Scientists with ties to Bill Gates and Anthony Fauci admit to developing vaccine that spreads like a virus
Scientists linked to Bill Gates said they are developing a vaccine that spreads like a virus.
The research is subsidized by high-profile funding organizations with longstanding and close financial ties to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. It is also supported by the National Institutes of Health, the mother agency of Dr. Anthony Fauci’s National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.
Self-spreading vaccines are rooted in efforts to reduce pest populations. The virally-spread immunocontraception hijacks the immune systems of infected animals like non-native mouse species, preventing them from fertilizing offspring.
The earliest self-spreading vaccine efforts targeted two highly lethal infectious diseases in the European rabbit population in 2001. Spanish researchers field-tested a vaccine in the wild rabbit population on a small island just off Menorca. The vaccine spread to over half the 300 rabbits on the island, and the trial was said to be a success.
While the researchers may intend to make self-spreading vaccines, there could be ways to repurpose this science to develop biological weapons, which may prove uncontrollable and irreversible.
Humans are weaponizing biology
Humans have already weaponized biology on several occasions. As the apartheid-era South African biowarfare program showed, social, political and scientific pressures can lead to the misuse of biological innovation.
Project Coast, as it was called, was South Africa’s program primarily focused on covert assassination weapons for use against individuals deemed a threat to the racist apartheid government. In addition to producing contraptions to inject poisons, Project Coast researchers developed techniques to lace sugar cubes with salmonella and cigarettes with Bacillus anthracis.
There had been many biowarfare programs, including several that were far more elaborate and sophisticated, but the South African program is important in thinking through malicious uses of self-spreading vaccines. One of Project Coast’s research projects aimed at developing a human anti-fertility vaccine.
This idea came at a time when there was widespread concern over population explosion. Schalk Van Rensburg, who oversaw the fertility-related work at Project Coast, believed that this could bring his lab international acclaim and funding.
Van Rensburg and the director of the biowarfare program, Wouter Basson, said the military needed an anti-fertility vaccine for female soldiers not to become pregnant.
Other scientists involved in the project denied awareness of ulterior intentions or even their fertility work as part of a military endeavor. However, Van Rensburg and lab director Daniel Goosen said the real intention of the project was to selectively administer the contraceptive in secret to unsuspecting Black South African women.
In the end, the anti-fertility vaccine was not produced before Project Coast officially closed down in 1995 – 12 years after it was initiated. It ended with an earlier version tested in baboons, but never in humans.
South Africa was not the only country to try to forcibly sterilize its population. European countries like Sweden and Switzerland sterilized members of the Roma minority in the early half of the 20th century, while countries like Slovakia continued beyond that.
More recently, analysts alleged that the Chinese government has been sterilizing women in Xinjiang, which is a province with a large population of Uyghur Muslims.
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has also gotten involved in the research. The University of California, Davis has been working on a DARPA-administered project that is creating the first prototype of a self-disseminating vaccine designed to induce a high level of herd immunity against the Lassa virus and Ebola.
- Source : Mary Villareal
