J. Douglas Bremner
See book keywords and concepts |  Only in extremely rare instances have humans become infected with the bird flu, and there is no reason to believe that that will change.
Should we take drugs to prevent getting the bird flu? No. If bird flu does change and become infectious to humans, the current treatments probably won't work, because the virus will have mutated and changed by that time. At last check there were no cases of bird flu in the U.S. or Europe.
Oseltamivir (Tamiflu) and Zele (Zanamivir) are used in the treatment of the influenza virus and are promoted as potentially useful agents for the prevention of bird flu. | | Not likely. bird flu is transmitted from birds to birds, not birds to people. Only in extremely rare instances have humans become infected with the bird flu, and there is no reason to believe that that will change.
Should we take drugs to prevent getting the bird flu? No. If bird flu does change and become infectious to humans, the current treatments probably won't work, because the virus will have mutated and changed by that time. At last check there were no cases of bird flu in the U.S. or Europe. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
See article keywords and concepts |  The bird flu is different. It's really important to understand that it's coming, but it may not be this year. It may be next year, or it may be five years. It may not even be the bird flu, but something like it. The bird flu right now is mimicking the Spanish flu of 1918 and 1919 that killed 50 million people. It kills directly.
Now, the interesting thing -- and I predicted this in the newsletter -- is that governments miss the key point here. They talk about vaccinating people and targeting the very old and the very young -- the people that we consider the most vulnerable in normal flus. |
J. Douglas Bremner
See book keywords and concepts | | Should we take drugs to prevent getting the bird flu? No. If bird flu does change and become infectious to humans, the current treatments probably won't work, because the virus will have mutated and changed by that time. At last check there were no cases of bird flu in the U.S. or Europe.
Oseltamivir (Tamiflu) and Zele (Zanamivir) are used in the treatment of the influenza virus and are promoted as potentially useful agents for the prevention of bird flu. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
See article keywords and concepts |  REPPED: I've been writing about the coming bird flu pandemic for a year, but most people are just now waking up to this news. And they're scared. Smart folks have done the math and figured out that no government can possibly cover everyone with vaccines and antiviral drugs like Tamiflu. And the really smart folks have realized that Tamiflu is a one-dimensional drug in the first place, and that the bird flu could easily mutate to be completely immune to Tamiflu. As Dr. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
See article keywords and concepts |  They might buy some garlic, not knowing that it is one of the many treatments for bird flu, take it home and cook it, thereby destroying the best medicine in the garlic, because it's most medicinally powerful when eaten raw.
Raw garlic tastes terrible, by the way, but so what? You're talking about life and death here. Who cares what it tastes like? I've eaten raw garlic before, and it was not the most enjoyable experience, but it was tolerable. It's better than dying of infectious disease. Would I eat garlic 10 times a day to prevent bird flu infection? You bet I would. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
See article keywords and concepts |  Now, the World Health Organization continues to warn nations and health authorities around the world about this bird flu pandemic, and the Centers for Disease Control in the United States is warning about this, too. There are big warnings – warnings that say things like, "This is the single greatest threat to humanity today." I've heard people from the CDC say things like, "This is the most frightening virus I have ever seen." This is a bad virus, this H5N1. If this gets out, that's the only news you're going to hear for about a year as the deaths begin mounting. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
See article keywords and concepts |  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. | | 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. | | Chinese Ministry of Health announces that the H5N1 virus that caused China's human cases of bird flu was a mutated version of the strain found in Vietnam's human cases.
Nov. 29, 2005 – China reports two more flu outbreaks in the country's northwestern Xinjiang region and in the central Hunan province.
Thailand Tamiflu manufacturer Roche announces that Thailand and the Philippines are not bound by patent restrictions, and may make their own versions of the drug. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
See article keywords and concepts | | This is happening right now, and we’re seeing that the so-called H5N1 strain of the bird flu virus has been able to mutate into a form that lives in human beings, which is a dangerous sign. All it will take for this to become a global problem is for a few carriers to leave their countries and spread the virus to some tourists, businesspeople and other international travelers, who will then take it home and spread it to their local populations. | | For those who aren’t that familiar with the bird flu virus – where it comes from and how it operates – let me give you the short version. Basically, this is a virus that is undergoing a mutation. It has been present in animals, most notably pigs and birds, and it’s undergoing a mutation to make it able to survive in human beings. This is happening because in certain parts of Southeast Asia, humans are in constant close contact with these animals. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
See article keywords and concepts | | 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. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
See article keywords and concepts | | Would I eat garlic leaves, olive leaf extract, lemon balm, lime leaves, astragalus, spearmint, peppermint, rosemary and reishi mushroom extract 10 times a day to beat bird flu? You bet I would. I wouldn't even give it a second thought. It would be a really fun experience, actually, to have all these different tastes on your tongue. You'd realize, "Wow, this is what real living food and living medicine tastes like. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
See article keywords and concepts | | From the point of view of the virus, this is a successful strategy, and this is exactly what SARS did, exactly what the 1918 Spanish flu did and exactly what the bird flu is threatening to do right now. If it is successful, there is no technology in the world that will save you. There is no public health system that will save you. There is no magic drug that will save you. Our hospital beds will be filled virtually overnight. Everyone who is in healthcare knows this to be true. They know we have a certain so-called bandwidth, a certain capacity of hospital beds. | | This article is excerpted 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. | | First, we’ve got to talk about why to prepare for the bird flu pandemic. And I’m not saying that you necessarily should; it’s completely your choice, because this is not a sure thing this year. We don’t know the timeline – nobody does – but what scientists around the world, and microbiologists especially, do know for sure is that a pandemic is coming. In fact, we have seen the emergence of infectious disease at an unprecedented rate recently. We had a narrow escape from the influenza virus SARS (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome) a few years ago. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
See article keywords and concepts |  Wood, published by the Centers for Disease Control
"If there is a severe outbreak of bird flu, the GPO will be able to produce enough oseltamivir to treat 100,000 patients, which would mean producing one million tablets within 15 days."
