The SARS Epidemic; Are Viruses Taking the Rap for Instrial Poisons? - LONG

December 10, 2003

Sheri,

I wrote an in-depth article on SARS, published in a journal by

www.westonaprice.org a few months ago. (article below letter)

SARS is very similar to West Nile virus epidemics, that is, being that it

occurs only in highly air polluted zones, hits elderly most, and the main

symptom is coughing and lung damage; SARS is air pollution disease. This is

simple and obvious, once one pushes aside the debris of orthodox news.

The region where SARS began (it didn't really begin, but is a recategorized

existing disease), the Guangdong Province (China), vies for position as the

most air-polluted region on earth. The Hong-Kong epidemic, downwind and

adjacent to Guangdong, and occurred in the Hong Kong district (of 11

districts) that is most air polluted. The annual season when the epidemic

occurred is the most air-polluted season.

The worth of a theory is valid predictions of future events. The " return of

SARS " in Asia was predicted by CDC/WHO as being " when cold weather returns " ,

yet I contradicted them directly, as a public online prediction, stating

that SARS would return in Aug/Sept (highest pollution occurs pre-monsoon),

and SARS did return as I predicted (see www.who.org for timeline data and

WHO predictions).

SARS virology is absurd, since the Erasmus study, which claims " absolute

proof " that SARS is pathogenic, used only two monkeys, and the dosages were

hyped, one million times the TCID50 (50% tissue culture infectious dose)

with who-knows-what chemicals; toxicology is omitted. Medical press

releases (via WHO), claimed " three groups " of monkeys were employed in the

Erasmus study.

I have the study, published in Nature, and cannot find any mention of more

than two monkeys for the study. Here is a quote, " Both SCV-inoculated

macaques... " There is also a chart which shows two monkeys utilized for an

experiment that failed to produce SARS at 1,000 times the TCID50, and then

there are shown two monkeys in which " SARS " symptoms were produced at

1,000,000 times TCID50. No other monkeys shown in the chart, or referred to

in the literature. The study proper, is only about two monkeys, the

1,000,000 times TCID50. One could stretch the number, by not reading the

article, and only looking at the charts, to 4 monkeys. But " three groups "

is not possible to imagine. The lead author (Osterhaus) of the experiment

does not respond to inquiries.

The press releases are misleading, since when one thinks of an important WHO

funded study of " three groups of monkeys " , a vision of three groups of 10 to

50 monkeys each is presented. Two monkeys at 1,000,000 TCID50, changes that

image vastly. Knowing how virology works, I doubt that the SARS virsu was

ever properly isolated prior to characterization.

Microbiologist Urnovitz stated online, that his examination of SARS

virus PCR data, interprets this genetic data as a rearranged human genome,

due to pollution, not a virus.

-Jim West

www.geocities.com/noxot (West Nile virus critique)

http://www.westonaprice.org/envtoxins/sarsepidemic.html

The SARS Epidemic; Are Viruses Taking the Rap for Instrial Poisons?

By Jim West

On March 15, 2003 the World Health Organization (WHO) issued a global alert

warning of a new virus spreading through Asia and causing Severe Acute

Respiratory Syndrome (SARS), a potentially fatal disease, similar to

pneumonia. Photos from China depicting ballet dancers and bridal parties

wearing white masks appeared in western newspapers while health departments

across the country issued notices to hospitals detailing the symptoms of

the new virus and asking for immediate notification of suspect cases. Until

the global alert, reports referred to an " unknown virus " first striking in

Guangdong Province, China, although some reports place the origin in the

Philippines. With the March 15 WHO report, the SARS virus became official

and reports of new cases came flooding in.

By late May, officials had reported over 8,000 cases worldwide, with almost

700 deaths.1 Of the 65 suspected SARS victims in the US, all but a few had

traveled by airplane to areas where the outbreak has been most severe,

including mainland China, Hong Kong, Singapore, Hanoi and Toronto. The

Chinese economy has taken a hit and some Chinese airline routes were

virtually empty due to SARS fear.2

Serious Drama

The SARS outbreak has revived discussion of forced quarantine. According to

a study by the American Public Health Laboratory Association and quoted by

Senator M. Kennedy, Democrat of Massachusetts, few cities have

enough hospital space to quarantine patients in the event of a large-scale

outbreak of an infectious disease like SARS. According to Lawrence O.

Gostin, director of the Center for Law and the Public's Health at

town University's Law Center, public health laws date back to the

19th century and are " wholly inadequate to deal with an emergency. "

" The need for public health law reform is urgent, " said Mr. Gostin. " It

should have provisions for surveillance, vaccination, treatment, isolation

and quarantine in a way that gives decisive powers to health authorities

while respecting the Constitution. " So far, all but one of the SARS victims

has submitted to voluntary isolation. The one exception, a New York man,

was involuntarily contained until his symptoms passed. Federal quarantine

law now includes SARS among its disease guidelines.

Mr. Gostin was the author of the draconian Emergency State Health Powers

Act, which has been adopted (fortunately in softened form) by 22 states.

