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Project Bioshield

Kathy

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I wonder why an association that is dealing with Allergies and Infectious Diseases is involved with developing chemical compounds to extract, or in their words "decorporate" radionuclides from the human body? Do they consider this form of contamination to be "infectious"?

Link: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/09/060925163456.htm

Project Bioshield: Researchers To Develop Anti-Radiation Treatments

The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), has issued five awards totaling $4 million to fund the development of products that eliminate radioactive materials from the human body following radiological or nuclear exposure. The awards, which were granted under Project Bioshield authorities, complement NIAID's other medical countermeasure efforts to create safe and effective products of this type.

"These new grants will help identify new drug candidates that could be acquired by the strategic national stockpile of medical countermeasures, which is available to the public after a terrorist or nuclear attack or accidental radioactive exposure," says NIAID Director Anthony S. Fauci, M.D.

In the event of an attack by a nuclear explosive device or radiological "dirty bomb," individuals potentially could inhale, ingest or absorb through their skin radioactive atoms called radionuclides. Depending on the type of radionuclide that a person is exposed to, the particles may be excreted from the body or enter bones, organs or other tissues, which could have significant adverse health consequences. Through an initiative announced in 2005, NIAID already is working to speed the development of a series of products that can bind (chelate) internally with the radionuclides and eliminate (decorporate) them from the body. Radionuclide decorporation products currently are available in the strategic national stockpile, but NIAID is focusing on expanding the product pool, creating new treatments capable of eliminating a wider range of radionuclides, developing products that can eliminate radioactive material faster and in greater amounts; and developing products in formulations that could be distributed more easily in a mass casualty situation.

NIAID has awarded five grants totaling up to $4 million to fund work for a period of 18 months. The following principal investigators and universities are the recipients of the grants:

* Raymond J. Bergeron, Ph.D., University of Florida, Gainesville, $1.0 million

* Tatiana G. Levitskaia, Ph.D., Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, $725,000

* Scott C. Miller, Ph.D., University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, $675,000

* Kenneth N. Raymond, Ph.D., University of California/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, $998,325

* Charles Timchalk, Ph.D., Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, $599,747

"The goal of this new program is to accelerate the development of previously identified, promising compounds into effective products that could be licensed for use," says program officer Bert Maidment, Ph.D., associate director of product development in NIAID's Division of Allergy, Immunology and Transplantation.

NIAID issued the grants under authority provided by Project Bioshield, which was signed into law in 2004. Its enactment provided federal agencies with new tools to speed research on medical countermeasures to protect Americans against chemical, biological, radiological or nuclear attack.

While this may seem a legitamate concern; there are more profound motivations behind the develoment of these radionuclide chelating agents. Any country with nuclear development, uranium mining, or those against which "depleted uranium" bombs were used, should pay close attention to the development of these chelating agents.

The Departments of Energy and Defence, with the help of the Atomic Energy Commissions, have effectively contaminated the planet. I certainly don't just blame the USA, many other countries have been involved with this scenario. Canada has uranium mining operations and nuclear power (in the East - where they can keep it). Not to mention that we have allowed the British to control the "Suffield Base" in southern Alberta for development of biological and radiological weapons and counter-measures.

It is interesting to note what the doctors given "Project Biosheild" funding have been working on in the past;

Dr. Kenneth Raymond - anthrax, Fe(III)-templated Gd(III) self-assemblies, iron chelators

Dr. Scott Miller - radionuclide contamination, including experiments with beagles, and inhalation of Plutonium by workers

Dr. TG Levitskaia - fluoride, metal ion complexes

Dr. Raymond J. Bergeron - iron overload, chelator design (iron chelation from specific organs)

Dr. C. Timchalk - identification of biomarkers in blood, saliva and urine for Organophosphates, Lead and other heavy metals.
 

Kathy

Well-known member
United States Patent # 4,780,238 October 25, 1988

Natural Chelating agents for radionuclide decorporation.

ABSTRACT

This invention relates to the preparation of new, naturally produced chelating agents as well as to the method and resulting chelates of desorbing cultures in a bioavailable form involving Pseudomonas species or other micro-organisms. A preferred micro-organism is Pseudomonas aeruginosa which forms multiple chelates with thorium in the range of molecular weight 100 - 1,000 and also forms chelates with uranium of molecular weight in the area of 100 - 1,000 and 1,000 - 2,000.

Inventor: Premuzic, Eugene T. (East Moriches, NY)

Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the United States (Washington, DC)

"Workers engaged by industries which are involved in the manufacture and use of radioactive materials or are involved in mining, transportation, production and waste disposal of heavy metals may be subject to metal poisoning; further the effects of the industrial activities may be felt by the inhabitants near the facility if there is an equipment malfunction. Thus it is very important to have thorium, uranium, plutonium or other toxic metal chelating agents (desorbents) which are rapid, effective, and non-toxic. These desorbants can be used to decorporate such metals as well as in heavy metal recovery processes."

inhabitants near the facility - includes wildlife, like deer ie: CWD
 

Kathy

Well-known member
For those who like a good non-fiction book:

I suggest, "The Fluoride Deception" by Christopher Bryson

ISBN 1-58322-526-9

Google it. also google "Dr. Harold Capenter Hodge"
the book lists his "major history bio" as:

"A biochemist and toxicologist at the University of Rochester who investigated fluoride for the U.S. Army's Manhattan Project, where he also supervised experiments in which unsuspecting hospital patients were injected with uranium and plutonium. After the war Hodge chaired the National Research Council's Committee on Toxicology and became the leading scientific promoter of water fluoridation in the United States during the cold war."

I mention this, because as it turns out fluoride is an extremely precious and "important" tool in the manufacturing industry and the uranium/nuclear industry. It is also very toxic (which I am just learning about).

Older people who have been drinking fluoridated water (in many cases there is naturally occuring fluoride in the water, just like some well have higher levels of various components) are depositing fluoride in their bones, resulting in a different crystal make-up than calcium would produce. This is resulting in brittle bones and alot of grief for the elderly, eg. hip fractures and hip replacements.

The book is very good. It is so well researched. Over 1/3 of the book contains the references for the body. If you have ever wondered about fluoridated water... this is the book you need to read.

It also mentions the damages to agriculture caused by the emissions of fluoride from various industries. The peach industry... the cattle industry.. and of course, human health... are all mentioned.

Phosphorous fertilizer production is a source for fluoride. Before it had a monetary vary ... the fluoride was released into the atmosphere causing cattle to be crippled. Florida apparently is the main source in the USA. Saskatchewan would be for Canada.

Just a suggestion for those who like reading "real non-fiction" books.

Have a great weekend!
 
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