David Bell & Lagenidium giganteum-parasitic,yeast-like watermold/fungus

[Venetia]

A while back, I found a link about David Bell and posted it to the new board:

California Biotechnology - Agraquest - Pam Marrone Monsanto Information for the public

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In Northern California, in the town of Davis a now former Monsanto employee set up three biotechnology companies. The first company went out of business shortly after it's creator left. Some employees from the second firm, Agraquest, became seriously ill. The Agraquest company went out of its way to prevent the very ill people from receiving adequate medical care, provide for time lost from work and in general did everything possible to mislead the California Workers Compensation system.

Was it because they were luring high powered, well connected investors and could not chance any negative publicity?

Were the people that participated in what appears to be a genuine coverup also financially involved?

Read the material and decide for yourself. Everyone, including the sleepy little college town of Davis seems to have forgotten about United Nations 2003 - The Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety. Follow the index down to learn more.

This is a new topic for most people, but it is one that people must begin to understand for their own safety.
Genetically altered biological products are not natural. Both types of products - chemical or biological - can make people very sick and both types of products can and do kill. Just because a product is natural does not make it safe!

SOME BASIC BACKGROUND ON THE TOPIC: The French documentary, named “The world according to Monsanto” which was directed by independent filmmaker Marie-Monique Robin, paints a grim picture of a company with a long track record of environmental crimes and health scandals.

From 1983 to 1990, Pam MarronePam Marrone was in charge of the Insect Control group at Monsanto Agricultural Company. Her group was instrumental in pioneering projects in genetically engineered microbial pesticides and transgenic crops for insect control. After Monsanto, Pam was founding president of Entotech, Inc. Later, Pam left to start up a new company called AgraQuest, Inc.

One of the Agraquest employees was a young man; David Bell. He was a student at CSU Sacramento and had accepted a job with Agraquest in August of 1998. He was one semester away from receiving his Bachelor of Science degree from California State University, Sacramento, with a major in biology and a minor in chemistry. David Bell's was working on the Laginex Project and although Laginex (lagenidium giganteum) had already been registered with the EPA and a patent had already been issued by the U.S., David was employed to find a viable agent to extend the shelf life of this fungi type organism.

In the following short video some of the material that has infected these microbiologists that are being denied WC coverage. This material came out of one of the AgraQuest employees that was exposed to their products. Click the following to view the film clip: (See video at above link)

http://biotechnology.kaiserpapers.in...a/P8080325.MOV

When David became infected from the organisms in the lab

Agraquest, willfully violated :
EPA Regulation - FIFRA 6(a)(2) •Regulating Biopesticides FIFRA 6(a)(2)

FIFRA 6(a)(2) •Regulating Biopesticides FIFRA 6(a)(2) Before a pesticide can be marketed and used in the United States, the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA) requires that EPA evaluate the proposed pesticide to assure that its use will not pose unreasonable risks of harm to human health and the environment. This regulation involves an extensive review of health and safety information.

[THE WORKPLACE INJURY/ILLNESS/DISEASE of David Bell and others, WAS NEVER REPORTED BY AGRAQUEST AS REQUIRED BY FIFRA 6 (a)(2)

[Venetia]

One of the life forms that Marrone and her crew were genetically modifying is Lagenidium giganteum. Around the time that this life form was being altered, a new disease emerged that has been named Lagenidiosis. Prior to this manipulation of the genetic structure of Lagenidium giganteum it was unheard of or "unrecognized" for it to cause illness in humans. At the same time no one known had ever mixed in a genetically modified brew of "Swamp Cancer" Child with pythiosis in Texas-Pythiosis with Lagenidium giganteum before either.


See:
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The following is some background information on lagenidium giganteum. Please note that some of this is contrary to outdated EPA literature so you can understand why while it may sound as if it is innoculous, some people believe that it can be very dangerous:

Lagenidium giganteum is an Oomycete fungus which is pathogenic to a number of mosquito species, including Aedes, Culex, Anopheles and Culiseta (Tanada and Kaya 1993).

