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Lets not forget another possibility in this. The Plum Island Reseach Lab run by the Dept. Agriculture that is right off Long Island New York. A lot of research concerning Anthrax and other possible biological agents are tested there. It has long been believed that a lot more goes on there than has ever been admitted to by the gov.
If you look at the pattern of when West Nile first appeared in New York is looks as through ground zero is Plum Island. What may have happened is than contrary to what the Gov. says a strain of West Nile being studied there may have gotten loose and this catastrophe is one of our Gov.'s own making.

"If you look at the pattern of when West Nile first appeared in New York is looks as through ground zero is Plum Island."

"Ground zero" was Queens -- at the opposite end of Long Island from Plum Island.

Almost simultaneously, additional infections showed up in the Baltimore/Washington area. And that's no reason to blame Fort Detrick, either.

I've got a tin foil theory here... Perhaps the US received credible information that the the Iraqi defector was correct in his assertion that Iraq had a version of West Nile that would kill 97% of those affected.

What better (and quicker) way to innoculate the population then to spread a weak version of West Nile?

"The Plum Island Reseach Lab run by the Dept. Agriculture that is right off Long Island New York. A lot of research concerning Anthrax and other possible biological agents are tested there. It has long been believed that a lot more goes on there than has ever been admitted to by the gov. "

Also, Lyme disease first appeared in the Old Lyme area of Connecticut, which is right across from Plum Island. Does make you wonder, doesn't it?

Carolyn

Y'know, when this potential connection first started to surface a couple of months ago (right here on FR, to be exact!), I dismissed it as so much tin-foilage ("Foilage?" "Foiliage?" "Foiliography?" [shrug]).

But after seeing the spread-pattern, I have to wonder. There are still some intangibles and incongruities to this whole scenario. Firstly, where are all the dead birds? Have birds and other animals suddenly developed an immunity to the virus - if so, what immunity do they carry that is lacking within humans? What, within the human vector, determines whether you will get it or not? Up to this point, there have not been a significant number of children who have died with the virus - you would expect they would get the virus and die within some reasonable percentage of the population.

Finally, why point to Cuba? If (And I still say IF) this is an engineered event, could it not be coming from elsewhere on (or off) of the continent? Actually, given the spread rate, couldn't it be coming from multiple locales?

There are a lot of unanswerable variables, given our present body of knowledge about the pandemic. I'm not quite ready to say that there is a deliberate spread, but I'm not quite ready to doff the tin-foil either...