"continued silence on the incident only further erodes the public trust in the government."

[Mort Zuckerman]

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Subject: "continued silence on the incident only further erodes the
public trust in the government."

Date: Nov 12, 2011 12:11 PM

ARTICLE BELOW
===================================

We have a separate slew of evidence
that this was an accidental release
and cover-up (besides the obvious
persecution of the victims):

http://www.actionlyme.org/BIOWEAPONS_ATTRIBUTES.htm

To include an NIH spook being sent out
to make sure Willy Burgdorfer did not say
too much to the Under Our Skin crew.

To include the fact that Lyme/PI was the
original outbreak area and not likely to
have been a natural occurrance:
http://www.actionlyme.org/PIIB.htm

To include the completely bogus serology.

Lyme is the "perfect stealth pathogen
that causes MS, Lupus, excruciating headaches..."
http://www.actionlyme.org/JohnDunn_Brookhaven.htm

Which ^^^ means it isn't "an inflammatory
disease of the knee caused by autoimmunity."

To include the decades-long press/media silence.

To include the fact that Kennedy and Dodd
knew all along that Lyme was a permanent
infection and what kinds of experiments
were performed on Plum Island:
http://www.actionlyme.org/DODD_KENNEDY.htm

- -

We don't care any more, because we know the
governments and scientistss in other nations
know all about this, and are capitalizing
on the result.

On the truth, that is, about TLR2 agonists and
"stealth disablers."

Not only is it a huge market for other
nations (EBV vaccines, anti-cell surface
marker "chemotherapy"), stem cells, etc.,
but nations like Brazil and China outright
goof on us.

They InYourFace make fun of American
bioweapons shenanigans. In the journals.

And it's hysterical to read:
http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0104-42302010000300025&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en

"We leave whatever silly America describes to
silly Americans. We see something completely
different and we are giving it a new name."

And:

"Human blood-suckers Ixodes ricinus complex ticks were absent at risk
areas; the disease is recurrent in the country; Borrelia burgdorferi
was never isolated in Brazil and specific serologic tests have shown
little positivity with inconsistent results. Furthermore, peripheral
blood analysis of patients on electron microscopy exhibited structures
resembling Mycoplasma spp, Chlamydia spp and spirochete-like
microorganisms. In fact, they were assumed to be latent forms of
spirochetes (L form or cell wall deficient bacteria) adapted to
survive at inhospitable conditions in vertebrate and invertebrate
hosts."


Chinese:

Uh, no. I won't be giving you all that
information again.

America is the biggest threat to all
humanity, whether we're talking about
health, money, or resource-wars.

Whether we're talking about "civilized
societies" or perverted, failed, Me-centric
ideologies of dead, pervert-*"MDs".

Whether we're talking about the *insanity*
of the notion that one could possibly be
a Christian Freudian, who simultaneously
claims to be philosopher,...

???

What???


or we're talking about Francis Collins,
the fake Christian who defends the ego-centric
nitwits who work for the NIH, but who
know nothing about medicine or science
and especially, who never *produce*
any actionable, coherent medical science.

Kathleen M. Dickson
http://www.actionlyme.org

=========================================

http://www.topsecretwriters.com/2011/11/is-it-possible-the-government-created-lyme-disease/

Even though Lyme Disease first officially became a disease labeled as
such in the 1970s, it actually came from a bacterium that existed long
before that first outbreak in Connecticut in 1975.

There is a certain volume of literature out there – some very poorly
researched, and some well-researched – that paints the picture of a
disease that was the result of U.S. biological experimentation with
foreign disease agents.

In this expose, I’m going to take a closer look at the story of Lyme
Disease, to determine if it is at all possible to trace the origins
back to the point in history where it all first started.

