Researcher Lawrence Broxmeyer onThe Hush-Hush Epidemic of 2006

A couple of weeks ago, internist/researcher Lawrence Broxmeyer relates, the BBC ran a piece which talked about a poorly publicized partnership between the International Red Cross and WHO designed to control and treat drug-resistant strains of a deadly infection which at this moment threatens Eastern Europe and Central Asia.

To this point Bird Flu has never really has materialized, but this current epidemic had and as far as well-published researcher Lawrence Broxmeyer is concerned, they just might be from one and the same cause.

What is this disease, which in Europe and Asia alone presently causes 450,000 identifiable cases annually, 70,000 from new strains? Is it a "virus" regarding which Bird Flu mavens and virologists are constantly talking about mutations and changing strains? No, to be certain, it is tuberculosis.

The Red Cross, said Lawrence Broxmeyer, has already proclaimed that today we face the most serious situation regarding TB since World War II, and urged European leaders to do more, to "wake up". And although The World Health Organization has already detected "hot zones" with the highest incidence along the borders of the European Union (EU), WHO has also found significant levels of multi-drug-resistant tuberculosis throughout the Baltic, eastern Europe and central Asia.

Authorities at WHO see this as a real emergency, said Lawrence Broxmeyer, whose study "Bird Flu, H5N1 and The Pandemic of 1918: The Case For Avian Tuberculosis" had just been featured at the time the BBC news broke.

In his previous study in The Journal Of Infectious Diseases, lead researcher Broxmeyer was able to destroy even the most virulent forms of AIDS tuberculosis inside the body's white blood cells by a novel technique. But in his latest publication Lawrence Broxmeyer warned that 1918 could happen again due to the exact same situation of mutational tuberculosis which presently looms over Europe and Asia.

Not only has Lawrence Broxmeyer's historical account of the Pandemic of 1918 been proclaimed "riveting" by well-known scientific writer Ron Falcone, but it is a concise and superbly documented chronicle as plausible as anything yet written regarding what could have caused this event, during which up to 100 million people perished in a short time, the worst pandemic in history.

A large part of the recent bird-flu hysteria was and still is fostered by a distrust among the lay and scientific community regarding the actual state of our knowledge regarding the bird flu or H5N1 and the killer "Influenza" Pandemic of 1918 that it is compared to. "And this distrust", relates physician Lawrence Broxmeyer, "is not completely unfounded." Traditionally, "flu" does not kill. Experts, including Peter Palese of the Mount School of Medicine in Manhattan remind us that even in 1992, millions in China already had antibodies to H5N1 meaning that they had contracted it and that their immune system had little trouble fending it off. Dr. Andrew Noymer and Michel Garenne, UC Berkeley demographers, reported in 2000 convincing statistics showing that undetected tuberculosis may have been the real killer in the 1918 flu epidemic. Aware of recent attempts to isolate the "Influenza virus" on human cadavers and their specimens, Lawrence Broxmeyer said that Noymer and Garenne had summed that: "Frustratingly, these findings have not answered the question why the 1918 virus was so virulent, nor do they offer an explanation for the unusual age profile of deaths." Bird Flu as well as victims of the Pandemic, emphasized investigator Lawrence Broxmeyer, would certainly be diagnosed in the hospital today as Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS). Roger, and others favor suspecting tuberculosis in all cases of acute respiratory failure of unknown origin.

By 1918 on the other hand, relates Lawrence Broxmeyer, it could be said, in so far as tuberculosis was concerned, that the world was a supersaturated sponge ready to ignite and that among its most vulnerable parts was the very Midwest where the 1918 unknown pandemic began. It is theorized that the lethal pig epidemic that began in Kansas just prior to the first human outbreaks was a disease of avian and human tuberculosis genetically combined through mycobacteriophage interchange, with the pig, susceptible to both, as its unwilling living culture medium. "What are the implications of mistaking a virus such as Influenza A for what mycobacterial disease is actually causing?" asked Lawrence Broxmeyer. They would be disastrous, with useless treatment and preventative stockpiles The obvious need for further investigation is presently imminent and pressing..

Lawrence Broxmeyer's editorial, published, this month at the express request of the Editor-In-Chief of the respected medical journal in which it appeared, can be viewed along with his other research at http://drbroxmeyer.netfirms.com/

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