Bird Flu
Squaawwwk... "The sky is falling!" cried Chicken Little.
The "Bird Flu Epidemic" must be believed.
It must be believed because it cannot be known.
It cannot be known because it does not exist.
54 people dead in THREE years and no more than 100 suspected deaths, is not an epidemic by any valid measure!
Have you heard anything about the death by lightning epidemic?
Latest update to this page.
This is 9th grade math folks! In the USA, the rate of death caused by lightning is 0.5 persons per million. Given this rate, how many people would be killed by lightning in the USA each year? If this rate is the same for Canada, how many people would be killed in Canada each year by lightning? See if you can find out how many people are killed each year in Canada by lightning. Calculate the rate per million. Is the probability of being struck and killed by lightning higher or lower than the probability of winning the jackpot in the 649 draw?"Check it out...
More help for the intellectually challenged: Risks and Limits
Words such as if, could, may, fear that bird flu is mutating, about to mutate, may mutate, could become epidemic, etc., etc. tell this story. Everything else is pure "shock-n-awe" material to grab your attention.
Here is our real problem. Ignorance as a Leading Cause of Death...
How many phone calls have been made to report a dead bird?
What is the worlds bird population?
What is the average lifespan of a bird?
How many birds die each year?
How significant can the death of one bird be???
This is either a wartime psychological operation, OR they are getting ready to test their latest designer disease!
OR both.
~ Just for the record, I suspect the latter ~
Not to worry, there is a vaccine coming.
Avian influenza has killed 54 people, mostly in Vietnam, since it ravaged poultry farms across Asia in late 2003. Australian scientists develop 24-hour bird flu test? - 2005/6/13
"A bird flu virus may mutate to a human form that becomes as deadly as the ones that killed millions during three influenza pandemics of the 20th century." Bird flu could become epidemic - 2/22/2005
"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..." Bird flu epidemic could kill as many as 750,000 - March 22
"The European Union's health commissioner called on Europe to protect itself from a possible epidemic of bird flu." EU warned to protect against bird flu epidemic - May 27
"The virus that killed hundreds of thousands of birds and dozens of people in recent years is about to mutate and cause a worldwide epidemic." WHO warns of worldwide deadly flu epidemic - June 12, 2005
"International experts fear that bird flu is mutating into a strain that will cause a worldwide pandemic." Fears that new strain of bird flu will kill millions - 12 June 2005
Odds of …
death by assault in your lifetime: 182/1
death by falling : 250/1
that meteor striking the earth this year: 300/1
death by firearm: 325/1
death by poison: 1,200/1
death in a car crash: 5,000/1
death by choking on food or something else: 5,000/1
death by drowning: 9000/1
death by accidental hanging: 12/000/1
death by murder: 20,000/1
death by an animal drawn vehicle: 31,000/1
death by dog attack: 700,000/1
death in the bathtub: 1,000,000/1
death by a tornado: 2,000,000/1
death by falling out of bed: 2,000,000/1
Odds of being killed in a terrorist WMD attack: 6,000,000/1 The message? Strap yourself in bed! Chew your food carefully! Keep an eye on fido. Your family dog is 8.5 times more dangerous to you than Osama Bin Ladin. Scare Tactics
Much more here... WhatDoesItMean.com
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Bird Flu Update:
Annual Risk of Dying in the U.S.
President Bush announced the International Partnership on Avian and Pandemic Influenza during the UN General Assembly in September 2005. The first meeting of the Partnership took place October 6-7 in Washington, DC, hosted by the U.S. Department of State. ...President Bush has requested $7.1 billion in emergency funding... State Department Recaps Key Points on Bird Flu Partnership
Xinhau.net Bird Flu Page
World Wide Fight Against Bird Flu
M. Jarraud, Secretary-General of the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), >suggested the commission expand its studies to the correlation between climate the spread of infectious disease, in addition to the influence of climate on the outbreak of SARS and avian flu." Study links climate to SARS, bird flu
BEIJING, Oct. 28 (Xinhuanet) -- The Chinese Ministry of Health and Ministry of Agriculture jointly reiterated Friday that China has experienced no human bird flu infection. The 12-year-old girl He Yin died. Her nine-year-old brother also felt sick on Oct. 17 with symptoms of fever and cough. He was later diagnosed with bronchial pneumonia.
