Swine flu- deconstructing H1N1 virus

[no caste]

I posted this comment in the Revolution is Brewing! (http://projectavalon.net/forum/showthread.php?t=13233&page=3) thread. This morning, I notice Burgundia's note about Deagle on Camelot, a possible whisteblower named Mary, and so on.

"By the way, how does a virus get like this: "Health officials are worried because people appear to have no immunity to the virus, a combination of bird, swine and human influenzas." What the fu** kind of combo virus is this?! It also seems to hit Hispanic people harder. Hmmm"
http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2009/0...co-090425.html

If it's a bioweapon, I'd like to follow the dots here. Please add whatever information you have, i.e. symptoms in news, dreams, thoughts, research.

[no caste]

From Waterman:
I was going to drop by and post info about the flu outbreak. As I posted earlier I have been working with the Lakota nation in a mysterious outbreak that appeared about 2 months ago. After getting with them I identified it as a biological agent that is used in biological warfare. So this flu outbreak isn't the only pathological event occurring right now. [Post includes other interesting info about West Nile virus.]

thread: The Obama administration declares health emergency.
http://projectavalon.net/forum/showthread.php?t=13504&page=2

[Malletzky]

OK, just found some informations, don't know how valid this is, I tried to do some research, but didn't come much further:

1. New typ of Virus
2. The mix of all the bird, human and swine flu...extraordinary!
3. Rising amount of infected people around the world in a very short time.
4. Suddenly, rummors that "Tamiflu" is able to help!
5. Gilead Science, the Corporate owning the "Tamiflu" rised the production of this pharmaceutical.
6. Consequently, they will earn a lot of money...
7. The clue is to find out, who're the men behind the scene at Gilead...I have some information, that this could be D. Rumsfeld himself among some other. If anyone could confirm this, we're getting some evidence that this is not just a flu, but it is "the FLU" ....

malletzky

[peaceandlove]

My apologies for this third post of the Ben's Blog 4/27 on different threads...it may apply here also.

BEN'S BLOG 4/27/2009 :lightsabre:

The release of a US bio-weapon in Mexico was a fatal mistake for the illuminati

The criminally insane owners of the Federal Reserve Board, faced with inevitable bankruptcy, are once again trying to save themselves by creating mayhem. However, by releasing a bio-weapon in Mexico they have most surely lost the support of almost everybody in the alphabet soup agencies and the pentagon.

Their plan to use the pandemic as an excuse for martial law will blow up in their faces. There can be no doubt this was the last straw. It is time to take them down. All patriotic Americans must rise and save their country from the grips of these madmen. The world is watching you America and praying for your success in regaining your freedom.

Source: http://benjaminfulford.typepad.com/benjaminfulford/2009/04/index.html



:sneaky2: Capable of supplying 1.5 m Tamiflu doses in 6 weeks: Cipla

Published on Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 10:37 , Updated at Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 14:10
Source : CNBC-TV18

Talking on the impact of swine flue, Amar Lulla, Joint Managing Director, Cipla, said that the flu has pandemic proportions and quick action from the government is needed in the direction.

Since Cipla manufactures Tamiflu, a drug used to treat Swine Flu, it gives the company a good opportunity in the export market. The company can supply 1.5 m doses of Tamiflu as soon as needed, said Lulla.

"We are awaiting communication from the government on swine flu," Lulla said, adding, "WHO has advised stock piling of drugs to counter swine flu."
Here is a verbatim transcript of the exclusive interview with Amar Lulla on CNBC-TV18. Also watch the accompanying video.

Continues: http://www.moneycontrol.com/india/news/business/cipla-can-supply-15-m-tamiflu-doses/395127

[peaceandlove]

Roche Holding says it can deliver 3 million doses of Tamiflu for swine flu

By Katharina Bart
Last update: 1:46 p.m. EDT April 26, 2009

ZURICH (MarketWatch) -- Roche Holding AG (ROG.VX:, , ) said Sunday it stands ready to deliver 3 million doses of flu treatment Tamiflu to the World Health Organization, which is grappling with outbreaks of swine flu.
The Basel-based pharmaceutical company's drug has proven effective in treating swine flu. Roche said half the donatable Tamiflu is being stored in the U.S., the remainder in Switzerland.

"As soon as the WHO tells us how many doses need to be delivered where, we will supply it," Roche spokeswoman Claudia Schmitt said. The treatments are part of an emergency stockpile for cases such as swine flu, which the WHO has said has pandemic potential.

Sunday, New York city health authorities confirmed at least eight students have probable human swine virus. At least 81 people have died from severe pneumonia caused by the flu-like illness in Mexico, according to the WHO. In a media call to journalists, the WHO sought to discourage individuals hoarding doses of Tamiflu.

"Hoarding...is something we definitely would not encourage, and this is something national authorities will be addressing in terms of their updates," the WHO's Dr. Keiji ***uda, temporary assistant director-general for Health Security and the Environment, said Sunday.

Company Web site: http://www.roche.com

Source: http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/roche-holding-says-can-deliver/story.aspx?guid={9586B525-63BB-43B6-BD5A-551BFE6AAC55}&dist=msr_4

[Northern Boy]

I`m giving my shot of tamiflu away willing to scarifice my self to save another anyone want it ?

[Swanny]

I`m giving my shot of tamiflu away willing to scarifice my self to save another anyone want it ?

Erm!!! Thx but no thx :naughty:

[oldpaganfreak]

I`m giving my shot of tamiflu away willing to scarifice my self to save another anyone want it ?

i heard on cbc this morning, that the canadian govt has 55 million doses on hand. how many tax dollars did we spend on that?
is tamiflu a cash cow for some high end lobbyists?

[Northern Boy]

i heard on cbc this morning, that the canadian govt has 55 million doses on hand. how many tax dollars did we spend on that?
is tamiflu a cash cow for some high end lobbyists?

heck we don`t have 55 million in the country ....... maybe mass immigration headed our way

[oldpaganfreak]

heck we don`t have 55 million in the country ....... maybe mass immigration headed our way

ya, i thought that was strange. 36 million canucks. 55 million doses?

[no caste]

I did watch the Mary video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_qJQCJp4ehc) (the transcript is on Project Camelot (http://www.projectcamelot.net/)) - wow, lots of night truck movement according to this video, picking up loads of refrigerated cargo, either "antigen or antibody," from silos in Albany, into which the trucks are lowered for loading. The drivers get cash via Bank of America code; freight delivery is apparently financed by Homeland Security.
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H5N1 is avian flu
H1N1 is a combo swine, avian, human. It shares characteristics with spanish flu (1918-20), which Deagle said was a strain made worse by contaminated vaccines - toxic serum story (http://www.whale.to/vaccine/sf1.html)

Gilead Sciences - NYSE:GILD
http://www.gilead.com/corporate_history

http://charts.edgar-online.com/ext/charts.dll?2-2-18-0-0-512-03NA000000GILD-&SF:1|31-HT=290-WD=425-FREQ=6-BG=FFFFFF-FTS:A17=0-FC:2=000000-FC:3=009900-FF:1=92ADC8-FB:1=FFFFFF-FL:1=D3D0CB-AT:9=1
http://investors.gilead.com/phoenix.zhtml?c=69964&p=irol-stockquote
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Don't fear the swine flu . . . trade it
Posted Apr 27th 2009 1:00PM by Melly Alazraki
Filed under: Walgreen Co (WAG), Novartis AG ADS (NVS), Baxter Intl (BAX), CVS Corp (CVS), Hormel Foods (HRL), Tyson Foods'A' (TSN), Smithfield Foods (SFD), Gilead Sciences (GILD), Agriculture

Flu vaccine makers could make an even better bet. At least 20 companies make flu vaccines including Sanofi Pasteur, the vaccine division of Sanofi Aventis Group (NYSE: SNY), Australia's CSL Ltd, London-based GlaxoSmithKline Plc (NYSE: GSK), Novartis AG (NYSE: NVS), Baxter (NYSE: BAX), nasal spray maker MedImmune, acquired by AstraZeneca Plc. (NYSE: AZN) and Swiss based Roche (Other OTC: RHHBY) to name a few.

The main products that currently seem to work against this strain of flu are GSK's Relenza and Roche's Tamiflu, which was originally invented by Gilead Sciences Inc. (NASDAQ: GILD) and gets royalties from its sales. There are concerns, however, that Tamiflu -- taken orally in the form of a tablet -- might be less effective than Relenza, which is inhaled.

