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Reuters
27.04.2009
By Alexander Haislip
Venture
capital firm set to reap rewards on swine flu
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The
swine flu outbreak is likely to benefit one of the most prolific and successful
venture capital firms in the United States: Kleiner
Perkins Caufield & Byers, Thomson Reuters Private
Equity Week reported on Friday.
Shares of the two public
companies in the firm’s portfolio of eight Pandemic and Bio Defense
companies — BioCryst Pharmaceuticals (BCRX.O) and Novavax (NVAX.O) — jumped Friday on news that the swine flu killed a
reported 60 people in Mexico and has infected people in the United States.
The World Health
Organization (WHO) said the virus appears to be susceptible to Roche’s (ROG.VX) flu drug Tamiflu, also
known as oseltamivir, but not to older flu drugs such
as amantadine.
Roche said it has five
million treatment courses of Tamiflu on stand-by for
the WHO in its “Rapid Response Stockpile.”
“Roche was contacted by the
WHO and is prepared to immediately deploy the stockpile if requested. However,
this request has not been made at this time,” Roche spokesman Terry Hurley
said.
Shares of Swiss drugmaker Roche Holding AG closed up 3.48 percent after
falling sharply earlier in the week on a cancer drug disappointment, while
shares of U.S. biotechnology company Gilead Sciences Inc (GILD.O),
which gets royalties from Roche on Tamiflu sales,
slipped 10 cents to $45.80 on Friday.
Shares of BioCryst, a maker of drugs that block key enzymes in viral
diseases, jumped more than 26 percent on Friday to $2.21 per share. Viral
vaccine maker Novavax rose more than 75 percent to
$1.42 per share.
BioCryst CEO John Stonehouse said his company does not anticipate the use of
its technology in treating this episode of swine flu.
“We’re in clinical trials
right now and not on the market,” Stonehouse said.
Still, the companies will
have to go even higher for Kleiner Perkins to make
its investment back. Both BioCryst and Novavax experienced long drops from price peaks in 2006,
when reports of avian flu dominated headlines.
BioCryst is down nearly 90 percent from its
2006 high of $20.75 per share and Novavax is down
more than 85 percent from a high of $7.98 per share.
Kleiner Perkins invested $30 million in BioCryst in December 2005 alongside Fort Worth, Texas-based
buyout firm TPG. The two firms invested again in
August 2007, picking up $65 million worth of shares and warrants. The investors
bought shares in BioCryst at $13.46 and then $7.80.
Kleiner Perkins put $20 million in Novavax in February 2006 alongside Palo Alto, Calif.-based
Prospect Venture Partners. The two firms picked up the shares at $4.35.
Novavax can produce a vaccine from an
emergent strain of flu virus in 12 weeks, according to CEO
Rahul Singhvi. The company
has contacted the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to offer help
and is trying to contact the Ministry of Health in Mexico, Singhvi
said.
Singhvi said, and it might be used in the
case of an emergency.
“There is an emergency
authorization avenue that is available that would allow us to use the vaccine
in an emergency without further testing,” said Singhvi.
Kleiner Perkins typically only invests in
early stage start-up technologies. It is best known for its investments in
Netscape, Amazon.com (AMZN.O),
Google (GOOG.O) and Genentech (ROG.VX).
The Menlo Park, California-based
VC firm launched a $200 million Pandemic Bio Defense
fund in 2006 to invest in technology companies working on drugs, diagnostics
and inoculations against flu-like diseases.
“We will invest to
accelerate innovation, and we’re in a hurry,” Investor John Doerr
said at the time. “We hope even a mild
pandemic never recurs.”
Investors at Kleiner Perkins were not immediately available for comment.
The firm’s other Pandemic
Bio Defense investments include:
* San Francisco-based Anza
Therapeutics, which is working on therapeutic vaccines for treating certain
types of cancer and hepatitis C. * Fremont, Calif.-based Breathe Technologies,
which is working on lightweight respiratory ventilator systems. * Emeryville,
Calif.-based HX Diagnostics, which is working to make
diagnostic tools for seasonal and emerging diseases. * Pleasanton, Calif.-based
Juvaris BioTherapeutics
Inc., which is working on vaccines and immunotherapeutics
to treat infectious disease and cancer. * San Diego-based Trius
Therapeutics, which is developing drugs to fight resistant-strains of bacteria.
* Marlborough, Mass.-based Xcellerex Inc., which has
developed tools and manufacturing processes to speed the deployment of new
vaccines.
Related:
Wise Up
Journal
02.01.2009
By Gabriel O’Hara
http://www.wiseupjournal.com/?p=736
The thing to fear is not the
hype of a virus but the emergency measures than can legally be carried out
without the so called emergency ever happening in your country, all that is
required is a simple alert from the unelected people at the World Health
Organisation. A WHO Alert 6 will kick off the following:
Health Act section 32 A
and B below deals with the entire population not just the infected […]. It
gives the Minister power to order the injection of the entire population
(quote: “all adult persons” and “all children”) with a vaccine they believe
might immunise against a pandemic “caused by a new influenza strain“. You are
probably thinking how could they create a vaccine so fast, doesn’t it take years
to prove it is safe? They are prepared to alter the entire population’s immune
system and DNA with what would be officially an untested experimental vaccine,
are you prepared for that? It’s the law now.
