Even though the African ARS death rate was four times higher, the WHO added

the letter “S” and termed the epidemic in China “severe” ARS (SARS). In

Madagascar, another country torn by civil strife, the ARS epidemic affected

22,646 people, with 153 deaths. Both epidemics were believed to be caused by

influenza A virus, although none of the cases were tested for unusual

coronavirus infection. None of these African pre-SARS epidemics were

reported by the Western media.

 

Within days of the first April reports, WHO investigators claimed

Chinese health officials were lying by covering-up the first cases of SARS

that occurred in mid-November 2002. It is possible the ARS epidemics in

Africa had nothing to do with SARS in China. However, it is well known that

Sub-Saharan Africa is a testing place for new vaccines and drugs, and

presumably for biowarfare agents as well. By April 17, WHO officially

recognised the new coronavirus as the cause of SARS, and named it the SARS

virus. Could the new coronavirus/SARS virus be biological warfare? No one in

the media was asking that question.

 

SARS, Genetic Engineering, and PubMed

 

Along with an Internet search engine like google.com, the scientific

information on the PubMed Web site (www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/PubMed/) is

essential for serious biomedical research, particularly as a source for free

information on genetic engineering and molecular biology. Sponsored by the

US National Institutes of Health, the web site catalogs everything published

in reputable scientific journals, along with the title, often an abstract,

and an identification number (PMID) for each paper. One can also enter a

researcher’s name (type in “Cantwell, AR”) or a phrase, and instantly access

a medical and scientific library at your fingertips.

 

If you enter “coronavirus bioterrorism”, PubMed refers you to one

article; on google the same words give you 200 items on various web sites.

When I typed “coronavirus animal experimentation” on PubMed, one article

appeared. However, “coronavirus genetic engineering” referred me to 107

articles on scientific experiments dating back to 1987.

 

I quickly confirmed scientists have been genetically engineering

animal and human coronaviruses to make disease-producing mutant and

recombinant viruses for over a decade. No wonder WHO scientists identified

the SARS/coronavirus so quickly. Never emphasised by medical news writers is

the fact that for over forty years scientists have been “jumping species”

with all sorts of animal and human viruses and creating chimera viruses

(viruses composed from viruses of two different species). This unsupervised

research produces dangerous man-made viruses, many of which have potential

as bioweapons.

 

Dr. Mae-Wan Ho of the Institute for Science in Society cites a Journal

of Virology report (Feb 2000) describing a method for inducing desired

mutations into coronavirus to create new viruses. “A key feature of the

procedure is to make interspecific chimera recombinant viruses. It involves

replacing part of the spike protein gene in the feline (cat) infectious

peritonitis (corona) virus (FIPV) – which causes invariably fatal infections

in cats – with that of the mouse hepatitis (corona) virus. The recombinant

mFIPV will no longer infect cat cells, but will infect mouse cells instead,

and multiply rapidly in them.” (PMID: 10627550)

 

Ho continues: “Manipulating viral genomes is now routine, and it is

easy to create new viruses that jump host species in the laboratory in the

course of apparently legitimate experiments in genetic engineering. It is

not even necessary to intentionally create lethal viruses, if one so wishes.

It is actually much faster and much more effective to let random

recombination and mutation take place in the test tube. Using a technique

called ‘molecular breeding’, millions of recombinants can be generated in a

matter of minutes. These can be screened for improved function in the case

of enzymes, or increased virulence, in the case of viruses and bacteria. In

other words, geneticists can now greatly speed up evolution in the

laboratory to create viruses and bacteria that never existed in all the

billions of years of evolution on earth.” Ho asks: Why are scientists not

held accountable like everyone else?

 

The media constantly associate the SARS virus with a human coronavirus

that causes the common cold, apparently in an effort to soothe the public.

But they downplay the various coronaviruses which affect different animal

and bird species and produce a variety of serious infections and fatal

illness in various species of animals and birds. It is mostly these animal

coronaviruses that have been genetically engineered.

 

For example, there are three groups of coronaviruses. Group 1 contains

the pig epidemic diarrhea virus, the pig transmissible gastroenteritis

virus, canine (dog) coronavirus, feline (cat) infectious peritonitis, and

human coronavirus. Group 2 contains the avian (bird) infectious bronchitis

and the turkey coronavirus. Group 3 contains a murine (mouse) hepatitis

virus, a bovine (cow) coronavirus, the rat sialoacryoadenitis virus, and

porcine (pig) hemagglutinating encephomyelitis virus.

