Israeli Bioweapons Lobby Blackmail and "Morgellon's"
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Subject: Israeli Bioweapons Lobby Blackmail and "Morgellon's"
Date: Jun 24, 2010 11:58 AM
Morgellobots:
http://www.actionlyme.org/BOTS_MORGELLONS.htm
We claim that the best evidence
for suppression of the scientific
evidence of what "Lyme Disease" is,
is Pat Coyle at SUNY-SB changing
sides and acting angry (defensive or
guilty) when confronted with her own
data re Lyme as the cause of MS, and
that this Pat Coyle's MS form of "Lyme,"
was "seronegative and relapsing."
See the Homepage for that data.
KMDickson
http://www.actionlyme.org
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Morgellons and the CIA’s MK/NAOMI Project (Part 2)
by Hank P. Albarelli Jr.*, Zoe Martell*
Why is it that the U.S. state apparatus is standing in the way of any
serious medical investigation into Mogellons disease? For the simple
reason that it would inexorably lead to the covert biological war
programmes of the 1950’s. Hank Albarelli lifts the veil on a period -
which may not necessarily be over - when the military-industrial
complex proclaimed to safeguard the "free world" by testing new
experiments on the civilian population that it purported to protect; a
period when members of the medical profession - including the CDC -
developed diseases that they should have been preventing but which
they used instead to contaminate the very people they were supposed to
protect.
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Part 1: Morgellons Victims Across the US and Europe
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One of the many pages from the MKNAOMI and MKULTRA declassified
documents. MKNAOMI was the code name for a joint Department of Defense/
CIA research program lasting from the 1950s through the 1970s. It is
generally reported to be a successor to the MKDELTA project and to
have focused on biological projects including biological warfare agents
—specifically, to store materials that could either incapacitate or
kill a test subject and to develop devices for the diffusion of such
materials.
List of declassified MK-Ultra Project Documents
“A massive malignant agenda at play…”
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Symptoms of Morgellons disease.
Dr. Edward Spencer, 75- years old, is one of the few physicians in the
United States that takes Morgellons disease very seriously. Spencer is
a Stanford University and Yale University Medical School educated
neurologist, who worked for nearly 40 years at Petaluma Valley
Hospital in Northern California.
One day several years ago, Dr. Spencer was summoned to meet with the
hospital’s Physicians Wellness Committee. Spencer had no idea what the
purpose of the meeting was, but thought perhaps they wanted to discuss
his recently expressed concerns about swine flu and vaccines in
Eastern Europe. Dr. Spencer had been alarmed to learn that the flu
vaccine sent to Eastern Europe was reportedly contaminated with lethal
bird flu virus. Additionally, Spencer had been an outspoken advocate
for Morgellons patients.
Spencer had earlier stated, “[The] CDC and medical establishment have
been totally negligent in studying this system of disorders known as
Morgellons, and have provided no treatment, support, or comfort at all
to patients afflicted.” He further stated, “Morgellons is not a
problem of ‘delusions of parasitosis’; it is an unexplained illness
which is characterized by skin manifestations including non-healing
lesions, itching, and the appearance of fibers. There appears to be a
strong association with Lyme disease.”
Once in the meeting, Spencer recalls, “I naively thought that maybe
they actually wanted to discuss some of my findings about swine flu”,
but was instead shocked to hear that the committee was greatly
concerned about his positions on swine flu and Morgellons, and that
they wanted him “to agree to undergo psychiatric evaluation because
they felt me to be a possible danger to my patients.” Said Spencer,
who had been associated with the hospital for nearly 40-years, “I
couldn’t believe what I was hearing. I was in a state of near shock,
sitting there with all my files on swine flu thinking they were
actually interested in my findings.”
Following a second meeting with the committee, Dr. Spencer says he
realized, “I was up against a star chamber and kangaroo court which
had already decided to get rid of me.” He explains, “I had never
challenged the system before, but I had come to the point where I felt
I had to do it. Too much was going on that really bothered me. I had
come to realize that the pharmaceutical companies were basically a
conspiracy against common people; that truth about a lot of things had
become submerged big time; that medicine today was 100 years behind
the times and had been taken over by military medicine. There seemed
to be a massive malignant agenda at play.”
