Brian Hooker and Andrew Wakefield complain to the CDC about its vaccine research. Everyone yawns.

The particular irony for me is that the UK has no institutional mechanisms for the investigation of research fraud and misconduct, and the pursuit of the perpetrators. Thus, Wakefield’s fraudulent Lancet study of 1998, when he excluded data, changed diagnoses, misrepresented pathological findings and outright lied, was no amenable to inquiry until he was arraigned before the ponderous General Medical Council.

Some people have asked whether The Letter by Wakefield to ORI and Harold Jaffe is a publicity stunt. Well, yes, but more importantly it is part of the sick projection that goes on among people such as Wakefield, and his retainers, including many of the parents who make fraudulent claims of having witnessed injury by vaccines. A boutique case of such a parent was revealed recently, but there are many more.

It is this projection which I believe substantially drives all the allegations and smears about “pharma shills” and conspiracies. These people, and especially those around Wakefield, who work with him and lie for him, seek to salve their consciences with the conviction “Well, what we said may not have been entirely accurate, but that’s nothing compared with those mass murderers.”

Wakefield’s activities at present are essentially a revenge attack: a bid to inflict harm on those who have shunned and dismissed him for what he is. Then, of course, if his complaints are thrown out, the conspiracy theory gets bigger, and on it goes.

This rightfully reviled man is no longer speaking to the scientific and medical community. With Wakefield, it has always been about the money as much as anything. Now, he is speaking to conspiracy theorists, crooks, cranks and quacks who he is presently back attempting to sucker for cash.

This is a wealthy charlatan, embittered by his fall, who now projects his own ethics onto others.

Wakefield must be so hard up for readies at the moment that he has to go and talk about his delusional theories linking them to chiropractic manipulation.

So this has to be about money. I can’t believe that Wakefield would start a lawsuit where his own activities in this mess would come under scrutiny, so this really has to be a publicity stunt to keep the dollars rolling in.

Actually, scratch that. Wakefield might be stupid enough to do such a thing, but surely his lawyers would talk him out of it?

What I am still, almost 24 hours later still chuckling about is the fact that Hooker got his position and university wrong in the letter. How could anyone be that incompetent and then want to be taken seriously?

“The only variable that will be assessed as a potential confounder using the entire sample will be the child’s race.”

v.

“The only variable available to be assessed as a potential confounder using the entire sample is child’s race.”

That’s not even trying. It also makes it so obvious the whole mess is about generating publicity and keeping the the anti-vax crowd whipped up into a donating frenzy, and nothing at all to do with honest concern about the research process, or making a real complaint to the CDC. I’d hope that the pathetic transparency of the ploy might help some more people see through Wakefield, but I suspect he knows his marks too well. It’s sad, really.

“Dr. Brian Hooker, Dr. Andrew Wakefield, and attorney James Moody announced today they have sent a complaint by Federal Express”

Well there you go, this has got to be unbelievably significant and important, otherwise they would have sent it by regular mail.

It could foreshadow the start of a new ad campaign – “When it’s really, really bull$hit, it has to go Fed Ex”.

The letter also lets slip that this is really more about Wakefield than social justice. Consider this line:

Had The Group’s true findings been published as intended,9 well before their actual publication date in 2004, much of the damaged done to Dr. Wakefield’s career and reputation might have been mitigated.

Wakefield’s involvement in this is all about getting back at the establishment that called him out for his fraud. The way he exploits others to try to prop himself up is sickening. Not surprising, though.

Of course, we have only Wakefield’s word that this was even sent……

And still, not even mentioning the retraction of the study – well, as soon as anyone looks it up & sees the official retraction notice, that’ll kill things right there and then.

Well there you go, this has got to be unbelievably significant and important, otherwise they would have sent it by regular mail.

If there were really anything actionable here, they wouldn’t have sent it by FedEx, they would have arranged for the appropriate county sheriff’s office to serve the complaint on the targets. That, as I understand it (IANAL), is how one normally proceeds with lawsuits.

The bit Orac quoted about Thompson’s mental state only makes sense if the complaint were written by Thompson’s lawyers and he were suing the CDC. But we all know that Hooker and Wakefield aren’t lawyers, and according to Brian Deer above, the one actual lawyer involved, Mr. Moody, isn’t a very good one. But this is apparently not a lawsuit.

A. Note that the letter is date October 14, last Monday. If it was sent, Wakefield kept the contents and the act quiet for a week.

B. The complaint actually did address the retraction – in an extremely problematic manner. Note 6 says: ““Measles-mumps-rubella vaccination timing and autism among young African-American boys: a reanalysis of CDC data,” Translational Neurodegeneration, 2014, 3:16. Following publication, this paper was withdrawn, allegedly due to Dr. Hooker’s failure to disclose his board membership of Focus
Autism, the study sponsor. Dr. Hooker did disclose that the study was funded by Focus Autism. At the time that Focus Autism agreed to fund the study Dr. Hooker was not on the board and was not under consideration for such. The matter remains under review. See Dr. Hooker’s full statement [Exhibit 5].”

For comparison, here is what the actual retraction – which I know was put on this site before, but to save people time – says: “The Editor and Publisher regretfully retract the article [1] as there were undeclared competing interests on the part of the author which compromised the peer review process. Furthermore, post-publication peer review raised concerns about the validity of the methods and statistical analysis, therefore the Editors no longer have confidence in the soundness of the findings. We apologise to all affected parties for the inconvenience caused.” http://www.translationalneurodegeneration.com/content/3/1/22

Dorit Reiss: Nice catch:

“The complaint actually did address the retraction – in an extremely problematic manner. Note 6 says: ““Measles-mumps-rubella vaccination timing and autism among young African-American boys: a reanalysis of CDC data,” Translational Neurodegeneration, 2014, 3:16. Following publication, this paper was withdrawn, allegedly due to Dr. Hooker’s failure to disclose his board membership of Focus
Autism, the study sponsor. Dr. Hooker did disclose that the study was funded by Focus Autism. At the time that Focus Autism agreed to fund the study Dr. Hooker was not on the board and was not under consideration for such. The matter remains under review. See Dr. Hooker’s full statement [Exhibit 5].”

Has Mr. Hooker provided documentation in the form of the actual letter, which detailed the reason(s) for the retraction from the Journal of Translational Neurodegeneration?

Hooker failed to mention that he has a twelve-years-pending claim on behalf of his autistic child for “vaccine(s) injury” in the United States Court of Federal Claims….a claim which is being stalled by Hooker and his attorney who keep making motions for extensions to produce more medical records.

That letter of retraction from the Journal would also explain why the undeclared COIs of the (unnamed) peer reviewers is a factor for retracting Hooker’s “reanalysis”.

Through the magic of Windows 7, I have found Mr Moody’s document after Wakefield’s GMC hearing.

It is headed thus:

Before the General Medical Council
London, United Kingdom
______________________________________

In the Matter of:
Dr. Richard Charles Horton (#2927877)
Dr. David Maxwell Salisbury (#1413890) Docket No:
Dr. Arie Jeremy Zuckerman (#0870254)
Dr. Michael Stuart Pegg (#1560424)
Dr. Michael Llewellyn Rutter (#0639943)

FIRST AMENDED COMPLAINT
(Breach of duty of honesty and candor; False Testimony; Misuse of Professional Position, Failure to Disclose Conflicting Interest, False Expert Testimony)

…..

104 pages. Similar eccentric typeface and pompous tone. Similar droning on and on about everything and nothing.

He gives his DC bar credentials at the end, so, if he is writing on behalf of a client, he has a rich client or his rates are so low that he is doing it as a recreational pursuit.

Anyhow, it’s what in England we call “bollocks”. I think, after it was archived, they had to call the plumbers to the GMC’s toilets.

Best Documentary “Who Killed Alex Spourdakalis”

Two friends, Jordan and Quincy head out on a Saturday night in New York City. Jordan, who was recently dumped out of a relationship and Quincy, who recently took a I.T. job link up for the first time in months hoping to have a good night. However, by the end of the night, the term ‘good’ becomes entirely subjective. Neither of them could have imagined the chaos that would ensue.

Um… whut?

@ Johny:

I stand corrected. He’s at it already. Shades of Gary Null ( see website for list of his awards from other luminous fests)

AND it is one of the smaller festivals ( disclosure: I have a relative who knows about these things and I’ve attended a few of the more well-known affairs which are also hilarious ).
And I’m glad you love me.

@ Rebecca:

Perhaps the reason his film won was because it mixed up with the one about Jordan and Quincy.

@ Johnny :

Ha ha.Cross post.

Here’s another weird thing. The Letter from Wakefield etc, begins with a reporting of “apparent research misconduct”, elsewhere described as “alleged”.

But isn’t this the Andrew Wakefield who made a YouTube video complaining that it was conduct worse than the Tuskegee syphilis experiment and saying that the CDC was worse than Stalin, Pol Pot and Hitler?

Andy and an STD.
About right.

Detail on why this letter would appear to a publicity stunt rather than serious complaint:

Huge chunks of the letter are a narrative supposedly related by William Thompson, yet Thompson himself does not confirm any of it, nor do his previous public statements. Throughout this narrative are select fragmented quotes allegedly from Hooker’s recorded conversations with Thompson. The quotes are so sparse, we can guess Thompson actually uttered those words, but we have only Hooker and Wakefield’s word that they are representing the context properly.

Unless Thompson himself comes forward to say, “Yes, I said that about that. The letter is an accurate representation of my conversations with Brian Hooker.” or Hooker releases full copies of his original digital recording files to the public, there’s no reason to think the narrative in the letter is accurate. I doubt Thompson will break his silence voluntarily, especially since his ‘priest’ has violated the confessional by cherry picking quotes where Dr. Thompson refers to himself as “delusional.” Of course, it was only Hooker who claimed a confessional type relationship with Thompson. Thompson himself has said nothing of the sort.

If this was anything but a publicity stunt, why would they divulge their Whistleblower had become “delusional” before he even spoke to them? Wouldn’t that undermine any testimony he might give in support of the claims? “Dr. Thompson, how do you know that your recollections of events are accurate, and not the product of your mental distress?” Of course, Thompson was undoubtedly using “delusional” figuratively, rather than as defined by the DSM. But if this was a real complaint, and the authors expected to get anything supporting it from Thompson in the future, you’d think they’d make that clear, yes?

My guess is that Hooker will never release the recordings voluntarily. For doing so will make it obvious that they are greatly exaggerating, mischaracterizing, or just outright lying about what Thompson said, and the proof is the highly selective audio editing in the videos AMC has already put online.

In gambling terms, they’re bluffing, and if anyone calls the bluff I guess they’ll fold.

If they had any cards, wouldn’t they play them now? (sincere question; anybody got a plausible explanation?) If they’re still BFFs with Thompson. wouldn’t he issue at least some hint of verification? If any part of the recordings could put any of those short quotes in a context even consistent with the narrative in the letter, wouldn’t H&W release those selected longer segments now?

One particular grammatical ambiguity caught my eye:

The following narrative is based upon contemporaneous documents including study protocols, analysis plans, notes, emails, and other communications from the respective participants and their managers at the CDC, provided by Dr. Thompson to Dr. Brian Hooker Ph.D and Dr. Andrew Wakefield MB.BS.

What this language implies is that Thompson had some direct exchange with Wakefield, that WT sent documents directly to AJW. But it could just mean that Thompson supplied documents to Hooker and Hooker only, which Hooker then passed on to Wakefield. That distinction strikes me as a pretty big deal, and if I was Andy Wakefield, and William Thompson had indeed sent me documents directly, I’d be damn sure that was unambiguously stated in my letter of complaint. From what Brian Deer says about AJW — and who knows Wakefield better? — he’s way too smart to let an opportunity to pad his credibility slide by, and he’s more than slick enough to construct a clever phrasing that implies more than he’s got, but doesn’t actually pin him in a lie. (‘Well we meant the documents were provided to the team of BH & AJW which in practice just meant sending them to Brian.’)

About the provenance of the letter:
Hooker’s employer and title are mis-identified in the body of the letter in a way that is devastatingly insulting to Hooker. He’s identified as “Assistant Professor at Redding University, California.” There IS a Redding University — a notorious online diploma mill scam that doesn’t have a mailing address anywhere on its website. Hooker is actually employed by Simpson University, located in Redding, California — a small 4-year Christian College founded in 1925.

Simpson’s website lists his job title as Associate Professor of Biology. His CV, however, says Assistant Professor, but it’s dated November 2012. What this means, for those not familiar with American academia, is that Hooker has recently advanced to Tenure, and now has lifetime job security. Promotion and tenure from Assistant to Associate is a big deal, and it is inconceivable that Hooker would not correct that, AND the name of the school, if he were paying attention at all.

However, Moody, as an attorney, and AJW as a Brit, wouldn’t know the difference between a diploma scam existing only in cyberspace, and an accredited Christian college with a real campus, sports teams 1200 resident students, ranked #153 out of 236 among Four Year Colleges in the US by guidance counselors, (tied with Alma, Burlington, Centenary, Lycoming and Ripon, if those mean anything to anybody).

In short the fact Hooker has tenure at a real college (even a not particularly distinguished one) gives him MUCH higher status than “Assistant Professor at Redding University” (which would actually be a bad thing).

What this suggests is Hooker wasn’t involved at all in drafting the text, that the letter was written by attorney Moody based on discussions/exchanges with AJW (seemingly confirmed by BD’s catch that the letter is set in a typeface idiosyncratic to Moody.)

So this just confirms what most of us have already concluded:

1) A stressed-out and misguided William Thompson confided some stuff to Brian Hooker, who thoroughly abused Thompson for his agenda — getting his paper published to legitimate the vaccines-cause-autism narrative.

2) The only character in the tale suffering from actual long-term delusions is Brian Hooker. He shared what he got from Thompson with Andrew Wakefield, who thoroughly abused Hooker for his agenda — promoting Andrew Wakefield as anti-vaccine hero who has been wrongly discredited by a media/CDC conspiracy.

As Orac notes, by glomming onto the ‘Whistleblower Revelation’ as soon as he got the chance AJW virtually guaranteed Hooker’s paper would get withdrawn. Had AJW held onto his powder, the journal would likely have been none the wiser, the paper would have gone up online long enough on to get some measure of legitimacy, some citations, yada yada. But, nooo! It’s all about AJW.

Wakefield has so little concern for his supposed wingman neither he or his legal flunky bothered to vette their letter and get his credential right, at least to the point where they didn’t connect him to ludicrous academic scam.

I was thinking the letter is 34 pages of blather built around one sentence on page 4, as an excuse to re-broadcast and legitimate that sentence to the anti-immuno faithful: “Had The Group’s true findings been published as intended, well before their actual publication date in 2004, much of the damaged (sic) done to Dr. Wakefield’s career and reputation might have been mitigated.” But then, if that was the point, you’d think somebody would have proof-read that sentence, so… well, I don’t know.

At least there are some anti-vaccine advocates who concede this whole thing has pretty much been an epic failure for the anti-vaccine crowd.

“The whistleblower issue has been poorly handled from start to finish. I don’t think it will ever be taken seriously. Unfortunately as soon as Wakefield’s name was attached to it, it was probably doomed to failure.

The illegally used recordings by doctor Hooker, the information being dealt out piece-meal in a sensationalist manner rather than just delivering all the obtained information up front….. This has done nothing but give scientists/society at large the “proof” they’ve been looking for that vax skeptics will not let something like the truth or ethics stop their agenda. Puts them on the same level as the CDC as far as I’m concerned.”

He’s been turning out these kind of documents for a decade now. Most of them have come my way, and I’ve spent much of that decade analysing them and preparing replies.

It’s reasonably well-paid work, but is a huge diversion from journalism. I think I’ve now reached the point when I write most fluently in numbered paragraphs. The annoyance for me is that, while I get abused by everyone from Ben Goldacre to malignant cranks for my relatively modest published output in numbers of words, I have written many hundreds of thousands in my duties in dealing with Wakefield for lawyers, media executives, regulators and so forth. Journalistically, it leads nowhere, because mostly its only read by a dozen people, if that.

The fact is, Andrew Wakefield is not an intelligent man. Even his mother told me he had to retake his high school exams in order to get into medical school. All of his research findings failed. He was utterly incompetent in laboratory, his peers tell me. Other researchers have practically formed a queue to tell me how they tried to explain things to him, and he took no notice.

I have long since given up attempting any kind of dialogue with anti-vaxxers, because they will lie and distort, intercut video clips and do anything to manipulate and damage. But, years ago, I did point out (and was more recently quoted saying) that if I wanted to show that MMR caused autism I wouldn’t go through the gut. It’s always the defendant who wants to string out the chain of causality.

A lawyer pulled out Wakefield because he was the only person in Britain with any kind of theory – ridiculous as it was – as to how MMR could do any harm. He was a former trainee bowel surgeon doing – failed – research in a medical school. Of no distinction or relevance really to anyone. But the lawyer was desperate because he wanted to be in the big league – trips up to London, meetings with counsel etc – but he had no case. So Wakefield got control, and the hopes of 1,600 British families and then 6,000 American families were raised and then dashed in litigation that could only ever have failed. Many of these are the angry, bitter voices that you see on blogs, who don’t know whose been hurting them.

