BFEE wants you to be afraid... Check this out re Bird Flu and CDC Chief!!!

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

http://www.thenewstribune.com/news/local/story/5663788p-5080102c.html

Bird flu threat not so grave, CDC chief says

M. ALEXANDER OTTO; The News Tribune
Published: April 15th, 2006 01:00 AM

Federal health officials at a meeting Friday in Tacoma downplayed the risk bird flu poses to humans, contrasting earlier warnings from the federal government.

“There is no evidence it will be the next pandemic,” Dr. Julie Gerberding, head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, said of avian flu. There is “no evidence it is evolving in a direction that is becoming more transmissible to people.”

Continued at above link.

Meanwhile, Rummy's Tamiflu is making money hand over fist.......

[seemslikeadream]

1. And a great excuse for how to handle the insurrection

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/04/15/AR2006041500901.html

National Guard troops could be dispatched to cities facing possible "insurrection," said Jeffrey W. Runge, chief medical officer at the Department of Homeland Security.

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

4. And if it wasn't evident before, this article clearly shows

that is a tool of the BFEE. It is totally rolling around this sociopathics hype about bird flu, like a pig in mud.....

[mcscajun]

5. If I pick up a hammer, it's my tool. Doesn't mean the hammer wasn't there

already.

The threat of Bird Flu is real, even if the scare potential of it draws BushCo like Flies to Shit.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=364&topic_id=947046&mesg_id=947285

[The Backlash Cometh]

2. Who appointed the CDC Chief?

Bush has made it simple, really. If it's a Bush appointee, don't believe a word he or she says. So, who appointed the CDC Chief?

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

6. I can't find out yet who appointed her, but started w/CDC in 1998, during

Clinton's Presidency.

Here's her bio

http://www.cdc.gov/about/bio.htm

[mcscajun]

3. "no evidence it is evolving..."

DUH!

It won't Evolve, you MORAN! (speaking of the Government Dolt, NOT the OP here.) Evolution takes generations upon generations. The virus will MUTATE, which can happen in an instant, or it will recombine with a "normal" influenza strain in a host already infected with the "normal" strain, and it will then be transmittable from person to person.

There'll be NO Evidence it is going to mutate -- Until It Has.

[Media_Lies_Daily]

7. If they say that the pandemic threat is imminent,....

...everybody screams that they're being alarmists and/or liars. So, why should they say anything at all.

Seems to me that I recall WHO and the CDC being next to worthless when SARS first appeared in the mainstream press. It had been present in southeastern China for at least six months before the WHO started to ask China questions about what was going on. Six months. Think about that.

[Virginia Dare]

8. Whether it's real or not...

I'm afraid. We have virtually no public health system in this country, so if it's a pandemic of bird flu or some other communicable illness, which by the way, we are way overdo for, we're screwed. What happens to the millions of people in this country with no health care coverage? This has the potential for being Katrina magnified by the 10's of thousands, if not millions.

[schmuls]

9. UW-Madison, here in Wisconsin, was given grant money to

study bird flu. About two weeks ago, it was reported they had found that it would take several very specific mutations to develop into a form that would affect humans. It was in the Milwaukee Journal (sorry I cannot provide links). It was reported at the time, but now the MSM (this morning on CNN) is making no mention of this when the subject is brought up. Once again, sensationalizing everything.

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

11. Just as MSM didn't report on the CDC's head speech. It's terra, terra,

terra!

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

13. I found a link about UW-Madison

http://www.wgrz.com/news/news_article.aspx?storyid=36351

Bird Flu Virus

Posted by: Theresa Fulcher, Producer
Created: 3/22/2006 4:46:01 PM
Updated: 3/22/2006 4:46:29 PM

NEW YORK (AP) -- Researchers say they have a reason why bird flu isn't spreading easily among people.

A study in Thursday's issue of Nature finds the virus lurks so deeply in people's lungs that it isn't spewed out by coughing and sneezing.

But the University of Wisconsin-Madison virologist who worked with Japanese researchers on the study says the virus could mutate
to overcome that obstacle.

Scientists say the bird flu may also need other mutations to rapidly spread among humans.

Ordinary flu spreads when a sick person coughs or sneezes, spraying other people with germ-tainted droplets.


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10. wasn't the actual Spanish flu recreated in a biolab last year ?

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

12. Yes,and at of all places, our very own CDC.

http://www.canadafreepress.com/2005/cover101105.htm

[Mojorabbit]

14. It's because it is expected in birds here very soon

so they are downplaying it to avoid panic. A good discussion on this here
http://effectmeasure.blogspot.com/
About the fourth one down

an exerpt
I was unfair to Dr. Julie Gerberding, the CDC Director when I said some almost-nice things about her the other day. So let me correct it by taking it back.

I said then I at least gave her high marks for being a good, relatively spin-free communicator, even if she is a Katrina-sized management disaster at CDC. But then she went ahead and made a lier out of me in an appearance last week in Tacoma, Washington:

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There's no reason to think it ever will become easily transmissible? On the contrary, there are many reasons. Good, sound, plausible, scientific reasons. No conclusive reasons, perhaps. But comparing "gazillions of birds" to 100 human deaths has only one function here, to trivialize the issue. Responsible journalism? Irrational panic?

This is now the second Administration spokesperson to start to ratchet back on bird flu. I reported the other day that Tony Fauci had granted an interview to AP in which he did the same thing, although not so flagrantly and irresponsibly as Gerberding. One reader pointed out to me there was no news hook in the Fauci interview. It seemed to come out of the blue. Meanwhile rumors are circulating that Gerberding is reorganizing again at CDC and the Flu Branch is going to be shifted around. It is now part of the National Center for Infectious Disease (NCID) but may move to the National Immunization Program. Last year the Flu branch lost some of its key personnel. Look for more with this reorganization. No one knows from day to day what their new job is going to be in the Alice in Wonderland of the New CDC. As one state epidemiologist said to me recently, "It's like a Repertory Company. Everybody you deal with now at CDC is Acting Something or Other."

This is a ridiculous time to be screwing around with CDC organization, especially considering the enormous upset and morale plunge Gerberding's previous management mishaps caused. By every account she doesn't listen, is arrogant toward the professional scientists, and is an Administration toady. Heck of a job, Julie.

Carrying water for the Bushies also made her extremely tardy in alerting the states to the bird flu problem, preferring instead to parrot Administration messages about bioterrorism (talk about unreal threats!). She never strayed from the "message," which was terrorism and the Iraq debacle. Given the new vibes coming out of Washington about plans to bomb Iran, it makes me wonder whether there is no room in that message for bird flu, once again . . .

Oh, oh. Please hand me my tinfoil hat.

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Always look behind the statements of the * administration I say and then believe the opposite.
Mojo