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OT: Dr. F of Tower of Babel fame...
Close, but no see-gar.
Nada mi amigo. La esposa me llama nombres peores = It's nothing my friend. The wife calls me worse names.
gringoclown10x
OT: adbrdl1...
Nada mi amigo. La esposa me llama nombres peores.
hehaho10x
Me? Funny? Sure. All clowns funny. You talk funny like you alien with feet wet from walk across river. You run for the border? Me call Chertoff.
mmmmmmloveTacoBell10x
janetbg2
So since I made what you feel is a significant bash against NNVC, you will now 'rest your case' and go away?... Wow, if I had known that it were that easy, I'd have done it months ago.
yourewelcome10x
Dr F....
..."Symptoms of dengue are high fever and rashes."...
Hmmmm.... H5N1 symptoms also include high fever and skin rashes. And I have read that often H5N1 is misdiagnosed (intentionally?) as Dengue. Given that Malaysia currently has endemic H5N1, it could be an easy misdiagnosis.
thingsthatmakeyougohmmmm10x
JRP...
Looks like we also have a descending wedge that is between $0.50-ish and $0.80-ish. This wedge will be winding tighter and tighter over the next 60 days. My prediction is that we will break out on the highside before fat man in red suit arrives down chimney. But, at the same time, Technical Analysis on penny stocks is akin to trying to catch smoke with your hands. You look like you're really doing something but in the end if was just an aerobic exercise. I think anything less than $0.60 is bargain. $0.50 Twinkies are Blue Light Sponge Cake Specials for Kmart shoppers. Easy 25-50%+ gain in 30-60 days for the flippers. Me a holder, not flipper though. I only a 'flipper' when being tail-gated.
hehahohohomerrychristmas10x
Dr. F...
There are those with 'vision' and then there are those with 'sight'. You, my friend, are blessed with vision. Thank you for sharing that vision with those here, like myself, who are blind but seek knowledge from those who have it.
stillmyhero10x
DrF, based on my research, 650K is likely an optimistically conservative number. Given a case fatality rate in the 65% - 75% range in hotzone countries, you do the math. The biggest variable is government pandemic planning and how they react in the face of a pandemic. The governments of the world will struggle with balancing the "costs" of shutting down a country's economy by ordering mandatory isolation and cocooning vs. keeping folks at work thus allowing easier transmission. Given that the world economy is driven by consumerism, most countries will be reluctant to order folks to stay home for several months thus creating an ideal vector for the pandemic virus transmission. And compounding that problem is the fact that less than 1% of the world's populace has prepped for an extended stay at home. This will force many to have to visit the supermarket to buy food creating an ideal transmission vector.
It's a race against time for our NNVC scientists.
pleaserunfasterNNVCdocs10x
Dr FG... Thanks for fighting the good fight here and keeping us on top of the latest info. You rock Bro.
Stillmyhero10x
H5N1 or Dengue?
"In the current H5N1 outbreak, the misdiagnosis of H5N1 as typhoid and dengue fever is common." Brilliant observation... and also very scary given 'suspected' Dengue on our southern border.
hurryDrSeymour,hurry10x
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H5N1 Cluster Raises Surveillance Concerns In Indonesia
Recombinomics Commentary
October 3, 2007
"Within five months, a family from Rawa Buaya subdistrict in West Jakarta lost two children to what was diagnosed as typhoid fever by doctors at the Sumber Waras Hospital. AR, 22, died last Friday after suffering from high fever, headaches and respiratory problems. His 19-year-old sister died after suffering similar symptoms in April. However, on Monday the Health Ministry confirmed that the cause of both deaths was avian influenza."