The goal, hopefully, is to collect enough clues to at least add
additional weight to the entire theory, or completely debunk it once
and for all. Please come with me on this exploration, and enjoy the
ride.
The History of Lyme Disease

The tragedy of Lyme Disease is that when the current form of the
bacteria initially hit Old Lyme, CT in 1975, it went completely
misdiagnosed as an illness that shared many common symptoms with what
is now known as Lyme disease.

It all started in November of 1975.

A mother living in Old Lyme, Connecticut recognized a strange pattern
occurring in her town. An alarming number of children there were being
diagnosed with Juvenile Rheumatoid Arthritis. In some cases, the
illness also struck several members of the same family, including
adults.

A team of researchers from Yale University School of Medicine jumped
in – led by Dr. Allen Steere – and analyzed the strange outbreak that
was occurring in this rural town on the edge of the Atlantic Ocean.

Eventually, the disease was renamed to “Lyme Arthritis”, and then then
finally, “Lyme Disease.”

It wasn’t until 1982 that researcher Willy Burgdorfer discovered the
etiological agent for the disease as Borrelia burgdorferi – toxic
bacteria that was discovered living inside the guts of Ixodes ticks.

This is where what is truly known about Lyme Disease ends, and where
the unknown begins. This is where the truth becomes more fragile, and
the evidence at hand must be examined much more carefully.
Where Did Borrelia Burgdorferi Come From?

lyme diseaseThe truth is that a form of “Lyme Disease” – or at least
the bacterium that caused it – existed for many years before the new,
more virulent species showed up on the shores of Connecticut.

Brown University published an accurate timeline of the appearance of
the causative agent Borrelia Burgdorferi, as well as the troublesome
vector for the illness – the Ixodes tick.

However, what the timeline shows is an interesting lack of cases or
research regarding the illness between 1934 and 1970.

Up to 1934, the agent and the reports of symptoms only came from
Europe. The symptoms of that disease were relatively less extensive
when compared to today’s form of the illness – a skin disorder, joint
problems, and some neurological and psychological problems.

In 2008, a team of researchers at the University of Bath confirmed
that the bacterium originated in Europe, with a traceable origin
before the Ice Age, but it did not originate in North America.

The researchers tried to explain away the re-emergence of the
bacterium in North America as related to the “restoration of woodland”
in the 1970s, as reported by a Science Daily article:

“The researchers suggest its re-emergence there in the 1970s
occurred after the geographic territory of the tick that carries the
bacteria expanded, for example through the restoration of woodland.”

This explanation falls flat for any number of reasons.

First, Americans have lived, played and worked in and around
“woodland” for many decades, without any reports of such an illness in
the U.S. The tick bites and symptoms that did occur, were “benign”
according to a 1993 Yale paper describing the origins and history of
Lyme Disease.

“Early descriptions of colonial forests, the abundance of deer,
and ticks annoying explorers suggest that the conditions for B.
burgdorferi transmission were present in the Northeast hundreds of
years ago [20,21]. The generally benign nature of acute B. burgdorferi
infection relative to the debilitating and fatal effects of diseases
plaguing North Americans through the 19th century may have contributed
to its obscurity until a cluster of cases of childhood arthritis first
brought it to wider attention on this continent.”

In other words, while the bacteria and the vector tick existed for
many years, the arrival of this far more virulent and dangerous form
of B. burgdorferi in Old Lyme, CT in 1975 – and the fact that it
severely affected a cluster of victims – indicates that something
changed.

Sometime significant occurred to B. burgdorferi leading up to 1975
that caused this event to occur.
Where Else Could B. Burgdorferi and Ticks be Found?

The odd arrival of a European ailment on American shores in 1975
forces any honest observer to search in and around 1975 Old Lyme, CT
for a potential source of more toxic B burgdorferi and the ticks that
carry it.

Of course, it doesn’t take a rocket scientist to quickly identify the
most significant facility located practically within
swimming distance (at least for deer) of Old Lyme – the Plum Island
Animal Disease Center.
plum island

Plum Island is a federal research facility with the mission of
studying animal diseases in order to develop a national defense
against them. The research center was initiated in 1954, and one of
its primary goals was to study the dreaded Foot and Mouth Disease that
threatened American Cattle if it ever reached the mainland of the
United States.

