Mystery Disease

[Guest guest]

(If you didn't read about the flu outbreak in the Ukraine

during the 2009 hyped pandemic, you should check it out. It attacked

healthy immune systems and caused them to attack their own body.

Created in US labs. E)

 

 

 

 

 

 

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JamesG

 

Tuesday, May 11, 2010 11:23 AM

[ECETI News] Mystery Disease

 

 

 

 

Mystery Disease Linked to Missing Israeli Scientist

 

Friday 07 May 2010

 

by: H.P. Albarelli Jr., t r u t h o u t | Report

 

(Photo: chickeninthewoods; Edited: Lance Page / t r u t h o u t)

 

Media outlets across the Northwest United States began reporting on

April 24 that a strange, previously unknown strain of virulent airborne

fungi that has already killed at least six people in Oregon, Washington

and Idaho is spreading throughout the region. The fungus, according to

expert microbiologists, who have expressed alarm about the emergence of

the strain, is a new genotype of Cryptococcus gatti fungi. Cryptococcus

gatti is normally found in tropical and subtropical locations in India,

South America, Africa and Australia. Microbiologists in the United

States are reporting that the strain found here, for reasons not yet

fully understood, is far deadlier than any found overseas.

 

Physicians in the Pacific Northwest are reporting that an undetermined

number of people in the region are ill from the effects of the strange

strain. Physicians also say that the virulent strain can infect

domestic animals as well as humans, and symptoms do not appear until

anywhere from two to four months after exposure. Symptoms in humans

include a lingering cough, sharp chest pains, fever, night-sweats,

weight-loss, headaches and shortness of breath. The strain can be

treated successfully, if detected early enough, with oral doses of

antifungal medication, but it cannot be prevented, and there is no

preventative vaccine. Undiagnosed, the fungus works its way into the

spinal fluid and central nervous system and causes fatal meningitis.

 

The estimated mortality rate is about 25 percent of 21 cases analyzed.

Several newspapers and media outlets in the US and overseas quote a

researcher at Duke University's Department of Molecular Genetics and

Microbiology, Edmond Byrnes, as stating: "This novel fungus is

worrisome because it appears to be a threat to otherwise healthy

people. Typically, we see this fungal disease associated with

transplant recipients and HIV-infected patients, but that is not what

we are seeing."

 

Microbiologists and epidemiologists studying the strain say the mystery

fungus came from an earlier fatal fungus that was first found on

British Columbia's Vancouver Island in the fall of 2001, and perhaps as

early as 1999. There the fungus infected and killed dogs, cats, horses,

sheep, porpoises and at least 26 people. The disease spreads through

spores carried by breezes and wind and when people and animals

encounter infected ground where the fungus is present. A number of

microbiologists say that the disease has "the potential to essentially

travel anywhere the wind or people can carry it." Reads an alarming

study authored in part by Duke University's Edmond Byrnes: "The

continued expansion of C. gatti in the United States is ongoing, and

the diversity of hosts increasing."

 

Several researchers in California also note that the Cryptococcus gatti

fungus has been researched for decades, extending back to the 1950's,

at the US Army's biological warfare center, Fort Detrick, in Frederick,

Maryland. One microbiologist at the University of California at Los

Angeles recounted that the fungus was first brought to the attention of

Fort Detrick researchers by British scientists experimenting with the

bark of eucalyptus trees from Australia. Army biological warfare

reports obtained through the Freedom of Information Act reveal that

beginning around 1952 the Army mounted a huge research program

involving numerous plant and fungi products, and that well over 300

long-term contracts and sub-contracts were let with over 35 US colleges

and universities to carry out this multifaceted research. Examples of

this early research in California included experiments and projects at

Camp Cooke; Port Huemene; Harpers Lake; Oceanside, and extensive

experimentation with wheat stem rust and "various spores" including

"several from tropical locations" and cereal rust spores and dyed

Lycopodium spores. Several Army reports reveal that private-sector

corporations that participated or assisted in these projects were the

American Institute of Crop Ecology; the American Type Culture

Collection Inc.; University of California; Bioferm Inc. and the

Kulijian Corporation.

