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Could mercury be included in vaccines not in spite of its devastating whole-body, all-systems toxicity, but BECAUSE it it? Read what Dr. Paul G. King, http://www.Mercury-freeDrugs.org, has to say on the topic.
Dr. King is one of my favorite health heroes. He is a human being who thinks like a scientist and a scientist who thinks like a human being. He also possesses one of the most important qualities which anyone can exhibit: he is fearless. Using his well-honed scientific logic, he asks questions that may seem to be inconvenient of impolite and then uses logic and research to find the answers.
Does, asks Dr. King, the use of mercury (Thimerosal) make any sense in vaccines as a preservative and antiseptic since it is not an antiseptic, not a preservative, nor is it safe? No, it does not. So why, Dr. King asks, is it used? What could possibly explain the available data? Perhaps that data is explained by the unthinkable: that Thimerasol is included in vaccines precisely because it is a systemic poison.
That is a horrific and close-to-unthinkable idea unless…. unless you look at that data. The questions of why anyone would poison our children “unto the seventh generation” is not one that Dr. King takes up. I do. I maintain that the sustainability of the globalists, which they do so love to talk about, is their reason for poisoning us with vaccines, Codex-degraded foods, pollution, deadly medicines and, yes, vaccines.
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http://drrimatruthreports.com/?page_id=189EDITORIAL – 23-06-2010
Thimerosal in Vaccines: A ‘Profitable’ Medical Maiming Agent?
Introduction to Thimerosal, a Highly Toxic Organic Mercury Compound
Paul G. King, PhD
Since the mid-1800s, we have been, and are being, exposed to increasing background levels of elemental,
inorganic, and naturally occurring organic mercury.
However, the history of mercury-containing poisons turned much more deadly when people began to make
synthetic organic mercury compounds specifically designed to be more toxic [1] to life than the common environmental inorganic mercury compounds.
[1] On a relative scale where metallic mercury has a relative toxicity of “1”, inorganic mercury compounds typically are “10 times more toxic as a group and organic mercury compounds are “100 to 1000” times more toxic on a weight basis than metallic mercury.
It is against this background that a chemist, M. S. Kharasch, synthesized a variety of “alkyl mercuric sulfur”
compounds, including sodium ethyl mercuric thiosalicylate [2], in the 1920s.
[2] Based on recent studies, this compound is on a molar basis at least 10 times more toxic to developing neurons and astrocytes than the methyl mercury compounds found in fish.
In 1928, the US Patent Office granted Kharasch a patent (“Alkyl Mercuric Sulfur Compound and Process for Producing it. US Patent 1,672,615”), relating to this alkylmercury sulfur-containing compound, which he had synthesized in the laboratory, and to the process for producing it.
He assigned this patent, along with two follow-on patents: “Kharasch, M. S. 1932. Stabilized Bactericide and Process of Stabilizing it. US Patent 1,862,896” and “Kharasch, M. S. 1935. Stabilized Organo-Mercuri-Sulphur Compounds. US Patent 2,012,820”, to the company for whom he worked, Eli Lilly and Company (Lilly) [3].
[3] These patents clearly established the instability of water- containing solutions of sodium ethyl mercuric thiosalicylate such as those in vaccine formulations.
The “safety” studies Lilly-affiliated personnel conducted on this compound were limited to some cursory animal toxicity studies that killed many of the test animals, and a specious test on some patients dying from bacterial
meningitis in the days before modern antibiotics.
In spite of the obviously highly toxic nature of this mercury compound and its instability in water-containing solutions, Lilly chose to manufacture and market this compound under the trade name “Merthiolate” [4] in the 1930s.
[4] “Mer” from mercury and “thiolate” from thiosalicylate”. The other trade names for this compound include: Merfamin, Merthiolate sodium, Mertorgan, Merzonin, Merzonin sodium, SET, Thimerosal, Thimerosalate, and, principally in Europe, Thiomersal and Thiomersalate.
Lilly sold Merthiolate as a 0.1% alcohol solution [5] (Tincture of Merthiolate), which it promoted as a “safe” and “effective” over-the- counter (O-T-C) topical antiseptic.
[5] As studies conducted in the 1930s and 1940s clearly established, the only effective antiseptic was the alcohol in the tincture – Merthiolate/Thimerosal, ateven levels of 0.1%, was neitheran effective antiseptic nor bactericidal.
Lilly marketed this O-T-C antiseptic without any valid toxicological proof of either Merthiolate’s “safety” (or its “effectiveness” as an antiseptic beyond that of the alcohol in which it was dissolved) from the early 1930s.
It also used this compound, also trade-named Thimerosal, as a preservative in the serum and vaccine products Lilly sold until the mid- 1970s [6].
[6] When it exited the vaccines business in the mid-1970s, Lilly licensed the use of its proprietary processes for the manufacture of Thimerosal- preserved vaccines to other vaccine makers and, until 1994, continued to make the Thimerosal powder used in their manufacture.
In 1998, after decades of procrastinating, the US Food and and Drug Administration (FDA) banned the use of Merthiolate/Thimerosal and related mercury compounds as ingredients in the manufacture of O-T- C topical antiseptics and vaginal contraceptives.
The FDA banned these uses of these mercury compounds on the grounds that they were neither safe to be administered to humans nor effective as a bactericidal agent in such applications.
However, though the FDA recognized Merthiolate’s/Thimerosal’s lack of safety to humans at antiseptic levels (nominally, 0.1 % by weight/volume) and its failure to be an effective antiseptic or spermicide, the FDA continued to ignore the realities of Thimerosal’s toxicity when it is used in the making of prescription medicines, where it is used as a preservative and its nominal levels range up to 0.01% by weight/volume.
As of June 2010, the FDA continues to permit the use of Thimerosal in prescription drugs, including vaccines and other biological drug products.
Thus, without the required toxicological proofs of safety, Thimerosal is still being used in the manufacture of several FDA-
approved vaccines and other drugs.
From the early 1930s until the mid- 1970s, Lilly manufactured and distributed Thimerosal-preserved serums and vaccines under licenses granted by the US National Institutes of Health (NIH), which regulated serums and vaccines.
In the late 1960s, because of the NIH’s mismanagement of vaccines, the oversight for serums and vaccines was transferred to the FDA.
Unfortunately, this transfer of oversight to the FDA included the transfer of key individuals from the NIH to the FDA’s then “Bureau of Biologics”.
