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As far as I know, the turkeys do not migrate. The dern things are here all year. What worries me is the Canadian geese that are flying over.
Diagnosis: Laboratory where diagnostic tests were performed: Harbin Veterinary Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Harbin (national reference laboratory for avian influenza) Diagnostic tests used: - haemagglutination inhibition test; - RT-PCR(1).
Date: 25-30 Nov 2005 Results: positive
Laboratory where diagnostic tests were performed: Harbin Veterinary Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Harbin (national reference laboratory for avian influenza) Diagnostic tests used: Intravenous pathogenicity index (IVPI) test Date: 25-30 Nov 2005 Results: positive (highly pathogenic)
Source of new outbreaks: unknown or inconclusive.
Control measures undertaken: - stamping out applied to 189 237 birds around the outbreaks; - quarantine; - movement control inside the country; - screening; - zoning; - vaccination; - disinfection of infected premises/establishments; - dipping/spraying.
Final report: no.
(1) RT-PCR: reverse transcriptase - polymerase chain reaction
-- ProMED-mail
[Again this week, outbreaks cover significant distances -- from Xinjiang autonomous region in the extreme northwest to Hunan province, which borders Guangdong province in the southeast. For maps see:
These seem to be small isolated cases which the Chinese authorities appear to be having excellent success in stamping out quickly and preventing clusters of disease. It will be important to know more about the source of these outbreaks, as they may continue with some regularity. - Mod.PC]
I did not print the entire newsletter, there are several new areas on it and a large number of outbreaks. granny
Prosecutors offer motive in ISU student's killing
They quote suspect as saying he wanted to become a martyr
BLOOMINGTON -- The night a popular Illinois State University student was slain in her off-campus apartment, the accused murderer told an acquaintance "he felt like killing someone" and wanted to "become a martyr and get his name in the news," McLean County prosecutors alleged at his bond hearing Friday.
Maurice Wallace, 27, of Normal is being held on $2 million bail, charged with the Oct. 13 murder of Olamide Adeyooye, 21, a senior from west suburban Berkeley. Prosecutors said she died of severe bleeding "due to penetrating injury."
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-0512030105dec03,1,1859993.story?coll=chi-newslocal-hed
Origin of infection: unknown or inconclusive.
Control measures undertaken: - quarantine; - movement control inside the country; - screening.
Treatment of affected animals: no.
Vaccination prohibited: yes.
Note by the OIE Animal Health Information Department: highly pathogenic avian influenza has never been reported in Zimbabwe.
-- ProMED-mail
[Of course, we all hope this is not the global strain of H5N1; if so, Africa would be brought into play. The numerous backyard production systems (which exist along with the more modern, intensive systems) and lack of veterinary infrastructure will mean there is a high probability the disease would become endemic.
We do not need to allow the establishment of other foci of continuing circulation of H5N1, just waiting until genetic roulette spins off an efficient human-to-human spreading strain. Whether or not this does prove to be H5N1, maximum surveillance efforts should be put into place as soon as possible. We need good geographically based information for decision support, and Africa is a likely place for an AI incursion. Efficient efforts to ramp up early warning and surveillance systems are particularly warranted in this region. - Mod.PC]
[Elsevier reference: Editorial. Avian influenza: perfect storm now gathering? Lancet Mar 2005. 365(9462):820 ]
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Date: Sat, 3 Dec 2005 From: Eberhard Gekeler Source: Darmstaedter Echo [edited]
2 hunters acquired tularemia in Griesheim near Darmstadt (Hessen, Germany) in November 2005. While gutting hares, the 2 sustained cuts. Later they fell ill with fever, headache, joint and muscle pains, and swollen lymph nodes. The diagnosis of tularemia was established at the Klinikum Darmstadt Medical Center and confirmed at the Institute for Tropical Diseases of the University of Heidelberg. The affected hunters are recovering as outpatients.
The hunted hares did not show any abnormalities, and no dead animals or live animals with unusual behavior have been observed in the area.
According to the Robert Koch Institute, 3 cases of tularemia were diagnosed in Germany during 2004. In 2005, 3 cases have been reported (not including these cases).
-- Eberhard G. Gekeler MD Darmstadt, Germany
[ProMED-mail thanks Dr. Gekeler for this posting. Darmstadt is located in the state of Hessen, in east central Germany. It is 30 minutes by car south of Frankfurt. Infection with _Francisella tularensis_ (tularemia), a Category A bioterrorism agent, is endemic in Europe. Sporadic cases are generally related to exposure to feral animals, especially rabbits and hares, while larger clusters are often water-related. - Mod.LL]
Fatal Shooting At Harrah’s Tahoe Casino
(AP) A shooting left one person dead and two sheriff's deputies injured Saturday afternoon at Harrah's Tahoe, authorities said.