According to Gostin, " The need for effective state compulsory power is

beyond doubt. But that's not a given in our country, which is now so tied

to the rhetoric of individual rights. It seems we've lost the tradition of

the common good. " 3

Kill The r

In China, a country where the " rhetoric of individual rights " is lacking,

the government has announced it would kill SARS carriers who refused

quarantine.4 Malaysian officials threatened imprisonment.5 In Hong Kong,

officials motivated by the " tradition of common good " have suggested that

" families of SARS patients be rounded up, and sent to quarantine camps. " 6

In Nanjing, China, 10,000 have been quarantined, and in Beijing 16,000 as

of May 6, 2003.7

Official Disease Definition

SARS means " Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome. " This wide-open definition

encompasses many diseases common in the affected regions. Symptoms range

from flu-like to pneumonia.8 Dr. Plummer, director of the National

Microbiology Laboratory in Canada stated, " Of course, the case definition

of SARS is a little loose. " 9

The World Health Organization (WHO) has defined SARS in the following way:

a) a person presenting after 1 November 2002 with history of high fever

(greater than 100.4° F) and cough or breathing difficulty; or a person

who was not autopsied but with acute respiratory disease and who has been

in close contact within 10 days of someone who had SARS.10

This definition alone should give thoughtful readers cause to question the

SARS phenomenon. Firstly, is a temperature of 1.8 degrees F over normal

really a " high fever " ? The CDC used " mild fever " in their case definition.

Secondly, should WHO install a historical bias before the history of SARS

is even written? WHO has made it impossible to place the discovery of SARS

before November 2002, or even think of it as preceding that date, thus

guaranteeing its status as an " emerging epidemic. "

In the US, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) defines SARS differently:

a) Illness of unknown aetiology [cause not already ascertained] and onset

after February 1, 2003, AND, Temperature over 100.5 degrees F, AND, c)

respiratory illness, AND, d) Recent contact with a SARS patient or travel

to epidemic region.

This defines the new epidemic as an arrival from southeast Asia, China or

Toronto. This definition obviates any need to test for the SARS virus in

patients who contracted pneumonia before February 2003, AND, who had not

traveled to the Orient or met such a traveler. With this definition, the

diagnosis of any SARS-like case, determined previously to be of non-viral

origin, would be secured from contradictions. The usual one-disease,

one-cause theme for epidemics is thereby maintained.

SARS Virology

Due to the wide-ranging definition, the only unique quality of SARS is the

associated virus. But association is not enough and a single association is

not a rigorous, convincing proof.

On April 16, 2003, WHO announced that SARS virus, a member of the

coronavirus family, was definitely causative for the disease. The report

referred to a study carried out by a team led by Dr. Albert Osterhaus, the

director of virology at Erasmus Medical Centre in Rotterdam. Media reports

used the terms " unequivocal, " " definite, " and " beyond a doubt " to describe

the work at Erasmus.

Osterhaus reported that his team infected one group of monkeys with SARS

virus, a second group with the metapneumonvirus (also found in some SARS

patients), and a third group with SARS virus and then the metapneumovirus.

The monkeys infected with the metapneumonvirus alone developed mild

symptoms, compared to the " full-blown disease " seen in the first group. The

third group " did not develop a more serious version of SARS. " From this

Osterhaus concluded, " the coronavirus alone is capable of causing the

typical symptoms… " 11

Virology In Doubt

Press releases about the " definitive " Erasmus study, distributed by AP,

WHO, Nature Magazine and others, cannot be taken seriously without further

details. Here are a few unanswered questions:

a) Since laboratory virus stocks are poisoned with antibiotics, or are

derived by a process that utilizes poisons, then which poisons were present

in Erasmus University virus stocks?

Were the toxicities of virus stocks included in the assessment of the

study results?

c) How was the virus stock obtained?

d) Was a comprehensive test for other viruses performed on the experimental

stock?

e) Are the laboratory-produced viruses chimeric viruses, that is, synthetic

viruses?

f) What quantity of virus medium was applied to each monkey; that is, what

multiple of real-world conditions?

g) What concentration of viruses were applied; that is, what multiple of

real-world conditions?

h) How was the medium applied; would the application method be possible in

real-world conditions?

i) Which chemicals were added to the medium in addition to antibiotics? Do

these interact or promote the toxicity of other chemicals in the virus stock?

j) How many monkeys were in each group? Were there enough for a valid

assessment?

k) What was the condition of each monkey prior, during and at the

conclusion of the experiment? Monkeys have been regarded as poor

experimental subjects because of their intelligent sensitivity, and

maltreatment received from handlers and distributors. Stress alone,

incurred by the monkeys due to cruelty, cage conditions and poor nutrition,

can cause illness or susceptibility.

l) Was the virus used in the experiment actually " isolated " ? The word, when

used by virologists, means something entirely different from the meaning

assumed by non-virologists (including doctors), and this word serves as the

basis for misinformation regarding virus proof. The details of " isolation

of the virus " need to be explained.

m) Were any of the experimental animals, or tests, rerun after unexpected

results occurred? What were the circumstances?

