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Hey internet friends.

History is littered with tales of individuals devising new ways to kill each other.

Throughout the centuries, the deliberate use of bacteria, viruses, and toxins has been

proven as an effective means of neutralizing a targeted population—a practice that has

been dubbed "biological warfare". Fast forward to recent times--poisoning the

well with plague-ridden corpses just didn't quite cut it anymore, especially not for empires

whose culture is rooted in endless war.

After all, the war machine requires the latest and greatest—but while the bioterrorism

budget is booming, the pool of volunteers willing to test out the effectiveness of these

weapons is anything but.

That's why today we're going to blast back to the past and examine the lessons of

history, focusing on a handful of unethical human experiments (that we know about),

as well as the global government, organizations, and individuals who carried

out these barbaric experiments by means of deception— powerful entities still around

today, who demand the blind trust of the general populace, though the only established track

record they hold is one of total disregard for human life.

Today we're going to talk about a selection of horrific human experiments carried out

under the American flag… #1-The Filipino Prison Experiments

Found within the first book of Samuel in the Bible is the oldest account of what is speculated

to be the Bubonic Plague.

The story goes a little something like this: when the Philistines stole the Ark of the

Covenant from the Israelites, the Philistines were were afflicted by an epidemic of what

was later thought to be the plague—the symptoms affecting each town to which the ark of the

covenant was taken.

The link was established by mentions of what was later roughly translated to mean "rats"

and "buboes" or "tumors" and further established by the knowledge that humans can be infected

by fleas who have fed on infected rodents.

The Philistines returned the Ark of the Covenant in repentance, and offered five golden tumors

and five golden mice to end the plague, but that wouldn't be the last time that a disease,

thought to be naturally occurring, would be weaponized.

In the late 19th century, the United States military, along with universities, began medical

experiments on prisoners in the Philippines, which was, at the time, an American territory.

These experiments included injecting prisoners with the bubonic plague, beginning with five

select prisoners for the first round.

Later, Yale and Johns Hopkins University graduate, Professor Richard Strong, infected twenty-four

prisoners with what he reportedly thought to be cholera, but turned out to be somehow

contaminated with bubonic plague, killing thirteen of those prisoners—whoopsie daisy! Well,

to his credit, Dr. Strong argued that he was: "'thoroughly convinced' that man could withstand the

amount of plague organism as a guinea pig."

Dr. Strong was later found innocent of any criminal negligence, and he later had a thriving

career as professor of topical medicine at Harvard.

But his experiments on prisoners didn't end with accidental plague inoculations.

A few years later, he conducted another round of experiments dealing with Beriberi, a deficiency

disease resulting in paralysis and ultimately heart failure.

Although several prisoners died as a result, the remaining few were rewarded with cigars

and cigarettes—what a reward for narrowly escaping death, right?

So worth it.

(Sarcasm heavily implied.)

To make matters worse, its' not like these prisoners volunteered for these experiments

or even had the slightest clue as to what was going on, which begins our theme of non-existent

voluntary or informed consent—at least for this video.

#2- The Tuskegee Syphilis Study Conducted by the public health service in partnership with

the Rockefeller-funded Tuskegee Institute in 1932, the clinical study of untreated syphilis

targeted 600 African-American men—Alabama sharecroppers who believed they were receiving

free health care from the United States government.

Of the 600, 399 of those men had reportedly already contracted syphilis, a sexually transmitted

disease, before the study began, and the remaining men were purposely infected with the bacterium,

told they were being treated for "bad blood".

The projected six-month clinical study spanned over the course of forty years, and for many

of those men, clinicians followed them until their eventual deaths.

Though pencillin became the treatment of choice for syphilis in 1945, measuring the effectiveness

of treatments wasn't the goal of this study.

No, the goal of this 40-year study was to observe the consequences of untreated syphilis.

And, spoiler alert: while syphilis often presents with a painless red sore at the infection

site, when untreated, syphilis can cause damage to the internal organs, like the brain or

the heart, and progresses through stages serious enough to result in death.

It wasn't until much later that the horrors of the Tuskegee study surfaced, and a legal

settlement included a lifetime of…wait for it… medical benefits to the study subjects,

their wives, and children.

#3 The Devil's Experiments in Guatemala Dubbed the "devil's experiment" by Guatemalans,

a series of venereal disease experiments took place in Guatemala between 1946-1948 and was

led by physician James Charles Cutler who was also involved in the Tuskegee Syphilis

experiments.

The Guatemalan experiments involved infecting an estimated 1308 unsuspecting victims with

an STD, but this time, instead of just targeting African American men, the pool of victims

opened up to children as young as ten, mental patients, prisoners, prostitutes, and soldiers.