Currently, it takes months to make a flu vaccine and it could take years for drug makers to meet global demand. It's no surprise then that stocks of vaccine makers shot up globaly and in the U.S., especially those with licenses to make the aformentioend two drugs. GSK was the highest gainer.
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About ALDA Pharmaceuticals Corp.

ALDA is focused on the development of infection-control therapeutics derived from its patented T36(R) technology. T36(R) has been proven to be effective against the H1N1 and H3N2 strains of swine flu and against SARS-like viruses. The company trades on the TSX Venture Exchange under the symbol "APH", and is quoted on the OTCBB under the symbol "APCSF".
http://www.tradingmarkets.com/.site/news/Stock%20News/2293151/

[Angel in Disguise]

Speaking of Baxter... again...

http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/chi-baxter-swine-flu-27-apr27,0,3579388.story

[peaceandlove]

Don't Panic! 'Flu' season starts late - be ready!

April 27, 2009

Mike at Fever I Am commentates and posts relative articles to origins, alerts, effects on world markets and historical references.

Articles on right side of youtube page under (More Info).

Video (9:15): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMj3Eg2qVVY&feature=channel_page

[Steve_A]

Hi Everybody,

I'm suprised that the world governments are talking so much about this problem. I'm even more suprised that BBC World, CNN and Fox News are almost exclusively covering this since at least yesterday.

So here's the thing. Typically only 1% of people die from this "type" of flu, which brings us to the following one of two hypothesis.

In Mexico there are at least 15,000 cases of Swine Flu walking around the streets, or the strain of this virus is killing almost 60% of its' victims.

If Mexico is, and it appears to be, the focal point of this virus, why not lock down just that city? If the virus gets out, specially in the African nations, there is a possibility of a huge problem which will be out of control for some time.

I'm not sure if I share Ron Pauls opinion about the problem as, although I agree that more people die of other illnesses, an outbreak of a spectacular illness could and would cause havoc in so many commercial sectors that the whole would will just collapse beyond anything even the worst doomsdayer would have thought about.

Nip it in the bud I say.

Best regards,

Steve

[Lorien]

Hi Everybody,

I'm suprised that the world governments are talking so much about this problem. I'm even more suprised that BBC World, CNN and Fox News are almost exclusively covering this since at least yesterday.

So here's the thing. Typically only 1% of people die from this "type" of flu, which brings us to the following one of two hypothesis.

In Mexico there are at least 15,000 cases of Swine Flu walking around the streets, or the strain of this virus is killing almost 60% of its' victims.

If Mexico is, and it appears to be, the focal point of this virus, why not lock down just that city? If the virus gets out, specially in the African nations, there is a possibility of a huge problem which will be out of control for some time.

I'm not sure if I share Ron Pauls opinion about the problem as, although I agree that more people die of other illnesses, an outbreak of a spectacular illness could and would cause havoc in so many commercial sectors that the whole would will just collapse beyond anything even the worst doomsdayer would have thought about.

Nip it in the bud I say.

Best regards,

Steve

As far as why they aren't locking down anything, it's because they WANT it so spread. Their goal after all is to kill off as many of us as they can. And as far as Paul's response, he is assuming that this is just a regular run of the mill swine flu like they ran into decades ago, not some genetically modified eugenics berserker virus.

I find it especially interesting that this seems to be happening right when many people worldwide are out of jobs and money so they can't pay for health care, and lots are on the streets with no home.

[Myplanet2]

Was going to point out the disparity between 55 million doses and 35 million Canadians, but see the connection already made. never mind.

[no caste]

Ground Zero... ?

Mexican farm swine flu's 'ground zero': residents
Last Updated: Tuesday, April 28, 2009 | 8:37 AM ET Comments16Recommend24
The Associated Press
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2009/04/28/swine-flu-origin042809.html

Residents in a Mexican community of 3,000 say they believe their town is ground zero for the swine flu epidemic, even if health officials aren't saying so.
....

Officials with the company say they've found no sign of swine flu on its farms, and Mexican authorities haven't determined the outbreak's origin.

[alyscat]

I'm not buying it. LOL Ground zero? Nah. This hybrid flu has too much in it to be a 4 year old in some small mexican town.
alys

[no caste]

Definitions - this outbreak is a strain of H1N1.

H1N1 is a subtype of influenzavirus A and the most common cause of influenza in humans. Some strains of H1N1 are endemic in humans, including the strain(s) responsible for the 1918 flu pandemic and the many strains that cause influenza worldwide each year. Other strains of H1N1 are endemic in pigs and in birds. The 1918 flu pandemic killed 50–100 million people worldwide from 1918 to 1919.[1]

Low pathogenic H1N1 strains still exist in the wild today, causing roughly half of all flu infections in 2006.[2]

In March and April 2009, an outbreak of influenza in Mexico has confirm 26 cases, and 7 fatalities with the new strain of H1N1 was detected.[3] As of April 28, the new strain was suspected to have infected more than 2,500 individuals worldwide, with 152 attributed deaths (see 2009 swine flu outbreak). The U.S. Centers for Disease Control warned that it was possible the outbreak could develop into a pandemic.[4]

On April 27, 2009, the World Health Organization raised alertness from level 3 to level 4 (max 6) worldwide[5], since (sustained) human-to-human transfer of the virus was confirmed.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Influenza_A_virus_subtype_H1N1

[alyscat]

This flu has h1n1 in it, as well as a series of other viruses, including some asian ones. GM to me. Why we're calling it swine flu rather than hybrid or GM flu, I dunno.
alys

[no caste]

I'm not buying it. LOL Ground zero? Nah. This hybrid flu has too much in it to be a 4 year old in some small mexican town.
alys

Maybe. But I'm interested in a dispersal trail here, too.

"Martinez and Bertha Crisostomo, a liaison between the villagers and the municipal government of Perote to which La Gloria belongs, say half of the people from the town live and work in Mexico City most of the week, and could easily have spread the swine flu in the capital, where the largest number of cases have been reported.

"Granjas Carroll de Mexico, 50 per cent owned by Virginia-based Smithfield Foods, Inc., has eight farms in the area. Smithfield spokeswoman Keira Ullrich said the company has found no clinical signs or symptoms of the presence of swine influenza in its swine herd or its employees working at its joint ventures anywhere in Mexico.

"Residents say they have been bothered for years by the fetid smell of one of the farms, which lies upwind of the community, and they suspect their water and air has been contaminated by waste."

From the aforementioned article:
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2009/04/28/swine-flu-origin042809.html

[Malletzky]

Just heard the news that Mexico City was stroke by an earthquake today (6° on a richter scale).

I wouldn't ask if this is just a coincidence, as it is not. They're just tryin to get as many people as they can out of their homes...to speed up the process...

malletzky

[WiNaDeYo]

In reference to the number of doses of prophyilactic (medicine i.e. Tamilflu or whatever) which each of our gov'ts are saying is readily available to combat this swine flu, I'd like to mention that if you get this flu, you must take ten (shots, pills, days of pills, etc.) to have what is considered a complete cycle of treatment.

Now, let's put on out thinking caps....

The Italian gov't said today that it has 40m doses...that means for only 4m cases of flu...and the population of Italy is now over 61m!

Guess the pharmas need to get to work, huh?

[marisa manning]

Hi everyone
think everyone has forgot the miracle minerals best u all get some before u can't love and light:wub2:

[Unified Serenity]

I just ran across this anti-viral formula on Steve Quayle's site, it has an interesting story:

This blend was created from research about a group of 15th century thieves and grave robbers who rubbed oils on themselves to avoid contracting the plague while they robbed the bodies of the dead and dying. When apprehended these thieves disclosed the formula of herbs, spices and oils they used to protect themselves in exchange for more lenient punishment.

This blend of therapeutic-grade essential oils was tested at Weber State University for its potent antimicrobial properties. Thieves oil was found to have a 99.96% percent kill rate against airborne bacteria. The oils are highly antiviral, antiseptic,antibacterial,anti-infectious and help to protect the body against such illnesses as flu, colds, sinusitis,bronchitis,pneumonia, sore throats, cuts etc.

Apply few drops to bottom of feet or stomach and rub into skin

Here is the receipt for the mixture place into a small brown bottle and add the amounts of herbs listed below

* Clove oil (syzgium aromaticum) 200 drops or 1/2 ounce.

