Posted on 11/16/2009 11:51:59 AM PST by TaraP
A DEADLY plague could sweep across Europe, doctors fear, after an outbreak of a virus in Ukraine plunged the country and its neighbours into a state of panic.
A cocktail of three flu viruses are reported to have mutated into a single pneumonic plague, which it is believed may be far more dangerous than swine flu. The death toll has reached 189 and more than 1 million people have been infected, most of them in the nine regions of Western Ukraine.
President of Ukraine Viktor Yushchenko has called in the World Health Organisation and a team of nine specialists are carrying out tests in Kiev and Lviv to identify the virus. Samples have been sent to London for analysis.
President Yushchenko said: People are dying. The epidemic is killing doctors. This is absolutely inconceivable in the 21st Century.
In a TV interview, the President added: Unlike similar epidemics in other countries, three causes of serious viral infections came together simultaneously in Ukraine two seasonal flus and the Californian flu
Virologists conclude that this combination of infections may produce an even more aggressive new virus as a result of mutation.
Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko has been touring hospitals where victims are being treated and presidential elections in January could be cancelled .
Four men and one woman have died from the flu in Lviv, said emergency hospital chief doctor Myron Borysevych. Two of the dead patients were in the 22-35 age group, with two others over 60. He diagnosed the disease as viral pneumonia.
We have sent the analyses to Kiev. We dont believe its H1N1 swine flu. Neither do we know what kind of pneumonia it is.
I did some quick number crunching and it appears that the mortality rate is even less than seasonal flu, which is in the range of one death per 2,000 cases.
What gives?
Revelation 6 (New International Version)
7When the Lamb opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth living creature say, “Come!” 8I looked, and there before me was a pale horse! Its rider was named Death, and Hades was following close behind him. They were given power over a fourth of the earth to kill by sword, famine and plague, and by the wild beasts of the earth.
They say that trends repeat themselves every decade. Anyone remember the Y2K hysteria 10 years ago? Remember all the hype and hysteria? Does anything nowadays sound vaguely familiar?
If this were the run of the mill seasonal flu, there would something like 500 fatalities out of a million cases.
Well I am sure they will just keep mixing until they find a visus that will do the job they want done.
I was just reading about plagues. this is not good.
Europe has suffered many devastating plagues.
I sure hope this is not another onset.
If we can’t produce enough for Swine Fu. How would the CDC etc even imagine coming up with something to fight a 3 flu mutation.
I get pnuemonia shots.
I'm just posting the link. Draw your own conclusions.
Madagascar just closed it’s shipyards.
In other news an ustoppable comuter glitch will shutdown global phone, electric, and water infrastructure, coming up in the year 2000.
That is...er...nevermind - same as this.
Panic time. Here we go again.
Panic time. Here we go again.
Quite a bit more detail in this post at ZeroHedge:
http://www.zerohedge.com/article/deadly-flu-spreads-across-ukraine
Thanks , for the ping :)
Did you see this yet ?
http://www.recombinomics.com/News/11150903/Ukraine_299.html
Commentary
Ukraine Dead Increase to 299 - Still No Sequences
Recombinomics Commentary 22:55
November 15, 2009
1,364,939 Influenza/ARI
75,862 Hospitalized
299 Dead
The above numbers represent the latest update for the Ukraine Ministry of Health. Once again the number of dead increased by 17, but weekend numbers tend to be lower than weekday reports. The 199 dead are almost double the 155 reported week ago. The increased number of dead includes locations in central and eastern Ukraine. Last Sunday 13 of the 27 reporting regions had not exceeded the epidemic threshold, but today only 5 regions remained below the threshold (see map).
There has been more recent media coverage which have suggested that the high number of fatal cases was linked to late treatment or a lack of Tamiflu. However, at least 6 of the fatalities were healthcare workers and most of the reported deaths were after the warning was issued and schools were closed down, suggesting that many of not most cases were not due to late treatment. The initial WHO report indicated the time between disease onset and hospitalization was 5-7 days, but the more recent report from Ukraine cited a 3-7 day lag, which again suggested that many die in spite of awareness, modest time differentials between symptoms and hospitalization and appropriate treatment.
Moreover, 90 of the initial cases were describe as have a hemorrhagic component, which again raises concerns about small genetic changes, especially in the receptor binding domain. Answers to questions about such changes have been evasive, and the sequences have not been released by Mill Hill.
The sequence silence remains deafening, and erodes public confidence in agencies controlling these samples and sequences.
How about less than 0.0002%.
Actually, they do. If a person is infected with multiple strains of influenza, the different strains can swap genetic material and a strain with genetic material from 2 or more variants of influenza can form. It’s called recombination. This website is devoted to the study of recombination: http://www.recombinomics.com/. According to the news feed section at that site, the death toll is now at 315 in the Ukraine: http://www.recombinomics.com/whats_new.html.
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It’s like someone has sent the Four Horsemen of the Appocalypse bringing a list of tribulations: War of Conquest, Civil War, Famine, Disease, Unemployment, Inflation, False Prophets. Who is behind it all? Who is pulling the strings?
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