‘Floating petri dish’: Deadly hantavirus outbreak strikes cruise ship



A cruise ship is at the center of a deadly hantavirus outbreak after three of the ship’s passengers have died. Five more are believed to be infected with a rare strain of the disease that can be transmitted from person to person — though the disease is usually passed through rat urine, saliva, or feces.

BlazeTV host Stu Burguiere points out that a cruise ship is “already the least healthy environment possible” and isn’t surprised it’s where the disease manifested.

“You’re quarantined on a ship, and you have a pass for nonstop, unlimited food and drink at any time,” he tells co-host Dave Landau, who points out that there’s also a communal pool.

“This is where all the diseases manifest themselves, in that water that everyone’s sharing,” Stu says.


“Thirty-five percent death rate if you catch this thing. So really, really bad. A little higher than COVID,” he continues. “That’s how they made you feel about COVID. You watch the news, you thought it was a 35% death rate, but it was not.”

“You really only died if you were 90 in a nursing home, and then they filled it with gang members and people that had it,” Landau says.

“Oh, you mean the exact proposal by Andrew Cuomo during this period?” Stu laughs.

“That’s correct,” Landau says.

“Now, what do you do with this ship, Dave? Because if this stuff is being passed around, you can’t really let it to shore. These people are just out there in a petri dish,” Stu says.

“Well, I think we have to do the right thing,” Landau says, joking, “and have the Joker blow it up.”

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This Covid Mandates Case Would Let Alito Prove The Left Doesn’t Care About Bodily Autonomy

Leftists cherish the right to bodily autonomy so long as the person exercising it is a woman seeking to abort a child, not an adult who objects to putting an experimental medication in her body.

DOJ Indicts Fauci’s Right-Hand Man For Allegedly ‘Circumventing’ Open Records Requests

'As alleged in the indictment, Dr. Morens and his co-conspirators deliberately concealed information and falsified records in an effort to suppress alternative theories regarding the origins of COVID-19.'

NBA Doubles Down On Woke By Punishing Jaden Ivey For His Christianity

The NBA's players should defend Ivey and demand that all franchise owners keep out of politics and let their players prove themselves on the court.

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BlazeTV COVID docuseries ‘The Coverup’ ends with a bang: The lab-leak evidence they tried to bury forever



Even though the COVID-19 pandemic is quickly fading into a distant memory for many Americans, BlazeTV host Matt Kibbe refuses to let the unanswered questions from that corrupt era fade into obscurity. His docuseries “The Coverup” is both a deep dive into COVID fraud and lies and a demand for accountability.

In episodes 1-5, Kibbe teamed up with a number of experts and whistleblowers — Stanford professor of medicine and current NIH Director Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, Senator Rand Paul (R-Ky.), former coronavirus task force adviser Scott Atlas, molecular biologist Dr. Richard Ebright, and Twitter Files journalist Matt Taibbi. Together, they exposed the gamut of COVID-era scandals, including widespread censorship, risky gain-of-function research, suspicious behind-the-scenes White House dynamics, Anthony Fauci’s smoking-gun history of funding dangerous virus experiments, and the network of health bureaucracies that together formed a pandemic industrial complex.

The series now arrives at its sixth and final installment: “The Separation of Science from State.”

It stares at one of the most consequential unanswered questions of our time: What is the true origin of the virus — and why has it been so difficult to nail down the answer?

In this episode, Kibbe partners with science writer and former House of Lords member Matt Ridley. A longtime advocate for scientific innovation and institutional trust, Ridley initially dismissed the lab-leak theory, but after weighing the mounting evidence — from genetic anomalies in the virus to inconsistencies in early reporting — he arrived at a conclusion that shocked him: “This isn't a conspiracy theory. This is a conspiracy.”

Episode 6 explores how the “natural origin” narrative became gospel — and why it was so aggressively protected.

The evidence paints a far more complex picture. From genetic anomalies and a bat virus with a suspicious name change to sick mine workers whose samples ended up in a Wuhan lab and the flow of U.S. dollars into risky gain-of-function research, the narrative the world was told to accept and never question starts to unravel in surprising ways.

