- Before and during World War II, at the infamous Camp
731 in Manchuria, the Japanese military contaminated prisoners of war
with certain disease agents.
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- They also established a research camp in New Guinea
in 1942. There they experimented upon the Fore Indian tribe and
inoculated them with a minced-up version of the brains of diseased
sheep containing the visna virus which causes "mad cow disease" or
Creutzfeldt÷Jakob disease.
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- About five or six years later, after the Japanese
had been driven out, the poor people of the Fore tribe developed what
they called kuru, which was their word for "wasting", and they began
to shake, lose their appetites and die. The autopsies revealed that
their brains had literally turned to mush. They had contracted "mad
cow disease" from the Japanese experiments.
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- When World War II ended, Dr Ishii Shiro÷the medical
doctor who was commissioned as a General in the Japanese Army so he
could take command of Japanâs biological warfare development, testing
and deployment÷was captured. He was given the choice of a job with the
United States Army or execution as a war criminal. Not surprisingly,
Dr Ishii Shiro chose to work with the US military to demonstrate how
the Japanese had created mad cow disease in the Fore Indian
tribe.
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- In 1957, when the disease was beginning to blossom
in full among the Fore people, Dr Carleton
<http://mail.yahoo.com/config/login?/gajdusek.html>Gajdusek of
the US National Institutes of Health headed to New Guinea to determine
how the minced-up brains of the visna-infected sheep affected them. He
spent a couple of years there, studying the Fore people, and wrote an
extensive report. He won the Nobel Prize for "discovering" kuru
disease in the Fore tribe.
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