Fatal virus found in B.C. salmon farms

Ebola outbreak suspected among Uganda prisoners

Kagadi, Uganda (CNN) — The hospital at the center of an Ebola outbreak in Uganda is now dealing with 30 suspected cases, including five from Kibaale prison, Dr. Dan Kyamanywa said Thursday.

Three patients at Kagadi hospital have been confirmed as having the virus, said Kyamanywa, a district health officer.

Doctors are now testing the suspected cases urgently so they can separate confirmed cases from those who do not have the disease,Doctors Without Borders said.

Suspected cases are still trickling into the hospital, Kyamanywa said.

At least 16 people have died in the current outbreak.

The five prisoners have been showing Ebola-like symptoms of vomiting, diarrhea and fever, the doctor said.

“We do expect the number of suspected cases to increase,” he said. “It’s important to break transmission and reduce the number of contacts that suspected cases have.”

There is a fear that the outbreak will spread to the capital, but it is unlikely, he said.

Many patients fled Kagadi hospital when Ebola was confirmed, he said, and the hospital is struggling to respond to all the call-outs to suspected cases.

“Right now there is no treatment for Ebola, so the most effective measure we can take is to contain the spread of the disease,” said Olimpia de la Rosa, the Doctors Without Borders emergency coordinator for Uganda Ebola intervention.

“That is why we need to start working immediately. Other cases need to be rapidly identified because containment is what can stop it,” said the expert from the aid group, which is also known as Medecins Sans Frontieres.

The Ugandan government has asked people in western Uganda to travel by public transport only if it is necessary.

The outbreak began in the Kibaale district in western Uganda.

The deaths have stoked heightened fear about the spread of the virus, a highly infectious, often fatal agent spread through direct contact with bodily fluids. Symptoms can include fever, vomiting, diarrhea, abdominal pain, headache, a measles-like rash, red eyes and, at times, bleeding from body openings.

Market day was canceled Wednesday after Uganda’s president warned people not to gather in large groups.

Health officials urged the public to report any suspected cases, to avoid contact with anyone infected and to wear gloves and masks while disinfecting bedding and clothing of infected people. Officials also advised avoiding public gatherings in the affected district.

Teams in Uganda are taking an aggressive approach, including trying to track down anyone who came into contact with patients infected with the virus and health workers have been gearing up for better protection of health workers and an influx of cases.

The workers include people from Uganda’s ministry of health, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the World Health Organization.

The outbreak initially went undetected because patients did not show typical symptoms, Ugandan Health Minister Dr. Christine Ondoa told CNN on Sunday. Patients had fevers and were vomiting, but did not show other typical symptoms, such as hemorrhaging.

Diagnosis in an individual who has only recently been infected can be difficult since early symptoms, such as red eyes and skin rash, are seen more frequently in patients who have more common diseases, the CDC said.

Uganda’s Ministry of Health declared the outbreak in Kibaale district Saturday after the Uganda Virus Research Institute identified the disease as the Sudan strain of Ebola hemorrhagic fever.

The Ebola virus was first detected in 1976 in the central African nation of Zaire (now the Democratic Republic of the Congo). The virus is named after a river in that country. There are five strains of Ebola viruses, all named after the areas where they were found: Zaire, Sudan, Cote d’Ivoire, Bundibugyo and Reston, according to the WHO.

New virus related to deadly Hendra and Nipah viruses found in black flying foxes at Cedar Grove near Beaudesert

A NEW virus closely related to the deadly Hendra and Nipah viruses has been found in black flying foxes at Cedar Grove near Beaudesert. Source: The Courier-Mail

A NEW virus closely related to the deadly Hendra and Nipah viruses has been found in black flying foxes at Cedar Grove near Beaudesert.

The find by CSIRO and Biosecurity Queensland has excited scientists because it could help them unravel secrets of Hendra and Nipah viruses.

The viruses kill more than 70 per cent of humans and animals they infect, yet little is known about how they interact with their hosts.

There are no concerns about the new virus infecting humans, although it can’t be ruled out.

Gary Crameri, a CSIRO virologist at the Australian Animal Health Laboratory in Geelong, said bats carried more viruses than other species, perhaps because they were such a broad group of ancient mammals, ranging from micro-bats weighing a few grams to large flying foxes that lived in many different environments.

Scientists were intrigued why they could carry deadly viruses but not become diseased themselves. If this could be worked out, bats could provide humankind with medicines to fight viruses and help weakened immune systems.

“They’re an incredibly important group of animals and the risk of the virus spilling over to humans is incredibly low,” Mr Crameri said. “Even if it did, it might go unnoticed – perhaps like a gentle cold. All experiments indicate Cedar’s nowhere near as deadly as Hendra.”

