Posted on 02/09/2009 12:36:11 AM PST by nw_arizona_granny
>>>there were just 3 missing from a U.S. lab, but I forgot what was in the missing vials.
Our labs have had infected rodents gone missing on a number of occasions too.
>>>there were just 3 missing from a U.S. lab, but I forgot what was in the missing vials.
Our labs have had infected rodents gone missing on a number of occasions too.
http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/04/22/missing.virus.sample/
Thanks to Mark Taylor, and Milford421
Army: 3 vials of virus samples missing from Maryland facility
From Larry Shaughnessy
CNN Pentagon Producer
WASHINGTON (CNN) — Missing vials of a potentially dangerous virus have prompted an Army investigation into the disappearance from a lab in Maryland.
Fort Detrick is the home of the Army’s top biological research facility.
The Army’s Criminal Investigation Command agents have been visiting Fort Detrick in Frederick, Maryland, to investigate the disappearance of the vials. Christopher Grey, spokesman for the command, said this latest investigation has found “no evidence of criminal activity.”
continued.
End of article:
Vander Linden said the investigators know that several years ago an entire freezer full of biological samples broke down and all the samples had to be safely destroyed. But a complete inventory of what was in the freezer was not done before the samples were destroyed. Vander Linden said there’s a “strong possibility” the vials were in that freezer and destroyed, but that isn’t known for sure.
This investigation comes two months after all research at the research institute facility at Fort Detrick was halted for a complete computer-based inventory of all disease samples at the fort. That inventory is expected to be complete before summer and may help solve the mystery of the three missing vials, officials said.
The Army investigation is in its final stages and is expected to be closed soon.
[I had wondered about this one, for it keeps coming up, where least expected and Israel appears to have first time break outs of odd diseases, show up in Pro Med Mail.....granny]
http://the.ricethresher.org/opinion/2007/10/12/foot_mouth_disease
Foot-and-mouth disease part of larger global conspiracy
[2007 report]
Ian Ragsdale
What dangers lurk beyond the walls of our safely surveilled cities? Maybe it is a clan of redneck mass murderers or a pedophile hiding in the forest. Maybe you will freeze to death on a mountaintop or perish in a forest fire. I am sure the government would love for you to remain safe and sound and watched in the city, instead of risking your life — and risk running a red light not equipped with a surveillance camera — out in the countryside.
Horror movies and lost Boy Scouts on the news notwithstanding, America has got nothing on Britain when it comes to rural disaster. After all, Britain has the wonderful horror known as foot-and-mouth disease — often called hoof-and-mouth in the United States.
Let me say right here that foot-and-mouth is not a faked epidemic. It is an old disease and it occurs across the globe. In some countries it is far more endemic than it is in Britain. But it does seem to have a massive effect on British government which has nearly all of its four million-plus surveillance cameras aimed on London streets.
In 2001, an outbreak of foot-and-mouth spread rapidly across England, Scotland and Wales, forcing a delay in parliamentary elections. The election delay was due to travel restrictions in rural areas, which are mandatory during foot-and-mouth epidemics. Large red signs posted along the highway warned drivers that they should not get out of their cars. Farm visits, horseback riding, hiking and other natural entertainments were temporarily abolished.
What caused the outbreak? That is unknown, but earlier that year a vial containing the foot-and-mouth disease had been removed from a government lab, never to be seen again and presumed stolen. The government’s line on the missing vial was that it was stolen by animal rights activists. Surely, they must be kidding. The last thing an animal rights activist would do is steal a biological weapon and use it to harm human and animal life.
Morals aside, foot-and-mouth disease is a highly-dangerous biological agent. This vial in particular was stolen from a lab containing many extremely dangerous biological agents, and therefore was under military guard. We are now getting a little beyond the range of animal rights activists. Meanwhile, the whereabouts of this vial remain an unsolved mystery.
In Aug. 2001 the United Kingdom government initiated three inquiries into the foot-and-mouth crisis. Although the reports were made public, the inquiries themselves took place entirely in private. The lack of a full public inquiry so angered farmers, business leaders and media that they lodged an appeal to the High Court in response to the government’s failure to hold such an inquiry.
This summer, foot-and-mouth came back. The culprit? Again, it goes back to a laboratory. Although the laboratory — the Institute for Animal Health — denies any responsibility for the outbreak, the strain of foot-and-mouth was the same strain that was being stored in the lab.