Together, Kibbe and Ridley pull back the curtain on how one story took over, how inconvenient questions were silenced, and how everyday researchers refused to let the truth stay buried.

Episode 6 of “The Coverup” is available now on BlazeTV. If you’re not already a subscriber, join the BlazeTV family today. Use code LABLEAK to get $40 off your subscription.

Chinese scientists have turned mosquitoes into flying vaccines — that can still bite humans



Researchers from the nation that likely unleashed COVID-19 unto the world have transformed mosquitoes into flying syringes.

Some researchers, including a group at the Bill Gates Foundation-backed Leiden University Medical Center in the Netherlands, have already attempted in recent years to fashion mosquitoes into flying vaccine delivery systems with human targets in mind.

'Mosquitoes bite many things other than bats.'

Now, scientists at the state-controlled Chinese Academy of Sciences — an institution that has a strategic partnership with the People's Liberation Army Academy of Military Sciences — have targeted bats, purportedly designing mosquitoes to instead deliver recombinant vesicular stomatitis virus-based rabies and Nipah vaccines to the flying mammals.

Like rabies, Nipah virus is a potentially deadly virus found in animals. Whereas rabies has nearly a 100% fatality rate in humans once symptoms manifest, the estimated case fatality rate for Nipah virus ranges from 40% to 75%.

The Chinese scientists' study, published on March 11 in the peer-reviewed journal Science Advances, noted that bats, "representing ~22% of all mammalian species, are natural reservoirs for a wide range of zoonotic viruses, including coronaviruses, rhabdoviruses, and paramyxoviruses. Their unique physiological and immunological traits enable them to harbor pathogens without showing clinical symptoms, making them critical players in the emergence of infectious diseases."

The scientists claimed that immunizing bats, especially in the wild, could possibly prevent transmission of the rabies and Nipah viruses to humans and other animals but acknowledged that "achieving this goal presents substantial challenges due to the wide geographic distribution, diverse diets, and large colony sizes of bat populations."

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Recognizing the impracticality of individually jabbing multitudes of bats and ruling out bat-culling as "counterproductive," the Chinese scientists instead created vaccines using a weakened form of the vesicular stomatitis virus that can infect insects and mammals alike.

They fed vaccine-laden blood to lab-adapted Aedes aegypti mosquitoes and subsequently detected the vaccine both in the whole mosquitoes and in their salivary glands for over two weeks. The vaccine-laden mosquitoes reportedly delivered the vaccines as intended and provided test bats and rodents with immune protection.

The study claimed that "this innovative approach offers a scalable and efficient solution for immunizing wild bats, addressing critical challenges in disease control and bat conservation."

Through this experiment, researchers hope that there will be reduced spillover of the Nipah and rabies viruses from bats to humans or livestock.

Aihua Zheng, a Chinese virologist who worked on the study, told NPR, "The advantage is if we immunize the population, the transmission of the virus will be decreased or eventually eliminated."

However, that outcome is by no means certain. Plus, there are other problems associated with such vaccine-infused mosquitoes.

Daniel Streicker, a professor of viral ecology at the University of Glasgow who was not involved in the study, expressed concern to Chemical and Engineering News over possible risks of such proposed vaccination initiatives.

"Mosquitoes bite many things other than bats, including humans," Streicker said, adding, "There's still an issue that you're removing individual consent."

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'Dr. Lockdown': Ohio Democrat governor candidate's COVID tyranny comes back to haunt her — but she still may win



Amy Acton, the physician who served as director of the Ohio Department of Health in the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, is running as a Democrat in hopes of succeeding her former boss, Gov. Mike DeWine (R).

Although the Republican governor has attempted to shield his former underling from blame over her efforts to curtail basic liberties during the pandemic in the name of public health, critics appear unwilling to forgive or forget, especially with the election shaping up to be a close race.

'Amy Acton shut down our society.'