Named for where it was found, the Cedar virus had not caused illness in tests on mice, guinea pigs and ferrets which were susceptible to Hendra and Nipah.

Cedar had caused mild infections in laboratory animals but no signs of disease.

A survey of flying foxes showed 25 per cent had antibodies to Cedar, a similar number to that seen with Hendra.

Researchers were investigating how the virus might impact on domestic animals, including livestock.

Its discovery would have no impact on the development of a Hendra horse vaccine.

Feline virus forces shelter to stop accepting, adopting out cats

By Cindy Swirko
Staff writer

Published: Tuesday, July 31, 2012 at 6:20 p.m.

Last Modified: Tuesday, July 31, 2012 at 6:20 p.m.

A kitten at the Alachua County animal shelter that was found to have a contagious and potentially deadly disease has prompted the county for the time being to stop adopting and accepting cats.

A kitten that was brought to the Alachua County Animal Services shelter on Northeast 53rd Avenue on Thursday and later found dead in its cage had feline panleukopenia, a virus that can be spread through various means including by people handling the cats.

“We tested it to determine what killed it for this reason,” said interim Animal Services Director Vernon Sawyer. “We are going to let the professionals assess the situation and once they give me a report on whether this a serious situation or just isolated to the one cat, we will take appropriate action.”

Staff with the shelter medicine program at the University of Florida College of Medicine will begin testing all the cats at the shelter — estimated at about 150 — today, said program director Julie Levy.

Levy compared the spread of the virus to disease outbreaks on cruise ships — they can passed quickly and widely within a confined environment.

Pet cats are generally vaccinated for the disease, but cats being brought to the shelter are susceptible to feline panleukopenia, she said.

The shelter does routine vaccinations for the disease when cats are brought in, she added.

“We’ve developed a plan to test the cats. It will take a few days to get all of those results back and see if any new cases turn up,” Levy said. “It is spread through the feces but it is a very hardy virus, so it’s very easy for the virus to spread on surfaces, floors, hands, clothing.”

Levy said more than half of cats infected die, even with intensive care.

Symptoms include vomiting, diarrhea and profound dehydration. Panleukopenia is related to parvo virus in dogs.

Testing of the cats is a way to avoid mass euthanasia of the shelter’s feline population.

“Typically what would happen in the past is that all of the cats in that room would be euthanized as preventive measure, even though some could fight off the infection,” Levy said. “That’s what we are trying to avoid this time. This is the first time the shelter has tried to work through this without killing all of the cats.”

People who adopted a cat or kitten in the past few days should monitor its behavior, Levy said. However, she added that cats that are adapting to a new home could have diarrhea or vomiting unrelated to panleukopenia.

Cat owners should also make sure their cats are up to date on vaccinations.

People who find strays while the shelter is not accepting cats should try to keep them for a time. Levy said adults cats can be spayed or neutered through one of the free or low-cost programs such as Operation Catnip, which also vaccinate for the disease.

High Alert for Hendra Virus

 A horse was found dead in a farmhouse near Rockhampton. It was found suffering from Hendra Virus.

There were high concerns for the woman having a high degree of exposure to him, as said by Queensland Authorities. She was urgently flown from Rockhampton to Brisbane just for the treatment.

This woman was nursing it on the farm and was therefore suspected with the disease. She was immediately admitted to a Brisbane hospital and was given an experimental treatment last week but according to her latest blood reports, she did not catch the virus in spite of being in a close touch with the animal. She is stable and out of danger now.

According to Queensland Health, she is in a secure condition in hospital. After three weeks, other periodic blood tests will be done to confirm her health.

Till now, this bat-borne virus has killed seven people and a vet and another man are also suspected with the same. Testing is going on to confirm their healthstatus.

This is the for the fifth time this year, that such incidences have come into notice that have alerted biosecurity and health authorities in regard to Hendra Virus.

As said by Jeanette Young “I can confirm that at this stage we’re aware of three humans who’ve had exposure to that horse that was confirmed with the Hendra infection”.

Taiwan finds H5N1 virus in birds smuggled from China

TAIPEI — Dozens of pet birds smuggled from southern China into Taiwan tested positive for the deadly H5N1 avian flu virus and were destroyed, Taiwanese authorities said Tuesday.

The smuggler bought the 38 birds in the Chinese city of Guangzhou and was caught at the Taoyuan international airport in northern Taiwan when he returned via Macau earlier this month, said the Centers for Disease Control.