Among the transfers was the then head of this FDA bureau, who continued to allow the use of Thimerosal as a preservative in biologics without the required toxicological proofs of safety.
Since 1973, all Thimerosal-containing serums and vaccines for use in humans have been regulated as biologics (biological drug products) under Title 21 of the United States Code of Federal Regulations (21 CFR) in 21 CFR §§ 600 – 680, in specific, and under all of the applicable parts of 21 CFR, in general.
As of June 2010, the manufacturers who use it have apparently not proven that the use of Thimerosal as a “preservative” in such biological products is “safe” in the manner required by law.
This is the case because 21 CFR §610.15(a), the applicable current good manufacturing practice (CGMP) drug producer’s minimum nondischargeable “shall” compliance obligation, specifically requires: “Any preservative used shall be sufficiently nontoxic so that the amount present in the recommended dose of the product will not be toxic to the recipient” [7].
[7] Note: Scientifically, the dose of a compound is “nontoxic” when the maximum level present is properly proven to be below the compound’s NOAEL (no observed adverse-effect level) when, in the intended manner (injected in the case of vaccines), the appropriate animal surrogates for the most sensitive group for which the use of the compound is intended (for vaccines, the most sensitive groups are the fetuses of pregnant women and developing children) receives the maximum amount permitted in a single dose at a frequency that appropriately matches the maximum in the most sensitive group.
To be “sufficiently nontoxic”, as required here, the level of the preservative dose must be appropriately below the NOAEL by
more than one order of magnitude (> a factor of 10).
For example, if the NOAEL for injected Thimerosal in a vaccine formulation is about 0.01 micrograms/kg of body weight/per
day, then a maximum level of about 0.0001 micrograms/kg/day (a
factor of 100 lower) might be an appropriate to ensure that the dose delivered were “sufficiently nontoxic”.
The need for a safety factor of 100, or more, arises because of the highly toxic, bioaccumulative nature of Thimerosal and its metabolites. In most current Thimerosal- preserved vaccines, the nominal level of Thimerosal is on the order of nominally 100 micrograms per milliliter. Moreover, the developing fetus typically weighs in the range from less than 1 gram to no more than 6 kg.
Thus, it is obvious that Thimerosal is much too toxic for 0.5-mL injections into the pregnant woman (delivering nominally up to 50 micrograms of Thimerosal to the fetus) to be safe since the maximum level could exceed 50,000 micrograms of Thimerosal per kilogram of fetal weight during the early weeks of pregnancy!
Today, Thimerosal, sodium ethyl-mercurithiosalicylate, is a recognized human teratogen, mutagen, carcinogen,
immune-system disruptor, and reproductive toxin at levels well below 1 part per million (ppm).
With the preceding background in mind, let us consider the “criteria” for a profitable medical population-maiming
agent and then assess how well Thimerosal used as a preservative in vaccines meets these criteria.
The “Criteria” for a Long-term ‘Profitable’ Medical Population-Maiming Agent
1. Hidden sub-acutely toxic doses of the poison must be given to each cohort of developing children before, or shortly after, birth and periodically afterward in some medicine.
Ideally, for a mass poison that is intended to “permanently” maim, but not kill, many of those who are given it, the poison needs to be given as soon as possible to as many of the target population as possible – in all parts of the target country at about the same time.
Thus, when the target is humans, the first characteristic must be that, before birth or as soon as possible after birth, almost every child must be covertly exposed to a suitably “toxic” dose of the poison.
This non-lethal, sub-acutely toxic dose must be sufficient to slowly poison some small percentage of those given it in a manner that, over time, renders them chronically ill.
In addition, to maximize the cumulative profit, almost every child must be given multiple sub-acute doses
of this poison as he or she develops.
This tactic helps to ensure:
o The percentage chronically harmed will increase over time, and
o The general population will be slow to connect the harm done to the concealed poison repeatedly administered to the developing children.
2. The doses of the poison must be portrayed as contributing to the “safety” of the product in which they are placed and the public must consider the products containing the doses of poison to be “vital” for developing children to receive
To permit the poisoning to proceed for a long time before anyone starts to notice it, the population as a whole, an especially those administering the poisoning doses, must not notice the poison or, if they do notice it, perceive that the dose being given is an insignificant dose.
In addition, the poison should be presented as a contributor to the “safety” of the medical product in which it is delivered.
Finally, the poison should be concealed in a medical product that the public perceives, or is led to believe, is necessary or vital for most all children to receive.
3. Each small dose of the poison must cause chronic disease in some who are given more of it
The third key for an exquisite mass-use poison is that only a single small dose is required to cause long-term toxic effects in some, with successive doses causing increasing effects in an increasing percentage of the population.
4. The poison’s effects must be time delayed and/or slow to develop
The fourth attribute for a near-ideal mass poison is that its observable poisoning effects must be delayed and/or slow to develop so that the resulting poisoning is not closely associated with the maiming doses’ delivery.
5. The poison must be a systemic Poison
The fifth characteristic for a “ideal” mass poison is that it must be a systemic poison that affects all of the biological systems of the targeted population to varying degrees.
This ensures that the agent’s harm is harder to recognize because the poison’s effects are not be limited to
one specific organ (e.g., heart) or system (e.g., immune system).
6. When recognized, the poison must be difficult to remove and/or to reverse its ill effects
The sixth attribute for a mass poison designed to provoke chronic disease must be that, once the poisoning is
finally recognized, the poison’s final metabolic products must be bioaccumulative persistent toxins that are difficult to remove from the body or hard to neutralize – making the chronic effects difficult and/or medically costly to reverse.
7. The poison and/or its metabolites must be soluble in aqueous and non-aqueous systems
The seventh design parameter for an effective mass poison must be that the poison and/or its immediate toxic
metabolites are soluble in both aqueous (hydrophilic) and non-aqueous (hydrophobic) regions of the body to ensure that as many organs and systems as possible are adversely affected in as many manners as achievable in the target population.
8. The poison must induce multi-generational adverse genetic and/or epigenetic effects in some of those who are dosed with it
The eighth key characteristic is that the poison must have some probability that some of its adverse health effects will be passed on to some of the offspring that those who are directly poisoned may subsequently bear or father so that, even when the poison’s use is finally stopped, it will continue to generate chronic illness in some children for generations to come.
