Thread: Avian Flu: Bush's Call To Be On the Offensive Too Late ?

makes you wonder....

Yeah this is kinda scary! Isaac Asimov said that as population explode and international travels gets easier and easier, these pathogens are spreading worldwide as never before. People with genetic heritages from one area may not have built in immunities to certain viruses or bacteria from other areas of the world.

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Bush Suggests Using Military In Bird Flu Quarantine

POSTED: 11:19 am PDT October 4, 2005

WASHINGTON -- President George W. Bush, increasingly concerned about a possible avian flu pandemic, revealed Tuesday that any part of the country where the virus breaks out could likely be quarantined and that he is considering using the military to enforce it.

"The best way to deal with a pandemic is to isolate it and keep it isolated in the region in which it begins," he said during a wide-ranging Rose Garden news conference.

The president was asked if his recent talk of giving the military the lead in responding to large natural disasters such as Hurricane Katrina and other catastrophes was in part the result of his concerns that state and local personnel aren't up to the task of a flu outbreak.

"Yes," he replied.

After the bungled initial federal response to Katrina, Bush suggested putting the Pentagon in charge of search-and-rescue efforts in times of a major terrorist attack or similarly catastrophic natural disaster. He has argued that the armed forces have the ability to quickly mobilize the equipment, manpower and communications capabilities needed in times of crisis.

But such a shift could require a change in law, and some in Congress and the states worry it would increase the power of the federal government at the expense of local control.

Bush made clear that the potential for an outbreak of avian flu is much on his mind, and has had him talking with "as many (world) leaders as I could find," consulting a book he read over the summer on the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic that killed 40 million and meeting with staff and experts.

"I have thought through the scenarios of what an avian flu outbreak could mean," he said.

He acknowledged that a quarantine -- an idea sure to alarm many in the public -- is no small thing for the government to undertake and that enforcing it would be tricky.

"It's one thing to shut down airplanes," Bush said. "It's another thing to prevent people from coming in to get exposed to the avian flu."

He urged Congress to give him the ability to use the military, if needed.

"I think the president ought to have all ... assets on the table to be able to deal with something this significant," he said.

As a standby precaution, Bush in April signed an executive order that added pandemic influenza to the government's list of communicable diseases for which a quarantine is authorized. It gives the government legal authority to detain or isolate a passenger arriving in the United States to prevent an infection from spreading.

At the time the order was signed, a spokeswoman for the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said the Public Health Service would probably recommend home quarantines when possible, but said they would be voluntary. It's unclear whether the federal takeover of state and local quarantine powers that Bush discussed Tuesday would be limited just to travel or involve broader home quarantines as well.

Bush also said he has been urging world leaders to improve reporting on outbreaks of the virus, and exploring how to speed the production of a spray, now in limited supply, that "can maybe help arrest the spread of the disease."

"One of the issues is how do we encourage the manufacturing capacity of the country, and maybe the world, to be prepared to deal with the outbreak of a pandemic?" he said.

Yet it is the pill Tamiflu, which makes symptoms less severe and shortens the duration of the illness, that is in short supply -- not its harder-to-use inhaled competitor Relenza.

Experts agree there will certainly be another flu pandemic -- a new human flu strain that goes global. However, it is unknown when or how bad that global epidemic will be -- or whether the H5N1 bird flu strain now circulating in Asian poultry will be its origin.

Just in case, experts are tracking the avian flu, which has swept through poultry populations in large swaths of Asia since 2003, jumped to humans and killed at least 65 people.

Most human cases have been linked to a contact with sick birds, but the World Health Organization has warned the virus could mutate into a form that spreads easily among humans -- changing it from a bird virus to a human pandemic flu strain.

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Mystery Illness Kills 10 People In Canada

POSTED: 5:24 am PDT October 5, 2005
UPDATED: 5:34 am PDT October 5, 2005

TORONTO -- Four more residents of a nursing home for the elderly have died of an unknown respiratory illness, bringing the number fatally infected by the disease to 10, Toronto's chief medical officer said Tuesday.

Dr. David McKeown, Toronto's medical officer, said the outbreak at the Seven Oaks Home for the Aged has now affected 84 residents, employees and two visitors to the nursing home on the outskirts of Toronto. Forty residents have been admitted to the hospital.

McKeown insisted that despite the new deaths, the illness was winding down.

