<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25101506</id><updated>2011-12-14T19:07:44.011-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Bird Flu Virus</title><subtitle type='html'>The bird flu virus is more officially called A/H5N1. Whether you call it that or bird flu or chicken flu -- it's dangerous. It's dangerous now to the world's poultry industry. It's dangerous to everybody especially children who are in close contact with chickens. And it's one small mutation or recombination from causing a pandemic that could make 1918 look like a walk in the park.</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://bird-fluvirus.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/25101506/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bird-fluvirus.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>Bird Flu Basher</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09006567828744173932</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>4</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25101506.post-114432418158678545</id><published>2006-04-06T04:48:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-04-06T04:49:41.600-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Bird Flu Virus</title><content type='html'>Here is the best free resource I've found on&lt;br /&gt;how to protect yourself and your family from&lt;br /&gt;the bird flu virus. This sums up all the free information&lt;br /&gt;you can find on the Internet, without paying&lt;br /&gt;for it and without doing the extensive digging&lt;br /&gt;yourself.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Clint Fountain is a good guy trying to saving&lt;br /&gt;people's lives from the bird flu virus, and he's given me permission&lt;br /&gt;to give this away to readers of this bird flu virus blog.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.InfoRingPress.com/articles/fluplan.pdf"&gt;Bird Flu Virus Plan&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Bird Flu Virus&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/25101506-114432418158678545?l=bird-fluvirus.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='related' href='http://bird-fluvirus.blogspot.com/' title='Bird Flu Virus'/><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://bird-fluvirus.blogspot.com/feeds/114432418158678545/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=25101506&amp;postID=114432418158678545' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/25101506/posts/default/114432418158678545'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/25101506/posts/default/114432418158678545'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bird-fluvirus.blogspot.com/2006/04/bird-flu-virus_06.html' title='Bird Flu Virus'/><author><name>Bird Flu Basher</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09006567828744173932</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25101506.post-114424878695643696</id><published>2006-04-05T07:51:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-04-05T07:53:06.973-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Bird Flu Virus</title><content type='html'>Several weeks ago Robert Webster gave an interview&lt;br /&gt;to ABC in which he estimated the chances of bird&lt;br /&gt;flu becoming highly contagious were 50%, and that if&lt;br /&gt;it did half of the human race would die.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This occasioned some negative comments in places, yet&lt;br /&gt;I knew I'd seen his name referenced as an expert on&lt;br /&gt;viruses, so I decided to do a little research.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Here's the page on him from his employer:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.stjude.org/faculty/0,2512,407_2030_3957,00.html"&gt;bird flu virus scientist&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And another article on Robert Webster:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.nature.com/nm/journal/v9/n12/full/nm1203-1445.html;jsessionid=1E5E916B7C99E7598D25858D38C18461"&gt;bird flu virus scientist article&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I'm not professionally certified to pass judgment on&lt;br /&gt;who's a real scientist or not, but he seemed to me&lt;br /&gt;to have a long set of credentials.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And it's notable that he is the one who discovered&lt;br /&gt;that wild birds are the reservoir for influenza viruses.&lt;br /&gt;Here's a piece written by someone who disagrees:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.melbourne.indymedia.org/news/2006/03/109337.php"&gt;against the bird flu scientist article&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My opinion is that the above writer is simply expressing&lt;br /&gt;his own opinion. He gives no substantive arguments against&lt;br /&gt;Robert Webster's credentials and accomplishments.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;He criticizes the use of "reservoir" to describe wild&lt;br /&gt;birds carrying viruses -- but that is a standard term.&lt;br /&gt;Viruses must have a host which they can infect without&lt;br /&gt;killing or creating a serious disease in, so the virus&lt;br /&gt;can survive. If they kill off every host, the virus&lt;br /&gt;itself must die. I've seen the word "reservoir" used&lt;br /&gt;for this by other people.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I've seen other comments that a scientist should not&lt;br /&gt;be making such predictions. I don't know -- that may&lt;br /&gt;be true but it still seems to me an opinion that&lt;br /&gt;does not invalidate Robert Webster's scientific&lt;br /&gt;status.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I would like to know the basis behind his two&lt;br /&gt;estimates.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;How did he arrive at the 50% chance that bird flu&lt;br /&gt;would become a pandemic? It's impossible to&lt;br /&gt;evaluate without knowing the facts and rationale&lt;br /&gt;behind it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;How did he arrive at the 50% of the humanity race&lt;br /&gt;dying figure? It's impossible to evaluate without&lt;br /&gt;knowing the facts and rationale behind it.