The Ohio Republican Party, for example, recalled on Tuesday that Acton "installed an order during COVID to lock down nursing homes," adding that "visits were deemed permissible for loved ones and patients based on whether or not they were 'grieving.' Truly sickening."

The state GOP noted in a previous post that Acton — who has been endorsed by Planned Parenthood of Greater Ohio and the Ohio Federation of Teachers — also saw to the closure of bars, restaurants, gyms, theaters, playgrounds, museums, libraries, fitness centers, and small businesses.

"She deemed her allies 'essential' — and left the rest to fend for themselves," said the Ohio GOP.

Republican gubernatorial candidate Vivek Ramaswamy, with whom Acton is poised to face off in November's general election, has dubbed her "Dr. Lockdown" and blasted the Democrat for her role in closing Ohio public schools — which she insisted in an interview last year was necessary — and businesses.

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Hours before Ohioans were supposed to begin casting ballots in the state's March 2020 presidential primary, Acton ordered the closure of the polling locations. On the day of the punted vote, she ordered the closure of all Ohio bars and restaurants.

Days later, Acton issued a stay-at-home order, forbidding virtually all public and private gatherings occurring outside a single household; closing all "places of public amusement" including playgrounds; and prohibiting Ohioans from leaving their homes except for "Essential Activities, Essential Governmental Functions, or to participate in Essential Businesses and Operations."

Acton's actions prompted state lawmakers to introduce multiple bills aimed at reining in her power.

In the face of immense backlash and possible curbs on her authority, she resigned in June 2020.

"Amy Acton shut down our society," Ohio Senate President Rob McColley (R) tweeted on Thursday. "Then she walked away when Ohioans pleaded for help in getting back to normal. She quit on Ohio once and we won’t give her a chance to do it again."

Acton's campaign declined a request for comment from Blaze News about Republicans' recent criticism.

A Quantus Insights survey conducted last week found that 45.9% of respondents signaled support for Acton, 44.9% signaled support for Ramaswamy, nearly 6% said they were undecided, and 3.3% signaled support for some other candidate.

According to the survey, a plurality of respondents placed the economy, inflation, and the cost of living as the most important issues facing the state.

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Haitian fraudster gets comeuppance from Trump judge



A Haitian fraudster learned the hard way that when it comes to citizenship, the U.S. government can giveth and taketh away.

Joff Stenn Wroy Philossaint, a 35-year-old Haitian national, applied to become an American citizen in early 2020. While his citizenship application was pending, Philossaint participated in an elaborate wire fraud and money laundering scheme in Florida.

'You will lose what you unlawfully gained.'

Philossaint and his co-conspirators submitted 40 fraudulent applications on behalf of numerous businesses, seeking roughly $3.8 million from COVID-19 relief programs, said the Department of Justice. The applications falsely certified the businesses' revenue, number of employees, and expenses.

The Haitian later acknowledged that after the conspirator business owners received their paydays, they paid him a fee of approximately 10% of the value of the loans, which amounted to approximately $549,000.

While ripping off his would-be countrymen, Philossaint lied in an interview with a U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services officer that he had never made false misrepresentations to receive a public benefit in the United States and had never committed a crime for which he had not been arrested — false representations that led to his naturalization as an American citizen.

Philossaint pleaded guilty in 2022 to wire fraud and money laundering charges and was found guilty in February 2023 of illegally obtaining his U.S. citizenship. He was sentenced in June 2023 to 50 months in federal prison.

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The flag of Philossaint's one-time homeland flies over Fort Lauderdale, Florida. James D. Morgan/Getty Images

Of the five defendants charged in the case, Philossaint was the only individual sent to prison, reported the Miami Herald. Although initially charged in connection with the fraud scheme, the Haitian's former fiancée, Florida lawyer Mariel Tollinchi, was acquitted on all charges in 2024

The DOJ announced on Tuesday that Philossaint has been stripped of his American citizenship per the orders of U.S. District Judge Rodney Smith, an appointee of President Donald Trump.

