The Black Death Revisited

A few weeks ago, the story broke on a number of alternative news websites regarding the contamination of flu vaccine, which was sent to numerous countries in Europe. A sub-contractor in the Czech Republic discovered the ‘glitch’ when ferrets injected with what was believed to be a regular flu vaccine died, which should not happen. It was then revealed that Baxter Pharmaceuticals in Austria had somehow mixed live H5N1 virus (otherwise known as the human form of “avian flu” or “bird flu”) with H5N3 - the human flu virus. However, they maintained that none of the contaminated vaccines reached the public.

As many online researchers pointed out, this was a mistake that should not have happened. All laboratories dealing with infectious agents adhere to certain biosafety protocols that prevent the contamination of one virus by another, especially when the viruses are not in the same classification. Anyone who has read The Hot Zone or seen the film Outbreak would be well aware of this. The idea that this could happen in a major pharmaceutical companies’ lab is unthinkable and downright frightening. Representatives from Baxter have shrugged the incident aside, stating in no uncertain terms that it was ‘just one of those things’. And whilst the European media have covered the story to some degree (with the most vehement criticism coming from the Czech’s), the story has received no attention by the American corporate media.

H5N1 is not easily transmitted between humans but it is extremely virulent. 60% of all recorded cases of “bird flu” in humans have resulted in death, but only through contact with infected poultry and the like. H5N3, as we all know, is highly contagious, and many have pointed out in great detail how a mix of these two viruses could have created a new strain contracted like the common flu. This process, known as “re-assortment”, would of course have had the potential to provoke a pandemic of global magnitude. For Baxter to, as one researcher put it, essentially offer the excuse of “oops!” in regards this incident is unconscionable.

Vaccines have a long history of contamination. There is growing evidence that certain vaccines are responsible for the growth of a number of diseases and illnesses throughout the 20th century. Some time ago, information revealed that polio vaccines administered to millions of people, beginning in 1955, were contaminated with the simian virus SV-40. Due to the success of the polio vaccine, when it was discovered that SV-40 caused cancer in animals (and indeed in humans), the information was not brought to the attention of the public and inoculation programs continued. It is now an established fact that SV-40 hides in DNA, and can be passed down through generations. Many believe this is the root cause of the astronomical rise in all forms of cancer in the last fifty years.

One of the more radical theories regarding vaccine contamination concerns HIV/AIDS. In the late 1970s, the World Health Organization advertised for homosexual men in New York and San Francisco to take part in an inoculation program using an experimental vaccine for the prevention of hepatitis. At the same time, the WHO conducted an identical trial on the African continent. A few years later, the first cases of HIV/AIDS were reported amongst gay men in New York and San Francisco, and then in the populations of Africa, bringing the disease to worldwide attention. Originally, HIV/AIDS was considered the “gay disease” as nearly all cases were confined to the homosexual community. To some researchers, this is a clear indication that the hepatitis vaccine administered by the WHO in the 1970s was tainted with the virus. Many claim HIV/AIDS was created in a laboratory, whilst others, feeling the ill content of that theory, believe HIV/AIDS occurs naturally in monkeys but was deliberately inserted into the WHO’s vaccines. The established doctrine of the cross-species contamination and subsequent spread of the virus is, admittedly, flimsy at best.

But why would an organization such as the WHO or a pharmaceutical company want to willing infect people with life-threatening disease? Aside from monetary gain, conspiracy researchers point to a long-held belief in a true ruling elite (the mega-wealthy of this world), apart from government and superseding it, with an agenda of global population reduction. There is much circumstantial evidence for this belief, that a ‘new world order’ is being driven into acceptance through various orchestrated incidents that serve the interests of the few. A new world order in this sense refers to a ruling elite and servile population of one class, not too far removed from certain kingdoms and empires of antiquity. With this comes the idea of culling the human species to a more acceptable and eco-friendly size. The question arises then as to whether the recent vaccine contamination by Baxter Pharmaceuticals was a deliberate effort to kick-start this agenda? Or was it, as Baxter maintains, simply a matter of human error?

by Max Drake
(Freelance writer and artist for GritFX.)


Sources:
http://socioecohistory.wordpress.com/2009/03/07/live-avian-flu-virus-placed-in-baxter-vaccine-materials-sent-to-18-countries/

http://thejournal.parker-joseph.co.uk/blog/_archives/2009/3/6/4113594.html

Read: “In The Name Of Science” by Andrew Goliszek

The Morgellons Enigma

In 2002, Mary Leitao – a former electron microscopist and immunohistochemist – noticed sores on her two year-old son’s lip. The child complained of ‘bugs’, and when Leitao examined the sores she discovered small red, black, blue and white fibres. Leitao took her son to numerous doctors who could find no evidence of any disease or allergy. After consulting one pediatrician at Johns Hopkins, he recommended Leitao would benefit from psychiatric evaluation.

Indeed, this is the stance of nearly the entire medical community, who view the ‘disease’ mostly as a form of delusional parasitosis. Yet, sufferers of ‘Morgellons Disease’ (a name chosen by Leitao) tell a different story. In some cases the symptoms may in all likelihood be delusional on the part of the victim, or involving Munchausen’s by proxy in the case of adults with ‘afflicted’ children, but the majority of Morgellons patients are definitely not crazy.

Mary Leitao and her husband Edward were convinced that their son was suffering from “something unknown” and set up the Morgellons Research Foundation (MRF) in 2002. Morgellons symptoms include sensations of insects crawling beneath the skin, skin rashes and legions that do not heal, muscle and joint pain, cognitive disfunction and the aforementioned fibres that appear beneath the skin and can be extracted from the sores.
Forensic examination of the fibres found no match to any known fibre in the FBI’s database.

When the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) refused to acknowledge the existence of Morgellons as a new disease, the MRF began an online petition that was eventually sent to members of Congress. In 2006, the CDC created a task force to investigate the Morgellons enigma and in 2008, the CDC enlisted the US Armed Forces Institute of Pathology and the American Academy of Dermatology to assist with the investigation. This, of course, would leave sufferers and conspiracists with little or no confidence in the investigation finding a prompt and satisfactory resolution.

For there are many theories regarding Morgellons. Personnel at Tulsa Police Crime Lab who studied the fibres from a Morgellons patient, stated that the fibres were not manmade and did not come from a plant, adding it may be some byproduct of a biological organism. Others theorise regarding pollutants and pesticides, others regarding military bioweapons and still others on the subject of alien experimentation. Another theory gaining some credence is to do with nanotechnology. Whilst this relatively new technology is certainly incredible, its application in our society has gone forth with little or no study into its potential risks. Only one thing is certain – the symptoms of Morgellons are real and widespread across the United States, and to a lesser degree in Europe and even Australia. In addition to the sores and fibres, sufferers complain of difficulty walking and even a sagging mouth when speaking. It is by all accounts a living hell.

by Max Drake

(Max is a freelance writer and artist for GritFX.)