Topic: Plum Island - has anyone seen this? Fascinating read.
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Published on World War 4 Report (http://ww4report.com) "BIONOIA" Part 3 The Mystery of Plum Island: Nazis, Ticks and Weapons of Mass Infection
by Mark Sanborne
In Part 2 of this series, which ran in our February issue, journalist and researcher Mark Sanborne looked back at how the US, which now
hypes the threat of "bio-terrorism" to justify gutting the Biological Weapons Convention, has actually spearheaded the development of biological weapons--and their use against civilian populations. In this new installment, Sanborne
explores the possibility that unusual outbreaks of exotic diseases within the United States have been linked to the Pentagon's bio-warfare experiments--including some overseen by former
Nazis. The closing installments will explore the survival of the secretive Cold War biowar apparatus in both the US and Russia, and its links to the new wave of biological threats.
If covert elements of the U.S. government have indeed been bombarding Cuba for over four decades with diseases aimed primarily at animals and crops, as discussed in Part 2 of this series,
where might such bioagents have been developed? One likely suspect is Plum Island, the site where, during the early years of the Cold War, germs and viruses that could be used to wipe out Soviet livestock were cultivated.
Located less than two miles off the North Fork of Long Island and only six miles from Connecticut, the 840-acre Plum Island Animal Disease Center was
established after World War II. Initially run by the Army, the facility was put under nominal control of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) in the 1950s.
The PIADC was dubbed "the safest lab in the world" and tasked with studying diseases that could threaten the nation's livestock--which it did, effectively. But from the beginning Plum Island
also played a key role in the U.S. biowarfare program and shared close ties with Fort Detrick, MD, the Army's biowar HQ.
This long-suspected nexus was confirmed in Cold War records declassified in 1993. According to the documents, when calling for a major biowarfare test in the early 1950s, the Joint Chiefs of Staff
stated: "Steps should be taken to make certain adequate facilities are available, including those at Fort Detrick, Dugway Proving Ground [Utah], Fort Terry [Plum Island] and an island testing
"In many cases there were only maybe five people who knew what was going on in weapons research [at Plum Island]. People in one lab didn't know what
happened in the next lab, and they didn't ask," said Norman Covert, the aptly named base historian at Fort Detrick.
AGAIN WITH THE NAZIS?
And just to make it officially nefarious: it turns out Plum Island has Nazi connections. Former U.S. Justice Department prosecutor and Nazi-hunter John Loftus wrote his 1982 book The Belarus Secret: "Even more disturbing are the records of the Nazi
germ warfare scientists who came to America. They experimented with poison ticks dropped from planes to spread rare diseases. I have received some information suggesting that the U.S. tested some of these poison ticks on the Plum Island artillery
range off the coast of Connecticut during the early 1950s... Most of the germ warfare records have been shredded, but there is a top secret U.S. document confirming that 'clandestine attacks on
crops and animals' took place at this time."
More recently, other details emerged in Lab 257: The Disturbing Story of the Government's Secret Plum Island Germ Laboratory by Long Island lawyer
Michael Christopher Carroll, who spent six years researching the topic. His explosive book actually prompted a lengthy article in the New York Times
("Heaping More Dirt on Plum Island," Feb. 15, 2004). Though meant as a debunking--aside from Carroll, all seven people interviewed were critics or skeptics--in the Times' perverse tradition, a
lot of interesting information was revealed to its mainstream readers. But not all of the establishment took the party line: Former New York Gov. Mario Cuomo endorsed the book as "brilliant"
and a "carefully researched, chilling expose of potential catastrophe."
Most of the controversy centered around Carroll's informed speculation that Plum Island may have been the source of a series of epidemics over the
decades: outbreaks of Dutch duck plague that almost wiped out Long Island's duck industry in the 1960s, the insidious appearance and spread of Lyme disease in the 1970s and 1980s, a mystery
infection that killed most of the Long Island Sound's lobsters in 1999, and in the same year the arrival of West Nile virus in the New York metropolitan area, which claimed a number of lives
and prompted authorities to repeatedly spray the city with malathion. Allaying potential public fears over such verboten ideas was a main reason the Times devoted so many inches of newsprint to
damage control; the article mentioned the Nazi angle only in passing.
