ATCC, the premier global biological materials resource and standards organization, is poised to assist the medical and life science researchers that are working to address the evolving concerns around Zika Virus infection.
Zika virus is a single-stranded RNA virus of the Flaviviridae family, genus Flavivirus, which also includes the West Nile, Dengue and Chikungunya Viruses. Zika virus is transmitted to humans primarily through the bite of an infected Aedes species mosquito. For more information on the disease, please refer to the CDC website.
The virus was first deposited into ATCC by Dr. Jordi Casals of the Rockefeller Foundation Virus Laboratory in 1953. Since that time ATCC has made the Zika virus (ATCC® VR-84™) strain MR766 available for research purposes to qualified scientists and laboratories, on a global basis, through a highly vetted process that requires them to demonstrate they have appropriate facilities and safety programs in place (in accordance with Biosafety in Microbiological and Biomedical Laboratories (BMBL) guidelines). ATCC is now working to respond to the greatly increased demand for the Zika virus in an effort to support a better understanding of its biology and to foster development of accurate and dependable diagnostic tests.
In addition to ATCC, three stains of the Zika virus are available through BEI Resources, a NIAID Biorepository established to support basic research and develop improved diagnostic tests, vaccines, and therapies. Registration and approval is required by NIAID to obtain these viruses. www.beiresources.org
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One Response to “Zika Virus Made Available to Researchers by Rockefeller Foundation in 1953”
mangrove Says:February 7th, 2016 at 2:17 pm The early institutions [the Rockefeller Foundation] set up have served as models for current organizations: the UN’s World Health Organization, set up in 1948, is modeled on the [Rockefeller Foundation’s] International Health Division; the U.S. Government’s National Science Foundation (1950) on its approach in support of research, scholarships and institutional development; and the National Institute of Health (1950) imitated its longstanding medical programs.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rockefeller_Foundation
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Jon Rappoport: Much of what you’re reading and seeing in the mainstream press about this “epidemic” comes directly out of WHO [World Health Organization] press releases and director Margaret Chan’s remarks.
WHO is determined to fabricate a viral epidemic and its causal connection to microcephaly.
. . . This is one aspect of the medical Matrix right in front of your eyes: the twisting and curling and distorting and forcing of disparate data into one coordinated scenario that, on analysis, completely falls apart.
https://jonrappoport.wordpress.com/2016/02/07/zika-who-launched-the-fake-epidemic-story-in-brazil/
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