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[Guest guest]

I, Steven Pattison, received the following from someone I have known

for some time:

 

From a guy I know fairly well who is a member of my VFW post.

 

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Thursday, March 17, 2005 11:18 PM

A possible flu pandemic....from Hal

 

Here is a collection of information that I urge you to wade

through. This is important. Dr Doyle and I collaborate on a number

of concerns, one being biological threats. She and I have both been

on Jeff Rense's program www.rense.com . Both of us are doctorate

level epidemiologists and my field was biological weapons defense.

Now that the bona fides are laid out, some serious things are

happening around the world. So hang in there with me and I will

spell out some of them....I'll start with what has become known as

SARS.

A mainland Chinese physician was treating hundreds of cases of a

previously unknown disease in Guangdong Province, China. Some were

dying. He was invited to a wedding in Hong Kong and went, but he

was coming down with the disease himself. He sneezes on an elevator

in the hotel. The man next to him was an American on business, who

goes to Hanoi and becomes ill. He is treated by a World Health

Organization physician, Dr. Carlos Urbani. Both are now dead. The

Chinese doctor is dead. The disease spreads and becomes known by

its symptoms, Sudden Acute Respiratory Syndrome. I think it was a

bioweapon that got out the door of a secret bioweapons lab in

Guangdong Province.

 

We know that North Korea is actively pursuing bioweapons. The

Soviets told us, but not on purpose. Yvgeny Primikov was formerly

head of the KGB (Komitet Gesudarstvennoy Besopesnosti--the Committee

for State Security) and presented a report to the Duma, or Congress,

of the USSR back in 1993. Our folks picked it up and the US Senate

had a hearing " Proliferation Threats of the 1990's. " Among the

countries, or client states of the USSR that he reports on, one

stands out. North Korea. Of NK he says, and I quote, " North Korea

is actively working in their laboratories and research centers on

Anthrax, Botulinum Toxin, and Smallpox. They are testing these

agents on the islands belonging to the Peoples Democratic Republic

(of NK) " . Everyone, well, almost everyone thought that smallpox was

kept frozen in only two places in the world. The Centers for

Disease Control in Atlanta, and at the Insititute for Viral

Preparations near Moscow. My guess is that the testing going on is

on humans, probably political prisoners. Genetically engineering,

or gene splicing smallpox could produce a 'new' form of the disease,

for which none of us has any immunity or ability to defeat. Now on

to influenza....it got its name from once believing that the

stars 'influenced' our diseases. Much like mal-aria was caused by

bad air around swampy areas. Now we know that malaria is caused by

the bite of infected mosquitoes. The particular flu virus of 1918

killed more people that World War I and in the United States killed

500,000, which was ten times our deaths in combat. Now it is

showing up in particular labs and in some Asian pigs. It feels like

lab accidents are the cause. Now, take a little while and read

about it. .....Hal

 

In a message dated 3/17/05 2:51:50 PM Pacific Standard Time,

dr_p_doyle writes:

 

Hello Hal: I heard some very disturbing information on coroners

planning to use shrink wrap on bodies should bird flu become

pandemic.

 

My initial reaction, looking at the current bird flu epidemiology

circulating in Asia, i.e. A H5N1, I felt that there was little risk

of pandemic as the virus did not look ready to maintain sustained

human transmission. .....then I heard from a microbiologist

(surprised he isn't one of the dead ones) who claims that he sent

genetic sequences from pigs in S. Korea to GenBank. Guess what he

found? The pigs on the S. Korean farm had genetic sequences from a

1933 lab created version of the 1918 flu virus. Needless to say he

has set the microbiology world on fire with this one. He suspects

bioweapons development of influenza virus. I suspect IF the HPAI A

H5N1 hits, it won't be the H5N1 we see now, it will be a chimera

with its cousin the 1918 Influenza H1N1. Genes from the H1N1 will

enable the H5N1 to sustain human transmission. Such a chimera will

be extremely virulent. As we speak there is research ongoing

creating a chimera of the H5N1. It is being reassorted with genes

from another bird flu. I bet the farm it will be the Spanish Flu.

