REVELATION

THE EIGHTH GATE AND THE BOWLS OF PLAGUE

compiled by Dee Finney

updated 10-4-2005

 AVIAN FLU

Lion-headed figure standing on cosmic sphere and holding key in right hand

This morning I woke up and had a series of visions which were so unusual, because they were flashing with energy and made themselves known exactly what they meant.  I didn't have to guess at their meaning - even that was given to me.

3-15-03 - VISION - I saw 6 flashing stars with outgoing energy around them.  

3-15-03 - VISION - I saw 6 mice-like creatures  of varying sizes with outgoing energy around them.

3-15-03 - VISION - I saw 6 men facing left and dancing. I was told that "humanity's dance has begun."

3-15-03 - VISION - I saw a dark blue starry sky with numerous vermin and above them were many light blue symbols flashing behind them like a language. The symbols were not familiar to me, and it seems from afterthought that they were extraterrestrial and might represent crop circles and their messages.

3-15-03 - VISION - I saw a chartreuse background with 6 white mice all facing left.

3-15-03 - VISION - I saw a light bluish background with 6 white mice all facing left.

I knew when the visions were over because a flash of lightning occurred and a tremendous crash of thunder, followed by a tremendous pouring of rain. Strangely enough, an hour later, the whole sky was blue and the sun was shining.

8-27-04 - DREAM VISION - I had this same dream/vision at least  12 times during the night. In the scene, a man was holding up a newspaper with a headline that said: 16,000 to 180,000 DEATHS!

The scenes were in various shades of grey until they became almost black.

It wasn't until Joe told me in the morning that it was an awfully large number spread that I realized this anomaly. I also didn't see what the subject matter was - but the newspaper headlines in the morning told the story: See below: 

The Black Death began in Asia and soon spread to Europe where it killed well over 25 million people (about one third of Europe's total population) in less than four years. Some historians put the casualty figure closer to 35 to 40 million people, or about half of all Europeans............

Two types of plague are believed to have caused the Black Death. The first is the "bubonic" type, which was the most common. The bubonic form of plague is characterized by swellings of the lymph nodes: the swellings are called "buboes," The buboes are accompanied by vomiting, fever and death............ This form of plague is not contagious between human beings; it requires an active carrier, such as a flea. For this reason, many historians believe that flea-infested rodents caused the Bubonic Plague...........

The second form of plague contributing to the Black Death is a highly contagious type known as "pneumonic" plague. It is marked by shivering, rapid breathing and the coughing up of blood............... This second type of plague is nearly always fatal and transmits best in cold weather and in poor ventilation. Some physicians today believe it was this second form, the "pneumonic" plague, which was responsible for most of the casualties of the Black Death because of the crowding and poor hygienic conditions then prevalent in Europe.

We would normally shake our heads at this tragic period of human history and be thankful that modern medicine has developed cures for these dread diseases. However, troubling enigmas about the Black Death still linger. Many outbreaks occurred in summer during warm weather in uncrowded regions. Not all outbreaks of bubonic plague were preceded by rodent infestation; in fact, only a minority of cases seemed to be related to an increase in the presence of vermin. The greatest puzzle about the Black Death is how it was able to strike isolated human populations which had no contact with earlier infected areas. The epidemics also tended to end abruptly...........

A great many people throughout Europe and other Plague stricken regions of the world were reporting that outbreaks of the Plague were caused by foul-smelling "mists". Those mists frequently appeared after unusually bright lights in the sky. The historian quickly discovers that "mists" were reported far more frequently and in many more locations than were rodent infestations.

What, then, were the mysterious mists? There is another very important way in which plague germs can be transmitted; through germ weapons. The US and the Soviet Union today have stockpiles of biological weapons containing bubonic plague and other epidemic diseases. The germs are kept alive in canisters which spray the diseases into the air on thick, often visible, artificial mists. Anyone breathing in the mist will inhale the disease. There are enough such germ weapons today to wipe out a good portion of humanity. Reports of identical disease-inducing mists from the Plague years strongly suggest that the Black Death was caused by germ warfare. Let us take a look at the incredible reports which lead to that conclusion.

The first outbreak of the Plague in Europe followed an unusual series of events. Between 1298 and 1314, seven large "comets" were seem over Europe; one was of "awe-inspiring blackness." .................. To the people of Europe, these sightings were considered omens of the Plague which soon followed.

It is true that some reported "comets" were probably just that; comets.......... On the other hand it is important to note that almost any unusual object in the sky was called a "comet." .............

ED NOTE:  Three comets have just passed earth in the last month. (Jan/Feb. 2003)

The link between unusual aerial phenomena and the Black Death was established immediately during the first outbreaks of the Plague in Asia. As one historian tells us: The first reports (of the plague) came out of the East. They were confused, exaggerated, frightening, as reports from that quarter of the world so often are; descriptions of storms and earthquakes; of meteors and comets trailing noxious gases that killed trees and destroyed the fertility of the land.

The above passage indicates that strange flying objects were doing more than just spreading disease; they were also apparently spraying chemical or biological defoliants from the air. The above passage echoes the ancient Mesopotamian tablets which described defoliation of the landscape by ancient Custodial "gods.".........

The connection between aerial phenomena and plague had begun centuries before the Black Death. We saw examples in our earlier discussion of Justinians's plague. We read from another source about a large plague that had reportedly broken out in the year 1117 -- almost 250 years before the Black Death. That plague was also preceded by unusual celestial phenomena........

FROM: http://www.theforbiddenknowledge.com/chemtrails/

ALSO SEE:  http://www.greatdreams.com/chems.htm

Vials of Plague Possibly Missing in Texas

Aired January 15, 2003 - 13:43   ET

THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.

KYRA PHILLIPS, CNN ANCHOR: We're also waiting for a news conference out of Lubbock, Texas. City officials there, we are told, will address reporters. We will bring us as much information as possible. What they can tell us, we'll bring that to you live as soon as it happens.
Meanwhile, Chris Kozlow, a chemical-bio expert out of Washington, D.C. joins us now on the phone -- Chris, does this concern you?

CHRIS KOZLOW, INNOVATIVE EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT: Sure it does, and I think it concerns a lot of people in this industry. Bubonic plague missing, the accountability of it, and what can be done with it. This isn't like it's a very large device. Someone can carry this, and we don't know what form it was in, but if the person or persons got a hold of this, a terrorist, and they were weaponizing it, now is the time to do it. Signs and symptoms that are covered are cold and flu, and we're in the height of the cold and flu season right now, so we're really ramping up the medical response, getting them ready. That's what would be going on right now, people will be looking at, because it is sort of the silent unknown. You have to look for a big needle in a -- or a little needle in a very large haystack.

PHILLIPS: All right. A couple questions for you. Thirty to 35 vials, let's say it's bubonic plague, all right? And they are saying 30 to 35 vials are missing. How much of an impact could that make? I mean, put it into perspective for us.

KOZLOW: Well, let's go back to 1995 when a white supremacist by the name of Larry Wayne Harris ordered three vials of Yersinia pestis, bubonic plague, from a lab facility. He had enough there, and had the capability to cause some serious danger.

You have to remember, a contagious disease, you need enough to get some people sick, then the bug will take over, and if it's done correctly, it will just keep going and going and going. It's sort of along the lines of that smallpox, very contagious -- it's not like smallpox, but it is very contagious. All you have to be, within 12 inches. Someone coughs on you. I mean, think about it. How many people wash their hands every five minutes of the day? If someone coughs on a telephone, and then I pick up that telephone and I'm already sick a little bit now, I could start to get sick, therefore I become a carrier. It goes off and it's spread throughout the system. So got to catch it, if it's released. We got to find these vials is what we have to do.

PHILLIPS: So, how would you weaponize it? Is it the type of thing where you just go from place to place and dump a little bit in certain areas? I mean, a big public area?

KOZLOW: Well, there's some different ways that you can do it. There's the aerosolization. Very small, you wouldn't even see it. We are talking one to five microns, similar to the anthrax. No one even saw the anthrax letters coming. You could do it as an independent hit. Let's say you wanted to, similar to what the KGB used to do with ricin. They'd find their mark and they would attack them with a small vial of ricin, tag them, and boom, they die. It depends on the ingenuity, or the, I guess the word would be resourcefulness of whoever has this. Let's hope it's just a misplacement, but we have to assume the worst.

PHILLIPS: And you say it depends on what form it was in. What do you mean by that? Is a certain form more dangerous than another?