 

The same microbiologist, who declined to speak on the record and who

recounted extensive fungus work at Fort Detrick, also stated that

researchers at Israel's Institute for Biological Research, located in

Ness-Ziona about 20 km from Tel Aviv, have worked with the Cryptococcus

gatti fungus. They also report that mysterious Israeli-American

scientist Joseph Moshe, 56 years old, may have conducted covert studies

with the fungus while he was recently living in California. This report

concerning Moshe is especially interesting because Moshe was briefly in

the international spotlight in 2009 when he was the subject of a

spectacular chase and arrest by the LA police department and SWAT team,

assisted by the FBI, Secret Service, CIA, US Army and several other

unidentified federal officials. That highly unusual arrest has never

been fully explained to the media, and the whereabouts of Moshe has

remained unknown since its occurrence. Compounding the mystery

surrounding the Moshe case is that there is another scientist named

Moshe Bar-Joseph who works in Israel and who looks remarkably like

Joseph Moshe, except that he is about 20 years older.

 

Why Moshe was pursued and apprehended by the police is a largely

unanswered question. According to the Los Angeles media, which recorded

the entire incident by helicopter and ground cameras, Moshe claimed to

be "a former Mossad microbiologist" who had telephoned a police

dispatch number before his pursuit and had made "threatening statements

about the White House and the president." Reportedly, Secret Service

spokesman Ed Donovan confirmed this when he spoke with several Los

Angeles reporters.

 

On August 14, 2009, several Los Angeles police cruisers and an unmarked

armored vehicle pursued Joseph Moshe as he drove his red VW automobile

several miles through downtown Los Angeles before his car's engine was

reportedly knocked out by an electromagnetic pulse. Moshe refused to

exit his car when ordered several times by the police, and after the

driver's window of his VW was smashed out by a robotic arm and several

rounds of tear gas and pepper gas were fired into the vehicle, he still

remained behind the wheel, refusing to move. At the time, police

officers on the scene were stunned that Moshe was able to withstand

three tear gas shells and hosing with pepper spray without moving.

Later that day, a Los Angeles law enforcement official said: "I can't

explain that; there's no way to explain that."

 

After his apprehension, Moshe was taken to the Patton State Mental

Hospital and then to the Twin Towers Correctional Facility in Los

Angeles. Sometime about 60 days later, Moshe was quietly released and

his current whereabouts are unknown. Since his arrest became public,

reports about Moshe's activities in the US have spread like wildfire,

especially across the Internet. Many of these reports are unconfirmed,

but a few come from credible sources and have linked Moshe to the

grossly underreported outbreak of flu in the Ukraine.

 

Other reliable sources, including two former Fort Detrick biochemists,

have also linked Moshe to a mysterious disease that is becoming

alarmingly common in Vermont and other states, including California.

The disease is known to have killed or incapacitated at least 10 to 20

rural dwellers and farmers. This disease is said to be Morgellons

disease or "a rare, mutated form of Morgellons disease." Former Fort

Detrick scientists, speaking off the record, say that the disease is

one that was "experimented with intensely" in the late 1960's at

several "test sites in New England." Morgellons causes patients to

suffer horrible skin problems as well as fatigue, confusion and serious

memory problems, as well as joint pain and the strange sensation that

pins and needles are piercing the body or that something is crawling

beneath one's flesh. Some researchers and physicians believe that

Morgellons is actually a psychiatric condition called "delusional

parasitosis." Other physicians, who are familiar with treating the

disease, say it may be caused by "an airborne, unidentified spore" and

that it was developed in the laboratory from an affliction that was

first identified in the 1700's. Regardless of its origin, some

researchers say that Morgellons is becoming "a very real medical

problem in some parts of the country."

 

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Kyle

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