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Dear Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director General of WHO,
I am writing to you as a reporter, whom your organization recognizes as media, to ask you to stop your planned actions to spread the Hantavirus from the Cruise ship anchored off Tenerife immediately.
Please see the attachments forwarded in the email below. These emails from WHO show WHO s media team sending me updates on covid as a member of the media.
To clarify, I am a science reporter specializing in infectious diseases who WHO recognizes as accurate and fact based.
When I ask you to stop spreading Hantavirus, then I am doing so on the basis of facts, science and data as discussed below.
Now, you were, yourself, a key figure in the response to the Ebola crisis in West Africa in 2014, 2015 and so you must know that Ebola was spread using the very methods you are now proposing to handle Hantavirus.
It is prohibited and against the law for you to spread a deadly disease deliberately.
Your measures at WHO must be formulated based on science and data, but your measures ignore, sideline and even collide with science and data, including from the Ebola outbreak.
Let me summarize your plan briefly, before I explain why your measures will spread the disease on the basis of the well known paths of transmission of Ebola as well as on the basis of faulty diagnostic tools.
Briefly stated, your plan involves evacuating the passengers of the MV Hondius, the cruise ship linked to a hantavirus outbreak that has killed three people, after it docks in the Canary Islands on Sunday week and those with symptoms will be quarantined.
Background
As with Ebola, there is an (alleged) outbreak on a cruise ship currently at sea of a highly lethal virus with a reported kill rate of 40%
As with Ebola, there is a long incubation period, longer at 6 weeks, meaning an infected individual could walk around without symptoms for six weeks without showing any outward symptoms.
"When the vessel arrives, passengers and crew will be tested for the virus onboard by Spanish officials. If they are symptomatic they will be taken to local hospitals for treatment.
Those without symptoms will be taken straight to a chartered plane and flown to the UK as soon as possible, most likely the same day.
Germany, France, Belgium, Ireland, and the Netherlands will send planes to evacuate their citizens aboard the Tenerife-bound cruise ship hit by a deadly hantavirus outbreak, Spain's interior minister said in Madrid on Saturday.
The European Union is sending two further planes for remaining European citizens, Fernando Grande-Marlaska added. The U.S. and UK have confirmed planes and contingency plans were being arranged for non-EU citizens whose countries were unable to send air transport," you said according to media.
PROBLEM ONE
FAULTY DIAGNOSTIC TESTS SPREADING A DISEASE
According to your plan, those without symptoms of Hantavirus will be allowed to to return to their home countries.
But how will you determine who has symptoms?
I assume you will be basing your assessment on emergency use tests which have a record of being inaccurate and spreading a disease.
A company WHO contracted, Metabiota, helped spread Ebola by faulity diagnostics in2014,2015.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/american-company-metabiota-problems-during-ebola-outbreak/
May I also draw your attention to a piece of CDC guidance I am sure that you know that said that Ebola is best detected by RT-PCR 3–10 days after symptoms begin.
https://www.cdc.gov/ebola/media/pdfs/2024/05/Ebola-lab-guidance-collection-transport-508.pdf
To use a test like that which only detects Ebola when he viral load is so high that there have been symptoms for 3 to 10 days before it is registered to detect the Hantavirus is to allow the disease to spread because such a test will only detect the symptoms of Hantavirus long after they have emerged.
https://www.cdc.gov/ebola/media/pdfs/2024/05/Ebola-lab-guidance-collection-transport-508.pdf
The question is what diagnostic method do you intend to use and how accurate is it?
Do you plan to use an Vitro Diagnostic Use under Emergency Use Authorization only?
Similar diagnostic methods failed to detect Ebola in 2014, 2015 and so helped spread the disease and it was a company WHO contracted, Metabiota, which was a source of the problem. as mentioned.
How can you be sure you and WHO will not repeat the same mistake as during Ebola and fail to diagnose people correctly with the Hantavirus allowing it to spread because the diagnostic tools are not accurate?
Can you please give me the name of the Hantavirus test you plan to use, the manufacturer, the type of diagnostic test it is whether RT PCR or another kind, what clinical sensitivity the tests have demonstrated and on what sample types? What data did the studies show on false positives and false negatives?
I would like to have information, specifically, on
Assay Limitations of the Hantavirus tests which you intend to you and specifically
1. On your plans to interpret the results should by a trained professional in conjunction with every Cruise passengers medical history and clinical signs and symptoms.
2. How you plan to factor for the interpretation of results from the assay the possibility of false negative and false-positive results.
