Our immune systems do an amazing job of
protecting us from the harmful effects of an environment filled
with toxins, molds, fungi, viruses and bacteria. If a human, bird
or mosquito's immune system is exposed to something that
surpresses immune function, it will rapidly fall victim to
disease.
Government officials have their own
unique additional form of immunity called qualified immunity,
which to a great extent protects them from being criminally
charged, sued or held financially liable for actions they take
while legitimately executing their official duties. Immunity is
something every living thing has an interest in maintaining if
they want to survive.
Underlying the entire West Nile Virus
issue-although rarely emphasized in the media coverage-is this
same exact issue of immunity. Mayor Giuliani insists he is
spraying NYC to combat the threat of WNV (West Nile Virus), which
he refers to as a deadly disease. His critics believe the
pesticides and chemicals being sprayed are a far more serious
threat to human health and immune systems than the virus is. So
who is right?
From: Richard Pressinger CHEM-TOX.com
Chem-tox Research [research@chem-tox.com]
"As soon as we start spraying with pesticides the rate of
encephalitis infection among mosquitoes skyrockets according to
the research in the Journal of American Mosquito Control."
[also see: Journal of American Mosquito Control Association, 1997
Dec;13(4):315-25.
The Mayor and his Health
Commissioner-psychiatrist Dr. Neal Cohen-routinely quote the
statistic of seven alleged WNV deaths in 1999 as proof of the
seriousness of the WNV threat. We must repeatedly expose the
entire City to Malathion, Sumethrin and Resmethrin their
explanation goes, because these mosquitoes are deadly. Add to that
their claims that the chemicals being used are completely safe,
natural and non-toxic and massively spraying the population
appears to be a reasonable response to a very serious public
health threat. Or is it?
HOW MUCH OF A HEALTH RISK IS WNV?
According to their own press releases WNV
is extremely hard to become infected with and only one percent of
those do who ultimately become infected develop any perceivable
health effects. From: NYC Dept. of Health website: http://www.ci.nyc.ny.us/html/doh/html/wnv/wnvfaq1.html
"Q: What are the symptoms of
West Nile virus?
A: In last year's outbreak,
most people who were infected with West Nile virus had no symptoms
or experienced mild illness such as a fever, headache and body
aches before fully recovering...Being bitten by an infected
mosquito will not necessarily make you sick since most people who
are infected with West Nile virus have no symptoms or experience
mild illness".
http://abcnews.go.com/sections/living/DailyNews/westnile0505.html
New Test Could Diagnose West Nile Encephalitis Faster
By Emma Ross, The Associated Press
"Only about 1 percent of people
infected with the West Nile virus develop encephalitis, Lipkin
said. The most vulnerable are the elderly [whose immune systems
are damaged by wear, tear and the aging process], the very young
[who have undeveloped immune systems] and those with immune
deficiencies [including drug addicts, people with cancer, asthma,
HIV and AIDs".]
Last year NYC conducted a WNV study of
677 people who gave blood anonymously at health vans parked in the
Queens, NY neighborhoods of Whitestone, Auburndale, Linden Hill
and Murray Hill-an area that was the epicenter of the so-called
WNV epidemic. Only nineteen of those people tested positive for
West Nile antibodies. Of those 19 people who tested positive for
WNV antibodies (50% or more of whom were likely to be false
positives), none had any major health complaints. Only four even
reported a fever or headache.
See: ABC News report on the survey 3/21/2000 http://abcnews.go.com/sections/living/DailyNews/westnile000321.html
THOSE WHO DIED FROM WNV
HAD COMPROMISED IMMUNE SYSTEMS
Here is something else Mayor Giuliani and
Dr. Cohen are not publicizing about the close relationship between
immune system suppression and WNV infection.
According to a 5/2000 NYC Department of
Health study, of the seven elderly WNV deaths that the Mayor is
using as the justification for mass spraying (only four of whom
were actually in NYC) three were recieving immunosupressant drug
therapy as part of their cancer treatment and a fourth was
HIV-positive.
[See: New York City Department of Health, West Nile Virus: A
Briefing, City Health Information Vol. 19, No. 1 (May 2000) http://www.ci.nyc.ny.us/html/doh/html/chi/chi.html].
Even more significant, for those who have
a relatively healthy immune system, being bitten by a mosquito
infected with WNV and developing natural antibodies to it actually
makes one immune from further exposure according to the NYC Dept.
of Health.
From NYC Dept. of Health website
http://www.ci.nyc.ny.us/html/doh/html/cd/cdarin.html
"Does past infection with an
arbovirus [WNV] make a person immune?"
"Yes, infection with an arbovirus can provide immunity to
that specific virus and perhaps to other related
viruses".>
In other words, the best and only real
protection from WNV is to be bitten by an infected mosquito and to
develop immunity-which is the immune system response healthy
individuals would be expected to have. Having the antibodies in
your blood means you are immune.
WHAT EFFECT DOES SPRAYING HAVE
ON THE IMMUNE SYSTEM and ON
THE PROLIFERATION OF MOSQUITOES?
Excerpted from:
Are Mosquito Spray Pesticides
Worsening the Encephalitis Problem?
http://www.chem-tox.com/brevard/index.htm
SOURCE: Journal of the Am Mosquito Control Assoc,
Dec;13(4):315-25, 1997 Howard JJ, Oliver New York State Department
of Health, SUNY-College ESF, Syracuse 13210, USA.
"In central New York, aerial
mosquito adulticide applications[spraying pesticides to kill adult
mosquitoes] have been used in response to eastern equine
encephalitis (EEE) outbreaks and have targeted the swamp habitats
of the primary enzootic vector of EEE virus, Culiseta melanura (Coquillett).