At this writing, one further detail of the Erasmus study has been obtained,

" Osterhaus and colleagues completed the final ones [Koch Postulates] when

they infected two macaque monkeys with the virus from a SARS patient and

isolated it from the animals. " 12

So, the " definite " proof is based on two monkeys injected with the supposed

SARS virus. What happened to independent confirmation, randomized controls,

and probability analysis that determine the possibility that a test on two

monkeys is valid? The hyped language, the major institutions and funding

sources involved, juxtaposed against the meager number of monkeys in the

experiment, point to extreme bias in the search for a microbial demon. I

look forward to more details of the Erasmus study.

As of late May, tests for the virus in Toronto " failed to spot a targeted

virus in 30% to 50% of infected patients. " 13 This was attributed to

inaccurate testing methods, not the absence of the virus. Nevertheless, no

matter how often SARS virus is found, the virus is present only in trace

amounts and not in quantities large enough to cause disease, leaving

infection and pathology in doubt.14

Convenient Scapegoats

In spite of the nagging inconsistencies in the viral theory for SARS,

scientists and the press have gone one step further with reports that SARS

originated in a live meat market in China's Guangdong province in November,

2002. Researchers in Hong Kong and Shenzhen, China found a virus that is

" almost identical " to the human SARS coronavirus in six masked palm civets

(cat-sized animals) and a raccoon dog sold in these open air markets,15 a

convenient discovery that will bring official pressure on China's

traditional farmers and food-sellers, now in competition with new,

" sanitary " western-style supermarkets.

Viral demons are fair game for the media. Dramatic realities merge with

scenes from class B sci-fi movies, as doctors and nurses scream through

hospital wards, airports are closed and police round up infected carriers.

In China, such dreadful acts are all too real. In addition to the proposed

human executions, millions of cats, dogs, farm animals and wildlife may be

slaughtered to stop the deadly viral plague. Precedent is found in

Britain's Mad Cow and Hoof and Mouth epidemics, and supposed viral

epidemics in Malaysia and Taiwan during 1997-1998. In this scenario,

medical workers come to the rescue like soldiers, heroically primed to save

lives with deadly force.

The pharmaceutical companies, of course, are playing a leading role. Roche,

" the global leader in the $22-billion-a-year clinical-diagnostics market "

is developing a test that should be able to " flag SARS in the first days of

an infection, possibly even when the virus isn't causing symptoms. " This

will allow officials " to identify superspreaders (patients whose SARS

infections are highly transmissible) before they become superspreaders, "

says a Roche executive.16 As all diagnostic tests generate false positives,

anyone suffering from a fever and a cough risks being branded as a modern

Typhoid should he or she submit to such a procedure.

SARS Critics

In spite of the fearful headlines, the SARS paradigm has met widespread

criticism.

An insider, Dr. Plummer, spilled the beans: " The director… told The

Scientist yesterday (April 10) that the new coronavirus implicated as the

cause of the disease is certainly around in the environment but is unlikely

to be the causative agent. Plummer is director of Canada's National

Microbiology Laboratory in Winnipeg. " 17

Plummer stated, " we are finding some of the best-characterized [sARS

disease] cases are negative [for the SARS virus]. So it's puzzling. As is

the fact the amounts of virus we are finding, when we find it, are very

small—only detectable by very sensitive PCR.

" That's what the majority of labs [nasopharyngeal swabs] around the world

are testing, it's where you find most respiratory viruses. It's strange

[that there's so little virus there] because it seems to be transmitted by

close contact. "

After the announcement of the Erasmus study, Plummer stated, " Once you

conclude that this coronavirus is the sole cause of SARS then you move into

a different phase and you move to test only for it. . . to the exclusion of

other things. And I think. . . at least based on what we're seeing in

Canada. . . it's a little early to do that. We are in many ways behaving as

if this is the cause. " 18

According to a CBC news report, " No classic respiratory or bacterial

respiratory pathogen was consistently identified. Scientists have not

definitively shown the new coronavirus causes SARS. To do that, they need

to see the virus in infected lung samples from all patients and show the

virus causes SARS in an animal model. " 19 Implicit in this statement is

the fact that SARS symptoms are not unique to the disease, or that tests

were finding other (non-SARS) pathogens in the victims, or tests were not

consistently performed for other pathogens.

Jon Rappoport, an independent journalist who has written for CBS

Healthwatch, writes, " This [sARS] insanity is multiplied beyond all sense

when you consider that, in Canada, they are now finding the [sARS]

coronavirus in ZERO PERCENT of diagnosed SARS cases. " 20

Regush, veteran journalist of ABC News, admits no contact with

Rappoport, yet writes, " We're in very deep trouble… the COMING OF SARS.