It turns out that the spiritual godfather of Plum Island was one Dr. Erich Traub, a Nazi scientist with a fascinating history, according to Carroll's
well-documented account. He spent the pre-war years in a scientific fellowship at the Rockefeller Institute in Princeton, N.J., studying bacteriology and virology, while still finding
time to hang out at Camp Sigfried, headquarters of the American Nazi movement in Yaphank, Long Island, 30 miles west of Plum Island. He then took his laboratory skills back to Germany where he
eventually became chief of Insel Riems, the Nazi's secret biological warfare lab located on an island in the Baltic, supervising the testing of germ and viral sprays over occupied Russia, targeting
cattle and reindeer, while reporting directly to Heinrich Himmler.
After the war Traub worked briefly for the Soviets before escaping into the embrace of Operation Paperclip, Washington's covert employment program
for useful Nazi scientists. As Werner von Braun was to rockets, Traub was to germs: He promptly went to work for the Naval Medical Research
Institute and gave operational advice to the CIA and the biowarriors at Fort Detrick. Indeed, his detailed description of his work at Insel Riems probably helped inspire the selection of Plum
Island by the Army: both the German and U.S. facilities were situated on islands where the prevailing winds blew (mostly) out to sea.
VECTOR ANALYSIS
Despite his exceedingly questionable history, Dr. Traub in fact was twice asked to be director of Plum Island, including by the USDA. He declined, but was known to have paid at least several
official visits there. He may very well have been one of the Nazi scientists cited by Loftus who supervised the dropping of infected ticks from planes. Which brings us to the question of vectors.
In the context of biowarfare and infectious disease generally, a vector is an organism or agent that carries pathogens from one host to another. To attack an enemy's agriculture system,
such intermediary vectors aren't always needed: It's often enough to covertly disperse a pathogen directly on part of a crop and allow the infection to spread from plant to plant, as anti-Castro
agents apparently did in Cuba on a number of occasions. (The versatile U.S. attack reportedly has also employed molds, fungi, insect infestations, and other minute pests targeted at
specific crops--all of which, of course, had to be grown and tested somewhere first.)
However, it's not quite so simple to attack animal and human populations, which are not stationary targets. Effective aerial delivery of agents like
anthrax or rabbit fever can be affected by wind and weather, and is more likely to be detected as a deliberate attack. (Though if it's sprayed on an army of protestors on the Washington Mall, a
possibility discussed in Part 1 --well, that's apparently another story.)
On the other hand, employing such vectors as mosquitoes, fleas, lice, and ticks to transmit diseases to targeted populations, while much slower in effect, can spread a greater variety of
infections much more widely while maintaining a degree of plausible deniability for the attacker. Thus we should not be surprised that the fruits of Nazi and Imperial Japanese research and
development in this ugly field ended up in eager U.S. hands after the war.
RETURN TO CUBA
Which bring us to this: Carroll cites an internal 1978 USDA document titled "African Swine Fever" obtained from an investigation by former Long Island congressman Thomas Downey. It notes that in
research at Plum Island 1975 and 1976, "the adult stages of Abylomma americanum and Abylomma cajunense were found to be incapable of harboring and transmitting African swine fever virus." Translated, that means scientists had tested the
Lone Star tick and the Cayenne tick as effective vectors for African swine flu and found them wanting.
A vector is generally thought to be a one-way affair. But while this particular vector test failed, it also seems to point, paradoxically, in two directions at once. One is back, once again,
to Cuba. Note that Plum Island's research on suitable vectors for African swine fever took place midway between unusual outbreaks of that
disease in Cuba, in 1971 and 1979-80, as discussed in Part 2. (And recall that its appearance in Cuba was a first in the Western hemisphere.)
Perhaps the U.S. scientists were innocuously testing potential vectors that could spread the exotic flu to America's pork industry. Or perhaps--considering Plum Island's longstanding
connections to Fort Detrick--the tests were actually designed to find a new vector to transmit the virus once again to Cuba, which coincidentally did suffer another outbreak a few years later. In any event, whatever vector infected Cuba's pigs
with African swine fever in 1971 and 1979, it's safe to say it wasn't the Lone Star or Cayenne ticks.
But is that the end of the infected tick story? Unfortunately, no. Because the failed Plum Island vector test also points in another possible
direction, right back into the heart of what our political-warrior class now likes to call the Homeland. And rather than riding off ineffectually
into the sunset, the Lone Star tick has gone on to a key supporting role in yet another biomystery.
