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Evidence appears to suggest that Baxter International is responsible for a new deadly outbreak of viral pneumonia in Ukraine. In February of 2009 Bloomberg reported that Baxter “accidentally” send vaccine material containing both live Avian bird flu and seasonal influenza to multiple laboratories worldwide. A laboratory decided to test the vaccine on it’s ferrets, but the ferrets all unexpectedly died. It must be noted that Baxter has made a “mistake” like this before. Blood products produced by Baxter once containd HIV. Thousands of haemophiliacs died due to this, and many went on to infect their spouses. Later in the year,...

LAS CRUCES, New Mexico -- Researchers at New Mexico State University recently discovered the world’s hottest chile pepper. Bhut Jolokia, a variety of chile pepper originating in Assam, India, has earned Guiness World Records’ recognition as the world’s hottest chile pepper by blasting past the previous champion Red Savina. In replicated tests of Scoville heat units (SHUs), Bhut Jolokia reached one million SHUs, almost double the SHUs of Red Savina, which measured a mere 577,000. Dr. Paul Bosland, Director of the Chile Pepper Institute at New Mexico State University’s Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences collected seeds of Bhut Jolokia...

London, Dec 28. (PTI): Libyan leader Maommar Gadhafi, who recently abandoned his country's weapons of mass destruction programme, had armed al-Qaeda terror network with germ bombs, a report claimed today. Libyan intelligence chief Musa Kusa told British secret service agency Mi5 that tens of thousands of weapons had been produced at 10 secret sites in the country, the Sunday Express said. Kusa has named 500 al-Qaeda terrorists in Britain and the information he gave is being checked, it said. Libya was closer than Syria, Iran and Iraq to producing a nuclear bomb but last week Gadhafi surrendered his weapons of...

A group of US scientists has warned the Central Intelligence Agency (news - web sites) that recent advances in biotechnology could give life to "designer" biological weapons able to target selected groups of people, act with a delay and turn deadly in reaction to medicine, according to a CIA (news - web sites) document made public here. The warning came during a closed-door seminar organized at the request of the CIA by the National Academy of Sciences (news - web sites) to devise strategies for dealing with the dangerous by-products of the so-called genomic revolution. The spy agency would not...

N. Korea Weapons Expert Said Detained in China 1 hour, 27 minutes ago Add World - Reuters to My Yahoo! BEIJING (Reuters) - A North Korean biological weapons expert has been detained while trying to slip into the Australian consulate in China's southern city of Guangzhou to seek political asylum, an anti-Pyongyang activist said on Saturday. Reuters Slideshow: North Korea Norbert Vollertsen, a German doctor-turned-activist, said plainclothes security agents had detained Ri Chae Woo, who planned to testify in the United States against Pyongyang's chemical and biological weapons program. Vollersten, quoted on a human rights Web site, said Li had...

WASHINGTON, June 12 (UPI) -- The recent outbreak of monkeypox in the United States and the delay in alerting healthcare personnel to its spread highlights the need for a national communications system to alert physicians and public health officials rapidly about bioterrorist attacks or emerging diseases such as SARS and West Nile virus. Over the past several weeks, dozens of Americans might have been infected with monkeypox –- a close but less-deadly cousin of smallpox -- in its first outbreak in the Western Hemisphere. Doctors in Wisconsin saw the first patient May 22 when a 4-year-old girl developed a rash...

The Russians worked with monkeypox virus, a close cousin to smallpox, in their bioweapons program and it is possible terrorists could use it in a biological attack against the United States, scientists and former United Nations weapons inspectors told United Press International. Although some biological weapons experts are concerned with the possibility of terrorists using another smallpox-related virus called camelpox, which Iraq has admitted to researching, Mark Buller, a biologist at Saint Louis University who conducts research on smallpox vaccines, said he is more concerned about monkeypox. Buller's concern stems from the fact that monkeypox, unlike camelpox, causes mortality in...

