Germ Warfare on Protesters, Or Just An Eerie Coincidence?
Then he got sick.
And not the "Aww this sucks, I have the common cold." kind of sick. It starts out that way, but becomes a whole new kind of sick. The kind of sick that puts you in the hospital for 3 days and has doctors and nurses freaking the hell out because he showed them this article.
Excerpt:
The federal government found six air filters around the nation's capital checked on Sept. 24 and 25 contained "trace amounts" of tularemia, a type of bacteria...
Tularemia is a naturally occurring disease typically transmitted by rodents and dead carcasses, and has been reported in the past in all U.S. states except Hawaii. Homeland security and FBI officials say no human illnesses have been reported, and that the health risk is low.
No additional traces have been detected since Sept. 25. One law enforcement official said drought conditions in Washington and heavy pedestrian traffic may have sent particles airborne. No biodefense sensors have gone off.
Sans is home now, and reportedly feeling better, though not 100%. He mentioned that the Washington Post has also picked up the story.
Excerpt:
In nature, the bacteria are found in rodents and small animals, and "the working hypothesis" is that something in the environment got stirred up, D.C. Public Health Director Gregg A. Pane said.
But he said it was puzzling that the finding was from a day when the Mall was packed with people.
"Why that day? That's what is not explained," Pane said. "It was just this 24-hour period and none since."...
The germ that causes tularemia is considered a biohazard because it is highly infectious and was tested in the 1960s by the United States as a biological weapon. The disease is treatable with antibiotics but, if left untreated, can be fatal.
Very creepy. I would recommend spreading the word that if anyone who went to DC got sick afterwards, send them to get antibiotics right away.
UPDATE (10/04/05, 2:05pm): Sans left a comment here, but I think it's important enough to move to the actual post. I edited where necessary, his original is in the comments:
Hi Moxie,
Thanks for spreading the word about this. I just got back from my doctor on a followup about this (As I rarely ever get sick, I didn't have a "doctor" before, but I do from now on).
First off, it actually was the "Aww this sucks, I have the common cold." kind of sick, (small fever, cough, and aches) or at least it was until I read that and went to the ER about it.
Throughout my 3 day stay I wasn't told what all of the tests were for or what any of the findings showed. I had dozens of blood tests, nose and throat swabs, a lot of focus on what appears to be a cold sore on my lip (although I've never gotten one before), and a lumbar puncture (yuk).
Today the doc tells me that two separate "preliminary" tests done at a local lab confirmed tularemia, but a third "conclusive" test sent to a cdc lab turned up negative. I don't yet know which tests he was talking about. All of the other suspects, flu, cold (noravirus) bacterial meningitis, have been ruled out on all of the tests.
He said that the infectious disease doc named on the records the hospital sent him, whom I'm not even sure I met during my stay, figures that it was probably a viral meningitus. My (new) doc doesn't dispute that, but he did tell me that he knows that everyone in the ER and the floor my room was on has been put on antibiotics, which suggests to him (and me) that someone besides me isn't too trusting of the cdc labs findings or the fact that all of the literature says that it can't be transmitted from person to person. He said that it may be that a weaponized form of the bacteria could indeed spread between persons.
He also said that he found out that there are at least 12 cities in the US monitored like DC, and not one sensor ever, in DC or otherwise, has ever picked up airborne tularemia even once, much less 6 different sensors in 1 day.
He also mentioned that there had been a suspicious outbreak recently in Russia, to which I've found this article...
It was one of several biological weapons stockpiled by the U.S. military. An outbreak of the same disease is underway in Russia, and nearly 500 people have so far been reported ill.
hmmm.
I've put in a request for my records, and I'll be picking them up Thursday. not sure yet what i'm going to do with them though.
by MG at 9:49 AM
73 Comments:
MoxieGrrrl - this info concerns me as well. I had read about it, but the article left the impression the bacteria may have been left by one of the protestors. It never occurred to me a wingnut might have released it against the marchers.
Do you know of anyone else yet who got sick? I was unable to make the event myself – like you I enjoyed it vicariously through pics and video. Your post has me rather alarmed. I’m afraid I had always assumed the right wing crowd tended towards the poorly educated (check out some of their posts – my neighbor’s 10 year old does better than that). That would tend to put ‘scientist’ kinda out of the ballpark, wouldn’t you say?
OK – bad assumption on my part, I know. What do you think, though? Just some odd incident? I mean – I don’t want to get all paranoid about this. Have you cross-posted at other sites?
I doubt if this is a conspiracy.
Rodents can overrun large buildings.
Philadelphia had to shut down it’s City Services Office a few months back.
Rats were running across the desktops during business hours.
The Black Plague that killed millions was caused by Rat fleas.
I think there’s a good chance; it’s simple rat doo doo in the vents.
(Not to be confused with the Human “Rats” that occupy the Senate.)
Scientifically speaking; it’s at the gossip level.
I want to think positively and for now will assume that this bacteria was there for a while, dormant, and the activity of the protestors kicked it up.
All I know is Sans-Culottes experience. I have been trying to get this info posted elsewhere - have posted in the sidebar of Bring It On, but so far no one else has run with it.
At this point I would just like to be sure that if other protestors got sick, they know to get antibiotics right away.
Is it possible for a nutjob to bring it in just for the protest? Sure. It's been known for a while that this would be going on and where people would be. It's just as possible that the government did it. And it's equally as possible that it just occurred by happenstance.
i don't know Moxie, they're getting desperate.
Might have been meant to have been bigger and to appear like a terrorist bio attack--and then they could say "look what Democrats bring with them."
Though it would backfire big time in the end, they don't seem to think past the end of the hour
You know this doesn't have to be a clandestine govt. conspiracy. If there is any conspiracy it is most likely the work of one of those anti-protest groups like protest warrior or some one sympathetic to their cause.
Hi Moxie,
Thanks for spreading the word about this. I just got back from my doctor on a followup about this (As I rarely ever get sick, I didn't have a "doctor" before, but I do from now on).
First off, it actually was the "Aww this sucks, I have the common cold." kind of sick, (small fever, cough, and aches) or at least it was until I read that and went to the er about it.
Throughout my 3 day stay I wasn't told what all of the tests were for or what any of the findings showed. I had dozens of blood tests, nose and throat swabs, a lot of focus on what appears to be a cold sore on my lip (although I've never gotten one before), and a lumbar puncture (yuk).
Today the doc tells me that two separate "preliminary" tests done at a local lab confirmed tularemia, but a third "conclusive" test sent to a cdc lab turned up negative. I don't yet know which tests he was talking about. All of the other suspects, flu, cold (noravirus) bacterial meningitis, have been ruled out on all of the tests.
He said that the infectious disease doc named on the records the hospital sent him, whom I'm not even sure I met during my stay, figures that it was probably a viral meningitus. My (new) doc doesn't dispute that, but he did tell me that he knows that everyone in the er and the floor my room was on has been put on antibiotics, which suggests to him (and me) that someone besides me isn't too trusting of the cdc labs findings or the fact that all of the literature says that it can't be transmitted from person to person. He said that it may be that a weaponized form of the bacteria could indeed spread between persons.
He also said that he found out that there are at least 12 cities in the US monitored like DC, and not one sensor ever, in DC or otherwise, has ever picked up airborne tularemia even once, much less 6 different sensors in 1 day.
He also mentioned that there had been a suspiciuos outbreak recently in Russia, to which I've found this article...
http://towardfreedom.com/home/content/view/618/1/
It was one of several biological weapons stockpiled by the U.S. military. An outbreak of the same disease is underway in Russia, and nearly 500 people have so far been reported ill.
hmmm.
I've put in a request for my records, and I'll be picking them up Thursday. not sure yet what i'm going to do with them though.
Bob Fitrakis at the Free Press has written a fairly in depth article on this:
Did Bush administration attack peace movement
Thanks researcher - I had seen that link, but decided to stick with the two MSM articles... Wingers seems to get all sullen and pissy when you use articles written by "evul libruls".
Glad you brought it up in the comments though :)
The scariest part to me, is the repeated affirmations in ALL the articles that "there is no health threat." Um, those symptoms sound like a pretty major health threat to me. I wonder if 100,000 Bushie stepford people had been on the mall, if the press would've considered sudden fever, pneumonia-like symptoms, etc, to be a "health threat."
