Don't they play around with and mutate these viruses in labs?
Posted on 04/24/2009 7:09:19 AM PDT by justsaynomore
CBC News interview with WHO - "heightened concern" on Friday over more than 800 "influenza-like" cases reported in Mexico, after seven cases of a severe respiratory illness were confirmed...
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jQ4mUpXpTsPgQOgE01_GT7Acv5BwD97OSI984
A pandemic flu type virus has to have three qualities:
1. It must be very different from common viruses. It is is just a tiny bit different from a flu virus that people have already had, or have been inoculated against, many healthy people will have some level of immunity.
2. It must be very virulent. Who cares if there is a pandemic of a virus that just makes your eyes water for 10 minutes?
3. It must be very easy to spread. The Ebola virus is off the charts on 1 and 2, but it is very difficult to catch, unless an infected person bleeds, or vomits, on you.
It is early yet, but this one is worth watching.
They should call it the NAFTA Virus.
I'd like to see the infected brake down by race/age. If it's a hit, technology today can target the intended victim.
"Conspiracy nuts" claim the Chinese brought out the bird flu to thin the poor in China. There were too many living in squallier, and most raised birds for their food..
I’ve wondered too if this wasn’t an intentional strike by terrorists. Remember Al Qaeda wiped out a whole terrorist camp trying to engineer the “plague” a few months back. The timing with that summit. Just makes one wonder.
Thanks.
Verrry wise wisdom.
Yeah, after a while the keep them in a state of panic ruse becomes easy to spot. And then just laughable.
Obama’s fault. His administration gave the Mexicans a new disease so that all illegal immigrants coming here would be sick with it. Voila...larger numbers to proclaim in need of Obama’s health plan. Increasing the numbers of people without health care helps his case for the government take over, doncha know. (After all, Rev. Wright said we created AIDS here in the US - so Obama took the idea and created a new virus in Mexico. Just as plausable, right?) /sarc
Should check on the exact release date for DHS report hyping the "right-wing extremists" panic. This was pretty quick. I was sort of joking when I predicted on April 14th they would go to the Pandemic Panic card after that. Sort of...
Since they do tinker around and mutate these viruses in lab experiments, I'll predict the coming chatter from libertarian and concerned scientist virologists on the suspicious genetics of this strain...
Also Obama's soothing reassurances in that baritone Venus Flytrap voice that he and the CDC are doing everything possible for the health and safety of Americans and that a new experimental vaccine (more stimulus?) is on the way! For a price.
....and pay no attention to the Fanny/Freddie/GE cover ups going on behind the curtain.
I just simply don’t believe anything these days. It’s all being cocked up for the big takeover.
Unless I can verify ... then it’s a hoax. Science and the media, does anyone think they will actually tell the truth? If so, check out the global warming hoax for guidance.
Okay. Well time will tell.
Thing is - pandemics are not some “cooked up Science” like global warming. They actually happened and are recorded history.
Pandemic scare mongering may have been manipulated in the past to serve government interests. That doesn’t mean there isn’t really a threat.
I for one will be watching it closely, and the reason is that the people who are normally suspicious of these kinds of things are taking this one seriously
Not tracking or profiling people entering the country, would almost certainly allow for diseases to enter this country. Get it?
Tamiflu sales must be down ...
14 more deaths
FRIDAY 24 APRIL 2009 - EL UNIVERSAL - Translation - excerpt
“The Health Secretariat (SSA) announced that the country is experiencing an epidemic of influenza, and decided to suspend classes in all levels of education both public and private, from kindergarten to universities. After that laboratories United States and Canada confirmed the presence of a new influenza virus in Mexico, the federal government was forced to make extraordinary measures to prevent the spread of the epidemic which has so far caused 20 deaths, according official figures.
Although, in a television interview, Miguel Angel Lezama, head of the National Center of Epidemiological Surveillance and Disease Control, reported that in the last 24 hours have been joined by 14 more deaths, and still lack the notice of most of the hospitals country. “
http://www.prensaescrita.com/diarios.php?codigo=&pagina=http://www.el-universal.com.mx
- Fear of foreigners
- Fear of Mexicans
- Fear of brown people
- Virus and Vaccine Panic
- Dependency on the goverment for health issues
- Possible quarantines for more government and statist control
What were they just saying in the DHS report on right-wing extremists - rumors about government camps and martial law. A Pandemic (and a Pandemic linked with foreigners) heightens paranoia and panic. This is too transparent. Maybe a mutated swine flu jumped species naturally. Maybe not.
Will we see yet ANOTHER required experimental vaccine for school children come September? How many will get sick just from that?
http://www.seguingazette.com/story.lasso?ewcd=88ff09097916d899
Local swine flu cases attract CDC’s attention
By Jessica Sanders
The Gazette-Enterprise
Published April 24, 2009
SEGUIN — On Thursday, health officials confirmed that two 16-year-old Steele High School students were diagnosed with swine flu earlier this month.
According to a CDC press release, “One became ill on April 10, the other on April 14. Their illnesses were relatively mild. Neither was hospitalized. Both have recovered. Though the boys are friends, it has not been determined how either became infected.”
While the illness may sound frightening, Guadalupe County Emergency Management Coordinator Dan Kinsey said the news is no cause for panic. “The first thing to know is that this is not severe. Everyone who contracted it has recovered or is recovering — there have been no fatalities,” he said. “What we have is a unique strain of influenza known as the swine flu, but is not necessarily contracted from pigs.”
Kinsey said the CDC called the press conference, not from fear of an epidemic, but in order to inform the public and seek further information about a new strain of the illness that seems to travel from person-to-person instead of from pig-to-person. He said CDC and state health officials will continue to research the cases, performing follow-up interviews with the patients and people who were in contact with them.
According to the CDC, the swine flu is a type of respiratory disease in pigs caused by type A influenza which creates a high rate of illness and a low rate of death.
All seven recent cases are of a similar unique strain of the H1N1 swine flu virus.
Contraction of swine flu by humans is more common than contraction of bird flu by humans because pigs and humans have similar physiology, Kinsey said. However, the chance of a person contracting any form of the swine flu is rare.
“There’s no need to panic,” Kinsey said again. “You cannot get it from eating bacon or pork. Right now, we’re not sure how it’s being transmitted.”
CDC officials said one of the California patients traveled to Dallas shortly before becoming ill, so Texas health officials were already involved in the swine flu investigation when the two Guadalupe County cases broke out. However, there appears to be no connection to that California case and the two cases in Guadalupe County.
Kinsey said the symptoms of swine flu, particularly the strain seen locally, are like symptoms of the regular human flu, but include a little bit more vomiting and diarrhea. Kinsey said, in general, swine flu has been shown in CDC studies to respond well to strong antiviral treatment.
“There’s not a lot of known facts beyond what’s seen with a normal flu, like they don’t know the incubation period or the number of people who have contracted it. Because it’s not severe, not everyone would run to the doctor,” Kinsey said.
In the release, the CDC recommends that people take precautions such as frequent hand washing and cough or sneeze into a tissue or the crook of your arm.
Kinsey said it’s also important to avoid spreading illness by staying home from work or school when sick.
“If you feel like you have the flu or flu-like symptoms, see your doctor,” he said. “Don’t go to work and spread it around.”
For more information on the swine flu, visit www.cdc.gov .
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