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HAS HIV BEEN INSERTED INTO THE EBOLA GENOME BY CHINA?

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Boxun Description Of Ebola In China From Patricia Doyle, PhD dr_p_doyle 7-19-5 Hello Jeff - EB-SZ. This is VERY odd. Ebola with incubation period 2 -4 weeks and incubation period in some up to 6 month? Asymptomatic Ebola cases? Not in humans to my knowledge. "Those infected people's immunity drops suddenly that triggers other co-infections and complications" This sounds more like an HIV/AIDS - not Ebola. Has China been able to take the Ebola genome and insert HIV? EB-ST Also has a long incubation period. As you read the following report it is obvious that Ebola has been genetically altered with different viruses which give us the various types of the new Ebola strains. Obviously some of the viruses have been altered with HIV. It is quite possible that some Ebola genomes have been recombined with SARS and others with H5. If the following report is accurate, and remember Boxun is reporting from inside China and the reporters have the advantage of inside information, it is obvious that China has been busy in their bioweapons research. We did have signs that a program was and is in effect when SARS escaped. There have been some very strange outbreaks of H5N1 which did add to speculation that China has been engaged in bioweapons' research. While we are all focused on Iraq's WMD we have lost sight of more pressing threats, such as China's weapons' research. Will the Bush Administration investigate these reports AFTER Ebola flu or Influenzebola breaks out in North America? While the administration chases ghosts and nonexistent WMD in Iraq China might just be boiling up an Ebola soup that will kill many of us. According to Dr. Henry L. Niman: "China's recent actions of limiting access and distribution of strains and sequences increases the credibility of the boxun reports. Moreover, H5N1 and Ebola have a region of sequence identity between HA and spike genes." Patricia Doyle Boxun Description Of Ebola In China By Dr. Henry L. Niman, PhD Recombinomics Commentary July 19, 2005 1. EB-SZ type: It was found in Shenzhen of South China. People contracted the virus showing severe illness, and they were infected through the contact of blood. Incubation period is 2-4 weeks. Some individual cases have incubation period up to 6 months. Some cases are asymptomatic. Those infected people's immunity drops suddenly that triggers other co-infections and complications. When non-Ebola virus related infections become severe, it could lead to diathesis from the major blood vessels. In severe cases, blood vessels disintegrate; muscular tissues became fluid-like; patients died of lack of oxygen due to haemorrhage. After the case die, the disintegration symptoms persist with the change of room temperature, ie above 12.4 degree Celsius. The process continues until the carcass completely disintegrates. The disintegration process slows down when temperature is lower than 8.7 degree Celsius; and the process halts at below 4 degree Celsius. Therefore, the best treatment for infected person is to use low temperature therapy. To treat the deceased cases, it is better to seal the body under low temperature. To disinfect the environment where the cases die has to use both high temperature disinfection and low temperature disinfection with the assistance of potent medication. 2. EB-ST type: It was found in Shantou of South China. People contracted the virus showing severe illness. Transmission is unknown. Incubation period: 30-120 days. Infected people have localized maculopapular rash. Cases occur in the form of diathesis in the smallest capillaries that lead to necrosis of the involved tissues. The characteristic of this virus is its intermittent exacerbation of the symptoms. This virus is suspected to be the mutated by-product of Ebola virus and other viruses. The confirmative diagnosis is usually made by the identification of EB-SZ-like virus in the tissues of deceased cases. 3. EB-HN type: It was found in Hunan of Central China. Transmission is unknown. Incubation is about 30-60 days. Infected cases experience discomfort due to the localized diathesis. After the disintegration of blood vessels, patients experience symptoms related to blood loss. Most of the deceased cases' heavily infected organs were in their lungs. If the blood vessels of the internal organs were infected, it will cause hepatic damage. Deceased case's face and bottom will disintegrate within 2-8 hours afterwards; their nails also fall apart. Autopsy found that the tissues of tendons were as soft as muscle. The deceased cases' blood are contagious. Contact through other means will not lead to infection of the virus. 4. EB-FJ type: It was found in Fujian province of South China. The virus was transmitted through the carrier's blood. Incubation period is about 20-30 days. Infected people will become immunocompromised that leads to influenza induced pneumonia and bleeding in the lungs. Subsequently, it leads to respiratory failure. Autopsy found that the vessels in the deceased cases' lung were fluid like; other tissues were normal. Deceased cases displayed purplish spots in their necks. 5. EB-ZJ type: It was found in Zhanjian of South China. Not much details on this virus subtype. 6. EB-SZ77 type: It was found in Shenzhen of South China (adjacent to Hong Kong). This virus could infect birds. The above human translation of a boxun report raises serious questions about Ebola infections in China. It has not been independently confirmed and Ebola has not been reported outside of Africa. The above report offers no genetic details on the relationship between the above isolates and the various sequenced Ebola and Marburg isolates. The boxun reports on H5N1 bird flu strains appear to be quite believable and are supported by China's refusal to allow WHO visit the recent sites of H5N1 infections in Xinjiang province as well as the refusal to share sequence data on isolates from the latest outbreak. Other boxun documents indicate details of H5N1 and Ebola infections are considered state secrets, which clearly if true, is cause for concerns. China's recent actions of limiting access and distribution of strains and sequences increases the credibility of the boxun reports. Moreover, H5N1 and Ebola have a region of sequence identity between HA and spike genes.

