Despite all the measures that the Brazilian government has put into place, in the first quarter of this year, mosquito-borne illness is up 600 percent. Source: http://harvardpublichealthreview.org/off-the-podium-why-rios-2016-olympic-games-must-not-proceed And recently, Brazil's new Health Minister, Ricardo Barros, is spinning new data claiming: "The number of Zika cases decreased by 87 percent". (Ricardo Barros is a civil engineer with no medical or public health background). Sure, that's 87 percent knocked off a 600 percent increase; which leaves us with an overall increase of 513 percent! And Barros stated: "According to a study released by the University of Cambridge (England), it is estimated that there will be less than one person infected out of all the 500,000 tourists that are expected to attend the Olympics." Study: https://elifesciences.org/content/5/e15272 Really? I finally found the study (which was largely funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation) and discovered this line: "This resulted in maps of temperature suitability for DENV transmission by either Aedes species ranging from 0 (no suitable days) to 1 (365 suitable days). These measures were then used as a proxy for temperature suitability for ZIKV transmission to humans." Got that? They are basing their conclusion on the temperature outside. Author's Note: To maintain consistency within the nomenclature referring to the Zika virus most studies use the abbreviation “ZIKV” when referring to the virus. FACT: "... it feeds on human blood, prefers breeding in plastic containers, is most active during the day, and spends most of its time indoors ... 80 percent of mosquitoes captured live indoors." Source: https://www.thestar.com/news/insight/2016/01/17/ahead-of-the-rio-olympics-a-foreign-invader-is-linked-to-an-outbreak-of-birth-defects-in-brazil.html Yeah, 80 percent of these mosquitoes live inside - they are practically domesticated. FACT: The eggs can survive when they dry out — up to 8 months. When it rains or water covers the eggs, they hatch and become adults in about a week. Source: http://blogs.cdc.gov/publichealthmatters/2016/03/zikaandwater FACT: Female mosquitoes lay several hundred eggs on the walls of water-filled containers. Eggs stick to containers like glue and remain attached until they are scrubbed off. When water covers the eggs, they hatch and become adults in about a week. Source: https://www.cdc.gov/zika/pdfs/control_mosquitoes_chikv_denv_zika.pdf FACT: Scott Weaver, director of the Institute for Human Infections and Immunity at the University of Texas Medical Branch emphasized: "Human travel was [is] probably the most important factor ... people are literally travelling halfway around the world in a matter of hours. Any Aedes aegypti that bites you has the potential to start the cycle off and running." Glaring shortcoming noted in this study: "...all but the most recent vector competence work was done with ancestral African strains of Zika virus, not those circulating in the Americas." FACT: "The African strain – the most common strain available in sample form for scientists to conduct experiments with — caused significantly less damage in the unborn mice than the Latin American strain." Source: http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v534/n7606/full/nature18296.html Clearly, the study Barros mentioned failed to consider that 500,000 tourists who will need to go "indoors" at some point (to use a bathroom, to eat, or to sleep) where 80 percent of the Aedes aegypti mosquitoes live. Furthermore, they relied on data from the far less damaging African strain of the Zika virus. Since I am insanely curious, I checked out claims about who owns the patent on the Zika virus. Sure enough, it is the Rockefeller Foundation. The virus is also marketed by two companies, LGC Standards (based in the UK) and ATCC (based in the US). Source: http://www.atcc.org/en/Products/Cells_and_Microorganisms/By_Disease__Model/Infectious_Diseases/Vector_borne/Vector-Borne_Viruses/Zika_virus_Reference_Materials/VR-84.aspx#history When I looked it up, my jaw dropped. It states: J. Casals, Rockefeller Foundation (owns the patent) Source: Blood from experimental forest sentinel rhesus monkey, Uganda, 1947 Then consider these chilling words by David Rockefeller in an address to the Trilateral Commission (June 1991): "We are grateful to the Washington Post, the New York Times, Time Magazine and other great publications whose directors have attended our meetings and respected their promises of discretion for almost 40 years .... It would have been impossible for us to develop our plan for the world if we had been subjected to the lights of publicity during those years." Wow. And fellow Canadian investigative journalist, Dan Dicks, has been trying to cover Bilderberg for over a decade but has been harassed and threatened with arrest: https://pressfortruth.ca/video-reports/bilderberg-extensive-coverage When I read this post by Global Research: http://www.globalresearch.ca/bilderberg-2011-the-rockefeller-world-order-and-the-high-priests-of-globalization/25302 the pieces started to come together. Apparently, even though there is an official list