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Join the US_bioterror_events egroup *Page updated Sunday, 10 April 2005 06:00 GMT [breaking News on flu is beneath 'top' headlines] Bush Authorizes Use of Quarantine Powers in Cases of Bird Flu 2 April 2005 --Dictator President Bush signed an executive order on Friday authorizing the government to impose a quarantine to deal with any outbreak of avian influenza now found in Southeast Asia. http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/02/politics/02birdflu.html Bush Order Allows Isolation of Those with Bird Flu 1 April 2005 --Dictator Bush issued a directive on Friday allowing authorities to detain or isolate any passenger suspected of having avian flu when arriving in the United States aboard an international flight. The Bush order added pandemic influenza to the list of diseases for which quarantine is authorized. Under the directive, the Health and Human Services Department is given legal authority to detain or isolate any passenger suspected of having the avian flu. http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=healthNews & storyID=8065862 U.S. to create a bird flu virus mutation 24 March 2005 --The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has begun a series of experiments to see how likely the bird flu virus could result in a human pandemic. The six-month series of experiments seeks to simulate the mixing and matching of genes from the H5N1 avian flu virus that has plagued Asia and a common human flu virus that public-health experts fear could turn avian flu into a pandemic, the Wall Street Journal reported Thursday. CDC scientists inside an ultra-secure laboratory [?!?] have started swapping the genes of the H5N1 avian virus with the genes of an H3N2 virus, the strain behind most recent human flu outbreaks. http://washingtontimes.com/upi-breaking/20050324-030452-8400r.htm Gene From 1918 Virus Proves Key to Virulent Influenza (University of Wisconsin News Release) 10/6/2004 Contact: Yoshihiro Kawaoka " Using a gene resurrected from the virus that caused the 1918 Spanish influenza pandemic, recorded history's most lethal outbreak of infectious disease, scientists have found that a single gene may have been responsible for the devastating virulence of the virus. Writing Oct. 7 in the journal Nature, virologist Yoshihiro Kawaoka of the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the University of Tokyo, describes experiments in which engineered viruses were made more potent by the addition of a single gene. The work is evidence that a slight genetic tweak is all that is required to transform mild strains of the flu virus into forms far more pathogenic and, possibly, more transmissible... Using a comparatively mild form of influenza A virus as a template, Kawaoka's team added the two 1918 genes that code for hemagglutinin and neuraminidase and infected mice with the engineered viruses. " http://www.news.wisc.edu/releases/10241.html Kofi Annan expresses hope of " containing the spread of new infectious diseases, whether natural or man-made " --Transcript of Press Conference by Secretary-General Kofi Annan At United Nations Headquarters, 21 March 2005 " ...f governments take the decisions that I am suggesting in this report, I believe we will have a much better chance of turning the tide against HIV/AIDS and malaria in the next 10 years; a much better chance of containing the spread of new infectious diseases, whether natural or man-made; ... -- through a strengthened Security Council and a new and authoritative human rights council, both working closely with regional organizations -- to put a stop to major crimes against innocent people, such as those we are witnessing in Darfur. " http://www.un.org/News/Press/docs/2005/sgsm9772.doc.htm 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. http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,3214301a10,00.html Military intelligence warns that avian flu could be used as weapon: report 8 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?] http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/World/WarOnTerrorism/2005/03/08/954295-cp.html 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. http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=514058 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. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/3719990.stm 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. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/3455873.stm 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. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/london/3446389.stm ***** Cambodia confirms third bird flu death 10 April 2005 --Cambodia has confirmed its third fatality from the deadly bird flu virus, with an eight-year-old girl becoming the latest victim to die in the kingdom http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200504/s1342006.htm. Attacks briefly halt WHO campaign in Angola 10 April 2005 --World Health Organisation (WHO) teams fighting [fomenting?] an outbreak of Marburg virus in Angola were forced to temporarily suspend work in one area after scared residents stoned their vehicles, officials say. http://www.swissinfo.org/sen/swissinfo.html?siteSect=143 & sid=5671195 To Contain Virus in Angola, Group Wants Hospital Closed 10 April 2005 --An international medical charity battling a hemorrhagic fever that so far has killed 181 Angolans has urged the government to close the regional hospital here, at the center of the outbreak, saying the medical center itself is a source of the deadly infection. Doctors Without Borders, the global relief organization that runs an isolation ward at the hospital for victims of the deadly fever, Marburg virus, told Angolan officials on Friday that the hospital should be closed if the rapidly spreading epidemic was to be contained. http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/10/international/africa/10angola.html Marburg virus death toll hits 180 8 April 2005 --205 cases have been reported -- The World Health Organization is investigating an outbreak of hemorrhagic fever in northwestern Angola, it said Friday. http://edition.cnn.com/2005/HEALTH/conditions/04/08/angola.marbug/index.html Marburg spreads as death toll hits 174 8 April 2005 -- The World Health Organisation (WHO) on Friday called for stepping up measures in Angola to halt the further spread of the deadly Marburg virus, which has killed 174 people mainly in the north of the country. http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1 & click_id=68 & art_id=qw1112968442986B243 CDC Moving to Double Quarantine Stations 7 April 2005--CDC officials told lawmakers Wednesday that they are moving to more than double the number of quarantine stations used to evaluate and detain travelers from overseas who enter the country ill with potentially dangerous contagious illnesses. The agency currently operates 11 of the stations near major ports of entry but expects to have 18 operational by the end of 2005 and eventually expand the number to 25, they said. http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,152774,00.html Delta Handing Over Passenger Lists to CDC 7 April 2005 --Although privacy experts worry about the government gathering personal information on airline travelers, Delta Airlines (DAL) is handing over electronic lists of passengers from some flights to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention [sic]. http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,152717,00.html Delta giving passenger lists to government to prevent spread of diseases 6 April 2005 --Delta Air Lines agreed to give the government electronic lists of passengers on some flights - not to help track down terrorists, but to try to head off the spread of deadly infectious diseases. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention [sic] told a congressional panel Wednesday that the lists will allow health officials to more quickly notify and advise travellers who might have been exposed to illnesses such as dengue, flu, plague, SARS or biological agents. [?!?] ...Last week Dictator George W. Bush signed an executive order authorizing the government to quarantine people to deal with any outbreak of new strains of flu, including bird flu. http://www.canada.com/travel/story.html?id=7a4bef3f-5f81-4fcd-bbbd-515b99415e3e WHO Expert: Bird Flu Strains Could Combine 6 April 2005 --Two strains of bird flu in Asia may combine to create a highly lethal and easily transmissible virus, a U.N. health official warned Wednesday, amid widespread fears that the disease could cause the next human pandemic. http://apnews.myway.com//article/20050406/D89A1MM80.html Bird flu claims 50th Asian victim, officials say 6 April 2005 --Asia's death toll from bird flu rose to 50 on Wednesday when health officials and a hospital doctor confirmed two additional deaths in Vietnam. http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/1112789048104_2/ Vietnamese doctor dies of unidentified disease 5 April 2005 --A doctor from Vietnam's northern Quang Ninh province has died from acute pneumonia caused by an unidentified disease, although several treatment procedures including those for bird flu and SARS patients were used. http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2005-04/05/content_2789417.htm Doctors investigate 'flu-like symptoms' in " TOPOFF 3 " terror drill -- Biggest ever terror drill in United States begins --5 April 2005 --The largest anti-terror drill ever undertaken in the United States started on Monday with police officers investigating a fake car accident on a college campus and health officials on the lookout for a mock biological attack. Reporters, briefed by officials as though a real attack were happening, were told that a phone tip led officers to a motor vehicle accident where car registrations did not match the vehicles. Meanwhile, doctors were expected to try to connect the incident to a fake patient who had been admitted to a hospital Sunday night with " flu-like symptoms. " The $16 million, weeklong drill is named " TOPOFF 3 " for top state and national officials. In addition to the New Jersey attack, it is to include a fake [we hope] chemical weapons attack in New London, Connecticut, starting later Monday. http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/holnus/003200504050302.htm Two States Are 'Attacked' in a Major Terrorism Drill 5 April 2005 --Hundreds of actors writhed in simulated pain in Connecticut after staged terrorist attacks on Monday, and thousands more went to New Jersey hospitals complaining of mysterious flulike symptoms, as the Department of