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Avian Flu Hoax

"If left unchallenged, this virus could become the first pandemic of the 21st century. We must not allow that to happen. Today I am announcing a new International Partnership on Avian and Pandemic Influenza. It is essential we work together, and as we do so, we will fulfill a moral duty to protect our citizens, and heal the sick, and comfort the afflicted."  – President George W. Bush

No sooner are indictments being handed down to Scooter Libby, the Chief of Staff of the Vice President of the United States for lies and cover-up of information used deliberately to suppress the fact the Bush Administration had no ‘smoking gun’ to prove Saddam Hussein was building a nuclear arsenal, but a new scandal is surfacing every bit as outrageous and ultimately, likely also criminal.

Against all scientific prudence and normal public health procedure, the world population is being whipped up into fear frenzy by irresponsible public health officials from the US Administration to WHO to the United States Centers for Disease Control. They all warn about the imminent danger that a malicious viral strain might spread from infected birds, primarily in Vietnam and other Asian centers, to contaminate the entire human species in pandemic proportions. Often the flu pandemic of 1918 which is said to have killed 18 million worldwide is cited as an example of what ‘might’ lie in store for us. Billions of dollars are being allocated to the development of a new “pandemic” vaccine and the stockpiling of two drugs, Tamiflu and Relenza, which are touted to “treat” the infection. The hysteria in the United States has risen to the point where George W. Bush allocated resources toward preparing to use the military to enforce quarantines and perhaps even to enforce mandatory vaccination.

This hoax is then used to justify the immediate purchase of 80 million doses of Tamiflu, a worthless drug that in no way shape or form treats the avian flu, but only decreases the amount of days one is sick and can actually contribute to the virus having more lethal mutations. So the U.S. placed an order for 20 million doses of this worthless drug at a price of $100 per dose. That comes to a staggering $2 billion.

Between Dec. 26, 2003 and Oct. 24, 2005, there were 121 confirmed H5N1 infections and, of those, 62 have reportedly died. That makes the “apparent” death rate just over 51 percent, ranking this infection among the most deadly on record. However, thousands of mild and asymptomatic cases are going undetected as detailed by Dick Thompson, a spokesperson for the World Health Organization (WHO). In an interview on March 9, 2005, Thompson said that the case-fatality rate (CFR) had been overstated. Documented cases were those where the patients were sick enough to seek medical care in a hospital and, predictably, they had very poor outcomes. He concluded, “Surely others were infected and either not getting sick or not getting sick enough to seek treatment at a hospital. Factoring those into the CFR has been impossible. We simply don’t know the denominator.” To illustrate, if 62 people died, but 10,000 had actually been infected, the death rate would be 0.62 percent, essentially insignificant. Therefore, without knowing how many are infected, the death rate is being highly inflated.

The virus has barely infected humans; significantly, there has been no sustained person-to-person transmission of the infection. Very few cases of severe human infection by H5N1 have occurred. An intensified surveillance of patients in Southeast Asia has led to the discovery of mild cases, more infections in older, and an increased number of “clusters cases” among family members, suggesting that “the local virus strains may be adapting to humans.” In other words, humans are developing their own innate resistance to the virus. In addition, all cases have occurred via animal-to-human transmission, and there is documentation of only one confirmed case of human-to-human transmission. Without sustained transmission between humans—meaning one person spreads it to another and another, and so on—there can be no pandemic. The “hype” that, sooner or later, the H5N1 strain will mutate into a strain that can be easily passed between humans is completely unsubstantiated. Whether this will happen is nothing more than a guess because we have had “potential pandemics” before.

Dick Thompson of the WHO revealed that “there have been a half dozen pandemic ‘false alarms’ in the last 30 years.” A false alarm is an outbreak where a virus has jumped the species barrier, but has been confined to one or two people and has not been lethal. What makes H5N1 particularly significant and gaining the attention of the world may be due not to its potentially lethal effects on humans, but rather to the deaths of millions of domestic birds, infected or not. This could be about commerce; a global economic crisis in the making, but not a global health crisis.

