Submitted by a reader:
Dr Adu-Bobie, 31, an expert on meningococcal vaccines, contracted meningococcal septicaemia within days of working at New Zealand’s ESR labs.
The Victim: Dr Jeannette Adu-Bobie, an expert on meningococcal vaccines, contracted meningitis while working in NZ govt. Wellington lab. and had both legs, left arm and the digits of her right hand amputated.
A black scientist, was she the perfect “guinea pig” for testing a deadly strain of meningococcal disease that only affects “colored” people?
How Does the System Operate?
First they deny any wrongdoing. Then, innocently, they acknowledge something may have gone wrong, since no one would ever suspect that it was [at worst] anything other than an “unfortunate” accident that could happen to any research scientist [sic.] But all along they have collected data worth billions of dollars!
The “bad cop” act: The Crown Research Institute denied everything!
In 2005 ESR (a Crown Research Institute wholly owned by the New Zealand Government) said they found nothing to suggest Dr Adu-Bobie was more likely to have contracted the disease in the lab than in the wider community. “There is no compelling evidence that this infection was contracted anywhere else,” the shameless occupational health chief adviser Geraint Emrys wrote in the report.
The “good cop” act: NZ govt. made a pointless acknowledgment, 3 years later.
“I regret the failure of the original investigation to reach what now appears a reasonable conclusion and apologise for any distress this may have caused.” Said New Zealand Government’s Labor Department spokesperson.
[Note: Formed in 1992, ESR (Institute of Environmental Science & Research Limited) is one of nine Crown Research Institutes. It is a limited liability company, wholly owned by the New Zealand Government. Source: http://www.esr.cri.nz/aboutus/Pages/default.aspx]
The three-year good cop, bad cop drama took its toll
Meanwhile, Dr Adu-Bobie’s lawyer, John Miller, [quite innocently] declared her ACC [NZ accident compensation scheme, another Crown entity!] claim had now been accepted. She would receive NZ$117,000 (~ $85,000).
For Fu*k Sake Mr Lawyer
$85,000 dollars? Is that how much a black scientist’s life is worth in New Zealand? Shame on you and the justice [sic] system you serve!
How many people affected by meningococcal disease in New Zealand?
According to New Zealand government: “Yearly cases of meningococcal disease have been decreasing since the high rates of the 1990s. In 2004, there were 342 cases notified, in 2005 228 cases, in 2006 160 cases …”
[Source: http://www.moh.govt.nz/moh.nsf/indexmh/meningococcal-disease-faq#howmany - accessed August 4, 2008.]
How many people in New Zealand contracted meningococcal septicaemia in 2005?
Err … The actual figures are not available. Probably just one: Dr Adu-Bobie
“ESR’s own estimates put the risk of a woman in her 30s contracting meningococcal disease in the community at 3 per 100,000. … In an application for a clinical trial in New Zealand, Chiron said lab workers handling meningococcal B bacteria were at “great occupational risk” of the disease — estimated at 500 times greater than other people of the same age. … At the time Ms Adu-Bobie was infected, in late March, there were four other cases of the disease in the Wellington region. But tests later showed none of the other cases were the epidemic strain of meningococcal B that she contracted.” [Source: Dominion Post]
DR Adu-Bobie’s family: It’s more than just a coincidence, when a scientist is struck down by the very disease she is researching!
The Fact
New Zealand has been producing chemical and biological weapons of mass destruction since at least the end of WWII. One of the well-documented cases is the manufacture of substantial quantities of the deadly defoliant Agent Orange between 1960 and 1987, which was subsequently used for the destruction of Vietnamese forests and mass murder of the North Vietnamese.
A Warning to Maori?
Watch out! “80 out of every 100 cases of meningococcal disease occur in babies, children and young people aged 0-19 years.” Read between the lines! “Pacific peoples and Māori contract meningococcal disease at higher rates than other New Zealanders and are affected at four times the rate of other New Zealanders.” Something may be cooking!
[Source: http://www.moh.govt.nz/moh.nsf/indexmh/meningococcal-disease-faq#who - accessed August 4, 2008.]
ESR Board of Directors
Who are these despicable characters?
Q. How much is the Life of a black scientist worth in New Zealand?
A. 117,000 worthless NZ dollars!
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- $117,000 awarded to scientist infected by meningococcal disease
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This is not about targeting BLACK scientists. This type of irresponsiblity is occurring all over the world. Biotech workers, white, black, red and yellow colored people have no rights. There are no laws regulating the use of these dangerous agents and the companies deny all wrong doing. The public better wake up. New emerging diseases are being created in laboratories around the world…all in the name of research or biodefense.
This is not against black peoople. It is public health and safety issue to everyone. The scientific community has not an ounce of integrity left. They turn their backs on co-workers to save their own hide. The scientific community does not want the public to be informed about the dangers they are creating in the labs so they deny everything.
