Some perspective on Bird Flu.

They are reporting some activity, but it is important to read this:
August 13, 2008

Newly “discovered” strains of the H5N1 Avian Flu virus are found in Nigeria. There is no way that bird migration could account for the appearance of a strain of the virus found in Iraq, Afghanistan and Italy in the absence of this year’s migration.
http://www.worldpoultry.net/home/id2205-55311/nigeria_new_bird_flu_strain_detected.html

Garba Sharabutu, professor of veterinary medicine and president of the Nigerian Veterinary Association, disputes claims that the virus is a new strain or that it is highly pathogenic.
http://www.voanews.com/english/2008-08-13-voa32.cfm

Transmission of the disputed “new strain” of Avian Flu in Nigeria to a human worker who developed a fever did not occur despite fears that the strain could cause humans to get sick.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportId=79805

The new African strain is not H5N1 at all, but H9N2, according to Public Library of Science Journal, PLOS One. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), there are hundreds of strains of avian influenza viruses, four of which (H5N1, H7N3, H7N7 and H9N2), however, can be transmitted to humans.
http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=66523§ionid=3510210

13 Indonesians with respiratory problems, fever and a history of contact with chickens tested negative for Avian Flu. “Health officials announced on Sunday that the 13 people from a village in North Sumatra province, Sumatra, who were hospitalized with complaints of fever and respiratory problems have tested negative for bird flu virus.

Nyoman Kandun, the health ministry’s director-general of communicable disease control, said, “Test results were negative for all suspected cases.”
http://www.themedguru.com/articles/13_indonesian_villagers_get_clean_chit_for_bird_flu-8617393.html

“Highly pathogenic” H7 Bird Flu strain found in Oxfordshire, England, June, 2008. Strain said to pose “no threat to health.
http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_2880405.html?menu=news

we won't really know, but I thought it was important to relay this info. I think that any BF that suddenly just shows up over here and causes a pandemic is highly suspect,(tampered with-not the original form) and as citizens we should question everything.

What Indonesia is doing is starting suspect cases on tamiflu, then taking samples to be tested which will come back negative. Then they throw a tamiflu blanket over the whole community.
There are three additional people in the hospital now and the poultry in the village has tested positive.

On the cases that test positive the case fatality rate is 80 percent.
http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2008/8/14/worldupdates/2008-08-14T072909Z_01_NOOTR_RTRMDNC_0_-349999-1&sec=Worldupdates

There is plenty of poultry smuggling on the border of nigeria and I could dig up articles that confirm this.

H5N1 in endemic in dozens of countries and we have had low path H5N1 in this country, just not the high path. Same for Canada.

We had a close call when a relative of the confirmed human to human cluster in Pakistan recently flew back home into the US after two of his brothers funerals (both of who died from the virus) and exhibited flu symptoms. He went in to see his family doc who immediately wet his pants and called the cdc. Fortunately he tested negative. That is how easily an easily transmitted strain could arrive in the US. Luckily the virus although it has mutated into several strains and clades has not attained the ability to EASILY be passed from human to human yet.

Time will tell if it ever does. Every country in the world is preparing just in case.