Baculovirus is Identified as Morgellons

[kammy]

Sept 1, 2009 12:15:18 GMT -5 @lilsissy said:

B.T.W. silentsuperbug has an image in it very simular to yours.

Yes, I'm aware of this, Jen. I noted to Kmar that EVERYTHING that was shown in that movie - I was seeing in my human experiments at that time.

The 'satellite' that 'SSB' shows is the baculovirus sphere capsid.

I haven't watched that movie in a while. I remember seeing in that movie what Angela had started a thread called the "Isapora Belli" and seeing that shell-like object in my samples, I have since proven the purpose of these, I am calling them 'shell capsids', they will hatch a live insect larvae under certain conditions. I have photographs of the larvae exiting these shell capsids.

I don't know the history behind how we're left to view 'SSB' today, that's before my time? I hear that there was a fellow by the name of 'TamTam' in the "M" community was trying to tell, warn, show? the people about Morgellons and I don't know if he wasn't taken seriously, or what this history is? Maybe, one of the 'old timers' can tell us more about what went down with him or more about this movie?

I see where Becky McClain replies to Banny... 'contact them'... referring to the 'SSB' people... well, does anyone know how this movie is still in existence, who produced it, where this 'TamTam' is now?

It is showing the baculovirus in action. I don't know if Ms. McClain is not familiar with the baculovirus as a molecular biology 'tool' and that's why she didn't recognize it? However, she would be the first person, I would think, that could understand what is happening, quicker than most!

[camv35s]

Hi guys and girls just another article on Baculovirus warning us of its safety this article is 8 years old and we have been good rabbits and now we can discuss how this virus has transgenitically changed our lives and make no mistake it has impacted humans and could very well be implicated in morgellons. Best regards Camv35s Gene Therapy with Your Salads, Anyone?
A virus is simultaneously being genetically modified to kill insect pests and to transfer genes into human cells in gene therapy. Prof. Joe Cummins points to a major gap in biosafety regulation.

Do our biosafety regulators know that a certain virus is being genetically modified to control plant disease and to serve as a gene carrier or vector for human gene therapy? This is the baculovirus, a virus previously thought to infect only insects, but has since found to get into all kinds of mammalian cells including those of human beings. Farm workers spraying the crop with anti-insect baculovirus and the public eating the crop not properly washed may both become genetically modified as a result.

Pests that infect and cause disease symptoms in both crops and human cells have never been described. Yet natural viruses that infects and slowly kills insects are also known to infect humans, but the infected humans do not seem to have symptoms. However, when the virus is genetically modified to eradicate insect pests, it may cause disease symptoms in those spraying crops or eating the sprayed crop. The baculovirus manipulated for insect control and for human gene therapy have both proven genetically unstable, and are prone to recombination and deletion at high frequency [1]. Such genetic instability has been noted repeatedly by those studying the virus, the genetic instability of the virus makes toying with it like playing with explosives.

Natural baculovirus, in contrast, is very stable and may remain dormant in the environment for years before infecting insects. The virus alone has a relatively low killing power and slow action. When a gene for a potent toxin such as scorpion toxin or a gene affecting a juvenile hormone is added to the virus, it kills faster and fewer insects survive infection. Numerous field tests of modified virus sprayed on crops have been done, despite protests from the public. Soon after GM baculovirus was developed for insect-control, the virus was discovered to be capable of infecting human liver cells and produced relatively little toxicity to the infected cells. For that reason, baculovirus vectors were developed to treat liver disease, and even to transfer genes to the human brain [2]. The fact that baculovirus can infect human liver or brain cells seems to have been ignored by those developing the virus for commercial pest control. There has been a great deal of pressure to hasten approval of the GM baculovirus for pest control especially in the United States and Canada, where human populations have already been used as guinea pigs for GM crops.

Ecological impacts of recombinant baculovirus insecticides have focussed on baculovirus containing scorpion toxin because that construction has been most widely used [3]. Impacts on non-target insects are simply extrapolated from findings on insects of related phylogeny, a practice that is full of pitfalls, for simply adding and deleting genes can change the host range of the resultant baculovirus in unpredictable ways [4]. Furthermore, the recombinant baculoviruses were very persistent, and capable of reshaping an ecosystem.

The scorpion toxins used with recombinant baculovirus have been selected to avoid toxicity to humans, and as much as possible, to non-target animals. However, the allergenicity other harmful effects in human liver infection has not yet been investigated.

