A-H1N1 Synthetic Flu May Be Test For H5N1 | |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 684084 United States 05/23/2009 08:36 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Synthetic another article talked about synthentic DNA used to fight viruses. welcome to natural virus in symbiosis with host (all of mankind) and synthetic hybrid newcomer welcome to sentient viral holocaust, welcome to rotting flesh in the heat of the new deserts of tommorrow welcome to DNA5 |
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(OP) User ID: 467564 United States 05/23/2009 08:44 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | crazy stuff. Why else would they release a non-fatal(for the most part) virus, other than a test. I'll be interested to see what it does a bit later in the year. Quoting: <<FOCUS>>like next week or so? "When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men living together in society, they create for themselves, in the course of time, a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it." - Frédéric Bastiat food, water, ammo, weapons, battery back up solar, hand well pump, wood stove and 1 year of food...oh yeah PM's too...good luck |
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User ID: 479864 United States 05/23/2009 09:02 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | But World Health Org. is about to change the rules.... [link to www.nytimes.com] Always change the rules when you want to control the outcome of the game! |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 684084 United States 05/23/2009 09:37 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | "Bowing to pressure,the World Health Organization announced Friday that it would rewrite its rules for alerting the world to new diseases, meaning the swine flu circling the globe will probably never be declared a full-fledged pandemic." from referenced article ny times a couple posots above fact- virologists said hybrid, not hybrid , hybrid. ? fact- the WHO now says no such things as levels The nightmare scenario is that the new, mutated virus may take on the characteristics of H5N1 or the avian flu. The vaccines administered for AH1N1 will be ineffective against the new strain of H5N1 and the world may face a more deadly pandemic then the current AH1N1 outbreak. There are scientists at WHO who are aware of this scenario but their alarm has been suppressed by political and economic considerations. from op's too long post- illuminating the "pressure" welcome to civil war. hidden, non human |
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(OP) User ID: 684156 United States 05/26/2009 02:42 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Hazardous WHO Phase Daze Recombinomics Commentary 17:54 May 26, 2009 [link to www.recombinomics.com] The W.H.O., starting in April, quickly raised its alert level to 4 and then 5 as the virus spread in North America. But even as the virus infected people in Britain, Spain and Japan, the agency did not go to Level 6, which signifies spread to a new continent. Dr. Fukuda argued that there was still no proof of "community spread," meaning beyond travelers, schools and contacts. The above comment, as well as similar remarks by WHO officials and other government agencies, range from delusional to deliberate distortions with regard to the current phase 6 pandemic. The constant rewriting of the phase system to avoid calling a phase 6 pandemic a phase 6 pandemic does significant harm in the monitoring of the pandemic, as well as raising public awareness of the seriousness of the evolution and spread of swine H1N1. An earlier revision moved the definition of sustained transmission from phase 6 to phase 4. Since sustained transmission will quickly spread worldwide, the revision simply delayed the inevitable, by defining phase 5 as sustained transmission in a region and phase 6 as worldwide sustained transmission. However, it was clear when the first swine H1N1 cases in California were confirmed, that the escalation to a phase 6 definition would happen in the near term. The first two cases were over 100 miles apart and had no linkage, indicating sustained transmission was happening in southern California, and the associated reports of H1N1 in Mexico further supported the view that phase six was inevitable and near term. Expanded testing in the US identified cases throughout the country, which was also found in Canada and Mexico (see updated map). The sequences of these isolates were virtually identical, which again supported sustained worldwide transmission. This view was further supported by the detection of similar cases identified at airport checks worldwide, couple with community spread discovered in association with tracing of airport cases. These cases of community transmission in Europe and Asia left no doubt that the pandemic was spreading worldwide (see updated map), but most countries continue to focus on airport checks, even though H1N1 was clearly spreading in the community. The WHO position and phase 5 designation continues to focus efforts away from the real problem of community spread, and hopeless programs focused on international travelers. Although the airport checks can help identify countries which are spreading the virus, such as those in North America, including countries denying infections, such as the Dominican Republic. These denials of cases, or cases in the community, allow the virus to silently spread and evolve. The spread of a swine H1N1 in a human population at the current levels ahs not been reported since the 1918 pandemic. Since the swine virus is now efficiently transmitted in a human host, it will continue to adapt and will likely cause significantly more fatal cases, as was seen in 1918. However, this evolution is being largely ignored because countries are focusing efforts on airport checks, while ignoring/denying community spread. However, the community spread will lead to the emergence of new variants, which will be largely missed because of the misplaced emphasis. When the new variants are identified, they will have established a strong foothold and will spread rapidly, once again avoiding belated containment efforts. The establishment will speed the spread, which will also impact vaccine efforts, because the identification of the emergent strain will happen well after the spread has accelerated. Thus, the efforts of WHO to deny phase 6, and misplaced surveillance efforts which target international travel, will accelerate the emergence of variants, which will increase the likelihood that containment and vaccine efforts will fail. "When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men living together in society, they create for themselves, in the course of time, a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it." - Frédéric Bastiat food, water, ammo, weapons, battery back up solar, hand well pump, wood stove and 1 year of food...oh yeah PM's too...good luck |
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