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- | ===== Nuclear Threat Initiative | + | ====== Nuclear Threat Initiative ====== |
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+ | The **Nuclear Threat Initiative (NTI)** is an American non-profit organization based in [[united_states: | ||
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+ | The current CEO is [[:Ernest Moniz]], whose previous positions include US Secretary of Energy and Professor of Physics and Engineering at [[:MIT]]. Among NTI’s advisors and directors are many prominent philanthropists, | ||
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+ | NTI’s biosecurity efforts are led by Dr. [[:Beth Cameron]]. Dr. Cameron previously served as the Senior Director for Global Health Security and Biodefense on the White House National Security Council (NSC) staff. She also worked on Cooperative Threat Reduction in the Department of Defense and Global Threat Reduction in the Department of State. Other members of NTI | bio’s team include; | ||
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+ | NTI | bio is also advised by a prestigious Advisory Group headed by [[:Margaret Hamburg]], Foreign Secretary of the [[:National Academy of Medicine]]. Overall, NTI | bio’s staff bring a wealth of past policy experience in influential positions. They seem well-placed to lead future efforts to reduce biosecurity risks.((https:// | ||
==== History ==== | ==== History ==== | ||
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Strengthening Global Systems to Prevent and Respond to High-Consequence Biological Threats | Strengthening Global Systems to Prevent and Respond to High-Consequence Biological Threats | ||
- | On March 2021, the Nuclear Threat Initiative (NTI) partnered with the Munich Security Conference (MSC) | + | On March 2021, the [[:Nuclear Threat Initiative]] (NTI) partnered with the [[:Munich Security Conference]] (MSC) |
to conduct a tabletop exercise on reducing high-consequence biological threats. Conducted virtually, the | to conduct a tabletop exercise on reducing high-consequence biological threats. Conducted virtually, the | ||
exercise examined gaps in national and international biosecurity and pandemic preparedness architectures | exercise examined gaps in national and international biosecurity and pandemic preparedness architectures | ||
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security, and philanthropy. | security, and philanthropy. | ||
- | The exercise scenario portrayed a deadly, global pandemic involving an unusual strain of monkeypox virus | + | The exercise scenario portrayed a deadly, global pandemic involving an unusual strain of [[:monkeypox]] virus |
that emerged in the fictional nation of Brinia and spread globally over 18 months. Ultimately, the exercise | that emerged in the fictional nation of Brinia and spread globally over 18 months. Ultimately, the exercise | ||
scenario revealed that the initial outbreak was caused by a terrorist attack using a pathogen engineered | scenario revealed that the initial outbreak was caused by a terrorist attack using a pathogen engineered | ||
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Sep 25, 2019 07:35am | Sep 25, 2019 07:35am | ||
- | Bavarian Nordic and the U.S. government have been working for years to advance a next-gen smallpox vaccine, and now the company has scored its much-anticipated approval. The vaccine, Jynneos, represents the first non-replicating smallpox vaccine in the U.S. and the first monkeypox vaccine worldwide. | + | Bavarian Nordic and the U.S. government have been working for years to advance a next-gen smallpox vaccine, and now the company has scored its much-anticipated approval. The vaccine, |
Importantly, | Importantly, | ||
- | The ACAM2000 made by [[:Emergent BioSolutions]] The same Emergent BioSolutions that received preferential contracts for COVID-19 vaccines from Robert Kadlec because of the enduring partnership between [[:Robert Kadlec]] and the late [[:Fuad El-Hibri]], in spite of Emergent BioSolutions' | + | The ACAM2000 made by [[:Emergent BioSolutions]] The same Emergent BioSolutions that received preferential contracts for COVID-19 vaccines from [[:Robert Kadlec]] because of the enduring partnership between [[:Robert Kadlec]] and the late [[:Fuad El-Hibri]], in spite of Emergent BioSolutions' |
The same Emergent BioSolutions that renamed themselves from [[: | The same Emergent BioSolutions that renamed themselves from [[: | ||
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I keep getting asked the same question again and again; is this outbreak of monkey pox a real threat, or is this another case of overstated and weaponized public health messaging? I am going to save my answer to this question for the end of this article and instead focus on what monkey pox is, the nature and characteristics of the associated disease, what we know and don’t know. | I keep getting asked the same question again and again; is this outbreak of monkey pox a real threat, or is this another case of overstated and weaponized public health messaging? I am going to save my answer to this question for the end of this article and instead focus on what monkey pox is, the nature and characteristics of the associated disease, what we know and don’t know. | ||
- | The monkeypox virus, which originates in various regions of Africa, is related to SmallPox (Variola), which are both members of the genus Orthopoxvirus. However, it is important to understand that Variola (major or minor) is the species of virus which is responsible for the worst human disease caused by the Orthopox viruses. For example, Cowpox, Horsepox, and Camelpox are also members of this genus, none of which are a major health threat to humans, and one of which (Cowpox) has even been (historically) used as a Smallpox vaccine. My point is that just because Monkeypox is related to Smallpox, this does not in any way mean that it represents a similar public health threat. Anyone who implies otherwise is basically engaged in or otherwise supporting weaponized public health-related propaganda. In other words, spreading public health fearporn. | + | The [[:monkeypox]] virus, which originates in various regions of Africa, is related to SmallPox (Variola), which are both members of the genus Orthopoxvirus. However, it is important to understand that Variola (major or minor) is the species of virus which is responsible for the worst human disease caused by the Orthopox viruses. For example, Cowpox, Horsepox, and Camelpox are also members of this genus, none of which are a major health threat to humans, and one of which (Cowpox) has even been (historically) used as a Smallpox vaccine. My point is that just because Monkeypox is related to Smallpox, this does not in any way mean that it represents a similar public health threat. Anyone who implies otherwise is basically engaged in or otherwise supporting weaponized public health-related propaganda. In other words, spreading public health fearporn. |
