Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
See article keywords and concepts |  Thus, the big push to get Indonesia to give up its h5n1 samples is nothing more complicated than good old fashioned corporate greed all dressed up to look like public safety. It's all about getting a country to give away its virus samples so that western corporations can exploit them for increased profits.
Indonesia, of course, isn't a stupid nation. Its leaders have figured out that there's no benefit in giving up these h5n1 bird flu influenza samples. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
See article keywords and concepts |  A tremendous number of anti-viral vitamins, minerals, Amazon herbs, Chinese herbs, and nutritional supplements are available right now to boost immune system function and fight off viral infections (including the h5n1 strain). As far as vitamins and minerals go, the two best defenders against viral infections are vitamin C and zinc. In the world of herbs, echinacea and astragalus have earned a strong reputation as virus fighters. A wide assortment of foods also help boost immune system function: foods like garlic, ginger and onions. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
See article keywords and concepts |  The particular influenza strain being watched is the h5n1 bird flu virus. Should an outbreak occur, the total deaths expected around the world, according to the WHO, numbers in the tens of millions of people. Furthermore, the WHO says that the United States currently has no vaccine to distribute to the population that might offer protection from this flu epidemic.
In its own words, " ... the h5n1 strain has demonstrated its capacity to infect humans and cause severe disease, with high fatality, on three separate occasions beginning in 1997. |
Donna Jackson Nakazawa
See book keywords and concepts |  Similarly, h5n1 virus, or avian flu, is often the result of farmers and infected fowl crowding together in prime living space. Andrew Cunningham, a zoologist with the Zoological Society of London, recently raised a red flag about new viruses emerging from global encroachment into wildlife in an essay in the British medical journal BMJ, arguing that while this has probably happened many times in the past, such viruses failed to spread because those infected lived in remote enough areas that they either died or got well before they interacted with larger human populations. | | A WALK ON THE WILD SIDE: CHANGING VIRUSES AND GLOBAL WARMING
One can hardly talk about viruses in the twenty-first century without grappling with the emergence of a number of virulent new pathogens such as the h5n1 virus (avian or bird flu), West Nile virus, Ebola virus, and severe acute respiratory syndrome, or SARS.
These new potential plagues tend to result, in part, from the global spread of industrialization, which pushes humans toward ever-closer contact with wildlife as we encroach into what were once solely wildlife habitats. | | The h5n1 virus is so virulent that it bypasses the need for any genetic predisposition; anyone can suffer avian flu's severe friendly-fire effect. In 1918, those most likely to die were people with strong immune systems rather than the elderly and very young. Whether those with a predisposition to autoimmunity—who by the very nature of the disease have overly strong immune system responses—are in some way more at risk is a question researchers and patients alike can hope they only have to answer hypothetically.
VACCINATION STATION: AUTOIMMUNITY GETS A SHOT INTHE ARM? |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
See article keywords and concepts | | This argument about h5n1 samples isn't about public safety, folks. It's about profits. And Big Pharma can't manufacture and sell its useless vaccines unless it has some genetic code to work with. That's the whole reason behind this pressure to force Indonesia to "share" its bird flu samples. And the World Health Organization should be ashamed of itself for playing the role of corporate co-conspirator in pushing to exploit poor Asian nations.
Now, why don't these drug companies simply promise Indonesia a percentage on all drugs sold? | | Its leaders have figured out that there's no benefit in giving up these h5n1 bird flu influenza samples. In fact, doing so actually works against them, because it puts them in a position of having to beg for vaccines from the world's richest nations during any future global pandemic. And guess what? The world's richest nations are certainly not going to be sending their limited supply of vaccines to poor nations around the world, regardless of where the original influenza samples came from. | | REPPED: In this article, I'm going to explain the real story behind the big international push to get Indonesia and other Asian countries to "share" their h5n1 influenza samples with the rest of the world. As you may know, countries like Australia, the United States and the UK are applying heavy political pressure to Indonesia in an attempt to force it to give up its influenza DNA samples. These nations claim that it's critical for public health and necessary to manufacture vaccines that will save people from the next great pandemic.