I was there, and I didn't get sick. However, coincidentally I was on antibiotics all week for a sinus infection I went to the protest with. (I thought it was allergies.) So who knows? I definitely was running a 102 degree fever during the week.
Tularemia aside, I'm sorry you missed it... it was an *incredible* day.
Incidentally in terms of rodents, it seems kinda like a pretty HUGE area to cover... that's a LOT of rats.
Off on the Wild Bush chase.
How many protesters had Jock Itch?
There's no HARD SCIENCE here.
Iggy - SIX SENSORS DETECTED THIS BACTERIA. You don't think it's at ALL strange?
Did you ever draw Connect The Dots? Just curious.
I don't dispute the fact that they found bacteria.
Until lab tests are conducted (Sites testing, rodent population, Wind and ambient temperatures, etc are finished it’s all wild guesses.
It may have been an Anti-Bush protester that did it; knowing that the asscusations alone would create conspiracy.
The National Star would not print this; it’s premature.
It's Fiction as to the cause and nature.
MoxieGrrrl - Wow - I read sans-culotte's post. I hope he let's you know what he uncovers on his records. I actually do that myself - get copies every so often. It's amazing what you find. I have a condition that's permanent, and only recently diagnosed. Going over my medical records from almost 10 years back, I read some test results that, had the doctor at the time been paying attention, clearly indicated the problem. Had it been detected, I could have addressed the issue earlier, and saved myself a great deal of pain.
So really look, sans-culotte. And I am glad you are feeling better.
Moxie and Sans-Culotte,
This is a bigger story than you think. Together with the facts you already have, read this:
source: National Terror Alert - Department of Homeland Security:
Q. Does tularemia occur naturally in the United States?
A. Yes. Tularemia is a widespread disease in animals. About 200 human cases of tularemia are reported each year in the United States. Most cases occur in the south-central and western states. Nearly all cases occur in rural areas, and are caused by the bites of ticks and biting flies or from handling infected rodents, rabbits, or hares. Cases also resulted from inhaling airborne bacteria and from laboratory accidents.
It continues:
If F. tularensis were used as a weapon, the bacteria would likely be made airborne for exposure by inhalation.
So, unless sans-culotte has been playing with dead animals, Occam's razor forces us to conclude it was a manmade release. Afterall, you already have 2 tests that came back positive for Tularemia in your blood. So, you contracted it.
Plus, there are "over half a dozen" detectors that detected airborne forms of Francisella tularensis the same time sans-culotte contracted it. AND we know the CDC is covering up sans-culottes lab results.
The question is, who did it?
This might be a clue: Washington Post, September 23, 2005 - CONPLAN 0400
Whats frightening is that EVERY SINGLE FUCKING TIME WE TURN OUR BACKS and think things are getting back to normal in this country, maybe we are getting a little hysterical with the conspiracy theories, somnething like this happens.
Thing is, there is not ONE even of note that has happened in the last three moths that did not stink to high heaven of ever more dangerously fascist activity on the part of our government.
The most frightening thing about this is that normal folks who arent following events wont put the pieces together...this is a signal, to people like us: LOOK OUT OR THIS IS WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO YOU AND WORSE.
These people are dangerous criminals, and need to be impeached while we still have the power.
anyone who doubts this should read this article:
http://tinyurl.com/dddcr
You know, a couple of people in the blogsphere have gotten sick over the past week too. (The Bulldog Manifesto and Martian Anthropologist) I don't know if either of them went to the rally or not, but Martian had to be hospitalized for something rather serious.
God...I hate feeling all conspiracy-theoryish. Ick.
This is my first visit to your site MoxiegRRRl, and let me say this is a good day because of it.
Keep up the good work.
Interesting points that have been expressed, and lots of questions that may even lead to more, unanswered questions; but one thing to point out is this. We are all learning how theories and ideas, or concepts that were developed some 60-70 years ago, play out into today's global scene.
Is it beyond these Necons to commit mass murder(9-11-01, over 3000 people killed), simply for the sake of research? No, not at all. Why am I bringing up 9-11 in this article, and are they linked?
Well,if a person was to compare the rise to power of the Nazi Regime, you can(and many have), draw direct parrallels from today's main stream headlines about the Bush Regime, ahh, sorry I mean Administration.
Here's a twisted thought though on the subject of the rally, and the contents of this thread. I am just throwing it out there for anyone to snack on; what if....the us military used this biological weapon on a condensed mass number of people, simply to see if they could control an outbreak of that nature; in real time excersizes? What if their expirements were a success, because their new anti-agent to the plague, worked in real time? Not large numbers o people dying, but only a handful or report ailments.
What if their expirement failed, and was treated as a massive terrorist attack, in which Mr Cheney could then be allowed to finally go into Iran?
(Quite the mouthful isn't it?)
Well, either way, the USA has not (yet) declared open martial law in the name of liberty, freedom, and justice; or at least justice as defined by today's controlling Corporations. The same group of secret-handshaking, profit-hungry rat bastards; (let us not forget) who bought the last two elections. After all, they have finally earned their puppet strings so long as this adminstration is in office.
The economy is on the verge of another recession, all while oil companies record record profits, and defence contractors are handed no bid contracts, *ahem* how is Dick these days anyhow, knees feeling better yet Dick? *ahem*
A report today on CNN actually 'bragged' about the IRS's latest stats; of how the richest 1 out of a 1000 americans saw an annual increase in wealth, while reflecting a lower tax payout....?
A wise man once said it best in a BBC interview "Every time someone with the last name Bush was in the president's chair, the economy has suffered". If you have heard that interview, then you know who I am talking about.
http://www.libertythink.com/2005/02/hunter-s-thompson-thought-911-inside.html
Why am I even bringing up the topic of the economy? Well, it's simple. War is devastating to some, but profitable to others...Let's see the potential for the "BIGGER" picture if we may. Hitler rose to power by dominating to govt, and lying his way there to the top. Well we all know how this war was created on false intelligence, yet we have almost forgotten that no real evidence cleared the theories behind 911 as being fakes and frauds. Was the US govt behind 911? Well go back and try to think of what life was like for us all on Sept 10th, 2001. Kinda hard to remember in vivid detail isn't it? Has it been only 4 years ago? a lot sure has happenned to our constitutional rights since then. And now the republican party has seized dominant control over the final branch of the govt body.
Woo, this is a lot and I am sorry but we need to start seeing the real world we are living in, so something can be done about it. Just ask any WWII vet about what they think of what's happenning now? Do it quickly before their generation passes on.(god bless their courage)
If you look at who has been gaining this entire time the war on terror has existed, you start to seem the same people, and the same connections you saw before the Nazi party came to political power back in the early 30's.
Guess what folks? History has often repeated itself in the past, and it's irresponsible to think it won't do the same in the future.
There has already been BLATENT threats to the very idea of freedom, and civil liberties as we know them to be. All over the news we see it. Websites being banned by ISP's; Patriot act seizures and lawsuits being filed all over the place; Airline security and operating costs going up, while effeciency and productivity on the way down; all while the border to Mexico is as wide open as is the northern border....?
Forget the indictments of Delay, and calls to evict Bush out of the white house(which by the way was a great video clip to watch, that is glorious to see), or even impeachment...isn't it high time for a revolution?
A revolution of consciousness maybe?
Not with guns and gas, bombs and chemicals. But with knowledge and empathy rather. Doesn't anyone remember Nixon and how big of a cheat he was? How big of a thief? Well, he was a helluva salesperson, and eventually he got caught.
Share these stories like we are doing, and so long as 'they' never gain control of this living, breathing, consciousness of people called the internet; We will always have a voice to coordinate action.
This, and other sites like this, are the last remaining check or balance of the Bush Administration. The world is watching, so they are running out of ways to get away with lying.
This is where the people regain our power.
People are living in fear, as we should be. It keeps us humble, but we should never allow ourselves to forget that since we were born, our world was slowly growing to an end day by day.
Good to see you are feeling better Sans-Culotte. Please post your results or any unusual findings, and let's hope for the best.