Homeland Security began the largest terrorism drill ever conducted in the United States. http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/05/nyregion/05top.html North Korean bird flu outbreak not the feared strain 5 April 2004 --An outbreak of bird flu on three large poultry farms in North Korea has been tentatively identified as the H7 strain of the virus - not the H5N1 strain that has been killing people and poultry across east Asia for more than a year. But UN officials have revealed to New Scientist that the evidence for this is only indirect. http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn7231 N Korean bird flu 'different' 5 April 2005 --A strain of bird flu infecting poultry in North Korea is different from that which killed scores of people in other parts of Asia, a UN expert has said. Hans Wagner, an official for the Food and Agriculture Organization, said the birds were infected with the H7 strain. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/4412777.stm Bird flu strain detected in North Korea " first for Asia " 5 April 2005 --A strain of bird flu previously undetected in Asia has been found in North Korea, a top U.N. expert said on Tuesday. Hans Wagner, a senior official with the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), told Reuters Television in Beijing after a week-long visit to North Korea the strain was H7. http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?storyID=8085166 Two Bird Flu Suspects in Hospital in Vietnam 5 April 2005 --Two more Vietnamese, a 12-year-old girl and a woman, are in hospital with suspected bird flu, the official Vietnam News Agency said on Tuesday. http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=healthNews & storyID=8084714 New bird flu case reported in Vietnam 4 April 2005 --Vietnamese authorities on Monday confirmed another human bird flu case, but said the patient in central Vietnam was recovering from the disease which has killed at least 48 people in the region. http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/1112636986165_108046186/ Angola Marburg death toll climbs 3 April 2005 The death toll in Angola from an outbreak of the rare Marburg virus has risen sharply to 146 people, the country's health ministry has said. The outbreak, which began last October in Uige province, is the most serious ever recorded of the virus, a fast-spreading haemorrhagic fever. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/4407461.stm Is Marburg Virus in Angola a Recombinant?* 2 April 2005 (Recombinomics) " Comments by WHO on the recent Marburg outbreak in Angola, cited some historical information of Marburg that does not match the current data from Angola. The Marburg virus is acting much more like Ebola than with Marburg associated characteristics seen in prior outbreaks. Although both viruses are closely related Filovirdae, they are readily distinguishable. Initial data on the isolates from Angola indicated that they were not Ebola. This was confirmed by sequence data showing that the Marburg was in the samples from Angola. " [*Recombinant DNA is DNA that has been created artificially. DNA from two or more sources is incorporated into a single recombinant molecule.] http://www.recombinomics.com/News/04020503/Marburg_Recombinant.html Flu Pandemic Coming, U.S. Not Prepared 1 April 2005 --Immediate action is needed to prepare the United States for a deadly pandemic of influenza, the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) is telling policymakers. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2005/03/050325200256.htm Bird flu could put Britain in quarantine, warns scientist 27 March 2005 --Offices and schools across Britain could be closed to protect workers if bird flu arrives, the Ministry of Defence's chief scientist has warned. Professor Roy Anderson, a leading infectious diseases expert, said politicians will face difficult decisions about how far to close down Britain if it is struck by a highly contagious form of the disease. http://politics.guardian.co.uk/homeaffairs/story/0,11026,1446533,00.html Hong Kong Stadium may be used as clinic if bird flu hits 1 April 2005 --Hong Kong Stadium could be turned into a huge outpatient clinic in the event of a major outbreak of bird flu, health authorities said. The 40,000-seat stadium in Causeway Bay is an option because it could house hundreds of doctors, nurses and other medical personnel in one location. http://www.thestandard.com.hk/stdn/std/Front_Page/GD01Aa02.html Cirebon city locked down over bird flu outbreak 31 March 2005 --Following the uncontrolled spread of bird flu, West Java authorities have stopped all poultry traffic into the area to prevent the problem from getting worse after the disease hit poultry farms in the province, an official said on Wednesday. The isolation of Cirebon, which has been declared an epidemic area of bird flu in West Java, is expected to prevent a further spread of the disease, which has also hit several other regencies in Central Java. http://www.thejakartapost.com/detailnational.asp?fileid=20050331.D08 Bird flu spreading fast in Asia 30 March 2005 --South Korea has sent a message to rival North Korea offering to help it contain its first acknowledged outbreak of bird flu. The South's Yonhap news agency said North Korean authorities were struggling to control the outbreak, and the disease was spreading quickly to provinces without adequate quarantine controls. http://www.theage.com.au/news/Breaking-News/Bird-flu-spreading-fast-in-Asia/2005\ /03/30/1111862443102.html Four More Vietnamese Suspected to Have Bird Flu 29 March 2005 --Vietnam has four more suspected human cases of the bird flu which has killed 49 people in Asia since the end of 2003, medical officials and a doctor said on Wednesday http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=healthNews & storyID=8030251. 