<p>British Prime Minister Tony Blair ordered 16 million doses of smallpox vaccine after Vice President Richard B. Cheney visited last month and warned about the threat of an attack by Iraq.</p> <p>In a short stopover March 12 on his way to the Middle East, Mr. Cheney met with Mr. Blair for several hours at the prime minister's 10 Downing Street office. The vice president detailed reports from intelligence sources that said the United States and Britain would be the prime targets of a biological terrorism attack.</p>

In the last few years, Russian scientists have invented the world's deadliest plagues. Have we learned about this too late to stop it? THE BIOWEAPONEERS

Health Officials First Feared Prairie Dog Sickness in Midwest Was Smallpox Outbreak The Associated Press MADISON, Wis. June 8 — Doctors initially feared a smallpox outbreak as they began seeing cases of a mysterious disease that has spread to at least 19 people who came into contact with pet prairie dogs in the Midwest, health officials said Sunday. The symptoms were alarmingly similar fever, chills, rashes and swollen lymph nodes, said Milwaukee's health commissioner, Dr. Seth Foldy. It was when the prairie dog connection surfaced that they knew it must be something else. "We asked the question but discounted it...

BioTerrorism Analysis: Weaponsized Infectious Disease and Emerging Disease (A Free Republic Technical Analysis) About five weeks ago, I started a technical thread that analyzed the space shuttle disaster which killed an international flight crew and lead to wreckage over the southwestern United States. In that thread, we had a remarkable range of technical and analytical skills which this website brought to bear. Because we are anonymous, we can pursue fact without fear of the liberals killing our careers or worse. Tonight, I seek to create a thread on a more serious national security problem, biological weapons of mass destruction and...

Medical Experts Speak Out -- SARS Virus Could Be Man-Made and Possibly a Bio-Weapon This was the breaking news late yesterday. News 24 was reporting that top Russian medical experts were lining up to express concern about the virus. A brief excerpt: Nikolai Filatov, head of Moscow's epidemiological services, told the Gazeta daily that he thought the pneumonia was man-made because "there is no vaccine for this virus, its make-up is unclear, it has not been very widespread and the population is not immune to it." * * * The virus, according to academy of medecine member Sergei Kolesnikov, is...

A veritable mountain of evidence leaves little room for doubt that the SARS (severe acute respiratory syndrome) pandemic originated in China. Nevertheless, an article appearing in the May 6 edition of the Hong Kong newspaper Wenweipo speculates that SARS actually originated in the United States. The appearance of this "theory" bears all the earmarks of an attempt by China's Chinese Communist Party (CCP) regime to deflect blame for its handling of the epidemic, and to thereby shore up its crumbling credibility, by creating the impression that the SARS virus is the product of United States biological weapon research. Whatever short-term...

I know that a few reading this title will think to themselves that this is no "drill." But although it is becoming associated with an increasing death toll, it is hardly a biological weapon of choice. Its lethality is relatively small (so far), while its communicability is moderate and all mechanisms of transmission not fully understood. For the purposes of this discussion, we will consider that the SARS (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome) virus is a biological weapon, disregarding the possible sources of this freshly mutating, cross-species pathogen. Some may recall that the 1918-1919 pandemic virus that killed tens of millions...

The virus of atypical pneumonia, better known as SARS, or Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome, was created artificially, possibly as a bacteriological weapon, Sergei Kolesnikov, academician of the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences, told a press conference in the Siberian town of Irkutsk on Thursday, the Russian RIA Novosti news agency reported. According to Kolesnikov, the virus of atypical pneumonia is a synthesis of the viruses of measles and infectious parotiditis or mumps, the natural compound of which is impossible. This can be done only in a laboratory, he said. Kolesnikov added that in creating bacteriological weapons, a protective anti-viral vaccine...

<p>It's spring, and for China's regime that means it's time to send out the annual bullying letters warning off any nation that might be tempted to back democratic Taiwan for observer status at the World Health Organization.</p> <p>Right on schedule, China's mission to the United Nations in Geneva has been hand-delivering a letter in recent days to missions friendly to Taiwan. China's official letter proclaims that Beijing's rulers have "always cared for the people in Taiwan." The letter goes on to warn that Taiwan's desire to participate as an observer at next Monday's opening of the World Health Assembly in Geneva is "immoral," and for any nation to table an invitation to Taiwan's democratically elected government would be a "grave violation" of U.N. rules, deserving, in Beijing's view, "the condemnation of the international community."</p>

<p>U.S. intelligence officials said Russia is secretly continuing to build deadly biological weapons in violation of an international treaty.</p> <p>"Their BW production is actually increasing," said one official with access to reports on the issue.</p> <p>Moscow for decades denied that its military had any offensive biological weapons.</p>

Did the Communist Chinese military create the SARS virus as a bioweapon – only to see a horrific accident unleash this killer on innocent citizens worldwide? A wise man with strong connections to U.S. intelligence recently opined that the SARS outbreak may in fact not be a naturally forming virus. Instead, it may be a "Chinese biowar disaster" along the lines of the anthrax release years ago in the Soviet city of Sverdlosk. Indeed, there are tantalizing clues that lead to Beijing's secretive military establishment: In a Wall Street Journal article from Beijing just days ago, reporters Peter Wonacott and...

