This seems to have become a very common approach to fool the general public. The drug companies, researchers and governments are using Avian Flu as a cover-up to hide their inability to get to grips with Human Flu.
As thousands die each year in the UK and hundreds of thousands throughout the world of Human Flu, all attention is given to addressing the few hundred peasants, who live in abject poverty side by side with their pigs and diseased chicken, dying by direct contact.
Rather than eliminating such poverty to prevent such deaths, governments supported by the media use this extremely low death rate to cover up their complete inefficiency and money saving schemes by not providing sufficient money for vital research to eliminating or at best reducing, the very high mortality caused by Human Flu.
Even in this day and age the vaccine provided to the general public will only cover lasts year's outbreak and not this year's mutation. When a high level mutation does occur then, as is now feared, we may succumb to another Pandemic Human Flu as experienced three times in the last century. Below are the facts of AIV and I can honestly assure you, as any experienced working poultry vet will do, AIV can be easily controlled as it has in the past in the UK, provided it is not met with undue government interference, leaving this disease to those qualified and experienced men - the Poultry Veterinary Profession not paid by Defra.
At this point in time, as has already been demonstrated, the vaccine available at the moment will do more to spread the disease and should not under any circumstances be used.
The media constantly produce programmes in which they suggest that they have experts to answer the public's questions. Such experts and health authorities have no training in or working knowledge of poultry diseases, the purpose, if not thought up by complete ignorance of the producers, it would seem is only to help in Hiding the Bad News. A very experienced Poultry Veterinary Surgeon, who was involved on containing the HPAI which broke out in turkeys in Norfolk 1979, and easily contained as was the previous outbreak in 1959 in Scotland, was asked recently if he would come on a Channel 4 programme. He agreed to come but would be looking for the cost of an overnight stay as he had to travel up from the West Country, and is now quite elderly although still in practice here and abroad. The programme organisers felt they couldn't afford an overnight stay so a qualified and experienced poultry vet was not used.
My purpose in the ensuing article is to try and explain the whole scenario surrounding AIV which may help you to appreciate a truer picture of a disease which has been with us on and off for over 100 years.
