Legionaires Disease
Diseases
"In 1915 Hooker Electrochemical began massive,
unprecedented production of chlorobenzene (8,200 metric tons per year) and Dow
Chemical .... soon thereafter.
Chlorobenzenes are the
basis for picric acid explosive used in World War I. They have also been used in
the manufacture of wood treatments, war gas, herbicides, insecticides,
bactericide, moth control, and polymer resins. (Mono)chlorobenzene is the base
compound for DDT production. Currently in the U.S., 15 million pounds of
p-dichlorobenzene production goes into room deoderants. According to
Duesberg,
CDC's investigation into Legionaires disease ignored toxic cause and created a
new false field of study regarding the Legionella bacterium.
The sudden surge of chlorobenzene production
coincides in time and place (1915, Niagra Falls) to be considered as probable
cause for the epidemic of central nerve system diseases that followed the next
year in the New York City region. This epidemic lasted only six months, June to
November, with 82% of the cases occuring in just 8 weeks. While polio literature
terms this a world-wide polio epidemic, it was peculiarly a phenomena of the
U.S. and was especially prominent in the New York City region. This is strange
behavior for a supposedly predatory poliovirus, in an era, a continent, wholly
unprotected by miracle vaccines."--Jim West
http://www.geocities.com/harpub/pol_all.htm
"THE FLU JAB SCAM The flu, being truly an infectious disease, often proved itself
most valuable to the CDC. Although the winter following the end of World War I was the
last time a flu epidemic caused widespread death, the CDC has pushed annual flu
vaccinations up to the present day. At times, the agency has even rung the alarm over an
impending flu crisis, hoping to use memories of the 1918 epidemic to gain emergency powers
and impose mass vaccinations. By using such tactics in 1957 over the Asian flu, the CDC
managed to wrangle extra money out of Congress to expand the EIS and crash-produce a
vaccine. But the flu season was already winding down by the time the vaccine was ready,
and the flu itself turned out to have been as mild as in any other year.
By 1976, CDC director David Sencer wanted to try again, though on
a grander scale. After one soldier in Pennsylvania died of a flu-related pneumonia in
January, Sencer predicted that a pig-borne human virus nicknamed the "swine
flu," would soon devastate the United States.
Panicked with visions of impending doom, Congress moved to
authorize the CDC's immunization plan for every man, woman, and child in the country.
Unexpectedly, the legislation suddenly stalled when the insurance companies underwriting
the vaccine discovered that it had seriously toxic side effects.
THE "LEGIONAIRES DISEASE" SCAM
Sencer had to do something fast. He immediately set up a
"War Room" in Auditorium A at the CDC headquarters, and put the EIS network on
full alert to search for any disease outbreak that might resemble the flu. Within weeks,
the War Room received word of a pneumonia cluster among men just returning home from the
Philadelphia convention of the American Legion. Several Philadelphia-based EIS officers
and alumni had detected the outbreak, and acted as a fifth column that not only helped
arrange an invitation for the CDC to come in, but also took their orders from the arriving
team of CDC and EIS Officers. Even the New York Times staff writer sent to cover the
story, Lawrence Altman, was himself an EIS alumnus.
The CDC team allowed media rumors to circulate that this
Legionnaires' disease was the beginning of the swine flu. Within days, Congress decided to
pass the vaccine bill. Only later did the CDC admit that the legionnaires had not been
infected by the flu virus, too late to stop the immunization program. Some 50 million
Americans received the vaccine, leading to more than a thousand cases of nerve damage and
paralysis, dozens of deaths, and lawsuits awarding almost $100 million in damages. In the
ultimate irony, no swine flu epidemic ever materialized; the only destruction left behind
by the phantom swine flu resulted from the CDC's vaccine.
The agency later blamed Legionnaires' disease on a common soil
bacterium, one that clearly fails Koch's postulates for causing the disease and is
therefore actually harmless. The legionnaires' deaths are not so hard to understand, since
the pneumonias struck elderly men, many of whom had undergone kidney transplant
operations, and who had become particularly drunk during the Bicentennial celebration -
the classic risks for pneumonia. Thus Legionnaires' disease" is not an infectious
condition, but merely a new name for old pneumonias."---Bryan
J. Ellison
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 Peter Duesberg and Brian 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 John
Murphy 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.
[2003] The SARS Epidemic: Are Viruses Taking the Rap for Industrial Poisons?
by Jim West