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Swine Flu From Mexico?

Mike

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US medical authorities expressed strong concern Friday about an unprecedented multi-strain swine flu outbreak that has killed at least 60 people in Mexico and infected seven people in the United States.
"It's very obvious that we are very concerned. We've stood up emergency operation centers," Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) spokesman Dave Daigle told AFP.

One major source of concern was that the virus included strains from different types of flu.


"This is the first time that we've seen an avian strain, two swine strains and a human strain," said Daigle, adding that the virus had influenza strains from European and Asian swine, but not from North American swine.

In 11 of 12 reported human cases of swine influenza (H1N1) virus infection in the United States from December 2005 to February 2009, the CDC has documented direct or indirect contact with swine.

But the seven known cases of the previously undetected strain in the United States -- five from California and two from Texas -- did not have contact with pigs. The seven people infected have all recovered from the flu.

"We have determined that this virus is contagious and is spreading from human to human," the CDC said on its website. "However, at this time, we have not determined how easily the virus spreads between people."

Local and state health officials were interviewing not just the people who were infected but the people with whom they had contact, Daigle noted.

Officials were looking for the source of the infection, Daigle said, adding that US health officials were due to receive samples from Mexico that would be tested at a lab at the centers based in Atlanta, Georgia.

The World Health Organization (WHO) has identified swine influenza as a potential source of a human flu pandemic. Pandemics usually occur every 20 years.

"Our experts and others are saying are not saying it's not a matter of whether but when. And we are past due," said Daigle.

Swine flu is caused by type A influenza and does not normally infect humans but cases have been reported among people, especially those exposed to pigs, the CDC said. Most outbreaks take place during the late fall and winter months.

Swine flu symptoms include fever, lethargy, lack of appetite and coughing. Some people who have contracted the virus have also reported runny nose, sore throat, nausea, vomiting and diarrhea, according to the CDC.

Human outbreaks of H1N1 swine influenza virus were recorded in the United States in 1976 and 1988, when two deaths were reported, and in 1986. In 1988, a pregnant woman died after contact with sick pigs, the WHO said.

In recent years, the global focus for a pandemic has shifted to the H5N1 bird flu virus, which has spread from poultry to humans, especially in Asia.
 

hypocritexposer

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An example of how these things might happen.

Posted in War On Terror. Tagged with Avian Bird Flu, Baxter International Inc, mix up, vaccine, virus.
By NewsGuy
March 6, 2009

Bird Flu Accidentally Sent As Vaccine

Officials at the World Health Organization and and the European Centre for Disease Control have launched an investigation into how live Avian Bird Flu virus (both H5N1 and H3N2) was accidentally shipped to 18 countries as Bird Flu vaccine.

Deerfield, Illinois-based pharmaceutical company Baxter International Inc. accidentally sent an “experimental virus material,” which mixed H3N2 seasonal flu viruses and unlabelled H5N1 viruses, to an Austrian research firm, Avir Green Hills Biotechnology in late December. That company then shipped portions of the mixture to sub-contractors in the Czech Republic, Slovenia and Germany.

http://www.therightperspective.org/bird-flu-accidentally-sent-as-vaccine/
 

MoGal

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Sounds to me like people had better read up on Colloidal Silver and food grade hydrogen peroxide.

Colloidal silver kills over 650 know bacteria/virus and that's why the pharmaceutical companies want it unavailable to the average person.
 

MoGal

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Excuse me, but how can you mix DNA from avian, swine and human viruses except in a laboratory???
How can it mutate from pigs and transfer to humans?

Of course they are fully ready to "vaccinate" folks..... follow the money trail...... Anybody who gets a vaccine needs their head examined because they can "mistakenly" put anything in it and the pharma suffers no consequences.

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The virus is an influenza A virus, carrying the designation H1N1. It contains DNA from avian, swine and human viruses, including elements from European and Asian swine viruses, the CDC has said. [nN23355101]

The Geneva-based U.N. agency WHO said it was in daily contact with U.S., Canadian and Mexican authorities and had activated its Strategic Health Operations Center (SHOC) -- its command and control center for acute public health events.

The CDC said it will issue daily updates at http://www.cdc.gov/flu/swine/investigation.htm.

Surveillance for and scrutiny of influenza has been stepped up since 2003, when H5N1 bird flu reappeared in Asia. Experts fear that or another strain could spark a pandemic that could kill millions. [nN24440477]
 

MoGal

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got this from natural news and this dr says there is no vaccine that is effective:

NaturalNews) A virulent new strain combining elements of swine flu, human flu and avian flu has leapfrogged past containment measures and is now circulating "in the wild" in Mexico, California and Texas. Up to 60 deaths may have already occurred from the new viral strain called H1N1. Over 1,000 people may have been infected. The CDC does not really know how many are infected, as it's still very early in the spread of the viral strain and reliable data isn't yet available.

