[CitizensTruth] Dr. Rebecca Carley autism event, Reserve seats now

[Geri Perry]

Vaccine opponent Dr Rebecca Carley and two other speakers will speak 
this Saturday April 19, 2008 at the Beister Auditorium, Glenbard East 
High School in Lombard, doors open 6pm - $10 per ticket,

seating limited so RSVP early - see 
flyer:http://www.drfimreite.com/MaxVacEventFlyer.pdf

While Carley seems to be unfamiliar with the ground-breaking works of 
Weston A. Price, Vjilhammer Steffanson, and similar researchers, she 
does have the right idea that it is not one single poison in vaccines 
that leads to autism. For this reason her "Big Picture" chart is very 
useful: http://www.drcarley.com/the_big_picture.jpg .

After you check this out, you might want to read the Biological Terrain 
page on my website: http://thehealthadvantage.com/biologicalterrain.html

In connection with this you may be interested in reading an online book, 
especially Chapter 2 which links the 1918 flu pandemic to vaccines: 
http://www.whale.to/vaccine/sf.html

Carley has posted an online Newsweek article about the 1918 flu pandemic 
and its relation to the bird flu virus, which I have pasted below. It - 
along with other articles- appears on Carley's main page which appears 
about 2/3's of the way down the main page. http://www.drcarley.com/

WEB EXCLUSIVE
By Anne Underwood
Newsweek
Updated: 6:06 p.m. ET Oct. 7, 2005

Oct. 7, 2005 - Scientists have long puzzled over the exceptional 
lethality of the 1918 flu, which killed between 20 million and 50 
million people worldwide. What features of the viral genome enabled it 
to become both highly transmissible and lethal at the same time? Some of 
those questions were answered this week, with the publication of twin 
papers in the journals Nature and Science. In Nature, Jeffery 
Taubenberger of the Pentagon's Armed Forces Institute of Pathology 
announced that he had completed sequencing the genome of the 1918 flu. 
At the same time, Terrence Tumpey, senior microbiologist at the 
Influenza Branch of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 
reported in Science that he and his colleagues had used Taubenberger’s 
sequence to reconstruct the actual 1918 virus, a living copy of the germ 
that killed millions.

Fears that it could escape into the environment or be appropriated by 
bioterrorists made it a controversial move. But Tumpey says the risk was 
worth the trade off because of the information we stand to learn from 
the virus. What was particularly chilling about the last killer flu was 
that it appeared to come, with only minimal changes, from an avian 
virus--bringing a new urgency to the current flu sweeping Southeast 
Asia. Tumpey spoke with NEWSWEEK's Anne Underwood about his findings. 
Excerpts:

**NEWSWEEK: What is the significance of these twin papers?
**Terrence Tumpey: For the first time we have a truly avian pandemic 
influenza virus that we can study. Not only did we want to rescue the 
virus, but also characterize some of the important viral proteins that 
made it so exceptionally virulent.

**And we know for sure now that this was a purely avian virus, not a 
hybrid. Was it really changes of just 25-30 amino acids out of 4,400 in 
the viral RNA that transformed the virus into a killer?**
That’s Jeff Taubenberger’s work, but it appears that way. The dogma 
until [the current bird flu struck in] 1997 was that pandemics were 
caused by shuffling of genes between avian and mammalian viruses. But 
both the current bird flu outbreak and the 1918 virus appear not to be a 
human/avian reassortant virus, but an avian virus that made minimal 
changes to infect humans directly. Thankfully, bird flu virus hasn’t 
figured out how to spread yet. The 1918 virus did.

**Does this confirm our worst fears about current bird flu?**
It’s hard to know whether or not the current flu will emerge into the 
human population and spread efficiently. But it’s a good guess that with 
enough time, it will figure out how to transmit human to human. If so, 
it will fit the three criteria of a pandemic: a novel subtype, a subtype 
to which the population has no immunity and high transmissibility.

**Why was it important to create a living virus from the sequence?**
There is little information in the sequence itself that tells us why it 
would be so deadly. We see from the sequence that it is avianlike, but 
there are not any obvious molecular smoking-gun features that we can 
point to and say, "That is the reason why it killed so many people." 
Reconstructing the virus helps us do that and identify targets for 
vaccines and antiviral drugs. The knowledge we’re gaining to *protect 
*public health far outweighs the hypothetical risk of working with this 
strain or providing the information to the public......