It might be hard to blame IAH for its shortcomings. Funding for the lab fell from #9.1 million to #7.6 million between 2004-‘06. In the past five years, the lab has lost 22 percent of its workers. Last year, IAH wrote to Parliament that its equipment was “in desperate need of investment.” All this, even though a report from back in 2002 had already made serious criticisms of the state of the institute, which had prompted environment secretary Hilary Benn to state that the facilities were being redeveloped.
It is odd that a lab dealing with deadly biological elements was so shockingly under funded. It is also curious that the lab is located in the county of Surrey, one of the most popular destinations in Southern England for outdoor leisure activities.
However, what is most curious is that Surrey borders the famous county of London, where most of its tourists originate. So when foot-and-mouth breaks out, Londoners have to stay home
http://www.omafra.gov.on.ca/english/livestock/vet/facts/info_bioterrorism.htm
Veterinary Information Alert - Bioterrorism Involving Livestock
Author: Dr. David Alves - Manager, Veterinary Science and Policy/OMAFRA; Dr. Paul Innes - Lead Veterinarian, Provincial Biosecirity, Veterinary Science and Policy/OMAFRA
Creation Date: October 2001
Last Reviewed: 01 October 2008
In light of the recent events in North America, governments and the public have a heightened awareness and concern about the possibility of bioterrorism involving agriculture, including livestock. This alert is not meant to cause panic or overstate the obvious. However, veterinarians and livestock owners may be the first to diagnose the early cases of a bioterrorist act in agriculture, as livestock can be sentinels of such an exposure. At the very least this note provides further points of contact for more information.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in the United States has produced a list of the most likely biological agents to be used in an act of bioterrorism (see excerpt below). Many of these are pathogens shared by humans and animals, and some have agricultural significance. Other agents of concern include Foreign Animal Diseases and other reportable diseases (such as Foot and Mouth Disease, Avian Influenza). Although many of the pathogens listed as possible bioterrorism agents would cause localised or sporadic disease, some may have serious public health or trade implications.
Veterinarians should remain current and vigilant for clinical signs consistent with any reportable or foreign animal disease, as well as unusual patterns or clusters of disease from the agents listed below. The Animal Health Laboratory (University of Guelph) and other diagnostic laboratories across Canada have been notified to be on alert for the detection of such agents. Diseases or clusters that might point to an exposure consistent with an act of bioterrorism could include: unusual demographic patterns, multiple species involvement, concurrent animal/public health problems, and unusual clusters of strains or serotypes. Points of contact for animal health information are listed below.
Foreign Animal Disease Emergency Number for veterinarians - 1 877 814 2342
CFIA Ontario Region - 519 837 9400 or your local area office
Dr. Grant Maxie, AHL University of Guelph - 519 824 4120 x4544
Agricultural Information Contact Centre, OMAFRA - 1 877 424 1300
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention - Critical Biological Agents
Category A
The U.S. public health system and primary health-care providers must be prepared to address varied biological agents, including pathogens that are rarely seen in the United States. High-priority agents include organisms that pose a risk to national security because they:
* can be easily disseminated or transmitted person-to-person;
* cause high mortality, with potential for major public health impact;
* might cause public panic and social disruption; and
* require special action for public health preparedness
Category A agents include:
* variola major (smallpox);
* Bacillus anthracis (anthrax);
* Yersinia pestis (plague);
* Clostridium botulinum toxin (botulism);
* Francisella tularensis (tularaemia);
* Filoviruses (e.g. Ebola hemorrhagic fever, Marburg hemorrhagic fever);
* Arenaviruses (e.g. Lassa (Lassa fever), Junin (Argentine hemorrhagic fever))
Category B
Second highest priority agents include those that:
* are moderately easy to disseminate;
* cause moderate morbidity and low mortality; and
* require specific enhancements of CDC’s diagnostic capacity and enhanced disease surveillance.
