What’s the Truth About the Zika Virus?
Zika Outbreak Epicenter in Same Area Where GM Mosquitoes Were Released
in 2015
The World
Health Organization announced it will convene an Emergency Committee under International
Health Regulations on Monday, February 1, concerning the Zika virus ‘explosive’
spread throughout the Americas. The virus reportedly has the potential to reach
pandemic proportions — possibly around the globe. But understandingwhy
this outbreak happened is vital to curbing it. As the WHO statement said:
“A causal
relationship between Zika virus infection and birth malformations and
neurological syndromes … is strongly suspected. [These links] have rapidly
changed the risk profile of Zika, from a mild threat to one of alarming
proportions.
“WHO is
deeply concerned about this rapidly evolving situation for 4 main reasons: the
possible association of infection with birth malformations and neurological
syndromes; the potential for further international spread given the wide
geographical distribution of the mosquito vector; the lack of population
immunity in newly affected areas; and the absence of vaccines, specific
treatments, and rapid diagnostic tests […]
“The
level of concern is high, as is the level of uncertainty.”
Zika
seemingly exploded out of nowhere. Though it was first discovered in 1947,
cases only sporadically occurred throughout Africa and southern Asia. In 2007,
the first case was reported in the Pacific. In 2013, a smattering of small
outbreaks and individual cases were officially documented in Africa and the
western Pacific. They also began showing up in the Americas. In May 2015,
Brazil reported its first case of Zika virus — and the situation changed
dramatically.
Brazil is
now considered the epicenter of the Zika outbreak, which
coincides with at least 4,000 reports of babies born with microcephaly
just since October.
When
examining a rapidly expanding potential pandemic, it’s necessary to leave no
stone unturned so possible solutions, as well as future prevention, will be as
effective as possible. In that vein, there was another significant development
in 2015.
Oxitec first
unveiled its large-scale, genetically-modified mosquito
farm in Brazil in July 2012, with the goal of reducing “the incidence of
dengue fever,” as The Disease Daily reported. Dengue fever is spread by the same Aedes
mosquitoes which spread the Zika virus — and though they “cannot fly more
than 400 meters,” WHO stated, “it may inadvertently be transported by
humans from one place to another.” By July 2015, shortly after the GM
mosquitoes were first released into the wild in Juazeiro, Brazil, Oxitec
proudly announced they had “successfully controlled the
Aedes aegypti mosquito that spreads dengue fever, chikungunya and zika virus,
by reducing the target population by more than 90%.”
Though that
might sound like an astounding success — and, arguably, it was — there is an
alarming possibility to consider.
Nature, as
one Redditor keenly pointed out, finds a way — and the effort to control
dengue, zika, and other viruses, appears to have backfired dramatically.
Juazeiro, Brazil —
the location where genetically-modified mosquitoes were first released into the
wild.
Map showing the
concentration of suspected Zika-related cases of microcephaly in
Brazil.
The
particular strain of Oxitec GM mosquitoes, OX513A, are genetically altered so
the vast majority of their offspring will die before they mature — though Dr.
Ricarda Steinbrecher published concerns in a report in September 2010 that a known survival rate of 3-4
percent warranted further study before the release of the GM insects. Her
concerns, which were echoed by several other scientists both at the time and
since, appear to have been ignored — though they should not have been.
Those
genetically-modified mosquitoes work to control wild, potentially
disease-carrying populations in a very specific manner. Only the male modified
Aedes mosquitoes are supposed to be released into the wild — as they will mate
with their unaltered female counterparts. Once offspring are produced, the
modified, scientific facet is supposed to ‘kick in’ and kill that larvae before
it reaches breeding age — if tetracycline is not present during its
development. But there is a problem.
