§ 1520a. Restrictions
on use of human subjects for testing of
chemical or biological agents
(a)Prohibited
activities
The Secretary of Defense may not
conduct (directly or by
contract)—
(1)any test
or experiment involving the use
of a chemical agent or
biological agent on a civilian
population; or
(2)any other
testing of a chemical agent or
biological agent on human
subjects.
(b)Exceptions
Subject to subsections (c), (d),
and (e) of this section, the
prohibition in subsection (a) of
this section does not apply
to a test or experiment carried
out for any of the following
purposes:
(1)Any peaceful
purpose that is related to a
medical, therapeutic,
pharmaceutical, agricultural,
industrial, or research
activity.
(2)Any
purpose that is directly related
to protection against toxic
chemicals or biological weapons
and agents.
(3)Any law
enforcement purpose, including
any purpose related to riot
control.
(c)Informed
consent required
The Secretary of Defense may
conduct a test or experiment
described in subsection (b) of
this section only if informed
consent to the testing was
obtained from each human subject
in advance of the testing on
that subject.
[While this may sound
reassuring..... the military and
arrogant governments have a
nasty history of re-classifying
such requirement under the guise
of national security interests.
When were any of the people in
the list at the bottom this page
entitled 'History of
Experimentation' contacted for
consent?]
(d)Prior notice
to Congress
Not later than 30 days after the
date of final approval within
the Department of Defense of
plans for any experiment or
study to be conducted by the
Department of Defense (whether
directly or under contract)
involving the use of human
subjects for the testing of a
chemical agent or a biological
agent, the Secretary of Defense
shall submit to the Committee on
Armed Services of the Senate and
the Committee on Armed Services
of the House of Representatives
a report setting forth a full
accounting of those plans, and
the experiment or study may then
be conducted only after the end
of the 30-day period beginning
on the date such report is
received by those committees.
[Would that be notice from
the same congress that just gave
unanimous support for a law
suspendingHabeas Corpus, and
allowingtorture?]
(e)“Biological
agent” defined
In this section, the term
“biological agent” means any
micro-organism (including
bacteria, viruses, fungi,
rickettsiac, or protozoa),
pathogen, or infectious
substance, and any naturally
occurring, bioengineered, or
synthesized component of any
such micro-organism, pathogen,
or infectious substance,
whatever its origin or method of
production, that is capable of
causing—
(1)death,
disease, or other biological
malfunction in a human, an
animal, a plant, or another
living organism;
(2)deterioration of food, water,
equipment, supplies, or
materials of any kind; or
The object is basically public relations. Domestic use would make it easier to avoid questions from others about possible safety considerations, said Secretary Michael Wynne.
“If we’re not willing to use it here against our fellow citizens, then we should not be willing to use it in a wartime situation,” said Wynne. “(Because) if I hit somebody with a nonlethal weapon and they claim that it injured them in a way that was not intended, I think that I would be vilified in the world press.”
The Air Force has paid for research into nonlethal weapons, but he said the service is unlikely to spend more money on development until injury problems are reviewed by medical experts and resolved.
Nonlethal weapons generally can weaken people if they are hit with the beam. Some of the weapons can emit short, intense energy pulses that also can be effective in disabling some electronic devices.
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HISTORY OF SECRET EXPERIMENTATION ON UNITED STATES CITIZENS
1931
Dr. Cornelius Rhoads,
under the auspices of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical
Investigations, infects human subjects with cancer cells. He later
goes on to establish the U.S. Army Biological Warfare facilities in
Maryland, Utah, and Panama, and is named to the U.S. Atomic Energy
Commission. While there, he begins a series of radiation exposure
experiments on American soldiers and civilian hospital patients.
1932
The Tuskegee Syphilis
Study begins. 200 black men diagnosed with syphilis are never told
of their illness, are denied treatment, and instead are used as
human guinea pigs in order to follow the progression and symptoms of
the disease. They all subsequently die from syphilis, their families
never told that they could have been treated.
1935
The Pellagra Incident.
After millions of individuals die from Pellagra over a span of two
decades, the U.S. Public Health Service finally acts to stem the
disease. The director of the agency admits it had known for at least
20 years that Pellagra is caused by a niacin deficiency but failed
to act since most of the deaths occured within poverty-striken black
populations.
