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Post by Hope on Jun 7, 2005 14:53:27 GMT -5
US Bioterrorists Create Genetic Engineering Virus by URI DOWBENKO Designer viruses for biological warfare got a boost with the latest man-made disease created by Mark Buller of the University of St Louis. His team deliberately produced an extremely lethal form of mousepox, relative of the smallpox virus, one of the most deadly viruses on earth. Financed by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, the research project was supposed to help find new protection against smallpox, which kills one in three victims. Buller's new genetically altered mousepox virus kills all mice, even if they have been given antiviral drugs and a vaccine which would normally protect them. In addition, the cowpox virus, which also infects humans, has also been genetically manipualated under the pretense "that this work is necessary to explore what bioterrorists might do," says Buller. According to New Scientist, Ian Ramshaw of the Australian National Universitysaid, "I have great concern about doing this in a pox virus that can cross species. conspiracyplanet.com/channel.cfm?channelid=8&contentid=988YOUR TAX DOLLARS AT WORK!!!
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Post by Hope on Jun 7, 2005 15:02:02 GMT -5
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" Ramshaw was a member of the team that discovered how to make mousepox more deadly (New Scientist, 13 January 2001).
"Ramshaw's team made its initial discovery while developing contraceptive vaccines for sterilising mice and rabbits without killing them," writes New Scinetist. "The researchers modified the mousepox virus by adding a gene for a natural immunosuppressant called IL-4, expecting this would boost antibody production. Instead, the modified mousepox virus was far more lethal, killing 60 per cent of vaccinated mice. The addition of IL-4 seems to switch off a key part of the immune system called the cell-mediated response."
The conclusion is startling, especially when considered in the event of species-jumping man-made viruses. "Now Buller has engineered a mousepox strain that kills 100 per cent of vaccinated mice, even when they were also treated with the antiviral drug cidofovir."
The international debate on genetic engineering of deadly super-viruses has beeen ongoing for years. Critics says that viruses without an antidote could escape or be created using the same techniques by so-called bioterrorists. However, state terrorism is inexplicably never debated. Proponents of this "research" claim that it could help deter terrorism by demonstrating the emergence of more potent medical defenses.
The bottom line is that biotech and biowarfare are sponsored by government-commercial interests because weapons systems remain one of the most lucrative in the world.
After all, it was the United States under the George Herbert Walker Bush administration which sold Saddam Hussein his biological and biochemical so-called "weapons of mass destruction."
There's still good money to be made in liquidating excess populations. Then, of course, the bioweapons can be used again as a phoney casus belli.
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