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Live Avian Flu Virus Placed in Vaccine Materials Sent to 18 Countries

GFCAX | 06.03.2009 12:56 | World

Illinois-based pharmaceutical company Baxter International Inc. has just been caught shipping live avian flu viruses mixed with vaccine material to medical distributors in 18 countries.

 http://www.naturalnews.com/025760.html
"There's a popular medical thriller novel in which a global pandemic is intentionally set off by an evil plot designed to reduce the human population. In the book, a nefarious drug company inserts live avian flu viruses into vaccine materials that are distributed to countries around the world to be injected into patients as "flu shots." Those patients then become carriers for these highly-virulent strains of avian flu which go on to infect the world population and cause widespread death.

There's only one problem with this story: It's not fiction."

 http://www.lifegen.de/newsip/shownews.php4?getnews=2009-02-25-5123&pc=s02
According to the scientific network PROMED, Baxter International Inc. in Austria unintentionally contaminated samples with the bird flu virus that were used in laboratories in Austria, Germany, Slovenia and the Czech Republic.

There are approx 6.7 Billion humans on earth and only a few hundred deaths have resulted from avian flu. This equates to a statistical infection rate of about 0.000000004215 percent. In other words, statistically speaking, you are over 100,000 times more likely to be hit by lightning while on the toilet than contract avian flu. So why have billions been spent on vaccines for an avian flu pandemic? Has a more deadly strain of avian flu been engineered?

 http://www.scidev.net/en/health/bird-flu/news/chinese-bird-flu-rates-don-t-add-up-.html
Article - Chinese bird flu rates 'don't add up'
"The lack of poultry outbreaks spells trouble because the birds normally serve as a sentinel, sounding the alarm."

2008 -  http://cmgm.stanford.edu/biochem/biochem230/lectures2008/influenza/Stevens.pdf - Recent Avian H5N1 Viruses Exhibit Increased Propensity for Acquiring Human Receptor Specificity.
From Abstract: "Widespread occurrence of these susceptible H5N1 clade 2.2 influenza strains has already occurred in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. Thus, these avian strains should be considered high-risk, because of their significantly lower threshold for acquiring human receptor specificity and, therefore, warrant increased surveillance and further study."

The Spanish flu outbreak of 1918 killed an estimated 50 million people. -  http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7567219.stm - Survivors of the devastating 1918 influenza pandemic are still protected from the virus, according to researchers in the US.

 http://www.who.int/csr/disease/avian_influenza/en/ - As of 02 March 2009, avian flu is reported to have infected 409 people and killed 256 people.  http://www.info.gov.hk/info/flu/eng/global.htm

 http://www.eurosurveillance.org/ViewArticle.aspx?ArticleId=18833 - European-Surveillance - when should Europe be concerned?

 http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/humber/7617968.stm - Body from Spanish flu epidemic exhumed in fight against flu - If avian flu has killed 247 people to-date then why is there a need to exhume a body in an effort to obtain genetic material from a virus that wiped out 50 million people?

 http://www3.niaid.nih.gov/news/newsreleases/2005/avianfluvax.htm - 23 March 2005, NIH, through the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease, announces the initiation of a program to develop a vaccine for Avian Flu, asserting that although there have only been less than a handfull of cases, Avian Flu poses a vast public health menace.

 http://www.un.org/News/briefings/docs/2005/050929_Nabarro.doc.htm - United Nations press conference 2005 - "the range of deaths from avian flu could be anything from 5 to 150 million.”

 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/poland/2235676/Homeless-people-die-after-bird-flu-vaccine-trial-in-Poland.html - "Homeless people die after bird flu vaccine trial in Poland." - Investigators are also probing the possibility that the medical staff may have also been deceived by the pharmaceutical companies that commissioned the trials.

 http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-wellbeing/health-news/world-warned-over-killer-flu-pandemic-872809.html - World warned over killer flu pandemic.

 http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=ovIVphC6RGM&feature=related - Avian flu video

 http://www.fas.org/biosecurity/education/dualuse/FAS_Basler/2_A.html
Recreation of 1918 killer virus (Spanish flu). Video & text - "In October 2005 a team of scientists, including government researchers Dr. Terrence Tumpey from the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and Dr. Jeffery Taubenberger of the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, and Dr. Christopher Basler from Mount Sinai School of Medicine, published a paper in Science where they described the reconstruction of the 1918 Spanish influenza virus. They found that it [1918 virus] was most similar to influenza viruses that only infect birds, and that it likely developed a mutation which caused it to be able to infect and spread between humans shortly before the pandemic [in 1918]. The complete sequences of the coding regions for all eight viral gene segments of the 1918 influenza virus are now available on the GenBank database."

2003 -  http://www.scs.carleton.ca/~soma/biosec/readings/influenza/influenza.html
"Every 20 to 30 years or so, the type A influenza virus undergoes an antigenic shift. If antigenic drift were compared to a shudder, antigenic shift would be likened to an earthquake."
"Most pandemics originate in China, where birds, pigs and people live in close proximity. Hong Kong's 1997 "bird flu".....killed thousands of chickens before it moved to human beings. Eighteen people were infected—all through direct transmission from chickens, not from contact with other people."

 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/6271833.stm - Scientists who recreated "Spanish flu" - The 1918 virus which killed up to 50m people - have witnessed its remarkable killing power first hand.

 http://www.foreignaffairs.org/2005/4.html - Published by the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR).

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Scary...

06.03.2009 14:03

Essential listening for more information on this issue, from Ralph Schoenman and Mya Shone:

Creating the Next Pandemic, Part One
 http://takingaimradio.com/mp3/takingaim050315.mp3

Creating the Next Pandemic, Part Two
 http://takingaimradio.com/mp3/takingaim050322.mp3

Creating the Next Pandemic, Part Three: Staging the Operation
 http://takingaimradio.com/mp3/takingaim050329.mp3

Creating the Next Pandemic, Part Four: Unraveling the Fabric of Life
 http://takingaimradio.com/mp3/takingaim050405.mp3

Creating the Next Pandemic, Part Five: Weapons of the Terror State
 http://takingaimradio.com/mp3/takingaim050419.mp3

Creating the Next Pandemic, Part Six: The New Dr. Strangelove's Biological Armageddon
 http://takingaimradio.com/mp3/takingaim050426.mp3

Creating the Next Pandemic, Part Seven: From Military Lab to Mass Infection
 http://takingaimradio.com/mp3/takingaim060411.mp3

Creating the Next Pandemic, Part Eight: Profits and Repression
 http://takingaimradio.com/mp3/takingaim060418.mp3

Chris
- Homepage: http://takingaimradio.com/


More info

09.03.2009 14:01

This is a Bloomberg update on the story
 http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=aTo3LbhcA75I

Apparently Baxter have admitted that Vaccine was contaminated with live bird flu
 http://www.google.com/hostednews/canadianpress/article/ALeqM5iV_RT6oBK3tOhtsWf5pnu5OIby9w

Why the bird flu virus is less deadly but more dangerous
 http://www.birdfludefense.com/008734.html

1918 Flu Killed Millions Because Of Three Genes
 http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/134303.php
"The three genes (PA, PB1, and PB2) allowed the virus to make RNA polymerase in lung cells, which helps it make the proteins from which it can make copies of itself." - Medical news today

If many people have already been infected with influenza viruses that have two of the genes (PA, PB1, and PB2), and then a virus that has the third gene infected those people, it is possible that reassortment could lead to something very similar to the Spanish flu virus.

 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reassortment
Here's an explanation of reassortment from wikipedia

Short history of the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic
 http://virus.stanford.edu/uda/

Anon


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