1940
Four hundred prisoners in
Chicago are infected with Malaria in order to study the effects of
new and experimental drugs to combat the disease. Nazi doctors later
on trial at Nuremberg cite this American study to defend their own
actions during the Holocaust.
1942
Chemical Warfare Services
begins mustard gas experiments on approximately 4,000 servicemen.
The experiments continue until 1945 and made use of Seventh Day
Adventists who chose to become human guinea pigs rather than serve
on active duty.
1943
In response to Japan's
full-scale germ warfare program, the U.S. begins research on
biological weapons at Fort Detrick, MD.
1944
U.S. Navy uses human
subjects to test gas masks and clothing. Individuals were locked in
a gas chamber and exposed to mustard gas and lewisite.
1945
Project Paperclip is
initiated. The U.S. State Department, Army intelligence, and the CIA
recruit Nazi scientists and offer them immunity and secret
identities in exchange for work on top secret government projects in
the United States.
1945
"Program F" is
implemented by the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission (AEC). This is the
most extensive U.S. study of the health effects of fluoride, which
was the key chemical component in atomic bomb production. One of the
most toxic chemicals known to man, fluoride, it is found, causes
marked adverse effects to the central nervous system but much of the
information is squelched in the name of national security because of
fear that lawsuits would undermine full-scale production of atomic
bombs.
1946
Patients in VA hospitals
are used as guinea pigs for medical experiments. In order to allay
suspicions, the order is given to change the word "experiments" to
"investigations" or "observations" whenever reporting a medical
study performed in one of the nation's veteran's hospitals.
1947
Colonel E.E. Kirkpatrick
of the U.S. Atomic Energy Comission issues a secret document
(Document 07075001, January 8, 1947) stating that the agency will
begin administering intravenous doses of radioactive substances to
human subjects.
1947
The CIA begins its study
of LSD as a potential weapon for use by American intelligence. Human
subjects (both civilian and military) are used with and without
their knowledge.
1950
Department of Defense
begins plans to detonate nuclear weapons in desert areas and monitor
downwind residents for medical problems and mortality rates.
1950
In an experiment to
determine how susceptible an American city would be to biological
attack, the U.S. Navy sprays a cloud of bacteria from ships over San
Franciso. Monitoring devices are situated throughout the city in
order to test the extent of infection. Many residents become ill
with pneumonia-like symptoms.
1951
Department of Defense
begins open air tests using disease-producing bacteria and viruses.
Tests last through 1969 and there is concern that people in the
surrounding areas have been exposed.
1953
U.S. military releases
clouds of zinc cadmium sulfide gas over Winnipeg, St. Louis,
Minneapolis, Fort Wayne, the Monocacy River Valley in Maryland, and
Leesburg, Virginia. Their intent is to determine how efficiently
they could disperse chemical agents.
1953
Joint Army-Navy-CIA
experiments are conducted in which tens of thousands of people in
New York and San Francisco are exposed to the airborne germs
Serratia marcescens and Bacillus glogigii.
1953
CIA initiates Project
MKULTRA. This is an eleven year research program designed to produce
and test drugs and biological agents that would be used for mind
control and behavior modification. Six of the subprojects involved
testing the agents on unwitting human beings.
1955
The CIA, in an experiment
to test its ability to infect human populations with biological
agents, releases a bacteria withdrawn from the Army's biological
warfare arsenal over Tampa Bay, Fl.
1955
Army Chemical Corps
continues LSD research, studying its potential use as a chemical
incapacitating agent. More than 1,000 Americans participate in the
tests, which continue until 1958.
1956
U.S. military releases
mosquitoes infected with Yellow Fever over Savannah, Ga and Avon
Park, Fl. Following each test, Army agents posing as public health
officials test victims for effects.
1958
LSD is tested on 95
volunteers at the Army's Chemical Warfare Laboratories for its
effect on intelligence.
1960
The Army Assistant
Chief-of-Staff for Intelligence (ACSI) authorizes field testing of
LSD in Europe and the Far East. Testing of the european population
is code named Project THIRD CHANCE; testing of the Asian population
is code named Project DERBY HAT.
1965
CIA and Department of
Defense begin Project MKSEARCH, a program to develop a capability to
manipulate human behavior through the use of mind-altering drugs.
1965
Prisoners at the
Holmesburg State Prison in Philadelphia are subjected to dioxin, the
highly toxic chemical component of Agent Orange used in Viet Nam.