THE PANDEMIC THAT DARE NOT SPEAK ITS NAME
In 1975, a strange disease broke out in Old Lyme, Connecticut, just 10 miles across Long Island Sound from Plum Island. Often initially characterized by a red rash and swollen joints, it
afflicted an original cluster of 50 victims, many of them children, who were at first misdiagnosed as having juvenile rheumatoid arthritis.
It turns out that "Lyme disease"--as it came to be called as cases mounted and spread in the years that followed--is a devious, multi-systemic, inflammatory syndrome that mimics other illnesses
by encompassing a range of afflictions, including chronic and crippling pain and fatigue that untreated can spread to organs and the central
nervous system, causing depression, palsy, memory loss, psychosis, and even encephalitis and death.
Such severe outcomes might surprise many Americans, most of whom have heard of Lyme disease but because of the current lack of media attention
probably think it's no big deal--unless they know someone who suffers from it. Well guess what? With a quarter century behind the outbreak, Lyme is now the most common vector-borne infection in the
United States, and the most common tick-born illness in the world. Yes, you heard that right.
After spreading out from "ground zero" in the Long Island Sound area, as of mid-April 2006, a total of 267,779 domestic cases of Lyme in 49 states had
been reported to the federal Centers for Disease Control. Some experts estimate that, due to Lyme's confusing multiple manifestations, at most only one in 10 cases are recognized and reported to the
CDC, so that the total number of victims could be more than 2.68 million. On top of that, a study predicts a one-third increase in the number of cases per year in the U.S. over the 10-year period from 2002 to 2012.
A TICK WITH A HISTORY
So what's going on? Where did this weird bug--which, leaving aside its suspicious proximity to Plum Island, seemed to emerge from nowhere--supposedly come from? Its history is intriguing. In 1982, National Institutes of Health
researcher Dr. Willy Burgdorfer isolated and identified spirochetes (a form of bacteria) of the genus Borrelia from the gut of infected Ixodes scapularis (commonly known as deer ticks) as the etiological agent of Lyme disease. It was dubbed
Borrelia burgdorferi (Bb), and the good doctor ruefully said of his discovery: "It's a helluva bug, and I'm sorry my name is on it!"
However, while Burgdorfer was the first to isolate the insidious spirochete (which animal studies suggest in some cases can worm its way deep inside
tendons, muscle, the heart and the brain inside a week), earlier incarnations of the disease had been studied in Europe since the late 19th century. By the 1930s, it was known to cause
neurological and psychiatric problems and the tiny Ixodes tick was suggested as a vector. By mid-century doctors were using new antibiotic treatments with some success.
But while the disease caused by the Bb bacteria was known in Europe, it did not appear to constitute a major health problem. It was even
less of an issue on the other side of the Atlantic: Although Bb and related bacterial strains are thought to have long been present in
North America, the only official case reported in the U.S. before the Connecticut outbreak occurred in Wisconsin in 1970, when a hunter became infected from a tick bite.
So what changed in the 1970s to kick-start what has since become a pandemic, both here and in Europe? (Though the P-word is never used in
h is still only a potential pandemic.) Or are we to believe that Bb has been infecting people all along but somehow it just wasn't being noticed? A similar argument has been advanced by apologists for the medical-industrial complex who maintain
that the recent explosion of autism was simply the result of better detection and recognition of the condition, rather than being largely caused by mercury-laced vaccines, as many now suspect.
THE INVADERS
Dr. Alan G. Barbour, who worked closely with Burgdorfer in the identification of Bb, co-wrote an article with Durland Fish in 1993 that made an
interesting case for how the modern outbreak of Lyme disease may have occurred. They suggested that Bb infections were a fact of life in early
American history that went largely unnoticed amid the harshness of frontier life:
"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. The ecological changes in the northeastern and midwestern United
States during this century are responsible for the recent emergence of Lyme disease as a public health problem."
They argue that mass deforestation of the Northeast due to the clearing of land for agriculture and settlement in the 19th and early
20th century resulted in a collapse of white-tailed deer populations, the primary carriers of the I. scapularis tick, and hence the tick itself became too scarce to infect people with Bb. The authors further theorize that Long
Island served as a refuge for relict populations of deer in the area. Then, as land-use patterns changed in the latter half of the 20th century, woodlands and forests recovered in the Northeast, along with deer and deer ticks:
"The invasion by I. scapularis of the increasingly reforested mainland from island refuges initiated the current epidemic of Lyme disease in the Northeast ... There is evidence that several independent mainland invasions [mainly from Long
Island] by I. scapularis took place, resulting in early Lyme disease foci in central New Jersey, mainland Westchester County, N.Y., southeastern Connecticut, and eastern Massachusetts."