Health Act section 32:
“The Minister may by order declare that-”
“it is necessary, for the
purpose of preventing the spread of a particular infectious disease, that all adult persons
should submit themselves to a specified measure in relation to their protection
or immunisation against such infectious disease”
“The Minister may by order
declare that—”
“it is necessary, for the
purpose of preventing the spread of a particular infectious disease, that all children should
be submitted to a specified measure in relation to their protection or
immunisation against that infectious disease”.
Section 38 contains a
purposeful loophole to detain anyone. It legalizes the detention of, by force
if necessary, people who are not identified as infected but are a “probable”
source. The name of section 38 is “Detention and isolation of person who is
probable source of infection” and it states the following, “force may, if
necessary, be used for the purpose of carrying out any provision of this
subsection.”
Part 2 of section 38
redefines the word person into patient: “(2) Where an order is made under this
section in relation to a person (in this subsection referred to as the
patient), the following provisions shall have effect[….]”. This makes it legal
for the government imprison people known not
to be infected and label them as patients.
Related:
Baxter admits
mixing live Bird flu with human flu in vaccines *
MP3: Alan Watt analyses this topic *
http://www.wiseupjournal.com/?p=894
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Wise Up Journal
29.04.2009
By Gabriel O’Hara
You’ve heard the World
Health Organisation and the media screaming about thousands of “suspected”,
“probable”, “maybe” cases of “swine” flu and a whole lot of deaths numbers that
might maybe be the “swine” flu. They also throw in how this or that flu killed
so many million in the past and how our over populated world (in their opinion)
is due a culling. Sure makes you forget about the banks sucking nations
dry and other problems. Ignore the hype and focus on the facts, there has only
been 7 confirmed deaths in Mexico.
RTE
29.04.2009
The Mexican Health Minister
said 159 people are now believed to have died from the virus out of 2,500
suspected cases.
However amid confusion, Jose
Angel Cordova told a news conference that only seven of the deaths had been
confirmed
____________
AFP / Manila Bulletin
29.04.2009
Mexico revises
confirmed flu death toll down to seven
MEXICO CITY (AFP) - Mexico on Tuesday revised downwards its confirmed
death toll from a new strain of flu to seven from 20, Health Minister Jose
Angel Cordova told reporters.
Under sharp questioning as
to how such a discrepancy could have occurred, Cordova said — to some confusion
— that 26 proven cases of swine flu had been detected, of which “seven
corresponded beyond any doubt to deaths caused by the new virus.”
____________
Do you want to know why the
avian bird flu vaccine coporation stocks are soaring
on the “swine” flu sacre? Because the “swine” flu is
the avian H1N1 flu. The same old bird flu that people
have lost their fear of, the World Health Organisatin
fear hype.
Reuters / Yahoo
29.04.2009
Israel has already rejected
the name swine flu, and opted to call it “Mexico flu.” Jewish dietary laws
forbid eating pork.
The Paris-based World
Organisation for Animal Health also objected to the name, saying the virus contains avian and human
components and no pig so far has been found ill with the
disease.
____________
Speaking of the virus
containing avian and human components lets look back
to February when Baxter incorporated did something illegal and said oops:
The Canadian Press
27.02.2009
Baxter admits flu
product contained live bird flu virus
The company that released
contaminated flu virus material from a plant in Austria confirmed Friday that
the experimental product contained live H5N1 avian
flu viruses.
On Friday, the company’s
director of global bioscience communications confirmed what scientists have
suspected.
“It was live,” Christopher
Bona said in an email.
People familiar with biosecurity rules are dismayed by evidence that human H3N2 and avian H5N1 viruses
somehow co-mingled in the Orth-Donau facility. That
is a dangerous practice that should not be allowed to happen, a number of
experts insisted.
release of a mixture of live
H5N1 and H3N2 viruses could
have resulted in dire consequences.
____________
Chicago Tribune
27.04.2009
By Bruce Japsen
Swine flu: Baxter
seeks swine flu sample to begin work on vaccine
Baxter confirmed over the
weekend that it is working with the World Health Organization on a potential
vaccine to curb the deadly swine flu virus that is blamed for scores of deaths
in Mexico and has emerged as a threat in the U.S.
Upon learning about the
swine flu outbreak in Mexico, Baxter requested a virus sample from WHO to do
laboratory testing for potentially developing an experimental vaccine,”
company spokesman Christopher Bona told the Tribune.
Over the years, Baxter has
worked with governments around the world to develop and produce vaccines to
protect against infectious disease or potential threats from bioterrorism.
____________
What to be concerned about
is the hype causing government acceptance of a World Health Organisation alert
6 (we are on alert 4 now). All nations under the WHO umbrella, the majority of
the world, have almost identical procedures for a WHO alert 6. Parts of those
laws are highlight below. It involves all of the population to be injected with
an experimental vaccine. Under a WHO alert 6 the vaccine would be pushed on all
of the population: children, pregnant women, sick and old. If a large
percentage of the population dies from avian flu after receiving the
experimental vaccines it would be near impossible to distinguish if the live
virus vaccines (mixed with other ingredients) caused the deaths or if the
actual virus caused the deaths. Any investigates into that will not be
independent as past disasters have proven to be the case. If a WHO alert 6 is
announced it might be wise to form a neighbourhood health protection group with
anyone who values their family’s health.
