Islamabad—Fears are growing in Pakistan that the
spread of dengue fever also known as break-bone fever may have been caused by
some kind of biological experiment or deliberate release of virus by foreign
elements.
Pakistan Medical
Association (PMA) representatives have called on security agencies to
investigate fears of deliberate spread of dengue virus in Pakistan. According to
a report, the PMA members and experts have demanded in-depth investigation over
mysterious spread of Dengue virus in Punjab.
Dengue fever is an infectious
tropical disease caused by the dengue virus and the disease has caused alarming
situation in Lahore and other Punjab cities. Lately the disease has spread to
other cities of Pakistan and has killed over 100 people affecting thousands.
According to experts the virus has four different types; infection with one type
usually gives lifelong immunity to that type, but only short-term immunity to
the others. Subsequent infection with a different type increases the risk of
severe complications.
As per Internet info, in the spring and summer of
1981, Cuba experienced a severe hemorrhagic dengue fever epidemic. Between May
and October 1981, the island nation had 158 dengue-related deaths with about
75,000 reported infection cases. At the height of the epidemic, over 10,000
people (per day) were found infected and 116,150 were hospitalized. At the same
time during 1981 outbreak, covert biological warfare attacks on Cuba’s residents
and crops were believed to have been conducted against the island by CIA
contractors and military airplane flyovers. Particularly harmful to the nation
was a severe outbreak of swine flu that Fidel Castro attributed to the CIA.
American researcher William H. Schaap, an editor of Covert Action magazine,
claims the Cuba dengue outbreak was the result of CIA activities.
In 1982, the then Soviet media reported that the CIA sent
operatives into Afghanistan from Pakistan to launch a dengue epidemic. The
Soviets at the time claimed the operatives were posing as malaria workers, but,
instead, were releasing dengue-infected mosquitoes. The CIA denied the charges.
In 1985 and 1986, authorities in Nicaragua accused the CIA of creating a massive
outbreak of dengue fever that infected thousands in that country. CIA officials
denied any involvement, but Army researchers admitted that intensive work with
arthropod vectors for offensive biological warfare objectives had been conducted
at Fort Detrick in the early 1980s, having first started in the early 1950s.
American Fort Detrick researchers reported that huge colonies of mosquitoes
infected with not only dengue virus, but also yellow fever, were maintained at
the Frederick, Maryland (U.S.), installation, as well as hordes of flies
carrying cholera and anthrax and thousands of ticks filled with Colorado fever
and relapsing fever.
It is
significant to note that in early 2011, American CIA sponsored a fake
vaccination drive in Abbottabad city of Pakistan to get DNA samples of Osama bin
Laden, developing aversion to the real and much needed polio vaccination
programme in Pakistan.
Bilogical attack on Afghanistan: Britain and the
US have been accused of a biological attack on Afghanistan’s poppy fields in an
attempt to defeat the Afghani resistance, destroy wheat and fruit trees and
blight the opium crop. The British daily “Telegraph” reported in May 2010 that
“poppy plants (in Afghanistan) have been suffering a mysterious disease that
leaves them yellow and withered and slashes the yield of opium resin, which is
sold and processed into heroin. The worst-affected farmers said the scale of the
infection was unprecedented. Yields have dropped by 90 per cent in some
fields.
Some have claimed
the British and Americans are responsible for the plague, but they strongly
denied involvement. The blight was first noticed a month ago and linked to an
infestation of aphids in wheat and fruit trees. It has since been found in four
provinces across the south.
These biological attacks on the Afghani
people brings to memory the American biological war against the Vietnamese
people in the 1960s and 1970s.
Jean-Luc Lemahieu, the head of the UN
Office on Drugs and Crime in Afghanistan was quoted as saying: ‘’We are at this
moment not sure if it is a fungus or some insect. Spraying has been forbidden in
very clear words by the President of Afghanistan. Hence, awaiting the results
from our lab tests.’’