Lagenidium giganteum is a parasitic, yeast-like water mold or fungus. The life cycle begins with a motile zoospore (asexual stage) that seeks out mosquito larvae, attaching to and penetrating the cuticle via a germ tube. The fungus grows inward, eventually filling the body cavity and killing the mosquito larva. The fungus can then be released from the infected cadaver, generating more zoospores that can infect other larvae. The sexual cycle produces oospores that can maintain the fungus during unfavorable conditions, such as long periods of drought. Upon flooding, oospores release infective zoospores to start the cycle again.

1.3 Lagenidium. Only one species of the genus Lagenidium is known to be a facultative parasite of mosquito larvae, namely Lagenidium giganteum. It consists of two stages: oospores (sexual), and zoospores (asexual) (See Fig. 1). Although this fungus has been named Lagenidium culicidum Umphlett in some publications (Umphlett and Huang 1970; McCray et al. 1973), this was later shown to be Lagenidium giganteum (Couch and Romney 1973).]

The extensive testing that the FDA refers to resulted in hospitalization of at least one of the employees involved in studying this product! The FDA either was not aware of this information when they made their report or do not care. - This particular fungi/water mold needs water to live. Humans and animals are composed of water, just like the inside of insects.

California Biotechnology - Agraquest - Pam Marrone Monsanto Information for the public

To your left you may view - Workers Comp, The Destruction Of CAL-OSHA/EPA And The Case Of David Bell - 58 min - May 13, 2008.

(View the video at above link)

This is a very powerful video in which
Lawrence Rose M.D., M.P.H., former Senior Public Medical Officer for Cal-OSHA and part of the UCSF Occupational
Environmental Medicine Department discusses the lack of CAL/OSHA standards with respect to oversight within the industry"Labor On The Job" focuses on the case of Agraquest biotech worker David Bell. Bell who worked in Davis, CA at a biotech laboratory owned by former Monsanto scientist Pam Marrone.

David was infected with fungus and bacteria while working. He and his family have faced a terrifying battle for healthcare and justice from injuries on the job. The material found to be growing in his body was found to be earlier patented by scientists at the laboratory. He has since been prevented from getting full healthcare needed to save his life.

The corruption and breakdown of the workers compensation system is connected to the deregulation of workers compensation and the elimination of all medical doctors at Ca-OSHA. Joining the show is his mother Sandi Trend, Larry Rose, the last Ca-OSHA doctor and Daniel Berman, author of "Death On The Job."

David Bell was working with the Liginex project. Laginex is the now packaged life form L. giganteum.

Labeling of this product: "LAGINEX AS®": It is EPA registered (No. 69592-Y) as an aqueous suspension with the trade name Laginex AS® . The product label contains the signal word "CAUTION." The package goes on to say that this is safe to humans but do not discharge it into lakes, ponds, etc., without a permit.

"It could be regarded as fungal-based natural larvicide for the use of vector control."
Received: 26 December 2006 Accepted: 7 February 2007 Published online: 4 March 2007

The above is very interesting and raises the question of where are the actual test results showing this water fungus to be safe? Employees of Agraquest are sick from it and there is medical documentation standing behind that statement. See:

http://biotechnology.kaiserpapers.in...PATENTFLOW.pdf


From The Sacramento Business Journal - December 5, 1997
Laginex, which is a fungus that infects mosquito larvae in water, has been sold to several counties as well as Disney World. There have been some problems, however...........

See:
1) "Tadeusz Molinski, a professor in the department of chemistry at the
University of California at Davis and a member of AgraQuest's scientific advisory
board.


On May 1, 1997, the New Active Ingredient for Laginex was DENIED by the EPA - See Item 199 -

may11997.html

Note: The Above material is mirrored from since removed from web page formerlly at:

http://pmep.cce.cornell.edu/regulati...eg.dec.97.html


Earlier this year AgraQuest secured $3 million in private financing through an investment group led by Rockefeller & Co.'s Odyssey Fund -- a New York-based venture capital fund specializing in socially responsible investments.



KAISERPAPERS.INFO

[Venetia]

Google Video

Video- David Bell- injured- Agraquest worker- per above links

[Venetia]

Deuteromycetes





Curvularia lunata, conidios.



Curvularia as found in David Bell's (sputum culture) on 9/13/2006.

