2016 Zika
In March of 2016, Dr. Fauci again misled the public—this time into believing that the Zika virus was causing an epidemic of microcephaly among newborn babies in Brazil. One thing we know for sure: Zika doesn’t cause microcephaly. Dr. Fauci had to have learned this. Zika was endemic to Central America and much of South Asia for many generations with no reported association with microcephaly. Dr. Fauci’s critics claimed that an experimental DPT vaccine administered to pregnant women in 2015–2016 in the slums of northeast Brazil was the likely culprit for the wave of microcephaly. Extensive use of highly toxic pesticides in that corner of the nation may have also contributed. They accused Dr. Fauci of pointing the finger at Zika to distract attention from the more likely culprits, and to extract billions of dollars from Congress to develop yet another chimeric vaccine. The servile media, fattening on pharma advertising, delighting in the frightening epidemic that yielded children with tiny heads and great big ratings for the networks, obligingly heaped fuel onto Dr. Fauci’s Zika terror crusade. Fear drives viewership. As CNN Technical Director Charlie Chester explained to industry analysts during the COVID-19 crisis, “COVID? Gangbusters with ratings, right? Which is why we have the death toll on the side.”92
Dr. Fauci announced that he was pulling funds from malaria, influenza, and tuberculosis research programs in order to fund “a series of four or five vaccines” to rescue America from Zika. By fanning the flames of pandemic panic, Dr. Fauci, buttressed by his partner Bill Gates,93 requested an additional nearly $2 billion congressional appropriation to NIAID to develop a Zika vaccine.94, 95 That money swelled his agency’s Zika budget to about $2 billion and enriched his Pharmaceutical partners.96 Dr. Fauci funneled $125 million to a new Cambridge, Massachusetts, startup then called Moderna Therapeutics, to develop an mRNA vaccine for Zika. Gates appeared on CNBC to tout Moderna and promote its efforts to deliver a Zika jab.97 He put $18 million into a project with the Wellcome Trust to fund a US-owned company, Oxitec, headquartered near Oxford University in the UK,98 to release millions of genetically modified mosquitoes in Brazil and the communities99 to exterminate the mosquito species blamed for spreading Zika.100, 101 This was a follow-up to an even slightly more sinister 2008 Gates-funded study by Professor Hiroyuki Matsuoka at Jichi Medical University in Japan to engineer mosquitoes that can act as “flying syringes” to inject malaria vaccine into people—both the willing and the unwilling.102 In 2021, Gates would expand on this macabre project by investing $25 million in an effort to genetically modify mosquitoes to stealthily deliver coronavirus vaccine to the vaccine-hesitant.103, 104 I’m not joking.
The feverish predictions of a microcephaly scourge in Brazil soon fizzled. World Health Organization spokesman Christopher Dye told NPR that while “we apparently saw a lot of cases of Zika virus in 2016, there was no microcephaly.”105 Peaking at a high of about 5,200 cases in 2016,106 the United States has recorded a total of about 550 Zika cases since then, with roughly 80 percent of those occurring in 2017,107 with no reported microcephaly. The disease never spread beyond Florida and Texas, and no cases of Zika-associated microcephaly ever materialized.
Undaunted, Dr. Fauci warned that the disease “will come again” to the United States and that the country “absolutely [has] to be prepared” for it.108
In 2019, health officials reported only 15 cases of Zika in the United States, all of them microcephaly-free. The Mayo Clinic, meanwhile, reported in December109 that, despite Dr. Fauci’s $2 billion expenditure, there is no functional vaccine for the disease. By 2020, Dr. Fauci could no longer credibly blame the microcephaly epidemic on Zika, and he stopped talking about his vaccine. In June 2020, Dr. Fauci, under questioning before Congress, sheepishly explained, “It was never brought to full fruition because Zika disappeared.”110
2016 Dengue
The Gates/Fauci Zika scam squandered billions of taxpayer money. But the Gates/Fauci dengue vaccine collaboration had a far graver outcome: this time, their “lifesaving vaccine” was a deathtrap in a syringe. Over a span of two decades, NIAID worked with the Gates Foundation to develop a vaccine against the mosquito-borne dengue virus, the most widespread tropical disease after malaria. Only a month after Fauci’s agency filed its first of 305 patent applications in November 2003, toward “development of mutations useful for attenuating dengue viruses and chimeric dengue viruses, the Gates Foundation announced a $55 million grant to support the Pediatric Dengue Vaccine Initiative.111 In September 2006, Sanofi Pasteur entered a partnership with the Initiative.112
By July 2007, NIAID’s prototype dengue vaccine candidate emerged out of preclinical trials with what Dr. Fauci called “a promising future.” NIAID awarded “several industry sponsors in Europe and Brazil” nonexclusive licenses for its formulations. Early the following year, Dr. Fauci issued another of his hysterical pandemic warnings in a commentary for the American Medical Association’s journal, “[A] disease most Americans have never heard of could soon become more prevalent if dengue, a flu like illness that can turn deadly, continues to expand into temperate climates and increase in severity.” Efforts to control the transmitting mosquitoes had fallen short, Fauci said, and “widespread appearance of dengue in the continental United States is a real possibility.” To fight the disease, “the formidable challenges of understanding dengue pathogenesis and of developing effective therapies and vaccines must be met.”113
NIAID announced its dengue virus vaccine clinical trial in August 2010, at the Gates-funded Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore and at the University of Vermont. Fauci said: “With increasing infection rates and disease severity around the world and the discovery of dengue in parts of Florida, finding a way to prevent dengue infection is an important priority.”114
Gates’s WHO fueled Dr. Fauci’s feverish dengue furor, warning: “In 2012, dengue ranks as the most important mosquito-borne viral disease with an epidemic potential in the world. There has been a 30-fold increase in the global incidence of dengue during the past 50 years, and its human and economic costs are staggering.” However, referring to the Gates/Fauci projects, WHO predicted progress on vaccines that induce “long-lasting protective immunity.”115