Recombinant baculoviruses have also been constructed containing other genes, such as those coding for Bacillus thuringiensis (bt) toxins [5], which are known to produce allergic reactions in human beings and also harmful to rats [6]. A recombinant baculovirus has even been constructed containing an antisense fragment to the c-myc oncogene [7]. The c-myc oncogene is a modified form of an essential cellular gene. Thus, the antisense gene, which contains a DNA sequence complementary to the gene itself, may end up inactivating an essential cellular function.

Baculovirus vectors efficiently transfer genes into human liver cells [8, 9]. Hybrid baculovirus-adenovirus vectors have also been used to deliver genes to human cells [10].

In conclusion baculovirus vectors are being used to control insect pests because they are effective and persist for a long time in the environment. Baculovirus vectors are also being used in gene therapy of human liver and brain. These areas of research seem to exist as two solitudes and the risks of one are not evaluated in the context of the other. We may be treated to liver and brain gene therapy with our salad whether we need it or not.

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[kammy]

TY, Cam and Jen... I hoping that the two of you might carry on this thread and see what all you can find? I'm being pulled in other directions and can't give this too much more time... and won't be able to put everything out here but, I can come in for support.

I just wanted to note that while I was over looking at Carnicom's page yesterday, that I found another match in our work. He shows a 'white, fuzzy, cotton candy-like fungus' in his Petri Dishes that I have described over and over... and this appears to me to be a dead match for what we've been seeing in our dishes.

5th set of photos on the right @ www.carnicom.com/bio11.htm

Here's another photo of it on another of his pages @ www.carnicom.com/culture1.htm

I have referred to this fungus as Pythium-like. I bet if we looked at the baculovirus and see what fungi they have put in them - we will probably find what this 'white, fuzzy fungus' is most likely to be?

This is the same fungus that I earlier identified as "Pure Morgellons", it is the same fungus that was seen in Barb's 'sewing thread', it is the same fungus that appears when you take the live eggs from a GM fungus gnat and place them in a Petri Dish.

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I don't understand why Carnicom hasn't shown us the same photo as above? What I'm thinking is that he is not shooting his photographs inside his dishes?

[imblownaway]

Has this link been posted yet? tinyurl.com/lxcufd


It is an interactive site. you can post pictures? this guy seems to know alot looking at his biography.

[kammy]

Sept 1, 2009 17:04:15 GMT -5 imblownaway said:

Has this link been posted yet? tinyurl.com/lxcufd


It is an interactive site. you can post pictures? this guy seems to know alot looking at his biography.

Hi Blownaway, how have you been, sweetie? No, I haven't seen this site, but... it looks very interesting.

I see where his 'slogan' says: "The evolving, edited lab manual for baculovirus techniques." Ever-evolving...?... that's what I was afraid of...

Maybe he can help us as soon as we get enough info out here? Or we can contact him with our questions? Maybe I should go over and post a photo and see what he says?

[kammy]

Let's talk a minute about this photo, this is from a thread that dropped out of the sky onto Barb's deck, roof, yard after a rain, hundreds of them, it looks like an ordinary piece of 3" sewing thread. I put it in a Petri Dish and in 3 days...! the white, fuzzy, Pithium-like fungus appeared and was much larger than the size of a circular silver dollar in size - it 'exploded' in the dish!

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What are these black, carbon-looking 'balls'?...

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They are the sphere capsid baculovirus that contain the GM fungus gnat or shore fly. I asked Barb if the area she was living in was one of the areas where the bee colonies are having CCD and she said, 'yes'. I know that fungus gnats are 'important' pollinators and if this thread was a man-made seeding program to increase pollination or if these 'threads' are now being created in nature? That is the question?

[kammy]

If we look at Blownaway's site recommendation again @ www.baculovirus.com/main_frame.htm, and click on the picture on the right - he calls these carbon-looking balls - "polyhedra".

By studying the photo above, we can compare what this baculovirus expert is calling polyhedra to Cliff Carnicom's photos which I believe are also showing "polyhedra"?

@ www.carnicom.com/morgobs5.htm

The title of this first photo says: "Light micrograph of Sf9 cells 4 days after infection with wild-type AcNPV"

I've done a little reading and I think we have this AcNPV version and let's see what a Sf9 cell is? (I'll address these in a later post.)

[kammy]

I asked another group what their opinion was on Barb's thread... did they think this was man-made or found in nature now? If you really, really think about it... it's quite a debate and I'm not even sure what the right answer is? If anyone wants to voice their opinions, go ahead...