Oh, and MoxieGrrrl (if you have actually read this far); you have a really cute pic!
Here's looking at you babe ;-|
Antibiotics to treat viral meningitis? Um...
This all ties in with W's announcement that he's certain there will be a bird flu outbreak in the U. S. and he's going to send the army to occupy infected areas (think they'll all be blue and liberals will contract the disease and won't survive)? Meanwhile, he's going to confine Americans to their homes and bar anyone from coming into the U. S. Can you say Saddam Hussein?
Sans coullotte and others affected,
You should read The Killing Winds by Jeanne McDermott.
An older book but should be in a good library, maybe a copy on the usual online book sources. It details the perfect willingness of the gov't and/or military employees to test their products on American citizens (even their own people). Granite Shadow had to be up to something. What?
It's entirely possible that tularemia was released both to harm protesters, but also to give the message that this is what protest will be met with.
And whoever Iggy Dude is, he's dispensing classic health department propaganda. The only science that counts here is whether or not tularemia was found in your lungs, and who put it there. But then Iggy has the answer for that, too: a protester did it.
Not a hell of a lot anyone affected can do about the cause. But maybe someone who's a real patriot steps up one day from behind the secrecy of our intelligence services and fesses up, and then some further shame can be heaped upon our current hateful gov't.
Also, thanks for being in D. C. that day. Many thanks.
FYI: here's a Daily Kos diary on the subject of the D.C. Tularemia: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2005/10/3/19428/5641
It links to another diary from a guy who has been sick, too, since attending the rally.
anonymous,
I don't think they gave me antibiotics for anything viral.
I believe they came up with the viral meningitus diagnosis just because it turned out to be nothing else that they tested for.
There either is no test to confirm viral meningitis or they didn't do one on me, I dunno,
They started me on an IV of cipro immediately after the spinal tap just in case it did turn out to be anything bacterial, assuming tularemia.
It took at least a day for the first test results to come in, but even then they wouldn't tell me what the results were the whole time I was in the hospital.
I say "they" loosely. I saw dozens of docs during my 3 days in the hospital, but only the one who did the spinal tap visited me more than once, and him only twice. I felt like a zoo animal for every aspiring infectious disease doc in my area.
I'm now finishing the 10 day course twice daily doxycycline 100mg.
From what I've been told so far I gather...
The 2 preliminary tularemia tests are prone to false positives (I assume kinda like the mad-cow tests that have shown positive but further tests said no).
That said, I have so little faith in any govt controlled system these days I don't know what to believe. No matter whether what I got was tularemia or not, I'm on the right meds for it (so I'm told), and they certainly couldn't hurt considering.
Still, anyone with cold symptoms following their being in DC needs to go see a doc asap. If you wait too long it can be fatal.
I saw your comment on the Kos diary, right after mine posted ;) We're just foll9owing each other around the internet!
You know, I am really saddened that more places aren't picking up this story. People have gotten severely ill after being in DC at the same time these sensors detected this bacteria. This is IMPORTANT! Even if they didn't catch it, it's better to be safe than sorry!
I swear I'm not your blog stalker (as if that was even possible).
lol,
...and I completely agree with you about this story.
My gut feeling is that there is going to be some really bad news to come from it that needn't happen if it would just get the right attention.
I'm not down with assigning blame or calling it a deliberate attack (but I can't help but suspect it might be so) but the public health concern is being largely ignored.
A reader emailed me with this:
I tried to make comment to your recent article on "Germ Warfare on Protesters." But I was unable to login to Blogger. So here is some information that I wanted to let folks know about. BTW, Crooks& Liars linked to you and I followed their link to your page.
Here is my post that I was unable to make:
"Some links:
A couple of diaries on The Daily kos
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2005/10/3/19428/5641
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2005/10/3/171026/880
CurEvents has good discussions
http://www.curevents.com/vb/showthread.php?t=23828
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=573806&dopt=Abstract
The Russians and the Chinese also detected the bacterium. In fact, the US government was not going to release the info but they threatened to if we didn't. Also, tularemia does not stay dormant in the ground very long. One poster had this to say:
"...picking it up on the Mall? Uh-uh, not likely. The city environment generally does not have suspended tularemia. The fact that they say they don't know the strain it is another disconnect. There is NO REASON they shouldn't know what strain it is except that they don't WANT to know or don't want to publish what strain it is! No, something is wrong here. I have great respect for Dr. Osterholm. This happened on Sept 25 and 26. CIDRAP (Osterholm heads it) just released it on or about the day symptoms could begin occurring. He is being responsible, but why not more? (Panic at a time U.S. citizens are edgy, worried, insecure?) Why not the strain so they can DISMISS it as being a natural strain and not one of the tinkered with weaponized strains of this or another country. It would make everyone relax, right? Uh-uh.
Something's not right here. I suspect we've had a "test run" by some individual/entity. The timing is interesting because whomever is responsible likely knew that there would be a big citizen's protest that day. What better time to test a new bug and dissemination technology? A bunch of lab rats at the ready. "Good" thing about a hypothetical test with this bug is that it does not go H2H, so you could just trace the distribution of those "lab rats" who inhaled enough to get sick--if any do."
hmmmm...."
I hope that I am not being too.well.selfish, I just wanted to point people to some good information that is out there.
I hope I've not taken up too much of your time.
Thanks
I have a tin foil hat myself, but it doesn't sound to plausible that the government would release an airborne bacteria on protesters. Not only would it get the protesters sick, but the police and anti-anti-war protesters as well. Not to mention people that live and work there (namely the same people that would be releasing it).
Also, weaponized bacteria is noticeably different from natural bacteria. It could be traced back to a very few number of sources.
-John Gillnitz
Peace to all. Except to the evil people who attacked me, my 14 month old son, sans and all the other People of Peace who came to Our Nations Capital to promote Peace.
At 1st I thought the news that sensors detected the bacteria was an attempt to intimidate us from further demonstrations.
The information that Sans has brought us has now convinced me we were attacked. My precious son and I already had a head cold for a few days when we down to DC. We are fine.
The CDC can not be trusted. My wife has worked for the United States Postal Service for 8 years. The info the CDC gave out when the Government attacked America with Anthrax was false. She on her own went to a Doc and got a prescription for Cipro. It had very bad side effects.
I'm also convinced it was a weoponized form. It had to have been tagged as such so that "friendlies" could identify it. Just as in the Anthrax attacks the MSM ingnores this.
I want to know where these 6 sensors were. I want to know who did the testing. I want to know the facts. What do you think are chances of you and I finding them out?
I want everybody to think about this. We know the Government has experimented on us before. It was officially admitted in Oct. 2003. This was due to former Mil. people pressing the matter.
Rumsfeld and a high ranking General held a news conferance where Rummy read a statement that "testing" was done on troops with out consent or knowledge. The 1st question by one of the reporters was "Was this not testing on human?" Rummy said and I quote, "No, they were troops". I sat astounded. I pictured the next days headlines "RUMSFELD SAID TROOPS NOT HUMAN". Non-consented testing is recognized as a Crime Against Humanity as set by Nurnberg precedent. The next question was on Iraq. I have since brightened up on relying on the MSM.
The DOD keeps a public website for News Conferances. That part of the conferance was redacted out.
I refuse to be intimidated. We all should.
This post by Moxie made me finally post my report on the demo on my blog complete with pics. http://thelastchancecafe.blogspot.com/
If you do not have time to read it please take a look at the pictures. Look into the eyes of the senoirs(my favorite camera subjects)(ok 2nd favorite Lil Joe is #1) and the other people. You know if you came to their door needing help that need would be met. We were there to promote Peace.
We were attacked. We must do everything to bring this news to others. Lil Joe is wanting attention right now and I have to go. When he takes his nap, instead of washing the dishes I will be writing my local paper, and other Papers/news org with this info. Maybe a deluge of letters/calls will bring this out to our fellow Humans.
Correction. The DOD News Conferance was held on Oct. 2002 not 2003.
John Gillnitz said: "...but it doesn't sound to plausible that the government would release an airborne bacteria on protesters. Not only would it get the protesters sick, but the police and anti-anti-war protesters as well."
