"I'm president Brak Ubama, and I approve of this virus!"
""An outbreak of a mysterious hemorrhagic fever syndrome in the Venezuelan state of Aragua and the country’s capital Caracas has left ten people dead in the last three weeks."
Similar to Ebola, this syndrome causes patients to experience high fever, skin rashes and bleeding. It has been described as an aggressive disease that leads to a fatal deterioration of health within 72 hours.
Doctors have urged government authorities to declare a state of emergency in Aragua state; however they have received resistance from a surprising source.
The state Governor, Tareck El Aissami, has not only denied medical reports of the disease, but has accused the president of the Aragua state Medical Association, Angel Sarmiento, of “creating anxiety.”
Tarek Al-Aissami, the Venezuelan Minister of Interior and Justice, one of the key figures of the Chavez's government, is accused by the media of having used this position to issue passports to members of Hamas and Hezbollah.Born in Lebanon of Syrian descent in 1980; his father, Carlos Al-Aissami, was the head of the Venezuelan branch of the Iraqi Baath political party. According to reports, before the invasion of Iraq his father held a press conference in which he described himself as a Taliban and called Osama Bin Laden, "the great Mujahedeen, Sheik Osama bin Laden."[1] The Minister's great-uncle Shibli Al-Aissami was a prominent ideologist and assistant to the secretary general of the Baath party in Baghdad during the Saddam Hussein regime.[2]
The Soviet Union had an extensive biological warfare division and unfortunately for the United States, much of what was created by their labs might be intact or worse, in the hands of other nations or powers more willing to use these weapons to achieve their goals of weakening the U.S. and its allies. The PBS science program, NOVA, did a story on the BioWarriors back in November of 2001.
This extract from the transcripts of Nova Online from the program is beyond chilling:
What happened to the Soviet program in 1972? They signed the same international treaty the U.S. signed, ostensibly banning offensive BW research, didn’t they? Patrick:
In 1972, just as they signed the Biological Convention, the Soviet Union expanded their program. Since they didn’t have the United States to follow, they went out on their own. And at that point they started concentrating on lethal agents.
They weaponized anthrax. They weaponized smallpox. They weaponized Yersinia pestis or plague. They weaponized Marburg virus. They grew it to high concentrations in guinea pigs. Now, it takes a lot of guinea pigs to produce the amount of dry powder they had on hand when supposedly their program came to an end.
They produced a very, very effective, scary product with Marburg virus.
Patrick: Because Marburg virus is lethal. It only takes one to two virus particles to cause an infection of the respiratory tract. There is no vaccine. And once you contract the disease, there is only one way to go, and that’s death. So it is very scary.
Journal of the American Medical Association report by Luciana Borio, MD issued on May 8, 2002 (PDF here). HISTORY AND POTENTIAL AS BIOLOGICAL WEAPONS
Hemorrhagic fever viruses have been weaponized by the former Soviet Union, Russia, and the United States. There are reports that yellow fever may have been weaponized by North Korea. The former Soviet Union and Russia produced large quantities of Marburg, Ebola, Lassa, and New World arenaviruses (specifically, Junin and Machupo) until 1992.
Soviet Union researchers quantified the aerosol infectivity of Marburg virus for monkeys, determining that no more than a few virions are required to cause infection. Yellow fever and Rift Valley fever viruses were developed as weapons by the US offensive biological weapons program prior to its termination in 1969.
The Japanese terrorist cult Aum Shinrikyo unsuccessfully attempted to obtain Ebola virus as part of an effort to create biological weapons. Several studies have demonstrated successful infection of nonhuman primates by aerosol preparations of Ebola, Marburg, Lassa, and New World arena-viruses.
Arguments asserting that the absence of effective antiviral therapy and vaccines would make these viruses too dangerous to develop as weapons are not supported by the historical record.
In 1999, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) classified the HFVs as category A bioweapon agents, based on the potential to cause widespread illness and death, ease of dissemination or person-to-person transmission, potential for major public health impact, and requirement of special action for public health preparedness.
Marburg is a variety of Ebola named for the location at which it was first identified. It is the deadlier form.
I have said for years that the US is too dumb to be able to determine if it is under attack and if we are in the middle of a war.
These various viruses floating around is a perfect example of our present incapability. We as a nation cannot wipe our rear end these days.
In 1945, we were the most powerful and most respected nation on the face of the Earth. Pennsylvania alone made more steel that any country in the world. We had thousands of ships at sea and more thounds of aircraft in the air.
The US and it Allies had the largest invasion fleet of ships and aircraft ever assombled when we invaded Europe in 1944.
Now we can count the number of carriers we can put to sea on one hand.
I will permit you to draw you own conclusions.
Bkmrk
Mahrburg is often referred to as "Ebola Mahrburg," and is one of the deadlier strains. Another identified strain is "Ebola Reston," named after Reston, VA, where it was isolated. Ebola Reston is an airborne strain, nearly 100% fatal in monkeys, but only causes flu-like symptoms in humans.
The Hot Zone is a book that chronicles the discovery of that strain.
Mark
Are these not reasons enough to revolt? This all stinks to high heaven of an attack from within, sabotage and treason at the highest levels, planned and bring implemented right before our eyes!.
We are at war, and the enemy is within our gates...
The Looney left has taken over FR.
The strain of Ebola they are dealing with is Ebola Zaire. Marburg was discovered back in the 60’s. EZ is more lethal.
These guys need to do some research before coming up with their crazy schemes.
What is interesting is that there ARE two outbreaks of different strains going on in West Africa. THAT is unprecedented.