Chinese Cover Up Continues - H5N1 Captain Trips?
As in our earlier posts, we still maintain that this outbreak is NOT; a bacterial outbreak; Strep. Suis Type 2; or strictly pig to human transmission through open cuts. We believe the outbreak to be a virus capable of being transmitted human to human.
Perhaps this is a variant virus created in a biochem weapons lab. And much like an EBOLA variant, has a very rapid incubation period and is symptomatic of hemorraghic fever and internal organ failure. Following is text from a CNN report:
Experts on a strep. germ that's sickening people and pigs in China are baffled by reports of 37 farmers suddenly falling ill, bleeding under the skin and dying, all previously unheard of with the disease.
While not uncommon in pigs, _Streptococcus suis_ is seldom seen in people and never produces dozens of cases all at once, raising bigger questions about whether the germ has mixed with some other bacterium or virus.
"Something is different," Marcelo Gottschalk, one of the world's leading experts on the disease, told The Associated Press on Wed 3 Aug 2005. "We are worried, and we wonder what's happening.
Gottschalk works in the world's only reference laboratory for _S. suis_ at the University of Montreal in Canada and says no one in China has contacted him for help since the outbreak was reported.
Gottschalk said _Streptococcus suis_ usually takes a while to develop in people and often causes meningitis followed by partial or permanent hearing loss.
"In my experience, it's much more chronic. They're describing death within 24 hours," he said by telephone from England. "What they're describing doesn't fit the picture."
"Why is it behaving differently all of a sudden?" said Juan Lubroth, an animal health official at FAO in Rome. "One explanation is you have additional problems and it's not just _S. suis_ that's causing it."
"Most patients suffered failures in the kidneys, livers, lungs and heart shortly after they were contracted, and some of them died before timely treatment," said Chen Zhihai, head of the expert panel sent by the Ministry of Health to the epidemic-hit regions.
The latent period of the disease is so short that some patients died within 10 hours after infection, he said in an interview with Xinhua on Thu 4 Aug 2005. "In one case, a man died 2 hours after slaughtering a sick pig."
In comparison, it normally takes a week or 2 for an ordinary bacterial infection to break out, he said. The WHO and the UN Food and Agriculture Organization have questioned whether _S. suis_ could possibly have combined with some other disease or bacteria in China.
CNN International
Perhaps this is a variant virus created in a biochem weapons lab. And much like an EBOLA variant, has a very rapid incubation period and is symptomatic of hemorraghic fever and internal organ failure. Following is text from a CNN report:
Experts on a strep. germ that's sickening people and pigs in China are baffled by reports of 37 farmers suddenly falling ill, bleeding under the skin and dying, all previously unheard of with the disease.
While not uncommon in pigs, _Streptococcus suis_ is seldom seen in people and never produces dozens of cases all at once, raising bigger questions about whether the germ has mixed with some other bacterium or virus.
"Something is different," Marcelo Gottschalk, one of the world's leading experts on the disease, told The Associated Press on Wed 3 Aug 2005. "We are worried, and we wonder what's happening.
Gottschalk works in the world's only reference laboratory for _S. suis_ at the University of Montreal in Canada and says no one in China has contacted him for help since the outbreak was reported.
Gottschalk said _Streptococcus suis_ usually takes a while to develop in people and often causes meningitis followed by partial or permanent hearing loss.
"In my experience, it's much more chronic. They're describing death within 24 hours," he said by telephone from England. "What they're describing doesn't fit the picture."
"Why is it behaving differently all of a sudden?" said Juan Lubroth, an animal health official at FAO in Rome. "One explanation is you have additional problems and it's not just _S. suis_ that's causing it."
"Most patients suffered failures in the kidneys, livers, lungs and heart shortly after they were contracted, and some of them died before timely treatment," said Chen Zhihai, head of the expert panel sent by the Ministry of Health to the epidemic-hit regions.
The latent period of the disease is so short that some patients died within 10 hours after infection, he said in an interview with Xinhua on Thu 4 Aug 2005. "In one case, a man died 2 hours after slaughtering a sick pig."
In comparison, it normally takes a week or 2 for an ordinary bacterial infection to break out, he said. The WHO and the UN Food and Agriculture Organization have questioned whether _S. suis_ could possibly have combined with some other disease or bacteria in China.
CNN International
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