* Lemon oil (Citrus limon) 175 drops

* Cinnamon Bark oil (Cinnamoomum verum) 100 drops

* Eucalyptus oil ( Eucalyptus radiata) 75 drops

* Rosemary oil (Rosimarinus officinalis ) 50 drops

You can also use in small spray bottle and mist the air in home and car, I also place mixture in a pan of water and place on wood stove during the fall, winter and spring.

http://www.stevequayle.com/News.alert/06_Prep_tips/090427.oils.html

[freespirit]

Atchoo !!

"flu" h1n1 or h5n1 need to keep there host mobile in order to spread.It is not in the best interest for the virus if it kills it's host.

This from the New York Times

Swine flu versus avian flu

The avian flu, A(H5N1), is found among birds and humans and is highly lethal but not very transmissible. Scientists believe this new flu is more transmissible but less lethal.

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2009/04/26/us/20090427-flu-graphic.html

Here is an explanation from The Pig Site

Bird Flu in Pigs

UK - Some scientists believe the H5N1 virus may be replicating into weaker variations. One of the reasons they take this view is that the virus appears to have adapted to operate in pig populations.


Pigs have cells in their trachea that allow for both avian and human flu infections. If pigs carry both human and avian strains at a given time replication detail can be traded among the flu species and within the pig host new combinations could arise.

So although the pig variety may be less virulent than its avian-oriented relatives, virologists believe transference to the pig population may be a precursor to human infection.

When H5N1 viruses were isolated from pigs in Indonesia and were tested on mice the pig-oriented variation was found to be much less devastating to the exposed mice than the avian H5N1 species.

In growing in pigs, the virus may have become less harmful to mammals in general but it might also mean the virus is one step closer to turning into a human pandemic strain.

However pig infections are thought to happen only occasionally and it is not clear at present whether the H5N1 virus has truly adapted to pigs.

http://www.thepigsite.com/swinenews/20795/bird-flu-in-pigs

Now before i go to bed, many of the deaths reported will be due to existing
health problems which make the individual open to infection.

Goodnight atchoo !

[no caste]

First there's this kind of news (no vaccine, or a vaccine can take from 3 to 6 months to prepare), like this:

Vaccine production a slow process
LEE BOWMAN, Scripps Howard News Service - Tuesday, April 28, 2009
http://www.knoxnews.com/news/2009/apr/28/vaccine-production-a-slow-process/

"... It takes some 900 million eggs to make 300 million doses of the annual flu shot, or for that much vaccine against a new strain. It's a slow and sometimes difficult process, with the potential for contamination or for egg shortages to interfere. And it's not yet known how well the new virus grows inside eggs.

"There are several alternatives to egg-based vaccines in the works. Most advanced is cell-based vaccine production, which utilizes lab-grown cell lines, often from kidneys, that are used to host a growing virus. The virus is injected into the cell, where it multiplies. Then the cell's outer wall is removed and the virus harvested, purified and inactivated before being put into serum."

And it's also a cell-not-egg technology success story!

Swine flu: Baxter seeks swine flu sample to begin work on vaccine
Deerfield-based Baxter has a speedier way to make vaccines than old method
By Bruce Japsen | Tribune reporter - 3:34 PM CDT, April 27, 2009
http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/chi-baxter-swine-flu-27-apr27,0,3579388.story

"Baxter confirmed over the weekend that it is working with the World Health Organization on a potential vaccine to curb the deadly swine flu virus that is blamed for scores of deaths in Mexico and has emerged as a threat in the U.S. Shares of Baxter were up 2.4 percent, or $1.16, to $49.23 a share in trading Monday on the New York Stock Exchange.

"... Baxter has a cell-based technology that allows the company to produce vaccines more rapidly in the event of a pandemic than a decades-old method that uses eggs and can take weeks or months longer. Although the egg-based method has produced safe and effective vaccines, analysts say Baxter's method can cut production times in half compared with the older process."

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Also: Swine flu prompts California 'state of emergency'
28 Apr 2009 18:12:58 GMT - Source: Reuters
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N28344841.htm

LOS ANGELES, April 28 (Reuters) - California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger on Tuesday declared a "state of emergency" for the state over an outbreak of the swine flu that has killed 149 people in Mexico.

So far state and local officials have confirmed 13 cases of the swine flu in California. None has been fatal, although Los Angeles County Coroner's officials were investigating two deaths as possibly related to the disease.

Schwarzenegger's proclamation allows the state to deploy additional resources to the Department of Public Health and more quickly and easily purchase equipment and materials.

U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano declared a federal public health emergency on Sunday. (Reporting by Dan Whitcomb, editing by Patricia Zengerle)

[Starlah]

I`m giving my shot of tamiflu away willing to scarifice my self to save another anyone want it ?

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Dr. Pat Doyle's advice is NOT to take the swine flu vaccine, tamiflu, etc. She of all people knows...she was sick for three months after doing so in a previous outbreak.

http://rense.com/general85/vacc.htm
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Humpty Dumpty sat on a Wall...Humpty Dumpty had a great Fall
All the King's soldiers and all the King's men
Couldn't put Humpty Dumpty together again...

[no caste]

Dr. Pat Doyle's advice is NOT to take the swine flu vaccine, tamiflu, etc. She of all people knows...she was sick for three months after doing so in a previous outbreak.

http://rense.com/general85/vacc.htm
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Humpty Dumpty sat on a Wall...Humpty Dumpty had a great Fall
All the King's soldiers and all the King's men
Couldn't put Humpty Dumpty together again...

Starlah, I think I'd rather mainline heroin. Jeez - lab-grown cell lines, often from kidneys, that are used to host a growing virus. The virus is injected into the cell, where it multiplies. Then the cell's outer wall is removed and the virus harvested, purified and inactivated before being put into serum.

Yum! Kidney cells! Virus! Serum!

[no caste]

From Northern Boy:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBeKB...layer_embedded

This unprecedented H1N1-H5N1 flu outbreak implicates the Ango-American Vaccine Pipeline, says world leading consumer health protector, Dr. Leonard Horowitz.

Here, Dr. Horowitz urges an investigation of Dr. James S. Robertson, England's leading bioengineer of flu viruses for the vaccine industry, and avid promoter of U.S. Government funding for lucrative biodefense contracts, along with collaborators at the US Centers for Disease Control & Prevention (CDC). These suspects helped Novavax, Inc., in Bethesda, Maryland, produce genetically-modified recombinants of the avian, swine, and Spanish flu viruses, H5N1 and H1N1, nearly identical to the unprecedented Mexican virus that is allegedly spreading to the United States at the time of this posting. The outbreak was precisely timed to promote the companys new research and huge vaccine stockpiling contracts.

Scientists at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC) are implicated through collaborations and publications involving private contracts with Novavax, a company that obtains its biosimulars through CDC Influenza Branch director, Ruben O. Donis, and Dr. Rick Bright, previously working with Donis at the CDC, now Novavaxs Vice President of Global Influenza Programs.

thread: Where , Who and Why the Swine Flu story
http://projectavalon.net/forum/showthread.php?t=13555

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Novavax - NYSE: NVAX

http://www.reuters.com/charts/cr/?symbol=NVAX.O&display=mountain&width=172&height=124&frequency=1day&duration=1year
http://www.reuters.com/finance/stocks/overview?symbol=NVAX.O

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Dr. Leonard Horowitz says that better, less dangerous health products & research are suppressed by Novavax, CDC, EMCA, NIBSC, WHO. Here's his 2-page PDF news release about it on the www.oxysilver.com (http://www.oxysilver.com/) website.
H1N1-H5N1 Flu Outbreak Implicates Anglo-American “Vaccine Pipeline” Says Expert Dr. Leonard Horowitz
http://www.oxysilver.com/mexican_flu_2009special_report_by_dr._leonard_horo witz.pdf

Very weird: The most chilling evidence against Dr. Robertson’s EU research team, besides him being the gatekeeper and chief promoter for multi-billion dollar flu vaccine stockpiling deals, and besides his collaborators being caught red handed here by hard science and common sense, is his stated position that he believes it is wise to “prime” populations worldwide by releasing viruses he and his colleagues are creating. This warning comes from a April 27, 2006, scientific discourse in which Dr. Robertson, and members of his WHO working group, recommended his “biosimilars” be “used to prime the population in advance of the pandemic reaching the UK.”

(Horowitz just calls it genocide, too.)

[Lt Ripley]

Just received this via email today.