An interesting Agricultural Research article, published in 1995,
estimated that the cost of a FMD disaster in the U.S. could cost the
country over $30 billion, and the government saw (and still sees) FMD
as a significant national security threat.

Around the same time Plum Island began stockpiling FMD agents for
study, congress banned the possession of the foot-and-mouth disease
virus anywhere in the U.S. – including vaccines.
I Thought We Were Talking About Lyme Disease?

plum islandWho cares about Foot and Mouth disease in cattle?

Up to now, our research into tracing down the agent that caused Lyme
Disease in 1975 in Old Lyme Connecticut led us to Plum Island, but
only because it was conducting research on Animal Diseases.

That doesn’t mean you can take the leap into assuming that the
infected, highly toxic ticks came from the facility. Not without solid
evidence.

Well, there is in fact evidence that Plum Island conducted research
that included using ticks in much of its disease studies.

The results of the research were only published later, in the 1980s,
but those medical journal publications prove that research with
diseased ticks was taking place on Plum Island around the 1970s.

–> Two Medical Journal publications, one in 1988 and one in 1989,
describe the use of ticks in studies involving Heartwater disease.

–> Three Medical Journal publications, one in 1987, one in 1991 and
one in 1992 all describe the use of ticks at Plum Island in research
on African swine fever virus.

Even though the papers do not conclusively reveal the precise studies
conducted in 1975, the fact that ticks were used in this research
makes it clear that the practice was in use at Plum Island within that
time period.
Accidents, Outbreaks and Escapes

plum islandThe government and modern-day officials that handle Plum
Island and related animal research facilities would like to offer the
impression that the facilities have always had a stellar record on
safety and security.

That couldn’t be further from the truth.

In fact, many official documents reveal numerous cases where animals
were accidentally inoculated with disease, and other cases where FMD
left the building and caused outbreaks outside of the Plum Island
facility.

A 2003 Report by Virus Research, published by four researchers
throughout the Veterinary and Animal Disease community, analyzed the
“Control and Eradication of Foot-And-Mouth Disease.”

Failures at the Plum Island facility were mentioned twice in the
report.

Under “FMD laboratories and vaccine plants” on page 138:

“During the past 20 years on at least at two occasions FMDV
escaped from technically well-equipped, high containment laboratories
causing outbreaks outside the facilities.”

And on page 110, under “Dissemination of FMD virus by people”, the
report makes it clear just how little the scientific community knew
about how easy it could be to transmit the virus out of a laboratory
setting.

“Consequently, people who work with infected animals or materials
will carry FMD virus on their hair and skin and on clothes Therefore,
on infected premises it is necessary to wear special clothing that
must be changed and left behind and the visiting person should shower
when leaving the infected premises.”

This advice was offered in 2003, and referred to an outbreak that
occurred in the UK in 1968, due to lack of understanding by the
scientific community and inappropriate precautions.

This reveals that researchers at Plum Island may very well have been
playing with an animal disease that they lacked proper understanding
about – and may very well have had insufficient controls to keep the
disease properly contained.
Evidence of Problems at Plum Island

Evidence that this was in fact the case comes from a 2008 DHS report
that details the history of accidents at various biological labs
across the country. Section B-16 describes two incidents at Plum
Island in the 1970s.

–> April 12, 1974: “Two steers that had never been inoculated with
FMDV were found to be infected.”

–> September 15, 1978: “FMDV escaped from the biocontainment facility.
The suspected cause was construction work in progress.

Further evidence that Plum Island researchers were in over their heads
comes from a 2008 GAO report on the facility, which details lax
security, a lack of appropriate safety precautions and inappropriate
environmental practices.
Accidentally Creating Lyme Disease With Foot and Mouth Research

lyme diseaseHow could Lyme Disease have come from Plum Island? After
all, the facility was researching Foot and Mouth disease.

