The next pandemic? The Spanish
Flu Influenza killed 50 to 100 million people in the 1918 outbreak and it only
had a mortality rate of 2%. H7N9 arrives with a mortality rate of 20%.
Scientists are already calling the virus one of the most lethal ever seen. The
consequences for the human race of human-to-human transmission and further
mutations of the virus are ‘unthinkable.’
One day this will happen ( Revelation 6: 7-8)
And when he opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth beast
say, Come and see. And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat
on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And power was given onto them over
the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword (war), and with hunger
(food shortages and famines), and with death, and with the beast of the
earth. (PESTILENCE AND PLAGUES FROM ANIMALS)
Put your faith and
trust in The Lord Jesus , not this world, shift your heart
and thinking towards Jesus ... Man has no ability to cope with or
correct the massive catastrophes coming onto the world eventually ..... Men's
hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are
coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven will be shaken. (Luke 21:26)
This poor man cried, and the Lord heard him, and saved him out of all his
troubles. The angel of the Lord encamps around about them that fear him, an
delivers them. (Psalm 34: 6-7)
World’s leading virologist warns of potential
human-to-human transmission of H7N9
The next pandemic? The
Spanish Flu Influenza killed 50 to 100 million people in the 1918 outbreak and
it only had a mortality rate of 2%. H7N9 arrives with a mortality rate of 20%.
Scientists are already calling the virus one of the most lethal ever seen. The
consequences for the human race of human-to-human transmission and further
mutations of the virus are ‘unthinkable.’
April 29, 2013
– CHINA – There is no evidence that the deadly H7N9 bird flu has yet
spread between humans in China but health authorities must be ready for the
virus to mutate at any time, a top US virologist has warned. Anthony Fauci, the
head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), said
officials in China had studied more than 1,000 close contacts of confirmed cases
and not found any evidence of human-to-human transmission. “That is powerful
evidence because if you had a thousand contacts with someone with the flu you
would be pretty sure some of them would have been infected,” Fauci said in an
interview with AFP. Nevertheless, Fauci cautioned that authorities needed to be
ready for the possibility of the virus mutating and spreading between humans.
“It’s unpredictable as are all the influenza. One of the things we need to be
concerned about is this might gain the capability of going human-to-human which
up to this point has not happened and is somewhat encouraging news,” Fauci said.
“But we still need to be very prepared for the eventuality of that happening.”
Researchers are already developing a diagnostic test to identify H7N9, along
with a vaccine, with clinical trials due in July or August. “Work is under way
on making a diagnostic test to be able to pick it up quickly,” Fauci said. “We
have already started on an early development of a vaccine as we did with H5N1
years ago… Hopefully, we will never have to use it.” More than 110 people in
mainland China have been confirmed to be infected with H7N9, with 23 deaths,
since Beijing announced on March 31 that the virus had been found in humans.
Most of the cases have been located in eastern China, although Taiwan has
reported one case. Another case has been found in southern China, while Chinese
officials confirmed a further outbreak in the central province of Hunan. Chinese
authorities have identified poultry as the source of the virus and have
confirmed that patients became sick from contact with infected live fowl. A
visiting team from the World Health Organization, which wrapped up a week-long
visit to China on Wednesday, said there had been no human-to-human transmission
but warned H7N9 was “one of the most lethal” influenza viruses ever seen. Fauci
praised Beijing for its handling of the current crisis, contrasting it to the
response of the outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome in 2002-2003, when
China stood accused of covering-up the scale of the crisis. “It was not the case
with SARS in 2003 but the transparency has been excellent,” Fauci said. “I am
quite satisfied with the Chinese response.” Fauci likened the current H7N9
strain of bird flu “in some respects” to the H5N1 bird flu strain of several
years ago. “The similarities are that it is fundamentally a chicken or bird flu
that jumps from chicken to humans and is quite severe when it infects humans,”
he said. However, Fauci added: “The difference between H7N9 and H5N1, is that
H5N1 kills chickens very rapidly so it is easy to identify where the infected
flocks of chickens are. H7N9 doesn’t make the chicken sick, so it has been
difficult to pinpoint where the infected chickens are.” There have been 566
confirmed cases of the H5N1 strain of bird flu, which killed 332 people in the
world — a mortality rate of 58 percent, compared to 20 percent for the H7N9 bird
flu strain. The H1N1 “swine flu” pandemic in 2009, which appeared in Mexico at
the same time of year as the H7N9, eventually infected 60 million people
throughout the world and killed more than 12,000. The 1918 Spanish flu, which
has been called one of the deadliest plagues in human history (killing 5% of the
world’s population), had a mortality rate of only two percent. –France
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