Personally, if I was an anti-vaxxer, I would dump him. Find somebody – virtually anybody. Offer Marcel Kinsbourne double his present income from vaccine court, and an electric wheelchair, if necessary. But you only have to see how Wakefield (Stalin, Pol Pot and Hitler) killed the Thompson/Hooker thing to understand what a liability he is to them.

But he’s very good at getting money out of people – whether its the drug industry, lawyers, distraught mothers of disabled kids, or Barry Segal – and what he does with that money is live the life of Riley with his hard drinking, globe trotting English friends who have turned autism into a cash crop.

“When I first read through AJW and BH’s magna opus, I was struck by the use of the word ‘delusional'”

What’s striking is how delusional Hooker and his antivax allies must be, to think that any complaint or media stunt co-organized by Andrew Wakefield could ever be taken seriously.

@ Dangerous Bacon:

You are correct, oh dangerous one, but I would bet real money that these antics will pad AJW’s coffers – although I’m not sure exactly how. Direct donatiions possibly? Invitations to speak at events? A new book? Consults?

Here are some figures:
amongst the faithful, AoA counts about 10K facebook** and TMR about 30K. The Vaccine Machine ( not as dedicated to ASD per se but anti-vax) counts 50K IIRC. Most likely the first two overlap greatly as they do with the Canaries/ Health Choice.

Not everyone is exactly otaku*** about Andy or The Cause but at dedicated events, he can fill an auditorium ( Autism One) – he has a fan base. Recently one of the TMs died and the others were able to raise 25K USD in a week or two. They sponsor e-conferences frequently at 40 USD. AoA recently had an education (heh) conference and is involved with a book talk ( with Skyhorse)- these cost more than the above.

Thus he has an audience who will pay to see him or buy books or send money to defend him or his cause.

I’m sure that his spread in Austin requires landscapers, pool boys and cleaning help. I doubt he does these chores himself.

** I am loathe to rely upon facebook numbers because not everyone uses it ( but the cohort most amenable probably does) and people can add other family members etc. Not the greatest measure but bear with me.
*** obsessively engaged

Everytime I go to the USA I have to assert that I have never engaged in “acts of moral turpitude” which wiki tells me in the USA specifically means:
“conduct that is considered contrary to community standards of justice, honesty or good morals.”

So why exactly are you letting him stay there guys? Not that I particularly want him back, but I suppose we should take care of our own bad eggs

@MikeMa – indeed – though I’d be a bit surprised if anyone actually ever answered ‘yes’.
Still, if Wankfield did ever answer ‘no’ then I assume its some kind of offense to lie about it and maybe some nice fellow in Beaumont could explain the error of his ways before you chuck him out 🙂

At my naturalization interview, I asked if anyone ever said “yes” to that question and got the reply “We catch the stupid terrorists pretty easily”…

At my naturalization interview, I asked if anyone ever said “yes” to that question and got the reply “We catch the stupid terrorists pretty easily”…

My understanding is that most of those questions aren’t really so much about catching ‘stupid terrorists’… it’s so that if they later discover that you did do something you claimed you didn’t, they can throw you out on the grounds of making false statements to a federal agent even if nothing else you did was actually illegal.

Prostitution is legal in some counties in Nevada, but employment in that profession has been used as grounds to deny a green card or US citizenship.

That’s not actually filed under moral turpitude, though.

Andy Wakefield’s favorite investigative journalist Sharyl Attkisson has scrubbed her blog clean of any and all comments that question her authority about vaccines and epidemiology.

She’s now an expert on Enterovirus D-68 and she weighed in with this gem:

http://sharylattkisson.com/cdc-polio-like-enterovirus-spreads-linked-to-8th-death-in-u-s

“The U.S. death toll from the mysterious Enterovirus D-68 continues to rise.

The latest CDC update on the current outbreak of the polio-like Enterovirus D-68 states that it has now been detected “in specimens from eight patients who died and had samples submitted for testing.” That’s one more death than was disclosed in last week’s update. The CDC account does not provide any information as to where the patient died and does not disclose his/her name, age or other details.”

Um, Sharyl. Where were you when journalistic integrity courses were being taught and why do you believe that the CDC would violate patient confidentiality laws and regulations, to satisfy your need to report “the truth” to your readership.

Scroll down to see the comment that Sharyl hasn’t scrubbed from her website:

“drjohn
October 23, 2014 at 9:57 pm #

Enterobama virus kills”

Is it any wonder then, why CBS booted her out the door?

Science Mom:
” Wakefield convinced them that he could treat and cure their children.”
Yes, I see that is hurt. And it’s disgusting. Thank you for the correction. I meant no apology for the scumbag to begin with, but if he did that he surely made things worse, added injury on top of injury, and is thoroughly inexcusable for that.

However, it’s ‘really stupid’ to just call an argument “really stupid.” Even if you can refute its points, which you have not, you might might better refer to it as “mistaken” or “inaccurate” reflecting a more rational, science-like engagement with the question.

“He convinced them they were right rather than use his position responsibly.”
I shall ask you for evidence that they were not entirely convinced of their rectitude before he showed up, and that responsible use of his position would in any way have changed their mind.

I would assume a number of other physicians in Britain had opined that no link could be drawn between MMR and ASD. Had AJW added his voice to that chorus, I doubt it would have meant much. Perhaps one could argue that having been approached by the attorney to engage in what he knew to be fraud, Wakefield should have reported the scheme to the authorities, participated in a ‘sting’ operation that would have put the attorney in jail and scuttled the lawsuit, and this would somehow have helped the families. That would strike me as quite a reach…

But my argument is that Wakefield is secondary. My claim was the parents were “hurting each other by mutual reinforcement” of vaccine mythology. If anyone cares to build an argument to the contrary, please present it. I shall even offer two tips to anyone so inclined: 1) anticipate the counter-argument; ask yourself what evidence and lines of reasoning will likely be employed to support the opposite case and rebut your position; 2) assume the party you seek to engage has a handy checklist of logical fallacies and false argumentation at hand, and prepare your case accordingly.

sadmar :
“But my argument is that Wakefield is secondary. My claim was the parents were “hurting each other by mutual reinforcement” of vaccine mythology. If anyone cares to build an argument to the contrary, please present it. I shall even offer two tips to anyone so inclined: 1) anticipate the counter-argument; ask yourself what evidence and lines of reasoning will likely be employed to support the opposite case and rebut your position; 2) assume the party you seek to engage has a handy checklist of logical fallacies and false argumentation at hand, and prepare your case accordingly.”

Science Mom can speak for herself, but I find your comment insulting.

How about we do it this way : 1 – You show that the parents were “hurting each other by mutual reinforcement” and that AJW had no significant impact on their hurt (quality and quantity). 2 – We will attempt to refute your demonstration if we find flaws in it.

And remember, we are looking for evidence!

EBA

Sadmar: I’m afraid you’re not getting it. The lawyers and the parents and the journalists and the public BELIEVED Wakefield when he said he had found evidence that MMR caused inflammatory bowel disease.

He basically pulled that out of his ass after sending a series of blackmail letters to the UK department of health, generally along the lines of: “I have no evidence that measles virus in MMR causes bowel disease, but I might publish to that effect; you must give me money”.

Then, after making good on his threat, a lawyer approached him and they did a deal: the lawyer wanted to show MMR caused brain damage; Wakefield wanted to show it caused Crohn’s disease.

So Wakefield (after failing to find Crohn’s once he’d got into the small bowels of a bunch of autistic kids, some of whose mothers would have let him cut their arms off if they thought it might help) made up a story about how it caused a new kind of bowel disease that went on to cause brain damage, and then concocted clinical and pathological data in the 1998 paper, to try to show it.

He is a very plausible individual, and he convinced very senior lawyers that he could prove this. In the end, £26.2 million of British taxpayers’ money was thrown at this, all of which was pocketed by a ragbag bunch of so-called experts (the drug industry had bought up everyone with any real credibibility) and lawyers.

Parents – who had been led to believe they could get up to £3 million each – got nothing.

It was all bullshit, all various kinds of fraud. Not one bent cent of reputable work in the whole thing.

The vaccine court re-run in the US was pretty much along the same track.

@ sadmar:

Well**, I don’t see anyone filling Andy’s shoes YET -more on that later.

These advocacy groups sponsor conferences where there’s beaucoup de woo : AJW appeared at both Autism One’s event in May and the new Autism Educational Conference ( last weekend- see websites for lists of speakers). The TMs offer e-conferences ( see the TMR website for speakers) on Energetic Healing/ GMOs, Organics and Food Allergies/ Homeopathy. Take a peek at their offerings.

As you can see, the GI hypothesis is alive, well and producing crap as would be expected: these folk spin folktales about physiology wherein the connection betwixt the brain and the digestive system resemble a Rube Goldbergian machine and not at all like anything I studied in neurophysiology. MInd- boggling!

Because of this angle, food becomes an important concern for both ‘damage’ and repair- thus,many presentations orthorectically focus on diet, bizarre meals and handfuls of supplements for children who have ASDs.

Now getting back to Andy:
he holds a distinguished position for anti-vaxxers as Scientific Revolutionary, Blessed Martyr and Celebrity Hottie- all rolled into one. Women fans seem to love him although I can’t see why- he’s not really good-looking, he’s too slick and he seems more concerned about his own appearance ( how he looks personally as well as his lifestyle) than anything or anyone else.

He functions as a figurehead for the movement as well as a role model for the many doctors, woo-meisters, parents and advocates who would ascend to his level. Although WE may view him as an arrogant, corrupt, awful charlatan- his loyalists see him as the answer to their problems.

** how can I follow BD?

@ lilady:

What I DO see happening over the past few years is that the line between autism woo and generalised woo is becoming more and more indistinct:
the TMs and AoA / Canaries/etc talk about chronic illness as well as ASDs so perhaps they’ll be able to reel in a few concerned parents of kids with asthma or even adults with allergies and arthritis ( and that’s only the conditions beginning with A); they also discuss issues concerning the parents’ health ( esp TMR/ MacNeil) and address worries about the purity of foods ( and of essence, I suppose).

On the other side, astute woo-meisters like Null and Adams and Health Freedom Fighters like Bolen et cie attempt to draw in autism parents to more generalised woo for both children and adults which is a lucrative business.

Meanwhile, at Jake’s blog the weird comments are getting truly bizarre.

Jake provides this link to “Jim Moody’s” involvement with Wakefield going back to his BMC Fitness-To-Practice Hearing. Many of the key players, including the parents of the children in Wakefield’s study, who declared their undying love and devotion to Andy then and now, (but who never testified on his behalf at the GMC Hearing), are mentioned. There are comments posted on AoA from those parents.

When I’ve confronted those same non-testifying parents and John D. Stone on blogs to ask them why they didn’t testify on behalf of Wakefield…I never get a reply. I wonder why?

http://www.ageofautism.com/2009/05/read-complaint-filing-and-parent-letters-in-uks-gmc-investigation.html

There’s no need to be a lawyer here or in the U.K. to know that to offer up false testimony during an administrative hearing about the sequence of events leading up to the childrens’ bowel scopings and L.P.s, which is fabricated, leaves the witnesses open to charges of perjury.

Yes indeed, those are my show stopper questions which I pose to the mums and to Mr. Stone on science blogs…and which go unanswered.

Thompson – faced with either presenting false data or taking responsibility for the vaccine-autism link in front of potentially hostile parents of autistic children25 – stopped sleeping, and became profoundly depressed and “delusional.” Crucially, he reports no prior history of mental disorder.

Dr. Thompson went on to confirm, to Dr. Hooker, that the DeStefano 2004 paper was the reason for these acute psychological problems.

Dr. Thompson: It is one of the reasons I became delusional because I was so paranoid about this being published.

Sounds like Bipolar,

@ ann:

You know, ‘delusion’ and ‘paranois’ could also be hyperbole and excuses for wanting out of a presentation and now, for his participation in the so-called cover-up and then, ‘confessing’ to Hooker.
.
Symptoms like paranoia and delusions are usually associated with SMI which is much less prevalent than other garden variety disorders. Also SMI generally shows up at an earlier age than Thompson was and is.

But obviously I can’t diagnose anyone.

I understood the description of Thompson becoming “delusional” to mean that he accepted the CDC reality tunnel instead of the one antivaxxers consider to be reality.

@ Deince Walter #72

The views they express are almost like that of the Puritans, with “toxins” being swapped in for “sin”.

To them, saying that autism is a genetic condition is blaming them for their child’s autism. To them, The Medical Establishment (praise Glaxxon, Profits be Upon Him) is telling them little Sophie/Ava/Mason/Jacob is autistic because of your toxic genes- and because they’re Bad Mothers.

To them, is is all the stereotypes of bad medical conduct throughout the ages being perpetrated on them. It’s the early 1900s psychoanalyst telling a mother that her child is a criminal because she has a toxic womb, and only had a child as an act of revenge against her own mother. It’s a 1950s social worker telling a mother that her child is a juvenile delinquent because you coddled him too much as a child, were too lenient in your discipline, and hugged him too much. It’s the early 1990s child therapist telling a mother that her child is acting out because you were too cold towards her as a child, were too strict in your discipline and didn’t hug her enough.

The mothering forums provide a welcome security blanket. After all, they are Moms (TM) and who knows a child better than their Mom? Certainly not some doctor! Also, it’s the 2010s, who needs a fancy pants degree when you can just Google it! Everyone is an expert!

Just World Fallacy is also strongly present:

Only bad people do bad things, and they deserve whatever punishments they get. People who live a healthy lifestyle and eat only organic, non-gmo, overpric- uh, whole-istic foods can]t get sick, therefore something or someone else must be causing it. Besides, only Bad Mothers have sick children or Bad Children.

Good Mothers deserve perfect children. Obviously, the Good Children are being stolen and swapped with changelings, but a Good Mother can get the Pure, Good Child back if she tries hard enough. It doesn’t matter what the brute, unfeeling changeling is put through to achieve this end (look at some of the comments about “screaming, diapered autistics” that some wonderful people have left) as long as the Good Mother is reunited with her Good Child.

The claws come out too:

Bad Mothers are poor mothers who give their children store brand bread and Kraft peanut butter when it’s on sale. I’m a Good Mother that spends more per week on a family of three then they do in a month for a family of five. I spent as much on my baby’s stroller as they did on a used car.

Bad Mothers are working mothers. I am a Good Mother that spends every waking moment I can with my child, and I micromang- uh, am involved in all aspects of their life.

Bad Mothers give their kids formula and use disposable diapers. I am A Good Mother that breastfeeds, wears my baby, uses cloth diapers…

Bad Mothers trust Outsiders (doctors, teachers, etc) with their children. I am A Good Mother who knows what’s best for my family.

They strive to display all the signs of purity, as surely no Pure Person could have an imperfect child.

This isn’t to blame all mothers, or to say that it’s a mentality that only afflicts women – just look at Mike Adams, the Health Danger. Ultimately, it’s the children that suffer.

i’m also a long time lurker, recent commentator. My younger brother is autistic (diagnosed as Asperger’s), and the things I have seen from organizations like AoA are absolutely disgusting.

Horatio, well done and right on point. Thanks.

@ Horatio:

Welcome aboard: Draconis will be so pleased with you.

Sadmar: Wakefield got interested in MMR when he read in a newspaper that the British government had directed the withdrawal of two brands of the vaccine on grounds that the mumps component was (crudely) running a bit hot and causing a higher than acceptable level of viral meningitis.

This was in 1992. Within about a week (it might be 8 or 10 days), he started sending what became a series of letters in which he asked for money and said that, while he had no evidence of this and had done no research on it, he might well start finding that the measles component caused (his interest) Crohn’s disease. And the government wouldn’t want that in the media, now would they?

The department of health – which did not give direct grants to medical researchers – regarded his approach as a shake-down.

Simultaneously, a low-calibre provincial lawyer, who had some published expertise in house conveyancing, saw the same newspaper report.

BD #81
Thanks! That’s helpful. AJW does seem to be ‘patient 0’ of an epidemic of crapola.

Its fascinating to study how these cultures come together and grow, what seeds they crystallize around…

So, Wakefield saw an opening to coerce the health department into funding on some positive pretext, thinly disguising a threat, is that it? He was trying to get paid as a researcher for worthless research by implying he could do PR damaging research if he wasn’t otherwise occupied, or something?

Sorry to be asking you so many specific questions. I’ll stop.

Is there any source with a blow-by-blow narrative account of this sorry story with all the relevant details? I mean, going back even before 1992 to look at how both normal folks and cranks viewed vaccines, the history proceeding up to the 1992 story of the bad batch, the formation of JABS, and so on? I’ve looked at a lot of stuff on briandeer.com. There’s a timeline in the BMJ series, but it doesn’t have narrative detail. And the news stories focus, as they should, on the news topics in journalistic form.

I still think the mindset of warrior moms is a social problem that precedes AJW and ought to be looked at on its own. However I do seem to have missed how central AJW was in turning what could have been fuzzy discontent into a focus on MMR.

