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A New Bird Flu?
Topic Started: Dec 21 2011, 07:59 PM (570 Views)
yass
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I don't have or watch television at home but lately have been away from home and have been watching cable television. I have a terrible Internet connection which goes on and off at will, sometimes constantly. One of the news broadcasts I've watched is about a new and virulent strain of 'Bird Flu'. They were saying it could be used for terrorism and that the government has actually been trying to change the current strain of Bird Flu to make it more virulent (allegedly, to see if it can be done and it can and they have some stored) making it more contagious, virulent and deadly. The government has asked scientists involved, and the media, not to discuss or share any of its findings with the public. The reason? So that potential terrorists can't learn how they've done it (to use against us, is the reasoning).

It is disturbing but not surprising. I think that as long as we're prepared we can feel confident, only it troubles me that they are also trying to suppress info about health benefits of foods and herbs. I suppose it's not a good idea to market a product and claim health benefits (unless it's junk food as in the linked article).
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One of the comments at http://beforeitsnews.com/story/832/763/FDA_to_Diamond_Foods:_Walnuts_Are_Drugs.html

Posted by Anonymous on July 20, 2011 9:59
It's all legal talk, to support the pharmaceutical laws. The lawyers contrived these crazy laws to force real food companies to stop supporting claims food is good or health and can combat disease so the drug companies don't have to compete with them.


More on the "bird flu"

Controversial 'bird flu' edits move ahead
By Kerry Sheridan and Jean-Louis Santini (AFP) - 1 hour ago

WASHINGTON - Top US scientists on Wednesday defended their bid to stop details of a mutant bird flu virus from being published and called for global cooperation to ward off an uncontrollable pandemic.

Meanwhile, scientists involved in the experiments said they are cooperating with government officials and the editors of the journals Science and Nature to pare down their research for publication in the coming weeks.

The controversy arose when two separate research teams -- one in the Netherlands and the other in the United States -- separately found ways to alter the H5N1 avian influenza so it could pass easily between mammals.

Until now, bird flu has been rare in humans, but particularly fatal in those who do get sick. H5N1 first infected humans in 1997 and has killed more than one in every two people that it infected, for a total of 350 deaths.

The concern is the virus could mutate and mimic past pandemic flu outbreaks such as the "Spanish flu" of 1918-1919 which killed 50 million people, and outbreaks in 1957 and 1968 that killed three million.

The recommendations from a non-governmental advisory panel that key details of the newly altered virus be withheld drew fire from some scientists who saw it as censorship of material that is essential for surveillance and the hunt for vaccines.

Some experts have pointed out that the data does not show whether the engineered virus is actually transmissible between humans, and a major risk is that the virus would emerge on its own in nature.

But the chair of the National Science Advisory Board for Biosecurity, Paul Keim, told AFP that even though the research has already been discussed by Dutch scientists at public forums, all 23 members voted unanimously to urge editors to withhold the data in case it fell into the wrong hands.

"We were very worried about the perception -- that the world would view this as the US holding back information that is important for basic research and public health," Keim told AFP.

"The US government is the one that paid for these experiments, so I think that it is the responsibility of the US government to step forward at this time. But it needs to be a global effort and we need a global consensus," he said.

"This is such a dangerous biological weapon, it would not be controllable. Whoever used it would doubtlessly decimate their own people as well," added Keim.

That scenario is not far-fetched, given the existence of radical elements throughout the world, from doomsday cults to suicide bombers, and even leading world governments, he said.

"The United States has participated in a strategy of mutually assured destruction in the area of nuclear weapons for 60 years now," he said.
"So to say that people wouldn't construct and use a weapon that is so deadly that it couldn't be controlled even by the most developed countries is, I think, a fallacy."

full article: http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5j5_STyAt_i1_Xc7mPA73qkdxRWLw?docId=CNG.040c72df52b3d8aa394071f155bbfd5d.1a1

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yass
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That would be it.
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There you go. Proof positive they are chomping at the bit to kill us off en masse.

I heard that this stuff causes a "cytokine storm". i.e. uses a good immune system to accellerate the bacteria and decimate the air sacs in the lungs, thus you have NO WAY to breathe even with a breathing machine! That is why this is more dangerous against those between teens and 30's group.

Now they have CREATED a version of it that CAN travel between mammals. Bet they are thrilled.
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