************ Why Ebola Recombinant? From Patricia Doyle, PhD 7-20-5 Hello Jeff - I had to wonder why the advantage would be to the combination of Ebola with HIV. Ebola usually dies out rather quickly. It is easy to spot and easy to trace contacts due to the speedy incubation time. It also dies out in the environment, as some of the tribes' people stated, "Ebola comes like waves from the jungle." In other words, it is like a tide and comes in, kills and goes out thus ending the outbreak. If we have Ebolaids, we would have long incubation periods of up to 6 months thus making the tracing of contacts harder and enabling the virus to spread beyond tribal villages. People would have plenty of time for international travel thus spreading the virus throughout the world before it would be recognized. Naturally occurring Ebola usually stays in the community of outbreak with some scattered outbreaks in neighboring communities. An Ebola combined with HIV would ensure death and make the virus more lethal. The HIV would do its job of breaking down the immune system making the body more vulnerable to Ebola. Ebolaids would not be a good weapon, however, UNLESS the weaponeer had a vaccine or treatment to counteract the virus when it bounces back on the weaponeers' country. Ebola/H5N1 would also be an insane weapon to release unless there had been a vaccine that would work at protecting the weapon's user from illness. It is really so difficult to rationize the construction of the altered Ebola pathogen. Was SARS actually part of the bioweapon's research? I always thought that SARS had escaped from the first military medical university in Guangdong Province. Perhaps, SARS was not the intended weapon but only part of a recombinant Ebola/Sars? I am wondering if the deaths in and around Quinghai were actually Ebola/H5N1 or combination of Ebola. This may explain WHY the Chinese are refusing to allow the WHO or any agency from taking samples. The Chinese had refused to allow ANY research on samples from suspected H5 victims or even animal samples. Even some scientists inside China were not permitted to study samples or investigate H5 research. The claim that Ebola strains are found in China explains the secrecy. All of a sudden a bright 100 wt light has been turned on for me. Patty Patricia A. Doyle, PhD Please visit my "Emerging Diseases" message board at: http://www.clickitnews.com/ubbthreads/postlist.php?Cat= & Board=emergingdiseases Zhan le Devlesa tai sastimasa Go with God and in Good Health

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Posted By: JanLTuesday, 19 July 2005, 4:14 p.m.

 