Hogwash. Let me explain what's really going on here. |
Kevin Trudeau
See book keywords and concepts |  Since: a) the current influenza vaccines are not effective, b) the exact "bird" flu influenza (H5N1) virus that will "cause" the alleged "bird-flu pandemic" is not known because the h5n1 virus is rapidly mutating, c) the current experimental vaccines are already a mismatch for the current strain infecting chickens and people in Asia, and d) it takes months to convert a detected viral strain into a vaccine, but only weeks for a "flu" to spread to a significant portion of a population in America. |
Donna Jackson Nakazawa
See book keywords and concepts | | AVIAN FLU: AN AUTOIMMUNE-INDUCING VIRUS
The most feared of these new pathogens is no doubt the h5n1 virus, headlined, at this writing, to be the cause of the next flu pandemic. Because of the unusual way in which the virus can cause the body's immune system to rapidly turn from friend to foe, the avian flu is particularly troublesome for the quarter of the population that possesses the genetic predisposition to autoimmunity. Avian flu is feared because it could provoke a repeat of the influenza pandemic of 1918. The 1918 flu, or H1N1 virus, was—like the avian flu—an influenza A virus. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
See article keywords and concepts |  Even if the h5n1 mutates into something resistant to Tamiflu, it's highly unlikely it will be resistant to these 12 antiviral herbs.
In fact, right now, I could go out into my garden and I pick at least five or six, probably a dozen, different plants with potent, strong antiviral capabilities. I could make them into a tea or put them in some alcohol and make a tincture out of them. It's relatively easy to protect yourself against viruses. | | SARS, revisited
Right now, the h5n1 bird flu virus is poised to follow in the footsteps of SARS. Hopefully, we've learned some lessons from SARS around the world. The statements we're hearing from the CDC and the WHO indicate we have learned these lessons the hard way. People on the inside know that we almost got nailed by SARS. If it had infected the US population, it could have easily killed millions of people. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
See article keywords and concepts |  You've got h5n1 today, and you've got all kinds of influenza strains from the past, such as the 1929 flu, which was a huge killer. How do we know that these are being contained right now? How do we know that the institutions that claim to be researching these actually have safety measures in place? How do we know that? We don't really.
All we know is what the press tells us, which doesn't seem to be the whole story by any stretch of the imagination. | | Can anybody just order H2N2, h5n1, or any of the other influenza strains that have killed people over the years? Can we just go out and buy this stuff on the internet? Apparently, yes. That's what these people did. Over 4,000 customers bought this kit. They said, "Take my credit card and send me some level 4 biological agents."
It all just strikes me as a little bizarre. What if one of these vials broke open in the shipment? What if a FedEx driver broke one of these containers, contracted the virus, and it suddenly started replicating in that person? |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
See article keywords and concepts |  The only thing they are really stockpiling is Tamiflu, which is not very effective against h5n1 and will be in short supply if an outbreak actually occurs. | | Currently h5n1 has not mutated into a human-transmittable form, but that is expected to take place at some unpredictable time in the future, and at that point, symptomless carriers of the virus could become a real problem.
Essentially, the bird flu situation looks to be getting worse. We're seeing more infections in Vietnam and symptomless carriers, and countries are doing little to actually prepare for the virus. They have plans in place and claim to be stockpiling a vaccine that doesn't even exist. | | Also, Tamiflu isn't necessarily effective against the h5n1 bird flu virus. It wasn't designed for that. It's been around for a long time as a basic antiviral drug, but in my research I've found that there are many other antiviral herbs and substances that are far more powerful than Tamiflu, that don't require a prescription and are much more affordable.
For example, I did a report on a product from Baseline Nutritionals called Super Viragon. It's made of powerful antiviral herbs. |
James Howard Kunstler
See book keywords and concepts |  In August, authorities identified the strain of influenza virus isolated from the boy as h5n1. This flu previously had been known to exist in shorebirds and to occasionally infect chickens, but this was the first time a human being had been found to be infected with this particular influenza strain. What made the case all the more strange was that the virus had jumped directly from bird to human. Over the next four months, the virus turned up in twenty additional human cases, six of which resulted in death. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
See article keywords and concepts |  Let's ramp up production of a vaccine for an unknown strain of h5n1 influenza and try to stockpile it in sufficient numbers so that some small percentage of the population might someday be protected. Of course, it takes three years to manufacture that much vaccine, and it only takes a few months for the virus to actually spread globally. And plus, the virus can mutate again, rendering any "official" vaccine useless. Virologists at the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) know this all too well, but this isn't really being explained to the public. |
James Howard Kunstler
See book keywords and concepts | | What frightened public health officials was the prospect that a flu virus like avian h5n1, having demonstrated its ability to infect humans, might jump species to transmit itself from human to human, not just bird to human. That would have been the takeoff point of a very severe human-to-human influenza that could kill a third of its victims and spread with lightning speed around a hyperconnected world. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
See article keywords and concepts |  The WHO's official count of human cases of h5n1 reaches 122, with 62 deaths, in Vietnam, Thailand, Indonesia and Cambodia.
