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[link to www.breitbart.com]
May 27 7:58 AM US/Eastern

By MARGIE MASON
AP Medical Writer

KUBU SIMBELANG, Indonesia

The World Health Organization has for the first time asked the maker of the anti-bird flu drug Tamiflu to ready the global stockpile after human-to-human transmission was suspected in a family in Indonesia.

But WHO officials stressed Saturday that there was no need to ship the stockpile or take further action.

"We have no intention of shipping that stockpile," said Dick Thompson, WHO spokesman. "We see this as a practice run."

The WHO in Jakarta received word from the Indonesian Health Ministry on Monday about a human cluster in Kubu Simbelang village in North Sumatra. That prompted the Geneva-based global health organization to put Swiss drug maker Roche Holding AG on alert, said Jules Pieters, director of WHO's rapid response and containment group in Geneva.

"We were quite keen to inform Roche quite timely, we knew Thursday would be a holiday in Europe and wanted to make sure Roche warehouses would be open," he said.

Pieters said the move was part of standard operating procedure when WHO has "reasonable doubt" about a situation that could involve human- to-human transmission.

Pieters said 9,500 treatment doses along with protective gear were flown into Indonesia as a precaution on Friday. The shipment took about 72 hours to arrive.

Six of the seven members of an extended Indonesian family who caught bird flu have died, the most recent on Monday. An eighth family member who died was buried before tests could be done, but she was considered to be among those infected with bird flu.

The WHO has stressed the virus has not mutated into a version easily passed between people or shown any sign of spreading outside the family _ all blood relatives who had very close contact with each other.

Pieters said Roche would remain on alert for approximately the next two weeks, or twice the incubation period of the last reported case.

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5/27/2006 9:03 AM

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Morning DaJ coffeecup

I was listening to a CBC interview with a medical professor and former head of some research facility. He said WHO has a history of crying wolf with very little reason, and that they declared h2h transfer before even verifying it was H5N1 that killed those 7 in Indonesia. He said the possibility that H5N1 could mutate into human to human was recognized to be extremely minimal 2 years ago by world's leading researchers on the virus. Wish I could remember more.

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5/27/2006 9:06 AM

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I hoped to never read this, this is not good, if the virus start to be trasmitted from human to human is not anymore a question of if but just when it will come in our cities.

Unofrtunatly TAMIFLU is absolutly inefficace it just shorten in the better case the effects of the virus of about one day but that only if you live it will not save you just shorten the period of infection this is not what we need we need a real vaccin someting that save lifes.

The mortlaity iof this H5N1 virus is extremely high about 80-90%

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Mornin' Shadow, Roman >>The mortlaity iof this H5N1 virus is extremely high about 80-90%<< Yes, and that's in the bird to human transmission! The virulence might well increase if it mutates to human to human! Thw WHO might be crying wolf - but it is a good idea anyway - that is if Tamiflu can save only say, 10% - that could be a very high number if it goes global.

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Bird flu> Tamiflu> Roche> Chrmn. Franz B. Humer> Bilderberg [link to www.cyberspaceorbit.com] [link to www.cyberspaceorbit.com]

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Yup! EmpKenton...we just have to follow the money!

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5/27/2006 10:07 AM

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Hi Dajavoo, what a better occasion for a mass depopulation, is actually better than wars since he doesnt destroy anything.

And with a vaccin that doenst do anything is even better, now H5N1 as been arounf for quite awhile and the few doctors that declared to have almost a cure where are them? silenced? killed?

I know there was an italian doctor already 5 months ago told us that he was at a very good stage for a true vaccin against the h5n1, i wonder if they let him make it...

In those real crazy times we live you can never be sure of anyting especially with the actual farma mafia and the illuminati around..

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Great point.

Certainly would fit into the scheme of things...

Also, strangely suspicious that there are so many (ahem) 'similarities' between the 1918 Spanish Flu and the Bird Flu!!!

[link to news.nationalgeographic.com]

"Bird Flu" Similar to Deadly 1918 Flu, Gene Study Finds
Brian Handwerk
for National Geographic News

October 5, 2005
Scientists have reconstructed the genetic code of the deadly 1918 "Spanish flu," which swept the globe and killed an estimated 20 to 40 million people. Among their findings: The 1918 virus strain developed in birds and was similar to the "bird flu" that today has spurred fears of another worldwide epidemic.

By studying the once deadly 1918 virus's genetic information, scientists may become better able to predict future pandemics, or widespread epidemics. It may also aid the development of new vaccines, antiviral medicines, and other treatments to cope with flus.

"The purpose was to get at questions relating to the 1918 pandemic," said Jeffery Taubenberger, of the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology (AFIP) in Rockville, Maryland. Taubenberger co-authored one of several related papers in this week's issues of the journals Nature and Science.

"How did this particular virus form and get into humans? How did a pandemic start?" Taubenberger said. "Why was this particular virus so virulent? And in a broader sense what can we learn from the lessons of 1918 that can help us in the future?"

Influenza viruses were unknown in 1918, so there was no way for doctors or scientists to directly study the flu during or after the outbreak.

But some institutions, like the AFIP, preserved tissue samples from 1918 flu victims. Those 87-year-old samples—and others from a victim who was buried in, and preserved by, Alaskan permafrost—yielded tiny fragments of genetic material that were used to piece together the virus's genetic coding signature.
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