In Search of the Anthrax Attacker, February 2002
A friend put this article into HTML and added some links to the references. I think it is valuable background for understanding the letters case.
Remember when we kept on hearing that the next big disaster was going to be avian (bird) flu? Well, bird flu petered out and instead of jumping to humans jumped into a black hole. The lack of flu vaccinations for farmed chickens and ducks in North America may be key. The following excerpts come from…
You can’t make this stuff up. Conflicts of interest abound at the Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues with respect to anthrax vaccine. Coincidence or forethought? Before Emergent Biosolutions made anthrax vaccine, the vaccine was made by the Michigan Department of Public Health. Before Michigan, it was made by Merck. Might Merck Vaccine’s President…
The WHO has had a set of international health regulations (IHRs) aka a sanitary code to deal with multi-nation infectious disease outbreaks since 1969. In 2005, developed primarily under WHO Director-General Gro Harlen Brundtland, a major update was adopted, which is called the IHRs (2005). We did not know it then, but Brundtland was quite…
The article below I photographed from Science magazine, 1 week after Trump said he was taking away a grant to EcoHealth Alliance for its work with the Wuhan Institute of Virology on coronaviruses. Below, the Defender today reprinted an article by Rob Verkerk published initially by the Alliance for Natural Health. I had been waiting…
1. Why did all of the vaccines chosen for Operation Warp Speed use novel technologies, unused in any routine vaccines? (Yes, a new Ebola vaccine uses an adenovirus vector, and a resurfaced military-only adenovirus vaccine uses one too–but that’s all.) Why wasn’t a method with a proven track record chosen for the largest vaccine program…
Per the AP: “…To increase the global supply of swine flu vaccines, WHO recommends that countries use ones containing adjuvants, a component that stretches the vaccine’s active ingredient and boosts the body’s immune response. Adjuvants are commonly used in flu vaccines in Europe, [only in those over 65, and only in some countries–Nass] but there…