More About the Bird Flu

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More About the Bird Flu

From Dr Hulda Clark

When I wrote about the bird flu and made reference to the Spanish flu of 1918, I

caused a landslide of reactions from my readers. I received many articles avian

flu and related subjects and it ranged from the wildest conspiracy theories to

seemingly sound information. I will make a few comments here without claiming to

know the truth or have a firm opinion on any of it.

 

Arguments made against the bird flu scare and the Spanish flu connection:

 

a.. No one knows what the Spanish flu was because at the time viruses were not

detectable. That was done many years later and no one can be certain whether

what was found to be the cause of the Spanish flu many years later was the

correct cause.

b.. At the end of WWI, for the first time multiple vaccinations of all sorts

were carried out and the Spanish flu appeared in many different places on the

planet pretty much around that time and especially in young and sturdy men,

which is rather strange (but that was the group that was mainly vaccinated).

Even the British Medical Journal mentions it is the only ever known flu pandemic

which was specific to young people (http://bmj.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/

short/332/7544/786?etoc).

c.. Tests on humans to try and pass the Spanish flu from one person to another

failed.

d.. The cases of people who so far have died from avian flu may have had the

virus in them but there is no proof that that virus caused their death. The

presence of a virus does not prove it caused a condition. If the same virus is

present in all similar cases of symptoms, then we can infer that the virus has

something to do with the condition but it is not sure and the process to prove

it is not easy. Some viruses are present in many people. For example, certain

Herpes viruses are found in over 90% of everyone. If you tested random people

dying from, say, lung cancer, you would find that virus in most of them.

Concluding that is the cause of the condition would be wrong in this case. In

the avian flu there have been very few cases and there has been little research

so far.

e.. There have been many " super bug " scares in the past decades, but none of

them have led anywhere. The chance of exactly this avian flu virus to turn into

a super bug is small.

f.. The accompanying bacterial infections which are usually the imminent cause

of death in a viral infection, can nowadays be treated with antibiotics. That

was not the case in 1918.

A lot more arguments are made but I want to leave some of the work up to you.

 

Here are a few websites that give background on the avian flu. They do not all

have the same focus and my citing them here does not mean I agree with any or

all they say, but I have at least found them interesting and those who have been

reading my e-zine are well aware that I'm generally critical of the system.

 

Michael Fumento says we are being Chicken Little, thinking the sky will fall on

our heads, if we go for the avian flu scare. Well researched and referenced:

http://www.fumento.com/disease/flu2005.html.

 

Dr. Len Horowitz has his own theories about population control and such. I am

not sure I quite agree, but his comparison of the avian flu with the other

scares we have seen in the past few years, including SARS (remember?), West Nile

Virus and such, is quite revealing:

http://educate-yourself.org/cn/lenhorowitzdebunksavianfluhysteria11oct05.shtml.

 

This website by Hans Tolzin is unfortunately only in German but has the best

background information about the Spanish flu: http://www.impf-report.de/.

 

The magazine Nature has put together a series of articles about the Spanish flu

and the avian flu. They are scientific but mainstream:

http://www.nature.com/nature/focus/1918flu/index .html.