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mark sky
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Global War Ming ? or Global Spraying?
 Tue Apr 10, 2007 11:56 am
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You be the judge...
Just how HOT has Vancouver Island become?
downright TROPICAL, if we are to believe this reporter...
look out and up, airborn incomeing alien incomeing
Alien Invasion: The Fungus That Came to Canada
By Doug Struck
Washington Post Foreign Service
Sunday, April 8, 2007; D01
VICTORIA, B.C. -- The mystery emerged slowly, its clues maddeningly diverse.
Sally Lester, an animal pathologist at a British Columbia laboratory, slipped a slide under her microscope -- a tissue from a dog on Vancouver Island. Her lens focused on a tiny cell that looked like a boiled egg. It was late 1999. She had started seeing a lot of those.
On the eastern side of the island, several dead porpoises washed ashore early the next year. Scientist Craig Stephen, who runs a research center on the island, slit one open. He found its lungs seized by pneumonia and its other organs swollen by strange, flowerlike tumors.
At work at the family trucking firm in Victoria, on the southern tip of the island, Esther Young, a lively 45-year-old mother, was feeling lousy in the fall of 2001. She had headaches and night sweats and was tired, her family said.
The doctor told her she was pre-menopausal and it would pass.
All would become pieces of a medical mystery centered on a tropical disease apparently brought to North America by a warming climate. An alien fungus took root on Vancouver Island eight years ago and has since killed eight people and infected at least 163 others, as well as many animals.
Similar cases have been found elsewhere in British Columbia and in Washington state and Oregon. Scientists say the fungus may be thriving because of a string of unusually warm summers here. They say it is a sign of things to come.
"As climate change happens, new ecological niches will become available to organisms, and we will see this kind of thing happen again," said Karen Bartlett, a scientist at the University of British Columbia who played a central role in the search for the disease's cause.
Her investigation eventually would focus on a fungus, a member of the yeast family called Cryptococcus gattii. The microscopic fungus is normally found in the bark of eucalyptus trees in Australia and other tropical zones.
Physicians in North America are familiar with a relative, Cryptococcus neoformans. In humans, it shows up through pneumonia when immune systems already are weak, most typically in AIDS patients. In dogs and cats, it can form abscesses below the eyes. Lester, working in her pathology lab in 1999, was used to seeing tissue specimens from six to 10 pets a year with it.
But by 2000, vets on the island were sending her 10 positive samples a month. Lester knew Cryptococcus causes a disease that, like bird flu and West Nile virus, affects animals and humans. She put in a call to the British Columbia Center for Disease Control.
The call came at a busy time for Murray Fyfe. The head epidemiologist at the provincial CDC was then dealing with a bevy of other public health problems: Peanuts from China had caused salmonella. Some local spinach was tainted. And there was a surge of men coming to hospitals with diarrhea.
Fyfe consulted Pamela Kibsey, a microbiologist at the Vancouver Island Health Authority. Kibsey said she had noticed an increase in human cases of Cryptococcus. And there was something strange about it. It was infecting healthy people, not just the sick.
Fyfe formed a group to begin combing records of veterinarians and hospitals, tracing the first cases back to 1999. He asked Bartlett, at UBC, to join the group. They sent samples of the Cryptococcus recovered from diseased tissue for further analysis. The results showed it wasn't the familiar form of "crypto."
"This was an Australian fungus," Stephen said. "We said, 'What's a nice girl like you doing in a place like this?' "
More disturbing, the fungus appeared to be more virulent than in Australia. There, it infects about four people per million and is rarely fatal. On Vancouver Island, the rate was 27 per million, and it was more often killing people.
The scientists can only guess how, or when, the fungus arrived. It could have been brought on eucalyptus trees imported by nurseries from Australia. Or it may always have been on the island, quietly clinging to life unnoticed until the warm summers spurred it to proliferate.
"With global warming, it may have finally been able to emerge to a level [at which] it is infectious," Fyfe said. Humans and animals living in the area, having had no exposure, had developed no immunities to it. Some people reacted to exposure by developing the disease.
