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See article keywords and concepts |  Alejandro Thiermann, president of the International Animal Health Code at the World Organization for Animal Health
"Moving forward with research conducted by the world's top scientists and openly disseminating their research results remains our best defense against h5n1 avian influenza virus and other dangerous pathogens that may emerge."
-Dr. Anthony Fauci, head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, and Dr. |
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See article keywords and concepts |  The World Health Organization, by the way, deserves tremendous credit for warning the world about the danger posed by infectious disease, most notably the h5n1 strain of the bird flu. In fact, as I see it, only WHO experts and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention experts in the United States raised the alarm and tried to warn countries about how to prepare against this inevitable pandemic. |
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See article keywords and concepts |  H5N1 strain has demonstrated its capacity to infect humans and cause severe disease, with high fatality, on three separate occasions beginning in 1997. The disease in humans has no vaccine to confer protection and no specific treatment once illness becomes severe."
Even with this clear threat to public safety, the United States currently has no ability to manufacture vaccines for the entire population in a timely manner (it would take until 2012 to make enough vaccine to cover everyone). Even if a vaccine theoretically existed, the U.S. |
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See article keywords and concepts | | Whether or not they will be able to catch the h5n1 influenza virus in time to stop the spread of that monster is entirely unknown. Remember: This isn't in the hands of scientists. This is nature at work, and we as human beings are actually at the mercy of nature, especially when it comes to infectious disease.
Extreme prevention measures
If this disease becomes widespread, you're going to suddenly find yourself living in a very different world. This will be a world where you cannot go out to dinner or to the movies. |
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See article keywords and concepts |  Today, we are past due for the next viral outbreak, and many experts in the area of disease control and infectious diseases are predicting that the h5n1 bird flu strain is a likely candidate to make the cross-species jump and become the next infectious agent for humans.
The pandemic can be beat with nutrition
As usual, there is a much bigger picture to all of this, and a relatively straightforward solution to it. Getting a vaccine shot isn't the only way to prevent becoming a victim in the next flu epidemic. Your best defense, in fact, is your own immune system. | | It doesn't mean I won't catch the virus, nor that I won't spend several days in bed overcoming it, but when a strong immune system is combined with selected vitamins and herbs, as well as plenty of sleep and a lack of stress, the human body is capable of overcoming practically any disease. Even h5n1.
Stick around, and I'll demonstrate it personally. |
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See article keywords and concepts |  Probably a variation of the bird flu virus, or a particular strain known as h5n1, which right now exists in other species but is expected to make the cross-species jump and end up in humans very soon. You can expect the mass media to severely distort this story as it unfolds in order to avert a public panic. People will be told there is no pandemic even while tens of thousands are dying from it. Vaccines will simply not be available on a widespread basis. |
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See book keywords and concepts |  The virus was of type h5n1. It was a flu. strain that should never have infected a human being. Even worse, Cox was told, the person it infected was a child, a three-year-old boy in Hong Kong. And he had died.
It was August 1997. Jeffery Taubenberger had just published his initial analysis of the 1918 flu virus genes that he had extracted from Private Vaughan's lung tissue. But it was too soon to say what had made the 1918 flu virus so lethal. | | Carefully, the team of investigators scraped dust off the classroom floor and off the grounds of the nature court where the chicks and ducklings lived and sent the dust off to a lab to be tested for h5n1 viruses. Three months later, they got the results. The virus was not in the school.
Were other children in the school ill? Could another child in the school have gone to one of the poultry farms, been infected with the virus, and passed it on to the child? The group investigated. | | In fact, it seemed more likely that the specimen had been contaminated than that the boy had been infected with an h5n1 flu strain. After all, said Cox's colleague, Dr. Keiji Fukuda, an infection of a human being with a bird flu "had never been reported before."
The other possibility, of course, was that the finding was real. And then, Fukuda said, the question became "Was this unique, was this one person? Or was there a new epidemic brewing?" Could it even be the start of something as awful as the 1918 flu? It was hard to put that possibility out of mind. | | This was an h5n1 virus.
Still, it was possible that a bird virus had contaminated the original sample, a circumstance that could fool Cox and the scientists in Rotterdam into thinking that the boy had been infected with a bird flu. Every scientist who works with viruses learns to suspect contamination. It can occur so easily, with a virus that just happened to drift into a sample of cells, landing on them, taking hold, and replacing the virus that scientists had thought they were studying. | | Even more chilling was the scientists' discovery of the viral type; It was an influenza, type h5n1. Perhaps the boy had become infected because he had petted a baby chick or perhaps he had gone to a chicken farm and touched or inhaled bird feces that were teeming with the flu virus.
But the mystery continued. Had the boy gone to any of the affected chicken farms? the investigators asked his grieving family. No, they said, he had not. Were there poultry stalls in the boy's neighborhood? There were not. Were there bird feces on the ground near where the boy lived? | | For comparison, Fukuda's group took blood from hospital workers in other areas of the buildings who had not been anywhere near the flu patients and from hospital workers who were from hospitals that had not admitted any patients with an h5n1 influenza. "We kept in mind that if the spread was efficient we would be seeing a lot of illnesses in the staff," Cox said. "Of course, everything is confounded if there is a regular influenza spreading in the community. In Hong Kong, there was another influenza spreading. There were lots of patients coming in and we had to screen them. |
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