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Bird Flu or Cash Cow?- The Pandemic Some Want to Have WHO’s Behind Designer Germs? Part 1 [Click here for Part 2]by Eve Hillary ~ © 2005Released November 15, 2005 ~ Sydney Australia |
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I’d finally lost my taste for TV. Its gaudy ads. Its manufactured news, mind numbing sitcoms and
titty-tainment. I’d successfully avoided TV for the entire year, until one night my finger strayed onto the button and flicked
around the channels. Graphic footage of dead birds and masked “health” workers spraying people with chemicals
triggered a bad case of deja` vu. I recalled the time I’d flown to South America to give a presentation at an international Human Rights conference. A few months previously, on March 4th 2003 the first person had been diagnosed with SARS, a brand new disease. It was Professor Liu Jianlun, a microbiologist working in a laboratory involved in secret, governmentsponsored work in China's Guangdong province. (1) Incredibly, he had also been “researching” the H5N1 virus, now known as the “Bird Flu”. This was closely followed by two other deaths; a Singaporean researcher working in a laboratory of the Singapore Environmental Health Institute and a post doctoral student working on West Nile virus. Singaporean Health Minister Mr. Balaji Sadasivan, stated that the researcher's exposure to the SARS virus "is most likely linked to that laboratory ... where the SARS virus is [also] cultured," (2) It made me wonder just how many bio-hazard labs were in operation and what other new germs they were engineering. I’d barely made my flight. My husband and I had been very busy in our Integrative (wholistic) medical clinic which offered patients a variety of orthodox as well as complementary and reliable alternative medical treatments. People traveled long distances to get treatment for cancer and other serious diseases. For most it was the first time they had been able to make lifestyle changes and receive physical, emotional and spiritual healing. They literally got a new lease of life. They felt better and looked better. Lately, since the media had whipped up fear of a world wide epidemic, dozens of patients visited the clinic because they were worried about SARS. The health department had issued a SARS bulletin to all doctors, which listed only 3 criteria for making the diagnosis of SARS; cough, fever and a recent trip overseas. That could include almost anyone, and I immediately became suspicious. It troubled me that authorities did not list a specific disease profile for a brand new illness that seemed to one minute reside exclusively inside biohazard laboratories and the next minute allegedly spread into human populations. I’d also noticed drug company shares rise from the sale of drugs for respiratory illness. In our practice we found very few drugs were in fact necessary for healing and disease prevention. Our patients who had taken regular doses of vitamins, minerals, omega oils, antioxidants and other natural supplements had rarely come down with colds, flu, and other infections. I hadn’t had a cold or flu for over ten years since I had started taking regular supplements. After much illness and many attempts at personal healing, I finally realised the fact that the only thing that would keep me healthy was a functional immune system. The day I boarded the aircraft two passengers were plucked from Sydney airport and quarantined in a Sydney Hospital. Media reports showed masked Asian airport personnel prowling around terminals with fever detector gadgets, hauling hot and bothered travelers off into quarantine areas. Having finally made it on board I had a chance to think again about the emergence of diseases for profit, an issue which I had just published in my second book “Health Betrayal”. I thought about AIDS - a previously unheard of disease entity which emerged in the early 1980’s. A few years earlier Merck pharmaceutical company had developed an experimental hepatitis vaccine which was given to gay men and Africans. By 1980 the AIDS epidemic started in those populations which had received the experimental vaccine. (3) Since then the WHO (World Health Organization) with its close ties to pharmaceutical companies, has strictly mandated billions of doses of various types of vaccines to Africans and other third world residents where AIDS has spread like wild fire. Governments have vaccinated unwilling populations at gunpoint. One African activist, Kihura Nkuba writes; “The enthusiasm of government to give vaccines to a people that it normally gives nothing [to] was seen as very suspicious. The forcing of them to take a vaccine against a disease they know to be harmless and which they know how to cure in its harmful state was seen as government hell bent on killing its own population for the benefit of … white world. All village people know that once you have recovered from measles you will never catch it again, but here they were telling people to vaccinate even those who have recovered from measles. In other villages police armed to the teeth moved from house to house searching for children to immunize. In 2002 Nkuba writes after a vaccination campaign; “…there was one mother who had four children, and she hid one and took three other children for vaccination, and three children died and that one survived.” It is noteworthy that of over 45 million people afflicted with HIV/AIDS worldwide, 39 million of them are in third world countries. In 2003 the average AIDS patient, who could afford it, paid US $15,000 per year for AIDS drugs which have not been shown to be effective in the treatment of the disease. (4) In late 2001 someone mailed anthrax bacillus to several key individuals and news organizations in the US. Two people subsequently died of anthrax. The strain was identified as originating from Fort Detrick - a military bioweapons facility. The anthrax had been weaponised, its potency increased for use in biological warfare. There are few facilities known in the world to have that capacity. They include US military laboratories and a government contractor. (5) While the mainstream media whipped up anti Muslim sentiment, drug company cash registers started ringing. Almost immediately, sales for Cipro, an antibiotic made by Bayer hit the roof as 30,000 Americans started taking the drug, just in case. Terrified Americans thought nothing of paying US $700 for a two month supply of Cipro despite its potentially serious side effects. Other generic versions of the drug were available but not widely publicized. The anthrax scare resulted in lucrative new drug company contracts to manufacture both anthrax and smallpox vaccinations for the military and general population. It also gave rise to the Model State Emergency