The organophosphate insecticide naled (1, 2, dibromo-2,
2-dichloroethyl dimethyl phosphate) has been the insecticide of
choice in this region. This study reports on analyses of 11 years
(1984-94) of mosquito collection data from Cicero and Toad Harbor
swamps in relation to applications of naled. Naled applications
were successful in achieving short-term reductions in mosquito
abundance. However, despite repetitive applications, populations
of the primary vector of EEE virus, Cs. melanura, have increased
15-fold at Cicero Swamp. Preventive applications had no noticeable
impact on the enzootic amplification of EEE virus, and isolations
of virus following preventive applications have resulted in
additional spraying. The possibility that applications of naled
contributed to increased populations of Cs. melanura discredits
the rationale that preventive applications of naled reduce the
risk of EEE. 1) Weakening of Wildlife Immune Systems Due to the
recent increase in journal articles finding that low level
chemical exposures can decrease the quality of mammalian immune
system function, it is quite reasonable to expect wildlife in this
immune weakened state to contract encephalitis more frequently.
Therefore, one would also expect to see an increase in the numbers
of mosquitoes developing encephalitis (since their chance of
biting encephalitis infected wildlife has also increased). 2)
Damage to the mosquito genetic structures Studies have shown that
mosquitoes with a "leaky" stomach barrier allow transfer
of the encephalitis virus from their stomach to their salivary
glands (after ingesting a contaminated blood-meal). Mosquitoes
which do not exhibit this "leaky" stomach condition do
not appear to be able to contract encephalitis either at all - or
as readily. Therefore, since chemical pesticides are well-known to
induce genetic damage in tests in living cells and in animal test
models, the possibility must be considered that genetic mutations
could very well be occurring to the genes within the mosquito
which control proper stomach integrity and that this resulting
loss of integrity could be increasing the encephalitis development
rate among mosquitoes."
In other words, repeatedly spraying
everyone with a rotating cocktail of pesticides is virtually
garanteed to weaken the immune systems of millions of New York's
humans, birds and mosquitoes, thereby making them all far more
vulnerable to a WNV infection. That is, if there even is a risk of
WNV infection in NYC.
IS THERE A WNV EMERGENCY IN NYC?
Is this really an epidemic or an
emergency, as the Mayor and Dr. Cohen would like us all to
believe? At a hearing held in Federal court on 7/26/2000 in
relation to the No-Spray Coalition lawsuit, under cross
examination Dr. Cohen admitted that the WNV situation was not
officially an emergency. Considering that of this writing
[7/28/2000] there is not a single known human infection in NYC
this year, it can hardly be called an epidemic either.
If anything, the repeated spraying of
these chemicals has created a far more serious public health
emergency than the mosquitoes have. Children, the elderly,
asthmatics, people who are HIV-positive, people with allergies and
cancer patients are among those most likely to have serious
reactions to the spraying. How many people in NYC fit that
profile? Millions.
NY Post 5/17/2000 ALLERGY SEASON WILL BE
WORST EVER
"New studies show the number of asthma cases, most of which
are allergy related, is set to double by 2020 and strike 29
million Americans. That's more than the projected 2020 population
of New York and New Jersey combined, according to a report
released yesterday by the Pew Environmental Health Commission at
the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health. Johns Hopkins doctors
lay the blame for the crisis at the feet of the federal
government, which, only two weeks ago, released its action plan on
asthma. The docs say the feds spent only a minuscule $14 million
dollars in 1999 to monitor or prevent the disease - at a time when
allergy-related asthma will cost the U.S. economy a whopping $11
billion this year alone".
According to NYC Dept. of Health figures
and public statements by the Mayor, NYC spent more than $10
million last year on spraying Malathion alone and $6 million on
spraying Anvil so far this year. That is more than the Federal
government spent on preventing asthma, an often fatal condition,
for the entire U.S. NYC incidentally just happens to be the asthma
capital of the U.S. and, according to the NYC Dept. of Health,
asthmatics are the people who are most immediately at risk from
the spraying of insecticides like Anvil.
Piperbunol butoxide, which Anvil is mixed
with before spraying, is designed to prevent enzymes in the
bloodstream from detoxifying the poison, according to Clarke
Mosquito Control, the company contracted by the Mayor to do the
spraying. Surpressing immune system detoxification processes makes
Anvil far more lethal.
Repeated exposure to pesticides is known
to have a cumulative health effect. Exposure to a variety of
pesticides-as is being done here in NYC-and to the inert
ingredients, solvents and additives they are mixed with-has a
synergistic effect. The combination of poisons multiplies and
accelerates the harmful effects of each pesticide being used and
their effect on the human immune system.
Many scientists now believe that Gulf War
Illness was caused by exactly such a synergistic chemical
relationship between experimental vaccines, a mosquito repellent
called DEET given to our troops and exposure to pyrethroid
pesticides like Anvil and Scourge, which were impregnated into the
fabric of uniforms before the military personnel went overseas.
[see: http://www.immed.org/illness/gulfwar_illness_research.html
for an entire website on Gulf War Illness].
Mayor Giuliani has acted as a virtual
spokesperson for DEET since the so-called WNV epidemic began,
personally distributing bottles at numerous public appearances,
publicly applying it to himself and having City employees apply it
to people at events like the 7/26/2000 Central Park concert that
was rescheduled due to spraying. Mayor Giuliani recommends its use
in every press release on WNV. [EPA page on DEET: http://www.epa.gov/pesticides/citizens/deet.htm]
[DEET manufacturers webpage: http://www.morflex.com/]
Logically, if there is at most a minimal
threat of anyone becoming infected with WNV-as the City publicly
and repeatedly admits-exposing millions to chemicals that are very
likely to have negative health consequences for hundreds of
thousands of people, an immediately catastrophic effect on the
environment and that will actually make people far more
susceptible to becoming infected by damaging their immune systems
makes no sense. No sense that is if the authorities are actually
trying to protect public health rather than harm it.