KOZLOW: Well, more than likely, the vials are very small. They are -- if I was to describe them, probably about -- it depends on what it is, it is probably about an inch. At least that's the kind that was had from -- in past by Wayne Harris.

It's freeze dried, so once it starts to thaw out, the efficacy of it, some of it will die. Some of the agent will die, because it's frozen right now, if it is. If it's not, then -- so that's what I'm talking about in the form. This is in a form right now, somebody probably used this for research. You have to remember all these things are used for research to try and develop new vaccines or what caused black death or other products, so it just depends and I think we'll learn a lot from the news conference as well.

PHILLIPS: You're talking about making a point of why Texas Tech would even have this in its medical lab. Years ago, I worked there, I have lived in Lubbock, Texas, and I remember it was quite a medical hub for West Texas. I mean, we're not talking about some little teeny lab at a university that's no big deal. I mean, a lot of medical research comes out of this university and -- I mean, I'm sure -- have they made major breakthroughs with this bubonic plague? What do you know about what Texas Tech has been able to accomplish with this?

PHILLIPS: Well, you bring up a great point. These medical research facilities that are out there -- I mean, there are hundreds of them all over the country, if not the world. I'm sure that the FBI is going to be looking at exactly what -- this is what we're very concerned about in the anti-terrorism field. Why do you have it? Why do you need it? What are your security precautions? This has been the nightmare scenario for most of us. If I can break to a lab and get something that's unguarded.

Take a microbiology student who's doing a thesis or a research paper or is trying to develop something and they get their hands on this stuff, they know exactly where to go. So I think it would be too early for me to say right now why they actually would have this, not second guessing, but you bring up a good point. These research facilities -- Johns Hopkins, CDC, clearly has Ebola, they clearly have smallpox. We keep those reserves to do research. You know, we don't eradicate everything. So one of the things that we'll be looking at is why actually they have it, and what they were doing with it, what were the controls? Who worked on it, and issues like that.

PHILLIPS: That's a good point, who worked on it. OK. Chris Kozlow, chemical-bio expert, thank you so much. We're going to ask you to stay with us, please, as we continue to work this story.

Also with us, Dr. Sanjay Gupta, also Elizabeth Cohen, our medical correspondents here at CNN.

Sanjay, let's start with you. A number of points you've brought up with me here. Why don't you just take it away and start talking about this bacteria and the bubonic plague, and add to what Elizabeth has been telling us.

DR. SANJAY GUPTA, CNN MEDICAL CORRESPONDENT: That is right. Well, we know a lot about Yersinia pestis. That is actually the bacteria that causes plague, and that is sort of a generic term. When we talk about bubonic plague, when we talk about pneumonic plague, we're actually talking about the disease that actually causes the infection. So bubonic plague is something that actually occurs two to six days or so after someone's actually been infected with this bacteria, this bacteria that is the presumably stolen or missing bacteria.

Seven to ten days later is when we start talking about pneumonic plague. That's the more dangerous kind. That's the kind that people can possibly spread from person to person. That's the kind that's in your lungs. When you cough, you can actually cough up some of this bacteria and spread it to someone else, and that's what makes this concerning.

That's why the World Health Organization is actually concerned about this as a possible weapon of bioterrorism. But that's all we sort of know about that. It is pretty rare in this country, ten to 20 cases a year or so, a few thousand around the world.

Certainly research institutions both in the United States and around the world do do research on Yersinia pestis. Again, that is the bacteria that causes plague so they can develop more appropriate and more effective antibiotics and treatments for it, and that's a pretty good reason as to why some research institutions would have this sort of bacteria sitting around. There is good treatment for it. There is an antibiotic if someone is actually suspected to have this. It is such an unusual diagnosis that doctors may not suspect this. But if they are, there are some treatments available.

PHILLIPS: Why is it called bubonic?

GUPTA: Bubonic plague is -- it comes from a very good reason. When someone actually develops this infection, they get swollen lymph nodes, and these swollen lymph nodes typically are in the groin, and those lymph nodes can be very painful, very hard, very swollen. They're actually called bubos. And from that term "bubos," you get the term "bubonic" plague, and that is essentially where that term comes from. Again, that's different from pneumonic plague, which is sort of a later consequence of this infection. When someone gets pneumonic plague, they can start to actually possibly spread it from person to person.


PHILLIPS: How many cases have we seen of someone being infected with bubonic plague say, in the -- I don't know -- year, couple of years?

GUPTA: The average is about 10 to 20 cases per year in the United States. It's a few thousand around the world. Certainly in developing countries, it tends to be more prominent. Sort of the southwestern part of the United States, where a lot of these rodents -- the most likely way that it's spread is rodents actually biting human beings. We heard about a case like this, I think, this year, Elizabeth, I think you and I talked about it, where someone actually got bit by rodents and actually got the plague, the bubonic plague that way. But again, a very rare thing, 10 to 20 cases a year, maybe, on average -- Kyra.

PHILLIPS: All right. And we'll bring in our Elizabeth Cohen, right there by your side, our other medical correspondent here at CNN. Elizabeth, what more would you like to add as we're waiting for this news conference out of Lubbock, Texas with city officials. What more can we add to the discussion in addition to what Sanjay has said?

ELIZABETH COHEN, CNN MEDICAL CORRESPONDENT: You know, what I think I'd like to add here is that I think sometimes that people have the impression that horrible things like, for example, the bacteria that causes the plague must be under lock and key, under very tight security.

And you know what, that is not really true. There are many, many labs, as Sanjay said, across the country that have this because research needs to be done. And all sorts of different kinds of bacteria and virus, and they're shared among researchers.

They will sometimes mail them to one another. They are shared with researchers outside the United States. In fact, at one point they were even shared with researchers in Iraq until the government said, No, you can't mail them to people in Iraq or North Korea, and then a list of other countries. So these things sort of travel between researchers more than you might think.

In fact, in 1995, an Ohio microbiologist with some suspect motives was arrested after he acquired some by mail. So these things do -- researchers do have them in their labs. They -- the labs that I have been in that have horrible bugs like this, they don't have armed guards at the doors. It's because most researchers, of course, the vast majority, are trustworthy and they need to work with these bacteria. They need to come up with better treatments, they need to come up with better ways to diagnose these diseases, and that's why you see these kinds of very dangerous bacteria and viruses in labs.

PHILLIPS: All right, Elizabeth Cohen and Sanjay Gupta. We're going to ask you both to just kind of stand by with us here as we continue to work the story.

If you are just tuning in, breaking news here at the CNN Center out of Lubbock, Texas. The report is that possibly 30 to 35 vials of the deadly bubonic plague are now missing from Texas Tech University Health Science Center. We have not been able to confirm if, indeed, it is bubonic plague, but it is 30 to 35 vials of some type of plague.

We have been told from various sources it's possibly bubonic plague that was reported missing yesterday. The FBI was notified. The investigation is underway now. We're trying to bring you as much information on this story in addition to the effects of bubonic plague as we can.

Our Kelli Arena, Justice correspondent, now joining us with more on the investigation that's taking place. What exactly, Kelli, is the FBI doing right now? How does an investigation like this go down?

KELLI ARENA, CNN JUSTICE CORRESPONDENT: Well, Kyra, obviously the call came in last night from the university, and so what the FBI is trying to determine is exactly, A, what happened to the vials. They're missing. There's no evidence that they were stolen. There's no evidence of foul play at this point.

So they start from square one and move forward and try to discern what happened to them? What is in the vials, and where they may be, obvious sequence of events.

What we need to underscore here is that A, as I just said, there's no indication that they were stolen or any evidence of foul play. So the officials are still trying to determine exactly what happened to the vials. And this could turn out to be something more innocent than it first appears.

The second thing is that officials both at the Justice Department and at the FBI have said that as far as they're concerned and the information that they have, these vials cannot be used in any weapon form. This cannot be used to contaminate a large population of people. The third thing that officials have underscored is that they are not sure whether or not the plague is actually in the vials. They believe that there may be bubonic plague in the vials, and we did hear from a Texas councilman, a Lubbock councilman saying that yes, he did believe that there was bubonic plague in the vials, but not all of those vials are to believed to have contained the plague itself. So just to sort of put things in perspective here.

The White House has been briefed on this matter. As a matter of fact, we just heard from White House spokesman Ari Fleischer just moments ago. Let's listen to what he had to say.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

ARI FLEISCHER, WHITE HOUSE PRESS SECRETARY: I am aware of the report, and this is a matter that the FBI and the CDC have been in touch with Texas Tech about, and anything further will come from them. That's the extent of everything I have on this now.