9. The Establishment must claim that the poison is “safe” and block the requisite toxicity studies that would prove it is not “safe”
The ninth key, for our ideal mass poison, is that the medical establishment, drug makers, health officials, all the relevant government agencies and the mainstream media must not only claim that this poison is “safe” at the level used but also
refuse to conduct, and/or otherwise block, the appropriate toxicity studies that would reveal its true
toxicity.
Thimerosal at Preservative Levels in Vaccines: An Ideal Poison for Medical Mass Maiming?
From the history of its discovery, isolation and characterization, it is clear that Thimerosal is not stable when dissolved in aqueous environments.
Then, why would any firm knowingly choose Thimerosal for use as a preservative in water-based (aqueous) vaccine formulations when it is unstable in aqueous solutions?
Moreover, if one were looking for a preservative that was “safe” and “effective”, why would a firm choose to use Thimerosal, a compound that:
o Becomes more toxic over time when dissolved in isotonic pH-buffered physiological saline, and
o Rapidly losses its effectiveness as a “preservative” in serums and vaccines, when exposed to common protein components present in such products?
Yet, Lilly used Thimerosal/Merthiolate as a preservative (nominally, at .01%) in its serum and vaccine products from the 1930s until the mid-1970s when it exited the vaccines business.
In addition, along with other firms, Lilly marketed Thimerosal as an O-T-C topical antiseptic (Merthiolate) until the late-1990s, when, on the grounds of a lack of safety and a lack of effectiveness unequivocally established in the 1970s, the FDA finally banned its use as an ingredient in such O-T-C antiseptics and vaginal contraceptives.
Further, the Thimerosal-preserved early childhood vaccines (like Lilly’s DT and DPT vaccines) appear to meet the first two criteria for a profitable population-maiming agent:
1. An early population-wide deployment that maximizes the profit potential, and
2. The concealment of an “inconspicuous” amount (1 part in 10,000) of the agent as a “helpful” substance (a “preservative”) in “life saving” vaccines given several times in early childhood.
Thus, besides Tincture of Merthiolate, touted as a “safe” and “effective” topical antiseptic but not universally used by pregnant women or on young developing children, the first Thimerosal-based mass-maiming agents deployed appear to be the injected Thimerosal-preserved DT and DTP Vaccines [8], which Lilly made for administration to babies several times before their first birthday.
[8] After Lilly exited the vaccine market, other vaccine makers, principally what is now Sanofi Pasteur and GlaxoSmithKline as well as other vendors have marketed Thimerosal-preserved vaccines including some that are still being manufactured to this very day and are approved for US use.
From the 1980s until the early 2000s, in addition to Thimerosal- preserved DT and DTP vaccines, Thimerosal-preserved Td, TT, Hib, Hep B, Meningococccal, Inactivated-influenza and other vaccines were approved for use in various population segments including, for the Hib and Hep B vaccines, children.
With the phasing out of the Thimerosal-preserved DTP, Hib and Hep B vaccines as well as the Thimerosal-preserved Rho(D) products given to Rh-negative women during pregnancy in the early 2000s, in 2002, the CDC moved to replace the lost Thimerosal-maiming doses with the mercury in inactivated-influenza shots to be given to pregnant women and children 6 months to 23 months of age. By steadily increasing the upper end of the age range for
the children until it was up to 18 years in 2009, recommending 2 shots the first time a child is vaccinated for influenza, and, in the 2009-2010 flu season, adding recommendations that included one Thimerosal-preserved inactivated- influenza 2009-A-H1N1 vaccine for pregnant women and two additional doses of what could be a Thimerosal-preserved 2009-A-H1N1 vaccine for children under 9 years of age and 1 dose for those over nine years of age, the CD has effectively more than replaced the mercury removed for most of the pregnant women and children because most doses of
the inactivated-influenza vaccines (nearly 100% in the 2002-2003 flu season, and at least 75% in the 2009-2010 flu season) were Thimerosal-preserved doses.
The CDC’s recommendation to give flu shots to pregnant women is particularly egregious because all flu vaccines are: a)
“Pregnancy Category C” drugs, whose fetal and reproductive safety and effects have never been properly established and b)
drugs that have also not been tested for mutagenicity and carcinogenicity.
These Lilly vaccines were touted as life saving drugs that “immunized” (bulletproofed) children from getting deadly diseases, diphtheria (D), tetanus (T), and pertussis (P; whooping cough), which were often fatal.
Moreover, each dose of these “preserved” vaccines directly delivered nominally 50 micrograms of Thimerosal (25 micrograms of organic mercury) – a level that is more than sufficient to cause a low-level of harm in susceptible babies [9].
[9] Based on the only FDA-recognized chronic rat study for injected Thimerosal, the “nontoxic” level for injected Thimerosal is somewhere below 0.0042 microgram of Thimerosal-derived mercury per kilogram per day [see:
http://mercury-freedrugs.org/docs/090812_fnldrft_TheTruthAboutTheToxicityOfThimerosalr5b.pdf,
“The ‘Truth’ About The Toxicity Of Thimerosal (12 August 2009; 6 pages)”].
Based on several independent retrospective statistical population records studies, an exposure increase of 200 micrograms of Thimerosal (100 micrograms of organic mercury) in children vaccinated during their first year of life has been proven to be a statistically significant, or nearly statistically significant, population risk factor for a variety of serious childhood medical conditions (e.g., autism, tics, and, most recently, premature puberty).
In some reported monkey studies, a single weight-proportional birth dose of a Thimerosal-preserved hepatitis B vaccine has been shown to cause subtle, but serious, adverse effects on their early development.
Thus, Thimerosal, at preservative levels in vaccines, appears to meet the third criterion.
Moreover, the principal persistent adverse effects, like loss of words, failure to thrive, tics, or premature puberty, that have been linked to Thimerosal exposure from the injection of Thimerosal-preserved vaccines, are delayed effects.
In most cases, the exposed infant in America appears to progress normally for some period after the initial or one of the subsequent poisonings (e.g., at 2, 4, and 6 months for the Thimerosal-preserved DTP vaccines up until 2004, or at before birth and 6 [and 7] months for the Thimerosal-preserved flu shots that the CDC started ‘encouraging’ healthcare professionals to give pregnant women and healthy babies in 2002) [10].
[10] Building on the DTP program, the Thimerosal exposures were increased to at birth, 2 and 4 to 6 months when the early hepatitis B program was introduced in the 1990s, in addition to 3 more doses (at 2, 4, and 6 months) from the Hib
vaccines introduced in the late 1980s.