Bartlett formed a team of students to try to find gattii in the wild. Armed with new detection kits ordered from Japan, they tramped through back yards on Vancouver Island, digging up soil, taking air samples, swabbing bark on trees. They went out with hour-long questionnaires to talk to survivors of the disease and to owners of infected pets.
One common site came up: Rathtrevor Beach Provincial Park. It is an expanse of moss-covered fir and hemlock trees that reach for the sky, cheered by ravens and gulls, next to the Strait of Georgia. Patient Esther Young had gone to the park to kayak. Several other patients had been there.
Fyfe helped the students swab an old Douglas fir at the park. Two weeks later, Bartlett called him, excited. The swabs had come back positive, the first discovery of Cryptococcus gattii in the wild.
With the summer of 2002 approaching, Fyfe had a problem. The park had a popular campground; families reserved a year ahead for tent spots. Fyfe knew most people could come into contact with gattii with no ill effects. Those few who did become infected could be treated successfully.
So he decided on a low-key information campaign. He posted pamphlets in the park and sent out notices to vacationers who had made Internet reservations. The reaction was prompt: The park got 750 cancellations.
Word was also getting out through the news media. Ken James heard it on TV. At 55, the former millworker in the island town of Duncan had been plagued by a tickle in his chest, a nagging cough, night sweats and an intense desire every day to take a nap. When he heard the report on "this weird fungal disease," he said, it ticked off the same symptoms.
His doctor was skeptical, but a chest X-ray showed nodules in his lung -- either cancer or the fungus. To James's relief, it was gattii, and after a year of oral medication, he is cured.
"Did I walk past a tree when the fungus was exploding? Who knows," he said. "If I hadn't seen that news report, things could have been very different for me."
By the start of 2003, Bartlett's students had found the fungus in other spots. They eventually concluded that it had infested a several-hundred-mile range on eastern Vancouver Island. Health authorities agreed with business leaders in the adjacent city of Parksville that it was no longer fair to target the park alone, and warning signs at the Rathtrevor Beach park came down in favor of a wider information campaign.
Health authorities still are struggling to strike the right balance with the public. "It's serious, but it's still a very rare disease. Much rarer than influenza, for example," said Eleni Galanis, epidemiologist at the B.C. Center for Disease Control. "People need to be aware of it, in order to treat it. But we don't want people to stop going outside."
If doctors catch the disease early, oral doses of antifungal drugs will kill the cells. Undetected, the fungus can get into the spinal fluid, causing potentially fatal meningitis.
Young went home sick in February 2002. By that summer, she could not walk, had lost her ability to speak, had gone temporarily blind and was slowly starving because she could not keep food down. By the time doctors tested her, the fungus had reached her brain.
"My poor sister couldn't even tell anyone how she was feeling," said Deborah Chow, 51, reminiscing with her family. Finally, with Young's pain clear and the end inevitable, Chow held her sister in the hospital and whispered, "It's okay to go. Dad will be okay. Your son will be okay." She died 45 minutes later.
New cases on Vancouver Island have leveled off at about 25 a year. Eight people have died. Bartlett's focus now is to figure out whether -- and how -- the fungus is moving.
Five human cases have been found on the British Columbia mainland; two people have been sickened in Washington state; and Oregon has had two fatalities from a similar but not identical strain of gattii. Health authorities in Washington and Oregon say the disease is still too rare in their areas to warrant alarm, but they are watching it. Bartlett said it is unclear whether the fungus has been tracked elsewhere on the bottom of shoes or in wheel wells.
"One possibility for what we are seeing on the mainland is the first colonization, like we had on the island in 1999," Bartlett said. Another is that those traces will disappear.
The infected porpoises -- at least 25 of them now -- suggest the fungus is carried by air over the water. Stephen Raverty, a pathologist at the provincial veterinary center in British Columbia, worries that the fungus can attack other species.