Source: winhs.org

Whether fact or fiction, the U.S. government has officially declared the 'swine flu outbreak' a national public health emergency. Swine flu has sickened at least 91 people in the U.S. by the CDC's latest count. "We are declaring today a public health emergency," Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano said on April 26th at a White House news briefing. That declaration is "standard operating procedure," Napolitano said. "It is similar to what we do when we see a hurricane approaching a site. The hurricane might not actually hit, but this will allow us to take a number of preparatory steps. We really don't know ultimately what the size or seriousness of this outbreak is going to be."

As part of the emergency, the Department of Homeland Security is releasing 25% of stockpiled antivirals -- Tamiflu and Relenza -- to the states. Here's what officials want you to do: Stay home if you're sick, avoid close contact with people who are sick, wash your hands often, avoid touching your eyes, nose, and mouth, cover your mouth or nose with a tissue when coughing or sneezing, and keep up with health information in your own community.

All of the swine flu cases reported in the US have so far been relatively mild, although one person was briefly hospitalized and one person has now died, according to Keiji ***uda, MD, Assistant Director-General for Health Security and Environment at the World Health Organization. Eight swine flu cases in New York City involved students at Saint Francis Preparatory School in Queens. All have recovered fully, according to a news release from the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene.

So far, U.S. cases of swine flu have been milder than those seen in Mexico, where the World Health Organization has confirmed that at least 20 people have died from swine flu; health officials are investigating dozens more deaths in Mexico that may be related to the disease.

SWINE FLU SYMPTOMS
Symptoms of swine flu seen in U.S. patients so far have been relatively nonspecific -- high fever, cough, sore throat, muscle aches, possibly vomiting and diarrhea in some cases.

EDITOR’S NOTE:
The seriousness of this flu notwithstanding, just 20 people found sick resulted in an unusually fast declaration of a national Public Emergency by the U.S. Government--this while a study by researchers at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles found 1,473 major adverse events and 564 deaths from Viagra reported to the FDA, most of them from cardiovascular causes, yet nothing is done for years! It begs the question as to why deaths caused by a drug company warrant such a different policy approach.

Go figure!

[David]

National Swine Flu Situation Page

http://www.vuetoo.com/vue1/Situationpagenews.asp?af=&sit=4540&z=&np=&tp=14

[peaceandlove]

Swine Flu: Man Made 4/28/09

From RussiaToday with new information on the "swine" flu we're hearing about.
Apparently pigs and pig farmers aren't being reported as getting it...
Posted by Mike at Fever I Am blogspot. http://feveriam.blogspot.com/


Video (1:24): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ok6igM7-Swk&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Ffeveriam%2Eblogspot%2Ecom%2F&feature=player_embedded

Posted under More Info at youtube channel:
Full Article
http://www.infowars.com/weaponizing-d...
Kurt Nimmo
Infowars
April 28, 2009

Many people react with incredulity when the assertion is made that the so-called swine flu outbreak in Mexico may be manufactured crisis. And yet history is replete with examples of government using biological and chemical agents for political purpose.

As a primary example, consider the CIAs secret war against Cuba and Fidel Castro. The CIA used chemical agents and toxins then stockpiled at Fort Detrick against Cuba and Fidel Castro.....

[peaceandlove]

Hi everyone
think everyone has forgot the miracle minerals best u all get some before u can't love and light:wub2:

I reposted some information under the Miracle Mineral Supplement Thread on this link:

The FDA is starting to come down on the word Supplement right now so you may also see it listed as Miracle Mineral Solution.

http://projectavalon.net/forum/showthread.php?t=4781&page=30

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[no caste]

From Northern Boy:

Baxter: Product contained live bird flu virus
This comes from the Toronto Sun Saturday, May 2, 2009

The company that released contaminated flu virus material from a plant in Austria confirmed Friday that the experimental product contained live H5N1 avian flu viruses.

And an official of the World Health Organization’s European operation said the body is closely monitoring the investigation into the events that took place at Baxter International’s research facility in Orth-Donau, Austria.
...
The contaminated product, a mix of H3N2 seasonal flu viruses and unlabelled H5N1 viruses, was supplied to an Austrian research company. The Austrian firm, Avir Green Hills Biotechnology, then sent portions of it to sub-contractors in the Czech Republic, Slovenia and Germany.
...
http://projectavalon.net/forum/showthread.php?t=13608

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[no caste]

Novavax, Inc. (NVAX:NASDAQ) - May 3, 2009

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[no caste]

To date, it looks like the symptoms are quite mild for cases outside of Mexico. Preliminary studies suggest that if the 'swine flu' is coupled with another ailment, e.g. diabetes in a Mexican fatality, or with another flu strain (in addition to this one), it can be more serious - for Mexicans. It appears to be fizzling out there now, but the Mexican government ceased tracking Apr 28-09.

This is a first human to pig transmission case I've seen. The animals do recover. The cooking process for pork eaters out there kills the virus. It's more of a containment issue ...

A worker returning from Mexico may have infected a swine herd in Alberta.
"Alberta pig herd quarantined; H1N1 infection suspected"
May 2, 2009 7:01 PM
http://www.calgaryherald.com/Health/Alberta+herd+quarantined+H1N1+infection+suspected/1558118/story.html

The CDC does not fully understand why the U.S. cases' symptoms were primarily mild disease while the Mexican cases had led to multiple deaths.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_H1N1_flu_outbreak#Symptoms_and_severity

Scientists seek clues to flu in Mexico, Mild Canadian cases leave doctors puzzled Tuesday, April 28, 2009
Experts baffled by the conflicting evidence around a new swine flu are hoping a Canadian epidemiologist and other medical detectives on the ground in Mexico can shed more light on the mysterious virus, and help predict what shape it might yet take around the world.
http://www.nationalpost.com/news/story.html?id=1543202

Here's another article on the original Mexico swine flu, called H2N3, which may be the one responsible for the deaths:

Are We Ignoring H2N3? News Outlet Speculates About A Different Influenza In Mexican Deaths
By News Staff | May 1st 2009 09:33 AM | Print | E-mail | Track Comments
News Outlet Speculates About A Different Influenza In Mexican Deaths
Everyone is blaming H1N1, but could a different strain of Influenza be the cause of Mexican deaths? Clinica - a news source for the medical technology industry - wonders what implications that would have for Mexico and the rest of the world... Clinica is investigating the details and significance of Mexican health ministry statements that the H2N3 influenza virus was responsible for the majority of cases tested in an influenza outbreak in early April, three weeks before H1N1 came on the scene.

The existence of an additional strain of the disease would raise fundamental questions concerning the management of the swine flu epidemic internationally. Comments made by Mexican health minister José Angel Córdova Villalobos during an April 27 press conference refer to the investigation of an outbreak reported in Perote, Veracruz, on April 2. The response on that day is said to have triggered a local alert and that in looking for the influenza virus, the majority of cases tested were H2N3.
Northern Sactuary post: Re: Insider Swine Flu Info
http://projectavalon.net/forum/showthread.php?t=13592

The vaccine contract in Canada
Canada has a contract with pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline to produce two million doses of new vaccine a week, at the company's Ste-Foy, Que., plant. Until the vaccine is available -- something that could take up to six months -- Canada will use its stock of 50 million doses of antivirals, as the first line of defence if the first wave of a pandemic strikes. About 90% of the stock is Tamiflu, with Relenza making up the rest. Questions have been raised about the effectiveness of Tamiflu for instance, but Canadian officials remain confident it will work.
http://www.calgaryherald.com/Scientists+face+vaccine+dilemma/1557604/story.html

[Swanny]

Looks like its coming to an end
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/8031267.stm



Mexico has now confirmed 19 fatalities from the virus, which is now present in 18 countries around the world.

But Health Minister Jose Angel Cordova said it appeared that the outbreak could be levelling off.

"Each day we're seeing fewer serious cases and therefore the mortality rate is dropping," he said.
Doesn't sound bad to me :thumb_yello:

[no caste]

This is an interesting background story of happenstance, lightening storms, people, agencies, testing. Hmm, was there a contaminant in the Navy lab?

Sleuthing Swine Flu
Chance Test Led CDC Investigators to Link Cases in U.S., Mexico
By Ceci Connolly, Washington Post Staff Writer
Sunday, May 3, 2009
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/05/02/AR2009050202353.html?wpisrc=newsletter

ATLANTA Nancy Cox's phone connection to Mexico kept cutting off. Rain came down in sheets above the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

On the other end of the line the night of April 23, Mexican Health Ministry officials anxiously awaited results on a batch of samples they had sent to Atlanta that morning. They were trying to solve a mystery Cox's team had been wrestling with for more than a week: Was the sickness killing young Mexicans related to a strange new flu popping up in the United States?