We are being told that Roche manufactures Tamiflu and, in a recent New York Times article, they were battling whether or not they would allow generic drug companies to help increase their production. But if you dig further you will find that a drug was actually developed by a company called Gilead that 10 years ago gave Roche the exclusive rights to market and sell Tamiflu. Tamiflu has recently been proven to be virtually useless in avian flu prevention, and has been shown to actually accelerate mutations of the bird flu strain.

Tamiflu was developed and patented in 1996 by a California biotech firm; Gilead Sciences Inc. Gilead is a NASDAQ (GILD) listed stock company which prefers to maintain a low profile in the current rush to Tamiflu. That might be because of who is tied to Gilead. In 1997, before he became US Secretary of Defense, Donald H. Rumsfeld was named Chairman of the Board of Gilead Sciences, where he remained until early 2001 when he became Defense Secretary. Rumsfeld had been on the board of Gilead since 1988 according to a January 3 1997 company press release. Since Rumsfeld holds major portions of stock in Gilead, he will handsomely profit from the scare tactics of the government that is being used to justify the purchase of $2 billion of Tamiflu.

The Secretary of Defense, the man who allegedly supported the use of contrived intelligence to justify the war on Iraq, is now poised to reap huge gains for a flu panic his Administration has done everything it can to promote. It would be useful to know whether the Pentagon’s successor to Douglas Feith’s Office of Special Plans developed the strategy of biowarfare behind the current Avian Flu panic. Perhaps some enterprising Congressional committee might look into the entire subject of plausible conflicts of interest regarding Secretary Rumsfeld.

If you do a little research on Donald Rumsfeld you will see that the avian flu and the ominous pandemic supposedly headed our way is actually another pretext for profits and fear mongering. Just like Dick Cheney claimed to have stepped down from Haliburton (but continues to receive millions from them and award them no-bid contracts in Iraq and New Orleans) Rumsfeld too stood-down from the Gilead Sciences Board in January 2001 when he was appointed Secretary of Defense at the start of George W. Bush's first term as President. It's all very neat and tidy.

Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld has made more than $5 million from selling shares in the firm that discovered and developed the flu drug Tamiflu. He also retains shares worth $25 million or more. Tamiflu is bought in mass quantities by the government in order to treat a predicted outbreak of avian flu. In 2003, the year before concerns about bird flu began, the company took a loss. But in 2004, Tamiflu sales nearly quadrupled, and then nearly quadrupled again in 2005.

Divestiture of his stocks in the corporation is not required by the Office of Government Ethics or the Department of Defense Standards of Conduct Office.

Rumsfeld stands to make a fortune on royalties as a panicked world population scrambles to buy a drug worthless in curing effects of alleged Avian Flu. The model suggests the parallel to the brazen corruption of Halliburton Corporation whose former CEO is Vice President Dick Cheney. Cheney’s company has so far gotten billions worth of US construction contracts in Iraq and elsewhere. Coincidence that Cheney’s closest political friend is Defense Secretary and Avian Flu beneficiary Don Rumsfeld? It is another example of what someone has called the principle of modern US corrupt special interest politics: ‘Concentrate the benefits; diffuse the costs’ President Bush has ordered the US Government to buy $2 billion worth of Gilead Science’s Tamilflu.

Tamiflu does not treat the flu and it is unknown if it will stop the spread of the infection. Clinical trials with Tamiflu have shown that the drug reduces acute symptoms of flu by a maximum of 2.5 days, depending on the sub-group analyzed. That’s it. 2.5 days. In addition, viral shedding in nasal secretions was reduced after Tamiflu had been administered. Although this would presumably lessen the exposure risk for close contacts, this theory has not been tested. The virus is already becoming resistant to Tamiflu. Recent human isolates are fully resistant to older, less expensive influenza drugs, amantadine and rimantadine. In addition, a high-level of resistance to Tamiflu has been detected in up to 16 percent of children with human influenza A (H1N1). Not surprisingly, this resistant variant has been detected recently in several patients with H5N1 infection who were treated with Tamiflu. In addition, nearly seven percent of people who are prescribed Tamiflu can’t tolerate the side effect: persistent nausea. So, at nearly $100 for a course of treatment, you might want to save your money and spend it on saline nasal spray, which is at least as effective.

