Is It Another New Bio-Agent or What? Acanthocystis turfacea Chlorella virus (ATCV)

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Obama Promotes Pond Scum to Relieve Dependence on Oil Imports
Algae biofuel not sustainable now-U.S. research council
President Announces Funding for Algae Biofuel Breakthroughs

 Then — Newly Introduced Vectors and Bioterrorism Agents?

Under current United States law, bio-agents which have been declared by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services or the U.S. Department of Agriculture to have the “potential to pose a severe threat to public health and safety” are officially defined as “select agents“. The CDC categorizes these agents (A, B or C) and administers the Select Agent Program, which regulates the laboratories which may possess, use, or transfer select agents within the United States. As with US attempts to categorize harmful recreational drugs, designer viruses are not yet categorized and avian H5N1 has been shown to achieve high mortality and human-communication in a laboratory setting.

For the conspiracy theorists and perhaps others…  Healthy skepticism is required here, consider this: Why did the CDC patent this virus? Could Ebola be a Bio-weapon engineered by the NIH and CDC (see video on  Weaponized Ebola)? If an Ebola epidemic strikes the US, what are the personal risks in taking an Ebola vaccine? Will FEMA camps be used to quarantine large numbers of Ebola victims? Will an Ebola epidemic be a pretext for martial law?

Now there is this:
Researchers identify algae-virus DNA in humans  Journal reference: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

More information: “Chlorovirus ATCV-1 is part of the human oropharyngeal virome and is associated with changes in cognitive functions in humans and mice.” Robert H. Yolken, et al. PNAS 2014 ; published ahead of print October 27, 2014, DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1418895111

Algae Virus Can Alter the Cognitive Functions
Study: Algae in throat could lead to subtle changes in cognitive function
Evolution of equine influenza led to canine offshoot which could mix with human influenza

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Isolation and characterization of a new type of chlorovirus that infects an endosymbiotic Chlorella strain of the heliozoon Acanthocystis turfacea  — From Universität Hohenheim, Institut für Genetik, FG Allgemeine Virologie, Emil-Wolff-Str. 14, D-70599 Stuttgart, Germany

Abstract

A novel virus, named Acanthocystis turfacea Chlorella virus (ATCV), that infects endosymbiotic Chlorella algae of the heliozoon Acanthocystis turfacea was isolated from freshwater samples. Electron microscopic analysis of ATCV revealed that the viral capsid has a distinct icosahedral shape with a diameter of 140–190 nm. Filamentous structures extending from some of the virus vertices, which may aid attachment of the virus to host cells, were also observed. The capsid is made up of one major coat protein of about 50 kDa and contains a large dsDNA genome. ATCV is a member of the genus Chlorovirus, which belongs to the family Phycodnaviridae, a group of large, icosahedral, dsDNA-containing viruses that infect algae and are ubiquitous in natural environments. However, ATCV is clearly distinct from the prototype Chlorovirus, Paramecium bursaria Chlorella virus (PBCV-1), in some aspects of its genome structure and gene content and therefore must be regarded as a member of a new group of Chlorella viruses.

The GenBank/EMBL/DDBJ accession number for the sequence reported in this paper is AY971002.

And not to forget: Army Medical Research on Humans Guidelines (pdf)

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