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BIOMEDICAL TSUNAMIS Worldwide Catastrophes Caused by US Public Health Service (PHS) From: Harry P. Burchfield, PhD, 72 Riverview Terrace, Indialantic, Florida 32903, USA. E-mail: [email protected] To: President George W. Bush Date: June 2006 TABLE OF CONTENTS I. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY A. Triumph and Treachery B. Collapse of the Leprosy Vaccine Program C. Cause of Low Bacterial Yields D. Sand in the Wheels of Justice E. Fitting the Pieces Together II. THE LEPROSY TSUNAMI A. Murder of a Mardi Gras Queen B. The Theft That Crippled Multitudes C. Genocide in the Third World D. Pulverization of a Medical Milestone E. Leprosy in the Wild- Chernobyl of Microbiology F. Casualty Lists G. Reparations for Louisiana III. PRELUDE TO DISASTER-- The DDT- Malaria Tsunami A. The Lab that Rachel Carson Built B. Fall of DDT: Rise of Malaria C. A Job for the Peace Corps IV. SCIENCE FICTION – The AIDS - Cancer Debacles A. Does HIV Cause AIDS? B. Bogged Down War on Cancer - T HIRTY -three Years of Frustration C. Killing of a Concept- Lost Opportunities in Cancer and Aids Research V. COLLAPSE OF MORAL VALUES-- Poisoning the Milk of Human Kindness A. Contrasts in Moral Character B. Triumphs and Tribulations of an Angel of Mercy C. Death of Her Brainchild D. Cover-up of the Murder VI. COLLATERAL DAMAGE- Spark Plug for a New Economy 1 A. Hurricanes, Global Warming, and Peak Oil B. New Orleans-- A World Capitol Without a Country C. Proposal for Solar Power from Polar Icecaps D. The Petroleum Economy— A Fossilized Concept VII. QUALIFICATIONS AND EVIDENCE A. Qualifications B. Evidence VIII. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS IX. REFERENCES X. APPENDICES I. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Dr. Eleanor Storrs of Gulf South research Institute (GSRI) in New Iberia Louisiana initiated a multi-national program to develop a vaccine for the prevention of leprosy by growing vast numbers of the bacilli needed to produce it in nine-banded armadillos. Captain Waldemar Kirchheimer of US public health service (PHS), a former collaborator, sabotaged her program by spreading false rumors that GSRI had caused leprosy in wild armadillos by accident or design. We will show that Kirchheimer was a psychopathic liar who forged his medical credentials with the connivance of PHS. He was a risk to national security. His charges proved to be false, but PHS has refused to clear GSRI or Storrs by name of causing a leprosy zoonosis in Louisiana armadillos. The shock of his wild accusations triggered a biomedical tsunami that hurled mountainous waves of waste and frustration over India, Venezuela, and Malawi. It shook the headquarters of World Health Organization (WHO) in Geneva, and the National Institute for Medical Research (NIMR) in London. A wave of allegations with the destructive power of Katrina engulfed the laboratory in New Iberia where Storrs had started her research. Her secret of growing vast numbers of leprosy bacilli in armadillos was lost forever because of the wanton destruction of her research program. Yields of bacilli plunged catastrophically. More than 321,000 people were injected with weak and watery vaccines prepared by Burroughs Wellcome Ltd in England from armadillo tissues containing woefully low numbers of leprosy bacilli. Some were so diluted that they were transparent to the naked eye. Medical teams toiled futilely under hot tropical suns for 14 years. Vast sums of money were squandered. The work of a generation of leprologists was swept away. Leprosy research still stagnates in the backwaters of medical science. Hordes of wild armadillos with the most contagious form of human leprosy now roam freely over the highways and byways of Louisiana and Texas. They must have contracted disease from patients at the National Leprosarium at Carville. They have infected Louisiana citizens, causing 30 to 40 cases of human leprosy each year. 2 We recorded these global catastrophes in prestigious international journals (1, 2). PHS executive officers did not contest our conclusions. Instead, they hid behind the skirts of their powerful Congressional colleagues. Sen. Bill Frist (R-TN) and Rep. Dave Weldon (R-FL), both practicing physicians before being elected to Congress, aided their colleagues in PHS instead of honoring their legislative and professional obligations. They deprived a heartbroken woman scientist (Eleanor Storrs) of her constitutional right to petition congress for the redress of grievances by refusing to grant her a hearing to clear her name of slanderous charges, and restore her miraculous discovery to its full potential for fighting disease. They violated the Hippocratic oath by refusing to help 1.4 billion people who are exposed to leprosy infection. They turned their backs on the teachings of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ who bestowed special grace on leprosy victims by healing ten of them