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Emerging Diseases

 

With the discovery of vaccines to eradicate polio, smallpox,

diptheria, and other killers, and, the discovery of potent

antibiotics, the last 50 years of the 20th Century heralded a hope for

conquering disease by the 21st Century.

In the 1980's it was obvious that we would not conquer disease when we

were challenged with the discovery of HIV and HCV.

The 1990's brought us the realization that our antibiotics would not

be a panacea. Diseases formerly controlled by antibiotics were

becoming resistant to the drugs. Diseases like TB were making a

comeback and with a vengence.

Our climate is changing rapidly, and with this change, we are seeing

emerging and re-emergiing diseases not endemic to the particular areas

of outbreak.

 

Emerging Diseases in the 21st Century/With a Vengence

How are these diseases emerging?

Fall 1999, New York area experienced just such an event. A non endemic

disease broke out in a " hot zone " in Northern Queens.

Was this altered strain a result of climate change or did it emerge

from a Lab, Plum Island, Yale, or some other lab?

Plum Island is located less then 2 miles from the Eastern shore of

Long Island, Orient Pt. It is less then 13 miles across Long Island

Sound from our Submarine base at Groton, Ct. (Pathogens deemed too

dangerous to enter via JFK, are brought via submarine and transferred

to a Govt. Ferry to Plum Island.

Plum Island is a biolevel 5 facility. In 1996 SUNY Stoney Brook had

been considering joint experiments with Plum Island, using the

biolevel 4 lab at Plum Island.

Why then do we hear in the press, that Plum Island is seeking funds to

upgrade from level 3 to a level 4 facility?

This request to " upgrade " to " bogus " level 4 came on the heels of the

West Nile like outbreak. March 1999 and also. during the summer there

were a sequence of power outages.

Some background on Plum is needed.

March 1999, Plum island installed an undersea fiberoptic cable. During

the finalization of the cable, by STV Inc. all power to Plum Island

was lost. Plum Island needs power to maintain biocontainment.

Plum Island has had a horrific safety violation record and has been

cited by the EPA as late as Spring 1999.

In March 1999, the (now previous) Director, Alfonso Torres, gave his

resignation. A new Director, Dr. LeeAnn Thomas, took over in July of 1999.

Some of the attached links prove that Plum is not a biolevel 3, but it

is a biolevel 5 faciliity, one of only a few worldwide. According to

Dr. Alfonso Torres and also Dr. Kiley of Plum Island, Plum Island is

the only biolevel 5 facility in the US.

Why would Plum Island seek the bogus level 4 upgrade after the

outbreak of the WNV? I do not have that answer.

It is theorized that Plum island needs funds just to maintain its

present biocontainment. (according to Dr. Kiley 1998 meeting USAHA

Committee on Government Relations.)

Plum Island had been working with Japanese Encephalitis since the

early 1990's. Plum Island/Yale Scientists had even tested JE vaccine

on HUMAN VOLUNTEERS.

Background: 1978 bioaccident. FMD microbes escaped. Workers were

evacuated in paper coveralls, lab animals were incinerated and the

island was sprayed with toxic chemicals. I have corresponded with a

person who lived near Plum Island at that time, and claims to have

contracted Foot and Mouth Disease, as was the case with other children

at that time.

Was this same toxic spraying done March 1999 and other times when the

power was out?

http://www.nalusda.gov/ttic/tektran/data/000009/05/0000090536.html

Yes, Plum Island has been working with JE as the above link proves.

Why would an animal facility test JE vaccine on HUMAN VOLUNTEERS?

There has been a loss of the lobster population in Long Island Sound,

Fall 1999.

Did installation of the STV Inc. Cable cause the hazardous waste that

Plum Island was cited for illegally dumping in 1998 to be drudged up?

Did this or toxic chemical spraying of the island cause the algal

bloom to become toxic and thereby cause the killoff?

