Pandemic Watch, our "best of" the news

[Jenny Lake]

On April 26, 2009, the U.S. declared a 'health emergency' which is unretracted, reported at http://www.cdc.gov/h1n1flu/

Opinion from TIU is generally of THE PANDEMIC global 'emergency' unfolding now as swine flu and compared to the 1918 Spanish Flu which killed (40-100)million worldwide between 1918-1920 --now being used to fulfill genocidal plans and seal the losses of national and civil human rights. Over ten years of propaganda and the present media spin have linked, promoted, and pushed this association.

For whatever may be happening in real time, there's no doubt about manufacturing a Story of a pandemic. Confirmation comes from the CDC itself which is shifting and altering its presentation by significant omissions and redactions (I'm taking handwritten notes) which I'll be highlighting with additions to this thread.

Dr. Ruben Donis, who is a division chief at the CDC of Virology and Vaccines, has made statements that the current flu genetics were identified in 1998 and that recent samples from victims in Mexico are not being released to the medical researchers, who want to know why. In Feb. of 2008, it was predicted that the emerging pandemic would be Swine Flu from Mexico by Peter Daszak of Wildlife Trust.

Here it is....

[Jenny Lake]

COMPARISON TO SPANISH FLU

Two 'bestsellers' bought and distributed to local libraries in the U.S. resurrected Spanish Flu as the most lethal killer of all time.

[1] FLU: the Story of the Great Influenza Pandemic of 1918 and the Search for the Virus That Caused It, released in 1999, author Gina Kolata, publisher Farrar, Straus, and Giroux

[2] The Great Influenza, released in 2004, author John M. Barry, publisher Viking Penguin Group

Inumerable articles started flooding the web and mainstream publications in 2004, like this from National Geographic, which gives the Spanish Flu an avian origin:
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news ... shflu.html

The WHO released a document in 2004 called Avian Influenza: Assessing the Threat referring to H5N1 and writing this, "The virus first erupted in its highly pathogenic form in 1997, but did not appear again..."

The forerunner of the WHO was called the Hygiene Committee of the League of Nations, formed in response to the Spanish Flu! No virus was ever determined to have caused it (influenza virus was first identified in 1931, and extracted from a human sample in 1932 by Australian Frank MacFarlane Burnett). The designation of H1N1 was retroactively assigned to Spanish Flu, but it has also been known as H7N3 and other subtypes.

From all appearances, Spanish Flu is the mother of all 'influenza', at the time called "la grippe", just plain grippe or 'summer grippe', which was a common diagnosis (misdiagnosis) for polio. The same professionals who tackled Spanish Flu in the labs were polio 'experts', in charge of the military-medical complex that became the Public Health system. It's still a mystery what really caused the Spanish Flu and it's been hypothesized to be multiple organisms or viral entities.

[Jenny Lake]

The existence of 'virus' is contentious and disputed by doctors who are speaking out, like Stefan Lanka in the AIDS/HIV debate. He states at www.virusmyth.com that viruses are merely components of all biological life and have a symbiotic function in living organisms --viruses are not organisms themselves, and not able to be characterized as 'living'. They are referred to as 'killed' when they've been 'inactivated' by solvents or detergents. Viruses are currently 'in use' as virotherapy agents and genetic experimentation because they transfer DNA into their hosts.

Dr. Robert Webster, currently considered one of the world's flu experts, has an insitutional home at St. Jude's Childrens Hospital in Memphis, though originally from Australia and a fellow at the Australian National University. His research partner, Graeme Laver, happens to be the inventor of GlaxoSmithKline pharm product Relenza --along with Tamiflu, the only effective treatment promoted for circulating swine flu while we're still pre-vaccine. Webster is credited with improving the way in which flu vaccines are made by breaking them apart and using only the pathogenic fractions.

Webster traveled to and from Hong Kong at the outbreak of H5N1, ordered the destruction of 1.5 million chickens, and received the beneficence of 7.1 billion dollars in R&D funds from the Bush administration to develop a "new vaccine that was...hatched in Webster's lab".
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/flu.html
quoting from the Smithsonian:
"For many years, Webster has theorized that pigs are the mixing bowls for pandemic flu outbreaks...The pig is in the picture because its genome, perhaps surprisingly, share certain key features with the human genome. Pigs readily catch human flu strains...[and]they often live so close to poultry"...

[Ognir]

Get passed the money and they are easier to see

[Jenny Lake]

Money is really talking!

..and not just for/from the human population. Since the turn of 2000, flu is popping up in 'new' species --horses, dogs and cats-- reinforcing the idea of spread related to vaccines and justifying the need for more veterinary vax.

The Smithsonian article above notes that "Webster pointed out that this H5N1 virus was so crafty that it has already learned to infect tigers and other cats, something no avian flu has ever done." (what tigers, I wonder)

Dog flu was noted (blamed on transmission from horses) in racing greyhounds, article from Sept.26, 2005
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9492940

and below a quote from http://www.horsetalk.co.nz/news/2009/05/022.shtml --new on May 5, 2009

The issue comes down to whether other species are capable of harbouring the virus, perhaps with limited symptoms, or no symptoms at all, and then potentially passing it on to susceptible species - in this case, humans.

Research published only this month pointed to the possible role of pigs in helping the transmission of the Spanish flu of 1918.

The study showed the virus was infecting pigs at the same time, causing a mild respiratory infection, and may ultimately have played a role in the spread among people.

[Jenny Lake]

Research published only this month pointed to the possible role of pigs in helping the transmission of the Spanish flu of 1918.

Nothing new about this. It was postulated not long after the 1918 pandemic, so writes John Barry in The Great Influenza. Swine expert J.S. Koen was said to have notified the health authorities about it at the time. Destructive epidemics of hog cholera had been plaguing the U.S. farm belt since the 1830s where it was first reported in Ohio in 1833. In 1886 Theobald Smith and Daniel Salmon (Salmonella choleraesuis) used 'killed' bacteria to create a vaccine for hog cholera. This experiment led to a breakthrough in 1903 and the preparation of vaccines for human Typhoid and Cholera.

The typhoid vaccine (TAB) was mandatory for the military as of 1911 and is blamed for causing the Spanish Flu, although the sickness was undoubtedly complex with 'confounders' or 'co-factors'. The making of serums (passive immunity from antibodies in blood) and the early pathogen mixtures (attenuated) were all products of lab animals; mostly common livestock (horses, cows, pigs, sheep), dogs, cats, rabbits, primates, and small rodents, roughly in that order.