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The above comments once again raise concerns about H5N1 detection in patients in Indonesia and elsewhere. In the 1918 pandemic, the most common misdiagnosis were typhoid fever, dengue fever, and cholera. In the current H5N1 outbreak, the misdiagnosis of H5N1 as typhoid and dengue fever is common. In Thailand, the most cited example of human-to-human transmission in 2005 was initially diagnosed as dengue fever. In Indonesia, one of the larger clusters, was on south Sumatra and was initially diagnosed as typhoid fever. In the south Sumatra cluster, all three family members survived. Survival of H5N1 confirmed cases in Indonesia is rare, and many such cases were identified because they were contacts of confirmed cases. The clustering also led to H5N1 testing in misdiagnosed patients. The high case fatality rate in Indonesia may be a function of testing procedures. Most testing is done on advanced cases which are transferred to infectious disease hospitals. Patients who recover at local hospitals are not tested. Thus the case fatality rate be lower, but the number of H5N1 infections may be markedly greater than the confirmed cases. The presence of H5N1 in areas that have large numbers of dengue and typhoid fever remains a cause for concern.
http://www.recombinomics.com/News/10030701/H5N1_Jakarta_Cluster.html
Interesting news...
Trial of injectable flu drug yields disappointing results
Sep 20, 2007 (CIDRAP News) – BioCryst Pharmaceuticals, Inc, yesterday announced disappointing early results in a phase 2 study of its antiviral drug peramivir, which is seen as a potential new weapon against influenza. Peramivir is a neuraminidase inhibitor that, unlike the licensed antivirals oseltamivir (Tamiflu) and zanamivir (Relenza), is given by intravenous (IV) or intramuscular (IM) injection. Many countries have stockpiled oseltamivir, an oral drug, and zanamivir, inhaled as a powder, in the hope that they will help if the H5N1 virus evolves into a human pandemic strain.
The phase 2 double-blind, placebo-controlled trial was designed to see if high doses of IM peramivir could reduce the duration of symptoms in patients with seasonal flu, BioCryst reported in a press release. The study involved 344 patients who had flu that was verified by rapid antigen testing. Patients were randomly assigned to receive injections of a placebo or either 150 mg or 300 mg of peramivir, administered in a single dose within 48 hours after symptom onset. With 313 patients available for evaluation, researchers found that the peramivir group improved more than placebo group, but the difference was not statistically significant, BioCryst reported. The improvement over placebo was 22.9 hours in the 150-mg dose group and 21.1 hours in the 300-mg group.
The company said it believes the results were negatively affected by shorter needles—used for the phase 2 study but not for the phase 1 study—that may have delivered an adequate injection to only a third of the volunteers. In a post hoc analysis of 101 patients who received an adequate IM peramivir injection, as measured by elevated serum creatine kinase over baseline, investigators found that improvement over placebo was 64.6 hours in the 300-mg dose group and 44.6 hours in the 150-mg group. Safety and tolerability were similar for the placebo group and both peramivir groups, BioCryst said.
"We're clearly disappointed that we did not achieve the primary endpoint across the entire study population," said Jon P. Stonehouse, president and chief executive officer of BioCryst, based in Birmingham, Ala., in the statement. However, he added the company was buoyed by the safety findings and said the efficacy findings in the patients that received an adequate dose exceeded expectations. BioCryst will correct the problems identified in the study when it launches a phase 3 study by the end of the year, he said.
Another phase 2 study is under way to evaluate the efficacy of IV peramivir in hospital patients with flu, the company said. The study is designed to compare IV peramivir with oral oseltamivir. In January 2006 the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) granted BioCryst a fast-track designation to develop an injection to treat highly virulent, life-threatening strains of influenza, the company said in its statement. In January 2007 the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) awarded the company a $102.6 million contract to develop peramivir for seasonal and pandemic influenza.
http://www.cidrap.umn.edu/cidrap/content/influenza/panflu/news/sep2007peramivir.html
backtolurkingintheshadowns10x
Ovid, my poetic friend...
I'm not a Moderator, but I play one at work. And, FWIW, I am holding 100% of my position. In fact, I'm deciding on a price target to almost double my share total. I occasionally lurk... but have basically stopped posting. Much like Raging Bull (but not as bad as, yet) stock chat boards, the tone on this board has been poisoned. It's entirely obvious what someone's agenda is when they post intentionally misleading info over and over and over. I find it annoying that it is allowed. And I doubt that I'm alone. Truth is sweet to the ears and brain. And lies are sour. When you hear it/read it, you know the difference between the two. The good Dr speaks truth. You read it and you know it.
