Biological Alarms detect Francisella tularensis Washington 9/24/05

[lovuian]

Run time: 01:39 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fi8OlWkqCQU   Posted on YouTube: January 03, 2008 By YouTube Member: Views on YouTube: 0   Posted on DU: January 03, 2008 By DU Member: lovuian Views on DU: 1288

 
This is in response to miles to go thread he was at the Peace Protest in Washington DC on 9/24/05 and afterwards got very ill
later he found out that Biological sensors all through out Washington DC picked up a airborne pathogen Francisella tularensis.
Unsuspecting protesters were not warned by Homeland Security and it took 6 days for them to announce it

heres a statement
"It is alarming that health officials ... were only notified six days after the bacteria was first detected," House Government Reform chairman Tom Davis, R-Va., wrote in an Oct. 3 letter to Homeland Security

http://dir.salon.com/story/news/feature/2005/10/18/tularemia/index.html

Its an ongoing investigation
if you were at the Peace Protest on 9/24/05 and 9/25/05 then you should contact miles to go
just trying to find out how many did get sick the day

[jgraz]

1. K&R -- another assault on the American people goes unnoticed

[lovuian]

2. until mile to go came out and spoke about this I had no idea

and your talking to a person who feels that they are informed
this was awful when you see pictures of protesters
children babies elderly all susceptible its awful awful crime

and nobody found responsible just like anthrax attack
after reading this
a protester might think of taking antibiotics such as streptomycin or tetracycline before the protest maybe a good idea

[jgraz]

3. Rachel Maddow had this story the day it happened

Of course, nothing really came of it in the MSM, but a few bloggers have kept this going.

[lovuian]

4. I would love to know if this came from Fort Detrick

it could be traced through testing but we have millions to spend on Iraq and not on our people's defense

[shadowknows69]

10. I don't know if it's still in DU's archives but I posted about this when it happened

because I took to being sick with flu/cold like symptoms 5 days after the 24th. Someone must have been taking it seriously because a doctor in Albany ordered me to go get tested. It was apparently only strep throat but it was scary because I almost never get colds or the flu and haven't for well over a decade now.

[miles 2 go]

5. Wow, that was quick. Thanks lovuian.

It will be interesting to see if this stirs up any other people who have been sick. I'm sure that most people who were there never knew about it.

Thanks a million for making the video.

[lovuian]

6. Miles to go I am in many groups on You tube with thousands of

members and I sent the video all through out the groups

it may start out slow but its like the turtle and the hare the message gets out there

if I were you sometime put a comment on the You tube that your looking for other Peace Protesters who were sick like your self

I put this on the 911 Group and they are involved in the 911 cough that First responders and others have and died from after Giuliani and Whitman said the air was OK ...this is just another example of our agencies that we pay their freakin salaries are not protecting us but the government

Hope it helps some

[formercia]

11. The 'Government' will not protect us.

What began with MAD (Mutual Assured Destruction) during the Nixon years where US cities were consciously left unprotected from nuclear attack while the Administration made extensive plans for COG (Continuation of Government), has metastasized to where the Administration under George W. Bush won't even protect the US population from the effects of Hurricanes and flooding but instead makes sure that any civil unrest is quashed, even if the population starves or drowns.

[bananas]

7. Here's the link to the other thread

"Been sick since the Sept. 24, 2005 march in DC"
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=2576531&mesg_id=2576531

[fed-up]

8. genetically engineered tularemia on Sunshine Project website

do a search for tularemia on their homepage for more articles

http://www.sunshine-project.org/publications/pr/pr030707.html

,,snip

In addition to lab-acquired infections and exposures, other types of dangerous problems have occurred, such as unauthorized research, equipment malfunction, and disregard for safety protocols:

- In February 2005 at the University of Iowa, researchers performed genetic engineering experiments with the select agent tularemia without permission. They included mixing genes from tularemia species and introducing antibiotic resistance. The University reported the incident to the National Institutes of Health, but public disclosure was (to our knowlege) never made;




http://www.sunshine-project.org/publications/bk/bk12.html

Emerging Technologies
Genetic Engineering and Biological Weapons

The Sunshine Project
Background Paper #12
November 2003

..snip

II Single Gene Transfer and Similar Genetic Engineering of BW Agents

In the debate about genetic engineering and biological weapons it has often been stated that natural pathogens are sufficiently dangerous and deadly so that genetic engineering is not necessary for effective biological warfare. This is true: biological weapons can indeed be used without even any systematic knowledge on microbiology, as shown by their effective use in past centuries. <7>

Genetic engineering, however, has been employed in offensive biowarfare programs in order to make biowarfare agents more effective. In the former Soviet Union a variety of such experiments were undertaken. Three examples:

Bacteria causing unusual symptoms: Researchers from Obolensk near Moscow inserted a gene into the bacterium Francisella tularensis, the causative agent of tularemia and a well known biological weapon agent. The gene made the bacteria produce beta-endorphin, an endogenous human drug, which caused changes in the behaviour of mice when infected with the transgenic bacteria. <8> According to the published results, the endorphin gene was not introduced into a fully virulent strain, but only into a vaccine strain.

If inserted into virulent F. tularensis, the victims would not show the usual symptoms of tularemia, but instead unusual symptoms that could obscure diagnosis and delay therapy. Development of symptom-altered BW agents has been identified as one possible application of genetic engineering by the US Department of Defense. <9>

[formercia]

9. The Soviets used Tularemia against the Germans

apparently it was effective in stopping them at Moscow.

[goforit]

12. The Bush regime is truely ANTI-AMERICA....... When will they be accountable?