Tamiflu catastrophe

[Bowery Boy]

Dr Andrew Singer, of the Centre for Ecology and Hydrology in Oxford.

"Anti-viral drugs are quite new and no one has ever planned to use them in the vast quantities that are now being considered,' .. 'However, there are some very alarming environmental implications about giving out millions of doses of Tamiflu in order to combat an outbreak of Asian bird flu. These have not been considered by health authorities. This is unknown territory. ... tons of the anti-viral agent Tamiflu would be flushed down sewers into rivers and lakes.

Natural populations of microbes would be killed off by a deluge of water polluted with concentrated amounts of the anti-viral drug. ... birds, fish and other creatures that rely on these bacteria and viruses for their survival could be devastated. In addition, waters containing Tamiflu would provide ideal conditions for the evolution of drug-resistant strains of bird flu virus. These strains would then infect wildfowl and ultimately human beings, triggering a second outbreak of the disease "

In Britain, disease bureaucrats have persuaded the government to stockpile over 15 million Tamiflu ... " more than 100 million tablets, each containing 75mg of Tamiflu, could be consumed in the first weeks of a flu outbreak. Most of that will pass through people and be released in their urine. It will then be flushed away. Several tons of a powerful drug whose ecological behaviour is unknown will therefore be swept into our waterways, where it will remain active for several weeks in the country's sewers, rivers and lakes."

Computer models have shown that large areas of polluted water would quickly be established in many areas, probably within a few weeks of the flu cases first being reported.

"Tamiflu is an anti-viral agent, but is also known to attack bacteria - and that poses real problems for the country,' Singer said. 'Animal species have symbiotic relationships with many kinds of microbes. Human digestion relies on bacteria in our gut, for example. If these bugs are killed off by the tons of Tamiflu being dumped in our waters, all kinds of devastation could be triggered. Fish in our rivers, birds that feed off them and various kinds of river plant life could be seriously affected.

In addition, there will also be serious implications for bird flu. A build-up of Tamiflu in our rivers is likely to cause the avian flu virus - which can infect ducks, swans and other wildfowl - to mutate so that it becomes resistant to the drug. The result will be the triggering of a second wave of the disease, One course of action would be to develop chemicals that could break down Tamiflu once it has passed through a person's body but before it is flushed away. You could simply pour these into toilets to deactivate the drug before it is released into the environment. ..."



NOTES

Donald Rumsfeld is, apart from his Iraq war antics and his aspartame endeavours, a great beneficiary of the sales of the totally useless drug which provoked little interest before the bird flu scam was invented.

The drug is suspected as being a suicide-inducer.

The financial conections between the disease bureaucrats/government and vaccine makers are as yet unclear.

Tamiflu will end up in tap water as it is not removed by the water companies' "purification process."

" ... chemicals .... You could simply pour these into toilets .. " What a good idea, more toxins - and, of course, the flu victims could be thoroughly relied upon to do this : couldn't they?