This poor women (Dr. Audue-Bobie) suffered so much. And what the public should note is that it could be your child next who suffers. Research labs (especially privately run) are slopy and not using proper biocontainment and are not training their scientists properly. No risk assessments are being adequately performed. There are no laws to support scientists who have been exposed and harmed.
But don’t bring a race issue into this. This is a public health and safety issue for everyone.
Comment by watchdogonscience — August 6, 2008 @ 10:02 pm
This comment was submitted by the author of the original post.
You’ve made a general case about the so-called “biodefense” industry. Unfortunately, despite its [general] validity, your argument serves to obfuscate the truth about the New Zealand incident, which is a special case. The truth is that
i) New Zealand has been manufacturing chemical and biological weapons of mass destruction since at least WWII. These weapons have been used against the non-white races. The use of Agent Orange manufactured in New Zealand to commit genocide against the Vietnamese population is well documented.
ii) ESR, the New Zealand lab. where the incident occurred is a Crown Research Institute fully owned by New Zealand govt. [It’s NOT a privately-run lab.]
iii) The New Zealand establishment has a “Maori problem,” which is not prepared to resolve by peaceful means. The NZ establishment has previously attempted to wipe out Maori.
iv) Dr Adu-Bobie was the only research scientist at the ESR New Zealand govt. lab. who contracted meningococcal septicaemia. This was possibly because she was unwittingly working on, or was intentionally exposed to, an “epidemic strain of meningococcal B” which only affects colored people.
Do you know of any other cases that ought to be exposed?
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Dear Te2ataria
With the sequencing of the human genome and with our power and sophistication of genetic technologies, I understand your concern. We have now entered into an “age of biology” were, unfortunately, it may be possible to create and design microorganisms or viruses to target individuals or even populations. The good news, however, is that these technologies appear to be in the initial phase of development. In so being, it is not impossible, but highly unlikely that ESR had a “strain of meningococcal B which only affects colored people” as you hypothesize.
As what I have read in the case of Dr. Adu-Bobie, it appears that her fellow researchers used microbial infected cells outside proper biocontainment. Therefore, “sloppy laboratory practices” is the most plausible scenario of how she became exposed to the biological agent. Whether this “sloppy lab practice was intentional or just plain negligence is an entirely different question. Even if “intentional exposure” was a suspected scenario, it is one which I imagine we will never be able to uncover. So, like it or not, the issue is moot.
But what is important, is the cover-up and treatment that Dr. Adu-Bobie had to endure.
As with the poor treatment toward Dr. Adu-Bobie, presently scientists in all parts of the world are being denied freedom of speech regarding the public health and safety of dangerous biological technologies. Scientists are being terminated without any legal recourse, made to look like trouble-makers and are silenced without adequate media attention or government oversight.
In addition, (and most alarmingly unethical), biotech workers are being denied the right to know the true identity of the biological agent to which they were exposed even if it is necessary for their healthcare. For example, in 2006, OSHA (The Occupational Safety and Health Agency in the United States) ruled that trade secrets supersede a biotech worker’s right to biological exposure records which were necessary for healthcare.
These policies leave biotech workers ill and abandoned, silenced and most importantly, “kept away from the public’s eye”. This of course ensures that the “biotech golden egg” is left untainted. It continues the façade that biotechnology is well regulated and completely safe. It continues to allow public dollars and investment funding to flow into biotechnology without any responsibility toward the health and welfare of workers or the public at large. And now with the power and sophistication of genetic technologies and the ease of sequencing human genomes, the threat is even greater to develop and use biotechnologies against humanity.
Now is time for the public to DEMAND international discussion on these issues and DEMAND international laws providing safety regulations and rights to biotech workers.
Dr. Adu-Bobie has an opportunity to help us all. She should continue to speak out about what has happened to her. But in doing so, we must not make her case a racial issue. It will discredit her and will not further the cause toward solving this terrible problem and preventing another tragedy like the one she has endured.
I assure you, despite what has occurred in Dr. Adu-Bobie’s case, the ill treatment and lack of rights toward scientists is not a racial issue. It is a public health and safety threat to the entire international community.
P.S. Thank you for the clarification that ESR is a government run lab. I thought it was a private company. Do you know if Dr. Adu-Bobie has a website? How can one contact her? Watchdogonscience@comcast.net
Comment by Watchdogonscience — September 14, 2008 @ 9:30 pm
“… the ill treatment and lack of rights toward scientists is not a racial issue.”
The statement, while true in general, doesn’t apply to New Zealand, a special case. New Zealand social structure operates like an apartheid system. [Please see numerous entries on this blog testifying to the fact.]The scientific community in New Zealand is a subsystem of its social structure.
“Do you know if Dr. Adu-Bobie has a website? How can one contact her?”
Have searched around, but unfortunately drawn a blank.
Comment by te2ataria — September 15, 2008 @ 3:01 am
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