There were eighty documented deaths as a result. These experiments were reportedly conducted so researchers

could look for ways to prevent STD's from spreading, with their focus on stopping the

spread of diseases amongst soldiers at war.

Guatemala was chosen so doctors could avoid the pesky ethical constraints of informed

consent.

Studies show that a number of patients were infected with syphilis and brought to the

brink of death, only to test the effectiveness of penicillin as treatment.

Once treated, patients were infected with another STD, and the process started over

again.

Dr. Cutler acknowledged his ethical violations in 1947, stating, "Unless the law winks occasionally,

you have no progress in medicine." Since the United States owned up to these experiments

in 2010, there have been several lawsuits against the United States government, the

Rockefeller-funded Johns Hopkins University, and the Rockefeller Foundation to the tune

of 1 billion dollars in damages, but the real damage has yet to come to fruition, given

that there's no telling how many infected Guatemalan children and grandchildren of these

victims are running around right now, the reverberations and consequences of these experiments

resulting in a generational effects, given that mothers can pass syphilis to an unborn

child, and when left untreated, there's a high risk of stillbirth or infant death.

Beyond the threat of lawsuits, those who conducted these experiments got nothing more than a

slap on the wrist, if that!

The Rockefeller Foundation is still just as influential as before, steering the medical

field as it deems fit, because deep pockets have sway and can even rewrite history.

If knowledge of unethical human experimentation was commonplace, and everyone knew that the

major pharmaceutical companies of today were the heads of the United States biological

warfare program of days past, like George Merck of Merck and Co—now a major vaccine

maker—if individuals held this knowledge, would they still accept inoculations without

asking their doctor or researching what they're putting into their bodies first?

When I see recent headlines about how syphilis cases are at an all-time high, it makes me

wonder how organic of an occurrence that is, and how much of the problem has been created

to strike fear and outrage in the masses so that a manufactured solution, like a vaccine,

can be introduced to create profit.

A solution with its own host of problems, a solution concocted by those with a sordid

history, unworthy of your blind trust, as they have a proven track record of disregard

for human life.

#4 Ohio Penitentiary Cancer ExperimentsA man who eventually became the Vice President of

the American Cancer Society began his reign of terror in an Ohio State Penitentiary in

1952.

Chester Southam, a Sloan-Kettering Researcher, which, unsurprisingly was also funded by the

Rockefeller Foundation (I know I sound like a broken record at this point)—anyway (!) Southam

sought to discover how healthy bodies fought the invasion of malignant cells, so he injected

live cancer cells into prisoners, as well as 300 healthy women at Sloan-Kettering, all

of whom were not informed of Southam's extracurricular research.

However, at that time, fellow doctors were fully aware that injection of live cancer

cells might cause cancer, even in healthy individuals.

Nearly a decade later, Southam set his sights on twenty-two elderly patients at a chronic

disease hospital in Brooklyn, injecting them with live cancer cells—all without their

consent.

Why?

Well he wanted to test his hypothesis of course!

His hypothesis that bodies "racked with serious but non-cancerous diseases would reject

live cancer cells as rapidly and completely as healthy bodies".

This time, a few whistle blower colleagues came forward, refusing to participate in Southam's

experiments and ultimately resigning.

Southam's unethical practices eventually made headlines and even saw the inside of

a courtroom.

And his punishment?

Brace yourselves for this one, it's a real doozy.

The New York medical licensing board put him on probation for…a year.

#5 Operation Sea Spray During the world wars, the funding of the United States biological

weapons programs increased and continued well into the Cold War.

In 1950, a secret experiment was conducted by the US Navy in an effort to test the vulnerability

of susceptible regions of the United States in the event of a biological attack.

The Navy sprayed clouds of Serratia bacterium from a giant hose for two miles along the

San Francisco Bay coastline, successfully dosing nearly eight hundred thousand residents

during the week of spraying, all unbeknownst to the general population.

Though the navy claimed the bacteria was harmless, the reality is that it can cause urinary tract

and wound infections in some, as well as gastrointestinal and respiratory issues in others.

In the week following operation sea spray, eleven adults checked into the hospital with

serious UTIs linked to the bacteria, and one man even died as a result.

Furthermore, An increase in pneumonia in the Bay Area was later speculated to have been

linked to Operation Sea Spray . The results of the experiment?

San Francisco Bay was identified as highly susceptible to biological attacks due to its

iconic fog.

Pentagon reports that were declassified decades later revealed that the military had performed

open-air testing of biowarfare agents an estimated 239 times across American cities like New

York City, Panama City and Key West from 1950 to 1966.