"Although the condition of some ill residents has worsened and unfortunately four more have died, others are improving and we are confident this outbreak is under control," McKeown said.

Public health officials have said it may never be possible to determine the exact type of bug responsible for the rash of illnesses, but they have ruled out influenza, avian flu, SARS and Legionnaire's disease.

Anxiety over the outbreak has been exacerbated by fears of SARS -- severe acute respiratory syndrome -- which claimed 44 lives in Toronto from two outbreaks in the spring of 2003. More than 8,000 people worldwide contracted the illness and 774 people died.

Authorities have said the outbreak, while more serious than average, was not particularly unusual, especially as the flu season approaches.



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Researchers Recreate 1918 Virus To Understand Bird Flu

UPDATED: 11:40 am PDT October 5, 2005

ATLANTA -- Scientists are looking to the past to understand how the bird flu might act if it mutates enough to spread from human-to-human.

Researchers have recreated the 1918 Spanish flu virus that killed as many as 50 million people, many of them otherwise healthy adults. It's the first time an infectious agent behind a historic pandemic has ever been recreated.

The research appears in Friday's issue of the journal Science.

The Spanish flu virus is more closely related to avian flu viruses than other human flu viruses. Like the 1918 virus, today's avian flu in Southeast Asia occurs naturally in birds. In 1918, the virus mutated, infected people and then spread among them.

So far, the current Asian virus has killed at least 65 people since it began sweeping through poultry populations in late 2003. This strain has only rarely -- if ever -- spread from person-to-person.

All the human deaths have come as a result of contact with sick birds, but officials worry that the virus could mutate into a form able to spread among people, sparking a pandemic that could kill millions.

Scientists are taking a closer look at the 1918 virus to learn which components of the virus would be the best targets for therapies.

Health officials say the risk from resurrecting the 1918 flu is minimal. They made it from scratch, with a blueprint based on genome information recovered from the lung tissues of a flu victim buried in the Alaskan permafrost in 1918.

The final three genes in the virus' genome sequence are published in this week's issue of the journal Nature.

U.S. Hosts Avian Flu Conference

An international effort to be ready for a possible outbreak of bird flu is about to get under way.

Representatives of more than 65 countries and international groups will gather in Washington Thursday to make preparations for any possible outbreak of the potentially deadly disease.

A State Department spokesman said the conference will focus on reporting and responding to any such outbreak.

An avian flu strain sweeping Asian poultry is raising fears that it could mutate into a form that could be spread among people. Doctors say such a mutation would be catastrophic because human immune systems have no defense built-in against the strain.

On Tuesday, President George W. Bush suggested federal troops could be used to enforce quarantines in the United States if such a killer virus emerged.

Meanwhile, Australia is planning a regional meeting on bird flu to coordinate an Asia-Pacific response to a potential pandemic.

The foreign minister said the conference is planned at the end of the month in Brisbane.

The results of the meeting will be discussed by APEC leaders when they meet in South Korea in November.

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1918 killer flu 'came from birds'
The Spanish flu virus that killed 50 million people in 1918-19 was probably a strain that originated in birds, research has shown.
US scientists have found the 1918 virus shares genetic mutations with the bird flu virus now circulating in Asia.

Writing in Nature, they say their work underlines the threat the current strain poses to humans worldwide.

A second paper in Science reveals another US team has successfully recreated the 1918 virus in mice.


We are revealing some of the secrets that will help us predict and prepare for the next pandemic
Julie Gerberding

The virus is contained at the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention under stringent safety conditions.

It is hoped to carry out experiments to further understand the biological properties that made the virus so virulent.

The virus was recreated from data produced by painstaking research by a team from the US Armed Forces Institute of Pathology.

Lung tissue samples

Working on virus samples from the remains of victims of the 1918 pandemic, the researchers were able to piece together the entire genetic sequence of the virus.

They found the virus contained elements that were new to humans of the time - making it highly virulent.

And analysis of the final three pieces of the virus' genetic code has revealed mutations that have striking similarities to those found in flu viruses found only in birds, such as the H5N1 strain currently found in south east Asia.

This strain has so far killed at least 65 people.

Many experts believe it is only a matter of time before H5N1, or a similar strain, causes many deaths in humans - possibly after combining with a human flu strain.

Crucially, the mutations identified by the US researchers were found in genes which control the virus' ability to replicate in host cells.

