The New West Nile Virus Epidemic - by Alan Cantwell

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The New West Nile Virus Epidemic - by Alan Cantwell

 

 

> Long but well-worth the read!

>

> http://www.paranoiamagazine.com/westnile.html

>

>

> The New West Nile Virus Epidemic: Bioterrorism?

>

> Or Mother Nature (Again)?

>

> Alan Cantwell, Jr., MD

>

> West Nile Virus encephalitis is yet another new infectious disease that

has

> mysteriously appeared in the U.S., seemingly out of the blue. Is this

another

> disease, like AIDS, that poses a threat to certain " high risk " groups?

Could

> the outbreak of WN virus be some sort of biologic " test " (like the anthrax

> mailings) to wake people up to the dangers of bioterrorism? Are all these

new

> " emerging diseases " and " emerging viruses " merely continuing (and

> unprecedented) cruel acts of Mother Nature? Or could the " hand of man " in

the

> form of crazy biological warfare scientists be causing these new

outbreaks?

> Is it just a " coincidence " that all these weird bugs and illnesses have

> erupted in the past two decades? Or is all this just " paranoid " thinking?

>

>

> New Emerging Diseases; Accident of Nature or Man-Made Illnesses?

>

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

banished

> from the industrialized world. But, remarkably, over the last two decades

> more than 30 new " emerging diseases " have appeared in various places. 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

> Illness affecting veterans, are not included in the government's list of

> " emerging diseases. " ) In addition, older diseases such as tuberculosis,

> malaria, and cholera, have re-emerged in more virulent and drug-resistant

> forms. After eighty years of steady declines in infectious disease, the

> mortality rate from infectious disease in the U.S. rose 58% between 1980

and

> 1992.

>

>

> Health officials place the blame on increased global travel and

> globalization, population growth and movements, deforestation and refo

> restation 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 that harbor unknown infectious agents.

>

>

> Nowhere in the official list of causes is the fact that for many decades

> millions of animals and innumerable vials of infectious material have been

> shipped around the world for commercial and biological warfare purposes.

This

> world trade in deadly agents, coupled with the gene-splicing technology

> developed in the 1970s, has increased the dangers of new disease

outbreaks.

> In addition, many new viruses have been passed around between various

species

> of animals, and some of these viruses have been adapted to human tissue.

This

> has resulted in the production of new laboratory diseases that have

potential

> biowarfare capabilities. The biowarfare implications of all these

scientific

> " advances " have led some conspiracy-minded people to suspect that the hand

of

> man might be responsible for the outbreak of one or more of these newly

> emerging diseases.

>

>

> The anthrax mailings that followed the World Trade Center bombings of 9/11

> were certainly a " wake up call " indicating America was unprepared for a

> bioterrorist attack. More than a year later, the perpetrators have not

been

> apprehended, and the U.S. government's own biowarfare scientists are the

#1

> prime suspects.

>

>

> On the first anniversary of the anthrax attacks, Barbara Hatch Rosenberg

(who

> chairs the Federation of American Scientists Working Group on Biological

> Weapons) confirms that the strain and properties of the weaponized anthrax

> bacteria found in the letters originated within the U.S. biodefense

program.

> " Government officials recognized that the anthrax source was domestic less

> than two weeks after they learned of the letters, and nothing in their

> investigation has led them to say otherwise, " writes Rosenberg.

>

>

> Rosenberg sounds like a conspiracy theorist when she concludes: " that

given

> the origin of the anthrax and the warnings contained in the letters, the

> perpetrator's motive was not to kill but rather to raise public fear and

> thereby spur Congress to increase spending on biodefense. In this sense,

the

> attacks have been phenomenally successful. " ( " Anthrax attacks pushed open

an

> ominous door, " Los Angeles Times, 9/22/02).

>

>

> No doubt a public trial of the perpetrators would open a Pandora's Box of

> government biowarfare secrets that would shock the public.