A WHO alert 6, justified or
not, will kick off the following [Note that you lose all legal rights you think
you have in a government perceived “emergency”]:
Wise Up
Journal - http://www.wiseupjournal.com/?p=736
02.012009
By Gabriel O’Hara
Health Act section 32 A
and B below deals with the entire population not just the infected […]. It
gives the Minister power to order the injection of the entire population
(quote: “all adult persons” and “all children”) with a vaccine they believe
might immunise against a pandemic “caused by a new influenza strain“. You are
probably thinking how could they create a vaccine so fast, doesn’t it take
years to prove it is safe? They are prepared to alter the entire population’s
immune system and DNA with what would be officially an untested experimental
vaccine, are you prepared for that? It’s the law now.
Health Act section 32:
“The Minister may by order declare that-”
“it is necessary, for the
purpose of preventing the spread of a particular infectious disease, that all adult persons
should submit themselves to a specified measure in relation to their protection
or immunisation against such infectious disease”
“The Minister may by order
declare that—”
“it is necessary, for the
purpose of preventing the spread of a particular infectious disease, that all children should
be submitted to a specified measure in relation to their protection or
immunisation against that infectious disease”.
Section 38 contains a
purposeful loophole to detain anyone. It legalizes the detention of, by force
if necessary, people who are not identified as infected but are a “probable”
source. The name of section 38 is “Detention and isolation of person who is
probable source of infection” and it states the following, “force may, if
necessary, be used for the purpose of carrying out any provision of this
subsection.”
Part 2 of section 38
redefines the word person into patient: “(2) Where an order is made under this
section in relation to a person (in this subsection referred to as the
patient), the following provisions shall have effect[….]”. This makes it legal
for the government imprison people known not
to be infected and label them as patients.
http://www.wiseupjournal.com/?p=898
======
CDC Laboratories Revealed as Incapable of Accurate Count of H1N1 Influenza Infections, Deaths
Mike Adams
May 01, 2009
Much
to the annoyance of some critics, NaturalNews has
been publicly questioning the "official" statistics reporting
infections and deaths from H1N1 influenza. In stories
published this week, we noted that the CDC's official numbers are suspiciously
low -- the agency claimed only 7 deaths from H1N1
even while Mexico had officially announced 161 deaths.
Today, NaturalNews has learned why the CDC numbers
are so low. It turns out that CDC labs are inadequate testing facilities
that are utterly overwhelmed with too many influenza
samples to test. Thus, the reason why official CDC
"confirmed" H1N1 death numbers are so low
is simply because the CDC laboratories can't test very many flu samples in the
first place.
And remember this: The CDC doesn't count any death unless its own lab
confirms the infection. But its own lab can only test 100 flu samples a
day, we've learned!
CDC labs are "swamped," reports the Associated Press. "The
specimens are coming in faster than they can possibly be tested," reports
epidemiologist Dr. Jeffrey P. Davis, according to AP.
Other astonishing facts worth noting:
• New York has had to limit its testing of influenza because too many samples
are coming in. "Sure, we'd want to diagnose every case, but we don't have
that resource," said Dr. Don Weiss.
• U.S. states have no way to test for H1N1 on their
own. They must send samples to the CDC, and the CDC lab can only test about 100
samples a day. (Source: Michael Shaw, associate director for laboratory science
at the CDC.)
• "Many labs are overrun," says AP, to the point where they are only
testing samples that come from people who traveled to Mexico. Other samples are
simply ignored or thrown out.
• AP also reports this quote: "The capacity of the state laboratories to
test all the swabs is being exceeded..." - Dr. Paul Jarris
of the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials.
• The acting director of the CDC has admitted it may stop testing influenza
samples altogether! Why? They say it's more important to focus on detection of
community outbreaks than to get an exact count of H1N1
deaths. Thus, the "death count" becomes an abandoned number that
loses any scientific credibility at all.
From
all this, it should be abundantly clear that not only was NaturalNews correct in stating that the
CDC's numbers are artificially low, but also that the CDC is incapable of
determining accurate numbers due to the severe limitations of its
laboratories. In fact, the CDC openly admits this fact.
Thus, all those people and reporters who downplay H1N1
influenza by saying, "It's only killed 7 people" are delusional. The
real truth of the matter is that the number of people killed by H1N1 greatly exceeds these "official" numbers,
and yet we'll never know by how much because no one apparently has the
laboratory bandwidth to make this determination.
From a scientific standpoint, then, the only truly accurate statement that can
be made about this is that H1N1 deaths are greater
than six. How much greater? No one knows.
Why does any of this matter? Because people are under the great misimpression
that H1N1 has killed "only" 7 people (or 10
as of today, as the CDC has added 3 deaths to its "confirmed" list).
Therefore, people say, it's no big deal.
But the number of "confirmed" deaths is merely the product of an
overwhelmed, under-staffed CDC laboratory system that is backlogged beyond all
hope and can't even get to most of the samples it's being sent. Those who claim
that websites, states or individuals are "overreacting to a virus that has
only killed 7 people" are kidding themselves. The number of dead is much,
much higher than what the CDC has been able to confirm.
Essentially, what we're
seeing here is a grand numbers game that reminds me a lot of how the U.S.
military reports the deaths of soldiers in Iraq.
If you ask the Pentagon, the number of U.S. soldiers who died in Iraq seems
quite small -- only a few thousand. How is this number so small? It's easy:
When soldiers are seriously wounded and about to die, they're air-lifted out of
Iraq to military hospitals in Europe, where they soon expire. Technically,
then, they didn't die "in Iraq" and they're not counted on the
official Pentagon death statistics.
These same shenanigans are happening now with the CDC and H1N1.
Deaths don't count until the CDC confirms them, but the CDC is incapable of
testing all the incoming samples. Therefore, death numbers can never be
accurate.