So science seems clear on the fact that Long Island was the source of the modern outbreak of Lyme disease, but the devil is in the details. The key problem with Barbour and Fish's scenario is
that it treats pre-1975 Long Island like some kind of lost world, an offshore wilderness Eden where remnant deer lived free of human interaction. In fact, the island's deer population, concentrated
in eastern Suffolk County, has long lived close by people, many of whom were certainly exposed to deer tick bites over the years. So why were there no reports of the disease on Long Island in the
decades before the outbreak in Connecticut? And why, in the wake of that outbreak across the Sound, did Suffolk County--home of Plum Island--quickly develop one of the highest rates of Lyme disease in the country?
This writer grew up in western Suffolk County in the 1960s and '70s, and spent plenty of time exploring the woods, and was bitten by plenty of ticks. But they were the types of tick you can
easily see and feel crawling on your skin, and thus usually could be picked off before they began engorging themselves in earnest on one's blood. Fortunately, there were no deer or deer ticks in
my neck of the woods. So it came as quite a shock to learn in the late '70s of the sudden existence, just a few dozen miles to the east, of infected ticks that were almost invisible--literally the
size of a pinhead--and had the ability to make an unlucky hiker's life into a living hell. Our tiny friend I. Scapularis is indeed the perfect covert agent: it does its dirty work quickly and
disappears before you know it's there, usually leaving behind a telltale rash and a very questionable prognosis.
WOUND, DON'T KILL
Okay, enough beating around the real and metaphorical bushes. Is there any actual evidence that Lyme disease could be the outcome of
biological warfare research at Plum Island that, either accidentally or otherwise, escaped into the outside world? In fact, the evidence seems quite
suggestive, especially when compared to the shaky logic of the official story.
Some might ask: Why would biowarriors be interested in studying a disease agent like Borrelia burgdorferi that incapacitates but rarely kills its victims? Actually, for all the attention
focused on deadly pathogens like anthrax, plague, and rabbit fever, the biowar establishments of various powers have also long been interested in
agents that can slowly stricken and debilitate a civilian population.
The logic is brutally simple: just as a wounded soldier puts more logistical strain on an army than a dead one does, gradually sickening a
population places greater economic and social stress on a society than simply killing a limited number of people with a more direct and virulent attack. If the disease agent can be transmitted
via a "natural" vector like ticks or mosquitoes, providing plausible deniability, and can confuse medical authorities by presenting a broad array of
symptoms that mimic other conditions (Bb, like its more famous relative syphilis, has been called the "Great Imitator"), then so much the better.
Imperial Japan's infamous Unit 731 biowar outfit, discussed in Part 2, reportedly conducted experiments with the Borelia genus, the results of
which likely fell into U.S. hands after the war. However, there is no documentary evidence that indicates Plum Island researchers ever worked with Bb --after all, it is primarily a disease of
humans, not animals. On the other hand, if the bacteria were being secretly studied (or worse, "weaponized") at the lab and introduced to ticks for vector tests, there are any number of ways
tick-borne Bb could have escaped to the mainland: from deer--which are able to swim to and from the island--to birds, or even an inadvertently infected lab worker. (Assuming, of course, it wasn't released on purpose as part of some sinister test.)
Since the Lyme outbreak, scientists claim to have documented the presence of Bb in I. scapularis museum specimens collected in the late 1940s from
Shelter Island and other parts of Long Island close by Plum Island. This is presumed to be evidence that the spirochete was pre-existing in the area and was not "engineered" in a lab in the
1970s. But note that the period the tick specimens were collected is suspiciously close to the time when Nazi scientists may have "experimented with poison ticks dropped from planes to spread rare diseases" at Plum Island.
GIVING NATURE A HAND
The question then arises: Are the unusual characteristics of Bb solely the result of natural evolutionary processes, or were they helped along by the hand of man? Speaking more generally,
here's what Col. Oliver Fellowes, a founding father of Plum Island who was transferred from Fort Detrick in 1952, had to say: "We were always looking for a way to camouflage a strain so that it would be so difficult to detect and identify
that, by the time the enemy had done so, the disease would have done the damage." (Unit 731 by Peter Williams and David Wallace, Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1989.)
