"Debate rages over smallpox virus; Stockpiles needed for more research, some officials say" by Maria Cheng, Associated Press / May 15, 2011
LONDON — Smallpox, one of the world’s deadliest diseases, eradicated three decades ago, is kept alive under tight security today in just two places — the United States and Russia.
Then really, honestly, it shouldn't be a threat.
Of the two m ore likely to use it in some sort of false flag terror incident....
:-(
Yeah, my stink government.
The inside job of 9/11 followed by a retracing of history to see endless "terror" groups being created by government and false flag incidents (we never learned from Tonkin?) really sour one on the cover story crap we would get through the mouthpiece media. Probably blame Iran.
Many other countries say the world would be safer if those stockpiles of the virus were destroyed.
Don't they need that to make an antidote or vaccine (not that I would want one of their needles in my arm; either way their is poison in there)?
This week, at a World Health Organization meeting, they will push for the fifth time for the destruction of the stockpiles. And again it seems likely their efforts will be futile.
I don't tru$t WHO after the $wine flu $windle -- and I'm $en$ing another one.
US and Russian government officials say it is essential they keep some smallpox alive in case a future biological threat demands more tests with the virus. They also say the virus samples are still needed to develop experimental vaccines and drugs.
It was in 1996 that WHO’s member countries first agreed smallpox should be destroyed. But they have repeatedly delayed a demand for destruction so that scientists could develop safer smallpox vaccines and drugs. That’s now largely been done: There are two vaccines, a third in the works, and there are experimental drugs being developed for treating it, but not curing it.
And WHO benefit$?
Yet even if most of WHO’s member countries vote to set a new date for destruction, the agency doesn’t have the power to enforce the decision.
The scientific community remains divided over whether the smallpox samples should be destroyed. The respected journal Nature editorialized against it earlier this year, arguing that scientists need the ability to do further research, and perhaps develop new vaccines and treatments in an era of possible biological attack.
I'm exhausted on the fear-o-meter, folks.
I guess I'm JUST GOING to have to GO ON with my LIFE and DO the BEST I CAN to HELP MAKE THIS a BETTER WORLD and IF SOMETHING HAPPENS, oh well.
I LOVE YOU, dear readers!!!!
However, one of the most prominent figures in wiping out the deadly, disfiguring disease is in favor of destroying all remnants of it.
“It would be an excellent idea to destroy the smallpox viruses,’’ said Dr. Donald A. Henderson, who led WHO’s eradication effort in the 1970s. “This is an organism to be greatly feared.’’
He says possession of smallpox by those not authorized to have it should be made a crime against humanity and that international authorities should prosecute any country found with it.
I noticed there are a LOT OF THOSE happening these days!
A report by independent researchers commissioned by WHO last year concluded there was no compelling scientific reason to hang on to the viruses and that the stockpiles were mainly needed to continue advanced development of the drug treatment and satisfy regulatory requirements.
Yet other scientists contend the stockpiles could still provide valuable information in the future.
They sound a little like hoarders, don't they?
Smallpox is one of the most lethal diseases in history. For centuries, it killed about one-third of the people it infected, including Queen Mary II of England, and left most survivors with deep scars on their faces from the hideous pus-filled lesions. The last known case was in Britain in 1978 when a university photographer who worked above a lab handling smallpox died after being accidentally exposed to it from the building’s air duct system.
Didn't they just cancel that show?
Smallpox vaccines are made from vaccinia, a milder related virus. “We have many ways of looking at smallpox, including gene mapping, that means we don’t need the actual [smallpox] virus,’’ said Henderson, who is now with the Center for Biosecurity at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center.
American and Russian officials disagree.
Dr. Nils Daulaire, director of the US Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Global Affairs, said the United States will again ask WHO to postpone a decision calling for the stockpile’s destruction.
He said US scientists need more time to finish research into how well new vaccines and drugs work against the virus. But he acknowledged US officials also want their own supply in case terrorists unleash smallpox as a biological weapon and additional study is needed.
Fear fatigue, sigh.
And I'm sure the elites already have their vaccines stashed for use when needed.
A scientist at the Russian laboratory where smallpox is kept, who spoke anonymously because he was not authorized to speak to the press, said the virus should be kept in case similar ones pop up in the future and more studies are needed.
Meanwhile, officials from developing countries are anxious to close the last chapter on the disease.
“There is a consensus to destroy the viruses, so how come we’re in this situation where we’re pandering to the US and Russia?’’ asked Lim Li Ching, a biosafety expert at Third World Network, a group that lobbies on behalf of developing countries.
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Related: US seeks more study for smallpox stockpile
WHO panel puts off smallpox eradication
Or is it something else they have already released?
"New cases add to measles’ reach; Officials say unknown source is a worry" May 26, 2011|By Deborah Kotz, Globe Staff
I'm ALREADY SUSPICIOUS!
Look, the AmeriKan media COVERED UP who brought CHOLERA to Haiti after the U.N. told them it wasn't important. I am simply NOT TRUSTING THEM on darn near anything these days -- because they have proven time and again they are untrustworthy.
Measles continues to spread in Massachusetts, with two new cases confirmed this week, including one involving a 23-month-old boy from Boston who had received his first measles vaccination last year, according to the Boston Public Health Commission. The other was a teenage boy from outside the city who was treated at a Boston health care facility.
Measles in Massachusetts?
That brings the state total to 17 this year — and counting. In each of the previous four years, Massachusetts has had one to three cases. The surge has been occurring nationwide as well, with federal health officials announcing Tuesday that measles cases have been on their fastest pace since 1996...
Hmmmmmmm.
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Related:
European visitor diagnosed with measles
Four new cases of measles reported
Measles outbreak blamed on vaccine fear
What did I $ay earlier?
