Posted on 04/30/2009 1:03:56 PM PDT by Califreak
A federal agent from Severna Park who may have infected his wife, son and nephew with the swine flu contracted the flu virus while on duty with President Barack Obama earlier this month in Mexico City.
The man, who asked not be identified, was on duty as part of a protection detail with the president and other U.S. officials, he said. The agent and the president were part of a museum visit there with Felipe Solis, a distinguished archaeologist who showed Obama around the city's anthropology museum during his visit to Mexico earlier this month. Solis died the following week from flu-like symptoms.
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imo this dog’s bark seems worse than it’s bite.... sounds like a manufactured “case” of SF
Sort of funny that when he was on the job and had the cough, he was told it was just the pollution.
Asthma.
Another catch-all diagnosis.
Trust me. That ain’t pig flu. Bleeding from the ears gives it away
Yikes, sounds like a hemorrhagic fever to me.
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by Barry, John M.
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So we go and dig up some of the frozen victims and “play” with the bug in laboratories.
Absolutely brilliant idea.
Sleeping dogs, mummies and viruses should not be tampered with.
Wiser words were never spoke...
And here’s an old article about all the fun things they did with it!
http://www.seattlepi.com/local/191418_flu18.html
“A skeptic of resurrecting and enlivening the 1918 flu virus, however, said it is critical to first make sure we are adequately protected against creating a “man-made” pandemic.
“This project could create a new bug that infects someone in the lab who then walks out at the end of the day and, literally, kills tens of millions of people,” said Ed Hammond, director of a biotechnology and bioweapons watchdogorganization called the Sunshine Project, based in Austin, Texas.”
[that was *5* years ago....wonder what they’ve been “doing with it”, since then?]
>Victims bled from the ears and nose, turned blue from lack of oxygen, suffered aches that felt like bones being broken, and died.<
Which article is that from?
It’s not from the article I posted.
I believe a lab is where it came from.
Question is, which one?
I know which one I’d bet all my money on.
When they obtain this tissue, I wonder what kind of hoops they have to jump through?
Could just anyone dig up one of those poor people and start playing mad scientist?
Surprisingly few.
When the anthrax scare hit, that particular strain had been mailed all over the world to various and sundry [and often questionable] labs “for study” all over the world.
They knew where it had originally came from but couldn’t tell where the stuff being mailed out had ~recently~ come from because it was literally *everywhere*.
Comforting, isn’t it?
And yes, I imagine someone could sneak in and dig up their own bugs, if they knew where the bodies were and there was no security in place.
I was stationed in Mexico City in the early 90s. Once a week or so, we went to lunch at the McDonald’s in the Zona Rosa. To get there, we had to cross the eight lane Paseo de la Reforma. If we got stuck at a light, we had to suck that atmosphere into our bodies. By the time we got to Mickey D’s, our eyes were red, and there was some tingling in the throat. In less than two years there, I was sick three times for three days each time. Normally I don’t get sick. The air there defines toxic. The SecSer agent just got hit with what almost everyone else gets hit with there. It’s awful!
(waiting for hysterical laughter to die down)
Strange that as Mexico’s flu cases grow, health secretary Cordova is fighting the perception the disease began in Mexico---where swine flu sufferers are dying like flies.
Cordova even hinted it could have started in the United States. He told a press conference: “I think it is very risky to say, or want to say, what the point of origin or dissemination of it is, given that there had already been cases reported in southern California and Texas.”
If he's so sure of US infections, shouldn’t Cordoba demand Mexico close its border......so that all the infected US citizens can't get in and infect the rest of the population?
Wasn’t the story this morning that he was on the advance team and wasn’t really near the president, except across the room at some dinner?
Now, he was part of the protection detail and was in the same room with the president and Solis.
Why all the different stories?
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