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How does this thread work? Well... when it touches the ground and moisture is added... the outside layer contains the fungus. The fungus spreads the capsids around so that they aren't all in one place, so the farmer gets a bigger coverage on his crops, or on whatever we're trying to pollinate or rid a pest, or for whatever reason we're applying this baculovirus in this form.

Some areas, like where Barb lives, are having moth problems that were accidentally introduced that are destroying the trees in those areas, they were 'seeding' with a fungus to kill the moths. This is documented for the past, whether they're still doing this, I don't know?

The outside layers of the baculovirus sphere also contain the fungus in their sheath or outer wall. From what I'm seeing not all baculovirus (BV) are the same. Some have a shiny sheath, some have a dull one, some reproduce one way - others reproduce other ways, some contain one insect, some contain another... they are very random and unpredictable from person to person.

When the live GM insect hatches and lays an egg, this egg also has a coating of the fungus on the outside of it. This fungus spreads quickly, just like in Barb's thread, and also contains thousands of more "polyhedra". One live GM egg "maggot" can create thousands of more polyhedra capsids.

I don't know if you grasped what I just said? In nature in the past, an egg was laid... a fly was formed... simple. In GM nature a egg is laid... and it creates thousands more of itself in the form of carbon capsids... on and on... and with the fungus gnat or any fly - any water that it comes into contact with becomes contaminated with these baculovirus. That's why they are literally - everywhere.

Here's a photo from a live GM fungus gnat or shore fly that was in my house, it laid eggs before it died and I put these eggs in a Petri Dish - it has a black spore fungus that comes with the white fungus and looks the same as Barb's thread. There are two main fungi involved in the human Morgellons lesion samples, a black and a white one - there are two fungi involved with the coating on the eggs of the GM gnat, that have been matched to human samples.

The egg also uses the white fungi to wrap itself in a cotton-like cocoon while it goes through it's stages for protection, it is positive from viewing the dish and noting the THICK, yellow biofilm that this combination of larvae and white fungus are what create the thick, yellow goo biofilm, such as someone's ear/neck being encased. It is suspected that since we can see the outer coating of the BV sphere shedding to create the fungus and a biofilm in the dish that it is doing this inside the human body and that creates the thinner biofilm on our skin.

Live eggs from a GM fungus gnat/shore fly @100x:
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[kammy]

I got some good news today from one of the members, we can have our lesion 'debris' tested, he said to not mention that it's for analyzing Morgellons. This company will tell you what all is involved with the baculovirus that's under your skin that is in the form of the white and black specks and spheres, these are all baculovirus.

Here's the link to the company that will give you the titers on what's inside of you:

www.expressionsystems.com/?mvcTask=virusTitering&gclid=COfFlaHA0ZwCFQ8MDQodw0wUIg

[kammy]

SF9 CELL

Let's see what this Sf9 Cell is that's identified on baculovirus.com above and... I believe in Carnicom.com's human samples? I think they are a match. I have bunch of human sample photos with this sphere, that now has a name!

Some images of the Sf9 Cell... www.dogpile.com/dogpile/ws/results/Images/sf9%20cell/1/0/0/Relevance/zoom=off/qi=1/qk=18/bepersistence=true/_iceUrlFlag=7?_IceUrl=true

These two are from: www.postech.edu, this one looks like Carnicom's, I need to do a comparison:

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That one above looks like the one from the "red rain water from Mars"?

This one tells a story from www.nexcelom.com ... I see now why they start out as perfect shiny carbon balls and then change forms, it says that ones like in the dishes of Barb's thread and the photos of the eggs are "uninfected":

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I wonder what makes them become infected?

Oh! Even the carbon 'rock capsids' are called the Sf9 Cell, too... ok!

From: bioweb.usu.edu

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[kammy]

Where does the SF9 CELL come from?

Let's see where it came from?: www.orbigen.com/objects/catalog/product/extras/CEL-10002.pdf

"INTRODUCTION
The Sf9 cell line was derived from pupal ovarian tissue of the Fall armyworm Spodoptera frugiperda. The Sf9 cell line is highly susceptible to infection with Autographa california nuclear polyhedrosis virus (AcNPV baculovirus), and can be used with all baculovirus expression vectors. Sf9 cells are commonly used to isolate and propagate recombinant baculoviral stocks and to produce recombinant proteins."

"derived from pupal ovarian tissue of the Fall armyworm; used in a baculovirus expresssion system since it is capable of mammalian cell-like posttranslational modifications."

The pupal ovarian tissue of the Fall Armyworm... is inside of us?... oh boy!

