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Influenza

Animal Activists warn; ’12 Monkeys’ is happening now!

08 January 2023 (23:21-UTC-07 Tango 06) 18 Dey 1401/15 Jumada t-Tania 1444/17 Xin-Chou 4720/08 январь 2023 года

“…melioidosis is considered a high-priority potential biological threat agent; its close relative Burkholderia mallei was used as a bioweapon during World War I.  Research on this pathogen requires high-containment laboratories (biosafety level 3, or BSL-3). There is no vaccine, and treatment with antibiotics is lengthy and difficult because of the bacterium’s inherent antibiotic resistance—it is ‘impervious to all but a few antibiotics.'”–Melioidosis Modeling: Research to Support Countermeasures for a Tricky Pathogen, U.S. Food and Drug Administration

The bacteria is called Burkholderia Pseudomallei, it causes something called Melioidosis (aka Whitmore’s Disease) in both animals and humans.  Up until now, it was mainly found in northern Australia and South East Asia.

The American Association for Laboratory Animal Science, along with the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), are claiming that six cases have popped-up in the United States as a result of monkeys being imported from the South East Asian country of Cambodia: “…animals infected with B. pseudomallei may appear healthy for months to years before showing signs of illness, during which time they can shed the organism into the environment. Melioidosis presents diagnostic challenges because it causes nonspecific clinical signs, serologic screening can produce unreliable results, and culture isolates are often misidentified on rapid commercial testing systems. Here, we present a case of melioidosis in a cynomolgus macaque (Macaca fascicularis) that developed a subcutaneous abscess after importation from Cambodia to the United States.”–Melioidosis in Cynomolgus Macaques ( Macaca Fascicularis ) Imported to the United States from Cambodia

The monkeys, specifically Macaques, have been imported since 2018 (what timing).  On 26OCT2021, the CDC confirmed that Burkholderia Pseudomallei was found in an aromatherapy spray that was sold across several U.S. states, and connected to cases of human Melioidosis in Georgia, Kansas, Minnesota and Texas.

Burkholderia Pseudomallei ( aka B-Pseudomallei, or Pseudomonas Pseudomallei) is a bacteria found in soil or water.  Only in 2006 did scientist begin to understand the virulence of the Melioidosis disease it causes:  “…and the study of host–pathogen interactions has shed some light on pathogenic mechanisms, but many key questions await investigation…”-Melioidosis: insights into the pathogenicity of Burkholderia pseudomallei

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Technology

Need a new head? Doctor claims he can do it, will prove it using monkeys!

15 June 2015 (14:53 UTC-07 Tango 01)/25 Kordad 1394/27 Sha’ban 1436/29 Ren-Wu (4th month) 4713

“It’s very complicated. You have your own head but another’s body, so who are you and who is your family? We don’t know what will happen. But the fact humans ‘can’ do the surgical procedure in the future does not mean they ‘should’ do it.”–Wang Yifang,  Institute of Medical Humanities at Peking University

A doctor claims he has successfully transplanted heads on mice, and is preparing to do it with monkeys!

Ren Xiaoping, at Harbin Medical University in China, says he and his team have successfully transplanted 1-thousand mice heads, since 2013.  But he admits they didn’t live very long afterwards.  Basically the real problem lies with the body rejecting the new head: “How to reconnect the donor and recipient spinal cords, how to keep the brain alive during the transfer and how to prevent the body from rejecting the head are all technical difficulties we need to overcome.”

The chinese are not the first to try and transplant heads.  In 1970, U.S. doctor Robert J. White tried it on a monkey, and it worked for a few days, until the body rejected it and died.

Then there’s Italian doctor Sergio Canavero who says he will try the first human head transplant in 2017, on a Russian man.  

Jiang Jinsong, with the Institute of Science, Technology and Society of Tsinghua University, blasted the attempts to transplant heads because the experiment “…needs countless head transplants on animals…..it’s unnecessary and cruel.”