>

>

> The new epidemic of West Nile Virus encephalitis in America

>

> West Nile virus infection in humans first broke out in New York City in

> August 1999. The first sign of the WN epidemic occurred in early July when

> many birds died mysteriously. Half the crows in the New York City area

died,

> as well as some exotic bird species housed at the Bronx zoo. The virus has

an

> affinity for some species of birds; and the mosquito acts as a vector for

the

> virus. Thus, the virus spreads from birds to mosquitoes, and the virus is

> spread to humans and other animals via mosquito bites. A few weeks after

the

> bird kills, the first human cases of encephalitis appeared in local

hospitals

> in the northern Queens section of the city. By September, nine of 25

infected

> horses with WN virus died in Long Island.

>

>

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

contagious

> between humans. It is estimated that only 20% of infected people will

develop

> a mild flu-like form of the illness; but 1 in 150 people will 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). Mild cases last a few days;

severe

> cases can last several weeks.

>

>

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

62

> cases and 7 deaths. As many as 10,000 wild birds died. In the year 2000,

> there were 21 cases and two deaths; in 2001 there were 56 cases with 7

> deaths. By October 8, 2002 the CDC had reported a cumulative total of 2768

> cases of WN virus with 146 deaths; and it is estimated that as many as

> 200,000 people are infected nationally.

>

>

> 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.

>

>

> Also by 2002 the CDC confirmed that a transplant patient became infected

by

> WN virus after having received organs from a Georgia accident victim

infected

> with the virus. There was also evidence that the virus could be

transmitted

> by an infected mother to her infant during breast feeding. Shockingly, it

was

> announced that West Nile virus was in the nation's blood supply, and there

is

> no blood screening test available to test for the new virus.

>

>

> At first, infectious disease experts believed that the St. Louis

encephalitis

> (SLE) virus was the cause. Oddly, this endemic virus occasionally causes

mild

> outbreaks of disease in other areas of the U.S., but no cases were ever

seen

> in New York. At the Bronx zoo, veterinary pathologist Tracey McNamara

> suspected a different virus because the SLE virus was not known to kill

> birds. Trained at Plum Island (see later), the pathologist suspected a

> connection between the bird kills and the human cases, but the Centers for

> Disease Control rebuffed her concerns. In September, officials

re-instituted

> extensive spraying over New York in attempts to kill the mosquito

population

> and control the encephalitis epidemic.

>

>

> It was only through McNamara's heroic efforts to enlist the aid of

biologists

> at other national labs, as well as at Fort Detrick, that it was finally

> determined on September 24, that the virus was indeed WN virus - a virus

that

> had never been seen in America - and a virus for which there was no

testing

> available in any NY state laboratory.

>

>

> West Nile virus: Out of Africa? Or out of a virus laboratory?

>

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

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

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

> ability of WN virus to infect and kill birds has only been noticed very

> recently. Could this indicate that the virus has been genetically-altered

or

> 'weaponized' for biowarfare purposed during the many decades that it has

been

> available for study in virus laboratories?

>

>

> Mild outbreaks of WN have 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. A Romanian epidemic, reported in 1996, infected 90,000

people

> and caused 17 deaths.

>

>

> Scientists have determined that the closest viral " relative " of the New

York

> 99 strain of the WN virus is a strain of WN virus that circulated in

Israel

> from 1997-2000. The NY99 strain has remained stable for the past 3 years.

>

>

> Health authorities suspect the virus entered the U.S. 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 U.S. labs for decades, and has been openly

> sold to researchers around the world.

>

>

> It is hardly a secret that the WN virus, along with dozens of other

> infectious agents, was sold and shipped by the National Type Culture

> Collection (in Rockville, Maryland) to Iraq during the 1980s when the U.S.

> was on friendlier terms with Saddam Hussein.

>

>

> >From the very beginning of the WN virus outbreak, there were rumors that

the

> disease outbreak was bioterrorism, but these rumors were denied by health

> officials. CDC spokesperson Barbara Reynolds told CNN that " the

possibility

> of bioterrorism is at the bottom of the list for how some outbreak may

have

> occurred. It appears Mother Nature is at work. " (CNN report, 10/11/99).

