Heads up---looks like bird flu plans are fasttracked....

March 27, 2006

No doubt due to the rate at which the 'castles in the government sand' are falling apart.... ********** http://www.newswithviews.com/Tenpenny/sherri5.htm UPDATE: THE FIRST NATIONAL BIRD FLU SUMMIT On February 27 and 28, 2006, I attended the “First National Bird Flu Summit” in Washington, DC. This article is intended to be the first of several reporting on what was revealed at the conference. The National Bird Flu Summit opened with the usual cast of characters in attendance, including spokespersons from the

U.N., the WHO, the CDC, the World Organization for Animal Health (OiE), and a parade of MD/PhD researchers. Little new information was presented; however, the consistent, fear-based theme that resonated throughout the seminar sheds light on the things to come. More: http://www.newswithviews.com/Tenpenny/sherri5.htm ********************************* http://www.mises.org/story/1960 Bush's Fowl Play by

Jeffrey Tucker Excerpt: It is a serious matter when the government purports to plan to abolish all liberty and nationalize all economic life and put every business under the control of the military, especially in the name of a bug that seems largely restricted to the bird population. Perhaps we should pay more attention. Perhaps such plans for the total state ought to even ruffle our feathers a bit. More: http://www.mises.org/story/1960 ******************************** MONDAY, MARCH 27, 2006 The spread of avian influenza to at least 29 new countries in the last seven weeks is prompting a sobering reassessment of the strategy that

has guided efforts to contain the disease. The speed of its migration, and the vast area it has infected, has forced scientists to concede there is little that can be done to stop its spread across the globe. "We expected it to move, but not any of us thought it would move quite like this," said Dr. David Nabarro, the United Nations' coordinator on bird flu efforts. The hope was once that culling millions of chickens and ducks would contain or even eradicate the virus. Now, the strategy has shifted toward managing a disease that will probably be everywhere. Officials are hoping to buy a little more time to produce human vaccines and limit the potential economic damage. "We cannot contain this thing anymore. Nature is in control," said Robert G. Webster, a virologist at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis, Tenn., who has been studying the virus since it emerged in 1997. "Something generally disturbing is going on at the moment," Nabarro said.

"It's certainly in the bird world, and it's pushing up against the human world in a serious way." http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/front/la-sci-birdflu27mar27,1,7816372.story A serious flu pandemic could force Oregon physicians to make life-and-death decisions about who would get scarce mechanical breathing machines that are essential in treating severe influenza and the pneumonia that often accompanies it. http://www.oregonlive.com/news/oregonian/index.ssf?/base/news/1143428107163120.xml & coll=7 Despite the uncertainty, hospitals, schools, and businesses must be prepared to deal with a flu pandemic. http://toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060326/NEWS32/603260312/0/NEWS12 WHY CAN'T THEY FIGURE OUT THE FLU -- "The CDC, as an institution, is populated by a hybrid of public-health policy-makers and applied scientists. But lately this rarefied clique is causing concern. "It is hard to get co-operation between CDC and modellers not at CDC," said Simon Levin, director of the Center for BioComplexity at

Princeton. "CDC researchers want to publish their results, and therefore [they] don't share their data." http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20060325.wxmath25/BNStory/Science/home Highly-Contagious Multi-State Dog Flu Confirmed --There is no evidence that canine influenza can be passed to humans, according to UC Davis researchers. Since the dog flu virus is just emerging, dogs have no natural immunity to it, researchers say. They add that all dogs exposed will become infected, and roughly 80 percent of infected dogs will develop symptoms of the illness. About 5 to 8 percent of all infected dogs will die, according to UC Davis

researchers. http://www.rense.com/general70/mlti.htm No one yet knows-- or at least nobody is saying-- precisely what caused the explosion that ripped like a shotgun blast through the 1.4-mile-long mine in northern Mexico that Sunday morning five weeks ago. http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/world/3749777.html The asthma epidemic has tightened its chokehold on New England, with one in seven adults and children diagnosed with the respiratory disease and its

telltale wheezes and coughs. http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2006/03/27/asthma_hits_ne_hard_study_finds/

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