Aedes aegypti
mosquito. Image credit: Muhammad Mahdi Karim
According to
an unclassified document from the Trade and Agriculture Directorate
Committee for Agriculture dated February 2015, Brazil is the third largest in “global
antimicrobial consumption in food animal production” — meaning, Brazil is
third in the world for its use of tetracycline in its food animals. As a study
by the American Society of Agronomy, et. al., explained, “It is estimated that approximately 75% of
antibiotics are not absorbed by animals and are excreted in waste.” One of
the antibiotics (or antimicrobials) specifically named in that report for its
environmental persistence is tetracycline.
In fact, as
a confidential internal Oxitec document divulged in 2012, that survival
rate could be as high as 15% — even with low levels of tetracycline present. “Even
small amounts of tetracycline can repress” the engineered lethality.
Indeed, that 15% survival rate was described by Oxitec:
“After a
lot of testing and comparing experimental design, it was found that
[researchers] had used a cat food to feed the [OX513A] larvae and this cat food
contained chicken. It is known that tetracycline is routinely used to prevent
infections in chickens, especially in the cheap, mass produced, chicken used
for animal food. The chicken is heat-treated before being used, but this does
not remove all the tetracycline. This meant that a small amount of tetracycline
was being added from the food to the larvae and repressing the [designed]
lethal system.”
Even absent
this tetracycline, as Steinbrecher explained, a “sub-population” of
genetically-modified Aedes mosquitoes could theoretically develop and thrive,
in theory, “capable of surviving and flourishing despite any further”
releases of ‘pure’ GM mosquitoes which still have that gene intact. She added, “the
effectiveness of the system also depends on the [genetically-designed] late
onset of the lethality. If the time of onset is altered due to environmental
conditions … then a 3-4% [survival rate] represents a much bigger problem…”
As the WHO
stated in its press release, “conditions associated with this year’s El Nino
weather pattern are expected to increase mosquito populations greatly in many
areas.”
Incidentally,
President Obama called for a massive research effort to develop a vaccine for the Zika
virus, as one does not currently exist. Brazil has now called in 200,000 soldiers to somehow help combat the virus’ spread.
Aedes mosquitoes have reportedly been spotted
in the U.K. But perhaps the most ironic — or not — proposition was proffered on January 19, by the MIT
Technology Review:
“An
outbreak in the Western Hemisphere could give countries including the United
States new reasons to try wiping out mosquitoes with genetic engineering.
“Yesterday,
the Brazilian city of Piracicaba said it would expand the use of genetically
modified mosquitoes …
“The GM
mosquitoes were created by Oxitec, a British company recently purchased by
Intrexon, a synthetic biology company based in Maryland. The company said it
has released bugs in parts of Brazil and the Cayman Islands to battle dengue
fever.”
Zika Freakout: The Hoax and the Covert Op Continue
If you want
to hide anything on this planet, twist it into a (fake) story about a virus. You’re home
free.
This is my
second article on the Zika-virus scam (article archive here). I’ve been
to these rodeos before: HIV, West Nile, Swine Flu, SARS, Ebola. In each
case, a virus is blamed for illness and death that actually arises from other
causes.
The Zika
virus, now being blamed for the birth of babies with very small heads and
impaired brains, has been around for a long time—late 1940s, early 1950s—and
suddenly, without warning or reason, after inducing, at best, mild illness,
it’s producing horrendous damage? This is called a clue. A clue that scientific
liars are lying. Furthermore, many of the women who are giving birth to
deformed babies test negative for the presence of the Zika Virus.
So, what is
causing babies to be born with very small heads and brain damage? While
researching my first book in 1987-8, AIDS INC., I
concluded: don’t assume
there is only one cause for illness. That can be very misleading. Various
factors can combine to produce disease and death.
For example,
in the case of this “Zika” phenomenon:
One:
Pesticide use in Brazil:
Brazil, the
center of the “Zika” crisis, uses more pesticides than any nation in the world.