Both ate smoke-dried chicken that died from bird flu. ~ No human infection of bird flu occurs in China
On Janurary 24, 2005, newspapers in Vietnam reported that "three brothers in northern Vietnam who contracted bird flu all drank raw duck blood at a family feast".
BEIJING, Oct. 25 (Xinhuanet) -- The recent H5N1 bird flu outbreak in Liangying Village of east China's Anhui Province has been brought under control. A total of 550 poultry died in the outbreak. Major Chinese cities on high alert of bird flu
BEIJING, Oct. 25 -- Three hours. That's the maximum it should take for a bird-flu outbreak anywhere in the country to be reported to Beijing. Bird flu: Beijing demands rapid response
"So far, the virus has infected millions of domestic poultry and 120 human beings, of whom 62 died quickly. Most of the human victims caught the flu from direct contact with infected birds. But with each new infection, the virus evolves toward a form that will become easily transmissible from human to human." ~ EIR
Is it really true that flu viruses always mutate toward a strain contagious to humans?
Is it true that history reflects very few repeat outbreaks of the same flu strain?
How many flu viruses are known?
BEIJING, Oct. 23 -- China will shut its borders if there is a single case of human-to-human transmission of bird flu in the country, its deputy health minister has said.
... "Bird flu has killed 60 people in four south-east Asian countries and has led to the deaths of tens of millions of birds since 2003. A flu pandemic would be triggered if the lethal H5N1 strain mutated into a form that could jump from human to human."China to shut borders if struck by bird flu
To MSM about 'bird flu'--SHUT UP!
An “influenza” is a viral infection that has a relatively short lifespan and causes problems for its victim in the form of several minor effects (chills, high fever, aches and pains, headaches, sore throat, mucosal irritation). These actual “flu” conditions may make someone feel like they want to die, but the influenza virus generally does not kill a person—nor an animal. —
Spain's agriculture minister dismissed fears bird flu sparking a global epidemic among humans as "science fiction", saying the virus currently only poses a threat to birds. ~ Bird flu sparking human epidemic is 'science fiction'
Avian Flu Fright:
If avian flu becomes more than a threatened pandemic, it will have done so by political and economic design. This thesis is supported by current massive media misrepresentations, profiteering on risky and valueless vaccines, gross neglect of data evidencing earlier similar man-made plagues including SARS, West Nile Virus, AIDS and more; continuance of genetic studies breeding more mutant flu viruses likely to outbreak, inside trading scandals involving pandemic savvy White House and drug industry officials, curious immunity of these pharmaceutical entities over the past century to law enforcement and mainstream media scrutiny, and published official depopulation objectives. With the revelations and assertions advanced herein, the public is forewarned against this physician assisted mass murder best termed "iatrogenocide."* This genocidal imposition is expected to serve mainly economic and political depopulation objectives. ~ Dr. Len Horowitz Debunks Avian Flu Hysteria Campaign
October 11, 2005
A magacian working his magic before an audience can accurately predict the outcome of his performance. Consider that as you read the following, and laugh at the cartoon bubbles just over the shoulder of the speaker as he addresses the World Health Organization warning of the likelihood of a human flu pandemic.
In a trip to southeast Asian nations, WHO Director-General Dr. Jong Woo Lee, made such a warning, urging the world to prepare itself for the outbreak.
"The burning question is, you know, will there be a human influenza pandemic. I believe, on behalf of WHO, I can tell you that there will be. And right now the only one condition missing is the virus that is rapidly transmitted from human to human," said Dr. Lee. WHO warns of future human flu pandemic
If after an 8 year history during which no pandemic occured, it can not possible be known that one will occur except by someone who posseses the means to make it happen.
No bird flu cases registered in Europe: WHO official
Bird flu reported in sixth Russian region
BEIJING, Aug. 6 -- A SARS vaccine developed by a Beijing-based inspection and quarantine body is now being tested in clinical trials. ~ Clinical trial of SARS virus vaccine begins in China
BEIJING, Aug. 12 (Xinhuanet) -- The Ministry of Agriculture confirmed a bird flu outbreak occurred at the beginning of August on a chicken farm in the suburbs of Lhasa, capital of southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region, but said it has now been brought undercontrol.
