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Prepared by Dr Tara A. Inniss, PhD (UWI) MSD (UNSW) BA (York)

futuretrustEnvironmental NGO, the Future Centre Trust (FCT) is concerned about the number of reports of littering and illegal dumping in Barbados. The Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA) has warned regional Governments about the threat the most recent mosquito-borne infection, the Zika Virus poses to the region. Vector-borne illnesses, such as the Zika virus, can have potentially serious health implications for Barbadians and visitors, especially pregnant women. With a number of travel advisories in place, it is also likely to have a negative impact the island’s fragile tourism-based economy.

The FCT remains vigilant about the incidences of improper waste disposal in the island and illegal dumping, with some areas becoming breeding grounds for mosquitoes and rats.

Last week, FCT volunteers documented over 20 illegal dumpsites in St. Michael alone; mostly in the environmentally sensitive Zone 1 Belle Water Catchment Area as well as the populated corridors of Bridgetown. Using the mobile app Trashout.me, volunteers recorded photos and locations of dumpsites. Volunteers found over 10 large discarded appliances in the Belle and over 40 tyres — all harboring water from recent rains.

The FCT urges waste haulers and their clients to work together to ensure a clean, safe and healthy environment for all Barbadians and visitors. The FCT also asks that residents and businesses play their role in reducing waste, finding ways to reuse items before disposing waste and recycling where available. Householders and business owners should also keep their surroundings clean. The environmental organization is also requesting that persons utilize the Trashout.me app to help the FCT and hopefully, policymakers, to monitor sites and prioritize clean ups.

The FCT believes that it is incumbent on the Government of Barbados to provide adequate, affordable, sustainable community-based solutions for waste disposal including the 3Rs — Reduce, Reuse and Recycle. It also urges Government to increase the monitoring and enforcement of littering and illegal dumping in the island. Current policy direction is proving to be woefully inadequate to deal with the pressures being placed on our economy and environment. Barbados needs an urgent, comprehensive public education programme about safe and sustainable waste disposal.

The Ministries responsible for Health, Environment and Water Resources should re-assess current public health and sanitation policies in the light of recent epidemics and consider how they can work with citizens, the NGO community and the private sector to ensure a clean, healthy, safe environment for all.

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73 responses to “Future Centre Trust Raises Alarm About ZIKA and ILLEGAL DUMPING”

  1. caribbeantradelaw Avatar
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    @David, thanks for sharing this! Very informative and I applaud the FCT’s initiative in helping to identify the dump sites through their mobile app and on offering solutions. Let’s hope the authorities will act on these recommendations. I will check out the mobile app.

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    ” Rat poison sales soar as Nigeria fears spread of Lassa fever

    At least 76 people across 17 Nigerian states have died in the latest outbreak of the haemorrhagic virus, which is endemic in rats in west Africa ”

    …………….Killing rats may be one solution to the problem but effective waste disposal has long been a major problem in Nigeria’s big cities.

    “Everywhere you turn you see heaps of refuse which provides a breeding ground for rats,” said Idris Musa, a community health worker in Kano. “Rats breed fast and it is very difficult to beat rats’ breeding rate with rodenticide.”

    In 2007, Kano was producing 2,000 tonnes of rubbish every day but refuse collectors could only clear 800 tonnes, according to the city’s refuse disposal agency.

    http://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2016/jan/25/rat-poison-sales-soar-as-nigeria-fears-spread-of-lassa-fever

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    We saw all of this coming like a big breadfruit. We sat back and did sod all. And now that the shit is right on our doorsteps ,we are not so cocky in calling those who brought this dirtiness to light ages ago , ‘Garbage Policemen.” I tell ya!

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    AC…I lived in the US when West Nile was killing people, never once got the virus, both infections I had were in Caribbean islands…..the next problem will come from those big fat rats I heard are starting to take on the sizes of the subway rats found in NYC.

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    Nature seems to be reclaiming its position..! This mainly because we’re unable to manage our waste disposal property! Not suprising the problems are occurring in the inner cities… Once again the poorest in our societies are experiencing the issues! “Well well” is quite right..! Wake up Governments of the Caribbean!

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    Dr Inniss, is it really necessary to highlight those initials after your name..? It must be a Caribbean thing..!

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    Post: #1BIOWEAPON! Zika Virus Is Being Spread by GMO Mosquitoes Funded by Gates!
    BIOWEAPON! Zika Virus Is Being Spread by GMO Mosquitoes Funded by Gates!

    Published on Jan 27, 2016

    The recent outbreak of Zika virus in Brazil could be linked to the release into the wild of genetically modified mosquitoes in recent field trials in Brazil funded by the Bill and Gates Foundation, it has emerged.

    https://www.geneticliteracyproject.org/2…zil-trial/

    http://www.healthmap.org/site/diseasedai…azil-12715

    The Zika virus, which has been detected in 18 of the 26 states in Brazil, is transmitted by the Aedes aegypti mosquito. A generically modified version has been developed by a British biotech company called Oxitec.

    The results of a trial in Brazil published this summer involved genetically engineered mosquitoes that allegedly fight the spread of dengue fever, yellow fever, chikungunya, and zika virus.