Some of these are banned in 22 other countries. And as for babies born with
smaller heads, here is a study from Environmental Health Perspectives (July 1,
2011), “Urinary Biomarkers of Prenatal
Atrazine Exposure…”:
“The
presence versus absence of quantifiable levels of [the pesticide] atrazine or a
specific atrazine metabolite was associated with fetal growth restriction… and small head
circumference… Head circumference was also inversely associated with the
presence of the herbicide metolachlor.” (emphasis added)
Atrazine and
metolachlor are both used in Brazil.
Two: The
TdaP vaccine:
This is a
case of suspicious correlation. A study posted in the US National Library of
Medicine, “Pertussis in young infants: a severe
vaccine-preventable disease,” spells it out:
“…in late 2014, the [Brazilian]
Ministry of Health announced the introduction of the Tdap vaccine for all
pregnant women in Brazil.”
Obviously,
pregnant women are the target group; they are giving birth to babies with
smaller heads and brain damage, and the recommendation for them to take the
vaccine was recent; 2014.
Barbara Loe
Fisher, of the National Vaccine Information
Center, writes:
“Drug
companies did not test the safety and effectiveness of giving influenza or Tdap
vaccine to pregnant women before the vaccines were licensed in the U.S and
there is almost no data on inflammatory or other biological responses to these
vaccines that could affect pregnancy and birth outcomes…The Food and Drug
Administration (FDA) lists influenza and Tdap vaccines as either Pregnancy
Category B or C biologicals which means that adequate testing has not been done
in humans to demonstrate safety for pregnant women and it is not known whether
the vaccines can cause fetal harm or affect reproduction capacity. The manufacturers of
influenza and Tdap vaccines state that human toxicity and fertility studies are
inadequate and warn that the influenza and Tdap vaccines should ‘be given to a
pregnant woman only if clearly needed.’” (emphasis added)
Three:
Genetically engineered mosquitoes that have already been released in Brazil to
“combat” dengue fever—a project implemented by Oxitec, a company supplied with
grant money from Bill Gates:
A town in
Brazil has reported continuing elevated levels of dengue fever since the GE
(genetically engineered) mosquitoes have been introduced to combat that
disease.
The
scientific hypothesis is: the trickster GE bugs (males) will impregnate natural
females, but no actual next generation will occur beyond the larval stage.
However, this plummeting birth rate in mosquitoes is the only “proof” that the
grand experiment is safe. No long-term health studies have been done—this is a
mirror of what happened when GMO crops were introduced: no science, just bland
assurances.
Needless to
say, without extensive lab testing, there is no way to tell what toxic elements
these GE mosquitoes may actually be harboring, in addition to what researchers
claim. That’s a major red flag.
Wherever
these GE mosquitoes have been introduced, or are about to be introduced, the
human populations have not been consulted for their permission. It’s all being
done by government and corporate edict. It’s human experimentation on a grand
scale.
Four:
Pesticide manufacturing in Brazil:
Reuters, May
19, 2015, “Brazil
prosecutors seek $16 million from pesticide makers”:
“Brazilian prosecutors said on Monday they
would seek at least 50 million reais ($16.6 million) from multinational
pesticide manufacturers for alleged safety violations at a collection facility
for used pesticide containers… Those manufacturers, prosecutors said, include
the Brazilian units of BASF, DuPont, Monsanto, Nufarm, Syngenta, Adama, FMC and
Nortox… The charges come as scientists, regulators, public health officials and
consumers increasingly complain that Brazil’s ascent as an agricultural
powerhouse has led to unsafe and excessive use of pesticides. Reuters reported
in April that at least four foreign manufacturers sell pesticides in
Brazil that they are not allowed to sell in their home markets.” (emphasis added)
How
convenient for these corporate giants to evade blame for horrific birth
effects—out of nowhere a virus is touted as the cause.
Five:
Severe and endemic malnutrition, lack of basic sanitation, and grinding
poverty:
These are
major factors in all illness and death, in the areas where they are prevalent
(e.g., major parts of Brazil). Suppression of the immune system is the result,
and anything that then comes down the pipeline, germs or manmade toxic
substances, become catastrophic to the body.