of participants, there are those who attend but are NOT listed in any official release which has included Bill Gates, Co-Chairman of Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and former Microsoft CEO. As for the UK study being largely funded by Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. I read several sources and found out: a) They own more than $23 million worth, or 500,000 Monsanto shares. b) “Monsanto has a history of blatant disregard for the interests and well being of small farmers around the world… [This] casts serious doubt on the foundation’s heavy funding of agricultural development in Africa.” ~ Agra-Watch, Community Alliance for Global Justice c) The Gates Foundation is also teaming up with the British government in raising $4 billion to fund their birth control agenda worldwide by 2020. d) The Gates Foundation has invested $11.9 million in research towards a Virus-Resistant Cassava (GMO) strain for Africa, and a Wiki leak revealed that the Department of State has virtually become an agency for promoting the private interests of the Monsanto Corporation, which Bill Gates is heavily invested in. Source: http://www.hangthebankers.com/why-is-bill-gates-investing-in-monsanto-and-gmos Next, here is research that I would trust . . . The Emergence of Zika Virus as a Global Health Security Threat: A Review and a Consensus Statement of the INDUSEM Joint working Group (JWG): http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4785754 Please note the following statements near the bottom of it (and look for these when you read other studies). Because with enough money, any study can be skewed to suit whoever is paying for it. Financial support and sponsorship: Nil. Conflicts of interest: There are no conflicts of interest. Three key quotes to keep in mind: 1) Without further knowledge of the pathophysiology involved, the true risk of ZIKV to the unborn remains difficult to quantify and remediate. 2) The risk of ZIKV adaptation to life cycles based in densely populated urban environments, coupled with human transmission/amplification viaA. aegypti and other Stegomyia subgenus mosquito vectors, certainly poses a significant (local and global) health security threat. 3) This position statement by the JWG aims to shed light on the magnitude of the ZIKV outbreak and its impact not only on current but future generations. The ultimate goal of the world public health community should be the containment and the subsequent elimination of ZIKV as a global health security threat. Wonder about what the Bilderberg connection is to Monsanto? Just watch this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CB_8cJEEFCs And, I am extremely disturbed by my findings while working on another petition: https://www.change.org/p/eric-garcetti-we-demand-a-moratorium-on-development-and-on-vagrancy-laws The criminalization of homeless people (even to the point where the City of LA has spent millions of tax dollars trying to ban sleeping in a vehicle or in a Tiny Home). Source: http://www.ctvnews.ca/autos/u-s-court-upholds-the-right-to-call-a-parked-car-home-1.1878095 How is this all connected? Follow the money. It makes zero sense that a regular citizen who built a Tiny Home for a homeless lady in his neighborhood now must wear a bulletproof vest: https://www.change.org/p/eric-garcetti-we-demand-a-moratorium-on-development-and-on-vagrancy-laws/u/16655447 Except for billions of dollars at stake, I cannot fathom why there is a push by the IOC to keep the Olympics scheduled in August and September in light of overwhelming evidence by – what is now 234 – international experts (and counting): https://rioolympicslater.org The IOC has the nerve to state: "The WHO, the IOC and Rio 2016 would never put the health of athletes or tourists that will visit the city at risk." Source: https://www.rio2016.com/en/news/why-the-rio-2016-olympic-games-will-be-completely-safe-for-athletes-participants-and-spectators-zika If that is the case, then why not solve the Zika crisis first. What's more, on June 11th, Reuters posted "Exclusive: Studies find 'super bacteria' in Rio's Olympic venues, top beaches". Source: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-olympics-rio-superbacteria-exclusive-idUSKCN0YW2E8 Reuters reported: "These bacteria are opportunistic microbes that can enter the body, lie dormant, then attack at a later date when a healthy person may fall ill for another reason." Can this get any worse? And I agree completely with Dr. Lawrence Gostin, director of the O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law at Georgetown University who made the most reasonable explanation I've read in weeks: "What is urgently needed is for the international community, led by the WHO, to declare an all-out war on the mosquito population in Rio." "That has not yet happened, mainly because it would be humiliating for Brazil to admit that it cannot do it on its own." Source: http://www.thetelegram.com/Opinion/Columnists/2016-06-04/article-4546367/Gwynne-Dyer-Zika-and-the-Olympics/1 Authors note: I cannot use italics, hyperlink, or change petition updates. Ergo, my links are not hidden. 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