QUESTION: They're saying that the White House has been briefed on this.

FLEISCHER: That's correct. QUESTION: That briefing was...

FLEISCHER: This is information that is just coming in to the White House, and has been for just a short period of time, as well as to the FBI. I'm not in a position to give you any additional information at this time about it, and it is something that is being talked to with the FBI and the CDC to ascertain what all the facts are.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

ARENA: FBI agents are working very closely with state and local partners in Texas. As you know, Kyra, the level of cooperation has greatly increased since the September 11 attacks, and so those contacts have long been established, and the working relationship much more seamless than it's ever been before, so all -- all partners in law enforcement are working together to try to figure out, A, what happened to the vials, B, where they may be, and C, what danger, if any, they pose -- back to you.


PHILLIPS: All right, Kelli. I was talking with this chemical- bio expert just a few minutes ago, and now I'm hearing what you're saying from authorities. So it's not possible, then, to weaponize what allegedly has been taken from this lab? Is that what you were saying?

ARENA: Well, that's what officials have said to me, that after conferring with officials from the CDC, that they have determined that it would not be able to use this as a weapon, that it would not be -- they would not be capable of contaminating a large number of people by using the cultures that would exist in these vials. That is, at least, the information that law enforcement officials got from health officials on this matter.

I have to say, Kyra, that while we were told that the FBI was aggressively pursuing this matter, there was not a heightened sense of concern. This was -- I have spoken to these officials, as you know, every single day, and there is a level of urgency and there's a level of concern that has been expressed about other matters. This is not one of them.

This is -- they are -- they say that obviously, this is serious. They are doing what they can to pursue the matter, that they're working with their state and local partners, but there's not this -- this -- you know, upgraded level of anxiety and concern about the matter, and I think that maybe that may provide a little comfort to those that are watching and wondering if they or relatives they may have in Texas are in any danger.

PHILLIPS: So Kelli, should we not use the phrase bioterrorism then? Is there not a threat, an imminent threat here, of bioterrorism?

ARENA: Kyra, I can only tell you that officials have suggested to me that there is not, that they do not believe that that -- what is in those vials can be used as a weapon. That's what I have been told by officials.

Now, if someone else comes out from a health department and says, from the CDC and says, Well, officials were wrong, I'm waiting to hear that. But the information that I have up to this point -- and I have not spoken to the CDC, I have spoken, obviously, to the law enforcement, Justice side of this equation, and they have been told, they tell me, by health officials, that it cannot be used as a weapon.

PHILLIPS: All right. We just don't want to make a big deal out of something if there is no need to, of course.

ARENA: I'm along with you, Kyra. Absolutely.


PHILLIPS: OK. Kelli Arena, thank you very much.

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2-16-05

NEW STRANGE DISEASE - MORGELLEN'S DISEASE -  ONLY PEOPLE WITH STRONG STOMACHS SHOULD LOOK AT THE PHOTOS OF THIS HORROR!


WHO urges isolation of suspected Marburg cases
www.chinaview.cn 2005-04-13 08:58:39

    BEIJING, April 13 -- The U.N. health agency says suspected cases of the Ebola-like Marburg virus in Angola must be detected and isolated sooner if the disease is to be brought under control.

    World Health Organization spokeswoman Fadela Chaib said the rare Marburg v irus has already killed 194 people among the 214 infected and it is a disease as serious as Ebola.

    Like Ebola, which also has hit Africa, Marburg is a hemorrhagic fever. It spreads through contact with bodily fluids and can kill rapidly. There is no vaccine.

    Angola's northern Uige province remains at the center of the outbreak, accounting for more than 90 percent of the cases and deaths.

    (Source: CRIENGLISH.com)


Killer virus red alert as more die
April 11, 2005

By Own Correspondents and Sapa-AFP

Pretoria/Uige: South Africa has begun implementing precautions against the deadly Marburg haemorrhagic fever, which has claimed the lives of 193 of the 218 people infected in Angola in the worst outbreak of the disease yet.

South Africa's precautions follow a World Health Organisation (WHO) warning to countries neighbouring Angola that they should go on the alert.

The WHO said late last night that 360 people were being monitored in Angola, where the disease broke out in October.

A severe haemorrhagic fever akin to Ebola, the Marburg virus is spread through contact with body fluids, such as blood, urine, excrement, vomit and saliva.

It can, however, be contained by taking fairly simple health precautions, experts say.

Detailed life histories are being taken down and vigilance has been increased at all points of entry into South Africa. These measures are South Africa's first line of defence.

"There is concern about an outbreak in South Africa as there is a lot of travel between Angola and South Africa," said Lucille Blumberg, of the National Institute for Communicable Diseases.

Health officials say, however, that it would be too time-consuming and expensive to test everyone entering South Africa for the disease.

"We can't take blood from everyone," said Bonnie Maloba, a doctor.

"What we need to do is exclude people and the best way to do this is to take a detailed history."

Top South African pathogen expert Adriano Duse has been asked to join the international team trying to contain and overcome the deadly virus.

Duse, the National Health Laboratory Service's (NHLS) chief specialist, has been contracted by WHO and the Global Alert and Response Network to join the multinational team working in Angola's Uige province - the epicentre of the outbreak.

Through the NHLS, South Africa's expertise has contributed to research and combating infectious diseases, including previous, smaller outbreaks of Marburg fever.

Duse said he had been selected for his expertise in infectious diseases and infection control.

"I will be joining an international team in Luanda and then we are in the hands of the WHO and UN to take us to where we are needed," he said.

The WHO has warned the Congo, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Namibia and Zambia - all bordering Angola - to be on alert for outbreaks of the virus.

Epidemiologists in Uige are working overtime to trace new cases of the virus, which has sparked panic in Angola.

Every morning, teams from the WHO search the town of Uige for new cases.

"We visit our contacts and look for suspected cases," Francois Libama, a WHO epidemiologist, said.

"If we find a suspected case, we call in the special teams to remove the body."

At the WHO's temporary headquarters in the town, a blackboard gives a grim account of the latest death toll.

"Two corpses in Candombe Velho. Two corpses in Candombe-Novo. One alert in the Popular Quarter. One corpse at the cemetery," it reads.
 
To: Health_and_Healing
Subject: [Health_and_Healing] Dr. Leonard Horowitz interview re. Strange Flu

"In the contemporary warfare arena, where experts in biological chemical warfare convene
and discuss the ways that are ideal to conduct warfare today, to really take an enemy out,
you don't want to kill the people. You want to produce people who are chronically ill
and become dependent on the state and totally sap the resources of the country.
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"And then you can move in further with your military-medical-industrial complex,
your international medical-pharmaceutical cartel. And then you sell these beleaguered
and defeated countries all of the pharmaceuticals and chemicals
that they need to maintain any semblance of healthy function.
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"You create a dependence and thereby you weaken the population,
and weakened populations are easy to control. So you've got population control,
and you make vast fortunes doing it, versus just blowing up a nuclear weapon
and devastating the infrastructure that you own."

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The Case Of The Strange Cold Everybody Has Been Getting
and Chemtrails

The Nazi Flu Interview With Dr. Leonard Horowitz

Redden: I'd like to begin this interview by asking you about the flu. Many of my friends are sick, and I've read a number of news stories which say that people are sick around the world. So many people are sick that hospital emergency rooms are swamped and doctors are postponing surgeries. But at the same time, the mainstream media is not referring to this outbreak as an epidemic. So let me ask you, is there a flu epidemic underway or not?

Horowitz: There has been for quite some time, but the authorities are suppressing the news about it. It's only been recently that the mainstream media has acknowledged that hospital emergency rooms are filled with patients with this bizarre upper respiratory infection that doesn't quite seem to be a virus, a flu that the flu vaccines were ineffective against, that was a surprise and a complete mystery to the Centers for Disease Control authorities.

That's all hogwash, bogus nonsense. The fact of the matter is, we have seen this type of an epidemic since the end of 1998 and the beginning of 1999. People have been hacking and coughing with this bizarre illness that does not seem to follow any logical viral or bacterial onset and transition period. It was something that did not cause a high fever.

If it was a bacterial or viral infection, it would have caused a fever in these people. It didn't. It was something that lasted weeks, if not months. They had sinus congestion, sinus drainage, they had a cough, they had fatigue, general malaise, they felt they were not quite right.