After resigning his position at the hospital, Spencer testified about
Morgellons disease before the mayor and city council of Berkeley,
California. He stated in part: “There now exists strong data
indicating that this disorder [Morgellons] is associated with
nanotechnology, specifically nano machines in the form of
nanofibers.”[see below] About 30-days later, Dr. Spencer recounts that
“I made plans to attend an infectious disease conference in Malaysia”,
but before he left he was involved in a strange automobile accident.
His car was struck head on by another vehicle traveling completely on
his side of the road. Hospitalized with non-life threatening injuries,
Spencer oddly entered “a disassociated state for about 4 hours.” He
states that no reason or diagnosis for this was ever established. He
recalls, “I was on my cell phone when it started, and phone records
revealed that I called a woman in Iowa who tracks Morgellons patients,
and was connected for seven minutes. I have no memory of this.”
In an interview with these authors, Dr. Spencer said, “I regard
Morgellons disorder as a hybrid bio-nano-machine terror weapon.
Establishment medicine and the government, which is now a fraudulent
foreign owned corporation, go to great lengths to protect Morgellons
from investigation of any sort. Morgellons is not one thing but is
actually a system of multiple attack vectors that damage the body in
numerous ways and carry various DNA and RNA strands. It is made in
laboratories by talented men and women who have lost their souls and
adhere to satanic principles.”
Interview with Dr. Edward Spencer Part 1
Parts 2, 3 and 4.
Valerie’s Story
In 1986, Valerie Prazen was living in a middle-class, suburban
subdivision in Wellington, Utah. She had lived there for nearly five
years, and in 1985 the area’s sewage treatment plant began having
capacity issues revolving around the number of digesters required.
Consulting scientists employed by the plant recommended that a second
digester be added, but, according to Prazen, “Short cuts were taken
and instead of installing a second digester, the plant, which had been
privatized from municipal ownership, opted for two huge open air
sludge pits.”
Prazen says, “The pits stunk to high heaven, and worse yet folks
became very ill, many with respiratory problems, lethargy and a rash
that was flowing around peoples’ bodies systematically.”
Recounts Prazen, “People were calling the TV news station, and
eventually a number of town meetings were called about the problem,
but just before this there was a strange death of a local man. He
lived the exact distance from the plant as me on the other side, about
a quarter mile away. His death provoked a large number of people to
wonder if it was somehow connected to the plant’s activities,
including workers at the plant who were very concerned, a concern that
shot through the roof after the plant began to glow fluorescent red,
something nobody had ever previously witnessed.”
Valerie explained that she soon discovered that the man had died
shortly after returning home from having been “on maneuvers upstate
with the National Guard, [and his death] coincided with the plant
turning fluorescent red.” At a meeting with townspeople called by the
Army, Prazen recounted that a high-ranking Army officer said, “The man
died from Hantavirus which he allegedly came into contact with while
on maneuvers.” She points out those maneuvers took place in and around
the Dugway Proving Grounds, a well known military site for the testing
of biological weapons. [Hantavirus is a deadly disease spread by
rodents that is similar to the flu. Hantavirus is a serious infection,
and even with aggressive treatment, more than half of the cases are
fatal.]
“Everyone that lived near the sewage plant got sick,” recalls Valerie,
“but only I had lesions. It didn’t seem to make sense.” Eventually,
Valerie, with the help of friends and family and through her own
research, realized that she had Morgellons disease. This occurred
after she had moved away from Utah to a remote mountainous area in
Colorado, where she and her husband set up a gift shop and art
gallery.
Valerie has firm opinions about Morgellons disease. She says, “I
believe Morgellons is a technology that was programmed to go into the
body and meets with a reversal of organs—chaos ensues. This is just
part of the story; it is a whole system that will work together unless
it is stopped… I’ve often compared this situation with Morgellons to
the movie, Altered States, with John Hurt. He’s running around looking
crazy and everyone thinks he should be committed. Then they see it and
they understand, and they look crazier than he ever did.”
Jan Smith’s Story
Jan Smith is highly regarded among Morgellons sufferers. She has
appeared on the Jeff Rense radio show numerous times, and she and
Rense are widely recognized as unflinching forces who have championed
Morgellons victims long and hard, and well before anyone else. The
Rense.com website is a virtual treasure trove of Morgellons resources
and studies. Nobody can seriously look into the disease without going
through the sites’ voluminous files.
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’Goldenhead’: a Nano Robotic Sensor with holographic features (as
generated from blue fiber which was harvested from Jan Smith’s body).