The birds later tested positive for the H5N1 virus and were killed, it said, adding that nine people who had contact with the birds had not shown any flu symptoms during a ten-day screening.

Taiwan has no recorded cases of the deadly H5N1 strain, although in 2005 health authorities said eight pet birds smuggled from China tested positive for the strain and destroyed.

The island has reported several outbreaks of the H5N2 bird flu, a less virulent strain of the virus, in recent years.

China is considered one of the nations most at risk of bird flu epidemics because it has the world’s biggest poultry population and many chickens in rural areas are kept close to humans.

3 more deaths from Chandipura virus

NAGPUR: The deadly Chandipura virus has taken a toll of three more children in the last five days in the region. The death toll due to the disease has touched 17 in the month since June 15. Out of the reported 29 children afflicted in Nagpur division (six districts), 17 have died due to the viral fever, which kills a child if it reaches the brain. All the deaths have occurred in rural areas.


VR Zare, assistant director of malaria for Nagpur Circle, told TOI that the virus had killed more children in Bhandara and Chandrapur districts since June. So far, Bhandara district has reported six deaths from reported 11 attacks on children while Chandrapur district has reported five deaths out of seven children infected.


They are followed by three deaths in Nagpur district out of four reported attacks, two deaths in Wardha district out of the three reported cases and one death out of three reported cases in Gadchiroli district. No case has been reported so far in Nagpur municipal limits.


The deaths since June 12 include one death each in village Rampur in Chandrapur district, village Gunjkheda in Wardha district and village Shendri in Bhandara district. Kushal Kumre (6) from Kushal Kumre village died in government hospital at Chandrapur on June 13. Urvesh Khadse (4) from village Gunjkheda died at Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Medical Sciences at Wardha and Mayuri Arvind (3) from Shendri village dies at the Government Medical College and Hospital in Nagpur.


A five-member team headed by Dr Yogesh Gurav from National Institute of Virology (NIV), Pune, visited the region on Monday on the request of the directorate of health services, government of Maharashtra, to investigate the reasons and actual situation of the outbreak in the region. Dr Gurav told TOI that he would submit a report with 4-5 days.


“It is sad that so many children died due to the Chandipura like fever but we should also not forget that out of the 28 children affected doctors could save 12 children. Since there is no specific medicine or treatment for the Chandipura viral fever, which is generally accompanied by gastrointestinal problems too, doctors have to treat the patient symptomatically. It is easier to manage a patient if he/she is brought immediately after the onset of fever,” said Dr Zare.


The virus attacks the brain within few hours of the infection, leading to convulsions and alteration of senses with vomiting. The Chandipura virus is named after the village Chandipura in Bhandara district where it was first detected by NIV in 1965. The virus, known to be carried in dormant stage by sand flies, which live near domestic animals like cows and buffaloes, is transferred from the fly to human beings specifically during monsoon.


Chandipura viral fever is also mostly a disease of the villages, since animals are found in more numbers in rural areas. However, a case was reported in Nagpur city last year. But the child survived the attack.


What is Chandipura virus
Chandipura virus named after Chandipura village in Bhandara district in Vidarbha, where it was first reported in 1965. It had caused havoc in eastern Vidarbha in 2005. It made a comeback and killed 15 children in 2009, 31 children in 2010 and 12 children in 2011.


How is it transmitted
Human beings get it from sand fly, which thrives in cattle sheds. It transmits the virus when it bites humans during the night. Sand flies live on cattle from the beginning of summer to rainy season.


Symptoms
* Acute or high fever during night
* Fever accompanied with convulsions due to severe effect on the brain
* Gastro-intestinal tract disturbance causing vomiting


Treatment
Being a viral disease there is no vaccine as yet. But patients are treated with broad spectrum antibiotics and life saving drugs


Precautions/preventions
* Use mosquito nets
* Keep surroundings near homes clean
* Keep animals away from homes during the season
* Take children immediately to hospital after onset of fever to prevent infection from reaching the brain, which could lead to death


Why does it kill children?
Children below 16 years of age are more prone to death due to low immunity during the age, anaemia and malnutrition. Children have also have less, what is called in medical terms, cell mediated immunity, which makes them bigger target.

Taliban polio ban confirms longer stay of deadly virus

PESHAWAR: Despite serious attempts made by the international donors, Pakistani authorities have failed to help more than 240,000 kids in the tribal agencies of North Waziristan and South Waziristan and remaining parts of Fata to get anti-polio vaccines during the three-day National Immunization Days (NIDs) launched on Monday throughout the country.