Since virus cannot be 'killed', and the virus carried by dead bacteria are actually released in a phenomenon called the "SOS response", discovered in 1947 by John F. Enders (polio expert), antibacterials can increase the presence of virus. Enders was responsible for expanding the variety of biological tissues on which poliovirus was grown, introducing the 'monkey kidney' vaccines of Salk and Sabin.

Jonas Salk had been working with Thomas Francis at the University of Michigan earlier, employed by the Army, to produce an influenza vaccine, testing it during WWII on institutionalized civilians. Army records show the worst recorded year of pandemic global flu as 1943. The biological ingredients of Francis & Salk's experimental vax were irradiated products of the lab. These experiments were the basis of multiple dose vaccines and were carried over to military personnel.

The mystery of flu virus looks to have a strong resemblance to poliovirus, only carrying twice the genetic material. Don't have a 'genome map' (does anyone?) and except for the larger size, these viruses are nearly identical. Polioviruses --by the time of the public vaccine in 1955-- were known to infect the respiratory tract as well as the intestines and known to cause 'grippe'. Is this the real Influenza A virus ??

The present swine flu is noted to have a 'significant' intestinal involvement.

[Anonymous]

GET A LOAD OF THIS! :shock:
http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/breaki ... 62627.html
http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/local/ ... 60877.html
http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/local/ ... 60982.html

[Jenny Lake]

H1N1, our new/old flu re-emerged in 1977 as the Russian Flu following the vaccines for swine flu in 1976. The previous pandemics of the 50s and 60s are listed as H2N2 variants of Asian flu, though it's also in the records that swine flu was 'coming home' with Vietnam vets. Did vaccines cause all this? Is this the real cycle of flu which is targeting the youngest people who have no immunity from previous decades?

SWINE FLU 1976
Gina Kolata points out in 'FLU' that Salk and Sabin were Gerald Ford's advisors on the '76 vaccine campaign, making 'peace' for the cooperative purpose and putting on the pressure for a 'what if' contingency, should Ford end up with blood-on-his-hands for not ordering a vaccine. To date, the highest number of people who may have died from the swine flu in 1976 is 5, only one appears confirmed as a soldier at Fort Dix, New Jersey.

One of the flu heroes in her book, Richard E. Shope, postulated a combined bacterial-viral transmission of flu by way of lung worms that climb out of the lungs and are swallowed. In animals, passage into feces and subsequently soil keeps these microorgansms going. She writes, "This novel and controversial idea helped explain the cyclic nature of influenza". From looking at various sources addressing the cycle of flu, there's no discernible 'natural' pattern, especially in historic references, but there is plenty of present-day spin suggesting it. Flu goes pandemic, around the world, all through the year, intensifying in the denser population of the northern hemisphere in the classic 6-week "flu season", December and New Year. The large patterns of flu are related to military operations and vaccines!!

Richard Shope was the medical chief of the Army's Ft. Detrick bioweapons program from 1951 to 1959. Besides flu, his specialty was transmissable cancer which had been proven at the Rockefeller Institute in 1911 --same year as mandatory military TAB vax. Note that 1969 was the year the U.S. bioweapons program was ended by Nixon, Fort Detrick became the host of the National Cancer Institute which ramped up it's Special Virus Cancer Program in the early 70s. Swine flu  was not the only 'epidemic' of 1976 --just the only one with a vaccine. Legionnaire's disease and Ebola made their appearances in the world for the first time.

[Large Sarge]

Rense interviews henry niman



http://rense.gsradio.net:8080/rense/spe ... 061009.mp3

[Large Sarge]

Henry Niman?!!! Gad lard, noooo RB!!! ('n tell Jim Willie Wonka too): he's one o' them, I can pretty well assure you: a purveyor of hypno-/hypo-misdirection 'n disinformation through 'n through, etc.

Niman offers a lot of insight IMO

his advice on the vaccine is junk, but he has researched the 1918 flu extensively.

take what you like, but I do not consider him "dis-info"

the virus is still spreading, and as Himan states, it will mutate (they all do), and if or when it gets the right combo, the fatality rates will go much higher...

[Jenny Lake]

Niman sounds/looks like a pandemic promoter. The website Recombinomics has a 2005 copyright all over it. His bio puts him deep in bioweapons territory and his financial interests are all tied up with vested disease purveyors. He got his PhD at USC specializing in retrovirus tumor development in cats. Post-doc work at Scripps, La Jolla where his shining star got him hired to the staff. In 1982 he created an antibody assay for influenza which was used widely throughout the medical industry, then he became 'interested' in infectious disease while at Harvard. More damning is that Niman's Jewish and got his funding from Rabbi Moneymaker in Israel according to DBS, a fact that was since removed from Niman's website.

[LordLindsey]

Look, people, the bottom line is that we are now in a situation that we all know is going to lead to the nightmare scenario that the Zionists have been setting in place for nearly a decade now--A full-fledged pandemic that will rival The Black Death.  I will not argue with ANY of you about this as I stand firmly in my knowledge that what I have seen over the years in the virological time-line stands on its own as being the step-by-step process of CREATION, DISTRIBUTION, TESTING/REACTION, THE CURRENT UNDER-CURRENT FEAR/PANIC, FULL-RELEASE, and then the real-deal...THE COMPULSARY VACCINATION PROGRAM.  There is no doubt now, with the historical "Level 6" being announced today, that their plans are open for all of us to see and we know what their intended goal is.

No more arguing about whether or not this is this or this is that...these folks have just taken this war on humanity to one of the highest levels possible and God help us all if this virus becomes what we all secretly FEAR that it will certainly become.

LINDSEY

[Jenny Lake]

Dr. Ruben Donis of the CDC is either sending out mixed messages or they're getting sectioned along the way.
This brief interview was posted April 30
http://www.grist.org/article/2009-04-30 ... ne-strain/

This virology blog site/links suggests the questions mentioned at the top and as to why would "not significantly different" flu genes cause higher pathogenicity
http://www.virology.ws/2009/05/01/swine ... -update-2/

In April, the CDC sites were simply stating that a novel swine virus had emerged. In the May22 update at http://www.cdc.gov/h1n1flu/ it was reported that about half of the swine virus gene combinations were novel. On May30 the update of the same cover page reported that the swine viruses were novel (implying all). This is the shift in the story underway. The early reports in April counted 2 deaths in California confirmed from swine flu. The current page now records no deaths in California.