IS THE MAYOR REALLY
TRYING TO HELP PEOPLE?
NY Post 7/25/2000
WEST NILE SPRAYING
SHUTS CENTRAL PARK
"I'm sorry, but if it kills
animals, it kills animals", Giuliani said. "My
job ... is to help protect human life as much as possible."
A number of people have suggested to me
that the Mayor is simply uninformed about these chemicals. I beg
to differ.
The Mayor's friend, advisor and lawyer,
NYC Corporation Counsel Michael D. Hess, personally told me
following a City Council Hearing on the spraying that his own
father was an exterminator; that he himself is an expert on
pesticides; and that these chemicals are completely safe. Rudy
Giuliani is a famously meticulous-even compulsive-researcher in
his own right. Despite that, he would have to read no further than
his own press releases to comprehend that his public statements on
the WNV issue run the gamut from exaggerated and factually untrue
to statements that can only be characterized as deliberately,
maliciously even criminally-false and deceptive. Even the
qualified immunity that he depends on to protect him while
routinely violating the Constitution, may not be enough to shield
him in this matter.
The Mayor and Dr. Cohen keep insisting
that the chemicals being used are, "safe, natural and
non-toxic", statements a simple reading of nothing more
esoteric than the product label disproves. For the entire course
of this so-called epidemic the Mayor and Dr. Cohen have insisted
on knowingly violating Federal law by their repeated claims to
safety. No pesticide can legally be called safe, as the Mayor has
been publicly warned by the NY State Attorney General on more than
one occasion.
Queens Courier
2/17/2000
Attorney General To City Officials:
Stop Claiming Malathion Is Safe
City officials including Mayor Rudy
Giuliani and Health Commissioner Neal L. Cohen have repeatedly
violated federal and state regulations by offering public
assurances that the pesticide malathion is safe, The Queens
Courier has learned from the New York State Attorney General's
office. Judith Enck, a spokesperson for Attorney General Eliot
Spitzer confirmed officials of her agency have notified the city's
corporation counsel to 'cease and desist' this practice.
If, as many researchers suspect, the
so-called WNV epidemic is actually part of a government sponsored
bio-chemical research study-or something even worse-the officials
involved in it are grievously violating numerous U.S. laws. Even
convicted prisoners being held in NYC jails have specific rights
that protect them from being subjected without their knowledge to
social, medical or biological research.
From: NYC Dept. of Health website http://www.ci.nyc.ny.us/html/doh/html/irb/irbcodec.html
"Code of Federal Regulations Title 45 Public Welfare
Department of Health and Human Services Part 46 - Protection of
Human Subjects (45 CFR 46) § 46.302 Purpose. Inasmuch as
prisoners may be under constraints because of their incarceration
which could affect their ability to make a truly voluntary and
uncoerced decision whether or not to participate as subjects in
research, it is the purpose of this subpart to provide additional
safeguards for the protection of prisoners involved in activities
to which this subpart is applicable."
Last year, Although New York City engaged
in numerous rounds of city-wide pesticide spraying, the West Nile
virus episode it was supposed to limit had already peaked and was
on the decline before any mosquito control spraying was started.
Giuliani did not save anybody's life by spraying.
United States Centers for Disease
Control, Update: West Nile Virus Encephalitis New York, 1999,
fig. 1, October 22, 1999, http://www.cdc.gov/epo/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm4841a3.htm
"The dates of onset of illness for laboratory-positive cases
of WNV infection suggest that the outbreak peaked in late August.
There have been no recognized cases of WNV infection with an onset
date after September 22. "
Apparently, Mayor Giuliani believes
Anvil, while safe, non-toxic and natural for New Yorkers may be
somewhat less healthy for tourists. Obviously, like our famous
rats and roaches, we New Yorkers are a tough breed!
From: NY Times July 29, 2000 Nile Virus
Found in 9 More Dead Birds on Staten Island
"In the city, a large section of Manhattan, from 23rd
Street to 110th Street, between the Hudson and East Rivers, was
sprayed overnight Thursday. However, officials said they planned
to return early this morning to spray an area near Rockefeller
Center that was not covered because hundreds of people were
waiting in line for an outdoor concert by the pop band 'N Sync
yesterday on NBC's Today."
DO NOT PANIC...
THIS IS ONLY A TEST...
PLEASE STAY INSIDE AND
CLOSE YOUR WINDOWS
In fact there is a great deal of evidence
that testing and research of many kinds is a significant part of
the government's WNV agenda. You may recall that for the past year
I have been alluding to a Japanese encephalitis/WNV vaccine, the
promotion of which could be the actual motivation behind depicting
this as an epidemic. Here for the first time (that I know of) is a
mention of exactly such a vaccine in a mainstream media source.
Excerpted from Newsday
07/26/2000
Crows, Sparrows May Hold Answers
"Trying to figure how West
Nile virus spreads At McClean's laboratory in Madison [McClean is
director of the U.S. Geological Survey National Wildlife Health
Center in Madison, Wis.] researchers are injecting crows with the
virus to see how long it takes them to fall ill, how many crows
die from infection, and what levels of virus circulate in their
blood before death. McClean is also testing vaccines against West
Nile's viral cousin, Japanese encephalitis, to see if they protect
birds from getting the disease, which is so deadly in crows. While
vaccines in humans may not be practical at this point, McClean
said the vaccine could protect exotic birds, such as those lost
last year at the Bronx Zoo [where pathologist Dr, Tracy Mcnamara
not coincidentally was the first person to diagnose this virus as
WNV]. McClean injected 10 crows with the Japanese encephalitis
vaccine, and then injected the birds with West Nile virus. Six of
the crows died from the virus, but the vaccine appears to have
protected the other four, McClean said. Without the vaccine, all
10 would have died, he said...McClean's work is part of a
multi-agency method to test birds for the virus in New York, New
Jersey, and Connecticut."