Why did the Mayor of the City of New York, OVER REACT, and spray

deadly Malathion when he learned of 3 deaths of elderly people. He did

not follow legal steps to obtain a permit for the spraying.

History of Plum Island:

In 1954 Ft. Terry, a biowar research facility closed its doors on that

scruffy island. It handed over to the new lab, 134 strains of 13

viruses collected from every Continent of the World.

At that time, the prime directive of Plum Island, was to find an

efficient manner to infect Soviet Livestock.

In 1969, President Nixon OFFICIALLY ended the biowar research program.

Plum Island, officially, became an Animal Foreign Disease diagnostic

facility.

The advent of the 21st Century has the world in fear of bioterrorism.

Bioweapons are cheaply fabricated, easy to carry and undetectable.

Countries unable to fund expensive defense programs are able to put

together an arsenol of bioweapons.

Individual terrorists are able to strike fear into the hearts and

souls of Nations at just the mention of a bioweapon threat.

In 1993, after a 10 year hiatus, Dugway Proving Ground began

bioresearch. In 1983, after a bioaccident which resulted in the

anthrax death of sheep in neighboring pastures, Dugway had ended its

biowar research. Now, 10 years later, in the name of biowar DEFENSE,

Dugway opened for business without any opposition.

Dugway is testing BIDS (BioIntegrated Defense System). At first the

tests were conducted in liquid with " designer " simulants anthrax,

bottulism, plague and smallpox etal. Now, testing of the defensive

weapon is aerosol.

The pathogens are (synthetic, a type of " designer " pathogen) deemed no

more harmful then bacteria found in dirt.

Only time will tell, I guess.

Now, for a PLUM ISLAND UPDATE I now know why Plum Island is a biolevel

5 facility. In 1970, just one year after President Nixon officially

ended our offensive biowar research, Plum Island was granted 10

million dollars by the Federal Govt. The purpose of the grant was to

research the use of mycoplasma for use in germ warfare.

The original 10 million dollar grant was for a 5 year period. In 1975,

the funding was continued as the mycoplasma research was deemed very

successful.

In the 1980's a young scientist had just completed his graduate

research at Cornell. He was hired by Plum Island to head up the

mycoplasma research project.

This scientist was Dr. Jawad Al Aubaidi. When it was obvious that

hostilities would break out in the Persian Gulf, he went back home to

his native Iraq, where he headed up the mycoplasma research at the

Univ. of Bagdad.

I have recently received a letter from Dr. Aubaidi's professor at

Cornell, Dr. Carmichael. Dr. Carmichael pointed out that Dr. Aubaidi

was a brilliant youn researcher and a very nice person. He also sent

me a medline reference sheet for me to look up Dr. Aubaidi's research

prior to and while at Cornell.

I am still trying to figure out how Dr. Carmichael was able to locate

my mailing address.

I had applied to the National Archives, under FOIA, for information on

Ft. Terry, Plum Island, and information about Dr. Aubaidi and the

circumstances of his untimely death.

I received a letter from the NSA dated June 5, 2000 regarding my FOIA

request. They informed me that the circumstances of the death of Dr.

Jawad Al-Aubaidi, and information on his research is classified in

accordance with Executive Order 12958. My request for information was

therefore denied. They further went on to state that such information

would involve breaching National Security and Foreign Relations.

According to Prof. Garth Nicolson, Dr. Aubaidi was murdered by the

Israelis. Yet, according to Dr. Carmichael, Dr. Aubaidi was hit by a

truck when fixing a flat tire. Dr. Carmichael said that according to

Dr. Aubaidi's wife, the flat tire and subsequent " Accident " was

arranged by agents of Sadom. Were the Iraqis responsible for his death?

According to Cornell Univ. Dr. L. E. Carmichael, Dr. Aubaidi and his

family were planning to move back to the US. At the time of Dr.