Having been a member of the reporting classes for many years, I can't say

that I'm surprised. More like disappointed. Disgusted. Outraged. " 21

Fintan Dunne, who edits a website entitled www.SickOfDoctors.com, is also

critical: " More of the hype machine and further global economic damage,

over a spurious syndrome which is a drop in the disease ocean. " 22

Dr. Low, one of Canada's leading infectious disease experts and a

key member of the SARS containment team, described WHO's policies for

Toronto as " a bunch of bullshit " and " inappropriate. " 23

According to Duesberg, the well-known microbiologist at the

University of California at Berkeley, the list of badly diagnosed, yet

strongly hyped epidemics is lengthy: Ebola, Hepatitis C, AIDS, SMON, and

others.24 According to the German virologist Stefan Lanka, the list of

pseudo-epidemics is nearly endless.25

Toxicology

The orthodox SARS paradigm completely omits and avoids toxicology for good

reason: SARS disease symptoms are identical to pesticide and air pollution

disease symptoms. And these poisons correlate in time and place with SARS

epidemics.

Only virology holds SARS together, and by including toxicology, the virus

theory of SARS can be entirely rebutted.

Airline Pesticides

As the SARS syndrome " appears to be spreading via air travel, the CDC

advised travelers to postpone any non-essential travel to affected areas,

which include China, Hong Kong, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and

Vietnam, according to WHO. " 26

What most travelers don't realize is that airlines routinely apply

pesticides to airplanes, especially those on Asian routes. Airlines call

their pesticide application " disinsection. " A US Department of

Transportation memo describes two methods of application: " Either spray the

aircraft cabin, with an aerosolized insecticide, while passengers are on

board or treat the aircraft's interior surfaces with a residual

insecticide. " 27

On August 2, 2001, CNN reported on a lawsuit filed by United Airlines

stewardesses for damages caused by pesticides sprayed in United Airlines

planes on Australian and New Zealand routes.28 No further mention of the

lawsuit has appeared in the press.

However, on March 17, 2003, Pesticide Action Network Updates Service

(PANUPS) announced: " An airline flight to the tropics may involve greater

health risks. . . pesticides are routinely sprayed in aircraft cabins by US

airlines, sometimes over the heads of passengers during flight. " 29

Details on airline pesticide protocols for southeast Asian airline flights

emerge from the US Department of Transportation memo: " Guam requires

disinsection, but permits the residual method, of all flights from the

Commonwealth of the Northern na Islands, Thailand, Philippines, Korea,

Indonesia, Malaysia, the Federated States of Micronesia, Papua New Guinea,

Islands, and the Republic of the Marshall Islands and, during

certain months, of flights from Taiwan, Korea and Japan. " 30

The pesticides used in airlines are synthetic pyrethrin pesticides

(pyrethroids), which in some countries have been banned from agricultural

use.31 SARS symptoms are nearly identical to those of pyrethrin pesticides,

as shown in the table on Page 19.

There are other chemical risks found in aircraft. Diane Fairchild, who

worked decades for the airline industry and spent years litigating against

that industry over issues related to pesticide protocols, describes the

liabilities of airline travel on her website.46

Airport Pollution

Airports are notoriously air polluted. A single airliner at take-off emits

tremendous volumes of pollutants.47 JFK airport in New York City, has its

own oil refinery on the airport grounds, nearly two football fields in

area. How common is that practice? Oil refinery emissions correlate

exceedingly well with recent so-called viral disease epidemics. The West

Nile virus epidemic was first noticed in the neighborhoods beneath one of

the busiest take-off lanes in the US, La Guardia Airport, New York City.48

Industrial Emissions

The greatest SARS epidemic region in the world is the Guangdong province of

China. That heavily populated province also vies for position as the most

highly polluted region on earth, due to the presence of oil refineries,

metal smelters and other chemical industries in a country with lower

environmental standards.

Writing for The Atlantic Monthly, Mark Hertsgaard describes Guangdong

province as " A fiendish laboratory experiment that was mushrooming beyond

control. . . . Shanxi, a day's journey west of Beijing. . . the land. . .

scalped, the water poisoned, the air made toxic and dark. . . . At least

five of the cities with the worst air pollution in the world are in China.

Sixty to 90 percent of the rainfall in Guangdong. . . is acid rain. . .

people's lungs and nervous systems are bombarded by an extraordinary volume

and variety of deadly poisons. One of every four deaths in China is caused

by lung disease. " 49 Hertsgaard found that total suspended particulates (an

air pollution index) can be, in some cities in China, 12 times higher than

in New York City. Obviously, non-viral forms of SARS exist in Guangdong.

SARS is far from atypical.

