BIRD FLU UPDATE: EVEN SCIENTISTS ARE SEEING THE HOAX

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BIRD FLU UPDATE: EVEN SCIENTISTS ARE SEEING THE HOAX

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BIRD FLU UPDATE: EVEN SCIENTISTS ARE SEEING THE HOAX

JON RAPPOPORT

www.nomorefakenews.com

 

NOVEMBER 14, 2005.

 

Here is a very telling snip from a recent NY Times article about bird

flu and the " dreaded " H5N1 virus.

 

Hazards in the hunt for flu bug

By Gina Kolata

 

The New York Times

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 2005

 

From near the end of the article...

 

" Some experts like Peter Palese of the Mount Sinai School

of Medicine in New York said the H5N1 viruses are a false

alarm. He notes that studies of serum collected in 1992

from people in rural China indicated that millions there

had antibodies to the H5N1 strain. That means they had been

infected with an H5N1 bird virus and recovered, apparently

without incident. "

 

Do you get what this means? First of all, going back as far as 1992,

millions of Chinese people had antibodies to H5N1. That's 13 years

ago, and although you might expect that hundreds of thousands of these

people would have come down with an " H5N1 illness, " THEY DIDN'T.

 

Actually, as Peter Palese points out, you WOULDN'T EXPECT THAT

PEOPLE WOULD GET SICK, BECAUSE ANTIBODIES ARE A SIGN THAT PEOPLE PUT

UP A SUCCESSFUL IMMUNE RESPONSE TO THE GERM AND STAYED HEALTHY.

THAT'S WHAT ANTIBODIES ARE ALL ABOUT.

 

This fact is devastating to the scare propaganda about bird flu.

Devastating.

 

To add even more fuel to the fire, as I documented in a recent article,

the main type of testing for H5N1 in both animals and people around

the world is TESTING FOR ANTIBODIES.

 

This is fraud, outright fraud: INTERPRET A SIGN OF HEALTH

(ANTIBODIES) AS A SIGN OF ILLNESS.

 

I can spell out the fraud a little further. Take some virus, give it a

name, and then baldly assume, without evidence, that it is very

dangerous. Then, check to see if people and animals have antibodies to

it. If they do, you say, " Well, you see, we have direct evidence that

people have been encountering this highly dangerous virus. After all,

they're making antibodies to it. That means they contacted the germ.

So there is a good chance they are sick or will get sick... "

 

Mad. Insane. Absurd. THERE WAS NO REASON TO ASSUME THAT THE GERM WAS

DANGEROUS IN THE FIRST PLACE. IN FACT, THE PRESENCE OF ANTIBODIES TOLD

YOU THAT. IT TOLD YOU THAT THESE PEOPLE'S IMMUNE SYSTEMS HAD NO

PROBLEM WITH THE GERM AT ALL.

 

So why have 64 people died from H5N1 in Asia? THERE IS EVERY REASON

TO SUSPECT THEY DIDN'T DIE FROM H5N1.

 

To do good science, you have to go back and check, in great detail,

what was happening to these people. What other medical conditions did

they have? What drugs were they taking? Redo the tests. Don't look for

antibodies. Look for the H5N1 germ itself. If you can find it at all,

determine how many H5N1s were in the bodies of these people---because

it takes a whole lot (millions and millions and millions) of germs

being very active to contribute to illness.

 

Lately (and we see this kind of thing whenever a crazy hypothesis

about a germ causing death surfaces), several scientists have offered an

unsubstantiated explanation for how H5N1 is supposedly killing

people: the presence of H5N1 causes " a ctyokine storm " in the lungs.

Cytokines are part of immune response. They help create inflammation,

which is normally an aspect of immune defense. But in the case of

H5N1, the ctyokines are attacking H5N1 so powerfully (too powerfully)

that the lung inflammation is enormous and closes off the airways, the

breathing passages, leading to acute oxygen deficit.

 

It sounds good, but the one small batch of experiments done so far

has been IN PETRI DISHES, using lung issue taken out of the body and

examined in the lab. According to one group of researchers, this lung

tissue becomes severely inflamed when exposed to H5N1. Frequently,

though, these in vitro results are far different from what actually

happens INSIDE THE BODY. So here we have a situation where the

experiments were done only one time by one group of scientists in one

lab. This is vastly premature " science. "

 

The hoax continues...

 

JON RAPPOPORT www.nomorefakenews.com

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Chiron pushes biotech flu shots

http://www.insidebayarea.com/businessnews/onthemove/ci_3226303

 

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Telegraph, U.K.

Flu panic has got out of hand, says Roche

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/main.jhtml?xml=/money/2005/11/09/cnflu09.xml & me\

nuId=242 & sSheet=/money/2005/11/09/ixcitytop.html

 

By Christopher Hope, Business Correspondent

(Filed: 09/11/2005)

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http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2005-11-16-china-birdflu_x.htm?csp=24

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Suicides linked to Tamiflu - so is only weapon against bird flu safe?

