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CDC Shuts Down Bioterror & Flu Labs After Discovering 327 Vials of Deadly Pathogens Misplaced

The Center for Disease Control (CDC) is conducting a nationwide search of its cold storage units after discovering vials of smallpox in a Food and Drug Administration (FDA) cold storage room at the National Institutes of Health facility in Bethesda, Maryland. Along with the vials of smallpox were 327 other pathogens including vials labeled for dengue, influenza, and rickettsia. This news comes as the CDC is under multiple investigations for unsafe practices. In response to the news Richard H. Ebright, a professor of chemistry and chemical biology at Rutgers University remarked “It is ironic that the institution that sets U.S. standards for safety and security of work with human pathogens fails to meet its own standards.”


Also this week, the AP reported what is being described as an ‘accident’ saying “A government scientist kept silent about a potentially dangerous lab blunder and revealed it only after workers in another lab noticed something fishy, according to an internal investigation. The accident happened in January at the headquarters of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta. A lab scientist accidentally mixed a deadly strain of bird flu with a tamer strain, and sent the mix to another CDC lab and to an outside lab in Athens, Georgia.” This strain of avian flu, known as H5N1, has killed 60% of the roughly 650 people who have been infected with it since 2003 according the CDC and World Health Organization.
The New York Times reported that CDC head, Dr. Thomas R. Frieden has closed the CDC’s flu and bioterror labs, and has banned all shipments from the agency’s highest-security labs while safety protocols are being reviewed.
While the Times notes that these lab closures will hamper the work done by other public health labs one could argue that the shutdown is the lesser of two evils in light of government documents obtained by USA Today revealing that more than 1100 similar cases were reported between 2008 – 2012 including a snafu at Fort Detrick involving over 9,200 unaccounted for vials, some of which contained Ebola and Anthrax. It’s impossible to know how many cases may have gone unreported.
In 2011-2012, the world community attempted to prevent a CDC approved and US funded mutation of H5N1 by Ron Fouchier of the Erasmus Medical Center in Rotterdam. Previously, H5N1 was not considered a danger because the natural strains of the virus were specifically adapted to infect birds. However the mutation that Fouchier later developed, ostensibly to discover ways to prevent it from threatening humans, is 'highly contagious,' easily transmissible to mammals, airborne and deadly.
In other words, the CDC approved the creation of a virus that would pose a grave threat to humanity under the guise of preventing that same virus from threatening humanity. Extrapolating from the 1918 Spanish Flu Epidemic scholars have estimated that, should H5N1 become a pandemic, one billion people would become ill and 62 million would die. Despite the Dutch government's attempts at blocking the publication of Fouchier's processes and findings, the entire 'manual for creating a global pandemic' was later made public by Science Magazine. Scientific American listed the necessary materials as "Ten ferrets, some bird flu and swabs. That is all."
Earlier this summer, a nearly identical experiment was announced, alarming scientists worldwide. Yoshihiro Kawaoka and a team of researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison used fragments of naturally occurring bird flu to reverse engineer the 1918 Spanish Flu which killed an estimated 50 million people. They then mutated the virus to make it airborne and to spread more easily from one animal to another.
"The work they are doing is absolutely crazy. The whole thing is exceedingly dangerous," said Lord May, the former president of the Royal Society and one-time chief science advisor to the British government. "Yes, there is a danger, but it's not arising from the viruses out there in the animals, it's arising from the labs of grossly ambitious people." Marc Lipsitch, professor of epidemiology at Harvard School of Public Health, "…worried that this signals a growing trend to make transmissible novel viruses willy-nilly, without strong public health rationale. This is a risky activity, even in the safest labs." (emphasis mine) "Scientists should not take such risks without strong evidence that the work could save lives, which (Fouchier's) paper does not provide." In an article published in May 2014, Lipsitch argued that experiments like Kawaoka's could unleash a catastrophic pandemic if the virus escaped or was intentionally released from a high-security laboratory.
Current investigations into CDC practices mirror a similar probe that was launched by the Department of Health and Human Services after it was discovered that United States government labs were somehow involved in the anthrax bioterror attacks that began eight days after 9/11.

