- Medical researcher/physician Lawrence Broxmeyer MD, lead
investigator in a Journal of Infectious Diseases study, has a message for
the officials and scientists of WHO and the CDC: There is more to flu-like
illness than either "Influenza" or "H1N1".
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- WHITESTONE, NY -- The CDC has a short memory. There was
much the same "Influenza" talk when in 1990, a new multi-drug-resistant
(MDR) tuberculosis outbreak took place in a large Miami municipal hospital.
Soon thereafter, similar outbreaks in three New York City hospitals left
many sufferers dying within weeks. By 1992, approximately two years later,
drug-resistant tuberculosis had spread to seventeen US states, with mini-epidemics
in Florida, Michigan, New York, California, Texas, Massachusetts, and Pennsylvania
and was reported, by the international media, as out of control. Viral
forms of swine, avian and human TB can be transmitted from one species
to another.
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- "There have been about three influenza pandemics
in each century for the last 300 years", points out Lawrence Broxmeyer
MD . "Yet when the horrendous H1N1 1918 pandemic first got national
attention in America in April, 1918, authorities didn't even considered
Influenza or "the Flu" lethal enough to be a reportable disease."
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- Yet ironically, this very 1918 "Influenza"
strain itself held clinical and epidemiologic similarities to the influenza
pandemics of 1889, 1847, and even earlier. So it can be easily understood
why some experts, from 1918 to the present, validly question how such an
explosively fatal disease could have been or is presently caused by "Influenza".
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- Even Lancet, one of the most prominent medical journals
in the world, calls the Mexican epidemic "flu-like" because frankly
we do not have enough facts or verification in to call it anything else.
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- No one can deny the similarities between the onset of
the 1918 epidemic and that of today. Yet a Press Release, issued on August
19, 2008, by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
(NIAID), contains a striking finding and conclusion: The 20 to 40 million
deaths worldwide from the great 1918 Influenza ("Flu") Pandemic
were NOT due to "flu" or a virus, but to pneumonia caused by
massive bacterial infection.
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- Subsequently, a study published in JAMA by Talbot and
Moore in 2000 showed that Mexican immigrants to the US have the highest
case rates for tuberculosis among foreign born persons.
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- The research of Lawrence Broxmeyer MD, first proclaimed
that the 1918 pandemic was due to bacteria, particularly mutant forms of
flu-like fowl, swine, bovine, and human tuberculosis (TB) bacteria. These
forms of tuberculosis are often viral-like, mutate frequently and can "skip"
from one species to another. Moreover the antibodies from such viral TB
forms react in the compliment fixation and later "viral" assays.
They also grow on cultures which are supposed to grow only viruses.
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- In 2006 Medline paper published in Elsevier's Medical
Hypothesis, Lawrence Broxmeyer, MD wrote: "Influenza is Italian for
"influence", Latin: influentia. It used to be thought that the
disease was caused by a bad influence from the heavens. Influenza was called
a virus long, long before it was proven to be one." Elsevier is a
major medical publisher which also publishes The Lancet.
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- In 2005, an article in the New England Journal of Medicine
estimated that a recurrence of the 1918 influenza epidemic could kill between
180 million and 360 million people worldwide. It is yet to be seen whether
the present pandemic will be what that journal had in mind. Yet similar
to the present Swine episode, a large part of the previous bird-flu hysteria
was fostered by a distrust among the lay and scientific community regarding
the actual state of our knowledge regarding the bird flu or H5N1 and the
killer "Influenza" Pandemic of 1918 that it was compared to.
Such distrust was not completely unfounded. Traditionally, "flu"
does not kill. Experts, including Peter Palese of the Mount Sinai School
of Medicine in Manhattan, remind us that even in 1992, millions in China
already had antibodies to the Bird Flu H5N1, meaning that they had contracted
it and that their immune system had little trouble fending it off.
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- In 2000 Dr. Andrew Noymer and Michel Garenne, UC Berkeley
demographers, reported convincing statistics showing that undetected tuberculosis
may have been the real killer in the 1918 flu epidemic. Although scientists
have recently spun that a "new" strain of "Influenza"
strikes healthy young people, flu traditionally attacks the old and the
infirm. The 1918 killer, on the other hand, went after men and women in
their prime, between 20-40, prime ages for a TB onslaught. Flu didn't traditionally
show the male preference recorded in 1918. TB did. With TB routinely, there
was extremely low mortality between the ages of 5 and 15, also reflected
in 1918. Besides, Noymer pointed out, Influenza typically came in the winter,
this one began in the late spring and summer. The first autopsy of a 1918
pandemic victim occurred in Chicago in April, the very same month that
the Mexican swine "flu" came to our attention .This mystery 1918
disease would subside, but come back in the fall with a vengeance.
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- Yet, Gorgas, Head of the US Army Medical Corp. at that
time, insisted on referencing it as ''Influenza'', an old and heretofore
not that deadly disease. Furthermore, argued Noymer, flu traditionally
gave mild to moderate fever, but in the 1918 pandemic, patients could spike
to 105 or 106 degrees, not uncharacteristic for an acute attack of tuberculosis.
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- And so, Noymer and Garenne, aware of recent attempts
to isolate the "Influenza virus" on human cadavers and their
specimens, nevertheless concluded that: "Frustratingly, these findings
have not answered the question why the 1918 virus was so virulent, nor
do they offer an explanation for the unusual age profile of deaths".
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- "By 1918", Lawrence Broxmeyer, MD continued,
"it could be said, in so far as tuberculosis was concerned, that the
world was a supersaturated sponge ready to ignite and that among its most
vulnerable parts was the very Midwest where the 1918 unknown pandemic began.
A critical mass, much like the Mexican experience, had been reached. It
is theorized that the lethal pig epidemic that began in 1918 Kansas just
prior to the first human outbreak was a disease of avian and human tuberculosis
genetically combined through mycobacteriophage interchange, with the pig
susceptible to both, and as its involuntary living culture medium."
This to is much like the inception of the Mexican epidemic.
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- In commenting on the NIAID report, Lawrence Broxmeyer
MD writes that euphemisms like "pneumonia", "bronchitis"
, "chest ailment", "the flu" etc. have been with us
since time immemorial to describe tubercular involvement. This was noted
in 1944 in pathologist Arnold Rich's classic test, "The Pathogenesis
of Tuberculosis." It is also well known that bacterial secondary infection
in TB cases is common. And since NIAD's 2008 report there can be little
doubt that bacterial infection was the cutting edge of death in 1918.
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- Whatever the "connection" between TB bacteria
, influenza, and a virus-caused "flu" epidemic, the August, 2008
report by the NIAID is a reminder that epidemics and pandemics are complex
disease processes, which should not simply be assumed to be due merely
to a "virus" of great ferocity.
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- Reference: Broxmeyer L. Bird flu, influenza and 1918:
The case for mutant Avian tuberculosis. Med Hypotheses. 2006;67(5):1006-15.
Epub 2006 Jun 27. http://drbroxmeyer.netfirms.com/PDF%20001%20Bird%20Flu%20Editorial.pdf
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- Readers interested in the subject of Influenza/TB can
also go to Dr. Ron Paul, MD's take at:<http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22507.htm>http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22507.htm
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- This and other papers regarding Lawrence Broxmeyer MD's
ongoing research can be viewed by going to<Http://drbroxmeyer.netfirms.com/>Http://drbroxmeyer.netfirms.com
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