[LordLindsey]

Look, Jenny, we can assume this or that but I think that we can ALL agree that the reason that this entire viral "pandemic" is being hyped is because it paves the way for FORCED VACCINATIONS, wherein the TRUE pathogen lays-in-wait.  There is no doubt any longer that this has been a step-by-step process for a final goal, and once they announced the creation of the deadliest virus known to man five (5) years ago or so, I knew at that moment that very soon we would see a biological nightmare take place, and this is it.  There is ZERO reason for all of this fear and publicity if not for the FORCED VACCINATION PROGRAMS already written into law, and the consequences of not taking it will be dire due to the perception of the population as to what they "BELIEVE" to be happening.

I honestly to God can not believe that this is really happening, and we are seeing being played-out in front of our very eyes the play that was written years ago.  The worst part of this is that there is simply nothing that any of us can do at this point except wait for the inevitable because "Level 6--Pandemic" has been reached, the frontal-wave virus has been released, and now the real-deal is in production as we speak across the world in the form of "The Vaccine."  The moment that "Level 6" became a fact was the moment that any and all speculation at to the intentions of these people became a moot point, and Jenny, with all due respect, unless we can prove to the world what we know in our hearts, I honestly to God can't see any way to change the direction of this train because these Zionists have all of their manufactured crises waiting to become a full-fledged catastrophe and the people are going to literally go insane once the shit hits the fan.

So, what are your suggestions as to what to do because this is REAL--it is only a matter of time before they drop their hammers.

LINDSEY

[LordLindsey]

I only know that all bets are off now that the die has been cast by these people.  I am out of answers because this is out of our control now, as it is INEVITABLE that a forced vaccination program will be used on the people, and what will YOU do when it is YOUR time to take the vaccine?  I am not going to argue with anyone on this issue because it is a done deal; what I want to know is what are we going to do now that we know what is planned for our futures once people really lose their minds from the completely overwhelming destruction that the controllers will bring to the planet via orchestrated catastrophes--MUCH worse than what we have seen and ARE seeing now?

LINDSEY

[Jenny Lake]

I started this thread as a 'pandemic watch' because of a certainty that flu information is running afoul of reality and will get much worse and unreliable in the coming weeks. My opinion (obviously?) is that the pandemic is being generated in the news, capitalizing on relatively 'normal' events out of context until such a time that 'genocidal plans' may be enacted. I say 'may' because I don't think there's nothing we can do. The problems however, carry the weight of historical medical fraud!!

Lindsey,
If/when vaccines are forced on people, we can be sure of casualties from the vaccine because there are no safe vaccines and people always die from them or have lifetime disabilities. There are lots of threads here discussing vaccines and the flu and the solutions. My point in this thread was to give context to the larger picture of this unfolding event.

I don't agree with the 'reconstructed 1918 virus' as the 'deadliest virus known to man' on either point. It's part of the hoax, imo, to scare people into voluntarily taking vaccines. As for what-to-do, let's dig out the real facts on flu, watch the 'updates', look deeper for validation or refutation of the stories being generated and share this with as many people as possible. If you and I and anyone else can do this effectively then many people may avoid the entrapment and risk of vaccines. If there's a military operation involved in forcing vaccines on the population, then we'll have to cross that bridge when we get there.

[LordLindsey]

Thank you, Jenny, and each point is well-made and I agree 100% with each response and feel the same way.  What I am asking you, and anyone else, is that we can see the writing on the wall at this point, and this is un-like anything at all that "I" have ever seen in my 32 years of life.  I am getting worried because of the FORCED vaccination programs that, once enacted, will bring forth the TRUE "pandemic" and what can we do at that point?  I guess what my bottom-line question is are we going to stay in our nations knowing the consequences or, and I do NOT say this lightly, do we leave for any other place where this is NOT being forced upon the people to create the TRUE "pandemic?"  

Jenny, I will say this in addition to your response about the re-constructed strain that they created in that lab several years ago:  It IS being hyped to terrify people into doing exactly what these psycho/sociopaths want, and THAT is the very definition of terrorism.  These people have shown their hand, folks, whether you realize it or not, because each and every step in their process of making sure that this manufactured pandemic takes things to a much greater level has been THOROUGHLY documented and shown to be just that--A MANUFACTURED PANDEMIC WITH ABSOLUTELY NO ARGUMENT FROM THE TIMELINE OF EACH OF THEIR PHASES IN PROGRESSION OVER THE PAST SEVERAL YEARS.

I have not compiled a list of each step, but God damned it I remember as each one progressed to a higher point and then to the next level in the chain and on and on and on until we are HERE now--"Level 6 Pandemic."  Jenny, this would be a very difficult thing to do, but SOMEONE, SOMEWHERE needs to do just that:  Compile the evidence of the progression in this chain-of-events from each step, including the murders of the scientists/micro-biologists that first made most people aware that something very terrible is in the making.  Key scientists have already come-out from their shadows and basically admitted that this is a man-made disease, so maybe, JUST MAYBE, if we can have a huge compendium of evidence we have something to hopefully make people aware of the terrible danger that they face once the FORCED VACCINATION PROGRAMS begin in each nation that mandates it.

We truly are witnessing what appears to be the creation of pre-programmed Armageddon; I simply have no other words to describe the level of manipulation in world events to create nothing but abject misery upon the human population that the Zionists and their fucking goyim minions *including the Arabic/Islamic traitors and greedy/corrupt Oriental fools* are COMPLETELY RESPONSIBLE for coming to fruition--everything from the destruction of the global money system to the calamitous loss of jobs across the world *ESPECIALLY in America* to the tyranny being witnessed by Draconian laws meant to subjugate and enrage the population MUCH further to now the beginning of a FULL-FLEDGED PANDEMIC.  

There are NONE so blind as those who WILL NOT see, and un-fortunately for us, more than likely not even many of our friends and families will TRULY believe us when we beg them not to follow the lies and take the vaccine once it is forced upon ALL OF US--I am a strong enough man to admit what we know in our hearts:  There is a greater than not chance that the ones we love and try to protect will, out of complete fear, take the vaccine that will ensure that this nightmare becomes the reality that the Zionists have been waiting to unleash upon humanity for a very long time now, and we have to prepare ourselves mentally for that very real likelihood.  Most people, I truly do believe at this point, are simply not strong enough to do the right thing when the moment of truth arrives, and even if others won't say it, I WILL.  I have told my family and friends the TRUTHS as they are and have produced the evidence to back-up what I say, and I have made it very clear that if they take the vaccine then I can no longer have anything further to do with them; I realize how that may sound but this truly is the "Endgame" for these psycho/sociopaths, and if our friends and families can't see clearly the reality for what it is and they allow their bodies to WILLINGLY be poisioned with the TRUE "agent of pandemic," then I can have nothing more to do with them as this is the litmus test for whether or not ALL people know the truth and their strength of conviction of what they "know" to be true is followed by action and not mere words.