5 in Vietnamese family infected with bird flu 29 March 2005 --A five-person family from Vietnam's northern Hai Phong city have been infected with bird flu virus strain H5N1, local newspaper Labor reported Tuesday. http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2005-03/29/content_2756750.htm CDC sending team to Angola virus outbreak 29 March 2005 --The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention plans to send a team to the Republic of Angola to help control [spread?] what appears to be one of the worst outbreaks of the Marburg virus ever reported, United Press International has learned. http://washingtontimes.com/upi-breaking/20050329-045915-7566r.htm Ebola-like virus kills 122 in Angola 29 March 2005 --The toll from the Ebola-like Marburg virus in Angola rose with the death of a baby to 122, just one fatality short of the most serious outbreak recorded anywhere, a health ministry spokesman said yesterday. http://www.smh.com.au/news/World/Ebolalike-virus-kills-122-in-Angola/2005/03/28/\ 1111862322952.html Emergency services plan for 750,000 deaths in flu pandemic 27 March 2005 --Mortuaries and emergency services are to be put on alert and told to prepare for up to three-quarters of a million deaths from a bird flu pandemic, The Independent on Sunday can reveal. Emergency planners have begun to look for sites for special mortuaries, each capable of storing 1,000 bodies, and the Home Office is to hold an exercise this summer to practise coping with mass fatalities. The instruction, to go out from the Civil Contingencies Secretariat, the Cabinet Office body in charge of emergencies, explodes the Government's public position that the pandemic could be expected to kill only " around 50,000 " people in Britain. http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/this_britain/story.jsp?story=624058 Killer flu hits North Korea 28 March 2005 --North Korea yesterday acknowledged an outbreak of bird flu for the first time, saying hundreds of thousands of chickens were killed to prevent its spread, and that the disease wasn't passed on to humans. http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/international.cfm?id=326502005 One killed by avian flu 26 March 2005 HANOI —Three more cases of avian flu were reported yesterday including one fatality in the northern and central regions. http://vietnamnews.vnagency.com.vn/showarticle.php?num=01HEA260305 Ebola-like virus deaths rise in Angola, travel warning issued 27 March 2005 --Another young woman died of the Ebola-like Marburg virus in Angola, officials said, as the death toll in the deadly outbreak rose to almost equal the most serious outbreak ever recorded. Some 121 people died since the haemorrhagic virus first broke out in the northern town of Uige in October, while five more people have been hospitalised, bringing the toll of sick to 132. http://uk.news./050327/323/ff3tz.html Ebola-like virus death toll rises 27 March 2005 --People have been warned against travel to Angola after the death toll from the Ebola-like Marburg bug rose to 121. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/4386805.stm Cda sends unique lab to test for fatal virus in Angola; more than 100 dead 26 March 2005 --Canada is sending a one-of-a-kind portable laboratory to Angola to help contain an Ebola-like fever that has killed more than 100 people since October. http://www.canada.com/health/story.html?id=7e431c11-678e-474a-97ae-864051ddd735 SARS may spread in air, new studies warn 25 March 2005 --New research suggests the SARS virus, which killed 800 people after emerging in China in 2003, may spread through the air, and not just through human contact, making it more dangerous than previously thought. http://news./news?tmpl=story & cid=1508 & u=/afp/20050325/hl_afp/healthcana\ dasars_050325174022 Ebola-Like Virus Death Toll Up in Angola 25 March 2005 --The death toll from an Ebola-like fever in Angola rose to 112 on Friday, with three deaths reported in Lusaka for the first time. http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-4892466,00.html Cambodia confirms village bird flu outbreak 26 March 2005 --Cambodia on Saturday confirmed an outbreak of bird flu at a village near the Vietnamese border but cleared one suspected human case of the deadly disease. http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticle.asp?xfile=data/theworld/2005/March/th\ eworld_March689.xml & section=theworld Two New Bird Flu Cases Found in Vietnam, One Dead 25 March 2005 --Two more Vietnamese have caught bird flu, one of whom who has died, local health officials said, as the World Health Organization met with the government to discuss reports of a flu-like illness in central Vietnam. http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000080 & sid=aDualHYqdchc US starts bird flu vaccine