The scary truth about both diseases is that so much remains unknown
about them.

In fact, some of the truth regarding that connection comes from Plum
Island researchers themselves.

One Plum Island researcher co-published a paper in the Journal of
Virology in 1995 that described how both Foot and Mouth disease as
well as Lyme disease involve “adhesion proteins which bind to a family
of cell surface receptors called integrins.”

The researchers drew a correlation with Lyme disease on the first page
of the paper:

“Binding of Borrelia burgdorferi, the causative agent of Lyme
disease, is mediated by the RGD-recognizing integrin.”

This correlates with connections drawn by other scientists throughout
the 90s as well. In the Veterinary medical textbook titled “Large
Animal Internal Medicine,” published in 1998, Food and Mouth Disease
and Lyme Disease are tied together by the fact that they both
represent “myocarditis” – with the cause only predicated by the
species.

“(1) Myocarditis. The causes of myocarditis vary depending on the
species.
(i) Bacterial causes include ….Borrelia burgdorferi, a spirochete,
also may be a cause of myocarditis in ruminants.
(ii) Viral causes include the picornavirus that causes foot-and-
mouth disease.”

Too Large of a Coincidence

The preponderance of evidence is too great, and too coincidental, to
pass off as irrelevant.

You have a biological research facility conducting research – very
likely using ticks as part of the research – on a highly virulent and
poorly understood animal disease throughout the 1970s.

You have the arrival of a related illness to what the lab was
researching - with scientific connections between the two diseases
that scientists are only now coming to identify over three decades
later – on the shoreline village closest to that Island research
facility.

You have the fact that the facility was heavily involved in
researching foreign animal diseases, and the fact that the origin of
the more virulent strain of Borrelia burgdorferi only existed in
Europe until the outbreak in 1975.

All of these facts make the government denials much crazier than any
Lyme disease conspiracy that exists today. It is unfortunate that such
an accident could have occurred – an accident that caused children to
fall seriously ill and become injured for life.

If such an accidental release occurred, it is ethically irresponsible
of the U.S. government to keep that accident hidden from the public.
While the scope of liability is certainly tremendous – given how much
the disease has spread and how many victims there are today –
continued silence on the incident only further erodes the public trust
in the government.

Because sooner or later, the truth will eventually come out. Maybe the
guilty parties will be passed away by then, but their memory and their
reputation will be forever tainted by the tragedy that they inflicted
upon the country. Lack of remorse and failure to accept responsibility
makes such a tragedy even worse.

Image Credit: University of New South Wales, Long Island Press,
Telegraph
References:
- http://jama.ama-assn.org/content/241/5/504.extract
- http://textbookofbacteriology.net/Lyme.html
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allen_Steere
- http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/juvenile-rheumatoid-arthritis/DS00018/DSECTION=causes
- http://lymediseaseguide.org/lyme-disease-history
- http://www.brown.edu/Courses/Bio_160/Projects2005/lyme_disease/history.htm
- http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/06/080629142805.htm
- http://info.med.yale.edu/eph/vectorbio/fish/BarbourFish.pdf
- http://www.ars.usda.gov/plum/alcatraz1295.htm
- http://www.aphis.usda.gov/animal_health/acah/downloads/documents/control_eradication
_fmd_virus_res_2003_vo-91.pdf
- http://www.dhs.gov/xlibrary/assets/nbaf_deis_appendixab.pdf
- http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC188951/pdf/692664.pdf










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[Ron]

