OLDIES FROM THE TIME CAPSULE UPDATED: Avian flu
When researchers decided to exhume bodies of victims from the 1918 pandemic, a wise mind would assume it won't be long before we have another great plague. That was back in 1997. The avian flu made its appearance in 1997 too. Co-incidence? No there were other less publicized missions to Alaska in the 1950's as well. And wasn't the next great flu plague an avian flu in 1957 and then 1968.
The recent edition of the medical journal The Lancet has stated that the 1918 virus appeared to be "an entirely avian-like" flu that adapted to humans and shares eerie similarities with the H5N1 strain that swept Asia . However, where we are fortunate is that three of the genes had to be replicated. Obviously they weren't entirely successful.
The United States will spend another US$4-billion on the flu-fighting drug Tamiflu to boost coverage to 20 million people, from 4.3 million.
The previous posting about Tamiflu reveals that Donald Rumsfeld was the CEO of Gilead the maker of Tamiflu. The Dept. of Defense has control of the 1918 replication that is posted on the internent site of the CDC in minute detail. Mr. Rumsfeld is the Secretary of Defense.
We tolerate conflicts of interest for some reason. If they get their sequencing right, we'll see the great pandemic that has been forcasted just like in the 1950's.
Scientists who have reconstructed the deadly 1918 Spanish flu virus using tiny pieces of genes taken from the lung tissue of victims who died 87 years ago believe the virus was a pure bird flu virus -- like the "avian" flu now spreading in Southeast Asia, but completely unlike most flus that infect humans.
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC) in Atlanta is holding the reconstructed virus and officials say they will not release it for study in other labs, at least in the short term. But the virus sequences will be available in GenBank, a public online archive of genetic information. "A molecular biologist with the facilities and the skills could regenerate that virus anywhere," said University of Ottawa virologist Earl Brown.
"It is certainly possible that if you had the appropriate skills you could do that," Dr. Taubenberger said in an interview. But he said sequences for both the Ebola and Marburg viruses, which cause hemorrhagic fever, are also on GenBank.The 1918 virus contains eight gene segments, five of which had already been reported. The remaining three -- the biggest pieces that together make up more than half of the 1918 flu strain -- bear striking similarities to those of flu viruses found only in birds.
In the world's last two pandemics, the Asian flu in 1957 and the Hong Kong flu in 1968, a bird flu is believed to have swapped genes with a human flu before morphing into a new virus to which people had no immunity.
Avian flu is looking scarily like 1918 Spanish flu pandemic: Reconstructed bug shows similarities to current strain
http://www.canada.com/lifestyle
I think you're getting the picture.
The sufferers were "tortured" by the virus, as it consumed their life force. Victims bled from their eyes, mouth, nose and ears. Skin, starved of oxygen turned blue, so that doctors were unable to distinguish between Europeans and Afro-Americans.
Now, in October 2005, scientists claim they have found that the avian flu that's emerging in the Far East shares some of the same genetic characteristics as the flu virus that caused the 1918 pandemic.
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There had been prior expeditions to Alaska in the 1950's to exhume frozen bodies of victims of the 1918 flu with the attempt to culture the virus.
In the 1950's influenza viruses could be cultured and characterized in the laboratory, but molecular genetic analysis like we're doing now was not possible.
In the 1950's influenza viruses could be cultured and characterized in the laboratory, but molecular genetic analysis like we're doing now was not possible.
Dr. Jeffery Taubenberger on: Norway Expedition
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/influenza/sfeature/drjeffrey12.html
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex
| What can 21st century medicine learn from the 'Spanish' flu epidemic? |
1 comment:
there's something surreal about this gang, they devised a plan of world domination, advertised it to all and sundry, they have been going by the book like clock work since then, lets we re read the pnac pax amerikka "road map" and tally up the score so far...
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article1221.htm
iraq [checked]
libya [checked]
co-opted,
http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/news/2006/05/us_and_libya_ki.html
syria [checked]
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18361.htm
iran [checked]
http://www.countercurrents.org/symonds041007.htm
south east asia [checked]
http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.asp?message_id=2768332
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/09/04/2023540.htm
china [checked]
http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/eo20070607bc.html
http://www.dissidentvoice.org/Apr06/Leupp20.htm
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/South_Asia/IJ06Df03.html
space weapon [checked]
http://www.countercurrents.org/us-buncombe201006.htm
every objective seems to have been accounted for except -- now whats with this "advanced forms of biological warfare that can 'target' specific genotypes" ??
http://www.projectcensored.org/publications/2001/16.html
http://www.truthout.org/cgi-bin/artman/exec/view.cgi/67/24622
scroll down to the sars global map,
http://www.cuttingedge.org/news/n1812.cfm
"When I saw this map, reality reached up and smacked me in the face!
The distribution of SARS cases certainly seemed to indicate that it was a genetic disease targeting only Asians. "
can we say CHECK ??
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