On Tuesday February 28, 2006 it was reported that Bahamas officials received word of 21 birds on nagua in the southern Bahamas, that may have died from the Bird flu virus.

By the next day, Wednesday, all the headlines read that those same authorities doubted bird flu was the cause of death and they in all probability died from something un-related to bird flu.

By Thursday of that week we were reading headlines in most of the news that the threat of Bird flu was causing bookings to the area to get canceled and new bookings to slow down. It was at this time that Bahama’s authorities started saying, almost with 100 percent certainty, they could say the birds had not died from the bird flu virus.

This should have sent red flags up for most people reading the news, but for some reason or another, unlike every other bird flu news story, this one was pretty much forgotten about until Friday of the same week.

By Saturday March 4, 2006 Bahama’s authorities notified the news media that the Birds in question were too badly decomposed to perform any sort of tests on for the bird flu viru. But that physical evidence pointed to the birds dying from some sort of blunt trauma. They also suggested that local poachers were probably the cause.

By Monday morning all talk of the Bahamas and Bird flu just disappeared off the news services. It’s not that you couldn’t find the old stories, it’s that any new stories were non-existent. Wouldn’t you think that someone would follow up on what looked for all intents and purposes to be a cover-up?

And there is one other thing to this story that leads me to believe a cover-up is going on, the day that Bahamas authorities anounced they may have found the bird flu on one of the Islands, the US government placed an order for vaccines that effectively tippled it’s supply.

Cover-up or coincidence, you decide.