Thomas Monath, a former government
researcher at both the Ft. Dietrick Md. bio-warfare lab and the
CDC, is the VP of OraVax, a vaccine manufacturer that has the sole
licensing agreement with the U.S. Army for its genetically-altered
Japanese Encephalitis vaccine (WNV is a Japanese Encephalitis
variation). Monath has been advising Giuliani, the CDC and the
other NYC officials heading the WNV response since the first day
of the so-called epidemic. The future economic success of OraVax
and the hundreds of millions invested by its stockholders depends
on a vast public need for these vaccines. Last year on its website
OraVax announced that their Japanese encephalitis vaccine, the
aptly named ChimeriVaxtm, would be ready for field
testing at the end of 1999.
From Webster's Dictionary- CHIMERA: An
imaginary monster compounded of incongruous parts; an illusion or
fabrication of the mind.
From: Newsday 9/25/99-Deadly Discovery
"Virologist Thomas Monath, one of the country's leading
authorities on mosquito-carried viruses, called the discovery ``a
bombshell,'' and added: `` This is the biggest arbovirus story of
the last 50 years. Wow!'' Monath, who works for OraVax, a
biotechnology company in Boston, said he has been working closely
with CDC investigators in New York since the encephalitis outbreak
began in late August. He is assisting federal scientists in trying
to figure out a way to deal with the new development."
Also see NY Times 8/7/98 GERM DEFENSE
PLAN IN PERIL AS ITS FLAWS ARE REVEALED for detailed evidence of
how Dr. Monath, former Giuliani OEM chief Jerry Hauer, the
president of Rockefeller University (where they have experimented
with WNV for decades) and Dr. J. Craig Venter, president of The
Institute for Genomic Research (the co-researchers and co-owners
of the Human Genome Project) have been pressuring President
Clinton to spend billions on a nationwide vaccine program against
germ warfare.
Scientists have been quietly
experimenting with mosquitoes in the NYC area for decades,
genetically modifying them, testing which are the most effective
at infecting humans and accidentally, deliberately or both,
releasing them into the environment.
Newsday 5/9/2000 Mosquito From Asia Could
Carry West Nile
"THE ASSOCIATED PRESS In Army tests at Fort Detrick in
Frederick, Md. [the #1 bio-warfare lab in the U.S.], japonicus was
found to be the "most competent vector" for West Nile
virus in a laboratory setting, when compared with other
mosquitoes."
Nice to know the Army bio-warfare lab is
trying to figure out "the most competent vector", or
means of transmission of mosquito born viruses. I guess they are
just trying to help people too.
From: http://abcnews.go.com/onair/CloserLook/wnt000719_CL_mosquitoes_feature.html
ABC News 7/19/2000 Malaria-Free Mosquitoes
"Scientists Creating Genetically-Altered Insects The
mosquitoes are resilient, developing resistance to the pesticides
that various countries have been using to eradicate them. So some
scientists began asking: If you can't get rid of them, can you
change them, disarm them, in effect?...Researchers at Imperial
College recently completed the first step in this goal by figuring
out how to "genetically alter" these mosquitoes. By
softening the shells of their eggs, scientists can now insert a
simple gene... "What we need to know is that the genes we
introduce into the wild do only what we expect them to do,"
says Ken Vernick of New York University. "They don't jump to
other organisms for example and they don't have unintended
consequences in the mosquito." Scientists predict that
unleashing any genetically-altered mosquitoes would come with at
least some risks, but in fighting a disease as devastating as
malaria, some risks may be worth taking."
From: http://www.bioinfo.com/jev.html
[from Federal Register: March 22, 1996 (Volume 61, Number 57, Page
11812] DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE Notice of Intent To Grant an
Exclusive License of a U.S. Government-Owned Patent Agency: U.S.
Army Medical Research and Materiel Command, DOD [Department of
Defense]. Action: Notice. Summary: In accordance with 37 CFR 404.7
(a)(I)(i), announcement is made of the intent to grant an
exclusive, royalty-bearing, revocable license of U.S. Patent
Application Serial Number 08/348,882, filed November 28, 1994 and
entitled ``Infectious DNA Clones of Japanese Encephalitis Virus
and Attenuated Strains Japanese Encephalitis Virus Made from the
Clones'', to OraVax, Inc., 230 Albany Street, Cambridge,
Massachusetts 02139. For further information contact: Mr. John F.
Moran, Patent Attorney, (301) 619-2065 or telefax (301) 619-7714.
Gregory D. Showalter, Army Federal Register Liaison Officer.
[Note: On 10/4/99 I called the U.S. Army
Medical Research and Materiel Command at Ft. Dietrick. John F.
Moran is no longer working there but the information about the
contract was confirmed. Requests for further information should be
directed to the public affairs officer, Mr. Chuck Dasey (301)
619-2736]
IT'S TOO STRANGE TO EVEN THINK ABOUT
Daily News 7/27/2000 Plan to Block
Skeeter Spraying Squashed "You have to virtually, you know,
drink this stuff in order to have those side effects", {Mayor
Giuliani] said of the pesticide Anvil. "There's no risk of
fatalities."