The other newly recommended drug, Relenza, isn’t much better. Relenza is a powder, which is inhaled twice a day for five days from a breath-activated plastic device called a Diskhaler. Some patients have had bronchospasm (wheezing) or serious breathing problems when they used Relenza. In fact, in January 2000, the FDA issued a warning about prescribing Relenza after some users reported deterioration of respiratory function following its inhalation. Particular concern was expressed for patients with underlying asthma or emphysema. The FDA stated that “an acute decline in respiratory function may contribute to a fatal outcome in patients with a complicated pre-existing medical history and pulmonary compromise.

The “seed virus” produced by the WHO and given to the vaccine manufacturers may not be the correct virus. In February 2005, the WHO developed several H5N1 prototype vaccine strains in accordance with the requirements of national and international pharmaceutical licensing agencies for influenza vaccine production. These H5N1 prototype strains were made available to institutions and companies working to develop the pandemic vaccines. By October 2005, the WHO had evidence that the virus had evolved and is now “genetically distinguishable”—i.e., different—from the prototype strain selected for vaccine development. In what can only be described as a case study in bureaucratic thinking, the WHO, in spite of the new information, does not recommend changing the strain. As Nancy Cox, director of the influenza branch at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) stated, “If we don’t get a good match, the vaccine will be less effective, producing illness, hospitalizations and death.”

What Is Avian Flu?

According to Sherri J. Tenpenny D.O., is widely known researcher and whistleblower who is highly sought after for her ability to present scientific information regarding vaccination hazards. Dr. Tenpenny is an internationally renowned expert in alternative medicine. She has lectured abroad on health issues at numerous conferences, conventions, and universities, including both Cleveland State University and Case Western Reserve Medical School. Dr. Tenpenny is a regular guest on radio talk shows and has been published in numerous magazines, newspapers and internet sites (http://www.birdfluhype.com) says, in essence, “bird flu” is caused by a specific version of an influenza type-A virus thought by researchers to be particularly aggressive. Influenza A subtypes are designated as either “mildly pathogenic,” meaning they cause minimal or no disease, or “highly pathogenic,” meaning their presence has been associated with widespread death among birds.

Influenza A viruses are divided into subtypes based on different combinations of two surface proteins called antigens. One is called “hemagglutinin,” signified by the abbreviation (H) or (HA); the other is called “neuraminidase,” identified as (N) or (NA). Fifteen different H antigens (referred to as H1 to H15) and nine different N proteins (referred to as N1 to N9) are commonly known to exist; all combinations of (H) antigens and (N) antigens are known to exist in birds. The virus of current concern is H5N1, considered to be a “highly pathogenic” type. Less than 100 people have died worldwide, reportedly due to the inflammatory effects this virus seems to have on lung tissue. Scientists are concerned that H5N1 will evolve into a virus capable of human-to-human transmission (a characteristic not present in the H5N1 virus) and lead to an influenza pandemic.

Because migratory birds travel over great distances and a few dead birds have tested positive for the H5N1 virus, migratory birds are being blamed as the vector for transmitting the virus far and wide. However, the actual migratory patterns of bird species through the flyways are not known. Most importantly, outbreaks have not coincided with the arrival of the migratory birds to specific areas. Sick birds don’t fly far and dead birds don’t fly at all. A growing number of scientists have started to come forward stating that the spread of H5N1 by migratory birds is, essentially, nonsense. In fact, the outbreak in Nigeria, originally blamed on migratory birds, has been refuted and is now said to be caused by illegally imported day-old chicks.

H5N1 has been identified in domestic fowl before. The first outbreak of an H5N1 bird flu was recorded by the WHO in 1959 in Scotland and then in 1991 in England. More recent outbreaks were identified in Hong Kong in chickens in 1997 and 2002. All of the influenza A viruses are known to exist in the intestines of wild birds symbiotically and asymptomatically. This virus, which has been around a long time, is being used to advance political and mega-corporate agendas.

Actually, the H5N1 virus doesn’t seem to stimulate a very strong response from the immune system. It takes 12 times the normal “dose” of the virus to generate the same type of antibody response induced by the annual flu shot. To boost the response, manufacturers are planning to add an adjuvant. The most likely candidate is MF59, the squalene-based adjuvant found in the anthrax vaccine given to our military. Many researchers have attributed the debilitating autoimmune diseases seen in Gulf War I and II veterans to the varying levels of squalene found in the anthrax vaccines administered to our troops. Research has shown that when only 10 to 20 parts per billion of squalene are injected into humans, destructive immune responses, such as autoimmune arthritis and lupus, occur.