In 2010, when the Department of Justice and FBI announced a formal conclusion of the Amerithrax case, they declared that microbiologist Dr. Bruce Ivins was the sole perpetrator. Dr. Ivins was one of the lead scientists on the FBI's Amerithrax Task Force. In July of 2008, police were summoned to Ivins' home only to find him dead, purportedly from suicide, having never been charged in the bioterror investigation. Many were incredulous when local police told reporters that the state medical examiner "determined that an autopsy wouldn't be necessary."
Citing a complete lack of physical evidence, Senate Judiciary Committee chairman (and recipient of one of the anthrax-tainted letters) Patrick Leahy stated that "…he simply does not believe that Ivins was the prime culprit if he was a participant at all, and said he is absolutely convinced that there were others involved…"
Francis Boyle, an international law expert and bioweapons advisor to the first Bush administration, also advised the FBI's investigation. Boyle later revealed evidence indicating that the attacks constituted a false flag designed to ensure that the PATRIOT Act would be signed into law.
In addition to his credentials as a government advisor, Boyle also holds a Doctorate of Law Magna cum Laude and a Ph.D. in Political Science, both from Harvard University. He teaches International Law at the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana and also served on the Board or Directors of Amnesty International (1988-92) and represented Bosnia-Herzegovina at the World Court.
Regardless of what these new investigations may or may not reveal concerning the CDC's standards and practices, we know one thing is certain: to rely upon the Federal Government for one's safety would be a stupid and potentially fatal mistake, and one that is entirely contrary to the values and principles upon which our country was founded.
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CDC tuberculosis lab shut amid anthrax exposure allowed to reopen - Atlanta Business Chronicle

25 Jul 2014
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Atlanta Business Chronicle Operations can resume at a tuberculosis lab at Atlanta-based Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that was shut down following two accidents at the CDC that could have exposed workers to anthrax and the lethal H5N1 flu virus, reports The New York … CDC promises new independent safety advisory panel this week Tech Times CDC is planning to reopen labs shutted down after anthrax mishap Dumb-Out Problems at the CDC The Register-Guard New York Times -Monthly Prescribing Reference -myCentralOregon.com all 51 news articles

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C.D.C. Media Statement

For Immediate Release: Thursday, July 24, 2014
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New safety protocols in place, first CDC lab resumes transfer of inactivated materials out of high-containment laboratory


Clinical TB lab first to meet enhanced safety review
After intensive review by CDC’s internal Laboratory Safety Improvement Working Group (internal working group), CDC Director Tom Frieden, M.D., M.P.H., has lifted the moratorium on a specific type of material transfer for the CDC’s Clinical Tuberculosis Laboratory. The moratorium remains in place for other high-containment (BSL-3 and BSL-4) laboratories. Labs supporting direct patient care are receiving priority review.

The BSL-3 Clinical TB Lab uses a “heat kill” process to inactivate tuberculosis bacteria isolated from patients. It then sends the killed bacteria to a lower-level BSL-2 CDC lab for genetic analysis, rapidly telling clinicians whether their patients carry multi-drug-resistant (MDR) strains of tuberculosis and which drugs will be most effective. Old tests took weeks to yield results; the new test takes only two days.

The plan submitted by the TB lab to the internal working group details safety procedures for each step of the TB inactivation process. The plan includes risk assessment; rules for personal protective equipment; validation (including observation of key steps by a second, highly trained and certified lab technician) that the heat-kill process was conducted correctly and that any living organisms were killed; strict limits on lab access; medical monitoring of lab personnel; and back-up tests. The lab is and has been certified under Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments (CLIA) federal standards, and the lab’s testing results and quality-control is reviewed in real time by a CLIA technical supervisor. The TB lab was not one of the two labs involved in recent incidents; those two labs remain closed.

The TB lab’s plan was reviewed and approved by each member of the internal working group; by Mike Bell, M.D., CDC’s new Director of Laboratory Safety; and by Dr. Frieden.
The internal working group continues its lab-by-lab review of safety procedures. The reviews focus on two main aspects of safety:

• Each lab must demonstrate that its protocols for key control points – such as inactivation of a pathogen – are not only being used but that they are being used by appropriately trained and supervised individuals.
• Each lab is expected to establish redundant controls, similar to the two-key system used in other contexts for critical control points. For example, in the TB lab when heat is used to kill a pathogen, a second trained lab technician will witness the process to make sure the right temperature is used for the right amount of time. Both individuals then sign off on the process.
• As an additional safeguard, there will be unannounced safety inspections–by internal auditors.

No single set of procedures can be used for every lab, as different labs deal with different pathogens and do different kinds of work. Thus safeguards are tailored to each individual lab.

On July 11, 2014, Dr. Frieden halted transfer of all biological materials from CDC laboratories in response to incidents in which CDC employees might have been exposed to viable anthrax and in which a highly pathogenic influenza virus contaminated a low pathogenic influenza virus sample sent to a Department of Agriculture high-containment lab. While there appear to have been neither human exposures nor illness as a result of these incidents, CDC immediately undertook a series of remedial actions.

