I've seen it too. The source was an anecdotal report from the Boxun folks. Seems some of the people supposedly from the "Strep Suis" bacteria in pigs have been dying very quickly after coming in contact with pig blood during the slaughtering process. The fastest was 2 hours.
It was assumed exposure to the pig blood is what led to death, but that assumption has not been confirmed.
Strep Suis has NEVER been even remotely this dangerous before. Hence the suspicion that the mysterious pig disease is something else. The Chinese decision to move 50,000 "medical workers" into place was supposedly to monitor this bacterial pig disease.
Since a common sequence for flu is birds to pigs to humans, with the jump from pigs to humans fairly easy, it is natural to wonder if the real culprit behind the pig disease is H5N1. Since the Chinese are not cooperating, we have no conclusive proof.
With the exception of only a few very lethal snakes, banana spiders, and fish toxins, I can't think of anything that deadly out there if there is no allergic reaction.
My guess is that the bacteria in the pigs is completely unrelated to H5N1, because bacteria and viruses are two totally diffferent things. Maybe there is a causal relationship, but I'm merely a layman in these matters.
Not true strep suis serotype 2 is a HIGHLY virulent pathogen causing septicemia and meningitis in patients, both of which are fatal In the case of the former death can and does result within a few hours, as a result of toxic shock or chronic renal failure.
Both pathogens are endemic to these regions so it's actually natural to assume it could and is both causing separate but concurrent outbreaks