Redden: Then is it fair to call this the flu, or is it something else?

Horowitz: I think it's only fair to call it flu-like. It is pathognomonic of, not a bacterial or viral infection, it is pathognomonic of a fungus or a fungus related to a flu. And that's exactly what has been developed and patented by the Armed Forces Research Institute of Pathology.

We've reprinted the patent report in the new book, Healing Codes for the Biological Apocalypse. We show you the report on the "pathogenic micoplasma." That's a quote, "pathogenic micoplasma." And if you know anything about micoplasmas, mico indicates fungal, but yet micoplasma is not really a fungus, it's not really a bacteria, it's not really a virus. It's sort of like a pseudo all of them. It has no cell wall, it goes deep into the cell nuclei thereby making it very difficult to mount an immune response against.

Redden: And it's man-made...

Horowitz: It's man-made. It can be used as a biological weapon. It was developed as an AIDS vaccine-related organism. It was extracted from AIDS patients. It is responsible for virtually all of the symptoms which AIDS patients suffer from. The AIDS virus is at best a co-factor, and not even such a strong co-factor as to bring on all of the symptoms of AIDS.

This particular organism, the micoplasma, is associated with this upper respiratory flu-like illness. And it's also associated in its pathogenic process with a whole variety of other symptoms that mimic AIDS.

Redden: And that's what you think is causing this epidemic?

Horowitz: That's only one of the factors. The patent report lays it out. Like how you can use a factor like that to cause chronic upper respiratory infections just like what is going on. I mean, virtually identical to what's going on. It's patented by the Armed Forces Research Institute of Pathology.

Redden: How did it get out of the lab and into the general population?

Horowitz: There's only speculation and the most likely thesis that I'm looking at is through contaminated vaccines, contaminated blood supplies. I don't know any other suitable mode of transmitting that kind of infectious agent.

Redden: What about the current controversy over chemtrails - the theory that airplanes are spraying the population with some kind of chemical or biological weapon. As I understand it, a number of researchers believe that many of the contrails in the skies these days are not the normal contrails formed by high-flying jets, but are actually trails of chemical or biological agents which spread out and then fall on the earth. Could this micoplasma be transmitted to the population through chemtrails?

Horowitz: I don't relate it to the chemtrails. I don't believe that this particular organism could be suitably spread that way. But I believe the chemtrails are responsible for a chemical intoxication of the public, which would then cause a general immune suppression, low grade to high grade, depending on exposure. An immune dysfunction, which would then allow people to become susceptible to opportunistic infections, such as this micoplasma and other opportunistic infections.

Redden: So you believe that high-flying planes are, in fact, spraying something on the population that the theory is real?

Horowitz: There's no question that it's real. There's no doubt about that. I first began to investigate chemtrails when some were sprayed over my home in Northern Idaho. I took pictures of them, and then contacted the Environmental Protection Agency of the state. When I contacted their directors, they were clueless and referred me to the Air Force.

They then got me in touch with Centers for Disease Control Toxicology, and after about a week I received a letter from one of their chief toxicologists saying, indeed there was some amount of ethylene dibromide in the jet fuel. Now, ethylene dibromide is a known human chemical carcinogen that was removed from unleaded gasoline because of its cancer-causing effects. Now suddenly it has appeared in the jet fuel that apparently high-altitude military aircraft are emitting.

Redden: Why has ethylene dibromide been added to jet fuel?

Horowitz: When you examine who owns the fuel, who are the fuel company directors, suddenly you enter into the realm of the Rockefeller family and the royal families, Standard Oil and British Petroleum. And what are their other agendas? Suddenly now you see their documents, showing that they have funded, historically, eugenics, racial hygiene, genocide, depopulation, family planning, maternal and child health where they make and deliver vaccines, and contaminated blood supplies.

These are the banksters, the same people who run the blood banking as well as the money banking industries. In both Emerging Viruses and Healing Codes, I reference a great book by Dr. John Coleman, who worked as a British Secret Service agent at the highest levels. And he articulated very clearly who was running those companies.

It all goes back, ultimately, to the highest level of the royal family. The Bush family, Rothschild family, the Rockefeller money, and the entire Rockefeller establishment is based on Rothschild money and royal families. So you begin to then, at least, put forward a possible theory, that if you can't explain it rationally and any other way, I think you've got to begin to consider conspiracy theories. And once you eliminate the negative label that you've placed on conspiracy theories per se, because that's been demonized, as has the terms holistic medicine, holistic health.

Redden: Naturopathic

Horowitz: Naturopathy. I mean these labels get placed and as soon as they do, you know, it begins to wave red flags and people avoid those things. But, you know, when you really just define a conspiracy as is defined in Websters, as two or more people getting together behind closed doors covertly and planning something unethical, immoral, illegal and then carrying it out, that's a conspiracy. So that's now what you're looking at, at the highest levels.

You're looking at decision-makers who have, for whatever reasons, decided to put this toxic waste into jet fuels for human exposure, what ultimately's going to be human exposure. And it just so happens that these same people have put a lot of money into reducing world populations. So now you ask yourself, when it comes to testing human subjects like American citizens unwittingly, unwillingly, who sprays toxins out of airplanes over San Francisco, kills people that way, who sprays biologicals on the Pennsylvania turnpike that induce death?

Who has done that historically, as clearly articulated in the Frank Church congressional hearings of 1975, has been Central Intelligence Agency biological weapons contracting firms, such as Litton Bionetics, such as the Army Corp of Engineers when they were developing and utilizing these various biologicals. And this is all done under black operations, covert operations, where they get funding and congressional people are never informed really where this money is going. It's the black budget.

Redden: As I understand it, this is not just an American epidemic, but it's gone across Europe.

Horowitz: That's right. And so have the chemtrails. I've got colleagues over there, I've got colleagues in the Bahamas, Bermuda, Toronto, British Columbia all reporting the same bizarre seeding of the atmosphere. It's horrible. What is going on is just despicable.

Redden: One reason I'm interested in this subject is, I personally know three people who had the exact same thing happen to them. First they came down with flu-like symptoms which didn't go away. Then they went to the doctor, and the doctor said their flu had developed into a bacterial infection and we can give you antibiotics for that. Then they were all given a brand new antibiotic they had never taken before, and they all had serious allergic reactions.

Horowitz: Right. Isn't that fascinating?

Redden: What happened to them?

Horowitz: OK, that's a great question. I'm glad you asked that because I should have mentioned it before. What you're looking at with this upper respiratory infection is that it is a multi-factorial illness. It's associated with a variety of chemical and biological co-factors. Just like with AIDS, it's not the AIDS virus that ultimately kills, it's co-factor microbes such as the micoplasma. What you have could be described as an ideal Russian biological cocktail. And I suppose it's called Russia biological cocktail because the Americans likely invented it.

What they determined would be the best biological chemical warfare approach was a combination of chemicals and biologicals, so that it would be very difficult to diagnose and then treat the illnesses. Moreover, it would be very difficult to trace where they came from. If you've got, say, ethylene dibromide coming out of the jet fuels that is causing immune suppression and weakening your immune system, and then you've got a micoplasma microbe or a fungus that causes an upper respiratory illness, suddenly you develop a secondary bacterial infection.

Now you get hit with antibiotics, and the antibiotics cause your body chemistry to go acidic, so now you get rashes and other things, your liver gets full of toxins and comes out through your skin in rashes and they get hyperallergenic reactions associated with the other chemicals. So all of a sudden now, you realize that you've got a human being who is completely out of balance and infected by two, three or four microbial co-factors as well as intoxicated by a variety of different chemicals.

Redden: A point of clarification. Are You saying that the fungus is working with the chemtrails and the antibiotic to make people sick?

Horowitz: Exactly. And you've got somebody who's going to be chronically ill. And in the contemporary warfare arena, where experts in biological chemical warfare convene and discuss the ways that are ideal to conduct warfare today, to really take an enemy out, you don't want to kill the people. You want to produce people who are chronically ill and become dependent on the state and totally sap the resources of the country.

And then you can move in further with your military-medical-industrial complex, your international medical-pharmaceutical cartel. And then you sell these beleaguered and defeated countries all of the pharmaceuticals and chemicals that they need to maintain any semblance of healthy function.

Redden: So you've got a work force that can work, but they're too tired after they finish working to...