test in humans 23 March 2005 --The US National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) said Wednesday it has started human tests of a vaccine against H5N1 bird flu in efforts to prepare to respond to [create?] a possible bird flu pandemic. http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2005-03/24/content_2737643.htm Vietnam Flu Outbreak Sparks Fresh Concerns 24 March 2005 --Health experts are rushing to investigate reports of a widespread flu outbreak in central Vietnam. The reports come just two weeks after a five-year-old boy in the same area was found to have avian flu. http://www.voanews.com/english/2005-03-24-voa22.cfm Influenza vaccine uses insect cells to speed development 21 March 2005 --Using a strategy involving a genetically modified baculovirus and caterpillar cells scientists from Protein Sciences Corporation have been able to speed up a key step in the development of an experimental cell-based influenza vaccine. They report their findings today at the 2005 American Society for Microbiology Biodefense Research Meeting. http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2005-03/asfm-ivu031605.php Vietnam Flu Outbreak Sparks Fresh Concerns 24 March 2005 --Health experts are rushing to investigate reports of a widespread flu outbreak in central Vietnam. The reports come just two weeks after a five-year-old boy in the same area was found to have avian flu. http://www.voanews.com/english/2005-03-24-voa22.cfm Bird flu kills 48th victim 24 March 2005 --Bird flu had killed a 28-year-old Cambodian man, officials said today, the 48th Asian victim of a virus experts fear could unleash a global influenza pandemic capable of killing millions of people. http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,12647545-23109,00.html Bird flu spreading in Makassar, C. Java 24 March 2005 --In the Central Java town of Boyolali, thousands of quails have reportedly died in Klego district over the last 10 days due to a suspected outbreak of bird flu. http://www.thejakartapost.com/detailnational.asp?fileid=20050324.D09 Spread of Deadly Flu Virus Imminent? 23 March 2005 --Clouds of uncertainty are gathering over whether this coming winter will bring with it the deadly Avian Flu Virus which could claim lives if serious preventative measures are not taken. http://allafrica.com/stories/200503230163.html Myanmar Asked to Check Bird Flu Report - FAO 23 March 2005 --The United Nations food agency has asked Myanmar authorities to check a report of a possible outbreak of Asia's deadly bird flu in the military-ruled country, a U.N. official said on Wednesday. http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=healthNews & storyID=7979768 Angola: Health officials identify Marburg virus, 96 dead 23 March 2005 --A deadly hemorrhagic fever which has claimed the lives of 96 people, mainly children, in Angola's northern Uige province has been identified as the rare Marburg virus, officials from the Ministry of Health and World Health Organisation (WHO) said late on Tuesday. The illness was first spotted in Uige and is from the same family as the deadly Ebola virus. http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/IRIN/725dd1e76ddc18b13ee9b2529a24fc0a.h\ tm Rare virus blamed for 96 deaths 23 March 2005 --An illness that had killed nearly 100 people in northern Angola was identified today as the rare Marburg virus, which is from the same family as the deadly Ebola disease, state and UN officials said. Described as " very virulent " and " very contagious " and transmitted through bodily fluids, the haemorrhagic fever threatens to spread from the northern Uige province to other parts of the country. http://dailytelegraph.news.com.au/story.jsp?sectionid=1274 & storyid=2855147 Bird Flu Pandemic Coming, U.S. Not Prepared, Infectious Diseases Society of America 23 March 2005 --Immediate action is needed to prepare the United States for a deadly pandemic of influenza, the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) is telling policymakers. http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/medicalnews.php?newsid=21693 Bird flu epidemic could kill as many as 750,000 in Britain: estimate 22 March 2005 --Hundreds of thousands of people may die and one quarter of the work force could be absent if Britain were hit by a bird flu pandemic, a senior government official said. " It may be somewhere between 20,000 and 750,000 extra deaths and it may be 25 percent of the population off work, " the government official, speaking on a non-attributable basis, told a conference in London. http://uk.news./050322/323/fet4l.html Vietnamese man suspected to contract bird flu 23 March 2005 --A middle-aged man from Vietnam's central Quang Binh province has been hospitalized for being suspected of contracting bird flu virus strain H5N1, according to local newspaper Youth on Wednesday. http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2005-03/23/content_2732889.htm Vietnamese commune under scrutiny over suspected flu epidemic 22 March 2005 --A Vietnamese commune where a five-year-old boy tested positive to avian flu last week is under scrutiny after local inhabitants reported a flu epidemic, doctors said. Health authorities were investigating after a local newspaper said 200 people had flu symptoms at the Chau Hoa commune in central Quang Binh