People across the border were sick and dying, and, in the United States, a novel virus had surfaced in the San Diego area. Using samples from the California cases, the CDC was getting close to determining whether the cross-border illnesses matched.

"I could hear the cracks of thunder," recalled Cox, director of the CDC influenza division, describing the long silent minutes as she and the Mexicans waited for the results.

The answer she delivered was both satisfying and troubling to disease detectives at the CDC, the sleuths who unravel the puzzles surrounding outbreaks of illnesses in the United States and abroad. Yes, she told them, the viruses matched.

What began as a scientific anomaly in this country was now a deadly binational outbreak. And it was spreading fast. In the course of nine days, the virulent bug would jump swiftly from the Americas to Europe, New Zealand, the Middle East and Asia. It would lead to school closures across the United States, the slaughter of hundreds of thousands of pigs in Egypt, and the quarantining of 300 people in a Hong Kong hotel after the disease was diagnosed in a guest.

Although the disease detectives were operating without a health secretary in Washington or a permanent CDC director, Cox, an Iowa native with a love of science and travel, had years of intense preparation for just such an outbreak.

After hanging up the phone, she followed the pandemic playbook, notifying her bosses, who ordered the agency's Emergency Operations Center to ramp up to its highest response level. Within days, CDC would dispatch medical investigators to Mexico, ship new flu-test kits to state health laboratories in the United States and release pharmaceutical supplies from the Strategic National Stockpile to all 50 states.

Then Cox's cellphone rang again, with a call from home. There was more bad news for the soft-spoken blond virologist who had grown the CDC's flu division from 14 people to more than 100 scientists. Her 1916 Tudor house in the Druid Hills neighborhood of Atlanta had been struck by lightning. Her husband and daughter were safe, but their lovingly restored home was burning to the ground.

A Fortuitous Test

The medical detective work that unearthed the 2009 outbreak of swine-origin influenza A (H1N1) -- more commonly known as swine flu -- began with a bit of happenstance.

On March 30, a 10-year-old boy in Southern California developed a cough and fever. Normally, doctors wouldn't have bothered testing for the flu; they would have given him medicine and sent him home.

But the Naval Health Research Center in San Diego was participating in a clinical trial of new, 30-minute flu tests, so they took a nasal swab and tested it the next day.

The boy had a flu strain that the virologists, skilled at identifying the seasonal flu, didn't recognize. Following the study protocols, they shipped the specimen to a research lab at the Marshfield Clinic in Wisconsin, which also concluded that the boy, who would become known as Patient A, was infected with an unrecognizable influenza virus. Next it was sent to the state health lab.

Since the 2003 bird flu outbreak, the public health community has been on the lookout for problematic new viruses. When the boy's nasal swab reached the Wisconsin state lab shortly after 3 p.m. on April 10, just as the office was closing for the Easter weekend, lab chief Peter Shult asked whether it was a high-risk case.

"The concern always is, could this be avian?" he said. "You are always worried that one of those might sneak in."

Once Shult learned that the specimen was from a child who hadn't been out of the country and had recovered from the mild illness, he decided the test could wait. He suspected the youngster had contracted swine flu, rare but not unheard of, he said later.

Swine flu in pigs is common, but only rarely does it spread to humans. Nationwide, health officials see a few cases each year, with the last major public health crisis occurring in 1976, when 40 million people were vaccinated after an Army recruit died of the illness in New Jersey. People cannot be infected by eating pork. Twice on April 13, Shult ran the lab tests, confirming that what he had on his hands was an influenza strain he could not pinpoint. "We sent it immediately to CDC," he said.

As that first San Diego sample made its way to Atlanta, the naval lab got its second curious case, a 9-year-old girl. Again, the scientists diagnosed influenza but couldn't be more specific. The only thing they knew: The child's flu was not the normal variety.

This time, the specimen was shipped to Atlanta, and Patrick Blair, the director of the Navy lab, alerted the CDC that something was amiss. CDC officials paid attention because Blair was known in the medical detective world, having spent much of his career as a virus hunter in Indonesia.

"That's the trick with catching something early," said Michael Shaw, the CDC's associate director for laboratory science. "You need a person in the field with a good eye and a bit of paranoid suspicion to send it along."

Unidentifiable Samples

As Shult ran tests in Wisconsin and Blair puzzled over the second atypical virus to pass through his lab in less than a week, Mexican authorities grappled with a late-season wave of flulike illness.

At the White House, President Obama prepared for his first trip to Mexico, on April 16, with advance teams already on the ground.

CDC analysts scour daily for early warning signs of a disease outbreak or natural disaster. With computer search tools, they scan news reports, online blogs and the data that pours into the operations center.

"We're picking up thousands of signals every day," said Scott F. Dowell, head of global disease detection at the CDC. "The challenge is in interpreting them."

The next day, the CDC lab got the specimen from Patient A, the 10-year-old boy, and a day later identified it as the new H1N1 virus.

Interesting but not stunning, thought Daniel B. Jernigan, Cox's deputy in the flu division. As the person overseeing the rapid-flu-test project in San Diego and other sites, Jernigan makes his living tracking influenza cases. He had seen a dozen swine flu cases in recent years, most often a child who had visited a petting zoo or a farmer who had come in contact with a sick pig.

"The kid gets a fever, mom doesn't feel too good, they take some medicine, and it's all over," Jernigan said. The swine influenza, in other words, typically dies out quickly.

When the second San Diego specimen arrived and it, too, was determined to be swine influenza, Jernigan's team started digging. In the lab, "we blast-sequenced it against our entire pig laboratory," he said, describing the hundreds of swine virus samples the CDC has collected over the years. "There was no match."

Despite their confidence in Blair, they wondered whether a contaminant had landed in the Navy lab.

Then came the call from Texas -- two teenage boys in Guadalupe County with an unrecognizable flu virus.

Then San Diego. Another influenza virus they couldn't identify.

By Thursday, April 16, as Obama's Air Force One landed at Benito Juarez International Airport in Mexico City, CDC officials were struggling to "connect the dots," as Cox put it. She called Mexico, requesting specimens.

"We thought there might be a possibility but not necessarily be a connection between the situation in California and what was unfolding in Mexico," she said.

Unbeknownst at the time, a member of Obama's advance team -- dispatched to Mexico on April 13 -- had contracted the swine flu and brought it home to the Washington area.

Making the Connection

Over the weekend of April 18, CDC officials began drafting an urgent public health dispatch describing a pair of novel swine flu cases in the San Diego area. In a Saturday night conference call with California health officials, they launched a gumshoe-style investigation. Although they now knew what the virus looked like, its origins remained a mystery.

"We were thinking there had to be some contact with pigs," said state epidemiologist Gil Chavez. They came close; the boy had visited the zoo; the little girl had been to a county fair. But no luck.

"We absolutely couldn't establish any links with swine whatsoever," Chavez said. Furthermore, the children lived 120 miles apart and had never met.

On Monday, April 20, Veratect, a private firm based in Kirkland, Wash., that conducts disease surveillance, contacted the CDC, concerned about the respiratory illness in Mexico. But in an e-mail, medical director James Wilson acknowledged, "I suspect this is probably a false alarm."

North of the border, Canada also was picking up nervous chatter. After its devastating experience with severe acute respiratory syndrome, or SARS, in 2003, Canada's public health apparatus is highly attuned to potential outbreaks. Through the international laboratory grapevine, U.S. public health workers heard that Mexico was shipping samples to Canada.

But it wasn't adding up, Jernigan said. The situation in California -- children with mild cases of swine flu who had fully recovered -- didn't match the dire picture in Mexico.

By the time Richard E. Besser, acting director of the CDC, convened the weekly pandemic flu meeting at 8:30 a.m. on April 22, CDC lab technicians had confirmed that the viruses that infected two teenagers in Texas identically matched the California bugs.
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"The first case of swine flu, you think: No big deal," Besser said in an interview. "The second is a little less common. But then when the Texas cases came in, the epidemiologist in me knew the probability of those being unrelated events has gone way down."

From a polished wood conference table next to the CDC's 24-hour Emergency Operations Center, Besser said the agency would step up its pandemic preparations, increasing the center's staffing from 10 to 70.