(The location field is a pop culture reference to “Eating. Humble Pie“)

@ PGP:

It’s not just children but adults who don’t fit the prescribed template…
need I remind you of their rants against childless people!
and SB people. Sceptics, Professionals. Sarcastic people.

And a few of the culprits comment right here!
Take a bow, brothers and sisters!
We bad.

@ PGP:

Actually, it involved specific individuals ( who shall remain nameless) and interspersed commentary ( including an allusion to yours truly) that I’ve observed over the past few years. Similarly, I’ve seen a few Bolen-esque references to sceptics.

I don’t frequent these parts too often anymore due to my impending thesis defense, but Orac, you should really consider writing about this excellent new paper:
http://www.nature.com/ng/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/ng.3129.html
It would be great to see a reasoned, science-based discussion surrounding the prevention of actual vaccine-induced events.

All posts by SAME old vax profiteers:
WHY DON’T THE NAMES EVER CHANGE?
“Everyone yawns….”

This is much more interesting…..
“West Africa: Progress Towards Ebola Vaccine Would Have Been Faster Had Bioterrorism Research Been Completed”
By Sam Jones and Sarah Boseley

“Global vaccine alliance chief Dr Seth Berkley says waning fear of biological attack slowed Ebola work started a decade ago

Progress towards a potential Ebola vaccine would have been faster if the international community had followed through on work begun 10 years ago when western countries were worried about terrorists using Ebola as a potential biological weapon, according to the head of the global vaccine alliance.

The claim, from Dr Seth Berkley, CEO of Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, came as the pharmaceutical company GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) said that a vaccine to fight the west African Ebola outbreak will come “too late for this epidemic” and may not be ready in sufficient quantities until 2016. On Thursday, Professor Peter Piot, one of the scientists who discovered the virus, warned the outbreak may not end until the world has a vaccine against the disease.

However, Berkley said that – had work that was begun a decade ago been seen through – it may well have laid the groundwork for a vaccine by now.

“We have had an effort to try to make a vaccine for Ebola going on now for about 10 years,” he said.

“The two [vaccine] candidates that people are talking about now started 10 years ago. But they weren’t started because of the problem in Africa, they were started because of a worry from wealthy countries about bioterrorism: that’s where the money came from and that’s where it went … The west’s interest in and fear of biological warfare has not sustained and has changed.”

Berkley said that the efforts had run out of steam because “Ebola is a sporadic disease in very poor countries”, making it an unattractive market for big drug companies.

Despite GSK’s downbeat forecast, experts believe that the vaccination of frontline healthcare professionals working in west Africa, which could happen as early as January, may help the fight against Ebola.

Professor Adrian Hill, director of Oxford University’s Jenner Institute and lead investigator in the vaccine’s UK safety trial, said: “If the vaccine does provide protection against Ebola, vaccinating doctors and nurses could be very useful. It would offer them some protection – a group at very high risk – and help break the chain of transmission, which might well help end the outbreak.”

GSK is already manufacturing 10,000 doses of the vaccine, which is unprecedented ahead of any trial results. If it proves effective, which it has done in animals, there will be an urgent need to use it.

“It has always been understood that an Ebola vaccine for use across the general population would not be available for some time, but thousands of doses of the vaccine will be available early next year if current trials continue to progress well,” said Jeremy Farrar, director of the Wellcome Trust.

“That is critical: it would mean that high risk groups, especially healthcare workers, could be vaccinated within months, with a real impact on the epidemic. We also do not know how long this epidemic will last: a population-level vaccine available in 2016 could yet make an important contribution.”

Berkley said the world had repeatedly failed to learn the lessons of previous epidemic outbreaks such as Sars and bird flu, and urged the international community to ensure that funding and research for such emergencies was continuously maintained.

“From a global perspective, the one thing I can promise you is that, given evolution, given the use of antibiotics, we will have epidemics of disease and antimicrobial resistance,” he said. “So the question is how do we keep a level of vigilance and work both on the ability to respond quickly when these things happen, but also, how do we make sure that we have mechanisms to create vaccines, drugs and interventions that make sense for this in an accelerated fashion?”

The current outbreak, he said, provided an opportunity to plan for the future and get serious about infectious diseases.

“We need to think about how we accelerate products and make sure we’re trying to create them,” Berkley said…”

“Gavi, a public-private partnership that estimates it has immunised almost half a billion children and prevented six million deaths since its foundation in 2000, is now considering what role it can play in bringing forward a viable vaccine as quickly as possible.

As the alliance does not conduct research and development, one of the options would be using Gavi’s money to guarantee a market for an Ebola vaccine, thereby freeing up private pharmaceutical firms to conduct accelerated trials. Gavi’s board is due to consider its response in the first week of December.”

http://allafrica.com/stories/201410231697.html
I AM SURE ALL OF YOU HAVE VOLUNTEERED TO TAKE THE EBOLA VACCINE, YES?
LOL!

EBOLA EXPOSED

NOTHING NEW. JUST ANOTHER EUGENICS OUTBREAK…….14 years ago.

NEWS RELEASE

Release: No.00-EV/13
Date Mailed: October 19, 2000
For Immediate Release
Contact: Elaine Zacky,208/265-2575; 800/336-9266

AIDS/Ebola Author Defends Embattled African Presidents:
Reports Outbreaks May Be “Man-made” and CIA-linked

“Regarding Ebola, as detailed in Emerging Viruses, the Paul Ehrlich Institute in Frankfort/Main, Germany, (named for the early pioneer of immunology, infectious disease transmission, and drug therapy) was among the first vaccine research and development facilities to received a shipment of contaminated monkeys associated with the first outbreak of the Marburg virus, the mother of Ebola, in 1967. As detailed in my letter to President Mbeki, Litton Bionetics’s history and affiliations to the Merck pharmaceutical company, and other US biological weapons contractors that worked for the CIA at that time, is highly unsettling, if not frankly incriminating.

Relatedly, Stanford University’s Dr. Paul Ehrlich, the author of The Population Bomb, is considered the grand patriarch of population control and a leading voice for depopulating areas of Africa, while another likely descendant of the immunology pioneer, Dr. S. Paul Ehrlich, Jr., became Surgeon General of the US in 1976,just prior to the first large Ebola outbreak in Zaire and the Sudan, when he was called upon to defend the US Army’s open air biological weapons tests on unwitting American civilians and military personnel.

Ebola, you may know, is recognized as among the most ideal biological warfare agents discussed by David Baltimore in Biological and Toxin Weapons Today (Oxford University Press, 1986). Baltimore, currently the President of the California Institute of Technology, is recognized as among the world’s leading experts in the field of molecular biology, recombinant virology, and biowarfare. Additional incriminating evidence linking Dr. Baltimore to a 1969 military requisition for AIDS and Ebola-like viruses is also provided in my book. (See pp. 508-509 and 421.)

The Ugandan shipment of contaminated monkeys that arrived in Europe’s top vaccine production labs was administered by Litton Bionetics, the Army’s sixth top biological weapons developer during the late 1960s.

According to two experts discussing the mysterious Marburg virus outbreak of 1967, Dr. Rudolph Siegert of the Hygiene Institute of the Philipps University in Marburg, and Dr. Seymour Kalter from the Southwest Foundation’s primate lab and the National Cancer Institute’s leading diagnostician of viruses that were believed to be “emerging” iatrogenically from labs, the Marburg virus was “man-made.”

http://www.lightstreamers.com/Horowitz/PressAIDS.html

FEATURED ARTICLE

Early Hepatitis B Vaccines and the “Man-Made” Origin of HIV/AIDS

by Leonard G. Horowitz, D.M.D., M.A., M.P.H.

“This article regards a matter of global urgency transcending better known AIDS threats. It describes a universal challenge posed by ever increasing numbers of plagues predicted to depopulate at least half of the world’s current human inhabitants within two generations. This documented science virtually proves, through the process of elimination and a review of the most updated evidence, the origin of HIV/AIDS as an iatrogenic (i.e., man-made) outcome of specific vaccination experiments.

Considered reflection on this AIDS science, along with the sociopolitical correlates and antecedents of this current catastrophe, reveals the likelihood that myriad other immune
dysfunctions, autoimmune diseases, and cancers, including leukemias, lymphomas, sarcomas, and other ailments linked to viral infections, have resulted from previously engineered microbes that have by accident or intent found their way from cancer virus laboratories into humanity’s bloodstream by way of the most trusted public health preventative—vaccinations.

If what you are about to read is true, and each point is precisely stated and meticulously documented, beyond extensive depopulation, humanity’s very survival may hinge on this recognition, its implications, and our considered response. Especially relevant, when reflecting on the following facts, is the wisdom addressed by the late World Health Organization (WHO) AIDS czar, Dr. Jonathan Mann, whose life ended tragically on Flight 111 enroute to a European AIDS conference. “More than a medical scientific problem,” Dr. Mann said, “AIDS is a sociopolitical imposition.””

“In brief, a well documented, theoretically viable, and generally neglected evolutionary route of SIVagm to HIV-1 zoonosis sequentially involves: 1) Polio vaccine recipients worldwide, including gay men in New York, and Blacks in Central Africa, were exposed to simian viruses including SV40, SFR (Simian Foamy Retroviruses containing reverse transcriptase), SIVagm, and perhaps others from the mid-1950s, through at least the 1960s;2,4 2) Between 1965 and 1970, researchers in NYC “isolated” and then inoculated the MS-2 strain of HB virus into the above cited New York and African HB vaccine study “volunteers.”2,30 3) Human derived HB viruses, and potentially activated retroviral sequences, were then transferred to chimpanzees, then back again to humans in NYC and central Africa during the development and testing of four genetically altered subtypes of the pre-1975 experimental HB vaccine.32,33 HIV-1 progenitor contamination, recombination, and/or transmission risks were likely increased during this process by: a) human incubation for more than a decade of polio vaccine contaminants and recombinants including SV40, SFR, and possibly SIVagm; b) the pooling of infected blood serum donated by hundreds of gay American and Black African polio vaccine recipients who had subsequently received injections with chimpanzee cultured strains of HB virus; c) the biohazardous laboratory conditions and viral containment problems reported by the HB vaccine investigators and their affiliates; and finally 5) The four pooled serum-derived HB vaccines that were administered to thousands of test subjects by 1975, primarily gay males in NYC and central African Blacks. This series of events provides the best explanation for an early to mid-1970s “punctuated origin event” most precisely fitting the etiological determinations of the HIV-1/AIDS pandemic.10

Again, it should be noted that the African “volunteers” inhabited a geographic area consistent with the highest rates of HIV-1 seroprevalence. Among the nations where rates are highest, HB studies were conducted in: Senegal, Cote d’Ivoire, Uganda, Kenya, Swaziland, and the northeastern part of South Africa. According to circumstantial evidence, eastern Zaire bordering the West Nile region of northwest Uganda also hosted such trials.2,25-27

Historic Precedence for the HB Vaccine Hypothesis

There is historic precedence for this precise HB thesis. According to Beale, the risk of HB viruses contaminating human blood serum and subsequent vaccinations was determined as early as 1942. Then, more than 62 deaths and 28,500 cases resulted from serum HB contaminated yellow fever vaccines.31

According to Hilleman, early yellow fever vaccines also delivered leukemic retroviruses to human populations due to caged animal and laboratory contaminations and concomitant vaccine transmissions.13

Dr. Hilleman additionally reinforced this “punctuated origin” thesis by describing the risks he encountered by importing contaminated African sub-human primates for vaccine research and development at the Merck pharmaceutical company. Between the late 1950s through the 1970s, Dr. Hilleman told Harvard medical historian Edward Shorter in 1987, “I brought African greens in. I didn’t know we were importing AIDS virus at the time.”13

Given these statements of fact, it is reasonable to suggest, as stated above, the earliest HB vaccine pilot studies may have activated an endogenous or exogenous HIV-related retroviral gene in one or more of the primates,24 fulfilling the “starburst phylogeny” antecedents advanced by Myers et al.10

During the Royal Society’s symposium on the origin of AIDS, Hooper’s 1950s OPV/AIDS hypothesis was largely rebuked because he failed to establish the use of chimpanzees by the Wistar Institute in the production of the suspected OPV.18 Moreover, this vaccine was not given selectively to New York’s gay male population. Curiously, Merck’s early 1970s hepatitis B vaccine trials that did involve gay men in NYC, and Blacks in central Africa, partially prepared in Litton Bionetics (LB) exported/Merck imported African chimpanzees, ironically went without mention.”

http://www.originofaids.com/articles/early.htm

Wellcome Ebola…we’ve been waiting for you!

“The American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (ASTMH) is proud to be the professional home for scientists, clinicians and program professionals who lead the fight against infectious disease – in the lab and on the ground. Amidst this rapidly evolving global public health situation, ASTMH will host its 63rd Annual Meeting in New Orleans November 2-6. The world’s leading scientists on tropical medicine and global health will gather to share the latest findings on malaria, dengue, cholera, as well as Ebola and many other diseases that impact our world.

The nature of our community’s work coupled with the timing of the meeting has raised concern among health and government officials in our host city of New Orleans and the state of Louisiana. The Society has been contacted by the Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals (DHH) and the Governor’s Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness (GOHSEP) regarding their plans to implement a travel advisory that affects our upcoming conference.

Each state within the U.S. has legal rights and responsibilities to set its own public health policy to meet perceived local public health needs and concerns. While the state of Louisiana’s policies are outside of the scientific understanding of Ebola transmission—and acknowledged by the state health officials’ own admission—we recognize that the state has determined its policy in this matter. ASTMH does not agree with the policy as outlined by the Louisiana DHH. ”

http://astmh.org//Content/NavigationMenu/Publications/IntheNews/EbolaStatement-updated_v2.pdf

Novavax sees ‘several billion-dollar global opportunity’ as it plans Ebola vaccine clinical trial by year-end
Oct 30, 2014, 2:42pm EDT
“That’s what CFO Barclay “Buck” Phillipstold me this week after the Gaithersburg-based company announced it planned to begin Phase 1 clinical trials by December. Novavax announced this week at the 8th Vaccine and ISV Conference in Philadelphia that it’s the only company targeting the NEWEST STRAIN of the virus which emerged in Guinea this year and has killed thousands in West Africa.
“Clearly this is a pathogen we need to address,” said Phillips.
The Ebola vaccine, he added, is potentially a “SEVERAL BILLION DOLLAR global opportunity.”
Multiple vaccines and treatments for Ebola are under development around the region. Rockville-based biopharmaceutical company Emergent BioSolutions Inc. could begin manufacturing its experimental Ebola drug, ZMapp, at its Baltimore facility. The feds recently gave $14.4 million to Baltimore’s Profectus BioSciences Inc. for work on an Ebola vaccine. And earlier this month, the National Institutes of Health announced it was beginning human trials for an Ebola vaccine.
Phillips told me Novavax is using a DIFFERENT STRATEGY because it can make a gene sequence of the protein that surrounds a virus and build the vaccine to trigger an immune system response completely based on that protein. Other companies still rely on using a virus of some sort to trigger that response, he said.
Novavax also found its ADJUVANT TECHNOLOGY, or the substance it created to enhance immune system responses to its vaccines, worked well with the vaccine candidate, Phillips said.
http://www.bizjournals.com/washington/blog/2014/10/novavax-sees-several-billion-dollar-global.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+industry_6+%28Industry+Health+Care%29

Africa: Human Trials of Ebola Vaccines By Year’s End
The World Health Organization has announced that TWO potential Ebola vaccines will be ready for human trials by DECEMBER. Successful trials could lead to HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS of available doses in 2015.

Extensive trials of two newly developed Ebola vaccines could begin before the end of the year, a World Health Organization (WHO) official told reporters on Friday.

“All is being put in place to start efficacy tests in the affected countries as early as December,” said Marie-Paule Kieny, WHO assistant director general for health systems and innovation.

The announcement came after the UN health agency held PRIVATE talks with officials from the three most affected nations – Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea – as well as health experts, PHARMACEUTICAL EXECUTIVES and funding agencies. The two most advanced EXPERIMENTAL drugs, one of which is produced by GLAXOSMITHKLINE, will go to human trials FIRST, with five other vaccines scheduled to begin testing in March.

However GSK’s Chief Executive, Andrew Witty, cautioned on Thursday that companies needed some sort of PROTECTION FROM GOVERNMENTS, considering the normally YEARS-long procedure for SAFETY testing must be reduced to MONTHS.

Between 20,000 and 30,000 people in Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea will participate in the testing. If all goes well, hundreds of thousands of doses could be rolled out by mid-2015.

Kieny warned NOT to expect miracles, saying “vaccines are not a magic bullet, but when ready they MAY be a good part of the effort to turn the tide against the epidemic.”

Concerns over the COST of combating the virus were also addressed in the closed-door discussions hosted by WHO. Drug makers assured the UN health agency that vaccines will be kept affordable.