    But scientists have warned the study had too few controls in place to ensure that the mosquitoes released into the wild did not end up spreading dengue fever, yellow fever, chikungunya, and zika virus.

    In short, these genetically modified mosquitoes could be the cause of the Zika virus outbreak in Brazil and other parts of South and Central America.

    “If these mosquitoes are completely safe, then why the hush-hush?” says Gurmit Singh, chair of the Centre for Environment, Technology and Development in Malaysia, another country slated for an Oxitec field trial.

    http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2010/11/g…ed-project

    Oxford Insect Technologies, a British biotech company, has developed the insect with funds from the Bill and Gates foundation. It conducted the first outdoor trials with transgenic Aedes aegypti mosquitoes in the Caribbean island of Grand Cayman in autumn 2009.

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    http://www.nydailynews.com/life-style/health/zika-virus-vaccine-ready-2016-article-1.2513502

    ZIKA VIRUS: WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW

    A total of six people in New York State have contracted the virus overseas. The three others hail from Nassau, Orange and Monroe counties, officials said. The disease, which is believed to cause newborns to have unusually small heads and abnormal brain development, poses a special risk to pregnant women.

    WHO says there is an “extremely high” level of alarm that the virus could be causing a surge in babies being born with abnormally small heads in Brazil.
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    In the last four months, authorities have recorded close to 4,000 cases of Zika in Brazil, the virus may lead to abnormally small heads in infants.
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    In the last four months, authorities have recorded close to 4,000 cases of Zika in Brazil, the virus may lead to abnormally small heads in infants.
    The Centers for Disease Control is advising pregnant women to avoid traveling to roughly two dozen destinations in the Caribbean, Central America and South America.

    THREE PEOPLE IN NEW YORK TEST POSITIVE FOR ZIKA

    World Health Organization officials arrive at an information session on the Zika virus in Geneva on Thursday.
    DENIS BALIBOUSE/REUTERS
    World Health Organization officials arrive at an information session on the Zika virus in Geneva on Thursday.
    But most people who contract the disease don’t require hospitalization.

    The new city tally was released as international health officials warned that up to 4 million people across the Americas could be infected with the Zika virus over the next year.

    According to the head of the World Health Organization on Jan. 28, 2016, the deadly Zika virus is now “spreading explosively” in the Americas. It’s been estimated that between 3 to 4 million infections have occurred in the region over a 12-month period and is only growing. Here, a health ministry worker fumigates a house to kill mosquitoes during a campaign against the virus in Managua, Nicaragua.Carmen Chicas Mejia, 82, covers her mouth and nose while city workers fumigate her home to combat the Aedes Aegypti mosquitoes that transmit the Zika virus, at the San Judas Community in San Salvador, El Salvador on Jan. 26, 2016. Worries about the rapid spread of Zika through the hemisphere has prompted officials in El Salvador, Colombia and Brazil to suggest women stop getting pregnant until the crisis has passed.One of the terrible effects of the Zika virus has been found to cause birth defects in newborns called microcephaly, where the head is abnormally small and associated with decresed brain development. Here, Dr. Vanessa Van Der Linden, the neuro-pediatrician who first recognized and alerted authorities over the microcephaly crisis in Brazil, measures the head of a 2-month-old baby with microcephaly in Recife, Brazil. The baby’s mother was diagnosed with having the Zika virus during her pregnancy.In the last four months, authorities have recorded close to 4,000 cases in Brazil in which the mosquito-borne Zika virus may have led to microcephaly in infants. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), the Zika virus outbreak is likely to spread throughout nearly all the Americas. At least twelve cases in the United States have now been confirmed by the CDC. Here, patients suffering from the Guillain-Barre syndrome, likely caused by the Zika virus, recover in the neurology ward of the Rosales National Hospital in San Salvador on Jan. 27, 2016.VIEW GALLERY
    Fears mount as Zika virus spreads rapidly in Americas
    World Health Organization Director General Margaret Chan said the virus is “spreading explosively.”

    “The level of alarm is extremely high,” Chan said.

    “Arrival of the virus in some cases has been associated with a steep increase in the birth of babies with abnormally small heads.”

    “The possible links, only recently suspected, have rapidly changed the risk profile of Zika from a mild threat to one of alarming proportions,” Chan added.

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    Zika virus vaccine could be ready for emergency use before end of 2016
    REUTERS Friday, January 29, 2016, 7:47 AM A A A
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    A vaccine for the Zika virus, which has been linked to severe birth defects in thousands of infants, could be ready for emergency use before year-end, one of its lead developers said on Thursday, a timetable well ahead of estimates by U.S. officials.

    Canadian scientist Gary Kobinger, part of a consortium working on the vaccine, told Reuters in an interview that the first stage of testing on humans could begin as early as August. If successful, that may allow the vaccine to be used during a public health emergency, in October or November.

    “The first thing is to be ready for the worst,” Kobinger, who helped develop a trial vaccine that was successful in fighting Ebola in Guinea, said. “This vaccine is easy to produce. It could be cranked to very high levels in a really short time.” He did not say when it could be widely available.