The mounting death toll exacted by SARS in China has triggered speculation that the virus could ultimately be traced back to a leak from military bio-weapon programs. Although most reporting favors a natural origin for SARS, a bio-weapon link should at least not be ruled out, according to Richard Fisher, a senior fellow at the Jamestown Foundation, a Washington-based think tank. "While there is no reported evidence that SARS is indeed a weapon, there are plenty of ways that a real weapon with the properties of SARS could prove decisive in a military conflict," he said. China's most famous dissident,...

Although SARS does not appear to be as contagious as the 1918 Spanish flu, its mortality rate is higher. The current pandemic shows that in the future, new infectious diseases will increasingly be a global problem. Modern air transportation can spread a disease all over the world within a very brief period of time. In other words, as was the case with food-borne epidemics, antibiotic-resistant bacteria, insect-borne diseases such as the West Nile virus and AIDS, an outbreak anywhere in the world is soon a threat everywhere. As we experienced with the Hong Kong bird flu in 1997, when more...

A bio-terrorist attack might not be evident until a significant number of patients start displaying unusual symptoms, a leading health professional has warned. Healthcare systems would also struggle to cope with the extra thousands of patients needing advanced life support in the event of a major attack. The comments came from Dr Vivienne Nathanson, of the British Medical Association, who was attending a bio-terrorism conference in London. Danger There are no known vaccines or antibiotics that could deal with most potential biological weapons, said Dr Nathanson, the BMA's director of professional activities. "One of the dangers which we have to...

The vast weight of reporting thus far on the origins of the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) points to a mutation of the coronavirus, which causes the common cold. This view holds that the virus most likely jumped from animals to humans somewhere in China's Guangdong Province. But there are compelling reasons, however unsettling, to at least ask whether there might be any linkage between SARS and China's biological warfare efforts. To be sure, the dominant scientific opinion on the source of SARS-- confirmed by the World Health Organization on April 16--points to a strain of the coronavirus thought to...

S. African Scientist Offers U.S. Agents Cache of Man-Made Pathogens First of two articlesPRETORIA, South Africa -- Daan Goosen's calling card to the FBI was a vial of bacteria he had freeze-dried and hidden inside a toothpaste tube for secret passage to the United States.From among hundreds of flasks in his Pretoria lab, the South African scientist picked a man-made strain that was sure to impress: a microbial Frankenstein that fused the genes of a common intestinal bug with DNA from the pathogen that causes the deadly illness gas gangrene."This will show the Americans what we are capable of," Goosen...

ACADEMICIAN KOLESNIKOV: THE VIRUS OF ATYPICAL PNEUMONIA HAS BEEN CREATED ARTIFICIALLY IRKUTSK, April 10, 2003. /RIA Novosti correspondent Alexander Batalin/--The virus of atypical pneumonia has been created artificially, possibly as a bacteriological weapon, believes Sergei Kolesnikov, Academician of the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences. He expressed this opinion at a news conference in Irkutsk (Siberia) on Thursday. According to him, the virus of atypical pneumonia is a synthesis of two viruses (of measles and infectious parotiditis or mumps), the natural compound of which is impossible. This can be done only in a laboratory, the academician is convinced. He also said...

The virus of atypical pneumonia has been created artificially, possibly as a bacteriological weapon, believes Sergei Kolesnikov, Academician of the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences. He expressed this opinion at a news conference in Irkutsk (Siberia) on Thursday. According to him, the virus of atypical pneumonia is a synthesis of two viruses (of measles and infectious parotiditis or mumps), the natural compound of which is impossible. This can be done only in a laboratory, the academician is convinced. He also said that in creating bacteriological weapons a protective anti-viral vaccine is, as a rule, worked out at the same time....

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Experts said on Saturday they were worried by a leaked report that describes an outbreak of smallpox in the Soviet Union -- one they say may point to the testing of a smallpox biological weapon.Seven people became ill in the 1971 outbreak and three died of what appeared to be the more fatal, and more rare, hemorrhagic form of the infection, said Dr. Alan Zelicoff of the Monterey Institute of International Studies, one of the authors of the report."Someone has successfully disseminated smallpox as an aerosol," Zelicoff said in an interview."It has been talked about and it...