This news coincided with the EU pledging a further 600 million euros (720 million dollars) to the fight against Ebola. Just last week, former UN Secretary General Kofi Annan criticized the West for not doing more, and only vowing to fight the virus after it had reached the US and Europe.

http://allafrica.com/stories/201410271499.html

LOOKING FOR NEW BUSINESS:
The drug and vaccine landscape for neglected diseases (2000—11): a systematic assessment

(INCLUDES EBOLA)
“Background
In 1975—99, only 1·1% of new therapeutic products had been developed for neglected diseases. Since then, several public and private initiatives have attempted to mitigate this imbalance. We analysed the research and development pipeline of drugs and vaccines for neglected diseases from 2000 to 2011.
Methods
We searched databases of drug regulatory authorities, WHO, and clinical trial registries for entries made between Jan 1, 2000, and Dec 31, 2011. We defined neglected diseases as malaria, tuberculosis, diarrhoeal diseases, neglected tropical diseases (NTDs; WHO definition), and other diseases of poverty according to common definitions.
Findings
Of the 850 new therapeutic products registered in 2000—11, 37 (4%) were indicated for neglected diseases, comprising 25 products with a new indication or formulation and eight vaccines or biological products. Only four new chemical entities were approved for neglected diseases (three for malaria, one for diarrhoeal disease), accounting for 1% of the 336 new chemical entities approved during the study period. Of 148 445 clinical trials registered in Dec 31, 2011, only 2016 (1%) were for neglected diseases.
Interpretation
Our findings show a persistent insufficiency in drug and vaccine development for neglected diseases. Nevertheless, these and other data show a slight improvement during the past 12 years in new therapeutics development and registration. However, for many neglected diseases, new therapeutic products urgently need to be developed and delivered to improve control and potentially achieve elimination.
Funding
None.”
Table 6
NEW PRODUCTS IN CLINICAL TRIALS by neglected disease and product type (as of DECEMBER 31, 2011)
Table 6
Data are n (%). NCE=new chemical entity. NF=new formulation. FDC=fixed-dose combination. NI=new indication. NA=new association. NTD=neglected tropical disease (WHO definition).
* Cutaneous leishmaniasis (10), dengue fever (6), visceral leishmaniasis (4), Chagas disease (3), schistosomiasis (3), rabies (2), one each for echinococcosis, hookworm, human African trypanosomiasis, lymphatic filariasis, onchocerciasis, and cysticercosis or taeniasis.
† Viral haemorrhagic fevers (6), other arboviruses (6), Japanese encephalitis (3), one each for yellow fever, scabies, and snakebite.

NOTE: “NDT’S INCLUDE EBOLA (Viral haemorrhagic fevers)

http://www.thelancet.com/journals/langlo/article/PIIS2214-109X(13)70078-0/fulltext

Dr Peter Horby to lead fast-tracked Ebola trials
Investigational Ebola treatments are to be tested in West Africa for the first time as part of an international initiative to fast-track trials of the most promising drugs, for the disease that has already led to over 2,600 deaths.

A £3.2 million grant from the WELCOME TRUST will enable multiple partners around the world, including the International Severe Acute Respiratory and Emerging Infections Consortium (ISARIC), the University of Oxford, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), the World Health Organisation (WHO), Institut Pasteur, Institut Pasteur de Dakar, Fondation Mérieux and the Global Health Network, to quickly establish clinical trials at existing Ebola treatment centres.

The unprecedented outbreak of the virus, one of the most virulent infectious agents known to man, has been declared a threat to international peace and security by the UN Security Council and prompted demands for an urgent response. In August a WHO expert panel unanimously concluded that in such exceptional circumstances it would be ethical to evaluate unregistered investigational treatments in people with Ebola virus disease.

Several potential interventions have shown promise in the laboratory, in animal studies on non-human primates, and in a small number of cases of compassionate intervention, but none has yet been tested for efficacy and safety in humans with Ebola. Any new drug needs to be evaluated within the rigorous settings of a clinical trial to assess whether it is doing more harm or good.

Led by Dr Peter Horby of the Centre for Tropical Medicine and Global Health at the University of Oxford and ISARIC, this initiative will now allow candidate Ebola treatments to be assessed rapidly in patients so that those proving safe and effective may be adopted for use as soon as possible.

The funding will be used to establish a clinical trials platform involving the consortium and a number of sites in West Africa where treatments can be formally evaluated in patients with Ebola virus disease. Together with partner health authorities in affected countries, the consortium will assess which sites are suited for the trials, ensuring that activities do not adversely affect the delivery of patient care, staff welfare and safety, and centre operations. The WHO will then facilitate access to the treatments, and rapid ethical review and implementation of the trials in affected countries. The precise details of how the trials will be carried out are being discussed with all stakeholders, and, most importantly, the local communities who would be involved. It is possible that trials will involve both randomised and non-randomised arms.

Several candidate treatments are under consideration and a group of independent experts appointed by WHO will recommend which to prioritise based on factors such as which is likely to work best, the availability of the intervention, the ability to safely administer the intervention in treatment centre settings, and the capacity for manufacture to a useful scale. A number of pharmaceutical companies including Mapp Biopharmaceutical, Sarepta, and Tekmira are collaborating in the initiative and are providing key data on efficacy, safety, and production abilities for a number of potential treatments.

While awaiting the WHO recommendation on the products to be tested first, the consortium will begin immediately to work with counterparts in affected countries to assess the suitability of potential sites, and establish the infrastructure, staffing and systems of the clinical trials platform. During this phase investigators will also work with affected communities, local organisations, and national ethical and regulatory agencies to determine the best possible study design that can be achieved under the circumstances of the epidemic.

This latest announcement is part of a series of multi-million pound measures supported by the Wellcome Trust and enabling unparalleled international collaboration across the public, private and not-for-profit sectors to tackle the public health emergency. These include the trial of a candidate Ebola vaccine in the UK and West Africa, and accelerated funding for humanitarian research into combating the outbreak.

Dr Peter Horby, Associate Professor of Infectious Diseases and Global Health, University of Oxford, said: “The Ebola situation in West Africa is an ongoing tragedy of immense proportions and we urgently need to know whether any of these investigational treatments can save lives. In essence we need straightforward clinical trials, as for any drug for any disease, but new ways of working will be needed to provide rapid and reliable answers in perhaps the most challenging outbreak we have ever encountered. Effective drugs will not only help individual patients but will also increase community confidence in the value of Ebola treatment centres, thereby improving our chances of controlling the outbreak through isolation and treatment of infectious patients.”

Dr Jeremy Farrar, DIRECTOR OF THE WELCOME TRUST, said: “It is a huge challenge to carry out clinical trials under such difficult conditions, but ultimately this is the only way we will ever find out whether any new Ebola treatments actually work. What’s more, rapid trials, followed by large-scale manufacturing and distribution of any effective treatments, might produce medicines that could be used in this epidemic. The Wellcome Trust funding will allow these trials to happen quickly, and in an ethically and scientifically robust setting.”

Dr Marie-Paule Kieny, Assistant Director-General of WHO’s Health Systems and Innovation, said: “In order to benefit the broader community, WHO confirmed that it is ethical to offer unregistered therapeutic interventions to Ebola patients in the context of the current outbreak, while ensuring that as much information on their safety and efficacy is collected as possible. This platform provides an excellent opportunity to put this recommendation into action.”

Dr Piero Olliaro, Senior Research Manager at TDR, the Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases at WHO, said: “This clinical trials platform will make it possible to rapidly test potential treatments in the affected West African countries. The data will be openly available, an important step for ongoing scientific investigations. The WELCOME TRUST’S financial commitment is an important and valuable contribution to helping us find new treatments for this terrible outbreak.”

http://www.ndm.ox.ac.uk/peter-horby-to-lead-fast-tracked-ebola-trials

WELLCOME TRUST HISTORY:

“Despite years of research, the present writer has been able to merely scratch the surface of the Rockefeller influences listed here. For instance, the huge Burroughs Wellcome drug firm is wholly owned by the “charitable” WELLCOME TRUST This trust is directed by Lord Oliver Franks, a key member of the London Connection which maintains the United States as a British Colony. Franks was Ambassador to the United States from 1948 to 1952. He is now a director of the Rockefeller Foundation, as its principal representative in England. He also is a director of the Schröder Bank, which handled Hitler’s personal bank account, director of the Rhodes Trust in charge of approving Rhodes scholarships, visiting professor at the University of Chicago and chairman of Lloyd’s Bank, one of England’s Big Five.”
http://www.biblebelievers.org.au/emullins.htm

PROOF! Ebola Expert Killed On MH17

Ebola Vaccine, Ready for Test, Sat on the Shelf

“GALVESTON, Tex. — Almost a decade ago, scientists from Canada and the United States reported that they had created a vaccine that was 100 percent effective in protecting monkeys against the Ebola virus. The results were published in a respected journal, and health officials called them exciting. The researchers said tests in people might start within two years, and a product could potentially be ready for licensing by 2010 or 2011.

It never happened. The vaccine sat on a shelf. Only now is it undergoing the most basic safety tests in humans — with nearly 5,000 people dead from Ebola and an epidemic raging out of control in West Africa.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/24/health/without-lucrative-market-potential-ebola-vaccine-was-shelved-for-years.html?_r=1

“Professor David Heymann CBE, chairman of Public Health England and professor of Infectious Disease Epidemiology at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, said no virus transmitted by bodily fluids – as Ebola is – had ever mutated to airborne transmission.

“There has never been a virus transmitted in this manner that converts to a respiratory virus, and there is no evidence that this has ever occurred in the epidemiology,” he said at a discussion programme on the virus in London on Wednesday night. He mentioned HIV and Hepatitis B as example of viruses transmitted by bodily fluids that had “never converted to a respiratory virus”.

Dr Jeremy Farrar, Director of the WELCOME TRUST, added that a sense of proportion should be kept when discussing Ebola.

“The chances of Ebola becoming airborne are extremely small. I am not aware of any viral infection changing its mode of transmission. It’s important we retain a sense of proportion and not exaggerate the risks for it changing and becoming airborne,” he told the Telegraph. “There is already enough fear and panic surrounding this epidemic.”

http://thedailyresistance.com/ebola-could-become-airborne-united-nations-warns-of-nightmare-scenario-as-virus-spreads-to-the-us/

“Here is another question that needs to be answered why does the CDC have a patent on a certain strand of ebola? Is this a false flag either by them bringing in the crisis or by letting this happening.

Here is an excerpt from Dr. Pianka from University of Texas who states we need airborne ebola to kill most of the population. The elite openly talk about killing us through diseases like ebola, vaccines, cancer, poison in food and water so is it out of the realm of possibilities that this maybe let out to spread to wipe out large pockets of population. Look at the quotes do your own research come to your own conclusion but do not put your head in the sand and simply state conspiracy theorist, when its on record that the globalists all subscribe to this thinking.”

“AIDS is not an efficient killer, he explained, because it is too slow. His favorite candidate for eliminating 90 percent of the world’s population is airborne Ebola ( Ebola Reston ), because it is both highly lethal and it kills in days, instead of years. However, Professor Pianka did not mention that Ebola victims die a slow and torturous death as the virus initiates a cascade of biological calamities inside the victim that eventually liquefy the internal organs.”

http://thedailyresistance.com/is-the-ebola-outbreak-being-manufactured-by-the-globalists-to-cull-the-population/

http://www.robertscottbell.com/blog/ty-bollinger-dr-lee-cowden-dr-andrew-wakefield-dr-brian-hooker-cdcwhistelblower-mmr-autism-colorados-mike-dunafon-more/

Ebola Vaccine Market: FAST AND FURIOUS! Must see!
My question: What if the public ISN’T BUYING? WHAT IF AFRICANS JUST SAY NO! to being LAB RATS?

Ebola Vaccine- hundred of links!
http://www.medworm.com/rss/search.php?qu=%2Bebola+%2B(vaccinated%2Cvaccines%2Cvaccine%2Cvaccinations%2Cvaccination)&kid=156907&t=Ebola+Vaccine&f=vaccines&r=Any&o=d

EBOLA IS REAL……fishy

Why The Massive ‘Ebola Is Real’ Propaganda Campaign?

http://www.zengardner.com/massive-ebola-real-propaganda-campaign/

Remember, the original 1976 outbreak in Zaire started only with those receiving INJECTIONS from the same hospital. Is this a combo Marburg/Lassa fever engineered shot?

MORE BRAINWASH:

Nurse Hickox BUSTED!

THANKS TO THE DAILY CALLER for revealing this important info.!
This is the same CDC job Verstraeten had in his 1999 investigation of the Thimerosal/ vaccine/ autism/ speech delay, etc. link. He gave his revealing report at the infamous secret CDC Simpsonwood meeting in 2000. The Thimerosal/autism link was covered up. This group is a biowarfare unit. The plot thickens. Doctors Without Borders is a known “cover”. Looks like some “vaccines” are being tested……

http://dailycaller.com/2014/10/27/released-ebola-nurse-kaci-hickox-works-for-cdc-her-lawyer-is-a-white-house-visitor/

“Here’s an overlooked factor that could have contributed to her White House-backed release: Hickox is an official CDC Epidemic Intelligence Service (EIS) officer who performed work for the CDC in recent months.

Hickox was a Class of 2012 member of CDC’s two-year EIS officer training program, according to the official program for CDC’s 2014 EIS Conference (p. 98), which was held from April 28 to May 1, 2014. Hickox was featured in a photograph in the program.

Hickox was listed as an “EIS officer” for the CDC in program materials for a CDC course she taught in July 2014. She was specifically listed as an active “EIS officer” as recently as July 18, 2014, according to CDC documents.

Hickox was a presenter at the CDC conference this spring, according to the program’s list of presenters (p. 103).

Hickox taught an April 29 session called “Contact Investigation of Health Care Personnel Exposed to Maternal and Neonatal Tuberculosis—Clark County, Nevada, 2013″ at the conference (p. 3).

“During the 2-year training program, EIS officers are employees of the CDC and receive a salary and benefits. Salaries range from $65,000 to 90,000 per year, based on qualifications and experience,” according to CDC’s website.”

The NWO folks behind the scene, as usual……VACCINES = POPULATION CONTROL

“Contributions of Alexander D. Langmuir to the Epidemiologic Study of Population Change and Family Planning”

“We in public health assume responsibility for the problems we create. And by preventing babies from dying, we have created the population explosion” (1, p. 159).

Alexander D. Langmuir, M.D., M.P.H.

http://aje.oxfordjournals.org/content/144/Supplement_8/S51.full.pdf

@Toto,

What a load. Did the Red Queen charge you with writing all that up and reading it to all the number cards?

More seriously, if you want to communicate rather than just give yourself a pat on the back, remember the acronym K.I.S.S.

In all that pile of irrelevant whatever, is there even one complete syllogism that concludes anything?

What a weird gishgalloping mixture of legitimate reports of Ebola vaccine development and idiotic frothing-at-the-mouth paranoid conspiracy theories. Even “shrill, roaringly raving loon” Len Horowitz makes an appearance. People like Horowitz might be amusing if they didn’t pose a very real threat to public health – Horowitz was among those who persuaded Nation of Islam to call for a boycott of U.S.-sponsored vaccination programs. I didn’t think my opinion of Toto could sink any lower, but now it has.

OK, I’m confused. Is Ebola a hoax to create a demand for an Ebola vaccine, or is it a disease caused by the Ebola vaccine which hasn’t been released yet?

It has been well documented that boko haram has kidnapped a substantial number of young women. This has been verified by independent reporters talking to the parents of said young women. According to the purported leader of boko haram, these girls have been “married off” to his “soldiers”. A claim that this never happened is not merely misinformed, but can be presumed to be malicious.

Now I know Toto is an escapee from an asylum.

@Toto

I recommend you get your keyboard checked fixed. The caps lock appears to be getting stuck and awful lot. Oh, and make sure your 13-year-old kid doesn’t have access. They seem to be copying and pasting a bunch of silly stuff to make you look like a blithering idiot.

The AUTISM GENERATION kids got this DTP vaccine- 1986-1999.
DTP INSERT:
“A committee of the Institute of Medicine (IOM) has concluded that evidence is consistent with a CAUSAL relationship between whole-cell pertussis DTP vaccine and ACUTE NEUROLOGIC illness, and under special circumstances, between whole-cell pertussis DTP vaccine and CHRONIC NEUROLOGIC disease in the context of the National Childhood Encephalopathy Study (NCES) report.24,25”
http://www.fda.gov/downloads/BiologicsBloodVaccines/Vaccines/ApprovedProducts/UCM101580.pdf

The origins of Ebola Zaire…..

ISOLATIONANDPARTIALCHARACTERISATION OF
A NEW VIRUS CAUSING ACUTE HÆMORRHAGIC FEVER IN ZAIRE
K. M. JOHNSON P. A. WEBB J. V. LANGE F. A. MURPHY
VirologyDivision, CenterforDisease Control, Atlanta, Georgia 30333, U.S.A.