    Jaqueline Vieir (left) watches as her 3-month-old son Daniel, who was born with microcephaly, undergoes physical therapy in Recife, Brazil, on Thursday. Brazilian officials still say they believe there’s a sharp increase in cases of microcephaly and strongly suspect the Zika virus, which first appeared in the country last year, is to blame.
    FELIPE DANA/AP
    Jaqueline Vieir (left) watches as her 3-month-old son Daniel, who was born with microcephaly, undergoes physical therapy in Recife, Brazil, on Thursday. Brazilian officials still say they believe there’s a sharp increase in cases of microcephaly and strongly suspect the Zika virus, which first appeared in the country last year, is to blame.
    3RD CASE OF ZIKA VIRUS CONFIRMED IN NEW YORK CITY

    The U.S. has two potential candidates for a Zika vaccine and may begin clinical trials in people by the end of this year, but there will not be a widely available vaccine for several years, U.S. officials said on Thursday.

    According to the head of the World Health Organization on Jan. 28, 2016, the deadly Zika virus is now “spreading explosively” in the Americas. It’s been estimated that between 3 to 4 million infections have occurred in the region over a 12-month period and is only growing. Here, a health ministry worker fumigates a house to kill mosquitoes during a campaign against the virus in Managua, Nicaragua.Carmen Chicas Mejia, 82, covers her mouth and nose while city workers fumigate her home to combat the Aedes Aegypti mosquitoes that transmit the Zika virus, at the San Judas Community in San Salvador, El Salvador on Jan. 26, 2016. Worries about the rapid spread of Zika through the hemisphere has prompted officials in El Salvador, Colombia and Brazil to suggest women stop getting pregnant until the crisis has passed.One of the terrible effects of the Zika virus has been found to cause birth defects in newborns called microcephaly, where the head is abnormally small and associated with decresed brain development. Here, Dr. Vanessa Van Der Linden, the neuro-pediatrician who first recognized and alerted authorities over the microcephaly crisis in Brazil, measures the head of a 2-month-old baby with microcephaly in Recife, Brazil. The baby’s mother was diagnosed with having the Zika virus during her pregnancy.In the last four months, authorities have recorded close to 4,000 cases in Brazil in which the mosquito-borne Zika virus may have led to microcephaly in infants. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), the Zika virus outbreak is likely to spread throughout nearly all the Americas. At least twelve cases in the United States have now been confirmed by the CDC. Here, patients suffering from the Guillain-Barre syndrome, likely caused by the Zika virus, recover in the neurology ward of the Rosales National Hospital in San Salvador on Jan. 27, 2016.VIEW GALLERY
    Fears mount as Zika virus spreads rapidly in Americas
    The mosquito-transmitted virus has been linked to brain damage in thousands of babies in Brazil. There is no proven vaccine or treatment for Zika, a close cousin of dengue and chikungunya, which causes mild fever and rash. An estimated 80% of people infected have no symptoms, making it difficult for pregnant women to know whether they have been infected.

    In Geneva, the World Health Organization said on Thursday that Zika is spreading “explosively” and could affect as many as four million people in the Americas.

    A government campaign poster warns about Zika virus symptoms in the maternity ward in Guatemala on Thursday.
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    A government campaign poster warns about Zika virus symptoms in the maternity ward in Guatemala on Thursday.
    Kobinger, the lead scientist on this project from Quebec City’s Laval University and head of special pathogens at Canada’s National Microbiology Laboratory in Winnipeg, is working with the University of Pennsylvania, led by scientist David Weiner, Inovio Pharmaceuticals and South Korea’s GeneOne Life Science.

    ZIKA VIRUS: WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW

    A sterile female Aedes aegypti mosquito is seen on the forearm of a health technician in a research area to prevent the spread of Zika virus and other mosquito-borne diseases in Guatemala City.
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    A sterile female Aedes aegypti mosquito is seen on the forearm of a health technician in a research area to prevent the spread of Zika virus and other mosquito-borne diseases in Guatemala City.
    Joseph Kim, chief executive of Inovio, said the timeline to make the vaccine available by year’s end is aggressive, but possible.

    “I believe this will be the first to go into human testing. We believe we’re ahead of the pack in the race for a Zika vaccine,” he said in an interview.

    A Health Ministry employee fumigates against Aedes Aegypti mosquito, at a home in Caracas on Friday. Venezuela has recorded 4,700 suspected cases of people infected by the Zika virus, which is thought to cause brain damage in babies.
    JUAN BARRETO/AFP/GETTY IMAGES
    A Health Ministry employee fumigates against Aedes Aegypti mosquito, at a home in Caracas on Friday. Venezuela has recorded 4,700 suspected cases of people infected by the Zika virus, which is thought to cause brain damage in babies.
    Inovio shares on the Nasdaq jumped 7.6% on Thursday to close at $5.78.

    Other vaccine candidates appear to be moving more slowly.

    The Sao Paulo-based Butantan Institute said last week it planned to develop a vaccine “in record time,” although its director warned this was still likely to take three to five years.

    The candidate vaccine Kobinger is working on mimics the virus, triggering the body’s immune system, he said.

    “When the real thing comes in, then the antibodies are there, the immune system is primed, it’s ready to attack right away,” Kobinger said.

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    Genetically Engineered Bioweapons: A New Breed of Weapons for Modern Warfare

    Posted by Mackenzie Foley ’16 / In Applied Sciences, Winter 2013 / March 10, 2013
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    Figure 1: Gram stained cerebrospinal fluid showing gram-positive anthrax baccilli (purple rods). Courtesy of Wikimedia.