Douglas County sheriff's Sgt. Tom Mezzetta said details were sketchy, but it appeared the deputies were investigating a report of a suspicious person when they were shot inside the south shore resort shortly after 2 p.m.
It was uncertain whether the other person died as a result of a self-inflicted gunshot or shots fired by the deputies, Mezzetta said.
"We're still trying to figure out what transpired. We're still trying to put the pieces together," Mezzetta said.....
http://cbs5.com/topstories/local_story_337194746.html
Official Gives Security Update on Olympics
Staff and agencies
03 December, 2005
By AIDAN LEWIS, Fri Dec 2,10:20 AM ET
ROME - Italy‘s interior minister said Friday the security plan for the Winter Olympics in Turin was in an advanced stage of preparation, and he repeated a warning that the games — now 70 days away — could be a possible target for terrorists.
Police had devised "a broad and careful plan for public order and security that is now in an advanced phase of realization," Pisanu said.
"The global resonance of the event and the fact that it coincides with the electoral campaign could be of great interest to terrorist organizations," referring to Italy‘s general election, expected in April.
In his address Friday, Pisanu mentioned messages posted on Web sites with links to al-Qaida that have threatened attacks against Italy because it has troops in Iraq .
Italy raised its security alert after the July 7 suicide bombings in London‘s transit system, stepping up measures at airports, government buildings, embassies and monuments.
He said another measure had allowed the expulsions of four people held to be a threat to security, noting that 16 other expulsions had been carried out using previously existing laws.
He said unannounced anti-terrorism exercises would be held in other parts of the country.
http://www.localnewsleader.com/elytimes/stories/news-00107444.html
http://www.localnewsleader.com/elytimes/stories/news-00107730.html
Shootout at Tahoe Casino Kills One
Staff and agencies
04 December, 2005
23 minutes ago
STATELINE, Nev. - A shootout across a high-stakes players lounge in Harrah‘s Tahoe casino killed one man, injured two sheriff‘s deputies and sent gamblers running for the doors Saturday afternoon, authorities and witnesses said.
Investigators were still trying to determine who fired first and what led to the confrontation. They were questioning a woman believed to have been with the suspect, a man described as about 50 who died at the casino.
The two deputies had been investigating a report of a suspicious person at the casino.
The main casino remained open Saturday evening with only the crime scene cordoned off.
"I heard a
pop, pop, pop," Jeff Wren, 23, of Sacramento, Calif., told the Tahoe Daily Tribune. "All I saw was a lot of people running for the door."
You TWO have done it now just look at the google numbers for russian mafia in America...I will be lost in cyber space for a while....
Web Results 1 - 10 of about 1,640,000 for russian mafia in america
Web Results 1 - 10 of about 854,000 for russian mafia america terrorist. (0.17 seconds)
This artical is old but stands out with the terrorist and russian mafia...
'Red Mafia' Operating in the U.S. – Helping Terrorists
Col. Stanislav Lunev
Monday, Oct. 1, 2001
I would like to reveal to you today some "secrets" about the Russian mafia.
Some background first. There are thousands of Mafia-type organized crime syndicates in Russia, including about 200 operating in Moscow alone, and more than 300 functioning internationally, according to Russian police estimates.
Total membership of these gangs, known to intelligence sources as a "Red Mafia," approximates almost 1 million "soldiers" – or the equivalent of all the Russian army's ground forces.
The Red Mafia is the continuation of Russia's Communist old guard. This is why the Russian mafia is totally controlled and populated by "ex-KGB" and "ex-GRU" agents.
In reality, these men still work for Russian intelligence agencies and are still communist and still intent on destroying America – but today they have a new front and one that appears to the West less menacing.
The Red Mafia is up to all the same tricks the KGB engaged in, but now Western leaders dismiss the problems as simply a "mafia" one rather than blaming the Russian government.
The Russians are providing nuclear technology to rogue countries like Iran – and the Americans and media here buy the excuse that "the mafia" is doing it – as Russian leaders say, "We have no control over it."
This is the same mafia that staged a series of apartment bombings in Russia – using, guess who, groups linked to Osama bin Laden.
Today, U.S. intelligence experts believe that almost two-thirds of all commercial institutions in Russia, some 400 banks (those in Moscow alone control more than 80 percent of the country's finances), dozens of stock exchanges, and hundreds of large government enterprises are controlled by the mobs. About 40 percent of the GDP in Russia is in the hands of organized crime, working in concert with corrupt officials and businessmen.
These are striking figures, especially when compared to a range of 5 percent to 7 percent in the industrialized countries and up to 30 percent for some African and Latin American nations.
Of course this is Russia's domestic problem, but unfortunately now it is not only Russia's, because about 30 of the most powerful and dangerous Russian gangs are already operating in almost all American states.
