Hello Happy&Neuro...
I always enjoy pretending that I can follow along with the technical argumentation presented by yourselves... the contributions of Germany's "gsgs" are equally astonishing and I am glad that there's enough of you, out there, who speak the same genomic sequence language as Dr. Niman. I trust, at some point, everyone will agree with one another and/or the technical-ese will be reduced to layman-ease and I'll be better able to follow along and root for the winner. In this regard, I mentioned to "gs" that my interest was more "human than virion" and hoped that he wouldn't be too disappointed in my openly acknowledged inadequacy to follow all that much along.
In my opinion, there are 3 separate, yet, equally valid methods of investigative and analytical approaches to the Phenomenae-of-Pandemia... the genomic sequence, human expectation/reaction and fiscal influence patterns of behavior (for lack of more "campfire-commonly" accepted terminology... 'tis almost impossible to engage in truly productive give-and-take-bs-sessions in the online mode... minimal humor projection possible, without fear of insulting and/or alerting some invisible lurker, aside from a few well-chosen emoticons, of course

).
Tom23 and "ptb" (cleverly chosen lower case acronym, that

) seem to fully comprehend the methodology related to "fiscal influence", btw (quite happy to have picked up that "btw"... learned it right here on FluTracker... couldn't figure it out for a while...MKey seems to have mastered the short-shrift-script, himself, quite well I've noticed). My comments apropos the commentaries of Happy&Neuro, however, are not at all that earth-shattering, I'm quite sure. However, I am somewhat amazed at the speed with which Academia had, apparently and at some length (
http://www.jidc.org/index.php/journal/a ... wFile/18/9), reacted to the entire affair and discovery of the initial outbreak of
Novel-Swine-H1N1 in Mexico. As I recall, the initial reports were not much earlier than the
Received 25 April 2009 - Accepted 27 April 2009 referenced in the text header, below. Seems to me, I had another question, way-back-when... are initial discoveries of various strains of TheFlu always referred to as "Novel" in descriptive terms... I thought Taubenberger&Team also refered to such by the same terminology, in much earlier papers? Seeing as how, so much of all other officialdom's reaction was so slow in forthcoming, 'tis perhaps odd and unexpected, that's all? How "un-katrina-like", these folks seem to have gotten right on it, however; unless I'm treading on the thin ice of mis-interpretation, hmm-m-m-m (someone, out there, will take me to task I'm sure) ???
Just think, if a CampfireConvention might ever need be arranged MKey-Happy-Neuro could give "classes for credit and general knowledge" on subjects, both, medical and technical... international "short-you-tuber" presentations (without sub-titles) could be offered by "Suisse&gsgs" and Conspiracy-contingency-Planning by Tom23 and "ptb" (well-l-l-l... I can always edit out too close an association with Tom&Conspiracy, of course), as well, one of the RV's could be outfitted as a traveling FluVue for trips to the BigCities and School Districts (not to get into any copyright infringement hassles with the Boys-in-Hazmat nor Men-in-Black, that is).
Emerging Problems in Infectious DiseasesMacrolides for the treatment of severe respiratory illness caused by novel H1N1 swine influenza viral strainsJesús F Bermejo-Martin1,3, David J. Kelvin2, Jose María Eiros1, Javier Castrodeza1, Raúl Ortiz de Lejarazu1
1National Centre of Influenza, Valladolid, Spain
2University of Health Network Toronto/ International Institute of Infection and Immunity, Shantou Medical School, China
3Hospital Clínico Universitario de Valladolid-IECSCYL, Microbiology Service, Infection and Immunity Division. Valladolid, SpainJ Infect Developing Countries 2009; 3(3):159-161.Received 25 April 2009 - Accepted 27 April 2009Copyright © 2009 Bermejo et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.In closing, my remarks regarding the 3 separate-yet-related perspectives associated with the reaction of all concerned protagonists... TheVirus, JohnQP, ThePolitics, The$Power... and their individual, as well, collective and/or competitive relationships (Push&Pull-of-PandemicPandemonium) with the "Summer 2009 Production: TheFlu" are meant to be, "just that" !!! Insofar as the above remarks cause others to ponder the continuing tragedy and drama, I welcome your critique and contributions to the mainstream of FluTracker-Forum. Whatever "it" is and will be... it's "out there", now! How controllable-directable-containable... to the ultimate point of Victory-over-Virion and vindication, perhaps, of the more controversial aspects and purported designs of BigPharma<BigBanks>BigPolitics... all such remains to be seen (or remain hidden from more public view and discussion, I suppose). Very interesting, to note, how seldom visited so many of these threads and postings are concerned... makes one wonder, despite the recorded higher levels of participation, recently (sometimes, in the 2000's, I understand)... W.H.O, exactly, reads all of our concern and pre-occupation. In the end, out of some 307-Million Americans at large... W.H.O. knows (of course) and "who" cares, anyway... LaMont Cranston ???
Riddle... Which came first:
Chicken or Egg
Flu or Anti-Viral
Conspiracy or Contingency
Money or Politics
Gaia or GOD, perhaps, God or GAIA
BMHubbard or JWJones (Wow... of all the things one can find on google...
http://www.flynnfiles.com/archives/amer ... stown.html)