Six:
anti-mosquito sprays:
The
Guardian, January 26, 2015, “Brazil
is ‘badly losing’ the battle against Zika virus, says health minister”:
Sprays are
now being given out to 400,000 pregnant women in Brazil. Naturally, the sprays
are toxic. What better way to multiply the attack on mothers and their unborn
children? For example, widely used organophosphates in sprays can be highly
disruptive to the nervous system.
Some or all
of these six elements I’ve listed, in combination, form a sustained attack on
human life.
And as I
keep stressing, the
virus becomes the formidable cover story that conceals the truth.
And don’t
forget the Rio Olympic Games, coming up in August. There are multiple scenarios
which could play out in front of a global television audience. Will Zika be pushed
as some sort of
worldwide pandemic? Will a Zika vaccine be magically “discovered” and
rushed into production, in time to show (as an advertisement) lines of
people dutifully trudging up to receive shots?
Every fake
epidemic is, in part, designed to create fear and induce blind compliance to
medical and government dictates. The germ is positioned as the “tiny terrorist”
in this stage play.
In my first
book, AIDS
INC.(1988), I indicated that covert medical ops are the most
dangerous, because they appear to be politically neutral, they fly under no
flag, and they claim to forward only humanitarian aims. But in fact, modern
“Rockefeller Medicine” is built as a vast partner in the Globalization of the
planet. Its vision is a universal in-utero-to-cradle-to-grave system for the
human race: every human walks a bleak lifelong path of disease-diagnosis after
diagnosis, receiving toxic drugs and vaccines at every turn, which weaken his
body and mind, and make him unable to consider what is happening outside his
perimeter of suffering or resist political totalitarianism.
Medical
freedom means: the freedom to refuse medical care, and it’s based on knowledge
of destructive effects. This freedom must win, against any odds.
“Official
science” is a contradiction in terms, and a grand illusion.
Thanks to reporters and researchers Jim Stone, Kathy Ford, the
fullerton informer, Jim
West, Martin Maloney, and Claus Jensen, who have moved this story forward
and exposed the scam.
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Zika and the New Climate Dystopia
— Human Hothouse as Disease Multiplier
As of today, authorities in Brazil, Colombia,
Jamaica, El Salvador and Venezuela were urging women to avoid getting pregnant…
It is unthinkable. Or rather, it is something out of a science fiction story,
the absolute core of a dystopian future.
There are a
plethora of diseases out there. Diseases we don’t know about. Diseases locked away in
far-off, rarefied corners of the world. Diseases that operate in small niche
jungle environments. Diseases that live in only cave systems or within a single
species. Diseases that were locked away millions of years ago in the
now-thawing ice. Diseases that, if given a vector — or a means to travel
outside of their little rarefied organic or environmental niches — can wreak
untold harm across wide spans of the globe.
(Countries with
reported active Zika transmission. Until recently, Zika flare-ups had been
isolated to Central Africa and French Polynesia. Now the virus is a global
pandemic with World Health Organizations authorities concerned infections could
top 4 million. Image source: The CDC.)
Such was the
case with the once humble Zika virus. Discovered in 1947 in Central Africa, the
disease first only existed in monkeys. The virus took 7 years to make the leap
into humans in 1954. But, at first, symptoms were only mild and for most of the
history of this disease it was considered to be a less harmful form of the
Dengue Fever Virus — to which it is closely related. The virus, at first,
appeared only to result in fever, headaches, rash and back pain — if any
symptoms appeared at all. It would take much longer for the devastating and
horrific after-effects of an, at first, seemingly harmless virus to begin to
show up.
Until 2007,
when the virus began to grow to its current pandemic levels, it was mostly
isolated to Central Africa and a region of French Polynesia in the Pacific.
Both areas are among the warmest and wettest in the world. Both featuring very
large and persistent populations of the kinds of mosquitoes most suited for the
transmission of this, now widely-feared, illness.