I find it amazing that in America today, the government can materialize
literally trillions of dollars out of thin air to bail out bankers, Wall
Street honchos and even auto manufacturers. And yet somehow it cannot find the
money to buy a few more microscopes and PCR machines
for the CDC to test influenza samples. It seems that if the U.S. government
really wanted the CDC to test all these samples, the money would be made
available. But the government doesn't really want the CDC to test all the
samples because if the death count rises too high, people start to panic.
And thus, through this clever limiting of influenza testing, the U.S. is
guilty of the same infectious disease deceptions it accused China of conducting
with SARS.
Every nation, it turns out, finds some clever way to deceive the public when an
outbreak emerges. No nation wants to be seen as a breeding ground for
infectious disease and risk having its borders closed off from its neighbors. The best way to protect tourism and keep imports
and exports flowing is to keep the statistics artificially low using
whatever means necessary.
This isn't some conspiracy theory. These laboratory testing limitations are
readily admitted fact by the CDC officials themselves. There is no scientist,
epidemiologist or virologist in his right mind who would dare say the CDC's
official numbers represent an accurate count of H1N1
influenza infections or deaths in the real world.
The first casualty of war, it's often said, is the truth. It turns out that
truth is also the first casualty of a pandemic. The numbers that are contrived
for public consumption are designed to achieve a political aim, not an
accurate scientific assessment of reality. Anyone who believes the official
numbers from the CDC or WHO is the victim of a disinformation campaign designed
to keep the official swine flu numbers artificially low.
Sources for this story:
Associated Press: http://apnews.myway.com/article/20090430/D97T2ALO1.html
ABC News: http://abcnews.go.com/Health/SwineFlu/story?id=7461729&page=1
Reuters: http://www.reuters.com/article/middleeastCrisis/idUSN30275206
http://www.naturalnews.com/026179.html
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Timeline: World History of Viral Pandemics: 412BC
to 2009
Mike Adams
May 01, 2009
When observing the swine flu
outbreak happening today, it's helpful to have some historical context. Viral
pandemics are not unusual, and talking about one isn't "alarmist."
Pandemics are a regular feature of life on earth, and they occur with
surprising regularity throughout world history.
Wherever there are masses of people, there are opportunities for viruses to
spread. It is especially important to note that even with all of today's
"advanced" medical technology (which really isn't that advanced in
many ways), today's swine flu virus eluded all the world's infectious disease authorities, spreading to
more than seven different countries before it even appeared on the CDC's radar.
Modern technology, it turns out, is no more effective at halting the spread of swine
flu than having no technology at all.
Here's a timeline of all the larger pandemics recorded throughout human
history. This timeline is borrowed from the book How to Beat the Bird Flu by Mike Adams. The
full book can be purchased in downloadable or hardcopy editions at www.TruthPublishing.com.
412 BC – Major epidemic of a disease (which, although not
called influenza, probably was influenza) recorded by
Hippocrates.
1357 AD – The term, "influenza," from the Italian word meaning
"influence," was coined. Popular belief at that time blamed the
development of flu on the influence of the stars.
1485 – "Sweating sickness," a flu-like malady, sickens hundreds of
thousands of people in Britain. The Lord Mayor of London, his successor and six
aldermen die. The Royal Navy cannot leave port due to the sickness of sailors.
Doctors prescribe tobacco juice, lime juice, emetics, cathartics and bleeding
as treatments for the disease.
1580 – First recorded influenza pandemic begins in Europe and
spreads to Asia and Africa.
1700s – Influenza pandemics in 1729-1730, 1732-1733,
1781-1782.
1781 – Major epidemic causing high mortality among the
elderly spreads across Russia from Asia.
1830 – Major epidemic causing high mortality among the elderly
spreads across Russia from Asia.
1831, 1833-1834 – Influenza pandemics hit.
1847-1848 – Influenza sweeps through the Mediterranean to southern France and
then continues across in Western Europe.
1878 – A disease causing high mortality in poultry
becomes known as the "fowl plague." Fowl plague is now called HPAI avian
influenza.
1889-1890 – The "Russian flu" spreads through Europe and reaches
North America in 1890.
1900 – Major epidemic.
1918-1919 – The "Spanish Flu" circles the globe (though some
experts think it may have started in the U.S.). Caused by an H1N1 flu virus, it is the worst influenza pandemic
(and subsequently, epidemic) to date. There are more than half a million U.S.
deaths; worldwide death estimates range from 20 million to 100 million.
According to WebMD, "The pandemic comes before the era of antibiotics --
which are now essential in treating the secondary bacterial infections
that often kill flu-weakened patients -- so it's difficult to say whether this
flu would have the same dreadful impact in the modern world. But it is a very
frightening disease, with very high death rates among young, previously healthy
adults."
1924 – The first outbreak of HPAI
avian influenza -- bird flu -- in the U.S. It does not spread
among humans.
Late 1920s – Richard Shope
shows that swine influenza can be transmitted through filtered mucous, implying
that influenza is caused by a virus.
1933 – Sir Christopher Andrewes, Wilson Smith and Sir
Patrick Laidlaw isolate the first human influenza virus.
1940 – Frank Macfarlane Burnet grows influenza on a laboratory growth system (embryonated chicken eggs).
1941 – George K. Hirst discovers that influenza
causes hemagglutination of red blood
cells, thus providing a new method of assaying for the virus
1955 – Sir Christopher Andrewes, along with Burnet
and Bang, coins the term "myxovirus" for
the influenza family.