Many people are puzzled, even annoyed, by
some of the theories I and other writers have advanced to explain
what might really be going on in NYC. While these are admittedly
theories, they are no more-and in my opinion far less-theoretical
than the official line on WNV. Intimations of bio-warfare
experiments, people being unknowingly exposed to experimental
chemicals, viruses or vaccines and comparisons to the Eugenics
policies of Nazi Germany strike them as far too extreme too have
anything to do with this issue.
Although mainstream news stories about
bio-warfare have become routine and corporations with
anti-bio-warfare vaccines in research and development are among
the hottest stocks being traded on Wall Street today (see: http://www.biospace.com/
for an amazing biotech industry clearinghouse with massive amounts
of information) for the average person this subject is too strange
and too frightening to even think about. Unfortunately, not
thinking about it will not keep one from being affected by it.
Certainly Mayor Giuliani and his
government advisors do not think it is too strange to think about.
When Giuliani appointed Jerry Hauer-a specialist in chem-bio
warfare issues to head the specially created NYC Office of
Emergency Management (which the Mayor then built a $13 million
gas-proof bunker for) he was sending a clear message. Hauer played
THE central role in the WNV issue during 1999 and has since gone
on to lobby the President to make WNV, emerging exotic diseases
and bio-warfare a national priority.
You might reasonably ask why I have a
problem with these people trying to protect the American public,
and that is the crux of this matter. If only what they were doing
WAS about protecting the American public. To quote a gentleman I
saw on a recent 20/20 John Stossell special on free speech in
which I was also featured, "I love my country but I hate the
government".
[See: http://www.abcnews.go.com/onair/abcnewsspecials
/transcripts/Stossel_000323_freespeech_trans.html]
Despite close to a century of
international production of chemical and biological weapons and
constant warnings from U.S. government officials and corporate
leaders about imminent attacks by terrorists, the only efforts to
expose the American public to these substances to date have been
perpetrated by our own corporate-run government as it admitted in
detail during a 1994 congressional hearing [See Report by the U.S.
Congress titled Examining Biological Experimentation on U.S.
Military http://www.cco.net/~trufax/trans/roc1.html].
Even the exposure of U.S. service personnel to these substances in
Iraq can be directly traced back to our own government and its
corporate sponsors supplying Sadamn Hussein with chem-bio weapons,
including WNV.
While every report on the origin of WNV
attempts to put the blame for the virus being introduced to NYC on
immigrants, visiting foreigners, water-filled imported tires,
global warming or some mysterious unknown cause, the fact that
numerous governmental and private institutions have been
experimenting with WNV, genetically-altering the virus and
injecting it into animal and human test subjects in NYC and in the
surrounding area for decades, is almost never mentioned. It is
entirely possible that WNV has been in the blood of NYC residents
for decades and was never previously diagnosed-or that the public
was never previously told about it.
From the Promed website http://www.promedmail.org
WEST NILE VIRUS UPDATE. 1950'S EXPERIMENTS USING WEST NILE VIRUS
AT SLOAN KETTERING, NYC
"In the 1950's, experiments with WNV were carried out on
human volunteers at the Sloan- Kettering Institute of the Memorial
Center for Cancer and Allied Diseases, New York. A total of 95
patients with neoplastic disease were inoculated intramuscularly
with the WNV topotype strain Eg-101 in an effort to achieve
therapeutic pyrexia and oncolysis in them." Newsday Area Labs
Have Long Studied Virus / Yale, Rockefeller began tests in '50s
09-29-1999 page A28 " Epidemiologists suspect that the West
Nile virus has for the first time been isolated in humans or
animals in the Western Hemisphere, but the virus has for decades
made its home in several U.S. research laboratories, including
Rockefeller University in Manhattan and Yale University in New
Haven, Conn. In fact, investigators there were the first to grow
and study the West Nile virus in the United States. The work began
in the 1950s when unidentified viral samples from around the world
arrived at Rockefeller on a steady basis."
PUBLIC HEALTH OR EUGENICS?
You could read the quotation above and
conclude, "So, Rockefeller University is experimenting with
WNV. Aren't they, like Mayor Giuliani, just trying to help
people?". History indicates otherwise.
The Rockefeller family [Standard
Oil/Exxon/Chase Manhattan Bank/Manhattan Institute] has been the
top sponsor of Eugenics programs throughout the world during this
century and continues to be so today. I.G. Farben, the German
chemical company that manufactured Zyklon-B-the gas used in the
death camps-was virtually a German subsidiary of the Rockefeller's
Standard Oil. I.G. Farben was also the developer of the
organophosphate pesticides used in NYC such as Malathion, which
were originally developed as nerve gasses designed to kill human
beings-a fact Mayor Giuliani's own Chem-Bio Handbook alludes to
[Page #76. "Malathion is a commonly used organophosphate
insecticide that causes the same biological effects as nerve
agents. Malathion itself is relatively non-toxic, but it is
quickly metabolized in the body to maloxin, which is the toxic
material. This causes effects similar to those caused by nerve
agents...Malathion can be absorbed by ingestion or through the
skin."].
Among the 'humanitarian"
experimental work the Rockefellers financed was the Kaiser Wilhelm
Institute for Psychiatry and the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for
Anthropology, Eugenics and Human Heredity in Nazi Germany. Josef
Mengele was a direct recipient of their funding and his research
at Auschwitz is now part of both modern genetics and Eugenics, the
pseudo-science of racial heredity. The Rockefeller appointed head
of these institutions was the fascist Swiss psychiatrist Ernst
Rudin, ably assisted by Otmar Verschuer and Franz J. Kallmann. All
three men were brought to the U.S. after by the CIA WWII (along
with thousands of other Nazi scientists and SS officers-see:
Blowback by Christopher Simpson) where they continued to promote
and do research on the very ideas that had led to the Holocaust,
albeit under seemingly more civilized conditions. Kallmann started
the American Society of Human Genetics, which later organized the
Human Genome Project. The massive overprescribing of psychoactive
medications that has become a real epidemic today is directly
attributable to the Rockefellers and these same former Nazi
scientists who were, along with Hitler and Himmler, the architects
of the Holocaust. See:http://thetab.home.mindspring.com/eugenics/eutt-6.htm
for more on the relationship between the proliferation and present
mass-commercialization of psychiatric medications and its direct
connection to these same doctors whose ideas caused 270,000
allegedly mentally ill patients to be killed by doctors obediently
following the Nazi doctrine of racial purity.