 

FYI:

 

http://discuss.agonist.org/yabbse/index.php?

board=6;action=display;threadid=20969

 

--

http://www.recombinomics.com/News/03030506/Public_Health_WSN33.html

 

Science, Vol 307, Issue 5714, 1392 , 4 March 2005

 

[DOI: 10.1126/science.307.5714.1392]

 

INFECTIOUS DISEASES :

Experts Dismiss Pig Flu Scare as Nonsense

Martin Enserink

It could be the result of an embarrassing lab escape or a vaccine

study gone awry; it could even be the smoking gun from a secret

biowarfare program.

 

But then, it could be nothing at all.

 

For 4 months now, a series of strange influenza sequences has been

sitting in GenBank, the U.S. National Institutes of Health's DNA

database, that seems to suggest that pigs in South Korea have become

infected with a flu strain used for research in labs around the

world but not known to occur in nature. The World Health

Organization (WHO) in Geneva has dismissed the snippets as the

result of a lab error. But the Korean scientist who posted

them insists they are real--and troubling--and he is hoping that two

renowned flu labs will prove him right.

 

Meanwhile, speculation about the case has been fueled relentlessly

on the Internet by an outsider to the influenza world. Henry Niman,

the president of a Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania-based company called

Recombinomics and the operator of a mailing list about flu, believes

that the virus, called WSN/33, poses a grave danger to human health.

Recently, his views have begun to draw attention--much to the

chagrin of those scientists who think the whole story is nonsense.

 

The bizarre case started on 24 October when Sang Heui Seo, a

researcher at Chungnam National University in Daejeon, deposited in

GenBank partial RNA sequences from a series of viruses isolated from

pigs. Niman, a molecular biologist and former Harvard surgery

instructor with an intense interest in virus evolution, discovered

them soon after they were made public in late November. He noticed

that six of the viruses appeared to be hybrids; in addition to genes

from H9N2, an avian flu virus that previously circulated in Korean

pigs, they had between three and seven genes with WSN/33-like

sequences.

 

WSN/33 was produced in 1940 by infecting mice with the first human

flu virus ever isolated, in London in 1933. It's a mystery how it

got into the pigs, says Niman, who proffers scenarios ranging from a

lab accident to illicit experiments to create a deadly flu strain

for biowarfare--neighboring North Korea comes to mind, he says.

Niman believes the spread of the virus should be thoroughly

investigated, because WSN/33, which infects mice's brains, is

distantly related to the 1918 pandemic virus, and if it infects

pigs, it may infect humans as well. That's why he immediately

alerted WHO in December.

 

Agitator. Henry Niman (right) is worried that pigs on Korean farms

(shown here being sanitized for foot-and-mouth disease) may harbor a

strange flu virus, posing a threat to human health.

CREDITS: YUN SUK-BONG/REUTERS; (RIGHT) H. NIMAN

 

 

But WHO is unimpressed. The agency discussed Niman's claims by e-

mail with its flu advisers in December, says Klaus Stöhr, WHO's

global influenza coordinator. They quickly concluded that the

results were lab contamination.

Such mix-ups can happen easily when researchers use the polymerase

chain reaction to amplify bits of genetic material, says Robert

Webster of St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis,

Tennessee, one of Stöhr's advisers. Contamination was likely, says

Webster, because Seo had previously received WSN/33 from Webster's

own lab. (Seo also worked at Webster's lab between 1999 and 2002,

and the two published seven papers together.)

But in an interview, Seo denied ever having received the WSN/33 from

Memphis or anywhere else. What's more, " I have many scientific data

that can rebut WSN contamination, " he wrote in a follow-up e-mail.

But he declined further comment until his results are published. Seo

says Science rejected his paper describing the discovery of WSN in

pigs but may reconsider the manuscript if the findings are backed up

by a well-established flu lab.