The researchers say these mutations may have helped the 1918 virus replicate more efficiently.

At this stage, they say the H5N1 strain shares only some, and not all, of these mutations.

Increased virulence

But these mutations may be enough to increase the virus' virulence - and give it the potential to cause serious human infection without first combining with a known human flu strain.

The researchers believe the two other major flu pandemics of the 20th century - in 1957 and 1968 - were caused by human flu viruses which acquired two or three key genes from bird flu virus strains.

But they believe the 1918 strain was probably entirely a bird flu virus that adapted to function in humans.

Julie Gerberding, director of the US Centers for Disease Control, said: "By unmasking the 1918 virus we are revealing some of the secrets that will help us predict and prepare for the next pandemic."

And Dr Jeffery Taubenberger, lead researcher of the Nature study, said: "Determining whether pandemic influenza virus strains can emerge via different pathways will affect the scope and focus of surveillance and prevention efforts."

Warning

Professor John Oxford, an expert in virology at Queen Mary College, London, said the suggestion that the virus had the potential to jump between humans without first combining with a human virus made it even more of a threat.

"This study gives us an extra warning that H5N1 needs to be taken even more seriously than it has been up to now," he said.

Dr Terrence Tumpey, of the US CDC, defended the decision to recreate the 1918 flu virus.

He said: "We felt we had to recreate the virus and run these experiments to understand the biological properties that made the 1918 virus so exceptionally deadly.

"We wanted to identify the specific genes responsible for its virulence, with the hope of designing antivirals or other interventions that would work against virulent pandemic or epidemic influenza viruses."

We all hope this does not happen in the near future or our lifetimes, but as in all things... Hope for the best, prepare for the worst.

Everyone should keep in mind that there have been BIG SCARES before that did not pan out.

Anyone remember SWINE FLU in the 1970's? I was very young then.

W

I have the stocked pantry, the water, and the gun. The gun I already had and the stocked pantry and water took months to accumulate (since I was laid off, mortgage and basics stretch us VERY thin). No, I am NOT fully prepared but, I expect, better prepared than most.

What really scares me is the timing. Winter is approaching and the cost of utility bills alone are going to bring many, many hard working Americans to their financial knees. They are the first that will be doomed if this thing hits anytime soon. How could anyone struggling to put dinner on the table on a daily basis be expected to pay for a weeks worth of stockpiled supplies, let alone a few months worth?

The devastating pandemics in the past claimed rich and poor alike. Somehow I think the next will be VERY different in terms of who lives, and who dies.

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Polymerase Sequences
Confirm 1918
Human/Swine Recombination
By Dr. Henry L. Niman, PhD
Recombinomics.com
10-6-5


"It is possible that the high pathogencity of the 1918 virus was related to its emergence as a human-adapted avian influenza virus. These changes may reflect a process of parallel evolution as avian influenza A viruses mutate in response to adaptational pressures, and suggest that the genetic basis of avian influenza virus adaptation to humans can be mapped."

H5N1 is currently acquiring mammalian polymorphisms, which is why several of the mammalian polymorphisms in the 1918 H1N1 pandemic strain are found in H5N1 isolates from Vietnam and Thailand.

However, the 1918 pandemic strain was not an avian strain. It was a recombinant between a swine virus, like the H1N1 classical swine virus from Iowa in 1930, and an H1N1 human virus, like the WSN/33 virus from a human in London in 1933. This observation had been made previously, based on the published sequences of five of the eight 1918 genes.

The same relationship is seen in the three newly published genes, PB2, PB2, and PA. In each case the sequences from H1N1 classical swine and H1N1 human isolates in the early 1930's form complimentary polymorphisms, much like the 2001 H5N1 co-circulating sequences in Hong Kong.

The evolution by recombination is the mechanism of rapid change employed by most if not all viruses. H5N1 efficiently evolves via recombination, and the latest sequences of the three polymerase genes from 1918 show that the same mechanism was used for all eight of the 1918 genes.

