A billion people? Sorry, but I think the Russian
Virologist has been drinking too much vodka.
It won't happen.

it's all coming together. first us scientists are allowed to "experiment" with the spanish flu. then out of no where there is a huge shortage of flu vaccine. and now this... interesting.

Originally posted by FlyersFan
A billion people? Sorry, but I think the Russian
Virologist has been drinking too much vodka.
It won't happen.

FYI - the evolution of this flu has been tracked since 1980 when a human disease called fibromuscular dysplasia (FMD) first was found in domestic turkeys in the USA (see Pubmed, Julian).

By 1996, FMD had spread to quail in Japan.

By 1997, it had evolved to H5N1 bird flu in Hong Kong.

...somewhere during this time, researchers in Brazil documented the presence of FMD in avian reovirus - a contagious but non-deadly bird virus - showing the evolutionary path.

Also FYI - FMD causes mutations in the stem cells for connective tissue, via an actin protein. ...actin is present in virtually every cell of every species on the planet - it appears that FMD uses actin and actin related proteins to cross species and kingdom barriers, and to hitch-hike on viruses, bacteria etc to spread. Numerous diffrent mutation tracks have evolved over the years, bird flu being only one.

.....also FYI - US agencies and institutions like the Mayo Clinic and CDC have been issuing dire and urgent flu warnings since 1997...as has the World Health Organization. ...every epidemiologist and nation in the world knows it's coming, and has for several years.

However, many leaders in government and industry support a policy of 'benign neglect.' The theory is that a major plague will take care of the world's overpopulation problem, weed out the weak - and leave behind a superior and immune human population.






[edit on 29-10-2004 by soficrow]

Well, I'm not buying it. The Russian media is full of ridiculous assertions on a daily basis. What was the last one reported here? Was the girl with x-ray vision? I would think, though, that all those over-population alarmist would find this to be good news, indeed.

Maybe he has some inside info on altered flu viruses being created during the massive Soviet bioweapons research program. If he's was a virologist during the time if the Soviet Union chances are he worked in the military program possibly in Biopreparat.

Originally posted by mad scientist
Maybe he has some inside info on altered flu viruses being created

....The living cell is the most well-equipped laboratory in the world. Nothing man-made can touch it. We do not need bio-weapons programs to endanger us. Nature does the job with only a small infusion of stupidity, hubris and pollution from da boys. Already done.

But FYI - the FMD epidemic originated in the early 1900 in the USA - probably with a contamination of the original mass vaccines (probably by a scrapie prion). ...The contamination may or may not have been accidental, but it DEFINITELY came from the USA.


DENY IGNORANCE. Please.


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I think this story about the epidemic virus that would kill over a billion people could be true and scientist already know that, specially the Russian government & the CIA.
Take this as an example then tell me your opinion
epidemic began in Asia and soon spread to Europe where it killed well over 25 million people in less than four years.
The epidemic spread between 1347 and 1350 .

Originally posted by soficrow

Originally posted by FlyersFan


FYI - the evolution of this flu has been tracked since 1980 when a human disease called fibromuscular dysplasia (FMD) first was found in domestic turkeys in the USA (see Pubmed, Julian).

By 1996, FMD had spread to quail in Japan.

By 1997, it had evolved to H5N1 bird flu in Hong Kong.

...(in 2001), researchers in Brazil documented the presence of FMD in avian reovirus - a contagious but non-deadly bird virus - showing the evolutionary path.

Also FYI - FMD causes mutations in the stem cells for connective tissue, via an actin protein. ...actin is present in virtually every cell of every species on the planet - it appears that FMD uses actin and actin related proteins to cross species and kingdom barriers, and to hitch-hike on viruses, bacteria etc to spread. Numerous diffrent mutation tracks have evolved over the years, bird flu being only one.

.....also FYI - US agencies and institutions like the Mayo Clinic and CDC have been issuing dire and urgent flu warnings since 1997...as has the World Health Organization. ...every epidemiologist and nation in the world knows it's coming, and has for several years.

However, many leaders in government and industry support a policy of 'benign neglect.' The theory is that a major plague will take care of the world's overpopulation problem, weed out the weak - and leave behind a superior and immune human population.






[edit on 29-10-2004 by soficrow]

Muadib - see above. ...FMD first was acknowledged in people in the USA in 1938 - it spread to animals, and first was discovered in turkeys in the USA in 1980 - after which its evolution in birds was tracked...


All of the references are on the PubMed database for the US National Institutes of Health.


...may I suggest that you make the effort to educate yourself, at least minimally, before you start slinging your little arrows?



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