LINDSEY

[Jenny Lake]

Without a question this Pandemic is a Terror tactic --if we 'get it' then it won't 'get us' (too emotionally, I mean), so let's stay with the story and manage our perspective.
Lindsey-- I have no knowledge of "bringing forth a TRUE pandemic" as you put it but can only guess by the known, available technologies about what's possible. Can we keep that out of this thread? Personally, I think the U.S. population is 'sensitive' enough to suffer a huge loss of life and quality of life from what would be considered routine vaccinations. Our general health has a low standing among developed nations. Coupled with serious economic troubles suggests a "tipping point" that would significantly contribute to the perception of a severe pandemic. In the weeks ahead, it's this perception of flu (which I expect to be extreme in portrayal) that's driving the activity.

My continuing posts in this thread are intended to make more of a narrative out of the present news on flu. Great if this is the basis for expanding! I hope so!

[Jenny Lake]

In a statement sent to health officials, WHO said it decided to raise the pandemic warning level from phase 5 to 6 — its highest alert — after holding an emergency meeting with its flu experts.

The WHO pandemic-threat system was put into place in 2005.

On Wednesday, WHO said 74 countries had reported nearly 27,737 cases of swine flu, including 141 deaths. The agency has stressed that most cases have been mild and required no treatment, but the fear is that a rash of new infections could overwhelm hospitals and health authorities — especially in poorer countries.
Still, about half of the people who have died from swine flu, also known by its scientific name H1N1, were previously young and healthy — people who are not usually susceptible to flu.

I'm trying to find more "previously young and healthy" victims....still looking
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090611/ap_..._swine_flu

THE BEGINNING
posted April 27

The problems began in early March, when many neighbors of the hog CAFO (confined animal feeding operation) became sick with colds and flu that quickly turned into lung infections, causing local health officials to impose a "sanitary cordon" around the area and begin a mass program of vaccination and home fumigation.

reference http://m.huffingtonpost.com/blogs/8330/full/

and this is the first swine flu victim, 5 year old Edgar Hernandez
http://www.aztlan.net/swine_flu_origins.htm
...the problems really began in Dec. 'o8 according to aztlan.net

posted April 29
http://abcnews.go.com/Health/SwineFlu/S ... 439&page=1
according to this ABC news article:

-Dr Nancy Cox of the CDC believes the onset of swine flu in the U.S. outbreak happened on March 28 (no details)

-quoting Irwin Redlener of Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health, "It's a new virus, new virus combination, it does transmit form person to person and we already know it causes fatalities so we already have the makings of a possible pandemic."

-"Mexico's first suspected case of the swine flu was detected in the remote farming village of La Gloria where 5-yr-old Edgar Hernandez contracted the disease nearly one month ago..."

-the first known U.S. fatality was a 22-month-old baby boy from Mexico, in Houston Texas..."The death is the first linked to swine flu to occur outside of Mexico"

-(as of this posting, Apr 29) The Egyptian government has begun slaughtering all 300,000 pigs in the country although no cases are confirmed but Egypt's neighbor Israel has reported two cases.

-9 countries have officially reported 148 cases, according to the WHO

-the possibility that a California man died prompted Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger to declare a state of emergency (following a federal declaration on Apr.26)

-In New York, after the St. Francis school reported flu, a second school for autistic children reported flu

-8 passengers who sat near a nun returning from Mexico, bound for Korea, took Tamiflu injections

-Sen Leiberman (Conn.) and Rep. Waxman (Cal.) called for Congressional hearings

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The California deaths confirmed as swine flu stand at 3 as of June 04, adding a school-age child to two previous
"The child is the third Californian to die with the novel H1N1 flu virus. A San Bernadino county man and a Los Angeles county woman, both middle-aged and with underlying health conditions died last month."
...the man is the same as above and stands as the second confirmed case of swine flu. (and second death?)
http://reportinghealth.org/blogs/first- ... -swine-flu

"School Age Child Dies of Swine Flu"..."died on May 29 and had a secondary bacterial infection."
http://www.reuters.com/article/GCA-Swin ... 0Z20090604

posted May 21
http://oregonlive.com/health/.../2009/0 ... _10_a.html
this article menttions the death of a 55-yr-old asst. principal in Queens, NY, and his condition is elaborated below
http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/200 ... e_flu.html
mentions he is the 6th death and "Wiener's family said his only previous ailment had been gout"

posted May 17
http://myfoxphilly.com/dpp/health/05170 ... _Swine_Flu
This article mentions "in Arkansas, an offshore oil worker who died...tested positive for several strains of flu...the 28 year-old...suffered from flu like symptoms for six weeks before seeking medical attention." It also lists 4,714 cases in 46 states and 4 deaths. (this doesn't add up)

posted May 20
http://www.myfoxdc.com/dpp/health/2nd_A ... S_46173083
article mentions a 57-yr-old Arizona woman who "had underlying medical conditions but could not elaborate"
and also a 21 yr-old from Utah,
http://www.sltrib.com/news/ci_12411489?source=rss
who had chronic medical problems as well

from Canada here
http://www.kutv.com/news/world/story/Ca ... 4yPXw.cspx
mentions "A 39-year-old Alberta woman with chronic pre-existing medical conditions died on Apr.28. An autopsy did not show whether the virus played a role"...and "a 44-year-old man with a chronic pre-existing medical condition died on May 23





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[Jenny Lake]

WHO calls their new 2005 system 'EPR'

Epidemic and Pandemic Alert and Response
 
Epidemics and pandemics can place sudden and intense demands on health systems. They expose existing weaknesses in these systems and, in addition to their morbidity and mortality, can disrupt economic activity and development.

The world requires a global system that can rapidly identify and contain public health emergencies and reduce unneeded panic and disruption of trade, travel and society in general.

The revised International Health Regulations, IHR(2005) provide a global framework to address these needs through a collective approach to the prevention, detection, and timely response to any public health emergency of international concern.

http://www.who.int/csr/en

[Anonymous]

When I first heard about this "swine flu" on CBC OVERNIGHT they asked some Canadian researchers what they thought.
The researchers remarked that it was very strange and they had never seen anything like it before where pig, avian and human DNA where all present in the samples.