But then again, since I rarely have much of any substance to add to the discussion, my absence may actually improve the thread. hehaho.
stillahugeFeelgoodFan10x
MMeyers... Just as there is no 'new' history (it just repeats), there is no such thing as random occurrences or coincidence. In many European countries (and now in Vegas too), there are bands of Gypsies who use brilliant distraction (often a woman in need) and teamwork along with their amazing pick-pocketing skills to rob unsuspecting tourists blind. Stock/opinion manipulation, IMHO, is much the same as that. Many here are also easily distracted tourists with lots of money who are only staying "in country" for a short time.
Fridaythe13thfan10x
Clever larson...hehahoeom10x.
cyber,
The point is that our new paid basher has arrived. It totally defies logic that someone who is supposedly holding shares that he wishes to sell to recover his money would bash the same stock. Thus, liar, liar, pants on fire.
hehaho10x
I'm sure that huge block purchase was a TOTAL COINCIDENCE right be for the uplisting. HEHAHO! That funny. Good one. Yeah, total coincidence. Either MM or someone from SEC called their buddy and told them about uplisting occurring at the end of the day. Buddy bought at bargain price intentionally depressed by MM. Buddy double money in a week or two. Nice buddy.
And guess what boys and gurls? Now we should expect the bashers with multiple log-on personalities to show up. That happen when headed to the Big Leagues.
PlayBall10x
Very nice. Pays to have friends in all the right places (Market Makers). It's who you know that makes you rich!!!
IloveM&M's10x
Stock Scientist! Very nice chart. Interesting descending wedgie. Eeeks. Hopefully a thong wedgie on 20 y.o. Supermodel. hehaho. Sorry... I thoroughly enjoy your Stock Technical Analysis. I'm a TA fan at heart minus the gray matter needed to makes sense of the signals. But methinks that anything below $1 is a steal. Especially so based on your email to/from Eugene. 'Thank you' by the way for that... U-da-man. You my 'back-up hero' in case anything happens to DrF. Cherio.
TAfan10x
hehaho...eom10x
Amen Brother West...
H5N1 evolution and recombination is like a slow motion train wreck.
allaboard!10x
Interesting...
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Vietnam, US launch project to fight avian, pandemic influenza
Vietnam and the US announced Thursday a five year cooperative agreement to combat avian and pandemic influenza. The first year’s funding for this program is US$1.15 million. The agreement was reached between the Vietnam Administration of Preventive Medicine (VAPM) and the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). US Ambassador Michael Marine said agreement supports “the necessary steps to better prevent, prepare for and respond to the growing threat from influenza and other epidemic diseases.” He praised Vietnam’s efforts to fight bird flu and said the project would complement other bird flu projects in Vietnam supported by the US Agency for International Development and the US Department of Agriculture.
http://www.thanhniennews.com/healthy/?catid=8&newsid=29061
GLTY'ALL10x
DrF...
You never cease to amaze me. You're almost like the Starship Enterprise all knowing computer. Captain-10x asks, "Computer, what is the Pi truncated to 50 digits?" Computer-DrF immediately states, "That'd be 3.14159265358979323846264338327950288419716939937510."
weareallsillymortalsbycomparison10x
idcc,
I think that maybe the Good Doctor should respond to this one as I'm just a simple troglodyte (versus a complex troglodyte) ex-clown who speaks in redundancies and over-complicated language to appear intellectual. But from what I understand, basically, Flucide attacks a common foundation that influenzas share.
cavedweller10x
Dr. Niman's work is brilliant and beyond cutting edge. To his credit, Dr. Niman has actually predicted several future recombinations for H5N1 to become more H2H transmissible. Tracing influenza evolution and recombination through genetics/DNA tracing has yielded many surprising discoveries. Not surprisingly, Dr. Niman has many detractors as his work challenges the status quo of Big Pharma who 'hope' that their 6 - 12 month old flu vaccines might offer 'some' level of protection against influenzas constant genetic shifting, evolution and recombination. Understanding this fact about Big Pharma's exercise in vaccine futility brought me to NNVC. An H5N1 influenza vaccine will not save the planet from a pandemic as there are multiple clades and sub-clades currently circulating and new clades evolving and recombining daily. NNVC's Nano-Flucide technology easily addresses this constantly shifting target problem. Technically, Henry is also on the wrong side of the H5N1 vaccine issue too. Flucide addresses all influenzas where they live and could end influenza altogether while Dr. Niman is working to predict future genetic states and then sell this info to Big Pharma for vaccine development. He sells them the shovel to dig for gold. We sell treasure map to gold's location. Big diff. See.