Says Jeff Rense, “Morgellons is a communicable invasion or syndrome
that afflicts the entire human body (it is not merely a ‘skin
disease’) in the form of self-assembling, self-replicating, visible
colored fibers, wires-like items, tiny black specks and other
formations some containing what seem to be sensors or ‘antennae.’
Other small objects are ‘fluorescent’ or metallic in color…. It is
also reported by many Morgellons victims that the fibers and other
Morgellons items exhibit a kind of collective intelligence within the
bodies they have parasitized.”
Jan Smith’s first recollection of “having something wrong with me” was
about 13 years ago when she thought “that a black fly bit me on my
left arm just below my elbow.” The spot where the bite occurred has
never fully healed, says Smith, “and each time I thought I was rid of
it a new lesion sprang up right beside it and after 6 months I had a
line of 4 scars from one active lesion running down my arm.”
Smith recounts, “I did not feel unwell during the time following the
bite but it bothered me that things were escalating on my arm in spite
of diligent efforts with Bacitracin and bandages to get rid of it.”
Smith went to her doctor of 20 years and showed him her arm. She says,
“His immediate reaction was to tell me that I had been picking at my
arm and causing this running line of scars and sores due to the bad
habit. I was dumbfounded and hurt. After 20 years of seeing him why
would he think I had suddenly turned into a scab picking person. He
didn’t believe me when I told him that was not the case.” Smith asked
for a referral to a dermatologist, but before making that visit she
began to notice that “the lesion on my arm had long fibers coming out
of it and at first I thought it might be blanket fuzz or lint from
clothing.”
Recalls Smith, “I kept a Band-Aid on the area and it puzzled me how
the fuzz was not only under the pad but also had fibers stuck beneath
the adhesive strip. Something didn’t make sense. There was also a
strange clear fluid that oozed from the lesion that formed a clear
scale over the lesion that looked like dried airplane glue. There was
no blood and no normal scab. I began to collect fibers from the sore
and they were strange red, blue, and colorless fibers. Some were even
in fiber-balls of entwined strands. I had my trusty magnifying glass
and I planned to vindicate myself with the dermatologist. By the time
my appointment came 3 months later I had a good collection of these
fibers. I was sure the dermatologist would know what I had and would
vindicate my good name from the ranks of ‘pickers.’
At her visit with the skin doctor, Smith, with her fibers in hand in a
Ziploc bag, says she “graduated from being a ‘self excoriater’’ to
becoming a person with delusional parasitosis, as the physician wrote
on my medical records.” She says:
"This put me in the ranks of schizophrenics and at that point it was
all downhill. It was the first of many dermatologists, infectious
disease doctors and others. With each succeeding medical person I
anticipated the negative diagnosis of delusions of parasitosis before
I even met them. This diagnosis brought forth the most condescending
treatment and complete inability for anyone to listen to a word I had
to say. Suddenly, I had gone from an intelligent person to an imbecile
who should not speak. I had to start bringing my husband to the
doctor’s visits to keep the abuse quotient low. This long nightmarish
quest for medical help lasted for about 3 years, and at that time I
had still not experienced the full breakout of copious lesions that
were yet to come. Fatigue had set in and I had to quit my job at a
residential school in favor of working from my home due to perpetual
weakness and need for sleep. In the fourth year after the onset of the
arm symptoms we moved from our home and made a lot of life changes due
to decreased income since I could no longer work at all. Right after
this stressful move, the disease went full throttle and I developed
over 60 lesions on my arms, chest and abdomen. I was completely
bedridden for months. I thought I was going to die and the medical
community offered me antipsychotic drugs and skin cream for my so-
called relief. I refused to take the antipsychotic drugs and the skin
cream was of little to no help. I was on my own. I eventually got to a
point where I was functioning but I never came back to normal. Thank
God I am stubborn. I bought myself a couple of microscopes and decided
to do my own research. Those medical quacks were never going to have
the last word and steal my life.”
MK/NAOMI: Genesis of Morgellons?
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FBI investigators concluded that Fort Detrick probably was the source
of the anthrax spores used in the deadly mailings to Capitol Hill
after the attacks of September 11, 2001.