In North Waziristan and South Waziristan, the regional Taliban groups have imposed ban on anti-polio immunization campaign as a mark of protest against US drone attacks. Hafiz Gul Bahadur, who is the Taliban chief in North Waziristan, banned anti-polio vaccination campaign on June 16 until a halt to the drone strikes.

Around 160, 000 kids couldn’t be vaccinated during the first day of the campaign. Similar is the case in South Waziristan where the Maulvi Nazeer-led Taliban banned the anti-polio campaign and warned they would not allow polio teams to vaccinate kids until the US drone strikes are stopped.

In South Waziristan, 80,000 kids could not receive anti-polio drops on Monday. The Taliban argued they had taken the decision in the larger interest of the tribespeople, particularly children. Both the commanders are considered pro-Pakistan as the government has signed peace accords with them and allowed them to operate in their respective areas.

After banning anti-polio campaign, the Taliban groups warned the health department and political administration of their respective tribal regions to refrain from sending polio teams to vaccinate children in their areas of control otherwise they would not be responsible for their security.

It was apparently due to threats from the Taliban groups that the health department could not send their teams to villages to immunize children during the first day of the nationwide campaign.

The government had earlier set a target of 1.06 million children in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (Fata) to be vaccinated during the three-day campaign but it dropped to 754,000 on Monday when officials of the Fata health department briefed the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Governor Masood Kausar about their efforts to combat the disease in the tribal areas.

It meant government officials had already made up their mind that they would not be able to reach around 300,000 children in Fata. Besides North Waziristan and South Waziristan, where one polio case each has been reported this year, the government was unable to reach out to hundreds of children in parts of Khyber, Orakzai, Kurram, Mohmand and Bajaur tribal regions due to poor security measures and lack of writ of the state.

The situation in Khyber Agency is said to be the worst as out of 23 polio cases reported this year in Pakistan nine were detected in Khyber. Some government officials said teams were sent to Srarogha tehsil in South Waziristan inhabited by the Mahsud tribe to administer anti-polio drops, but there was no campaign in the Ahmazai Wazir-populated areas such as Wana, Shakai and Azam Warsak.

There were also reports that the government had started back-door negotiations with the Taliban leaders through senior clerics and officials of the political administration. Pleading anonymity, a government official claimed the Taliban had now stopped demanding halt in drone strikes as their condition for anti-polio campaign, saying they were asking the government to strengthen and upgrade the existing health facilities in their areas.

The federal government has conveyed its concern to the Governor Masood Kausar over the Taliban ban and urged him to initiate dialogue with the militant group and resume the anti-polio campaign.

Shahnaz Wazir Ali, the Prime Minister’s Focal Person for Polio Eradication Programme in Islamabad, had sent a letter to the governor urging him to use his influence and make all possible efforts to resume the anti-polio campaign.

“Pakistan has made great progress toward polio eradication this year and setbacks like these will limit our efforts to reach every child in Pakistan,” Shahnaz Wazir Ali stated in the letter. Ahmadullah Ahmadi, the spokesman for NWA Taliban, a few days ago ruled out any talks with the government about the ban on polio campaign.

Dr Mohammad Rafiq, UNICEF’s focal person for Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa and the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (Fata), said polio is still a big problem in Pakistan, saying all segments of society would need to get united for eliminating this virus.

“If one polio case is diagnosed that means the virus is existing in 200 other houses of the neighbourhood,” he told The News. Pakistan is among the three countries where polio virus still exists. The two are war-ravaged Afghanistan and Nigeria.

13 Most Evil U.S. Government Experiments on Humans

The U.S. Government has been caught conducting an insane amount of vile, inhumane and grisly experiments on humans without their consent and often without their knowledge. So in light of recent news of the U.S. infecting Guatemalans with STDs, here are the 13 most evil, for lack of a better word, cases of human-testing as conducted by the United States of America. Get ready to become one of those conspiracy theory nuts, because after this list, you will never fully trust your government again.

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1) Mind Control, Child Abuse – Project MKULTRA, Subproject 68

This is the stuff of nightmares.

The CIA-ran Project MKULTRA paid Dr. Donald Ewen Cameron for Subproject 68, which would be experiments involving mind-altering substances. The entire goal of the project was to probe examination into methods of influencing and controlling the mind and being able to extract information from resisting minds.

So in order to accomplish this, the doctor took patients admitted to his Allen Memorial Institute in Montreal and conducted “therapy” on them. The patients were mostly taken in for issues like bi-polar depression and anxiety disorders. The treatment they received was life-altering and scarring.

In the period he was paid for (1957 – 1964) Cameron administered electroconvulsive therapy at 30-40 times the normal power. He would put patients into a drug-induced coma for months on-end and playback tapes of simple statements or repetitive noises over and over again.

