A little shock and awe for the home folks too.

April 2, 2006

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News Update from Citizens for Legitimate Government

02 April 2006

Secret UK report: Human bird flu victims face end in 'plague pits' 02

Apr 2006

Families may have to wait for four months to bury their dead in the

event of an avian flu pandemic, stirring up folk memories of the

burial pits of the great plague of 1665, writes David Cracknell.

A confidential Home Office report says as many as 320,000 people could

die from the H5N1 strain of the virus if it mutates into a form that

can readily be passed between humans.

[see: U.S. to create a bird flu virus mutation 24 Mar 2005

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has begun a series

of experiments to see how likely the bird flu virus could result in a

human pandemic.]

Gene From 1918 Virus Proves Key to Virulent Influenza (University of

Wisconsin Press Release) 06 Oct 2004

" Using a gene resurrected from the virus that caused the 1918 Spanish

influenza pandemic, recorded history's most lethal outbreak of

infectious disease, scientists have found that a single gene may have

been responsible for the devastating virulence of the virus. Writing

Oct. 7 in the journal Nature, virologist Yoshihiro Kawaoka of the

University of Wisconsin-Madison and the University of Tokyo, describes

experiments in which engineered viruses were made more potent by the

addition of a single gene.

Bush Authorizes Use of Quarantine Powers in Cases of Bird Flu 02 Apr 2005

President [sic] Bush signed an executive order on Friday authorizing

the government to impose a quarantine to deal with any outbreak of

avian influenza now found in Southeast Asia.

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