 

According to Dr. Julie Gerberding, Director of the Centres for Disease

Control (CDC) in Atlanta, the genetic analysis and sequencing of SARS were

not helpful in determining the origins of the virus. “Unfortunately the

clues from comparing it to the animal viruses have not given us any real

leads… We can’t say it’s a mouse virus or a pig virus, or any other animal

virus, necessarily, because it just isn’t similar enough to the known

species to be able to draw those conclusions.” In mid-May, experiments

inoculating SARS virus into chickens and pigs were unsuccessful, indicating

SARS did not originate in Chinese pigs and chickens, as theorised.

 

Although proof of pre-SARS genetic engineering is easily obtained on

PubMed, the scientific language of virology and molecular biology studies is

very difficult to understand for the layperson. However, it is possible to

get the gist of what is going on in this technology.

 

In 1995, an abstract of an experiment details the species-mixing of

mouse coronavirus with cow “mutant” (coronavirus) using these words:

“Targeted RNA recombination was used to construct mouse hepatitis [corona]

virus (MHV) mutants containing chimeric nucleocapsid (N) protein genes in

which segments of the bovine [cow] coronavirus N gene were substituted in

place of their corresponding MHV sequences. Our results demonstrate that

targeted recombination can be used to make extensive substitutions in the

coronavirus genome and can generate recombinants that could not otherwise be

made between two viruses separated by a species barrier.” (PMID: 7636993) In

another 1997 gene therapy experiment, scientists mixed cat, human, and pig

coronaviruses, and adapted them to human kidney cells (PMID: 9367365). These

are just two examples of thousands of gene experiments found on PubMed. One

can enter “rat sialoacryoadenitis virus and genetic engineering” and be

referred to 1424 experiments.

 

SARS Disinformation, Racism, and Conspiracy Theory

 

Media journalists never mention the genetic engineering of

coronaviruses, and never suggest SARS could be a lab-made virus. With each

new emerging disease, the same litanies are presented. Too many people

crowded together, the crowding of animals and birds in food production,

international travel that carries viruses far and wide, closeness to farm

animals, climate changes, destruction of the rain forest, etc.

 

Like the homophobia (and the green monkey stories) surrounding the

early days of AIDS, medical writers parrot the subtle racist science

provided by the WHO regarding the supposed origin of flu viruses.

 

On May 19, Lawrence Altman, M.D., the premier AIDS writer for the New

York Times since 1981, asks: “Did the SARS virus jump species from an exotic

animal in a food market in China to infect a human? If SARS is an animal

virus, did it mutate to cause a new virus? Did the virus somehow come from

another human coronavirus, perhaps mutating into a deadly form”? Altman

tells us, “the scientific search into the origins of SARS is mainly focused

on the wild game and food markets in Guangdong Province…. an area where

merchants commonly sit on stacked cages of exotic animals in food stalls, a

setting that could easily allow for the transfer of a virus from animals to

humans.”

 

There is no reference to bioterrorism, or lab experimentation with

coronaviruses. He notes epidemiologic clues, “and the Chinese practice of

putting exotic species of animals on the dinner plate have led many

scientists to theorise that SARS may have originated from handling or eating

wild game.” And, “because the molecular structure of the SARS virus does not

resemble that of any known coronavirus, scientists theorise that it may have

come from wild animals that had never been extensively studied.”

 

How can we deal with bioterrorism if we never seriously question

whether any of these new emerging diseases are man-made? For example, the

subject of HIV/AIDS as a man-made disease has been widely discussed in

“conspiracy literature” since the disease became official in 1981. Yet the

major media and the medical community totally dismiss this research as

“conspiracy theory” or paranoia. (On google, “AIDS biological warfare” will

refer you to 540 different Web sites.) My own two books on man-made AIDS

(AIDS and the Doctors of Death and Queer Blood – available from New Dawn

Book Service) have been ignored by the media, the medical authorities, and

the AIDS establishment.

 

Why does the mere mention of man-made disease bring up the spectre of

“conspiracy theory” when, in fact, the production of genetically engineered

infectious agents and the “introduction” of these agents into civilian

populations are exactly what biowarfare programs are supposed to accomplish?