The men are later studied for development of cancer, which indicates
that Agent Orange had been a suspected carcinogen all along.
1966
CIA initiates Project
MKOFTEN, a program to test the toxicological effects of certain
drugs on humans and animals.
1966
U.S. Army dispenses
Bacillus subtilis variant niger throughout the New York City subway
system. More than a million civilians are exposed when army
scientists drop lightbulbs filled with the bacteria onto ventilation
grates.
1967
CIA and Department of
Defense implement Project MKNAOMI, successor to MKULTRA and designed
to maintain, stockpile and test biological and chemical weapons.
1968
CIA experiments with the
possibility of poisoning drinking water by injecting chemicals into
the water supply of the FDA in Washington, D.C.
1969
Dr. Robert MacMahan of
the Department of Defense requests from congress $10 million to
develop, within 5 to 10 years, a synthetic biological agent to which
no natural immunity exists.
1970
Funding for the synthetic
biological agent is obtained under H.R. 15090. The project, under
the supervision of the CIA, is carried out by the Special Operations
Division at Fort Detrick, the army's top secret biological weapons
facility. Speculation is raised that molecular biology techniques
are used to produce AIDS-like retroviruses.
1970
United States intensifies
its development of "ethnic weapons" (Military Review, Nov., 1970),
designed to selectively target and eliminate specific ethnic groups
who are susceptible due to genetic differences and variations in
DNA.
1975
The virus section of Fort
Detrick's Center for Biological Warfare Research is renamed the
Fredrick Cancer Research Facilities and placed under the supervision
of the National Cancer Institute (NCI) . It is here that a special
virus cancer program is initiated by the U.S. Navy, purportedly to
develop cancer-causing viruses. It is also here that
retrovirologists isolate a virus to which no immunity exists. It is
later named HTLV (Human T-cell Leukemia Virus).
1977
Senate hearings on Health
and Scientific Research confirm that 239 populated areas had been
contaminated with biological agents between 1949 and 1969. Some of
the areas included San Francisco, Washington, D.C., Key West, Panama
City, Minneapolis, and St. Louis.
1978
Experimental Hepatitis B
vaccine trials, conducted by the CDC, begin in New York, Los Angeles
and San Francisco. Ads for research subjects specifically ask for
promiscuous homosexual men.
1981
First cases of AIDS are
confirmed in homosexual men in New York, Los Angeles and San
Francisco, triggering speculation that AIDS may have been introduced
via the Hepatitis B vaccine.
1985
According to the journal
Science (227:173-177), HTLV and VISNA, a fatal sheep virus, are very
similar, indicating a close taxonomic and evolutionary relationship.
1986
According to the
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (83:4007-4011), HIV
and VISNA are highly similar and share all structural elements,
except for a small segment which is nearly identical to HTLV. This
leads to speculation that HTLV and VISNA may have been linked to
produce a new retrovirus to which no natural immunity exists.
1986
A report to Congress
reveals that the U.S. Government's current generation of biological
agents includes: modified viruses, naturally occurring toxins, and
agents that are altered through genetic engineering to change
immunological character and prevent treatment by all existing
vaccines.
1987
Department of Defense
admits that, despite a treaty banning research and development of
biological agents, it continues to operate research facilities at
127 facilities and universities around the nation.
1990
More than 1500 six-month
old black and hispanic babies in Los Angeles are given an
"experimental" measles vaccine that had never been licensed for use
in the United States. CDC later admits that parents were never
informed that the vaccine being injected to their children was
experimental.
1994
With a technique called
"gene tracking," Dr. Garth Nicolson at the MD Anderson Cancer Center
in Houston, TX discovers that many returning Desert Storm veterans
are infected with an altered strain of Mycoplasma incognitus, a
microbe commonly used in the production of biological weapons.
Incorporated into its molecular structure is 40 percent of the HIV
protein coat, indicating that it had been man-made.
1994
Senator John D.
Rockefeller issues a report revealing that for at least 50 years the
Department of Defense has used hundreds of thousands of military
personnel in human experiments and for intentional exposure to
dangerous substances. Materials included mustard and nerve gas,
ionizing radiation, psychochemicals, hallucinogens, and drugs used
during the Gulf War.
1995
U.S. Government admits that it had offered Japanese war criminals
and scientists who had performed human medical experiments salaries
and immunity from prosecution in exchange for data on biological
warfare research.