Aubaidi's death, Dr. Carmichael states that Dr. Aubaidi's planned move

back to the US was to take place a week after Dr. Aubaidi's accident.

According to Dr. Carmichael Dr. Aubaidi deserves better. I therefore,

am very interested in finding out exactly why Dr. Jawad Al Aubaidi was

murdered in such a manner.

 

I could never understand how the US and the Pentegon could insist that

biological agents were not used in the Persian Gulf. There was NO

MONITORING FOR BIOLOGICALS in place during the Gulf War. There was

only LIMITED Chemical weapon monitoring.

The BIDS moniitoring technology was not in place at that time. It only

commenced in 1993.

According to accurate and verified accounts, Sodom Hussein purchased

mycoplasma as well as other biologicals, which included West Nile

Virus, from the US right up to 2 weeks before Desert Storm.

I have further discovered that Plum Island had projects in which

" clean " ticks were infected with brucella. They also had a project

infecting ticks with African Swine Fever.

Plum Island Scientists, Dr. Fred Brown and former Plum Island, Alfonso Torres have been working with BSE and other Prion

diseases.

It is my contention that the disease we now call Lyme Disease,

originated in a lab at Plum Island. The funding for research would be

covered in the Mycoplasma grant.

The very first case of Lyme Disease was isolated in a youth, in 1975,

within a few miles of the dock where the Plum Island Government Ferry

boat lands on the Connecticut side of Long Island Sound.

I have heard that a young Connecticut girl who had received yet, not

responded to all known treatments for Lyme Disease, and who was dying,

was sent to the inhouse isolation ward at Plum Island and " emerged "

from that Animal Facility, totally CURED OF LYME DISEASE.

When I first began the investigation into Plum Island and its

connection to the New York outbreak of Kunjin/West Nilelike, I never

imagined that Plum island would be so immersed in biowar projects.

In any event, I now know why it was designated a biolevel 5 facility.

At the time, 1970, it was illegal to work with mycoplasma in the

Continental US. As Plum island was and is a top secret biowar

facility, and it is an island, it was designated biolevel 5 and given

the funding to proceed with mycoplasma research.

So, indeed, Plum Island is a biolevel 5 facility.

 

August 30,2001 Plum Island Update

 

The Plum Island upgrade to biolevel 4 has not occurred as of the

writing. There is now a citizen watchdog group overseeing the upgrade

and the activities at Plum Island. It was my hope that the committee

would monitor Plum Island and there would be safeguards in place.

I have recently learned that Plum Island IS doing research on Nipah

virus. Nipah virus, in the paramyxovirus group along with Hendra virus

is a biolevel 4 pathogen. In other words, labs working with this virus

mandate a biolevel 4 designation. This designation is required because

Nipah is zoonotic, jumping species barrier from animal to man, and,

has no cure or preventive vaccine. So, why is a lab who claims to be

only a biolevel 3 and not a level 5, working on a biolevel 4 pathogen?

Is the fact that they are an island status and a biolevel 5 a factor

in their working on Nipah? How many other biolevel 4 pathogens are

being studied at Plum Island. Remember, Plum Island is less then 2

miles from Long Island's coast. Birds and probably bats fly to and

from the island. Nipah is a virus that is vectored by bats. It joins

Hendra, another paramyxovirus and Tioman, also paramyxovirus, as a bat

vectored virus.

Although it is in the paramyxovirus family, Nipah and Hendra, and

Tioman are in a separte group.

I wrote to Dr. Daniel Rock who heads the Nipah research unit and, as

of this writing, have not had a response to my mail.

I am wondering where the watch dog group is and why are they not

monitoring the Nipah research. I hope that we can get a response from

Plum Island regarding their Nipah research in a biolevel 3 lab.

According to APHIS/ARS, Plum Island needs funds to upgrade the

facility JUST TO MAINTAIN ITS BIOLEVEL 3 DESIGNATION. This is the same

facility that is working on a biolevel 4 pathogen?

 

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