1957-1958 – The "Asian Flu" causes the second pandemic of the 20th
century. Caused by an H2N2 virus, it begins in China
and kills one million people worldwide, including 70,000 Americans.
1968-1969 – The "Hong Kong Flu" causes the last flu
pandemic. It was caused by an H3N2 virus
and killed some 34,000 Americans. The relatively low death toll is thought to
have been due to two factors. First, the virus contained the N2 protein humans had been exposed to before. Second, an H3 virus circulated around the turn of the century, giving
some immune protection to elderly people who had caught the
flu back then.
Mid-1970s – Researchers realize that enormous pools
of influenza virus continuously circulate in wild birds.
1976 – Swine flu breaks out among a handful of soldiers stationed at Fort Dix,
N.J. One dies. It's an H1N1 virus, and health
officials worry that they are seeing the return of the 1918 H1N1
Spanish Flu pandemic. As the virus is circulating among U.S. pigs, President
Gerald Ford
calls for a crash vaccination program. Despite delays, a vaccine
is made and a quarter of the U.S. population is inoculated. There were 25
deaths from a rare paralytic complication of the vaccination (Guillain-Barre syndrome). Nobody else died of swine flu,
which never caused an epidemic.
1977 – Mild Russian influenza epidemic occurs.
1983 – The second HPAI outbreak occurs in the U.S.
Caused by an H5N2 virus, it does not spread among
humans. However, this severe poultry epidemic strikes chickens,
turkeys and guinea fowl in Pennsylvania and Virginia. It is finally brought
under control after the destruction of 17 million birds.
1988 – Wiley, Wilson and Skehel determine the
location of the antigenic sites on the hemagglutinin
molecule by X-ray crystallography.
1996 – HPAI H5N1 bird flu is isolated from a farmed
goose in Guangdong, China.
May 1997 – The first person known to catch H5N1 bird flu
dies in Hong Kong. The virus has been causing an epidemic among poultry in the
city.
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.
Jan. 6, 2003 – A member of the press informs the WHO office in Hanoi of rumored chicken deaths in southern Vietnam. The regional
office in Manila is alerted.
Jan. 7, 2003 – WHO informs public
health officials worldwide through its electronically distributed
Outbreak Verification List.
Jan. 8, 2003 – 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. 5 report, Vietnamese officials have identified
two further cases of severe respiratory illness (another child and the first
adult), bringing the total since the end of October in Hanoi's hospitals
to 13.
Jan. 12, 2003 – Hong Kong's National Influenza Centre confirms infection with H5N1 in a third fatal case in Vietnam, the 30-year-old
mother of the 12-year-old girl.
Jan. 13, 2003 – Authorities in the Republic of Korea announce the spread of H5N1 infection to an additional farm, dashing hopes that
the epidemic had been brought under control. To date, about 1.6 million birds
have died or been destroyed.
Jan. 14, 2003 – WHO sends an urgent request for assistance to GOARN to identify experts to support the Vietnamese health
authorities and the WHO office in Hanoi. Immediate objectives are to reduce the
risk of transmission from birds to humans and to support health authorities in
the epidemiological investigation and containment of human cases. Expertise is
also requested to increase laboratory capacity, advise on hospital infection
control and strengthen surveillance for human cases.
Jan. 15, 2003 – A fourth case of human infection with H5N1
is confirmed in Vietnam. All four cases, which had been hospitalized in Hanoi,
were fatal.
Jan. 19, 2003 – A fifth fatal case of H5N1 infection
is confirmed in Vietnam, also in Hanoi.
Jan. 20, 2003 – Laboratories in the WHO Global Influenza Surveillance Network
accelerate work needed to develop an H5N1 vaccine for
humans.
Jan. 22, 2003 – Network laboratories determine that H5N1
viruses
in the current human and avian outbreaks are significantly different from H5N1 viruses in outbreaks in Hong Kong in 1997 and 2003,
indicating that the virus has mutated.
Jan. 23, 2003 – Authorities in Thailand
report an outbreak of highly pathogenic avian influenza, caused by the H5N1 strain, at a farm in Suphanburi
Province. This is the first time that highly pathogenic avian influenza has
ever been reported in the country. Nearly 70,000 birds have died or been
destroyed. Japan, the EU and other major export markets immediately ban all
Thai poultry products.
Jan. 24, 2003 – Vietnam reports two more cases of H5N1
infection in children hospitalized in Ho Chi
Minh City – the first cases from the south. One child dies, and the second
remains hospitalized in critical condition. The country has now reported seven
cases, six of which were fatal.
Jan. 25, 2003 – WHO staff and a GOARN international
team, with support from Health Canada, arrive in Thailand.
Jan. 26, 2003 – Authorities in Thailand report laboratory confirmation of the
country's third case, also in a young child. One of the two previously
confirmed cases dies.
Jan. 27, 2003 – Thailand's third case, reported on Jan. 26, dies. Of the three
cases, one remains alive.
Jan. 28, 2003 – Pakistan reports an outbreak of highly pathogenic avian
influenza. Testing detects the H7 subtype. The report
states that 1.7 million hens have either died or been destroyed.
Jan. 30, 2003 – Chinese authorities confirm H5N1
infection in poultry at farms in an additional two provinces, Hunan and Hubei.
Suspected outbreaks are reported in Anhui and Guangdong provinces and in
Shanghai municipality.
Feb. 1, 2003 – Vietnam confirms two further cases, both fatal, in sisters, aged
23 and 30 years. Of the country's 10 cases, eight have died, one has recovered,
and one remains hospitalized.
