The development of bio-weapons in the U.S. dates back at least to the 1930's when the U.S. Public Health Service conducted an experiment on 399 black men in the late stages of syphilis, called the Tuskegee Experiment. The experiment was designed to see how long it took for men to die from infection by the syphilis spirochete.
During the 1950s and 60s, bio-warfare attacks took place in many parts of America, the most noted being the six day attack on San Francisco during which potentially harmful bacteria were sprayed over the city. In this attack, reported in the September 17, 1979 Los Angeles Times, twelve people developed pneumonia and one man died.
In 1954, Plum (US bio lab) scientists looked for ways to inflict bio-damage on Soviet livestock. According the Cuban government, in the 1960s and 70s bio-weapons developed at Plum were deployed against Cuban agriculture, targeting pork, tobacco and sugar cane.
During the Cold War years, thousands of U.S. citizens were used in radiation experiments conducted by the Atomic Energy Commission and other government agencies.
In 2001 the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) issued a press release admitting it conducted over one hundred tests in which thousands of American servicemen were intentionally dosed with chemical and biological weapons during the period from 1962 to 1973.
Dozens of harmful agents like VX, Sarin gas, E-coli bacteria and Bacillus globigii, a cousin to anthrax and bubonic plague, were used on completely unaware and unprotected men.
The announcement by the DOD was strategically placed just two days after the mind-numbing 9/11 attacks, at a time when it was given little to no attention by the national media.
Bio-warfare development intensified in the 1970's particularly in the areas of genetic engineering. Much of it was euphemistically referred to as cancer research. During this period cancer causing viruses began to jump from one species of animal to another, a characteristic that signals the viruses are man made. New immunodeficiency diseases were then seen in lab animals.
Although generally regarded as conspiracy theory, some AIDS researchers believe the Special Virus Cancer Program and its connection to bio-warfare development spawned an immunosuppressive virus that was seeded into the gay community via the government sponsored experimental hepatitis B vaccine drive.
The Washington Times, October 19, 1998 reported bio-warfare experiments that took place at Fort Detrick between 1954 and 1973, utilizing volunteers who were exposed to germs causing tularemia, malaria, anthrax, Rocky Mountain spotted fever, encephalitis, and other diseases.
Prevention, diagnosis and vaccine development were cited as the reasons for the experiments.
The Los Angeles Times, March 9, 1977, reported other experiments during which the military sprayed bacteria in New York City subways, in a Washington D.C. airport, and on highways in Pennsylvania Military bases in Virginia, Key West, and off the coasts of Southern California and Hawaii have used live bacteria tests on U.S. civilians.
The US government's budget for chemical/biological warfare has recently doubled, with $10 billion allocated to bio-weaponry projects.
These incidents are a record of what has become known in spite of all attempts to retain security and secrecy.
It is obviously not the full extent of the U.S. government's bio-warfare or bio-weapon testing on its citizens.
The increase of new bizarre diseases and organisms raises questions
The appearance in the past several years of AIDS, Legionnaire's disease, hepatitis C, mad cow, hemorrhagic viruses, Lassa fever, chronic fatigue syndrome, Persian Gulf War illness and now swine flu have made people question their sources.
Older diseases such as tuberculosis, malaria and cholera have re-emerged in more virulent forms that are drug resistant. A study published in the January 6, 1999 JAMA reported infectious disease mortality in the U.S. declined during the first eight decades of the 20th century. From 1981 to 1995, there was an increase in infectious disease mortality of fifty-eight percent.
The official list of excuses for this rising mortality rate makes no mention of the infectious material produced for biological warfare purposes.
People wonder whether the West Nile virus could be the result of animal experimentation and the laboratory manipulation of the African virus.
In September, 2002, the media reported that some West Nile patients exhibited signs and symptoms of polio, although that disease is caused by a different virus. They ask if this means the virus has been laboratory altered. West Nile is generally only fatal in the old and the sick, groups being eyed by the government for their use of entitlements.
This all brings us to this article of yesterday:
One of the first scientists to properly analyze the genetic makeup of the so-called swine flu virus that emerged three weeks ago in Mexico and led to fears of a global pandemic states that the virus may have escaped from a laboratory.
Considering all the bio experiments and attacks already made by the US, often against it’s own citizens, one can not help but wonder if this new strain of swine flu was not just one more bio-weapon experiment or attack.
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