WHAT'S IT ALL ABOUT, RUDY?
IS IT JUST FOR THE MOMENT
WE'LL BE ALLOWED TO LIVE?
(to the tune of ALFIE)
Not interested in so-called conspiracy
theories, you say? You don't really care if Nazi doctors were
brought to the U.S. by the CIA or whether AIDs is a hoax or if WNV
is a manmade bio-warfare/eugenics tool in research and
development-with us as the test subjects?
Okay. If one ignores all of the more
exotic theories about WNV and simply looks at the agreed upon
facts-facts even Mayor Giuliani cannot dispute-what conclusion
does one come up with? That in response to a very mild virus that
is extremely hard to contract and almost never fatal the
authorities are massively exposing millions of people to toxic
chemicals which are:
a-known to cause short term breathing
difficulties, asthma attacks, liver damage, the proliferation of
breast cancer cells, reduced fertility and long term chronic
illnesses b-known to damage the environment, pollute the water
supply and kill off numerous agriculturally beneficial insects as
well as entire species of fish, birds and crustaceans c-expected
to cause successive generations of mosquitoes to become
super-resistant to all pesticides d-being used in a manner that is
in direct and deliberate violation of numerous local, state and
federal laws designed to protect human health and the environment.
Again, it all comes down to immunity.
Giuliani and his accomplices have a legal version of it. Chances
are, before being exposed to all these chemicals the mosquito and
human populations of NYC had a natural version of it.
In terms of survival of the fittest it
may just be a war between us and them. If you still think the them
is mosquitoes, you may be in for a very rude awakening.
Here are a few more items for your consideration.
PESTICIDES AND INNER CITY CHILDREN FROM:
National Institutes of Health http://www.nih.gov/
http://ehpnet1.niehs.nih.gov/docs/1999/suppl-3/431-437landrigan/abstract.html
Environmental Health Perspectives Volume
107, Supplement 3, June 1999 [Citation in PubMed] [Related
Articles]
Pesticides and Inner-City Children:
Exposures, Risks, and Prevention Philip J. Landrigan,1,2 Luz
Claudio,1,2 Steven B. Markowitz,7 Gertrud S. Berkowitz,1,2 Barbara
L. Brenner,1 Harry Romero,5 James G. Wetmur,3 Thomas D. Matte,6
Andrea C. Gore,4 James H. Godbold,1 and Mary S. Wolff1,2
1Department of Community and Preventive
Medicine, 2Center for Children's Health and the Environment,
5Department of Microbiology, 7Fishberg Center for Neurobiology,
Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, New York USA; 4Borikuen
Neighborhood Health Center, New York, New York USA; 6Center for
Urban Epidemiologic Studies of the New York Academy of Medicine,
New York, New York USA; 3Center for Biology of Natural Systems,
Queens College, City University of New York, New York, New York
USA
Abstract "Six million children live
in poverty in America's inner cities. These children are at high
risk of exposure to pesticides that are used extensively in urban
schools, homes, and day-care centers for control of roaches, rats,
and other vermin. The organophosphate insecticide chlorpyrifos and
certain pyrethroids are the registered pesticides most heavily
applied in cities. Illegal street pesticides are also in use,
including tres pasitos (a carbamate), tiza china, and methyl
parathion. In New York State in 1997, the heaviest use of
pesticides in all counties statewide was in the urban boroughs of
Manhattan and Brooklyn. Children are highly vulnerable to
pesticides. Because of their play close to the ground, their
hand-to-mouth behavior, and their unique dietary patterns,
children absorb more pesticides from their environment than
adults. The long persistence of semivolatile pesticides such as
chlorpyrifos on rugs, furniture, stuffed toys, and other absorbent
surfaces within closed apartments further enhances urban
children's exposures. Compounding these risks of heavy exposures
are children's decreased ability to detoxify and excrete
pesticides and the rapid growth, development, and differentiation
of their vital organ systems. These developmental immaturities
create early windows of great vulnerability. Recent experimental
data suggest, for example, that chlorpyrifos may be a
developmental neurotoxicant and that exposure in utero may cause
biochemical and functional aberrations in fetal neurons as well as
deficits in the number of neurons. Certain pyrethroids exert
hormonal activity that may alter early neurologic and reproductive
development. Assays currently used for assessment of the toxicity
of pesticides are insensitive and cannot accurately predict
effects to children exposed in utero or in early postnatal life.
Protection of American children, and particularly of inner-city
children, against the developmental hazards of pesticides requires
a comprehensive strategy that monitors patterns of pesticide use
on a continuing basis, assesses children's actual exposures to
pesticides, uses state-of-the-art developmental toxicity testing,
and establishes societal targets for reduction of pesticide use.
Key words: children's environmental health, chlorpyrifos,
environmental justice, neurodevelopmental impairment,
organophosphates, pesticides, pyrethroids.
Environ Health Perspect 107(suppl
3):431-437 (1999). http://ehpnet1.niehs.nih.gov/docs/1999/suppl-3/431-437landrigan/abstract.html
This article is part of the monograph on
Children's Environmental Health and Disease Prevention Research.
