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“The 1957 Asian flu pandemic was announced…after this ‘large area coverage’ spraying by the U.S. Army…CDC came in and said, ‘There’s a new virus.’ … Does this sound familiar?”

Retired pharma R&D executive Sasha Latypova describes for Dr. Jane Ruby during a recently posted interview on The Dr. Jane Ruby Show how the spraying of chemical agents from U.S. Army airplanes has been associated with respiratory illnesses. Latypova highlights one instance from the late 1950s when the CDC declared an ostensible outbreak of so-called “Asian flu pandemic” in the U.S. closely following a cross-country spraying campaign conducted by the Army.

Latypova notes that Adams found zinc cadmium sulfide (ZnCdS)—a compound formed by a mixture of zinc sulfide (ZnS) and cadmium sulfide (CdS)— in Ruby’s sample and that this exact compound was sprayed by the Army in the ’50s and ’60s.

“Interestingly,” Latypova says, “the Army used these fluorescent particles as a test of dispersals in numerous tests over the years. One of the largest ones they did was called ‘large area coverage operation’ or ‘operation LAC.’ And in this operation they flew thousands of flights that crisscrossed the entire United States.

This was to disperse these particles all over the United States in 1957. They started, interestingly, on December 2nd, 1957, went through the winter season of ’57 to ’58, flew all over U.S. [and] dispersed the particles. And, interestingly, in that season, we had [a] so-called ‘Asian flu pandemic.'”