Diabolical Deceptions, Dengue Fever and Dirty Nuclear Politics

Richard Wilcox, PhD

“I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy.” - Tom Waits 

This article is a further investigation into a recent story I reported on which was based on a trusted Japanese source. The Japanese government may have been involved in hanky-panky by using dengue fever in order to scare the public away from gathering in Tokyo's major parks and prevent any huge anti-nuclear protests from occurring (1).

I mistakenly reported in the original article that the date of the protest to be held was September 27th, when in fact it was to be on the 23rd. This makes it even more plausible that the government was using the summer dengue to prevent any mass meetings from occurring. 

Researchers Offer Strange Answer to Anticipated Dengue Spikes Following Vaccine

Heather Callaghan

Researchers indeed continue to develop vaccines for tropical, mosquito-vectored diseases like dengue fever, which affects 50 million people per year. 

There are no commercially available vaccines for the virus - yet. But, they've run into a big problem.

Researchers watching vaccine development caution that there will be initial disease spikes with its use. There's no argument about this observation. In fact, it's admitted. 

But the explanation to ward off panic and ensure that people in other countries will take that future risk, is beyond a mental back flip.

GM mosquito trial results in Cayman prove ineffective in tackling dengue

Activist Post

GM insect company Oxitec today published results of its trials of genetically modified (GM) mosquitoes in the Cayman Islands in 2010 (1). The results were originally submitted to the journal Science in January 2011 but have now finally been published in Nature Biotechnology (1). The paper shows that Oxitec has no clear baseline for claims made in the press that it achieved an 80% reduction in the target population of mosquitoes, and that to achieve the claimed effect it significantly increased the number of adult GM mosquitoes it expected to release and also released additional GM pupae at locations spaced at 70 to 90m apart across the release site.

GM dengue mosquito - Wiki image

"This poor quality paper pours cold water on the idea that Oxitec's GM mosquitoes will be an effective way to tackle dengue" said Dr Helen Wallace, Director of GeneWatch UK. "Staff would be better employed using the well-established public health approach of removing mosquito breeding sites rather than in placing GM mosquito pupae at intervals across a site. Removing the flower pots and water containers where mosquitoes breed has the added benefit of reducing both mosquito species that spread dengue, not just one of them. It is hard to see how Oxitec can justify commercial releases of its GM mosquitoes based on such poor data."