The world is being convinced that the H5N1 virus will mutate so that it can spread from human-to-human. The corporate benefit to the pharmaceutical companies is selling billions of dollars worth of drugs and vaccines. The huge, multinational poultry producers will survive the costs associated with the mass killing of their factory-farmed, genetically-modified birds while most small poultry producers will be forced out of business and into servitude to multinational agribusiness. Politically, bird-flu hysteria will allow governments to grow as they develop new schemes to regulate entire industries, implement mass vaccination programs and put into operation police states as a consequence of a pandemic.

The underlying cause of birds becoming sick with H5N1 is the level of chemicals present in their bodies. If the world understood the relevance of this, we would not be faced with the task of euthanizing millions of birds and vaccinating millions of adults and children. The community of nations would instead be challenged to clean up the toxic chemicals in the environment and reform poultry practices. If people understood how illness develops and what determines the severity of symptoms, they would not have an irrational fear of bird flu. They would know how to build their immunity through diet and lifestyle, and be confident they could properly treat the flu if they got sick. They would also realize that vaccines do not prevent diseases. People then would begin to wonder why both migratory and factory farmed birds in certain locations throughout the world are becoming so sick. They would begin to suspect that exposures to environmental chemicals and conditions within the vertically integrated poultry practices may be the root cause of the avian flu.

If governments responded to the will of well-informed people, they would enforce policies intended to protect the people and birds from avian flu by placing strict regulations on the use and disposal of toxic chemicals. In addition, they would order the immediate reform of corporate poultry production practices.

The majority of reported cases of bird flu in humans have been from Vietnam. Clusters of reported cases of human avian flu in Vietnam appear to fall where the U.S. military concentrated it’s spraying of Agent Orange during the Vietnam War. From 1964 until the war officially ended on August 15, 1973, 6.1 billion tons of explosives were detonated throughout Southeast Asia, including more than 19 million liters of herbicides containing the most toxic form of dioxin, TCDD. The chemical that received the most attention was Agent Orange, identified by the color of the stripe painted on the barrel. Little known is that the area was also sprayed with other horrific chemicals Agent Blue, Agent White, Agent Purple and Agent Pink, all containing dioxin.

Research has confirmed that even trace amounts of TCDD—only two to three parts per trillion (ppt)—are extremely toxic in laboratory animals. More than 30 years later, dioxin continues to be persistent in the food chain, causing potentially deadly contamination of wildlife. In subsurface soil, dioxin has a great affinity to organic matter and remains unchanged, virtually forever. Its persistence in the soil of riverbanks makes it particularly toxic to waterfowl. Canadian researchers have found dioxin levels in soil collected throughout different regions of southern Vietnam to be as high as 898 ppt. But the most extreme levels of dioxin contamination were found in the area of Bien Hung Lake, formerly Saigon, where dioxin levels were measured to be greater than 1.1 million ppt.

For influenza illness to result in death requires the presence of additional components. Pertinent to our discussion here, a study in mice done by Luebke (2002) examined fluid extracted directly from the lungs of deceased mice. The results proved that the increased mortality seen in TCDD-exposed mice was due to the intense inflammatory action of dioxin. In other words, the combination of an influenza infection and dioxin caused so much inflammation in the lungs—that even normal lung tissue was destroyed, leading to the death of the mice.

Considering that food for waterfowl—which includes shore grasses, algae, and other aquatic plants, small fish, tadpoles, and insects—readily absorbs chemicals form the environment, dioxin and other persistent organic pollutants, (POPs) such as dibenzofurans, hexachlorobenzine DDT, and polychlorinated byphenyls (PCBs), can progress through the food chain and accumulate in the fat of birds. A reasonable assumption can be made that migratory birds have bioaccumulated dioxin in concentrations similar to those measured in the fat of domestic ducks where dioxin levels have been tested to be between 276 ppt and 331 ppt.