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H5N1 - Bird Flu

Mystery Illness In Toronto Kills Healthy Staff Member
1918 Killer Flu Was From Birds, Shares H5N1 Gene Mutations
Martial Law And The Avian Flu Pandemic
Another H5N1 PCR Positive Fatality In Indonesia
Bush Planned Military Role In H5N1 Outbreak Blasted
Bush Wants To Use Military To Quarantine H5N1
Bush Wants Military Takeover In Case Of Flu Outbreak
H5N1 Bird Flu Sample Collection Problems In Indonesia
Lab Confirmed H5N1 Bird Flu Case In Lampung
Deadly Toronto Illness Spreads To Patient Visitors
Toronto Mystery Illness Death Toll Rises To Six
H5N1 Not Ruled Out In Toronto Illness That Killed 4
13th Fatal H5N1 Bird Flu Case In Jakarta
3 More H5N1 Bird Flu Patients Admitted In Bandung
Mystery Illness Kills Four In Toronto
4 More H5N1 Bird Flu Patients Admitted In Jakarta
New Strain Of H5N1 Resistant To Tamiflu Anti-Virals
H5N1 Bird Flu Could Kill 150 Million People
H5N1 Deaths In Java Raises Phase 5 Concerns
Reports Of Widespread H5N1 Cases In Indonesia
Indonesia - Six Of Ten Infected With H5N1 Now Dead
Indonesia H5N1 Death Toll Now Six
Fatal Jakarta H5N1 Case Misdiagnosed As Dengue
H5N1 Bird Flu Deaths In Jakarta Increase To Six
Indonesia Tourism Calls For H5N1 'Transparency'
H5N1 Strain Raises Pandemic Concern
Nine H5N1 Admissions Today Include Four Zoo Visitors
115 Zoo Visitors Seek H5N1 Treatment In Jakarta
Four Zoo Visitors HospitalizeWith H5N1 Symptoms
WHO Cautious Over Deadly Indonesian Bird Flu Outbreak
Coffin Of Child H5N1 Victim SEALED In Jakarta Hospital
Massive H5N1 Infections At Ragunan Zoo In Jakarta
6 With H5N1 Symptoms Admitted To Jakarta Hospital
H5N1 Now Suspected In 3 Jakarta Zoo Workers
H5N1 In Indonesia Evolving Via Recombination
Two Zoo Workers Test Positive For H5N1 In Jakarta
Seventh H5N1 Fatality In Jakarta Denied Hospital Treatment
H5N1 Pandemic In Jakarta, Approaches Pandemic Phase 6
Formal Announcement Of Bird Flu In Europe Expected
H5N1 Confirmed In Finland - Pandemic Looms Larger
Map Showing Rapid Spread Of H5N1 Bird Flu
H5N1 Wild Bird Flu Now In Balkans?
Britain's Elite Get Pills To Survive Bird Flu
Bad News - H5N1 Bird Flu Spreads To New Species
H5N1 Now In Finland?
Europeans Work To Stop Spread Of H5N1
EU Nations Split On Response To Threat Of Bird Flu
ADEA Study On Bird Flu & Its Implication On UAE
H5N1 Bird Flu Confirmed Near Caspian Sea
Bird Flu Now Suspected In Europe
Bird Flu Spreads From Western Siberia To South Urals
Has H5N1 Wild Bird Flu Reached The Caspian Sea?
H5N1 Moves Closer To Europe By The Day
Bird Flu Reaches Russia's Urals
Journalist Hospitalized With Bird Flu Symptoms In Russia
Bird Flu Spreads To Mongolia
Novosibirsk Russia & Qinghai Lake China H5N1s Similar
Kazakhstan Confirms Bird Flu OutBreak
Another Bird Pushes Toll To 61
H5N1 Bird Flu Threatens Globe
Hundreds Of People Dead From Swine Disease In Sichuan?
U.S. Stocking Up On Avian Vaccine
Mongolia Says 80 Migratory Birds Died From Avian Flu
H5N1 Bird Flu Expands Host Range In Western Asia
Hundreds Dead From Swine Disease In Sichuan?
Bird Flu Spreads In Russia, May Be In Kazakhstan
Flu Could Infect Half World's People In Year
Migrating Birds Could Spread 'Bird Flu' To Europe
China's Response To H5N1 - 'Make Entire Villages Disappear'
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China Farmers Ignore Swine Flu Hygiene Orders
Is Ebola Linked To Deadly Pig-Borne Viral Epidemic In China?
H5N1 Bird Flu Confirmed In Siberia
What Is Really Going On In China?
Experts Puzzled By China's 'Swine Flu' Outbreak
Two H5 Bird Flu Deaths in Southern Vietnam