>

>

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

Los

> Angeles Times editorial (9/28/02) 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.)

>

>

> None of these theories has deterred Vermont Senator Patrick Leahy from

urging

> federal officials to determine if the introduction of WN virus is a

terrorist

> attack. On September 12, 2002, 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.

>

>

> The current presence of WN virus in the blood supply poses a potentially

> serious threat. Receiving WN virus by a blood transfusion undoubtedly

infects

> the body with a larger dose of virus than a dose received from an infected

> mosquito. High-risk people for WN virus infection include elderly,

> debilitated, immunodeficient people (like cancer, AIDS, and transplant

> patients) and the very young. Furthermore, people who require blood

> transfusions are not in the best of health and should be considered " high

> risk " as well. Certainly the arrival of the virus in the warmer southern

> states, where mosquitoes are active year-round and where many elderly

> retirees reside, is not a good omen.

>

>

> Currently, all blood is tested for syphilis, as well as viruses such as

> HTLV-1 and 2, HIV-1 and -2, and hepatitis B and C virus. A blood screening

> test for WN virus may be available within a year, and a vaccine might be

> developed in three years. But, at present, there is no treatment or cure

for

> WN virus disease.

>

>

> Secret U.S. military biowarfare experiments on human populations

>

> A July 24, 2000 Report ( " The West Nile Virus Wake Up Call " ) from the

Senate

> Governmental Affairs Committee dismisses the idea of WN virus infection as

> biowarfare, although the CDC was criticized for its " tunnel vision " and

its

> failure " to expect the unexpected. " The Committee concluded that: " The

next

> outbreak of an infectious disease - whether naturally occurring or

> deliberately inflicted - may not be so forgiving. " (The 2001 anthrax

attack

> proved to be the next " deliberately inflicted " biowarfare attack.)

>

>

> It is surprising that the U.S. government quickly eliminated bioterrorism

as

> a cause for the WN outbreak, particularly when the government has a long

and

> well-documented history of biowarfare experimentation against unsuspecting

> citizens.

>

>

> In the 1950s the U.S. military planned a project to cripple the Soviet

> economy by killing horses, cattle, and swine, with biowarfare 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 most dangerous animal diseases in the world. 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. ( " Plum Island's shadowy past: Once-secret documents reveal

lab's

> mission was germ warfare, " Newsday, 11/21/93)

>

>

> 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 ( " Army germ fog blanketed S.F. for 6 days

in

> '50 test, " Los Angeles Times, 9/17/79).

>

>

> In other classified experiments, the military sprayed bacteria in New York

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

Pennsylvania.

> Biowarfare testing also took place in military bases in Virginia, In Key

West

> (Florida), and off the coasts of Southern California and Hawaii ( " Army

used

> live bacteria in tests on U.S. civilians, " Los Angeles Times, 3/9/77).

>

>

> The Army also experimented on its own soldiers. Project Whitecoat, a code

> name for a series of biowarfare experiments that took place at Fort

Detrick

> between 1954 and 1973, utilized about 2,300 Seventh-Day Adventist

volunteers

> who were exposed to germs causing tularemia, malaria, anthrax, Queensland

> fever, Rocky Mountain spotted fever, encephalitis, and a host of other

exotic

> diseases. The experiments were aimed at preventing, diagnosing, and

treating

> these diseases, as well as the development of vaccines. No one died in the

> experiments, but critics contend that the men were essentially coerced

into

> participating in research that, despite military assurances to the

contrary,

> could have been used to produce biowarfare weapons. ( " Adventists' faith

put

> to test; 2,300 soldiers were used in germ-warfare experiments, " The

> Washington Times, 10/19/98)

>

>

> In preparing America for nuclear attack during the Cold War years

following

> World War II, thousands of U.S. 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 " The Nuking of America; Secrets and

> Lies of America's Cold War, " Paranoia, Issue #18, Winter 97/98).

>

>

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

biowarfare

> " accidents " are officially covered-up, downplayed, or 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. Officials at the nearby top-secret biowarfare compound

> maintained that the anthrax spores were spread among cattle through

> ingestions of contaminated bone meal, and that the people who got anthrax

> acquired it through the illegal sale of diseased cattle from private

farms.

