National Bio and Agro Defense Facility

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National Bio and Agro Defense Facility

Postby undead » Fri Sep 17, 2021 12:08 am

Is there a thread about this? It is opening next month and they are bringing all the various stuff from Plum Island there over the next 2 years. Check out what's on the menu:

The following diseases have currently been defined by U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) mission requirements for study at the National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility (NBAF):

Foot and Mouth Disease (FMD). Viral disease of domestic and wild cloven-hoofed animals; acute disease characterized by fever, lameness, and vesicular lesions on the feet, tongue, mouth and teats; FMD is considered to be one of the most contagious, infectious diseases known; cost estimates of an introduction of FMD in the U.S. are more than $37 billion.

Classical Swine Fever (CSF). Wild and domestic swine are the only known natural reservoir; widespread throughout the world and has the potential to cause devastating epidemics, particularly in countries free of the disease; any outbreak of CSF would have serious consequences for domestic and international trade of swine and swine products; improved countermeasures are needed.

African Swine Fever (ASF). Infected animals have high mortality rates; effective countermeasures are not available for infected animals; no vaccines are available to prevent infection; no treatment exists for ASF.

Rift Valley Fever (RVF). Virus affects human beings and cloven-hoofed animals (sheep, goats, cattle, camels, buffalo and deer); suitable countermeasures to respond in the U.S. do not exist; risk for establishment of endemic disease; ranked as a major disease of concern with USDA, DHS, and other stakeholders.

Crimean-Congo Hemorrhagic Fever (CCHF). Caused by a tick-borne virus in the family Bunyaviridae, genus Nairovirus; first described in Crimea in 1944; later recognized in Congo in 1969 causing lethal hemorrhagic fever in humans; disease has since been described in Eastern Europe, particularly in the former Soviet Union, throughout the Mediterranean, in northwestern China, central Asia, southern Europe, Africa, the Middle East, and the Indian subcontinent; though humans are the main host affected by this virus, production animals (cattle, sheep, etc) are the main amplifiers; currently no countermeasures exist for humans or animals; disease is of high priority for the DoD and deployed soldiers.

Japanese Encephalitis (JE) Virus. Similar to St. Louis encephalitis virus; JE virus is amplified in the blood of domestic pigs and wild birds; the virus can infect humans, most domestic animals, birds, bats, snakes and frogs.

Nipah Virus. Virus was discovered in 1999; causes disease in swine and in humans through contact with infectious animals; mode of transmission between animals and from animals to humans is uncertain (appears to require close contact with infected tissues or body fluids); caused respiratory disease and encephalitis in people in Malaysia and Singapore; no drug therapies have yet been proven to be effective in treating Nipah infection; no countermeasures exist.


This is a major bummer, too bad we couldn't just skip doing this. It would be so much easier to just not go and collect lethal pathogens from the far corners of the planet and bring them to Kansas and mass produce them in a giant pathogen prison. But I guess, uh, the farm animals from those places might swim across the ocean and invade the United States...? There's a wizard of Oz joke in there somewhere. I think the most exciting one is the tick borne ebola, but the Nipah virus already had such a great premier that the next season is set to be like Godfather 2.

Meanwhile, the Lyme disease epidemic will continue to be ignored, with patients gaslighted and denied treatment. No accurate testing will be developed. I wonder why they aren't developing covid drugs and testing them on animals in there? Oh wait, we have prisons for that, and also lots of willing non prisoners too.

I am not really in tune with a lot of media, does anyone talk about this happening? Now that the lab leak meme is mainstream, how long till the whole country flips out about this? Where is Jesse Ventura and his crew of James Bond agents?
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