The victims forgot how to talk, forgot about their parents, and suffered serious amnesia.

And all of this was performed on Canadian citizens because the CIA wasn’t willing to risk such operations on Americans.

To ensure that the project remained funded, Cameron, in one scheme, took his experiments upon admitted children and in one situation had the child engage in sex with high-ranking government officials and film it.

He and other MKULTRA officers would blackmail the officials to ensure more funding.

2) Mustard Gas Tested on Soldiers via Involuntary Gas Chambers

As bio-weapon research intensified in the 1940′s, officials also began testing its repercussions and defenses on the Army itself.

In order to test the effectiveness of various bio-weapons, officials were known to have sprayed mustard gas and other skin-burning, lung-ruining chemicals, like Lewisite, on soldiers without their consent or knowledge of the experiment happening to them.

They also tested the effectiveness of gas masks and protective clothing by locking soldiers in a gas chamber and exposing them to mustard gas and lewisite, evoking the gas chamber image of Nazi Germany.

EFFECTS OF LEWISITE: Lewisite is a gas that can easily penetrate clothing and even rubber. Upon contact with the skin, the gas immediately causes extreme pain, itching, swelling and even a rash. Large, fluid-filled blisters develop 12 hours after exposure in the form of intensely severe chemical burns. And that’s just skin contact with the gas.

Inhaling of the gas causes a burning pain in the lungs, sneezing, vomiting, and pulmonary edema.

EFFECTS OF MUSTARD GAS: Symptomless until about 24 hours after exposure, Mustard Gas has mutagenic and carcinogenic properties that have killed many subjected to it. Its primary effects include severe burns that turn into yellow-fluid-leaking boils over a period of time. Although treatment is available, Mustard Gas burns heal very, very slowly and are extremely painful. The burns the gas leaves on the skin are sometimes irreparable.

It was also rumored that along with the soldiers, patients at VA hospitals were being used as guinea pigs for medical experiments involving bio-warfare chemicals, but that all experiments were changed to be known as “observations” to ward off suspicions.

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3) U.S. Grants Immunity to Involuntary-Surgery Monster

As head of Japan’s infamous Unit 731 (a covert biological and chemical warfare research and development unit of the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II), Dr. Shiro Ishii (head of medicine) carried out violent human experimentation of tens of thousands during the Second Sino-Japenses War and World War II.

Ishii was responsible for testing vivisection techniques without any anesthesia on human prisoners. For the uninitiated, vivisection is the act of conducting experimental surgery on living creatures (with central nervousness) and examining their insides for scientific purposes.
So basically, he was giving unnecessary surgery to prisoners by opening them all the way up, keeping them alive and not using any anesthetic.

For a disturbing video about vivisection see the video below

During these experiments he would also force pregnant women to abort their babies. He also played God by subjecting his prisoners to change in physiological conditions and inducing strokes, heart attacks, frost bite, and hypothermia. Ishii considered these subjects “logs”.

Following imminent defeat in 1945, Japan blew up the Unity 731 complex and Ishii ordered all the remaining “logs” to be executed. Not soon after, Ishii was arrested. And then, the respected General Douglas McArthur allegedly struck a deal with Ishii. If the U.S. granted Ishii immunity from his crimes, he must exchange all germ warfare data based on human experimentation.

So Ishii got away with his crimes because the US became interested in the results of his research.

While not directly responsible for these acts, the actions of the American government certainly illustrated it was more than willing to condone human torture for advancements in biological warfare that could kill even more people.

Not a surprise, considering its past resume. Ishii remained alive until 1959, performing research into bio-weaponry and probably thinking up more plans to annihilate people in different, Dr. Giggles-esque ways to his dying day.

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4) Deadly Chemical Sprays on American Cities

Showing once again that the U.S. always tends to test out worse-case scenarios by getting to them first and with the advent of biochemical warfare in the mid 20th century, the Army, CIA and government conducted a series of warfare simulations upon American cities to see how the effects would play out in the event of an actual chemical attack.

They conducted the following air strikes/naval attacks:

– The CIA released a whooping cough virus on Tampa Bay, using boats, and so caused a whooping cough epidemic. 12 people died.

– The Navy sprayed San Francisco with bacterial pathogens and in consequence many citizens developed pneumonia.

– Upon Savannah, GA and Avon Park, FL, the army released millions of mosquitoes in the hopes they would spread yellow fever and dengue fever. The swarm left Americans struggling with fevers, typhoid, respiratory problems, and the worst, stillborn children.

