Thread: Bird Flu - you've got to read

"Bird Flu"

Do you know that 'bird flu' was discovered in Vietnam 9 years
ago?

Do you know that barely 100 people have died in the whole world
in all that time?

Do you know that it was the Americans who alerted us to the
efficacy of the human antiviral TAMIFLU as a preventative.
Do you know that TAMIFLU barely alleviates some symptoms of the
common flu?

Do you know that its efficacy against the common flu is
questioned by a great part of the scientific community?

Do you know that against a SUPPOSED mutant virus such as H5N1,
TAMIFLU barely alleviates the illness?

Do you know that to date Avian Flu affects birds only?

Do you know who markets TAMIFLU?

ROCHE LABORATORIES.

Do you know who bought the patent for TAMIFLU from ROCHE
LABORATORIES in 1996?

GILEAD SCIENCES INC.

Do you know who was the then president of GILEAD SCIENCES INC.
and remains a major shareholder?

DONALD RUMSFELD, the present Secretary of Defense of the USA.

Do you know that the base of TAMIFLU is crushed aniseed?

Do you know who controls 90% of the world's production of this
tree?

ROCHE LABORATORIES.

Do you know that sales of TAMIFLU were over $254 million in 2004
and more than $1000 million in 2005?

Do you know how many more millions ROCHE can earn in the coming
months if the business of fear continues?


So the summary of the story is as follows:

Bush's friends decide that the medicine TAMIFLU is the solution
for a pandemic that has not yet occurred and that has caused a
hundred deaths worldwide in 9 years.

This medicine doesn't so much as cure the common flu.

In normal conditions the virus does not affect humans.

Rumsfeld sells the patent for TAMIFLU to ROCHE for which they
pay him a fortune.

Roche acquires 90% of the global production of crushed aniseed,
the base for the antivirus.

The governments of the entire world threaten a pandemic and then
buy industrial quantities of the product from Roche.

So we end up paying for medicine while Rumsfeld, Cheney and Bush
do the business.

ARE WE CRAZY!!? OR ARE WE IDIOTS!!?

PASS THIS ON SO THAT IT CAN BE KNOWN!!!!!!!


Lev G. Fedyniak, MD
Health, Medical and Travel Writing
www.HlthMed.com

I knew about this. I was shaking my head when everyone was going on a feeding frenzy to buy the stuff.

The more I learn about these pharmacutical companies the less I trust them!

I can't speak to this article. Thought you might be interested in the latest figures.

According to WHO as of June 6, 2006, latest figures:

total cases 225 total deaths 128

Sorry, I can't figure out how to move the chart to here:


Cumulative Number of Confirmed Human Cases of Avian Influenza A/(H5N1) Reported to WHO

6 June 2006

Country


2003
2004
2005
2006
Total

cases
deaths
cases
deaths
cases
deaths
cases
deaths
cases
deaths

Azerbaijan 0 0 0 0 0 0 8 5 8 5
Cambodia 0 0 0 0 4 4 2 2 6 6
China 0 0 0 0 8 5 10 7 18 12
Djibouti 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0
Egypt 0 0 0 0 0 0 14 6 14 6
Indonesia 0 0 0 0 17 11 32 26 49 37
Iraq 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 2 2
Thailand 0 0 17 12 5 2 0 0 22 14
Turkey 0 0 0 0 0 0 12 4 12 4
Viet Nam 3 3 29 20 61 19 0 0 93 42
Total 3 3 46 32 95 41 81 52 225 128


Total number of cases includes number of deaths.
WHO reports only laboratory-confirmed cases.

http://www.who.int/csr/disease/avian_in ... index.html



© World Health Organization 2006. All rights reserved

I can't say I am at trusting of the World Health Organization either.

Me neither, but that's all I've got right now.