3. Negative results do not preclude infection with Hantavirus virus and should not be the sole basis of a patient treatment/management decision. What is your plan for dealing with false negatives?
4. False positive results may occur from cross-contamination by target organisms, their nucleic acids or amplified product. What is your plan for dealing with false positives?
5. Have you trained people adequately to follow the assay procedures because a lapse here may lead to false negative results.
6. Improper collection, storage, or transport of specimens may lead to false negative results. Can you outline your plan to prevent this.
7. Inhibitors present in the samples may lead to false negative results. What is your plan for this please?
In addition, could you please tell me if you have trained personnel who are going to administer these tests, and whether they are going to be following all the necessary precautions when handling samples and assay reagents given the high rate of infection of lab personnel during Ebola?
Can you be sure that the assays, which can only be used on certain specimen types, can be used on the specific Hantavirus type on the Cruise ship?
What are your plans for proper sample collection, storage, and transport are essential for correct results in the port of Tenerife? How do you plan to store assay reagants? Do you have the right reagents at hand? A laboratory and the personal with the right personal protective equipment when using this kit.
https://www.fda.gov/media/89989/download
If the Hantavirus test consistently produces false positives and false negatives like the Ebola tests did, then the result will be that Hantavirus will be spread around the world just by your mistake.
That is why I am sure you will be able to send me all the information that I ask for on this test quickly to reassure me and others.
PROBLEM TWO
SPREADING A DISEASE BY FLIGHTS
I would like to draw your attention to the second very well known evidence that your planned approach to the Hantavirus will spread the Hantavirus all around the world and cause a global pandemic which is drawn directly from the Ebola outbreak in 2014, 2015 in which you were involved.
As you know, a Liberian who was under observation for Ebola due to his exposure to the virus boarded a plane for Nigeria and brought Ebola to Nigeria.
https://allafrica.com/stories/201408080735.html
Can you not foresee that if you use the very same method to handle Hantavirus and allow people who are under observation for the Hantavirus, then this method which resulted in Ebola spreading, will result in Hantavirus spreading?
In 2014, the authorities were accused of spreading Ebola.
"Nearly two weeks after a traumatic Ebola scare in Nigeria that has gotten everyone in the country agitated, it was discovered last week that the crisis could have been prevented if the relevant authorities had done their jobs," said African media in 2014.
https://allafrica.com/stories/201408113253.html
To recap,
On July 20, Mr. Patrick Sawyer flew from Liberia into Lagos, Nigeria, despite incubating Ebola. On arrival, he became ill. Not knowing he had Ebola, healthcare givers freely interacted with Mr. Sawyer without any protective medical kits that could potentially protect against Ebola and became ill.
He was the first case in Nigeria, and he came by plane as a person suspected of possibly developing Ebola but not yet symptomatic.
How is this different from your plan to send people from the Cruise ship suspected as possibly developing Hantavirus but not yet symptomatic all over the world?
It was only after two days in Lagos, that Ebola was diagnosed. Shortly afterwards, Sawyer died but not until he caused 5 deaths, 7 severe infections and 129 suspected infections within 38 days as of August 26, 2014.
Most in danger were and are, apart from family members, the health care personnel.
Stella Adadevoh, the doctor who treated Mr. Sawyer contracted Ebola as did one of the nurses.
Because the health workers had been unaware of the Ebola status of Mr. Sawyer, they did take enough preventive and protective measures, risking their families and others.
In Nigeria, the Ebola outbreak was stopped by the implementation of effective and very quarantine measures for anyone who had exposure to Ebola, measures of the very kind you and WHO are now disregarding, sidelining, ignoring when it comes to the Cruise ship and the Hantavirus.
Why?
The Ebola virus proved to be highly infectious; within 21 days, there were 10 confirmed cases. Many of the confirmed cases were quarantined and an isolation unit was established at the Mainland Hospital in Lagos.
The shocking failure of the authorities, including WHO, which allowed Ebola to spread in 2014 were not restricted to Nigeria.
Ebola was brought to the USA in exactly same way in 2014 when a Liberian Thomas Eric Duncan flew to Texas incubating Ebola.
But flying people who may be incubating the Hantavirus all over Europe and the USA is just what you are now proposing. Why,may I ask?
PROBLEM THREE
USING LOCAL HOSPITALS WITH NURSES AND DOCTORS NOT TRAINED OR EQUIPED FOR HANTAVIRUS
You state that passengers found to be symptomatic with Hantavirus, a deadly disease, which requires specialist training, units and gear, are to be sent to local hospitals in Spain.