Feb. 2, 2003 – Thailand reports its fourth confirmed case of H5N1 infection in a 58-year-old woman from Suphanburi Province, who died on 27 January. Of the
country's four cases, three have been fatal.
Feb. 3, 2003 – Thailand's one surviving case, reported on Jan. 23, dies. To
date, Thailand has reported four cases, all fatal.
Feb. 4, 2003 – Chinese authorities report the spread of H5N1
infection in poultry to farms in two additional provinces.
Feb. 5, 2003 – Vietnam reports two further cases, both fatal, in young adults.
Feb. 6, 2003 – A GOARN international team arrives in
Cambodia. Members of the GOARN team are drawn from
the Institut de Vielle Sanitaire, and the Institut
Pasteur Network in France.
Feb. 8, 2003 – U.S. authorities report an outbreak of avian influenza at a farm
in Delaware. H7 is detected in the initial tests.
Further tests are initiated to determine if the H7
subtype is highly pathogenic. Some 12,000 birds are destroyed.
Feb. 9, 2003 – Vietnam reports three additional cases, two of which were fatal.
Feb. 10, 2003 – Chinese authorities report a suspected H5N1
outbreak at a chicken farm in Tianjin Municipality. Spread to additional farms
within other provinces is also reported. Altogether, H5N1
infection is suspected or confirmed on 39 farms in 14 of the country's 31
provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities. Of the outbreaks at 39 farms,
19 are confirmed as caused by H5N1.
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. WHO issues guidelines for global surveillance aimed at
monitoring spread of H5N1 infection in human and
animal populations.
Feb. 12, 2003 – Thailand confirms its sixth case, a 13-year-old boy.
April 2003 – The Netherlands reports H7N7 bird flu in
over 80 human cases with the death of one veterinarian.
Mid-2003 – H5N1 bird flu spreads in Asia, but it is
either undetected or unreported.
Dec. 2003 – 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.
Dec. 17, 2003 – Authorities in the Republic of Korea formally report an
epidemic of highly pathogenic avian influenza, caused by the H5N1 strain of the virus, at the chicken farm. This is the
first time that highly pathogenic avian influenza has ever been reported in the
country. No symptoms are reported in farmers
in close contact with the infected chickens.
Dec. 26, 2003 – Authorities in the Republic of Korea report the spread of H5N1 infection to chicken and duck farms in five provinces.
Altogether, more than 1.3 million chickens and ducks have died or been destroyed.
Jan. 11, 2004 – Humans in Vietnam come down with H5N1
bird flu caught from poultry. There is a high death
rate among infected people, but the disease does not spread from
person to person.
Jan. 23, 2004 – Thailand reports human H5N1 bird flu
infections.
February 2004 --The last HPAI outbreak among U.S.
poultry occurs. A flock of chickens in Texas comes down with an H5N2 virus. A quick response by state and federal officials
keeps the virus from spreading beyond this one small flock. There are no human
cases.
Feb. 1, 2004 – Vietnam investigates a family cluster of H5N1
cases. Person-to-person spread cannot be ruled out, but the virus is not
spreading among humans.
Feb. 20, 2004 – Thailand reports H5N1 infection of
domestic cats in a single household.
Oct. 11, 2004 – H5N1 infection spreads among tigers
in a Thai zoo.
Feb. 2, 2005 – Cambodia reports its first human case of H5N1
bird flu. It is fatal.
April 30, 2005 – China reports that wild birds are dying at a lake in central
China. The lake is a major stop along migratory pathways. Within weeks, more
than 6,300 wild birds are dead.
July 21, 2005 – Indonesia reports its first human case of H5N1
bird flu.
October 2005 – H5N1 is reported in poultry in Turkey
and Romania and in wild birds in Greece and Croatia.
Nov. 1, 2005 – 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. 23, 2005 – China announces its second human death related to the bird
flu virus, a 35-year-old farmer identified only by her surname, Xu.
Nov. 28, 2005 – A 16-year-old Indonesian boy (the country's 12th human case of
the disease) is said to be on the road to recovery.
Nov. 29, 2005 – China reports two more flu outbreaks in the country's northwestern Xinjiang region and in the central Hunan
province.
Nov. 30, 2005 – Regulatory bodies, such as the U.S. Food and Drug
Administration and World Health Organization (WHO) announce plans
to meet early 2006 to discuss how to speed up production of a bird flu vaccine.
Dec. 1, 2005 – Eight new cases of bird flu are reported in the remote village
where the H5N1 virus was detected in October.
Dec. 2, 2005 – Abnormalities found in the X-rays of 14 Vietnamese bird flu
patients mean the procedure can be used to predict whether the disease will be
fatal.
Dec. 3, 2005 – More than 1,600 dead birds in southern Ukraine's Crimea
peninsula test positive for the H5 strain of the bird
flu virus. Representatives announce that test results, indicating whether the
lethal strain was H5N1, should be released Dec. 8.
Dec. 4, 2005 – Cioacile becomes the fourth village in
eastern Romania's Braila county to be quarantined in a week after three
chickens test positive for the bird flu H5 virus. New
samples are sent out to determine whether these strains are H5N1.
Dec. 5, 2005 – Romania quarantines two more villages in the southeastern
part of the country's Danube delta amid fears of a bird flu outbreak there.
