WestNileMystery

From 911Encyclopedia:

In April, 1998, OraVax/Acambis (->) Vice President, Dr. Thomas Monath (->) met with President Clinton, New York's Emergency Management Director, Jerry Hauer (->), Rockefeller University president emeritus and American Type Culture Collection (ATCC) curator, Dr. Joshua Lederberg, CIA Director John Deutsch, and government biological weapons expert William C. Patrick, III, to discuss/negotiate the first of several multimillion dollar anthrax, smallpox and West Nile virus vaccine contracts.

According to New York Times reporters William Broad and Judith Miller, (31) "seven scientists endorsed the stockpile.." These included "two men who stood to gain financially from the decision. . . ." These men included Dr. Monath and Dr. J. Craig Venter, president of The Institute for Genomic Research near Washington working on anthrax genetics. One year later in 1999, the first official West Nile Virus was located in New York City.