Further, as the level of Thimerosal was being reduced in the early childhood vaccines, the CDC started making recommendations that pregnant women and healthy children at 6 to 23 months of age receive the Thimerosal-preserved inactivated-influenza vaccines in 2002.
Currently, the CDC recommends inactivated-influenza vaccination for pregnant women and children at 6 and 7 months and annually thereafter, where the majority (not less than 75%) of the available doses are Thimerosal-preserved. In addition, in 2009 the CDC recommended an additional 2009- A-H1N1 inactivated-influenza vaccine shot for pregnant women; two of these flu shots for children up to age 9; and one of these flu shots for those 9 and older – where most all of the available doses of the 2009-A-H1N1 flu shots were again Thimerosal-preserved inactivated-vaccine doses.
Then, the susceptible exposed infant begins to “regress” or “change” as the symptoms of the maiming become evident months (usually, at or after 1 year of age) or, in the case of premature puberty (and probably childhood MS), several years later.
Thus, Thimerosal clearly satisfies the fourth, “effects delayed and/or slow to develop”, criterion for an effective population-maiming agent.
Thimerosal clearly satisfies the fifth criterion because it is a proven systemic human poison at low levels (part-per million and lower).
For example, Thimerosal is a known human carcinogen, mutagen, teratogen, immune-system disruptor and reproductive toxin (by California Prop 65 criteria) at levels below 1 part- per-million (ppm) of Thimerosal in the body.
Further, Thimerosal’s end-product metabolites are tissue-bound inorganic mercury species that have human half- lives on the order of one to two decades, depending on the tissue.
Thus, it is clear that Thimerosal is a bioaccumulative persistent toxin.
Moreover, as studies in monkeys have established, the tissue-bound “inorganic mercury” species form faster when an ethyl mercury compound was administered than when a similar methyl mercury compound was administered.
In addition, even when aggressive “mercury chelating” agents, like DMSA and DMPS, are used, the level of mercury “bound” in the tissues can only be slowly reduced.
Typically, chelation takes years to significantly reduce the poisoned individuals’ body-burden of tissue- associated, “inorganic” mercury to the point that those reversible [11] symptoms induced by the mercury- poisoning events are minimized or, in some instances, are apparently eliminated.
[11] Unfortunately, unless tested for mercury toxicity and treated before the adverse effects produce persistent symptoms, some of the developmental harm done seems, at present, to be non-reversible in many
instances.
Thus, Thimerosal has the characteristics required for the sixth key attribute for a maiming poison because any exposure to it can slowly provoke a wide range of chronic adverse clinical conditions and its mercury containing end-point metabolites (tissue-bound “inorganic mercury”) are difficult to remove from the tissues in which they reside.
Further, when a Thimerosal-containing solution enters the human body, the Thimerosal present reacts with the body’s aqueous fluids to form the following organic compounds:
– Ethyl mercury chloride (EtHgCl), which is highly lipophilic (hydrophobic);
– Ethyl mercury hydroxide (EtHgOH), which is highly hydrophilic; and
– Sodium thiosalicylate, which is further metabolized in the body.
Since both of the initial ethyl-mercury-containing metabolites of Thimerosal are small neutral species, they:
– Are easily transported within the human body;
– Apparently cross or circumvent the blood-brain barrier and cross the placenta and enter the fetus; and
– Once inside a given tissue, are rapidly converted into tissue-associated “inorganic mercury” that tends to bioaccumulate in
that tissue.
Given the preceding realities, it is clear that Thimerosal and its mercury-containing metabolites directly and indirectly poison almost all human biological processes to some degree wherever a mercury species can interfere with the body’s fundamental systems.
Thus, Thimerosal’s rapid breakdown in the human body into small neutral mercury-poisoning metabolites (that are both hydrophilic and hydrophobic and which migrate into the tissues and are converted into tissue-resident “inorganic mercury”) satisfies the seventh criterion for an exquisite mass-maiming poison.
Further, based on multi-generational reproduction experiments done in the former Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) [12], sub-acute Thimerosal exposure is clearly capable of inducing epigenetic and/or genetic changes in the offspring who are exposed to Thimerosal in utero.
[12] Goncharuk GA. Experimental investigation of the effect of organomercury pesticides on generative functions and on progeny. Hyg Sanit. 1971; 36: 40-43.
The changes induced in utero were shown to be expressed in the non- Thimerosal-exposed second-generation offspring of the first-generation of indirectly exposed offspring.
Thus, Thimerosal, used as a preservative in vaccines, appears to be a multi-generational poison.
Moreover, these experimental findings help to explain why the then USSR, already experiencing a population decline, was the first European nation to ban the use of Thimerosal in vaccines (in the early 1980s) – more than 2 decades before the US finally began slowly reducing the level of Thimerosal in the previously Thimerosal preserved early childhood vaccines.
While, obviously driven by other imperatives, the FDA continued to approve additional Thimerosal- preserved vaccines (e.g., the vaccines for hepatitis B and Haemopholis influenza type B) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) continued to add these additional FDA-approved Thimerosal-preserved vaccines to the recommendations for the national childhood vaccination program.
Thus, Thimerosal apparently meets the eighth key attribute for a near-ideal population-maiming toxin – its maiming effects can be transferred to the offspring of mothers who were themselves exposed during pregnancy as long as these in-utero-exposed ‘potential mothers’ are not so damaged that they are “miscarried” or they cannot bear children.
Finally, given:
-The official positions taken by the medical establishment, the vaccine makers, the health officials, academia, all relevant governmental agencies and the mainstream media that the use of Thimerosal as a preservative in vaccines is “safe” and
-The refusal of all to conduct (or report to the public) all of the applicable toxicity studies required to prove that this use of Thimerosal is “safe”,
Thimerosal clearly satisfies the ninth key factor for a near-ideal population-maiming poison that is touted a “beneficial” component (a preservative) and added to “life saving” vaccines that all American children are recommended to be repeatedly
given.
Thimerosal at Preservative Levels in Vaccines: A Near-ideal Medical Agent for ‘Profitable’ Mass Maiming
Thus, Thimerosal’s use as a “presser- vative” in medical vaccines seems to meet all nine (9) of the criteria for a ‘profitable’ medical mass-maiming poison.