“In all details, these particles were indis- tinguishable from Marburg virus particles studied in 1967 (iso-
lates from Germany) and 1975 (isolate from South Africa).5-’ Two characteristics were more prominent in the 1976 Zaire isolate: there was more branching of the filamentous particles (fig. 1); and more evidence of envelope continuation beyond the ends of the more rigidinternal structure (fig. 1, arrow).”

http://ac.els-cdn.com/S0140673677920001/1-s2.0-S0140673677920001-main.pdf?_tid=22e26538-54be-11e4-91d6-00000aab0f6c&acdnat=1413413813_a79012fd53cae3b970cc43f148e2fe32

Toto: “FDA Vaccine Insert Lists AUTISM as Adverse Reaction:”

Things have changed since you were in the asylum. That vaccine has not been available for three years:
http://www.ashp.org/menu/DrugShortages/DrugsNoLongerAvailable/bulletin.aspx?id=764

@squirrel
“Since I grew up learning about my aunt who worked as a nurse helping to bring modern medical care to many of those children and training many of the native girls to be nurses and continue providing that benefit to their country, I think learning more about the malaria parasite and finding a better treatment for the disease or a way to vaccinate against the parasite or otherwise prevent it would be an excellent thing.”

According to this 1976 WHO document, Zaire was injecting chloroquine to treat malaria patients. In this incident, however, THINGS WENT VERY WRONG!

”The index case in this outbreak had onset of symptoms on 1 September 1976, five days after receiving an INJECTION of chloroquine for presumptive malaria at the outpatient clinic at Yambuku Mission Hospital (YMH). He had a clinical remission of his malaria symptoms. Within one week several other persons who had received injections at YMH also suffered from EBOLA HAEMORRHAGIC FEVER, and almost all subsequent cases had either received injections at the hospital or had had close contact with another case. Most of these occurred during the first four weeks of the epidemic, after which time the hospital was closed, 11 of the 17 staff members having died of the disease. ….women 15-29 years of age had the highest incidence of disease, …strongly related to attendance at prenatal and outpatient clinics at the hospital where they received INJECTIONS.”
“THE DISEASE WAS HITHERTO UNKNOWN TO THE PEOPLE OF THE AFFECTED REGIONS”
“This syndrome was caused by a virus morphologically similar to MARBURG virus, but immunologically distinct. It was named EBOLA virus.”

P. 280
“Most of the cases related to injection occurred during the first 4 weeks of the epidemic….it seems likely that the closure of Yambuku Missionary Hospital was the SINGLE event of greatest importance in the eventual termination of the outbreak.”

http://whqlibdoc.who.int/bulletin/1978/Vol56-No2/bulletin_1978_56(2)_271-293.pdf

Wellcome eugenics!
NO ONE IS SAFE…

Dr Bronner wants his soap packaging back.

I’m still trying to figure out how Toto got from Oz to Wonderland.

Toto seems like an appropriate nym considering the stream of dog vomit we are being subjected to.

INTERESTING E-HISTORY:

http://whqlibdoc.who.int/bulletin/1978/Vol56-No2/bulletin_1978_56(2)_271-293.pdf
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2395567/
http://www.itg.be/internet/ebola/ebola-62.htm
http://www.cdc.gov/vhf/lassa/treatment/index.html
http://www.cdc.gov/vhf/lassa/symptoms/index.html
Transmission of Lassa virus to humans occurs most commonly through ingestion or inhalation. person-to-person transmission may occur after exposure to virus in the blood, tissue, secretions, or excretions of a Lassa virus-infected individual. http://www.cdc.gov/vhf/lassa/transmission/index.html
http://journals.lww.com/aidsonline/fulltext/2000/01070/effect_of_interferon_and_ribavirin_on_hiv_viral.16.aspx
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16267962
http://www.cnn.com/2014/09/27/health/ebola-hiv-drug/
Treatment with either lamivudine or ribavirin reduced the 5-HTT mRNA expression, protein level and 5-HT uptake in T-cell line. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16476009
“Subsequently a number of other cases were reported, almost all centered on the Yambuku mission hospital or having close contact with another case.[81]318 cases and 280 deaths (a 88% fatality rate) occurred in the DRC.” (Zaire)
http://epidemic.bio.ed.ac.uk/ebolavirus_fatality_rate
http://www.infoplease.com/cig/dangerous-diseases-epidemics/ebola-africa-bloody-disease.html
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/oct/04/ebola-zaire-peter-piot-outbreak
http://www.google.com/patents/US20120251502
Sierra Leone’s top Ebola doctor tragically died yesterday from an Ebola infection.
http://www.sierraexpressmedia.com/?p=69489
Dr. Sheik Humarr Khan, who was praised as a national hero for treating more than 100 patients with the disease, was confirmed dead by health ministry officials there. He had been hospitalised in quarantine.
Dr Khan, 39, died on Tuesday after being admitted last week into an anti-Ebola treatment facility run by the medical charity Doctors Without Borders when he tested positive for the virus.
Head of Sierra Leone’s health services, Brima Kargbo, said Dr Khan had been in charge of the main Ebola treatment centre in Kenema, around 320 kilometres east of the capital Freetown.
Three nurses at the facility also died of the disease.
According to the ministry’s latest figures released on Tuesday, 489 cases of Ebola have been recorded in Sierra Leone and 159 people have died.
http://www.news.com.au/world/sierra-leones-top-ebola-doctor-sheik-umar-khan-dies-from-virus-as-major-airline-suspends-flights/story-fndir2ev-1227006617676
Learn more: http://www.naturalnews.com/046259_ebola_outbreak_drug_treatments_monsanto.html##ixzz3Fa2KnjDG

http://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/220046-cdc-airborne-ebola-possible-but-unlikely
Khan had worked for years helping people with another viral disease, called Lassa fever, which causes symptoms similar to Ebola.

When Ebola emerged in Sierra Leone this past March, Khan immediately turned his attention to the outbreak and started treating patients at a hospital in Kenema.

Several nurses at that hospital have also caught the virus. Three of them died last week.

http://wvpe.org/post/sierra-leone-doctor-who-led-fight-against-ebola-dies

https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=322983307878518&id=281064805403702
http://jonrappoport.wordpress.com/2014/08/01/what-are-us-biowar-researchers-doing-in-the-ebola-zone/
The Viral Hemorrhagic Fever Consortium was established in 2010 as a result of several multi-year grants and contracts awarded to Tulane University by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), to support Tulane’s ongoing efforts to treat and prevent Lassa fever. – See more at: http://www.corgenix.com/news-releases/corgenix-provides-update-on-ebola-test-kit-nih-grant/#sthash.1R550kTM.dpuf

The Consortium is a collaboration between Tulane, Scripps Research Institute, Harvard University/Broad, University of Texas Medical Branch, Autoimmune Technologies LLC, Corgenix Medical Corporation, Kenema Government Hospital (Sierra Leone), the Irrua Specialist Teaching Hospital (Nigeria) Université de Lausanne (Switzerland), Zalgen Labs, LLC, and various other partners in West Africa. More information is available at http://www.vhfc.org. – See more at: http://www.corgenix.com/news-releases/corgenix-provides-update-on-ebola-test-kit-nih-grant/#sthash.1R550kTM.dpuf

http://www.corgenix.com/news-releases/corgenix-provides-update-on-ebola-test-kit-nih-grant/

Dumb thread-derailing troll is still a dumb thread-derailing troll:

https://www.respectfulinsolence.com/2014/10/23/brian-hooker-and-andrew-wakefield-send-a-complaint-to-the-cdc-about-its-vaccine-research-everyone-yawns/#comment-374689

@squirrel
Obviously you didn’t bother to read the entire report. I merely gave out juicy tidbits to entice a naturally curious reader to dig further.

You would have read that the Yambuku clinic had an outpatient clinic that treated 6,000 to 12,000 persons monthly. Yet, astoundingly, “five syringes and needles were issued to the nursing staff each morning for use at the outpatient department, the prenatal clinic, and the impatient wards. these syringes and needles were APPARENTLY (my note: NOT PROVEN) sterilized between their use on different patients but rinsed in a pan of warm water…THE SURGICAL THEATER HAD ITS OWN AMPLE SUPPLY OF INSTRUMENTS, SYRINGES, AND NEEDLES, WHICH WERE KEPT SEPARATELY AND AUTOCLAVED AFTER USE.” p. 273
http://whqlibdoc.who.int/bulletin/1978/Vol56-No2/bulletin_1978_56(2)_271-293.pdf

It is obvious to me that the author of the report was very suspicious of what was in the injections. He made it clear that Ebola was directly tied to the clinic and the injections. It did not make sense to “share needles”.
By using the word “apparently”, he lets the reader know that the “unclean needle” explanation was not a PROVEN FACT.
2+2=4. We already know that biowarfare weapons were being worked on at that time using the Marburg virus. It is clearly stated that Ebola is directly related to the MARBURG virus. 2+2=4.

Compare this 1976 account with my other posts regarding the Kenema Hospital Ebola outbreak in Sierra Leone. Tulane was conducting “trials” there. The locals claimed that the hospital was the source of Ebola. THEY SHUT THE HOSPITAL DOWN. The Ebola cases dropped. 2+2=4.
http://wvpe.org/post/sierra-leone-doctor-who-led-fight-against-ebola-dies

https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=322983307878518&id=281064805403702
http://jonrappoport.wordpress.com/2014/08/01/what-are-us-biowar-researchers-doing-in-the-ebola-zone/

By the way, did your dear aunt use UNSTERILIZED NEEDLES on her poor African patients?

Toto was previously spamming the same DILUTE! DILUTE! at Sharyl Attkinsson’s self-proclaimed Home of Fearless Reporting, but not even the chemtrail crowd there were tempted by the “juicy titbits”.

Heh. Pardon me if it’s already been mentioned, but I just noticed that Wakefraud has given instructions (as well as an “explanation,” viz., that this is really about somehow making CDC respond to his “complaint,” even though that’s the ORI’s job) the idiotic paper intimidospam* signed by – although, as far as I can tell, not served by the Web site of – “Parents for Ethical Research.”

Let’s see:**
narad> traceroute parentsforethicalresearch.com
traceroute to parentsforethicalresearch.com (192.185.39.253), 64 hops max, 40 byte packets
[…]
10 be-11317-cr01.dallas.tx.ibone.comcast.net (68.86.84.229) 155.446 ms 55.166 ms 89.752 ms
11 be-20-pe01.houston.tx.ibone.comcast.net (68.86.85.130) 59.076 ms 145.474 ms 59.156 ms
12 as8075-1.2001sixthave.wa.ibone.comcast.net (75.149.230.54) 57.920 ms 137.888 ms 59.162 ms
13 216.117.50.134 (216.117.50.134) 151.454 ms 59.959 ms 57.462 ms
14 192.185.178.174 (192.185.178.174) 58.064 ms 192.185.178.166 (192.185.178.166) 60.834 ms 192.185.178.174 (192.185.178.174) 93.394 ms
15 192.185.39.253 (192.185.39.253) 58.106 ms 129.693 ms 59.302 ms

Hop 13 is CyrusOne, LLC, Carrollton, Texas. Hop 15 is CyrusOne’s WebSiteWelcome, Houston.

* A lamely warmed-over approach, given that crazy antivax mommies tried the “reverse waiver” routine some time ago, with the usual consequences.
** Possible <pre> disaster coming.

“Dissemination of the agent into the villages of the region was principally through contaminated equipment used for parenteral injections.”

Yes, contaminated with Ebola virus. Isn’t Marburg in Germany? That’s a long way from Zaire. LOL!

What is your explanation for “5 needles/day”?
Obviously, they had plenty and knew how to autoclave. Why did the writer immediately juxtapose these two conflicting facts? Were the Catholic nuns really that stupid? Who was in charge of the clinic?
THIS IS A SMOKING GUN!

Once again, did your dear aunt use unsterile needles on the poor Africans?

re: hop 10

comcast.net

eww. Are *they* still around?? Didn’t they used to be ‘Group W’? Your argument is invalidated.

^ “you are an”

Time to kill -9 the memory-leaking browser again.

HOT vaccines! HOT vaccines! One a million, two a billion, HOT vaccines!
HURRY! SUPPLIES ARE LIMITED! GET ‘EM WHILE THEY’RE HOT!
Remember, just get your “dam*” vaccine!

Looks like we have 90 eager experimental vaccine volunteers! AND THEY ALL ATTENDED THE WHO MONEY MEETING!
“More than 90 participants, including some of the world’s leading scientists, came, on short notice, from national and university research institutions, also in Africa, government health agencies, ministries of health and foreign affairs, national security councils, and several offices of Prime Ministers and Presidents. Also represented were national and regional drug regulatory authorities, the MSF (Doctors Without Borders) medical charity, funding agencies and foundations, the GAVI alliance for childhood immunization, and development banks, including the African Development Bank, the European Investment Bank, and the World Bank Group.”

“Summary report of a WHO High-level meeting on ebola vaccines access and financing

Ebola situation assessment – 23 October 2014

Introduction

A high-level emergency meeting, convened by WHO at the request of several governments and representatives of the pharmaceutical industry, was held on 23 October to look at the many complex policy issues that surround eventual access to experimental Ebola vaccines.

Ways to ensure the fair distribution and financing of these vaccines were discussed in an atmosphere characterized by a high sense of urgency. This sense of urgency was conveyed in many ways – from plans for the different phases of clinical trials to be performed concurrently rather than consecutively, to suggested partnerships for expediting clinical trials, to proposals for getting all development partners moving in tandem and at the same accelerated pace.

More than 90 participants, including some of the world’s leading scientists, came, on short notice, from national and university research institutions, also in Africa, government health agencies, ministries of health and foreign affairs, national security councils, and several offices of Prime Ministers and Presidents. Also represented were national and regional drug regulatory authorities, the MSF (Doctors Without Borders) medical charity, funding agencies and foundations, the GAVI alliance for childhood immunization, and development banks, including the African Development Bank, the European Investment Bank, and the World Bank Group.

Main conclusions reached

Impact of vaccines on further evolution of the epidemic
The meeting concluded that vaccines will have a significant impact on the further evolution of the epidemic in any scenario, from best-case to worst-case.

Financing of vaccine development, clinical trials, and vaccination campaigns
The meeting concluded that funding issues should not be allowed to dictate the vaccine agenda. The funds will be found.

Liability
The meeting concluded that neither affected countries nor industry should be left alone to bear the burden should lawsuits arise following possible adverse reactions to an Ebola vaccine. To respond to this potential problem, a proposal was made to establish a “club” of donors, in collaboration with the World Bank.

The timing and quantity of vaccine supplies
The meeting concluded that the timing and quantity of vaccine doses should not constrain the design of clinical trials. Industry confirmed that enough vaccine doses would be available.

GlaxoSmithKline’s monthly production capacity for purified bulk vaccine was expected to rise from the current figure of 24,000 doses to 230,000 by April 2015, if they can be filled for release. NewLink’s bulk vaccine manufacturing capacity for the Canadian vaccine was noted to vary, according to the dose selected, from 52,000 doses to 5.2 million doses anticipated for the first quarter of 2015.

Design of protocols for phase 2 and phase 3 clinical trials
The meeting concluded that randomized controlled clinical trials were the gold standard in terms of yielding reliable scientific data for the analysis and interpretation of efficacy. A stepped-wedge design could also yield useful and meaningful data during the special circumstances of the current epidemic.

WHO/M. MissioneiroThe 1st batch of experimental vaccines, VSV-EBOV, arrived in October 2014 in Geneva, Switzerland, and were stored at the Geneva University Hospital.
Priority uses of vaccine when supplies are limited
The meeting concluded that health care workers, including medical staff, laboratory staff, burial teams, and facility cleaners, should have first call on vaccine doses while supplies remain limited. Vaccination of health care workers in the three countries was judged feasible during the first quarter of 2015.

Regulatory requirements
The meeting concluded that the licensure and authorization requirements of regulatory authorities should be streamlined and harmonized, enabling the rapid introduction of vaccines for clinical trials and general distribution, yet with no compromise of scientific standards. In order to deliver the number of doses on the schedules proposed by the manufacturers, regulators must work closely with the manufacturers to find ways to overcome a number of regulatory hurdles.

Urgent measures to improve readiness for clinical trials and vaccines
The meeting concluded that two preparatory measures should be given the most urgent priority: community engagement and social mobilization to prepare populations to understand and accept clinical trials and vaccination campaigns, and the building of basic public health infrastructures, especially given the considerable logistical challenges facing health services in Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone.

Coordination and alignment among multiple partners
The meeting concluded that a mechanism or framework must be urgently established, relying on WHO’s convening and coordination powers, to get all partners working in tandem, according to a single agreed plan and aligned with industry’s “critical paths” analysis.

Determination to finish the job
The meeting concluded that all efforts to develop, test, and approve Ebola vaccines must be followed through to completion at the current accelerated pace, even if dramatic changes in the epidemic’s transmission dynamics meant that vaccines were no longer needed.

Read full meeting report: WHO high-level meeting on Ebola vaccines access and financing
pdf, 563 Kb
http://www.who.int/mediacentre/news/ebola/23-october-2014/en/

@squirrel
Your African prejudice is showing. The nurses were not “native”. They were BELGIAN (white) Catholic nuns- shipped in. Sherlock would laugh in your face. That is where the EVIDENCE is staring.
If you don’t have time to do proper research, then don’t post. Believe me, no one would miss you.

“and uncertain training standards for the native nurses”

Dumb thread-derailing troll is still a dumb thread-derailing troll.

Attenborough at his best!
Check out the camera, chain saw and car alarm imitations.
My kids love this clip.