[Jenny Lake]

posted May 26

There have been 10 official U.S. swine flu deaths and two new deaths likely caused by the new flu. More than 300 people in the U.S. have been hospitalized, over half of them previously healthy young people.

posted at http://www.webmd.com/cold-and-flu/news/ ... ge-in-fall
(in the last week of May, the U.S. death toll was 27)

again, cases of 'previously healthy young people' which is completely normal, but not among the deaths
Arizona reported 2 children, a 13 yr-old boy from Tuscon who "had underlying health condition" died May 15, and a 10 yr-old girl died May 17
"Both children, who are not related and have no travel history outside the state, were medically compromised."
http://www.azstarnet.com/sn/hourlyupdate/294754.php
http://www.worldbulletin.net/news_detail.php?id=42106

An 11-week old infant died in Bronx, New York
http://www.ksl.com/?nid=157&sid=6493063

posted new June 11
"A child in Connecticut with underlying medical conditions has died after being diagnosed with the H1N1...the 6 yr-old boy is from Waterbury"
http://myfoxboston.com/dpp/health/swine ... flu_061109

more of the same...the U.S, and Canadian deaths so far appear from pre-existing conditions. No mentions if the "previously healthy" children who developed swine flu had just received routine vaccinations (as expected).

[Jenny Lake]

.. but the fear is that a rash of new infections could overwhelm hospitals and health authorities — especially in poorer countries.

and the world is severely short on healthworkers, says the WHO

A new Task Force met at the WHO office in Geneva on 13 March 2007 to start a debate about the global deficiency of health workers. The shortage of doctors, nurses, health managers and other health care workers is recognised world wide. For this reason, the WHO launched a new international Task Force dealing with health workforce. It has been set up under the auspices of the Global Health Workforce Alliance (GHWA).

A difficult assignment of coping with the shortage of 4.3 million health workers worldwide, including more than 1 million in Africa is set upon the Task Force. According to the World Health Report 2006, 57 countries have critical shortages of health workers, and 36 of these are in sub-Saharan Africa.

http://www.env-health.org/a/2472

[Jenny Lake]

JackieG wrote

When I first heard about this "swine flu" on CBC OVERNIGHT they asked some Canadian researchers what they thought.
The researchers remarked that it was very strange and they had never seen anything like it before where pig, avian and human DNA where all present in the samples.

..this is the central myth, but by the logic and history of the influenza virus recombinant genes of avian-swine-human should be in all flu viruses. A diagnosis is only as good as the test. Until the PCR gene tests came along there were the 'antibody' tests, such as Henry Niman created.

[Jenny Lake]

EGYPT
posted June 11
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090611/wl ... 0611163013
"An 18-month-old boy tested positive for swine flu...dual US and Egyptian citizen [who] arrived in Cairo from the United States with his family. He was the second case reported in Egypt...after a 34-yr-old Colombian was found to be infected..."
"The child was the 12th case after a 12-yr-old girl traveling from America became the first reported case in Egypt and on the African continent on June 2"
..."the health ministry said it would extend a quarantine on an American University in Cairo..after five American residents were found to have been infected with the virus"...
"The authorities..began a controversial culling..of pigs mostly reared by poor Christian farmers..."

INDIA
posted June 13
http://www.thestatesman.net/page.news/p ... &id=257780
"..a six-yr-old girl [who] had flown into Hyderabad from New York testing positive for H1N1 [raises] the total tally of infected cases in India..to 16"
"India so far has not reported 'any cluster formation of the virus'"...
"...if needed the government can invoke the British era Epidemic Act to forcibly quarantine people with the disease and treat them"..."meanwhile..a 24 yr-old.. who had come from France to Kolkata via Mumbai on May 31 developed the flu symptoms yesterday."

WHO states 74 countries reporting 28,774 cases, including 144 deaths

[Travis]

Look, Jenny, we can assume this or that but I think that we can ALL agree that the reason that this entire viral "pandemic" is being hyped is because it paves the way for FORCED VACCINATIONS, wherein the TRUE pathogen lays-in-wait.  

LINDSEY

Lindsey there are a number of fundamental problems with the argument that they are creating a swine flu scare in order to oppose vaccinations which will contain a poison.For example if this is their objective it would be far easier to add a poison to current vaccinations such as 'the flu jab', or to add poisons to the water. They could also unleash a virus into a built area and then let it spread. Furthermore, the death rate is so low it can not be used as a acceptable pretext to impose obligatory vaccinations, and according to your argument the death rate will only increase after the vaccinations.
I agree something is 'up' but it may be very far from what many think. This entire swine flu saga may be just a ploy to distract from the economical situation or it may be a cover for something we are not even aware of. Mass murder may be a byproduct of their objectives but it is not their primary objective. Rather it is their aim to make us subservient to them. Let me ask you why would they want to kill us in mass when the majority of us serve them so well? In a nutshell it is not in the interests of the slave master to unnecessarily kill his slaves.

[LordLindsey]

I don't have all of the answers, but I know that a "Level 6-Pandemic" would NOT be ocurring right now if this was not being used in a biological agenda.  Everyone knows that the economies of the world are completely destroyed, so they sure as Hell don't need a "cover" for that.  I stand firmly by what I have said ALL ALONG, since this entire saga first began; HOWEVER, your point about them putting the true virus in ANY vaccine is a very valid point and I can't give a reason why they wouldn't do that.

I am honest and if I think that I am wrong, I say it; there are too many things coalescing at this point for there not to be something very, very bad being planned against humanity as a whole and everyone can feel it--whether they want to ADMIT IT OPENLY or not.

LINDSEY

[Travis]

Lindsey my friend we all know how evil these Jews  are and based on limited information we are attempting to forecast what their next move will be. And due to the vagueness of our information are interpretations of events are bound to be different. However, a point to consider which will help translate events and paint a clearer picture is 'what are the Jews objectives'? Is it to kill all non-Jews or is it to make us their slaves, or is it something else? The answer to these questions will fundamentally change the way one interprets events. As I stated previously if the notion is taken that it is their objective to make us their slaves why would they want to kill so many people when the majority of humans obey them so well?