Monkeypox was first identified in 1958 in colonies of monkeys, and the first human case of the virus was identified in 1970 in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Most likely this was just the first case identified, as people living in Africa have been in contact with monkeys and the other Monkeypox animal hosts for millennia. The “West African” monkeypox clade (clade = variant) circulating outside of Africa at this time causes a milder disease compared to the closely related virus found found in other regions of Africa (Congo clade). | Monkeypox was first identified in 1958 in colonies of monkeys, and the first human case of the virus was identified in 1970 in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Most likely this was just the first case identified, as people living in Africa have been in contact with monkeys and the other Monkeypox animal hosts for millennia. The “West African” monkeypox clade (clade = variant) circulating outside of Africa at this time causes a milder disease compared to the closely related virus found found in other regions of Africa (Congo clade). | ||
- | The symptoms of monkeypox are somewhat similar to, but much milder than smallpox disease. The general clinical presentation of the disease caused by the West African monkey pox clade virus involves Influenza-like symptoms — fever, body aches, chills — together with swollen lymph nodes. A rash on the palm of the hand is often observed.((https:// | + | The symptoms of [[:monkeypox]] are somewhat similar to, but much milder than smallpox disease. The general clinical presentation of the disease caused by the West African monkey pox clade virus involves Influenza-like symptoms — fever, body aches, chills — together with swollen lymph nodes. A rash on the palm of the hand is often observed.((https:// |
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+ | ==== Brownstone ~ Monkeypox Simulation ==== | ||
+ | Monkeypox Was a Table-Top Simulation Only Last Year | ||
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+ | Elite media outlets around the world are on red alert over the world’s first-ever global outbreak of Monkeypox in mid-May 2022—just one year after an international biosecurity conference in Munich held a simulation of a “global pandemic involving an unusual strain of Monkeypox” beginning in mid-May 2022. | ||
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+ | Monkeypox was first identified in 1958, but there’s never been a global Monkeypox outbreak outside of Africa until now—in the exact week of the exact month predicted by the biosecurity folks in their pandemic simulation. Take these guys to Vegas! | ||
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+ | Ed Yong, who’s penned dozens of hysterical articles on Covid for The Atlantic including such gems as COVID-19 Long-Haulers Are Fighting for Their Future, Even Health-Care Workers With Long COVID Are Being Dismissed, How Did This Many Deaths Become Normal? and The Final Pandemic Betrayal, is hot on the scene of the new Monkeypox outbreak. | ||
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+ | [[:Eric Feigl-Ding]] is also all over this. | ||
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+ | The global Monkeypox outbreak—occurring on the exact timeline predicted by a biosecurity simulation of a global Monkeypox outbreak a year prior—bears a striking resemblance to the outbreak of COVID-19 just months after Event 201, a simulation of a coronavirus pandemic almost exactly like COVID-19. | ||
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+ | Event 201 was hosted in October 2019—just two months before the coronavirus was first revealed in Wuhan—by the Gates Foundation, the World Economic Forum, Bloomberg, and Johns Hopkins. As with the Event 201, the participants at the Monkeypox simulation have thus far been stone silent as to their having participated in a pandemic simulation the facts of which happened to come true in real life just months later. | ||
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+ | One person who was present at both Event 201 and the Monkeypox simulation is George Fu Gao, director of the Chinese Center for Disease Control. At event 201, Gao specifically raised the point of countering “misinformation” during a “hypothetical” coronavirus pandemic.((https:// | ||
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+ | ==== 2010 Monkeypox Threat ==== | ||
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+ | The dangers of monkeypox to humans | ||
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+ | By The Los Angeles Times - September 28, 2010 | ||
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+ | Most vertebrate animal species have some sort of poxvirus capable of causing severe illness. These ancient pathogens have evolved within and among vertebrates since the dawn of life. | ||
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+ | In one of public health’s greatest triumphs, our own orthopox virus — smallpox, or Variola — was eradicated by 1980. Because chickenpox isn’t a true poxvirus, humans don’t have a poxvirus of their own anymore. | ||
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+ | Now, however, some researchers are concerned that another orthopox virus, monkeypox, may be adapting to fill the void. Currently, monkeypox can spread to humans fairly easily if they come into contact with an infected animal. It doesn’t always spread from human to human. But that could change. | ||
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+ | There are two distinct genetic lines of monkeypox. The less severe West African strain entered the United States in 2003 in the body of an infected Gambian pouched rat. It spread in a pet store to dormice and to caged prairie dogs, and eventually caused 81 human infections, none of them serious and none of which spread. The far deadlier Congo basin strain causes a disease that is “virtually indistinguishable” from typical smallpox, says virologist Mark Buller of St. Louis University.((https:// | ||
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+ | ===== External links ===== | ||
+ | * [[https:// |