Other reports detailed the release of deadly nerve agents over Alaska and dousing Hawaii

with bacteria, and the experiments weren't limited to the United States populace, but

extended all the way to Canada and Great Britain.

After these reports were declassified, the Defense Department admitted that the tests

weren't exactly harmless, and due to the exposure to deadly chemicals and bacteria,

soldiers and civilians alike have suffered serious health ramifications.

It was in 1969 that President Richard Nixon issued an executive order to end all US offensive

biological weapons programs, and supposedly all US stockpiles were destroyed by 1972.

However, as you'l see in my upcoming videos, experimentation on human guinea pigs certainly

didn't end in 1969, nor was it limited to germ warfare.

Now, if you're someone who has watched this video all the way through and is hammering

away on your keyboard right now to make the argument that despite how unethical and brutal

these experiments in this video were, the results provided pharmaceutical companies,

physicians, and the military with information they needed—before you comment that, I'd

like to ask you something:Are you willing to volunteer yourself, your mother, your father,

or your children as test subjects for the next round of experiments?Thank you so much

for watching, internet friends.

You know I always enjoy reading your comments.

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I'll see you soon in my next video.

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Polio-like disease spreads to 31 states:116 cases illness which causes paralysis - Duration: 17:31.

Polio-like disease spreads to 31 states:116 cases illness which causes paralysis

The number of children struck down with the rare 'polio-like' acute flaccid myelitis (AFM) in the US has risen to 116, officials have confirmed.

Thirty-one states have now reported cases of the poorly understood illness, which can cause paralysis and, in rare cases, prove deadly.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is currently investigating a further 170 cases of people with tell-tale symptoms of AFM.

There has already been more than three-and-a-half times as many cases as last year, but doctors remain baffled as to what is causing the illness.

Colorado, with 15 confirmed cases, has been the worst affected state so far this year, followed closely by Texas with 14 people diagnosed with acute flaccid myelitis.

A total of 31 states have seen people – mostly children – struck down by the disease, with 19 so far unaffected.

The CDC put out its most recent figures on Tuesday, showing there have been 286 reports of people suffering from acute flaccid myelitis (AFM) in 31 states, with 116 of those cases confirmed.

More than 90 percent of people affected by the illness are under 18 and the average age of patients is four.

It is believed to be caused by a combination of viruses and children usually first show signs of a fever and a cough for three to 10 days.

But after the flu-like illness, AFM can suddenly leave people paralysed for life or even end up fatal.

AFM has been called a polio-like illness because of its resemblance to the viral infection, which affected hundreds of thousands of people in the mid-1900s.

It is thought to be unlikely the disease is contagious among people, but it could be caused by viruses which are spread easily.

The CDC last week set up a dedicated task force to try and tackle the illness by investigating its causes and working out how to treat it. Colorado has been the worst hit state, with 15 cases, followed by Texas with 14.

Following those are Washington, Minnesota, Ohio and Pennsylvania, with eight each, Illinois with seven, and New Jersey and Wisconsin with six.

There have been three confirmed cases per state in Arkansas, Alabama, Georgia and Maryland, and two each in Maine, New York City, the Carolinas, Kentucky and Iowa.

And Nevada, Arizona, New Mexico, Montana, Wyoming, Oklahoma, Missouri, Louisiana, Mississippi, Indiana, Virginia and Rhode Island have each had a single case. The remaining 19 states haven't reported any patients coming down with the disease.

There are likely to be more cases, experts say, and officials are unsure whether the risk is higher in states with more cases, or if they just have better reporting.

Doctors are encouraged to report cases of AFM but they are not required to do so. Most patients falling ill with the condition are struck down between August and October.

Though the condition remains very rare, CDC director Dr Robert Redfield, who took the job in March this year, said it is the agency's top priority. Scientists are investigating a number of causes, including viruses, environmental toxins and genetic disorders.

In previous outbreaks, a virus called EV-D68 was implicated in the development of AFM.

'We know that EV-D68 – as well as other enteroviruses – can cause limb weakness, but we don't know what's triggering AFM in these patients,' said the CDC's Dr Nancy Messonnier.

Dr Redfield said in a recent interview: 'CDC's been working very hard on this, since 2014, to try to understand causation and etiology. 'As we sit here today, we don't have understanding of the cause.

'We are, you know, continuing to strengthen our efforts, working in partnership with state and territorial health departments, and academic experts to try to figure this out.

AFM is a rare, but serious condition that affects the nervous system. Specifically it attacks the area of the spinal cord called gray matter, which causes the body's muscles and reflexes to weaken.

Symptoms often develop after a viral infection, such as enterovirus or West Nile virus, but often no clear cause is found.

