I'm re-posting this in a new thread simply to emphasise the fact that this is the biggest leak ever to come out of the CDC.
The article has gone out via Associated Press and picked up by NBC. Here's the key quote, followed by the URL at MSNBC.com
"The $10.6 million Margaret Batts Tobin Laboratory Building will provide a 22,000-square-foot facility to study such diseases as anthrax, tularemia, cholera, lyme disease, desert valley fever and other parasitic and fungal diseases.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention identified these diseases as potential bioterrorism agents."
IMO in all the countries in which we live, we should now be calling for a public enquiry. How dare the CDC try to sell us the line that Lyme is a hard-to-catch, trivial disease easily cured with 3 weeks doxycycline, when their own office has now admitted it is being studied as a biowarfare agent!
Of course the CDC will now try and wriggleout of this. They will say the Associated Press misunderstood them, or whatever.
But the cat is out of the bag.
Do they think the Lyme community is that stupid, that we have not noticed that both the former (Dr Mc) and current (Dr B) Lyme Programme officers are biowar experts (all info in the public domain)?
Did they think we would not notice that the hateful Dr AS (hint - violin-playing, cold-hearted rheumatologist)was an officer with the EIS when he first went to Lyme, Ct in the 1970's, sent in by another officer of the EIS, Dr DS?
Did they think we would not notice that Dr B (recently granted his own biowar research lab in Calif) and the author of a book aimed at convincing Lyme patients they are hypochondriacs, is also from the EIS, as is Dr D,who for years was in charge of Vector-Borne diseases at CDC?
Etc, etc, etc
Or did they think we would not understand why the UK's top biowar establishment, Porton Down, told an international conference on prevention of bioterrorism last year that they were studying Lyme?
Or that we would think that the appointment of Dr MK as head of one of the world's largest BSL-4 biowarfare units, in Mass., whose paper claiming that long-term abx treatment in "post-Lyme" pts is unnecessary has probably wrecked tens of thousands of lives, was a co-incidence?
And so on and so on and so on.
Of course Lyme is suitable as an incapacitating bioweapon. The truth is, it is EASY to catch, HARD to diagnose, AVOIDS detection on routine tests, creates such a myriad of different presentations that an enemy's doctors would not even understand at first that they had an outbreak of one single illness, and is incredibly hard to cure with antibiotics once the early window of opportunity is lost.
Send that AP article round the world. Let's send it to congressmen, parliament reps, journalists, writers, scientists, political activists.Send it round the world. Let the world know the truth about this "hard-to-catch, easy-to-cure" disease. Let's demand a public enquiry now.
Too many people have suffered for far too long.
Southampton Lyre
Posted by Svengali Eyes (Member # 6118) on :
The troops have been rallying about for years over here Southamptom Lyre but you can jump on board if you wish. Eurolyme probably is looking for help.
Do you play the lyre or is it a play on the word liar?
Sven
Posted by NP40 (Member # 6711) on :
Who'd want to use a bio-terror weapon that's easy to diagnose and is curable with a few anti-biotics ? Posted by psano (Member # 7785) on :
NP40,
Which illness are you referring to that's easy to diagnose and treat? You can't mean Lyme, can you, because the doctors in my area almost refuse to recognize LD as an illness, period.
Posted by NP40 (Member # 6711) on :
Tongue in cheek, Psano. Dripping with sarcasm.
Posted by psano (Member # 7785) on :
No one's ever accused me of being fast ...
Posted by Neil M Martin (Member # 2357) on :
Thanks.
Posted by Lymetoo (Member # 743) on :
quote:Originally posted by NP40: Who'd want to use a bio-terror weapon that's easy to diagnose and is curable with a few anti-biotics ?
Good one!! Posted by Caryn (Member # 366) on :
just saw this article forwarded to me in my email. amazing! maybe things will start to look up for us.
also, did anyone see the special last nite on multiple sclerosis? made me sick. so many are going to be convinced this is what they have when in fact more likely lyme. Terry Garr has just written a book. show promoted drugs to treat the symptoms and slow progression.
Terri said she was dx after everything else was ruled out. doubt the lyme/co-infections were ever considered. wonder about her children and the children of others who had symptoms long before having children and being dx.
should write a letter, but i am not up for it right now.
Posted by Southampton Lyre (Member # 8310) on :
quote:Originally posted by Caryn: just saw this article forwarded to me in my email. amazing! maybe things will start to look up for us.
Yes. I think things can look up for us now. They simply cannot continue to pretend that Lyme is easily cured in 3 weeks, hard to catch, blah blah AND at the same time say they must study it in hi-containment labs as a potential agent of biowarfare.
The web-page from the NIH (which I've posted in a separate thread) is even more important than the CDC leak. The CDC can deny they said this, and blame it on the AP journalist, but the NIH cannot deny what they themselves have written on their website:
"Are NIAID scientists already studying potential agents of bioterrorism? Even before the current emphasis on biodefense, NIAID scientists had been studying organisms that cause a variety of infectious diseases. Potentially, some of these microbes also could be used as ***agents of bioterrorism.*** Examples of diseases caused by these agents include plague, ***Lyme disease***, rabies, tick-borne encephalitis, West Nile virus disease, influenza, anthrax infection, Ebola virus hemorrhagic fever, HIV, tuberculosis, transmissible spongiform encephalopathies, and Q fever. All of this work has been carried out in either the Maryland or Montana laboratories with required safety measures in place."
There you go. What more do we need? We should take this to our parliamentary reps/congressmen, the media - everywhere we can get a hearing. Can the NIH Lyme Program Officer, Dr PB, who doubles as the Anthrax Program Officer (seriously!) deny it any longer?
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