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Influenza 1918, A Venus Connection? 
Venus Atmosphere Temperature and Pressure Profiles
Sunspot Activity, Venus Inferior Conjunctions, and Biological Events
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1st Quarter 2001 Influenza Data Analysis (USA)
Global Developments: Spring-Summer 2001
Influenza A(H1N2)
USA Influenza Activity 2001-2002
West Nile Virus
USA Influenza Activity 2002-2003 - (Part 2 has SARS information.)
USA Influenza Activity 2003-2004 - (Part 2 has Special Note for June
2004.)
Venus Transit: Biohazard?
USA Influenza Activity 2004-2005 -
Calculated Dates of Venus Inferior Conjunctions

Sunspot Activity, Venus Inferior Conjunctions,
and Biological Events

Shade Tree Physics

Installed 15 March 2001 - Latest Update 27 April 2002

Legend: Smoothed sunspot numbers (orange area.)
Venus inferior conjunctions with
Earth (red vertical lines)
Barber's bacterial invasions (green
shaded vertical bars)
Onset dates of influenza pandemics or
pandemic scares ( P's )

The following table shows: (I) the dates of Venus inferior
conjunctions which preceded the 20th century influenza Pandemics and
Pandemic Scares (P&PS), (II) onset dates for the disease outbreaks and
(III) the intervals (in days) between conjunctions and event onsets.
These intervals are converted to decimal fractions of the 584 day
Earth-Venus synodic period and are displayed in a histogram in which
the width of each bin is 1/20th of the synodic period (29.2 days per
bin).

Distribution

The # sign on the histogram marks the end of the six month interval
between the 1918 Earth-Venus conjunction and the beginning of the 1918
pandemic deadly phase.

*The 1957-1958 Asian flu pandemic is generally said to have started in
February of 1957 but, according to an article in Time, "... the
outbreak apparently started in northern China in January; in February
it swept through Shanghai; by March it was in Canton. Early in April
influenza jumped to Hong Kong ..."
[The map shown here is based on the one which was part of the Time
article.]

An entry in the Encyclopedia of Plague and Pestilence says the first
outbreak was in Kweichow (southwest China) in early February 1957. It
also says "Some scholars believe it originated in Vladivostok in
1956."

It will be helpful for the global community to learn if there really
was a 1956 Vladivostok H2N2 event and, if so, when and where was its
earliest onset. (Revised 27 April 2002)

** As far as we know, the bird to human phase of the 1997 Hong Kong
A(H5N1) avian flu scare started in March 1997. Apparently the same
pathogen (H5N1) was reported to have been causing fatal outbreaks in
poultry flocks rural Hong Kong and in Guangdong Province on the
mainland that year. According to one source, 1.7 million chickens died
in Guangdong Province between November 1996 and April 1997. Thus, it
appears that some point in November 1996 should mark the actual onset
of A(H5N1) activity in that region. The interval between the June 1996
Earth-Venus conjunction and that onset should be considered as being
five months, or approximately 150 days. The data table and histogram,
above, have been modified to show this five month interval. (This
paragraph was added on 8 April 2002 and updated on 9 April 2002.)

We now have indications that a new influenza virus, A(H1N2), was
identified in six cities in China in 1988-1989 but that the virus did
not spread further. . . . There was an Earth-Venus conjunction in June
of 1988 which preceded the onset of that activity by about six months.
(This paragraph was added on 8 April 2002.)

To compare the onset dates of other disease outbreaks to the dates of
Venus inferior conjunctions, see Calculated Dates of Venus Inferior
Conjunctions.

Recommended articles /web pages.

Germs from Outer Space! Researchers Say Flu Bugs Rain Down From Beyond
- astrobiology - planet earth - Space.com - Sunday Apr 21, 2002
(posted 21 Jan 2000).

"Sunspotting" influenza - moderndrugdiscovery - newsinbrief, July
2001.

References

The smoothed sunspot numbers are derived from Annual Sunspot Numbers -
published on the web by The Regents of the University of Michigan.
Barber, Donald, Perspective, Focal Press, London, Vol. 5, pp. 201-208,
(1963). For a thumbnail sketch of Barber's article see: Living Micro-
Organisms From Space  Real or Apparent? - Norman Lockyer Observatory
News 01/1997.
Monessen and the Spanish Influenza of 1918
Pandemics and Pandemic Scares in the 20th Century - CDC NVPO [Page no
longer available.]
Time, June 24, 1957, p. 80.
Newsweek, January 8, 1968, p. 43. "Actually the [1968-1969] bug struck
a little ahead of schedule when some 3000 students at Western Michigan
University, Kalamazoo, came down with flu last October."
Encyclopedia of Plague and Pestilence, Ed. George C. Kohn, Facts on
File, New York, NY., 1995,
p. 7.
Vol. I, No.4 ~ EINet News Briefs ~ 11-01-98 - APEC Emerging Infections
Network. [Page no longer available.]

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