Deforestation by fire can also cause the respiratory problems associated

with SARS. Huge fires are set or occur accidentally in Singapore, Malaysia

and China. Major fires ravaged southeast Asia in September 2002, just two

months before officials announced the SARS epidemic.50

Tan Ee Lyn (Reuters) describes the air environment in Hong Kong and

southern China, the major SARS epicenters: " [Title:] CHINA: September 9,

2002, Thick smog shrouds Hong Kong, health warning issued. [Text:]Hong

Kong—Thick smog blanketed Hong Kong last week, a clear sign that the

territory and southern China are still a long way from cleaning up their

bad air. The government urged people with respiratory problems to avoid

heavily congested traffic areas and cut back on outdoor physical activity. "

Toxicology = Virology

Even if a perfect (according to the rules of virology) laboratory proof for

virus causation existed, such proofs still involve high use of artifice,

far from the reality of everyday life. Even if SARS virology could have

isolated and properly identified a real virus, questions still remain. A

SARS virus may be a natural endogenous virus (from within) serving a normal

adaptive function. It might not be the infectious, exogenous virus (from

without) as described by media hype.

Not well known, but well established, is the fact that virus-like genetic

material (RNA) is often expressed from poisoned cellular tissue as an

adaptive and defensive response to poisoning.51 Expressing virus-like

genes is part of the cellular " SOS response " of cells engaged in

accelerated genetic recombination.52 The so-called SARS virus can be

interpreted as such a genetic expression occurring in humans, as well as

the exotic animals, palm civet cats and raccoon dogs sold in Guangdong live

animal markets and recently found positive for SARS.

Virus Is Us

The cutting-edge biochemist, Urnovitz, views SARS virus as human

genes rearranged by pollution stress: " I do not see a virus. I see a

unique and complete rearrangement of genomic elements. For example, when I

look at what is believed to be the gene sequence coding for the spike

protein of this coronavirus, I see a complicated gene rearrangement of a

region of human chromosome. As I did in our studies of Gulf War Syndrome,

when I see gene rearrangements like this, I immediately search for an

associated catastrophic environmental event that could have caused such

genomic rearrangement. " 53 (Emphasis added.)

SARS epidemics correspond strongly with such " catastrophic environmental

events. "

SARS Redefined

SARS is not a unique disease, since its symptoms coincide with pyrethrin

poisoning and air pollution diseases.

Orthodox science damns itself by beginning with a virus hypothesis when

toxicological evidence is plentiful. Orthodox journalism promotes the

discovery of the " SARS virus " with little criticism of the virology and a

deafening silence regarding toxicology.

Apparently the virus paradigm is a necessary cover for industrial

pollution. WHO's promotion of the virus disease paradigm is a tremendous

boon for industry, which requires free disposal of industrial wastes into

the lungs. . . correction. . . the atmosphere.

The preponderance of evidence indicates that SARS is the direct result of

regional industrial pollution, airport pollution, with an optional coup de

grace from pyrethroid pesticides applied directly upon the passengers or as

a residue vapor. Essentially, airlines are enclosed, fabric-filled

containers where air is circulated several times before it is vented to the

outside. They are not the kind of chamber that environmentalists would

prefer to enter following " disinsection. " SARS, like St. Louis virus (SLE),

West Nile Virus (WNV) and non-toxicological asthma definitions guarantee

spin control for emerging epidemics.

Neenyah Ostrom discusses the general relationship between pollution in

China and the SARS virus— and the relation between poisoning and cellular

RNA: " But Guangdong and Hong Kong share another distinction: They are in

perhaps the most polluted area on the planet. Should we be asking questions

like, what new types of pollutants have been introduced into this

gene-swapping microenvironment? So, the question becomes: Is pollution a

causative agent in SARS? "

If SARS disease is another semantic flag for industrial pollution, then

SARS functions by punishing the economy of polluting regions without

specifically placing blame on powerful industries. Military groups have

long employed such a method—where the group is punished to correct

individual behavior. Within industry, SARS will bring about a reassessment

of economic priorities (industrial need versus human worth) without the

complications of public blame games.

About the Author

Jim West serves as Chairman of the Science Committee for the NoSpray

Coalition in New York City. For details see http://www.nospray.org.

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SIDEBAR ARTICLES

West Nile Virus

West Nile Virus (WNV) arrived in New York City in 1999 and soon grew into

an " epidemic " characterized by a sea of contradictions.54 Medical press

agencies proclaimed the " first arrival of the West Nile virus to the

Western Hemisphere " 55 but a more accurate description of the situation

would be the " first testing of the West Nile virus in the Western Hemisphere. "

Mayor Giuliani personally announced the epidemic. He also announced the

immediate commencement of a six-week pesticide spray campaign over the

city, dispensed by helicopters. Meanwhile, the TV and newspaper headlines

chanted, " The Deadly Virus. " The disease was at first attributed to the St.

Louis encephalitis virus (SLE) but a few weeks later blame shifted to West

Nile virus.

The United States Geological Survey ( " USGS " ) issued a press release one

year later " confirming " the pathological effect of WNV on crows. This was

hyped and widely distributed. Having read many other virological studies, I

found the USGS results incredibly odd. The crows were injected

intramuscularly with a virus extract and a few days later all met death.

The filter used to separate the virus from tissue extract was nearly six

times the diameter of the virus.56 Nearly all non-injected crows in the

same cage also died. The success of the experiment was too convincing to be

true, especially for a study that did not employ the common, harsh,

intracranial injection method. The study outcome was also odd because WNV

had been considered a mild virus and not especially dangerous to birds. The

USGS laboratory ignored my repeated inquiries for the published details.