As some readers may be aware, MK/NAOMI was the cryptonym for an ultra-
secret project instituted by the CIA for its partnership with the
Special Operations Division (SOD) of the U.S. Army’s biological
warfare center at Fort Detrick, Maryland. The general objectives of MK/
NAOMI, as stated in contemporaneous CIA documents, were:
- To provide for a covert support base to meet clandestine operational
requirements.
- To research, develop, and stockpile severely incapacitating and
lethal materials for the specific use of CIA’s Technical Services
Division.
- To maintain in operational readiness special and unique items for
the dissemination of biological and chemical materials.
- To provide for the required surveillance, testing, upgrading, and
evaluation of materials and items in order to assure absence of
defects and complete predictability of results to be expected under
operational conditions.
Recently obtained CIA documents reveal that in the mid-1950s,
scientists at Fort Detrick’s SOD undertook intensive research and
experimentation with a large number of “paralysis agents.” This phase
of MK/NAOMI was referred to in-house at Fort Detrick as the “K
Project” and the “K Problem.” According to CIA documents, K indicates
both “knockout” and “kill”, depending upon the circumstances under
which researched biological products were employed by CIA operatives
in the field operations conducted under "Project Artichoke" and later
programs.
According to former Fort Detrick employees and sub-contractors,
including microbiologist Dr. Henry Eigelsbach and Dr. Hanley Watson,
the initial and central objective of the “K Project” was to “create a
substance or substances that will render an individual or animal
helpless and immobile, either consciously or unconsciously, until
definite control measures can be instituted.” Reads one memorandum on
the program, “The instances and situations where such an advantage can
be utilized are too numerous to be mentioned.”
Said the late Dr. Eigelsbach, who after leaving SOD worked for the
University of Maryland, “Some of the "K Project" work was farmed out
to universities, but the project’s work involving human subjects in
all cases I’m aware of were conducted with [SOD] personnel present.”
Reads a 1960 CIA document, “Certain species of ticks (genus
Dermacentor) have been incriminated in a clinical syndrome commonly
referred to as ‘tick paralysis.’ This syndrome occurs in both man and
animals. It results from a tick bite, and is characterized by
ascending flaccid paralysis of the musculature. Removal of the tick is
usually followed by complete and rapid spontaneous recovery. The
etiology of tick paralysis remains obscure. The disease is believed to
result from the inoculation of some unidentified tick-generated toxic
substance, which appears to be neurotropic.” [See attached document.]
The same document continues: “As a by-product of "Project NAOMI", a
sizable amount of this neurotropic toxic substance is being isolated.
The development and experimental evaluation of the substance as a
sedative agent will be carried out within the scope of this ‘K’
Problem project.
Recounted Dr. Watson, in a recent interview, “[SOD] research with
[ticks] continued into the early 1960s, reaching a turning point
around 1962 or 1963 when focus shifted away from working with the
paralyzing agents toward use of [tick substances] for possibly
creating a designer disease that could render targeted groups or
populations incapacitated, as opposed to immobilizing people… research
was intense, but perhaps not as best regulated as need be, but a
number of diseases did come off the workbench for experimentation
involving primates and then eventually human subjects… I don’t recall
ever hearing a name for any of these diseases, certainly not
Morgellons, but the dermatological manifestations and characteristics
of the current day disease certainly were commonplace with experiments
with animals used, swine, guinea pigs, dogs, cats, the gamut… tests
were as effective as the earlier experiments. Additionally, some of
the intended neurological impacts pursued, like the brain confusion or
fog, appear to be present in today’s mystery disease.” As some readers
may be aware, ticks are a natural breeding and mixing ground for
pathogens.
Pertaining to the earlier experiments, a 1960 CIA document on SOD
research reads: “As a result of animal testing procedures, a number of
centrally acting muscle relaxants have been found. Several are or have
been evaluated clinically in man with varying results. Occasionally,
clinical reports appear claiming that certain pharmacological agents
that have minimal muscle relaxant effects in some experimental animal
preparations produce dramatic relief of spasticity in man. Clinical
impressions are the usual criteria of effectiveness…. There exists
within the [redacted] the opportunity for clinical evaluations of some
centrally acting skeletal muscle relaxants on the therapeutic relief
of spasticity in man.”
Other Related MK/NAOMI Projects
Former Fort Detrick and military scientists, including Watson, note
that at about the same time intensive and varied work was being
performed using tick related substances, researchers at the Army’s
Frederick, Maryland biological warfare complex were also conducting
elaborate research and experiments using birds. Some of theses
scientists, speaking anonymously, claim that the use of birds for
biological warfare developments may have played a determining role in
the yet-to-occur onslaught of Morgellons disease.