    Genome sequencing has given rise to a new generation of genetically engineered bioweapons carrying the potential to change the nature of modern warfare and defense.

    Introduction

    Biological weapons are designed to spread disease among people, plants, and animals through the introduction of toxins and microorganisms such as viruses and bacteria. The method through which a biological weapon is deployed depends on the agent itself, its preparation, its durability, and the route of infection. Attackers may disperse these agents through aerosols or food and water supplies (1).

    Although bioweapons have been used in war for many centuries, a recent surge in genetic understanding, as well as a rapid growth in computational power, has allowed genetic engineering to play a larger role in the development of new bioweapons. In the bioweapon industry, genetic engineering can be used to manipulate genes to create new pathogenic characteristics aimed at enhancing the efficacy of the weapon through increased survivability, infectivity, virulence, and drug resistance (2). While the positive societal implications of improved biotechnology are apparent, the “black biology” of bioweapon development may be “one of the gravest threats we will face” (2).

    Limits of Past Bioweapons

    Prior to recent advances in genetic engineering, bioweapons were exclusively natural pathogens. Agents must fulfill numerous prerequisites to be considered effective military bioweapons, and most naturally occurring pathogens are ill suited for this purpose (3). First, bioweapons must be produced in large quantities. A pathogen can be obtained from the natural environment if enough can be collected to allow purification and testing of its properties. Otherwise, pathogens could be produced in a microbiology laboratory or bank, a process which is limited by pathogen accessibility and the safety with which the pathogens can be handled in facilities. To replicate viruses and some bacteria, living cells are required. The growth of large quantities of an agent can be limited by equipment, space, and the health risks associated with the handling of hazardous germs (1). In addition to large-scale production, effective bioweapons must act quickly, be environmentally robust, and their effects must be treatable for those who are implementing the bioweapon (3).

    Recent Advances

    As researchers continue to transition from the era of DNA sequencing into the era of DNA synthesis, it may soon become feasible to synthesize any virus whose DNA sequence is known (4). This was first demonstrated in 2001 when Dr. Eckard Wimmer re-created the poliovirus and again in 2005 when Dr. Jeffrey Taubenberger and Terrence Tumpey re-created the 1918 influenza virus (1). The progress of DNA synthesis technology will also allow for the creation of novel pathogens. According to biological warfare expert Dr. Steven Block, genetically engineered pathogens “could be made safer to handle, easier to distribute, capable of ethnic specificity, or be made to cause higher mortality rates” (2).

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    Ebola, AIDS Manufactured By Western Pharmaceuticals, US DoD?
    Tue, 09/09/2014 – 09:59 admin1
    Scientists Allege
    By: 
    Dr. Cyril Broderick, Professor of Plant Pathology
    Dear World Citizens:
    I have read a number of articles from your Internet outreach as well as articles from other sources about the casualties in Liberia and other West African countries about the human devastation caused by the Ebola virus. About a week ago, I read an article published in the Internet news summary publication of the Friends of Liberia that said that there was an agreement that the initiation of the Ebola outbreak in West Africa was due to the contact of a two-year old child with bats that had flown in from the Congo. That report made me disconcerted with the reporting about Ebola, and it stimulated a response to the “Friends of Liberia,” saying that African people are not ignorant and gullible, as is being implicated. A response from Dr. Verlon Stone said that the article was not theirs, and that “Friends of Liberia” was simply providing a service. He then asked if he could publish my letter in their Internet forum. I gave my permission, but I have not seen it published. Because of the widespread loss of life, fear, physiological trauma, and despair among Liberians and other West African citizens, it is incumbent that I make a contribution to the resolution of this devastating situation, which may continue to recur, if it is not properly and adequately confronted. I will address the situation in five (5) points:
     
    1.    EBOLA IS A GENETICALLY MODIFIED ORGANISM (GMO)
     
    Horowitz (1998) was deliberate and unambiguous when he explained the threat of new diseases in his text, Emerging Viruses: AIDS and Ebola – Nature, Accident or Intentional. In his interview with Dr. Robert Strecker in Chapter 7, the discussion, in the early 1970s, made it obvious that the war was between countries that hosted the KGB and the CIA, and the ‘manufacture’ of ‘AIDS-Like Viruses’ was clearly directed at the other. In passing during the Interview, mention was made of Fort Detrick, “the Ebola Building,” and ‘a lot of problems with strange illnesses’ in “Frederick [Maryland].” By Chapter 12 in his text, he had confirmed the existence of an American Military-Medical-Industry that conducts biological weapons tests under the guise of administering vaccinations to control diseases and improve the health of “black Africans overseas.” The book is an excellent text, and all leaders plus anyone who has interest in science, health, people, and intrigue should study it. I am amazed that African leaders are making no acknowledgements or reference to these documents.
     
