Darryl wrote: Two considerations: 1) Culling will remove the strong and therefore resistant birds from which healthy, resistant stock can be raised as well as removing a pool from which to create a vaccine .

2) The mutations of influenza viruses are more likely to come from swine accepting the avian influenza, combining it with their own which is more easily accepted by humans or from our own (human) infectives that have already had the disease.

 

Even on the CDC website the link of bird/swine/human is there. They just prefer to ignore it!??? These swine influenzas will continue at this (approximately 10 year cycle) to be changed about every 75 to 80 years (avian) if the Asian system of farming is not addressed. Pork is unclean as 2 or more ancient religious philosophies expound and perhaps this is what they were trying to tell our so much more intelligent scientists and doctors.

 

The vaccines they currently have or are currently making will not work. They are the wrong combination of proteins. Constantly culling birds that show the antibodies reduces the chance of finding a source of anti-bodies that will work. And who benefits from all this? the pharmaceutical corporations and the genetic corporations. Who will suffer from this idiocy? All humanity”

 

Well said. The vaccine will have to be produced based on the strain of the human virus after it erupts, and they’ve estimated it will take four months to do that.

 

There was a good report from NewsHour Thursday night, with comments by a medical researcher pointing out that the wider range these infected migrating birds spread over dense human living areas, the greater exposure the avian virus has to intermingle with the human (or swine) flu virus. Every time they come into contact with each other, it increases the likelihood that the process we are dreading happens sooner.

 

One of the experts interviewed also pointed out that although bird migration patterns are mostly north and south, they overlap. There are 3 major flyways in Asia, which overlap with the North American flyways in Alaska, so the avian flu could enter North America from there. Unfortunately, the African continent is more vulnerable and less prepared to react.  KwC

 

In case my rough summary is lacking, please review to the NewsHour transcript and streaming video.

Assessing the bird flu crises: http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/health/july-dec05/flu_10-20.html

 

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