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"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." - Kevin Trudeau, More Natural Cures Revealed: Previously Censored Brand Name Products That Cure Disease (Get the book.)

"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?" - Donna Jackson Nakazawa, The Autoimmune Epidemic (Get the book.) "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." - Donna Jackson Nakazawa, The Autoimmune Epidemic (Get the book.) "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." - Donna Jackson Nakazawa, The Autoimmune Epidemic (Get the book.) "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." - Donna Jackson Nakazawa, The Autoimmune Epidemic (Get the book.)

"Bacteria and viruses survive because they have an ability to recombine their DNA to overcome the defense systems of humans and plants. The h5n1 avian flu currently creating panic in the world has adapted a defense system wherein the "bullets" fired by the front-line immune troops of humans simply bounce off. Through the process of recombination this virus may soon learn to see human cells in a way that allows easy person-to-person transmission. Once this happens there will be trouble." - Byron J. Richards, Fight for Your Health: Exposing the FDA's Betrayal of America (Get the book.)

"Today, we're dealing with the h5n1 strain of influenza, or bird flu, a disease for which there is no antibiotic treatment whatsoever. Part of this message, that science is better than nature, is frequently encapsulated in the marketing mindset of drug companies. Drug companies want you to believe that a synthetic drug is always going to be superior to natural chemical compounds found in plants. For example, drug companies will frequently study a plant that has a known medicinal effect, and then attempt to isolate and extract the so-called active chemical compounds in that plant." - Mike Adams, Spam Filters for Your Brain (Get the book.)

"Then it has to be distributed and shots given to people. The h5n1 virus mutates rapidly, however, so even with a good match, the strain could change its genetic code and outflank our immunological strategies. To make a vaccine stop a flu pandemic, there has to be enough supply and it has to be safe and tested, not only on laboratory rats, but also on humans. The obstacles to making an adequate number of doses are immense and involve decision-making in politics, technology, science, medicine, and business." - J. E. Williams, Beating the Flu: The Natural Prescription for Surviving Pandemic Influenza and Bird Flu (Get the book.) "Signs that h5n1 is not like ordinary flu are already here. Infected with bird flu, one Vietnamese boy died in a coma, days after he was infected, with an inflamed brain but with clear lungs. The World Health Organization (WHO) Global Influenza Preparedness Plan lays out six pandemic phases and recommendations for public health responses." - J. E. Williams, Beating the Flu: The Natural Prescription for Surviving Pandemic Influenza and Bird Flu (Get the book.) "It blocks viral immune responses by cutting links to its control center and disrupting communication lines between interferon and immune cells. h5n1 avian influenza has taken it a step further. By switching a single amino acid in its molecular structure, it becomes completely resistant to the body's own best viral-fighting chemical, interferon. Scientists are baffled by this development, but be assured that our immune systems are at work finding a way to beat the flu." - J. E. Williams, Beating the Flu: The Natural Prescription for Surviving Pandemic Influenza and Bird Flu (Get the book.)

"China, one of the largest importers of GMO corn, is also the birthplace of the h5n1 avian flu problem. This flu started in the digestive tract of wild birds and has been transferred to chickens. Infection always occurs initially in the digestive tract before spreading to the lungs. It intermingles with any GMO food the chicken is eating, increasing the chance for recombination. Avian flu viruses do not readily "see" human cells. They typically must go through a recombination process in pigs, whose cell receptors are more easily seen by avian viruses." - Byron J. Richards, Fight for Your Health: Exposing the FDA's Betrayal of America (Get the book.) "What happens when these pigs are eating GMO food and the h5n1 virus finds its way to America? A Toxin in Every Cell GMO food is generally created to either be more resistant to pesticide or to contain a gene of a toxin that will kill insects should they try to eat the crop. By far the most common toxin used in genetically modified organisms is Bt-toxin. It is a toxic protein that is now present in the DNA of GMO food, and is therefore produced in every single cell of the crop. Bt-toxin has been in widespread agricultural use for forty years. It comes from bacteria (Bacillus thuringiensis)." - Byron J. Richards, Fight for Your Health: Exposing the FDA's Betrayal of America (Get the book.)

"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." - J. E. Williams, Beating the Flu: The Natural Prescription for Surviving Pandemic Influenza and Bird Flu (Get the book.)