Horowitz: That's exactly it. They're completely depleted. They can't put together a military; you create a dependence and thereby you weaken the population, and weakened populations are easy to control. So you've got population control, and you make vast fortunes doing it, versus just blowing up a nuclear weapon and devastating the infrastructure that you own. You and your colleagues own that infrastructure. You want to get rid of the people. You don't want to get rid of infrastructure.

What I'm relating to you now is not speculation. If you were to read the top experts analysis of military warfare, such as what is articulated in The Report From Iron Mountain, which even the authorities, they say that this is a hoax, a satire, but, you know, there's nothing funny about it. The propaganda, the spin that they put on it is that the document is a satire. But when you read it, there's nothing funny about it.

Redden: You mentioned the Rockefellers. You think the Rockefeller family is one of the major players in this conspiracy?

Horowitz: Oh, absolutely. One of the major players in world genocide, world population reduction. That's no mystery anymore. I mean, you even have some mainstream publishing companies, such as St. Martin's Press, writing the most horrific exposes of the Rockefeller family. You have Oxford University Press, publishing, for example, Christopher Simpson's work, called The Science of Coercion, where he proves that virtually the entire scientific and particularly health science agenda was laid out by the Rockefeller family.

In the 1920's, the federal government was giving very little money for public health. Where the huge investment in public health in the United States came from was the Rockefeller financial coffers, you know. They were behind it all. And so, already by the 30's, the early 1930's, who was responsible for the primary viral research investments, public health looking at cancer, who created the cancer industry in the 1920's, was the Rockefellers, all the Rockefeller money.

And if you didn't go along with that particular money making population controlling agenda as a health scientist or health professional you were traditionally demoted, defunded, ostracized. And then if you kept it up, you were persecuted and then jailed. I know many, many people who have gone through that.

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U.S. WARNING - AVIAN FLU

Watching for the Next Pandemic

Bush Weighs Strategies to Counter Possible Outbreak of Bird Flu 

Bush suggests military involvement in avian flu; state begins training

10-4-05

WASHINGTON As New Hampshire officials begin training on dealing with a possible outbreak of the avian flu, President Bush said he is considering using the military to enforce any flu quarantines.

At a news conference today, Bush said the best way to deal with a pandemic is to isolate it and keep it isolated. And he said he is considering deploying the military to help.

In New Hampshire, public health officials begin training sessions tomorrow on the roles and responsibilities of police, the courts, the prisons and public health in handling an outbreak, and any quarantine that might be imposed. Public Health spokesman Greg Moore says so many jurisdictions would be involved because public health would have to issue a quarantine order, which could be appealed to the courts. Those who don't comply could be jailed.


Published: October 4, 2005

WASHINGTON, Oct. 4 - President Bush said today that he was working to prepare the United States for a possibly deadly outbreak of avian flu. He said he had weighed whether to quarantine parts of the country and also whether to employ the military for the difficult task of enforcing such a quarantine.

"I am concerned about what an avian flu outbreak could mean for the United States and the world," he said at a White House news conference.

The president emphasized that he was not predicting such an outbreak. "I'm just suggesting to you that we better be thinking about it," he told reporters, "and we are. And we're more than thinking about it, we're trying to put plans in place."

In a wide-ranging news conference, Bush said he was considering whether the U.S. military should be used to help quarantine part of the country in the event of a pandemic of Avian bird flu. "I'm not predicting an outbreak," he said. "I'm just suggesting to you that we need to be thinking about it."

Then Bush mused out loud: "It's one thing to shut down airplanes, it's another" to quarantine part of the U.S. "And who is best to effect a quarantine?" the president asked. Then he answered: "One option is to use the military."

"I think the president should have all ... assets on the table to deal with something this significant," Bush said.

Since 2003, the avian flu has killed about 65 people in Southeast Asia who had been in contact with infected fowl. So far the virus has not mutated into a strain capable of transmission from one human to another.

If it does, scientists say that it could kill millions of people worldwide, reminiscent of the 1918-19 Spanish-flu pandemic, which claimed more lives than World War I. Because the virus is new, humans have little or no defense against it. It kills about half of those infected, and an outbreak could spread around the world in days.

Up to now, bird flu has not received extensive public attention in the United States. But Mr. Bush, in devoting a long and detailed reply to the subject, appeared intent on raising public awareness and promoting readiness, as well as demonstrating his own.

He referred to the "H5N1 virus," said he had read a book by John M. Barry on the 1918 pandemic, and had been briefed by Dr. Anthony Fauci, who heads the infectious disease unit at the National Institutes of Health.

An outbreak would pose difficult policy decisions for a president, Mr. Bush said, including the question of imposing a regional quarantine.

"It's one thing to shut down your airplanes, it's another thing to prevent people from coming in to get exposed to the avian flu," he said. Doing so, Mr. Bush said, might even involve using "a military that's able to plan and move."

The president had already raised, in the wake of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, the delicate question of giving the military a larger role in responding to domestic disasters. His comment today appeared to presage a concerted push to change laws that limit military activities in domestic affairs.

Mr. Bush said he knew that some governors, all of them commanders of their states' National Guards, resented being told by Washington how to use their Guard forces.

"But Congress needs to take a look at circumstances that may need to vest the capacity of the president to move beyond that debate," Mr. Bush said. One such circumstance, he suggested, would be an avian flu outbreak. He said a president needed every available tool "to be able to deal with something this significant."

While in New York last month to address the United Nations General Assembly, President Bush proposed an "international partnership" to combat the disease.

He said today that he had spoken "privately to as many leaders as I could find" at the United Nations about raising public awareness and ensuring maximum efforts to quickly report any instances of the disease to the World Health Organization.

The W.H.O. and the European Union have been urging countries for months to prepare for a possible pandemic.

The president said he had spoken to Dr. Fauci about development of a vaccine, but added that "we're just not that far down the manufacturing process." He said he wanted to encourage potential vaccine manufacturers to be poised to react urgently.

The United States last month ordered $100 million worth of a promising vaccine from the French drug maker Sanofi-Aventis.

When the secretary of health and human services, Tommy Thompson, resigned in December, he was asked what health threat worried him most. He cited the avian flu.

"This is a really huge bomb," he said, "that could adversely impact on the health care of the world," killing tens of millions.

As a deadly strain of bird flu continues to circulate in Asia, public health officials are on the watch for any signs of mutation. Three times in the past century, bird influenzas have spread to people, causing millions of deaths. The next global flu pandemic will probably start with birds as well.

Flu Fears Threaten Thai Cockfighting Tradition

February 23, 2005 · In Thailand, strictures put in place to contain avian flu have imperiled the future of cockfighting, a pastime that many consider an integral part of rural life. Web Extra: Photos of Thai Cockfighting Industry

Bird Flu Deaths in Thailand Raise Pandemic Fears

December 8, 2004 · In September, an 11-year-old Thai girl and her mother died from bird flu. Days later, the girl's aunt became ill. Thai researchers feared the virus had mutated, now easily moving from person to person. That could be first sign of a global pandemic. NPR's Jon Hamilton reports. Web Extra: Facts about Bird Flu

Thai Chicken Farms Are Front Line for Bird Flu Fight

December 7, 2004 · Thailand has killed more than 40 million chickens this year in an effort to stop a deadly strain of bird flu that's killed at least 17 people in the country. But the virus keeps resurfacing. NPR's Jon Hamilton reports. Web Extra: Flu Pandemic Timeline

 
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Flu pandemic could leave 200,000 dead

ATLANTA - Forty-two million Americans could be made ill and more than 200,000 could die if a powerful new strain of influenza caused a worldwide outbreak, according to a draft federal plan that sets out preparations for a pandemic.

The rapid spread of the illness - which might infect, if not sicken, one-third of the United States' population - could force hospitals to turn away patients, disrupt the economy, law enforcement and transportation, and trigger school and border closures, the plan says.

And because a vaccine against the new flu strain might not be available for six months, the authorities may have to federalise supplies of the drug to ensure the first batches are distributed where they are most needed.

The predictions of the impact of a possible flu pandemic - an event that has been anticipated by the health authorities for years - are contained in a draft federal plan scheduled to be released yesterday by the Department of Health and Human Services.

A copy of the document, formally called the Pandemic Influenza Preparedness And Response Plan, was obtained by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

In the making since 1993, the plan sets out the preparations that divisions of the federal government - including the Atlanta-based Centers for Disease Control and Prevention - should make now to guard against the illness and social disruption that a pandemic would cause.

