Larvatus Prodeo, the Interview

By T. Manning

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New Book reveals an enduring series of events as discussed in a widely-viewed interview with the author ... more Greer, SC (May 21, 2008) The worlds of espionage and science can influence any nations affairs, both internally and externally. When the stakes are high, many things out of the ordinary can happen and even alter the course of history. In the new book Larvatus Prodeo, The Interview, author T. Manning reveals a long series of fictional events that parallel reality.
Larvatus Prodeo, The Interview follows the enduring story of Dr. Carmine Barre, whose life and achievements become a hot topic of investigation and debates. The book begins with an extensive interview on the author conducted by famous talk show host Moraima Willco, who believes that the character of Barre is based on Manning himself. The author emphasizes to Willco the concepts, plot and details of his book Larvatus Prodeo, complete with a biography of Barre, who believes that that sudden explosion of human AIDS could not have occurred without enormous geopolitical and ecological interventions. Barres career, as readers will discover in this volume, leads him to getting involved with the intelligence service, academics, and to witnessing the international scientific misbehaviors with the international smuggling of genetically engineered viruses in vaccines, a repeat of the equivalent misbehavior by the same scientist in the 1950s with the polio vaccine. Interestingly, the narrative investigates Barres reappearance and eventual expose causing a great uproar. As the storytelling and interview unfold, the book also reveals interesting details about the authors research and achievements.

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Contents

Citations

Acknowledgment

~First Sentence(s)

Minibio

Minisynopsis

2007~

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Glossary

Notes

To my father and two subsequent brothers who died so untimely and tragically. I hope these words acknowledge their permanence in my life.

This author wants to pay homage here to the Colombian 1982 Nobel Prize of Literature, Maestro Gabriel Garcia-Marquez who is now, in 2007 (March 06), celebrating 80 years of age. We are also commemorating 60 years of the publication of his first short-story, 40 years of his masterpiece, one of the most-read-novels in the world One Hundred Years of Solitude and 25 years of his Nobel. No author with Hispanic origin and association can even conceive not to be somehow involved in this magnum commemoration.

Citations

Sa célèbre devise Larvatus prodeo2

(je m’avance masqué) . . .

—Descartes3

Conflict engenders fire.

—Jung4

This appearance of refutation was due to the exercise

of power, not scientific judgement.

—Brian Martin, 19925

I was looking up epidemiologist the other day. And

I thought that might have been a great career. It involves so many different skills, and I love that.

—Actor of Actors, William Hurt, 20066

Observing the natural history of HAIDS in animals and the perennial war-making and lovemaking patterns of humans, one has to start wondering, not if, but which, where and when the next scourge will originate. Surely HAIDS is not likely to remain the only super pandemic of this and the subsequent centuries.

—Torres-Anjel, M. J. 7

Poems8

Musik9

Recipes10

Acknowledgment

First among persons acknowledged here is MG for bearing with me and taking such good care of me and CM, for being.

To my engineer son for stimulus, advice, and support.

To my pilot son for providing the Personal digital assistant (PDA) hardware in which this work was produced.

Moreover, my acknowledgment goes to my remaining baby brother for being my kind of guy.

To Cable Arts Channel, Burbank, California, USA, for continuously providing the background music in the wee hours of the night, and early morning.

More Acknowledgment

I thank my supervisors and colleagues during my international work in the Caribbean and Africa, my joint/simultaneous or subsequent academic positions at Cornell University (adjunct professor of international health), at the Wistar Institute and University of Pennsylvania (associate scientist and adjunct professor of clinical epidemiology), and at the University of Missouri (associate professor of clinical epidemiology). Thank you for letting me think and pursuing my thoughts. You proved that the word university comes from universe and not from parish (the term for that is parochial).