province, 400 kilometers south of Hanoi. http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/afp_asiapacific/view/138658/1/.html Expert: Asia flu cases may be undercounted 21 March 2005 --The incidence of a particularly lethal variation of influenza in Southeast Asia is probably greater than has been reported so far, a flu expert at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Monday. http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/living/health/11194873.htm Death of Vietnamese girl attributed to bird flu 21 March 2005 --A 13-year-old girl from Vietnam's central Quang Binh province, who died on March 9, has just been found to contract bird flu virus strain H5N1, local newspaper Young People reported Monday. http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2005-03/21/content_2723880.htm Bird flu a big security challenge: Rudd 20 March 2005 --Bird flu was emerging as a large scale security concern for Australia, opposition foreign affairs spokesman Kevin Rudd said. ...Health officials are concerned that avian influenza strain H5N1 could spark a deadly global pandemic if the virus mutates into a form that spreads easily from person to person. Mr Rudd, who heads off on a visit to South-East Asia later on Sunday, said he would be discussing the issue with officials in Thailand and Cambodia and canvassing the effectiveness of quarantine and border controls. http://www.smh.com.au/news/National/Bird-flu-a-big-security-challenge-Rudds/2005\ /03/20/1111253865213.html Bird flu hits central province, 195 locals show symptoms 20 March 2005 --A commune in central Vietnam has been severely hit by the bird flu, with 195 patients showing symptoms and two children testing positive with the virus, reported a top provincial official. http://www.thanhniennews.com/healthy/?catid=8 & newsid=5663 EU official warns of deadly flu pandemic 19 March 2005 --EU officials are already preparing for the possibility that a global flu epidemic, which could cause up to 30 million deaths, might break out in the next few years, Commissioner for Health and Consumer Protection Markos Kyprianou said during a press conference in Athens yesterday. http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/_w_articles_politics_100016_19/03/2005_54221 Angola: Death toll from mystery fever rises to 77 18 March 2005 --The number of people killed by a mystery illness in Angola's northern Uige province has risen to 77, health officials said on Friday. The cause of the outbreak, characterised by fever, coughing and vomiting, sometimes with blood, is still unknown. But the government is so concerned it has sent blood samples to the Centres for Disease Control (CDC) in Atlanta, the officials said. http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/IRIN/c062fd57f9ee8dbd8db614784bf5a535.h\ tm Acute Hemorrhagic Fever in Angola and Bird Flu Similarities 18 March 2005 (Recombinomics) " There are a number of parallels between the mystery Ebola/dengue hemorrhagic fever-like disease in Angola and bird flu. Like the hemorrhagic fever disease in Angola, H5N1 in Vietnam began as a mysterious disease primarily infecting children... " http://www.recombinomics.com/News/03190501/H5N1_Angola_Hemorrhagic.html Vietnam detects new bird flu patient 18 March 2005 --Specimens from a five-year-old boy from Vietnam's central Quang Binh province has just been tested positive to bird flu virus strain H5N1, raising the total number of infection in the country to 25 since mid-December 2004, the newspaper Saigon Liberation reported Friday. http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2005-03/18/content_2712999.htm 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. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,11069-1528458,00.html 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. http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2005-03/17/content_2709737.htm 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. http://www.news24.com/News24/World/News/0,6119,2-10-1462_1677076,00.html South Korean scientists say kimchi could cure bird flu 15 March 2005--An extract of South Korea's famed spicy fermented cabbage dish known as kimchi could cure bird flu and other chicken diseases, scientists said. Researchers at Seoul National University said chickens infected with the deadly bird flu virus began recovering a week after they were fed with fermented bacilli extracted from kimchi. http://story.news./news?tmpl=story & u=/afp/20050315/od_afp/healthfluskor\ eakimchioffbeat_050315172811 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. " http://www.abc.net.au/pm/content/2005/s1324129.htm 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. http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=healthNews & storyID=7904260 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. http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200503/s1323202.htm 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. http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=healthNews & storyID=7887919 Flu bigger threat than 9/11 13/03/2005 12:34 --Britain's capital city is " more at risk " from bird flu than a terrorist atrocity on the scale of the September 11, 2001 attacks on Washington and New York, London mayor Ken Livingstone said on Sunday. " We're more at risk of dying from bird flu that we are of being blown up by a terrorist, " he told BBC television. http://www.news24.com/News24/World/News/0,,2-10-1462_1675660,00.html Bird flu greater risk than terrorists, says Livingstone 13/03/2005 --Ken Livingstone, the London Mayor, has hit out at the new anti-terror laws, saying people were at more risk from bird flu than al-Qa'eda. