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CWD/BSE - Escaped Bioweapons
From Patricia Doyle, PhD
dr_p_doyle@hotmail.com
8-19-4
 
I believe that Chronic Wasting Disease originated in the 1960s when the US military/UK Burroughs Wellcome took sheep TSE and were able to infect deer, thus causing the species jump. More than likely, the experiments in the UK entailed the use of cattle - taking sheep TSE and infecting cattle...ergo: BSE, Mad Cow in bovines and CWD in deer and elk.
 
At that time, researchers did not realize the ticking time bomb they had created with prion disease...because they thought it was a 'slow-virus.' As an agra-bioweapon, a slow virus would be extremely valuable. In other words, a slow virus would allow more time for more animals to be infected. In essence, they believed entire herds could be destroyed.
 
I think the UK and the US both had Japan's Unit 271 notes, boxcars full of them, and the research on Kuru probably intrigued the bioweaponeers. Of course, at the time when CWD originated in 1967, we were in the Cold War and wanted a thorough weapon to kill off Soviet livestock.
 
The UK, our ally, also desired a good weapon. Scrapie was virulent, quickly contracted and spread from sheep to sheep and necessitated complete herd euthanization. If one could cause cattle or other animals to contract scrapie, livestock damage would be thorough. Such agraterrorism, when developed by the US, was, of course, called 'defense.'
 
Little did the weaponeers know that they spawned a massive, deadly epidemic in the US, known as CWD, and in the UK as BSE/Mad Cow. I still haven't been able to find the time-line or time frame for UK bovine experimentation. It's very highly classified. I was surprised I found any information at all about the US experiments in Colorado. Amazingly, I did, and we posted it.
 
Speaking about bioweapons...the latest are tweaked viruses: West Nile-like Virus from the US to Japan, also WNV in Portugal and the UK.
 
If the cases occur in the US to Japan, etc, I expect the virus is NY 99 West Nile-LIKE Virus...it is NOT the same critter as the classic WNV from Europe and the Mideast.
 
Patty
 
 
Japan: Suspected 1st Human Case of West Nile Virus May Be Travel-related
 
Source: Kyodo News Online Fri 6 Aug 2004 [edited]
 
An Okinawan woman recently back from a trip to the United States is suspected of having contracted either West Nile virus or Japanese encephalitis virus, health ministry officials said Thu 5 Aug 2004. The National Institute of Infectious Diseases in Tokyo will investigate the cause of the disease, examining samples of the woman's blood and spinal fluid. The results of the investigation are expected to be released on Mon 9 Aug 2004 or later. If the woman, who is 42, tests positive for the West Nile virus, it will be Japan's 1st case of the disease.
 
Preliminary tests have detected [virus nucleic acid sequences] suspected to be those of West Nile virus or Japanese encephalitis virus. Establishing whether the virus is West Nile virus or Japanese encephalitis virus will take several more days. Both types of virus are carried by mosquitoes and have similar genetic make-up The symptoms of the diseases are also similar.
 
The woman was taken to hospital in Okinawa after suffering fever, headache, vomiting and drowsiness during her return flight from the United States on 31 Jul 2004, according to officials of the Tuberculosis and Infectious Diseases Control Division of the Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry. The woman traveled with her husband and son to California, Arizona, Washington, New York, Boston and Pennsylvania beginning on 17 Jun 2004. The woman has since left the hospital and is recovering, and her husband and son are healthy, the officials said.
 
The Ministry called for calm in Japan, even in the event that the case is confirmed to involve West Nile virus infection, saying West Nile virus does not transmit from person to person. Alarmed by a widespread outbreak of the virus in the United States and Canada, the Ministry decided last month to extend the period of banning blood donations from those returning to Japan from abroad as part of stepped-up efforts to contain West Nile virus, for which there is no vaccine.
 
About 80 percent of those who contract the virus develop no symptoms. Those who do develop symptoms, which include fever and headache, begin to experience them about 2 weeks after being infected. Serious cases, mainly in elderly people, include such symptoms of encephalitis as paralysis and impaired consciousness. During 2003, nearly 10 000 people suffered the disease worldwide and about 260 of them died.
 
http://home.kyodo.co.jp/all/display.jsp?an=20040806066
 
-- From Akira Goto Assistant Medical Director Daido Life Insurance Company dolphin@mail.ne.jp
 
[ProMED-mail thanks Narufumi Suganuma of Fukui Medical University School of Medicine and an anonymous Japanese correspondent for submitting similar reports of the same suspected case of imported West Nile virus fever. Confirmation of the diagnosis is awaited. West Nile virus and Japanese encephalitis virus (unlikely to have been contracted in the USA) are closely related viruses belonging to the Japanese encephalitis virus group of mosquito-borne flaviviruses. These viruses can be discriminated only by careful RT-PCR or serological tests. - Mod.CP]
 
 
 
Patricia A. Doyle, PhD
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