Wait, it gets better. On July 1, 1969, Dr. Donald MacArthur, director of the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency, testified before a subcommittee of the House Appropriations
Committee. He had this exchange with Rep. Robert Sikes of Florida:
DR. MACARTHUR: There are two things about the biological agent field I would like to mention. One is the possibility of technology surprise. Molecular biology is a field that is advancing
very rapidly and eminent biologists believe that within a period of five to 10 years it would be possible to produce a synthetic biological agent, an agent that does not naturally exist and for
which no natural immunity could have been acquired.
REP. SIKES: Are we doing any work in that field?
DR. MACARTHUR: We are not.
REP. SIKES: Why not? Lack of money or lack of interest?
DR. MACARTHUR: Certainly not lack of interest.
MacArthur's chilling testimony can be seen as the Rosetta Stone of bionoia, and will be discussed in greater detail in a later installment. But we don't need it for confirmation that something like
Lyme disease can be considered a biological warfare agent--we have it straight from the source, namely the U.S. government. On Nov. 15, 2005, the Associated Press reported:
"A new research lab for bioterrorism opened Monday at the University of Texas at San Antonio. 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."
That, it would seem, makes it official. Among those who took note of this matter-of-fact admission was Dr. Virginia Sherr, who, in a letter
to the editor published Nov. 22, 2005 in the online edition of the Lancet medical journal, wrote:
"[The] concern is the overriding significance of an invisibilized but nonetheless serious infection caused by an extraordinarily complex neurotropic spirochete. Its pandemic is approaching severity
that was experienced throughout the world in the Spanish Flu of 1918. The causative spirochete is, of course, less immediately fatal than was the virus of that epidemic, but it is deadly,
nonetheless, to the human brain. The fact that the causative spirochete, B. burgdorferi, is being studied as an agent of biowarfare in the USA adds impetus to a need for quick education of most of the world's academic physicians as to what has
been sensed at the clinical level for a long time: we are dealing here with a formidable 'smart stealth' type of bacteria that is hard to eradicate--one that does extreme damage to psyche and soma if not treated aggressively over the long term when missed in the first days following
inoculation by the vector... Organized Medicine has mostly ignored or deserted the field of neuro-Lyme's currently immense proportions, internationally."
THE REVENGE OF TEXAS
Whither Plum Island? According an Aug. 28, 2005, story in Newsday, "Plum Island's Future Up In The Air," the federal government plans to replace the existing facility on the island with a more secure
one or relocate to a higher-security level research lab elsewhere by 2011. "The Plum Island facility was built in the 1950s and is nearing the end of its life cycle," according to the
Deptartment of Homeland Security. Glad to hear those guys are on the case.
Ah, but what about the Lone Star tick and its failed vector test back in 1975? Aside from that curious coincidence with Cuba, the documented
research also appears to have something to say about events much closer to home. It demonstrates that Plum Island researchers were infecting Abylomma americanum with various bioagents to see if they could be successfully vectored to other
species. (In this case pigs, but swine are often used as stand-ins for humans in medical experiments.)
That is a matter of some interest because, while the I. Scapularis deer tick is the major vector for Lyme disease in the Northeast, the Lone Star
tick has also been found to be a carrier of spirochetes. There is some debate about whether A. americanum can transmit Bb to humans. Researchers say the tick carries a slightly different bacteria that they've dubbed Borrelia lonestari, which may
or may not cause a "new" Lyme-related ailment called Masters disease, identified in 1991 in Missouri.
The fact that two different ticks carry their own versions of an unusual spirochete bio-agent is suspicious enough--designer bugs, perhaps? (Check
out this unintentional smoking gun in Barbour and Fish's article: "The presence of spirochetes similar to B. burgdorferi in A. americanum in areas where competent vectors are absent is
inexplicable.") But here's the real kicker: The Lone Star is a warm-weather tick that is prevalent in the Southeast and until recently was mostly unknown in the colder Northeast. Now it has
reached as far north as--you guessed it--Long Island, New Jersey, and Connecticut. (Though perhaps the word should not be "reached" but "released.")