Patients start off having flu-like symptoms including sneezing and coughing. This slowly turns into muscle weakness, difficulty moving the eyes and then polio-like symptoms including facial drooping and difficulty swallowing.

'If [AFM affects gray matter] lower in the spinal cord [paralysis will] be more in the legs and if it's higher up, it'll be more in the arms,' said Dr Fernando Acosta, a pediatric neurologist at Cook Children's Medical Center, in Fort Worth, Texas.

'Or if it's closer to the neck, they can't move head, neck and shoulders. We had one case of that and that was just awful.'. In the most severe cases, respiratory failure can occur when the muscles that support breathing become weak.

In rare cases, AFM can cause neurological complications that could lead to death. 'It's a pretty dramatic disease; children have a sudden onset of weakness,' said Dr Messonier of the CDC.

No specific treatment is available for AFM and interventions are generally recommended on a case-by-case basis. Children with weakness in their arms or legs may attend physical or occupational therapy.

However, physicians admit they are unaware of the long-term outcomes for those with AFM. WHO HAS BEEN AFFECTED BY AFM?.

The CDC does not track AFM in terms of its prevalence, but rather in outbreaks. The agency has confirmed 386 cases since an outbreak in Colorado in August 2014, almost all of them in children.

The CDC confirmed 33 AFM cases in 2017, 149 cases in 2016, 22 cases in 2015, and 120 cases in August to December 2014. While the pattern of AFM most resembles an infectious disease, much remains unknown about the condition.

Among the children infected is two-year-old Julia Payne from Chicago. She remained in the pediatric intensive care unit at Lurie Children's Hospital for weeks on a respirator and using a feeding tube because she was unable to swallow.

She has since been discharged and transferred to Shirley Ryan AbilityLab, a rehabilitation center where she will face several weeks of physical therapy to regain strength and movement.

In Minnesota, four-year-old Orville Young was likely the earliest confirmed case in the state, according to the Star Tribune.

Orville has been in physical therapy for the last month-and-a-half. His mobility and gait have not returned to normal, but his legs are mostly functional now. His right arm, thus far, is still paralyzed.

Fortunately many make a full or nearly full recovery of their movement, as did five-year-old Elizabeth Storrie of Willow Park, Texas.

She spent a month at Cook Children's Hospital, in Fort Worth, on IV fluids and a feeding tube until her condition improved. WHAT ARE THE IMPLICATIONS IN THE FIGHT AGAINST POLIO?.

AFM has been called a polio-like illness due to its resemblance to the viral infection that impacted hundreds of thousands, particularly between the late 1940s and early 1950s.

The CDC says symptoms 'have been most similar to complications of infection with certain viruses, including poliovirus, non-polio enteroviruses, adenoviruses, and West Nile virus'.

Poliovirus is not the cause of any of the cases, but some cases have been linked to the enteroviruses EV-A71 and EV-D68, both of which are distant relatives of polio. Some cases have also been linked to rhinovirus.

'I'm not old enough to have seen a case of polio during my time in practice, but my colleagues who have say [AFM] is similar to what they saw back then,' Dr Acosta said.

'Is this a variant? Potentially, but we don't know. In 1957, the US government approved the polio vaccine.

After a nationwide campaign to get children immunized began, the numbers began falling drastically and, in 1979, polio was declared to be eradicated in the US.

This year, Afghanistan and Pakistan are the only two countries where cases of wild poliovirus have been confirmed – largely due to poor sanitation and low levels of vaccination coverage.

However, global eradication is now at risk due to vaccine-derived poliovirus (VDPV) in five countries in Africa this year. Health experts say this could result in silent transmission of both polio and AFM, because both can lead to paralysis if left undetected.

Anti-vaxxers have blamed childhood polio vaccines for the outbreak, despite physicians saying there is no evidence to suggest this is the case. 'There is no evidence vaccines are causing this,' said Dr Acosta.

'And if we identify the agent that is causing it, the next step would be to develop a vaccine.

'The reason why you see lower rates of polio, whooping cough and other diseases is because we have vaccines that have made them very rare. HOW CAN YOU PROTECT YOURSELF?.

The CDC advises getting vaccinated against poliovirus and West Nile Virus due to both being potential causes of AFM. Health experts say this does not simply mean just staying up-to-date with vaccinations, but also minimizing exposure to mosquitoes.

Additionally, you can use warm water and soap to avoid getting sick and spreading germs. 'It's a one-in-million chance to get this so it's extremely unlikely your child will get this,' said Dr Acosta.

'Even if they have sudden onset of weakness, AFM is unlikely to have caused it. It's more likely to be a stroke. 'However, if your child develops it, bring them in and this gives them the best chance of survival.

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