 

Seo hopes that Malik Peiris at the University of Hong Kong and Yoshi

Kawaoka at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, who both have

samples from Korea, can confirm WSN's presence. Both Peiris and

Kawaoka declined to comment for this story, but Stöhr says the

results from the Kawaoka lab will be out soon. The Korean National

Veterinary and Quarantine Services also told Science it has been

unable to replicate the findings, despite testing hundreds of pigs.

 

Molecular biologist and flu expert Ron Fouchier of Erasmus

University Medical Center in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, says the

sequences definitely contain WSN's genetic signature. But he says

the fact that the six controversial isolates have varying numbers of

WSN fragments points to lab contamination: " If this was an endemic

pig virus, I'd expect all viruses to have the same WSN gene

segments. "

 

Even if WSN were circulating in Korean pigs, Stöhr says, that

wouldn't spell disaster. There's no evidence that WSN is still

dangerous to humans, he says; indeed, Fouchier adds, many labs use

it without taking special safety precautions.

 

Determined to draw attention to the case, Niman, who has also

criticized WHO extensively for its handling of the severe acute

respiratory syndrome and avian influenza outbreaks, has posted more

than 50 messages about the case on his site since December, with

some success: Infectious-disease specialist Laurie Garrett of the

Foreign Relations Council in New York City wrote about the case in

an online article on 16 February--although she dismissed it as a

" scary near-miss " --and last week, Nature reported Niman's claims.

 

That attention irks Stöhr, who points out that Niman has not

published in the scientific literature since 1996 and is not a flu

expert. WHO will not issue an official statement about the case, he

says: " We're not going to bother 6.5 billion people with something

that's of no public health importance. " Webster, too, says any

publicity is too much: " It's so easy these days for somebody with a

Web site to create a lot of panic. "

 

Being an expert doesn't always mean being right, counters Niman, who

adds that when the truth comes out, " WHO and Webster will look very

ridiculous. "

 

 

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Henry L Niman, PhD

Founder, President

Recombinomics, Inc

www.recombinomics.com

 

 

http://www.wired.com/news/medtech/0,1286,66824,00.html?

tw=wn_4techhead

 

Pigs Hold Clues to Man-Made Flu

 

By Kristen Philipkoski

 

02:00 AM Mar. 08, 2005 PT

 

Samples taken from South Korean pigs contain genes from a human flu

virus created by scientists in 1933, and one American flu researcher

says the sequences could represent a dangerous situation for humans.

 

The World Health Organization, which monitors the worldwide spread

of flu, is remaining mum until researchers finish an investigation

of the pig samples.

 

The presence of a man-made human flu virus in pigs may be worrisome

for several reasons. First, a man-made virus has no business in

pigs -- did the virus get there naturally, or was it a lab accident?

More frighteningly, but less likely, was it bioterrorism? Second,

viruses often use pigs as a conduit to humans, who would have little

or no immune resistance to this particular strain of flu since no

one has been exposed to it.

 

" In terms of flu, pigs have always represented a danger to humans

because these animals act as a mixing vessel for various strains of

influenza, " said Dick Thompson, a spokesman for the World Health

Organization.

 

But WHO won't be convinced that the data is real -- that the human

sequences are not a result of laboratory contamination instead of

human virus in a pig

- until more laboratories can verify the samples.

 

Henry Niman, founder of Recombinomics and a researcher who has

sleuthed the spread of bird flu and its changing genetic makeup for

two years, says the investigation is moving too slowly. If pigs in

Korea are carrying a man-made human flu, authorities should take

action immediately to prevent it from spreading.

 

Sang Heui Seo of Chungnam National University in Daejon, South

Korea, entered six genetic sequences from pigs into GenBank in late

October. Niman came across the data in late November, and noticed

they contained between three and seven genes from the WSN33 virus,

which was created in 1933 by a London lab that was researching the

1918 flu pandemic. The London lab found that the virus could infect

mice, indicating that it might successfully infect humans, Niman

said. He reported the presence of the human WSN33 genes in Seo's

samples to WHO officials in early December.

 

According to a news article in Science, WHO initially dismissed the

data as lab contamination based on the fact that a researcher at St.