> 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.

> ( " Soviet germ lab caused epidemic in '79, " Los Angeles Times, 6/16/92)

>

>

> The full extent of the U.S. 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.

>

>

> Genetic engineering and species transfer of new killer viruses

>

> As the 1970s began, the U.S. Army's biowarfare program intensified,

> particularly in the area of genetic engineering research. This genetic

> manipulation of cells and infectious agents, and 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.

>

>

> In order to placate the fears of critics, President Richard Nixon

renounced

> germ warfare, except for " medical defensive research. " But despite the

1972

> treaty forbidding nations from developing or acquiring weapons that spread

> disease, the biowarfare buildup continued. Scientists understood that to

> create a defense against bioweapons, it was also necessary to study

offensive

> biowarfare agents. As a result, biowarfare research continued worldwide,

> despite the ineffectual treaty.

>

>

> In 1971, 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. Utilizing the latest genetic engineering techniques,

> virologists forced cancer-causing viruses to " jump " from one species of

> animal to another. In the hazardous transfer of dangerous infectious

agents,

> scientists developed new forms of cancer in animals, as well as AIDS-like

> immunodeficiency diseases in cats, primates, and other lab animals. (See

also

> AIDS: An Explosion of the Biological Time Bomb?: Biological Warfare in the

> Modern Era (2000), by Robert E Lee.) In 1981, a decade later, a new and

> mysterious immunodeficiency disease called AIDS suddenly appeared

exclusively

> in gay men, the most hated minority in America.

>

>

> In November 1973 a high-level conference entitled " Biohazards in

Biological

> Research " convened at Asilomar, near Pacific Grove in Northern California.

> The cancer virologists freely admitted there was no foolproof way to

prevent

> the escape of these highly dangerous viruses into the community. Leaving

no

> doubt that new and dangerous viruses were being created, Robert W Miller

of

> the NCI warned that " laboratory workers have not only heavy exposures to

> known viruses, but also to the viruses that they invent. "

>

>

> AIDS: A designer disease with a genetically-altered laboratory virus?

>

> During the 1970s the NCI's Special Virus Cancer Program brought together

> leading national and international medical scientists in a unified attempt

to

> uncover cancer-causing viruses. In this same decade many human and animal

> viruses were adapted for commercial and biowarfare purposes. And at the

end

> of this decade new " emerging viruses " began to appear.

>

>

> Some AIDS researchers believe that this Special Virus Cancer Program (and

its

> covert connection to America's biowarfare program) spawned HIV, an

> immunosuppressive virus that was subsequently seeded into the U.S.

homosexual

> community via the government-sponsored experimental hepatitis B vaccine

> program (1978-1981). These experiments in Manhattan , Los Angeles, and San

> Francisco, utilized 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 " (later known as AIDS) erupted in

New

> York City. (See my article " Blaming gays, blacks and chimps for AIDS, "

> Paranoia, Issue #27, Fall 2001).

>

>

> The idea of AIDS as a man-made virus that was deliberately seeded into the

> American gay and African black population in the late 1970s is considered

by

> most scientists to be a joke. There are many theories pertaining to the

> origin of HIV, but man-made AIDS is always trashed as paranoid " conspiracy

> theory. " However, as already noted, previous biowarfare experiments

against

> civilians have all been clouded in secrecy. Furthermore, the scientific

> " facts " surrounding these unethical programs were often tainted with

> government misinformation, disinformation, propaganda, cover-ups, outright

> lies, and more than a touch of conspiracy.

>

>

> 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. " When a lab virus is transferred to another species its

> molecular structure is altered. This occurs because the transferred virus

> picks up new genetic material from the cell of the new species that it

> infects.

>

>

> Originally, Robert Gallo, the co-discoverer of HIV, theorized that the

AIDS

> virus originated from African green monkeys. Now government scientists

claim

> the " ancestor " of HIV actually originated from a chimpanzee virus.