1995
Dr. Garth Nicolson, uncovers evidence that the biological agents
used during the Gulf War had been manufactured in Houston, TX and
Boca Raton, Fl and tested on prisoners in the Texas Department of
Corrections.
1996
Department of Defense admits that Desert Storm soldiers were exposed
to chemical agents.
1997
Eighty-eight members of Congress sign a letter demanding an
investigation into bioweapons use & Gulf War Syndrome.
British soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan are being treated
with an experimental drug that has not been fully tested.
Liberal Democrat MP Phil Willis, chairman of the
science and technology select committee, said the MoD's decision was
"a dereliction of its duty of care that indicates a moral bankruptcy
within the military." And an expert in trauma care has warned "there
is potential for harm".
A soldier serving in Iraq who is stationed in Baghdad says he has faced threats and intimidation from his Army superiors including the possibility of forced inoculations after he refused to take the military's controversial anthrax vaccine.
Private First Class Leif Hamre, 22, is currently serving out a Field Grade Article 15, a non-judicial punishment for disciplinary offenses, for refusing to take the Pentagon's anthrax vaccine, BioThrax, earlier this summer.
Hundreds of Canadian soldiers exposed to radiation during Cold War: Defence report- June 18/2007 OTTAWA — Almost 900 Canadian military personnel were exposed to radiation from nuclear weapons tests during the Cold War as well as two serious reactor accidents in Chalk River, Ont. during the 1950s, according to a report produced for Defence Minister Gordon O'Connor.
In case you didn't know it, the White House since 9/11 has called for spending $44-billion on biological warfare research, a sum unprecedented in world history, and an obliging Congress has authorized it.
Thus, some of the deadliest pathogens known to humankind are being rekindled in hundreds of labs in pharmaceutical houses, university biology departments, and on military bases. [Full Story]
Plague-Infested Mice Missing From New Jersey Research Lab - February 7, 2009 David Goodhue - AHN Reporter, Miami, FL (AHN) - The frozen remains of two mice infected with the bubonic plague are missing from a New Jersey bioterror research facility, and the facility waited seven weeks to report the incident to federal and state authorities.
U.S. Air Force Study Proposed 2009 Influenza Pandemic in 1996 - Kurt Nimmo, Infowars Mar 5, 09
On June 17, 1996, the U.S. Air Force released Air Force 2025, “a study designed to comply with a directive from the chief of staff of the Air Force to examine the concepts, capabilities, and technologies the United States will require to remain the dominant air and space force in the future.” In the unclassified study, the College of Aerospace Doctrine, Research, and Education at Maxwell Air Force Base in Alabama posed several “fictional representations of future situations/scenarios” likely to arise. [full report]
U.K. government has admitted to spraying British public with deadly toxins.
Winnipeg scientists say
microbe killed up to 50 million people by turning the body
against itself - by MARGARET MUNRO CanWest News Service
Scientists have
resurrected the 1918 flu virus in Winnipeg and uncovered
evidence of what made the microbe such a relentless killer
—
it turns the body
against itself.
In experiments that
entailed infecting monkeys, the researchers have shown the virus
sends the immune systems into overdrive, flooding the lungs with
fluids that drown its victims. The scientists say this helps
explain why so many healthy young adults died as the 1918 flu
pandemic swept the world killing up to 50 million — more people than died in
the First World War
The research is also
expected to provide tips to halt future pandemics and protect
front-line workers.
‘Really that’s what this
is all about says Michael Katze of the University of Washington
in Seattle. a member of the international team that describes
the monkey experiments in the journal Nature today.
The research puts Canada’s
National Microbiology Laboratory in Winnipeg on the map as only
the second place in the world to resurrect the virus. U.S.
scientists were the first to bring the extinct virus back to
life in 2005.
The Canadian virus was
created using viral genes produced by Yoshiliiro Kawaoka’s team
at the University of Wisconsin Madison.
The new genes, based on
viral gene sequences pulled from tissues of people who died in
the 1918 pandemic, were then sent to the Level 4 biosafety lab
in Manitoba where Canadian researchers brought the virus to
life.
The procedure was not
all that difficult,” said Darwyn Kobasa, a researcher at the
Manitoba lab. He says the eight carefully crafted genes were
inserted into cells along with a few proteins. Within hours, the
cells were taking instructions from the inserted genes and
mass-producing copies of the 1918 flu virus.