Killer whales, whose numbers have dropped sharply here, are cetaceans like the stricken Dall's porpoises. Raverty and others have been tracking the killer whales in Puget Sound, using glassine slides mounted on long poles to catch droplets from the whales' exhalations, to see whether the animals have been infected.
So far, they haven't found the fungus. But animals can act as a sentinel for humans, the scientists say.
"These are the types of things we will see with climate change," Fyfe said. "As the weather in North America gets warmer, we are more likely to be affected by these public health threats." |
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PAK
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Tue Apr 10, 2007 5:53 pm
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quote:
More disturbing, the fungus appeared to be more virulent than in Australia. There, it infects about four people per million and is rarely fatal. On Vancouver Island, the rate was 27 per million, and it was more often killing people.
Must be 12 Monkeys running around somewhere.
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Jeanie
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Wed Apr 11, 2007 12:55 am
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quote posted by Marksky "All would become pieces of a medical mystery centered on a tropical disease apparently brought to North America by a warming climate. An alien fungus took root on Vancouver Island eight years ago and has since killed eight people and infected at least 163 others, as well as many animals."
This is alarming and frightening!!! Specially since I am seeing fungus growing all over trees, my house, sidewalk, driveway. Last year I hired someone to spray my entire house for fungus, at a hefty price I might add. I have lived in New England all of my life and have never seen this onslaught of fungus that's been taking place in recent years. I'm planning to track down some tree expert to see what they think is going on.
There are many places on earth that have tropical climates year around like Hawaii, have we heard of people and animals dying of fungus infection in these places ? I doubt it. Let's not overlook the possibility of purposeful implants filtering down from above. Don't know if that's so, let's hope not. |
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PAK
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Wed Apr 11, 2007 2:09 am
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Any virus, fungus, or living organism can be created in a lab. The Spanish flu virus was ressurected and made 30 times more deadly than the original virus and the scientists were thrilled about it. Watched it on the Discovery Channel. Bayer was caught and sued over knowingly dispensing hemophiliac injectable medicine that was laced with the Aids virus. Now how did it get in the medicine? By accident? Don't think so.
Down south their pollen count was over 5000 when 120 is considered high. My son's car was covered with thick yellowish green crap. It was everywhere. He said everyone was choking, coughing, sneezing and miserable. Here's an excerpt from the article dated March 28, 2007 and the link:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17818861/
Atlanta’s pollen count hit 5,499 particles per cubic meter of air Monday, the highest so far this season and the fourth highest in the 12 years that the Atlanta Allergy and Asthma Clinic has been keeping records. In South Carolina, the pollen count hit 4,862, according to the Allergic Disease and Asthma Center in Greenville.
A reading of 120 is considered extremely high in the Southeast.
• Learn more about drugs used for treating allergies
Note the pHARM-ASSISTS rake it in.
But it's all just natural.
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PAK
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Wed Apr 11, 2007 2:10 am
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We are also having more problems with mold and fungus. Even when it is dry and no rain.
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mark sky
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Fri Jul 27, 2007 5:39 am
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What do you get whe you splice a nematode
with a government and a viral corpse
when you splice profits above "the rule of law"
and eat the results for a "living"
when a planet is taken overt by elites above
and all the senatores node in unison |
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PAK
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Tue Jul 31, 2007 1:45 pm
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Can a scientific society be stable?
"What stands in our way?" asks Lord Bertrand Russell and he promptly answers "It is not physical or technical obstacles, but only the evil passions in human minds."
It depends on whose stability it is for, does it not?
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cosmosis
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Sat Aug 04, 2007 3:57 pm
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That was certainly an interesting and alarming article but I didn't see anything about chemtrails in it. |
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mr. jones
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Sat Aug 04, 2007 6:19 pm
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It's not so much the warming climate (as scientific prostiutes would like us to believe).
It's the plain fact that the chemtrails that they have sprayed and continue spraying are taking effect, these chemtrails have the specific chore of breaching the immune systems of all living organisms on planet earth.
by making it easier for parasites (fungus, bacteria, etc.) to penetrate and invade a host's body (yours), among other evil things.
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