Avian Flu Over the Cuckoos Nest

After a lifetime surrounded by some of
his generation’s biggest frauds, psuedos, pretenders and scam artists,
the Dowbrigade has a finely attuned Bullshit Detector. Some would say
this is an example of the "It takes one to know one" school of recognition.

Be that as it may, our deterctor has been ringing quite
a bit every time we hear another story about the latest scourge of the
planet’s well-being, the Avian Flu.  Not that we don’t believe it
exists, just that there seems to be a lot more to the story than the
authorities are letting on. Among our burning questions:

If the H5N1 virus has existed for three or four years,
as scientists claim, and has not yet mutated to a form making it easily
catchable, why are they so much more worried about this one than the dozens
of other strains which have been circulating lately?

If there is no danger of rapid contagion, why has the
CDC opened an isolation center at Logan Airport?

Why is this strain different than all the other strains
which could potentially mutate into a deadly form at any moment?

Unfortunately, we suspect there is much more of this
story to come…..

The H5N1 strain of bird flu seen in human cases in China
has mutated as compared with strains found in human cases in Vietnam.

Chinese labs have found that the genetic order of the H5N1 virus seen
in humans infected in China is different from that found in humans in
Vietnam, Xinhua news agency reported Monday.

In China’s human cases, the virus has mutated "to a certain degree," health
ministry spokesman Mao Qun’an was quoted as saying.

But the mutation cannot cause human-to-human transmission of the avian
flu," he noted.

China this month confirmed its first three human cases of bird flu, two
of which were fatal. The disease has killed more than 60 people in Asia
since 2003.

Health officials fear that the virus could mutate to the extent where
it is easily transmitted from human-to-human, an event that could lead
to a global pandemic capable of killing hundreds of millions of people.

from Breitbart