I also thank those that did not stimulate my pursuits. They nonetheless contributed that other side of the challenge: the detraction and repression that have historically contributed to produce the best, sometimes also the most controversial, minds and ideas. In the same vein, I have to express here my deepest acknowledgment of gratitude to those opponents, detractors, and repressors. As Carl Jung said, Conflict engenders fire . . . and like every other fire it has two aspects, that of combustion and that of creating light. To these Jungian thoughts, I dare to add paraphrasing from acknowledgments in some of my scientific publications: Without the stimulus of censure, oppression, and repression, we would not have the best minds in the world producing the most immortal works of literature, science, and art.

 ~First Sentence(s)

Dr. Taurus Manning is, quite unsuccessfully, trying to convince Ms. Moraima Willco that the character of Dr. Carmine Barre is not himself. Ms. Willco is interviewing Dr. Manning about his book, Larvatus Prodeo. Ms. Willco is a famous talk-show host and interviewer, who by the way could very well have been Mr. Brian Lam of C-SPAN himself.

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1st. sentence[2]

Surely, human AIDS (HAIDS) is not likely to remain the only super pandemic of this and the subsequent centuries.

1st. sentence[3]

Observing the natural history of AIDS in animals and humans (HAIDS) and the perennial war-making and lovemaking patterns of humans, one has to start wondering, not if, but which, where, and when the next scourge will originate.11

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PHOTO T. Manning, the author himself

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Photograph courtesy of Maria Gabriela Rueda.

The author himself at the crucial intersection of Clifton Road and North, CDC (Center for Disease Control) Parkway, city of Atlanta, state of Georgia, USA.

Minibio

DVM, MPVM, PhD, FACE, DSNAP

Education

Universities—National University of Colombia, Tulane University of Louisiana and Michigan State University; University of California—Davis.

Institutions where he worked are the following:

1.   Universities and Research

a.   National University of Colombia

b.   University of California—Davis

c.   Cornell University (adjunct)

d.   University of Pennsylvania (based at The Wistar Institute),

e.   University of Missouri

f.   United States of America’s government agency, National Institutes of Health (NIH).

International

2.   United Nations

a.   World (WHO) and Pan American Health (PAHO) Organizations, Geneva, Trinidad and Tobago (Caribbean Epidemiology Center), Angola, Mozambique, Swaziland, and other countries in Africa

b.   Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO), Rome, Angola, Mozambique, and other countries in Africa

Publications

-The author has over two hundred publications to his credit—including over sixty refereed journal papers and peer reviewed presentations, seven scientific book chapters, and reviews. Also, the author is the contributor of several bacterial, viral, and tissue-type cultures in internationally recognized repositories such as American Type Culture Collection (ATCC). Besides his scientific works, the author is a published poet and has published historical novels, i.e., Bolivar and Francisquita.

Minisynopsis

From his office at the Old Executive Office Building Carmine Barre, DVM, MD, issued his analysis: human AIDS, or HAIDS, had been brewing in the African savannas for years. Its sudden explosion could not have occurred without enormous human participation in terms of geopolitical manipulations (mercenary armies) and ecological mismanagement (the polio vaccine). Neither could it have been isolated from the megaphenomenon of this century—the massive traffic of illegal drugs and its corollary, the astronomic laundering of money. Dr. Carmine Barre miraculously reappeared (Larvatus Prodeo, the title of the book). He was awarded the Niels Bohr International Prize for Services to Humanity.

2007~

Dr. Taurus Manning is, quite unsuccessfully, trying to convince Ms. Moraima Willco that the character of Dr. Carmine Barre is not himself. Ms. Willco is interviewing Dr. Manning about his book, Larvatus Prodeo. Ms. Willco is a famous talk-show host and interviewer, who by the way could very well have been Mr. Brian Lam of C-SPAN himself.

Mr. Brian Lam is the founder and is the leader of C-SPAN and, according to this author and to Bob Schieffer of Face the Nation-CBS and to the American Newswomen Club nonetheless, the most respected such leader and anchor.12

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Moraima Willco (MW): We were in the dilemma with your work and, if yes, how to interview you.

Dr. Taurus Manning (TM): The fact is that I am here, and you are here, which would seem to say something about my work.

MW: What does it say, Dr. Manning?

TM: It says that it is of some interest.

