Telegram for Monsieur Vallat
Scott McPherson
in Politics and government, influenza and infectious diseases
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LE TELEGRAM
TO: MONSIEUR BERNARD VALLAT
FROM: OIE BOARD OF DIRECTORS
SUBJECT: YOUR COMMENTS RE H5N1
MONSIEUR VALLAT STOP OUTBREAK OF H5N1 GROWING TO ALARMING DIMENSIONS IN BANGLADESH STOP ALSO SITUATION IN INDIA WORSENING BY THE HOUR STOP FARMERS NOT HEEDING CALL TO CULL BIRDS BECAUSE YOU SAID SITUATION OVERBLOWN STOP OUR OWN FRENCH GOVERNMENT RAISED BIRD FLU ALARM LEVEL BECAUSE OF OUTBREAK OF H5N1 IN SWANS JUST ACROSS CHANNEL FROM US STOP YOUR CLARIFICATION DID NOTHING TO DISCOURAGE NAYSAYERS LIKE JOHN BIRCH SOCIETY FROM QUOTING YOU STOP SINCE WHEN DID JOHN BIRCHERS BECOME EXPERTS IN MICROBIOLOGY ANYWAY STOP WE JUST CONFIRMED OUTBREAK OF H5N1 IN IRANIAN POULTRY STOP ALSO CONFIRMED OUTBREAK OF H5N1 IN UKRAINE STOP W.H.O. NOW SAYS TEN CLADES OF H5N1 NOW EXIST SIMULTANEOUSLY AROUND THE WORLD WHICH INVALIDATES YOUR CLAIM THAT H5N1 IS EXTREMELY STABLE STOP SO WOULD YOU PLEASE STOP TALKING ABOUT H5N1 STOP STOP STOP STOP
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Response: inevolveinteresting post from our friend
Reader Comments (4)
Thanks, Scott. It's been a tough news day.
I needed that. ;)
Scott, as a boy you looked like a little darling in that postman outfit.
Good one, Victoria! Made me laugh.
Alas, that is a stock photo and not me. I was not nearly so cute when that age.
Could not resist the impulse.
Scott on a more serious note. India and Pakistan are out of control. Pakistan is not saying much. A person I talk to says at least 20 people with H5N1 symptoms per day are presenting at local hospitals accross Pakistan. In India, it is just crazy. There does not appear to be enough gloves, gowns, masks etc to go around. The locals are handling the dead carcasses without any protection. People are eating the sick poultry or selling off their sick birds. This is just sheer lunacy. We will just have to wait 21 days to see how many people come down with H5N1.
To top it off H5N1 has been found in the soil, and in water. What is your take???