on his way to Jerusalem, and raising their Patron Saint, Lazarus, from the dead. Tragically, the leprosy tsunami is only one wave in long lines of thundering breakers that threaten to overwhelm world confidence in the integrity of American medical science. High-level crimes by PHS officers in cancer, Aids, and DDT research threaten the health of billions. The damage done by this tsunami did not stop with research on diseases. The collapse of Storrs’ laboratory dragged down with it budding programs on environmental sciences and oceanography that could have solved problems relating to global warming, hurricane damage, and the world petroleum shortage. The investment made by the Louisiana legislature and Iberia Parish to create a better Louisiana by founding GSRI to perform research in these fields was wiped out by the actions of PHS. Sen. Frist and Rep. Weldon have refused to investigate these crimes even though the consequences of them grow more ugly each day. This month a web site on this subject that I had painstakingly constructed was broken into and devastated. The home page is still there but all of the hyperlinks radiating from it to incriminating evidence were destroyed. Links to the life and works of Eleanor Storrs have vanished from Internet. Could PHS have attempted to erase the gifts of an Angel of Mercy from history? My castle has been invaded. Has the government declared total war on my civil rights by mangling my website? Is it guilty of breaking into, entering, and destroying my property? Do law enforcers sit back and laugh at our sorrows? I could repair this website or close it but it is more instructive to do neither. I will leave it in shambles, so that the entire world can see what American justice is really like by entering the virtual funeral parlor of democracy at http://pandoras-box.org/ to tinker with the broken links. PHS may choose to let this crippled website linger on as a warning to other whistle blowers, or blast it out of existence altogether. Only the shadowy men who pull the strings that control Frist and Weldon know what atrocities will come next. I beseech President Bush to order the Department of Justice to make a full- scale investigation of this rape of civil rights in order to protect the health of people of all 3 nations, the lives and property of citizens of Louisiana, and the inalienable right of Eleanor Storrs to a fair hearing so that she can redeem her miraculous discovery for the glory of God and healing of humanity. A. Triumph and Treachery The seeds of this tsunami were sown in 1974 when Dr. Eleanor Storrs of Gulf South Research Institute discovered that armadillos could produce vast numbers of leprosy bacilli. According to a definitive article in the journal Vaccine (3) The development of a possible anti-Mycobacterium leprae (leprosy) vaccine has been advanced by the isolation of organisms from the infected tissues of the nine-banded armadillo, Dasypus novemcinctus . The author of this paper made it abundantly clear that 125,000 doses of vaccine could be prepared from one infected armadillo. Storrs was the first and last person in the world to achieve this production level. She knew at once that her discovery made it possible to eradicate a crippling disease that has plagued mankind since the days when God struck Miriam with leprosy during the flight of the Children of Israel from Egypt. Storrs’ great humanitarian dream collapsed when Capt. Waldemar F. Kirchheimer and his associates at the PHS Hospital at Carville LA forced closing of her laboratory by spreading false rumors that she had let experimentally-infected armadillos escape or had otherwise contaminated the environment with leprosy bacilli (2). These charges have been disproved beyond a shadow of a doubt. Banishment of Storrs from leprosy research gave rise to a catastrophic decline in bacterial yields (1). Productivity remains at this low level as attested to in a web site sponsored by National Institutes of Health (NIH) (4). PHS, Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), and Congress have refused to take steps to restore the productivity of armadillos in order to protect the reputation of Capt. Kirchheimer and other PHS officers who caused this decline and consequent failure of a multinational vaccine program. In November of 1974, WHO officials began the most ambitious attempt ever made to develop and test a leprosy vaccine. It was based on Storrs’ discovery. They planned to evaluate it in 470,000 people on three continents. This number was later reduced to 321,000. The program lasted for 24 years from the time that WHO began laboratory work until the last people vaccinated were examined for symptoms of leprosy. The best minds in leprology, immunology, and epidemiology were mobilized to achieve this goal. A World Tissue Bank was established in London to receive and process armadillo tissues. An Immunology of Leprosy (IMMLEP) Committee was established in Geneva to guide the program.