Dec. 8, 2005 – A 31-year-old farmer, who fell ill on Oct. 30 with high fever
and pneumonia-like symptoms, is confirmed as China's fifth human case of bird
flu after falling sick following contact with dead birds. She has since
recovered.
Dec. 9, 2005 – The agriculture minister of Turkey, Mehdi
Eker, announces there is no longer any bird flu in
Turkey. This causes some controversy when it is later revealed that bird flu
was detected in the laboratories of the Agriculture Ministry on this very same
day.
Dec. 13, 2005 – Zhou's blood samples test negative for the H5N1
virus when tested by the Fujian Provincial Center for Disease Control and
Prevention (CDC).
Dec. 15, 2005 – Turkey reports an oubreak of bird flu
in poultry located nine miles from its border with Iran. Three hundred
fifty-nine fowl are destroyed in an attempt to contain the infection.
Dec. 21, 2005 – Zhou, the 41-year-old Chinese factory worker, dies in a
hospital in the southeastern province of Fujian,
China. Doctors fear bird flu may be responsible.
Dec. 23, 2005 – Further testing of blood samples of Zhou confirms she died of
complications arising from the H5N1 avian
flu strain. This brings the total number of bird flu related
fatalities for December 2005 to six; the worst since March 2005, when seven people
died.
Dec. 29, 2005 – China announces its seventh human case of bird flu and its
third fatality.
Jan. 1, 2006 – A 14-year-old boy named Mehmet Ali Kocyigit, from Dogubeyazit,
Turkey, dies, but health officials say bird flu was not the cause, instead
attributing the death to pnuemonia.
Jan. 3, 2006 – Bogus bird flu drugs begin to flood the internet.
Jan. 4, 2006 – Mehmet Ali Kocyigit,
who died on Jan. 1, is confirmed to have died of bird flu, contradicting the
initial report that the boy had died from pneumonia.
Jan. 5, 2006 – Turkey's second known human case of bird flu, 15-year-old Fatma Kocyigit, dies in the early
morning. Health officials say that these cases are not the beginning of a pandemic.
Jan. 6, 2006 – A study in Vietnam suggests the bird flu virus is more
widespread --and spreads between humans --more easily than most experts
surmise, but that it also probably doesn't kill half its victims. The study is
not considered definitive, but experts call the information
"compelling."
Jan. 7, 2006 – Hulya Kocyigit
becomes the third person in Turkey to die of the bird flu.
Jan. 9, 2006 – A total of 14 people have been diagnosed with bird flu in Turkey
(pending lab confirmation), but UN health experts say there is still no
evidence to suggest it is spreading between humans.
Jan. 11, 2006 -- Two brothers, four and five years old, test positive for the H5N1 virus, but neither shows symptoms of the disease. They
are closely watched at Kecioren Hospital in Turkey's
capital of Ankara, as doctors are unsure if the boys have human bird flu in its
earliest stages, or if the infection does not necessarily lead to illness.
Jan. 12, 2006 -- Analysis of virus samples from two of the Kocyigit
children detects a change in one gene in one of two samples tested, but WHO
says it is too early to tell whether the mutation is important.
Jan. 13, 2006 -- The World Health Organization confirms Indonesia's 12th bird
flu fatality.
Jan. 14, 2006 -- A 13-year-old Indonesian girl dies of bird flu, bringing the
country's bird flu death toll to 13.
Jan. 15, 2006 -- Twelve-year-old Fatma Ozcan of Dogubayazit, Turkey,
dies in hospital, but preliminary tests show she is negative for bird flu.
Jan. 16, 2006 -- Tests show that Fatma Ozcan died from bird flu, making her Turkey's fourth death
related to the illness.
Jan. 17, 2006 -- The 3-year-old brother of the Indonesian girl who died on Jan.
14, dies.
Jan. 18, 2006 -- Testing confirms that the Indonesian toddler who died on Jan.
17 had bird flu.
Jan. 23, 2006 -- China announces its 10th human case of bird flu infection.
Indonesia announces two more bird flu-related deaths.
Jan. 25, 2006 -- Bird flu kills a 29-year old woman Chinese woman, the seventh
person to die from the disease in China.
2007 - 2008 -- Bird flu continues to smolder
throughout SE Asia, with various infections and deaths reported, but no major
outbreaks occur outside of areas with close contact to poultry.
March, 2009 -- Baxter International accidentally mixes live avian flu viruses
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Below, you'll find selected
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Only five types of influenza are known to infect humans: HI, H2, H3, and Nl
or N2. The avian influenza viruses H4, H5, and H7
make birds sick but usually don't infect humans. That may be about to change,
however. In addition to its technical designation, when the flu becomes a human
infection, each of the different influenza A viruses is given a common
name corresponding to the place of outbreak or origin: the Spanish flu of 1918
or the Hong Kong flu of 1968. The word "influenza" is derived from
the Latin influentia, to influence.
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Influenza is called the "last of the great uncontrolled plagues," and
some epidemiologists believe that we are imminently due for an influenza
epidemic of plague proportions like that of 1918.
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A review in The Lancet suggests that influenza vaccination of infants is
useless. Each and every year at this time medical officials come out to remind
us of our mortal danger. However, they advocate medical procedures that do
little to nothing to protect us, but cost billions nonetheless. Dr. Eleanor McBean was an on-the-spot observer of the 1918 influenza
epidemic and said, "As far as I could find out, the flu hit only the
vaccinated. Those who had refused the shots escaped the flu. My family had
refused all the vaccinations so we remained well all the time.
