What's with India- feedback please

 

of Oct. and January 2008... giving dates later as so called "updates"  they seem to know this

 

updating gets attention.

comment: updating old pages plays havoc with the engines and one can see no useful purpose in it except to pile up garbage which mask the real outbreaks. It is hard to understand logically why a newspaper would update a 2 year old story of an old outbreak, when generally India prefers to have no outbreaks and not to report them.

After falling into this trap numerous times and posting stories as current with today's date on the page- one begins to be a little suspicious of this practice. Credibility is important. If you can discredit a poster or writer- people will skip reading their posts permanently, and then even when they do come up with important breaking news- you effectively have silenced them. This is much more effective than trolling - where you attack the person - or multi-post as many people- when actually it may only be a single user. Over attacked people may stir up a backlash sentiment. But destroying the credibility of someone on the net where people stop reading their posts is an extremely effective way to blackout news.

Two months I did track China to an obvious blackout with an outbreak in a huge city of Avian. This was a very clear effort to tell people not to speak to reporters and bar reporters from an area.

A third effective way is to double post the same exact story by a more read user. Since readers are evading the poster- they are missing the news- and finally in desperation someone else will double post the same event.

The net is a difficult place at times. We have been pulling buffer material which has the date within the buffer of the publication of the story. Although these stories are unsurfable and hidden in the buffers- this type of news can still be datamined and posted.

The major problem with official sites, except those who may do week updates, are that on breaking news you may find stories 5 years old. That why places like AFT have breaking news.

The final.. and sad sad scenario- is when you have little news- and Avian sites who must always to have something hopping - began to blast possibles by the hundreds- as opposed ot two or three actual real cases. These are the very same users who may have jumped all over users posting valid links and data- and then as Albert has remarked we have the "mass translations" which infer if something is translated it is somehow more accurate. In some of our investigations of source of individuals from NAMRU who have sent translations- we have found that person does not even work at NAMRU anymore. They are not on staff. There is no person providing the "inside information" and the list of names is bogus. This does not stop the feverish posting and daily updates of possibles. In the end, final count, the possibles go home, were not infected, if they were real people at all.

Finding it first, is very competitive on the net. And if you are not in the spotlight, and you find it first- then basically your find may often be ignored until it breaks in mainstream and then people are all over it.

Is the webpage dated today with an old old story a plant, and after several times of posting old news as breaking new wipe out credibility. Most certainly. And so with India today, we have from India Time dated today videos from .. when? India, of all places least wants news saying it has Avian. It costs their people millions. There are no accidents in  a perfect world. I tracked a cat infection in Korea once after they proclaimed there was no Avian. We had a group of human infections in China this year with no Avian outbreaks. Obviously, in less it had gone P2P, which it had not, the Avian outbreaks were covered up. We finally had to start documenting dead birds testing positive floating off the coast of China.

2004 was good year for getting information. I documented high path Avian in Texas- human infections in the U.S., and even hunters who were directly infected from wild birds. It was also a rough year to be posting. The more data I found- the hotter it got to post.

Certain basic themes which I have followed over years came true. Tamiflu was basically useless and a waste to stockpile and developed resistant strains. Egypt beaten and weary after being a flash point on the net for big mutation and where it would happen continued to bury Gdong province, where a lot was still happening.

Is there a widespread low path human infeciton Egypt? Well, this seems to be really the "hot one" right now. The only probably there probably has been a low path infection in people globally for years, just like most other diseases. If you don't test for it, you won't know. And if you only test those on their death bed coughing up blood- you aren't going to get a lot of positives.

Also, if you throw out everything except for H5N1 as being important- you will probably miss 300,000,000 infected birds which could give another form of Avian to humans.

Your not going to find positives when don't test for low path. We won't know if many or most of the birds in the U.S. have low path, which is quite possible, unless we test for it.

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