Huffington Post – by Sarah Klein
Researchers have identified the cause of a Kansas farmer’s mysterious death this summer as Bourbon virus.
Thought to be transmitted by ticks, the virus “was fast-moving and severe, causing lung and kidney failure, and shock,” The New York Times reported, killing the previously healthy man after only 10 days in the hospital.
Together, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and University of Kansas Hospital researchers identified the virus as a thogotovirus, part of a larger type of viruses called orthomyxoviruses, Dana Hawkinson, M.D., an infectious disease specialist at The University of Kansas Hospital said in the video statement above.
Bourbon virus, named after Bourbon County, Kansas, where the only known patient lived, is similar to viruses seen previously in Eastern Europe, Africa and Asia, said Hawkinson, but nothing like it had ever been identified in the Western Hemisphere before.
He called the experience of working with a never-before-seen virus frustrating, as the lack of understanding of the illness left many questions unanswered for both the patient’s family and the researchers. “We don’t know the full spectrum of disease because it’s the first case,” he said. For example, no one knows whether or not the disease is usually deadly or if there could be more mild cases from which future patients could recover.
Symptoms include fever, loss of appetite, muscle aches and a general feeling of malaise. But while similar tick-borne illnesses typically are treated with antibiotics,this disease is transmitted by a virus, and therefore won’t respond to the medication. Indeed, the Kansas patient did not respond to traditional therapies after testing negative for typical tick-borne diseases at the University of Kansas Hospital, New York Daily News reported.
Lyme disease is the most common tick-borne illness in the U.S., with over 27,000 confirmed cases in 2013, the most recent year from which data is available. Cold weather typically keeps ticks and other disease-transmitting insects at bay, but from roughly April to September, Hawkinson said, be sure to protect yourself by wearing long clothes and insect repellent when you could be exposed, and to do a thorough tick check after returning home.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/12/24/bourbon-virus-tick-kansas_n_6377932.html
A new tick-borne AIDS? Another arrow in the quiver of the arsenal of weapons that can be used or blamed for future depopulation.
exactly, some lab has been busy.
if this was natural it would have died out long ago by killing it’s hosts.
I remember reading an article about how the Lyme Disease was developed in a USG lab on Plum Island and then was dumped – via ticks into New England where they watched it spread. It seems to me, and this was a couple of years ago, that the article went on to say that this Dr Mengele Nazi style lab was being moved to KANSAS!! Can anyone substantiate this information, did that lab move to new facilities in Kansas? Because I would not doubt for one moment that this is part of the sadistic, vile, evil USG bioweapon program, another part of the USG using our tax dollars to develop sinister ways to kill us….and so, it may just be getting started….
It was moved to Manhattan, Kansas. Here are some links:
http://kansasgovernor2014.wordpress.com/2013/05/01/bio-weapons-lab-plum-island-moving-to-heartland-of-kansas/
http://americanfreepress.net/?p=19390
http://kcur.org/topic/tracking-nbaf-national-bio-and-agro-defense-facility-takes-shape-kansas
This one names the doctor and speaks of his tick research:
http://www.fromthetrenchesworldreport.com/germs-gone-wild-the-horrific-secrets-of-plum-island/58202
This one is from DHS:
http://www.dhs.gov/science-and-technology/national-bio-and-agro-defense-facility
“For example, no one knows whether or not the disease is usually deadly or if there could be more mild cases from which future patients could recover.”
Someone knows.
Have you checked with Ft. Detrick yet?
one word – DUGWAY
#1Let see so this has just now turned up after 1000 years + of people living in the Kansas area.
#2 OR A BIO WEAPONS LAB THAT MOVED TO Kansas released it onto the people!!!! A lab that works with weaponizing viruses to be deployed by insects.
My pick is not the first one and a # 2 is what we are being told.
So is this the new disease of the month? The last month or two it was Ebola.