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Influenza

H7N9 update: 120 cases! The more you’re exposed, the greater your chances of getting sick!

28 April 2013 (00:51 UTC-07 Tango)/17 Jumada t-Tania 1434/08 Ordibehest 1392/19 Bing-Chen (3rd month) 4711

The Chinese province of Hunan reporting its first human case.  A 64 years old woman became sick with pneumonia after working with poultry. She’s in critical condition, but improving.

Travel agencies in Taiwan reporting a 30% drop in bookings to mainland China, after a Taiwan man came back from China sick with H7N9.

On top of that, potential visitors to Taiwan, from Japan, have also been canceling their trips: “…the number of tour groups composed of Japanese corporate employees has declined remarkably.”-Mori Chen, Star Express

Researchers in Canada think the reason so many old men are getting sick, is because of their life long exposure to H7 strains of the flu, as a result of their work with poultry.  A similar antibody-dependent enhancement has been confirmed with dengue fever, and studies have shown that lab animals exposed to flu are more likely to finally get sick than “influenza-naïve animals”.

Basically the more you come into contact with a disease the weaker your immune system gets, even you if you never show symptoms: “…..we should also stay open to the possibility that pre-existing cross-reactive antibodies may actually facilitate the viral infection process, a phenomenon best recognised for dengue through the mechanism of antibody dependent enhancement.”-Danuta M. Skowronski, British Columbia Centre for Disease Control, Virus-host interactions and the unusual age and sex distribution of human cases of influenza A(H7N9) in China, April 2013 

 

International

World War 3, East Asian Front: Military activity in North Korea & China!

28 April 2013 (00:15 UTC-07 Tango)/17 Jumada t-Tania 1434/08 Ordibehest 1391/19 Bing-Chen (3rd month) 4711

South Korean media reporting that unnamed ROK military sources say the DPRK is building up air and ground units in the area around Nampho.

Nampho is a port city on the west coast of North Korea.  Some think it could be another war game by the North.

Also, the Washington Free Beacon reporting increased military activity by China, along the border with North Korea.  There are also reports that China is prepping for large numbers of refugees from Korea.

 

International

H7N9 update: 119 cases, more evidence it’s not coming from chickens!

27 April 2013 (22:13 UTC-07 Tango 26 April 2013)/16 Jumada t-Tania 1434/07 Ordibehest 1391/18 Bing-Chen (3rd month) 4711

The H7N9 flu has spread to yet another Chinese province.  Fujian Province reporting a man in his 60s became sick with repeated coughing, low fever and a tight chest on 18 April.  The Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention confirmed H7N9 on 26 April.

Three men, ages ranging from 30s to 60s, confirmed infected in Jiangsu Province.  Two are in serious condition.

A 38 years old farmer in Zhejiang Province, is in serious condition with H7n9.

In Jiangxi Province, a 76 years old woman is in critical condition. She’s the province’s second H7n9 case.  Local health officials say many of her ducks and chickens have died, they are being tested for the virus.

A researcher says he’s found a chicken infected with the exact strain of H7N9 that’s infecting humans.  Many scientific and media sources are claiming this proves the new H7N9 is coming from chickens.  I say no way, because of other data the Chinese government has released.

The Chinese Ministry of Agriculture says they have tested 68o60 birds from poultry slaughterhouses, live poultry markets, poultry farms, and wild birds.  Out of the 68060 samples only 46 were positive for H7N9, only 46.   It gets better.  44 of those were from poultry markets, one was from a pigeon farm, the other one was a wild pigeon.  Not one chicken on a farm or in a slaughterhouse tested positive.  This means the poultry are getting infected at the live poultry markets.  I suspect they’re getting infected from humans, this H7N9 could be a bird flu that’s mutated in humans and is only now infecting birds.

Note that about half the human cases had no contact with birds.

 

International

H7N9 update: 113 cases, 23 deaths!

25 April 2013 (08:57 UTC-07 Tango)/14 Jumada t-Tania 1434/05 Ordibehest 1391/16 Bing-Chen (3rd month) 4711

China’s Ministry of Finance says it will spend $48.6 million USD on fighting the spread of H7N9.

China’s Zhejiang Province reporting a 50 years old woman, and a 60 years old woman in hospital infected with H7N9.  They are in critical condition.

  Henan Province reporting a man testing positive for H7N9.

Jiangxi Province reporting their first possible H7N9 case, a 69 years old man in the city of Nanchang.  The city also quarantined 14 people.  They are awaiting confirmation from the Chinese Center of Disease Control and Prevention (China CDC).

Chinese media have been reporting that deaths are up to 23, but they gave no details.

Yesterday, Taiwan reported the first human case outside mainland China.

 

International, U.S.

World War 3, East Asian Front: Japan shoots self in foot, says there was no World War 2, while prepping for invasions with U.S.!

24 April 2013 (13:04 UTC-07 Tango)/13 Jumada t-Tania 1434/04 Ordibehest 1391/15 Bing-Chen (3rd month) 4711

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe keeps pissing off China and Korea, this time saying there is “…no clear definition of an invasion internationally…” by Japan at the beginning of what is called the Second World War.

In the mid 1930s to early 1940s Japan invaded mainland east Asia from Russia, Manchuria, China all the way down to Vietnam (Indochina).  Now Japanese leaders are denying it ever happened!

On top of that the Japanese government is considering issuing new school books which will claim many islands lying between Japan, Korea, China and Russia, to belong to Japan, as well as change the history of the Second World War to claim Japan was fighting a defensive war from the start. (most Japanese don’t even know about their attack on Pearl Harbor).

