Bird Flu Center

Among growing worldwide concern over what might become the greatest health threat to mankind, a German virologist is set to challenge not only the amplitude of the issue but the actual existence of the virus and its potentially ravishing effects. In an interview published in late 2005 in the German Journal Faktuell, Stephan Lanka puts forward a critical, but thoughtful approach to the matter, urging us to use our reason to see through the elaborate theories that have been set up for years.

His first point regards not thorough biological facts about the virus, but a mere observation of the fact that the purported infected migratory birds seem to have a very good tolerance of the virus. Says Dr. Lanka:

“These mortally diseased birds keep flying for weeks on end. They fly thousands of kilometers, and then in Romania, in Turkey, Greece and elsewhere infect hens, geese or other poultry, with which they have had no contact, and which within a very short time get diseased and die. But the migratory birds do not get diseased and do not die, but keep on flying, for weeks on end, thousands of kilometers. “

He goes on to sustain that behind the current disease affecting chickens is the common bird pest, an illness observed since the late 19th century in poultry farms, characterized by blue coloring of the crest, a decrease in egg-laying performance, sagging of the feathers, which can sometimes cause the death of the animal. Then how are we to explain the alarming figure of death among poultry, which has so far exceeded 100 million? Again Lanka:

“If one hen lies fewer eggs or gets a blue crest and that hen is tested H5N1-positive too, then all the other hens are gassed. That is how there got to be those 100 million apparently H5N1-killed hens.” Of course, as in any conspiracy theory, there is a financial twist to the story. The German scientist is accusing the big Western poultry farming enterprises of taking advantage of the situation to maximize their profits. Whenever there is a substantial decrease in the market price for poultry, claiming to be the victim of an infectious disease allows these companies to get the maximum price per animal, as the government guarantees the best price for the birds it has to sacrifice in an attempt to control the disease from spreading.”

The virologist also disputes the human death toll of the presumed virus:
“There is only very little in the way of publicly available reports, describing what were the symptoms and how these persons were then treated.These cases clearly point in one direction: Persons with symptoms of a cold, who then had the bad luck to fall into the hands of H5N1 hunters, were killed with enormous amounts of chemotherapy [chemical pharmaceuticals] supposed to restrain the phantom virus. Isolated in plastic tents, surrounded by madmen in space suits, they died, in panicky fear, from multiple organ failures.”

In the eyes of the German scientist, all medical practitioners have to benefit from frightening diseases such as this and so everyone is in on the scam:
“The academic medicine protagonists/practitioners need the paralyzing, stupefying and destructive fear of disease-causing phantom viruses as a central basis for their existence […] Academic medicine has been and is the most important pillar of support of all dictatorships and governments which do not want to submit to written law, to constitutions, to human rights, that is, to the democratically legitimized social contract”

What is this virus all about then? Well, according to Dr. Lanka, there is no such thing as a harmful virus at all:
“Viruses are component parts of the cell which have turned their entire metabolism over to the common cell and therefore can leave the cell. Outside the common cell, they are helping other cells, in that they are transferring construction and energy substances. Any other function of theirs has never been observed.”

“Those actual viruses which have been scientifically demonstrated to exist, are performing in the very complex processes of interactions of different cells, a helping, a supporting and in no case a destructive role.”

Lanka says he has asked for clear proof of the existence of the now famous H5N1, both from the Weybridge Laboratory in England, that carries out all the biological investigations and from the World Health Organization, receiving no answer whatsoever. Furthermore, he disputes the authenticity of the photos circulating in the media which supposedly show the H5N1 virus and the claims of scientists who have managed to experiment with both this virus and the one causing the Spanish flu at the beginning of the last century.

Finally, Dr. Lanka is urging everyone to check for themselves and have the courage to dispute the ‘facts’ that stand behind this very recent health issue.

“It is being maintained that these short pieces of genetic material, which in the sense of genetics are not complete and which do not even suffice for defining a gene, together would make up the entire gene substance of an influenza virus. In order to see through this swindle one only has to be able to add up the published length pieces, in order to ascertain that the sum of the lengths of the individual pieces do not make up the length of the idea of the genome of the influenza virus model. Even simpler is to ask in what publication you can find the electron microscope photo of this supposedly reconstructed virus. There is no such publication.[…]”

“In a democratic state built on law, the bird flu panic would be just as impossible as would AIDS and vaccinations. We the citizens must bring about the state built on law. Then not only AIDS but also the pseudoscience and the bird flu will have no chance. I can only say: Don’t give the bird flu a chance! Don’t believe the lies you are being told! Check things out! Use your reason!”

As revolutionary (for some) or as mad (for others) as Dr. Lanka’s theories might seem, in a context of uncertainties where a lot of questions regarding this disease are still to be unanswered, his opinions will most certainly not go unnoticed.

You can read the full original interview (in German) here.

And this is an English version of the interview.