Jude's Children's Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee, said he had

shipped samples of WSN33 to Seo's lab. But Seo told Science he never

received any WSN33.

 

St. Jude's declined to comment on the Korean pigs, and Seo did not

return e-mails requesting comment.

 

Seo submitted his pig data to Science for publication, but the

journal's editors rejected the research, asking for outside lab

testing to verify that the data was valid. Labs in Hong Kong and at

the University of Wisconsin-Madison are now verifying the samples.

WHO is also waiting for the results to decide whether the pigs might

be a danger to humans.

 

" If there really are WSN33 sequences in pigs -- and probably birds --

on farms in Korea, " Niman said, " then there is a very major

problem. "

 

Niman says the evidence can likely be explained by one of two

possibilities:

Either the man-made virus escaped from a lab, or the virus' genes

are recombining -- morphing in a way that most flu researchers

believe is impossible.

 

" (WHO doesn't) want to think about the fact that it escaped from

some lab, which is most certainly what happened, and they certainly

don't want to think about recombination, " Niman said.

 

Post Extras:

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Re: Pigs Hold Clues to Man-Made Flu

#2722 - 03/09/05 04:30 PM (65.145.48.224) Edit Reply Quote

 

http://deconsumption.typepad.com/deconsumption/2005/02/try_the_tonyuk

k.html

 

February 24, 2005

Try the Ton-Yuk-Kui...It's Absolutely Infectious!

Courtesy of Bouphonia comes this reference to a report published on

the website for a company called Recombinomics, Inc., founded by Dr.

Henry Niman. As a personal note, when I read Dr. Niman's name I

thought it sounded oddly familiar.... Then when I read his bio on

the website I immediately understood why...Dr. Niman's research

became the basis for Ligand Pharmaceuticals--a billion-dollar market

cap company, and a fond member of my trading portfolio a few years

back. Dr. Niman truly has a resume to drool over if you're in the

biotech field, and according to his bio page he " became interested

in infectious diseases while at Harvard Medical School.

He then founded Recombinomics and discovered how viruses rapidly

evolve. "

Recombinomics' specialty is the evolution and spread of influenza

viruses.

 

Where this is going (if you haven't already got a suspicion) is that

Dr. Niman has recently been making some pretty blunt statements

about the Swine Flu outbreaks in South Korea. It's stiff reading,

but here's the gist of it:

 

It begins with this official account told by Laurie Garrett at the

Council on Foreign Relations.

 

In December, somebody from one of South Korea's veterinary schools

did what hundreds of virus-hunters do the world over: he or she e-

mailed to GenBank the genetic details of newly identified viruses.

In this case, the posting said, six new strains of influenza had

been found in local pigs. Each of the strains were genetically

manipulated and contained genetic bits of an avian virus unlike

those now prompting separate bird flu concerns.

Worse, there were large segments of a flu bug dubbed WSN/33, a human

flu virus altered in 1933 in a laboratory by infecting mice,

resulting in a strain that kills mouse brain cells. The original

1933 human virus was related to that which caused the 1918 pandemic

flu, killing an estimated 50 million people. Nothing even remotely

like the WSN/33 flu has circulated in the world since 1956, and this

particular WSN-avian flu combination is not known to have ever

occurred naturally, so most of the global population would have

little or no immunity to the virus. Since neither the particular

bird flu strain nor the WSN/33 flu were known to exist outside of

laboratories, one Internet journal concluded that " these sequences

could represent a military experiment that resulted in an unplanned

release.

Moreover, at this point, bioterrorism cannot be ruled out. "

 

The World Health Organization's (WHO) influenza branch responded

later in December, convening a teleconferenced meeting of flu

experts to analyze the GenBank information and exchanging a flurry

of e-mails. They concluded somebody had made a lab error. On January

27, the South Korean government confirmed a laboratory error had

been made and promised to send samples of the six viruses to WHO's

Hong Kong collaborative lab.

 

But at press time the South Koreans had not sent the promised

samples.