Says one former Detrick microbiologist, “Some of these experiments
employing birds as vectors for biological agents were part and parcel
with MK/NAOMI and the K Project.” Although he is “unsure of some of
the specifics” of the bird project, he said, “I am certain that as
many as 750,000 birds, maybe as many as one million, and about $3
million, were used in the mid 1960s by Detrick microbiologists under
the direction of CIA officials.” Dr. Watson maintains that in addition
to the CIA’s Technical Services Division closely working on the
project, the CIA funded front organization, the Human Ecology Fund,
and the Office of Naval Intelligence played strong roles in the bird
projects for about 3 or 4 years in the 1960s.”
As fantastic as the claims about bird vectors seem, these authors have
discovered that the CIA and Fork Detrick did indeed institute and
conduct at least three bird-related MK/NAOMI projects throughout the
1960s, one codenamed Project STARBRIGHT. Some Fort Detrick researchers
recall having to receive special inoculations for the project. A
detailed article in the Journal of the History of Biology (Issue 34,
2001) by Roy MacLeod, University of Sydney, Australia, reveals that
nobody connected with the project was “told which diseases” the
inoculations were for. States MacLeod, “In fact, [project] staff were
told as little as possible, and then only on a ‘need to know’ basis."
MacLeod also writes, “During the same period, studies, studies of
dissemination— ‘delivery systems’ — of biological weapons are known to
have formed part of the research portfolio of both the CIA and the
Chemical Corps. Among the more notorious projects were those to
develop so-called ‘nondiscernible microbioinoculators – the dart gun
was one example— and aerosol sprays, along with the potential use of
insects (including ticks) and other organic agents.” MacLeod also
underscores that on December 9, 1968, an article in Scientific
Research by William E. Small “alleged that the Smithsonian Institution
[a partner in the Army’s bird projects] was deeply committed to
studies in Brazil and the Pacific dealing with the mechanisms by which
rare viruses and blood parasites are transmitted from birds, mammals
and insects to man.”
Lastly, MacLeod wrote that some experiments conducted by Fort Detrick
scientists at the same time involved “a set of barges loaded with
Rhesus monkeys” whereby a fine “bio-powder” (the nature of which has
never been disclosed) was disseminated and monitored. Detrick
scientists were jovial with the results of the so-called “laydown”—
“over half the monkeys died.” Remarked one Fort Detrick scientist,
William Patrick, at the time, “tactical use of similar ‘laydowns’
could devastate whole cities.”
Prion Diseases
Let us turn for a moment to another subject that has fascinated
biowarfare researchers for years: prion diseases. According to the
Centers for Disease Control, “Prion diseases or transmissible
spongiform encephalopathies (TSEs) are a family of rare progressive
neurodegenerative disorders that affect both humans and animals. They
are distinguished by long incubation periods, characteristic
spongiform changes associated with neuronal loss, and a failure to
induce inflammatory response. The causative agent of TSEs is believed
to be a prion. A prion is an abnormal, transmissible agent that is
able to induce abnormal folding of normal cellular prion proteins in
the brain, leading to brain damage and the characteristics signs and
symptoms of the disease.”
In layman’s terms, a transmissible agent called a prion causes certain
proteins in the body to fold abnormally, causing severe neurological
damage and eventual dementia and death. The exact means of
transmission for these diseases remains controversial in the
scientific community, with some researchers arguing that specific
genetic material is necessary for transmission, some arguing that the
prion protein itself is infectious, and some arguing for a link to a
type of bacterial organism known as a spiroplasma; yet others argue
for a viral link, or transmission by a complete viral particle known
as a virion. Prion forming proteins have also been identified in many
types of fungi.
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Prions and Mad Cow Disease
The public at large first became familiar with prion diseases when the
term “Mad Cow Disease” (properly known as Bovine Spongiform
Encephalopathy, or BSE) was first mentioned in the news, in relation
to contamination of beef products. Prion disease infected tissue
remains infectious even after being subjected to high heat, presenting
a risk to humans eating infected meat, even if fully cooked. Mad Cow
Disease, however, is only one of a host of such prion diseases, many
of which have been studied for years by scientists with interests in
biowarfare. In addition to BSE, prion diseases include Creutzfeld-
Jakob disease in humans, chronic wasting disease (CWD) in deer, and
Scrapie in sheep and goats, among others.
