The Health Division of CNN News reported that "European Union foreign ministers on Tuesday [October 18, 2005] declared the spread of bird flu from Asia into Europe a 'global threat' requiring international action." [CNN.com LINK]

"In Bulgaria, which neighbors Romania and Turkey, newspapers have spoken of 'panic' and 'hysteria.' Sofia has urged calm but is preparing a national crisis headquarters and stepping up border controls and surveillance of poultry farms and wetlands near its Danube River boundary - seen as a major conduit for migrating birds," and "The southernmost German state of Bavaria - which lies along the flight path of migrating birds - banned poultry sales Tuesday in an effort to avoid the deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu," reported CNN News. [CNN.com LINK]

A report by The Washington Times said "The avian flu virus is a pathogen invisible to the human eye which poses an immense potential threat to American civilization." Bill Frist from the Times also reported that "In the past several months, it has become clear to me that we remain dangerously unprepared to defend ourselves against it. Right now, our national stockpiles of anti-viral drugs sit at dangerously low levels - about 2 percent of what we would need in a serious outbreak - and no existing vaccine can provide perfect protection against the avian flu virus." [Washingtimes.com LINK]

Many years ago Ramtha pointed out the real danger of such a threat and predicted its coming:

"How do we march against viruses and bacteria that have evolved much faster than you? You know, there have been very many predictions about a third world war and that is heavy with everyone. But I want to tell you that will not happen in armies. There is no army superior enough to the West. There isn't."
"The next war will be a war of viruses and plagues because that is the only army that has outwitted guns and lasers. And that is the army that is going to lay waste to the world. That is the true Armageddon on the plain of Sharon. That is the true Babylon burning. And the sailors watch from the sea and weep a thousand tears."
"There are viruses that are intelligent that can change so fast. You don't change but they do. They are the host that is going to feed upon what is not going to change. And they are going to destroy you."
- Ramtha
(Excerpt from: Primary Retreat, March 26, 2000. Ramtha's School of Enlightenment. Copyright © 2005 JZ Knight)

"The virus - known as H5N1 - changes very quickly. Influenza viruses like avian flu have caused the greatest pandemics in world history. They mutate continually, making it almost impossible to wipe them out entirely. Even today in the United States, the flu kills over 30,000 people each year. But past epidemics have been much worse. Between 1918 and 1919, the Spanish Flu killed 40 million people around the world. Most were children and young adults. Given the world has nearly four times more people and far more efficient means of travel, another pandemic could spread more quickly and kill more people than before. If it were to become transmissible between humans, avian flu might kill 160 million to 200 million people," reported The Washington Times News. [Washtimes.com LINK]

"How do we then prepare for a marching army that is silent and quiet and deceptive and is invisible? We have to be beings whose consciousness is so clean that there is no environment for such an army to march upon. That is the only way you are going to survive what is about to happen to the West."
"It isn't about country anymore. It is about attitude. So now it is time to change. Now it is time to be clean. It is time to be clear. It is time to be that which nature will preserve because this army is going to outwit every great mind in the world."
"Who you think you are, how good and how holy you are, it is the basis of your thinking. It is the way you create your day. It is the way you live your day. It is the knowledge you do not gain. It is the chemistry you have gained from the day that makes you vulnerable to a marching army that is going to get you."
"All diseases, all viruses, are custom-made to match the first three seals. And they won't come with open sword and war-horses, battleaxes. No, they won't look like that. They are invisible."
- Ramtha
(Excerpt from: Primary Retreat, March 26, 2000. Ramtha's School of Enlightenment. Copyright © 2005 JZ Knight)

"One should not live in the cities, for in the days to come not only are the plagues to run rampant, and not only shall it be in their water system, but when that which is called a drought comes forth, there will be murderers on the street who will rob your cupboards and slay you nigh for only a sliver of bread, for they are dangerous places indeed. So if can you not move to the western sphere, it is imperative, I urge you, to move out of your cities and seek you a place that has high land. And if the land is only large enough to support an elaborate lawn and flowers, dig it up and plant food."
"To wherever you live I advise you in that area with great wisdom and understanding to be prudent, to find your water source and test it. Do not take for granted anything. Become sovereign. Know your own progress. Know what you are doing."
"The grandest of places to live is that which is called the northwestern sphere, for I have sent many people there, for even in the drought there shall come the rains. And there, because of the temperatures of the current that flows into that area, they will be pure. There is no poison that has fallen to rot away that which is called the forever green, and the fishes still climb wildly up the streams, and the bushes and brambles still produce their delicious, succulent berries, and the woods are wild and free with unlimited game for food source. There you can drink the water out of the ground, put your head to a stream and wash it, and it is the purest water there is."
- Ramtha
(Excerpt from: Change - The Days to Come, May 17-18, 1986. Ramtha Dialogues®. Copyright © 2005 JZ Knight)