Even worse was that after the swarm, the Army came in disguised as public health workers. Their secret intention the entire time they were giving aid to the victims was to study and chart-out the long term effects of all the illnesses they were suffering.

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In the 1940′s, with penicillin as an established cure for syphilis, the US decided to test out its effectiveness on Guatemalan citizens.

To do this, they used infected prostitutes and let them loose on unknowing prison inmates, insane asylum patients and soldiers. When spreading the disease through prostitution didn’t work as well as they’d hoped, they instead went for the inoculation route.

Researchers poured syphilis bacteria onto mens’ penises and on their forearms and faces. In some cases, they even inoculated the men through spinal punctures.

After all the infections were transmitted, researchers then gave most of the subjects treatment, although as many as 1/3 of them could have been left untreated, even if that was the intention of the study in the first place.

On October 1, 2010, Hilary Clinton apologized for the events and new research has gone on to see if anyone affected is still alive and afflicted with syphilis. Since many subjects never got penicillin, its possible and likely that someone spread it to f*ture generations.

 

————————————————————————————————————————————————6) Secret Human Experiments to Test the Effects of The Atomic Bomb 

While testing out and trying to harness the power of the atomic bomb, U.S. scientists also secretly tested the bomb’s effects on humans.

During the Manhattan Project, which gave way to the atomic bomb that destroyed Hiroshima and Nagasaki, U.S. scientists resorted to secret human testing via plutonium injection on 18 unsuspecting, non-consenting patients.

This included injecting soldiers with micrograms of plutonium for Project Oak Ridge along with later injecting three patients at a Chicago hospital. Imagine you’re an admitted patient, helpless in a hospital bed, assuming that nothing is wrong when the government suddenly appears and puts weapons-grade plutonium in your blood.

Out of the 18 patients, who were known only by their code-names and numbers at the time, only 5 lived longer than 20 years after injection.

Along with plutonium, researchers also had fun with uranium. At a Massachusetts hospital, between 1946 and 1947, Dr. William Sweet injected 11 patients with uranium. He was funded by the Manhattan Project.

And in exchange for the uranium he received from the government, he would keep dead tissue from the body of the people he killed for scientific analysis on the effects of uranium exposure.

———————————————————————————————————————————————–7) Injected Prisoners with Agent OrangeAbove is a video of what the effects of Agent Orange can do to children of parents affected, or even exposed, to it.WARNING: video may be disturbing, but is a reality of what Americans used as biological warfare during Vietnam and what we, as Americans, VOLUNTARILY injected into people for “testing” purposes… with the help of a very popular American company.

While he received funding from the Agent Orange producing Dow Chemical Company, the US Army, and Johnson & Johnson, Dr. Albert Kligman used prisoners as subjects in what was deemed “dermatological research”.

The dermatology aspect was testing out product the effects of Agent Orange on the skin. For the effects Agent Orange had on the Vietnamese during the Vietnam War, please click  here  (WARNING images in this article may be extremely disturbing, as they include extreme human deformation, including that of infants.)

Needless to say the injecting of, or exposure to, dioxidin is beyond monstrous to voluntarily do to any human. Kligman, though, injected dioxidin (a main component of Agent Orange) into the prisoners to study its effects.

What did happen was that the prisoners developed an eruption of chloracne (all that stuff from high school combined with blackheads and cysts and pustules that looked like the picture shown to the left) that develop on the cheeks, behind the ears, armpits, and the groin — yes, the groin.

Kligman was rumored to have injected 468 times the amount he was authorized to. Documentation of that effect has, wisely, not been distributed.

The Army oversaw while Kligman continued to test out skin-burning chemicals to (in their words) “learn how the skin protects itself against chronic assault from toxic chemicals, the so-called hardening process” and test out many products whose effects were unknown at the time, but with the intent of figuring that out.

During these proceedings, Kligman was reported to have said, “All I saw before me were acres of skin … It was like a farmer seeing a fertile field for the first time.”

Using that analogy, it’s easy to see how he could plow straight through so many human subjects without an ounce of sympathy.

————————————————————————————————————————————————-8) Operation PaperclipWhile the Nuremberg trials were being conducted and the ethics and rights of humanity were under investigation, the U.S. was secretly taking in Nazi scientists and giving them American identities.

Under Operation Paperclip, named so because of the paperclips used to attach the scientists’ new profiles to their US personnel pages, N***s who had worked for in the infamous human experiments (which included surgically grafting twins to each other and making then conjoined, removing nerves from people’s bodies without anesthetic, and testing explosion-effects on them) in Germany brought over their talents to work on a number of top secret projects for the US.