But local hospitals and ordinary doctors and nurses are not trained to deal with these infections and so are at high risk, especially when given insufficient or inappropriate information from WHO and the CDC as happened during Ebola.
The doctors at Texas Health Presbyterian hospital in Dallas failed to detect Duncan Thomas had Ebola also because they were given the wrong guidelines by the CDC directing them only to look for Ebola symptoms and not focus on his travel history or signs he could be incubating the disease.
Since he did not have Ebola symptoms, Thomas Eric Duncan was sent home. When he returned to the hospital with clear Ebola symptoms, he was treated at the hosptal, putting the healthcare workers at risk because nurses and doctors were not given the right protective gear. In the case of Duncan, two nurses became infected with Ebola. Nina Pham and Amber Vinson.
Nina Pham filed a lawsuit against the Hospital for failing to give her the training and protective gear she needed to treat an Ebola patient.
The hospital categorically rejected most of the claims of the union or not protecting its staff after Duncan was diagnosed, saying it was always in step with CDC protocol!!
Amber Vinson was allowed to board a domestic flight much like Patrick Sawyer after receiving explicit permission from the CDC despite her showing the first signs that she was incubating Ebola. On the flight, she came in contact with hundreds of passengers, airport personnel, who later had to be monitored as other authorities intervened to swiftly correct the mistakes of the CDC.
"Vinson, 29, tested positive for Ebola a day after she flew on a commercial flight from Cleveland, Ohio, to Dallas with a low-grade temperature. Vinson, who was self-monitoring for signs and symptoms of Ebola after treating Duncan, contacted the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) before boarding her flight to Ohio, and was allowed to proceed.
Vinson’s temperature was 99.5F (37.5C) before boarding the flight on 13 October, the CDC director, Tom Frieden, said on Wednesday. But since that was below the CDC’s temperature threshold of 100.4F, she is believed to have posed very little risk to those around her. Meanwhile, the CDC and Frontier airlines are scrambling to contact and interview all 132 passengers aboard her flight."
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/oct/16/ebola-nurse-transferred-texas-maryland-special-unit
Eventually, Nina Pham and Amber Vinson were transferred to the special BSL4 infectious disease unit where Thomas Duncan should have immediately been sent if the doctor had been informed correctly of what to do with Ebola patients.
And yet according to media, you intend to make the same mistake and send people who are symptomatic with Hantavirus to the local hospitals for treatment despite their not having the specialized training and gear to treat the Hantavirus.
Exactly the same method you propose to handle Hantavirus spread Ebola to Spain in 2014.
The first two patients who had contracted Ebola in Liberia and Sierra Leone were flown out to Spain, and infected nurses before they died.
A Spanish nurse Garcia Viejo died at the Carlos III Hospital on 25 September sparking an investigation into " how a member of healthcare staff, who, the hospital insists, was wearing protective clothing, was able to contract the disease. "
"Health workers raised concerns that the protocols and protection suits at Madrid's Carlos III hospital did not meet safety standards."
https://www.bmj.com/content/349/bmj.g6120
Sending Hantavirus patients to a local hospital in Spain for treatment is a recipe for infecting nurses and doctors because they are not trained for infectious diseases and to use the special BSL3 and 4 equipment which is required.
Why are you planning to send Hantavirus patients to local hospitals if they are symptomatic?
Have Spanish health authorities been sufficiently informed of how to detect nurses who are infected?
A Spanish nurse who contracted Ebola in Madrid in 2014 told health authorities at least three times she had a fever before she was finally placed in quarantine, it emerged, despite having helped treat a patient who later died of the virus.
Teresa Romero Ramos was the first person to have caught the Ebola virus outside of Africa in the current outbreak at
When Romero Ramos first called a specialized service dedicated to occupational risk at Carlos III hospital in Madrid on Sept. 30 and complained of a slight fever and fatigue,she was advised to visit her local clinic, putting the staff there at risk because they also lack the protective gear and training for infectious disease.
"When Romero Ramos called for a third time on Monday, she was finally transported to a hospital by paramedics who did not wear protective gear. Despite warning staff that she had contracted Ebola, she remained in a bed in the emergency room separated from other patients only by curtains."
https://time.com/3481297/spanish-ebola-nurse-symptoms/
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/oct/08/spanish-ebola-nurse-symptoms-quarantine
Nina Pham was transferred from Texas Health Presbyterian hospital in Dallas to a National Institutes of Health (NIH) isolation unit in Bethesda, Maryland."
