EARL NASH, WTFG Super Flu Correspondent
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Only random chance will decide if and when the highly fatal Bird (Avian) Flu--widespread in Asia--will reassort (join with) the Swine Flu, now widespread in North and South America and Europe. Such a Super Flu from this combining would spread fast and kill 6-9 people in 10. The Swine Flu vaccine being pushed by Big Pharma and its MSM corporate shills will offer NO PROTECTION against the Super Flu, not will the Avian/Bird Flu vaccine approved in 2007. A new vaccine for the Super Flu would take months to reach the public.
(SEE related story: "Avian/Bird Flu Vaccine Approved by FDA")
"The WHO's biggest fear is that the two viruses will intermingle and produce a new mutant that retains the lethality of H5N1 while acquiring the ready transmissibility of H1N1. The world is not ready for a pandemic to be caused by H5N1," [Dr. Margaret Chan, WHO pandemic coordinator]
She also noted, however, that areas where the swine flu is now active are among the areas where officials have seen activity of avian flu, also known as H5N1. Avian flu is much more lethal than swine flu, killing as many as 60% of those it infects, but it is only very poorly transmitted from human to human.
The often deadly H5N1 Bird Flu (or Avian Flu) virus has not yet gained the ability to spread easily from person to person, though it has circulated widely in birds for the past 6 years. Disease experts still fear that it could gain transmissibility through mutation or by reassorting with another flu virus, such as the Swine Flu, which is fast spreading.
H5N1 + H1N1
The global H5N1 total is 467 cases with 282 deaths, a CFR of 60%. Indonesia is the hardest-hit country overall, though Egypt has had more cases this year—39, with just 4 deaths.
Indonesia reported this week 20 human cases of Bird flu with 19 of them fatal—a 95% case-fatality rate (CFR).
Indonesia's cumulative H5N1 toll since 2005 is now 161 cases with 134 deaths, for a CFR of 83%.
Besides Egypt and Indonesia, countries that have reported cases and deaths this year are China (7 and 4), Vietnam (5 and 5), and Cambodia (1 and 0).
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