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D. Carleton Gajdusek in 1997.
D. Carleton Gajdusek, a top official at Fort Detrick and head of
laboratories for virological and neurological research at the National
Institutes of Health, was awarded a Nobel Prize in 1976 for his work
on prion diseases in humans, a subject he had studied extensively
since beginning work on them in 1957. Nobel Prize notwithstanding,
Gajdusek’s reputation is far from untarnished. His research findings
link the prion disease Kuru to human cannibalism, claiming that the
mode of transmission of the disease comes from the ingestion of the
brain of a person suffering from the condition. Critics, however, have
called these findings into question, claiming that cannibalism among
the Fore people of New Guinea was no longer being practiced when
Gajdusek claims to have witnessed it personally.
According to researcher Donald Scott, in May of 1966, Gajdusek and
several other researchers published their efforts to transmit a “kuru
like syndrome” into chimpanzees. The report was published in the
journal Nature, but more significantly, was also later mentioned in a
document entitled “Progress Report #8,” (1971) of the “Special Virus
Cancer Program (SVCP).” As Scott and many others have reported, the
Special Virus Cancer Program, which operated from roughly 1964 though
1977, was a thinly veiled cover for the US Biowarfare program,
continuing long after offensive biological weapons research was
discontinued on-record by president Nixon in 1971. The program
underwent several name changes during its operation, also being
referred to at times as the “Special Virus Leukemia Program” (1964-69)
and the “Virus Cancer Program” (1973). Alan Cantwell, cancer
researcher, states: “Also joining forces with the SVCP at the NCI
[National Cancer Institute] were the military’s biological warfare
researchers. On October 18, 1971, President Richard Nixon announced
that the Army’s biowarfare laboratories at nearby Fort Detrick,
Maryland, would be converted to cancer research. As part of Nixon’s so-
called War on Cancer, the military biowarfare unit was renamed the new
Frederick Cancer Research Center, and Litton Bionetics was named as
the military’s prime contractor for this project.” Litton Bionetics is
well known to have been a top biological weapons contractor for the
U.S. Army during the late 1960s and early 1970s.
A close look at the SVCP’s documents reveal that the program’s goals
were much more closely geared toward causing diseases than toward
curing them. Among the many diseases studied were prion diseases, at
the time thought to be caused by slow acting viruses, and considered
highly desirable as bio-weapons for use against livestock.
Of particular interest is Gajdusek’s work with a disease originally
found in sheep, commonly known as Scrapie. The disease was reportedly
named for its most obvious symptom – intense itching and discomfort
that caused the infected animal to scrape against fences and other
objects until it had worn away its wool, or even its skin. A September
1972 review article published in The American Journal of Pathology
(R.W. Lampert, D.C. Gajdusek, C.J. Gibbs, Jr.) reports,
“experimentally, Scrapie has been transmitted to goats, mice, rats,
hamsters, garbils [sic], mink, and recently to monkeys.” The article
explains that transmission of the disease was accomplished by
injecting or feeding brain and other tissue from an infected host to
the uninfected subject.
The possible implications of this information raise some grim
questions: If Scrapie and other prion diseases had been experimentally
transferred across species, including the infecting of non-human
primates, could humans also have been infected by these diseases, or
variants thereof?
GMOs and Morgellons
Another line of inquiry, for both medical professionals as well as
independent researchers, has been the question of whether a
relationship exists between genetically modified organisms (GMOs) and
Morgellons disease. Research published by the State University of New
York at Stony Brook in 2007 indicated a possible connection between
Morgellons disease and agrobacterium, a soil bacterium that possesses
the natural ability to transfer parts of its genetic material to plant
cells. Agrobacterium has been used extensively in agricultural genetic
engineering.
The pilot study (which included genetic skin testing of only two
individuals) stated: “Morgellons skin fibers appear to contain
cellulose. This observation indicates possible involvement of
pathogenic Agrobacterium, which is known to produce cellulose fibers
at infection sites within host tissues.” In an update to the study,
researcher Vitaly Citovsky, Ph.D., stated: “Our continuing screen of
additional Morgellons patients has identified Agrobacterium genetic
material in three additional individuals. Thus, all Morgellons
patients screened to date have tested positive for the presence of
Agrobacterium, whereas this microorganism has not been detected in any
of the samples derived from the control, healthy individuals.”