[...]

What happened? Nobody, except perhaps the silent South Koreans,

knows for sure. But there are two general hypotheses, WHO says.

Someone in the South Korean veterinary lab may have innocently

pulled the wrong computer file of genetic sequence data into an e-

mailed transmission to GenBank, resulting in the display of this

potentially terrible viral code. The lab in question may have

contaminated its research samples. Or the South Korean lab is

working on a flu vaccine, using the WSN/33 human sequence from 1933

as a basic template and deliberately scrambling it with various

animal flus. In such a scenario, the scientists accidentally created

these disturbing influenza strains in the lab in their vaccine

production effort. I cannot accept the vaccine idea: why in the

world would anybody be making a vaccine against a type of human flu

that hasn't circulated on earth for more than 70 years? If

lab contamination or data input error are the problem, I am left to

fret about a host of recent lab accidents that, in some cases, have

allowed dangerous microbes to leak, including SARS and tularemia.

 

Dr. Niman posted several responses to specific statements made by

the CFR at the Recombinomics site, more specifically in regards to

the virus' Laboratory Origins, its Nature and the world's Bioterror

Preparedness.

Excerpt from these responses selected by myself are as follows:

 

" Since the human WSN/33 sequences at GenBank do not appear to be

contaminants, their route from a lab to swine on a farm is of great

interest. The two most likely possibilities are an accidental

release, or an act of bioterrorism. "

" The selection of WSN/33 as a human virus for mixing experiment

seems wrong for a civilian lab. Mixing experiments with contemporary

human viruses would yield the same answers and would be safer....A

more sinister explanation would involve bioterrorism. The bioterror

act could simply involve infecting swine with WSN/33. This could

have been followed by dual infections by Korean avian viruses which

led to the reassortants and recombinants. "

 

" At this point all of the possibilities are speculative and open

because there has been no investigation into the origins of the

sequences. The existence of the human WSN/33 sequences in swine

still remains unclear 4 months after the sequences were deposited at

GenBank, and long after a putative terrorist attack. "

 

" The mysterious origin of the WSN/33 swine sequences at GenBank

remains unsolved. ...The fact that the existence of the associated

viruses remains unresolved is truly remarkable. If the sequences are

real, and no credible evidence has been presented to show that they

are not, then at a minimum there was a major laboratory lapse that

allowed a dangerous human virus to escape and infect swine in

conjunction with avian flu viruses. "

 

" It is hard to imagine someone suggesting the sequences at GenBank

are a wrong computer file. The data deposited are extensive...simply

looking at the sequences alone would have eliminated the " wrong

file " nonsense. "

 

" The issue of contamination is always a difficult one. However, in

this case it seems unlikely.... [Yet these] difficulties did not

prevent South Korea from telling WHO that the sequences were a lab

error, using yet another human virus as evidence. It is extremely

difficult to even come up with an improbable scenario to implicate a

different human sequence. "

 

" As more and more announcements on the looming flu pandemic hit the

news services and the public realizes that pandemic preparedness in

2005 is not much better than it was in 1918, the issue of

bioterrorism preparedness is again being raised. The bird / human

flu situation in South Korea is being cited as a " scary near miss "

to show how unprepared the US is for bioterrorism.

 

However, the characterization of the WSN/33 situation in pigs on

farms in South Korea is clearly not in the " near miss " category at

this time. The situation is unresolved and although several

explanations have been offered, the likelihood of the explanations

being correct is very close to zero. "

 

" The existence and location of the sequences is not an academic

exercise.

WSN/33 is quite lethal in mice and two of the sequences are H1N1

which would be readily transmissible from human-to-human. Since

these sequences are from 1933, most people would be immunologically

naïve to these proteins, so infections in humans could have severe

consequences.

 

Since South Korea is saying that there are no WSN/33 sequences in

pigs and the data are lab errors, the source of these swine

sequences is not being investigated.

 

Thus, the existence of the sequences in swine has not been resolved

for four months after they were placed on deposit at Genbank.

