[o2bfree]

>>Young people dying. And dna of virus is perplexing,,both avian and swine dna. CDC is alarmed,,

Please provide a link... We’d love to read more about this. Having both swine and avian DNA would seem to indicate the virus was engineered in a laboratory.

[Crazieman]

Close analysis showed the disease is a never-before-seen mixture of swine, human and avian viruses, according to the CDC.

[silverleaf]

From WHO:

http://www.who.int/csr/don/2009_04_24/en/index.html
The majority of these cases have occurred in otherwise healthy young adults. Influenza normally affects the very young and the very old, but these age groups have not been heavily affected in Mexico.

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 Swine Influenza A/H1N1 viruses characterized in this outbreak have not been previously detected in pigs or humans. The viruses so far characterized have been sensitive to oseltamivir, but resistant to both amantadine and rimantadine

[cajungirl]

Promed is a site that has the cdc info on it,,my info is from a cdc source.

[cajungirl]

Site is promedmail.org. It has the bulletins from cdc and those about the new flu.

[grey_whiskers]

Can happen naturally when multiple strains of virus infect the same host; as in pigs.