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The net is buzzing today with rumors about an online document from the state of Iowa that outlines compulsory quarantine outside the home. Not being one to automatically believe everything I read on the net, I decided to do a bit of sleuthing and managed to find the referenced document at the CDC servers. It’s a form called “Facility Quarantine Order”, and it is specifically for the state of Iowa.

However, there is also a second document called the Home Quarantine Order, which would lead me to believe that not every person would automatically be forwarded to a holding place (or camp). The state of Iowa is denying that any such plans exist.  Here are excerpts from yesterday’s report at KCRG.com:

Polly Carver-Kimm, spokeswoman for the Iowa Department of Public Health, said a reporter from Kentucky called the department Monday, asking about the “facility quarantine order.”

The order is signed by Dr. Patricia Quinlisk, the department’s medical director.
Carver-Kimm said she is not sure where the order originated, but said that templates are often prepared in case they are needed for public health emergencies. [emphasis SKG]

Perhaps, the state’s officials haven’t looked at the CDC website. Read the rest of this entry →

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H1N1 Vaccine Trials are underway, and this morning, we get this report from the Baltimore Sun:

Hunter Sears [Volunteer #1, and the first to receive his 'shot' - note, he's 13 years old - hmm...thirteen - SKG] was there because of his grandmother, Gladys Sears, who has worked at Annapolis Pediatrics for 46 years. In 1976, when there was a different swine flu outbreak, she got vaccinated. The next day, the government canceled the vaccination campaign, in part because it appeared to be making some people sick. That didn’t color her opinion of whether her grandson should enroll in the study.

“After years of working here, I don’t worry about things like that,” she said. “Some people have to be guinea pigs.” [This seems like an odd comment from a grandmother - ok, color me cynical, but I certainly wouldn't volunteer any of my family, especially children, for a vaccine trial of any kind - SKG]

The children being tested in Maryland will receive vaccines at three sites: pediatric practices in Annapolis, Frederick and at the University of Maryland, Baltimore. They will get either 15 or 30 micrograms per shot and two doses spaced three weeks apart. Older children will have their blood drawn over five separate visits. For their trouble, the children will receive $40 Target gift cards at each visit - not a small carrot, several said. [Hey, this not only entices the little ones, but it also helps the economy! Wow, what a brilliant scheme -- oops, I mean, plan! - SKG]

via Testing begins on experimental flu vaccine for children — baltimoresun.com.

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News of Novavax’s successful production of an H1N1 vaccine using new technology isn’t a major surprise. However, a press release from ten years ago, almost to the day, piques one’s curiosity regarding the source (and the money, if not the intent) behind some of Novavax’s breakthroughs:

COLUMBIA, Md., Aug. 11 /PRNewswire/ — Novavax, Inc. (Amex: NOX) today announced that it has acquired substantially all of the assets, excluding cash and accounts receivable, of the Biomedical Services Laboratory Division of DynCorp of Reston, Va. The division, established in 1964, is engaged in contract research, development and pilot manufacturing of human vaccines for government laboratories and other vaccine companies, generating over $2 million in revenues in each of the last three years. This strategic acquisition combines Novavax’s Novasome(R) adjuvant technology with the Division’s extensive expertise in vaccine development and manufacturing to develop therapies for the treatment of various cancers and infectious diseases.

via Novavax Acquires Vaccine Development Division of DynCorp.

Why mention this purchase? DynCorp is a major, and infamous military contractor (and may even be a CIA cutout— see the ‘Dirty Tricks’ article linked at the end of this article). Why would ‘civilian muscle’ have a vaccine lab component? Could it be DynCorps helped test certain breakthroughs while serving in war-torn areas?

The above cited purchase was announced in August 1999.  Guess who patented extra special vaccine production methodology in January 1999? DynCorp in conjunction with the National Institutes of Health. Here’s a screen capture of the patent grant:

Link for entire grant article and information: http://www.patentstorm.us/patents/5911998/fulltext.html 

This is one of three patents issued regarding the use of green monkeys to grow viruses for harvest in the production of vaccines. All three patents are in the name of Louis Potash and assigned to DynCorps and NIH. Here’s a link to an article touting Novavax as the owner of one of these three patents.

So, if Novavax purachsed the DynCorp’s lab division and all intellectual properties associated with it, why are DynCorp and NIH still listed in all three patents, even though the dates of the second and third patents are clearly AFTER the purchase? Could it be that Novavax is just a cutout for DynCorps?

By the way, it’s important to note that DynCorps (which had been trading at near junk status) has now been upgraded by Standard & Poor on news of new military contracts for work in southern Afghanistan.  Also, recently, DynCorps won a contract with FEMA to provide housing for disaster victims.

It’s looking more and more like there’s a dark, military aspect to the many faces of the H1N1 pandemic. Are you ready for your flu shot? 

Read more about DynCorp at these outside links:

More War, More Money for DynCorp

US: DynCorp Disgrace

ECUADOR: Farmers Fight DynCorp’s Chemwar on the Amazon

Dirty Tricks, Inc.: The DynCorp-Government Connection

Is DynCorps involved in PROMIS and the Missing/Dead Microbiologists?

9/11 Encyclopedia entry for Dyncorp

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By SHARON K. GILBERT
June 30, 2009

GET READY for your flu shot, everyone. When Obama’s new health care package gains traction, you can bet one of the primary features will be compulsory vaccinations of all participants.

This is especially concerning given the news that HHS Secretary Kathleen Sibelius has just offered $35M to a privately owned company called Protein Sciences to refine its DNA based vaccine against ‘swine flu’ (H1N1).

Here’s a disturbing excerpt from the above linked article:

HHS notes, “if this new technology is demonstrated to be safe and effective and the FDA licenses the new technology for flu vaccines, the contract requires the company to …provide a finished vaccine within 12 weeks of pandemic onset and to produce at least 50 million doses of pandemic flu vaccine within six months of pandemic onset.”

Note that it’s the ‘technology’ that will be approved, not the ‘vaccine’. In order to provide a ‘finished vaccine with 12 weeks of pandemic onset’, the DNA-based concoction would have no time to undergo human trials. In other words, you and I will be the guinea pigs. Read the rest of this entry →

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