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Flu InformationBird Flu Is In The U.S.!
by:
Michael Murphy, CFA
In that great Film director thriller, the birds start assaultive Tippi Hedron (Melanie Griffith's mom, for physical object fans) in Mendocino for no particular reason. Today, Ms. Hedron works actively in films, international relief efforts and for animal causes. She may get an ironic possibleness
to combine her charity works with birds again, because scientists about the earth are looking nervously at the increasing possibility of a return of vertebrate influenza, likewise better-known as the bird flu. 1st better-known in Italia in 1900, it is the H5N1 virus concerned in the great Spanish Flu pandemic of 1918-1919 that killed simply about 40 million people. I say "implicated in" instead of "caused," because it was government policies that ready-made the death toll more higher than it required to be. But there is no doubt H5N1 is a major killer.
There are three steps H5N1 has to go through in order to get to people. First, there of necessity
to be a lot of infected birds. Just simply about 200 million chickens have been killed or died in Asia in the last year due to vertebrate flu infection. Strike One.
Next, unless causal agency fare pathological poultry, the flu has to cross species into an animal that can easily infect people. It has now crossed into pigs, which is wherever
most human flu outbreaks begin. Pigs carry human contagious disease viruses. Viruses can combine (exchange DNA) in pigs, creating a variant of H5N1 that can spread as easily and chop-chop as ordinary flu. Strike Two.
Finally, it has to hit an unprepared populace, with down
immune systems and no effective drugs. Down
immune systems are caused by, among else factors, cold weather, lack of sleep, excess weight, stress, high sugar intake and caffeine. Hmmm. Sound like anyone you know?
Serious scientists think H5N1 could kill as many an folk as the 1918 disaster, if only because there are now more than three times as many an folk in the world. The UN Organiser
for Vertebrate and Human Contagious disease recently same
a bird flu pandemic could kill as many an as 150 million people. Else scientists have projected up to 354 million deaths. And you thought $3 hydrocarbon was a major problem!
The H5N1 bird flu reappeared in Hong Kong in 1997. Eighteen folk were infected, and six died. All the chickens in the area were slaughtered, and the irruption was confined to Hong Kong. But it has now been found in Vietnam, Thailand, Japan, Earth China, Malaya
and Indonesia.
It then showed up in Russia, simply about for sure carried by migrant birds. So more for forbidding chicken. In August 2005, it appeared in Mongolia and Kazakhstan, and then in western Russia, poised to enter Europe. Balkan nation found infected and dead swans in October. An infected parrot died in quarantine in the United Kingdom.
The Senior United Nations System Organiser
for Vertebrate and Human Contagious disease in charge of a response to H5N1 says a pandemic could begin at anytime, and kill five million to 150 million people. He confirmed the virus is in migrant birds, and same
an irruption could start in Africa, wherever
immune systems are inveterately
depressed, or the Middle East as well as southeast Asia. What he didn't say is that the same migrant birds, primarily ducks, swans and geese, likewise travel thousands of miles to North american country and the U.S. The H5N1 virus is simply about for sure in the U.S. already - it simply hasn't been found yet. December, Janaury and Feb are the "flu season" in some
the U.S. and Asia.
We have reviewed all the companies involved in bird flu vaccines, and found two stocks that should be bought directly because they wish do a fortune even as if there is ne'er
a case of bird flu in the earth again. Governments about the earth are stocking up on vaccines simply in case they are needed, and these stockpiles need to be replenished periodically. For the names of the two stocks, visit my website at http://www.NewWorldInvestor.net
Just simply about the author:
Archangel
Murphy, CFA has been a technology analyst for 35 years, business enterprise technology stock newsletters since 1982. He's been CEO of two computer code companies, and wrote the business best-seller "Every Investor's Manual to High-Tech Stocks and Mutual Funds." He is the commencement editor of New Earth Capitalist
at http://www.NewWorldInvestor.net.
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