>

>

> Two leading molecular biologists, Beatrice Hahn and Betty Korber, have

used

> computerized " molecular clocks " to construct elaborate viral " family

trees "

> (which few people outside the field can understand) in an attempt to prove

> how HIV descended from chimps in the African rain forest. Significantly,

> Beatrice Hahn worked in Gallo's lab in the early 1980s while he was

> popularizing his erroneous green monkey theory; and Betty Korber works at

her

> computer at the Los Alamos laboratory in New Mexico, home of America's

> nuclear weapons program and the birthplace of the notorious secret human

> radiation experiments. These two government scientists, along with the

> support of an adoring media, have apparently convinced the scientific

world

> that HIV originated in chimps in Africa. The possibility that HIV

originated

> from a biowarfare lab or from widespread species-jumping viral experiments

in

> primates is simply never considered.

>

>

> Big questions regarding the origin of AIDS remain unanswered by molecular

> biologists. For example, if HIV has been around for decades, centuries, or

> millennia, as these scientists proclaim, where were the AIDS cases in

Africa

> in the 1960s and 70s? Scientists simply offer as " proof " a dried-up old

> HIV-positive blood specimen (based on fragments of molecular structure)

from

> an unidentified African blood donor in 1959. With this " proof, " we are

> supposed to believe that HIV existed in Africa for a long time, even

though

> there was no AIDS epidemic in Africa until the early 1980s (after the

first

> AIDS cases appeared in American gays in 1979).

>

>

> AIDS experts tells us that HIV can sometimes have a long incubation period

> (up to 10 to 20 years); and that it is possible to get HIV even through

one

> sexual contact with an infected person. With the long-incubation period,

why

> are there no " old " positive HIV blood specimens (and no AIDS cases) in the

> U.S. before 1978-1979 (the year the gay vaccine experiments began and the

> year the first AIDS cases appeared)? How is it biologically possible for a

> supposedly black, heterosexually-transmitted disease " out-of-Africa " to

> suddenly (with no incubation period) transform itself into a " gay disease "

in

> New York City, Los Angeles, and San Francisco? Particularly when there

were

> no cases in Africa in the late 1970s!!!

>

>

> Why only young healthy white gay men? Why no blacks, women, old people,

> immuno-suppressed people, children, heterosexuals, among the first cases?

> Surely with all the sexual activity of heterosexuals in America (and HIV

in

> the nation's blood supply in 1979), one would expect some early cases to

> appear in straight people as well. There may be another good reason why

AIDS

> started exclusively as a " gay disease " in America, and why it is

> predominantly a heterosexual disease elsewhere. It is now recognized that

> 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 that

> exists in America; this subtype is not prevalent in Africa. (Another

reason

> to suspect that HIV in gays did not come from Africa.)

>

>

> The subtypes in Africa have a higher potential for heterosexual

transmission

> than Subtype B, which spreads more easily with anal sex and IV drug use.

> Laboratory studies, undertaken by Dr Max Essex of the Harvard School of

> Public Health in Boston, have 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 that these subtypes are spread more efficiently through

> vaginal intercourse. Subtype B helps explain why the U.S. epidemic spread

> quickly among homosexual men and IV drug users, while in Africa and Asia,

> subtypes C and E have spread rapidly among heterosexuals. (

>

http://www.aids.harvard.edu/news_publications/har/fall_1998/fall98-5.html )

>

>

> The " introduction " of Subtype B (via gay vaccine experiments) explains why

> AIDS began as a " gay disease " in the U.S., and why the remaining subtypes

> primarily affect heterosexual populations elsewhere in the world. In my

view,

> all these subtypes further suggest that HIV is a manipulated virus

introduced

> into different populations by the " hand of man, " rather than a

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

African

> jungle by " Mother Nature. "

>

>

> Killer Germs for Sale

>

> Further complicating bioterrorism is the sale of deadly microbes to anyone

> and any country with the cash to buy them. From 1985-1988, when the U.S.

was

> still friendly with Saddam Hussein, his Education Ministry purchased 70

> shipments of anthrax, West Nile virus, and other disease-causing organisms

> from the American Type Culture Collection, in Maryland. At that time, such

> shipments were entirely legal and received quick approval by the U.S.