 

Bioterrorism and Pandemic Preparedness are interesting concepts, but

avian influenza continues to evolve and gain pandemic potential as

governments spin wheels, issue warnings, and hope for the best. "

 

Dr. Niman's point seems clear: the South Korean outbreaks are

obviously manmade viruses, and they were more than likely

intentionally introduced into the porcine population in hopes they

would quickly mutate into a more 'human-friendly' form. His

assessment, which matches that of Laurie Garrett at the Council on

Foreign Relations, is that both the U.S. and the World are

simply unable to adequately respond to a viral pandemic or bioterror

event.

 

Merriam-Webster's Dictionary defines terror as " violence (as

bombing) committed by groups in order to intimidate a population or

government into granting their demands. " What 'groups' could we

imagine might be behind a viral release into the South Korean pig

population? North Korea springs immediately to mind. An influenza

strain which could propagate efficiently among humans would

doubtlessly leave South Korea, and much of the world, in

a desperate state of fear and disorder. North Korea, being

substantially 'quarantined' from incoming travel, might believe they

could effectively avoid the pandemic. Also, for a country which

appears to be imploding on itself, North Korea has the kind of

desperation needed to instigate an act of terrorism 'against the

whole wide world'.

 

But if so, why would South Korea be trying to cover up the situation?

 

I don't wish to speculate unnecessarily about this. I only quote

these commentaries at length because I feel that, if nothing else,

they provide a fairly concise and legitimate 'behind the scenes'

view on the truer reality of the issue.

 

Oh, and by the way...Ton-Yuk-Kui is just a Korean pork dish I picked

out in a desperate attempt to be cute....

 

I know, it didn't work.

 

Posted by Steven Lagavulin on February 24, 2005 | Permalink

 

Post Extras:

 

Hal, Check this one out,

note the " coroner wants to use shrink wrap on bodies " article

 

http://www.legitgov.org/flu_oddities.html

 

*Page updated Thursday, 17 March 2005 07:00 GMT

 

Birdflu pandemic may mean some stay home to die 11 March 2005 --New

Zealand medical authorities may tell some people likely to die from

a birdflu pandemic to stay home and not clog up hospitals. Research

published today in the latest New Zealand Medical Journal predicts

up to 3700 deaths in New Zealand from a first wave of pandemic

influenza and up to a million people infected. " It is likely that

some difficult decisions will be required in limiting hospital care

to those where it would most likely affect final health outcomes, "

the researchers said.

 

Coroner Wants to Shrink-Wrap Bodies --Coroner Wants to Shrink-Wrap

Bodies in the Case of a Natural Disaster or Terrorist Attack 19

February 2005 - In the case of a natural disaster or terrorist

attack, some emergency officials in Western Washington plan to be

prepared with a large, shrink wrap machine.

The Thurston County Coroner's Office recently won approval to

purchase a machine able to shrink-wrap human remains. The process

would make it easier to transport a large number of bodies. The

coroner's office has already started a bidding process to find a

company to build the machine. A Homeland Security grant will pay for

the machine, which will cost an estimated $50,000.

 

Military intelligence warns that avian flu could be used as weapon:

report 10 March 2005 --The military's intelligence arm has warned

the federal government that avian influenza could be used as a

weapon of bioterrorism, a heavily censored report suggests. It also

reveals that military planners believe a naturally occurring flu

pandemic may be imminent. The report, entitled Recent Human

Outbreaks of Avian Influenza and Potential Biological

Warfare Implications, was obtained under the Access to Information

Act by The Canadian Press. It was prepared by the J2 Directorate of

Strategic Intelligence, a secretive branch of National Defence

charged with producing intelligence for the government. [is this why

40+ microbiologists have died, mysteriously, since 9/11?]

 

Killer flu recreated in the lab 7 October 2004, 05:02 GMT 06:02

[Why?] UK Scientists have shown that tiny changes to modern flu

viruses could render them as deadly as the 1918 strain which killed

millions. A US team added two genes from a sample of the 1918 virus

to a modern strain [Why?] known to have no effect on mice. Animals

exposed to this composite were dying within days of symptoms similar

to those found in human victims of the 1918

pandemic.