Further, it seems clear that Lilly and the current vaccine manufacturers, which, without complying with 21 CFR § 610.15(a), continued to use Thimerosal as a preservative in vaccines and/or to
apparently profit from its on-going use, have been knowingly engaged in the apparent medical poisoning of
American children for decades in order to, at some point, profit over several decades from the Thimerosal-induced increase in the level of children in the USA who have life-long chroni health conditions (e.g., for ‘autism’, from less than 1 in 1000 children born in 1955 to more than 1 in 100 born in 2005; and, for asthma, from less than 1 in 1000 children in the 1950s to greater than 1 in 10 born in the 21st century).
Finally, these actions have apparently been, and are still being, undertaken with the tacit consent and/or assistance of all the Thimerosal-use-sup- porting facets of the Establishment.
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FREEDOM STRUGGLES ARE NEVER WON WITHOUT MUSIC. Music takes the concepts of freedom, lubricates it and inserts it directly into the head and the heart. And it is the head and the heart of the people where battles and wars seeking freedom are won. So the Natural Solutions Foundation is taking two steps: first, we have a contest in which your musical and artistic setting of the song I wrote (see below) will be shared with every one of our supporters around the world. Second, we are asking you to perform and share your music and art with us. The rules for sharing your artistic creation with the Natural Solutions Foundation are the same: All decisions are final and all entries are the property of the Natural Solutions Foundation. Entries will be judged on creativity and musical and visual originality.
CONTEST: Set the Song of the Uber-Cartel to Music, make a You Tube video (10 minutes or less) and email it to me at releyes@gmail.com. If your entry is selected, it will be mounted on the Natural Solutions Foundation You Tube channel, www.Youtube.com/naturalsolutions and we’ll feature it on our home page and in a blast! All decisions are final and all entries are the property of the Natural Solutions Foundation. All decisions are final. Entries will be judged on creativity and musical and visual originality.
Bill and Melinda Gates head the largest foundation in the world. Billions of dollars in assets allow Mr. and Mrs. Gates to do whatever good works they choose. The good works seem to be to finish what the Nazis started, but what they lacked the resources to finish: purification of the race. Bill Gates is using his unfathomable wealth to dominate and destroy the world’s population, and he does so right out in the open.
Bill Gates is not the only genocidalist out there: indeed there are a large number of wealthy, influential and powerful people who think that using one set of characteristics or another you can identify the people that you want to be rid of and justify the slaughter of every man, woman and child of the others. The word for that behavior is “Genocide”. Mr. Gates thinks that it is a really good investment.
I sing songs that the the story of struggles to stay alive and lives in other times, other places, but sharing the essential emotions and capacity of being human: I am an unrepentant “folkie”, guitar, banjo, and concertina and all. But I know of no song for a conscious and cold blooded genocialist. I therefore felt that I had to write one.
The following song is a dialogue between Mr. Gates, aged and near death, and his (in actuality, non-existent son). In the song, Bill’s grandfather passed the message to his son and, in turn, Mr. Gates hears it and takes it to the people. All is, however, not lost: Pushback does work!
The Song of the Uber-Cartel needs a melody and some production, which I most definitely do not have time to do. So here’s a neat way to win a 1000 Gift Certificate for www.Organics4U.org, our Organics-only virtual mall! Just send your completed entries to me at releyes@gmail.com.
Headline: Bill Gates To Attend 2010 Bilderberg Conference
Microsoft founder who bankrolls sterilization vaccine programs to give speech on global warming agenda and “the needs of the poorest”
http://www.prisonplanet.com/bilderberg-2010-prisonplanet-com-master-page.html
Headline: Gates Foundation Researches Nanoparticle Vaccines Triggered by Sweat
LONDON — The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation today announced 78 grants of US$100,000 each in the latest round of Grand Challenges Explorations. Grants include the development of a low-cost cell phone microscope to diagnose malaria, study of the strategic placement of insect-eating plants to reduce insect-borne diseases, and investigation of nanoparticles to release vaccines when they come in contact with human sweat.
http://www.infowars.com/gates-foundation-researches-nanoparticle-vaccines-triggered-by-sweat/
Headline: Sonic Male Sterilization Program Funded by Bill Gates
Gates recently announced that he would be funding a sterilization program that would use sharp blasts of ultrasound directed against a man’s scrotum to render him infertile for six months. The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is gaining a reputation for funding technologies designed to roll out mass sterilization and vaccination programs around the world. One of the programs recently funded by the foundation is a sterilization program that would use sharp blasts of ultrasound directed against a man’s scrotum to render him infertile for six months. It might accurately be called a “temporary castration” technology.
http://www.naturalnews.com/028853_ultrasound_fetus.html
Headline: Gates Foundation Funds Research to Turn Mosquitoes Into Flying Syringes
October 22, 2008 — The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation awarded 100,000 dollars each on Wednesday to scientists in 22 countries including funding for a Japanese proposal to turn mosquitoes into “flying syringes” delivering vaccines.
http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5i4hpnz5eOMpxfld81tEZYsC23teg
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Song of the Uber-Cartel
Dedicated to Bill Gates
Rima E. Laibow, MD
June 5, 2010
Intro (Recitative):
I’m getting old, my Son, my days are nearly done and I want to leave this world with nothing left undone.
But my time is running fast and each breath may be my last, so I’ll give you now the gift my Dad to me once passed.
The plan for us is global (some would say, “ignoble”), but the world’s judgment moves us not at all
For centuries we’ve labored to create the world WE favor where our rule is total, and the population small.
We, the New Aristocrats, have no need of teeming peasant brats: they add nothing to mix and use our oil
For the culling is beginning
Our heady plans are spinning
Generations underground, then we rebuild the world we’ve so carefully despoiled.
So take, my Son, our message to the lowly, Useless Eaters of the globe. We, the Masters of the World,
Need only wait a few more years and then there will be none to carp or criticize or peer
Into our rule. Those alive will be our abject slaves. You, among the Masters, reigning evermore through all the coming years.
Uber Cartel Song To The People:
Uber-Cartel wants you to “mach schnell”, German for “hurry up now, my friend”
Diet of death, GMOs straight from hell. Pay us, we’re the piper, piping straight to the end
Too sick to be free, you can only agree: when the bell tolls, it tolls your death knell.
The game is an old one: steal and lie, cheat and kill for gold, glory, land, and total control.
Why waste bullets, purveying ill will, Bill, when you can be loved for your generous soul?
