APRIL 6, 2006. An FDA press release, dated Feb. 3, 2006, announces FDA approval for a new lab test for bird flu in humans.
I have, in the past, analyzed the most prevalent tests and found them to be wrong-headed, deceptive, and useless. In other words, the tests yield positive results (a YES for the presence of bird-flu disease) when, in fact, the true evidence for that is ZERO.
You can see what the consequences are. Animals and humans are said to have bird flu, after testing, and this is simply false.
On the basis of these tests, medical officials make bizarre and wild predictions about a looming pandemic. Such predictions are about as useful as speculations on the possible presence of M&Ms on Jupiter.
The new FDA-approved bird-flu test will be done, now, all over the world. It is a variation of PCR analysis. Here is a snip from the FDA press release:
News Release
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEFriday, Feb. 3, 2006 Contact: CDC Press Office(404) 639-3286
FDA Approves New Laboratory Test To Detect Human Infections With Avian Influenza A/H5 Viruses
Lab Test Developed by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
HHS' Food and Drug Administration (FDA) today announced the approval of a new laboratory test to diagnose H5 strains of influenza in patients suspected to be infected with the virus. The test was developed by another HHS agency, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
The product approved today is called the Influenza A/H5 (Asian lineage) Virus Real-time RT-PCR Primer and Probe Set. The test provides preliminary results on suspected H5 influenza samples within four hours once a sample arrives at the lab and testing begins. Previous testing technology would require at least two to three days to render results. If the presence of the H5 strain is identified, then further testing is conducted to identify the specific H5 subtype (e.g., H5N1).
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Notice that this test does not get all the way down into the "dreaded" H5N1 virus. It's a step along the way. It supposedly IDs the "H5" strain, and then further tests are necessary to narrow the field.
What is PCR, the type of test the FDA has just approved?
It picks up tiny, tiny genetic fragments that are suspected of being parts and pieces of viruses---and it amplifies those fragments so that more can be learned.
Here is a brief quote about PCR from an article by Charles J. Word, PhD, of Cellmark Diagnostics (Germantown, MD). The article is "STR Data Goes to Court: A Laboratory Perspective."
"For example, one advantage of PCR-based systems is that they can
be used to obtain results from very small samples that do not contain sufficient material for RFLP analysis."
The key phrase here is "very small samples." RFLP is another type of genetic analysis.
So what does this all mean?
The new FDA test for humans works with VERY, VERY SMALL SAMPLES OF GENETIC MATERIAL THAT MAY COME FROM A VIRUS.
Here is what is overlooked. Here is the 9000-ton elephant that is being ignored by these test-makers. IN ORDER TO EVEN BEGIN TO SAY THAT A VIRUS IS CONTRIBUTING TO HUMAN ILLNESS OF ANY KIND, YOU MUST FIND MILLIONS AND MILLIONS OF WHOLE VIRUSES IN EACH PATIENT. OTHERWISE YOU HAVE NOTHING. YOU HAVE NO PROOF. YOU HAVE NO EVIDENCE. THE MERE PRESENCE OF A TINY AMOUNT OF A PARTICULAR VIRUS IN A PATIENT TELLS YOU ZERO ABOUT WHY THE PATIENT IS ILL. IN FACT, HISTORICALLY, THE REASON MEDICAL TECHNICIANS STARTED OPTING FOR PCR TESTS WAS: THEY COULDN'T FIND WHOLE VIRUSES IN THE PATIENT AT ALL. THEY COULDN'T EVEN FIND ONE INTACT SPECIMEN OF A VIRUS. NOT ONE.
Now, believe me, this is a major problem for the medical bureaucrats at the FDA and the CDC and WHO. There are scientists there who know full well that PCR testing, in this situation, is totally ridiculous. They are keeping their mouths shut, but they know.
The solution to the problem is provided solely by PR and propaganda. The press floods the airwaves and the print pages with assurances that we are on the verge of a pandemic. The cause is a virus, H5N1. It's deadly. It's out of control. It's on the cusp of mutating into something that will kill 50-200 million people.
In other words, you ASSUME what you should be trying to PROVE. Once you convince everybody that H5N1 is terribly deadly, THEN you can say, "It's so deadly that, even if we can only find a mere tiny genetic fragment in a patient, that's enough. That's enough for us to know that H5N1 can kill him."
It's case of WILLING the PCR test to be the gold standard of proof. That's all it is.
We were treated to the same kind of bogus analysis in the SARS situation a few years ago. Patients tested for the coronavirus in Canada were found to have so little virus in their bodies that Frank Plummer, WHO's microbiologist on the scene, remarked that it was a complete mystery as to how and and why these patients were sick at all.
Of course, the reason was clear. They were suffering from other factors that had nothing to do with the coronavirus, the germ that was arbitrarily called the cause of a "new epidemic."
This is science turned on its head. Any sane researcher would say, "Look, we've found so little of the virus in question in the patient, we know the virus is NOT causing the patient to be ill."
In fact, we can move this a step further. Take the 100 or so people, globally, that have been labeled as bird-flu deaths. Once we unhook the H5N1 virus from having a causative role in these deaths, we have NO reason to believe that the people died from the same cause at all.
They were sick, yes. They died, yes. But why? The actual reasons have been obscured by the naked and false assumption that H5N1 was the killer.
Now we have to go back and do a different sort of examination of these people (too late, of course, for the most part). Was there massive industrial pollution in the air---as reporter Jim West found in the area of Turkey where several children died of "bird flu?" What was the PRIOR condition of the immune systems of these 100 people BEFORE they fell ill? And so forth and so on.
It's a whole different ballgame.
We are in the middle of yet another massive scientific hoax. WHO and CDC and now the FDA are fronting for this hoax. They are carrying the water. They are deluging the press with lies.
In a murder investigation, such a hoax would be on the order of saying that the victim died of a stabbing, despite the fact that 23 medical forensic people could find no entry wounds. It's that stark.
And then you get 100 people who have died from Alaska to Tierra Del Fuego, and you say that one killer did all those crimes with a knife---and you can't find a stab wound in any of the 100 people.
Like iron filings attracted to a magnet, many people---professionals and amateurs---are breathlessly fascinated by all sorts of pronouncements about the possible mutations of the H5N1 virus...mutations that will bring it closer to a form in which it could infect and kill millions of humans. This is all balderdash. All nonsense. It rests on the prior assumption that H5N1 has already been IDed as a force in human (and animal) disease. That assumption is patently false. The process of IDing H5N1 as a cause of disease depends on the TESTS that are being done. Tests that, as it turns out, are useless and deceptive and meaningless.
It's a house of cards. The house is not collapsing. It was never built in the first place.