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ZIKA: Exposing Health's biggest cover Story

6/12/2017

 
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The Zika virus propaganda is beginning to ramp up in the mainstream media once again. The Zika virus was discovered in 1947 and has been a background focus and afterthought of worldwide medical attention since then. In 2015, seemingly out of the blue, Brazilian officials sounded the alarm warning of a Zika virus outbreak causing microcephaly in a poverty-stricken area of Brazil’s Northeastern agricultural region. Shortly after, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared a global health emergency. Onto the bandwagon jumped the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issuing travel warnings and guidelines for pregnant women. Other governments and health agencies soon announced similar travel warnings while Colombia, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador and Jamaica advised women to postpone getting pregnant until more was known about the risks. The NY Times reported a judge in central Brazil publicly proclaimed that he will allow women to have legal abortions, illegal in Brazil under most circumstances, in cases of microcephaly.

At the time, independent journalist Jon Rappoport extinguished the media narrative and hype by calling the Zika virus “the biggest cover story in the world” and writing, “…in Brazil, researchers have only found a suggestion of the presence of the Zika virus in 17 cases of microcephaly. That’s called evidence AGAINST Zika as the cause of birth defects.”

Never ones to let a good crisis go to waste, Big Pharma entered the emerging Zika picture with hopes of cashing in by developing a vaccine. Joseph Kim, chief executive of Inovio Pharmaceuticals in a 2016 NBC News interview stated, “…we can conservatively envision a Zika market opportunity exceeding $1 billion a year.” Not to be outdone, on Feb. 22, 2016, the White House submitted to the US Congress a $1.9 billion emergency Zika supplemental appropriations request from the Departments of Health and Human Services (HHS) with $828 million going to the CDC. At the time the $1.9 billion request (of taxpayer money), which included buying and developing vaccines primarily benefiting Big Pharma’s bottom line, was submitted before knowing for sure if the virus posed a serious health threat to the American public. Fast forward to 2017 at the time of this writing, the CDC admits that a mere 125 symptomatic Zika virus disease cases have been reported. 

Physician Become Whistleblowers

Could there be another explanation for the localized explosion of birth defects in Brazil? No agency or government has publicly questioned the well-documented role agrochemicals play in birth defects, neurological disorders and microcephaly. Journalist Claire Robinson of GMWatch.org highlighted a February 2016 report by the ‘Physicians in the South American Crop-Sprayed Villages’ laying out their view on the high rates of birth defects. Robinson reports:

“The increase in this birth defect, in which the baby is born with an abnormally small head and often has brain damage, was quickly linked to the Zika virus by the Brazilian Ministry of Health. However, according to the Physicians in the Crop-Sprayed Towns, the Ministry failed to recognize that in the area where most sick people live, a chemical larvicide [pesticide] that produces malformations in mosquitoes was introduced into the drinking water supply in 2014.”

The physicians compiling the report stated: "Malformations detected in thousands of children from pregnant women living in areas where the Brazilian state added Pyriproxyfen to drinking water are not a coincidence, even though the Ministry of Health places a direct blame on the Zika virus for this damage.”

All mainstream US media ignored the fact that Pyriproxyfen was added to the drinking water in 2014 prior to the outbreak of birth defects. Pyriproxyfen use in Brazil is unprecedented and has never been applied to a drinking water supply on a large scale. Pyriproxyfen is an endocrine disruptor specifically created to inhibit growth of mosquito larvae. The chemical alters the mosquito’s developmental process from larva to adult by generating malformations which kill or disabling the insect. 

In 2017 the journal Quantitative Biology published a paper titled ‘The Case for Pyriproxyfen as a Potential Cause for Microcephaly; From Biology to Epidemiology’ in which the authors concluded the following:

“Given this combination of potential molecular mechanism, toxicological and epidemiological evidence we strongly recommend that the use of pyriproxyfen in Brazil be suspended until the potential causal link to microcephaly is investigated further.”


The authors also noted that very few microcephaly cases were reported in neighboring Colombia despite the country’s large numbers of Zika cases undermining the claim that Zika is the cause. One year earlier in 2016 the WHO also made the same observation as reported by the NY Times stating: 

“The gap [in cases of babies being born with microcephaly] has been seen all over the Americas. According to the World Health Organization, the United States has 28 cases — almost all linked to women infected elsewhere. Guatemala has 15, and Martinique has 12.”

Similarly, in 2009 the New England Journal of Medicine published a paper chronicling a 2007 Zika outbreak on the Micronesian Island of Yap. An estimated 73 percent of the island’s 11,377 inhabitants became infected with the Zika virus but no microcephaly was reported. 

In 2009, Brazil earned the title of the world’s largest consumer of pesticides, superseding the United States. Many of the pesticides used in Brazil are banned in other countries due to health concerns. 

The Vaccine Connection

Following a 2014 report by the Brazilian Ministry of Health’s Epidemiological Surveillance Center, the Brazilian National Immunization Program (NIP) began vaccinating all pregnant women in the country with the Tdap vaccine. GlaxoSmithKline’s BOOSTIX brand Tdap vaccine, chosen by Brazil to use on all pregnant women, states the following on its manufacturer’s insert: 

“There are no adequate and well-controlled studies in pregnant women.”

In early 2016 independent journalist Marco Cáceres reported the following: 
“…the Brazilian government has been vaccinating tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands, of pregnant women in its country during the past year. A large portion of these pregnancies are occurring in Brazil’s northeastern region, notably in the state of Pernambuco—the country’s fastest growing population center.”

Congenital rubella syndrome (CRS) can occur in the developing fetus of a pregnant woman who has contracted rubella. One of the manifestations of CRS is microcephaly. The CDC warns that 
the measles, mumps, and rubella vaccine (MMR) should not be administered to women known to be pregnant and woman should avoid becoming pregnant for 28 days after vaccination due to the live virus used in the vaccine. It was Dr. Paul Thomas who pointed out the following:​

“There was a catch-up MMR vaccine program in some of the areas of Brazil where they are seeing high numbers of infants with microcephaly. Women of childbearing age were given this vaccine. Perhaps it is the MMR vaccine, not the Zika virus, that is the real culprit?”

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) and Big Pharma are currently sprinting for the billion dollar finish line before a critical mass of the public sees through the Zika fraud cover story. In the first quarter of 2017 the NIH announced plans to begin testing an experimental Zika vaccine in a large scale Phase 2 trial of 2,490 health participants. Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, estimates the cost of the trial at approximately $100 million. Will Americans be treated to another round of manufactured health agency and media spin if the Zika vaccine passes its trial phases and goes into full production? 

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