This move will destroy efforts to create a military pact between Japan and South Korea against North Korea.

Prime Minister Abe, just yesterday, threatened China with military action if any Chinese set foot on any of the islands Japan considers theirs: “….we have made sure that if there is an instance where there is an intrusion into our territory or it seems that there could be landing on the islands then we will deal with it strongly.”

Today, Japan’s Kyodo news agency revealed that Japan has conducted war games with U.S. forces on an island off the California coast.  The scenario involved Japan invading and capturing an island!

Here’s what U.S. officials said about the whole thing: “Our position is that we don’t take a position on territorial issues. In the case of Japan……we do have certain treaty obligations with Japan that we would honor.”-U.S. Army General Martin Dempsey

International, U.S.

World War 3, East Asian Front: South Korea and China establish hotline over North Korea!

24 April 2013 (12:28 UTC-07 Tango)/13 Jumada t-Tania 1434/04 Ordibehest 1391/15 Bing-Chen (3rd month) 4711

“The U.S. misjudgment will lead it to its biggest historical defeat.   The present U.S. administration should be serious about the lesson drawn by its predecessors who said the Korean war in the 1950s was a war of mistake that was fought in a wrong place at a wrong time against wrong opponent.”-Korean Central News Agency

South Korea and China have set up a 24 hour communication hotline, to facilitate unified policy against North Korea.

U.S. Army General Martin Dempsey: “….the Chinese leadership is as concerned as we are with North Korea’s march toward nuclearization and ballistic missile technology, and they have given us an assurance that they are working on it….” 

 

International

World War 3, Gun Control Front: China’s gun ban fails to stop mass killing!

24 April 2013 (11:26 UTC-07 Tango)/13 Jumada t-Tania 1434/04 Ordibehest 1391/15 Bing-Chen (3rd month) 4711

In Kashgar Prefecture, in China controlled Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, people armed with knives managed to kill 15 people, including cops, before they were finally stopped by people armed with guns!

Of course those people armed with guns were state employees, cops.  The cops shot and killed six knife wielding “terrorists” and captured eight others.

In China individual ownership of guns is illegal.  Only those individuals who can prove then need to hunt for survival are allowed to own a gun.  Guns are allowed for military, police and state authorized organizations.

Punishment for illegal ownership of a gun ranges from a minimum of 3 years in prison to being executed!

International, U.S.

H7N9 update: First case outside China! Japan preps to quarantine airports!

24 April 2013 (11:12 UTC-07 Tango)/13 Jumada t-Tania 1434/04 Ordibehest 1391/15 Bing-Chen (3rd month) 4711

Taiwan has confirmed their first human case of H7N9 ‘bird’ flu.  A 53 years old man became sick three days after returning from a trip to Jiangsu Province on mainland China.

The man says he had no contact with birds!

California governor Jerry Brown was recently in China, as well as Wisconsin governor Scott Walker.  Last week the U.S. CDC warned health officials to be on the lookout for people coming from China who might be infected.

In Japan, researchers have been warning how bad the H7N9 virus is, and now the government is preparing for a pandemic.  Plans are to establish quarantine areas in airports, where compulsory examinations of airline passengers will be conducted.

International

H7N9 update: More evidence human infections not from birds! False Flag human made virus?

24 April 2013 (00:18 UTC-07 Tango)/13 Jumada t-Tania 1434/04 Ordibehest 1391/15 Bing-Chen (3rd month) 4711

Researchers with the China Academy of Agricultural Sciences (CAAS) released the results of their study of the new H7N9 ‘bird’ flu.

They tested 970 poultry from farms and markets.  Only 20 were positive, and those were from poultry markets.  None of the poultry from the farms, in Shanghai City and Anhui Province, were infected.  This suggests the birds got sick after being brought into contact with humans at the markets!

Three weeks ago Japanese warned that this ‘bird’ flu had mutated into a human flu, and that culling of poultry wouldn’t stop its spread.

The CAAS researchers basically confirmed what Japanese researchers discovered at the beginning of April, that the gene sequence is unique for a H7 flu.

They identified genes from several different viruses, but the HA and NA genes are not identifiable.

It’s interesting that two weeks ago health officials in Thailand and China stated that H7N9 is new to continental Asia, and that it came from the U.S.  A Chinese PLA Air Force officer accused the U.S. of biological warfare.

International

H7N9 update: 108 cases, 22 deaths!

23 April 2013 (09:10 UTC-07 Tango)/12 Jumada t-Tania 1434/03 Ordibehest 1391/14 Bing-Chen (3rd month) 4711

China’s Anhui Province reported a 91 years old man hospitalized with the new ‘bird’ flu.  He is critical.

Zhejiang Province reported two more human cases, an 84 years old retiree and a 62 years old farmer, both in critical condition.  Also, an 86 years old man died from H7N9.

It was confirmed that the case reported in Shandong Province yesterday, is caused by H7N9.  It’s the first human H7N9 infection in that province.  The patient is a 36 years old man who whole-sells construction supplies, apparently no contact with birds.

In Henan Province, a 65 years old man is considered recovered.  He became sick with fever, cough and muscle pain on 08 April, was hospitalized on 10 April, tested positive for H7N9 on 11 April but was not confirmed as a H7N9 case until 14 April.

China’s national health officials ordered that all ‘recovered’ patients must still be monitored by local health officials.