WATCH OUT GLAXO!
You’ve got COMPETITION!

“WHO also announced the French government is ready to begin in Guinea clinical trials of a JAPANESE-developed Ebola vaccine called Favipiravi. Known as T-705, it is marketed by Toyama Chemical under the trade name Avigan.”
Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2014/10/who-begins-testing-new-ebola-treatment/#B1zXSGUXLcEC1iJM.99

MUSIC TO VACCINATE BY:

(eat your heart out Piers!)

Logan is brilliant. A true doctor. He cares about the people. The treatment worked for 15 out of 17. All who received the drug within the first 5 days of symptoms survived!
No wonder the vaxxers are trying to shut down this story!

“Logan said he got the idea to try lamivudine when he read in SCIENTIFIC JOURNALS that HIV and Ebola replicate inside the body in much the SAME WAY.
“Ebola is a brainchild of HIV,” he said. “It’s a destructive strain of HIV.”
At first he tried a drug called acyclovir, which is often given to HIV patients to treat infections that occur with their weakened immune systems. But it didn’t seem to be effective. Then he tried lamivudine on a health care worker who’d become ill, and within a day or two he showed signs of improvement and SURVIVED.
Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases says that THEORETICALLY, Lamivudine is a nucleocide analog, and other drugs in this class ARE BEING STUDIED TO TREAT EBOLA.”
http://www.cnn.com/2014/09/27/health/ebola-hiv-drug/

Vaxxers, where is your proof? Is Jon correct? THIS IS QUITE DISTURBING, BUT FITS A THEORY THAT IT IS “engineered”. If you can produce evidence of this virus in HUMANS, please do.

“Scientist finds no reliable evidence Ebola virus ever isolated from a human being”
by Jon Rappoport
November 3, 2014

Was the Ebola virus ever purified and isolated from a human?

Here is what Rasnick wrote, after his search of the published literature:

“I have examined in detail the literature on isolation and Ems [EM: electron microscope pictures] of both Ebola and Marburg viruses. I have not found any convincing evidence that Ebola virus (and for that matter Marburg) has been isolated from humans. There is certainly no confirmatory evidence of human isolation.

“I searched the CDC’s website and came up dry.

“The CDC claims 7728 Ebola virus cases have been ‘laboratory-confirmed’.

“I asked the CDC what constitutes isolation of Ebola virus from human specimens. I also asked for the protocol for isolating Ebola virus. [No reply from the CDC as of this date.]

“Virtually everything that is known and done with these viruses is in animals and cell culture.”

Rasnick continued:

“There is the possibility that Ebola and Marburg viruses represent laboratory artifacts. I’m inclined to think this is the case. What I mean is the viruses are real but may exist at very low levels in wild animals and even humans, well-below pathogenic [disease-causing] levels. These ‘passenger’ viruses may be activated and amplified in laboratory culturing conditions designed for that purpose in order to produce enough viral particles to be characterized.”
http://jonrappoport.wordpress.com/2014/11/03/bombshell-scientist-finds-no-reliable-evidence-ebola-virus-ever-isolated-from-a-human-being/

“Ebola is a brainchild of HIV,” he said. “It’s a destructive strain of HIV.”

Ebola and HIV aren’t even in the same group, much less Order, Family or Genus. That’s like claiming that a dog is a type of squirrel (literally barking up the wrong squirrel in this case).

Ginger Taylor is literally frothing-at-the-mouth on AoA, joined by the usual suspects.

Eileen Simon weighs in about autism being “brain damage” (because she rejects the differences in autistic brain developments).

Dr. john D. Stone, who only now has seen Seinfeld perform, makes his diagnosis (with a “benign” explanation):

“A slightly more benign explanation is that the autism label is being used as fig leaf for advanced sociopathy. Sociopaths lack empathy. In my experience autistic people don’t lack empathy, they are just bad at reading social cues. I was just watching Seinfeld – I’d never watched him before – and he has incedible antennae for milking an audience response. I was not overwhelmed by his charm, shall we say – it all seemed a little hard-bitten – but it was only a snippet.

Posted by: John Stone | November 10, 2014 at 07:32 AM”

Why hasn’t Anne Dachel weighed in about “There are no autistic adults”?

Obviously, anyone who doesn’t conform to the AoA “poop-smearing, violent & non-verbal” stereotype of autism, isn’t actually autistic….is that what they are saying?

Again, what does that do to their “1 in 68” number? since we know that a much smaller percentage of autistics are actually on the very low end…….

@Lawrence:

Obviously, anyone who doesn’t conform to the AoA “poop-smearing, violent & non-verbal” stereotype of autism, isn’t actually autistic….is that what they are saying?

You nailed it.

Logan is brilliant. A true doctor. He cares about the people. The treatment worked for 15 out of 17. All who received the drug within the first 5 days of symptoms survived!

Lamivudine is a reverse-transcriptase inhibitor, dumbass. EBOV doesn’t use reverse transcriptase.

Ebola and HIV aren’t even in the same group, much less Order, Family or Genus.

Even better, EBOV doesn’t infect lymphocytes.

LOL!
THE VAXXERS CAN SHOW NO PROOF OF ISOLATED HUMAN EBOLA!
Perhaps Jon is on to something. His Phd. authority was at least an HONEST soul and gave a truthful answer.
Here is what Rasnick wrote, after his search of the published literature:

“I have examined in detail the literature on isolation and Ems [EM: electron microscope pictures] of both Ebola and Marburg viruses. I have not found any convincing evidence that Ebola virus (and for that matter Marburg) has been isolated from humans. There is certainly no confirmatory evidence of human isolation.”

I am giving you the chance to set the record straight…AND YOU CAN’T!

@Narad
ARE YOU ADMITTING THAT MANY OF THE WEST AFRICA CASES ARE NOT EBOLA? Inflating the infection rate would benefit the Ebola vaccine pushers. AFRICANS DIE EVERY DAY. FEVER AND A STOMACH ACHE ARE COMMON TO OTHER DISEASE CONDITIONS (MALNUTRITION). An engineered virus comes from many groups……

“Ebola and HIV aren’t even in the same group, much less Order, Family or Genus.
Even better, EBOV doesn’t infect lymphocytes.”

What are you thinking? How dare you use facts and reality to rebut Toto’s walls o’ randomly capitalized text!

The great part is that, on the one hand, it thinks this is really brilliant:

“By using the word ‘apparently’, he [sic] lets the reader know that the ‘unclean needle’ explanation was not a PROVEN FACT.”

On the other, some guy’s completely undocumented say-so about curing EBOV with lamivudine is slam-dunk proof.

Mild Autism does not mean that I experience Autism mildly. Mild Autism means you experience my Autism mildly.”
– Tumblr user gingeraspie

Is that clear?

here you go, toto: Genomic surveillance elucidates Ebola virus origin and transmission during the 2014 outbreak”
(PMID:25214632)

“In its largest outbreak, Ebola virus disease is spreading through Guinea, Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Nigeria. We sequenced 99 Ebola virus genomes from 78 patients in Sierra Leone to ~2000× coverage.”

THE VAXXERS CAN SHOW NO PROOF OF ISOLATED HUMAN EBOLA!

Well, except for the stuff like this:

http://ac.els-cdn.com/S0140673677920001/1-s2.0-S0140673677920001-main.pdf?_tid=527d76ec-6919-11e4-a871-00000aacb35e&acdnat=1415652001_b7c6ecb4cf64b250587d36f750f59e06

http://download.thelancet.com/pdfs/journals/lancet/PIIS0140673605609841.pdf

http://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/3/1/97-0107_article

@JGC
“We sequenced 99 Ebola virus genomes from 78 patients in Sierra Leone to ~2000× coverage.”

Where is a link to DIRECT evidence? At death, tissues are supposedly FULLl of the virus (that’s why they die). WHERE ARE THE MICRO PHOTOS? One or two parts of virus cells from a person does not prove that it has caused the symptoms. A photo with human tissue full of the virus would.

@Narad
AIDSTRUTH.org is your authority? Looks like they tried to “Andy Wakefield” him. HE MUST BE TELLING THE TRUTH. Also, I have high regards for Georgia Tech, his alma mater.
Anyway, your blather quote is irrelevant. Rasnick made a statement about no DIRECT evidence of Ebola virus isolated from humans.
YOU HAVE YET TO PROVE HIM WRONG!
HA HA!

AND:
FRAUD?
“Fed. R. Civ. P. 9(b) states….”

What the motherfυcking hell do you “think” Krahling & Wlochowski have to with Thompson? Why are you trying to change the fυcking subject from your EBOV babbling?

@ Brian

“Well, except for the stuff like this:”

http://ac.els-cdn.com/S0140673677920001/1-s2.0-S0140673677920001-main.pdf?_tid=527d76ec-6919-11e4-a871-00000aacb35e&acdnat=1415652001_b7c6ecb4cf64b250587d36f750f59e06

That was what I posted. YOU MUST BE DESPERATE.
NOTE: The Brits sent that CDC a BLOOD SAMPLE from ONE Ebola patient.
THEY DID NOT MICROPHOTOGRAPH THE VIRUS DIRECTLY IN THE BLOOD. Why not? Instead, THEY INJECTED IT INTO A GREEN MONKEY AND THEN USED THE MICROSCOPE. Jon and Ransack are CORRECT!

” While these specimens were being studied, Mr E. T. W. Bowen (Microbiological Research Establishment, Porton Down) sent an aliquot of an acute blood specimen from a patient in Zaire (no. 718, patient M.E.) to the Center for Disease Control, Atlanta, for additional study.
This specimen, and ALL SUBSEQUENT ACUTE SPECIMENS, were inoculated into Vero (African GREEN MONKEY) cells. Three days later a distinct cytopathic change (focal roundingandrefractility)was evident,and an aliquotof supernatant fluid was removed for negative contrast ELECTRON MICROSCOPY.

^ Yah, I realized a split-second after pressing “submit” that I had failed to close the <a>.

Krahling & Wlochowski give us a nice LEGAL definition of FRAUD…..without the meter running. LOL!

Thompson’s written admission FOLLOWS THEIR LEGAL DEFINITION TO A “T’.
THEREFORE, ONE CAN LOGICALLY CONCLUDE THOMPSON ADMITS TO FRAUD.

The vaccine industry will not police itself. They cannot be trusted. Thompson’s 2004 paper has not been retracted. Thompson still has his job. He has received no consequences for his admitted actions. Congressman Posey still refuses to release the estimated 100,000 pages of CDC documents sent to him by Dr. Thompson WHILE UNDER WHISTLE-BLOWER PROTECTION! There has been no call by the House Space, Science, Etc. Committee for an investigation of the CDC regarding this matter.
So, citizens should just finance the preplanned EBOLA EXPERIMENTAL VACCINES and allow them to inject that SHI*T into their body, NO QUESTIONS ASKED?

Lassa virus + Marburg virus = Uganda Ebola virus….the one that was patented.

It’s as though you’re under the impression that all this shіt hasn’t been hashed out already. BDBV isn’t EBOV. Patents on products of nature are null and void (PDF).

SPEAKING OF FRAUD, what is the latest on Merck’s court case?

“The controversies will find Merck defending itself and its vaccine in at least two federal court cases after a U.S. District judge earlier this month threw out Merck’s attempts at dismissal. Merck now faces federal charges of fraud from the whistleblowers, a vaccine competitor and doctors in New Jersey and New York. Merck could also need to defend itself in Congress: The staff of representative Bill Posey (R-Fla) — a longstanding critic of the CDC interested in an alleged link between vaccines and autism — is now reviewing some 1,000 documents that the CDC whistleblower turned over to them.”
http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/lawrence-solomon/merck-whistleblowers_b_5881914.html

@Orac
Narad seems to be telling you to shut me down. I expose too much TRUTH. I’ve got a real juicy piece that absolutely confirms what I have been saying. Too bad I’ll have to post it on more open-minded websites. Quite frankly, to your credit, I have been quite surprised at all you have posted. Thanks!

And PLEASE, just take your dam*n Ebola vaccine!

Be careful……

Let’s try that again.

“Can you explain to us why you think the second scenario is more plausible than the first?”

YES:
(lengthy passages from Len Horowitz snipped)

Do you also believe Len Horowitz when he claims that the tuning of middle C is the result of a conspiracy and has a function in mind control?

Also:

the first outbreak of the Marburg virus, the mother of Ebola

Even W—dia can tell you that this is imbecilic. You want more, Taters?

Toto, #93:

Relatedly, Stanford University’s Dr. Paul Ehrlich, the author of The Population Bomb, is considered the grand patriarch of population control….

Toto, #178:

Relatedly, Stanford University’s Dr. Paul Ehrlich, the author of The Population Bomb, is considered the grand patriarch of population control….

One might reasonably arrive at the conclusion that Toto is actually a Masonic Jesuit Temporal Coadjuster disinfo agent shilling for The Man of Sin in Rome and Operation Mockingbird.

Please do excuse me if this is well known, as the hilarity is new to me. “Dr.” Maxwell (Ph.D. unspecified, but it seems to predate her going to law school), reports as follows on Gallop v. Rumsfeld (a “very strong lawsuit”):

If a case gets dismissed, a plaintiff can appeal to the Circuit Court, and that is likely to be his/her last chance. Should the appeals court agree with the district judge’s decision, in federal suits, that is almost always the last stop. Although a citizen has the right to ask for Supreme Court review, the Supreme Court usually declines the request. A case such as this one, which claims that Cheney arranged the 9/11 attack on the Pentagon, is virtually guaranteed to die on the vine.

As it happens, it didn’t exactly “die on the vine,” with the Second Circuit impressively being provoked into sanctioning, in separate proceedings, both attorneys Cunningham and Veale. Frivolous appeals of frivolous lawsuits are not your friends in federal court.

She is most recently raving about, yes, “transhumanism” and “e-bola 2.0,” well after everyone had covered the latter.

<blockquote.Where is a link to DIRECT evidence?

That would be the link I provided you, in the post you’re responding to..

WHERE ARE THE MICRO PHOTOS?

I’m sorry, but I can’t quite understand what you’re looking for by asking this question–surely you’re arguing that electronic microscopy is better able to detect the presence of or distinguish between different viral strains thanis DNA amplifaction and sequencing?

One or two parts of virus cells from a person does not prove that it has caused the symptoms.

Uh…timothy? Do you even realize that there’s no such thing as a virus cell?

Thompson’s 2004 paper has not been retracted.

Do you mean DeStefano’s 2004 paper. PMID:14761240? DeStefano is, after all, its first author.

If you do, by what rational argument should it be retracted?

Thompson still has his job.

Why do you believe he should have lost his job?

He has received no consequences for his admitted actions.

What actions do you belevie he’s admitted to, and why do you beleive there should be consequences for those actions?

The Brits sent that CDC a BLOOD SAMPLE from ONE Ebola patient.
THEY DID NOT MICROPHOTOGRAPH THE VIRUS DIRECTLY IN THE BLOOD. Why not? Instead, THEY INJECTED IT INTO A GREEN MONKEY AND THEN USED THE MICROSCOPE.

The amount of misunderstanding and wishful thinking is so high, this person should be curving the universe around itself.
And the worse part, it’s quoting its source right next to its twisted opinion and still managed to get about everything wrong.

“This specimen, and ALL SUBSEQUENT ACUTE SPECIMENS,” – all subsequent? I thought it was only one sample.

“were inoculated into Vero (African GREEN MONKEY) cells”.
Cells. Not the full monkey, but cells cultivated in a Petri dish in a lab.

Standard procedure to isolate and identify a pathogen. We do it for all types of germs, not just Ebola.
Put the initial sample on something the germs will like : most bacteria and fungi will be happy with some sugars and a bit of beef broth, but viruses, being parasites, need live cells. Flu viruses like chicken cells (hence, let’s use eggs), other viruses prefer something closer to human cells. Let them multiply, and then you have a big lump of germs to run tests on.

So why electron microscopy instead of “blood microphotography”?
For the same reason we are using a big telescope to look a distant stars, rather than a mundane pair of binoculars. The things we want to look at are very small (or very far away, for stars), so we need specialized instrumentation to get pretty pictures with a satisfying number of details.

WOW! GLOW-IN-THE-DARK EBOV!

“The genus Ebolavirus includes five species of Ebola virus with case fatality rates up to 90%, whereas the single Marburg virus has different isolates with differing mortality rates (20 to 90%).”

