U.S. Army Quietly Developing Hantavirus Vaccines and Gene Therapies

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This article originally appeared on Focal Points and was republished with permission.

Guest post by Nicolas Hulscher, MPH

As a cruise ship outbreak unfolds, the U.S. Army’s “needle-free” DNA gene therapy platforms come into focus.

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While the mass media breathlessly covers the MV Hondius — a Dutch-flagged expedition ship now quarantined off Cape Verde with multiple confirmed hantavirus cases — few are aware that there are currently 13 documented hantavirus vaccine and gene therapy programs in active development:

  • 6 DNA “vaccines” (US Army / USAMRIID) — many of them “needle-free” jet-injector versions

  • 3 mRNA “vaccines” (Moderna + Korea University, Chinese research team, VIDO Canada)

  • 2 viral vector “vaccines” (UK institutions + VIDO Canada)

  • 1 inactivated vaccine (Hantavax — already licensed and used in South Korea)

  • 1 protein subunit vaccine (VIDO Canada)

U.S. Army Quietly Developing Hantavirus Vaccines and Gene Therapies

The US Army hantavirus DNA “vaccines” are not vaccines. They are literally plasmid DNA gene-therapies. Each one contains lab-made circular DNA (plasmids) carrying the hantavirus M-segment genes that code for the virus’s surface glycoproteins (Gn and Gc). When injected (often with a needle-free jet injector or electroporation device), your own cells absorb the DNA, read it like a blueprint, and start manufacturing the pathogenic hantavirus proteins themselves.

Needless to say, I will NOT be lining up for experimental military-grade gene therapy the Army has been tinkering with for over 20 years.

I’d rather take my chances with the natural red algae protein Griffithsin:

U.S. Army Quietly Developing Hantavirus Vaccines and Gene Therapies

The cruise ship situation should NOT become a pandemic. However, with major World Health Organization involvement, mass media claiming potentially infected passengers have now traveled to multiple countries, and the pre-existing 13-vaccine pipeline, the early stages are being set for hantavirus as the next plandemic operation.

U.S. Army Quietly Developing Hantavirus Vaccines and Gene Therapies

Perhaps the hantavirus situation is being pushed hard because the WHO’s pandemic treaty negotiations hit a major roadblock just 5 days ago. Member states still can’t agree on the Pathogen Access and Benefit-Sharing (PABS) annex, meaning the pandemic treaty can’t come into effect. This clearly angered WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, prompting him to warn the next pandemic was “a matter of when, not if.”

U.S. Army Quietly Developing Hantavirus Vaccines and Gene Therapies

We will continue following these developments closely.

Nicolas Hulscher, MPH

Epidemiologist and Foundation Administrator, McCullough Foundation

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