Wanttoknow.info- Deaths of Microbiologists/ Avian Flu = $$$ for Rumsfeld

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Thanks, Misty for the excellent link

http://www.wanttoknow.info/avianflu

<http://www.wanttoknow.info/avianflu>

 

Here's an evaluation of the situation from some old farmer who went to

farm school @ A & M decades ago. Certainly, he can't know as much as

up-to-date government funded " scientists " , can he?

 

Strange---everything Jim Taylor says in his " down home " and " hands on "

way rings true. UncBob

 

incidentally--Jim " C " Taylor ex LSU and Green Bay is different guy, of

course.

 

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repost:

Has everyone figured this out yet? Compared to Avian Flu, lightning kills more

each month, malaria more in a couple hours, abortion more every couple minutes.

Everyone has, but WHO, CDC and the USA government which has used this scam to

line the pockets of pharmaceutical supporters. UncBob

http://www.valleystar.com/articles/2006/07/02/opinions/opinion2.txt

<http://www.valleystar.com/articles/2006/07/02/opinions/opinion2.txt>

[Valley Star Logo] Another view by Jim N. Taylor

 

Bird flu epidemic just won't fly in U.S.

 

Avian influenza (bird flu) has killed about 100 people since 2003, out

of about 6 billion people worldwide, or about 0.00001 of 1 percent. This

happened in unique locations in Southeast Asia and under unique

conditions.

 

Folks, there were more people who died during that period from

tractor-related accidents in the little state of Minnesota than in the

whole world from bird flu. There has been no threat of a pandemic (a

pandemic is an epidemic over a large area). There has been nothing to

warrant a movie-of-the-week or the recently announced federal government

program of $7 billion.

 

We studied bird flu 50 years ago at Texas A & M and there has been no

change in the disease. There have always been changes in the virulence

of the viruses causing the disease. Like swine flu, bird flu is not a

disease of humans. In order for humans to contract infection from

chickens, the following combination of circumstances must be met:

 

1) The humans must have constant exposure and re-exposure to infected

bird droppings and/or other infected bird fluids.

 

2) The humans must behave in unusually unsanitary ways, such as

infrequent handwashing or bathing, infrequent changing of apparel,

unprotected breathing and/or lip exposure to chicken dust.

 

3) Chickens involved must be exposed and re-exposed to wild birds that

are infected with a virulent strain of bird flu.

 

The reason I mention chickens is because the cases causing bird flu in

humans involved chickens.

 

The conditions necessary for human infection almost never exist in the

United States, where 99.9 percent of all birds destined for human

consumption are kept in confinement, which excludes wild birds in a

purposeful practice. No humans are allowed within the bird space except

those necessary for the care and feeding of the birds or eggs. In order

to get to the bird area, one must wade (in boots provided by the farm)

through a disinfected bath, both entering and leaving the bird area.

Street clothing may not be worn into the poultry area, or work clothing

worn outside of the poultry area.

 

The poultry caretakers are provided with adequate changes of clothing

and facemasks to avoid any possible re-exposure to disease.

 

You may wonder why the poultry industry is so concerned. It is because

of possible loss of their poultry population to not only bird flu, but a

host of other poultry diseases.

 

It is very significant that in no case has any infected human been known

to have transmitted bird flu to any other human. Not in my lifetime.

 

Also significant is the fact that it has been proven by large commercial

operators that the sanitation procedures above are successful, even

within those same areas where bird flu has been a problem for yard bird

operators.

 

Most significant of all is that it is extremely unlikely that anyone in

the United States could ever get infected with bird flu from eating

chicken, even if the chicken actually had died from bird flu. The normal

sanitary practices one uses with any poultry meat - adequate cooking,

especially - will kill the virus. It would be more likely that one would

get regular salmonella food poisoning than bird flu.

 

So, one asks, why all the fuss about bird flu?

 

Simple: The only way the " drive-by " press can sell newspapers and keep

their TV ratings is by being alarmists and, once the people are alarmed,

the elected government thinks it has to respond, even if the money it

appropriates is eventually only partially spent on bird flu.

 

The bird flu is only a problem for the poultry industry, as it has

always been. There is no more likelihood of the virus to mutate into a

human flu virus than there has ever been. Sleep well; eat chicken.

 

Jim N. Taylor is resident of Harlingen.