As events unfold it becomes increasingly clear the United States will be subjected to continued terrorist attacks. While we pray for our government to stop these attacks from being carried out, there is little we can do personally to prevent them. There is, however, much we can do to protect ourselves.

Perhaps the greatest threat we face is the release of biological agents that infect and overpower the body to the point of death. Inhalation exposure to these deadly pathogens is considered the most likely way these agents will be used. In other words, the terrorist simply releases the active agent into the air and allows the wind to carry them where they may.

Anthrax bacillus is considered the most likely pathogen to be used, though there are others available, simply because it can be quickly and inexpensively mass-produced. Anthrax is odorless and colorless, so there is no immediate indication one is inhaling the airborne pathogen.

Symptoms:

The time of onset and rate of progression of disease depend to a great extent on the inhaled dose. Within 1-6 days the victim may experience tiredness, muscle aches as well as mild chest discomfort and dry cough.

After an additional 2-3 days there may be a brief improvement, followed by a rapid progression of shortness of breath, mid-chest pain, hypoxia, stridor and sweating occur. Neck swelling may be seen with chest X-Ray findings of a (characteristic) widened mediastinum. Pleural effusion and mild pneumonitis may develop.

Meningitis (hemorrhagic) is seen in up to 50 per cent of anthrax cases. Occasionally victims have seizures. Death typically occurs 24-36 hours later. Coetaneous exposure occurs through a skin lesion, not through intact skin. A small painless black lesion that ulcerates follows an incubation period of 1-5 days. There is often massive surrounding edema. Fever, chill and lymph node inflammation may also occur. Untreated, mortality is approximately 20 per cent.

Isolation:

There are as yet no reports of human-to-human transmission of anthrax by exposure to airway secretions, bodily fluids or intestinal content.

Decontamination:

Anthrax organisms do not penetrate intact skin. Aerosol exposure requires relatively large numbers of organisms to produce disease. Such exposure is not likely to occur from contaminated clothing.

Prevention:

The first line of defense is to posses a healthy, vibrant immune system. Anthrax, or any natural pathogenic agent, cannot overpower such a body. Such a body's defense system goes into an attack mode to kill and rid the body of the foreign invaders.

Sickness may occur before the body's defense system comes in to full play, but the body will eventually win out over the anthrax and defeat its spread. Compromised immune systems will likely fail to defeat an anthrax invasion of the body.

Since many people have compromised immune systems, it is absolutely vital to feed the body with foods (supplements) designed to rebuild and strengthen its defenses. This should not be an option as it has been in the past.

This is why it will be especially important to follow the eating plan and the juicing program. These are some of the most potent physical measures you can implement to optimize your health.

I am working on a vaccine program that can be administered and will provide notice on it when my research is complete. In the meantime please recognize that many are advocating essential oils and colloidal silver for anthrax.

Please understand that the CIA Biodefense microbiologist I have been in contact with does NOT recommend that. He tried them on live cultures of anthrax and they did not work.

I imagine they would be better than nothing, but my guess is that they will not help. Antibiotics like doxycyline and Cipro would be useful, but certainly impractical for the entire country to stockpile. Additionally, the microbiologist told me one would have to be on antibiotics for many months because as soon as they were stopped the spores would activate and likely kill the person.

That is where the immunization program would come into place as one's natural immune antibody protection with antibiotics were the only combination that seem to work for the monkey's this microbiologist infected with anthrax as part of his work with the CIA.

Surgical Filter Masks

People with open lesions, cuts, etc, should keep them covered from exposure to the air. Long sleeve shirts help to cover exposed arms. Gloves cover cuts on hands.

One can use the 0.1 micron surgical filter masks I identified last week to protect from inhaling the spores.

The masks only need to be used if an attack occurs. They obviously do not protect the eyes, but that is a very small risk of infection. One can use surgical tape over the mask to the skin for an even better seal. In a pinch, though any tape that provides a seal will work.

If an attack occurs the masks should be disposed of and burned as they would be highly contaminated. Fresh masks should be put on if one has traveled through a contaminated area.

One obviously would have to remove the masks to eat and drink water. This should only be done in an area that is not contaminated, such as a building that was well sealed off and had positive pressure being generated internally to prevent the spores from being sucked into the building.

Other Preparations

Those who prepared for Y2K with extra food water and back up electrical precautions are set.

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