These actions include:

• The moratorium on biological material leaving all CDC BSL-3 and BSL-4 labs.
• Appointment of Dr. Bell to be Director of Laboratory Safety and serve as the single point of accountability to improve all laboratory safety protocols and practices and procedures; and establishment of the internal working group headed by Dr. Bell.
• Reevaluation and improvement of inactivation procedures in all BSL-3 and BSL-4 labs.
• Establishment of an external working group, made up of leading scientists, which will be part of the Advisory Committee to the Director of CDC.
• An investigation to determine the root causes that led to contamination of H5N1 in the influenza laboratory.
• Establishment of a review group under the Associate Director for Science to look at procedures leading to these events and ways to prevent them in the future. This review will be done in conjunction with the internal investigation and in coordination with the external working group.
• Disciplinary action as appropriate for any staff member who knowingly departed from lab safety protocols or who knew about lab safety incidents and didn't report them promptly.
• Considering the implications of these events for the handling of select agents and virulent pathogens more broadly, not just within CDC but throughout the scientific community.
  

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Friday, August 22, 2014


CDC whistleblower William Thompson in grave danger now


Jon Rappoport
Activist Post

From a previous report: The Autism Media Channel has posted a short video in which the whistleblower is named: William W. Thompson, PhD.

He was in fact one of the authors of the 2004 De Stefano study that has been accused of hiding true data linking the MMR vaccine to autism.

Thompson once worked for Merck.

Questions abound. Does Thompson know his name has been released? Was it done with his permission? Is he going come forward and make a statement?
The latest:

William W Thompson, PhD…the CDC whistleblower…was escorted off the premises of the CDC campus yesterday afternoon. This is what a source has just told me.

Therefore, the CDC knows Thompson is the whistleblower.

He’s in danger.

I’ve also been told that the Autism Media Channel, which had posted the video revealing Thompson’s name and outing him, is gone. The site is suddenly gone. (http://www.autismmediachannel.com/

Threats of various kinds, at the very least, will now be applied to Thompson. Legal action, perhaps arrest, perhaps worse.

When it comes to vaccines and protecting that empire, the games are very serious. Deadly serious. The gloves come off.

People have to understand this, if Thompson disappears or shows up dead “as a suicide.”

Since Thompson isn’t, as of this moment, stepping forward himself to provide full disclosure on his past actions, and since his name is already out there….the best protection he has is other people.

Other people making his name and his dangerous situation known. That has to happen now.

Prior to this morning, Thompson had been standing in the shadows as an anonymous source, admitting that he cooked data to hide a connection between autism and the MMR vaccine.

Now other things are known. In 2007, he published a study on the effects of mercury (thimerosal) on babies and very young children—and he concluded that there were both positive and negative effects, but the effects on both sides were very small.

The study was used by the press and the government to trumpet the idea (the lie) that everybody could rest easy; vaccines containing mercury weren’t harming anyone.

Now, this, too, comes under scrutiny. If Thompson was lying about the MMR vaccine, did he also lie about mercury and its toxic effects? Did he intentionally underplay those effects? Did he cook the data in that study, too?

Thompson has been working at NCIR, the CDC’s National Center for Immunizations and Respiratory Diseases—until yesterday.

NCIR includes, in its mission statement, the following: “prevention of disease, disability, and death through immunization…” In other words, it’s a PR agency that promotes vaccines. Actual science about vaccine dangers would be cut off at the pass.

Thompson is looked at as a threat to this agenda.

His unwillingness to come all the way forward, speak his name, tell the whole truth has boomeranged on him. Predictable.

Psychiatric detention and drugging, threats of lawsuits for violating “confidentiality agreements,” arrest, “you’ll never get a job again,” and “sudden suicide” are all possibilities.

Shining a very bright light on Thompson and his situation is his best hope now.

The author of three explosive collections, THE MATRIX REVEALED, EXIT FROM THE MATRIX, and POWER OUTSIDE THE MATRIX, Jon was a candidate for a US Congressional seat in the 29th District of California. He maintains a consulting practice for private clients, the purpose of which is the expansion of personal creative power. Nominated for a Pulitzer Prize, he has worked as an investigative reporter for 30 years, writing articles on politics, medicine, and health for CBS Healthwatch, LA Weekly, Spin Magazine, Stern, and other newspapers and magazines in the US and Europe. Jon has delivered lectures and seminars on global politics, health, logic, and creative power to audiences around the world. You can sign up for his free emails at www.nomorefakenews.com

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