    2.  EBOLA HAS A TERRIBLE HISTORY, AND TESTING HAS BEEN SECRETLY TAKING PLACE IN AFRICA
     
    I am now reading The Hot Zone, a novel, by Richard Preston (copyrighted 1989 and 1994); it is heart-rending. The prolific and prominent writer, Steven King, is quoted as saying that the book is “One of the most horrifying things I have ever read. What a remarkable piece of work.” As a New York Times bestseller, The Hot Zone is presented as “A terrifying true story.” Terrifying, yes, because the pathological description of what was found in animals killed by the Ebola virus is what the virus has been doing to citizens of Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia in its most recent outbreak: Ebola virus destroys peoples’ internal organs and the body deteriorates rapidly after death. It softens and the tissues turn into jelly, even if it is refrigerated to keep it cold. Spontaneous liquefaction is what happens to the body of people killed by the Ebola virus! The author noted in Point 1, Dr. Horowitz, chides The Hot Zone for writing to be politically correct; I understand because his book makes every effort to be very factual. The 1976 Ebola incident in Zaire, during President Mobutu Sese Seko, was the introduction of the GMO Ebola to Africa.
     
    3.    SITES AROUND AFRICA, AND IN WEST AFRICA, HAVE OVER THE YEARS BEEN SET UP FOR TESTING EMERGING DISEASES, ESPECIALLY EBOLA
     
    The World Health Organization (WHO) and several other UN Agencies have been implicated in selecting and enticing African countries to participate in the testing events, promoting vaccinations, but pursuing various testing regiments. The August 2, 2014 article, West Africa: What are US Biological Warfare Researchers Doing in the Ebola Zone? by Jon Rappoport of Global Research pinpoints the problem that is facing African governments. 
     
    Obvious in this and other reports are, among others: 
     
    (a) The US Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID), a well-known centre for bio-war research, located at Fort Detrick, Maryland; 
     
    (b) Tulane University, in New Orleans, USA, winner of research grants, including a grant of more than $7 million the National Institute of Health (NIH) to fund research with the Lassa viral hemorrhagic fever; 
     
    (c) the US Center for Disease Control (CDC); 
     
    (d) Doctors Without Borders (also known by its French name, Medicins Sans Frontiers); 
     
    (e) Tekmira, a Canadian pharmaceutical company;  
     
    (f) The UK’s GlaxoSmithKline; and 
     
    (g) the Kenema Government Hospital in Kenema, Sierra Leone. 
     
    Reports narrate stories of the US Department of Defense (DoD) funding Ebola trials on humans, trials which started just weeks before the Ebola outbreak in Guinea and Sierra Leone. The reports continue and state that the DoD gave a contract worth $140 million dollars to Tekmira, a Canadian pharmaceutical company, to conduct Ebola research. This research work involved injecting and infusing healthy humans with the deadly Ebola virus. Hence, the DoD is listed as a collaborator in a “First in Human” Ebola clinical trial (NCT02041715, which started in January 2014 shortly before an Ebola epidemic was declared in West Africa in March. Disturbingly, many reports also conclude that the US government has a viral fever bioterrorism research laboratory in Kenema, a town at the epicentre of the Ebola outbreak in West Africa. The only relevant positive and ethical olive-branch seen in all of my reading is that Theguardian.com reported, “The US government funding of Ebola trials on healthy humans comes amid warnings by top scientists in Harvard and Yale that such virus experiments risk triggering a worldwide pandemic.” That threat still persists.
     
    4.    THE NEED FOR LEGAL ACTION TO OBTAIN REDRESS FOR DAMAGES INCURRED DUE TO THE PERPETUATION OF INJUSTICE IN THE DEATH, INJURY AND TRAUMA IMPOSED ON LIBERIANS AND OTHER AFRICANS BY THE EBOLA AND OTHER DISEASE AGENTS. 
     
    The U. S., Canada, France, and the U. K. are all implicated in the detestable and devilish deeds that these Ebola tests are. There is the need to pursue criminal and civil redress for damages, and African countries and people should secure legal representation to seek damages from these countries, some corporations, and the United Nations. Evidence seems abundant against Tulane University, and suits should start there. Yoichi Shimatsu’s article, The Ebola Breakout Coincided with UN Vaccine Campaigns, as published on August 18, 2014, in the Liberty Beacon.
     
    5.   AFRICAN LEADERS AND AFRICAN COUNTRIES NEED TO TAKE THE LEAD IN DEFENDING BABIES, CHILDREN, AFRICAN WOMEN, AFRICAN MEN, AND THE ELDERLY. THESE CITIZENS DO NOT DESERVE TO BE USED AS GUINEA PIGS! 
     
    Africa must not relegate the Continent to become the locality for disposal and the deposition of hazardous chemicals, dangerous drugs, and chemical or biological agents of emerging diseases. There is urgent need for affirmative action in protecting the less affluent of poorer countries, especially African citizens, whose countries are not as scientifically and industrially endowed as the United States and most Western countries, sources of most viral or bacterial GMOs that are strategically designed as biological weapons. It is most disturbing that the U. S. Government has been operating a viral hemorrhagic fever bioterrorism research laboratory in Sierra Leone. Are there others? Wherever they exist, it is time to terminate them. If any other sites exist, it is advisable to follow the delayed but essential step: Sierra Leone closed the US bioweapons lab and stopped Tulane University for further testing.
     