C.O.L.L.A.T.E.R.A.L. D.A.M.A.G.E.
I'm not saying that's what happened, but it's not beyond the realm of possibility.
Blogger is being a whore again, I can't get to your site, Human.
But thank you very much for helping get the news out. I really, truly think this is something important that needs to be looked into.
Moxie please try again later.
I would like to spin a theory. Soft-kill weapons are those that can neutralize the threat of a target without killing people. This sounds like it would be (may already be?) a great soft-kill weapon. As I understand it, this bacteria is not usually fatal, it just makes you sick. Sick guys need more resources to take care of than dead guys. Plus, you could conceivably use it on your own people to disable the ones you consider a threat without the stigma of killing your own people. Kinda like that disorienting sonic weapon which can be used for crowd control when firehoses aren't handy. (I recently saw a photo of that mounted atop a humvee somewhere on the web.)
To sum up, I think that a weaponized version of Tulemerin (or however it's spelled), would be used precisely because it is mostly non-lethal. It's obviously not a stealth weapon when used in cities. It's far too out of place to go unnoticed.
Kinda makes you wonder what they've got planned for that 1918 flu virus they've just synthesized, once they're done with their "research". Then he can blame suspicious outbreaks on the birdies.
It is "interesting" that the day of the march, also the day of the biohazard release & sensing, was also the day of a nationwide counter-terrorism exercise, which is why Bush was in Colorado, watching it all on TV. "just testing"?
Moxie:
I'm puzzled. In the article from which you posted an excerpt, it says
"The federal government found six air filters around the nation's capital checked on Sept. 24 and 25 contained "trace amounts" of tularemia, a type of bacteria..."
And further
" No biodefense sensors have gone off. "
Yet, in part of Sans Culottes' comment, he says
"He (Sans MD) also said that he found out that there are at least 12 cities in the US monitored like DC, and not one sensor ever, in DC or otherwise, has ever picked up airborne tularemia even once, much less 6 different sensors in 1",
strongly implying the tularemia traces were detected by biosensors.
Which is correct?
Additionally: If no sensors were triggered, what in the world prompted the feds to check air filters around Washington on Sept. 24th and 25th?
Good questions Gaia... According to the WaPo article, "The country has spent more than $200 million to install the sensor system known as BioWatch in more than 30 U.S. cities. Samples from sensors are collected daily to check for pathogens such as those that cause anthrax, smallpox or plague.
More than a half-dozen sensors operating from 10 a.m. Saturday to 10 a.m. Sunday -- at sites including the Lincoln Memorial, Fort McNair and Judiciary Square -- detected the bacteria, Pane said he was told."
It seems that they collect these filters daily and check them for problems, and that's how they discovered it.
I have never been to this site before but I was in DC for the protest. I became ill on mon the 25th before I even left DC. I am in the middle of testing right now and know many others that were there that are in fact sick with something.
I can be reached at coast2coastcaravan@yahoo.com
I have been getting some information from other people present in DC.
I just wanted to say thank you for offering your stories, I do appreciate them.
All I ask is that you are 100% honest when you tell me or anyone else what you did experience or are experiencing now. I truly want anyone who was there to be aware of the bacteria that was found and get medical assistance as necessary, but I also don't want to contribute to panic. Perhaps this is absolutely nothing - a complete anomoly. Perhaps it's more.
Be well everyone.
Additional information regarding other instances where Tularemia/Francisella tularensis was detected can be found on this page by the Center for Infectious Disease Research & Policy:
http://www.cidrap.umn.edu/cidrap/content/bt/tularemia/
Some highlights:
April 14, 2005: Despite 4 months of investigation, the source of bacteria that caused tularemia in three laboratory workers at Boston University remains a mystery, the Boston Public Health Commission (BPHC) has reported.
Oct 10, 2003: Air monitoring devices in Houston recently picked up fragments of the bacteria that cause tularemia, but no human cases of the disease have been found, Houston health officials reported yesterday.
The Houston case is interesting because it was the first time that the bacteria was detected in an aerosol form (http://www.llnl.gov/str/April04/Slezak.html).
I have been in contact with both the Public Health Dept in Illinois; Dr Dworkin who is the state Epidemologist and head of the Il Rapid Response Team (many of the people I was with came from Il) as well as my states Public Health Dept here in Oregon; Dr Paul Lewis and Dr Hedberg. The doctor I am seeing is Dr McCleskey of Pacific Medical Group in Tigard OR. I can give you the contact numbers for all if you would like. They are working together on this is what I was told.
They took several vials of blood and a chest x-ray. That was this past Monday. I am due to see the doctor again tomorrow and have to repeat the Tularemia Titer blood test 2 wks from the 1st one.
I am on day 11 of diarhea and stomache pain -upper abdominal, headache, dizziness, cough, sore throat etc. Today is the first day the pain in my stomach has decreased somewhat but certainly is not gone.
Mox I forwarded your email to me to a friend in Maryland. She has several who are ill. I also posted it to the message board I am a member of where most of those I know from the trip post. Many of them are sick as well. Several from Illinois (at least one is a small child), at least 1 from Seattle and so on. Some are seeing doctors today some yesterday. We are all in a holding pattern.
I attended the D.C. rally with three others. I did have diahrrea, a sinus infection and urinary tract infection after the march. I visited an urgent care. I made the doc there aware of the Reuters story re: "rabbit fever."
I was given Cipro. No other tests.
I'm improved. Not 100% The other three I marched with are fine.
EL SEGUNDO, Calif., Oct. 5 /PRNewswire/ -- Computer Sciences Corporation
(NYSE: CSC) today announced that DVC LLC, a CSC company, has been awarded a
five-year, $35.1 million contract from the National Institute of Allergy and
Infectious Diseases (NIAID), a component of the National Institutes of Health,
to develop candidates for a safe and effective tularemia vaccine.
Read more at:
http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/10-05-2005/0004160605&EDATE=
And one more:
Tularemia Bacteria Found
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) notified health officials in Maryland, Virginia and the District of Columbia last week that an airborne form of Tularemia bacterium was detected by air sensors in the vicinity of the National Capital Mall during the weekend of Sept. 24. Since then, additional tests from these collectors have all been negative.
Subsequent laboratory tests performed on the Sept. 24 and Sept. 25 samples have supported the presence of low levels of the bacterium in the environment. Public health officials do not believe the finding of low levels of the bacterium near the National Mall indicate a public health threat.
Tularemia, which occurs naturally, is easily treated with common antibiotics. It cannot be transmitted from person to person. Tularemia is found naturally in the environment, and health officials are doing additional environmental sampling as well as reviewing other possible causes of the positive reading.
State health departments have alerted local health departments, acute care treatment facilities, health care providers and veterinarians to be on the alert for signs of respiratory infections related to Tularemia. Also as a precaution, CDC and public health officials have alerted the medical community to be on the lookout for possible cases of Tularemia.
As a precautionary measure, CDC and public health officials are recommending that anyone who visited areas around the National Mall between 10 a.m. Saturday, Sept. 24 and 10 a.m. Sunday, Sept. 25 should see a health care provider if they experience symptoms related to Tularemia. Symptoms include, sudden fever, chills, headaches, muscle aches, joint pain, dry cough, conjunctivitis and pneumonia.
People who do not have symptoms of Tularemia do not need to seek out medical attention.
The Centers for Disease Control is the lead agency investigating this incident. Information about Tularemia is available from the CDC at http://www.cdc.gov. Similar information is available on the Virginia Department of Health Web site at http://www.vdh.virginia.gov.
http://www.connectionnewspapers.com/article.asp?article=56748&paper=61&cat=112
ok, maybe this sounds weird, but... does anyone remember hearing about this story before?
Coincidence or?
http://www.columbiatribune.com/2005/Jan/20050123News004.asp
You people are just too much. For five years now I've watched as all of you sheeple come up with an excuse for Bush and all his neocon criminal traitor buddies. "Maybe this happened", or maybe that happened. Give me a break. If you read the WP article in full, you'd have noticed that this germ cannot be transmitted from animal to human unless there is blood to blood contact. Rabbit flu as a bio agent can only be contracted human to human. This was a cointel attack. Cheney and Rumsfeld had two seperate top secret 'terrorist drills' happening on that exact day. One of them was called Operation Granite Shadow. "Granite Shadow"? At the least that should tell you something... Check out William Arkin's military intel blog over at the W. Post. Fools. Don't you realize this government knows EXACTLY what they're doing? I can't believe you're so stupid to still believe they're imcopentent. YOU all should know better after watching Rice, Powell, and Rumsfeld testify after 9-11 they 'had no idea that planes would be used as missles'.