Spodoptera frugiperda

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That explains the 'wild' black hairs! Geezus! The lesions look kinda' familiar too... oh dear, I am not well...!

[kammy]

You can get some of them here for $50:

www.prospecbio.com/SCF/

Stem Cell Factor Human Recombinant, Sf9

www.steadyhealth.com/encyclopedia/Spodoptera_frugiperda_cell_line

"Sf" stands for: Spodoptera frugiperda

" Facts (generated by robot; please edit if you find it inaccurate)

* Infection of a Spodoptera frugiperda cell line with Bombyx mori nucleopolyhedrovirus.

* Purification of DNA for the transfection of a Spodoptera frugiperda cell line.

* The cell type used by many laboratories for construction of recombinant baculoviruses and protein production is the Spodoptera frugiperda cell line designated Sf9 (ATCC #CRL-1711).

* Infection of a Spodoptera frugiperda cell line with Bombyx mori nucleopolyhedrovirus.

* A cDNA encoding the cytoplasmic polyhedrin of Bombyx mori cytoplasmic polyhedrosis virus (BmCPV) strain H was introduced into an improved baculovirus expression vector which can be utilized to express foreign genes in the Spodoptera frugiperda cell line IPLB-SF-21AE (Sf21 cells) and the B."

[kammy]

BmCPV strain H and the AcNPV viruses have been added to Sf9 cell as 'improvements'. Let's see what they do?

AcNPV

www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/6402854

"Since mammalian cells can take up and integrate any foreign DNA at very low frequency, it cannot be ruled out by the approach chosen that a very small number of cells might have incorporated and fixed viral DNA in their genomes. As this caveat is always pertinent for any population of cells exposed to foreign DNA, this reservation does not appear to be of particular significance in safety considerations when working with baculoviruses or any virus for that matter."

BmCPV

www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=113995

"Cytoplasmic polyhedrosis viruses (CPVs) belong to the genus Cypovirus in the family Reoviridae (13, 36). These viruses produce large proteinaceous occlusion bodies called polyhedra in the cytoplasms of infected midgut epithelial cells of a wide range of insects (2–4, 14, 34). The polyhedra are the result of the crystallization of a virus-encoded protein, polyhedrin, late during the viral infection, and many virus particles are occluded into the polyhedra (4, 36). One of the functions of these polyhedra is to protect the virions from hostile environmental conditions during horizontal transmission of the disease (2, 4). The polyhedra are highly resistant to both nonionic and ionic detergents and to solubilization at neutral pH. Another function of the polyhedra is to ensure the delivery of virus particles to the target intestinal cells. Here the polyhedra are dissolved by the strongly alkaline pH of the insect midgut, thereby releasing the virions and allowing the infection to proceed."

[kammy]

Let's see where the "BM" part of BmCPV comes from?

Bombyx mori

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombyx_mori

It's just a silkworm... "They are covered with tiny black hairs.

The cocoon is made of a thread of raw silk from 300 to about 900 meters (1,000 to 3,000 feet) long. The fibers are very fine and lustrous, about 10 micrometers (1/2,500th of an inch) in diameter. About 2,000 to 3,000 cocoons are required to make a pound of silk. Based on 1 kilometer (about 1,100 yards) per cocoon, ten unraveled cocoons could theoretically extend vertically to the height of Mount Everest.

The adult phase (the moth) cannot fly. The silkmoths have a wingspan of 3-5 cm (1.5 - 2 inches) and a white hairy body."

**For those of you reading who are not aware, people with Morgellons have strange, wild, unusual white and black hairs that come out of their skin.

[kammy]

Cypovirus

Electron micrograph of a Cypovirus
occlusion body ("polyhedron")

"Cypoviruses (aka cytoplasmic polyhedrosis virus; CPV) are a genus of viruses in the Reoviridae family. The virions have an icosahedral structure typical of other reoviruses and are 55-69 nm in diameter.

Cypoviruses have only been isolated from insects. Morphologically, these viruses have much in common with the much more widely studied nucleopolyhedroviruses (NPV), a genus of arthropod viruses in the Baculovirus family. However, CPV have an RNA genome and replicate in the cytoplasm of the infected cells while NPV have a DNA genome and replicate in the nucleus.

Pathogenesis

Infection occurs when a susceptible insect consumes the polyhedra, usually as a contaminant on the insect’s food (in most cases, foliage of a plant). The polyhedra dissolve in the digestive tract of the insect, releasing the virus particles that penetrate the gut epithelial cells. Replication of the virus is often confined to these cells and the progeny virus, in the form of new polyhedra are excreted in the insect feces, thus contaminating more foliage resulting in the spread of the disease to additional insects."

