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Christine Massey FOIs's avatar

"V." has kindly found and sent the 1933 study cited by Kelser; see pg 767 in the journal here - it takes a long time to download, so also see the easier link on my website below:

https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.b2954946&seq=715&q1=kelser

https://www.fluoridefreepeel.ca/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/1933-Kelser-equine-encephalitis-study.pdf

It is 4.5 vague pages in length, described as a "brief summary" promising a full, detailed treatise at a later date.

In it, "Major R. A. Kelser, V. C., U. S. Army, Army Medical School, Army Medical Center" made no mention whatsoever of controls and gave no description whatsoever of the living conditions for the animals.

According to Kelser, the Chief of the Division of Pathology, U. S. Bureau of Animal Industry obtained something from a horse with encephalomyelitis, labelled it "the virus" and gave it to the researchers.

The Army Medical School supplied mosquitoes (Aedes aegypti) that had been kept under "laboratory conditions" for the previous ~7 years.

The researchers "artificially inoculated" (those are Kelser's words on p 771) 2 guinea pigs intracutaneously with the so-called "virus", and a third guinea pig both intracutaneously and intracerebrally.

Over the next week, the researchers allowed hundreds of mosquitoes to feed on the "artificially inoculated" guinea pigs.

By the 5th day, the guinea pig that had been "artificially inoculated" intracutaneously and intracerebrally was dead; 2 days later the other guinea pigs were also dead.

The searchers then killed 2 mosquitoes that had fed on the tortured guinea pigs, ground them up with some physiological saline solution and injected those foreign proteins etc. intracutaneously into another guinea pig (which had not previously been "artificially inoculated"). It died of encephalomyelitis a little over a week later.

The searchers then gave 48 of the mosquitoes, which by this point hadn't eaten for 6 days, another guinea pig to feed on and it too died of encephalomyelitis 8 days later.

After another 6 days without feeding, the researchers gave these same mosquitoes another guinea pig to feed on. It died of encephalomyelitis 9 days later.

After another 6 days without feeding, the researchers gave these same mosquitoes another 2 guinea pigs to feed on and they both died with encephalomyelitis 6 days later.

The researchers then gave another batch of hungry mosquitoes (that had also previously fed on the "artificially inoculated" and now-dead guinea pigs) a live guinea pig to feed on and it died with encephalomyelitis 6 days later.

The researchers then took some of that guinea pig's brain, emulsified it and "artificially inoculated" it intracutaneously into 2 other guinea pigs, which both died with encephalomyelitis 7 days later.

And so on... until the researchers obtained a horse. They exposed the horse to 7 groups of hungry mosquitoes over a 16 day period. It developed "the classical symptoms of encephalomyelitis" and died within a month after the exposures began.

This is not rigorous or logical or scientific evidence of anything.

Kelser's "brief summary" does not mention any controls having been implemented and it does describe unnatural, invalid exposure routes.

It does not demonstrate that equine encephalomyelitis spreads in nature, and it most certainly did not identify any specific potential causal agent... let alone a submicroscopic, replication-competent intracellular obligate parasite (a "virus").

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Jeff burt's avatar

I’ll forward these recent FOIA communications to “my representatives” in government. I always follow up with a phone call to explain the issue, and pleased to say the local reps are usually willing to listen. Most of the staffers are completely unaware of the “virus debate” but seem interested and curious, particularly about the FOIA responses. Thanks Christine.

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