Flying syringes, food that impinges on their immune systems – Just sell them a pill.
Media’s message is “We’re here to help, to bring you the truth, tell you all that you need.”
Reality, though, says, “Don’t let the bitch whelp! Excess useless eaters like animals breed.
Make ‘em all sterile, still alive at their peril, sub-humans all, you just can’t see their pelt!”
We, the Masters, the Ubermenschen* free, have been raised up by God to rule and despoil.
Nine tenths are useless, slaves all the others be. With so few remaining, the earth’s ours to soil
Aristocrats, Neo,
Oh! Once we are free,
Oh! Glory to all, but most of all, ME!”
The doctor standing by heard the plans set to try, realized he, and those loved were all slated to die
When his needful task was done, he called the cell phone of his son, saying “Son, the truth must be revealed or we’ll in the dying try.
The globalists intend to cull us all to end our freedom and our lives, instead to spend our wealth themselves.
Served well by servants, techs, cooks, merchants whose lives on pleasing all their Masters will depend.
But that’s not the bargain free mankind accepts. Their blueprints have been marked and they’ve trained up their adepts.
We are the People, neither burden beasts nor sheeple: we hold freedom’s promise beating in our hearts.
Ring the loud alarm bells, spread the truth well, shine freedom’s light and tell the words of might
Widely in each church, each school and house. Saddle up and mount your fearless Freedom Mouse
Ride it straight to freedom ‘gainst the genocidal plan. Global freedom’s singing to each woman and each man!
*Ubermenschen: German for Superior People, e.g., Master Race
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Should the US Government Continue to Participate in Codex Alimentarius?
Health Freedom Supporter Survey…
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Here’s Dr. Rima’s View on Getting the US Out of Codex
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AfCni-LuR_c
Natural Solutions Foundation has been an unofficial observer at many Codex Alimentarius (World Food Code) meetings world wide over the past half decade. Our presence and reports on YouTube and elsewhere have made this previously little-known UN Commission – and its degradation of the world’s food supply – a matter of intense discussion among health freedom advocates all over the world.
The US is the strongest force, and the biggest bully, in Codex. But the presence of the USA in Codex is not necessarily a positive thing, on at least two levels. On one hand, the US Government, expressed by the FDA, has a stated policy of “HARMonizing” our nutrient freedoms with international restrictions, including restrictions inherent in Codex’s insistence upon treating dietary supplements as though they were industrial toxins, while allowing all sorts of real toxins into the food supply, denigrating natural and organic products. This “HARMonization”, however, is illegal according to several statutes passed by the US Congress.
On the other hand, the presence of the US delegation, with its heavy Big Agra, Big Chema, Big Biotech and Big Biz presence, tilts the Codex process away from natural, local and sustainable food production, leading to global industrialization and degradation of the food supply, mandated under-nutrition and a host of other serious ills, creating massive food borne illnesses: Cancer, Cardiovascular Disease, Stroke, Diabetes, Obesity and a host of others from which we are dying.
So the US presence may benefit neither the American people or the people of the rest of the world.
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Health Freedom Thought Experiment.
The article following this essay looks at an emerging danger, the newly virulent Cryptococcus gatti fungus. Apparently weaponized, this may be “The Next Big Thing” for the genocidalists at WHO and elsewhere. If so, we need to have a defensive strategy and an offensive one as well.
I believe that the defensive one is to have as much high quality Nano Silver on hand as you estimate you will need both for immediate use and for what comes next, and next, and next again after that. Because it appears that the plagues manufactured in laboratories will keep coming. Nano Silver, like the Silver Solution we recommend, www.Nutronix.com/naturalsolutions will keep you safe if you have it and if you use it.
The offensive strategy is two fold: protect our health options and expose the genocidal agenda at every turn, making it so widely understood that the secrecy which allows it to function is shattered. Make the myth of overpopulation a thing of the past, like the myth of necessary female circumcision or a flat earth.
Let’st hink this through. What happens if we protect Nano Silver? What happens if its use in animals and humans is so widespread that it eliminates antibiotics altogether?
Physicists use “thought experiments” to guide them to new approaches when the experiment is too hard, too expensive or too novel to actually conduct. By working through the experiment in their minds, they can make [very] educated guesses about what happens next if they were to conduct the experiment in the real world.
Health Freedom can use the same techniques to conduct an important Thought Experiment. First, the propositions and assumptions:
Antibiotics and Vaccines
1. Antibiotics, vaccines and other pharmaceuticals are astonishingly profitable
2. Antibiotics are widely understood to be overused, leading to drug resistant and multiply drug resistant pathogens.
3. Vaccines have never been tested in a placebo controlled, double blind study to show that they are effective in either preventing or treating any disease. Vaccine manufacturers and regulators hold the position that it would be “unethical” to deprive the test subjects of the benefits of vaccines even though such benefits have never been rigorously documented while vaccine dangers have been.
4. 90% of all antibiotics used world wide are used in factory farming.
Nano Silver
1. Nano Silver is the Universal Antibiotic because laboratory tests show that it is effective against every disease-causing organism against which it has been tested: bacteria, mycoplasma, fungus (i.e., mold), virus. In all, It has been tested against more than 630 disease organisms and the result is the same: Low concentrations of Nano Silver kills disease-causing organisms. In addition, Nano Silver:
a. Is non-toxic to the environment and to living organisms since it leaves coalesces into larger ionic units which have no biological impact once it leaves the body
b. Leaves the body rather than accumulating in it due to its ultra-small size making overdose impossible
c. Cannot lead to the generation of new super bugs even with wide spread use since its mechanism of action does not permit organisms to develop resistance
d. Is inexpensive and has an indefinite shelf life, requires no refrigeration or other special care
e. Is self sterilizing, automatically killing disease causing organisms if it is contaminated by them
f. Is safe and effective for use in people of every age and condition and animals of all types
g. Has no known side effects
h. Does not kill beneficial bacteria leaving both gut and skin pro-biotic organisms intact while killing pathogens
i. Boosts white blood cell function, providing enhanced immune response
The Experiment: If Nano Silver were widely available, what would the results be?
1. Drug resistant organisms would no longer emerge in human or animal reservoirs
2. Resistant organisms in humans and animals would be killed off by the use of Nano Silver when they created disease. Over time, their numbers would decrease and the impact of disease from them would be either greatly reduced or eliminated
3. No new drug resistant organisms would emerge through the use of Nano Silver since its mechanism of action makes the acquisition of resistance impossible except through horizontal gene transfer. Any such organisms would be killed if they caused disease in humans or animals since they would be treated by Nano Silver.
