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Mystery Disease Linked to Missing Israeli Scientist

Friday 07 May 2010


Media outlets across the Northwest United States began reporting on April 24 that a strange, previously unknown strain of virulent airborne fungi that has already killed at least six people in Oregon, Washington and Idaho is spreading throughout the region. The fungus, according to expert microbiologists, who have expressed alarm about the emergence of the strain, is a new genotype of Cryptococcus gatti fungi. Cryptococcus gatti is normally found in tropical and subtropical locations in India, South America, Africa and Australia. Microbiologists in the United States are reporting that the strain found here, for reasons not yet fully understood, is far deadlier than any found overseas.

The same microbiologist, who declined to speak on the record and who recounted extensive fungus work at Fort Detrick, also stated that researchers at Israel's Institute for Biological Research, located in Ness-Ziona about 20 km from Tel Aviv, have worked with the Cryptococcus gatti fungus. They also report that mysterious Israeli-American scientist Joseph Moshe, 56 years old, may have conducted covert studies with the fungus while he was recently living in California. This report concerning Moshe is especially interesting because Moshe was briefly in the international spotlight in 2009 when he was the subject of a spectacular chase and arrest by the LA police department and SWAT team, assisted by the FBI, Secret Service, CIA, US Army and several other unidentified federal officials. That highly unusual arrest has never been fully explained to the media, and the whereabouts of Moshe has remained unknown since its occurrence. Compounding the mystery surrounding the Moshe case is that there is another scientist named Moshe Bar-Joseph who works in Israel and who looks remarkably like Joseph Moshe, except that he is about 20 years older.

Other reliable sources, including two former Fort Detrick biochemists, have also linked Moshe to a mysterious disease that is becoming alarmingly common in Vermont and other states, including California. The disease is known to have killed or incapacitated at least 10 to 20 rural dwellers and farmers. This disease is said to be Morgellons disease or "a rare, mutated form of Morgellons disease." Former Fort Detrick scientists, speaking off the record, say that the disease is one that was "experimented with intensely" in the late 1960's at several "test sites in New England." Morgellons causes patients to suffer horrible skin problems as well as fatigue, confusion and serious memory problems, as well as joint pain and the strange sensation that pins and needles are piercing the body or that something is crawling beneath one's flesh.

So they needed a scapegoat, eh?

How come this is the first I'm hearing about this? Is it only on the west coast?

How come this is the first I'm hearing about this? Is it only on the west coast?

Because you are asleep, baahhhhh

How come this is the first I'm hearing about this? Is it only on the west coast?

Because you are asleep, baahhhhh



Look at the source.....truthout.org.

A bunch of bozos.....they are making this shit up. I would like them to provide one piece of fact that supports this story....

Its all speculation..dont get me wrong, these jackasses are the kings of speculation, their imaginations beyond reasonable....

JACKASSES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

some mid-twenties kids looking to make a buck...that is all.

How come this is the first I'm hearing about this? Is it only on the west coast?

Because you are asleep, baahhhhh



Look at the source.....truthout.org.

A bunch of bozos.....they are making this shit up. I would like them to provide one piece of fact that supports this story....

Its all speculation..dont get me wrong, these jackasses are the kings of speculation, their imaginations beyond reasonable....

JACKASSES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

some mid-twenties kids looking to make a buck...that is all.

COME ON GLP!!!

You have to be fvcking kidding me.

How come this is the first I'm hearing about this? Is it only on the west coast?

Because you are asleep, baahhhhh



Look at the source.....truthout.org.

A bunch of bozos.....they are making this shit up. I would like them to provide one piece of fact that supports this story....

Its all speculation..dont get me wrong, these jackasses are the kings of speculation, their imaginations beyond reasonable....

JACKASSES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

some mid-twenties kids looking to make a buck...that is all.


Made up?

You better tell that to newspapers and doctors and scientists and nurses in Oregon, Washington and BC.

Because this fungus has killed a number of people over the last 2 or so years.

Here's a BC Canada story: [link to www.timescolonist.com]

Deadly fungus shows up in Oregon

Cryptococcus gatti has killed on Island before, but there's no evidence it's spreading here

BY DUSTIN WALKER, THE DAILY NEWS APRIL 26, 2010


The discovery of a new strain of the potentially lethal Cryptococcus gattii fungus in Oregon has grabbed headlines across the U.S. But one expert says cases of cryptococcal disease don't appear to be spreading quickly in B.C.

Cryptococcus gattii made its northwest debut on Vancouver Island in 1999. Since then, it has killed about a dozen people. The fungus most recently took the life of a 45-year-old Cowichan woman in April 2008. An average of about 24 people are infected every year, with central Vancouver Island seeing the highest concentration of the fungus in B.C.

Researchers at North Carolina's Duke University Medical Center used DNA sequencing to identify the new strain of the fungus. But it's unclear whether the Oregon strain is connected to the two strains found on Vancouver Island.

It could be a mutation of the Island strain or it could have come from somewhere else entirely, said Duke University's Joseph Heitman, co-author of a research paper on the fungus published last week in Public Library of Science Pathogens.

Cases of cryptococcal disease were first found mostly on Vancouver Island, but after 2003 began to show up in Mainland B.C., Washington and Oregon, the paper said.

"It does seem likely . . . that it is moving progressively south," said Heitman, who added that this new strain could also show up on Vancouver Island.

But infections from the new genotypes of Cryptococcus gattii fungi are not common and are not transmitted between humans, reducing the risk of an epidemic, according to the study. Heitman said that infections from the fungus are rare.

Karen Bartlett, lead investigator on the B.C. Cryptococcal Working Group, said that despite thousands of people travelling between Vancouver Island and the Mainland, there hasn't been a huge increase of the disease.

"Given that amount of traffic, it's not spreading as fast as it potentially could have or we would be seeing a lot more of it on the Mainland," she said.

Bartlett said that the fungus may have been here for hundreds, or even thousands, of years but remained a harmless organism until recently. Climate change or changes in land use could have triggered some kind of a change.

I agree with a previous poster.

What makes this man-made?

I agree with a previous poster.

What makes this man-made?



One word:

WEAPONIZED