The insect in ALL of it larvae stages, (a fly can have 4), it is eating and pooping more capsids... this makes the 15th way this GM insect can reproduce! I'm going to find some photos of reproduction and post them soon.

[kammy]

www.nature.com/nature/journal/v446/n7131/abs/nature05628.html

"

The molecular organization of cypovirus polyhedra

Cypoviruses and baculoviruses are notoriously difficult to eradicate because the virus particles are embedded in micrometre-sized protein crystals called polyhedra. The remarkable stability of polyhedra means that, like bacterial spores, these insect viruses remain infectious for years in soil. The environmental persistence of polyhedra is the cause of significant losses in silkworm cocoon harvests but has also been exploited against pests in biological alternatives to chemical insecticides.

Although polyhedra have been extensively characterized since the early 1900s, their atomic organization remains elusive6. Here we describe the 2 Å crystal structure of both recombinant and infectious silkworm cypovirus polyhedra determined using crystals 5–12 micrometres in diameter purified from insect cells. These are the smallest crystals yet used for de novo X-ray protein structure determination.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trimer_%28chemistry%29

We found that polyhedra are made of trimers of the viral polyhedrin protein and contain nucleotides. Although the shape of these building blocks is reminiscent of some capsid trimers, polyhedrin has a new fold and has evolved to assemble in vivo into three-dimensional cubic crystals rather than icosahedral shells. The polyhedrin trimers are extensively cross-linked in polyhedra by non-covalent interactions and pack with an exquisite molecular complementarity similar to that of antigen–antibody complexes. The resulting ultrastable and sealed crystals shield the virus particles from environmental damage.

The structure suggests that polyhedra can serve as the basis for the development of robust and versatile nanoparticles for biotechnological applications such as microarrays and biopesticides."

Nanoparticles are next?... something to look forward to, gang!

[kammy]

This looks like the generations are getting out of hand, that they even classify them fast enough? Comments anyone?

www.ars.usda.gov/research/publications/Publications.htm?seq_no_115=197337

"Title: Biological and Molecular Studies of a Cypovirus from the Black Fly Simulium Ubiquitum (Diptera: Simuliidae)

Interpretive Summary: A naturally occurring virus that infects black flies has been characterized by ARS scientists at the Center for Medical, Agricultural and Veterinary Entomology, Gainesville Florida. We have conducted biological and molecular study and determined that this RNA virus has a 10 segmented genome and sequence analysis of the occlusion body protein has determined this species (SuCPV) is a new member of the Cypoviruses (SuCPV-20). This new virus from black flies expands the genetic diversity base required to investigate and understand basic mechanisms involved in infectivity and host range that will enhance capabilities to use these viruses for black fly control.

Technical Abstract:We therefore, propose that SuCPV is classified within a new Cypovirus species, which we have tentatively identified as Cypovirus-20. We have therefore referred to this virus isolate as Simulium ubiquitum CPV-20 (SuCPV-20). "

[kammy]

The "Spaceships" Finally Got A Name!

www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/35490.html


AUCKLAND, New Zealand, March 1 New Zealand researchers have detailed the structure of the microcrystals that shield and protect silkworm cypovirus particles.

Peter Metcalf and colleagues at the University of Auckland say their findings help explain the resilience of insect viruses and might aid in the development of insecticides and novel therapeutics.

"Cypoviruses are hard to kill because hundreds of the infectious viral particles are embedded in tiny protein crystals called polyhedra. The polyhedra structure resembles some viral outer shells or capsid proteins but is unique in other ways. And the resulting ultrastable, sealed crystals shield the virus particles from environmental damage. The researchers also report discovering bound nucleotides within the crystals, raising the possibility that polyhedra-like nanoparticles could be used as storage and delivery devices for small molecules or drugs."

Hey Jeany, I think the "Spaceships" finally got a name - I think they are called 'polyhedra'? And, it looks like they are pretty hard to kill, too?

Human arm lesion:
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[imblownaway]

Hi Kammy
I am doing allright under the circumstances. Sitting her with my jaw to the floor. Oh that picture The army worm critter it is so sickenly familiar looking.
I just want to say I think your doing an awesome job at connecting the dots here. My brain feels a little fuzzy right now.
But WOW .

[kammy]

www.microbiologybytes.com/virology/kalmakoff/baculo/pics/BVreplic.swf