[Jenny Lake]

Influenza excerptsfrom a standard tutorial from http://www.medicalecology.org/diseases/ ... luenza.htm

 

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  Prepared in collaboration with Jason White

Outline of Sections
Overview — ProMED Summary of Strains  
Section 1 Introduction
Section 2 History
2.1 Origins of Influenza
2.2 The Pandemics of 1580
2.3 Influenza Pandemics During the Eighteenth Century
2.4 Influenza Pandemics of 1918
2.5 The Origins of the 1957 H2N2 Pandemics
2.6 The 1976 Swine Flu "Epidemic"
Section 3 Biology Of the Influenza Virus
3.1 Virulence Factors
3.2 Molecular Biology  
3.3 A Strain Viruses
3.4 B Strain Viruses
3.5 Structure and Function of Selected Influenza Viral Proteins
3.5.1 Structure of the Neuraminidase Antigen
3.5.2 Other Viral Enzymes
3.5.3 Influenza Virus Receptor
3.5.4 Replication and Spread of Infection
3.6 Replication in Non-human Hosts
3.7 Immune Responses During Infection
Section 4 Ecology of Influenza: Predicting Influenza Outbreaks and Movement
4.1 Massive Frontal Movement Pattern
4.2 Multiple Sequester
4.3 Seasonal Epicenter Relocation
4.4 Herald Explosion
Section 5 Treatment and Prevention Of Influenza Outbreaks
5.1
 New Antiviral Drugs
5.2 Predicting Emergence of Influenza Outbreaks
5.3 Serfling's Model  
Section 6  Avian Influenza A  
6.1
 Avian Influenza: WHO Fact Sheet  
6.2 Influenza Activities, 2005/2006 CDC Update
6.3 Update Information  

 

1 Introduction
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Influenza is a major cause of sickness and death around the world and is one of the most important infectious diseases confronting the world today. Combined with pneumonia, influenza is one of the ten leading causes of death in the United States. Even though most of its victims are elderly, pneumonia-influenza is one of the top-ten leading infectious conditions listed as causing years of potential life lost by the Centers for Disease Control. These facts, plus the memory of the great pandemic of 1918-1919, which killed about 550,000 people in the United States and claimed over 20 million lives around the world, have encouraged much research on this viral infection. The origins of virulent strains and the behavior of epidemics are still not well understood, however, and the unpredictability of emergence of new strains influenza proteins presents serious problems for public health-based control programs throughout the world.

One major complication to controlling the disease is the fact that flu, during the early phase of the infection, is often confused with the common cold. Influenza is a respiratory infection characterized by headaches, fevers, and short dry coughs. Usually, the disease lasts for up to a week, but infection is especially dangerous for the very young and the elderly, as well as those with certain chronic health problems. The elderly tend to have an overall lower resistance in general, and thus are more susceptible to influenza and its complications. Occasionally, there is a neuro-psychological complication known as "post-flu depression" that can last for several weeks or even months.    

 
 
2 History
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Influenza was discovered not by a direct study of the disease in humans, but rather from studies on animal diseases. In 1918, J.S. Koen, a veterinarian, observed a disease in pigs which was believed to be the same disease as the now famous "Spanish" influenza pandemic of 1918.

In 1928, N. McBryde attempted to transmit influenza from pig to pig by taking mucus from the respiratory tract of sick pigs and instilling it into the noses of healthy pigs. However, this effort failed to transmit the disease because they inoculated only filtered material. Most types of bacterial filters used during that time were unable to allow the flow of viral particles through them.

During the same year, Robert Shope, working at the Rockefeller Institute for Comparative Pathology in Princeton, New Jersey, repeated the same experiments inoculating unfiltered material, instead. Shope was not only able to reproduce the disease, but more importantly, he went on to demonstrate that pigs can also become ill when filtered fluid was used for inoculation. The disease produced by the filtrate was mild and could be transferred repeatedly in pigs. This was the first reliable experimental evidence that influenza was caused by a virus, and it also provided the basis for further research into the human form of the disease.

2.1 Origins of Influenza
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People have suffered from influenza for thousands of years. Viruses identical or closely related to the human form of the infection can be isolated from ducks, turkeys, swine, horses, and many other species of warm-blooded vertebrates, as well. It is hypothesized that humans probably acquired influenza when domestication of animals first began. The development of agriculture and the establishment of permanent settlements provided sufficient numbers of potential hosts to create an epidemic. The term "influenza" was coined by an Italian in the mid-1700's to conote a disease resulting from miasma (bad air). The human disease is thought to have arisen about 6000 years ago. A human influenza virus was not isolated until 1933. Wilson Smith, Christopher Andrews, and Patrick Laidrow first identified the virus that causes human influenza only because they found a suitable host for propagation. Laidrow used ferrets in his studies on canine distemper virus, and was able to propagate the flu virus in that same host, as well. Influenza virus was later shown to also infect adult mice and chicken embryos.

2.2 The Pandemic of 1580
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The 1580 pandemic was the first documented outbreak in which we can be reasonably sure it was caused by the influenza virus. During the summer of 1580, influenza was reported in Asia Minor and Northern Africa. Italian accounts suggest that it spread from Malta to Sicily in July 1580 and subsequently diffused north through the Italian peninsula by August. During that time, Phillip II ruled the Iberian Peninsula, Southern Italy, and several North African ports. The early July outbreak in the Spanish Netherlands was most likely caused by troops sent by Phillip II to fight the Dutch.

2.3 Influenza Pandemics During the Eighteenth Century
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The medical profession of the eighteenth century was ill equipped to deal with influenza at any level. For most doctors, especially in the first six or seven decades of the century, influenza seemed to be spread or "created" by atmospheric factors. Such theories were complex. They usually invoked an unknown poison carried in the air and/or specific winds, temperature changes, barometric pressures, or other meteorological factors to explain the appearance and spread of endemic diseases like influenza. To that extent, most eighteenth and early nineteenth-century articles on influenza are much more likely to contain elaborate meteorological tables than geographical reconstructions or statistics on morbidity or mortality. Influenza pandemics occurred at least three times in the eighteenth century: 1729-1730, 1732-1733, and 1781-1782. In addition there were two major epidemics that could possibly be considered pandemics, in 1761-1762 and 1788-1789. Of these, two warrent further discussion: the pandemic of 1729-1730 and the great pandemic of 1781-1782.

The 1729-1730 pandemic was the first recorded pandemic, most likely fostered by the age of discovery. Flu apparently did not break out in North America until October 1732, when the disease was widespread along the New England coast from Boston to southern Maine. Although the origins and termination of the 1729-1730 outbreak are unclear, it obviously was a pandemic, the first of a series that western European observers perceived as coming from Russia. An origin in Russia seems plausible, but there is no documentation of this. Initial reports were of substantial outbreaks in two widely separated Russian cities, Moscow and Astrakhan, on the Caspian Sea, in April, 1729. There were no further reports during the summer, but influenza prevailed in Sweden in September and in Vienna in October. During November, flu was prevalent in Hungary and Poland, swept deep into Germany and appeared in London, Plymouth, York and Durham England, as well in Dublin, Ireland.

