SARS Epidemic May Reemerge, CDC Director Warns

Reuters ^ | 6-18-03

[Domestic Church]

"98% developed lymphopenia (a decrease in numbers of lymphocytes in the
blood), and 55% developed thrombocytopenia (a decrease in the number of blood platelets)."


Yes, similar to autoimmune illnesses.

[Betty Jo]

It was a tape.

Henry Niman says in one article explaining some mess, that he was/is being hacked-threatened,yada,yada.

I am not quite brave enough to leave my name and number on a tape.

If, by chance,he isn't what he is supposed to be, and a cover?(black gov contract?)is in place to give him a cover,I would rather find out another way than have him call me back and I ask him,what, why the hell are you so strange?

I doubt that a currently employed person in a hospital could have such an agressive stock/company medical presence.

For fun spend some hours searching this guy.

He is never quite there.

All his postings are never relating to his supposed work:Surgery instructor,bioengineering,burns,yada,yada.

[Betty Jo]

From all the WHO articles aristeides has posted I see that SARS is still the "unknown untreatable designer virus" I said Binny and his cohorts were going to kill us with a couple of years ago.

How and/or when will we ever know who has SARS?

And that brings us back to the guy in Dallas.

[jacquej]

verrry interesting, Betty Jo! Verrry interesting!

[TaxRelief]

We could say, "Hi, Dr. Niman is it, may I call you that?"

"Excuse me, are you a bored multimillionaire who made it rich in bio-med stocks? Or are you really teaching surgery at MGH? If you are teaching surgery I'm confused, because, don't you need a medical degree for that?"
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"Excuse me?"
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"Oh! No! I am not interested in Genentech. What? It went up .94 today? So? Dr. Niman, about your qualifications to discuss SARS, where did you get your degree to teach Surgery?"


LOL. Just kidding, and "Sorry, Dr. Niman" if you're completely legit.

[aristeides]

Speaking of biological departments, when I studied at Oxford, I used occasionally to walk by the Department of Genetics building. However, it was closed, and had a sign, "Closed For Alterations."

[Domestic Church]

""Hi, Dr. Niman is it, may I call you that?"

Black ops/Psych Ops?!

[TaxRelief]

Did you believe it was closed?

[per loin]

I'm unsure if the Henry Niman from Harvard is the same one as the Ligand one, but i have seen where the Ligand one was impersonated on Usenet. Not sure how much trouble the impersonator caused but it was enough to where an article was written about it.

[per loin]

The education of an Internet enthusiast

In less than a year, Henry Niman says he went from the amateur web site host of "Links to Ligand" to the target of a troubling smear campaign.


Eight months ago, the Internet and Henry Niman were one more happy match made in cyberspace. The 49-year-old Pittsburgh biochemist, who helped found a company that was later merged into Ligand Pharmaceuticals, used the Internet for both investment research and communication with other small investors through his "Links to Ligand" web page. Inspired by the page he put together for his daughter's soccer team, Niman lovingly put together an extensive Web site on Ligand, including links to pharmaceutical trials, news releases, and analyst reports on the San Diego company. In addition, he was an active participant in on-line investment forums such as Silicon Investor, Yahoo! and the newsgroup misc.invest.stocks. The enthusiastic Niman argued persuasively and persistently for long-term investment in the company.

But subsequently, Niman has experienced the dark side of the Web – a side that includes forgery, harassment, and possible manipulation of Ligand stock.

Beginning last March, Niman started getting "flamed" or attacked in messages from other posters on web sites. That's somewhat par for the course in chat rooms. But then Niman says forged messages began to appear on Yahoo! under the moniker "Henry Niman, Ph.D." requesting child pornography. As months went by, the attacks got nastier, following Niman into the Usenet forum, misc.stocks.invest and stock chat room Raging Bull. Somebody joined Silicon Investor with a version of his name and identical biographical data, although SI canceled the account after being notified by Niman. Niman found himself under siege by groups of people with hard-to-trace pseudonyms and no history of posting in Ligand chat rooms. Unlike the prompt attention he got from SI, multiple complaints to Yahoo! had no effect.

"I think I sent them five different messages," Niman says of his attempt to stop the harassment on Yahoo! " I thought that part would be really easy and obvious to them. I gave them 30 examples."

Meanwhile, Ligand's stock and warrants kept dropping, although analysts and the company say there was no news that logically should have spurred such a downward spiral. On August 12, for example, Ligand closed on a $30 million merger with Seragen, which resulted in the creation of some 1.9 million shares of Ligand. But considering Ligand's market capitalization of approximately $370 million and 38 million outstanding shares of stock, that was a relatively small amount and there was no indication from the volume that those new shareholders were simply dumping Ligand.

[Betty Jo]

Thanks for posting this.

[TaxRelief]

So, how many Henry Niman's are there???

Will the real Henry Niman please stand up?

Should we believe all the SARS posts are from the real Dr. Niman? Maybe that is the question we should ask his answering machine:

"Excuse me, Dr. Niman are you posting things on chat boards about SARS? Why don't you answer your emails so that we know it's you?"

[palmer]

Do a "groups" search under google for "Henry L Niman"

[aristeides]

Paris police station quarantined over SARS fear .

[aristeides]

Paris police station quarantined over SARS fear .

[aristeides]

CDC confirms Albuquerque man had SARS .

[aristeides]

HK doctors call for changes in SARS guidelines.

[Betty Jo]

So the man in Albuquerque had SARS, recovered, and didn't infect anyone else?

What that does tell us?

[Betty Jo]

I wonder why the woman was visiting a police station?

A hooker?

A criminal?

A relative?

A cop herself?

[Betty Jo]

Re the new guidelines ,can you imagine what this means?