WHO LET THE BAT
OUT OF THE BAG?
University study debunks bats as primary rabies vector but Mexican
bitten by rabid vampire bat raises new fears of a human rabies
vaccine.
by
Barbara J. Andrews, August 2011 Update
03|16|11
Are
Americans at risk of rabid bat attacks or
is it hype on behalf of human rabies vaccine? Biological weapons research?
In
March of this year Dr. Patricia Jordan, a leading veterinary vaccine authority, debunked
fears generated by the rabid bat myth.
Why do bats get the rap over rabies? Dr.
Jordan explains, “I have talked to many bat conservationists and the
bat bashing over rabies, even this new mutant form of rabies, is not
the bat’s fault.”
She speculates, “I am also uncomfortable with Hillary Koprowski,
generally referred to as a "commercial scientist", who is said to be
teasing out of nature the most lethal strain of rabies yet - from
the silver haired bat strain, one with 98% lethality. A commercial
scientist developing this kind of microbe can only be working for a
program to find weapons of mass destruction or something for
biological warfare. I believe blaming the bat for the sudden
appearance of a laboratory-created strain of rabies is designed to
confuse the public as to the real source of this threat. The bat is
not the greatest threat to our health and safety.”
“This is similar to the recent DANGER warnings about sleeping with
your pets and the diseases they will spread to you.” We can see Dr.
Jordan’s smile as she continues, “A little research shows they were
actually promotions to get you to take your animals to the vets...
for what? vaccines? drugs? chemicals and toxins to apply to them for
parasite control?”
Patricia Jordan is right. For every crisis there is a solution and
for every product, we've learned to generate crisis. Swine flu
vaccine is but one example. We were inundated with warnings
and video clips of people in Japan wearing face masks. The
plague never materialized but people got sick from the vaccines.
Are we now seeing the beginning of a subtle "nudge" towards rushing
to get human rabies vaccine
to protect ourselves from rabid vampire bats? We might be
better protected by simply avoiding the places where bats sleep.
Surfers are frequently bitten by sharks lurking just below the
surface, so we caution against taking rabies advice from anyone who
stands to profit by selling rabies vaccine.
In fact, I’ll bet a shark against your leg that
you’ll find no independent, scientific study (i.e. not vaccine
manufacturer-related) that can medically substantiate repeated rabies
vaccination. In point of fact: Americans are more likely to be
bitten by a shark than by any rabid animal!
The rabid vampire bat story
received wide media attention exactly
one year ago, in August of 2010. But wait, it was
the
FIRST vampire bat rabies
death
in the U.S. and it had actually occurred a year prior to the media
flurry in 2010. So what was so remarkable that the networks
carried the story a year later? Nothing.
The mother of a 19 year old Mexican migrant worker said he was was
bitten in July - in his native
town of Michoacan,
Mexico. He left shortly after that
to pick sugar cane in Louisiana. His death would have been
tragic but not that newsworthy in the Latin countries. So why
did American media react (a year later) as though the Black Plague had just erupted?
On
August 20th 2010, the CDC announced the
hospitalized migrant worker had been infected by a vampire bat.
He died the next day.
"Spinal fluid samples confirmed he was infected by
a vampire bat rabies virus variant"
shouted newscasters a year later, quoting the
CDC.
While we can't argue the facts, and the poor man did die, a University of Calgary
study, published in the Journal of Wildlife Disease, disputes
the notion that bats are riddled with rabies or even that they are a
primary rabies vector.
"It's completely not
true," said Brandon Klug, a graduate student and the lead author of
the paper. "They're just all negative stigmas that have been passed
down."
The study concludes that “the number of bats with the disease is
closer to one per cent -- regardless of species or where the bats
roost. That's compared to the 10 per cent figure indicated in
previous studies.”
In all, the study
covered over 50 years and over 50,000 North American bats.
“Rabies rates for bats has been over-estimated. It's also the first
time such a rigorous literature review has been completed on this
topic," said co-author Dr. Robert Barclay, biological science
professor and head of the U of C's department of biological
sciences.
So what is the rate of bat-inflicted rabies?
The answer is that blood-sucking vampire bats
are the stuff horror movies are made of. A bat’s flight radar is so
effective that any physical encounter would likely occur from a
human stumbling into the bat’s daytime roost. An understanding of bat
behavior and physiology explains the following: In a 1998 study of
7,962 reported animal rabies cases in the United States and Puerto
Rico, rabid raccoons accounted for 44% of cases, skunk rabies 28.5%
percent, and bat rabies only 12.5% with fox rabies at 5.5%. Rabid
dog or cat bites were not statistically noteworthy.
Wikipedia reports “an estimated 55,000 human deaths annually from
rabies worldwide, with about 31,000 in Asia and 24,000 in Africa.”
It should be noted that higher incidence directly relates to unvaccinated dogs. From
Louis Pasteur’s first human rabies vaccine in 1885 to genetically
engineered rabies vaccine of today, vaccines have successfully
prevented horrible diseases, especially in under-developed nations.
The frequency with which rabies vaccine should given is what is
disputed by veterinary authorities. See links below.
As Dr. Jordan points out, vaccine development, often
related to germ warfare research, can and has unleashed a host of human
health assailants. Given the questions surrounding the sudden
emergence of Lymes Disease in the human and canine population,
watchdog ears perk up with news that the government is now
researching a Foot and Mouth Disease vaccine.
So the bat is out of the bag. Vaccines are of major interest to germ
and biochemical warfare researchers.
We live in an over-populated,
unstable world. It would be wise not to rush your kids to get a
rabies vaccination when it comes on the market. We predict it will
be available within a few years and like Gardisal for cervical
cancer, bat-derived rabies vaccine will be highly promoted - just in
case you might be attacked by a rabid dog or bat.
http://www.thedogpress.com/Columns/Bat-Out-of-Bag-Rabies-Vaccine-1103_Andrews.aspp
#11031108
References:
http://www.faqs.org/espionage/Ul-Vo/Vaccines.html#ixzz1GUOvBX3C
http://www.calgaryherald.com/technology/Bats+deserve/4200666/story.html
http://www.rense.com/general67/plumislandlyme.htm (Operation Paperclip, etc)
Plum, Lyme Disease, and Bioweapons
When Blackbirds Are
Canaries – Biological Research?
Vaccine Induced
Disease
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