The next day, the CDC convened a teleconference with the 50 state public health labs in the United States and urged extra vigilance.

By evening, as the rain began to fall, Cox's team was completing its analysis of the specimens from Mexico. The genes were identical to the H1N1 swine variation found in California and Texas. Finally, she recalled, "we were really putting together a couple of major pieces of the puzzle."

One mystery had been solved. But for Cox, whose house would be torn down to the studs, the marathon was just beginning.

[waitinginthewings]

I think they have been working on the theory of Problem, Reaction, Solution. Problem = spread a new virus that causes some deaths, with many more falling ill etc (just enough to scare people. The hoped for Reaction = people screaming for a vaccine....then they offer up the Solution = Tamiflu or a new one. But it does not look like they accomplished their mission this time around. They have become way too obvious, and people are catching on. They have underestimated the human mind:lmfao:

IMHO the real danger may be still awaiting us, there is always a back-up plan, so we humans need to stay on our toes:thumb_yello:

[no caste]

IMHO the real danger may be still awaiting us, there is always a back-up plan, so we humans need to stay on our toes:thumb_yello:

It's ditto for me, because I have a bit of a calm before the storm feeling right now. The primary risk seems to be if one strain latches onto this strain. Then we're hooped! :lmfao:

Immunity :thumb_yello:
Common sense :thumb_yello: - precautions like handwashing, controlling spread
Vaccines :thumbdown: - I don't think they keep up anyway, let alone whatever stuff may be lurking in them

Wikipedia has running numbers for international cases, #s, etc. There are 2 articles, one about swine flu generally and this one about the 2009 outbreak. It's updated frequently. >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_swine_flu_outbreak

[Unified Serenity]

Read this excellent article from Global Research:


Political Lies and Media Disinformation regarding the Swine Flu Pandemic
(http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=13433)


excerpt:

The US

In the US there have been 109 reported cases of the virus (April 30, 2009), of which only five were hospitalized. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control confirmed that a 23 month child in Texas had died from the swine flu virus, following hospitalisation and clinical examination.
U.S. Human Cases of Swine Flu Infection
(As of April 30, 2009, 10:30 AM ET)
States

# of laboratory confirmed cases

Deaths
Arizona 1
California 14
Indiana 1
Kansas 2
Massachusetts 2
Michigan 1
Nevada 1
New York 50
Ohio 1
South Carolina
10

Texas
26
1
TOTAL COUNTS 109 cases 1 death
International Human Cases of Swine Flu Infection
See: World Health Organization

Media Disinformation

News reports point to "hundreds of New York schoolchildren reported to have fallen sick with "suspected swine flu". There was, however, no evidence corroborated by lab examinations of the incidence of the swine flu H1N1 strain. In all likelihood, the children were suffering from the flu, which is part of a common occurrence during the month of April. "All the cases were mild, no child was hospitalized, no child was seriously ill,” Dr. Frieden said. Health officials reached their preliminary conclusion after conducting viral tests on nose or throat swabs from the eight students, which allowed them to eliminate other strains of flu."

Tests were conducted on school children in Queen's, but the tests were inconclusive: among theses "hundreds of school children", there were no reports of laboratory analysis leading to a positive identification of the influenza virus. In fact the reports are contradictory: according to the reports, the Atlanta based CDCP is the "only lab in the country that can positively confirm the new swine flu strain — which has been identified as H1N1." (NYT, April 25, 2009)

Influenza is a common disease. Unless there is a thorough lab examination, the identity if the virus cannot be established.

It is revealing that the Atlanta based CDCP is playing a key role in identifying the virus on behalf of several Latin American countries, including Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador and Costa Rica. On April 30th, the US government established a CDCP lab in Mexico. In other words, a US government agency is monopolising the conduct of laboratory testing, the data and analysis.

[Malletzky]

I just found this amazing:

'Swine Flu' Vaccine Public Service Announcements From 1976!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.365.com.mk%2Findex.php %3Foption%3Dcom_content%26task%3Dview%26id%3D3987% 26Itemid%3D2&feature=player_embedded&v=9iJLpe1tZl8&gl=US

Funny, isn't it ???

[alyscat]

We see a lot of probable, but those don't always translate to guaranteed. The flu is spreading and likely to go to a stage 6, but pandemic does not necessarily mean deadly, just widespread. Normal flu is anticipated, and probably is rarely submitted to the CDC (since a cold doesn't have a fever and a flu does, so it's fairly easily diagnosed and treated with the usual suspects).

Right now the numbers are so erratic because (IMHO) to keep "panic" down, they're only showing lab confirmed cases. Well, we don't usually have lab confirmed cases during the usual flu season. (see above for why) -

The H1N1 at this point is mild in the US and easily treated - what will happen when it goes south for the winter (as flu usually does) and gets incubated and mutated in that population and comes back to us for flu season (after all, that's how they determine which strands to put in the flu vaccines, they use the most recent/prevalent from the southern hemisphere strands - which is why they get it wrong sometimes) - is anybody's guess.

Best to stay alert, stay healthy, use common sense, and not get too emotionally involved in all this. We're getting "good" real time information. Use it to your advantage.
alys

[no caste]

I just found this amazing:

'Swine Flu' Vaccine Public Service Announcements From 1976!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.365.com.mk%2Findex.php %3Foption%3Dcom_content%26task%3Dview%26id%3D3987% 26Itemid%3D2&feature=player_embedded&v=9iJLpe1tZl8&gl=US

Funny, isn't it ???

Malletzky - I just read about this today too.

Lessons of 1976: flu, fear, wasted millions
Governments scrambling for solutions to current outbreak risk repeating mistakes of a decades-old health-scare fiasco
LES PERREAUX, From Saturday's Globe and Mail
May 1, 2009 at 9:02 PM EDT

MONTREAL — The great swine-flu scare of 1976 is remembered in the United States as a costly public-health fiasco during which more people died from vaccinations than the dreaded influenza.

FULL STORY
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20090501.wfluseventysix0501/BNStory/Science/?page=rss&id=RTGAM.20090501.wfluseventysix0501

[Paramartasaya]

"Swine Flu Was Cultured In A Laboratory", Dr. John Carlo, Dallas Co. Medical Director says:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1LcKoiTEJKc&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Ftrinityatierra%2Ewordpress%2Ecom %2F&feature=player_embedded

[Paramartasaya]

IMPORTANT SWINE Flu Outbreak 2009 SPECIAL REPORT by Dr Leonard Horowitz:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gyyt7JznzQA

[Humble Janitor]

Hopefully, I won't jinx it but I wonder if people can form a shield using consciousness that can protect an entire area from infection, etc?

I live in an area that still hasn't gotten any swine flu cases.

[feeler]

"Swine Flu Was Cultured In A Laboratory", Dr. John Carlo, Dallas Co. Medical Director says:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1LcKoiTEJKc&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Ftrinityatierra%2Ewordpress%2Ecom %2F&feature=player_embedded

Not conclusive evidence, Paramartasaya. Samples are typically sent to the labs to be cultured and analyzed.

Though CDC has a lot of explaining to do on why this (A)H1N1 has the DNA segments of:

1. North American swine
2. European swine
3. Asian swine
5. H5N1
6. Human flu

-feeler

[Humble Janitor]

I was asked earlier by my boss if I would "volunteer" to stay in the building and work in an event that the campus be shut down due to swine flu.

No way. Not interested in being a guinea pig since he mentioned that volunteers would be medically monitored, etc. It just didn't sound good to me at all so I did not volunteer. The "special rate of pay" b.s caught me off guard too. I feel sorry for anyone else who decides to volunteer and knowing my superiors, they will likely prey upon the Vietnamese and other foreign workers, who would gladly volunteer. It makes me sick.

I was honest. Not getting the vaccine and it's all ********.

[feeler]

I was asked earlier by my boss if I would "volunteer" to stay in the building and work in an event that the campus be shut down due to swine flu.

No way. Not interested in being a guinea pig since he mentioned that volunteers would be medically monitored, etc. It just didn't sound good to me at all so I did not volunteer. The "special rate of pay" b.s caught me off guard too. I feel sorry for anyone else who decides to volunteer and knowing my superiors, they will likely prey upon the Vietnamese and other foreign workers, who would gladly volunteer. It makes me sick.

I was honest. Not getting the vaccine and it's all ********.

Humble Janitor,

We know what happened to the office workers who listened and returned back to the twin towers.

Or to the first responders who listened and believed it was safe to return to Ground Zero.