Last January, he and his
colleagues produced millions of copies of the virus in a bid to
understand why the 1918 flu was so deadly. Ten macaque monkeys
from a breeding colony in Ottawa were used for the experiment.
On the day of the
experiment, the monkeys were put to sleep with an anesthetic.
Three monkeys were exposed to conventional flu virus and seven
to the 1918 virus.
Flu-virus-laden solution
was dripped into their noses, lungs and eyes. Each one received
an estimated seven million viruses
The monkeys were kept
under close observation after they awoke. The animals exposed to
conventional flu virus developed symptoms but soon recovered.
The animals exposed to the 1918 strain grew ill and keep getting
worse,
The sick moneys were
euthanized on the eighth day of the experiments.
The government that brought this virus
into Canada, and helped resurrect this disease, is also trying to link
a coming pandemic to global warming.
This is the same alleged government of
Canada that has admitted that they will use fear to motivate
Canadians. Is that what you want your tax money to go to - fear
mongering? Isn't the use of fear in order to compel and action
called TERRORISM?
Just listen to the urgency and panic
being fomented in this below article......
Mike De Souza, Friday, October 20, 2006 -
CanWest News Service
OTTAWA -- Canada must take
immediate action on global warming to cope with
the threat of new infectious diseases from
abroad, Health Minister Tony Clement said
Thursday.
In an interview with
CanWest News Service, Clement noted that
diseases such as the West Nile virus are
spreading and surviving because Canada's climate
is getting hotter.
"There is an increasing
threat of other infectious diseases," he
said. "Dengue fever is another one that
epidemiologists are worried about right now,
coming to our shores.
"With climate change, with
warmer weather, those might have an impact on
Canadians' health," Clement said in a rare
reference by a Tory minister to the dangers
of global warming.
Although Prime Minister
Stephen Harper has questioned global warming
warnings from leading scientists, Clement said
the federal public health agency is
spending more money on surveillance and
prevention of various diseases that could now
be spreading in Canada.
He added that his
department's pandemic plan will also be
renewed shortly to address the risks of avian
influenza and other diseases that would not
normally be a threat in Canada's climate.
"The fact of the matter is
that as climate changes, as it gets warmer --
these kinds of exotic diseases that were never
found in the country before -- we're concerned
that they will find their way here, and
we have to be ready for that," he said. "Of
course, the best solution is to halt the slide
on our climate change and that's what we're
preparing to do."
Although environmentalists
have accused the Conservatives of going soft on
large greenhouse gas emitters by adopting an
"intensity-based" approach, in the short term,
that would not require any absolute reductions,
Clement stressed that the government was setting
a clear reduction target for the long term that
would force companies to do more when new
technologies are available.
Clement said his
government also planned to enforce new
regulations over the next year to reduce air
pollution, and even improve indoor air quality.
He said the legislation would also give him new powers to regulate toxins or dangerous
substances in household products that put health
at risk.
"In order to be ready and
comply, you have to start moving now," he said.
"So that's why we're going to put the
regulations in place in the days ahead, and
industry will start preparing for it."
He added that the
government would measure health effects and
pollution levels on a daily basis.
Some 113 university, government, hospital and corporate laboratories
engaged in research often with potential to be used for germ warfare have refused to disclose their operations
to the public as required by Federal rules, a nonprofit watchdog agency has charged.
"These are the facts of the case," say the Segals. "HIV is essentially a visna virus which carries an additional protein monomer of HTLV-1 that has an epitope capable of bonding with T4 receptors. Neither Alizon and Montagnier nor any other biologist know of any natural mechanism that would make it possible for the epitope to be transferred from HTLV-1 to the visna virus. For this reason we can come to only one conclusion: that this gene combination arose by artificial means, through gene manipulation."
ABORIGINAL children were injected with leprosy treatments in a medical testing program that used members of the Stolen Generation as guinea pigs, a Senate Committee has heard. [full report]
Research using hybrid embryos is likely to be given the go-ahead this week after warnings it would be a major blow to British science if the Government watchdog refused to allow it.
