FREE Flu Stop manual download here NOW! A Story in the Jakarta Globe reported by Antara on March 26. Informs that the Health experts in Garut, West Java Province has had 46 cases of bird flu in humans up to March 23. The important thing is four people died. And 36 people lived. Also, there were five suspect cases. On March 23, 2009, WHO had Indonesia at 141 cases and 115 deaths. This adds up to 82.14% the highest death rate in the world. All of a sudden you have four people die out of 40 which is a death rate of 10%. This is by far the lowest death rate in the world for the H5N1 virus. Either the virus has changed in a big way or the health experts are lying about the numbers.
Hendy Budiman, head of the district health agency, should know what is going on in his own district. Siti Fadilah Supari, Indonesia's Health Minister runs the show. Mr. Budiman reports what she wants. I think that this report is right for this reason: they are trying to spin the news that the virus now is less lethal than before. That means that the virus has sacrificed its knack for killing to spread more easily to people. This is a common thing that pandemic viruses do.
There was a lot of media attention on 11-14-2008 the Wahidin Sudirohusodo Hospital, Makassar, South Sulawesi treated 17 patients for BIRD FLU the patients were isolated. A few days later the “Bird Flu Suspects were all Declared Negatives” I think at this time they found out that a lot of people had survived the H5N1 virus. They did not say so then due to the extreme media coverage. Now with their own timing they let the cat out of the bag.
The average reader would think that more people surviving the H5N1 virus are a good thing. But it actually shows that the virus is moving closer to a pandemic type of virus. In the 1918 Spanish Flu Pandemic the H1N1 virus killed 2.5% of the people who caught it.
The most deadly virus to the world is one that has a low death rate. This mutation could have happened in Garut.
When a virus is less deadly to each person that catches it, it can hide not killing its host. If the host dies before they get a chance to pass it to the next person, it will reduce its spread. A pandemic virus spreads easily in an undetectable way. Also, for a longer period. This is what separates a normal deadly virus from a pandemic virus.
If the virus has now mutated to a less lethal form, they have told everyone but without all the hype that was present before. In the state the virus could be in, it could easily slip out of the country. The pandemic might seem to have started any other place in the world. The 1918 Spanish Flu Pandemic was said to have started in the United States but it developed somewhere else first.
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