Category B agents include:
* Coxiella burnetti (Q fever);
* Brucella species (brucellosis);
* Burkholderia mallei (glanders);
* Alphaviruses (e.g. Venezuelan encephalomyelitis, eastren and westren equine encephalomyelitis);
* Venezuelan encephalomyelitis;
* ricin toxin from Ricinus communis (castor beans);
* epsilon toxin of Clostridium perfringens;
* Staphylococcus enterotoxin B;
* Chlamydia psittaci (Psittacosis)
A subset of List B agents includes pathogens that are food or waterborne. These pathogens include but are not limited to:
* Salmonella species;
* Shigella dysenteriae;
* Escherichia coli O157:H7;
* Vibrio cholerae; and
* Cryptosporidium parvum.
Category C
Third highest priority agents include emerging pathogens that could be engineered for mass dissemination in the future because of:
* availability;
* ease of production and dissemination; and
* potential for high morbidity and mortality and major health impact.
Category C agents include:
* Nipah virus;
* hantaviruses;
* tickborne hemorrhagic fever viruses;
* tickborne encephalitis viruses;
* yellow fever; and
* multidrug-resistant tuberculosis.
(Adapted from: Biological and Chemical Terrorism: Strategic Plan for Preparedness and Response. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, April 21 2000; 49(RR04): 1-14)
Related Links:
* Health Canada: Information on biological agents
* US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
* CFIA information on anthrax
For more information:
Toll Free: 1-877-424-1300
Local: (519) 826-4047
E-mail: ag.info.omafra@ontario.ca
This is the html version of the file http://www.toxi.ch/upload/pdf/Newsletter_49.pdf.
Google automatically generates html versions of documents as we crawl the web.
Page 1
13.11.2007 slu
ToxiLit-Newsletter 49
Bioterrorismus:
Bioterrorism: management of major biological agents.
Fungi and fungal toxins as weapons.
Enzymes fight chemical weapons.
The use of small molecules to investigate molecular mechanisms and
therapeutic targets for treatment of botulinum neurotoxin A intoxication.
Lebensmittel:
Unexpectedly dangerous escargot stew: oleandrin poisoning through the
alimentary chain.
Bivalve molluscs as vectors of marine biotoxins involved in seafood poisoning.
Ciguatera: Australian perspectives on a global problem.
Results of long-term carcinogenicity bioassays on Coca-Cola administered to
Sprague-Dawley rats.
Psychotrope Medikamente:
Unrecognized delayed toxic lithium peak concentration in an acute poisoning
with sustained release lithium product.
A case report of a deliberate overdose of ropinirole.
Severe hypoglycemia following venlafaxine intoxication: a case report.
Multi-drug overdose risperidone, ziprasidone, valproate, trihexyphenidyl, and
clonazepam.
Neuroleptic malignant syndrome induced by ziprasidone on the second day of
treatment.
Salz und Wasser:
Shock revealing salt poisoning in a neonate.
Water intoxication and the heat wave
Short writeups about above on the page.
http://www.ph.ucla.edu/epi/bioter/expertwindsuptrial.html
Source: Wall Street Journal, April 14, 2003
With Bioterror Fears Rising, An Expert Winds Up on Trial
When Dr. Butler Said He Lost 30 Samples Of the Plague, It Triggered a Federal Case
By RUSSELL GOLD, Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
Dr. Thomas Butler has devoted much of his 30-year career to research on the plague, a fast-spreading infectious disease that kills its victims within days.
He earned a tenured position in infectious diseases at Texas Tech University and published dozens of papers in prestigious journals. As the threat of terrorism escalated in recent years, the Army and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control expressed interest in collaborating with him on studies of how best to treat outbreaks of the plague.
Then, on Jan. 11, he arrived at his office and made an entry in his research log that would change his life and stun his colleagues. He wrote that 30 vials of plague bacteria were missing and possibly stolen from his laboratory.
Campus police notified the Federal Bureau of Investigation. The news traveled quickly to Washington, where Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge personally ordered his staff to put crisis plans into action. By 3 a.m. on Jan. 15, 60 FBI and local law-enforcement agents were searching Dr. Butler’s home and knocking on doors across Lubbock.
If a terrorist released samples of the plague bacteria — known as yersinia pestis, or YP — over a city using an aerosol bomb, thousands of people could arrive at emergency rooms with what appeared to be rapidly progressing pneumonia. Without proper treatment, patients would almost certainly die from respiratory failure.
