NOVEMBER 4, 2005. The September 3rd edition of The Japan Times contained a short piece on bird-flu vaccines for birds. The article is so confused it's absolutely brilliant.

It all has to do with antibodies and their use in detection of bird flu.

As readers know, I've been writing about antibodies a lot lately, because they provide a clue as to how insane this whole bird-flu hoax really is.

Let me review: antibodies are scouts sent out by the immune system to help in neutralizing a germ. Antibodies are good. Traditionally, when medical people tested blood for antibodies and found them, they would say, "Well, this person has handled germ X very well. His immune system is in good shape."

At the very least, the medical people would say, "Okay, this person has antibodies to germ X. That means at some time he has had germ X in his body. It doesn't mean he got sick. It doesn't mean will get get sick. It just means germ X was there."

But now, everybody and his brother has turned all this Science upside down. Now, antibodies are taken to be a sign of present or future illness. That is dead wrong. That is absurd. That is like saying, "We sent scouts out from the fort to see what the enemy was doing. Because we sent out those scouts, we know we are going to lose the war."

So now, as the Japan Times article indicates, we have a situation where medical people are holding back a vaccine for birds because they are worried about producing antibodies in those birds. I'm NOT saying they should use the vaccine. I'm just pointing out that these doctors are so confused about what antibodies mean they're in a bind and at a standstill. They're dizzy. They're contradicting their own practices. They're goofy beyond all recognition. They're off the cliff and into the river. They're NUTS.

Read the article and try to figure it out, and then I'll have a few comments:

Vaccine may be linked to bird flu cases: JAPAN TIMES, Sept. 3.

The weak strain of avian influenza recently detected at more than a dozen farms in Ibaraki Prefecture may have been brought about by artificial contamination, including by the use of vaccines, a farm ministry panel said Friday.

The use of vaccines to prevent bird flu is currently banned by law, and the Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Ministry said it would probe the matter further.

According to panel head Hiroshi Kida, a professor at Hokkaido University, the genetic makeup of the virus found at the Ibaraki farms was strikingly similar to that of a bird flu virus found in Guatemala and Mexico, too far for a migrating bird to carry into Japan. It is also different from other Central American strains of the virus previously found in other parts of Asia.

This led the panel to suspect that a vaccine developed using the Central American virus was brought into Japan and used on some birds, infecting the animals around them, he said.

The ministry has a stock of vaccines to be used in the event of a massive bird flu outbreak, but has banned its general use because vaccinated birds will develop the antibody and be indistinguishable from animals that have really come down with the disease.

end of Times article

The kicker, of course, is in the last sentence of the article.

They won't be able to tell the difference between vaccinated birds and birds that have come down with the disease.

Why? Because the vaccine produces antibodies.

Let me walk you through this.

Animals that have produced antibodies on their own to The H5N1 bird-flu virus AREN'T SICK AND THERE IS NO EVIDENCE THAT THEY WILL GET SICK.

If these animals produce antibodies on their own, that's a sign that their immune systems are healthy and they are handling the H5N1 virus just fine.

But these researchers---who are standing on their heads---now believe that antibodies are a sign of present or future illness.

So they don't want to give the vaccine because, then, they won't know the difference between immunized birds and birds who are sick or are going to get sick. Argggh!

Their thought process goes like this: "If birds get antibodies from the vaccine, they are immune to H5N1. If birds produce THOSE SAME ANTIBODIES ON THEIR OWN, they are sick or will get sick."

This is sheer nonsense. Sheer contradiction. Therefore, everything that follows will be gibberish.

So these doctors are stuck in neutral with their wheels spinning.

I'll take this one step further. There IS a difference between taking a vaccine and producing antibodies naturally without a vaccine. When a bird or human produces the antibodies on his own, this generally means that his whole immune system (not just the antibody part) is functioning well. When the antibodies are induced by a vaccine, this says NOTHING about the health of the rest of the immune system. And believe me, THE WHOLE IMMUNE SYSTEM has to be in good shape to ward off problems. A vaccine FORCE FEEDS antibodies into the system and therefore does not really produce immunity. It only prouces the appearance of immunity.

The madness about antibodies...let me give you another analogy: let's say that you have two stores. Target and Home Depot. They both stock and sell Brand K juice squeezers. These machines come in boxes and they are sold inside the box, still sealed. Same juicers. But "experts" say that if you buy the juicer from Target you'll get a good product. It'll work. If, on the other hand, you buy the same juicer (sealed in the box) from Home Depot, it will INVARIABLY fly apart when you use it and you'll be hit by swift-moving shards of steel and glass.

Getting your antibodies from a vaccine? You're in great shape. You're immune. Getting the SAME antibodies because your body is producing them naturally? You're doomed.

Overwhelmingly, the tests that are being done all over the world for bird flu are antibody tests. If they find antibodies, they say the bird or pig or human is sick or will soon get sick. If the bird or pig or human gets a vaccine for bird flu, giving it/him/her the same antibodies, radiant health will ensue.

The truth is, all those animals that are showing antibodies to H5N1, when tested, are okay. If they get sick, they are getting sick from something else: like the horrendously filthy chronic environments that exist in most factory farms.