The concentration of dioxins, and possibly POPs, in the tissues of migratory birds and waterfowl is the most decisive factor that will determine which birds will die of H5N1. Even though “safe” levels in animal muscle should be less than 0.1 ppt, dioxin has been shown to disrupt the immune system at concentrations as low as 1.0 ppt. The research is clear: If migratory birds—as well as domestic chickens and ducks—are sickened by H5N1, then their mortality rate due to their dioxin-laden tissues doubles. That’s based on several research articles published over the last several years in the Journal of Toxicological Sciences.

The levels of toxic chemicals in the tissues of humans can determine the severity of symptoms they will experience when they get sick. There are many variables, of course, such as lifestyles, diets, genetic strengths and weaknesses and the type of care one receives when he is ill, but the research suggests that the greater the toxic burden one carries the more likely an illness will be severe or even fatal.

Besides toxic chemicals, there are other environmental contaminants associated with bird flu. The Tibetan Plateau is the planet’s largest and highest plateau. It is home to the 14 highest peaks in the world, all over 26,000 feet and the ten major rivers flowing from its glaciers, sustaining 85 Percent of Asia’s population—47 percent of the world’s population. With Asia so heavily dependent upon Tibet for its water, nuclear-related pollutants dumped into its lakes have massive implications for nations downstream. Lake Kokonor, a 135,000 square acre lake on the plateau, is a watershed that eventually becomes the Yellow River, one of the two largest rivers in all of China. A survey completed in 1994 found that only 32 percent of China’s river water met the national standards for drinking water. The health of these water systems determines the survival of most inhabitants—human, animal, and bird—throughout China and Southeast Asia.

Adding to the menu of toxic chemicals that weaken the immune systems of birds, particularly migratory birds, is exposure to radioactive particles. Like dioxin, radiation—in the form of radionuclides—can pass up the food chain from sediments into wild birds. Weeds and algae have a remarkable capacity to concentrate radionuclides up to 100,000 times the levels found in the water. Large populations of migratory birds have died at Lake Kokonor, quite possibly due to its water being contaminated with radionuclides from nuclear weapons production facilities located on its shores. Couple this with the toxic chemicals the birds consume during the summer in Southeast Asia and it is no wonder that the birds are sick. The U.S. military machine is connected to increasing the risk of bird flu by exploding tons of depleted uranium-coated munitions in former Yugoslavia, Afghanistan and Iraq.

There are no words to express the horror that poultry production factories really are. These genetically-modified birds are packed in tiny cages where they are scientifically manipulated for accelerated growth. A report from the University of Arkansas’s Division of Agriculture puts the rapid growth rate of today’s chickens into perspective: “If a human grew as fast as a genetically modified chicken, you’d weigh 349 pounds at age two.” They are in pain because their muscles (meat) grow so fast that their skeletons and internal organs can’t keep up. Under natural conditions in the 1950s, it took 84 days to raise a five-pound chicken. Today, due to genetic engineering and growth-producing drugs, a chicken can reach market weight in as little as 45 days. During their short lives, they are repeatedly vaccinated, given hormones and fed chemically-treated food in houses where the lights never go out. The air they breathe is saturated with ammonia from their accumulated feces.

Since bird flu is a respiratory illness and since the air these GM chickens are forced to breathe is so loaded with ammonia, is it any wonder that modern factory chicken farms are breeding grounds for highly pathogenic influenza viruses? One thing is for sure—a cut and wrapped package of chicken looks a lot different once you understand how they got to the grocery store. If agribusiness has its way, all the chickens available for consumption will be patented organisms raised in vertically-integrated industrial farms and our supply of poultry products people consume will be their intellectual property.

When you piece all this together you find that the true causes and real effects can be readily illustrated. But the truth is far different than what we are being told about bird flu. The global bird flu scare is not simply a natural reaction to reports that a virus can “jump species” and infect humans. The world is being conditioned to expect the worst. They will be ready to accept mass vaccinations as the most “responsible” means for protecting the health of the public. Everything we are being told about bird flu and every element of the campaign is designed to frighten people. This is not objective reporting of avian flu news as it develops, but part of a methodical process to get people to accept the “official” explanation for bird flu. The government’s pandemic preparedness activities (and expenditures) and its plans to deal with the emergency when it arrives—including quite possibly mandatory vaccinations—are being implemented with the anticipation of minimal resistance.

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