    The world must be alarmed. All Africans, Americans, Europeans, Middle Easterners, Asians, and people from every conclave on Earth should be astonished. African people, notably citizens more particularly of Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone are victimized and are dying every day. Listen to the people who distrust the hospitals, who cannot shake hands, hug their relatives and friends. Innocent people are dying, and they need our help. The countries are poor and cannot afford the whole lot of personal protection equipment (PPE) that the situation requires. The threat is real, and it is larger than a few African countries. The challenge is global, and we request assistance from everywhere, including China, Japan, Australia, India, Germany, Italy, and even kind-hearted people in the U.S., France, the U.K., Russia, Korea, Saudi Arabia, and anywhere else whose desire is to help. The situation is bleaker than we on the outside can imagine, and we must provide assistance however we can. To ensure a future that has less of this kind of drama, it is important that we now demand that our leaders and governments be honest, transparent, fair, and productively engaged. They must answer to the people. Please stand up to stop Ebola testing and the spread of this dastardly disease.
     
    Thank you very much.
     
    Sincerely,
     
    Dr. Cyril E. Broderick, Sr.
     
     
    About the Author: 
     
    Dr. Broderick is a former professor of Plant Pathology at the University of Liberia’s College of Agriculture and Forestry.  He is also the former Observer Farmer in the 1980s.  It was from this column in our newspaper, the Daily Observer, that Firestone spotted him and offered him the position of Director of Research in the late 1980s.  In addition, he is a scientist, who has taught for many years at the Agricultural College of the University of Delaware.

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    Zika freakout: the hoax and the covert op continue
    By John Rappoport

    So, what is causing babies to be born with very small heads and brain damage? While researching my first book in 1987-8, AIDS INC., I concluded: don’t assume there is only one cause for illness. That can be very misleading. Various factors can combine to produce disease and death.

    For example, in the case of this “Zika” phenomenon:

    One: Pesticide use in Brazil:

    Brazil, the center of the “Zika” crisis, uses more pesticides than any nation in the world. Some of these are banned in 22 other countries. And as for babies born with smaller heads, here is a study from Environmental Health Perspectives (July 1, 2011), “Urinary Biomarkers of Prenatal Atrazine Exposure…”:

    “The presence versus absence of quantifiable levels of [the pesticide] atrazine or a specific atrazine metabolite was associated with fetal growth restriction… and small head circumference… Head circumference was also inversely associated with the presence of the herbicide metolachlor.” (emphasis added)

    Atrazine and metolachlor are both used in Brazil.

    Two: The TdaP vaccine:

    This is a case of suspicious correlation. A study posted in the US National Library of Medicine, “Pertussis in young infants: a severe vaccine-preventable disease,” spells it out:

    “…in late 2014, the [Brazilian] Ministry of Health announced the introduction of the Tdap vaccine for all pregnant women in Brazil.”

    More:
    https://jonrappoport.wordpress.com/2016/01
    /29/zika-freakout-the-hoax-and-the-covert-op-continue/

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    Zika Virus tantamount to economic warfare on poor countries with the aiding of big financial surplus for big pharmaceuticals
    In less than two months the hype would die down and society would have learned nothing more or less about Zika except that it is a mosquito borne virus with symptoms that can be treated if detected early

  16. ac Avatar
    ac

    in this twenty first century people should be held responsible for keeping their surroundings sanitary and the use of of laws should be applied and enforced in the strongest manner to combat unhealthy attacks on the environment by the citizens
    No govt should have to wait for any kind of virus to attacked their populace as a wake up call as a preventive measure to wellness ///especially when facts of evidence shows the negative implications from having an unhealthy environment … simply used the laws on the book to stamp out the illegal acts and catch perpetrators to such criminality which in the interim will lessen the cost of health related charges to govt brought about by unhealthy lifestyles and a contaminated environment

  17. David Avatar
    David

    Should the discussion continue?

    http://www.barbadostoday.bb/2016/01/30/doctor-are-we-sure-its-zika/?

  18. Well Well & Consequences Avatar
    Well Well & Consequences

    Yes it should David….if this turns out to be some type of biological warfare, if nothing else, people should be informed. There are too many rumblings from published people to this effect.

    They have been engineering mosquitos to breed with the female Aedes….who knows what went wrong. Who knows what lies they are telling about Microcephaly, when it is most likely one of their screwups or willful intent aimed at poorer countries…too many doctors are skeptical.

    This is not finished by a long shot.

  19. ac Avatar
    ac

    biological warfare is a means of producing death however with the zika virus their is no statistical evidence showing death as the major component/factor of the vrus which in my mind concludes 1. an economic influence to target economies which have been flooded with tourist 2 a big leap in profitability for big pharmaceuticals
    being mindful of the fact that fear would make a mare fly

  20. David Avatar
    David

    Experts around the world have started to label Zika an epidemic.

  21. ac Avatar
    ac

    That is what experts are to do. like the weather guy?

  22. ac Avatar
    ac

    Remember the big hype about the storm of the century that tuned out to be a high wind i believe it was to hit Mexico a Tourist destination another manipulative move which drove fear and cost Mexico billions of dollars in tourist arrivals Of course the experts had had the data all down to show but how many of us can read the data , Like the Zika virus we are ignorant and believe what the experts tell us without batting an eyelid to look elsewhere

  23. Well Well & Consequences Avatar
    Well Well & Consequences

    AC…..Zika can cause death in people with preexisting conditions, the elderly, the injured. It is being linked to Gillian Barre.