An influenza pandemic, a global epidemic caused by a novel strain of flu against which humans would have no immunity, is one of the most-feared events in medicine.

There were three in the 20th century - in 1918, 1957 and 1968.

-- New York Times

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Posted: 27 August 2004 1035 hrs

Frontline weapon for flu pandemic is under threat, study fears

PARIS : A key weapon in the medical arsenal that will combat any future pandemic of killer flu may be worryingly at risk to resistance by the influenza virus, according to an early Japanese study published in Saturday's issue of The Lancet.

The drug is oseltamivir, one of only two medications in a class of treatments called neuraminidase inhibitors. They work by blocking an enzyme that the virus uses to escape from an infected cell and then spread around the body.

The research probed oseltamivir resistance among 50 Japanese children who were being treated for flu.

The scientists took blood samples from the young patients and carried out a DNA analysis of the flu virus to see how much it had mutated -- the phenomenon that enables a microbe to thwart a drug.

Nine out of the 50 samples -- 18 percent of the total -- showed mutations at two points in the genome that had previously been suspected to cause resistance. The children had the H3N2 viral strain.

The team were also surprised to find that even five days after treatment with oseltamivir, children could still be infectious.

The size of the group was only small and wider research is needed to see how bad the resistance problem could be, say the scientists, led by Yoshihiro Kawaoka, a microbiologist at the University of Tokyo's Institute of Medical Science.

US pediatrician Anne Moscona said this was a wakeup call about a potential threat to neuraminidase inhibitors, especially in the light of Asia's H5N1 bird flu outbreak, a phenomenon that some fear could breed a vicious and infectious viral form.

"Widespread influenza is the deadliest plague in human history and transmission of avian influenza to human beings probably started the global pandemic of 1918, which killed 50 million people," Moscona commented.

Oseltamivir and its cousin zanamivir would be vital weapons in the fight against any such future peril.

They are highly regarded because they target a feature common to all types of flu viruses and so would be as effective all strains. They are a treatment, not a prevention against infection.

That role is given to vaccines. However, it would be almost impossible to stockpile a vaccine engineered for a specific virus and then distribute it quickly before that virus spreads around the world by jet passenger travel.

- AFP


HOW MANY AMERICANS REALLY DIE OF THE FLU EACH YEAR?

OCTOBER 22, 2004. Ask the American Lung Association. Better yet, read their own report from August of 2004, titled, "Trends in Pneumonia and Influenza/Morbidity and Mortality."

This report comes from "Research and Scientific Affairs/Epidemiology  and Statistics Unit." At the bottom of the document, the source is listed as: 

National Center for Health Statistics, Report of Final Mortality Statistics, 1979-2001.

Get ready for some surprises, especially since the CDC keeps trumpeting flu-death annual numbers as 36,000.  Like clockwork. Year in and year out. 36,000 people in the US die from the flu every year. Killer disease. Watch out. Get your flu shot. Every autumn. Don't wait. You might fall over dead in the street.

Here are the total flu deaths from the report. From 1979 to 2001, the stats were released every two years.

1979:     604
1981:  3,006
1983:  1,431
1985:  2,054
1987:     632
1989:  1,593
1991:  1,137
1993:  1,044
1995:     606
1996:     745
1997:     720
1998:  1,724
1999:  1,665
2000:  1,765
2001:     257

Don't believe me?

Here is the page:

http://www.lungusa.org/atf/cf/%7B7A8D42C2-FCCA-4604-8ADE-7F5D5E762256%7D/PI1.PDF

Get there and go to page 9 of the document. Then start scrolling down until you come to the chart for flu deaths as a separate category.

Tommy Thompson, head of US Health and Human services, stated that 91 percent of the people who die from the flu in the US every year are 65 and older. So you might engage in a little arithmetic and figure out how many people under 65 are really dying from the flu each year.

But no matter. The raw all-ages stats are low enough. Quite low enough.   Quite, quite.

Do you see what is going on here?

You can go into my archive and read recent pieces on this subject and find my argument for those who blithely claim, "Well, harumph, you see, uh ah, flu often leads to pneumonia and THAT'S why we have to be so careful about the flu.
Deaths from pneumonia are large numbers, harumph, blah blah blah..."

It's a straight con, folks. The CDC is on a street corner with a little table, and there are shills walking around repeating the 36,000 death figure while the PR flacks at the table are working the vaccine angle.

The crowd is getting restless. A man shouts, "Where is my flu shot? We're all going to die!"

Meanwhile, on Capitol Hill, Congress planned a measure that will guarantee vaccine manufacturers annual billion-dollar payoffs no matter how many doses are left over, unused.

JON RAPPOPORT www.nomorefakenews.com


Emerging Infectious Diseases - HOW BIRD FLU PASSES TO HUMANS

Vol. 4, No. 3, July/September 1998

The influenza virus continues to evolve, and new antigenic variants (drift strains) emerge constantly, giving rise to yearly epidemics. In 
addition, strains to which most humans have no immunity appear suddenly, and the resulting pandemics vary from serious to catastrophic.

Influenza viruses are unique among respiratory tract viruses in that they undergo considerable antigenic variation. Both surface antigens of the influenza A viruses undergo two types of variation: drift and shift (1). Antigenic drift involves minor changes in the hemagglutinin (HA) and neuraminidase (NA), whereas antigenic shift involves major changes in these molecules resulting from replacement of the gene segment.

The Reservoirs of Influenza A Viruses

Aquatic birds are the reservoirs of all 15 subtypes of influenza A viruses. In wild ducks, influenza viruses replicate preferentially in the 
cells lining the intestinal tract, cause no disease signs, and are excreted in high concentrations in the feces (up to 10 8.7 50% egg infectious doses/g) (2). Avian influenza viruses have been isolated from freshly deposited fecal material and from unconcentrated lake water, which indicates that waterfowl have a very efficient way to transmit viruses, i.e., by fecal material in the water supply.

Since a large number of susceptible young ducks are hatched each year throughout the world, many birds are infected by virus shed into water. This would explain the high incidence of virus infection in Canadian ducks, particularly juveniles, when up to 30% can shed virus before fall migration. Transmission by feces also provides a way for wild ducks as they migrate through an area to spread their viruses to other domestic and feral birds (3).

The avirulent nature of avian influenza infection in ducks and wading birds may result from virus adaptation to this host over many 
centuries, which created a reservoir that ensures perpetuation of the virus; therefore, ducks and wading birds may be occupying an important position in the natural history of influenza viruses. Influenza viruses of avian origin have been implicated in outbreaks of influenza in mammals, such as seals (4), whales (5), and pigs (6), as well as in domestic poultry (7). 

Evolutionary Pathways for Influenza Viruses

Studies on the ecology of influenza viruses have led to the hypothesis that all mammalian influenza viruses derive from the avian influenza reservoir. Support for this theory comes from phylogenetic analyses of nucleic acid sequences of influenza A viruses from a variety of hosts, geographic regions, and virus subtypes. Analyses of the nucleoprotein (NP) gene show that avian influenza viruses have evolved into five host-Influenza: 

An Emerging Disease 
Robert G. Webster 
St. Jude Children's Research 
Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee, USA

Address for correspondence: 
Robert G. Webster, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, 
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Because all known influenza A subtypes exist in the aquatic bird reservoir, influenza is not an eradicable disease; prevention and control are the only realistic goals. If people, pigs, and aquatic birds are the principal variables associated with interspecies transfer of influenza virus and the emergence of new human pandemic strains, influenza surveillance in these species is indicated. Live-bird markets housing a wide variety of avian species together (chickens, ducks, geese, pigeon, turkeys, pheasants, guinea fowl), occasionally with pigs, for sale directly to the public provide outstanding conditions for genetic mixing and spreading of influenza viruses; therefore, these birds should be monitored for influenza viruses. Moreover, if pigs are the mixing vessel for influenza viruses, surveillance in this population may also provide an early warning system for humans.

specific lineages: 

ancient equine, which has not been isolated in over 15 years; recent equine; gull; swine; and human. The human and classic swine viruses have a genetic 'sister group' relationship, which shows that they evolved from a common origin. The ancestor of the human and classic swine virus appears to have been an intact avian virus that, like the influenza virus currently circulating in pigs in Europe, derived all its genes from avian sources (8,9).

Studies on the NP and other gene lineages in avian species show separate sublineages of influenza in Eurasia and the Americas, indicating that migratory birds moving between these continents (latitudinal migration) have little or no role in the transmission of influenza, while birds that migrate longitudinally appear to play a key role in the continuing process of virus evolution.