My bad... What I meant was it can only be contracted directly from the agent. Oops. Some people on another site were arguing about whether it had been possibly transported from someone from the New Orleans area. That's why I brought it up but it looks like you all are on the case. I originally only read the first 3 comments.
Good job corralling up various reports from around the country. This is very important as it's obvious the media are ignoring this story.
Do you all think when Cheney, Bush, Bolton, Rumsfeld, and Rice get indicted they can arrest the MSM on accessory charges?
Thank you for reminding me about the microbiologists mystery deaths. I just dug up a file I had saved on word. I titled it "Dead List"
Dead Scientists And
Microbiologists - Master List
Compiled by Mark J. Harper
mjharper712@hotmail.com
2-5-5
If you see any incorrect dates or errors, please provide me with accurate information,
Thank you,
Mark
Marconi Scientists Mystery
In the 1980's over two dozen science graduates and experts working for Marconi or Plessey Defence Systems died in mysterious circumstances, most appearing to be suicides., The MOD denied these scientists had been involved in classified Star Wars Projects and that the deaths were in any way connected. Judge for yourself...
March 1982: Professor Keith Bowden, 46
--Expertise: Computer programmer and scientist at Essex University engaged in work for Marconi, who was hailed as an expert on super computers and computer-controlled aircraft.
--Circumstance of Death: Fatal car crash when his vehicle went out of control across a dual carriageway and plunged onto a disused railway line. Police maintained he had been drinking but family and friends all denied the allegation.
--Coroner's verdict: Accident.
April 1983: Lt-Colonel Anthony Godley, 49
--Expertise: Head of the Work Study Unit at the Royal College of Military Science.
--Circumstance of Death: Disappeared mysteriously in April 1983 without explanation. Presumed dead.
March 1985: Roger Hill, 49
--Expertise: Radar designer and draughtsman with Marconi.
--Circumstance of Death: Died by a shotgun blast at home.
--Coroner's verdict: Suicide.
November 19, 1985: Jonathan Wash, 29
--Expertise: Digital communications expert who had worked at GEC and at British Telecom's secret research centre at Martlesham Heath, Suffolk.
--Circumstance of Death: Died as a result of falling from a hotel room in Abidjan, West Africa, while working for British Telecom. He had expressed fears that his life was in danger.
--Coroner's verdict: Open.
August 4, 1986: Vimal Dajibhai, 24
--Expertise: Computer software engineer with Marconi, responsible for testing computer control systems of Tigerfish and Stingray torpedoes at Marconi Underwater Systems at Croxley Green, Hertfordshire.
--Circumstance of Death: Death by 74m (240ft.) fall from Clifton Suspension Bridge, Bristol. Police report on the body mentioned a needle-sized puncture wound on the left buttock, but this was later dismissed as being a result of the fall. Dajibhai had been looking forward to starting a new job in the City of London and friends had confirmed that there was no reason for him to commit suicide. At the time of his death he was in the last week of his work with Marconi.
--Coroner's verdict: Open.
October 1986: Arshad Sharif, 26
--Expertise: Reported to have been working on systems for the detection of submarines by satellite.
--Circumstance of Death: Died as a result of placing a ligature around his neck, tying the other end to a tree and then driving off in his car with the accelerator pedal jammed down. His unusual death was complicated by several issues: Sharif lived near Vimal Dajibhai in Stanmore, Middlesex, he committed suicide in Bristol and, inexplicably, had spent the last night of his life in a rooming house. He had paid for his accommodation in cash and was seen to have a bundle of high-denomination banknotes in his possession. While the police were told of the banknotes, no mention was made of them at the inquest and they were never found. In addition, most of the other guests at the rooming house worked at British Aerospace prior to working for Marconi, Sharif had also worked at British Aerospace on guided weapons technology.
--Coroner's verdict: Suicide.
January 1987: Richard Pugh, 37
--Expertise: MOD computer consultant and digital communications expert.
--Circumstance of Death: Found dead in his flat in with his feet bound and a plastic bag over his head. Rope was tied around his body, coiling four times around his neck.
--Coroner's verdict: Accident.
January 12, 1987: Dr. John Brittan, 52
--Expertise: Scientist formerly engaged in top secret work at the Royal College of Military Science at Shrivenham, Oxfordshire, and later deployed in a research department at the MOD.
--Circumstance of Death: Death by carbon monoxide poisoning in his own garage, shortly after returning from a trip to the US in connection with his work.
--Coroner's verdict: Accident.
February 1987: David Skeels, 43
--Expertise: Engineer with Marconi.
--Circumstance of Death: Found dead in his car with a hosepipe connected to the exhaust.
--Coroner's verdict: Open.
February 1987: Victor Moore, 46
--Expertise: Design Engineer with Marconi Space and Defence Systems.
--Circumstance of Death: Died from an overdose.
--Coroner's verdict: Suicide.
February 22, 1987: Peter Peapell, 46
--Expertise: Scientist at the Royal College of Military Science. He had been working on testing titanium for it's resistance to explosives and the use of computer analysis of signals from metals.
--Circumstance of Death: Found dead allegedly from carbon monoxide poisoning, in his Oxfordshire garage. The circumstances of his death raised some elements of doubt. His wife had found him on his back with his head parallel to the rear car bumper and his mouth in line with the exhaust pipe, with the car engine running. Police were apparently baffled as to how he could have manoeuvred into the position in which he was found.
--Coroner's verdict: Open.
April 1987: George Kountis age unknown.
--Expertise: Systems Analyst at Bristol Polytechnic.
--Circumstance of Death: Drowned the same day as Shani Warren (see below) - as the result of a car accident, his upturned car being found in the River Mersey, Liverpool.
--Coroner's verdict: Misadventure.
(Kountis, sister called for a fresh inquest as she thought 'things didn't add up.')
April 10, 1987: Shani Warren, 26
--Expertise: Personal assistant in a company called Micro Scope, which was taken over by GEC Marconi less than four weeks after her death.
--Circumstance of Death: Found drowned in 45cm. (18in) of water, not far from the site of David Greenhalgh's death fall. Warren died exactly one week after the death of Stuart Gooding and serious injury to Greenhalgh. She was found gagged with a noose around her neck. Her feet were also bound and her hands tied behind her back.
--Coroner's verdict: Open.
(It was said that Warren had gagged herself, tied her feet with rope, then tied her hands behind her back and hobbled to the lake on stiletto heels to drown herself.)
April 10, 1987: Stuart Gooding, 23
--Expertise: Postgraduate research student at the Royal College of Military Science.
--Circumstance of Death: Fatal car crash while on holiday in Cyprus. The death occurred at the same time as college personnel were carrying out exercises on Cyprus.
--Coroner's verdict: Accident.
April 24, 1987: Mark Wisner, 24
--Expertise: Software engineer at the MOD.
--Circumstance of Death: Found dead on in a house shared with two colleagues. He was found with a plastic sack around his head and several feet of cling film around his face. The method of death was almost identical to that of Richard Pugh some three months earlier.
--Coroner's verdict: Accident.
March 30, 1987: David Sands, 37
--Expertise: Senior scientist working for Easams of Camberley, Surrey, a sister company to Marconi. Dr. John Brittan had also worked at Camberley.
--Circumstance of Death: Fatal car crash when he allegedly made a sudden U-turn on a dual carriageway while on his way to work, crashing at high speed into a disused cafeteria. He was found still wearing his seat belt and it was discovered that the car had been carrying additional petrol cans. None of the normal, reasons for a possible suicide could be found.
--Coroner's verdict: Open.
May 3, 1987: Michael Baker, 22
--Expertise: Digital communications expert working on a defence project at Plessey; part-time member of Signals Corps SAS.