 

How are scientists and journalists convinced a new biological agent is

some “mutant” from Nature, when these same people don’t seem to have a clue

as to what has already been created in the arsenal of biowarfare researchers

and bioterrorists, as well as in routine biomed laboratories.

 

How can any independent researcher of biowarfare secure information on

the subject when all these programs are Top Secret, with workers who are

sworn to secrecy under penalty of jail time, or worse. Because there is a

blackout on secret biowarfare, it is necessary for the media to concoct all

sorts of other explanations (most of which are eventually proven wrong) to

explain the “origin” of these new diseases. Any conflicting theories are

labeled “conspiracy theory.”

 

When some classified government reports of civilian covert medical

experimentation are released (usually after 30-50 years), these reports

rarely make headlines. Decades after the fact, most of the victims of

experimentation are dead and the story “old news.” One must assume medical

journalists cannot conceive the possibility that some emerging viruses might

be new biowarfare agents introduced into civilian populations for

experimentation purposes, or for population control, or genocide, or for

attacks against certain specific political, cultural, racial, or religious

groups, or against so-called deviants in society, such as homosexuals.

 

Emerging Diseases: Accident of Nature or Man-Made Illnesses?

 

In the 1970s it was thought many infectious diseases had been banished

from the industrialised world. But with the spectacular rise of genetic

engineering over the last two decades, more than 30 new emerging diseases

have appeared around the world. Some of the better-known diseases include

AIDS, Legionnaire’s disease, toxic shock syndrome, Lyme disease, hepatitis

C, “mad cow disease”, hanta virus, various new encephalitis and hemorrhagic

viruses, Lassa fever, and Ebola virus. (New controversial diseases like

chronic fatigue syndrome and Persian Gulf War Syndrome affecting Gulf War

veterans are not included in the CDC’s list of emerging diseases.) After 80

years of steady decline in infectious disease, the mortality rate in the US

rose 58% between 1980 and 1992.

 

We blame this on increased global travel and globalisation, population

growth and movements, deforestation and reforestation programs, human

sexuality (in the case of HIV), and increased human contact with tropical

mini-forests and other wilderness habitats that are reservoirs for insects

and animals harbouring unknown infectious agents. But nowhere in the

official list of causes is the fact that for years millions of animals and

innumerable vials of infectious material have been shipped around the world

for commercial and biological warfare purposes. In addition, we still have

to deal with the “old” infectious agents, like anthrax bacteria, which are

staples in all biowarfare laboratories.

 

HIV/AIDS: A Designer Disease with a Laboratory Virus?

 

In the 1970s, the decade before AIDS, the US Army’s biowarfare program

intensified, particularly in the area of genetic engineering research. In

1971, President Richard Nixon transferred a major part of the Army’s

Biological Warfare Unit at Ft. Detrick over to the National Cancer Institute

(NCI). Thereafter, secret biowarfare experimentation continued under the

cover of bona-fide cancer research.

 

During the 1970s the NCI’s Special Virus Cancer Program also brought

together leading national and international medical scientists in a unified

attempt to uncover and genetically alter cancer-causing and immunosuppresive

viruses.

 

The genetic manipulation of cells and infectious agents, as well as

the mixing and transferring of viruses between various animals (including

monkeys, chimps and other primates), resulted in the creation of many

man-made infectious agents for research, commercial and biowarfare purposes.

At the end of this decade a new immunosuppressive virus (HIV) was introduced

into the gay community, the most hated minority in America.

 

Some researchers believe this Special Virus Cancer Program, with its

covert connection to America’s biowarfare program, spawned HIV which was

subsequently seeded into the black African population via contaminated

WHO-sponsored vaccine programs, and seeded into the US homosexual community

via the government-sponsored experimental hepatitis B vaccine program

(1978-1981).

 

Not only was HIV introduced, but the virus that causes Kaposi’s sarcoma

(the “gay cancer” of AIDS) was also seeded into gay men. These hepatitis B

experiments in Manhattan, Los Angeles, and San Francisco, utilised only

highly promiscuous, healthy white gay and bisexual men as guinea pigs.

Shortly after this experiment began, the first cases of “gay-related immune

deficiency disease” and “gay cancer” in the form of KS, first erupted in New

York City in 1979.