 

By Jeremy Laurance, Health Editor

 

Published: 15 November 2005

 

European medicines regulators have ordered a safety check on Tamiflu

after reports that two teenage boys died in Japan in apparent suicides

after taking the anti-flu drug.

 

The deaths have raised safety fears about the only treatment against a

threatened pandemic of avian flu. The deaths are not linked and

occurred a year apart.

 

The Japanese health ministry issued a warning in June 2004 about

psychological and neurological disorders linked with Tamiflu, with an

instruction that doctors should be alerted - but no similar warning

was issued in Europe and the UK.

 

Tamiflu is made by the Swiss-based pharmaceutical company Roche.

 

Yesterday, a spokesman for the European Medicines Evaluation Agency,

which licenses drugs in the European Union, including the UK, said the

agency had been aware of the first death but not the second.

 

" The company [Roche] has been asked to closely follow reports of

psychological disorders, delusional states and abnormal behaviour

linked with the drug. At the moment there is no warning [about this]

in Europe and we need to establish if there is any link. "

 

He added that the effects of the drug had to be distinguished from the

effects of the flu. " Influenza can itself cause confusion and it can

be difficult to tell whether [the mental state] is the effect of the

Tamiflu or of the illness. "

 

The Pharmaceuticals and Medical Devices Agency in Japan has received

reports of 64 cases of psychological disorders linked to the drug

between 2000 and 2004, according to the Tokyo news agency Kyodo.

 

The two Japanese boys were reported to have exhibited abnormal

behaviour after taking the drug. In the first case, a 17-year-old high

school student who was at home alone, ran out of the house and jumped

over a railing into the path of a truck in February 2004 shortly after

taking the medicine. In the second case, a junior high school student

apparently fell from the ninth floor of his apartment building in

February 2005.

 

Chugai Pharmaceuticals, the Japanese operating company for Roche, the

Swiss-based manufacturers of Tamiflu, said: " We reported these cases

to the health ministry as a link between the deaths and the drug could

not be ruled out. "

 

Shinichi Watanabe, deputy director of the Japanese health ministry's

safety division, said the ministry had ordered Chugai in May last year

- before receiving reports on the incidents - to include in the list

of side effects impaired consciousness, abnormal behaviour and

hallucinations. He said the ministry had no plans to put restrictions

on the use of the drug, or to issue additional warnings.

 

" The link between the abnormal behaviour and the drug could not be

ruled out, but at the same time the drug could not be singled out as

the sole cause of the behaviour, " he said.

 

In the UK, Tamiflu has been little used since its launch in 2003 and

there have been only 41 " yellow card " reports of adverse reactions

involving 161 separate side effects. One case was of agitation and two

were of " confusional state " . Under the yellow card system, doctors

record any symptoms that could be linked with a drug.

 

A spokeswoman for Roche said: " We shared the information [about the

Japanese deaths] with drug regulatory authorities around the world and

they did not think it warranted any change in the product information. "

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Childhood Deaths in Japan Bring New Look at Flu Drug

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/18/health/18tamiflu.html

The NY Times

November 18, 2005

 

 

AVIAN FLU: THE PANDEMIC THAT WILL NEVER BE

 

- Tim O'Shea

http://thedoctorwithin.com/index_fr.php?page=articles/avian.php

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The Age of Autism: Flu shot flashpoint

Thimerosal in Flu Vaccines

http://tinyurl.com/9b4yw

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Flu shot for kids makes some parents anxious

http://www.democratandchronicle.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20051110/LIVING/5\

11100333/1032

 

Rochester Democrat and Chronicle, NY

November 10, 2005

 

Secrecy worries are raised over plan

Burr's antiterrorism agency would have disclosure exemption

By Mary M. Shaffrey

JOURNAL WASHINGTON BUREAU

http://www.journalnow.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=WSJ%2FMGArticle%2FWSJ_Basic\

Article & c=MGArticle & cid=1128768159466 & path=!localnews & s=1037645509099

 

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New Mexico Board of Pharmacy to Hear Petition to Limit Exposure to

Aspartame and Thimerosal

http://www.prweb.com/releases/2005/11/prweb308566.htm

PR Web (press release), WA

November 10, 2005

 

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Nurses 'not taking flu vaccine'

 

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/merseyside/4260138.stm

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U.S. lawmakers reject emergency bird flu funds

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N17702754.htm

Source: Reuters

 

17 Nov 2005 21:35:22 GMT

 

 

 

New Concerns About Tamiflu

 

http://www.redflagsdaily.com/tenpenny/2005_nov18.php

 

 

 

An anti-disease agency without public oversight

http://www.sacbee.com/content/opinion/story/13839838p-14679963c.html

Sacramento Bee

November 11, 2005

By Mark Tapscott

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http://www.birdfluhype.com/

 

 

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