--Circumstance of Death: Fatal accident owhen his car crashed through a barrier near Poole in Dorset.
--Coroner's verdict: Misadventure.
June 1987: Jennings, Frank, 60.
--Expertise: Electronic Weapons Engineer with Plessey.
--Circumstance of Death: Found dead from a heart attack.
--No inquest.
January 1988: Russell Smith, 23
--Expertise: Laboratory technician with the Atomic Energy Research Establishment at Harwell, Essex.
--Circumstance of Death: Died as a result of a cliff fall at Boscastle in Cornwall.
--Coroner's verdict: Suicide.
March 25, 1988: Trevor Knight, 52
--Expertise: Computer engineer with Marconi Space and Defence Systems in Stanmore, Middlesex.
--Circumstance of Death: Found dead at his home in Harpenden, Hertfordshire at the wheel of his car with a hosepipe connected to the exhaust. A St.Alban's coroner said that Knight's woman friend, Miss Narmada Thanki (who also worked with him at Marconi) had found three suicide notes left by him which made clear his intentions. Miss Thanki had mentioned that Knight disliked his work but she did not detect any depression that would have driven him to suicide.
--Coroner's verdict: Suicide.
August 1988: Alistair Beckham, 50
--Expertise: Software engineer with Plessey Defence Systems.
--Circumstance of Death: Found dead after being electrocuted in his garden shed with wires connected to his body.
--Coroner's verdict: Open.
August 22, 1988: Peter Ferry, 60
--Expertise: Retired Army Brigadier and an Assistant Marketing Director with Marconi.
--Circumstance of Death: Found on 22nd or 23rd August 1988 electrocuted in his company flat with electrical leads in his mouth.
--Coroner's verdict: Open
September 1988: Andrew Hall, 33
--Expertise: Engineering Manager with British Aerospace.
--Circumstance of Death: Carbon monoxide poisoning in a car with a hosepipe connected to the exhaust.
--Coroner's verdict: Suicide.
Above list compiled by Raymond A. Robinson in 'The Alien Intent'
(A Dire Warning)
http://www.geocities.com/orgonegal/marconi-scientists.html
(Note: link above is dead)
Date?: Dr. C. Bruton
--Expertise: He had just produced a paper on a new strain of CJD. He was a CJD specialist who was killed before his work was announced to the public.
--Circumstance of Death: died in a car crash.
1994/95?: Dr. Jawad Al Aubaidi
--Expertise: Veterinary mycoplasma and had worked with various mycoplasmas in the 1980s at Plum Island.
--Circumstance of Death: He was killed in his native Iraq while he was changing a flat tire and hit by a truck.
Source: Patricia A. Doyle, PhD
1996: Tsunao Saitoh, 46
--Expertise: A leading Alzheimer's researcher
--Circumstance of Death: He and his 13 year-old daughter were killed in La Jolla, California, in what a Reuters report described as a "very professionally done" shooting. He was dead behind the wheel of the car, the side window had been shot out, and the door was open. His daughter appeared to have tried to run away and she was shot dead, also.
Dec 25, 1997: Sidney Harshman, 67
--Expertise: Professor of microbiology and immunology.
"He was the world's leading expert on staphylococcal alpha toxins," according to Conrad Wagner, professor of biochemistry at Vanderbilt and a close friend of Professor Harshman. "He also deeply cared for other people and was always eager to help his students and colleagues."
--Circumstance of Death: Complications of diabetes
July 10, 1998: Elizabeth A. Rich, M.D., 46
--Expertise: An associate professor with tenure in the pulmonary division of the Department of Medicine at CWRU and University Hospitals of Cleveland. She was also a member of the executive committee for the Center for AIDS Research and directed the biosafety level 3 facility, a specialized laboratory for the handling of HIV, virulent TB bacteria, and other infectious agents.
--Circumstance of Death: Killed in a traffic accident while visiting family in Tennessee
September 1998: Jonathan Mann, 51
--Expertise: Founding director of the World Health Organisation's global Aids programme and founded Project SIDA in Zaire, the most comprehensive Aids research effort in Africa at the time, and in 1986 he joined the WHO to lead the global response against Aids. He became director of WHO's global programme on Aids which later became the UNAids programme. He then became director of the Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights, which was set up at Harvard School of Public Health in 1993. He caused controversy earlier this year in the post when he accused the US National Institutes of Health of violating human rights by failing to act quickly on developing Aids vaccines.
--Circumstance of Death: Died in the Swissair Flight 111 crash in Canada.
April 15, 2000: Walter W. Shervington, M.D., 62
--Expertise: An extensive writer/ lecturer/ researcher about mental health and AIDS in the African American community.
--Circumstance of Death: Died of cancer at Tulane Medical Hospital.
July 16, 2000: Mike Thomas, 35
--Expertise: A microbiologist at the Crestwood Medical Center in Huntsville.
--Circumstance of Death: Died a few days after examining a sample taken from a 12-year-old girl who was diagnosed with meningitis and survived.
December 25, 2000: Linda Reese, 52
--Expertise: Microbiologist working with victims of meningitis.
--Circumstance of Death: Died three days after she studied a sample from Tricia Zailo, 19, a Fairfield, N.J., resident who was a sophomore at Michigan State University. Tricia Zailo died Dec. 18, a few days after she returned home for the holidays.
May 7 2001: Professor Janusz Jeljaszewicz
--Expertise: Expert in Staphylococci and Staphylococcal Infections. His main scientific interests and achievements were in the mechanism of action and biological properties of staphylococcal toxins, and included the immunomodulatory properties and experimental treatment of tumours by Propionibacterium.
November 2001: Yaacov Matzner, 54 --Expertise: Dean of the Hebrew University-Hadassah Medical School in Jerusalem and chairman of the Israel Society of Hematology and Blood Transfusions, was the son of Holocaust survivors. One of the world's experts on blood diseases including familiar Mediterranean fever (FMF), Matzner conducted research that led to a genetic test for FMF. He was working on cloning the gene connected to FMF and investigating the normal physiological function of amyloid A, a protein often found in high levels in people with blood cancer.
--Circumstance of Death: Professors Yaacov Matzner and Amiram Eldor were on their way back to Israel via Switzerland when their plane came down in dense forest three kilometres short of the landing field.
November 2001: Professor Amiram Eldor, 59
--Expertise: Head of the haematology institute, Tel Aviv's Ichilov Hospital and worked for years at Hadassah-University Hospital's haematology department but left for his native Tel Aviv in 1993 to head the haematology institute at Ichilov Hospital. He was an internationally known expert on blood clotting especially in women who had repeated miscarriages and was a member of a team that identified eight new anti-clotting agents in the saliva of leeches.
--Circumstance of Death: Professors Yaacov Matzner and Amiram Eldor were on their way back to Israel via Switzerland when their plane came down in dense forest three kilometres short of the landing field.
November 6, 2001: Jeffrey Paris Wall, 41
--Expertise: He was a biomedical expert who held a medical degree, and he also specialized in patent and intellectual property.
--Circumstance of Death: Mr. Walls body was found sprawled next to a three-story parking structure near his office. He had studied at the University of California, Los Angeles.
Nov. 16, 2001: Don C. Wiley, 57
--Expertise: One of the foremost microbiologists in the United States. Dr. Wiley, of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute at Harvard University, was an expert on how the immune system responds to viral attacks such as the classic doomsday plagues of HIV, ebola and influenza.
--Circumstance of Death: Police found his rental car on a bridge outside Memphis, Tenn. His body was found Dec. 20 in the Mississippi River.
Nov. 21, 2001: Vladimir Pasechnik, 64
--Expertise: World-class microbiologist and high-profile Russian defector; defected to the United Kingdom in 1989, played a huge role in Russian biowarfare and helped to figure out how to modify cruise missiles to deliver the agents of mass biological destruction.
--Background: founded Regma Biotechnologies company in Britain, a laboratory at Porton Down, the country´s chem-bio warfare defense establishment. Regma currently has a contract with the U.S. Navy for "the diagnostic and therapeutic treatment of anthrax".
--Circumstance of Death: The pathologist who did the autopsy, and who also happened to be associated with Britain´s spy agency, concluded he died of a stroke. Details of the postmortem were not revealed at an inquest, in which the press was given no prior notice. Colleagues who had worked with Pasechnik said he was in good health.