Address correspondence to
P.J. Landrigan
Dept of Community and Preventive Medicine
Mount Sinai School of Medicine
10 East 101st St, Mezzanine Floor
New York, NY 10029
Telephone: (212) 241-4804
Fax: 212-996-0407
E-mail: plandrigan@smtplink.mssm.edu
This work was supported by a Children's
Environmental Health Research and Disease Prevention Center grant
awarded to the Mount Sinai School of Medicine by the the National
Institute of Environmental Health Sciences and the U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency (1 P01-ES 09584, R827039) and by
grants to the Mount Sinai School of Medicine from the Pew
Charitable Trusts, the New York Community Trust, the Agency for
Toxic Substances and Disease Registry, and the Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention through the Association of Teachers of
Preventive Medicine.
Received 11 February 1999; accepted 7 April 1999."
From: Newsday 4/14/2000 City Nixes
Malathion Spraying Dr. Neal Cohen testified yesterday that if
aerial or truck spraying is needed at all this year, the products
will be Scourge, known chemically as resmethrin and used last
year; Anvil, which is sumethrin, and Agreo Permanone, or
permethrin.
From: http://www.safe2use.com/poisons-pesticides/pesticides/permethrin/cox.htm
Effects on the Immune System "Experiments with laboratory
animals indicate that the immune system (used by living things to
defend themselves from disease) "appears to be a sensitive
target for permethrin activity." Ingestion of permethrin
reduces the ability of immune system cells called T-lymphocytes to
recognize and respond to foreign proteins. Doses equivalent to
1/100 of the LD50 , inhibited T-lymphocytes over 40 percent.
Permethrin ingestion also reduced the activity of a second type of
immune system cell, natural killer cells, by about 40
percent.20(See Figure 2.) In tests using mouse cell cultures,
permethrin had similar effects on the immune system, inhibition of
two kinds of lymphocytes.21 Researchers concluded that "the
immune system is exquisitely sensitive … at exposure levels that
cause no overt toxicity."20
From: poetessnyc@hotmail.com (Meg Feeley)
To: robert.lederman@worldnet.att.net
"Anvil 10+10 ULV contains two
products listed among the 646 most hazardous by the EPA, one of
which is a suspected carcinogen as well.
According to the Material Safety Data
Sheets for Anvil 10+10 ULV obtained from Clarke Mosquito Control
Products, Inc. Anvil 10+10 ULV contains 10% sumithrin, also known
as d-phenothrin, cas # 026002-80-2; 10% piperonyl butoxide CAS #
000051-03-6; 40-78% white mineral oil CAS # 064742-55-8 (56-9),
and 1-15% aromatic hydrocarbon (CAS# 064742-94-5).
The EDF Scorecard http://www.scorecard.org/chemical-profiles/
shows Sumithrin/phenothrin as a suspected Gastrointestinal or
Liver Toxicant SOurce: EPA-TRI; suspected Kidney Toxicant (RTECS)
and suspected Neurotoxicant (RTECS). Phenothin is on two Federal
regulatory lists, as a Registered Pesticide(Federal Insecticide,
Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act) and the Toxic Release Inventory
list. The TRI list means that if the City of New York were a
manufacturer, with an SIC code between 20-39, it would be required
to report the toxic release of sumithrin, a product with the
dubious distinction of being one of 646 substances requiring such
information, due to their exceptionally hazardous status, under
the Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act.(EPCRA).
Quoting the EDF scorecard,
"Chemicals are listed if they are known to cause or can
reasonably be anticipated to cause significant adverse acute
effects on health at concentrations likely beyond facility
boundaries; cancer, teratogenic effects, reproductive effects,
neurological effects, heritable genetic mutations, or other
chronic effects on health; or significant damage to the
environment."
And the suspected toxicants? They come
from the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health's
Registry of Toxic Effects of Chemical Substances.
The Internation Chemical Safety Card, http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/ipcsneng/neng0313.html
issued by the World Health Organization and the National Institute
of Occupational Safety and Health says, among other things, about
phenothrin [aka sumethrin aka Anvil] "prevent generation of
mists, This substance may be hazardous to the environment; special
attention should be given to fish. " It also states that NO
tolerable levels have been established on this substance, and that
while "The substance can be absorbed into the body by
inhalation of its aerosol and by ingestion." that "No
indication can be given about the rate in which a harmful
concentration in the air is reached on evaporation of this
substance at 20°C. "
Piperonyl butoxide is a suspected
Carcinogen by the OPP --that's the EPA's Office of Pesticide
Programs. It's also a suspected Gastrointestinal or Liver
Toxicant, and Neurotoxicant by the National Institute for
Occupational Safety and Health's Registry of Toxic Effects of
Chemical Substances. And it was reported as a suspected
Reproductive Toxicant by Jankovic, J. in 'A Screening Method for
Occupational Reproductive Health Risk.' American Industrial
Hygiene Association Journal. 57: 641-649. 1996.
It was ranked more hazardous than most
chemicals in two out of three ranking systems: Human Health
Rankings Toxicity and exposure potential Worker Exposure Hazard
Score (IRCH) and the Integrated Environmental Rankings Combined
human and ecological scores Total Hazard Value Score (IRCH). It
was ranked less hazardous in Ecological Health Rankings Toxicity
and persistence Environmental Hazard Value Score (IRCH).It's also
a TRI hemical.
DISTILLATES (PETROLEUM), HYDROTREATED
(MILD) LIGHT PARAFFINIC (9CI) CAS Number: 64742-55-8 isa high
volume chemical, and on the FIFRA list.