 

The idea of AIDS as a man-made virus is considered by most scientists

to be a joke. Scientists pooh-pooh the idea of a man-made virus, even though

the laboratory transfer of viruses from one species to another always

results in a man-made virus.

 

But man-made AIDS is no joke, especially to some American blacks. If

you type-in “AIDS conspiracy blacks” on PubMed, it will refer you to a 1999

study polling black people who were asked if they believed “HIV/AIDS is a

man-made virus that the federal government made to kill and wipe out black

people.” [PMID: 10329334] The majority of black people questioned said “yes”

or “undecided.” Interestingly, the higher the education, the more black

people were likely to answer yes. The authors concluded that “the prevalence

and health-related implications of blacks’ AIDS-conspiracy beliefs must be

fully investigated.”

 

There is a little-known reason why HIV continues to disproportionately

affect gay men and bisexuals in America, and why it is predominantly a

heterosexual disease in Africa. It is now recognised there are 10 different

“subtypes” of HIV, which reflect differences in the genetic composition of

the AIDS virus. Subtype B is the form of HIV existing in America; this

subtype is not prevalent in Africa. (Another reason to suspect HIV in

America did not originate from Africa and the US outbreak in gays was

distinct from the African outbreak.)

 

Subtype B in the US spreads more easily with anal sex and IV drug use,

whereas the African subtypes spread more easily via heterosexual contact.

Dr. Max Essex at the Harvard School of Public Health in Boston has

demonstrated that subtypes C and E infect and replicate more efficiently

than subtype B in certain cells of the vagina, cervix and the foreskin of

the penis – but not on the wall of the rectum. Essex contends these subtypes

are spread more efficiently through vaginal intercourse. Subtype B helps

explain why the US epidemic spread quickly among homosexual men and IV drug

users, while in Africa and Asia, subtypes C and E have spread rapidly among

heterosexuals. In my view, all these subtypes further suggest HIV is a

manipulated virus introduced by the hand of man, rather than a

genetically-diverse virus descended and derived from primates in the African

jungle.

 

In sub-Saharan Africa in 2002, there were an estimated 2.4 million

AIDS deaths with 3.5 million new infections, and a total of 30 million

people in the region living with the infection. Isn’t it time the scientific

community asked itself if HIV could have evolved from lab experiments and

vaccine contaminations, rather then everyone blithely going along with the

dubious theory that “some chimpanzee in the jungle did it!”

 

The New Epidemic of West Nile Virus in America

 

SARS in 2003 follows in the wake of another unprecedented outbreak of

West Nile virus in New York City in August 1999, which worsens with each

passing year. The first sign of an epidemic of unknown origin occurred in

early July when many birds died mysteriously. The virus has an affinity for

some species of birds; and the mosquito acts as a vector to spread the virus

between birds, humans and other animals. A few weeks after the bird kills,

the first human cases of encephalitis appeared in local hospitals. On

September 24, it was finally determined the virus was West Nile virus – a

virus that had never been seen in America – and a virus for which there was

no testing available in any New York state laboratory.

 

Although the virus is contagious between birds, the disease is not

contagious between humans. Only about 20% of infected people develop a mild

flu-like form of the illness; but 1 in 150 people develop a severe form of

the disease with mental confusion, headache, swollen glands, high fever,

severe muscle weakness, and the tell-tale symptoms of encephalitis

(inflammation of the brain).

 

In 1999, the disease was confined to the New York City area, with 62

cases and 7 deaths. In year 2000, there were 21 cases and two deaths; in

2001 there were 56 cases with 7 deaths. In year 2002, the CDC reported 4156

cases with 284 deaths; and it is estimated as many as 200,000 people are

infected nationally. Inexplicably, as of May 2003, the CDC reports no cases.

 

Until 2002 the virus was confined to states in the eastern half of the

country. By the summer of 2002, all but 6 of the lower 48 states reported WN

virus in birds, mosquitoes, animals or humans. Shockingly, it was announced

that WN virus was in the nation’s blood supply – and there is no blood

screening test available to test for the new virus. There is also no

treatment or cure for WN virus disease.

 

West Nile Virus: Out of Africa? Or out of a Lab?