Dec. 10, 2001: Robert M. Schwartz, 57
--Expertise: Expert in DNA sequencing and pathogenic micro-organisms, founding member of the Virginia Biotechnology Association, and the Executive Director of Research and Development at Virginia´s Center for Innovative Technology in Herndon.
--Circumstance of Death: stabbed and slashed with what police believe was a sword in his farmhouse in Leesberg, Va. His daughter, who identifies herself as a pagan high priestess, and several of her fellow pagans have been charged.
Dec. 14, 2001: Nguyen Van Set, 44
--Expertise: animal diseases facility of the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization had just come to fame for discovering a virulent strain of mousepox, which could be modified to affect smallpox.
--Circumstance of Death: died at work in Geelong, Australia, in a laboratory accident. He entered an airlocked storage lab and died from exposure to nitrogen.
January 2002: Ivan Glebov and Alexi Brushlinski.
--Expertise: Two microbiologists. Both were well known around the world and members of the Russian Academy of Science.
--Circumstance of Death: Glebov died as the result of a bandit attack and Brushlinski was killed in Moscow.
January 28, 2002: David W. Barry, 58
--Expertise: Scientist who codiscovered AZT, the antiviral drug that is considered the first effective treatment for AIDS.
--Circumstance of Death: unknown
Feb. 9, 2002: Victor Korshunov, 56
--Expertise: Expert in intestinal bacteria of children around the world
--Circumstance of Death: bashed over the head near his home in Moscow.
Feb. 14, 2002: Ian Langford, 40
--Expertise: expert in environmental risks and disease.
--Circumstance of Death: found dead in his home near Norwich, England, naked from the waist down and wedged under a chair.
Feb. 28, 2002: Tanya Holzmayer, 46
--Expertise: a Russian who moved to the U.S. in 1989, focused on the part of the human molecular structure that could be affected best by medicine.
--Circumstance of Death: killed by fellow microbiologist Guyang (Matthew) Huang, who shot her seven times when she opened the door to a pizza delivery. Then he shot himself.
Feb. 28, 2002: Guyang Huang, 38
--Expertise: Microbiologist
--Circumstance of Death: Apparently shot himself after shooting fellow microbiologist, Tanya Holzmayer, seven times.
March 24, 2002: David Wynn-Williams, 55
--Expertise: Respected astrobiologist with the British Antarctic Survey, who studied the habits of microbes that might survive in outer space.
--Circumstance of Death: Died in a freak road accident near his home in Cambridge, England. He was hit by a car while he was jogging.
March 25, 2002: Steven Mostow, 63
--Expertise: Known as "Dr. Flu" for his expertise in treating influenza, and a noted expert in bioterrorism of the Colorado Health Sciences Centre.
--Circumstance of Death: died when the airplane he was piloting crashed near Denver.
Nov. 12, 2002: Benito Que, 52
--Expertise: Expert in infectious diseases and cellular biology at the Miami Medical School
--Circumstance of Death: Que left his laboratory after receiving a telephone call. Shortly afterward he was found comatose in the parking lot of the Miami Medical School. He died without regaining consciousness. Police said he had suffered a heart attack. His family insisted he had been in perfect health and claimed four men attacked him. But, later, oddly, the family inquest returned a verdict of death by natural causes.
April 2003: Carlo Urbani, 46
--Expertise: A dedicated and internationally respected Italian epidemiologist, who did work of enduring value combating infectious illness around the world.
--Circumstance of Death: Died in Bangkok from SARS (severe acute respiratory syndrome) - the new disease that he had helped to identify. Thanks to his prompt action, the epidemic was contained in Vietnam. However, because of close daily contact with SARS patients, he contracted the infection. On March 11, he was admitted to a hospital in Bangkok and isolated. Less than three weeks later he died.
June 24, 2003: Dr. Leland Rickman of UCSD, 47
A resident of Carmel Valley
--Expertise: An expert in infectious disease who helped the county prepare to fight bioterrorism after Sept. 11.
--Circumstance of Death: He was in the African nation of Lesotho with Dr. Chris Mathews of UCSD, the director of the university's Owen Clinic for AIDS patients. Dr. Rickman had complained of a headache and had gone to lie down. When he didn't appear for dinner, Mathews checked on him and found him dead. A cause has not yet been determined.
July 18, 2003: Dr. David Kelly, 59
--Expertise: Biological warfare weapons specialist, senior post at the Ministry of Defense, an expert on DNA sequencing when he was head of microbiology at Porton Down and worked with two American scientists, Benito Que, 52, and Don Wiley, 57.
--Helped Vladimir Pasechnik found Regma Biotechnologies, which has a contract with the U.S. Navy for "the diagnostic and therapeutic treatment of anthrax"
--Circumstance of Death: He was found dead after seemingly slashing his wrist in a wooded area near his home at Southmoor, Oxfordshire.
Oct 11 or 24, 2003: Michael Perich, 46
--Expertise: LSU professor who helped fight the spread of the West Nile virus. Perich worked with the East Baton Rouge Parish Mosquito Control and Rodent Abatement District to determine whether mosquitoes in the area carried West Nile.
--Circumstance of Death: Walker Police Chief Elton Burns said Sunday that Perich of 5227 River Bend Blvd., Baton Rouge, crashed his Ford pickup truck about 4:30 a.m. Saturday, while heading west on Interstate 12 in Livingston Parish. Perich's truck veered right off the highway about 3 miles east of Walker, flipped and landed in rainwater, Burns said. Perich, who was wearing his seat belt, drowned. The cause of the crash is under investigation, Burns said.
"Mike is one of the few entomologists with the experience to go out and save lives today."
~ Robert A. Wirtz, chief of entomology at the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
November 22, 2003: Robert Leslie Burghoff, 45
--Expertise: He was studying the virus that was plaguing cruise ships until he was killed by a mysterious white van in November of 2003
--Circumstance of Death: Burghoff was walking on a sidewalk along the 1600 block of South Braeswood when a white van jumped the curb and hit him at 1:35 p.m. Thursday, police said. The van then sped away. Burghoff died an hour later at Memorial Hermann Hospital.
December 18, 2003: Robert Aranosia, 61
--Expertise: Oakland County deputy medical examiner
--Circumstance of Death: He was driving south on I-75 when his pickup truck went off the freeway near a bridge over the Kawkawlin River. The vehicle rolled over several times before landing in the median. Aranosia was thrown from the vehicle and ended up on the shoulder of the northbound lanes.
January 6, 2004: Dr Richard Stevens, 54
--Expertise: A haematologist. (Haematologists analyse the cellular composition of blood and blood producing tissues eg bone marrow)
--Circumstance of Death: Disappeared after arriving for work on 21 July, 2003. A doctor whose disappearance sparked a national manhunt, killed himself because he could not cope with the stress of a secret affair, a coroner has ruled.
January 23 2004: Dr. Robert E. Shope, 74
--Expertise: An expert on viruses who was the principal author of a highly publicized 1992 report by the National Academy of Sciences warning of the possible emergence of new and unsettling infectious illnesses. Dr. Shope had accumulated his own collection of virus samples gathered from all over the world.
--Circumstance of Death: The cause was complications of a lung transplant he received in December, said his daughter Deborah Shope of Galveston. Dr. Shope had pulmonary fibrosis, a disease of unknown origin that scars the lungs.
January 24 2004: Dr. Michael Patrick Kiley, 62
--Expertise: Ebola, Mad Cow Expert, top of the line world class.
--Circumstance of Death: Died of massive heart attack. Coincidently, both Dr. Shope and Dr. Kiley were working on the lab upgrade to BSL 4 at the UTMB Galvaston lab for Homeland Security. The lab would have to be secure to house some of the deadliest pathogens of tropical and emerging infectious disease as well as bioweaponized ones.
March 13, 2004: Vadake Srinivasan
--Expertise: Microbiologist.
--Circumstance of Death: crashed car into guard rail and ruled a stroke.
April 12, 2004: Ilsley Ingram, 84
--Expertise: Director of the Supraregional Haemophilia Reference Centre and the Supraregional Centre for the Diagnosis of Bleeding Disorders at the St. Thomas Hospital in London.