4. Animals consumed for food would be significantly less toxic since Nano Silver, unlike the metabolites (by products) of antibiotic metabolism, does not remain in the body of either humans or animals
5. The amount of antibiotic and vaccine residue in effluent water and soil would decrease dramatically with marked environmental and health benefits since metabolites of drugs from the urine and feces of antibiotic and vaccine treated animals and humans poses and increasing health and environmental danger
6. Finely divided silver (without biological effect) would increase in effluent water and soil. This poses no known health or environmental danger.
7. The cost associated with antibiotic and vaccine therapy in humans and animals would be eliminated, to be replaced by a significantly lower cost
8. Pharmaceutical profits would drop dramatically since these two classes of drugs account for many billions of dollars of profit
9. Government and Union pension plans, as well as mutual funds, would loose value since they are heavily invested in major pharmaceutical stocks
10. Investing officers of pensions and mutual funds would seek other lucrative investments, including alternative energy and Advanced medicine options and companies, many of which have difficulty finding funding at this point because of the heavy investment in pharmaceutical and related, drug-based industries
11. Morbidity and mortality from nosicomial (hospital-acquired) infections would drop precipitously, eliminating a major health and health cost problem:
In the US in 1992, there were about 2 million nosicomial infections per year, =166,666 per month = 38,461 per week = 5,479 per day = 228 per hour =3 per minute. http://www.wrongdiagnosis.com/n/nosocomial_infections/stats.htm
Note: this equals approximately 10% of American hospital patients (CDC/NNIS 1992)
In 2004, 13% of all patients who acquired nosicomial infections died.
10. Nearly 100,000 people in the US alone would not die because nosocomial infections would be wiped out. “In the United States, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that roughly 1.7 million hospital-associated infections, from all types of bacteria combined, cause or contribute to 99,000 deaths each year.” Pollack, Andrew. “Rising Threat of Infections Unfazed by Antibiotics” New York Times, Feb. 27, 2010
11. National, local and private health care costs would drop dramatically since the costs associated with antibiotics, vaccines and health care costs for infections would drop dramatically as well. In 2007, the direct costs of nosicomial infections Applying two different Consumer Price Index (CPI) adjustments to account for the rate of inflation in hospital resource prices, the overall annual direct medical costs of nosicomial infections to U.S. hospitals ranges from $28.4 to $33.8 billion (after adjusting to 2007 dollars using the CPI for all urban consumers) and $35.7 billion to $45 billion (after adjusting to 2007 dollars using the CPI for inpatient hospital services). (Costs of Hospital Acquired Infections in U.S. Hospitals Report,The Direct Medical Costs of Healthcare-Associated Infections in U.S. Hospitals and the Benefits of Prevention PDF 835 KB/16 pages, http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dhqp/)
12. Any pandemic, plague, or epidemic, whether intentional or unintentional, would be successfully halted by the universal application of Nano Silver orally.
13. Globalist plans for depopulation would be adversely impacted since communicable disease, including weaponized viruses, bacteria, etc., would be ineffective against a population supplied with Nano Silver.
14. Vaccine deniers would increase in number since epidemic diseases would be a thing of the past.
15. Globalists and their supporters would have to resort to means other than infectious agents, deadly drugs and dangerous, immune compromising vaccines to reduce the population. The 10-15% of the population which Bill Gates stated in a recent TED lecture could be eliminated through properly used vaccines would not die.
16. The myth of over population would suffer serious damage as the world population did not devour the available resources and the false mathematical and social engineering premises upon which it is based would be visibly flawed. See “Overpopulation, the Making of A Myth”, http://simranjeet.com/).
17. Local, clean and unadulterated food production could be instituted around the globe to enhance the health of people no longer dying from communicable diseases and parasites.
18. Chronic and deadly diseases like malaria, dengue fever, elephantiasis, tuberculosis, HIV and a host of others will become easily curable diseases.
19. Economic productivity and prosperity of poor and ill countries will rise as personal productivity increases due to decreased health care giver requirements and decreased time away from job and school.
20. Decreased overall health costs locally, nationally and internationally reversing some of the crushing burden of modern health costs through decreased hospital stays, increased infectious disease self care (fewer doctor and hospital visits and services), decreased drug and drug complication costs, less time away from job and school).
21. Increased Happiness Index, which is directly related to subjective (and, to a lesser degree, objective) measures of health.
21. Antibiotic and vaccine manufacturers will counter the loss of their market by political, propaganda and economic thrusts designed to eliminate Nano Silver. These will include
– Criminalizing and banning Nano Silver (already accomplished as of January 1, 2010 in the European Union and underway in the US)
– Deceptive science to “show” that the product is dangerous or ineffective
– Media campaigns to deride and/or demonize Nano Silver.
I think that covers most of the major impact of making Nano Silver widely and easily available. You have the good (health, autonomy, cost), the bad (pension and stock market impact) and the ugly (intentional, weaponized pandemics would be totally ineffective if they were based, as they have been to date, on infectious disease agents).
The net result? Stock up on Nano Silver, which we believe to have an indefinite shelf life.
We recommend the Silver Solution Nano Silver available at www.Nutronix.com/naturalsolutions because we believe that it is of exceptional quality and utility.
But whatever Nano Silver you choose to purchase, make sure that you have a good supply on hand. The apparently bioengineered Cryptococcus gatti fungi may be upon us as the next plague. MRSA may be the next plague. The next plague may be one that we have not heard of yet, but which has been in the works for years. Who know? Well, actually, it is very likely that WHO does know. But Nano Silver simply eliminates the threat of an infectious danger, IF you have it on hand and take it when the time is ripe.
I do. I hope that you do, too.
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Mystery Disease Linked to Missing Israeli Scientist
Friday 07 May 2010
by: H.P. Albarelli Jr., t r u t h o u t | Report
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Media outlets across the Northwest United States began reporting on April 24 that a strange, previously unknown strain of virulent airborne fungi that has already killed at least six people in Oregon, Washington and Idaho is spreading throughout the region. The fungus, according to expert microbiologists, who have expressed alarm about the emergence of the strain, is a new genotype of Cryptococcus gatti fungi. Cryptococcus gatti is normally found in tropical and subtropical locations in India, South America, Africa and Australia. Microbiologists in the United States are reporting that the strain found here, for reasons not yet fully understood, is far deadlier than any found overseas.