“She will receive state-of-the-art care in this high-level containment facility, which is one of a small number of such facilities in the United States,” the NIH said. “The unit staff is trained in strict infection control practices optimized to prevent spread of potentially transmissible agents such as Ebola.”
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/oct/16/ebola-nurse-transferred-texas-maryland-special-unit
The Maryland NIH facility has one of four biocontainment units in the USA equipped for diseases like Ebola and the Hantavirus.
To conclude.
I have outlined just a few of the biggest flaws in your plan based on the mistakes during Ebola.
You cannot repeat these mistakes as if you do not know all this.
Entire reports have been written on the WHO and CDCEbola fiasco including the report by the
Texas Task Forceon Infectious Disease Preparedness and Response Report & Recommendations
December 1, 2014 which is quite damning.
https://static.texastribune.org/media/documents/Task_Force_Recommendations_12-01-2014.pdf
An alternative plan based on science, data is as follows
1 Please tell the Cruise ship to remain at sea.
2. Organize for the transport of the CUBE (Biosecure Emergency Care Unit for Outbreaks) biocontainment system designed to treat patients with highly contagious diseases like Ebola or Hantavirus to the ship.
3. Please place every single person on the ship in a CUBE. The CUBE complies with P3/P4 biosecurity standards.
It is a negative pressure system (approx. \(-15\) Pa) maintains airflow into the unit to prevent the spread of pathogens.
It has Air Filtration: H14 HEPA filtration purifies the air exhausted from the unit.
It has transparent walls with built-in, sealed gloves allow medical professionals to provide intensive care (including feeding, monitoring, and treatment) without direct contact or wearing heavy PPE, reducing PPE reliance and enhancing comfort.
It is low cost, light and can be set up in under 90 minutes by a team of four, often closer to patients in remote areas
It has been successfully used in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) to treat patients during active Ebola outbreaks.
The design improves patient morale by decreasing isolation and allowing interaction with family through transparent walls.
Passengers can also be given their laptops, mobile phones and electronic devices when they are in the CUBE so they can communicate with their families, friends, worksplaces, organize the things they need.
It is versatile. The modular units can be deployed in hospitals or emergency medical camps or on cruise ships.
4. Please organize for specialist nurses and doctors who are trained in dealing with BSL 4 diseases like Ebola and Hantavirus to go to the Cruise ship to manage all the tasks associated with overseeing the passengers can isolate inside Cubes for the incubation period.
5. When the incubation period of six weeks is over, then the passengers should be allowed to disembark at Teneriffe and can proceed to their countries.
Anyone who becomes ill must be sent to a special biosecurity unit and not to a local hospital for treatment to prevent nosocomial infections.
This method is proven to be successful.
It will save money.
The world cannot afford another outbreak caused by WHO and the CDC.
Finally, I would like to ask you about all your communications with Bill Gates and his Foundation on the Hantavirus outbreak given his role in managing covid according to an investigation by Die Welt and Politico.
https://www.politico.com/news/2022/09/14/global-covid-pandemic-response-bill-gates-partners-00053969
Please send me every single record, email, document of your communications at WHO with the Bill Gates Foundation also as part of the criminal prosecutor probe D 15 218 opened in 2015 capturing Bill Gates as one of the main suspects in trying to silence a reporter myself for exposing his role in a plot to spread a disease and justify rolling out defectiv jabs for profit. I am a party to this probe and so able to act as a lawyer.
Please see the summary here
https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/xmvdermyzjhnje9z1hbkq/GRKProsecutorProbesConvictSoros-GatesOfMurderAttemptsOnReporter.pdf?rlkey=n4gz1whwa9vj8iktkg7ymxn6v&st=obi9i3b4&dl=0
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1qDt2oc6Ag_3V7wRCrT2xohF1MtsXOyC5/view?usp=sharing
A related probe into Donald Trump and Jared Kushner here
https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/frci8gkqajfy8jfwj6cs9/2017-Grk-prosecutor-probes-convict-Kushner-of-covid-treason-Iran.pdf?rlkey=tz6jztrrgfjorigb8p1vzwfj1&st=60q3gz5g&dl=0
The reason why I am asking for these records is because Bill Gates made an enormous profit from his shares in the BioNtech Pfizer vaccines during covid and the shares of Moderna are soaring again on the announcement it has an early stage mRNA Hantavirus vaccine which can be given under emergency use authorization and even mandated by WHO in the event of WHo declaring a Hantavirus emergency.
I look forward to your reply in 24 hours given the dangerous nature of your plan.
Thank you very much,
Kind regards,
Jane Burgermeister
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