The aromatic hydrocarbon, 64742-94-5 is
POLYETHYL BENZENE."
Can The Chemicals In Anvil Cause Cancer?
I was recently contacted by someone at the UN involved in
environmental issues who pointed me to these websites after
reading one of my articles that was forwarded to him. >
Environmental Health Perspectives Volume 107, Number 3, March 1999
Estrogenic Potential of Certain Pyrethroid Compounds in the MCF-7
Human Breast Carcinoma Cell Line Vera Go,1 Joan Garey,2 Mary S.
Wolff,2 and Beatriz G.T. Pogo3 1Molecular Basis of Diseases
Program; 2Department of Community and Preventive Medicine; and
3Department of Medicine, Division of Neoplastic Diseases, Mount
Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY 10029 USA Abstract
"Estrogens, whether natural or synthetic, clearly influence
reproductive development, senescence, and carcinogenesis.
Pyrethroid insecticides are now the most widely used agents for
indoor pest control, providing potential for human exposure. Using
the MCF-7 human breast carcinoma cell line, we studied the
estrogenic potential of several synthetic pyrethroid compounds in
vitro using pS2 mRNA levels as the end point. We tested sumithrin,
fenvalerate, d-trans allethrin, and permethrin. Nanomolar
concentrations of either sumithrin or fenvalerate were sufficient
to increase pS2 expression slightly above basal levels. At
micromolar concentrations, these two pyrethroid compounds induced
pS2 expression to levels comparable to those elicited by 10 nM 17ß-estradiol
(fivefold). The estrogenic activity of sumithrin was abolished
with co-treatment with an antiestrogen (ICI 164,384), whereas
estrogenic activity of fenvalerate was not significantly
diminished with antiestrogen co-treatment. In addition, both
sumithrin and fenvalerate were able to induce cell proliferation
of MCF-7 cells in a dose-response fashion. Neither permethrin nor
d-trans allethrin affected pS2 expression. Permethrin had a
noticeable effect on cell proliferation at 100 µM, whereas
d-trans allethrin slightly induced MCF-7 cell proliferation at 10
µM, but was toxic at higher concentrations. Overall, our studies
imply that each pyrethroid compound is unique in its ability to
influence several cellular pathways. These findings suggest that
pyrethroids should be considered to be hormone disruptors, and
their potential to affect endocrine function in humans and
wildlife should be investigated. Key words: 17ß-estradiol, MCF-7
human breast carcinoma cells, pS2, pyrethroid, RNA. Environ Health
Perspect 107:173-177 (1999)" .
Also see: http://www.geocities.com/RainForest/Andes/3804/sumithrin1.html
http://www.nccnsw.org.au/member/tec/projects/tcye/tox/Piperonylbutoxide.html
http://hammock.ifas.ufl.edu/pdffiles/pp/pp01500.pdf
http://www.geocities.com/RainForest/Andes/3804/westnilevirus2.html
EPA's Office of Pesticide Programs LISTS
OF INERT PESTICIDE INGREDIENTS LIST #2 http://www.epa.gov/opprd001/inerts/lists.htm
http://ace.orst.edu/cgi-bin/mfs/01/pips/permethr.htm?8#mfs
"Very low levels of permethrin in the diet of chickens (0.1
ppm for 3 to 6 weeks after hatching) have been reported to
suppress immune system activity [9]" "Organ toxicity:
Permethrin is suspected of causing liver enlargement of the liver
and nerve damage [9]. Effects on the immune system have been noted
in animal studies."
WNV DATABASE For a huge database on all
aspects of WNV See: http://www.geocities.com/HotSprings/2188/wnf.html
One has to wonder whether the Mayor and
other NY State officials that are ordering spraying in the rain,
in mist and on days when the ground is very moist intend to kill
mosquitoes at all or are spraying for the political and public
relations effect, if not something more sinister.
From: Damp weather won't delay West Nile
spraying schedule By Pamela Weber-Leaf The Journal News 7/28/2000
."But the company that manufactures Anvil cautioned that any
moisture at all in the air could render the spraying useless.
"You cannot do it during rain or even misting," said
George Balis, an entomologist for Clarke Mosquito Control, which
gained approval for the product in 1997 from the U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency. "You're putting out a small
droplet (of the chemical) that you're trying to impinge on
mosquitoes, and drops of water will knock it down." Clarke
Mosquito Control website http://www.cmosquito.com/
[NOTE: While I am both a plaintiff in the
No-spray lawsuit and a member of the No-spray Coalition Bd. of
Directors, this and other articles I write should not be construed
as official statements by anyone-including the authors quoted in
this context-other than myself. Within this coalition are
activists with many viewpoints, fields of expertise and
professional accomplishments. What we all share in common is an
interest in protecting the human, animal and other natural
resources of this City and this planet and a profound skepticism
about the actions of the government officials involved in the WNV
issue.
We urge you to educate yourself and your
friends rather than just taking anyone's word, including our own,
on this subject.
Feel free to copy, print out, re-post and
forward any WNV-related articles I send you and to pass them on to
the media.
In order to help accomplish our goal of
making the truth come out about this issue we need your help. We
seek volunteers to do leafleting, to take test wipes from the
sprayed environment in order to identify the actual chemicals used
and their residual concentration, to videotape spraying, to answer
phone calls, to get petitions signed and to collect reports of
people becoming ill after the spraying.
We are also seeking expert witnesses to
testify during the Federal Court proceedings- specifically
virologists, epidemiologists, toxicologists, professional spray
applicators and experts on public health.
Important Note:
Mr. Lederman has explained that his articles posted here are not
to be taken as official statements by the No-Spray Coalition of
which he is a member or of the "No-Spray"lawsuit
in which he is a plaintiff.