On Nov 12, 11:16 am, Mort Zuckerman <morph...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> To: kathleen.sebel...@hhs.gov, francis.coll...@nih.hhs.gov,
> margaret.hamb...@fda.hhs.gov, dwhe...@forbes.com,
> ca...@drcarolgoodheart.com, lPicker...@cdc.gov, Durland.f...@yale.edu,
> A...@columbia.edu, gary_worm...@nymc.edu,
> scientificintegr...@ostp.gov, pkrug...@princeton.edu,
> Stanley.f...@fiu.edu, margaret.hamb...@hhs.fds.gov,
> emcswee...@niaid.nih.gov, afa...@niaid.nih.gov,
> SpinL...@yahoogroups.com, kshep...@calea.org, fitz...@gmail.com,
> patrick.fitzger...@usdoj.gov, modelt1...@sbcglobal.net,
> jdra...@nejm.org, lett...@courant.com, Jgerberd...@cdc.gov,
> michael.c...@ct.gov, conn...@po.state.ct.us, executive-
> edi...@nytimes.com, managing-edi...@nytimes.com, news-
> t...@nytimes.com, biz...@nytimes.com, fore...@nytimes.com,
> natio...@nytimes.com, dv...@cdc.gov, brigidcalla...@optonline.net,
> t...@hotmail.com, illinoisl...@aol.com, jlen...@courant.com,
> tinajgar...@yahoo.com, jhornber...@fff.org, thomas.car...@usdoj.gov,
> thomas.r...@ct.gov, kur...@washpost.com, georgew...@washpost.com,
> p...@allegorypress.com, commissioner....@po.state.ct.us,
> bransfi...@comcast.net, vtsh...@comcast.net, o...@po.state.ct.us,
> freethin...@charter.net, scott.mur...@po.state.ct.us,
> governor.r...@po.state.ct.us, attorney.gene...@ct.gov,
> randall.samb...@usdoj.gov, Robert.shil...@yale.edu, editor@greenwich-
> post.com, harold....@yale.edu, sedmo...@nswbc.org, rrmcgov...@aol.com,
> fr...@nytimes.com, saint.mich...@sbcglobal.net
> Cc: fran...@ucia.gov, dr-ahmadine...@president.ir,
> eugenerobin...@washpost.com, bmil...@newstimes.com, t...@hotmail.com,
> rastr...@aol.com, billcurr...@gmail.com, amcgui...@rms-law.com,
> rjmur...@aol.com, paulcraigrobe...@yahoo.com,
> criminal.divis...@usdoj.gov, karla.dobin...@usdoj.gov,
> christopher.chris...@usdoj.gov, richard.Le...@yale.edu,
> harold....@yale.edu, james.phill...@yale.edu, inqu...@aldf.com,
> l...@idsociety.org, meganmcar...@theatlantic.com

> And it's hysterical to read:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0104-42302010...

> http://www.topsecretwriters.com/2011/11/is-it-possible-the-government...

> -http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/juvenile-rheumatoid-arthritis/DS0001...
> -http://lymediseaseguide.org/lyme-disease-history
> -http://www.brown.edu/Courses/Bio_160/Projects2005/lyme_disease/histor...
> -http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/06/080629142805.htm
> -http://info.med.yale.edu/eph/vectorbio/fish/BarbourFish.pdf
> -http://www.ars.usda.gov/plum/alcatraz1295.htm
> -http://www.aphis.usda.gov/animal_health/acah/downloads/documents/cont...
> _fmd_virus_res_2003_vo-91.pdf
> -http://www.dhs.gov/xlibrary/assets/nbaf_deis_appendixab.pdf
> -http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC188951/pdf/692664.pdf

>
> *****
>
> Ryan Dube is editor-in-chief of TSW and an electrical engineer in the
> automation industry. He spends his time investigating declassified
> government documents, legends and conspiracy theories. Ryan has 252
> post(s) at Top Secret Writers
> View Comments
> Posted in: Conspiracy Theories, Environment     Tags: borrelia
> burgdorferi, foot and mouth disease, lyme disease, plum island
> You might also like these articles:
>
> KMDickson

Wow, Krazy Kathy is still around as well. I'd have thought that her
disease would have rotter brain away completely by now.

Ron