http://WWW.AfricanCrisis.Org [black Africans are amazingly superstitious. Sometimes, even something such as the birth of twins can be cause for superstition. Or, if an animal (e.g. a goat or cow) gives birth to say two babies: one which is white and one which is black. They will kill the black one. As this report says, in some parts of Africa they bash babies to death. Crazy. Witchcraft, and the superstitions around it is an extremely evil thing in Africa. The horrific crimes which stem from that will shock you to the core. Jan] Unless a baby is born head first and face upwards, many communities in northern Benin believe the child is a witch or sorcerer. And tradition demands that the infant must be killed, sometimes by dashing its brains out against a tree trunk. In the eyes of the Baatonou, Boko and Peul people, a child whose birth and early development deviates in any way from the accepted norm is cursed and must be destroyed. If the parents are compassionate, the baby is simply abandoned to die in the bush or be found and rescued by a charitable soul. "Farmers going to their fields or women on their way to the market regularly pick up abandoned babies and bring them to us," said Alexis Agbo, of the Child Reception and Protection Centre (Case), a local child-welfare group. But if the parents of an ill-born baby obey the demands of tradition, the infant is handed over to a "fixer". He ties a rope around the child's feet, walks several times round a tree and then dashes its head against the trunk. Alternatively, the fixer may drown the child or poison it to exorcise the evil that it is deemed to have brought into the world. It doesn't take much for a child to be sentenced to death in this way. It is enough for the infant to be born feet, shoulders or bottom first, or head first but facing towards the ground. If the mother dies in childbirth, if the child fails to grow its first tooth before the age of eight months, or if its first tooth appears in the upper jaw, it is equally condemned. "It is a horrible act which spills the blood of newborn babies in the name of tradition," says Boni Goura, a social anthropologist and member of the Baatonou ethnic group, who has joined several child-welfare activists in trying to abolish infanticide in northern Benin. Father Patrick Sabi Sika, a Roman Catholic priest who is also from the Baatonou ethnic group, is also in the forefront of this campaign. He has formed a child-welfare group called Hope Fights against Infanticide in Benin (Elib). This campaigns to abolish the practice of killing babies who are not born in the accepted way and helps care for those unwanted infants who are simply abandoned. Elib is today caring for about 30 children abandoned by their parents and has arranged for many more to be adopted. Father Patrick, who works among his own Baatonou people in Kouande district, 600km north of the capital, Benin, believes that part of the solution lies in providing proper medical care for women giving birth. Education and maternity care needed He points out that since the construction of a maternity clinic in the nearby village of Sekoudougou two years ago, more than 300 babies born in a way deemed to deviant by local people have been spared But child-protection groups in this desperately poor West African country of 6,5-million people acknowledge they have a long way to go. "Ritual infanticide is far from being eradicated," admits Case's Agbo. Despite the education and awareness campaigns conducted by child-welfare organisations, many rural communities in northern Benin continued to practise infanticide "with impunity", he says. Agbo and Sabi Sika also stress that even when these rejected "child sorcerers" survive, they remain stigmatised by the communities in which they live and are often blamed for bringing misfortune upon their own families. Discarded infants are a common sight in many regions of Benin, a former French colony sandwiched between Nigeria and Togo which has deep traditions of witchcraft, or juju. "The infants who survive by a miracle or by good luck are paradoxically marked and traumatised forever with a feeling of guilt," Father Patrick says. "Their social integration is difficult. They are always pursued and the threat of death hangs over them if the family experiences any misfortune," he adds. These children even face discrimination from their classmates at school, the priest says, noting that they are often taunted with jibes such as "You are a witch, you can't eat me." But not everyone is hard-hearted. Adoption for the fortunate Romain Babagbeto and his wife, from the Peul ethnic group, adopted a little "witch" girl from Elib after the birth of their third son. The couple always wanted to have a girl and came to the charity to seek one for adoption at the suggestion of a friend. They settled on one child who had been abandoned by her father at a nearby health centre after her mother died in childbirth. Babagbeto explained that the man had told the staff there that if he took his newborn daughter back home, his neighbours would kill her. "She was a Peul, one month old," Babagbeto said. "Now she is two-and-a-half years old. My other children are very happy to have a little sister." The baby they adopted was a twin. The couple later returned to try to adopt her brother too, only to learn that he had died three months after being separated from his sister, Babagbeto said. Elib is calling for the Benin government to establish laws to protect the lives of threatened children and to punish those who commit infanticide. "Without a wish to denounce any particular ethnic group, and even less heap shame upon it, I want justice and the law to apply to all children," Father Patrick says. -- Irin Source: Daily Mail & Guardian URL: http://www.mg.co.za/articlepage.aspx?area=/breaking_news/breaking_news__africa/ & articleid=245792