“A high-throughput assay for Zaire ebolavirus (EBOV) has been developed using the recombinant EBOV ENGINEERED to express the enhanced GREEN FLUORESCENT protein (eGFP) established by Towner et al. (4). The INSERTION of the eGFP gene into the EBOV genome allows for the detection of infected cells by flow cytometry, fluorimetry, fluorescence microscopy, and high-content imaging. The eGFP-expressing EBOV RETAINS the INFECTION and REPLICATION characteristics of the parent virus in vitro (4). The eGFP-EBOV offers great utility for SCREENING because this virus targets the complete virus life cycle and offers a higher throughput of drug screening than traditional plaque assays and yield reduction assays. Such a CELL-BASED ASSAY can be used to identify INHIBITORS that target both viral and host pathways relevant to VIRAL REPLICATION, and the activity of “hit” compounds can be confirmed using native isotypes. The identification of active compounds from this type of screen also may be helpful in identifying the critical pathways or targets that are essential for viral replication.” Page 2

“Experiments using live filoviruses were performed in biosafety level 4 (BSL-4) facilities at USAMRIID. Personnel wear positive-pressure protective suits (ILC Dover) fitted with HEPA filters and umbilical-fed air. USAMRIID is registered with the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) Select Agent Program for the possession and use of biological select agents and toxins and has implemented a biological surety program in accordance with U.S. Army regulation AR 50-1 “Biological Surety.” Page 9

Published in final edited form as:
Sci Transl Med. 2013 June 19; 5(190): 190ra79. doi:10.1126/scitranslmed.3005471.
Johansen et al

SPEAKING OF FRAUD, what is the latest on Merck’s court case?

Ooh, an article from Lawrence Solomon in the PuffHo!
I’m appropriately impressed.

SPEAKING OF FRAUD, what is the latest on Merck’s court case?

I could tell you, but I think you’ve earned the right to try (and fail) to figure it out yourself.

“Ooh, an article from Lawrence Solomon in the PuffHo!
I’m appropriately impressed.”

@TBruce
Please cite any inaccuracies in the article. I read the original affidavit- even posted it here- and what Solomon wrote was accurate. I also personally contacted Congressman Posey’s office. Huff-Po’s reference to the CDC documents was accurate as well. Quite frankly, I was SHOCKED that Huff-Po published such a truthful article about the pro-vaxxers. The truth is, this article was LATE to the game. The TRUE alternative media had covered this MUCH earlier.

Krahling & Wlochowski give us a nice LEGAL definition of FRAUD…..without the meter running. LOL!

The plaintiffs in a civil action get to make up legal definitions? IANAL but I don’t think that’s how it works.

“The homology studies show that your hunch is strongly wrong.’
PLEASE BACK UP YOUR ASSERTION WITH EVIDENCE. Give us some links.
I’m all eyes!

Why, certainly! Here is a comparison of the gene sequences of Ebola and Lassa. Note that they are clustered by similarity with other organisms. If there is Lassa RNA in Ebola you should see a cluster that has Ebola and Lassa in it but not Marburg. You can also download the raw data there and run it through the homology program of your choice.

When you’re done with that, check out what other researchers have written about Ebola homology.

@JGC
“Thompson’s 2004 paper has not been retracted.

Do you mean DeStefano’s 2004 paper. PMID:14761240? DeStefano is, after all, its first author.

If you do, by what rational argument should it be retracted?”

Cheryl Attkison’s interview with DeStephano after Thompson’s publicly released admission to fraud regarding the 2004 study (it is irrelevant that DeSteph.’s name is first. The final protocol could not have not been changed without his knowledge and approval) nicely answers your question:

DeStefano: “…We’re, you know, autism, as you probably are aware, is a CONDITION that REALLY PROBABLY has its start while the child is still in the womb. And, you now, it doesn’t, some of the behaviors and such don’t come apparent, become apparent until maybe the child is one, two, three years old.” (COMMENT: An UNSCIENTIFIC STATEMENT. He gives no evidence of SCIENTIFIC PROOF!)

“….But, so that’s at 36 months. And at 36 months, an exposure around that time period is just not biologically plausible to have a uh, uh, a causal association with autism. I mean autism would’ve already started by then. [I me?] I reiterate it probably starts in the womb, but even if you’re saying, you wanna call it starting by the time some behavioral features become apparent, it had started before 36 months. And then, you know, we, from, so I think from a biological argument, it’s implausible this was a causal association. And then I think we have, uh–pretty convince–

Attkisson: Let me just, let me just interrupt what, before I lose that thought. So you already made up your mind regardless of what the stats show that if it, certain things show that it didn’t make sense, you wouldn’t, you would try to find out a way to…

DeStefano: No, that’s not we said, I’m just saying, you know, you INTERPRETt, you INTERPRET FINDINGS, also, you know, there’s the STATISTICS, then you have to also INTERPRET, bring in things like biological PLAUSIBILITY, how do you INTERPRET these RESULTS? (COMMENT: THIS IS NOT THE SCIENTIFIC PROCESS. They got rid of the ACTUAL results and then produced a FRAUDULENT REPORT. He admits that the ACTUAL DATA didn’t fit with his UNPROVEN pre-conceived idea of what the results should be!) So I THINK we had pretty STRONG EVIDENCE (COMMENT: This is his OPINION. He gives NO EVIDENCE!) that these results at 36 months were primarily a reflection of requirements to attend early intervention special education programs for the for the children with autism. And why do we say that? We say that because the effect was almost all seen in children 3-5 years of age and those were the ones that early education programs and 98%, you know, 98% of that of that age group was in special education programs for which vaccination was of a requirement.

Attkisson: Is there any possibility that it is biologically plausible and you just haven’t, you know, that that’s, the consensus is that it’s not, among you guys, but that it is and you’re overlooking that?

DeStefano: I’m, I’M NOT AWARE of any data would, that would s–, you know, that would say that, uh, you would have, um, onset of autism AFTER 36 months.”
http://sharylattkisson.com/audio-cdc-addresses-allegations-on-vaccine-autism-link-omission
(COMMENT: DeStephano admits the study data showed “these results AT 36 months” THIS LAST STATEMENT BY DeSTEPHANO is MEANINGLESS. It is TOTALLY CONTRIVED TO DECEIVE. HE SHOULD BE FIRED AND THROWN IN JAIL.

“rather than rely upon the charity of strangers!”

It’s the LEAST the vaccine companies can do for me.

@justthestats
YOU OBVIOUSLY DON’T KNOW Jack.
Specific citations please.

Also, if Ebola Zaire has not been isolated in humans, and HAS NOT BEEN ISOLATED IN WILD ANIMALS, where are they getting it from? So far, IT IS ONLY FOUND IN LABS!

Thompson still has his job.

@JGC
“Why do you believe he should have lost his job?

He has received no consequences for his admitted actions.

What actions do you belevie he’s admitted to, and why do you beleive there should be consequences for those actions?”

Well, here’s what happened to AIDS vaccine FRAUDSTER Dr. Han:

“Dr. Dong Pyou Han lLEFT HIS JOB as an assistant professor and a laboratory manager at the university last year after admitting that he SPIKED rabbit blood with human ANTIBODIES that made it appear the animals’ immune systems were reacting to an AIDS vaccine being tested. In reality, the vaccine was having little effect, according to Han’s indictment.”
“The INDICTMENT came after calls from at least one professor and ethics expert for Han to be prosecuted. The case prompted Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, to question whether the government would ever be able to recoup any of the grant money awarded as a result of Han’s FRAUD.”
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/06/19/fake-aids-research/10899589/

ALL AUTHORS OF THE DESTEPHANO 2004 MMR vaccine/ Autism report SHOULD BE TREATED IN KIND.

“Dr. Han apologized for his misconduct after he resigned from ISU. The government, however, wanted more. Last week, Han was indicted on four counts of fraud. Right now he is free on bail. He can face up to five years in jail for each count of fraud, and may be required to pay back part of the research funds. ISU has already repaid about $500,000.”

Well, at least Dr. Thompson has apologized and admitted to fraudulent misconduct. That’s a start.
$1million x 1 out of 48 boys x 10 years…..Hmmmmm.

WHERE’S THE EBOLA VIRUS HUMAN ISOLATE?
This research is ridiculous!

The VP35 and VP40 proteins of filoviruses. Homology between Marburg and Ebola viruses.
Bukreyev AA1, Volchkov VE, Blinov VM, Netesov SV.

Abstract
The FRAGMENTS of genomic RNA sequences of Marburg (MBG) and Ebola (EBO) viruses are reported. These FRAGMENTS were found to encode the VP35 and VP40 PROTEINS. The canonic sequences were revealed before and after each open reading frame. It is suggested that these sequences are mRNA extremities and at the same time the regulatory elements for mRNA transcription. Homology between the MBG and EBO PROTEINS was discovered.

COMMENT: If all they have is a FRAGMENT, how do they know it’s Ebola?
If they only have “homologous” proteins, isn’t that the same as saying they’re BOTH Marburg? LOL! Jon was correct!

I just realized this thread’s open for another 45 days or so of Toto’s verbal diarreha…

Oh, joy.

I think mentally ill might just be an understatement in this case.

Cheryl Attkison’s interview with DeStephano after Thompson’s publicly released admission to fraud regarding the 2004 study (it is irrelevant that DeSteph.’s name is first.

I haven’t seen Thompson admit fraud, publically or privately. Where do beleive this admission was made?

Cheryl Attkison’s interview with DeStephano after Thompson’s publicly released admission to fraud regarding the 2004 study (it is irrelevant that DeSteph.’s name is first. The final protocol could not have not been changed without his knowledge and approval) nicely answers your question:

I’m unaware that the protocol was changed in any way, toto. What makes you believe it was?

Toto: He has received no consequences for his admitted actions.
JGC: What actions do you belevie he’s admitted to, and why do you beleive there should be consequences for those actions?
Toto:Well, here’s what happened to AIDS vaccine FRAUDSTER Dr. Han:

Why are you talking about “what happened to Dr. Han” due to his conduct while studying an AIDS vaccines when the question you’ve been asked to answer is what you believe Dr. Thompson may have done while studying MMR vaccines which would reuqire his dismissal?

You do realize they’re two different people, don’t you?

@JGC
Please post the LEGAL definition of scientific fraud.
THEN SHUT UP.

PLEASE DOCUMENT THIS QUOTE. OTHERWISE, I ASSUME YOU MADE IT UP.

How lazy are you?

THIS IS FALSE. IT WAS LEGAL IN GEORGIA, WHERE THOMPSON LIVES AND MADE THE CALLS TO HOOKER.

This would be fascinating if, you know, Thompson had made the recordings.

If it was illegal, Thompson would have SUED Hooker and Wakefield by now.

I see that the difference between criminal and civil law is yet another thing you don’t understand.

ALL AUTHORS OF THE DESTEPHANO 2004 MMR vaccine/ Autism report SHOULD BE TREATED IN KIND.

Could you learn to freaking spell DeStefano?

Cheryl Attkison’s interview with DeStephano
Three names, and not one of them spelled correctly. I am impressed.

I think mentally ill might just be an understatement in this case.
I’m feeling much the same as I did with Thingy: uncomfortable about mocking the afflicted.

Tot is enjoying it, so you might as well too. “LOL” is a very serious, thoughtful, argument that has never been made in such detail or with such care

“Cheryl Attkison’s interview with DeStephano
Three names, and not one of them spelled correctly. I am impressed.”

Sharyl should have picked a stage name, and quite frankly, I enjoy mispelling DeStephano’s name because it bugs you.
LOL!

@JGC
“Toto, I’m at a complete loss”

I am glad you have admitted the cold hard truth. I was trying to be polite and not mention it……..

@Narad
Now you’ve gone and exposed yourself, “Annie”.
Ha! Ha! Ha!

Dr. Orenstein!
Please give Annie/Narad his EBO vax NOW!
He’s losing control.

@Narad
Here is the appropriate law from the HIGHEST COURT:

13 Thou shalt not kill.
15 Thou shalt not steal.
16 Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour.
Exodus 20

Whoops, last two paragraphs should be blockquoted.
Quintilius Varus Scienceblogs, give me back my blockquotes!

THE CITIZENS OF VAXXINE LAND
How to properly address them:

“The “gold standard” filovirus type RefSeq entry should be selected on the basis of experimental importance and accessibility and represent a repository of functional information about a particular filovirus. It is of crucial importance that any functional annotation of a RefSeq entry (e.g., functions of particular genome parts or of genome-encoded proteins), is linked to the actual sequence associated with these experiments. The RefSeq entry should contain the most characterized virus/variant/isolate/sequence, independent of whether this virus, variant, or isolate was the first one discovered or the most widely used experimentally. Importantly, decisions on RefSeq entries do not entail a mandate that future experiments should necessarily be performed with the viruses associated with these entries. However, direct comparisons with RefSeq-associated viruses are highly recommended to further increase the detail associated with the RefSeq entries. These entries should be updated, and, if necessary, corrected on a continuous basis by a filovirus RefSeq subcommittee comprised of filovirus experts, whose composition is currently under consideration.
The authors of this article confirmed or replaced the current taxonomic type virus variants and isolates and the current filovirus RefSeq entries based on the availability of scientific information characterizing a particular virus. If scientific information is scarce for all members belonging to an entire taxon, other criteria such as availability, passaging history, or medical importance were used in decision making. Decisions were reached by consensus or simple majority voting, with the understanding that all authors will apply the final decisions reached by the entire group and enforce them in their functions as authors, peer-reviewers, and/or editors.

3.1. Cuevavirus RefSeq Entries
Only one cuevavirus, Lloviu virus (LLOV), has been described [18]. At the time of writing, LLOV had not been isolated in culture, and the sequence diversity of LLOV had only been defined in a single study using deep sequencing techniques on samples from deceased Schreibers’s long-fingered bats (Miniopterus schreibersii) [18]. Only one additional study has been published on this virus, characterizing molecular-biological characteristics of the LLOV glycoprotein [20]. The coding-complete genome of one LLOV has been determined (Genbank #JF828358), which therefore automatically became the current RefSeq sequence (#NC_016144) (see [21] for sequencing nomenclature used in this article). In the absence of additional deposited LLOV sequences and characterization data, this RefSeq entry should therefore be upheld but be considered temporary until a complete genome, including all non-coding sequences, is determined.
In line with filovirus strain/variant/isolate definitions outlined previously [19], we propose the variant designation “Asturias” (after the Principality of Asturias in Spain, where Cueva del Lloviu is located in which LLOV was discovered [18]) and the “isolate” name “Bat86” (instead of “MS-Liver-86/2003”) for this virus:
Full name:  Lloviu virus M.schreibersii-wt/ESP/2003/Asturias-Bat86
Shortened name:  LLOV/M.sch/ESP/03/Ast-Bat86
Abbreviated name:  LLOV/Ast-Bat86
Accordingly, in RefSeq #NC_016144 the definition line “Lloviu virus, complete genome” was changed to “Lloviu cuevavirus isolate Lloviu virus M.schreibersii-wt/ESP/2003/Asturias-Bat86, [coding-]complete genome.” The RefSeq field was cleared; and the RefSeq field was filled with “Lloviu virus M.schreibersii-wt/ESP/2003/Asturias-Bat86.” The same changes should be applied to GenBank #JF828358. [Note here and below that the International Nucleotide Sequence Database Collaboration (INSDC) standard currently does not offer options other than “complete” or “partial,” and, in particular, does not provide a possibility for the designation “coding-complete.” Also note here and below that neither RefSeq nor GenBank currently can handle italics or extended Latin characters, which is why the species names are not italicized in the entry’s definition line and fields and why letters with diacritics revert to their basic Latin letter counterpart].

3.2. Ebolavirus RefSeq Entries
The genus Ebolavirus includes five species, each of which is represented by one virus.

3.2.1. Bundibugyo Virus
Bundibugyo virus (BDBV) is the second least characterized ebolavirus. Although at least eight isolates of this virus are available [17,22], all experiments reported to date have been performed with one particular isolate, “811250” (often wrongly referred to as “200706291”). The complete sequence of this isolate is the one found in the current RefSeq entry (NC_014373). This isolate, obtained after two passages of clinical material in Vero E6 cells, came from a male patient who died in 2007 in Uganda [17]. We propose the variant designation “Butalya” (after Butalya Parish, Kikyo Subcounty in Uganda’s Bundibugyo district where BDBV was discovered) and the isolate name “811250” for this virus:
Full name:  Bundibugyo virus H.sapiens-tc/UGA/2007/Butalya-811250
Shortened name:  BDBV/H.sap/UGA/07/But-811250
Abbreviated name:  BDBV/But-811250
Accordingly, in RefSeq #NC_014373, the definition line “Bundibugyo ebolavirus, complete genome” was changed to “Bundibugyo ebolavirus isolate Bundibugyo virus H.sapiens-tc/UGA/2007/Butalya-811250, complete genome.” The RefSeq field was filled with “Bundibugyo virus H.sapiens-tc/UGA/2007/Butalya-811250.” The same changes should be applied to GenBank #FJ217161.