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/03/13/uterror.xml & sShe\ et=/portal/2005/03/13/ixportaltop.html Scientists slams UK bird flu plans 13/03/2005 --A leading scientist has attacked the government's preparations to deal with a potential human bird flu pandemic. http://www.dehavilland.co.uk/webhost.asp?wci=default & wcp=NationalNewsStoryPage & I\ temID=13017456 & ServiceID=8 Bird flu could kill 2 million Britons 13 March 2005 --Two million Britons could die in the bird flu pandemic that experts warn is both imminent and inevitable, one of the country's leading authorities has told The Independent on Sunday. http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/health_medical/story.jsp?story=619562 Scientist attacks UK bird flu preparation 13 March 2005 --A leading scientist has attacked the government over its contingency plans to deal with a human bird flu pandemic, saying over two million Britons could die. Professor Hugh Pennington, president of the Society for General Microbiology, told the Independent on Sunday a pandemic was both imminent and inevitable. http://today.reuters.co.uk/News/newsArticle.aspx?type=topNews & storyID=2005-03-13\ T022630Z_01_HOL308671_RTRUKOC_0_BIRDFLU-BRITAIN.xml Anger at MSPs' priority for life-saving flu drug 13 March 2005 --Scottish ministers and their civil servants are set to be issued with the antiviral drug that will be used to combat the impending flu pandemic – ahead of children, pregnant women and the elderly. The Sunday Herald can reveal that Jack McConnell's colleagues in the Executive will be among the first workers providing " essential " services to be protected from a health threat that could kill up to 50,000 Scots. News of the special treatment has angered opposition MSPs who believe that politicians should not be jumping the queue for vital treatments. http://www.sundayherald.com/48320 Pandemic fear as bird flu infects nurses 13 March 2005 --Health experts are watching the spread of deadly bird flu among humans with increasing concern after doctors reported a second suspected case yesterday among medical staff treating a victim. The World Health Organisation (WHO) has given a warning that the flu, which has killed 47 people in Asia, could mutate into a form that spreads quickly between humans and trigger a global pandemic. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2087-1522982,00.html Bird flu epidemic a matter of time, CDC says 12 March 2005 --Fear-Mongering? After making predictions using computer models, the Center for Disease Control warned that an outbreak of bird flu is not a matter of if but when. --Amid rising fears of a spread of bird flu to humans, the Center for Disease Control yesterday fleshed out plans to battle a potential flu epidemic that could hospitalize as many as 75,000 people, according to some estimates. http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2005/03/12/2003245897 Bird flu infections in north Vietnam prompt new concerns over virus 12 March 2005 --A string of bird flu infections in northern Vietnam involving several families has raised troubling questions over whether the deadly virus that has killed 46 people in Asia may be changing, health experts said Thursday. http://www.canada.com/health/story.html?id=f64ddc97-c8da-4da7-bf3a-ae6b15be91ff Vietnam provides new numbers on avian flu cases, breaking information logjam 11 March 2005 --The Vietnamese government reported 10 human cases of avian influenza to the World Health Organization on Friday, breaking a five-week silence on the human toll the strain known as H5N1 has taken in that country. http://www.canada.com/health/story.html?id=ddefa268-afcd-4e97-8a81-85b7d93b8c30 Vietnam detects new bird flu patient 9 March 2005 --A healthy 81-year-old man from Vietnam's northern Thai Binh province, maternal grandfather of two bird flu patients, has just been confirmed to contract H5N1, while the World Health Organization (WHO) found the virus in samples from seven local people, according to local newspaper Youth Wednesday. http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2005-03/09/content_2671503.htm WHO: 7 Vietnamese Patients Have Bird Flu 8 March 2005 --The World Health Organization said Tuesday that seven Vietnamese patients who initially tested negative for bird flu have been found to be carrying the virus after their samples were retested. http://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory?id=560696 4 New Human Cases of Avian Flu Are Reported in Vietnam 8 March 2005 --Vietnam has reported four new cases of human avian influenza, including those of a 21-year-old man and his 14-year-old sister, the World Health Organization said yesterday. http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/08/international/asia/08flu.html Author airs conspiracy theory on Im's death --Someone stabbed 72-year-old retired research Professor Jeong Im multiple times in the Maryland Avenue parking garage at the University of Missouri-Columbia, put