"Swayne, who readily recognized the grave threat h5n1 posed to humans—as well as to poultry, his first responsibility—immediately offered Cox his lab. By the end of August the GDG and ARS team began a collaboration that also included ARS veterinarian David Suarez. At the recommendation of CDC doctors, everyone on the project began taking rimantadine, an antiviral drug, even though when they were in the containment rooms they wore hooded bodysuits and breathed through respirators. Meanwhile, Hong Kong investigators had sent word that four other local people exposed to the virus had also died." - Elinor Levy, Mark Fischetti, The New Killer Diseases: How the Alarming Evolution of Germs Threatens Us All (Get the book.)

"The antibody studies that had identified the virus as h5n1 could not answer this question since they gave only the grossest identification, looking solely at the hemagglutinin and neuraminidase proteins. To learn the origins of the virus, molecular biologists had to examine different genes in greater detail. The work showed, in the end, that the h5n1 virus was purely bird. The sequences of its genes were like ones seen before in birds, but never before in viruses that infected humans." - Gina Kolata, Flu : The Story Of The Great Influenza Pandemic (Get the book.) "How many people might already be harboring an h5n1 flu virus? "The bottom line was: Was this virus able to spread from person to person?" Cox asks. Dr. John LaMontagne, the deputy director for the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, was in India at the time, on an official visit with the Secretary of Health and Human Services. He checked his E-mail and saw there, to his horror, a note from a program officer at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention informing him that the h5n1 vims had reemerged. "I was very worried," LaMontagne said. " - Gina Kolata, Flu : The Story Of The Great Influenza Pandemic (Get the book.) "The result was the same: h5n1. A bird flu. As an additional check, the virology lab in Rotterdam happened to have tested the boy's virus at about the same time as the Atlanta lab did its test and it had come to the same conclusion. This was an h5n1 virus. Still, it was possible that a bird virus had contaminated the original sample, a circumstance that could fool Cox and the scientists in Rotterdam into thinking that the boy had been infected with a bird flu. Every scientist who works with viruses learns to suspect contamination." - Gina Kolata, Flu : The Story Of The Great Influenza Pandemic (Get the book.)

"The great aggressiveness of the h5n1 virus was based on its H gene, on the one hand, and on an internal gene, on the other. As early as the 1970s, this virus was known in Chinese ducks and geese. The H5 gene seems to have originated with the geese. The source of the N gene is still unknown, but the eight internal proteins seem to have come from a quail virus of the H9N2 type. The H5 gene has been stable over the years in all its avian hosts, which suggests that it is very well adapted to geese and even to chickens." - Jaap Goudsmit M.D., Viral Fitness: The Next SARS and West Nile in the Making (Get the book.)

"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." - James Howard Kunstler, The Long Emergency: Surviving the End of Oil, Climate Change, and Other Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-First Century (Get the book.) "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." - James Howard Kunstler, The Long Emergency: Surviving the End of Oil, Climate Change, and Other Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-First Century (Get the book.)

"However, the internal genes of h5n1 viruses are highly subject to change, which suggests that they are still adapting to chickens. Wild birds, such as ducks and geese, seem to be the true pools in which this and other avian flu viruses thrive. Domestic animals such as chickens only function as a leg up to man, as is the case with pigs. Ordinarily, a duck or goose virus cannot be transmitted to man, but a hog or chicken virus can. The flu virus spreads death and destruction among these new intermediate hosts but still causes no disease in wild ducks and geese." - Jaap Goudsmit M.D., Viral Fitness: The Next SARS and West Nile in the Making (Get the book.)

"The experts analyzing the h5n1 samples from the Hong Kong boy knew this history and feared they might have a similar case on their hands. They guessed that the virus had infected the boy at one of Hong Kong's poultry markets, and had combined with a human strain. They also knew that the bird virus from whence this mutant evolved was extremely deadly in poultry. Nancy Cox was at a ranch in Wyoming in early August when her office managed to get word to her." - Elinor Levy, Mark Fischetti, The New Killer Diseases: How the Alarming Evolution of Germs Threatens Us All (Get the book.)