MW: No doubt about it. The dilemma is that you wrote it as an exposé.

TM: It would be better called a fictitious exposé, or is it fictional? Exposé—yes, it was written as fiction, well-researched bioscience fiction, though.

MW: Our problem is precisely with the fiction word.

TM: Oh, with the f word, so to speak? You have throughout the years interviewed other fiction writers, haven’t you?

MW: We have, and they were so in their capacity as authors of fiction. But here we have the suspicion that this is a true story.

TM: Many of its parts are based on true occurrences, yes.

MW: Then, why did you publish it as a work of fiction?

TM: Your question reminds me of my former spouse who got very exasperated with my way of approaching the art of cooking: no cookbook, no recipes to be followed to the letter. My answer to her then and to you now is that I spent many years as a bona fide scientist; and as such, I spent many hours, days, weeks, and months in pursuit of the scientific truth. Such a pursuit was only through very structured and restrictive protocols, procedures, and formulations. I felt I deserved a break. In cooking as well as in writing. I also discovered through the years that the strict testing of scientific hypotheses is a very recognized method, but it does not cover all issues of humanity, and it is not the only method of analysis.

The realization is somewhat similar to what has happened to the so-called modern medicine. There are very many real phenomena in the so-called alternative medicine that were wrongly despised because they did not, they do not, stand to the Western scientific method. For example, acupuncture. We even know that acupuncture works through the release of endorphins. But surely, it works, doesn’t it? But for years, regular everyday physicians of what I call commercial medicine laughed at it. Until one day, some cleverer member of the higher echelons of that medicine was sent to China to observe an open-skull surgery with the patient’s pain controlled only through acupuncture. In that particular case, the Chinese used modernized-with-electricity acupuncture, but only acupuncture nonetheless.

MW: But . . . fiction?

TM: This author has had to, humbly, accept the power of the popular talk shows with a man or woman running up and down the aisles of an auditorium full with people, with a microphone in his/her hand. Therefore, it was fiction to be read, as it is popularity to be watched. I also reluctantly had to recognize that people, the populace if you want, watches soap operas and movies specially produced for television (albeit adapted to a very low level of intellectuality). So the People like other magazines of the world are doing the only successful (even if imperfect) communication of medical/scientific (even if only pseudo-medical and pseudo-scientific) facts to the populace. We, the elegant and sophisticated scientists, are not. Not at all.

MW: So that explains your usage of such a popular term as monkey or monkeys.

TM: In that precise way as explained above. In writing the book, I had to accept the usage of the terms monkey and monkeys, sacrificing absolute scientific accuracy to understandability. The popular term monkeys would have to include a variety of genera and species of the technically to be specified nonhuman primates (NHP), which in turn would normally have to include all the way up from apes and all the way down to many other lower species like lemurs and lorises. The terminology of primates contains, besides human, from the gorilla to the spider monkey. Nevertheless, I wanted my book to be readable and understandable by everybody. Therefore, monkey and its plural, monkeys, would have to do.

MW: So, is the term HAIDS that you use instead of the more recognized AIDS another example of scientific populism?

TM: On the absolute contrary, the terms human AIDS or HAIDS will be used throughout this work because in this author’s real-life work,13 and in Dr. Carmine Barre’s fictional scientific world and work, it has been shown in their different publications that there are AIDS or AIDS-like syndromes in most domestic animal species as well as in monkeys.

MW: You continuously hammer on the term comparative medicine.

TM: Yes, Carmine Barre does, almost compulsively. Comparative medicine is the study of medicine from up to down, the strata of animals and humans without the conventional separation of the species. Mostly, it studies medicine at large without elevating the human species over the others. This attempt to biological pseudo-oligarchy among species is one of the most pervasive mistakes of modern science. In terms of biology, the study of life and pathology, the study of disease, it has given the false impression of a discrimination that pathogens do not practice. Diseases are quite color-blind, race blind, genre blind, and as we see more and more frequently, species blind. Physicians, in their continued search for glory and power, have considered that, conveniently and very erroneously, human medicine had to be above all other medicines. Anthropology, the study of human beings, is only one more, and quite minute, branch of zoology, the overall study of the animal kingdom.

