Take it with humour - contd.

Hermann the German is in fact an American, living in Berlin, and he's got an outstanding sense of humor. He says that Germans have found a substitute (Ersatz) for the Birdflu, having noticed that "the troubling disappearance of last year’s potential bird flu epidemic". And "now, after months of sustained effort, a breakthrough was finally reached over the weekend: The vibrio vulnificus bacteria has been discovered in the Baltic Sea."
Continue to Hermann's blog, where you can also learn that the Polonium-scandal may also have something to do with the fading of the bidflu-scare.

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The pandemic panic-mongers don't have a chicken leg to stand on
This sentence is from Michael Fumento's site. He is an author, journalist, photographer and attorney specializing in science and health issues.
I reccomend to read his article on how Bloomberg News attempted to backlash on Avian Flu.
Fumento is among the few who stands up against the pandemic panic-mongers, and, this time he shows how those scareproducers "read" for you the statistics on birdflu cases, so that you never stop thinking that these are the last days for mankind.

Scareproducers beware!


The good news is that British scientists are said to be on the verge of producing a revolutionary flu vaccine ... that works against all major types of the disease.
Described as the 'holy grail' of flu vaccines, it would protect against all strains of influenza A - the virus behind both bird flu and the nastiest outbreaks of winter flu.

Just a couple of injections could give long-lasting immunity - unlike the current vaccine which has to be given every year.

The brainchild of scientists at Cambridge biotech firm Acambis, working with Belgian researchers, the vaccine will be tested on humans for the first time in the next few months.

A similar universal flu vaccine, being developed by Swiss vaccine firm Cytos Biotechnology, could also be tested on people in 2007 - and the vaccines on the market in around five years.

Importantly, the vaccines would also be quicker and easier to make than the traditional jabs, meaning vast quantities could be stockpiled against a global outbreak of bird flu.

The bad news is that we have had such news before.

But the really good news would be if the Brits really came up with a universal flu-vaccine, because it would mean the end of the scareproducers.