Avian Flu Epidemic Scare is a Hoax

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http://www.mercola.com/blog/2005/oct/18/avian_flu_epidemic_scare_is_a_hoax

 

Avian Flu Epidemic Scare is a Hoax

 

" If you have been viewing the media you must have seen the scare the

media and the president are seeking to orchestrate on you and the

public. According to a draft of the government's plan to fight a

potentially cataclysmic pandemic this new avian super-flu could kill

nearly TWO MILLION Americans.

 

But I nearly fell out of my seat in the airplane as I was flying back

from a conference in Ft. Lauderdale when I read that in the BEST-case

scenario, only 200,000 people might die.

 

Then they post the frightening picture from the 1918 flu epidemic to

heighten the fear. It just amazes me how they can get away with this

type of reporting that is so obviously manipulated by the government

and drug companies to scare you into taking the flu vaccine.

 

The popular media continues to reinforce this unbased fear. In the

editorial section of the October 17, 2005 issue of the Wall Street

Journal, Dr. Henry Miller, former director of the Office of

Biotechnology at the FDA, seeks to frighten the US public by telling

us that the avian flu virus can jump from birds to humans and produce

a fatal illness in 50% of those infected.

 

Ah there's the rub. 50% fatality rate sounds pretty scary to me. What

Dr. Miller and the other experts fail to explain is how these numbers

were derived. Did they examine everyone who contracted the avian flu

and use those numbers or did they examine the sickest of the sick who

had come down with the avian flu and determine the mortality from there?

 

Of course it was the later, and from the 60 people who have died from

this in THIRD world countries we are being told that anywhere from

200,000 AT BEST to two million people at worst will die from the avian

flu.

 

This is shody science at best and beyond belief that any reputable

scientist could get away with such nonsense.

 

Daily Show Parody

 

Fortunately contemporary comedians can see right through this

nonsense. Here are the links to Jon Stewart's scathing and brilliant

Daily Show piece on bird flu. But I have to warn you that it may cause

you to hurt yourself from laughing so hard, especially the World

Health expert comments on the avian flu killing 150 million people and

even funnier comment of George Bush on bird to people transmission.

 

Quicktime Link (106 MB)

http://video.lisarein.com/dailyshow/oct2005/10-06-05/10-6-05-avianflu.mov

MP3 Link (6.7 MB)

http://video.lisarein.com/dailyshow/oct2005/10-06-05/mp3/10-6-05-avianflu.mp3

 

 

 

What Happened to Common Sense?

 

The avian flu epidemic hoax reminds me just how uncommon " common

sense " is. Folks where is the sound basic science here? How do they

make the giant leap of faith that 60 deaths will translate to 2

million or even 200,00 deaths in the US from a virus that does NOT

readily spread from birds to humans or humans to humans?

 

Most of the people who acquired this infection were bird handlers who

were in continuous contact with these sick birds. Does anyone in their

right mind envision similar circumstances in the US?

 

Research like this would typically be thrown in the trash if it did

not strongly support some ulterior purpose.

 

What might the purpose of these scare tactics be you ask?

 

Well how about the US purchasing huge quantities of antiviral drugs

and an increase in flu vaccine production along with purchasing 20

million doses of the highly questionably effective Tamiflu. Guess how

much one treatment of Tamiflu costs? Give yourself a slap on the back

if you guessed $100.

 

Donald Rumsfeld to Profit Big Time

 

So those 20 million doses the government has authorized will cost US

Taxpayers 2 BILLION dollars.

 

Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld will likely profit handsomely from

the announcement the government is purchasing $2 billion of Tamiflu,

the drug developed by Gilead Sciences when Rumsfeld was president of

the company. He is reported to hold major portions of stock in Gilead

 

Not very different from his previous experience with aspartame

http://www.mercola.com/blog/2005/oct/18/2005/jan/12/rumsfeld_aspartame.htm

where he was president of Searle and was able to get asparatame

approved after being blocked by the FDA for more than a decade.

 

Now I think very few of us would mind if this drug actually worked and

prevented even a few people from dying. But does it do that? Not

really. About all anyone can expect from this drug is that it might

make the symptoms a bit less severe. On the downside (aside from

setting you back $100) Dr. Tenpenny explained in her Flu Tele Clinic

last week Tamiflu can actually cause the virus to mutate into a more

dangerous and potent viral strain.

 

Yesterday US Congress asked Roche, the maker of Tamiflu to suspend its

patent and have others make it because they could not likely keep up

with the demand, but of course Roche refused saying Tamiflu is hard to

make and it would take another company three years to " get up to speed " .

 

What they were really saying is they could care less about the public,

what their primary focus on was to not share their windfall profits

mandated by the US Congress.

 

Worthless Flu Shots

 

Of course let us not forget the flu shots which many will use get when

they confuse avian flu with the regular flu. Please understand even if

you believe the flu shots work, the flu shot you can now purchase is

in no way shape or form designed to protect you against the flu. They

are completely different strains. (Avian flu is H5N1 strain).

 

But rest assured the makers of flu vaccines will not lose this unusal

opportunity to rape the American public of even more profits. Today we

learned that those getting the flu shotsmay see a 25% increase in

prices at clinics, doctors' offices and medical centers because of

increases in the wholesale cost of the vaccines.

 

History Repeats Itself

 

Investigative journalist Ida Honorof for decades published a consumer

newsletter and broadcast a regular radio program. Honorof received a

first prize award from Associated Press for investigative journalism.

The Los Angeles Times and other publications credited her with

breaking some of the biggest horror stories of our time.

 

Ida Honorof wrote, " the most brazen, obscene electioneering ploy " ever

and added that it was proposed by the President " and his coterie of

scientific hacks, fabricated to cause pure unadulterated panic and

guarantee political capital, rammed through without consideration of

people's health and lives and approved by a band-wagon Congress " eager

to make the nation's " health " a bipartisan concern.

 

The above quote was not written about the avian flu epidemic but the 5

million swine-flu vaccine program of 30 years ago. The hastily

contrived program for swine flu resulted in hundreds of Guillain Barre

Syndrome paralysis victims as well as countless deaths for a flu

pandemic that never materialized.

 

The pocketbook purloining proposed by the Senate is more than 3,000

per cent greater than that of 30 years ago! Has your paycheck

increased 3,000 per cent in the last 30 years?

 

Practical Options

 

First step for anyone caught up in this avian flu hype nonsense is to

take a deep breath and relax and realize the truth here. Unless you

are full time bird handler in a third world country that has a

seriously challenged immune system you probably have a much better

chance of wining the lottery than dying from the proposed avian flu

epidemic.

 

Review the simple lifestyle measures I outlined earlier this year that

will serve to boost your immune system to not only address any form of

the flu but also other infectious illness like the cold. When you have

a healthy lifestyle and follow basic steps of the Total Health

program, for the most part you just don't get sick.

http://www.mercola.com/2005/mar/5/flu_vaccine.htm

 

This is the routine surprised comment that most patients tell me after

they have been on the program. The Total Health program works for me,

most of my patients and can work for you. Just give it a try and let's

stop enriching the drug companies for toxic alternatives that don't

solve the problem.

 

For more information about the avian flu you can obtain the Flu Tele

Clinic I did last week with Dr. Tenpenny.

 

USA Today October 8, 2005