Given then-President Truman’s anti-Nazi orders, the project was kept under wraps and the scientists received faked political biographies, allowing these monsters to live on not only American soil, but as free men.

So while it was not direct experimentation, it was the U.S. taking some of the worst people in the world and giving them jobs here to do unknown, horrible.

————————————————————————————————————————————————9) Infecting Puerto Rico With Cancer

In 1931, Dr. Cornelius (that’s right, Cornelius) Rhoads was sponsored by the Rockefeller Institute to conduct experiments in Puerto Rico. He infected Puerto Rican citizens with cancer cells, presumably to study the effects. Thirteen of them died.

What’s most striking is that the accusations stem from a note he allegedly wrote:

“The Porto Ricans (sic) are the dirtiest, laziest, most degenerate and thievish race of men ever to inhabit this sphere… I have done my best to further the process of extermination by killing off eight and transplanting cancer into several more… All physicians take delight in the abuse and torture of the unfortunate subjects.”

A man that seems to be hell-bent on killing Puerto Rico through a cancer infestation would not seem a suitable candidate to be elected by the US to be in charge of chemical warfare projects and receive a seat on the United States Atomic Energy Commission, right?

But that’s exactly what happened. He also became vice-president of the American Cancer Society.

Any shocking documentation that would have happened during his chemical warfare period would probably have been destroyed by now.

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10) Pentagon Treats Black Cancer Patients with Extreme Radiation

In the 60’s, the Department of Defense performed a series of irradiation experiments on non-consenting, poor, African-American cancer patients. They were told they would be receiving treatment, but they weren’t told it would be the “Pentagon” type of treatment: meaning to study the effects of high level radiation on the human body.

To avoid litigation, forms were signed only with initials so that the patients would have no way to get back at the government.

In a similar case, Dr. Eugene Saenger, funded by the Defense Atomic Support Agency (fancy name), conducted the same procedure on the same type of patients. The poor, black Americans received about the same level of radiation as 7500 x-rays to their chest would, which caused intense pain, vomiting and bleeding from their nose and ears. At least 20 of the subjects died.

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11) Operation Midnight Climax

Here’s a government experiment that, when you Google it, has completely different image results than web results.

Operation Midnight Climax involved safe houses in New York and San Fransisco, built for the sole purpose to study LSD effects on non-consenting individuals.

But in order to lure the individuals there, the CIA made these safe houses out to be, wait for it, Brothels.

Prostitutes on the CIA payroll (yes, there was such a thing) lured “clients” back the houses.

Instead of having sex with them, though, they dosed them with a number of substances, most famously LSD. This also involved extensive use of marijuana.

The experiments were monitored behind a two-way mirror, kind of like a sick, twisted peep show.

Furthermore, it’s alleged that the officials who ran the experiments described them as…” it was fun, fun, fun. Where else could a red-blooded American boy lie, kill, cheat, steal, rape and pillage with the sanction and bidding of the All-highest?”

The most horrifying part was the idea of dosing non-consenting adults with drugs they couldn’t possibly know the effects of.

Embedded is a video of a soldier talking about Operation Midnight Climax and his experiences with the C.I.A. and the U.S. Government.

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12) Fallout Radiation on Unsuspecting Pacific Territories

After unleashing hell upon Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the United States embarked on numerous thermonuclear bomb tests in the Pacific in response to increased Soviet bomb activity. They were intended to be a secret affair. However, this secrecy would fail.

Detonated in 1954 over Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands, Castle Bravo was the most powerful nuclear device the US ever set off. What they didn’t expect was for the fallout from the blast to inadvertently be blown upwind onto nearby residents of other islands. The suffering included birth defects and radiation sickness. The effects were greater felt in later years when many children whose parents were exposed to the fallout developed thyroid cancer and neoplasms.

This created Project 4.1, a study to examine the effects of radiation fallout on human beings. Essentially,it was the latest in a long string of studies where humans act as guinea pigs without giving consent and a project remembered by the US as a way to gather data that would otherwise be unobtainable. The US moral standard that history best remembers is that even though the radiation fallout on the people of the Marshall Islands was an accident, it might as well have been intended.

In addition, perhaps as nature’s way of adding insult to injury, a Japanese fishing boat was caught in the fallout. The fishermen all fell ill and one died, making the Japanese livid that the US was still affecting them with nuclear devices.

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13) Tuskegee

The recent uncovering of the US exposing Guatemalans to syphilis brings back to mind this infamous study. In between 1932 and 1972, researchers recruited 400 black share-croppers in Tuskegee, Alabama to study the natural progression of syphilis.