After going through another scientist, who contacted the USGS, I received

an emailed response from the USGS indicating low confidence for their

study. The agency indicated their study would not be published or discussed

and they expressed an intention to perform a better experiment in the

future. I doubt they would want to take a chance on another such experiment.

SLE and WNV epidemics occur annually in air-polluted petrochemical regions

(such as eastern New Jersey and St. Louis) during the warm spring and

summer months, with an apex in July and August. The incidence correlates

daily with air pollution brought to ground level by warm air and loss of

convection efficiency for exhaust sources. SLE epidemics have a long

history in the US (in petrochemical regions) and these epidemics don't

spread infectiously to other regions. The two great epicenters for WNV/SLE

disease are the two great petrochemical industrial regions in the

US—southern Louisiana and New Jersey.

During the summers of 1999 and 2000, air pollution levels reached record

levels, correlating with the incidence of " West Nile virus " cases, both

human and avian. The gasoline additive MTBE represents perhaps the greatest

production volume for any industrial poison in the US, yet it has received

little publicity. The public became aware of its dangers only when the EPA

suggested that MTBE be phased out on July 27,1999. That date also

represents the apex of the West Nile virus avian epidemic for 1999.63

Like so many widely dispensed industrial poisons, the physiological effects

of MTBE have only become known through usage on the public. However, Dr.

ph correlated MTBE with neurological disease in his 1997 study,

" Changes in Disease Rates Following the Introduction of Oxygenated Fuels. "

Neurological symptoms also characterize West Nile virus disease. Avian

mortality further distinguishes this " viral " disease. Yet, avian mortality

is an early warning system for human air pollution disease, as evidenced by

the traditional air assay test, the " miners' canary. "

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Legionnaires' Disease

Another acute respiratory disease is Legionnaires' disease, also

characterized by sloppy science. The disease was claimed causative for 182

casualties and 29 deaths within a few days in 1976 at the bicentennial

celebration of the American Legion at the Bellevue Stratford Hotel in

Philadelphia.

After several months of study, CDC scientists announced the discovery of

Legionella bacteriumas as the cause for Legionnaires' disease. Virologists

Duesberg and Ellison relate the story.57 " One month before the

CDC isolated the bacterium, a US House of Representatives Investigative

Committee held hearings excoriating the CDC for not having looked for toxic

chemicals as a possible cause of the 1976 epidemic. Chairman of

New York sharply attacked the investigation because 'The CDC, for example,

did not have a toxicologist present in their initial team of investigators

sent to deal with the epidemic. No apparent precautions were taken to deal

with the possibility, however remote at the time, that something else might

have been the cause.' "

According to Duesberg, " The evidence indicates Legionella is actually quite

harmless. Since 1976, CDC and public health investigators have found the

bacteria all over the country, in water cooling towers, condensers, shower

heads, faucets, humidifiers, whirlpools, swimming pools and even hot-water

tanks, assorted plumbing, mud, and lakes. The bacterium is so universal

that between 20 percent and 30 percent of the American population has

already been infected, yet virtually no one ever develops Legionnaires'

disease symptoms. " Calling the organism Aguanella—indicating it is simply

water-borne—wouldn't serve the CDC's purpose. Quite by chance, the CDC's

interpretation happens to protect the chemical industry, which sells

poisonous deodorants, pesticides, antibiotics, carpets, paints,

pharmaceuticals, cosmetics and beverages to hotels—and airlines.

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Two SARS Disease Paradigms:

Comparison of Symptoms

Symptom As SARS Virus32-35 As Airline Pesticide Poisoning

(mostly Pyrethrin formulations)36-45

Coughing Yes Yes

Malaise Yes Yes

Fever Yes Yes

Headaches Yes Yes

Nausea Yes Yes

Vomiting Yes Yes

Rash Yes Yes

Respiratory distress Yes Yes

Respiratory failure Yes Yes

Neurological dysfunction Yes Yes

Cardiac dysfunction Yes Yes

Irritability Yes Yes

Diarrhea Yes Yes

Pneumonia Yes Yes

Lung damage (as measles symptoms, see below) Yes Yes

Dyspnoea (breathing difficulty related to hypoxemia) Yes Yes

Hypoxemia (low oxygen level) Yes Yes

Proteinaceous pulmonary edema Yes Yes

Leukocyte inhibition Yes Yes

Increases sodium ion permeability in tissue Not Listed Yes

Affects nasal, windpipe and lung surfaces Yes Yes

Shock Not Listed Yes

Seizures Not listed Yes

Salivation Yes Yes

Neurological damage Yes Yes

Muscular stiffness Yes Not listed

Like measles (Syncytial lung) Yes Yes*

Like flu Yes Yes

Like common cold Yes Yes

Like mumps Yes Yes*

*In terms of listed symptoms

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SARS - Other Theories

Len Horowitz, PhD, author of Emerging Viruses: SARS is simply the flu,

which kills 36,000 people annually in the US. Death comes to those whose

immunity has been compromised by drugs and vaccines.58 The media has

created great fear among the public by grossly overstating mortality rates

and exaggerating the danger to healthy individuals.