Phylogenetic analyses of amino acid changes show that avian influenza viruses, unlike mammalian strains, have low evolutionary rates 
(8). In fact, influenza viruses in aquatic birds appear to be in evolutionary stasis, with no evidence of net evolution over the past 60 years.

Nucleotide changes have continued at a similar rate in avian and mammalian influenza viruses; however, these changes no longer result in amino acid changes in the avian viruses, whereas all eight mammalian influenza gene segments continue to accumulate changes in amino acids. 

The high level of genetic conservation suggests that avian viruses are approaching or have reached optimum, wherein nucleotide changes provide no selective advantage. It also means that the source of genes for pandemic influenza viruses exists phenotypically unchanged in the aquatic bird reservoir. The most important implication of phylogenetic studies is that the ancestral viruses that caused the Spanish flu in 1918, as well as the viruses that provided gene segments for the Asian/1957 and Hong Kong/1968 pandemics, are still circulating in wild birds, with few or no mutational changes.

Emergence and Reemergence of 'New' Influenza A Virus in Humans

Over the past two and a half centuries, 10 to 20 human influenza pandemics have swept the globe; the most devastating, the so-called Spanish flu of 1918 to 1919, caused more than 20 million deaths and affected more than 200 million people. Both pandemics probably originated from aquatic birds. Since the first human influenza virus was isolated in 1933, new subtypes of human type A influenza viruses have occurred: H2N2 (Asian influenza) replaced H1N1 in 1957, Hong Kong (H3N2) virus appeared in 1968, and H1N1 virus reappeared in 1977. Each of these new subtypes first appeared in China, and anecdotal records suggest that previous epidemics also had their origin in China. Serologic and virologic evidence suggests that since 1889 there have been six instances of the introduction of a virus bearing an HA subtype that had been absent from the human population for some time.

Three human subtypes of HA have appeared cyclically” H2 viruses in 1889, H3 in 1900, H1 in 1918, H2 again in 1957, H3 again in 1968, and H1 again in 1977. Phylogenetic evidence indicates that a totally new H1N1 virus of avian origin (not a reassortant) could have appeared in humans or swine before the 1918 influenza and replaced the previous human virus strains. Whether the virus was first introduced into humans and then transmitted to pigs, or vice versa, remains unknown. The reappearance of the H1N1 Russian 1977 influenza virus remains a mystery.

How Are Influenza Viruses Spread?

Avian influenza viruses in wild aquatic birds are spread by fecal-oral transmission through the water supply (10); initial transmission of avian influenza viruses to mammals, including pigs and horses, probably also occurs by fecal contamination of water. Scholtissek has postulated that the use of fecal material from ducks for fish farming in Asia may contribute to transmission of avian influenza viruses to pigs (11). Another direct method of transfer is by feeding pigs untreated garbage or the carcasses of dead birds. Raising pigs under chicken houses and feeding them dead avian carcasses has been observed on rare occasions in the United States; H5N2 influenza virus was isolated from pigs living under chicken houses in Pennsylvania during the outbreak in 1982. Both pigs and poultry are commonly raised on the same commercial farms. From the perspective of the control of interspecies transmission of influenza, this is undesirable, for it may facilitate interspecies transmission of influenza viruses. After transmission to pigs, horses, or humans, the method of spread of influenza is mainly respiratory.

Emergence of H5N2 Influenza Viruses in North America

In 1983 an H5N2 influenza virus infected chickens and turkeys in Pennsylvania and became highly pathogenic for poultry. Virologic 
and serologic studies provided no evidence of transmission to humans (12). The virus was eventually eradicated by quarantine and extermination of more than 17 million birds at a direct cost of more than US$60 million and an indirect cost to the industry of more than US$250 million. 

More recently, a highly pathogenic H5N2 influenza virus emerged in domestic chickens in Mexico (7). In October 1993, egg production decreased and deaths increased among Mexican chickens in association with serologic evidence of an H5N2 influenza virus. H5N2 virus was isolated in May 1994. By the end of 1994, the virus had mutated to contain a highly cleavable HA, but remained only mildly pathogenic in chickens. Within months, however, it had become lethal in poultry. Phylogenetic analysis of the HA of H5 avian influenza viruses, including the Mexican isolates, indicated that the epidemic virus had originated from the introduction of a single virus of the North American lineage into Mexican chickens. This virus was eradicated from chickens by quarantine and use of inactivated vaccine.

Live Bird Markets and the Epidemiology of Influenza

The chicken/Pennsylvania (H5N2) influenza outbreak in 1983 to 1984 demonstrated that live bird markets play an important part in the spread of influenza viruses in avian species. In 1992, Senne et al. (13) described live bird markets as the missing link in the epidemiology of avian influenza, for H5N2 viruses had been isolated from live birds until 1986. These H5N2 viruses caused subclinical infection in chickens in the markets, as did H5N1 viruses in live bird markets in Hong Kong in 1997. Moreover, ducks in the markets in the United States were infected with many different subtypes of influenza A viruses, including H2N2 viruses related antigenically to the Asian/57 (H2N2) viruses that have disappeared from humans.

The live bird markets in the United States continue to harbor many influenza viruses. The ancestor of the H5N2 influenza virus that caused the epidemic in Mexico in 1993 to 1995 was isolated from market birds, and H7NX subtypes are still found in live bird markets. These viruses are potentially pathogenic for chickens and are of  Molecular changes associated with emergence of a highly pathogenic H5N2 influenza virus in chickens in Mexico. In 1994, a nonpathogenic H5N2 influenza virus in Mexican chickens was related to an H5N2 virus isolated from shorebirds (ruddy turnstones) in Delaware Bay, United States, in 1991. The 1994 H5N2 isolates from chickens replicated mainly in the respiratory tract, spread rapidly among chickens, and were not highly pathogenic. Over the next year the virus became highly pathogenic, and the hemagglutinin acquired an insert of two basic amino acids (Arg-Lys), possibly by classic recombination and a mutation of Glu to Lys at position  3 from the cleavage site of HA1/HA2.

The emergence of H5N1 influenza in Hong Kong. It is postulated that a nonpathogenic H5N1 influenza spread from migrating shorebirds to ducks by fecal contamination of water. The virus was transmitted to chickens and became established in live bird markets in Hong Kong. During transmission between different species, the virus became highly pathogenic for chickens and occasionally was transmitted to humans from chickens in the markets. Despite high pathogenicity for chickens (and humans), H5N1 were nonpathogenic for ducks and geese. This was of great concern to chicken farmers in the northeastern United States.

The depopulation of live bird markets and farms in the New Territories of Hong Kong (December 29, 1997) stopped the spread of H5N1 influenza viruses. An important lesson can be learned from this action in Hong Kong. Live bird markets are potential breeding grounds for both avian and mammalian influenza viruses. Serologic monitoring of the chickens in Hong Kong markets for H5N1 influenza virus was an important first step in stopping the spread of the viruses. An even more important step would be to reduce the opportunity for interspecies transmission by marketing chickens separately from other avian species.

The Index Case of H5N1 in Humans in Hong Kong

On May 21, 1997, a 3-year-old boy from Hong Kong died in an intensive care unit in Hong Kong on the fifth day of his hospitalization, with a final diagnosis of Reye syndrome, acute influenza pneumonia, and respiratory distress syndrome (14). He had no indications of other underlying disease, including immunodeficiency or cardiopulmonary disease. From a tracheal aspirate, we isolated an influenza virus in MDCK cells but were unable to grow any pathogenic bacteria from respiratory specimens. In hemagglutination inhibition assays, the virus did not react with ferret antisera to recent isolates of human and swine subtypes.

Hemagglutination inhibition assays using antisera to 14 H subtypes showed that the isolate was an H5 influenza A virus. Neuraminidase inhibition tests, using antisera to nine N subtypes, indicated that the neuraminidase was of the N1 subtype. Nucleotide sequence analyses of parts of the HA and NA genes of the virus allowed a phylogenetic comparison with other influenza viruses. Our analyses confirmed that the virus was of the H5N1 subtypes. Each of the eight RNA segments was of avian origin, and the virus was highly pathogenic for chickens. The contribution of the influenza A H5N1 virus infection to the child's disease, eventually leading to death, was complicated by the child's treatment with aspirin.

The virus identification is important because it is the first documented isolation of an influenza A virus of this subtype from humans (15).