 

WN virus was first discovered in 1937 in encephalitis cases in Uganda,

East Africa. African cases tend to be mild, and the virus there does not

affect animal and bird populations to any significant degree. In fact, the

ability of the virus to infect and kill birds has only been noticed

recently. Mild outbreaks of WN occurred in Israel in 1951-1954 and 1957, and

also in South Africa in 1974. However, since the mid 1990s, outbreaks of

increasing frequency and severity have appeared in Morocco, Tunisia, Italy,

Israel, and Russia, and have been strangely accompanied with a large number

of bird deaths. Scientists have determined the closest viral “relative” of

the New York 99 strain of WN virus is a strain of WN virus that circulated

in Israel from 1997-2000.

 

Health authorities claim the virus entered the US via travelers from

the Middle East, or via a stray mosquito on an airplane. Other researchers

claim the virus arrived with African animals or birds placed in zoos. But,

in fact, the WN virus has been housed in US labs for decades (along with

African animals), and has been openly sold to researchers around the world.

From the very beginning of the WN virus outbreak, there were rumours of

bioterrorism, but these rumours were denied by health officials.

 

Various new theories of origin still appear in the press. For example,

a Los Angeles Times editorial (September 28, 2002) proclaimed that

“scientists think (the virus) may have arrived in the early 1980s when Asian

tiger mosquitoes traveled in tire casings from Japan to Houston.” (One

wonders who supplies the press with these bizarre and undocumented stories.)

 

On September 12, 2002, Vermont Senator Patrick Leahy declared: “I

think we have to ask ourselves: Is it a coincidence that we’re seeing such

an increase in WN virus – or is that something that’s being tested as a

biological weapon against us.” Leahy is no stranger to bioterrorism, having

received an anthrax-laden letter at his Washington office a year earlier.

 

Was WN virus deliberately or accidentally seeded into the environment?

Could the new outbreaks of WN virus be a result of decades of animal

experimentation and manipulation with the African virus? I discovered on

PubMed, for example, that fragments of West Nile virus were spliced into

cowpox virus in 1994 (PMID: 7958993). In September 2002, some WN patients

developed signs and symptoms of polio, even though that disease is caused by

a totally different virus. Another reason to suspect laboratory genetic

manipulation of WN virus and/or the mixing of this virus in vaccine

preparations.

 

Secret US Military Experiments on Human Populations

 

It is surprising the US government quickly eliminated bioterrorism as

a cause for HIV, the West Nile and the SARS virus, particularly when the

government has a long and well-documented history of radiation and

biowarfare experimentation against its own unsuspecting citizens.

 

In the 1950s the US military planned a project to cripple the Soviet

economy by killing horses, cattle, and swine with biological warfare weapons

developed from exotic animal diseases. The laboratory at Plum Island, off

the coast of Long Island, New York, is the Army’s repository for viruses

derived from the world’s most dangerous animal diseases. According to Norman

Covert, base historian and public information officer at Fort Detrick, only

a handful of scientists were aware of this project. “In many cases there

were only maybe five people who knew what was going on in weapons research.

People in one lab didn’t know what happened in the next lab, and they didn’t

ask.” Details of these Plum Island animal experiments were classified as

secret until 1993.

 

During the 1950s and 60s secret military biowarfare attacks on

unsuspecting civilians took place in many parts of America. The most

notorious was a six-day attack on San Francisco in which clouds of

potentially harmful bacteria were sprayed over the city. Twelve people

developed pneumonia due to the infectious bacteria, and one elderly man died

from the attack. This attack was not revealed to the public until years

later when classified documents were finally released.

 

In other classified experiments, the military sprayed bacteria in New

York City subways, in a Washington D.C. airport, and on highways in

Pennsylvania. Biological warfare testing also took place in military bases

in Virginia, in Key West (Florida), and off the coasts of Southern

California and Hawaii.

 

In preparing America for nuclear attack during the Cold War years

following World War II, thousands of US citizens were used as unsuspecting

guinea pigs in over 4,000 secret and classified radiation experiments

conducted by the Atomic Energy Commission and other agencies, such as the

Department of Defense, the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, the

Public Health Service (now the CDC), the National Institutes of Health, the

Veterans Administration, the CIA and NASA. (See my article “The Human

Radiation Experiments: How scientists secretly used US citizens as guinea

pigs during the Cold War”, New Dawn, Sept 2001.)