Nimanfan10x
Regardless of what the mainstream media is spoon feeding us, H5N1 is more of a pandemic threat today than 2 years ago when it was the talk of the day. Of the multitude of H5N1 websites, I have found the websites below to be very worthwhile. These sites are some of the best places to learn what is currently happening with H5N1 around the planet.
A very good H5N1 blog.
http://crofsblogs.typepad.com/h5n1/
Dr. Henry Niman's website. Cutting edge and sometimes controversial theories about influenza evolution & recombination.
http://www.recombinomics.com/whats_new.html
A very good forum of relevant topics from preps to links to current H5N1 hotspots.
http://www.flutrackers.com/forum/
flubie10x
This story below is why I'm happy that NNVC scientists (and many other scientists around the world) are feverishly (nice pun) working on a vaccine/viricide for H5N1. Regardless of the world's collective Attention Deficit Disorder, H5N1 is still present and is evolving & recombining with other HP & LP influenzas at an alarming rate. With SARS and other diseases, the Chinese demonstrated that they are anything but open and honest about their disease problems. Geneticists examining the H5N1's DNA phylogenetic tree recently determined that H5N1 came from China in the late 90's. Interestingly, the Chinese deny this claim. And then we see this story below about 'blue-ear disease'. Nice. By the way, patients who died during the 1918 flu pandemic were described as having blue skin caused by a lack of oxygen reaching the skin (bronchopulmonary aspergillosis) as the lungs react to the invading influenza virus with a cytokine storm (flooding of the lungs with body fluids). And then you drown in your own body fluids. But, before you die, you turn a pretty shade of Umpa-Loompa blue.
Remember that Egypt, China, Indonesia, India, Bangladesh, Iran, Afghanistan, Vietnam, Hong Kong and many others have had cases and deaths from H5N1 in the past 12 months. Surprisingly, H5N1 does not read press releases and does not care that the media is bored with it's march around the planet and lightening fast evolution and recombination.
Happyhappy!10x
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China vet says disease claimed 1 mln pigs in 2006
11 Jun 2007 09:43:55 GMT
Source: Reuters
BEIJING, June 11 (Reuters) - About a million pigs died in China last year of "high fever disease", later identified as blue ear disease, the country's top veterinary official said on Monday in the first official confirmation of the death toll last year from a disease that has pushed up China's pork prices. China in January identified a contagious pig disease outbreak as blue ear disease, or Porcine Reproductive and Respiratory Syndrome (PRRS). The outbreak began last May. "The 'high-fever disease' was caused mainly by the blue-ear disease virus, but other viruses cannot be ruled out," Jia Youling, head of the veterinary department of the ministry of agriculture, told reporters. "The death rate from the 'high-fever disease' accounted for 0.2 percent of the pig population (of 500 million)," Jia said. Last week, the Ministry of Agriculture said the disease had killed 18,597 pigs in the first five months of 2007 with outbreaks found in 22 provinces, or about two-thirds of the country's provinces and regions. "The virus had developed into a variant that was more virulent and led to higher mortality rates," Jia told a news conference. Last week's release was Beijing's first report on the scale of an outbreak that has disrupted the pig industry and contributed to soaring pork prices, which are threatening to push inflation above government targets. Premier Wen Jiabao visited a pig farm last month, where he pledged to ensure meat supplies for the poor. The disease has caused panic among pig breeding farms, Jia said. China's central government will pay 285 million yuan ($37.13 million) for free vaccines for smaller breeding farms, where the disease was widespread last year, he said. Low pork prices last year and high feed prices had made farmers unwilling to raise sows, which contributed more to the rising prices than did the disease, he said. Jia did not estimate when breeding levels would recover. ($1=7.676 Yuan)
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/PEK164819.htm
DrHawkingFan...