Using practically unlimited resources from Russia, these criminal syndicates are working independently and in close cooperation with local gangsters to establish control over America's profitable small and medium-size businesses.
In addition, Russian mobsters are penetrating the most sensitive areas of large U.S. companies and corporations, stealing their secrets to sell and using stolen data for their own illegal activities.
They are also very busy destroying local life by taking a very active part in contract murder, extortion and racketeering, money laundering, fraud, prostitution, and other criminal "business."
Russian mobsters also pay very close attention to drug trafficking, considering this area as most promising and profitable.
In this activity Russian mobsters are using their international connections and expertise in cooperation with the most dangerous drug cartels of Latin American countries.
The seizure last May of 20 tons of cocaine from two "fishing boats" off the West Coast, manned by Russian and Ukrainian crewmen, has raised concerns in the U.S. intelligence community that Mexican drug cartels are doing business with the Red Mafia.
American experts believe that drug cartels in Mexico, considered to be among the world's most ruthless, have followed the lead of Colombian cocaine smugglers in forging alliances with the Russian mobsters and other Eastern European crime syndicates.
Led by the Arellano-Felix cartel in Tijuana, those alliances have been firmly established and involved in the shipment of both cocaine and heroin.
It is known that Colombian drug cartels established connections with the Russian Mafia as early as 1992. Russian mobsters, who operated from New York, Florida and Puerto Rico, moved quickly to help the Colombians import drugs into Europe through Italy.
Employing many former KGB agents, Russian criminal syndicates controlled almost all banks in Moscow and St. Petersburg and established others in Panama and the Caribbean to launder billions of dollars in illicit drug profits for themselves as well as for the Colombians.
As NewsMax.com reported, the partnership gave the Colombians a new market for their cocaine and heroin, nearly all of which previously had been destined for the U.S. It also provided the Colombians with an access to sophisticated weapons, intelligence-gathering equipment and other military hardware, including dozens of airplanes and helicopters, and special super-speedboats now being used to ferry drugs out of the country.
Chillingly, they almost got a Russian submarine for drug smuggling but the FBI destroyed the deal.
Russian criminals are also very busy in cyberspace, considering this area a most profitable one for their future profits and development. The Red Mafia is working very carefully in cyberspace, and the real scope of this criminal activity is still little known by the American people.
Until now we have known only about some cases involving Russian criminals and small-crime groups, which were disclosed by the U.S. law-enforcement agencies.
However, Russian hackers are blamed for a series of spectacular feats in recent years, particularly for stealing secret Microsoft source codes, ransacking the Pentagon's computers, hacking into NATO's military websites, posting thousands of credit card numbers on the Internet, and stealing million of dollars from Western banks.
According to press reports, Russian hackers first captured the world's imagination in 1994, when a young mathematician, Vladimir Levin, hacked into the computers of Citibank and transferred $12 million to the bank accounts of his friends around the world.
He conducted the entire operation from his little one-room apartment in St. Petersburg.
Levin was arrested, but his case inspired other hackers, for example, Ilya Hoffman, a talented viola student at the Moscow Conservatory, who was detained in 1998 on charges of stealing $97,000 over the Internet. Another group of Russians stole more than $630,000 by hacking into Internet retailers and grabbing credit card numbers.
Some of the world's biggest Internet companies, including CompuServe and AOL, were forced to abandon Russia in 1997 because of the widespread use of stolen passwords.
Currently, Russian hackers are very busy in coordinated attacks on commercial and military computers in the U.S. and other members of NATO. When the North Atlantic alliance launched its bombing campaign in Yugoslavia in 1999, Russian hackers retaliated with their own wave of attacks on NATO member countries, breaking into their websites, posting anti-war slogans and overloading them with floods of junk e-mails.
In October 2000, a sustained break-in of Microsoft's highest-security network was traced back to a computer address in St. Petersburg. In January of the same year, an unidentified Russian hacker calling himself MAXUS stole more than 300,000 credit card numbers from CD Universe in an extortion bid, but was never caught. This list could go on and on, but there is no surprise over the quality of Russian hackers, who are extremely well-educated and talented.
However, in Moscow there is a special training center for hackers named the Civil Hackers' School, which exists with the support of Russia's intelligence services and criminal syndicates. Officially, the school is preparing specialists for legitimate jobs in computer security by shaping the new generation of computer whiz kids.
But in reality it is providing high-level training for young Russian hackers, who have provoked fear and anxiety in the West. Since 1996 this Civil Hackers' School, operating from a shabby little Moscow apartment, has trained several hundred highly trained hackers, who find jobs in the Russian intelligence community as well as in organized crime groups.
In the high-stakes game pitting fleet-fingered Russian hackers against the giants of American e-commerce and law enforcement, the Russians have been winning almost every time. All of these crimes, however, pale in comparison to the sheer size and scope of a hacking and extortion web that was so large that the FBI took the unusual step of warning the public about it in a March 2001 press release.