"So far, the bird flu outbreak has been under control, and no other similar cases has been reported in other parts of the autonomous region," said a high-ranking official with the ministry.
In the wake of the case, the official said, the local government instituted rigid measures to stem the spread of the epidemic.
The local government has culled 2,608 chickens, disinfected and closed the farm, which belongs to the Regional Institute of Animal Husbandry Science.
Lhasa also spotted a bird flu case in 2004.
The official said the outbreak this year started on August 1. Atotal of 133 breeding chickens were infected and died. The State Bird Flu Reference Laboratory later confirmed that these chickens were infected with the H5N1 bird flu virus. ~ Bird Flu brought under control in Tibet
Has anyone noticed that over the past 50 years, each year had it's flu strain, and the last vaccine would not work? Do you remember there ever being any particular problem producing the new vaccine? Now comes this H5N1 strain which keeps breaking out over a period of several years, and a vaccine has proven to be extremely ellusive. From the looks of it, the only thing that is mutating is the propaganda line, and the resulting fear factor.
Sometimes, the story doesn't quite seem to match the headline.
Bird Flu Cases Registered in Russia’s Siberia
“We cannot say now if something out of the ordinary has occured. The reason behind the accident could be bad water, feed poisoning, Newcastle disease or bird flu. More investigation is needed,” ~ The Moscow News
Raw duck blood blamed for Vietnam bird flu cases
January 24, 2005
Reuters
Ho Binh Minh
HANOI - Newspapers were cited as reporting on Monday that three brothers in northern Vietnam who contracted bird flu all drank raw duck blood at a family feast... ~ FoodHACCP.com Information
July 8, 2005: "The Philippines confirmed the country's first case of bird flu in an isolated farm just outside of Manila, but said the risk to human health was next to zero." - Story
July 7, 2005: Squaawwwk... Bird Flu!: "UNITED Nations agencies and health experts yesterday unveiled a multi-pronged strategy against bird flu, calling for Asian governments to overhaul backyard farming practices and vaccinate poultry to prevent the disease from becoming a human pandemic." ~ Experts reveal bird flu battle-plan
'Bird Flu', SARS - Biowarfare or a Pandemic of Propaganda?
It might be good to remind ourselves that H5N1 is very same bird virus that was being "researched", meaning it was being actively changed and cultured, when Liu Jianlun, a laboratory scientist in China's Guangdong province became the first SARS victim two years ago - on 4 March 2003. Another death of a scientist was later linked to a laboratory in Singapore. The laboratory was culturing the same virus.
The SARS "pandemic" eventually faded away, but not without leaving a deep impression. A high pitched media campaign had convinced the world it was facing a great threat when in reality SARS turned out to be a comparably minor disease with 8.500 infected world wide and around 812 deaths. Compare that to CDC figures of 36.000 flu related deaths yearly in the U.S. alone. Or compare it with the mayhem of more than 100.000 U.S. deaths from the damaging effects of pharmaceutical drugs in the same time span.
WHO worried by China's use of flu drug on birds
BEIJING (Reuters) - The World Health Organisation gave tacit confirmation on Tuesday that Chinese farmers had used anti-viral drugs on poultry to curb the spread of bird flu, a practice China denied giving its backing.
"We are not completely sure about how widespread (amantadine use in China) is, but it has not been a complete surprise to us that it has been used," WHO representative Henk Bekedam told Reuters.
"We know in general these resistances are gradually building up," Bekedam said.
H5N1 first surfaced in poultry in Hong Kong and China eight years ago and his killed at least 37 people in Vietnam, 12 in Thailand and four in Cambodia.
Vietnam reported on Monday that two more people had contracted bird flu in the country's north.
China successfully curbed an avian flu outbreak in Qinghai last year, culling thousands of birds.
No infections of domesticated birds or humans have been reported in the recent outbreak.
"These experts will be further studying issues first raised at a WHO meeting in Manila in May 2005, including the possibility of more widespread H5N1 human transmission, changes in the H5N1 virus, and the likelihood of increased human-to-human transmission," the WHO said in a press release.International bird flu experts in Vietnam to check human transmission risk
-cui bono?..