Laughed out loud and almost wetted myself on the 3rd one. Clever.
hugeHawkingfan10x
ps10x: But I little idea comprehension of what he's talking about...
shortchange, you may be short on coinage but you long on wisdom. CU applies shortly after IND and tox studies are completed. And remember, 'other' countries will certainly use NNVC's goodies long before approval here in US. Like VN, for example. SEE?
elementarymydearwatson10x
Indonesia says bird flu changing to infect people more easily; WHO sees no signs
By HELEN BRANSWELL
Wednesday, June 6, 2007
(CP) - Indonesian authorities suggested Wednesday that the H5N1 avian flu virus appears to be changing in ways that may allow it to transmit from poultry to people more easily. Officials of the World Health Organization said they have seen no evidence to support the claim. They suggested Indonesia should share the data so other scientists can help investigate whether the virus is undergoing changes that might increase the pandemic risk it poses. "I think it would be important to know the entire (genetic) sequence of these Indonesian viruses before we can make any assessments about virulence changes or transmissibility (to) host changes," Dr. Michael Perdue of the WHO’s global influenza program said from Geneva. "We would certainly look forward to having the full sequence and antigenic analysis of these viruses reported as soon as possible."
Indonesia has not shared the findings with the WHO. And the country has only sporadically shared viruses with the global health agency since the beginning of 2007 in a dispute over access to pandemic vaccines. In Jakarta, Bayu Krisnamurthi, the head of Indonesia’s avian flu control commission, told reporters that it appears recent human cases have become infected from less intensive exposure to the virus than previously had been the case. That raises the suspicion, he suggested, that the virus has adapted to more easily infect humans. It was not clear which cases Krisnamurthi was referring to or how exposure was measured.
It’s not even clear how exposure could be measured in many of Indonesia’s cases. A substantial portion of the 99 human infections there have occurred in people for whom no link to infected poultry was ever discovered. In a presentation last fall, officials of the Ministry of Health told the WHO that in at least one-third of their cases, they could find no firm proof of how the people had come in contact with the virus. "Even the updates I’ve seen from the Ministry of Health, still there’s a large percentage of the cases they can’t find any connection" to infected birds, Perdue said. In a related issue a microbiologist from Krisnamurthi’s commission told Reuters news agency that molecular study of the viruses has revealed changes. "Virus samples from poultry cases have increasingly shown a similarity in their amino acid structure to virus samples extracted from humans," Wayan Teguh Wibawan said.
Perdue said it would be important to know if the Indonesian scientists are drawing the conclusions by studying the entire genetic blueprints of viruses isolated from human cases, or if they are looking only at a portion of the hemagglutinin gene. Hemagglutinin plays a key role in the ability of influenza viruses to infect various hosts, whether they are birds, people or other mammals. And early efforts to figure out why the H5N1 virus can infect some people but very rarely does so focused on the notion that the H5N1 virus was better suited to attaching to receptors more commonly found in the cells of birds than in the respiratory tracts of humans. It was thought mutations at the receptor binding site might be all that was needed to turn this bird virus into a human virus.
But recently scientists have begun to question that theory. In a talk at a recent microbiology conference in Toronto, influenza expert Dr. Malik Peiris said work from a number of laboratories suggests the whole idea should be revisited. "It still remains an open question what it will take to allow this virus to go human-to-human," said Peiris, who is from the University of Hong Kong. Perdue concurred. "Nearly all influenza specialists now agree that single changes in a particular region alone will not likely set off a major change." Indonesia has only shared H5N1 viruses in a limited fashion over the last half year, using the viruses as leverage in a bid to give H5N1-affected countries more control over the science conducted on viruses collected within their borders.