Physicians in the Pacific Northwest are reporting that an undetermined number of people in the region are ill from the effects of the strange strain. Physicians also say that the virulent strain can infect domestic animals as well as humans, and symptoms do not appear until anywhere from two to four months after exposure. Symptoms in humans include a lingering cough, sharp chest pains, fever, night-sweats, weight-loss, headaches and shortness of breath. The strain can be treated successfully, if detected early enough, with oral doses of antifungal medication, but it cannot be prevented, and there is no preventative vaccine. Undiagnosed, the fungus works its way into the spinal fluid and central nervous system and causes fatal meningitis.
The estimated mortality rate is about 25 percent of 21 cases analyzed. Several newspapers and media outlets in the US and overseas quote a researcher at Duke University’s Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, Edmond Byrnes, as stating: “This novel fungus is worrisome because it appears to be a threat to otherwise healthy people. Typically, we see this fungal disease associated with transplant recipients and HIV-infected patients, but that is not what we are seeing.”
Microbiologists and epidemiologists studying the strain say the mystery fungus came from an earlier fatal fungus that was first found on British Columbia’s Vancouver Island in the fall of 2001, and perhaps as early as 1999. There the fungus infected and killed dogs, cats, horses, sheep, porpoises and at least 26 people. The disease spreads through spores carried by breezes and wind and when people and animals encounter infected ground where the fungus is present. A number of microbiologists say that the disease has “the potential to essentially travel anywhere the wind or people can carry it.” Reads an alarming study authored in part by Duke University’s Edmond Byrnes: “The continued expansion of C. gatti in the United States is ongoing, and the diversity of hosts increasing.”
Several researchers in California also note that the Cryptococcus gatti fungus has been researched for decades, extending back to the 1950’s, at the US Army’s biological warfare center, Fort Detrick, in Frederick, Maryland. One microbiologist at the University of California at Los Angeles recounted that the fungus was first brought to the attention of Fort Detrick researchers by British scientists experimenting with the bark of eucalyptus trees from Australia. Army biological warfare reports obtained through the Freedom of Information Act reveal that beginning around 1952 the Army mounted a huge research program involving numerous plant and fungi products, and that well over 300 long-term contracts and sub-contracts were let with over 35 US colleges and universities to carry out this multifaceted research. Examples of this early research in California included experiments and projects at Camp Cooke; Port Huemene; Harpers Lake; Oceanside, and extensive experimentation with wheat stem rust and “various spores” including “several from tropical locations” and cereal rust spores and dyed Lycopodium spores. Several Army reports reveal that private-sector corporations that participated or assisted in these projects were the American Institute of Crop Ecology; the American Type Culture Collection Inc.; University of California; Bioferm Inc. and the Kulijian Corporation.
The same microbiologist, who declined to speak on the record and who recounted extensive fungus work at Fort Detrick, also stated that researchers at Israel’s Institute for Biological Research, located in Ness-Ziona about 20 km from Tel Aviv, have worked with the Cryptococcus gatti fungus. They also report that mysterious Israeli-American scientist Joseph Moshe, 56 years old, may have conducted covert studies with the fungus while he was recently living in California. This report concerning Moshe is especially interesting because Moshe was briefly in the international spotlight in 2009 when he was the subject of a spectacular chase and arrest by the LA police department and SWAT team, assisted by the FBI, Secret Service, CIA, US Army and several other unidentified federal officials. That highly unusual arrest has never been fully explained to the media, and the whereabouts of Moshe has remained unknown since its occurrence. Compounding the mystery surrounding the Moshe case is that there is another scientist named Moshe Bar-Joseph who works in Israel and who looks remarkably like Joseph Moshe, except that he is about 20 years older.
Why Moshe was pursued and apprehended by the police is a largely unanswered question. According to the Los Angeles media, which recorded the entire incident by helicopter and ground cameras, Moshe claimed to be “a former Mossad microbiologist” who had telephoned a police dispatch number before his pursuit and had made “threatening statements about the White House and the president.” Reportedly, Secret Service spokesman Ed Donovan confirmed this when he spoke with several Los Angeles reporters.
On August 14, 2009, several Los Angeles police cruisers and an unmarked armored vehicle pursued Joseph Moshe as he drove his red VW automobile several miles through downtown Los Angeles before his car’s engine was reportedly knocked out by an electromagnetic pulse. Moshe refused to exit his car when ordered several times by the police, and after the driver’s window of his VW was smashed out by a robotic arm and several rounds of tear gas and pepper gas were fired into the vehicle, he still remained behind the wheel, refusing to move. At the time, police officers on the scene were stunned that Moshe was able to withstand three tear gas shells and hosing with pepper spray without moving. Later that day, a Los Angeles law enforcement official said: “I can’t explain that; there’s no way to explain that.”
After his apprehension, Moshe was taken to the Patton State Mental Hospital and then to the Twin Towers Correctional Facility in Los Angeles. Sometime about 60 days later, Moshe was quietly released and his current whereabouts are unknown. Since his arrest became public, reports about Moshe’s activities in the US have spread like wildfire, especially across the Internet. Many of these reports are unconfirmed, but a few come from credible sources and have linked Moshe to the grossly under-reported outbreak of flu in the Ukraine.
Other reliable sources, including two former Fort Detrick biochemists, have also linked Moshe to a mysterious disease that is becoming alarmingly common in Vermont and other states, including California. The disease is known to have killed or incapacitated at least 10 to 20 rural dwellers and farmers. This disease is said to be Morgellons disease or “a rare, mutated form of Morgellons disease.” Former Fort Detrick scientists, speaking off the record, say that the disease is one that was “experimented with intensely” in the late 1960’s at several “test sites in New England.” Morgellons causes patients to suffer horrible skin problems as well as fatigue, confusion and serious memory problems, as well as joint pain and the strange sensation that pins and needles are piercing the body or that something is crawling beneath one’s flesh. Some researchers and physicians believe that Morgellons is actually a psychiatric condition called “delusional parasitosis.” Other physicians, who are familiar with treating the disease, say it may be caused by “an airborne, unidentified spore” and that it was developed in the laboratory from an affliction that was first identified in the 1700’s. Regardless of its origin, some researchers say that Morgellons is becoming “a very real medical problem in some parts of the country.”
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