Importantly, just as I warned NaturalNews readers many times over the last several years, there is no vaccine for this swine flu. Vaccines are virtually useless in any pandemic outbreak because in-the-wild viral strains mutate and become immune to vaccines very quickly. Subscribers who listened to my preparedness audio course released in late 2008 are already prepared with herbal anti-viral medicines, well ahead of the rush: http://www.truthpublishing.com/Heal...

Is this viral outbreak the "big one" that will become a global pandemic? No one knows for sure, but important clues are found in the geographic locations of the current infections: Mexico City, San Diego and San Antonio, Texas. This indicates the virus is already beyond containment and is likely to spread even further. "There are things that we see that suggest that containment is not very likely," said Dr. Richard Besser from the CDC, in a Reuters report (source below).

The World Health Organization, meanwhile, issued a statement saying "Because there are human cases associated with an animal influenza virus, and because of the geographical spread of multiple community outbreaks, plus the somewhat unusual age groups affected, these events are of high concern."

The WHO admits the new virus is already resistant to amantadine and rimantadine (two popular anti-viral drugs), but appears to be sensitive to Tamiflu (at least for the moment). Health care workers in Mexico have already been infected by the H1N1 virus, reports the CBC (Canada).

"We have determined that this virus is contagious and is spreading from human to human," says the CDC on their web site (http://www.cdc.gov/flu/swine/invest...). But they don't know exactly how contagious the disease really is, or what the fatality rate might be. U.S. residents who were infected have recovered, while many infected people in Mexico have died. It is not yet clear why there is a difference in the survival rate across these two countries.

Notably, the CDC website does NOT report infections unless they are confirmed by CDC laboratories. Thus, the infection numbers on their website (currently showing only 8 cases in the U.S. and 7 in Mexico) are extremely low and do not accurately reflect the real number of infections occurring on the streets. (See link below.)

Symptoms of H1N1 infection include fever, sore throat, muscle pain, coughing and shortness of breath. This can escalate into serious respiratory illness with difficulty breathing and, ultimately, death.

None of the people infected have had contact with swine or birds, according to news reports. This is a clear indication that the disease is being transmitted from human to human.



How to make a pandemic even worse
In an effort to stem public panic, Mexico is reportedly launching a massive vaccination campaign. This is all theater, of course, since there are no vaccines that target this new H1N1 strain. If anything, the vaccines will actually weaken immune systems, making people more susceptible to H1N1 infection. Thus, Mexico may actually be fanning the flames of this potential pandemic strain.

It is sad, but predictable, to watch so-called health authorities blunder through the mishandling of this potential future pandemic. Rather than teaching people how to be healthy (recommending sunlight, for example, which produces a very powerful anti-viral vitamin in your body), they focus on how to inject people and weaken their immune systems. If a pandemic actually does emerge from this, and if millions die from it, their deaths will rest entirely on the shoulders of a failed, arrogant and utterly useless medical system that still believes it can conquer nature with chemicals.

I wrote a book two years ago that teaches people how to protect themselves from not only avian flu, but also from the dangerous mistakes of conventional medicine (hospitals could become "death zones" if this pandemic grows). That book is available here: http://www.truthpublishing.com/bird...

Sources for this story include:

Reuters: http://www.reuters.com/article/topN...

WHO: http://www.who.int/csr/don/2009_04_...

CBC: http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2009...
 

hypocritexposer

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Has FEMA said anything about this yet?

Something like this falls under National Security, does it not?

I know they are announcing travel advisories, but that does nothing to guard against any infected people illegally crossing the border.
 

hypocritexposer

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Well that's that question answered. Guess that "wasteland" doesn't do anything for Biosecurity!

OT, when something like this happens, how soon do they start investigating Bio-Terrorism?

Lawmaker wants border closed over swine flu
By Molly K. Hooper
Posted: 04/25/09 11:28 PM [ET]
The "swine flu" that has infected more than 1,000 people in Mexico has led a lawmaker on the House Homeland Security Committee to call on U.S. officials to close the southern border.

Rep. Eric Massa (D-N.Y.) said the border should be closed until the threat is resolved.

"The public needs to be aware of the serious threat of swine flu, and we need to close our borders to Mexico immediately and completely until this is resolved," Massa said in a statement.

http://thehill.com/leading-the-news/lawmaker-wants-border-closed-over-swine-flu-2009-04-25.html
 
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