Mystery, Deadly Pig-Born Virus Spreads In China
China - 300 Dead Egrets Spark Bird-Flu Fears In Guangzhou
China Names Fatal Sichuan Illness
China Closes Lab Isolating, Sequencing H5N1 Bird Flu
Symptoms in Sichuan China Resemble 1918 Flu Pandemic
Death Toll From Mystery Illness Jumps To 31 In Sichuan
Qinghai China Outbreak May Be Biowar 'Tweaked' Bird Flu
Boxun News China Confirms Bird Flu In Qinghai Is NEW TYPE
Bird Flu Drug Rationed For Bird Flu Victims Only
Mass Executions Of Bird Flu Infected Humans In China?
Unknown And Undiagnosed Disease Sichuan China
Military Enforcing Quarantine In H5N1 Pandemic In China
Is There Raging Stage 6 Bird Flu Pandemic In China???
Confirmed H5 Bird Flu In Novosibirsk Russia
Bird Flu Reportedly Enters Russia
Dr. Niman On Qinghai H5N1 Bird Flu Isolates
Bird Flu Cases Registered in Russia's Siberia
Fatal H5N1 Bird Flu in Suburban Jakarta Family Confirmed
China Withholds Key H5N1 Bird Flu Data
Boxun Description Of Ebola In China
China Fails To Reply To WHO Bird Flu (H5N1) Requests
Reports From China Point To Major H5N1 Coverup
Did China Release H5N1 As Bioweapons Research?
Indonesia Says Bird Flu Suspected In Three Deaths
Avian Flu Moves Among Wild Geese
Bird Flu Experts Desperately Worried, Warn Of Pandemic
2005 H5N1 Vietnam Recombinant Emerged In Hau Giang In 2004
700 Bird Flu Deaths Of Patients In China?
Bird Flu Tests To Cover More Species
Japanese Chicken Farm Hit With Weak Bird Flu Strain
Bird Flu Pandemic 'As Grave A Threat As Terrorism'
Experts Alarmed At How H5N1 Bird Flu Is Evolving
Western Blot Signals Phase 6 Bird Flu Begins
H5N1 Spreading - May Be Becoming Easier To Transmit
28 More Bird Flu Cases In Northern And Central Vietnam
A Nightmare Scenario - H5N1 Pandemic
H5N1 Moving From Phase 5 To 6 Pandemic
Mystery Bird Deaths In S Carolina Cause Concern
Mystery Disease (H5N1?) Kills At Least 33 In Nepal
6,000 More Chickens Die Of H5NI In Southern Vietnam
Indonesia Reports First Human Case Of Bird Flu
China Warns Against Unsafe 'Maverick' Bird Flu Research
Pneumonal Cluster In China - H5N1 Breakout?
H7N2 Bird Flu Detected In Sullivan County, NY State
Vulture Die-Off In India - More H5N1?
Australians Develop Quick Test For Bird Flu
H5N1 Killing Cattle 'In Two Days' In Tripura, India?
WHO Says China H5N1 May Be Spreading Fast
Mutated H5N1 Hits US Dogs - Thousands Killed
Unstable Bird Flu Genes Dictate WHO Visit China, India
China Desperately Hiding Qinghai Human Bird Flu Deaths
China Arrests 8 Linked To Photos Of Mass Bird Flu Deaths
Could Bird Flu Come To US Via Imported Stray Dogs?
Final Phase 6 Bird Flu Pandemic in Qinghai China?
News Blackout on Human Bird Flu Deaths in Qinghai China?
H5N1: Claims of human bird flu cases in China denied
Media Lies About H5N1 Bird Flu Human Communicability
Bad News - Bird Flu Strains Might Combine
Bird flu 'may pass to humans'
Bird flu found in Indonesian pigs
Bird Flu Vaccine To Be 'Stored' Before Tested?
Pandemic Fear Grows After New Bird Flu Death
Vietnam Confirms Another Human H5N1 Case
New Bird Flu Case In Vietnam
Bird Flu 'Experts'(?) Taking Aim At Roaming Ducks
H5N1 Bird Flu Vaccine Ready For Clinical Trials
Media Lying About Bird Flu Human Communicability
CDC - H5N1 'Very High Threat' To Human Population
H5N1 - 'The Worst Flu Virus I've Ever Seen Or Read About'

May be a scare just like SARS was but I am posting this info so if someone does a search on this then it will link to ALIPAC and hopefully they will like us and join the fight against illegal immigration!


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