While quantitative evidence is lacking, the 1729-1730 pandemic caused sickness but relatively few deaths. Morbidity was extensive, but mortality was generally low, although the case-fatality rate was considered serious in northern Italy. Persons of all ages were stricken, but deaths were most numerous among the elderly and pregnant women.

The pandemic of 1781-1782 ranks with those of 1889-1890 and 1918-1919 as amongst the most widespread and dramatic outbreaks of disease in history. Unlike other pandemics of the eighteenth century, the pandemic of 1781-1782 had some interesting features that can be compared to the epidemics of the 20th century. A few general characteristics of this pandemic were noticed.

evidence of a spring wave in North Africa and North America in 1781.
diffusion of influenza into the Eastern Hemisphere in 1781.
widespread outbreaks occurred within China and British-occupied India during the autumn of 1781.
the pandemic started in China and spread westward in 1782.
It caused tens of millions of cases, spread as rapidly as existing transportation systems permitted, and not surprisingly, elicited volumes of medical writings.

2.4 Influenza Pandemic of 1918
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The influenza pandemic of 1918, also known as "Spanish" flu, killed more rapidly than any other form of influenza known up to that time. This particular strain of influenza was especially dangerous to young adults. The National Office of Vital Statistics in the United States recorded the distribution of deaths during 1917 showing that the highest levels of morbidity occurred at the extremes of infancy and old age, and was very low in between these two age groups. By 1918, morbidity changed dramatically, and was now highest for the very young, and higher yet for persons between the ages of twenty and forty. The elderly appeared to be spared, for the most part. Thus, the Spanish Flu had two outstanding characteristics: 1) it killed millions of people and 2) most of them were in the prime of their life.

This distinctive strain of influenza swept across the face of the earth in three major waves between 1918 and 1919. Although it is uncertain as to where the first wave in the spring of 1918 originated, all available evidence indicates that it appeared in the United States in March of 1918. It attracted very little attention because pneumonic complications were few and deaths even fewer; it appeared as no more than just another bout with the kind of respiratory disease that so often circulates during that time of the year. Only later, after the second and third killer waves appeared did statisticians notice that an unusually large proportion of the flu and pneumonia victims were young adults.

The second wave occurred during March and April and expanded across North America, temporarily disrupting the operation of some military camps and a few factories. It was during this wave that the disease spread throughout most of the rest of the world. According to records, the disease reached epidemic proportions in Europe in April. It swept across the continent in the spring and summer, and the number of casualties was devastating. In Switzerland alone during the month of July, 53,000 people succumbed to the Spanish Flu.

In late August, the severity of the infection changed, suddenly transforming into the most dangerous strain (or strains) ever recorded. It occurred in three major parts of the North Atlantic almost simultaneously: Freetown. Sierra Leone, where local West Africans were brought together with British, South African, East African, and Australian soldiers and sailors; Brest, France, which was the chief port for Allied troops; and Boston, Massachusetts, one of America's busiest embarkation ports and a major crossroads for military and civilian personnel of every nation involved with the Allied war effort. Massive troop movements and the disruption of significant segments of the population during World War I played an important role in the transmission of the disease.

2.5 The Origins of the 1957 H2N2 Pandemic
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In May 1957, an epidemic of a disease presumed to be influenza was reported in Hong Kong. After several months of investigation, most epidemiologists agreed that a strain of influenza virus had surfaced in China early in 1957. Meanwhile, the disease was spreading outward from Southeast Asia.

The new strain of influenza, initially referred to as "Asian Flu" had rapidly spread from Hong Kong to Japan, the Philippines, Malaya, and Indonesia by the end of May 1957. By June, there were numerous reports of influenza among passengers and crew on board ships that had departed from East Asian ports. During June, the disease also spread though India and the Middle East. Port cities were among the first places to be affected. Given the nature of international trade, the disease rapidly spread towards England, and reached the United States.

The Asian strain of influenza continued to be the most pronounced type A variant internationally for more than a decade. It was at this time that epidemiologists and biostatisticians seriously started to explore methods of devising an early warning detection system, at least within the context of determining the severity of an influenza epidemic and its geographical locale.

2.6 The 1976 Swine Flu "Epidemic"
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The details surrounding the swine-influenza "outbreak" of 1976 is notable because the event lead to a major change in public health policy. While the exact origins and validity of the Swine Flu outbreak are unknown, many public health and medical researchers believed that the type of swine influenza that was recovered from human victims during the January 1976 outbreak at Fort Dix, New Jersey was so closely related to the influenza strain that caused more than 500,000 deaths in the United States during the 1918-19 pandemic that to ignore the possibility of a repeat of that epidemic seemed irresponsible.

As the result, a nationwide inoculation program was instituted. However, the establishment of such a program was not easy to implement. In spite of identification of swine flu the proposal for a nationwide inoculation program gained little support at the federal level during April and May of that year. Although President Gerald Ford espoused the need for such a program, there was a consensus among many Congressmen that such a program was not warranted. The vaccine program did not officially begin until October. As history would show, the predicted epidemic failed to materialize. However, millions became vaccinated, some with devastaing health consequences. Guillian-Barre Syndrom, a decending paralysis, was not one of the predicted outcomes, yet occurred with a high degree of frequency at the height of the vaccination program. The vaccine was produced by Merck, Inc., but the insurance policy agaist such an eventuality was underwritten by the United States govenment. The public ended up paying out millions of dollars in health care benefits to affected individuals.

 

3 Biology Of The Influenza Virus
3.1 Virulence Factors
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Influenza has presented humankind with a moving target since its appearance on the planet, but remakably, the clinical aspects have remained fairly constant. A given human influenza virus can evolve rapidly by one of two mechanisms: 1) antigenic shift (genetic reassortment between a human and a non-human virus in a non-human host), and 2) antigenic drift (accumulation of mutations that facilitate evasion of the host immune response). New influenza viruses constantly emerge from the environment, emanating from such disparate sources as migratory waterfowl, swine, domestic poultry, and sea mammals.

Reassortment of viral genomes within these animals is the genetic equivalent to recombination in eukaryotic cells, and is an important mechanism of antigenic variation. A pair of viral genes code for two surface glycoproteins, haemagglutinin (H) and neuraminidase (N), the crucial antigens against which the host develops immunological defenses. Thirteen H and nine N subtypes have so far been discovered, many of which occur only in various species of birds, particularly waterfowl. Types H1, H2, H3, N1, and N2 have been positively linked to epidemics in man.