Characterization of the Human and Chicken H5N1 Viruses from Hong Kong

Avian influenza outbreaks occurred in Hong Kong from late March to early May of 1997. Three chicken farms were separately affected; the death rate for the total of 6,800 chickens exceeded 70%. A comparison between the nucleotide sequences of the H5 genes from both the human virus A/Hong Kong/156/97 (H5N1) (HK97) and a representative of the chicken viruses from the March outbreak, A/chicken/Hong Kong/258/97 (CkHK97), showed a high degree of homology in their respective H5 HA1 sequences. Only three amino-acid differences were observed in the HA1 of the HA, confirming the close phylogenetic relationship between these viruses, belonging to the Eurasian lineage of the subtype H5 viruses.

Sequence analyses of the HA of multiple human and chicken H5N1 isolates show that they form two subgroups with close linkage between chicken and human isolates. An analysis of the amino acids expected to be involved in the assembly of the receptor binding site showed no differences could be observed between the human isolate and avian H5 viruses. Therefore, the H5 HA of HK97 had probably not acquired mutations that favor binding to sialic acids with 2,6 linkage to the galactoside over the 2,3 linked sialic acid receptor preferred by human and avian viruses respectively. However, the loss of a potential N- linked glycosylation site at amino acid 156 Asn, close to the receptor binding site, could affect binding to the cellular receptor.

The amino acid sequence motif at the cleavage site of the HA molecule has been associated with high virulence of avian influenza viruses. Experimental infection of chickens with HK97 showed that even after passaging in mammalian cells (once in the child and twice in MDCK cells), the virus remained highly pathogenic for chickens: all eight chickens inoculated intratracheally with MDCK-grown HK97 died within 3 days after infection. A comparison of the reactivity of a panel of 17 monoclonal antibodies (MAb) directed against A/chicken/Pennsylvania/83 (H5N2) with HK97 and CkHK97 in a hemagglutination inhibition assay  showed similar antigenic reactivities with all but one MAb, indicating antigenic cross-reactivity between these viruses and the usefulness of these antibodies for diagnosis.

The fetuin-cleaving activity of the NA proved to be inhibited by anti-NA antiserum. 

Reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction using primer sets that amplified the 5' end of the NA gene segments showed that this gene was of the N1 genotype. Nucleotide sequence analysis and comparison to published NA sequences confirmed this finding genetically. The NA sequences unequivocally showed a close molecular relationship between HK97 and CkHK97, as a unique 57-nucleotide deletion was observed in the stalk region of the N1 gene of both viruses. Each of the eight gene segments showed close genetic homology between the HK97 and Ck/ HK97 viruses, the lowest being 98.2% for the nucleoprotein; the remaining genes varied from 98.8% to 100% homology (16).

Can the Emergence of Pandemic Strains Be Prevented?

Because all known influenza A virus subtypes are found in aquatic wild birds in nature, agricultural authorities have recommended avoiding direct or indirect contact between domestic poultry and wild birds. A classic mistake made by chicken and turkey farmers is to raise a few domestic ducks on a pond near poultry barns; these birds attract wild ducks. The highly pathogenic outbreaks of H5N2 avian influenza in chickens and turkeys in Pennsylvania and surrounding states in 1983 to 1984 (12) and the H5N2 in Mexico in 1993 (7) could probably have been prevented if domestic poultry had been raised in ecologically controlled houses with a high standard of security and limited access.

If we assume that people, pigs, and aquatic birds are the principal variables associated with the emergence of new human pandemic stains, human pandemics of influenza may be prevented. The principles applied to preventing outbreaks of influenza in domestic animals should apply equally here. Pandemic strains of human influenza emerge only rarely; however, interspecies transmission of influenza viruses may not be so rare, for up to 10% of persons with occupational exposure to pigs develop antibodies to swine influenza virus (17). Most transfers of influenza viruses from pigs to humans are dead-end transfers (they do not spread efficiently from human to human). As indicated above, we do not know the frequency of virus transfer between the suspect species in southern China. If there is an epicenter for pandemic influenza and a detectable frequency of transfer between people, pigs, and ducks and if we understand the ecologic and agricultural features involved in the transfer, pandemics may be preventable. If pigs are the major mixing vessel for influenza viruses, changes in the agricultural practices that separate pigs from people and ducks could prevent future pandemics. Most importantly, we may influence the appearance of pandemics by changing the methods of live bird marketing by separating chickens from other species, especially from aquatic birds.

This work was supported by Public Health Service grants AI-29680 and AI-08831 from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, by Cancer Center Support (CORE) grant CA-21765, and by the American Lebanese Syrian Associated Charities.

Dr. Webster holds the Rose Marie Thomas Chair in the Department of Virology and Molecular Biology at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee. In addition, he is director of the World Health Organization Collaborating Center for Ecology of Influenza Viruses in Lower Animals and Birds. He has devoted his life to the understanding of the emergence of pandemic influenza viruses, the structure and function of the viral proteins, and methods for developing new and improved antiviral drugs and vaccines.

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Date: February 17, 2004
From: maybe this is it,
Subject: Countdown....Deception/Look Away from West

URL: http://www.emediawire.com/releases/2004/1/prweb96602.php


Super Plague Coming, Intuitive Warns
Says a massively deadly disease that weakens cell linings and flusters T-cells is about to be unleashed by conspiratorial international elite. Carrots said to be effective preemptive deterrent.

by Sterling D. Allan

Ephraim, UT (PRWEB) January 2 2004--An intuitive with demonstrated credibility has issued a warning that conspiratorial elements in the shadow government of the U.S. and other nations are about to unleash a massive plague in their efforts to drastically reduce the population of the earth down to what they consider to be a more "manageable" level.

According to the intuitive, who wishes to remain unnamed, the attack will take the form of a genetically engineered super bug that attacks the membranes of cells, causing them to lose their ability to maintain a proper pH balancing, thus leading to death. It also subverts the T-cell immunity of the body, causing it to go into an auto-destruct mode. The body's hyper reaction is what is deadly.


Seventeen prominent scientists have died in the past year under suspicious circumstances. The intuitive said they were investigating various facets in relation to the technology involved in this coming plague.

The bug is neither a virus nor a bacteria, but a prion, like in Mad Cow disease. The intuitive said it is called a "demiscel," and that the recent Mad Cow outbreak was from earlier tests being done.

The demiscel is passed by direct contact, ingestion, as well as airborne, making its spread versatile and rapid.

When the demiscel is unleashed, it will result in a deadly plague of proportions not seen in recent memory, analogous to the influenza epidemic of the early 1900s that killed some 70 million people worldwide.

The intuitive said at first people might confuse it with other syndromes such as SARS. The first symptoms are flue-like.

According to the intuitive, the elitists who are behind this scheme to unleash this apocalyptic plague have an immunization that they have disbursed to those who they deem fit to survive this plague.

The intuitive said that chemtrails have been used to weaken people's immune systems so that when they are exposed to this demiscel they will succumb. Chemtrails are created from nozzles installed on jet liners that emit chemicals while in flight. In 2001, in house resolution HR 2977 IH, Congressman Dennis Kucinich of Ohio listed "chemtrails" as an "exotic weapons system" that should be eliminated.

The intuitive also said that the emaciation of nutrients in the food chain has also been done with the design of weakening people' immune systems and ability to survive this pending attack.

The intuitive said that carrots contain a combination of substances that naturally block the propagation of this demiscel, but that they need to be in a person's system before exposure, not after, when it will tend to be too late. A carrot a day is adequate to bolster a person's immune function to enable them to survive the demiscel. "They will get sick, but it will not be lethal."

Carrots are rich in antioxidants Beta Carotene and Glutathione, and vitamins A, B1, B2, C, and E, which are also considered antioxidants, which help fight free radicals. Glutathione helps the body recycle vitamin E, as well as replenish white blood cells. It also helps to strengthen cell membranes as well as T-cells.

The effect of the carrots is cumulative, so the longer a person has been eating them regularly, the better off they will be when exposed to this demiscel.

The intuitive said the conspirators would disburse the demiscel by breaking vials of the substance on floors in the airports of large cities, and other human thoroughfares such as subways and bus stations, to speed the spread of the disease. Chicago, Salt Lake City, Spokane, Dallas and New York were among the cities seen where this would be disbursed.

Just prior to the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attack on America, this intuitive saw the Lord and wondered why he was so sad. He said he could not say. Then after the attack, th