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re: germans still got their cats indoors lol DECEMBER 30, 2005. The world press continues to spread its own epidemic of false and incomplete news regarding bird flu.

AP reports that in China, a 41-year-old woman has died of bird flu. No evidence is offered for cause of death. No descriptions of tests (if any) run on the woman. Useless. But the assertion is made anyway, the headline is trumpeted---and one more log is added to the propaganda campaign on bird flu.

Here is a piece from AFP on a human bird-flu death in Indonesia:

Another Indonesian dies of suspected bird flu
JAKARTA (AFP): Indonesia's bird flu death toll may have risen to 12 with the death of a 48-year-old man in Central Java who was strongly suspected of being infected with the virus, a health official said Friday.

The man was admitted to the Tidar General Hospital in Central Java town of Magelang suffering high fever and respiratory problems, said Nurul Safariah, head of the city's health agency.She said the man died after 10 hours of treatment.

"We have sent his blood samples to be tested by the national bird flu monitoring center in Jakarta, which will further send the samples to the (World Health Organization-affiliated) lab in Hong Kong," Safariah told AFP.

She added that blood samples had been taken from the victim's relatives and neighbors for further testing.

Health authorities here test suspected cases locally before sending positive results to facilities overseen by the WHO abroad for verification.

The bird flu virus has killed more than 70 people in Asia since 2003.
Scientists warn that continued contact between infected birds and humans may eventually result in the virus mutating into a form that could be easily passed on by humans, sparking a pandemic with a potential toll of millions.

Indonesia, the world's fourth most populous nation, was accused of covering up initial outbreaks of bird flu.

Most victims in the archipelago nation have so far hailed from densely populated Jakarta and its surrounds, where many people live in close proximity to poultry, providing ideal conditions for the virus to pass to humans.

end AFP story

Here we have a case where no testing of any kind appears to have been done. The man had a high fever and respiratory problems. Those symptoms could align with several hundred different causes. But it's called "suspected" bird flu---a press piece is written and the impression is given that bird flu is on the march.

Far more likely: rankling under accusations of under-reporting bird flu, Indonesia is now reporting everything and anything as bird flu, and is letting "the experts" from WHO sort out the details.

It's all a hoax, and you can anticipate, amid the storm of lies, some interesting possible developments in the US in 2006. Suppose hospital officials suddenly report that two people have died in Los Angeles from suspected bird flu. Tests are being done. The government weighs in. The press goes nuts. Warnings are issued.

Then, other experts (from the CDC) state baldly that, yes, these two people did die from the bird-flu virus.

Then, Bush can announce mandatory vaccine and/or drugs for everyone in LA. Or CA. Or the western US. Or the entire US.

Two cases. No proof. Just hysteria---built on the back of a long-running and very effective propaganda campaign hailing the "new pandemic."