 

The full extent of the US government’s experiments on unsuspecting

people will probably never be known because many incriminating documents

remain Top Secret or classified. Other documents are often declared as

missing, destroyed, or “unavailable”, in an attempt to hide the truth from

the public.

 

Not only is the public kept ignorant of biowarfare research, but

biowarfare “accidents” are officially covered-up, downplayed, and frequently

blamed on animals. For example, the Russians finally revealed the truth

about an epidemic of anthrax that caused at least 68 deaths in 1979 in the

city of Sverdlovsk, 850 miles east of Moscow. The outbreak was officially

blamed on eating meat from infected animals. In 1992, Russian President

Boris Yeltsin finally acknowledged the real truth. The cause was not

“natural”, but due to the accidental escape of spores of weapons-grade

anthrax produced by the nearby biowarfare installation.

 

Why are all these Man-Made Viruses Being Created?

 

The Human Genome Project has been heralded in science and in the media

as a project to save mankind. By mapping and swapping our human genes,

scientists are trying to save us from illness, cancer and genetic defects.

However, it doesn’t take Einstein to figure out the same technology can be

used to make people sick, as well as healthy. For obvious reasons, this fact

is never mentioned.

 

Molecular biologists claim these genetic experiments are needed for

vaccine development, gene therapy, and disease cures. Most people do not

know that animal cells are used in the development and production of certain

vaccines. And with every new emerging virus and disease, there is big money

to be made by pharmaceutical companies, biotech companies, biologists,

vaccine makers, the entire health industry, and stockholders. Health

agencies, and international groups like the World Health Organisation, have

close ties to the pharmaceutical cartels, who in turn are closely allied

with governments and big business. Let’s face it: ever since the WHO took

over the health of the planet, the health of the planet has steadily

deteriorated.

 

When my book AIDS and the Doctors of Death was published in 1988, it

detailed the dangers of vaccines and genetic engineering and provided

extensive circumstantial evidence that AIDS was man-made. In 1989 the book

so incensed WHO officials, who were sponsors of the fifth international AIDS

Conference in Montreal, they demanded the book be removed from the shelves

of an exhibit run by the Highway Bookshop, thus effectively banning the book

from the conference.

 

Dr. David Heymann is the current executive director of the WHO

Communicable Disease Program. Back in 1992 Heymann was asked by Rolling

Stone’s reporter Tom Curtis if the possibly contaminated experimental polio

vaccines given to Africans back in the 1950s might have caused HIV to erupt

there. Heymann answered: “The origin of the AIDS virus is of no importance

to science today. Any speculation on how it arose is of no importance.”

(Quoted in Queer Blood,

p.79)

 

Government health agencies have little interest in uncovering possible

man-made origins of any emerging disease because such an investigation could

compromise covert biowarfare activities. The WHO is no exception. In

reality, the WHO (in its own mission statement) “cooperates” with government

agencies like the US Department of Defense, which funds the US biological

warfare program.

 

On February 12, 2003, while the Chinese were hiding the SARS outbreak,

the US National Academies’ National Research Council issued a draft report

estimating 11,000 people died from cancer related to nuclear testing during

the Cold War. The government admitted that radioactive fallout exposed

virtually everyone in the US to radiation and contributed to the cancer

deaths. The study, performed by the CDC and NCI, has not yet been formally

published. After a half-century, the “good doctors” finally admitted the

truth.

 

Killer Germs for Sale

 

Further complicating the genetic engineering of the planet is the sale

of deadly microbes to anyone and any country with the cash to buy them. From

1985-1988, Iraq purchased 70 shipments of anthrax, West Nile virus, and

other disease-causing organisms from the American Type Culture Collection.

Even after Hussein gassed the Kurds in 1988, and even after the Gulf War, US

officials continued to supply Iraq with biochemical warfare ingredients. The

CDC also sent West Nile virus and numerous other biological agents to Iraq

during the years 1984 and 1993. (No wonder the CDC doesn’t want to

investigate WN virus as a bioweapon!)

 

On October 18, 2001, the CDC issued an unprecedented alert asking

physicians to watch out for cases of smallpox, plague, botulism, tularemia,

and even “emerging” hemorrhagic African viruses that cause Ebola and Marburg

disease. Before the terrorist bombings, virologists were blaming animals in

the wild for these diseases; now it is clear the more likely threat comes

from crazy scientists and terrorists.