Investigators descending on Lubbock discovered that Dr. Butler had traveled to Tanzania, a suspected haven for terrorists and site of a 1998 U.S. embassy bombing. Their suspicions only grew when federal officials learned the scientist had carried vials of YP on commercial flights from Tanzania to Texas without proper import licenses.
continued............
On January 16, Thomas Butler, chief of the infectious diseases division at Texas Tech University (Lubbock, TX, USA), was arrested for having “accidentally destroyed” 30 vials of plague bacteria and lying to officials by reporting that the vials had gone missing. The university subsequently reported that the bacteria samples had been accounted for ( http://www.texastech.edu/news/CurrentNews/display_article.php?id=936 ), placed Butler on paid leave, and barred him from campus. And herein lies a caut ...
Sounds like a great book. I looked it up on Amazon<<<
I didn’t have a pop up window on the page I posted, have you had the window open at other pages, if so, you have a pest downloaded from somewhere..
Shows how much I know about computers, I know the problem, but forgot the name.
I want to try and copy it, if I get the time, for it has interesting Pioneers, some stories that I had not heard before.
>>>there were just 3 missing from a U.S. lab, but I forgot what was in the missing vials.
Our labs have had infected rodents gone missing on a number of occasions too.<<<
Your missing rodents were never found?
There was another a few months ago, can’t remember the details, but not related to yours.
dispatched to mexico and the sw usa
tested and completed their evaluations
and deemed it hopeless ... in less than 24 hours..???
look listen and learn..
whats the other hand doing??
watch for contaminated food sources to be named..?
thoughts ???<<<
Delawhere gave us the link to the hogs.
I think obama needed a weekend news release that would not get him in trouble, and to cover some of this weeks disasters in the news from/about obama and his partners.
But then I have known for a long time that a pandemic was coming and that many real medical people lived in fear of it hitting.
And I also suspect it as a bioweapon, invented to kill folks.
The Gov. fought the West Nile Virus and continues to do so.
I have always thought the west nile was a terror introduction, for it went the same way, a bird fell out of the sky and they sprayed for mosquitos, almost the same day, in New Jersey or New York as I recall.....Some say the west nile was developed in the Cuba labs, then released into the U.S. and now Russia is threatening to open more installations in Cuba.
We know that there are many missing Russian scientists and that ben Ladin hired some of them for $2,000. a month.
We know that Cuba and Iran own joint labs.
And Russia supplies their scientists to any country with the money to pay them....
There are videos of ben Ladin testing chemicals on dogs and the dogs horrible deaths.
Anyone want to stand up and tell me that there was no connection between ben Ladin and Saddam in Iraq, don’t waste your time, for both of them loved killing with chemicals and the photos exist to prove it and there are plenty of articles, published before 9-11 to show the connections.
Dig into some of the google searches that I have posted, for they will give you the history of things that we have been watching for a long time.
And if you are a scientist, choose the development of bioweapons, and you will have a long life.
There hundreds of deaths of the scientists who searched for the cures we will need for the bioweapons.
The jihadi, perfected the art of putting a sick person on an airplane, to spread the disease to as many as possible.
About 2002 Canada arrested a man, who had his vehicle set up so he could drive down the streets and spray germs on the people in the streets/on sidewalks, etc.
That was in a news article, not some tinfoil site.
So I lean toward, terror related, and a news opportunity that can be twisted to make obama look good.
[For the record, my opinion above was typed before I did these google searches::::granny]
This will keep you reading for hours, in the past the best lists were on Quayle and Rense sites, one of them had photos and histories of all of them and we have a Freeper on the list, as I recall the name had Love in it......
At last link, there is this, is it the one we followed years ago?
CERN Scientists Receive Death Threats - :: gia’s blog ::
You’d think the death threats wouldn’t even be necessary, since the scientists who were threatened are going to be killed by the blasted machine, anyway. ...
www.giagia.co.uk/2008/09/06/cern-scientists-receive-death-threats/ - 143k - Cached - Similar pages
Check the apfn list of missing scientists:
I did not know the Senate considered WNV a terror weapon:
WoW, I did not know of all these reports, even one that may connect west nile virus to Iraq and Cuba.....
I do not know if I kept any of the promed reports on swine flu in the Philippines, both hogs and people for the past 2 or 3 months, every few days there is another post.
They are also having horrible terrorist attacks almost daily there.
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GMANews.TV - Swine fl
[continues, as the world is worried about a pandemic]
1918
http://www.capitalcentury.com/1976.html
1976: Fear of a great plague
By PAUL MICKLE / The Trentonian
On the cold afternoon of February 5, 1976, an Army recruit told his drill instructor at Fort Dix that he felt tired and weak but not sick enough to see military medics or skip a big training hike.
Within 24 hours, 19-year-old Pvt. David Lewis of Ashley Falls, Mass., was dead, killed by an influenza not seen since the plague of 1918-19, which took 500,000 American lives and 20 million worldwide.
Two weeks after the recruit’s death, health officials disclosed to America that something called “swine flu” had killed Lewis and hospitalized four of his fellow soldiers at the Army base in Burlington County.
The ominous name of the flu alone was enough to touch off civilian fear of an epidemic. And government doctors knew from tests hastily conducted at Dix after Lewis’ death that 500 soldiers had caught swine flu without falling ill.
Any flu able to reach that many people so fast was capable of becoming another worldwide plague, the doctors warned, raising these questions:
Does America mobilize for mass inoculations in time to have everybody ready for the next flu season? Or should the country wait to see if the new virus would, as they often do, get stronger to hit harder in the second year?
Thus was born what would become known to some medical historians as a fiasco and to others as perhaps the finest hour of America’s public health bureaucracy.
Only young Lewis died from the swine flu itself in 1976. But as the critics are quick to point out, hundreds of Americans were killed or seriously injured by the inoculation the government gave them to stave off the virus.
According to his sister-in-law, John Kent of President Avenue in Lawrence went to his grave in 1997 believing the shot from the government had killed his first wife, Mary, long before her time.
Among other critics are Arthur M. Silverstein, whose book, “Pure Politics and Impure Science,” suggests President Gerald Ford’s desire to win the office on his own, as well as the influence of America’s big drug manufacturers, figured into the decision to immunize all 220 million Americans.
Still, even the partisan who first branded Ford’s program a fiasco, says now that it happened because America’s public health establishment identified what easily could have been a new plague and mobilized to beat it amazingly well.
To understand the fear of the time you have to know something about the plague American soldiers seemed to bring home with them after fighting in Europe during World War I.
The Great Plague, as it came to be called, rivaled the horrid Black Death of medieval times in its ability to strike suddenly and take lives swiftly. In addition to the half million in America, it killed 20 million people around the world.
It got its name because it was a brand of flu usually found in domestic pigs and wild swine. It was long thought to have come, like so many flus, out of the Chinese farm country, where people and domestic pigs live closely together.
Recent research has shown, however, that the post-WWI flu was brought to Europe by American troops who had been based in the South before they went to war. Medical detectives, still working on the case in the 1990s, determined that a small group of our soldiers took swine flu to Europe and that it spread to the world from there.
How the swine flu got to Fort Dix in 1976 still hasn’t been tracked down. At the time, Dix military doctors knew only that a killer flu had made it to the base and that they were lucky more men hadn’t died or been sickened seriously.
Weeks after Lewis died, doctors from the Centers for Disease Control and other federal public health officials were meeting in Washington, trying to decide if they should recommend the government start a costly program of mass inoculations.
One doc later told the authors of “The Epidemic that Never Was” that he and others in on the meetings realized there was “nothing in this for the CDC except trouble,” especially because a decision had to be made fast to get the immunizations manufactured by the fall.
“...The obvious thing to do was immunize everybody,” the doctor said. “But if we tried to do that ... we might have to interrupt a hell of a lot of work on other diseases.”
The doctors knew they faced complaints if the epidemic broke out and vaccines weren’t ready, as well as criticism if they spent millions inoculating people for a plague that didn’t happen.
“As for ‘another 1918,’ 1 didn’t expect that,” the doctor continued in the book. “But who could be sure? It would wreck us. Yet, if there weren’t a pandemic, we’d be charged with wasting public money, crying wolf and causing all the inconvenience for nothing ... It was a no-win situation.”
By mid-March, CDC Director Dr. David J. Sencer had lined up most of the medical establishment behind his plan to call on Ford to support a $135 million program of mass inoculation.
On March 24, one day after a surprise loss to Ronald Reagan in the North Carolina Republican presidential primary, Ford decided to make the announcement to the American public.
Congress still had to appropriate the money, of course, and that wasn’t going to be easy. Even before official congressional consideration of the plan was taken up, there were forces arguing against it.
Another big hurdle was the drug makers, who were insisting the government take liability for any harmful side effects from the vaccine. During congressional hearings in the spring and early summer, lawmakers heard some naysayers who noted that the swine flu of last winter never got beyond Dix and that only one death had been reported.
The president and his experts prevailed, however, and on Aug. 12 Congress put up the money to get the job done. The mighty task was put into the hands of a charismatic 33-year-old physician for the Department of Health, Education and Welfare, Dr. W. Delano Meriwether, a world-class sprinter who still competed in track meets.
Now he was in a race for life, or so he thought. Meriwether was given until the end of the year to get all 220 million Americans inoculated against swine flu.
By Oct. 1, the makers had the serums ready and America’s public health bureaucracy had lined up thousands of doctors, nurses and paramedics to give out the shots at medical centers, schools and firehouses across the nation.
Jim Florio, then an ambitious rookie Democratic congressman supporting Jimmy Carter for president, didn’t use the situation to take a shot at Ford. He lined up and was the first Jersey resident to take the inoculation.
Within days, however, several people who had taken the shot fell seriously ill. On Oct. 12, three elderly people in the Pittsburgh area suffered heart attacks and died within hours of getting the shot, which led to suspension of the program in Pennsylvania.
Jersey pressed on with inoculations, however. Through the fall, even as more bad reports about the side effects of the vaccine came out, thousands of mostly older people in Greater Trenton lined up outside health centers, schools and firehouses to get the shot, sometimes waiting for an hour.
One of them was Lawrence’s Mary Kent, a 45-year-old mother of two teenage boys who couldn’t tie the ribbons on Christmas presents only days after she got her shot at the Trenton War Memorial in early December.
On Dec. 16, increasingly concerned about reports of the vaccine touching off neurological problems, especially rare Guillain-Barre syndrome, the government suspended the program, having inoculated 40 million people for a flu that never came.
By year’s end, Jack Kent knew his wife was seriously ill and started reading all about the side effects of the president’s flu inoculation, especially nerve problems like those his wife was experiencing.
Even before Mary Kent died an invalid at age 51 in January 1982, Kent had joined the hundreds of Americans who filed suit against the government on behalf of children left without a parent due to fatal side effects from the swine flu vaccine.
Kent’s sister-in-law, also named Mary Kent, recalled the other day that Jack Kent died in 1997 still angrily blaming the government for giving his wife Guillian-Barre, leading to her death.
The swine flu case of 1976 forever reduced confidence in public health pronouncements from the government and helped foster cynicism about federal policy makers that continues to this day.
Citing the swine flu fiasco, for instance, one scholar recently authored a report suggesting the threat of AIDS has been similarly overblown.
Yet Joseph Califano, one of the earliest to use the word “fiasco” in describing the swine flu affair, came to the conclusion that it all couldn’t have been avoided. Califano, whom President Carter appointed Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare after beating Ford in the November election, said the doctors had no choice but to err on the side of the caution.
In “The Epidemic That Never Was,” Califano said that faced with the threat of another killer plague with the potential to end millions of lives, the doctors were right to seek an inoculation program.
You solved the problem for me, granny. I saved the text in a file and now I both don’t have extra windows and can keep track of where I was reading.
It wasn’t really a popup - it was the little window with ‘Tools’ that was on the top of the site. It kept moving whenever I arrowed down. If I used the scrollbars, it didn’t.
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Ebola outbreak spreading
Ebola spreads through body fluids, particularly blood, putting health workers ... It’s no more than one airplane trip by the right person away from us. ... from other Ebola strains, people who are not sick do not spread the disease. ...
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If the sick could be removed, the vessel remained under his orders. .... him/her into treatment or measures to prevent the person from spreading the disease. ... In computer science, it describes putting files infected by computer viruses into a ... He is the first person since 1963 to be under Federal quarantine. ...
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John Wong Yee Him
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Not hard to figure out why we are rushing for a pandemic, as I recall the rules already drawn up to contain it:
You should have about a month’s supply of food and medicine that you take on hand at all times.
Martial law will be declared.
All travel will cease.
Quarantines will be in effect.
So now we know why the pandemic is so very “headline news”, for the guns will be confiscated under martial law.
Ok, there I stirred the pot....with the truth.
LOL, yes, I remember the tool bar.
I also remember my infection of pop up windows, now that will drive you crazy.
Everything you can think of, related to flu and pandemics.
http://www.fluwikie.com/index.php?n=resources.resources
>>>at Fort Dix that he felt tired and weak but not sick enough to see military medics<<<
LOL - Have had experience with Ft. Dix Medics back in ‘61.
My 2 years of ROTC and being able to speak Spanish landed me an Acting Staff Sgt. job during basic there. I had one man who was running an extremely high fever and was delirious.
I called the Medics, who came and picked him up and took him to the hospital. Next day I checked on how he was - only to be told that since they couldn’t understand his babbling, they put him in the psycho ward.
So much for diagnosis from basic training medics... LOL
[A pandemic, works as well as crashing planes into towers...granny]
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A worldwide influenza pandemic could have a major effect on the global economy, including travel, trade, tourism, food, consumption and eventually, investment and financial markets. Domestic and international studies of potential economic impacts are presented below.
Planning for pandemic influenza by business and industry is essential to minimize a pandemic’s impact. Companies that provide critical infrastructure services, such as power and telecommunications, also have a special responsibility to plan for continued operation in a crisis and should plan accordingly. As with any catastrophe, having a contingency plan is essential. Information about planning and preparation is available in the Workplace Planning section of this Web site.
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A Potential Influenza Pandemic: Possible Macroeconomic Effects and Policy Issues
The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) assessment of possible economic effects of an avian flu pandemic concludes that a pandemic involving a highly virulent flu strain (such as the one that caused the pandemic in 1918) could produce a short-run impact on the worldwide economy similar in depth and duration to that of an average postwar recession in the United States.
o May 22, 2006 Update (PDF) (128KB)
o December 8, 2005 Report (PDF) (311KB)
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The Economic Impact of Pandemic Influenza in the United States: Priorities for Intervention (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
A 1999 article that estimates the possible effects of the next influenza pandemic in the United States and analyzes the economic impact of vaccine-based interventions. (September - October 1999)
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The Global Economic and Financial Impact of an Avian Flu Pandemic and the Role of the IMF (PDF - 229 KB) (International Monetary Fund)
Provides a preliminary assessment of the risks and potential impact to the global economy and financial system. Includes summary of the common elements of business continuity planning in the financial sector for pandemic risks. (Feb. 28, 2006)
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Avian Flu Economic Impact (The World Bank)
Read about the global economic impact an influenza pandemic will have.
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Agricultural Impacts
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Impact Worksheets on Animal Health Events (Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service)
Find out how the affected country’s production and trade in the livestock and livestock products is likely to be affected by the disease.
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FAS (Foreign Agricultural Service) Overseas Attache Reports (U.S. Department of Agriculture)
Provides information on the impact of avian influenza on overseas trade.
SEATTLE (CNN) — Joe Biden told Democratic fundraisers Sunday night that there is no doubt in his mind a crisis will occur during Barack Obama’s first six months in office that will test his mettle and force him to make unpopular decisions.
“Mark my words. It will not be six months before the world tests Barack Obama like they did John Kennedy,” said Biden to a roomful of donors. “The world is looking. We’re about to elect a brilliant 47-year-old senator president of the United States of America.”
“Remember I said it standing here, if you don’t remember anything else I said,” Biden continued. “Watch, we’re going to have an international crisis, a generated crisis, to test the mettle of this guy.
“I promise you it will occur. As a student of history and having served with seven presidents, I guarantee you it’s going happen. I can give you at least four or five scenarios from where it might originate.”
The Delaware senator spoke at two Seattle fundraises Sunday night, expected to bring in $1 million for the campaign. Biden told the supporters that when Obama will need them to stand with the administration on the difficult calls — not financially, but by using their influence within their communities to convince others that the right decisions are being made.
“I promise you, you all are going to be sitting here a year from now going, ‘Oh my God, why are they there in the polls, why is the polling so down, why is this thing so tough?’ We’re going have to make some incredibly tough decisions in the first two years,” said Biden. “I’m asking you now, be prepared to stick with us. Remember the faith you had at this point because you’re going to have to reinforce us.”
October 20, 2008
now the 100 day prime-time address Wednesday
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