may be coming your way and it
may be a bioweapon developed in Israel. If it’s a
conspiracy
, the
CIA
may also be involved.
This is a new type of
airborne fungus that is found in tropic
areas around the world, but the deadly strain seems to exist
only in the US. It has already killed at least 6 people in
Oregon, Washington and Idaho.
On the Truthout website, H.P. Albarelli Jr. quotes researcher
Edmond Byrnes as saying, "This novel fungus is worrisome
because it appears to be a threat to otherwise healthy
people. Typically, we see this fungal disease associated with
transplant recipients and HIV-infected patients, but that is
not what we are seeing. A number of microbiologists say that
the disease has "the potential to essentially travel anywhere
the wind or people can carry it." Will this be another
anthrax
trail?
Information obtained by
Truthout through the Freedom of
Information Act reveals that the Army mounted a huge
research program involving fungus at Fort Detrick, starting
around 1952. Israeli researchers also worked on fungus. Also,
the mysterious Israeli-American scientist Joseph Moshe
may have conducted fungus research while living in California.
Last year, he was arrested by a SWAT team made up of LA
police, the FBI, the CIA and the Secret Service, as well as
the US military, and his whereabouts have remained unknown
ever since.
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Mystery
Disease Linked to Missing Israeli Scientist
Friday 07 May 2010
by: H.P. Albarelli Jr., t r u t h o u t | Report
(Photo: chickeninthewoods; Edited: Lance Page /
t r u t h o u t)
Media outlets across the Northwest United States
began reporting on April 24 that a strange, previously unknown strain of
virulent airborne fungi that has already killed at least six people in
Oregon, Washington and Idaho is spreading throughout the region. The
fungus, according to expert microbiologists, who have expressed alarm
about the emergence of the strain, is a new genotype of Cryptococcus
gatti fungi. Cryptococcus gatti is normally found in tropical and
subtropical locations in India, South America, Africa and Australia.
Microbiologists in the United States are reporting that the strain found
here, for reasons not yet fully understood, is far deadlier than any
found overseas.
Physicians in the Pacific Northwest are reporting
that an undetermined number of people in the region are ill from the
effects of the strange strain. Physicians also say that the virulent
strain can infect domestic animals as well as humans, and symptoms do
not appear until anywhere from two to four months after exposure.
Symptoms in humans include a lingering cough, sharp chest pains, fever,
night-sweats, weight-loss, headaches and shortness of breath. The strain
can be treated successfully, if detected early enough, with oral doses
of antifungal medication, but it cannot be prevented, and there is no
preventative vaccine. Undiagnosed, the fungus works its way into the
spinal fluid and central nervous system and causes fatal meningitis.
The estimated mortality rate is about 25 percent of
21 cases analyzed. Several newspapers and media outlets in the US and
overseas quote a researcher at Duke University’s Department of Molecular
Genetics and Microbiology, Edmond Byrnes, as stating: "This novel
fungus is worrisome because it appears to be a threat to otherwise
healthy people. Typically, we see this fungal disease associated with
transplant recipients and HIV-infected patients, but that is not what we
are seeing."
Microbiologists and epidemiologists studying the
strain say the mystery fungus came from an earlier fatal fungus that was
first found on British Columbia’s Vancouver Island in the fall of 2001,
and perhaps as early as 1999. There the fungus infected and killed
dogs, cats, horses, sheep, porpoises and at least 26 people. The disease
spreads through spores carried by breezes and wind and when people and
animals encounter infected ground where the fungus is present. A number
of microbiologists say that the disease has "the potential to
essentially travel anywhere the wind or people can carry it." Reads an
alarming study authored in part by Duke University’s Edmond Byrnes: "The
continued expansion of C. gatti in the United States is ongoing, and
the diversity of hosts increasing."
Several researchers in California also note that the
Cryptococcus gatti fungus has been researched for decades, extending
back to the 1950’s, at the US Army’s biological warfare center, Fort
Detrick, in Frederick, Maryland. One microbiologist at the University of
California at Los Angeles recounted that the fungus was first brought
to the attention of Fort Detrick researchers by British scientists
experimenting with the bark of eucalyptus trees from Australia. Army
biological warfare reports obtained through the Freedom of Information
Act reveal that beginning around 1952 the Army mounted a huge research
program involving numerous plant and fungi products, and that well over
300 long-term contracts and sub-contracts were let with over 35 US
colleges and universities to carry out this multifaceted research.
