{"id":74801,"date":"2016-06-13T12:00:51","date_gmt":"2016-06-13T11:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=74801"},"modified":"2016-06-07T16:02:40","modified_gmt":"2016-06-07T15:02:40","slug":"who-owns-the-zika-virus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2016\/06\/who-owns-the-zika-virus\/","title":{"rendered":"Who Owns the Zika Virus?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"lab<\/a>5 Jun 2016 – The World Health Organization (WHO) declared the Zika virus a global health emergency on February 1st, 2016 without providing much detail on the disease. So here are some facts until we receive more information:<\/em><\/p>\n

This sexually-transmitted virus<\/a> has been around for 69 years and is marketed by two companies: LGC Standards (headquartered in the UK) and ATCC (headquartered in the US).<\/p>\n

The LGC Group <\/a>is:<\/p>\n

\u201c\u2026the UK\u2019s designated National Measurement Institute for chemical and bioanalytical measurements and an international leader in the laboratory services, measurement standards, reference materials, genomics and proficiency testing marketplaces.\u201d<\/p>\n

One of its branches, LGC Standards,<\/a> is:<\/p>\n

\u201c\u2026a leading global producer and distributor of reference materials and proficiency testing schemes. Headquartered in Teddington, Middlesex, UK, LGC Standards has a network of dedicated sales offices extending across 20 countries in 5 continents and more than 30 years experience in the distribution of reference materials. These high quality products and services are essential for accurate analytical measurement and quality control, ensuring sound decisions are made based on reliable data. We have an unparalleled breadth of ISO Guide 34 accredited reference material production in facilities at 4 sites across the UK, the US and Germany.\u201d<\/p>\n

LGC Standards entered into a partnership with ATCC<\/a>, of which the latter is:<\/p>\n

\u201c\u2026the premier global biological materials resource and standards organization whose mission focuses on the acquisition, authentication, production, preservation, development, and distribution of standard reference microorganisms, cell lines, and other materials. While maintaining traditional collection materials, ATCC develops high quality products, standards, and services to support scientific research and breakthroughs that improve the health of global populations.\u201d<\/p>\n

This \u201cATCC-LGC Partnership<\/a>\u201d is designed to facilitate:<\/p>\n

\u201c\u2026the distribution of ATCC cultures and bioproducts to life science researchers throughout Europe, Africa, and India and […] to make access to the important resources of ATCC more easily accessible to the European, African, and Indian scientific communities through local stock holding of more than 5,000 individual culture items supported by our local office network delivering the highest levels of customer service and technical support.\u201d<\/p>\n

And who owns the patent on the virus? The Rockefeller Foundation!<\/p>\n

\"Source:<\/a><\/p>\n

Source: http:\/\/www.lgcstandards-atcc.org\/products\/all\/VR-84.aspx?geo_country=es#history<\/a><\/p>\n

Why has the issue of patent ownership of the Zika virus not been the object of media coverage?<\/p>\n

Lest we forget the words of David Rockefeller in\u00a0an address to a Trilateral Commission meeting in June of 1991:<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are grateful to the Washington Post, the New York Times, Time Magazine and other great publications whose directors have attended our meetings and respected their promises of discretion for almost 40 years. \u2026 It would have been impossible for us to develop our plan for the world if we had been subjected to the lights of publicity during those years. But, the world is more sophisticated and prepared to march towards a world government. The supernational sovereignty of an intellectual elite and world bankers is surely preferable to the national\u00a0auto-determination\u00a0practiced in past centuries.\u201d<\/p>\n

Is the ownership of the Zika Virus by the Rockefeller Foundation part of that agenda of \u201csupernational sovereignty [dominated] by an intellectual elite and world bankers\u2026\u201d?<\/p>\n

Of significance, the Zika virus is a commodity which can be purchased online from the ATCC-LGC for 599 euros, with royalties accruing to the Rockefeller Foundation.<\/p>\n

\"atcc<\/a><\/p>\n

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First published in February 2016, this incisive article by Guillaume Kress is of extreme relevance in relation to unfolding events in Brazil.<\/em><\/p>\n

Copyright \u00a9 Guillaume Kress<\/a>, Global Research, 2016<\/em><\/p>\n

Go to Original \u2013 globalresearch.ca<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

5 Jun 2016 – This sexually-transmitted virus has been around for 69 years and is marketed by two companies: LGC Standards (headquartered in the UK) and ATCC (headquartered in the US). And who owns the patent on the virus? The Rockefeller Foundation!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74801","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74801"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74801\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}