-Government Pharmaceutical Organization Managing Director, Mongkon Jirasatikarn, referring to Thailand's plan to produce a generic version of Tamiflu
"The harm (caused by the sale of fake vaccines) is incalculable. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
See article keywords and concepts |  If this is all a false alarm, and bird flu never becomes contagious in humans, then you've wasted nothing, because now you're prepared for anything: Hurricanes, floods, power grid failures, tornados, earthquakes and civil unrest (LA Riots, remember?).
In other words, there's no downside to preparing. But failure to prepare could literally jeopardize your life (and the safety of your family). Besides, the U.S. government has already blatantly said it can't help you (read the NSPI report yourself to see). Don't even think of hoping to be saved by the National Guard. | | Health and Human Services Secretary Michael Leavitt warned that the bird flu virus infecting U.S. birds was, "only a matter of time." It's unusual for the U.S. government to so blatantly acknowledge such a threat, but perhaps the reason is because Washington knows it can't possibly rescue the entire population from a pandemic. Individuals and families are on their own, according to the U.S. government's document, "National Strategy for Pandemic Influenza" (NSPI), which encourages people to start preparing for infrastructure disruptions. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
See article keywords and concepts | | Goldman Sachs, who state that a pandemic would cut down world energy demand as fewer people travel
"If --and we all hope we won't have to --we face human-to-human transmission, all of these figures (the current cost of bird flu) would be multiplied by several orders of magnitude."
-Fadia Saadah, sector manager for health, nutrition and population of the World Bank
"If (farmers) are not compensated, (farmers) are not going to tell you whether their birds are sick. If other pandemics have taught us anything, it is that silence is deadly. | | REPPED: Here at Truth Publishing, we've compiled a collection of the most eye-opening quotes about the bird flu virus. These are actual quotes from health authorities, government figures and infectious disease experts.
"A pandemic, or worldwide outbreak of a new influenza virus, could ... overwhelm our health and medical capabilities, potentially resulting in hundreds of thousands of deaths, millions of hospitalizations and hundreds of billions of dollars in direct and indirect costs. | | Agriculture Minister Du Qingling, talking to the China News Service two weeks after poultry started dying from the bird flu there
"Day by day, alarm-bells seem to be ringing louder as new outbreaks are reported."
-Kofi Annan, UN Secretary General
"If we miss the chance to exterminate the virus in the early stages, then the difficulty in wiping it out will increase by several times, as will the spread of the epidemic. We must fully recognize that, at present, there is a possibility that the epidemic will spread and expand. This is not an exaggeration just to scare people. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
See article keywords and concepts |  Incredibly, the WHO predictions about a bird flu pandemic may actually be the good news. A Russian scientist, Dr. Dmitry Lvov, head of the Ivanovsky Virology Institute, estimates that this particular strain of the flu is so aggressive and deadly that as many as one billion people around the world could die from it. He estimates that in the United States alone, we could be looking at 700,000 dead. Granted, his estimates seem ridiculously high, but this man is no stranger to infectious disease. In any case, it does give you an indication of the potential seriousness of this next global outbreak. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
See article keywords and concepts | | Kofi Annan, UN secretary general, urging world governments to create better systems to compensate farmers with infected flocks
The failure of modern medicine
If a bird flu pandemic strikes, not only will anti-viral medicines be in short supply, they may not even work.
"Quite honestly, nobody knows at this point whether Tamiflu will be effective at all when we face a pandemic. We may have wasted the money that we bought all this Tamiflu for."
-Dr. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
See article keywords and concepts | | 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. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
See article keywords and concepts | | Unfortunately, we may pay a very high price in human lives before people wake up and see the reality, which is that we could have stopped this bird flu virus in its tracks. If we had all just started taking some of these antiviral supplements, we could have stopped this thing in whatever city it started. In fact, we could've stopped it from forming altogether if we had reformed the way we raise animals for food. We could have saved maybe 50 million lives around the world. |
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