In this document, the FBI cited the ongoing danger from several organized hacker groups from Eastern Europe, specifically Russia and Ukraine, who were responsible for stealing more than 1 million credit card numbers and attacking the networks of over 40 businesses in 20 states of the U.S.
Nobody apparently knows, or perhaps even cares, how deeply the Red Mafia has already penetrated the American establishment. But the danger of this activity is already real in many American states and needs very close attention from U.S. law enforcement agencies, which until now have not been able to cope with this problem.
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2001/9/28/90942.shtml
http://www.localnewsleader.com/brocktown/stories/news-00107741.html
HIV-Positive Blood Sold in China; 3 Dead
Staff and agencies
04 December, 2005
By ALEXA OLESEN, 34 minutes ago
BEIJING - An HIV -positive man in northern China who sold his blood infected at least 18 others with the virus — including three who died — the government and state media said Saturday.
China Youth Daily newspaper said Saturday that Song, 41, was unemployed and relied on selling blood for his income. Blood buying is banned in China but continues to be a problem.
The infected blood, apparently never tested, was given to 25 patients needing transfusions, Xinhua said. Eighteen of them contracted HIV and three died, Xinhua said.
The blood bank closed in July 2004 after it was taken over by the Dehui People‘s Hospital, Xinhua said.
China says it has 840,000 people who are infected with HIV and 80,000 with full-blown AIDS .
Snip: Saudi state-run Channel One TV broadcasted the first episode of a new series aimed at dissuading young Saudis from following in the footsteps of many of their contemporaries to join the jihad (holy war) earlier this week. “Jihad Experiences, the Deceit” is a five part series which will tell the stories of several young Saudis who left to Iraq to fight alongside Abu Musab al Zarqawi.
Obscure AQ chemist worries experts
Snip: Al-Qaeda is "wedded to the spectacular," notes U.S. counterterrorism analyst Donald Van Duyn, and elusive Egyptian chemist Midhat Mursi was said to be exploring such possibilities when last seen, brewing up deadly compounds and gassing dogs in Afghanistan.
Van Duyn's FBI and other U.S. agencies are interested enough in Mursi to have posted a $5 million reward this year for his capture. Egypt's government reportedly is interested enough to have seized and locked up his two sons in an effort to track down the father.
The U.S. reward poster says the alleged bombmaker, also known as Abu Khabab, literally "Father of the Trotting Horse," may be in Pakistan. But "we don't think there's really a good fix on where he is," Van Duyn said in a Washington interview.
"Nobody knows," said Mohamed Salah, a Cairo expert on Islamic extremists. "He could be in any country, under another ID. Or he could be on the Afghan-Pakistani border, with Zawahri."
HIV-positive blood sold in China - 3 dead
Snip: BEIJING -- An HIV-positive man in northern China who sold his blood infected at least 18 others with the virus - including three who died - the government and state media said Saturday.
The man, identified only by his surname, Song, gave blood 15 times at a blood bank in Jilin province's Dehui city between January 2003 and June 2004, the official Xinhua News Agency reported.
China Youth Daily newspaper said Saturday that Song, 41, was unemployed and relied on selling blood for his income. Blood buying is banned in China but continues to be a problem.
China admits organs of executed criminals sold to foreigners
Snip: CHINA broke its silence yesterday to admit for the first time that the organs of executed prisoners were sold to foreigners for transplant. For many years it has denied that such a trade existed. But Huang Jiefu, the Deputy Health Minister, acknowledged that the practice is widespread and promised to tighten the rules.
Hi Granny!
You and I must have been reading that HIV-China story at the same time (laughing).
Interesting links and info, new site to me, there are 2 jobs for a researcher, on the home page, left side.
I have not looked at all of it, came to see the Cuba Navy yard map.........
granny
http://www.orbat.com/index.html
Map, click on back to main, for jobs and much more info:
http://www.orbat.com/site/maps/map_files/cuba_navybases.html
300? That's a minimal number if I ever heard one. Then they must ALL be on the West Coast of the USA IMHO.
http://www.sundayherald.com/53190
Mercy mission to free hostage
By James Hamilton
To be precise, carried across the border from illegal invaders who were never vaccinated and arrive already infected. Multiple drug resistant tuberculosis and leprosy in particular.
Yep and ditto.
JIHAD WATCH.org (TheSun.co.uk): "BIN LADEN WANTS WHITES" (ARTICLE SNIPPET: "AL-QAEDA are recruiting WHITE terrorists to attack the West, it was revealed yesterday. Osama Bin Laden’s fanatics reckon they can avoid detection more easily. Six websites with known links to al-Qaeda are carrying recruiting appeals and terrorist training manuals in ENGLISH.") (November 6, 2005)
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