 

Ignored by the media is a recently updated report entitled “Iraq and

the West Nile Virus: A Possible Connection?” by the Centre for Defense

Information (October 28, 2002), raising the possibility the West Nile virus

was artificially introduced into the United States by Iraq in 1999 in order

to test Iraq’s bioweapon capabilities and US defenses.

 

“A Centers for Disease Control source told CDI the CDC is

investigating the possibility that the appearance of West Nile was part of a

coordinated plan to introduce biological weapons into the United States by

Iraq. ‘We’ve been investigating that possibility pretty much since

nine-eleven,’ he said. The source refused to provide his name, citing

security concerns, as did other health communication experts contacted

through the CDC public inquiry hotline, and added that he cannot speculate

on any probabilities until further investigation is complete. A CDC media

spokesperson denied these statements in a later interview. The CDC states on

its Web site that although they do not know the origin of the virus, the US

strain is genetically closest to strains found in the Middle East.” To this

date, the CDC vehemently denies that West Nile virus is bioterrorism.

 

How to Start a SARS Epidemic

 

No one yet knows how SARS started in China. Did the virus escape from

a Chinese lab? It’s a possibility, but it cannot easily explain how SARS

came to Hong Kong, where half the 600 infections in the city derive from one

apartment complex (the Amoy Gardens). While avoiding the possibility of

“super-spreader” bioterrorists, the media was quickly labeling certain SARS

victims as “super-spreaders.”

 

As in prior military experiments, all it might take for terrorists to

spread SARS is an aerosol can or a specially designed suitcase, or a

“gloved” box (the type used by anthrax spreaders) to infect an apartment

building like the Amoy Gardens or a floor of a hotel, like the Metropole in

Hong Kong, which also had a large number of SARS cases. Why would anyone

want to infect China and the Far East with a highly contagious virus?

Disrupting the economy of Asia would only be one demonic reason.

 

Biological Warfare: Who Cares?

 

Most people don’t give a damn about biological warfare. Even people

who suffer from emerging diseases often don’t have a clue about research

pointing to man-made diseases; and if you try and educate them about

biowarfare and unethical medical experimentation, most people don’t want to

know.

 

In the nuclear arsenal of the world’s major powers is enough explosive

power to completely destroy the planet. Yet strong nations are still not

content and want newer and better agents of mass destruction and biowarfare.

As time goes by, the “old stuff” gets sold off to poorer countries, and all

of it is subject to thievery by terrorists and genocidal scientists.

 

Biotechnology is wedded to world power and military defense; people

who work in these fields are sworn to secrecy and whistle-blowers can land

in jail, or worse. Government health authorities all have the same “official

story” and their “expert” views are dutifully recounted by adoring

media-controlled journalists. Contrary views are not considered. Researchers

must rely on government or pharmaceutical grants, and trouble-makers with

“politically and scientifically incorrect” views find themselves quickly out

of a job and a career.

 

How many more bioterrorism wake up calls are required before health

officials stop looking in rain forests and animal populations for the origin

of these new epidemic diseases – and begin to look at the world trade in

deadly infectious agents and laboratory animals, and the insanities of

genetic research, as reasons for our new plagues? Biowarfare agents are

designed solely to maim or kill large numbers of civilians. And any country

that is willing to employ and deploy these agents should be fully aware of

the old adage: What goes around, comes around.

 

So what does the future hold for us with all these coming plagues? Is

it too late to educate people and get governments to start behaving

responsibly by not supporting biowarfare insanity – and recognising it when

it appears?

 

The pessimist in me says “no.” The optimist says “maybe.” My spirit

says our Mission here on planet Earth is to try to learn to love one

another, and not to kill each other. Or is that just another silly

“conspiracy theory”?

 

 

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Dr. Cantwell is a researcher on AIDS, cancer, and biological warfare. His

book on man-made AIDS, Queer Blood: The Secret AIDS Genocide Plot, is

available through the New Dawn Book Service. Many of his writings can be

found on google.com and the New Dawn web site. His published medical papers

are listed on PubMed. Dr. Cantwell wishes to express his appreciation to

David Jones, editor of New Dawn, for encouraging him to write this

controversial article.