An Issue of The Expanding Range of Disease Vectors
In
epidemiology parlance, a vector is a disease carrier. In the case of
Zika, the primary carrier is the mosquito. In total, seven species of the Aedes
variety of mosquitoes are known to carry Zika.
Under normal
climate conditions, the ranges of these disease-bearing insects would tend to
remain rather stable. But that’s not the case in the current world. Since 1880,
the world has been warming and the extents of disease vector mosquitoes has
been expanding. Under the current regime of 1 C temperature increase over the
past 136 years, Aedes aegypti — one of the chief transporters of the Zika virus
— has expanded its range on out of the tropics and into increasingly higher
Latitudes.
(Global Aedes aegypti
distribution in 2015 — red indicates highest frequency, blue indicates zero
frequency. Aedes aegypti is a disease vector for viruses like Dengue and Zika.
As the globe has warmed, their range has been expanding into ever higher
Latitudes. Image source: Aedes
aegypti Distribution.)
But not only
is the global extent of these disease carriers expanding — so is their
persistence in the regions into which they’d previously occupied. Regions that
may have seen only one or two weeks out of the year in which female, Zika
infected, mosquitoes were active may now experience a month or two of exposure.
And regions in which the mosquito was active for only a few months may now see
active, disease-bearing populations for half of the year or more.
It
is this increasing duration and expansiveness of disease vector exposure that
is one of the most dangerous epidemiological impacts of climate change. Not
only does climate change enable the movement of diseases out of previous isolation
in remote reservoirs. It also enables an ever-broadening range of transport as
the areas in which disease-carrying species are adapted to live dramatically
expands both in terms of space and in terms of time of exposure.
It’s as if
we decided to load up trillions of mosquitoes with what amounts to biological
live rounds and then gave them the ability to unload that deadly ammunition
over broader and broader expanses of the globe. That’s basically what you get
when you warm the world. An expansion and global invasion of hitherto unknown
illnesses spread throughout the world by vectors like the mosquito.
Zika’s Viral Explosion Occurs During Hottest Year on Record
Returning to
our tale of the Zika virus’s expansion during 2007 through 2016, we find that Zika
during this time-frame had leapt out of its traditional 20th Century range and
expanded coincident with the spread of Aedes variety mosquitoes along the
warming and moistening climate bands. In 2007, the first leap outside of
Central Africa and French Polynesia occurred in Yap — a part of the Federated
States of Micronesia.
The epidemic
range then again expanded through 2014 into Easter Island, broader Polynesia,
the Cook Islands, and New Caledonia. The geographic expansion of this illness
along the Pacific Island chains indicates that Zika’s increased virility likely
sparked from the French Polynesian strain and not from the strain in Africa.
Then, in
2015, coordinate with the hottest global temperatures on record, Zika leapt out
of its Pacific Island basin environmental confines and spread into Brazil and
the Caribbean. The virus subsequently spread through a broad section of Central
and South America. As of yesterday, travel warnings of possible exposure to the
Zika virus included this list
of 22 countries:
Barbados,
Bolivia, Brazil, Cape Verde, Colombia, Ecuador, El Salvador, French Guiana,
Guadeloupe, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Martinique, Mexico, Panama,
Paraguay, Puerto Rico, Saint Martin, Samoa, Suriname, and Venezuela.
By
today,
the World Health Organization was issuing warnings that as many as 4 million
people may end up being infected before the most recent outbreak is finished.
The New Climate Dystopia — We are Now Telling Women Not to Have Children
Like many
viral fevers, Zika attacks the nervous systems of those it infects. And though initial
onset symptoms may seem mild, with up to 80 percent of those infected showing
no symptoms at all, the virus may cause severe longer-term damage to both the
unborn and to vulnerable individuals. For as infection rates for the virus
increased what were suspected to be related instances of a kind of temporary
paralysis called Guillian
Barre Syndrome and a terrifying shrinking of the heads of unborn infants called
microcephaly also spiked.
