[ThetaNet] How much do we know about the H5N1 bird flu virus.

[Guest guest]

Dear Dennis,

Thank you for the great article.

I'd also like to piggy back on what you've written below to point out

another interesting fact having to do with nutrition,

and this supposed "Flu Season".

The time frame you mention below, from October through March, contains

a series of "Holidays" where the greatest amount of dietary debauchery

takes place.

More Sugar, Chocolate, Caffeine, Alcohol, and Drugs are consumed

between Halloween and New Years than at any other time of the year.

All of these destroy the body's existing vitamins, and lower the Immune

System to the degree that getting sick with a Cold or Flu is all but

guaranteed.

The Cold and Flu Season is a "Self Inflicted Wound".

All the best,

Doc

 

 

Dennis H. Clarke wrote:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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he genetic fence

that exists between Type-A

and Type-B viruses is seldom breached.

Of over 11,500 Type-A viruses carried by birds, only about a

dozen are

known to have made the genetic shift that is required in order for an

avian

virus to be able to infect man. Thus,

Humans can safely eat birds and not be infected by their “bird flu”

viruses.

 

This works both

ways genetically. Humans are usually only subject to

infection

with Type-B viruses those don’t infect birds.

 

However, the

Type-A, H5N1 avian influenza

virus has made the genetic shift that allows this mutant virus to now

infect

humans. That’s the big leap that

seems to happen only about three times each century with bird viruses.

Of these, on average, only one bird virus per

century causes severe illness in humans.

According to the top health officials on the planet who are

tracking the

evolution of H5N1, it is about two genetic moves from being able to

easily

infect humans and be passed from one human to another human (H2H).

 

The current state

of the technology

associated with DNA analysis of the H5N1 virus, is such that even the

smallest

mutations that could make H5N1 easily transmissible from H2H, can also

detect

the "genetic drift" in any H2H transmission. In other

words, each host causes some genetic

drift or change. Such sophisticated

tracking technology has existed for some time, mainly in the hands of

private

companies and several governments.

 

However, along

with that technology has

come the technological ability to deliberately manipulate and mutate

such

viruses for the purpose of bio-warfare and other than "self

policing," with no agreed upon moral standard, in all cases, no one is

watching the store.

 

In the

September/October issue of the

“Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists,” under “Opinions,”

Jeanne Guillemin says in an article titled, "SEDUCED BY THE STATE,"

“If history is any guide, states will again call on scientists to

develop

biological weapons—and there’s little to prevent them from

succeeding.”

 

Laughingly, the

article begins, “In

the name of National Security, the United States

has recently promoted

voluntary measures to curb the development of state biological

programs.”

 

 

Further, the

article says, “The

capacity of scientists to set aside moral scruples is abundantly

illustrated in

the history of biological weapons in the last century, when thousands

of

microbiologists were employed in state programs.”

 

It’s a telling

article on the subject

and state of current global bio-security.

It’s no wonder that Indonesia, which

today must

consider itself a “likely target” with its largest single Islamic

population on Earth, is reluctant to share its biological samples with

private

Western firms and other governments. Paranoia

runs deep all around in this era of preemptive wars of paranoiac

dramatization

and the use of force to control the worlds oil supplies. While

Indonesia is currently a net

importer of oil, H5N1 could change that.

 

 

Essentially, the

genetic genie is out of

the bag and available to all. The race

has been on for some time, and poses a far greater threat to mankind at

this

moment than the old arms race for nuclear weapons and delivery systems.

But, one of the reasons nukes aren’t

being used but to threaten, is that they leave an identifiable

signature.

 

We are tracking a

countdown to a potential

biological catastrophe and per the top governing elite of the United

States and

the of the planet through the World Health Organization, their plan is

to leave

over six billions of us to tough it out while they retreat to their

bio-secured

underground bunkers, never to return to the surface until the coming

pandemic

has run its course, killing hundreds of millions of people around the

world,

and until a safe and effective vaccine is available for those in

hiding. .

 

There is of

course the additional

possibility that to enhance their cull of the “useless bread

gobblers” of Earth, that one or more additional pathogens might be

loosed

upon us, while they are at it?

 

Tony Benn,

President of the British Stop

The War Coalition has stated, “There is no moral difference between a

stealth bomber suicide bomber. Both kill

innocent people for political reasons.”

 

If you have not

followed the Bush

“Project for a New American Century,” it is on YouTube in two parts

totaling about 14 minutes of video: Part 1; http://nz.youtube.com/watch?v=oSPqto796Lc & feature=related

 

and part 2; http://nz.youtube.com/watch?v=k4tYb9nv6Zk & feature=related

 

While we in the

affluent West, wring our

hands worrying about our fate in a pandemic, let's never loose sight of

the

fact that the birds that are dying by the millions, are the primary

life source

of protein for most of the Third World's

poor. These are already being heavily

impacted in certain areas.

 

Let this be my

vote of no confidence in the

capacity of world leaders, starting with the current dolt in chief in

the White

House and his vice partner in crime, to develop and reach a level of

moral scruples that would keep them from

developing, deploying and using bio-weapons of terror.

 

If they had any

sense of morality at all,

they would have long ago dropped the façade of caring and simply told

the world

that only people who are vitamin D3 deficient ever get the flu, either

human

Type-B influenza or Type-A bird flu.

 

This is why there

is a “flu season.” From October through March in the

Northern

hemisphere, vitamin D3 levels drop from the lack of UVB exposure from

the sun

and fall progressively until spring when the sun moves high enough in

the sky

to again provide UVB.

 

Vitamin D3 is

nature’s way of just

saying “NO!” to the flu.

 

Dennis H. Clarke

Clearwater FL USA