Knock-Knock?....
WHO's there? WHO. WHO's who? A rat, that's WHO.
The facts: 1) The WHO has delayed a situation update about Pakistan, with the disease onset dates of the confirmed patients and the relationships of the patients to each other, and receptor binding domain changes in H5N1 sequences - something they never do. 2) The WHO sent a team of experts to Pakistan to help investigate the situation, and US Navy Medical Research Unit 3 (NAMRU-3) in Cairo has sent a portable laboratory. 3) The NAMRU unit sent samples of what they found to London even though this is unnecessary and means that they found receptor binding domain changes that they wanted London to review to determine if these changes are associated with receptor binding affinity changes (the last step before a pandemic). 4) New cases have been confirmed this month by NAMRU-3, which contradicts statements made yesterday by the Pakistan Ministry of Health (yeah, big surprise there). 5) "The delay in the WHO situation update again points toward serious issues in Pakistan, which may have generated the most sustained H5N1 transmission chain reported to date." Niman.
The WHO press releases are BS smoke and mirrors. The real question is why the BS?... Why the smoke and mirrors? There really is only one reason that I can even guess at. Control. It's no wonder the Indonesian Government does not want to release samples to the WHO.
To quote my other hero, Dr. Niman, "The lack of transparency increases pandemic concerns."
It's not just knocking at the door, my friend. It's already inside, sitting on the couch, having a sandwich and a coke watching the Patriots go 16 & 0.
Ismellarat10x