him in the trunk of his Honda and set the car on fire. A national radio talk-show guest has theorized the killing was part of a plot to kill off key microbiologists in the world before unleashing " the ultimate epidemic. " Steve Quayle, a self-published author and newsletter writer from Bozeman, Mont., told listeners of " Coast to Coast AM " that Im was the 40th microbiologist to die under suspicious circumstances in four years and was perhaps among those specializing in vaccines and bio-weapons research. http://www.columbiatribune.com/2005/Jan/20050123News004.asp Simulated smallpox terror attack conducted in Washington --Former US secretary of state Madeleine Albright and former French health minister Bernard Kouchner were among the dignitaries playing the role of president of their respective countries in an exercise conducted here to explore how governments around the Atlantic would react to a biological terrorist attack in the region. An unknown group called the " New Jihad " [Actually, it will be the Bush-Rove terror team that attacks. Let us now discuss the... ? 19 dead microbiologists since the (Fort Dietrick-generated anthrax) murders in 2001. What *were-are* they working on???] was scripted as claiming responsibility for the attack, saying it was revenge for the West's oppression of Muslim countries... The scenario continued with stock markets collapsing, and thousands trying to flee cities where the outbreaks were being reported. http://story.news./news?tmpl=story & cid=1505 & ncid=1505 & e=5 & u=/afp/200501\ 15/ts_alt_afp/usattacksexercise_050115175355 UK 'Societal Disruption' doc: 'mass casualties, maintenance of public order, role of police and armed forces' --Emergency warning as global flu epidemic fears grow --Planning advice warns of disastrous effects --UK emergency services have been put on alert as the World Health Organisation (WHO) warns that a potentially deadly from of bird flu that affects humans could spark a global epidemic this winter. An emergency planning document spelling out the disastrous likely consequences of such an epidemic has already been distributed to government agencies. ...The UK government believes high levels of death and illness could lead to public disorder. Quarantine, travel restrictions and the issuing of face masks are all being considered as protective measures. Under the heading " Societal Disruption " the document says the government " needs to consider maintenance of essential services such as … utilities [and] communication; management of mass casualties; maintenance of public order; the role of police and armed forces " . http://www.sundayherald.com/46866 Microbiologist Death Toll Mounts As Connections To Dyncorp, Hadron, Promis Software & Disease Research Emerge --A Career In Microbiology Can Be Harmful to Your Health (Revised/Updated) --by Michael Davidson and Michael C. Ruppert, 3-3-2 (FTW) - In the four-month period from Nov. 12 through Feb. 11, seven world-class microbiologists in different parts of the world were reported dead. Six died of 'unnatural' causes, while the cause of the seventh's death is questionable. Also on Nov. 12, DynCorp, a major government contractor for data processing, military operations and intelligence work, was awarded a $322 million contract to develop, produce and store vaccines for the Department of Defense. DynCorp and Hadron, both defense contractors connected to classified research programs on communicable diseases, have also been linked to a software program known as PROMIS, which may have helped identify and target the victims. In the six weeks prior to Nov. 12, two additional foreign microbiologists were reported dead. Some believe there were as many as five more microbiologists killed during the period, bringing the total as high as 14. These two to seven additional deaths, however, are not the focus of this story. This same period also saw the deaths of three persons involved in medical research or public health. " http://www.countryherbalist.com/store/MicrobiologistDeaths.htm Scientists' deaths are under the microscope --by Alanna Mitchell, Simon Cooper and Carolyn Abraham - compiled by Alanna Mitchell -- May 4, 2002 " It's a tale only the best conspiracy theorist could dream up. Eleven microbiologists mysteriously dead over the span of just five months. Some of them world leaders in developing weapons-grade biological plagues. Others the best in figuring out how to stop millions from dying because of biological weapons. Still others, experts in the theory of bioterrorism... Suspicious deaths --The sudden and suspicious deaths of 11 of the world's leading microbiologists . " http://www.chemtrailcentral.com/ubb/Forum6/HTML/000623.html The Very Mysterious Deaths of Five Microbiologists --by Ian Gurney 12-20-1 " It is a story worthy of a major conspiracy theory, the script for a Mel Gibson 'Who dunnit?' action movie, or a blueprint for a contrived and unbelievable episode of 'The X Files'. ...Over the past few weeks several world-acclaimed scientific researchers specializing in infectious diseases and biological agents such as Anthrax, as well as DNA sequencing, have been found dead or have gone missing. " http://www.rense.com/general18/five.htm ***** Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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