But the scientists never told the men they had syphilis. Instead, they went around believing that they were being treated for “bad blood” disease as researchers used them to find out the extent of syphilis symptoms and effects.

In 1947, penicillin became the standard cure for syphilis. But along with withholding information about the disease, scientists also “forgot” to tell their subjects that what they were being treated for had a cure. And so the study continued for nearly 30 years more.

Once it was discovered, the backlash to the study was so fierce that President Bill Clinton made formal apology, stating he was sorry that the government “orchestrated a study that was so racist”. Sadly enough, it would be horrific, but one of the more docile evil human experiments ever conducted by the U.S. Government.

Source : http://www.ranker.com/list/the-13-most-evil-u-s-government-experiments-on-humans/robert-wabash

Chicken vaccines form new virus

The second live attenuated vaccine (a vaccine where part of the virus is still living) was used when the Australian vaccine strain ran out, but the two vaccines combined to form new virus strains, which could now kill thousands of chicken. The viruses don’t pose a threat to humans, food or other animals, but suggest the risk of live attenuated vaccines needs to be considered. 

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Research from the University of Melbourne has shown that two different vaccine viruses – used simultaneously to control the same condition in chickens – have combined to produce new infectious viruses, prompting early response from Australia’s veterinary medicines regulator.


The vaccines were used to control infectious laryngotracheitis (ILT), an acute respiratory disease occurring in chickens worldwide. ILT can have up to 20% mortality rate in some flocks and has a significant economic and welfare impact in the poultry industry.
 
The research found that when two different ILT vaccine strains were used in the same populations, they combined into two new strains (a process known as recombination), resulting in disease outbreaks.
 
Neither the ILT virus or the new strains can be transmitted to humans or other animals, and do not pose a food safety risk.
 
The study was led by Dr Joanne Devlin, Professor Glenn Browning and Dr Sang-Won Lee and colleagues at the Asia-Pacific Centre for Animal Health at the University of Melbourne and NICTA’s Victoria Research Laboratory and is published on 13 July 2012 in the international journal Science.
 
Dr Devlin said the combining of live vaccine virus strains outside of the laboratory was previously thought to be highly unlikely, but this study shows that it is possible and has led to disease outbreaks in poultry flocks.
 
“We alerted the Australian Pesticide and Veterinary Medicines Authority (APVMA) to our findings and they are now working closely with our research team, vaccine registrants and the poultry industry to determine both short and long term regulatory actions,” she said.
 
“Short-term measures include risk assessment of all live virus vaccines currently registered by the APVMA in regard to the risk of recombination and could include changes to product labels, which may result in restrictions on the use of two vaccines of different origins in the one animal population.”
 
The ILT vaccines are ‘live attenuated vaccines’, which means that the virus has some disease-causing factors removed but the immune system still recognises the virus to defend against a real infection.
 
“Live vaccines are used throughout the world to control ILT in poultry. For over 40 years the vaccines used in Australia were derived from an Australian virus strain. But following a vaccine shortage another vaccine originating from Europe was registered in 2006 and rapidly became widely used,” Dr Devlin said.
 
“Shortly after the introduction of the European strain of vaccine, two new strains of ILT virus were found to be responsible for most of the outbreaks of disease in New South Wales and Victoria. So we sought to examine the origin of these two new strains.”
 
The team sequenced all of the genes (the genome) of the two vaccines used in Australia, and the two new outbreak strains of the virus. Following bioinformatic analysis on the resulting DNA sequence, in conjunction with Dr John Markham at NICTA’s Victoria Research Laboratory, they found that the new disease-causing strains were combinations of the Australian and European origin vaccine strains.
 
“Comparisons of the vaccine strains and the new recombinant strains have shown that both the recombinant strains cause more severe disease, or replicate to a higher level than the parent vaccine strains that gave rise to them,” Dr Lee said.
 
Professor Glenn Browning said recombination was a natural process that can occur when two viruses infect the same cell at the same time.
 
“While recombination has been recognised as a potential risk associated with live virus vaccines for many years, the likelihood of it happening in viruses like this in the field has been thought to be so low that it was considered to be very unlikely to lead to significant problems,” he said.
 
“Our studies have shown that the risk of recombination between different vaccine strains in the field is significant as two different recombinant viruses arose within a year. We also demonstrated that the consequences of such recombination can be very severe, as the new viruses have been responsible for the deaths of thousands of Australian poultry.”
 
“The study suggests that regulation of live attenuated vaccines for all species needs to take into account the real potential for vaccine viruses to combine. Measures such as those now being taken for the ILT vaccines will need to be implemented.”