Nov. 10, 2005 – China quarantines 116 people in northeastern Liaoning province after two new outbreaks of bird flu occur there.
Nov. 21, 2005 – After a duck from a poultry farm near Abbotsford, British Columbia is discovered to carry the low pathogenic H5 strain of bird flu, the United States places an interim ban on poultry exports from the Canadian province.
Nov. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
See article keywords and concepts |  New understanding can transform your life
I'm sure some people might read this and dismiss it – up until the day that one of their family members catches h5n1 influenza and discovers there's nothing conventional medicine can do. Let's face it: The World Health Organization, CDC and even the White House have already told you there won't be enough medicine to go around. So, why do some people still refuse to look beyond the limited options of a single system of medicine? |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
See article keywords and concepts |  This is a bad virus, this h5n1. If this gets out, that's the only news you're going to hear for about a year as the deaths begin mounting. Some estimates say half a million people in the United States could die. Other estimates say tens of millions could die in the United States alone, and up to a billion people around the world could die. That's the high end of this estimate, and I hope it's not accurate. I hope that if this thing does get out, far fewer people die – if any – but the reality is that nature doesn't really care that much about who lives and who dies. | | This is happening right now, and we’re seeing that the so-called h5n1 strain of the bird flu virus has been able to mutate into a form that lives in human beings, which is a dangerous sign. All it will take for this to become a global problem is for a few carriers to leave their countries and spread the virus to some tourists, businesspeople and other international travelers, who will then take it home and spread it to their local populations. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
See article keywords and concepts | | November-December 1997 – There are 18 new human cases of h5n1 bird flu in Hong Kong, 12 with direct contact with infected poultry. Six people die. Officials destroy 1.4 million chickens and ducks.
Jan. 5, 2003 – Health authorities in Vietnam inform the WHO office in Hanoi of an outbreak of severe respiratory illness in 11 previously healthy children hospitalized in Hanoi, with the most recent hospital admission on Jan. 4. Seven cases were fatal and two patients remain critically ill. A 12th case, a sibling of one of the Hanoi cases, died of a respiratory illness in a provincial hospital. | | Authorities in Vietnam report outbreaks of highly pathogenic avian influenza, caused by the H5 subtype (later confirmed as the h5n1 strain), at farms in the southern provinces of Long An (two farms) and Tien Giang (one farm). Around 70,000 birds died or were destroyed. This is the first time that highly pathogenic avian influenza has ever been reported in the country.
Jan. 11, 2003 – Since the Jan. | | Of the outbreaks at 39 farms, 19 are confirmed as caused by h5n1.
Avian influenza is detected at a second farm in Delaware. Some 72,000 birds are destroyed. Japan, China, Poland, Malaysia, Singapore and the Republic of Korea ban poultry imports from the United States.
Feb. 11, 2003 – In the investigation of possible human-to-human transmission in Vietnam, results from the analysis of virus isolated from the second sister in the family cluster show that the virus is of avian origin and contains no human influenza genes. | | The number of farms in China with confirmed h5n1 outbreaks increases from 19 to 23.
Feb. 12, 2003 – Thailand confirms its sixth case, a 13-year-old boy.
Vietnam confirms its 19th case, which was fatal in a 19-year-old man who had been hospitalized in Ho Chi Minh City.
The total number of confirmed cases in these two countries combined is 25, of which 19 have been fatal.
The first clinical and epidemiological data on 10 cases in the Vietnam outbreak is made public by WHO.
April 2003 – The Netherlands reports H7N7 bird flu in over 80 human cases with the death of one veterinarian. | | Tigers and leopards in a Thailand zoo die of h5n1 bird flu after eating fresh chickens. It's the first time bird flu has been seen in large felines.
Dec. 12, 2003 – The sudden death of chickens at a farm in Eumsung district, near the capital city of Seoul, prompts suspicions of an epidemic of highly pathogenic avian influenza in the Republic of Korea. Tests are initiated. Of the 24,000 chickens on the farm, 19,000 died between Dec.5 and Dec. 11. The remaining 5,000 were culled.
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