http://www.cdc.gov/swineflu/investigation.htm
It first looked mostly like a swine flu virus but closer analysis showed it is a never-before-seen mixture of swine, human and avian viruses. A direct vaccine won't be available for months, Tamiflu meds do help a lot.
Here's the kicker, it is H1N1 type virus, so what? It is the same strain as the Spanish flu that killed millions and was thought extinct since 1957.
How did it reappear and recombine with avain and human flus to make a new very lethal virus? It has a 6% mortality rate and is spreading in Mexico rapidly as an aerosol.
It kills by getting your immune system to over-react and fill the lungs with fluid. The younger and healthier, i.e. better immune system, the more lethal it is. That's what makes it so unusual from all other flus.
It was first detected in Mexico on March 18th and no alerts were given. Anyone who has been to Mexico in the last two months was exposed, 10 day incubation period. Even if you had a mild case you may have passed it on. The patients are expanding exponentially and the many rural areas of Mexico have not been surveyed.
We have to quarantine Mexico immediately.
This may be a WMD attack because of the possibly manufactured nature of the mutation of this virus.
Everything you have posted is 100 percent correct. What I don’t understand is why healthier people’s immune systems overreact and people over 50 do not, for example. This is the mystery to me.
http://www.cdc.gov/swineflu/investigation.htm
Here’s the hot link for you. I didn’t find the info you posted after the link on that page. Did I miss something?
I don’t see anything about it also having an avian aspect to the virus...
Where did you see that, and why isn’t that being reported?
Odds of a virus naturally occurring capable of jumping from pigs, birds and humans AND going pandemic right at the same time as an American President visits the city in the heart of the outbreak AND someone critically infected with that flu shaking the hands of said President within 24 hours of him dropping dead? Coincidence, I think not! :)