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Just over thirty years ago, in 1976, the Centers for Disease Control
investigated and confirmed that a severe influenza outbreak at Fort Dix,
New Jersey, had been caused by the "swine flu" -- an influenza
A-type virus. The Department of Health, Education, and Welfare grew concerned
that the United States might be about to see another large national flu
pandemic, involving numbers of influenza deaths reminiscent of the flu
pandemic of 1918. The federal government
deemed it prudent to vaccinate all Americans. In October 1976, the National influenza
Immunization Program officially began.
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The infamous 1918 influenza, which spun around the planet in the
last year of World War I, ended up killing more people than the Great War
itself. Though it was called the "Spanish" flu, it most likely originated
in Asia. In America, the first outbreak occurred on a military
base in Kansas in the vicinity of a pig farm. The 1918 pandemic is
believed to have killed up to 40 million people worldwide, including 675,000
Americans. Many more got sick but survived. The 1918 flu killed more
soldiers engaged in the war than the combat of the trenches.
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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. Like that
earlier flu, avian flu unleashes an unusual hurricanelike
storm of immune-system signaling proteins called
cytokines, which signal the immune system to
combat microbial invaders. Cytokines signaling to the
immune system to fight disease is a good thing, but when cytokine levels are
elevated for too long and their signaling becomes
uncontrolled, they can hijack the body's immune system to turn against the body
itself.
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Experts believe that the current avian H5N1 influenza
strain, "bird flu," has the potential to become a human pandemic in
proportions that could dwarf the Spanish flu of 1918, which killed
millions and is, to date, the deadliest influenza outbreak in modern
history. Flu hunters, influenza experts who follow viral outbreaks,
identify hot spots, study the disease in the laboratory, investigate its
genetic code, and create theoretical worst-case scenarios in order to
understand the disease and predict its path, all agree on one thing: It's only
a matter of time before the next outbreak happens.
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Fear of influenza deaths in numbers similar to the 1918 flu epidemic led to
a recommendation that the federal government vaccinate all Americans. When
insurance companies refused to provide coverage to the vaccine manufacturers,
the government agreed to accept liability for claims of adverse events. This
obstacle having been cleared, the National influenza Immunization
Program (NIIP) officially started in October of 1976.
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Given the increasing virulence and frequency of other viruses, it seems certain
that a more potent influenza virus will appear. In the temperate
regions, like North America and Europe, flu outbreaks occur every winter and epidemics approximately every eight to ten
years. Worldwide influenza pandemics occur every ten to forty years, and
in the last century the world experienced three: the Spanish flu of 1918; the
Asian flu in 1957; and the Hong Kong flu in 1968.
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If a strain of influenza emerged that retained these traits and added
others like resistance to antiviral drugs and the ability to outsmart vaccines,
we'd be in big trouble. A super flu is a viral infection that has all the
ancestral traits of influenza, is drug-resistant, has undergone genetic
mutations that make it possible for it to spread from human to human, no one
has immunity to, and is extremely contagious and virulent. Pandemic influenza,
like the Spanish flu of 1918, is much more virulent than regular flu.
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Though little attention is paid to a possible connection between fibromyalgia
and influenza A, some experts suggest it is an overlooked syndrome. In
one research paper, Allen Tyler, a medical doctor and naturopathic physician,
reports that fibromyalgia was not seen before the 1918 flu pandemic. In
his research, he found that 90 percent of fibromyalgia patients tested positive
for influenza A antibodies.
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The experts hope that a pandemic influenza will be nothing more than a
more severe version of seasonal nuisance flu, but they're not betting on it.
Viral dynamics are a mystery. We could be in for a super flu. During a
pandemic, symptoms may not follow the usual course. If the coming one is
anything like the 1918 influenza pandemic, inflammation may not
be confined to the lungs, like regular flu, but could affect the brain, liver,
and other body tissues. The virus could even bypass the respiratory system
entirely.
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The 1918-19 epidemic of Spanish influenza killed 20-40 million people in
less than a year, causing more deaths than all the massive military casualties
of World War I. In the spring of 1918, the German Army's assault on
Paris was halted by this flu. It not only affected Europeans, but an
unbelievable 80 percent of the United States Army's death toll was from the
Spanish flu that killed 43,000 American soldiers between 1917 and 1919 --
nearly as many as died in combat in the Korean War some thirty years later.
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During the conquest of the Americas, upward of 95 percent of indigenous people
in North America, Mexico, the Caribbean, Central America, and South America
were wiped out by smallpox and influenza. The last major killer
pandemic, the Spanish flu of 1918, caused an estimated 50 million deaths
and possibly as high as 100 million in a single year. It reached even remote
corners of the globe. The 1918 Spanish flu pandemic was more like a
Biblical prophecy come true than a medical disease.
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This tablet is made from the combined strains of influenza virus from
the major flu epidemics since 1918. The combined strains are then homeopathically prepared and potentized.
No ill effects have ever been reported from the "cold and flu"
tablet, and the rate of protection has been high. In the flu epidemic of 1918
to 1920, the homeopaths lost only 1 percent of their patients, as opposed to 30
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The 1918 outbreak was directly linked with the Great War (World War 1).
The influenza A virus strain of subtype H1N1
behind the flu pandemic was unusually severe and deadly. What made it that way?
At no time in history was the world exposed to such massive and 24-hour
pollution created by the fumes and smoke resulting from continuous bomb and
grenade explosions, the burning of entire cities, the effects of mustard gases
and other biological weapons by Germans. Nobody remained uninfluenced by it.
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