Mystery Disease linked to Missing Israeli Scientist.

studiorat

I found this and thought of you guys... Has this come up already?
I seem to recognise the Scientist's name...

The Cryptococcus gatti fungus has caused several deaths in the United States and a report in the U.S. linked its source to an Israeli lab.

http://www.haaretz.com/news/national/

No one knows how the species got to North America or how the fungus can thrive in a temperate region, experts say.

"The alarming thing is that it's occurring in this region, it's affecting healthy people, and geographically it's been expanding," said study co-author Edmond Byrnes, a graduate student at the Joseph Heitman Lab at Duke University.

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/

Media outlets across the Northwest United States began reporting on April 24 that a strange, previously unknown strain of virulent airborne fungi that has already killed at least six people in Oregon, Washington and Idaho is spreading throughout the region. The fungus, according to expert microbiologists, who have expressed alarm about the emergence of the strain, is a new genotype of Cryptococcus gatti fungi. Cryptococcus gatti is normally found in tropical and subtropical locations in India, South America, Africa and Australia. Microbiologists in the United States are reporting that the strain found here, for reasons not yet fully understood, is far deadlier than any found overseas.

http://www.globalresearch.ca

Several researchers in California also note that the Cryptococcus gatti fungus has been researched for decades, extending back to the 1950's, at the US Army's biological warfare center, Fort Detrick, in Frederick, Maryland.

http://www.globalresearch.ca

The same microbiologist, who declined to speak on the record and who recounted extensive fungus work at Fort Detrick, also stated that researchers at Israel's Institute for Biological Research, located in Ness-Ziona about 20 km from Tel Aviv, have worked with the Cryptococcus gatti fungus. They also report that mysterious Israeli-American scientist Joseph Moshe, 56 years old, may have conducted covert studies with the fungus while he was recently living in California. This report concerning Moshe is especially interesting because Moshe was briefly in the international spotlight in 2009 when he was the subject of a spectacular chase and arrest by the LA police department and SWAT team, assisted by the FBI, Secret Service, CIA, US Army and several other unidentified federal officials. That highly unusual arrest has never been fully explained to the media, and the whereabouts of Moshe has remained unknown since its occurrence.

http://www.globalresearch.ca

Israel, Missing scientists, Airborne diseases, CIA. It seems to have all the right ingredients, I'm sure the UFO's are on the way. :cool:

Yitzhak Rabin

Pretty interesting. I always found that Joseph Moshe thing weird, and there was never really any logical reason for the strange arrest. Although his whereabouts being unknown? I thought he was handed over to the Israeli embassy, could be wrong though.

Brown Bomber

Joseph Moshe and Joseph Bar Moshe are not the same person though. Its disifno

This chap
http://www.agri.gov.il/people/856.aspx

Is clearly a different person and clearly not 56.

This is the status of the arrested Joseph Moshe
Moshe, JosephThreats8/24/2010Mental StatusAirportPendingDetails

studiorat

Isn't Bar Moshe Hebrew for false moushache or something?