Mae-Wan Ho, PhD, president of the London-based Institute of Science in

Society: SARS is a highly infectious disease caused by a new bacterium of

the Chlamydia family that was created accidentally through genetic

engineering. Disease-causing viruses and bacteria and their genetic

material are the predominant materials and tools of genetic engineering.

The artificial constructs created by genetic engineering are designed to

cross species barriers and to jump into genomes, creating the possibility

of new, highly virulent micro-organisms.59

Marshall , Editor, BroJon Gazette: The SARS virus, like all flu

viruses, is a variant caused by the rural Chinese custom of raising flocks

of geese side-by-side with herds of swine. If a pig is ill with a porcine

flu and then eats droppings from an avian-virus-infected goose, the result

is a new cross-species flu virus with the outer lining of a pig and the

inner viral core of a goose. Whether or not this theory is correct, 's

advice is sound: Do not suppress a fever. Fever is the body's way of

preventing the invading virus from reproducing and spreading massively

throughout the body. Unfortunately, most cold and flu medications reduce

fever, setting the stage for massive viral proliferation. Unfortunately,

the current definition of SARS may cause many people to take drugs to

suppress fever, in order to avoid quarantine.

Saif, professor of food animal health at Ohio State University:

Coronavirus causes cough and pneumonia, so-called shipping fever, in

animals packed together in cattle cars. The stresses of air travel—large

numbers of people together in small spaces, being away from home, being

close to other strangers, moving across time zones, rushing to catch

flights—are conditions that make the coronavirus dangerous to humans as

well.60 (Saif does not explain why airline travel, which has been a fact of

life for millions of people for the last 40 years, has not caused SARS

until recently.)

Fisher, senior fellow at the town Foundation, a

Washington-based think tank: " . . . there are compelling reasons. . . to at

least ask whether there might be any linkage between SARS and China's

biological-warfare efforts. " 61

Chandra Wickramasinghe, professor of applied mathematics and astronomy at

Cardiff University: The SARS virus comes from outer space, hitched a ride

on a comet and then drifted down to earth.62

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Washington Post, May 24, 2003

AP, May 15, 2003. " SARS has caused more damage to the global airline

industry than the Sept. 11 attacks and the war in Iraq combined, the

world's airline association said Thursday. "

NY Times 5/5/03

" China has threatened to execute or jail for life anyone who breaks SARS

quarantine orders and spreads the deadly virus intentionally. " Beijing

(Reuters), May 15, 2003

" Malaysia ordered a quarantine for 203 citizens, mostly low waged earners,

who had visited a SARS-infected produce market in Singapore and warned that

it would imprison those who would break the orders. "

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Neenyah Ostrom, " Why is SARS Such a Mystery? Virus, Bacteria, Fungus,

Parasite – Why Can't Researchers ID the Bug? " , March 20, 2003,

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" United Sued Over Pesticide In Planes " , August 2, 2001, CHICAGO, Illinois

(AP) — Flight attendants are being sickened by exposure to pesticides that

are sprayed on airplanes serving Australia and New Zealand, a lawsuit filed

against United Airlines claims, "

www.cnn.com/2001/TRAVEL/NEWS/08/02/unitedairlines.pesticides.ap/index.html

" Airline Passengers Are Sprayed for Bugs " , March 17, 2003: " An airline

flight to the tropics may involve greater health risks… pesticides are

routinely sprayed in aircraft cabins by U.S. airlines sometimes over the

heads of passengers during flight. " PANNA mentions Asian routes as

specifically at risk for this procedure.

" Aviation Policy " , U.S. Dept. of Trans.,

http://ostpxweb.dot.gov/policy/safety/

Olsen, " A Safe Alternative Treatment for Head Lice " , Alive

Magazine, October 2000, " Pyrethrins have been banned from agricultural use

as a pesticide. "

CDC Case Definition for SARS (March 22, 2003): Measured temperature >

100.5F; cough; hypoxia; shortness of breath; pneumonia; acute respiratory

distress.

Gavin Joynt and Gomersall, " Severe acute respiratory syndrome

(SARS) " ,

Tamer Fouad, M.D., SARS Symptoms: " headache, muscular stiffness, loss of

appetite, malaise, confusion, rash, and diarrhea. Early laboratory findings

include low platelet and white blood cell counts. In some cases, those

symptoms are followed by pneumonia in both lungs, sometimes requiring use

of a respirator. " The Doctor's Lounge.NET.

http://thedoctorslounge.net/medlounge/articles/sars

Maggie Fox, April 10, 2003 (Ibid). Early SARS symptoms: like flu, measles,

mumps.