-feeler

[Waterman]

There has been many via emails, PMs, etc., asking my thoughts which is not a problem. To help answer those questions, especially the same one, I'm putting info on a blog. Hopefully you will find it useful and feel free to ask questions there too. This way I can better manage what I've said and do a better job of answering questions.

www.simplyyourhealth.wordpress.com

Thanks

PS - I'm going to be posting a really important story on my blog. While the flu was becoming center stage, a company providing remedies that have a reputation for anti-viral properties could not get anymore supplies from their German source. No the German manufacturer did not run out! Nor could the US supplier get the FDA to allow them to import similar remedies from a different German company.

[Humble Janitor]

Humble Janitor,

We know what happened to the office workers who listened and returned back to the twin towers.

Or to the first responders who listened and believed it was safe to return to Ground Zero.

-feeler

Exactly. My intuition is spot-on or else I would have stupidly volunteered.

[no caste]

The basics:

Influenza A(H1N1)
Inside the virus often referred to as the Mexican swine flu, May 6-09
http://www.calgarysun.com/news/world/2009/05/06/9366101-sun.html

A/H1N1 IS A MIX OF FOUR DIFFERENT FLU STRAINS
- North American swine flu
- North American avian flu
- Human A/H1N1 flu
- A swine flu strain found in Asia and Europe
...

A - Virus type: Of the three types (A, B and C), A and B are the most common causes of epidemics.
H - Hemagglutinin (HA protein): Enables virus to attach to receptor of host cell.
1 - Indicates a specific type of the H or N protein.
N- Neuraminidase (NA protein): Helps release new virus from host.
1 - [??]

CHANGE FOR THE WORSE
- When a virus mixes with other viruses, changes sometimes occur to the antigens.
- A minor change - or drift - results in a new viral strain often not blocked by the immune system.
- A major change - or shift - results in a new virus to which there is no immunity.

LIFE CYCLE OF A VIRUS
1. Virus attaches to a host cell and is taken in.
2. Virus RNA is released and enters the nucleus.
3. The virus RNA uses the cell to copy the virus' genetic material.
4. The materials join to form new copies of the virus.
5. The new viruses break free of their host -- sometimes destroying it -- to find new host cells.

[no caste]

From an avaaz newsletter (may 5-09):

Scientists are looking into initial indications that link the triple hybrid 'swine flu' and factory pig farms that are dirty, dangerous, and inhumane.

Last week the flu was all that we talked about -- Mexico has been nearly paralysed and across the world leaders halted air travel, banned pork imports and initiated drastic controls to mitigate the spreading virus. As the threat shows signs of subsiding the question becomes where it came from and how we stop another outbreak.

Smithfield Corporation, the largest pig producer in the world whose farm is being fingered as the source of the H1N1 outbreak, denies any connection between their pigs and the flu and big agrobusiness worldwide pays huge sums of money for research to argue that biosafety is ensured in industrial hog production. But the WHO has been saying for years that 'a new pandemic is inevitable'(2) and experts from the European Commission and the FAO have cautioned that the rapid move from small holdings to industrial pig production is in fact increasing the risk of development and transmission of disease epidemics. The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention warn that scientists still do not know the extent that infectious compounds produced in factory farms affect human health.(3)

Studies abound of the horrific conditions endured by pigs in concentrated large-scale operations, and the devastating economic impact on small farmer communities of bloated large-scale operations.(4) Smithfield itself has already been fined $12.6m and is currently under another federal investigation in the US for toxic environmental damage from pig excrement lakes.(5)

But even with all of this damaging evidence, a combination of increased global meat consumption and a powerful industry motivated by profit at the cost of human health, means that instead of being shut down - these sickening factory farm operations are propagating around the world and we are subsidising them (6). In the wake of this swine flu threat, let's hold industrial pig producers to account. Sign the petition for investigation and regulation:

http://www.avaaz.org/en/swine_flu_pandemic

If we resolve this global health crisis boldly by reassessing our food consumption and production, and urgently calling for an inquiry into the impact of factory farms on human health, we could put in place tough farm practice rules that will save the global population from future animal borne lethal pandemics.

[no caste]

Immunity and sleep: "When we sleep, our bodies recharge themselves: this means repairing tissue, healing, and fueling cells and organs up with fuel. Sleep may be the single most important thing we can do to help our immune system." http://www.aim4health.com/immunity.htm
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NEW- Dept. of the Army, Pamphlet 385-69 (pdf, 45pp), "Safety Standards for Microbiological and Biomedical Laboratories," May 6-09.

SUMMARY of CHANGE
DA PAM 385–69
Safety Standards for Microbiological and Biomedical Laboratories
This major revision, dated 6 May 2009--
o Incorporates requirements of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
publication Biosafety in Microbiological and Biomedical Laboratories (para
1-1).
o Clarifies applicability to microbiological activities in a clinical
laboratory and in a biomedical research setting (para 1-1).
o Adds guidance and standards on infectious agents and toxins risk
assessment(para 2-4).
o Clarifies standards for biological safety programs (chap 3).
o Clarifies requirements and responsibilities for surveys (paras 3-10e and 3-
13b).
o Clarifies medical surveillance requirements (para 4-3).
o Adds requirements for illness absence monitoring (para 4-6).
o Adds requirements for integrated pest management (para 7-9).
o Clarifies requirements for the import, export, transportation, and transfer
of infectious agents and toxins (chap 9).
o Updates emergency planning and response requirements (chap 11).
http://www.fas.org/irp/doddir/army/pam385-69.pdf (45pp)
................................................

NEW- Congressional Research Services, ""The 2009 Influenza A (H1N1) Outbreak: Selected Legal Issues," May 4-09.
http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/R40560.pdf (34pp)

[no caste]

feeler posted this on another thread:
Novavax announced H1N1 VLP on April 14
http://projectavalon.net/forum/showthread.php?t=13638

The first death from swine flu occurred on April 13, when a diabetic woman from Oaxaca died from respiratory complications.

The following day, April 14, Novavax announced:

Novavax, Inc. reported preclinical study results showing that an investigational H1N1 virus-like particle (VLP) vaccine based on the 1918 Spanish influenza strain protected against both the Spanish flu and a highly pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza strain.

PDF format available at Novavax.com:
http://www.novavax.com/download/rele...14_09%20FO.pdf

-feeler

[no caste]

Not conclusive evidence, Paramartasaya. Samples are typically sent to the labs to be cultured and analyzed.

Though CDC has a lot of explaining to do on why this (A)H1N1 has the DNA segments of:

1. North American swine
2. European swine
3. Asian swine
5. H5N1
6. Human flu

-feeler

It seems an explanation has emerged... it's a sneaky virus.

'Sneaky' virus remains a threat
H1N1 flu has likely been undetected for years
http://www.calgaryherald.com/Health/Sneaky+virus+remains+threat/1623782/story.html

... An international team of researchers who analyzed all eight genes of the new virus confirmed its sneakiness, saying it was so different from its ancestral strains that it must have been circulating undetected for years.

They confirmed it is a hybrid of two other mixtures--one a so-called triple mix of pig, bird and human viruses, and another group of swine viruses from Europe and Asia.
...
The U.S. Health and Human Services Department said it was setting aside $1 billion to help companies develop a vaccine against the new strain.

HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said the money will be used for clinical studies over the summer and for production of vaccine ingredients for the government's stockpile.

Companies approved to sell flu shots in the United States are Sanofi-Aventis SA, Novartis AG, GlaxoSmithKline PLC and CSL Ltd. AstraZeneca unit Medimmune also sells a nasal spray flu vaccine.
...

[Waterman]

H1N1 (swine) flu now called Novel H1N1 flu count in the states is still on the rise. Looks like it is the majority of the flu that is out there now. This isn't the flu season, so this is a particularly contagious strain.

The possibility of it actually mutating is high. I will update my blog and with additional information soon. Maybe I'm missing something, but right now the flu-tracker team I'm part of is mysteriously quite.

For more timely updates you can always go to my blog and click the picture links to current information. Also, I have posted part two of "what to do for the flu" which might interest some folks.

[David]

My wife and I contracted this Novel H1N1 virus. It lasted for 5 days and is a particularly nasty one.

Symptoms were sneezing for the first day. Followed by sore throat, nausea, severe nasal congestion, fever of 100° and extremely lethargic.