MPs vote against ban on hybrid embryos - May 19/08
A cross-party attempt to ban the use of hybrid human-animal embryos for scientific research was rejected by the Commons tonight. MPs voted 336 to 176 (a majority of 160) against the move led by Tory former minister Edward Leigh. [full story]
Chasing the cancer answer - CBC, March 5, 2006
In the next generation, the Canadian Cancer Society says almost one in two Canadians will be diagnosed with cancer. One in two.
Morgellons: Terrifying New Disease Reaching Pandemic Status It sounds like something from a bad sci-fi movie. People report the sensation of creatures crawling under their skin, mysterious moving fibers appear, and finally bugs and worms pop out.
_________
Vaccines with
toxic mercury and live cancer virus being aimed right at your children.
Georgia family challenges federal vaccine law- May 20/08 Atlanta Journal-Constitution | The 1986 National Childhood Vaccine Injury
Compensation Act says no vaccine maker shall be held liable in a civil
action for damages arising from an injury or death caused by vaccines given
after Oct. 1, 1988.
CDC admits vaccines trigger autism.
...a few eyebrows were raised when five microbiologists either disappeared or died mysteriously violent deaths in 2001. A short time later the number rose to 19, and then 29. [Read full report here]
The worrisome new virus — which combines genetic material from pigs, birds and humans in a way researchers have not seen before — also sickened at least eight people in Texas and California, though there have been no deaths in the U.S.
"We are very, very concerned," World Health Organization spokesman Thomas Abraham said. "We have what appears to be a novel virus and it has spread from human to human ...
The company that released contaminated flu virus material from a plant in Austria confirmed that the experimental product contained live H5N1 avian flu viruses.
2. Polio has been painted as some natural scourge of humanity. Yet, epidemics and outbreaks of polio in Europe go back to only less than 100 years. The 1949-50 and later outbreaks of polio were demonstrably caused by intensified diphtheria and whooping cough vaccination, tonsillectomies, other injections (painkillers) and a variety of traumas. They invented a name for it: provocation poliomyelitis. Even though this has not been discussed in literature, the earliest outbreaks were no doubt triggered by intensified smallpox vaccination. The evidence for this connection comes from Egyptian excavations: some mummies had withered limbs; but of course, variolation (a crude form of smallpox inoculation) has been practised thousands of years ago, and most particularly, in Egypt.
When the first, injectable, polio vaccine was tested on 1.8 million American children, within a few days they had a huge epidemic of paralytic polio: in the vaccinated, their parents and other contacts. They called it the Cutter incident and claimed that some of the vaccines (produced by the Cutter Laboratories) contained live polio virus. So, the company withdrew their vaccines despite polio vaccines produced by other manufacturers also causing paralysis in this outbreak. [full report]
LONDON - As doctors struggle to eradicate polio worldwide, one of their biggest problems is persuading parents to vaccinate their children. In Belgium, authorities are resorting to an extreme measure: prison sentences.
Above newspaper clip is from Canadian paper..... Do you
think a government
has any authority whatsoever to force you to take
medication of ANY KIND?
For the last several years, HPV vaccines have been marketed to the public and mandated in compulsory injections for young girls in several states based on the idea that they prevent cervical cancer. Now, NewsTarget has obtained documents from the FDA and other sources (see below) which reveal that the FDA has been well aware for several years that Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) has no direct link to cervical cancer. [Video presentation below] [written report here]
He said the plan was developed after the terrorist attacks of 2001 and the
subsequent anthrax attacks, including those in South Florida. The schools
will be drug distribution sites to give medicine to all 300,000 Marion
County residents.
Philip Parkin, the General Secretary of the Professional Association of Teachers, said that children were effectively acting as guinea pigs because the risk posed by 'wi-fi' networks had not yet been thoroughly considered.
He said scientific evidence prompted him to question the safety of the systems already introduced in 15,000 schools across the UK.
Wireless technology has been linked with loss of concentration, fatigue, reduced memory and headaches. There are also claims that it could increase the long-term risk of cancer. [ full report ]
The New Blood Pressure Vaccine - Beware! But before rushing to the doctor, the consequences of manipulating the AT1-AT2 system by a vaccine need to be considered. Within the past two decades, a great deal has been learned about the renin-angiotensin system in other parts of the body. It has been discovered that the brain also produces angiotension peptides and depends on these molecules for high function. AT1 and AT2 in the brain are responsible for the regulation of blood flow to the brain tissue, cognition, learning, behavior, memory and regulation of emotional responses.(3)(4)(5) It is not known if the vaccine will cross the blood-brain barrier and cause dysfunction of the brain renin-angiotensin system. [Click headline for full story]
Vaccine so new it's not yet given routinely to infants
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Vaccine-linked polio hits Nigeria BBC Oct 10/2007 The WHO says this rare outbreak of vaccine-derived polio demonstrates the need for more vaccination, not less.
