Alberta, Canada H5N1 case - Event Date: January 22 2014

Each day there is no additional news about the mysterious H5N1 case in Alberta makes me that much more suspicious about the circumstances surrounding this young RN's infectation in 

I don't think there is any real doubt that the virus was acquired it China.

Are you suggesting that perhaps someone deliberately and systematically infected her and then deliberately and systematically sent her back to her home in Canada to deliberately and systematically infect people in North America? Or am I reading your posts incorrectly? Also, can you elaborate on what specifically you find mysterious?

There is actually quite a bit of information that has been already been reported in the media including
- all passengers on both flights were notified
- her two companions and passengers sitting close by were monitored for 10 days to make sure they were not infected
- prophalactic medications were given to that same group
- WHO and as well as the Chinese health authorities and animal health organizations around the world were notified by the Public Health Agency of Canada
- how much information China has or is sharing is anyboby's guess
- as with many infections of all sorts of avian influenzas, how she got it is not known. Her companions reported that there was no direct contact with poultry.

I agree that H5N1 is very serious but all the info you are asking for has been reported on. Your first post made me think that you were perhaps putting forward that this was deliberate in some way. I think that conclusion is a a real stretch quite frankly.

Sequencing the H5N1-virus would take a few days. From another forum I get the info that "Canada has a reputation for sitting on data". (Prince Edward Island-case in 2006).

Sorry Dutch Josh! I misidentified you as the initial poster. In rereading I realize it was Lewis Hoffman.

Lewis

Not for a moment do I not think that H5N1 is one serious bug but to suggest that the infection was deliberate just seems a bit over e top to me. Lots of 'could haves', 'might haves' and 'maybes' that don't don't point to anything being 'deliberate'. IMO

Some counterpoints

1. Only 2 reported cases
2. Have you been to China? Lots of ways this might have happened and many existing cases that source of infection is unknown. This isn't the only case where a clear path of infection cannot be determined.
3. She was only there for 2 weeks so timeline make perfect sense and doesn't suggest anything sinister
4. Woulda, coulda, shoulda.... The innubation period is what it is. If it had been shorter she would still have been in China. I don't see how you can read anything into that
5. H1N1 has been widespread across NA. Not just Calgary Edmonton
7. There are hundreds of flights daily from parts of the world with novel and deadly viruses that land all over NA. why would you say the opportunity doesn't present itself very often? That part of Canada is not densely populated. Can't think why anyone wanting to deliberately, in your words 'seed an H5N1 pandemic in North America', wouldn't choose a more densely populated area like Los Angeles, New York or Dallas (where they have had a brutal H1N1 season)

I will agree the the Chineseauthorities have been less than reliable in reporting.

My issue with you post is your characterizing this poor woman's infection as 'deliberate'. Hope her family aren't followers of this forum.

Mr. Hoffman, what would be a motive for anybody to want to spread a H5N1-virus ? Maybe some extreme muslim-terrorist group would do so. Chine needs the US and Europe to buy her products. Killing your market does not sound wise. On the other hand I think that North Korea is another face of China. Maybe even a single person might try to spread a virus. 

"What Is Conspiracism?
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In the past two centuries, and particularly in the last 50 years or so, people the world over have embraced conspiracism. When we refer to a conspiracy, we mean an honest-to-goodness, old-fashioned conspiracy, as defined by the dictionary — a plot by some dark and nefarious characters to do something sinister or evil.

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Nothing happens by accident: Everything that happens in the world is intentional, by someone's (or something's) Grand Design.
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Good day Mr. Hoffman, elsewere I posted my idea that you can not rule out that the Spanish Flu might have been one of the bio-weapons used by the "central-powers" in W.W. 1. The Germans tried also spreading the plague, were taken by surprise with the first gas-attack-results (an opening in the French lines 6 kilometers wide !). 

Dutch Josh,this Chinese lady could have been infected,with out her knowing it.John

cobber, produce (old fashioned) stamps or envelopswith a virus on the back/sticking-side. Virus on food packages. The cholare-bacteria arrived in Haïti by mail. Airco's are another way to spread virusses....