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West Nile Virus has Suspicious Origin

Some U.S. health officials are beginning to question why the U.S. strain of West Nile virus is deadlier to humans and birds than anywhere else on the planet – with the exception of Israel (Worldnetdaily).

One entomology expert who maintains an open mind on the West Nile outbreak, Dr. Jonathan F. Day of the University of Florida, said: "The sporadic appearance of WNV is disturbing, especially its appearance in the Florida Keys. It really appears that WN has been seeded throughout the eastern half of the United States. I guess the question is, by whom?"

Several reports indicate that in 1985 the U.S. Center for Disease Control sold and delivered the West Nile Virus to Saddam Hussein’s regime in Iraq along with samples of other diseases so the country could begin production of vaccinations, medicines, and other safeguards to fight outbreaks. While there is no conclusive evidence, the question remains: Is the United States now in the position of waging war on a biological weapons program that it may have helped to create?

While this theory is interesting, the difficulty with it is that there is no evidence directly linking Iraq to the West Nile virus, at least, that has been made public. With any number of diseases, disasters and crimes effecting the U.S., some are bound to have an ancillary correlation to unrelated events.

Posted by tim at May 24, 2004 6:49 AM

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