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"Plague Study gets intriguing as probing scientists find US-Korean link"
  by R. Prasannan
  India Tribune, Nov 5, 1994


     Even as an infected India is convalescing is that on  high  doses
of  antibiotics,  its few caring medical scientists are on a wild germ
chase.   The  few  indications  of  their  findings  are  increasingly
pointing  to  the  proverbial foreign hand behind the pestilence.  The
suspicion now is whether the germ that infected India was a Korean war
vintage military microbe tested last year in the United States.

     A group of doctors in Surat has even claimed  that  the  epidemic
was  not  the plague, but some disease caused by the huntavirus.  They
have  not  yet  isolated  the  huntavirus,  but   claimed   that   the
characteristics of a huntavirus attack had been observed.

     Interestingly the huntavirus is not known  to  have  any  natural
habitat  in India.  It is a purely military microbe, suspected to have
been first used by the US army against the North Koreans in the 1950s.
Since  then, little had been heard about the virus till last year when
there were two mild outbreaks.  One was in South Korea  while  the  US
was accusing North Korea of nuclear rowdyism and threatening a war.

     The other, which was earlier in May  (confirmed  by  federal  and
state investigators in June), was in a town called Four Corners in the
US southwest, a few miles from Fort Wingate, one of the US army's germ
warfare  centres  which  had been decommissioned a few months earlier.
An enraged Congress appropriated $6 million to study the outbreak (the
findings  are  still  awaited).   The only information with the Indian
authorities (or what they are willing to reveal) is that it  is  named
after  the  Hantaan  river  of  Korea; that it has four strains called
Hantaan, Puumala, Seoul and Prospect Hill; that the  first  three  are
human   pathogens;   and   that   huntavirus   pulmonary  syndrome  is
symptomatically similar to a pneumonic plague attack.

     According to the Indian authorities, the Korean war vintage germs
must  have been kept alive and experimented upon in the US army's germ
warfare laboratories.  Its first known test (known only later) outside
the  labs  is  believed to have been in July 1991 when 42 people in 12
states contracted huntavirus pulmonary syndrome and 26 of  them  died.
Interestingly,  more  than  half the the victims were American Indians
which led to the charge that the  white-dominated  army  was  treating
them as guinea pigs.

     Meanwhile, Indian intelligence agencies are looking into  customs
records  to  learn more about the entry of the disease.  On August 15,
the Delhi airport customs had apprehended two Germans--Herman Heinrich
and  Weigert  Ludwig--for  carrying  more  than  2,000 butterflies and
months  without  any  license.   According  to  researchers,  insects,
animals  or  plants native to a region are the best modes to introduce
any foreign organism into a country.  Weed and crop pests are known to
be  introduced  in  this  manner.  In fact, the US army is believed to
have introduced three organisms in a similar way into Panama in 1988--
the Aedes aegypti vector mosquitoes  which proliferated quickly in the
cities; brucellosis (an irregular fever  that  one  contracts  through
infected food and milk products); and echninococcosis.

     In fact, the comparatively  rapid  recovery  of  India  from  the
epidemic  has  also baffled scientists here.  Whereas a natural plague
outbreak usually lasts a season if not more, the recent  epidemic  had
largely  been  controlled  within  a fortnight.  According to experts,
military microbes are 'designed' in such a way that  they  last  in  a
virulent  form  for  a  short  while  and  then  are  destroyed during
dissemination.  The idea behind such designing in actual warfare is to
keep the place safe for occupation by one's own troops.

     That the US army had  no  qualms  about  testing  its  biological
weapons on its own people had been known for long.  A mass experiments
was conducted in 1965 when microbes were released  at  the  Washington
national  airport  and  in  the New York subway system "to see how the
bacteria survived  and  spread  as  people  went  about  their  normal
routine".  A 1968 nerve gas release in Utah killed about 6,000 sheep.

     What is of interest to India presently are  the  recent  open-air
tests  conducted at Dugway Proving Ground and Fort Wingate.  More than
170 such tests are suspected to have been conducted in these and other
places, mainly to evaluate the performance of germ detecting gadgets.

     The organism that is supposed to have been field-tested in  India
is  now  believed  to have been created through genetic engineering in
the late 1980s, as part of a programme  to  create  a  new  strain  of
influenza  virus.   The organism was tested in containment chambers at
Fort Detrick last year, the last technological breakthrough being  its
aerosolisation.   Only one last step remained--its field-testing among
humans.  Was that done in Surat?

