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FLU VIRUS OUTSMARTS THE IMMUNE SYSTEM
Mon Sep 23 19:18:58 2002
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The flu virus turns cunning to outsmart the immune system
By Lorraine Fraser in London
September 23 2002

The influenza virus has developed a "nasty trick" - the ability to
circumvent the human body's main defence against the disease, raising
the prospect of a deadly global outbreak.

Scientists investigating 1997's Hong Kong flu have discovered it
learnt how to bypass the immune system, and new flus have since been
found with similar abilities.

"This is a really nasty trick that this virus has learnt: to bypass
all the innate mechanisms that cells have for shutting down the
virus," said Robert Webster, who led the study at St Jude Children's
Research Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee. "It is the first time this
mechanism has shown up and we wonder if it was not a similar mechanism
that made the 1918 influenza virus so enormously pathogenic."

The 1918 virus killed 50 million people. Dr Klaus Stohr, the leader
of the World Health Organisation's global flu program, called the
1997 outbreak "the last warning from nature" that the world faces a
pandemic similar to 1918.

The Hong Kong virus, which killed six people, did not transmit easily
from person to person, but other flu viruses with similar anti-immune
abilities have since been identified. Dr Stohr said: "Imagine if that
[Hong Kong] virus obtained a little additional capacity to be freely
transmitted in humans - a large proportion of the population of the
world would presumably have died."

The new research, published in Nature Medicine, found the Hong Kong
virus was able to avoid interferons and other vital chemical factors
that are released as a response to infection. A single mutation on a
flu virus gene was linked with the change.

"The parents of the 1997 virus are still present in southern China,"
Dr Webster said. "The fact that it is still there, and it has this
ability to pull off new tricks all the time, is a threat."

It takes at least six months to produce a new flu vaccine but a fresh
pandemic could spread across the world in days. The only hope, Dr
Webster said, was to stockpile anti-flu drugs, but even America has
baulked at the cost.

Dr Stohr warned that the last pandemic was 34 years ago, while the
average time between pandemics was about 28 years. "We are beyond the
odds now - it is a question of when."

http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2002/09/22/1032055035689.html

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MORE ON THE SMALLPOX VACCINES
Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2002 20:47:07 +0000
From: "Aftermath News" pjw56108@yahoo.com


MORE ON THE SMALLPOX VACCINES


Warning! The smallpox vaccine may be more harmful than beneficial
The American public is being prepared to accept and want the smallpox
vaccine. The Center for Disease Control has been telling us that it is
“when” not “if” a smallpox outbreak will occur. There are many unanswered
questions that the government health agencies refuse to address. This is
written to assist you in knowing more about the vaccine and its dangers, the
smallpox disease and some of the misinformation. If you are a thinking
person, we challenge you to do more research and check out this information,
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Is immunization really necessary?
I am not a medical practitioner, so perhaps I am not qualified to give an
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