"Just that day, h5n1 had turned up in a specimen from a 13-year-old girl who was on a respirator. Worse, a 54-year-old man had died of respiratory failure, and h5n1 was isolated in him as well. He had been sick since late November, when he first felt fever and chills, but had gone on a vacation bus tour in South Korea. On November 29 he was admitted to the hospital with severe pneumonia. The doctors were helpless. Case #4. "The second investigation started out at 100 miles an hour," Fukuda says. "And it got faster and faster." It looked like the epidemic everyone had braced for in the summer." - Madeline Drexler, Secret Agents: The Menace of Emerging Infections (Get the book.)

"Then came more news: h5n1 had claimed the life of a fifty-four-year-old man in Hong Kong. Hong Kong officials had little confidence the vaccine could cure chickens that were already infected, and it would be too hard to blanket the country with inoculations. The stakes were getting too high. On December 29, 1997, they ordered a mass slaughter of 1.5 million chickens and an industrywide cleanup of poultry markets. With this dramatic, decisive action, they averted the threat of a major human outbreak. Back at the CDC, Nancy Cox could breathe a sigh of relief." - Elinor Levy, Mark Fischetti, The New Killer Diseases: How the Alarming Evolution of Germs Threatens Us All (Get the book.) "The Hong Kong government's decisive action to slaughter more than a million chickens may well have prevented what could have been the twentieth century's fourth pandemic, by denying h5n1 time to spread and evolve into a contagious state in humans. In this case both the poultry industry and the public were at risk, so the poultry industry was willing to sacrifice the flocks that might have been harboring the virus. But what if, next time, a similar scenario slowly reveals itself in the United States? Would the powerful U.S. poultry industry quickly agree to destroy its flocks?" - Elinor Levy, Mark Fischetti, The New Killer Diseases: How the Alarming Evolution of Germs Threatens Us All (Get the book.)

"Still, Fukuda kept pointing out to blase colleagues that although h5n1 didn't seem to be an imminent pandemic threat, it was a novel virus in humans. He sat back on the plane home, exhausted and uneasy. He had never found out how the boy had become sick. But he had seen, up close, how quickly rumors can circulate, headlines can plant panic, and institutions can be strained, even during a false alarm. If h5n1 had turned out to be the start of a new pandemic, the world wasn't ready for it." - Madeline Drexler, Secret Agents: The Menace of Emerging Infections (Get the book.)

"Meanwhile, the scientists began searching for a virus that had the H5 and the N1 proteins on its surface—so a vaccine would protect against the h5n1 flu—but, because of changes in other genes, could grow in chicken eggs. LaMontagne beseeched drug companies to start producing an h5n1 vaccine, but the companies were reluctant, he said, because they feared that the virus might start to spread in their flu vaccine manufacturing plants and contaminate their flu virus cultures. "They were afraid it would compromise their ability to make conventional vaccines," LaMontagne said. " - Gina Kolata, Flu : The Story Of The Great Influenza Pandemic (Get the book.)

"With her death the h5n1 outbreak finally ended. But in Hong Kong, the story was not quite over. Time Travelers Like the 1918 flu, the brief h5n1 epidemic primarily struck down healthy people. Even modern medicine's most powerful artillery couldn't stop the virus. This helplessness revived a question that had long preoccupied researchers: What makes some flu viruses so catastrophic?" - Madeline Drexler, Secret Agents: The Menace of Emerging Infections (Get the book.)

"The first person to die from the h5n1 bird virus was a 3-year-old boy, but other deaths were a girl of 13, a young woman of 25, a man of 54, and a man of 60. Further disaster could be prevented only by slaughtering millions of chickens at thousands of poultry farms and markets in the Hong Kong vicinity. The 1997 virus had a short run, but it seemed to be even more dangerous to humans than the 1918 virus. Was it now possible for some avian viruses to infect humans directly, without first making a stop in pigs?" - Jaap Goudsmit M.D., Viral Fitness: The Next SARS and West Nile in the Making (Get the book.)

"The emerging Hong Kong h5n1 virus had stretches in its hemagglutinin protein identical to those in the Pennsylvania avian flu. And as University of Wisconsin virologist Yoshihiro Kawaoka discovered, the virus's lethality was not limited to birds. When he injected human h5n1 isolates into mice, the virus replicated in all organs, virtually dissolved the lungs, and killed the animals. "This is the most pathogenic virus that we know of," he says. "One infectious particle—one single infectious virion—kills mice. Amazing virus." Could it do the same to humans?" - Madeline Drexler, Secret Agents: The Menace of Emerging Infections (Get the book.)

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