Bird Flu, SARS - Biowarfare or a Pandemic of Propaganda?

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that would mean those on imunosupresants would be

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--- mk2967 <mk2967 wrote:

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> March 02, 2005

> 'Bird Flu', SARS - Biowarfare or a Pandemic of

Propaganda?

> Are we being stampeded into a pandemic? The

announcement was made by Dr Nan

> cy Cox of the US Centers for Disease Control.

According to an article in Th

> e Scotsman, Cox says that a global epidemic of bird

flu could dwarf history

> ’s worst infection disaster, which killed between 20

and 40 million peopl

> e. The reference of course is to the " Spanish Flu "

at the end of World War

> I which, according to a BBC article of almost

exactly one year ago, experts

> say to have possibly been caused by " a bird virus

jumping to humans " .

>

> The reasoning in the CDC statement goes on like

this:

> The H5N1 influenza strain that has already killed 42

has a fatality rate of

> 76 per cent, cases so far suggest. The virus which

caused the 1918 pandemi

> c killed only 1 per cent of those it infected.

>

>

> The association is tenuous at best and the reasoning

sounds odd, but the me

> ssage is clear: " Prepare for the worst " .

>

> It might be good to remind ourselves that H5N1 is

very same bird virus that

> was being " researched " , meaning it was being

actively changed and cultured

> , when Liu Jianlun, a laboratory scientist in

China's Guangdong province be

> came the first SARS victim two years ago - on 4

March 2003. Another death o

> f a scientist was later linked to a laboratory in

Singapore. The laboratory

> was culturing the same virus.

>

> - - -

>

> The SARS " pandemic " eventually faded away, but not

without leaving a deep i

> mpression. A high pitched media campaign had

convinced the world it was fac

> ing a great threat when in reality SARS turned out

to be a comparably minor

> disease with 8.500 infected world wide and around

812 deaths. Compare that

> to CDC figures of 36.000 flu related deaths yearly

in the U.S. alone. Or c

> ompare it with the mayhem of more than 100.000 U.S.

deaths from the damagin

> g effects of pharmaceutical drugs in the same time

span.

> " The researchers, from the influenza branch of the

Centers for Disease Cont

> rol in Atlanta, will mate H5N1 and human flu viruses

in a process known as

> reassortment. Viable offspring will be tested in

animals thought to be good

> surrogates for humans, to see if the viruses can

infect, can be transmitte

> d easily from infected animals to healthy ones and

to note the severity of

> disease each provokes. In other words, the CDC

researchers will be delibera

> tely engineering viruses of pandemic potential. It's

high-risk but crucial

> work, the influenza community insists. "

> This is what we read in an article published in

Canada just last December,

> which quotes experts explaining that such an

admittedly high risk undertaki

> ng is necessary to prevent a possible outbreak of a

new pandemic. I just ca

> nnot help but think of little children playing with

matches in a wood shed.

> The thought of it is enough to make one nervous.

>

> In Vietnam, about a week ago, annother pronouncement

reported by (CBC Canad

> a): " We at WHO believe that the world is now in the

gravest possible danger

> of a pandemic, " Dr. Shigeru Omi, head of the UN

health agency's Western Pa

> cific office, warned a scientific conference in Ho

Chi Minh City on Wednesd

> ay. Public health officials fear the H5N1 form of

the bird flu virus, which

> has already passed from person to person twice,

will get better at spreadi

> ng between humans and unleash changes for which the

population has no natur

> al immunity.

>

> Thus, in a replay of the SARS scare, we again see

government research on ho

> w to make the virus jump the species barrier, and

again we have dire predic

> tions of imminent disaster from the world's top

health authorities.

>

> What are the solutions being readied for us?

According to this article, we

> are in good hands:

> Right now, 50 people representing drug companies,

governments, and vaccine

> licensing agencies are meeting in Geneva in a

closed-door session to discus

> s what can be done to prevent this next coming flu

pandemic. The World Heal

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