Health Minister Siti Fadilah Supari announced in early February that her country would not share viruses unless it received guarantees those viruses would not be used to make vaccine without Indonesia’s permission. Since that time, she has gone back and forth on the issue, promising at times to resume sharing viruses with WHO reference laboratories. But so far, specimens from only two of the 18 cases that have occurred in the interval have been sent out of the country.
http://www.chroniclejournal.com/CP_stories.php?id=47794
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For the past 2 years, the Indo's have been less than open & honest about their HP Flu situation. So, in keeping with that theme, that makes their most recent statements appear at best to be rather dire.
Eeeks10x
DrF...
Total coincidence... right?...
I don't believe in ko-inky-dinks.
hehaho10x
DrF...
It's almost like our viricides are akin to cruise missiles which that are programmed with a specific GPS location and antibiotics are akin to agent orange sprayed on the jungle. Welcome to the future of medicine.
Methinks you need to change your statement to, "If you're not in NNVC, you're about to miss a 3 year 1000 bagger."
retirementcloserthanappearsinmirror10x
DrF...
The Red Cross LOVES me.... A- blood with no CMV. They say that combo is very rare.
mediumrare,please10x
Approaching 4x our average daily volume... and we're flat for the day. The word for the day today boys and girls is: manipulation. Can you say that word boys and girls? There, I knew you could.
Cover. Cover. Cover!!!
mrRogersneighborhood10x
DrF...
Hyperbole? Had to look it up. Nice. And to think that I thunk myself somewhat bright. Er, um, yeah. Now that thought was truly an extravagant exaggeration. hehaho.
extravagantmentalexaggeration10x
DrF...
Bought more shares on this latest dip. Thanks for the cheap twinkies Mr. MM. Love yah baby! Then had nice glass of bourbon. Chased white ball around 18. Took nice nap. Following nap, told wife we should sell house and live in camper to free up more twinkie fundage. Wife then chased me around house with broom (sometimes on broom... hehaho) for proposing such "craziness".
Some see the future. And some just talk about the past. It choice. See.
Nostradameus10x
He's the one they call DrFeelgood!
Tick-up day = "Hip-Hip-Hooray! We are the champions my friends!!! I am the smartest person on earth for buying this stock!!!"
Tick-down day = "Total P.O.S. crappy pink sheet company with no future! OMG, what was I thinking!!!"
Hehaho! Funny stuff.
What-cha gonna do? Well, here's whatch you gonna do: Buy more now. Buy more on dips. Repeat. Pour nice glass of bourbon. Repeat. Hit white ball around 18. Repeat. Take nap. Repeat. Sell at 100. Move to nice cottage on the coast. Pour nice glass of 100 year old bourbon. Tip glass to DrFeelgood. See?
SillyRabbit,truenano'slovethesebananoes10x
DrFeelgood...
Methinks that there is some sneakiness afoot. Our technicals are wound really tight and ready for an easy $0.20 - $0.30 pop. And given this weeks dealio and pending uplisting... There is no such thing as co-inky-dinks. Someone needs to buy their honey some new shoes and is looking for 'convenient' 30%.
http://stockcharts.com/c-sc/sc?chart=nnvc,uu[e,a]dhclyiay[db][pb5!d20,2!f][vc5!c20][iut!lv22!lk14!ll...
conspiracytheorist10x
TheDane...
You a clever one you are. Very clever.
hehaho10x
DrFeelgood...
What day(s) this week is Nanotech 2007?
And thanks a lot for the many very thoughtful posts here.
This board would not be the same without them.
BTW,U-da-man10x
Japan investigates flu drugs' link to abnormal behaviour
Provided by: Associated Press
May. 15, 2007
Japan's Health Ministry is investigating two anti-influenza drugs for possible links to abnormal, sometimes dangerous, behaviour similar to that reported by some patients taking the flu medicine Tamiflu, a news report said Tuesday. The drugs under review are zanamivir - sold by GlaxoSmithKline as Relenza - and amantadine, which have been linked to a total of 16 reports of abnormal behaviour, Kyodo News agency said. Relenza was taken in 10 cases. Six of the cases took amantadine, a generic drug. Of the six patients who took amantadine, two later died, the report said, but it was unclear whether the drug was responsible.
http://chealth.canoe.ca/channel_health_news_details.asp?news_id=21127&news_channel_id=1020&c...
hugeDrFeelgoodFan10x