Turkey Bird Flu Propaganda Update

Jon Rappoport | January 13 2006

I have been through these situations before: reporting from an area is spotty, hard to verify, and reporters tend to use generalities to cover a lack of specific facts.

Right now, the "bird-flu scene" in Turkey is fluid, to say the least.

Here are the basic stats being relayed from Turkey by Reuters. Two teens have died and H5N1 virus was in their bodies, and cause of death has been ruled bird flu. A third teen, from the same family as the other two children, has also died, and although H5N1 has been found in her lungs, officials are presently reluctant to call it a definite fatality from H5N1.

There are roughly 18 other people in Turkey who have been found to have H5N1 virus. Reports on this stat vary.

350,000 birds have been slaughtered in Turkey in the past two weeks, "to stop the spread of bird flu," and a 2-mile quarantine perimeter has been set up around "the infected area." What infected area? Poultry farms? Unclear.

I have emailed the World Health Organization and left a phone message for a chief WHO bird-flu coordinator in New York. No answers yet.

My question is simple---WHAT SPECIFIC DIAGNOSTIC TESTS FOR H5N1 WERE DONE AT THE WHO LAB IN THE UK, WHERE FINAL JUDGMENT CALLS WERE MADE ON THE TURKISH CHILDREN? ANTIBODY TESTS? PCR?

AFP press agency is implying that the "human bird-flu cases" in Turkey are centered at one hospital, the Van. And the chief physician there is calling for international help, stating that no outside medical personnel have arrived with assistance for Turkey.

My nose tells me, EXAMINE THIS HOSPITAL CLOSELY. See what tests (if any) for bird flu they are running. On what are they basing their assessments about H5N1? Is the hospital prone to various types of spreading infections within its walls?

The head physician there, Dr. Sahin, states that Turkey needs more labs that can quickly ID viruses. This tells me that the testing situation in Turkey could be a complete mess.

As I've written in earlier articles, the two most popular ways of lab testing for viruses are: antibodies and PCR. Both tests are completely useless in establishing any sort of contributory role of viruses in illness or death.

Compound this fact with, say, a series of labs that simply don't know what they are doing, where contamination is generally rampant...and you have nothing. Zero reliability.

Keep in mind that Turkey is being used as a propaganda hammer by the bird-flu alarmists. "First time human cases have appeared outside of Asia." "Very close to Europe." "We are moving nearer to a possible pandemic situation." Blah blah.

Here is how I would characterize the situation, by analogy, in Turkey: there are eight car accidents with fatalities in a major US city, within a one-week span; authorities claim that all these accidents and deaths are connected; after all, every one of those eight cars crashed into a some solid object; in every case, the people who died were found in their cars; all the cars were American-made...

And based on this, government offficials are warning of an impending epidemic of car crashes in America.

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