Curvularia as found in David Bell's (sputum culture) on 9/13/2006.


For Up To Date Information on the David Bell illness Situation:


Bio-Tech Awareness


The Agraquest Bacteria & Fungus Testing Positive in David Bell
Sunday, 07 December 2008

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Excerpt:
David Bell has tested positive to 19 microorganisms, both fungi and bacteria in either blood serum, nose and/or sputum cultures and/or IgG antibody levels (positive to HIGH POSITIVE) that can be traced to Agraquest in their patents and/or products and/or other company’s patents that Agraquest scientists are listed as “inventors”. Agraquest has only admitted to a few of these being at the company during his employment term.

BACTERIA: (source's nose and/or sputum cultures); Acinetobacter, Pseudomonas, and Staphlococcus FUNGUS; (source; blood serum); Histoplasma, (source's nose and/or sputum cultures); Acremonium, Curvularia, and Penicillium (source; IgG levels from "positive" to "HIGH POSITIVE"; Alternaria, Aspergillus, Botrytis, Candida, Cladosporium, Eppicoccum, Fusarium, Helminthosporium, Mucor, Penicillium, Pullularia, Rhizopus, and Stemphylium.

[carla]

I see Kaiser Permanante helped the Cover-up.

[Venetia]

More bacteria- found in David Bell- Source- Lagenidium giganteum - Workplace

Hygienic Systems



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Acinetobacter is a Gram-negative genus of bacteria belonging to the phylum Proteobacteria. Non-motile, Acinetobacter species are oxidase-negative, and occur in pairs under magnification. They are important soil organisms where they contribute to the mineralisation of, for example, aromatic compounds. Acinetobacter are an important source of infection in debilitated patients in the hospital



Epicoccum Species

Epicoccum spp.





Epicoccum spp.

[Venetia]

Carla,

Comforting for us, isn't it? That they chose Kaiser - for the 'Study'.

V

[Venetia]

Bio-Tech Awareness

Below- More bacteria- found in David Bell- Source- Lagenidium giganteum -in his Workplace

Acremonium - Bing Images

Acremonium

Histoplasma - Bing Images

Histoplasma

Alternaria - Bing Images

Alternaria

(the above- look like the images that Toni posted at LB)


Aspergillus - Bing Images

Aspergillus

Botrytis - Bing Images

Botrytis

Candida - Bing Images

Candida

Cladosporium - Bing Images

Cladosporium

Fusarium - Bing Images


Fusarium


Helminthosporium - Bing Images

Helminthosporium

Mucor - Bing Images

Mucor

Penicillium - Bing Images

Penicillium


Pullularia - Bing Images

Pullularia

Rhizopus - Bing Images

Rhizopus

Stemphylium - Bing Images

Stemphylium

Pseudomonas - Bing Images

Pseudomonas

Staphlococcus FUNGUS - Bing Images

Staphlococcus FUNGUS

[Venetia]

Lagenidium giganteum


Lagenidium giganteum is a watermold that parasitizes the larval stage of mosquitoes. This microbial parasite belongs to a group of organisms that, although they look like fungi and have a "fungal lifestyle", nonetheless are related to diatoms and brown algae. The infective stage is a motile spore (see below) that goes on a search-and-destroy mission. The basis of its host specificity is selective recognition and attachment to its mosquito hosts. If a spore encounters, for instance, a water beetle, a dragon fly larva or a rice plant, it recognizes that a susceptible host has not been encountered. It will back off from that surface and swim on looking for a suitable host.

[Katinka]

I found this interesting:

Pesticide Susceptibility
Except for the dormant oospore stage, the parasite is very susceptible to organophosphates, carbamates, herbicides, fungicides, and other chemicals commonly used either by mosquito abatement districts, or applied to crops (such as rice and soybeans) that are associated with mosquito breeding.
IC50 values for inhibition of mycelial growth commonly range from ca. 50-5,000 ppm. Fortunately, recommended application rates for many of these chemicals are below levels that are toxic to the parasite. Organic solvents such as toluene and oil commonly used as diluents of the active ingredients of pesticides are also toxic to L. giganteum.