> Commerce Department. ( " Germ library's inventory is making detractors

queasy, "

> Los Angeles Times, March 16, 1998.) Even after Hussein gassed the Kurds in

> 1988, and even after the Gulf War, U.S. officials continued to supply Iraq

> with biochemical warfare ingredients ( " U.S. was a key supplier to Saddam, "

> Seattle Post Intelligencer, Sept 24, 2002). The CDC also sent WN virus and

> numerous other biological agents to Iraq during the years 1984 and 1993. (

> http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2002/9/23/210336.shtml )

>

>

> The Riegle Report (May 25, 1994) further details biological and

biochemical

> shipments from the U.S. to Iraqi government agencies. It was later learned

> that these microorganisms exported by the U.S. were identical to those the

UN

> inspectors found and recovered from the Iraqi biowarfare program. (

> http://www.gulfweb.org/bigdoc/report/riegle1.html )

>

>

> 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.

> Now it is clear that the more likely threat comes from crazy scientists

who

> will use any deadly infectious agent as a potential biowarfare agent if it

> suits their national, political, or religious agenda.

>

>

> Was West Nile virus deliberately seeded into the environment?

>

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

> experimentation and manipulation of the African virus in various

laboratories

> worldwide? Surely over the past 60 years new strains of WN virus have been

> developed and " weaponized " by genetic and/or biowarfare engineers. Once a

> virus like WN is " introduced " into the environment it can spread rapidly

on

> its own. Already the WN virus causes disease in humans and animals unlike

> that seen in Africa back in the 1930s. In late September 2002, there were

> various media reports claiming that some WN patients were developing signs

> and symptoms of polio, even though that disease is caused by a different

> virus. Could these never-before seen manifestations of WN virus be an

> indication that the virus has been altered in a laboratory? Could this

more

> deadly form of WN virus reflect manipulation, not by Mother Nature, but by

> the hand of man?

>

>

> Besides acting as a wake up call, what would be the advantage of

introducing

> WN virus into the American environment? For a foreign terrorist, WN virus

> would be a poor choice of bioweapon. As a killer of old and sick people,

it

> would not be a terribly effective biowarfare weapon. However, if the virus

> was introduced domestically as a " test " (like anthrax), the killing off of

> old and sick people would certainly aid the fiscal problems of Social

> Security and Medicare.

>

>

> The World Trade Center bombing of 1993 did not serve as wake up call for

the

> second WTC bombing of 9/11. Similarly, the introduction of WN virus into

the

> New York population in 1999 did not serve as a wake up call for

bioterrorism

> because it was followed two years later by successful anthrax letter

attacks.

>

>

> How many more wake up calls with bioterrorism will be required before

health

> officials stop looking in rain forests and African animals for the origin

of

> these new epidemic diseases - and begin to look at the world trade in

deadly

> infectious agents, and the insanities of biowarfare and biowarfare

research,

> as reasons for our current new plagues?

>

>

> Biowarfare agents are designed solely to kill large numbers of civilians.

And

> any country that is willing to employ and deploy these agents should be

fully

> aware that - What Goes Around, Comes Around.

>

>

> © 2002 Dr. Cantwell is a frequent contributor to Paranoia.

>

> His books on man-made AIDS are available from Book Clearing House @

> 1-800-431-1579.

>

> Email: alanrcan

>

>

> In this article it is only possible to discuss a tiny bit of evidence

> pointing to AIDS as a man-made disease. My two books, AIDS and the Doctors

of

> Death (1988), and Queer Blood: The Secret AIDS Genocide Plot (1993),

provide

> extensive documentation for the man-made origin of AIDS. Previous issues

of

> Paranoia have also carried articles on this research; and anyone with

> Internet access can go to google.com and type-in " AIDS biological warfare "

or

> " alan cantwell, " and encounter many web sites on man-made AIDS by various

> researchers, all of which has been ignored by the scientific community and

> the major media.

>

 

 

 

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