Between major epidemics, mutations produce minor but cumulative antigenic variants in a wide number of animal reservoirs. Major new viral subtypes have appeared in 1918, 1957, and 1968, in each case resulting in a pandemic. The term "pandemic" literally means a worldwide epidemic, but for influenza there is also the assumption that a major subtype involving new H and/or N antigens has appeared. These shifts are much more dramatic than the normal slow genetic drift of other subtypes. As a result there is no opportunity for people to develop immunity to the new virus thus allowing the virus to spread faster.

Potentially pandemic strains probably arise from recombination with viruses from animal reservoirs. A wide range of virus subtypes have been discovered in wild and domesticated animals, most notably in pigs, horses, turkeys, and ducks. Feral and domesticated ducks harbor an enormous array of antigenic types and may play a major role in the ecology of the influenza A virus. In this century there have been four major shifts: 1918 (Hsw1N1=H1N1, 1957 (H2N2), 1968 (H3N2) and a very puzzling reappearance of a 1950 strain of H1N1, which began to circulate in 1977. There is some evidence that only a limited number of antigenic types recirculate over time in human populations.

This classification system has characterized pandemics of the 20 th century: H1N1 Spanish flu in 1918, H2N2 Asian flu in 1957, H3N2 Hong Kong flu in 1968 and an H1N1 Russian flu in 1977 with the ethnicities attached as somewhat misnomers, indicating only the location in which epidemic case numbers were first documented. One hypothesis suggested that pandemics could be caused by a viral strain to which humans were naïve (i.e., had no immunity), and that these new antigenic types arose from antigenic drift of human viruses and/or genetic recombination of human viruses with animal viruses in a "mixing vessel", usually pigs.

 
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Influenza strain diversity is defined by two glycoproteins on the surface of the virion. The first stage of infection with the virus is mediated by the hemagglutinin (HA) membrane glycoprotein that allows for binding and fusion with host cells. The other major glycoprotein, neuraminidase, facilitates viral budding and exit from the host cell. These two glycoproteins exhibit great structural diversity, and at least 15 hemagglutinin and 9 neuraminidase subtypes have been identified to date. However, only viruses of hemagglutinin subtypes H1, H2, and H3 and neuraminidase subtypes of N1 and N2 are currently circulating in the human population. Avian species are considered the predominant natural hosts for viruses composed of other glycoprotein subtypes (see diagram) although a variety of animal species have been infected with various viruses.

This theory was challenged in 1997 when an avian influenza strain H5N1 infected 18 people in Hong Kong, with a 33% case-fatality rate. This highly virulent strain of chicken influenza, H5N1, was of avian origin and had not re-assorted with human viruses, infecting humans in direct contact with those domestic fowl. Since 1997, several mini-outbreaks of H5N1 have occurred each year in Southeast Asia, with similar mortality rates. Fortunately, the avian origins of this virus have not allowed for person-to-person transmission, although case reports in early 2005 suggested the possibility of person-to-person transmission in rural China.

The outbreak as of August, 2005
 
Avian viral strain H9N2 in 1998 also caused human infection. This virus bore no evidence of recombination, even though its binding properties more closely resembled that of human influenza virus origin rather than from any avian strain. Illness was "mild and self-limited". An avian virus, H7N7, in the Netherlands in 2003, caused an outbreak amongst poultry farmers and their families. Although this strain was not particularly pathogenic, person-to-person transmission was documented. Taking this data into account, in the late 1990s, a shift in thinking about the nature of influenza outbreaks allowed for the possibility that avian viruses are indeed potential pandemic threats.

 

What should we do?
How can the scientific community predict which strain is the most likely candidate to cause the next pandemic? Equally important, how can the world best prepare for such an event? The H1N1 and H3N2 are the current primary circulating strains in the human population, but the high virulence of the H5N1 strain has elicited speculation as to whether this or other related avian strains are capable of causing pandemic influenza. In order for any of the avian influenza viruses to evolve into one capable of person-to-person transmission, many changes in the genome of the virion would have to precede such an event. The current person-to-person capability of the virulent H5N1 is extremely low or non-existent, due to the fact that the hemagglutinin molecule is not configured properly to interact with human cell surface receptor proteins of the respiratory tract. The virulence of the transmissible H7N7 is mild, so the probability is low of these strains becoming a major worldwide health risk. Noteworthy is the fact that humans do not have any immunity to H5, hence this strain is highly pathogenic, and in many cases lethal. Even though the odds are small of the H5N1 strain becoming capable of human to human transmission, the accumulation of a series of point mutations could eventually allow for person-to-person spread, and could thus cause a pandemic even greater than 1918. Whether 'mixing' vessels, antigenic drift, or other mutational accumulations will lead to its emergence cannot yet be determined. In addition, the continuing circulation of H1N1 and H3N2 raises further concerns as to their epidemiological fate.

 

Vaccines
Influenza vaccine development is an unreliable variable in helping to quell viral pandemicity. Annual worldwide vaccine usage of over 300 million doses requires more than six months and 350 million chicken eggs to meet that demand. These constraints and other extraneous factors, such as the microbial contamination of vaccines manufactured in the past year in the UK , leaves influenza vaccine technology currently in a state of disconnect with imminent pandemic threats and the corresponding health demands. The detection of a novel strain in the human population may render subsequent vaccine development too long a process on which to rely for protection. Current vaccines (killed-virus) contain H1 and H3 components. Obviously, the lack of other HA components in these vaccines is a major flaw in the control strategy, particularly with respect to the number of recent avian influenza outbreaks in humans. Alternatively, since H2 has also established a propensity for infection in humans, this strain should be considered as part and parcel of the standard antigenic mix.

[veritasvincit]

Travis wrote:
Lindsey my friend we all know how evil these Jews are and based on limited information we are attempting to forecast what their next move will be. And due to the vagueness of our information are interpretations of events are bound to be different. However, a point to consider which will help translate events and paint a clearer picture is 'what are the Jews objectives'? Is it to kill all non-Jews or is it to make us their slaves, or is it something else? The answer to these questions will fundamentally change the way one interprets events. As I stated previously if the notion is taken that it is their objective to make us their slaves why would they want to kill so many people when the majority of humans obey them so well?

Their agenda may have more than one objective:
1) as a distraction from the economic troubles?
2) vaccines must be big business for the pharmaceutical industry?
3) the hegelian dialectic: problem creation, solution, and society becomes more vulnerable to their chivalrous solutions (slaves)
4) population control and elimination - is this not in one of their protocols? - it is so much easier to control a smaller population relative to the size of their militia and there are still enough slaves left to serve them.