Sunset project accuses US military of weapons violations
The Sunshine Project today accuses the US military of conducting a chemical weapons research and development program in violation of international arms control law. The charges follow an 18 month investigation of the Department of Defense's Joint Non-Lethal Weapons Directorate (JNLWD). The investigation made extensive use of the US Freedom of Information Act to obtain Pentagon records that form the primary basis of the allegations. An array of documents, many of which have been posted on the Sunshine Project website, demonstrate beyond a reasonable doubt that JNLWD is operating an illegal and classified chemical weapons program.
Specifically, the Sunshine Project accuses the JNLWD of:
1. Conducting a research and development program on toxic chemical agents for use as weapons, including anesthetics and psychoactive substances, in violation of the Chemical Weapons Convention;
2. Developing long-range military delivery devices for these chemicals, including an 81mm chemical mortar round, that violate the Chemical Weapons Convention.
3. Pursuing a chemical weapons program while fully cognizant that it violates the Chemical Weapons Convention and US Department of Defense regulations;
4. Attempting to cover up the illicit program by classifying as secret even its own legal interpretations of the Chemical Weapons Convention and attempting to block access to documents requested under US information freedom law.
Unfavorable drug studies don't get into print: report- Jan 17/2008 BOSTON (Reuters) - Nearly a third of antidepressant drug studies are never published in the medical literature and nearly all happen to show that the drug being tested did not work, researchers reported on Wednesday.
In some of the studies that are published, unfavorable results have been recast to make the medicine appear more effective than it really is, said the research team led by Erick Turner of the Oregon Health & Science University. [full report]
There is no magic happy pill - March 03, 2008, Sharon Kirkey, Canwest News Service Placebo effect seems the main cause for success of many antidepressants
Irving Kirsch shook up the mental health field this week when he and his team reported "happy pills" swallowed by millions of Canadians every day are no better than dummy drugs at treating depression. [full report]
By Geoffrey Lean, Environment Editor Published: 17 June 2007
"Zombie" GM crops - so called because farmers will have to pay biotech
companies to bring seeds back from the dead - are being developed with
British taxpayers' money. [full story]
When the stranger persisted, Rinehart showed him the door. On the way out
the man kept making threats. Rinehart says he can't remember the exact
words, but they were to the effect of: "Monsanto is big. You can't win. We
will get you. You will pay."
Scenes like this are playing out in many parts of rural America these days
as Monsanto goes after farmers, farmers' co-ops, seed dealers-anyone it
suspects may have infringed its patents of genetically modified seeds. As
interviews and reams of court documents reveal, Monsanto relies on a shadowy
army of private investigators and agents in the American heartland to strike
fear into farm country. They fan out into fields and farm towns, where they
secretly videotape and photograph farmers, store owners, and co-ops;
infiltrate community meetings; and gather information from informants about
farming activities. Farmers say that some Monsanto agents pretend to be
surveyors. Others confront farmers on their land and try to pressure them to
sign papers giving Monsanto access to their private records. Farmers call
them the "seed police" and use words such as "Gestapo" and "Mafia" to
describe their tactics. [full report]
The honeymooner quarantined with a dangerous strain of tuberculosis was identified Thursday as a 31-year-old Atlanta personal injury lawyer whose new father-in-law is a CDC microbiologist specializing in the spread of TB.
Other source for above story.....
Because the man has no symptoms of the disease, it was serendipity that allowed a diagnosis in the first place, she said. In January, he had a chest X-ray to determine the extent of a rib injury and physicians spotted an “abnormality” in his lungs.
Doctors took blood for tests with a focus on his white blood cell count, because some of the drugs used to treat TB can be toxic. They will also look at his liver and kidney function.
He also underwent an induced sputum test to provide samples for microscopic examination and for cultures for drug resistance tests.
The need for a common list was highlighted by the case of an Atlanta man infected with drug-resistant tuberculosis, who avoided detection by U.S. authorities by flying home from Europe to Montreal, Mr. Chertoff said.