 

1918 killer flu secrets revealed 5 February 2004, 19:00 GMT --

Scientists have worked out how the virus which caused the world's

worst flu epidemic infected man. They believe the virus, which

claimed the lives of up to 50m people around the world, jumped from

birds to humans. The breakthrough, published in Science, should help

doctors identify which future bird viruses pose a threat to man at

an earlier stage.

 

Flu victim exhumed after 85 years 30 January 2004, 20:08 GMT --

Scientists are preparing to exhume the body of a woman who died of

flu 85 years ago to find out how the virus killed millions across

Europe. [Why?] Phyllis Burn died aged 20 in 1918, a victim of the

20th Century's worst flu epidemic, which killed more than 50 million

people. She was buried in a lead coffin, thought to be virtually

airtight, in Twickenham, south-west London.

Scientists wearing protective clothing will remove lung samples from

the body.

 

*****

 

US plans for plague, flu and nuclear bomb attack 17 March 2005 --A

nuclear bomb in a big city, plague released into an airport washroom

and food stocks laced with anthrax are three of fifteen doomsday

scenarios inadvertently published by American security chiefs

yesterday. One of the most deadly of the 15 scenarios is a flu

pandemic, which begins in southern China and spreads within months

to four leading American cities, claiming the lives of

87,000 and putting 300,000 in hospital, the plans estimate.

 

Vietnam detects one more suspected bird flu case 17 March 2005 --A

person from Vietnam's northern Bac Ninh province has just been

hospitalized for being suspected of contracting bird flu virus

strain H5N1, according to local newspaper Pioneer on Thursday.

 

Bird flu may have hit N Korea 16 March 2005 --The World Health

Organisation (WHO) was investigating on Wednesday reports of a bird

flu outbreak last month in North Korea that may have killed

thousands of chickens, a news report said.

 

WHO fears bird flu will be the next pandemic 15 March 2005 (ABC

Radio, PM) Reporter: David Mark " MARK COLVIN: The Great Flu epidemic

of 1918 killed more people than had died in the entire four years of

the First World War. No other statistic can convey so starkly why

health authorities now are so worried about the potential of avian

influenza, or bird flu. H5N1 is its scientific name, and the World

Health Organisation says it could be the next great pandemic. The

virus has killed 46 people in South East Asia in the past year, but

WHO believes it could kill 100-million. "

 

Doctors Suspect Bird Flu Killed Vietnamese Man 15 March 2005 --A

Vietnamese man who died at the weekend may have been killed by the

bird flu virus that has claimed the lives of 46 people in Asia since

2003, a doctor said Tuesday.

 

WHO warns of human bird flu mutation 4 March 1005 --The World Health

Organisation (WHO) says the bird flu virus may be changing into a

form that humans can pass on. The WHO is worried that bird flu,

which has killed 47 people in Asia, could mutate into an easily

spread form that sparks the next influenza pandemic.

 

Bird Flu Clusters May Signal Virus Change - WHO 14 March 1005 --A

cluster of human bird flu cases among relatives and possibly health

workers in Vietnam may show the virus is changing into a form that

can be passed on by humans, the World Health Organization said. The

WHO is worried that bird flu, which has killed 47 people in Asia,

could mutate into an easily spread form that sparks the next

influenza pandemic, killing millions.

 

 

Patricia Doyle

 

>HKStrunk

>dr_p_doyle

>Saw your article on Rense...from Hal

>Thu, 17 Mar 2005 16:45:56 EST

>

>Patricia, I just checked into Rense.com and saw you were on today.

Good for you.

>

>I am trying to download your article so that I can share it with

others, but it isn't working for me. Could you email me the article

somehow, not an attachment?

>

>Keep up the good work. I spoke to MOAA in Monterey last month and

told them about WNV, Plum Is, mycoplasmas. I speak to MOAA in anFran

in " April.

>

>Hal

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