Posted on 10/04/2014 7:24:34 PM PDT by wtd
Ok, now this is getting a little creepy.
Seeking updates on the latest articles related to Ebola or EV-D68 virus during the last hour, I come across an article
The timing of this article and government mandate raised an eyebrow.
As I'm scanning the article, I notice links to related stories. One which caught my attention was titled,
Given reports about the reluctance to raise alarms about the recent deaths of 10 individuals due to hemorrhagic fever in Venezuela -
Mysterious outbreak of hemorrhagic fever syndrome in Venezuela kills tenDoctors have urged government authorities to declare a state of emergency in Aragua state; however they have received resistance from a surprising source. The State Governor, Tareck El Aissami, has not only denied medical reports of the disease, but has accused the president of the aragua state Medical Association, Angel Sarmiento, of "creating anxiety."
- peaking my curiosity again, and I clicked through to see more about the missing vile. At first glance the date of the missing vial report (March 26, 2013) had me less driven to follow through any further because the article stated:
>"But don’t panic because Guanarito virus isn’t known to be transmitted from person-to-person, the school statement says. It’s only contracted from rodents in a rare part of Venezuela"
Ready to dismiss this as having nothing to do with the current alarm bells driven by Ebola and the Venezuelan hemorrhagic virus I was about to move on but having never heard of the Guanarito virus before, I instead chose to search for information on the "Guanarito virus".
Lo and behold . . .the very first entry to show up on the search is from wiki titled
"The disease is most prevalent in several rural areas of central Venezuela and is caused by the Guanarito virus (GTOV) which belongs to the Arenaviridae family. "
How crazy is that? The missing vial from the University of Texas medical lab did contain specimen of a hemorrhagic virus "Guanarito", the etiologic agent of Venezuelan hemorrhagic fever..
Coincidence?
"Weaver said it’s likely the vial stuck to a technician’s glove and fallen onto the floor, he told the newspaper. The university says it believes the vial was destroyed during normal lab sterilization.
“The only way it could pose a risk is if it were stolen and that’s unlikely,” Weaver said. The statement notes that there was no security breach or suspicion of foul play in the incident.
“We don’t think anything that happened this past week endangers the community,” he said."
*******vs.*****
"The biolab realized the vial went missing on March 21 because it was preparing for its annual CDC inspection for the week of March 25, Weyant said. Prior to the inspection, the CDC visited in January 2012.
The last time the vial was used was November 2012, University of Texas Medical Branch spokesman Raul Reyes told ABCNews.com. The University of Texas Medical Branch owns the $174 million biolab, which was designed with the strictest security measures to hold the deadliest viruses in the country. Only one scientist worked with the virus, and Reyes said the lab suspects that scientist accidentally threw the vial away in November.
[snip]
Kurilla said the Galveston biolab requires the most stringent safety measures because it studies biosafetly level BSL-4 materials, or dangerous infectious diseases that have no vaccines or cures. BSL-4 materials include Guanarit, Ebola and smallpox."
*****vs.*****
Wrongdoing unlikely
"Lab officials searched but have not been able to locate the other vial.
UTMB said that there was no breach in the facility's security and no indication that any wrongdoing was involved, according to the statement. Weaver said it was possible a vial could have stuck to a figure or a glove and fallen to the floor of the laboratory.
"The only way it could pose a risk is if it were stolen and that's unlikely," Weaver said.
This marks the first time that any vial containing a select agent has been unaccounted for at UTMB, officials said.
"We don't think anything that happened this past week endangers the community," Weaver said. "We think this is an error that any one facility is inevitable and we are going to improve to prevent this in the future."
Ping.
The details may be a stretch pulling it together, but the coincidences are unnerving and I though it may be of general interest, especially given current events.
Re Tarek Al-Aissami.
“Born in Lebanon of Syrian descent in 1980; his father, Carlos Al-Aissami, was the head of the Venezuelan branch of the Iraqi Baath political party. According to reports, before the invasion of Iraq his father held a press conference in which he described himself as a Taliban and called Osama Bin Laden, “the great Mujahedeen, Sheik Osama bin Laden.”[1] The Minister’s great-uncle Shibli Al-Aissami was a prominent ideologist and assistant to the secretary general of the Baath party in Baghdad during the Saddam Hussein regime.[2]”
Such a family lineage is just another series of coincidences, right?
Good heavens, if this stuff is anything even remotely what it appears to be, we are in for some very dark days ahead.
Is it that a vial was sent here from Venezuela and then got sent back so that someone could cause a hemorrhagic outbreak? Or is it that we have a vial, it’s lost, and someone might be planning to let it loose in the general population?
The last time the vial was used was November 2012, University of Texas Medical Branch spokesman Raul Reyes told ABCNews.com. The University of Texas Medical Branch owns the $174 million biolab, which was designed with the strictest security measures to hold the deadliest viruses in the country. Only one scientist worked with the virus, and Reyes said the lab suspects that scientist accidentally threw the vial away in November.If this exhibits the strictest security measures , it certainly doesn't inspire confidence.
Ok, and I couldn’t agree more!!!
American people are still sleeping while forces in and out are planning your demise
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