• Bird flu redux |
Health 2011-11-30 |
"Although it is impossible to know for sure whether H5N1 will ever evolve into the next human pandemic virus, more and more of the genetic changes documented in the 1918-19 virus have also been found to have occurred in recent H5N1 strains affecting both birds and people. Meanwhile, the spread of H5N1 infections to more avian species and to more humans continues to point to H5N1 as a likely strain of the next pandemic."
-- Dr. Michael Osterholm, CFR, Foreign Affairs, Mar 2007
"In the new film "Contagion", a respiratory virus from Malaysia makes its way from bats to humans, spreading quickly around the world and killing a high proportion of those infected... Dr. Michael T. Osterholm, director of the University of Minnesota Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy (CIDRAP) agreed that the admittedly extreme scenario in the movie is possible. "I'd say the potential for such an outbreak to actually occur is real," he said. "There was nothing hyped about the potential for an agent like this to actually develop."
Dr. Osterholm, an advisor to the Council on Foreign Relations and the World Economic Forum, outlined similar doomsday scenarios in his book "Living Terrors" a decade ago. Perhaps this is just more fear mongering to drum up Congressional support for renewal of multi-billion dollar "bio terrorism" projects. Or could it be the prelude to something worse?
"The National Science Advisory Board for Biosecurity (NSABB) [of which Dr. Osterholm is a member] is scrutinizing the research by Dr. Ron Fouchier of Erasmus University Medical Center in the Netherlands... The H5N1 virus causes human illness relatively rarely, but it is often deadly when it does, with a case-fatality rate of about 60% among cases confirmed by the World Health Organization...
Fouchier and his team then undertook to let the virus evolve naturally, a project that he described as "really, really stupid," according to the story. They inoculated one ferret with the mutant virus, and after it got sick, they exposed a second ferret to infectious material from the first one. After they repeated this process 10 times, "H5N1 became as easily transmissible as seasonal flu," the story said. Fouchier said he concluded from this that H5N1 viruses "can become airborne" and do not need to reassort with other mammalian flu viruses to do so.
"The World Health Organisation issued a stern warning to scientists who have engineered a highly pathogenic form of the deadly H5N1 bird flu virus, saying their work carries significant risks and must be tightly controlled... Flu researchers around the world have been working for many years trying to figure out which mutations would give H5N1 the ability to spread easily from one person to another, while at the same time maintaining its deadly properties."
-- Reuters, 30-Dec-2011
It is now proven that H5N1 could be the "big one", as Dr. Osterholm predicted.
In Tom Clancy's 1998 novel "Rainbow 6", a group of deranged eco-socialists are determined to "save the planet" by killing off the majority of the population using a deadly engineered virus. The real killer, however, is in the vaccine that goes with it. First, they release the virus to panic the herd and create a "public health emergency", then they kill off the undesirables using the bogus vaccine.
Fast forward to the Great Swine Flu panic of 2009. This time, it was little more than a multi-billion dollar windfall for the drug companies and a training exercise for the Homeland Security forces. But what about next time?
"On April 26, 2009, public health officials from the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and the U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security held a press conference and declared a national public health emergency... By June 11, the World Health Organization (WHO) raised the global influenza pandemic alert to the highest Phase 6 level...
Congress has given full liability protection to drug companies making experimental vaccines and drugs, and to persons enforcing the use of or administering experimental [untested] vaccines and drugs that may injure or kill civilians during a declared public health emergency."
-- National Vaccine Information Center, H1N1 flu 2009
"The Pentagon is preparing to make troops available if necessary to help the Federal Emergency Management Agency tackle a potential outbreak of the H1N1 virus this fall...[including] five regional teams to deal with the potential outbreak of H1N1 influenza if FEMA requests help... It is not known how many troops would be needed and whether they would come from the active duty or the National Guard and Reserve forces."
-- Fox News, Jul 2009
Maybe the military teams won't have to "tackle" and "deal with" the problem if there are enough volunteers. Have you noticed that Walmart, the world's largest retailer, is now offering flu shots to the masses? The shots are provided by the Mollen Clinic of Scottsdale, Arizona whose director, Dr. Art Mollen, was Chief of Immunology for the U.S. Air Force. His cousin conducts "research trials" for the drug companies.
"Dr. Marty Mollen, a physician practicing internal medicine and conducting clinical research trials for pharmaceutical companies, is on the board of Ahavas Torah in Scottsdale. [His wife] Joan Mollen is on the boards of the Jewish National Fund (JNF) and the Jewish Genetics Disease Center... [He] has moved his practice to the Mollen Clinic...where he shares offices with his cousin, Art Mollen, D.O."
-- Jewish News of Greater Phoenix
The flu vaccine is not nearly as effective as claimed, and can produce very serious side effects. Is it really worth the risk of permanent brain damage, auto-immune disorders, seizures, paralysis, or something worse?
Vaccines provided in multi-dose vials contain thimerosal, a mercury-based "preservative". Each dose contains about 25 mcg of ethylmercury, a potent neurotoxin that accumulates in the brain and other organs. The vaccines also contain "adjuvants" intended to boost their potency such as aluminum hydroxide, another known neurotoxin that accumulates in the brain.
"Studies have shown that these adjuvants, from a single vaccine, can cause immune overactivation for as long as two years... Aluminum, especially if combined with fluoride, is a powerful brain toxin... With each vaccine injection, another dose of aluminum is given... Studies have now indicated that the more one's immune system is activated the more likely he or she will suffer from one of the neurodegenerative diseases."
UPDATE: The high case-fatality rate for both the H5N1 and H1N1 flu, especially in young, otherwise healthy patients, is the result of an over-reaction of the immune system known as a "cytokine storm" which damages the lungs. Researchers have now discovered a method to block that process, which greatly reduces the risk.