Recreation of the 1918 Flu
Bernard Pyron
Mainstream scientists dug up the body of a
soldier who died of the 1918 flu and have
reconstructed the genetic sequence of that deadly
disease. In 2006-2007 authorities announced that a bird flu virus may become a deadly killer disease. .
Bible prophecy predicts that in the end times there
will be pestilence and plagues. Plagues can include
deadly disease as well as other calamities.
Luke 2l: 11 says "...great earthquakes shall be in
divers places, and famines, and pestilences, and
fearful sights and great signs shall be from heaven."
Pestilences are clearly diseases, which are to occur
in the end times, along with great earthquakes,
famines and signs from heaven.
. In the Book
of Revelation the word plagues is used
several times. A pleague could be a worldwide outbreak of
a deadly flu.
For example, in Revelation 9: 20 it says "And the rest
of the men which were not killed by these plagues yet
repented not of the works of their hands that they
should not worship devils and idols of gold and silver
and brass, and stone, and wood which neither can see
nor hear, nor walk. Neither repented they of their
murders, nor of their sorceries, nor of their
fornications, nor of their thefts."
Thayer seems to focus upon plagues in Revelation as
being diseases, or perhaps also as something else that
torments people. On http://www.houlton.net/monk, you
can type in the space the Strong's number, 4127, for
plagues and Thayer's comments will come up.
Thayer says plege or plagues is "a public
calamity...see English plagues...now tormenting, now
destroying the bodies of men, and sent by God as
punishment."
Some of the deadly diseases during the period of the
beginning of sorrows (Matthew 24:8) or in the Great
Tribulation may be man made. Diseases have been
created as biological weapons - and the elite are
interested in the use of diseases to
reduce the population of the world. And this includes
reducing the U.S. population.
Since about 1997 a group of mainstream scientists
have
been working on bringing back into existence the
deadly 1918 flu virus, a virus that did not exist
until they dug it up.
Jeffrey Taubenberger of the Armed Forces Institute of
Pathology, Terrance Tumpey of the Southeast Poultry
Research Lab of the Department of Agriculture
and Adolfo
Garcia-Sastre of the Mount Sinai School of Medicine
pioneered the work of re-creating the 1918 flu virus.
It was the team of Dr Taubenberger who literally dug
up the body of an Army man who died in 1918 of the flu
at Fort Jackson in South Carolina.
There is now a literature in mainstream scientific
peer review journals on the re-creation of the 1918
flu. This work was not done by those who we would
usually call mad scientists or rogue researchers.
The first journal article on the re-creation of the
1918 flu was published by J. K. Taubenberget et al in
Science, 1997, 275, pp.793-796. In later experiments
the genetic structure of the 1918 virus was found.
There is at least one article in the scientific
literature critical of the work of bringing back to
life the 1918 flu virus. This is by Mohammed Madjid,
Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, 2003, 96,
pp. 345-346. However, Dr. Madjid is worried that
terrorists might get hold of the re-created 1918
virus, not realizing that government intelligence
agencies are often in the background directing the
"terrorist" patsies.
An important recent article on the re-creating of the
1918 virus is by one of the original researchers in
this work, Tumpey. It is
Proceedings of the National Academy of
Sciences, 2004, 101, no 9, pp.3166-3171, by Terrence
M. Tumpey. Southeast
Poultry Resarch Lab and Garcia-Sastre Dept of
microbiology, Mount Sinai School of Medicine.
The title of their article is: Recombinant Virus With
Both the HA and NA Gnes
of the 1918 Influenza Virus.
HA is hemagglutinin. NA is neuraminidase. The
researhers found that these two genes are responsible
for the highly lethal nature of the 1918 flu virus.
They created recombinant flu viruses possessing two to
five genes from the 1918 flu. Three of these
reproduced effeciently in the lungs of mice without
prior adaptration.
They used recombinant 1918 flu genes to create
vaccines which they gave to mice three weeks before
infecting them with the recombinant 1918 flu virus.
They claim that mce that received 1918 HA and NA
vaccine were "completely protected." Only fifty to 90
percent of mice receiving other vaccines survived the
recombinant 1918 flu virus.
For some victims of the 1918 flu the virus caused
brain damage. For example, after having the 1918 flu
some developed Parkinson' Disease. Tumpey et al
showed that their 1918 flu virus was found in the
brains of infected mice. They report that "An
interesting feature of the highly pathogenic 1918
recombinant viruses was the presence of infectious
virus in the brain tissue of mice after lethal virus
challenge. The virus...is recognized as a
neurovirulent strain (39)...It has been demonstrated
that the NA gene plays a critical role in its
neurovirulence."
The reference, number 39, they give on brain damage
from the 1918 flu virus is from M. R. Castrucci and Y.
Kawaoka, Journal of Virulogy, 1993, 67, pp.754-764.