    Regardless, the potential tourists will listen to their experts, despite you and I and many others being skeptical.

  24. TheGazer Avatar
    TheGazer

    @ac

    ac, one thing the US has plenty of is conspiracy theorists. Think of JFK and the WTC and the numerous theories presented about what happened. One has to be careful when posting videos from over the internet as many provide misleading information.
    Whilst, a person is free to do as they like on the internet, we should try to filter before presenting.

  25. David Avatar
    David

    Fat Child taken to court over recycling plant

  26. ac Avatar
    ac

    @Gazer.it is not a matter of conspiracy but an economic strategy. bear in mind that many of these countries are dependant on the same source for sustainability and one such leading source is the big international countries who also have a big interest in tourism. Therfore it bodes well that when much of their interest is being taken away a necessary tool of recover should be implemented .Within two months all will be well things would get back to a sense of normalcy and no high rate of death or birth defects was a result if the zika virus

  27. Colonel Buggy Avatar
    Colonel Buggy

    ac January 30, 2016 at 8:01 AM #
    That is what experts are to do. like the weather guy?

    …………………………………………………………………..
    Or like the Minister of Water Resources and Agriculture,and the management of the Barbados Water Authority et al, who have all categorically blamed the water shortage which is badly affecting residents of the Scotland District, on El Nino, yet this week we heard that some Yanks out of Miami have found 130 feet of water in a 100 ft well drilled in Sweet Bottom.
    And even before this well came in ,we saw the BWA extending the pipeline which fed Andrews Factory and the upscale district of Andrews Round Hill, up to Castle Grant reservoir. At the same time we are seeing a new main being installed along the East Coast Road, to feed the beleagured people of St Andrew. This feed is probably being tapped into the one which feeds the upscale enclave at Cattlewash. All of a sudden where did this extra water came from?
    These two locations, Andrews Round Hill and Cattlewash were previously highlighted in BU. I tell ya !!

  28. caribbeantradelaw Avatar
    caribbeantradelaw

    @David, not sure if you saw/watched this:

    CARPHA Webinar “THe Facts about Zika and How to Mitigate Its Impact” https://youtu.be/5YPLSa0b2Yc

  29. David Avatar
    David

    Thanks Alicia.

  30. Georgie Porgie Avatar
    Georgie Porgie

    ac January 28, 2016 at 9:18 PM #

    ac you are to be congratulated on this post………if you do understand what the man is saying.

    MICROCEPHALY IS RAMPANT ON BU AND IN THE BARBADOS PARLIAMENT.

    HOW MANY OF THE FOLK HAVE ZIKA?

    LET ME SIT BACK AND CONTINUE LAFFING AS THE BU ARMCHAIR MICROBIOLOGISTS AND STATISTICIANS HAVE A FIELD DAY

  31. Hants Avatar
    Hants

    NUH LOTTA LONG TALK!!!!!!

    AVOIDING BEING BITTEN BY MOSQUITOES IS COMMON SENSE.

    If wunna choose to take the risk an get a mosquito borne illness dah is wunna problem.

  32. Well Well & Consequences Avatar
    Well Well & Consequences

    AC is only on here yukking it up because she never had Dengue, Chikungunya or Zika, now if she was to be infected with all 3 at the same time…lol

  33. ac Avatar
    ac

    GP. What man?and what is he talking about?

  34. Georgie Porgie Avatar
    Georgie Porgie

    THE MAN IN TH U TUBE VIDEO YOU POSTED AT ac January 28, 2016 at 9:18 PM #

  35. Hants Avatar
    Hants

    More opinions.

    http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jan/30/zika-virus-health-fears

  36. ac Avatar
    ac

    GP i believe he is a doctor or a scientist and was very detailed in his explanation enough to erase a lot of the hype and fearmongering attached to the Zika virus.
    However it would be of interest if you inject some of your medical expertise on the subject even though you have said that your knowledge of anything on BU is not appreciated by the herd.
    BTW do you agree or disagree with what the doctir /scientist says in the video

  37. Colonel Buggy Avatar
    Colonel Buggy

    Exclaimer January 28, 2016 at 9:16 PM #
    ” Rat poison sales soar as Nigeria fears spread of Lassa fever

    At least 76 people across 17 Nigerian states have died in the latest outbreak of the haemorrhagic virus, which is endemic in rats in west Africa ”
    ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..
    And just last night in a St Micahael / Christ Church district, I overheard a man telling a woman who was pointing at something in the tall grass, ”That’s not a cat, it is a R-A-T.”
    We ain’t far behind Nigeria .

  38. Georgie Porgie Avatar
    Georgie Porgie

    RE BTW do you agree or disagree with what the doctir /scientist says in the video
    YES THAT IS WHY @ Georgie Porgie January 30, 2016 at 4:54 PM #

    I SAID
    ac January 28, 2016 at 9:18 PM #

    ac you are to be congratulated on this post………if you do understand what the man is saying.

  39. ac Avatar
    ac

    Ok GP on this video we are in agreement

  40. David Avatar
    David

    It’s Time to Wipe Mosquitoes Off the Face of the Earth

  41. David Avatar
    David

    Doctor: Are we sure it’s Zika?

