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IMMORTAL HELA CELLS AND VIRAL VOODOO CELLS IMMORTAL HELA VIRAL VOODOO AND Cancer cells taken from Henrietta Lacks nearly 6o years ago and distributed to cancer and vaccine laboratories around the world have contaminated hundreds of human tissue cell culture lines and ruined decades of experimental research at enormous cost. The new microbiology of the human body ne of the most remarkable recent discoveries about the human body is that most of our cells are not human cells, but germ cells. Unbelievably, there are 10 times as many bacterial cells in the body as there are human cells. In addition, much of our DNA is composed of viral remnants, as reported by New Scientist writer Frank Ryan in "I, virus: Why you're only half human" (29 January 2010). In health, the relationship between microbes and the body is symbiotic (that is, microbial and human cells benignly co-existing for the benefit of both). However, when the delicate balance between microbes and man becomes disturbed, illness may result. There is also growing evidence that the germs we carry may be implicated in cancer and chronic diseases. Despite all this new research, most physicians don't believe that symbiotic bacteria play any role in the development of chronic disease and cancer. What has all this to do with cancer and vaccine research conducted over the last half-century? The answer is a series of questions. Could cancer virus and vaccine experimentation, which utilises live cells of human and animal origin, be spreading viruses and bacteria between various species? Could such experimentation be related to new, emerging diseases and viruses that are erupting in man? Or to the increasing concern and controversy over vaccine-induced human illness? Or to contamination with "HeLa" (pronounced "hee-lah") cells, the widely used experimental cancer cells that grow in cancer and vaccine laboratories like weeds? The "witch's brew" origin of "immortal" HeLa cells The history of human tissue cell culture began with Henrietta Lacks, a young black woman from Baltimore who died in 1951 from a highly malignant cervical cancer. Despite radiation and surgery, her tumour spread rapidly. Within eight months she was dead, at age thirty-one. But part o Henrietta's cancer remained alive. A few pieces of her tumour were taken during surgery and subsequently were donated to a laboratory specialising in tissue cell culture. In those days, this was a frustrating business. Mos' attempts to grow human cells outside the body failed. Rarely, a few cells would thrive for a while and then die off. Henrietta’s cells were kept alive by being fed with a concoction more like a “witch's brew" than a lab recipe for cell culture. Nevertheless, the success o' the recipe heralded a new age of modern virology. As chronicled by Michae! Gold in A Conspiracy of Cells (1986), the laboratory concoction consisted of: . Blood from a human placenta. (The placenta, which nurtures the developing foetus, contains powerful hormones and a host of viruses and bacteria as yet not fully investigated.) 2. Beef cattle embryo extract (the ground-up remains of a three-week-old unborn cattle embryo). Email: alancantwell@sbcglobal.net Website: http://www.ariesrisingpress.com APRIL - MAY 2010 NEXUS « 25 www.nexusmagazine.com