&lt;br /&gt;So to some extent I can understand the argument that&lt;br /&gt;it's unscientific to put those numbers out there&lt;br /&gt;without explanation. Of course, it could be&lt;br /&gt;that he explained them and ABC edited that out&lt;br /&gt;because it was consisted of facts and figures&lt;br /&gt;and other things that their typical viewer would&lt;br /&gt;find confusing and boring.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Robert Webster apparently has been predicting for&lt;br /&gt;many years that a bird flu virus would cause&lt;br /&gt;another pandemic.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/25101506-114424878695643696?l=bird-fluvirus.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='related' href='http://bird-fluvirus.blogspot.com/' title='Bird Flu Virus'/><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://bird-fluvirus.blogspot.com/feeds/114424878695643696/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=25101506&amp;postID=114424878695643696' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/25101506/posts/default/114424878695643696'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/25101506/posts/default/114424878695643696'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bird-fluvirus.blogspot.com/2006/04/bird-flu-virus.html' title='Bird Flu Virus'/><author><name>Bird Flu Basher</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09006567828744173932</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25101506.post-114380996436136935</id><published>2006-03-31T04:58:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2006-04-15T08:57:16.393-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Bird Flu Virus</title><content type='html'>I don't know about you, but I'm very afraid of&lt;br /&gt;the bird flu virus. I know that so far it's killed only&lt;br /&gt;people who have close contact with chickens --&lt;br /&gt;but that could change at any time.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;According to many experts, the bird flu virus WILL change&lt;br /&gt;at some point in the future. Nobody knows when,&lt;br /&gt;but according to many experts, it's certain to&lt;br /&gt;become highly contagious in future.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;One of the most reknowned virus researchers in&lt;br /&gt;the world, Robert Webster, just gave an&lt;br /&gt;interview where he said he thought there was&lt;br /&gt;a fifty-fifty chance the bird flu virus would mutate&lt;br /&gt;into a highly contagious form.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And by the way HE keeps food and water stored&lt;br /&gt;in HIS house!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If that's what a world-famous virus expert&lt;br /&gt;thinks of the bird flu virus, I think you and I need to&lt;br /&gt;be concerned -- and learn how to prepare&lt;br /&gt;ourselves and our families.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The most complete information that I've been&lt;br /&gt;able to find on how to make sure that you and&lt;br /&gt;your family survive the bird flu virus is right here:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration: underline;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.BirdFluProtectionHome.com/"&gt;Bird Flu Protection&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Other ebooks contain the same old rehashed&lt;br /&gt;information you can find for free here and&lt;br /&gt;in other blogs.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;How to Protect Yourself and Your Family From&lt;br /&gt;Bird Flu contains a unique 7-Perimeter Immune&lt;br /&gt;System to keep yourself and your family free&lt;br /&gt;from the bird flu virus.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/25101506-114380996436136935?l=bird-fluvirus.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='related' href='http://bird-fluvirus.blogspot.com/' title='Bird Flu Virus'/><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://bird-fluvirus.blogspot.com/feeds/114380996436136935/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=25101506&amp;postID=114380996436136935' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/25101506/posts/default/114380996436136935'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/25101506/posts/default/114380996436136935'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bird-fluvirus.blogspot.com/2006/03/bird-flu-virus_31.html' title='Bird Flu Virus'/><author><name>Bird Flu Basher</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09006567828744173932</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25101506.post-114377448572654831</id><published>2006-03-30T19:07:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2006-03-30T19:18:34.243-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Bird Flu Virus</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" &gt;Bird Flu Virus&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Thanks for visiting this bird flu virus blog.&lt;br /&gt;I don't know about you, but I feel like a&lt;br /&gt;car stuck on railroad tracks. I can hear&lt;br /&gt;the whistle blowing, so I know the train is&lt;br /&gt;around the corner, but since I can't see it,&lt;br /&gt;I can't tell for sure how far away it is and&lt;br /&gt;therefore how long we have before the pandemic&lt;br /&gt;strikes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I'll be publishing bird flu virus information&lt;br /&gt;in the weeks to come, so check back soon.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/25101506-114377448572654831?l=bird-fluvirus.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='related' href='http://bird-fluvirus.blogspot.com/' title='Bird Flu Virus'/><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://bird-fluvirus.blogspot.com/feeds/114377448572654831/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=25101506&amp;postID=114377448572654831' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/25101506/posts/default/114377448572654831'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/25101506/posts/default/114377448572654831'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bird-fluvirus.blogspot.com/2006/03/bird-flu-virus.html' title='Bird Flu Virus'/><author><name>Bird Flu Basher</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09006567828744173932</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry></feed>