Well, soon there was to be the emergence, not discovery since they had been discovered years before, of retroviruses. Carmine Barre, DVM, MD, was going to be proven very right and so many times right at that. Almost as if nature was preparing to help Carmine Barre to prove his point: during all those preliminary years, viruses had decided to jump all over from species to species, signaling the enormous homogeneity of the animal, and even the nonanimal vegetable, kingdom. The famous passage of feline viruses (feline panleukopenia) unto canines (with a change of name too, to parvovirus, the agent, and parvoviruses, the diseases), with the wiping off of millions of canines throughout the world, had been a fortunate preamble.

Humankind could very well be at this moment on the verge of another human influenza pandemia, not too different from the one in 1919.14 In the same manner that the latter infamous multimillion outbreak, the Spanish flu, killed a good portion of the human population of the earth, this present one, if viable, would originate as a zoonoses, in this case a human influenza derived from birds’ influenza.

The United States of America and other first-world countries know more about companion animals—pets—than about humans. And this type of phenomenon was going to be better understood if we had pet diseases to use as examples. Nature had been generous lately with even other examples: the outbreaks of canine distemper virus (CDV) among sea lions and seals first and then the same canine virus unto lions and felines in the National Park of Serengeti. Even talking about influenza or flu, we would not have to go too far to find such examples. The present pandemia of avian or birds’ flu, if nothing else, is already rich in examples of such jumping: avian flu has moved already to canines as well as unto felines and, more interestingly, unto tigers and other wild felines in Thailand.15

With respect to superexposures we will be talking about the development of the original polio vaccine; as a point-in-case of such superexposure, it also allowed the simian or monkey viruses to do an interspecies virus jump—that is, a transfer of monkey viruses to another species, humans in the case of HAIDS.

All of these were going to be well-understood phenomena to veterinary scientists much before physician-MD-only types were to even consider that they had to look at animal-malignancy-producing viruses as possible agents of human cancer and animal-immunodeficiency-producing viruses as models first and examples of the way this happened among humans.

It was flabbergasting to Carmine Barre how, having followed veterinary studies of feline leukemia for more than forty years, is it that no human immunodeficiency virus had even been thought of before. Not even at the beginning of the HAIDS epidemic, which he insisted in calling in this manner, HAIDS for human AIDS, to remind people that AIDS in the other different animal species also existed and had been characterized many years before, even if with other and different names. Practically, all of the domestic animal species have had an AIDS-like or AIDS-equivalent disease. In cataloguing them, Dr. Barre found himself with some acronyms that produced hidden or obvious laughter. Like in talking about mouse AIDS, one would be talking about MAIDS.16

MW: Are we talking about all of this because it recently was the twenty-fifth anniversary of HIV-AIDS, or HAIDS?

TM: It was not the silver anniversary of HAIDS. It was the twenty-fifth anniversary of the slow and reluctant recognition of HAIDS in the United States of America. Let us remember that Dr. Michael S. Gottlieb’s17 first report came about more as an almost laconic calendar note than a scientific article.

MW: Reluctant and slow? What do you mean?

TM: Gottlieb’s note was not allowed to be anything else but a report on a cluster of a rare type of lung disease and nothing else. And it would have been accepted by the New England Journal of Medicine or NEJM but only for publication after at least three months, no urgency priority at all whatsoever. Actually, the way I would commemorate the whole horror of HAIDS would be by watching the marvelous commercial TV movie version by HBO of And the Band Played On.18 The book of the same name19 was by Randy Shilts,20 himself an eventual victim of the disease. The book and movie cleverly narrated all of these stories of reluctance and slowness. And the date of production itself, twelve years after Gottlieb’s report, showed how long it took for some resemblance of acceptance of the reality of HAIDS to reach unto the United States of America’s public. Let us remember here President Randolph’s statement, which, syntax error and all, established the official justification for applying the brakes unto the research on HAIDS: