LIBYA - Libyan Doctors Say Qaddafi Staff Caused AIDS Outbreak - Web
http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=46614
_____________________________________________________
GLOBAL - Flu alert as killer strain is sent to labs by mistake [strain H2N2]
"anyone now aged under 36 would be unlikely to have immunity"
"an influenza expert at the World Health Organisation, warned that if the virus was not handled properly "it can easily cause an epidemic. If [it] were to infect one person it would spread very rapidly."
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/environment/story.jsp?story=629165
Also:
Opinions conflict on why flu strain sent
CDC head 'sure it was not an inadvertant use'
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Federal officials are still at a loss to explain how a potentially deadly strain of influenza could be sent to more than 4,000 labs around the world.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is operating under the presumption that the H2N2 strain was purposefully included in the panels designed to test the labs' proficiency in identifying viruses.
http://www.cnn.com/2005/HEALTH/conditions/04/14/flu.recall.ap/index.html
________________________________________________________
Ho Chi Minh City - 1000's of Children in Ho Chi Minh City with Bird Flu Symptoms
http://www.recombinomics.com/News/04110502/H5N1_1000_HCM_City.html
Also:
VIET NAM - Vietnam finds HIV carrier infected with bird flu [H5N1 virus]
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=571&u=/nm/20050414/hl_nm/birdflu_vietnam_dc_1&printer=1
_____________________________________________________
UNITED KINGDOM - TOXIC TERRORIST: ONE GRAM KILLS 80,000
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/allnews/tm_objectid=15399884&method=full&siteid=50143&headline=toxic-terrorist--one-gram-kills-80-000--name_page.html
______________________________________________________
NORTH CAROLINA - Area students fight mysterious rash
"Children and adults in several county schools and daycare centers are dealing with the rash, located on the back of the neck just below the hairline and described as red and bumpy"
http://www.rrdailyherald.com/articles/2005/04/11/news/news2.txt
_______________________________________________________
ZAMBIA - Zambia issues Marburg outbreak warning
http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=84&art_id=qw1113452647310Z515
[Recombinomics] ANGOLA / LUANDA - Marburg Toll in Angola Rises to 237 - 11 in Luanda
http://www.recombinomics.com/News/04120503/Marburg_Angola_Toll_237.html
[VOA News] EHTIOPIA - Ethiopian Officials Battling Meningitis Outbreak [ 40 dead 430 infected ]
http://www.voanews.com/english/2005-04-14-voa49.cfm
_________________________________________________________
NORWAY - Bacteria outbreak under control [MRSA]
http://www.aftenposten.no/english/local/article1017480.ece
______________________________________________________
[Medical News Today] GLOBAL - Climatic factors may trigger outbreak of tularaemia (rabbit fever)
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/medicalnews.php?newsid=22768
____________________________________________________
[WTNH] CONNECTICUT - Stomach virus hits the state, hospitals combating virus [Norovirus]
http://www.wtnh.com/Global/story.asp?S=3207481&nav=3YeXYdZB
____________________________________________________
MISSOURI - Embalmers prepare for bioterrorism
http://columbiamissourian.com/news/story.php?ID=13218
Recombinomics Commentary April 14, 2005
>> " have tested 400 samples from two Korean pig farms, WHO says, and found no trace of WSN/33.
Seo declined to comment. Henry Niman, a business owner in Philadelphia who backs Seo's claim,
says Kawaoka's study wasn't broad enough to refute the theory. But, says WHO flu expert Klaus Stöhr, "we've spent too much time on these speculations already.
"Since WHO has announced to Nature and Science that they have failed to prove or disprove the presence of WSN/33, but are moving on to other areas, it is worth going into a little more detail on the only piece of positive data that the WHO obtained. This approach has analogies with the 1957 H2N2 pandemic strain that is causing some concern.
.... WHO notes that, as indicated above, they looked at 400 samples. They came up with 27 isolates, all of which were H1N2 and were triple reassortants like those found in the United States (A/duck/NC/91347/03(H1N2) and A/Swine/North Carolina/93523/01(H1N2)). This was nothing new, because the same result had been obtained in Korea (A/Swine/Korea/CY02/02(H1N2) in 2002, and the sequence had been deposited at GenBank. Thus, WHO was able to confirm an earlier report by another lab. The finding of H1N2 was not as worrisome as H1N1 from WSN/33 because the H1N2 had contemporary human genes, and most humans had immunity to the contemporary genes.
Thus, the finding did not really address the issue of WSN/33, because as noted above, only two farms were checked. Not noted is the fact that these 400 samples came from only a handful of swine, and all 27 isolates were the same. They came from only one or two swine. Thus, WHO went to 2 farms, found 1 or 2 positive pigs, and since they were infected with another virus, they closed their investigation.
Hopefully, when WHO tries to figure out were the 1957 H2N2 was before it was mistakenly mailed to labs around the world, they will not stop looking if they come across a couple of H3N2 samples. One can hope that they do not think that H3N2 in someone's freezer means no one else in the United States has improperly labeled H2N2.
.... WHO did not find WSN/33 and they did not find H9N2, so they have no rational explanation for the composition of the six isolates from six pigs on six farms in Korea in 2004.
Until they can explain the data (other than hand waving using a disputed shipment of WSN/33 to Korea or up-loads of mistaken files), the case is not closed."
WHO = Kofi's Klowns?
Hold on to your hats....isn't this what we've been predicting? This is a huge alert for all of us to be super alert and careful what we bring into our homes and use by our families. Factory sealed may mean nothing if they are employed where they could add toxins to products prior to shipment and distribution. Hand sanitizer is a must, but I'd venture it to be ineffective with toxins of 1 gram that can kill 80,000.
I couldn't bring up the embalmers link. But then again it just might be me.