3.2.2. Ebola Virus
Ebola virus (EBOV) is the most thoroughly characterized ebolavirus. Dozens of EBOV isolates are available, but the vast majority of published experiments have been performed with isolates “Mayinga” and “Kikwit” (reviewed in [23]). The “Mayinga” isolate, the first EBOV isolate obtained in 1976, has been used extensively for molecular-biological characterizations. The “Kikwit” variant, obtained during an Ebola virus disease outbreak in 1995, has been used almost exclusively for pathogenesis studies in nonhuman primates in the US (the “Mayinga” isolate is used almost everywhere else) [23]. All available EBOV cDNA clone systems are based on the “Mayinga” isolate (see [24]). The only available mouse- and guinea pig-adapted EBOV strains are derived from the “Mayinga” isolate (see [25]), and all available EBOV protein crystal structures are derived from the “Mayinga” isolate [26,27,28,29,30,31,32,33,34]. The “Mayinga” isolate was therefore chosen as the prototype EBOV for RefSeq (#NC_002549), which lists a complete genome obtained after 3–4 passages in Vero E6 cells. We uphold this decision and propose the variant designation “Yambuku” (after the village in which EBOV first emerged [35,36]) and retain the isolate designation “Mayinga” (the last name of a nurse who succumbed to infection [36]) for this virus:
Full name:  Ebola virus H.sapiens-tc/COD/1976/Yambuku-Mayinga
Shortened name:  EBOV/H.sap/COD/76/Yam-May
Abbreviated name:  EBOV/Yam-May
Accordingly, in RefSeq #NC_002549 the definition line “Zaire ebolavirus, complete genome” was changed to “Zaire ebolavirus isolate Ebola virus H.sapiens-tc/COD/1976/Yambuku-Mayinga, complete genome.” The RefSeq <strain” field was cleared; the RefSeq field was filled with “Ebola virus H.sapiens-tc/COD/1976/Yambuku-Mayinga;” and the field was corrected to “Zaire ebolavirus.” The same changes should be applied to GenBank #AF086833.

3.2.3. Reston Virus
Reston virus (RESTV) has caused multiple epizootics among captive macaques (1989-1990, 1992, 1996) and domestic pigs in 2008 (reviewed in [37]). At least 10 isolates were obtained during all these outbreaks, and eight complete or coding-complete genomic sequences have been deposited. However, the vast majority of RESTV experiments, in particular those regarding molecular characterization, have been performed with “Pennsylvania” (reviewed in [23]). “Pennsylvania” is the only RESTV variant for which there is a reverse genetics system [38]. In addition, “Pennsylvania” sequences served as the basis for the available RESTV protein crystal structures [39,40,41,42,43]. “Pennsylvania” (NC_004161) was chosen for the current RESTV RefSeq entry, which we propose to maintain. We propose the variant designation “Philippines89” (a reference to the time and place from which this virus was exported to the US in 1989) and the isolate name “Pennsylvania” for this virus:
Full name:  Reston virus M.fascicularis-tc/USA/1989/Philippines89-Pennsylvania
Shortened name:  RESTV/M.fas/USA/89/Phi89-Pen
Abbreviated name:  RESTV/Phi89-Pen
Accordingly, in RefSeq #NC_004161, the definition line “Reston ebolavirus, complete genome” was changed to “Reston ebolavirus isolate Reston virus M.fascicularis-tc/USA/1989/Philippines89-Pennsylvania, complete genome.” The RefSeq field was cleared; and the RefSeq field was filled with “Reston virus M.fascicularis-tc/USA/1989/Philippines89-Pennsylvania”. The same changes should be applied to GenBank #AF522874.

3.2.4. Sudan Virus
Sudan virus (SUDV) is the second-best characterized ebolavirus. Approximately 15 SUDV isolates have been described, but very few experiments have been performed with any of these isolates. Early experiments focused on isolate “Boneface” (often misspelled “Boniface”). Recently variant “Gulu” isolate “808892” has become a more popular choice, and data from experiments with this virus continue to accumulate (reviewed in [23]). Crystal structures for GP1,2 were determined for both viruses [33,42,44,45]. However, the passaging history of the “Boneface” isolate has not been thoroughly documented and includes passaging in guinea pigs and culturing in various cell types. The “Gulu-808892” isolate, on the other hand, is completely sequenced and is the current virus of choice for nonhuman primate experiments in the US. While the “Boneface” isolate was chosen by the 2010-2011 ICTV Filoviridae Study Group as the type SUDV [12], “Gulu-808892” isolate was chosen as the prototype SUDV for RefSeq (#NC_006432). We propose to support the RefSeq decision and to change the SUDV type virus variant to “Gulu.” As several “Gulu” isolates are available, we propose the variant designation “Gulu” for the virus variant that caused the disease outbreak that started in Gulu District, Uganda, in 2000, and the isolate designation “808892” for the RefSeq entry of this particular virus. (“808892” was obtained after three Vero E6 cell passages of clinical material coming from an infected male who died):
Full name:  Sudan virus H.sapiens-tc/UGA/2000/Gulu-808892
Shortened name:  SUDV/H.sap/UGA/00/Gul-808892
Abbreviated name:  SUDV/Gul-808892
Accordingly, in RefSeq #NC_006432, the definition line “Sudan ebolavirus, complete genome” was changed to “Sudan ebolavirus isolate Sudan virus H.sapiens-tc/UGA/2000/Gulu-808892, complete genome.” The RefSeq field was cleared; and the RefSeq field was filled with “Sudan virus H.sapiens-tc/UGA/2000/Gulu-808892.” The same changes should be applied to GenBank #AY729654.

3.2.5. Taï Forest Virus
Taï Forest virus (TAFV) is the least characterized ebolavirus. Only one isolate (“807212” = “CI”) was obtained from a female survivor [46] after seven passages in Vero E6 cells, and the coding-complete genome of this isolate is the only genomic TAFV sequence available [17]. Therefore, this sequence automatically became the current RefSeq sequence (#NC_014372). In the absence of additional deposited TAFV sequences and characterization data, this RefSeq entry should therefore be upheld but be considered temporary.
We propose the variant designation “Pauléoula” (after the village of Pauléoula, Guiglo Department in Moyen-Cavally Region, Côte d’Ivoire, where TAFV was first found [46]) and the isolate name “CI” (for “Côte d’Ivoire”) for this virus:
Full name:  Taï Forest virus H.sapiens-tc/CIV/1994/Pauléoula-CI
Shortened name:  TAFV/H.sap/CIV/94/Pau-CI
Abbreviated name:  TAFV/Pau-CI
Accordingly, in RefSeq # NC_014372, the definition line “Tai Forest ebolavirus, complete genome” was changed to “Taï Forest ebolavirus isolate Taï Forest virus H.sapiens-tc/CIV/1994/Pauléoula-CI, [coding-]complete genome,” and the RefSeq field was filled with “Taï Forest virus H.sapiens-tc/CIV/1994/Pauléoula-CI.” The same changes should be applied to GenBank #FJ217162.

3.3. Marburgvirus RefSeq Entries
The genus Marburgvirus includes a single species, which is represented by two divergent viruses.
3.3.1. Marburg Virus
Marburg virus (MARV) is the most thoroughly characterized marburgvirus. Some 70 MARV isolates are available, but the majority of published experiments have been performed with isolate “Musoke” (reviewed in [23]). However, experiments not characterizing MARV but rather the disease it causes are increasingly performed with an “Angola” isolate in the US and continue to be performed with “Popp” or “Voege” isolates in Russia. The only available MARV cDNA clone systems are based on the “Musoke” isolate (see [24]) and on a nonhuman (bat) isolate [47]. The “Musoke” isolate has therefore been chosen as the prototype MARV for RefSeq (#NC_001608). We uphold this decision and propose the variant designation “Mt. Elgon” (after Mount Elgon, Kenya, where this variant is thought to have originated [48]) and the isolate designation “Musoke” (after a Nairobi doctor who got infected [49]) with this virus):
Full name:  Marburg virus H.sapiens-tc/KEN/1980/Mt. Elgon-Musoke
Shortened name:  MARV/Hsap/KEN/80/MtE-Mus
Abbreviated name:  MARV/MtE-Mus
Accordingly, in RefSeq #NC_001608, the definition line “Marburg marburgvirus, complete genome” was changed to “Marburg marburgvirus isolate Marburg virus H.sapiens-tc/KEN/1980/Mt. Elgon-Musoke, complete genome.” The RefSeq <strain” field was cleared, and the RefSeq field was filled with “Marburg virus H.sapiens-tc/KEN/1980/Mt. Elgon-Musoke.” The same changes should be applied to GenBank #DQ217792.

3.3.2. Ravn Virus
Ravn virus (RAVV) is a largely uncharacterized marburgvirus that belongs to the same species as MARV. At least three human (“Ravn” = “810040,” “09DCR,” ”02Uga”) and four Egyptian rousette isolates (“44Bat,” “188Bat,” “982Bat,” “1304 Bat”) have been obtained. Virtually all RAVV characterization experiments have been performed with “Ravn” = “810040,” which was obtained after at least two passages in SW-13 cells and four passages in Vero E6 cells. Since RAVV is a phylogenetically distinct marburgvirus, we created a RefSeq entry for the “Ravn” isolate, for which we propose the variant designation “Kitum Cave” (after Kenya’s Kitum Cave on Mount Elgon where RAVV first emerged) and the isolate designation “810040”:
Full name:  Ravn virus H.sapiens-tc/KEN/1987/Kitum Cave-810040
Shortened name:  RAVV/H.sap/KEN/87/KiC-810040
Abbreviated name:  RAVV/KiC-810040
Accordingly, the RefSeq entry was created with the definition line “Marburg marburgvirus isolate Ravn virus H.sapiens-tc/KEN/1987/Kitum Cave-810040, [coding-]complete genome.” The RefSeq field contains “Ravn virus H.sapiens-tc/KEN/1987/Kitum Cave-810040.” The deposited sequence (NC_024781) is identical with GenBank #DQ447649, which should be updated accordingly.”

Viruses 2014, 6(9), 3663-3682; doi:10.3390/v6093663
Filovirus RefSeq Entries: Evaluation and Selection of Filovirus Type Variants, Type Sequences, and Names
Open Access
http://www.mdpi.com/1999-4915/6/9/3663/htm

THIS IS AN INTERESTING TITLE……Does GSK know about this?
The U.S. House of Representatives does.

“Published in final edited form as:
Sci Transl Med. 2013 June 19; 5(190): 190ra79. doi:10.1126/scitranslmed.3005471.

FDA-Approved Selective Estrogen Receptor Modulators Inhibit Ebola Virus Infection”

That Narat IS mad.
I think I’ll walk over to WINTER Wonderland. It’s much nicer!

He’s losing control.
Don’t you have kids to look after, Toto? Or are they as fictitious as the rest of your shtick?

THIS IS AN INTERESTING TITLE……Does GSK know about this?
The U.S. House of Representatives does.

If you were even trying, you’d have realized that your Rasnick routine nullifies Johansen et al.

And with regard to that all-caps “HIGHEST COURT” premise @261, you’re speaking as if the Book of Exodus were known to possess some inherent legal authority.

Whatever for?

Dear Mad Hatters in Wonderland,

I’m having a WONDERFUL time here. It seems it is always Christmas! I guess you wouldn’t know about that.
Here’s a video of me and some new friends:

Sincerely,
Toto

Are you Yiddish?

It’s impressive that you can even manage to comically fυck up a three-word sentence in two separate ways.

@herr doktor bimler
The French speak French.
The English speak English.
The Yiddish speak Yiddish.
“Shtick” is derived from the Yiddish word shtik (שטיק), meaning “piece” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shtick
DUH.

Remember Orac,
My online followers get to see your blog editing technique.
They will notice the post topics you censor.
Ho! Ho! Ho!

Dear Mad Hatters,

Just so we Winter Wonderlanders don’t have to worry about getting sick, we have had a brave experimental vaxxine volunteer:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fMrggPzmb1c

Unfortunately, his skin color is now a bit green and he had a personality change. Well, nothing a little TWEAKING can’t fix!
HO! HO! HO!

TOTO

Greetings Hatters!

With cold and flew season coming on in Winter Wonderland, I thought I would give you an experimental vaxxer’s update. The tweak met with SUCCESS! Our recent volunteer has had NO SKIN COLOR CHANGE! His personality HAS NOT CHANGED. And, he sings songs about my FAVORITE topic!
We couldn’t have hoped for a better outcome:

Here’s a healthy holiday reminder for YOU!

Toto

@Narad-Vicki-herr doktor bimler

It’s obvious the answer is not “no.”
HO! HO! HO!

Hi Hatters!

I came across this great new song on MY TUBE!
It’s really probably called “The CDC Came Down to Georgia”.
You’ll LOVE it.

Winter Wonderland
November 15, 2014

Dear Hatters,

As you know, I leave no stone unturned, no curtain closed to bring you the most reliable vax fax. In order to keep Winter Wonderland safe and healthy, we have had many brave, selfless volunteers take the experimental vaxxines. After some tweaking, it seems the super smart guys in white have got the magic formula. Using the “gold standard” of a double blind placebo, we have SCIENTIFICALLY PLAUSABLE results!

Here are our volunteers BEFORE the jab:

Here are our volunteers AFTER the jab:

THE SCIENCE IS SETTLED!
Wish you were here!
Toto

@Krebiohazard

“You’re a mean one, Mr. Grinch.”
Lighten up! Have some fun!

Sincerely,
Toto

In other news….the Sunday “journalist” at AoA, tells a tale of woe describing how her local library’s shelves do not have the latest books written by her colleagues and the children’s section has multiple great books about going to the doctor for check-ups and for vaccines.

Toto, what did milliners ever do to you to make you hate them so much?

MI Dawn,

Wish blocking worked again…I hate reading boring stuff.

Narad’s adapted Greasemonkey script, ScienceBlogs Killer, works perfectly on Firefox. I just disengage occasionally to see if I’m missing anything of interest, though to date I never have.

It’s kind of like the opposite of relying on herd immunity.

Let’s return briefly to lamivudine:

One such product, the antiretroviral lamivudine, has been used in some of the affected countries stemming from a belief that it might have therapeutic effects in patients with EVD. However, data presented to the STAC-EE demonstrated that lamivudine has no antiviral activity against EVD and should therefore not be administered for the treatment of Ebola.

Who speaks Pidgin?

Sorry Narad I hope I don’t ruin your funsies.

Not at all; the two options that had occurred to me in idle moments were Pig Latin and Malkinese, the latter I think being so obscure that not even G—le has heard of my “Teach Yourself” volume. Perhaps I have the spelling wrong, as it’s still packed.

There’s always Esperanto.

Eric Hamp once told a great story in class about being approached long ago on a train platform by some guy jabbering in Esperanto. The Esperantist had chosen precisely the wrong person to try to play who-speaks-more-languages with.

Big Pharma’s motto:

A khaleryeh ahf dir!
A shverer beitel macht a leicht gemit.

Hi lilady, they sure are whiners over there.

we, the fearless founders of The Thinking Person’s Guide to Autism, found out too late that most bookstores don’t stock self-published books, and most libraries won’t order books that haven’t at least been reviewed in Library Journal or other serious review venues. Sigh.

So we bit the bullet, donated copies to some key libraries (public libraries and academic libraries), and sent review copies to a selection of opinion leaders.

@Narad

“Let’s return briefly to lamivudine:

One such product, the antiretroviral lamivudine, has been used in some of the affected countries stemming from a belief that it might have therapeutic effects in patients with EVD. However, data presented to the STAC-EE demonstrated that lamivudine has no antiviral activity against EVD and should therefore not be administered for the treatment of Ebola.”

A ligner hert zikh zeineh ligen azoi lang ein biz er glaibt zikh alain.

Herr Toto

@Nolady

Der mentsh lernt fri redn un shpet shvaygn.
A shveigendiker nar iz a halber khokhem.

Herr Toto

I think I shall take this sage advice:
Oif a nar tor men nit faribel hoben.
Oif a nar iz kain kasheh nit tsu fregen un kain pshat nit tsu zogen.

Herr Toto

@ justthestats:

It seems that I can wade through any nonsense unscathed so I do.
-btw- nice work you-know-where.

@ Shay:
Well, the common language is after all, semi-French.

@Denice Walter
I kind of like wading through alternate reality in small doses.

Thanks, btw. I think my work somewhere else is having an effect, although it remains to be seen what that effect means.

@Toto
Ich kann Googleübersetzen zuverwenden.

I’m afraid that’s already included in its lone source of knowledge of the Yiddish race, lilady.

Yiddish is a race? I must have missed the memo.
I took a Sanskrit course back at university but sadly this did not make me a Sanskrit.

@herr doktor bumbler

BOBBEMYSEH!

Too Much Truth: Is This incident, however, THINGS WENT Very WRONG! Is where is a lab rat! Lassa Virus from the truth is irrelevant that EBOLA is staring: your GUT!

Jon Rappoport LOL!

It’s sad when someone has such a need for attention that she becomes self-parody.

@Mephy
“No, my Lord, I find it there, as always, thoroughly revolting. I pity men in all their misery and actually hate to plague the wretches.”

Well, at least you are more considerate than Big Pharma.
Keep up the good work!

Toto

The Service Center reports that they have a status update in moderation, but my understanding is that they need to be careful about how the Markov chains are warmed up after the long hibernation.

Totobot is coming along rather nicely.

The Operations Center reports that while the Bot communications are now at full bandwidth, they’ve not been able to establish a link to RI.

Naturally, they’re hoping that this reactivation will have some chance at conducting actual science. Only time will tell whether Toto is merely at apogee or whether it is no longer gravitationally bound.

I am the probable source of your face. Everything I Have ever Change! HA!

Ooyay otkay eemay. Eyeway amway away Igpay Atinlay.

Nice boat ride on the implication is coming: always lying or those in LABS! Information Is False. Amazing timing.

Bye to INFORMED Hitler All posts! My bioengineering is your blog.