Olsen, 2000, Ibid. Symptoms listed for permethrin (a type of synthetic

pyrethrin used on airlines): " Side effects include vomiting, respiratory

failure, pneumonia and asthma. "

Becky Riley, " Flyers Beware: Pesticide Use on International and U.S.

Domestic Aircraft and Flights " , Northwest Coaltion Against Pesticides

(NCAMP), 1998, " … " in-flight spraying, Airosol Aircraft Insecticide, says

that acute health hazards of exposure to the product include dizziness,

skin irritation, and frostbite, and that overexposure due to inhalation may

cause temporary central nervous system effects: dizziness, headache,

confusion, stupor with the exclusion of oxygen and with grossly excessive

overexposure. Additional warnings state that individuals with preexisting

diseases of the cardiovascular system may have increased susceptibility to

the toxicity of excessive exposures, and to heart irregularities (Airosol

Company, 1992). "

Ibid, " Two other U.S.-registered permethrin-containing products with

labeled aircraft uses, but theoretically not for use in passenger cabins

(though this is far from clear from reading the product labels), are

Dragnet FT Termiticide/Insecticide and Flea Insecticide. According to

information provided by the FMC Corporation, manufacturer of the above

products, symptoms of overexposure to both of the products include

hypersensitivity to touch and sound, tremors, and convulsions. Overexposure

of animals via inhalation has also produced symptoms such as squinting

eyes, irregular and rattling breathing, and ataxia (loss of muscular

coordination). Inhalation of stoddard solvent vapors [present in both of

the above products] may cause dizziness, disturbances in vision,

drowsiness, respiratory irritation, and eye and skin and mucous membrane

irritation (FMC, 1998; FMC, 1993).

Ibid. Airline pesticides: " Organophosphates are efficiently absorbed by

inhalation, ingestion, and skin penetration. Symptoms of acute exposure to

organophosphates include: headache, nausea, dizziness and anxiety, followed

by muscle twitching, weakness, tremor, incoordination, vomiting, abdominal

cramps, diarrhea, tightness in the chest, and coughing. Severe

organophosphate poisonings can lead to incontinence, paralysis,

unconsciousness, convulsions, and life-threatening respiratory failure (US

EPA, 1989). "

Ibid. " Bendicarb: Highly toxic carbamate nerve poison (US EPA, 1989).

Causes eye irritation. Exposure (poisoning) symptoms include tightness in

chest, sweating, stomach pains, vomiting, and diarrhea (US EPA, 1979). "

Ibid. Piperonyl butoxide (used on aircraft): " Classified by EPA as a

possible human carcinogen (US EPA, 1998-3). In animal tests, causes liver

tumors and lung damage, hemorrhages, and anemia (Takahashi, 1994). "

" MSDS: Permethrin, " Universal Crop Protection Alliance LLC, " …moderate eye

and skin irritation… Eye: There may be moderate stinging, tearing and

redness… mild skin irritation… Disturbances in vision, drowsiness,

respiratory irritation… High oral doses can result in damage to the liver

and kidneys… Long term feeding studies in animals resulted in increased

liver and kidney weights, induction of the liver microsomal drug

metabolizing enzyme system, and histopathological changes in the lungs and

liver. "

Shirley A. Briggs and Carson Council, Inc., " Excerpts From Basic

Guide To Pesticides " , Pyrethroid symptoms: " tremors; exaggerated startle

response; hyperthermia [fever] "

Lance C. Villers, MA, NREMTP, " Managing organophosphate exposures " , Texas

Dept. of Health, EMS Management, OP Symptoms: " respiratory depression,

bronchospasm, bronchial secretions, pulmonary edema, muscular weakness,

resulting in hypoxemia. " www.tdh.state.tx.us/hcqs/ems/MJCEPesticideExp.htm

INCHEM, " Pyrethrin " , Symptoms: " cough, wheeze, dyspnoea, bronchospasm or

pulmonary oedema. " , Chemical Safety Information From Intergovernmental

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Diane Fairchild, Flyana.com

" Airports create smog; a single 747 arriving and departing... produces as

much smog as a car driven more that 5,600 miles, and as much NOx as a car

driven almost 26,500 miles (source: Natural Resources Defense Council). "

Queens College School of Earth and Environmental Science

www.qc.edu/EES/ENSCI111/Air/air.html

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SARS " , May 14, 2003. www.chronixbiomedical.com/Research/press_release3.html

Jim West, " The Epidemiology Of Air Pollution " , www.geocities.com/noxot

Ammerman , Senior Public Health Sanitarian, Monroe County Department

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Crowe, " West Nile Virus — Does It Exist? " , 2001

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Reuters, May 20, 2003

Wall Street Journal, May 23, 2003

Ibid.

" A panel appointed by the EPA is set to report on Tuesday that use of the

much-debated ingredient M.T.B.E. . . should be 'reduced substantially'. ..

" The New York Times, July 27, 1999.

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This article appeared in Wise Traditions in Food, Farming and the Healing

Arts,

the quarterly magazine of the Weston A. Price Foundation, Summer 2003

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