News Blackout

[This is from Corn, who posts at one of our favorite blogs, Plan for Pandemic, link on the side-bar]

Corn: This is not an opinion piece. Just a reminder why little or no news is getting out. There are many more examples if you follow the bread crumbs. Indo is about the only country that I know of that has openly called for and repeatedly expressed in the media to "not to tell". Egypt and Germany are about the only exception too this rule right now with Egypt reporting even the slightest suspected cases. Britain follows a close third. So in a nut shell..... Are there human infections currently in the world? Past data supports the answer that yes there are. Is the WHO and governments collaborating to politicize reporting and withholding of data to satisfy the demands of it's members? The answer is Yes. I could dig deeper and go on forever to present the case and data supporting a concerted effort to support a news black out. Maybe like the black outers I will, maybe I won't. ('') The best we can do now as flubies about this moral issue is to let TPTB know that we know. Let history record there were a group that recognized and stood up to present a contrary picture of these behemoths in our back yards. To go quietly in the night you choose who's side you are on. Here are some tid bits from search results. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- CIDRAP - Denmark suspects, Sweden confirms H5N1 in birds - FluTrackers Meanwhile, AFP reported that Myanmar's rulers were maintaining a news blackout about the outbreak, leaving farmers worried and unsure how to prevent the ... www.flutrackers.com/forum/showthread.php?p=4538 - 129k - Cached - Similar pages - Spike in Fatal H5N1 Indonesian Cases Raises Concerns - FluTrackers Details on these cases are somewhat lacking because of the news blackout that delays reporting. WHO generally follows with situation updates, ... www.flutrackers.com/forum/showthread.php?t=95906 - 131k - Cached - Similar pages - Indonesian H5N1 Cluster and Case Reports Raise Concerns - FluTrackers When Indonesia announced their news blackout on confirmed cases, ... Yet the news blackout came after the third cluster was confirmed. ... www.flutrackers.com/forum/showthread.php?p=212140 - 132k - Cached - Similar pages - Indonesia: The Latest Human Suspected & Confirmed Cases January 29 ... When Indonesia announced their news blackout on confirmed cases, WHO offered assurances on timely updates. International Health Regulations require ... www.flutrackers.com/forum/showthread.php?p=212236 - 161k - Cached - Similar pages - Respiratory illness - adenovirus 14 -hits remote Alaska island ... Clearly there has been no such quarantine, but a news blackout would be most effective if applied to the origin, which are the agencies claiming there has ... www.flutrackers.com/forum/showthread.php?t=81613 - 262k - Cached - Similar pages - Questionable Xinhua report of 24 suspected with BF in India ... I don't think this is breaking news. Positive birds were reported yesterday, ... I think we'd see a news blackout while they worked to contain it. ... www.flutrackers.com/forum/showthread.php?p=211233 - 192k - Cached - Similar pages - Indonesia Reporting Human Cases of H5N1 Controversy - Page 2 ... The news blackout worries health experts and has left government officials and people living in areas worst affected by the virus confused and frustrated. ... www.flutrackers.com/forum/showthread.php?t=70434&page=2 - 225k - Cached - Similar pages - China - Boy 16, Confirmed H5N1, Died - Guizhou Province Case ... A series of such clusters involving fatal infections in index cases as lung inflammation, dengue fever, and typhus preceded the news blackout and reporting ...www.flutrackers.com/forum/showthread.php?t=91723&page=2 - 169k - Cached - Similar pages - _|Clinical and Epidemiological Features of Patients With Confirmed ... ''THE END OF THE WORLD NEWS'', by Anthony Burgess -- Recommended Reading by ..... The news blackout that followed the three recent clusters this year was ... www.flutrackers.com/forum/showthread.php?t=74112 - 196k - Cached - Similar pages - Indonesia Reporting Human Cases of H5N1 Controversy - FluTrackers She said Indonesia's news blackout would likely have the opposite effect from what the government apparently intends. "Now, there will be intense ... www.flutrackers.com/forum/showthread.php?t=70434 - 288k - Cached - Similar pages - --------------------------------------- Hundreds more examples here............ http://www.google.com/search?ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&q=News+Blackout&btng=Search&domains=www.flutrackers.com&sitesearch=www.flutrackers.com