Examples of this early research in California included experiments and
projects at Camp Cooke; Port Huemene; Harpers Lake; Oceanside, and
extensive experimentation with wheat stem rust and "various spores"
including "several from tropical locations" and cereal rust spores and
dyed Lycopodium spores. Several Army reports reveal that private-sector
corporations that participated or assisted in these projects were the
American Institute of Crop Ecology; the American Type Culture Collection
Inc.; University of California; Bioferm Inc. and the Kulijian
Corporation.
The same microbiologist, who declined to speak on the
record and who recounted extensive fungus work at Fort Detrick, also
stated that researchers at Israel’s Institute for Biological Research,
located in Ness-Ziona about 20 km from Tel Aviv, have worked with the
Cryptococcus gatti fungus. They also report that mysterious
Israeli-American scientist Joseph Moshe, 56 years old, may have
conducted covert studies with the fungus while he was recently living in
California. This report concerning Moshe is especially interesting
because Moshe was briefly in the international spotlight in 2009 when he
was the subject of a spectacular chase and arrest by the LA police
department and SWAT team, assisted by the FBI, Secret Service, CIA, US
Army and several other unidentified federal officials. That highly
unusual arrest has never been fully explained to the media, and the
whereabouts of Moshe has remained unknown since its occurrence.
Compounding the mystery surrounding the Moshe case is that there is
another scientist named Moshe Bar-Joseph who works in Israel and who
looks remarkably like Joseph Moshe, except that he is about 20 years
older.
Why Moshe was pursued and apprehended by the police
is a largely unanswered question. According to the Los Angeles media,
which recorded the entire incident by helicopter and ground cameras,
Moshe claimed to be "a former Mossad microbiologist" who had telephoned a
police dispatch number before his pursuit and had made "threatening
statements about the White House and the president." Reportedly, Secret
Service spokesman Ed Donovan confirmed this when he spoke with several
Los Angeles reporters.
On August 14, 2009, several Los Angeles police
cruisers and an unmarked armored vehicle pursued Joseph Moshe as he
drove his red VW automobile several miles through downtown Los Angeles
before his car’s engine was reportedly knocked out by an electromagnetic
pulse. Moshe refused to exit his car when ordered several times by the
police, and after the driver’s window of his VW was smashed out by a
robotic arm and several rounds of tear gas and pepper gas were fired
into the vehicle, he still remained behind the wheel, refusing to move.
At the time, police officers on the scene were stunned that Moshe was
able to withstand three tear gas shells and hosing with pepper spray
without moving. Later that day, a Los Angeles law enforcement official
said: "I can’t explain that; there’s no way to explain that."
After his apprehension, Moshe was taken to the Patton
State Mental Hospital and then to the Twin Towers Correctional Facility
in Los Angeles. Sometime about 60 days later, Moshe was quietly
released and his current whereabouts are unknown. Since his arrest
became public, reports about Moshe’s activities in the US have spread
like wildfire, especially across the Internet. Many of these reports are
unconfirmed, but a few come from credible sources and have linked Moshe
to the grossly underreported outbreak of flu in the Ukraine.
Other reliable sources, including two former Fort
Detrick biochemists, have also linked Moshe to a mysterious disease that
is becoming alarmingly common in Vermont and other states, including
California. The disease is known to have killed or incapacitated at
least 10 to 20 rural dwellers and farmers. This disease is said to be
Morgellons disease or "a rare, mutated form of Morgellons disease."
Former Fort Detrick scientists, speaking off the record, say that the
disease is one that was "experimented with intensely" in the late 1960’s
at several "test sites in New England." Morgellons causes patients to
suffer horrible skin problems as well as fatigue, confusion and serious
memory problems, as well as joint pain and the strange sensation that
pins and needles are piercing the body or that something is crawling
beneath one’s flesh. Some researchers and physicians believe that
Morgellons is actually a psychiatric condition called "delusional
parasitosis." Other physicians, who are familiar with treating the
disease, say it may be caused by "an airborne, unidentified spore" and
that it was developed in the laboratory from an affliction that was
first identified in the 1700’s. Regardless of its origin, some
researchers say that Morgellons is becoming "a very real medical problem
in some parts of the country."Truthout.org
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