--Circumstance of Death: unknown
May 5, 2004: William T. McGuire, 39
--Expertise: NJ University Professor and Senior programmer analyst and adjunct professor at the New Jersey Institute of Technology in Newark.
--Circumstance of Death: Body found in 3 Suitcases floating in Chesapeake Bay.
May 14, 2004: Dr. Eugene F. Mallove, 56
--Expertise: Mallove was well respected for his knowledge of cold fusion. He had just published an open letter outlining the results of and reasons for his last 15 years in the field of new energy research. Dr. Mallove was convinced it was only a matter of months before the world would actually see a free energy device.
--Circumstance of Death: Died after being beaten to death during an alleged robbery.
May 25, 2004: Antonina Presnyakova
--Expertise: Former Soviet biological weapons laboratory in Siberia --Circumstance of Death: Died after accidentally sticking herself with a needle laced with Ebola.
July 21, 2004: Dr. John Badwey 54
--Expertise: Scientist and accidental politician when he opposed disposal of sewage waste program of exposing humans to sludge. Biochemist at Harvard Medical School specializing in infectious diseases.
--Circumstance of Death: Suddenly developed pneumonia like symptoms then died in two weeks.
June 22, 2004: Thomas Gold, 84
--Expertise: He was the founder, and for twenty years the director, of the Cornell Center for Radiophysics and Space Research, where he was a close colleague of Planetary Society co-founder Carl Sagan. Gold was famous for his provocative, controversial, and sometimes outrageous theories. Gold's theory of the deep hot biosphere holds important ramifications for the possibility of life on other planets, including seemingly inhospitable planets within our own solar system. Gold sparked controversy in 1955 when he suggested that the Moon's surface is covered with a fine rock powder.
--Circumstance of Death: Died of heart failure.
June 24, 2004: Dr. Assefa Tulu, 45
--Expertise: Dr. Tulu joined the health department in 1997 and served for five years as the county's lone epidemiologist. He was charged with tracking the health of the county, including the spread of diseases, such as syphilis, AIDS and measles. He also designed a system for detecting a bioterrorism attack involving viruses or bacterial agents. Tulu often coordinated efforts to address major health concerns in Dallas County, such as the West Nile virus outbreaks of the past few years, and worked with the media to inform the public.
--Circumstance of Death: Dallas County's chief epidemiologist, was found at his desk, died of a stroke.
June 27, 2004: Dr Paul Norman, Of Salisbury, Wiltshire, 52
--Expertise: He was the chief scientist for chemical and biological defence at the Ministry of Defence's laboratory at Porton Down, Wiltshire. He travelled the world lecturing on the subject of weapons of mass destruction.
--Circumstance of Death: Died when the Cessna 206 crashed shortly after taking off from Dunkeswell Airfield on Sunday. A father and daughter also died at the scene, and 44-year-old parachute instructor and Royal Marine Major Mike Wills later died in the hospital.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/wiltshire/3860995.stm
June 29, 2004: John Mullen, 67
--Expertise: A nuclear research scientist with McDonnell Douglas.
--Circumstance of Death: Died from a huge dose of poisonous arsenic.
July 1, 2004: Edward Hoffman, 62
--Expertise: Aside from his role as a professor, Hoffman held leadership positions within the UCLA medical community. Worked to develop the first human PET scanner in 1973 at Washington University in St. Louis.
--Circumstance of Death: unknown
July 2, 2004: Larry Bustard, 53
--Expertise: A Sandia scientist who helped develop a foam spray to clean up congressional buildings and media sites during the anthrax scare in 2001. Worked at Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque. His team came up with a new technology used against biological and chemical agents.
--Circumstance of Death: unknown
July 6, 2004: Stephen Tabet, 42
--Expertise: An associate professor and epidemiologist at the University of Washington. A world-renowned HIV doctor and researcher who worked with HIV patients in a vaccine clinical trial for the HIV Vaccine Trials Network.
--Circumstance of Death: Died of an unknown illness
July 21, 2004: Dr Bassem al-Mudares
--Expertise: He was a phD chemist
--Circumstance of Death: His mutilated body was found in the city of Samarra, Iraq and had been tortured before being killed.
August 12, 2004: Professor John Clark
--Expertise: Head of the science lab which created Dolly the sheep. Prof Clark led the Roslin Institute in Midlothian, one of the world's leading animal biotechnology research centres. He played a crucial role in creating the transgenic sheep that earned the institute worldwide fame.
--Circumstance of Death: He was found hanging in his holiday home.
September 5, 2004: Mohammed Toki Hussein al-Talakani
--Expertise: Iraqi nuclear scientist. He was a practising nuclear physicist since 1984.
--Circumstance of Death: He was shot dead in Mahmudiya, south of Baghdad.
October 13, 2004: Matthew Allison, 32
Fatal explosion of a car parked at an Osceola County, Fla., Wal-Mart store was no accident, Local 6 News has learned. Found inside a burned car. Witnesses said the man left the store at about 11 p.m. and entered his Ford Taurus car when it exploded. Investigators said they found a Duraflame log and propane canisters on the front passenger's seat.
November 2, 2004: John R. La Montagne
--Expertise: Head of US Infectious Diseases unit under Tommie Thompson. Was NIAID Deputy Director.
--Circumstance of Death: Died while in Mexico, no cause stated.
December 21, 2004: Taleb Ibrahim al-Daher
--Expertise: Iraqi nuclear scientist
--Circumstance of Death: He was shot dead north of Baghdad by unknown gunmen. He was on his way to work at Diyala University when armed men opened fire on his car as it was crossing a bridge in Baqouba, 57 km northeast of Baghdad. The vehicle swerved off the bridge and fell into the Khrisan river. Al-Daher, who was a professor at the local university, was removed from the submerged car and rushed to Baqouba hospital where he was pronounced dead.
December 29, 2004: Tom Thorne and Beth Williams
--Expertise: Two wild life scientists, Husband-and-wife wildlife veterinarians who were nationally prominent experts on chronic wasting disease and brucellosis
--Circumstance of Death: They were killed in a snowy-weather crash on U.S. 287 in northern Colorado.
January 7, 2005: Jeong H. Im, 72
--Expertise: A retired research assistant professor at the University of Missouri-Columbia. Primarily a protein chemist.
--Circumstance of Death: He was stabbed several times and his body was found in the trunk of his burning white, 1995 Honda inside the Maryland Avenue parking garage.
The last "thank you for reminding me" was to Simon.
Re: sans treatment.
From the CDC tularemia FAQ:
"Several types of antibiotics have been effective in treating tularemia infections. The tetracycline class (such as doxycycline) or fluoroquinolone class (such as ciprofloxacin) of antibiotics are taken orally."
Check this map out:
http://dc.indymedia.org/usermedia/image/8/large/sensor_spatial_analysis.jpg">http://dc.indymedia.org/usermedia/image/8/large/sensor_spatial_analysis.jpg
Since the BioWatch sensors measure the ambient air quality (ie, the wind blowing around them), that means that for the bacteria to be found at 3 different locations, the bacteria would have had to drift from somewhere nearby or above and there had to be enough of it released to spread out over at least 3 miles.
To make the map, I created two different colored circles with 1 & 2 mile radii (orange and yellow respectively) and placed these over the locations of the sensors which were disclosed in the
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/10/01/AR2005100101209.html Post article on 10.2.05 to show the spatial possibility of being exposed to the bacteria.
What this map does not include, and is very crucial to the map's effectiveness, is the locations of the other 3 other BioWatch sensors (not publicly disclosed) that also picked up the bacteria in the downtown area.
For instance, if there was a sensor located somewhere within the triangle of A, B, and C that did not test positive, then it might all be a fluke. However, if there is another sensor that tested positive within that area, then it makes the case stronger.
In regards to the wind, I remember the wind blowing South-Southeast that day, which would explain the Fort McNair sensor.
The argument that it was from people kicking up dust is rather weak. Being on the grounds of the Washington Monument from 9am to 3am on September 24th, 2005, working the Operation Ceasefire concert, I can say that in the morning there was dew on