     That aerosolisation of various other organisms had been  achieved
was  a  known  secret even before the biological warfare conference in
Geneva in 1991 at which  a  British  scientist  from  Porton  Down  in
Salisbury  Plain  (Britain's  germ  warfare lab) appeared with a small
bottle of cloudy liquid  containing Francisella tularensis.  The germ,
he  said,  would  cause tularemia and the contents of the bottle could
infect every person on the planet.

     Significantly, the US  army  is  the  second  largest  funder  of
biological  research in the world--more than any of the pharmaceutical
giants or the universities.  This year's budget is  $60  million.   In
fact,  some  of  the university research programmes are also funded by
the army; for instance, it was  revealed  in  1989  that  the  anthrax
research programme of Curtis Thorne at the University of Massachusetts
was fully funded by the army. (Thorne later gave up army  funding  and
continued  on  his own).  The entire programme comes under the US Army
Medical Research and Development Command at Fort Detrick (the  present
commandant  is Maj. Gen. Phillip Russel) which has nine major research
and development laboratories.  Those which deal with military microbes
are  the  Latterman  Army  Institute  of  Research  at  San  Francisco
(commanded  by  Donald  Corby).  the  Medical  Research  Institute  of
Infectious  Diseases at Fort Detrick (commander: Col. Ronald Williams)
and the Walter Reed  Army  Institute  of  Research  in  Washington  DC
(director:  Col.  C.  F. Tyner).  While very little is known about the
scores of laboratories under Fort Detrick, the more open  Walter  Reed
establishment  is  known  to  have at least 13 divisions, including an
instrumentation division (headed by Dr.  Bily  Bass)  which  "designs,
develops and constructs laboratory instruments apparatus not available
elsewhere for research purposes".   Apparently  it  was  some  of  the
instruments  such  as  BIDS  (biological integrated detection systems)
developed  by  this  division  that  the  Atlanta-based   Centre   for
Infectious  Diseases,  also  run  by  the army, offered to dispatch to
India with four epidemiologists.

     The Russians, who had  a  more  advanced  germ  warfare  research
program  during the communist days, had also been suspecting that some
of the American germ warfare research was  being  conducted  behind  a
veil  of  respectable  pharmaceutical companies.  When a Russian team,
headed by Oleg Igntiev, arrived in the US nine months  ago  under  the
mutual  inspection agreement, they insisted on seeing three sites--one
at Terra Haute in Indiana, another at Groton in  Connecticut  and  the
third on Plum Island in New York.

     The first two were run by the pharmaceutical company Pfizer whose
Indian  subsidiary  is one of the largest antibiotics manufacturers in
the country.
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The thousands of people who died recently from Cerebral Malaria ALL
died on states bordering Pakistan.  Coincidence, SUURREE  I have
a bridge I can sell you.



From: [e-mail] (Mahadevan Shezian):

>The outbreak of plague in Surat is traced to ISI campaign of destabilizing
>India through its continuing campaign of proxy war, terrorism and
>bombings. It has now recruited plague bacillus among the soldiers to
>destroy India's bustling business center, Surat.  Next to Bombay perhaps
>Surat ranks high among India's commercial centres. When Bombay's stock
>market was bombed in March '93, the government of India and its high
>officials all rushed to cover up complicity of Pakistan. The foreign
>minister of India even declared that there was no evidence of Pakistan's
>involvement. But later due to overwhelming evidence to the contrary they
>all had to eat their words while shooting patriotic citizens in Hubli and
>other places.

>The plague bacillus after its virtual eradication from the world scene,
>was nurtured only in laboratories much like the small pox virus. Like
>bacillus Anthrax which was used in biological warfare, this bacillus'
>potential is now realised by Pakistan against India.
>
>This involvement may never come to light given the close cooperation
>between Pakistan and trecherous elements in high places in the GOI. There
>are many leaders and ministers in government acting as supply routes to
>Islamic terrorists operating in Kashmir and Doda district of Jammu. And
>the rest are busy carting away millions of poor people's money to swiss
>banks. So the people are left to fend for themselves and they are again
>and again falling victims to designs of India's enemies and indifference,
>nay, virtual treason of the corrupt government of India run by pro
>terrorist Congress Party.
>
>Source: Indian Nationalist News Network (INNN), London

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