  42. Hants Avatar
    Hants

    @ David,

    “One medical doctor here has questioned the purported link between the Zika virus and birth defects in Brazilian babies.”

    Even if that were true Zika is still dangerous to persons with weakened / compromised immune systems.

    If I were travelling to Barbados I would bring OFF with deet , mosquito net and citronella. I am 63 years old.

  43. Hants Avatar
    Hants

    http://www.nationnews.com/nationnews/news/77285/-pregnant-zika-info-doc

  44. Hants Avatar
    Hants

    @ David,

    Bizzy and Cherry sparring. check Nationnews.

  45. chad99999 Avatar
    chad99999

    It is not good form to use the title ‘Dr’ before the name AND ‘PhD’ after the name. Pick one or the other. Most people would just use the ‘PhD’.
    I read an article this week about the need to wipe out the two species of mosquitoes that carry the Zika virus. The idea is to use genetic engineering to interfere with their reproduction.

  46. Well Well & Consequences Avatar
    Well Well & Consequences

    Chad…they brought in the male engineered mosquito to mate with the female Aedes aegypti, just to interfere with the reproduction…of course we are now witnessing the outcome….it did not turn out so well for Brazil.

  47. Hants Avatar
    Hants

    There is a whole lotta money in Barbados Garbage.

    “Government “was wasting more than $64 million a year”

    http://www.nationnews.com/nationnews/news/77291/cherry-govt-dumping-cash#sthash.HZaipDO9.dpuf

    RALPH “BIZZY” WILLIAMS has hit back at businessman Anderson Cherry, saying the waste hauler should understand Barbados was a place of laws ”

    http://www.nationnews.com/nationnews/news/77292/illegal-create-garbage-dump-bizzy#sthash.EMMXjQAP.dpuf

  48. Well Well & Consequences Avatar
    Well Well & Consequences

    Sen. Chuck Schumer calls for feds to stop, contain Zika virus spread in three-point plan
    BY ERIN DURKIN NEW YORK DAILY NEWS Sunday, January 31, 2016, 5:20 PM A

    Sen. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) proposed a three-point plan to develop a vaccine and fight the Zika virus.

    Sen. Chuck Schumer is calling for a quick push by the federal government to contain the Zika virus and stop it from spreading more widely in the United States.

    Schumer proposed a three-point plan, including an expedited effort by the Centers for Disease Control and the National Institutes of Health to develop a vaccine to fight Zika, which now has no treatment.

    Five New Yorkers are among nearly three dozen Americans in 11 states and Washington, D.C., who have come down with Zika, which is feared for its suspected link to severe birth defects.

    THIRD CASE OF ZIKA VIRUS CONFIRMED IN NEW YORK CITY

    The virus has been spreading widely in Brazil and other Latin American countries, where it is usually contracted through mosquito bites.

    Health workers fumigate in an attempt to eradicate the mosquito which transmits the Zika virus in Brazil.
    MARIO TAMA/GETTY IMAGES
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    Health technician Willian Araya shows the cultivated Aedes aegyti mosquito larvae at a laboratory in Ministry of Health in San Jose, Costa Rica.
    JUAN CARLOS ULATE/REUTERS
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    Health workers in Central and South America have been working to eradicate the mosquito that transmits the Zika virus.
    “With at least five Zika cases already in New York, the feds must pull out all the stops to vanquish this dangerous virus as soon as possible,” Schumer, a Democrat, said.

    “The feds should deploy all possible resources to prevent, contain and treat Zika virus abroad; expeditiously develop either a cure or medication to treat Zika virus; and declare a public health emergency.”

    His plan called for the U.S. government to push the World Health Organization to publicly declare a public health emergency. The WHO is holding an emergency meeting Monday in Geneva to deal with the disease.

    Finally, Schumer called for the U.S. Agency for International Development to increase resources to aid in the prevention and treatment of Zika abroad.

    Chile’s Health Minister Carmen Castillo holds a flyer that reads “Zika virus recommendations” during an information campaign by the Health Ministry at the departures area of Santiago’s international airport.
    The virus does not show symptoms in most of the people who are infected, and those who do get sick but aren’t pregnant are generally at low risk – they may develop a fever, rash, joint pain, and other flu-like symptoms that pass in about a week.

    But the virus is believed to be linked to a rare condition called microcephaly, in which babies are born with abnormally small heads and suffer impairments for life.

    Some Latin American countries have asked women to delay getting pregnant during the outbreak, and U.S. authorities have advised pregnant women to avoid travel to the affected areas.

    The five cases found in New York state include one pregnant woman. While the disease is generally spread by mosquitoes, the CDC says there has been one report of possible spread through sexual contact and one through a blood transfusion.

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  49. Well Well & Consequences Avatar
    Well Well & Consequences

    Hants….Bizzy should be saying to whom those laws in Barbados apply only. He does not want competition even for garbage, greedy…..even if it means the pile up of garbage means an epidemic of Dengue, Chikungunya or Zika….the authorities, useless, as usual.

  50. ac Avatar
    ac

    WW&C are you a field reporter for BU. You seem always willing and ready to dig for any type of news most of which is fictious and imaginery.

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