Health Powers Act, giving the government wide powers to quarantine, drug and inject vaccinations into persons at gunpoint in the event of a “public health emergency” being declared. Many US states passed this Bill after September 11, which included an exemption to drug companies and vaccine makers for any vaccine deaths or injuries that would occur. (16) Public advocacy groups have already started work on having the Bill repealed, on the grounds that it is unconstitutional. On the long flight I had a chance to think about the West Nile virus (WNV) which first broke out in a poor, predominately black section of New York City in August 1999, when it had never been known to exist in the US. The virus had only ever been known in East Africa where it resulted in a mild disease that did not affect other animal and bird populations to any significant degree. However, the new NY strain of the WNV is able to jump the species barrier. Since the year 2000 over 10,000 wild birds have died, countless horses, primates and the human death toll exceeds 146 Americans. Only the most vulnerable people die however. As many as 200,000 people are infected and are clinically well, posing a good argument for keeping the immune system functioning well. The new strain has spread over most eastern US states. While health officials claim the WNV virus jumped into the U.S. from Africa, the new virulent NY strain had been cultured and engineered in Biohazard facilities for years and sold to labs around the world. Meanwhile, pharmaceutical companies including OraVax have made millions in WNV vaccine research and products. Thomas Monath, Vice President of Research and Medical Affairs at OraVax, is one of the world's leading arbovirologists. He became an advisor to NY Mayor Giuliani when the WNV problem first emerged in the city. Monath had previously developed genetically engineered vaccines against WNV type organisms in his capacity as the Chief of the Virology Division, U.S. Army at Fort Detrick, Maryland. Since the 1950s the U.S. military began developing bio-warfare weapons at Fort Detrick by cooking up germs from exotic animal diseases intended to cripple the Soviet or other enemy economies by killing horses, cattle, birds and swine with crippling new epidemics. By the 1970s new advances in genetic engineering allowed the creation of new designer viruses that jump species barriers and even cause cancer. Since then many analysts have claimed these germs have been used for population control as well as commercial purposes with the assistance of high level US government agencies. In fact plagues of animal diseases had badly affected the UK which had slaughtered almost 4 million animals after an outbreak of foot and mouth disease (FMD). Wikipedia defines the disease as a highly contagious but Non Fatal viral disease, meaning it is similar to the common cold in humans. If left to their own devices animals recover from the disease with permanent immunity to it. However laboratories licensed to manipulate or engineer the FMD virus can create forms that differ from the wild virus strain. The UK animals were infected with type O pan Asia strain, which is not normally found in the UK. Foot and mouth virus “research” was carried out by Merial Animal Health. This facility, owned by Merck and Aventis, is also a vaccine production laboratory located near Pirbright, Surrey, not far from Britain’s own government Institute for Animal Health. According to the Sunday Express, a routine audit into the government’s bio-warfare research laboratory Porton Down revealed that a container of foot and mouth virus went missing two months before the outbreak in early 2001. (7) While it is still unknown who was responsible for the outbreak, there were certainly many who profited from it. Merck’s Merial is the leading supplier of foot and mouth disease vaccine. (8) After the UK beef market collapsed overnight, Tyson Foods, the US based largest meat and poultry producer and packer in the world expanded its international market into the UK. The outbreak proved to be catastrophic to UK agriculture and rural families but a lucrative cash cow to multinational slaughter houses, food processors and pharmaceutical companies. My flight arrived at midnight in Panama City, where I disembarked and waited for another flight to Columbia. I was tired and wanted nothing more than to get on board and catch a few hours sleep, but I was about to learn a lesson about the political benefits of unleashing fear. Unbeknownst to me, a flight from Tokyo had arrived at San Jose International airport on red alert after the cabin crew informed US ground officials of five people aboard suspected of having SARS. The reason for the alert, as it later turned out, was that the passengers had simply coughed. Official fear mongering included few actual facts about SARS, an atypical pneumonia virus, which had only ever lived in a bio-lab before it appeared in several Asian countries simultaneously. Of the alleged 2960 cases of SARS worldwide, 119 people died, a death rate of 4% from the virus. In comparison, 3-5 million people are affected by seasonal influenza virus, having identical symptoms, resulting in between 250 000 and 500 000 deaths every year around the world, mainly affecting high risk groups such as the elderly, poorly mourished or chronically ill. (10) Dr. Loraine Day MD, a distinguished US physician states; “The supposed disorder of "SARS": A.. CANNOT be distinguished, by its symptoms, from virtually ANY other mild or severe respiratory disorder! And B. CANNOT be distinguished by any specific microorganism! If I, a highly trained physician, CANNOT distinguish SARS from ANY OTHER type of routine pneumonia based on ANY of the government's published information, how are lay people going to do it? “. (12) The atmosphere seemed unusually tense around the Panama terminal during the early hours of the morning. I drank from my bottle of water, and cleared my throat after the dry air on the plane had irritated it. This caught the eye of several uniformed health department personnel scanning the crowd in the transit lounge. I looked away as I felt two sets of dark eyes scanning me suspiciously. When a passing crowd of travelers obscured the officials’ view of me I hastily moved away to another lounge. Why? Because, new public health legislation around the world modeled on the US Model State Emergency Health Powers Act means to allow force in detaining and quarantining anyone, using the latest disease as a reason, whether it actually exists or not. That means fasten your seatbelts travelers, because now flight attendants, cleaners, teachers, general informants and bureaucrats will be practicing medicine without a license. Personally, I’d rather take my chances with a real doctor than an airport employee. |