"United States citizenship is one of the greatest privileges our nation can offer, and it must be earned honestly," U.S. Attorney Jason Reding Quiñones for the Southern District of Florida said in a statement.

"This defendant built his path to citizenship on false statements while stealing millions from programs meant to keep small businesses alive during the pandemic," continued Reding Quiñones. "The court’s order revoking his citizenship restores accountability and reinforces a simple principle: If you lie to obtain immigration benefits and commit federal crimes, you will lose what you unlawfully gained."

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Damning study of over a million kids finds myocarditis only in the vaccinated



Biden administration officials and so-called experts characterized COVID-19 vaccines as "safe and effective" during the pandemic. In the face of an avalanche of tragic evidence to the contrary, the powers that be waged costly and unsuccessful propaganda and censorship campaigns to cure Americans' skepticism.

Although the Trump administration has alternatively acknowledged the risks and fallout associated with the vaccines — the Food and Drug Administration admitting, for instance, that the vaccines killed numerous children — a coalition of medical organizations is fighting to legally force the government to keep recommending the COVID jabs to healthy kids and pregnant women.

That legal effort appears especially questionable given the finding in a recent study that children spared from the vaccine also appear to have been spared from an unfortunate health complication.

'I only feel more vindicated I didn't take the COVID shot.'

The peer-reviewed study — conducted by researchers at the University of Oxford, the University of Bristol, and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, and published in January in the scientific journal Epidemiology — looked at the safety and effectiveness of the Pfizer-BioNTech BNT162b2 COVID-19 vaccine in healthy children ages 5-15 following the rollout that began in late 2021.

Using data from the OpenSAFELY-TPP database with the blessing of NHS England, the researchers compared the "effectiveness and safety of: (1) the first vaccine dose versus no vaccination and (2) a second dose versus a single dose only."

Specifically, they compared 141,711 children ages 5-11 and 410,463 adolescents ages 12-15 who were given a first dose of the vaccine with equal numbers of unvaccinated children from the same age groups.

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The researchers found that the vaccination provided some benefits, including an "initial protective effect" that waned by 14 weeks as well as a lower incidence of emergency room visits than recorded among the unvaccinated cohort.

They noted, however, that "myocarditis and pericarditis were documented only in the vaccinated groups, with rates of 27 and 10 cases/million after the first and second doses, respectively."

As late as January 2023, the U.K. Health Security Agency said that "the reported rate for heart inflammation (myocarditis and pericarditis) was 13 per million first doses and 8 per million second doses of the monovalent Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine" among those under the age of 18.

"That there were no cases of myocarditis or pericarditis in the unvaccinated group does not mean that such events cannot occur without COVID-19 vaccination, only that these events were not observed in the unvaccinated groups in our specific matched analyses," the study noted.

For adolescents, the reduction in risk of COVID-19 hospitalization following vaccination was larger than the corresponding increase in risk of both myocarditis and pericarditis, said the researchers. The same could not, however, be said of younger children.

"The reduction in risk of COVID-19 hospitalization in children (−0.02 for first dose vs. unvaccinated) was lower than the increase in risk of pericarditis (0.22)," said the study.

Sen. Rand Paul, the Kentucky Republican who introduced legislation last month that would strip the liability shield from vaccine manufacturers, said in response to the study, "As it stands right now, families are limited as to how they can seek justice due to legal carveouts for COVID-19 vaccine manufacturers."

"We ought to pass my bill, the End the Vaccine Carveouts Act, to hold pharma accountable properly," added Paul.

Turning Point USA contributor Riley Gaines said, "As more time passes, I only feel more vindicated I didn't take the COVID shot. I feel sorry for the people who did."

Last year, the FDA required Pfizer and Moderna to start noting the estimated unadjusted incidence of heart conditions following administration of the 2023-2024 formula of the BNT162b2 and Spikevax vaccines as well as the longitudinal results of a 2024 study concerning cardiac manifestations and outcomes of vaccine-associated myocarditis in American youths.

H/T Evie Magazine

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