A. americanum now makes up 5% of the overall tick population in the region, though there are greater
concentrations in some areas than others. (Researchers combing the woods in New Jersey have found 2,000 to 3,000 Lone Star ticks within one hour.) When did these little devils start being
noticed up here in large numbers? Yup: In the wake of the outbreak of Lyme disease--though there are reports that the initial invaders may have "arrived" as far back as the 1950s, just as things were getting underway at Plum Island.
And yes, Abylomma americanum, as it's nickname suggests, has a special association with the Lone Star State. Another import from Texas that the
rest of the country probably could have done without.
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yep i read these
I sent this story to steve levine fox news reporter he goes after this kid of thing and I gave him some of my thoughts .This what we need is someone to get the connection and get these rotton sssssssssssssssssssob's
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What struck me while reading it ... if, as that stupid article on the Yahoo homepage suggests, Lyme is hard to get, and easily treatable with only a couple weeks of antibiotics, then why would it be studied as a possible biological warfare agent?
Why would a disease that's so easy to treat with readily made medication be a possible biowarfare agent? That would be even sillier than studying the common cold as a bio weapon. Hmmmm. Just doesn't add up.
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Theres many more installments at that webpage hard to find all of them.
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Yep, I had seen the discussions of Plum Island, but never saw this article if it was posted. If it was, sorry for the re-post. I did a search on the author and nothing came up, so I assumed it was not on here anywhere. For those interested, you can pull up the other installments of this article by going to past issues, and the first one is in the Dec 2005 issue. Second is either in the Feb or March issue, I forgot which.
Certainly would explain why we have been totally ignored by the CDC. Another Tuskegee in the making. We could all be experiments.
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If you want to read a book from scientists who not only have impressive credentials no one could refute and have been on the front lines of bioweapons.
Go get Dr.s Garth and Nancy Nicolsons new book Project Daylily or go to the website for a sample. www.projectdaylily.com
These are real threats to public health.Although Im not much on conspiracy theories.
I wouldnt doubt one word of what the Nicolsons have gone though.
On a personal note they were the ones to point me in the direction of infection for my CFS and got me on my path to wellness.
Hear that CIA hope one of your loved ones doesnt come down with some mystery disease.Sorry couldnt resist,RG
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Although the Plum Island theory can be easily argued away because the Lyme bacteria has been around for a while. What is more difficult to explain away is the fact that Lyme is commonly occurring with 4 other co-infections, babesiosis, ehrlichiosis, bartonella,and mycoplasma.
In my mind this points to the hidden hand of Plum Island being the caustive agent and the proximity of Lyme, Conn to Plum Island ( it is the closest part of the mainland to Plum Island).
We will probably never be able to prove this, but do we have to?
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quote:Originally posted by efsd25: Although the Plum Island theory can be easily argued away because the Lyme bacteria has been around for a while. What is more difficult to explain away is the fact that Lyme is commonly occurring with 4 other co-infections, babesiosis, ehrlichiosis, bartonella,and mycoplasma.
In my mind this points to the hidden hand of Plum Island being the caustive agent and the proximity of Lyme, Conn to Plum Island ( it is the closest part of the mainland to Plum Island).
We will probably never be able to prove this, but do we have to?
Excellent point. My thinking is along the same lines. It is just too bizaare that these diseases and parasites are occuring together. I believe that "people" are responsible. Perhaps looking for that magic combination of diseases.
It would certainly explain why the CDC has been told to ignore us all this time. But the time for truth is coming...
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wow, that is blowing my mind...no wonder no doc wants to touch me. my mum works for homeland sec. maybe thats why she wants nothing to do with me either..go figure
i will forward this article to everyone i know.
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Connie, thanks for breaking this up into smaller paragraphs for easier reading.
"On the other hand, employing such vectors as mosquitoes, fleas, lice, and ticks to transmit diseases to targeted populations, while much slower in effect, can spread a greater variety of
I think I'll check with 1 of my brothers who works for the Natl. Guard army to see if they have a PLUM ISLAND BOOK there in their library, and if it's possible for me to read what they have! It never hurts to ask.
It makes the hair on the back of my neck curl up and I get so angry that someone CREATED this hell of a crippling/fatal disease. Bettyg
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Radiogirl..my research to help my daughter led me to Garth Nicholson, as well. I wrote to him, and he replied within a few hours. I think the guys is the real deal.
If this is true, it's digustingly scary.
It would be interesting to see what the military personnel died from who worked on this project.
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