E-mail sent on 18 January 2009 to Barak Obama, USA President-Elect within the program „Change.gov: The Obama-Biden Transition Team/Health Care – Of the People, By the People“.

 

Re: Urgent need for stopping internationally organized spread of infections through trade detrimental to health of US citizens

 

In order to protect health of US citizen against imported infections through trade in animals and their products, there is a need to restore normal fair principles also for these commodities. The US consumers, farmers and traders must have again the right to demand the imported food of animal origin as well as the animals to be free of infections causing mass suffering and premature death, i.e. to demand full sanitary quality. This right has been abolished  by  World Trade Organization (WTO) and International Office of Epizootics (OIE) prohibiting, even under international sanctions, to refuse these commodities when being not sanitary innocuous, i.e. without infection-free guarantee. The policy of both organizations is also avoiding sanitary guarantee documents and therefore the US consumers, farmers and traders cannot be informed if the imported commodity is or not free of  infection pathogens. Paying country must have again the freedom to decide on the import conditions without any external interference. To import the infections is relatively easy, however to detect and eradicate them is very difficult up to impossible and then they can continue to spread and last for a very long time in affected populations (multiplying impact). Imported infections are also detrimental to US biosphere.

 

Solution: to use US international initiative in abolishing all WTO and OIE documents and provisions supporting spread of infections through trade; normal fair trade principles to be applied again also on the above mentioned commodities.

 

Detailed information was sent to Mr. Al Gore, Former US Vice President.

 

Prof. MVDr Václav  K o u b a, DrSc.                                                            

Formerly: Chief,  Animal Health Service, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO); Veterinary Public Health Expert, World Health Organization (WHO); Informatics Expert, International Office of Epizootics (OIE); Editor-in-Chief, global FAO/WHO/OIE Animal Health Yearbook; Professor of Epizootiology, University of Veterinary Science, Brno

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Following correspondence:

 

From: Barack Obama (mailto:info@clt2012.com)

Sent: Friday, August 03, 2012 9:17 PM

To: Vaclav Kouba

Subject: Will I see you in Charlotte?

 

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                     Barack

 

 

 

On September 07, 2012 the author answered e-mail sent him by Mr. Barack Obama, President of the United States of America, as follows:

 

“Dear Barack,

 

thanks for your e-mail dated August 03, 2012.

 

I would like to exploit this opportunity and remind you my e-mail sent you on 18 January 2009 within the program „Change. gov: The Obama-Biden Transition Team/Health Care – Of the People, By the People“. Text of my e-mail was entitled „Urgent need for stopping internationally organized spread of infections through trade detrimental to health of US Citizen“. Copy is attached.

 

Full text to Mr. Al Gore can be found under http://vaclavkouba.byl.cz/ALGORE.htm.

 

More information can be found on my website http://vaclavkouba.byl.cz, namely in http://vaclavkouba.byl.cz/warnings.htm containing warning letters sent to United Nations Secretary General, DG of World Trade Organization  (WTO), DG of International Office of Epizootics (OIE), etc..

 

Unfortunately, my suggestions are still valid because the globalization of animal infections (including transmissible to man) through international trade being supported by WTO and OIE continues getting more and more massive and irreparable character.

 

Regards,

 

Vaclav”

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Addendum:

 

 

E-mail:

 

From: John Kerry (mailto:info@clt2012)

Sent: Friday, July 27, 2012 10:06 PM

To: Vaclav Kouba

Subject: An experience of a lifetime

 

 

The author responded on February 11, 2013 the e-mail sent him by Mr. John Forbes K e r r y, United States Senator for Massachusetts and Chairman of the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee, who was appointed on February 01, 2013 as US Secretary of State:

 

 

“Dear John,

 

thanks very much for your e-mail sent me on July 27, 2012.

 

I would like to use this occasion to inform you, new US Secretary of State,  about one extremely important international issue regarding the health of all present and future human and animal populations in the world: policy of “legally“ supported globalization of dangerous infections through international trade in animals and their products. Of many hundreds of animal infection species causing mass sufferings and premature deaths are almost two hundred transmissible to man. Sanitary, economic, ecological and social steadily increasing global consequences of this policy are incomparably much larger than the impact of present terrorism in the whole world. For the “import” of infectious disease pathogens  is sufficient only one moment while the detection and eradication of them are extremely difficult up to unreal when the imported pathogens, able to reproduce and spread, penetrate into populations of wild animals.

 

There is an urgent need to abolish (or replace) international documents and all provisions admitting, facilitating and even supporting  export of infectious disease pathogens at the expense of human and animal health in importing countries!

 

The first document is World Trade Organization (WTO) “Agreement on the Application of Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures"  not requiring exported animal commodities to be of full sanitary safety, i.e. to be free of infectious disease pathogens. The second document is “Animal Health Code for International Trade” being issued annually by International Office of Epizootics (OIE) supporting fully WTO anti-sanitary policy conducing to international spread and globalization of dangerous infections.

 

Text of my protest as former Chief, Animal Health Service, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations sent to Director General of the WTO requiring and justifying the abolishment of the mentioned WTO document can be found in

http://vaclavkouba.byl.cz/WTOTEXT3.htm.

 

Similar protesting letters sent to Director General of the OIE and to some other international authorities can be found in http://vaclavkouba.byl.cz/warnings.htm and detailed analysis of the OIE document in http://vaclavkouba.byl.cz/oiecode.htm.

 

I informed Mr. Barak Obama, President of the United States on January 18, 2009 within the program „Change. gov: The Obama-Biden Transition Team/Health Care – Of the People, By the People“. Text of this e-mail was entitled „Urgent need for stopping internationally organized spread of infections through trade detrimental to health of US citizens“. Similar e-mail I sent on September 07, 2012. Both self-explanatory texts are attached.

 

Regards,

 

Vaclav”

 

 

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Note: The author was addressed by his first name, therefore he responded in the same way.