WARNING FROM WTO: Deadly H5N1 Type A Influenza Pandemic Likely Coming Our Way!

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Warning - H5N1 Type A

Influenza Pandemic

Likely Coming

From Robert Lee

rboblee

1-23-5

 

 

 

Hi, Jeff - Info you should be aware of:

 

Warning: Deadly H5N1 Type A Influenza Pandemic Likely Coming

 

The World Health Organization (WHO) has raised the specter of human-to-human

transmission of deadly H5N1 avian influenza following confirmation that two

Vietnamese brothers had contracted the virus and one had died. WHO confirmed

that laboratory results had found the two brothers from northern Vietnam had

been infected with the H5N1 avian influenza virus. According to WHO, " All

evidence to date suggests that isolated instances of limited, unsustained

human-to-human transmission can be expected from avian influenza viruses in

humans. " Seven of Vietnam's total 27 H5N1-related human deaths have occurred in

the last three weeks (first 3 weeks of January 2005).

 

http://www.boston.com/

 

The H5N1 avian influenza has also spread to felines. According to WHO there is

evidence suggesting that H5N1 avian influenza was expanding its range of mammal

hosts, including captive tigers and experimentally infected domestic cats.

 

see

http://www.boston.com/

 

There is growing evidence that limited human-to-human transmission of H5N1 is

occurring.

 

see

http://www.recombinomics.com/

 

H5N1 avian influenza is a single-stranded RNA negative-strand virus in the

Orthomyxoviridae family of viruses. H5N1 avian influenza virus is considered to

be a type of " Influenzavirus Type A. "

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/

 

see

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/

 

Other strains of Influenzavirus Type A have made their way into the human

population from birds and/or intermediate species, e.g., swine, and have

achieved sustained human-to-human transmission. More well known examples of Type

A flu pandemics in the human population include the 1968 Hong Kong flu...

 

see

http://biology.about.com/

 

see also

http://biology.about.com/

 

 

....which killed 700,000 people worldwide. The most severe influenza epidemic of

recent times was the 1918 Spanish Influenza epidemic which killed more than 20

million people worldwide and infected approximately 50% of the population of

some countries, e.g., Switzerland at that time.

 

see

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/

 

 

It has been estimated, based on the mortality rates of those humans who have

been infected with H5N1 avian influenza, that more than 70% of infected

individuals might die from a sustained human-to-human H5N1 pandemic.

 

see

http://www.recombinomics.com/

 

As of 5 January 2005, the H5N1 virus had caused 45 confirmed human cases, of

which 32 were fatal

 

see

http://www.recombinomics.com/

 

or a little over 70% fatality. In comparison, SARS had an initial fatality rate

of approximately 13% and was very inefficiently transmitted from one person to

another when compared to influenza.

 

Were a sustained global pandemic of H5N1 influenza to develop, it is entirely

possible that some billions - with a " B " - of humans, certainly hundreds of

millions, could die from the disease worldwide. There is currently no vaccine

for H5N1 influenza though efforts are underway in different countries to develop

a human vaccine.

 

see

http://vietnamnews.vnagency.com.vn/

 

To consider the impact of a sustained H5N1 influenza pandemic in the United

States, it is reasonable to consider it possible that 10s of millions of

Americans might die from such an epidemic were no vaccine available and

quarantines employed. Even with a vaccine available, if it is developed and

effectively administered, it is reasonable to consider an extremely conservative

estimate of some few million US people killed by a sustained H5N1 pandemic. In

the 3rd world where health services are fragile and inefficient, fatalities will

surely exceed several hundred million people.

 

Clearly, it is only a matter of time until H5N1 Type A influenza becomes a

global pandemic with potentially catastrophic impact. It is now time to pay

attention to H5N1 Type A influenza.

 

Thanks for your news service,

 

Professor Robert E. Lee, M.S., M.S.W., L.C.S.W.

 

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