One independent researcher, whose work appears under the name “Kammy”
on a wordpress.com blog, pointed out some startling similarities
between bioengineered pesticides, the creation of “artificial
cilia” (moving hairs) and the appearance of Morgellons fibers.
The article specifically references a patented insecitcidal delivery
system (United States Patent 4844896). The patent describes a:
“1. Microencapsulated pathogen comprising:
- (i) an insecticidal pathogen including a virus, bacterium, or fungi
known to infect insects
- (ii) a polymeric encapsulating agent comprising polyacrylates,
polyacrylic acids, polyacrylamides or mixtures thereof;
- (iii) a sunscreening agent comprising methyl orange, malachite green
or its hydrochloride, methyl green, brilliant green, an FDC green,
coomasie brilliant blue R, methylene blue HCl salt, brilliant cresyl
blue, acridine yellow, and FDC yellow, an FDC red, fluorescein free
acid or mixtures thereof.”
“Among the sunlight protectants were Buffalo Black, Carbo-Jet Black,
cellulose, carbon, aluminum powder and aluminum oxide. Among the
microencapsulating walls were ethylcellulose and gelatin.
Microcapsules containing virus and sunlight protectant were found to
be more stable than virus alone.”
When taken in light of colored, autofluorescent fibers that emerge
from the skin of Morgellons patients, as well as sufferers’ reports of
black specks and black tar-like sweat coming from their skin, this
invention becomes decidedly quite interesting. Added to the equation
is the aforementioned fact that several researchers have noted that
the Morgellons fibers appear to contain cellulose.
Kammy points us to another invention of note, as well: cyclic
polymers. She makes the following observations: “Concentrated
solutions of ring or cyclic polymers (CPs), which lack chain ends, are
scientifically intriguing, since they defy a simple description in
terms of the tube model which has been used rather successfully to
describe the properties of linear and branched polymers,also called
‘self oscillating gel’. It has the attribute to form artificial cilia
and self walking gel…”
Indeed, a 2007 article from New Scientist Magazine describes this
invention, stating: “Nanoscopic hair-like polymer structures are being
developed by US researchers and could help explain the way similar
biological appendages, known as cilia, function inside the body. Cilia
are cell appendages that perform many different jobs in the human body
- from picking up sounds inside the ear to performing a sensory
function in the kidney. Inside the lungs, cilia wiggle back and forth
pushing mucus, and potentially harmful airborne particles, through the
respiratory system.…”
Might inventions of this nature account for the moving, seemingly
alive fibers that Morgellons patients describe?
The mystery deepens further as we begin to examine some of the disease
agents that are encapsulated within these structures. Of particular
interest to some independent Morgellons researchers are a class of
viruses, known as Baculoviruses, that attack insect and arthropod
hosts. The makers of pesticides based on baculoviruses tout them as
harmless to humans and animals, but the medical literature raises some
important questions about their safety. A 1995 article from the
journal Cell Biology details ways in which recombinant baculoviruses
have been used as a means of transferring genetic material into human
liver cells. The same article tells us that certain baculoviruses are
in development as a “biological weapon against particular insects.”
Baculoviruses are sometimes used in combination with other insect
pathogens, working synergistically to increase pesticidal effect.
Kammy nicely summarizes the mechanism by which these viruses work,
stating: Entomopoxviruses and baculoviruses are pathogens of insects
which replicate in the cytoplasm and nuclei of their host cells,
respectively. During the late stages of infection, both groups of
viruses produce occlusion bodies which serve to protect virions from
the external environment. Immunofluorescence and electron microscopy
studies have shown that large bundles of filaments are associated with
these occlusion bodies.”
A website on biological control, hosted by Cornell University, gives
us the following information:
“Insects killed by baculoviruses have a characteristic shiny-oily
appearance, and are often seen hanging limply from vegetation. They
are extremely fragile to the touch, rupturing to release fluid filled
with infective virus particles. … It is interesting to note that most
baculoviruses, unlike many other viruses, can be seen with a light
microscope. The polyhedra of many viruses look like clear, irregular
crystals of salt or sand when viewed at 400x or 1000x. The fluid
inside a dead insect is composed largely of virus polyhedra - many
billions are produced inside of one cadaver.”
