NEWS: Bush Wants To Use American Military To Curb Bird Flu, page

Speaking at a Rose Garden Press Conference, President Bush outlined his idea to use the U.S Military if and when a Avian Flu pandemic occurs. Bush envisions the military quarantining areas where the deadly flu virus has been found. He claimed that aggressive action needs to be taken to ensure that the impact of the pandemic is contained. "The president ought to have all ... assets on the table to be able to deal with something this significant," he said. However, Dr. Irwin Redlener, associate dean of Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health and director of its National Center for Disaster Preparedness, claims the idea is an "extraordinarily draconian measure" and that "the translation of this is martial law in the United States,".

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Dr. Redlener's concerns stem from a feasibilty standpoint, not merely from the civil liberties aspect. He claims that the Presidents proposed idea will not help stem the Avian Flu pandemic. He said that the move would be unecessary if the country had increased its capacity to rapidly produce vaccines, ensured a large stockpile of ant-virals such as Tamiflu, and not allowed the degradation of the public health system.

From the orginally news article
Bush signed an executive order in April adding pandemic influenza to the government's list of communicable diseases for which a quarantine is authorized.

A bandaid solution to a massive hemorrhage? You be the judge

[edit on 4/10/05 by subz]

The military's proper role is to win wars. The military should not be used for anything else. The problem is that the military is heavily funded while most other government programs are cut. With more more money, the military starts taking on civilian responsibilities.

Read the "Coup of 2012" www.dtic.mil... which was written as a warning in 1992. Where is the US headed?

QUARANTINE WON'T WORK.


The real plan is about establishing military rule to protect corporate feudalism - and it won't stop with bird flu "quarantines." Quarantine is just a cover story - quarantines won't work for bird flu.


From: WHO Pushes for Bird Flu Vaccine Production. Posted on 10-3-2005

Bird flu can be transmitted in a variety of different ways: between animals, birds and humans via physical contact or droplets in the air; in feces and urine and therefor, in water and soil and from contaminated surfaces. More to the point, the virus apparently can survive an unusually long time without a host.

For example, British microbiologist Professor Hugh Pennington is urging a ban on poultry feathers from China because of possible contamination with the H5N1 bird flu virus.

Feather pillows may carry Asian bird flu

Poultry feathers imported from China to make products such as pillows could carry the avian flu virus, says a British microbiologist who is urging the British Government to consider banning them.

Presumably to protect the nation's poultry industry, the CDC skims right over the fact that bird flu is present in the meat of infected birds, including ducks and chickens. The CDC "fact sheet" also neglects to mention that this flu strain can present with gastrointestinal symptoms, and without other "typical" flu symptoms.

We report the first case of avian influenza in a patient with fever and diarrhea but no respiratory symptoms. Avian influenza should be included in the differential diagnosis for patients with predominantly gastrointestinal symptoms, particularly if they have a history of exposure to poultry.

Atypical avian influenza (H5N1). Emerg Infect Dis. 2004 Jul;10(7):1321-4. Apisarnthanarak A, Kitphati R, Thongphubeth K, Patoomanunt P, Anthanont P, Auwanit W, Thawatsupha P, Chittaganpitch M, Saeng-Aroon S, Waicharoen S, Apisarnthanarak P, Storch GA, Mundy LM, Fraser VJ. Thammasart University Hospital, Klong Luang, Pratumthani, Thailand. PMID: 15324560

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From Patriot Act II. Update. Posted on 2-3-2005


......the stage is set for NORTHCOM to implement quarantines for whatever ails US safety and security. Federal officials have been brushing off old quarantine laws and urging states to do the same for the past four years. Camps already exist.

"After the 2001 anthrax attacks, U.S. officials urged states to update old quarantine laws."

www.charlotte.com...


U.S. CONCENTRATION CAMPS

Quarantine is politically useful and expedient - but it's completely ineffective against most modern diseases. Not only are modern diseases different, but quarantine never works if you don't clean the barn. In this case, the barn is the whole planet.

"Dr. Keiji Fukuda, an influenza expert at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.But Fukuda said H5N1 was spreading so fast and so far that traditional efforts to control it - culling, vaccinating and quarantining flocks - would not always work.

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