(A spike in
microcephaly rates — a tragic shrinking of the heads of unborn children as a
result of viral damage to the nervous system — among infants in regions of Zika
virus outbreak has raised global concerns about the virus’s ongoing impact.
Most particularly, women in an expanding number of countries are now being
asked to refrain from having children for months or even years. Image source: The CDC.)
From BBC today:
The virus,
which has no symptoms 80% of the time, is blamed for causing stunted brain
development in babies. About 3,500 cases of microcephaly have been identified
in Brazil so far. And medical staff in Recife, a state capital in north-east
Brazil, say they are struggling to cope with at least 240 cases of microcephaly
in children.The city’s Health Secretary, Jailson Correia, a specialist in
tropical diseases, told the BBC he and others needed “to fight very hard”.
These are
profoundly terrible impacts. Ones that were not initially expected from a virus
that at first seemed so innocuous. And it’s this threat of Zika-spawned
microcephaly among infants that is spurring everything from travel warnings to
the hitherto unprecedented measure of some countries requesting that their
human populations take the extreme step of avoiding pregnancy.
As of Monday
authorities in Brazil, Colombia, Jamaica, El Salvador and Venezuela were urging
women not to get pregnant. The pregnancy moratorium — which is voluntary —
ranges in duration from a few months to two years in the case of El Salvador.
And the reason for the requested moratorium is sadly practical. Authorities in
these countries are now forced to choose between asking women to avoid
pregnancy or having their healthcare systems overwhelmed by infants suffering
from microcephaly.
With a vaccine
likely 10-12 years away for Zika, with 4 million cases expected in the current
outbreak, and with the range of Aedes type mosquitoes who carry the virus
continuing to expand on the back of a human-forced warming of the globe, we are
sadly just at the beginning of this particular tragedy. An event that, as
Bill McKibben noted in The Guardian earlier this week, has leapt fully into
the realm of dystopia.
A Profound Dislocation For Humankind
Microcephaly
among infants is both tragic and terrifying. Its impact strikes at the very heart of
what it means to be a human being. If a virus, driven to far-flung regions by
the heating of the world through fossil fuel burning, is able to cripple our
children while still in the womb, our sense of security is shattered as we
witness heart-breaking brutality. It’s the kind of thing so terrible it
couldn’t come from the human imagination. Which is why, when we witness it, we
experience a strange sense of dislocation. A surreal sense that all is not
right. Like the moment after the car hit the telephone pole, the moment you’re
still flying through the air flung free of the vehicle. The moment just before
the inevitable impact with the pavement.
But the
impact, sadly, does come. Not only are we turning many of the species of this
world into climate orphans. Into creatures without a safe space in which to
live and thrive, we are also doing it to ourselves. For the children of Zika
are climate orphans too. The tragic victims of an expanding range of
environmental conditions that are hazardous to human life. And Zika is but one
example of the deadly diseases, extreme weather, sea level rise, glacial
collapse, ocean death, and crop disruption we are now forcing upon the human
habitat. A habitat we are rendering less livable for ourselves and pretty much
everything else.
That’s what
terminal dislocation means — to be forceably ejected. To be suddenly introduced
into a very hostile environment in which survival, and in this case
reproduction, is suddenly a crap shoot. For human beings, this is a profound
dislocation. One that makes the world we’re living in now seem all-too-alien.
For we’re not living in the world we are used to. And the one we’re making is
both terrible and tragic. And, in all honesty, we desperately need to stop the
damage before some other very big, or terrible, or essential thing breaks free.
Links:
The
Zika Virus Foreshadows Our Climate Dystopian Future
About Climate Change and
Vector-Borne Diseases
The CDC
The Zika Virus
Mosquito
Borne Zika Virus Spreading Explosively
Aedes Aegypti
UCAR:
Climate Change and Vector-Borne Disease
Brazilian City Sees Spike in
Microcephaly Cases
Facts about
Microcephaly
2
C Warming Increases Mosquito Population by 50 Percent
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