The similarities between these insect manifestations, and the symptoms
Morgellons sufferers report, are certainly noteworthy. [Those who are
interested in learning more about GMOs are urged to read F. William
Engdahl’s book, “Seeds of Destruction”, Global Research, 2007.]
State of the Art
There are many dimensions of Morgellons disease that deserve serious
examination and investigation. As we have attempted to demonstrate in
this article, not the least of these are the past biowarfare
activities of the United States Army and its multi-faceted research
programs conducted at Fort Detrick. Despite the fact that these
programs have been shrouded in near total secrecy since their
inception, there is very disturbing information that acts to make
reasonable people suspect that Morgellons, and other harmful and
lethal diseases, could have either intentionally or inadvertently
emerged from government research projects.
The Morgellons landscape and patient “community” are places riddled
with subterfuge, falsehoods, intrigue, paranoia, witch-hunts,
ostracisation, petty jealousies, and infighting. Given the lack of any
recognized and authoritative voice and leadership for those who suffer
the disease, combined with the refusal of the conventional medical
community to recognize Morgellons, this is understandable and offers
ripe breeding ground for exploitation, disorganization and mental
anguish. Morgellons sufferers are left feeling banished from
mainstream society, stranded in a nether-limbo of isolation and quiet
desperation.
Making matters especially problematic for Morgellons sufferers is that
the few legitimate practitioners that treat them face genuine
harassment and threats of malpractice claims, as well as tremendous
peer pressure from the medical community. The fear of being branded a
“quack” practicing “voodoo medicine” is very real for some doctors who
want to treat patients but fear the reactions of their colleagues.
Many Morgellons patients become disturbed to discover that a number of
the so-called “experts” and “medical professionals” offering their
services to them have dubious academic credentials and often run side-
businesses whereby “alternative” treatment products are sold,
including male sex-drive enhancements. In large part, Morgellons
sufferers have been done a tremendous disservice by a number of
“independent researchers” who, despite sincerity, simply lack the
medical and scientific credentials and schooling to fully understand
what they are seeing. The number of charlatans peddling Morgellons
cures and treatments on the Internet alone is astounding, with few of
the products amounting to much more than snake oil.
Perhaps more concerning is the widespread illicit distribution of
regulated pharmaceutical products among some Morgellons patients. We
found that it was quite common for un-prescribed drugs to be shared
widely among some Morgellons suffers. As can be imagined, Morgellons
detractors pounce on these factors and go out of their way to promote
that some practitioners have been “run out” of certain states for
malpractice and have been “reprimanded for unethical practices.” At
the root of many of these issues is the gross shortage of trained
medical personnel, especially physicians and research scientists, who
are willing to devote any level of quality time to the study of the
disease and the examination and treatment of patients. Until the
medical community as a whole takes significant notice of Morgellons
and recognizes it as a serious health threat little will change with
the overall situation, and the paranoia, infighting, and exploitation
so dominant in the Morgellons community will continue and perhaps
expand.
Regardless of how one feels about Morgellons disease, it is
inescapable to note that the affliction appears to be expanding
worldwide at an alarming rate. As it spreads, regardless its cause, it
reaps very real pain, horror and psychological devastation in its
path. Not long before we concluded this part of our article we
received a letter from a woman who had recently come down with the
disease. The single mother of two, who works on an average of ten
hours a day to support her family, despite near constant pain from
Morgellons, wrote:
“I know you don’t know me, or what I’m going through, but I don’t know
who else to write to or what to do. No doctor will help me. Instead,
doctors have tried to silence me by charging me with mental illness
and threatening to take my children. I live in hell every moment. The
only things keeping me from suicide is that it is against my religion,
my love and responsibility for my children, and I pay a lot of money
for life insurance and don’t want any problems for my children in
collecting those policies. No one listens. Many asked for my research
and photos and then leave me to suffer. The CDC refuses to return my
calls, my friends all shun me now, and not a day goes by without my
considering that the best thing I can do is kill myself. I don’t know
what happened to people. Many want money from you upfront and want to
sell their product lines that will cure you. Cure me from what? To
treat a person you must know what they have. If you could help me find
a lab or a person who is really sincere in finding what this disease
is and may not be connected to any government research projects that
may have helped in developing this I would be grateful. Please, please
help me.”
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