[sleepingnomore]

My daughter came home from school today and announced that they have one confirmed case of the Swine Flu at her school. They wouldn't tell them who had it and no notice was sent home to the parents. Why are they frightening the children? This really concerns me.

[no caste]

Thanks to everyone for the information posted here :original:

I want to add something I was surprised to learn a few years ago - at a youth science fair actually. Always learning from little kids! - re hand washing -

Avoid touching your eyes, nose or mouth.
Germs are often spread when a person
touches something that is contaminated
with germs and then touches his or her eyes,
nose or mouth.

I'm a notorious eye-rubber. I guess picking one's nose could be hazardous too. :winksmiley02:

[WiNaDeYo]

Just take a look at the title of this article and read on:



US study: New flu inefficient in attacking people
AP/ PTI / Washington July 3, 2009, 9:03 IST

With swine flu continuing to spread around the world, researchers say they have found the reason it is - so far - more a series of local blazes than a wide-raging wildfire.

The new virus, H1N1, has a protein on its surface that is not very efficient at binding with receptors in people's respiratory tracts, researchers at the Harvard University-Massachsetts Institute of Technology Division of Health Sciences and Technology report in today's edition of the journal Science.

"While the virus is able to bind human receptors, it clearly appears to be restricted," Ram Sasisekharan, lead author of the report, said in a statement.

But flu viruses are known to mutate rapidly, the research team noted, so this one must be watched closely in case it changes to become easier to spread...




http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/us-study-new-flu-inefficient-in-attacking-people/10/10/66437/on

[JesterTerrestrial]

I cannot verify any of this. It just showed up in my inbox. Peace JT







Cdn doctor: H1N1 vaccination is a weapon for mass extermination!


This is serious. If you don't believe me then Google it.




http://www.prisonplanet.com/canadian-doctor-h1n1-vaccination-a-eugenics-weapon-for-mass-extermination.html


(snip)


Canadian doctor Ghislaine Lanctôt, author of the Medical Mafia, has underscored the lawsuit recently filed by Austrian journalist Jane Bürgermeister against the WHO, the UN, and several high ranking government and corporate officials. Bürgermeister has documented how an international corporate criminal syndicate plans to unleash a deadly flu virus and institute a forced vaccination program.


“I am emerging from a long silence on the subject of vaccination, because I feel that, this time, the stakes involved are huge. The consequences may spread much further than anticipated,” writes Lanctôt, who believes the A(H1N1) virus will be used in a pandemic concocted and orchestrated by the WHO, an international organization that serves military, political and industrial interests.


(snip)


Lanctôt warns that the elite and their minions will introduce a compulsory vaccination that will contain a deadly virus and this will be used specifically as a eugenics weapon for “massive and targeted reduction of the world population.” Moreover, a pandemic will also be used to further establish martial law and a police state, according to Lanctôt, and activate concentration camps “built to accommodate the rebellious” and eventually transfer power from all nations to a single United Nations government and thus fulfill the sinister plans of the New World Order.


In her book The Medical Mafia, Lanctôt writes about the ineffectiveness and dangers of vaccination. “Because of my professional status, my words weighed significantly in the public eye. The Medical Board’s reaction was immediate and strong. Its leaders demanded that I resign as a physician. I answered that I would do so as long as they could prove that what I had written was false. The Medical Board replied with a call for my expulsion,” she writes. “As I witnessed the disproportionate reaction of the Medical Board, I realized that, for the health establishment, the subject of vaccination was taboo. Unknowingly, I had opened a Pandora’s box. I discovered that, despite official claims, vaccines have nothing to do with public health. Underneath the governmental stamp of approval, there are deep military, political and industrial interests.”


(snip)


More than 33 years later, according to Dr. Russell Blaylock, a board certified neurosurgeon, “we are hearing the same cries of alarm from a similar lineup of virology experts. The pharmaceutical companies are busy designing a vaccine for the swine flu in hope that this administration will make the vaccine mandatory before another vaccine-related disaster can ruin their party…. Like SARS and bird flu before it, this swine flu scare is a lot of nonsense. Just take your high dose vitamin D3 (5000 IU a day), eat a healthy diet and take a few immune boosting supplements (such as beta-1, 3/1, 6 glucan) and you will not have to worry about this flu.”


According to a source known to former NSA official Wayne Madsen, “A top scientist for the United Nations, who has examined the outbreak of the deadly Ebola virus in Africa, as well as HIV/AIDS victims, concluded that H1N1 possesses certain transmission “vectors” that suggest that the new flu strain has been genetically-manufactured as a military biological warfare weapon.

[Humble Janitor]

My wife and I contracted this Novel H1N1 virus. It lasted for 5 days and is a particularly nasty one.

Symptoms were sneezing for the first day. Followed by sore throat, nausea, severe nasal congestion, fever of 100° and extremely lethargic.

I had a flu back in May that sounds similar to what you're describing. It lasted at least a week and had most of those symptoms. The sore throat lasted longer than a week and the flu actually STARTED with a sore throat.

Is it possible that this was the swine flu? I went to a doctor but they did not know enough at the time to say such a thing.

Regardless, it was nasty and I made it out stronger (or at least, I hope).

[no caste]

Here we go :sad: (limited safety data)

As I remember, Tamiflu is not effective against this novel H1N1 strain. This is the first of approvals for use without adequate testing. The makers of the drug, Hoffmann-La Roche, are required to provide information to Health Canada, as it becomes available, about its safety and effectiveness. Adverse reactions must be reported to Health Canada. Parents should be informed about "exceptional use." The vaccine is not mandatory. This is relevant in Canada, USA and EU. It looks like a new test group.

Health officials OK Tamiflu for children under one
Published: Thursday, July 23, 2009
http://www.nationalpost.com/news/story.html?id=1820956

OTTAWA -- The Public Health Agency of Canada is advising doctors they can prescribe Tamiflu for children under age one despite limited safety data on its use in patients that young.

Health Minister Leona Aglukkaq signed an interim order this week authorizing the use of the drug as a prophylaxis or treatment for children under one year who have been infected with the swine flu virus, also known as H1N1.

"Although there are limited data supporting the use of Tamiflu in children under one, there now exists an urgent need for recommendations to treat this population, given this group's increased risk for morbidity and mortality from influenza," said the notice posted on PHAC's website.

The move to allow for the expanded use of Tamiflu follows the same decision by the Food and Drug Administration in the United States and the European Health Agency.

Tamiflu and Relenza are the two antiviral medications that are being used to treat Canadians with swine flu.

[no caste]

Cases are not updated anymore in many countries, and are provided for quick reference, not for comparison.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/30/Influenza-2009-cases.png/300px-Influenza-2009-cases.png

As of July 16-09
http://www.who.int/csr/disease/swineflu/notes/h1n1_surveillance_20090710/en/index.html

[sammytray]

My daughter came home from school today and announced that they have one confirmed case of the Swine Flu at her school. They wouldn't tell them who had it and no notice was sent home to the parents. Why are they frightening the children? This really concerns me.

CHILDREN are the target. See my thread

[no caste]

Preliminary (civilian?) research into H1N1. It's closely related to the 1918 pandemic strain??

H1N1 strikes deeper in the lungs than normal strain
14.07.09
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23719199-details/H1N1+strikes+deeper+in+the+lungs+than+normal+strai n/article.do

Swine flu penetrates deeper into the lungs and can inflict more damage than ordinary seasonal flu, a study claims.

It could explain why the virus is able to cause severe illness in people with no underlying health problems.

Tests in monkeys, mice and ferrets showed that swine flu thrives all over the respiratory system, including the lungs, and causes lesions instead of staying in the head as seasonal flu does.

Experts also believe swine flu is closely related to the 1918 pandemic strain, which killed up to 40million. Blood tests show many survivors seem to have immunity to swine flu.

American and Japanese researchers found that swine-origin influenza viruses were about five times more harmful than seasonal versions of the H1N1 flu strain.

Their effect on the lungs was reminiscent of H5N1 bird flu, which is almost always fatal in humans, although most swine flu victims recover.

Commenting on the research, Professor Ian Jones from the University of Reading said: "This complete analysis of the current H1N1 is what we've been waiting for. It shows that the new virus is about five times more pathogenic than seasonal H1N1 but that, nonetheless, the major outcome is recovery."

The research also confirmed that Tamiflu and other anti-viral drugs were effective against swine flu.

[no caste]

I am beginning to see issues when children return to school in the fall. The close groups, the vulnerabilities. They go home and presto -

Also, pharmaceutical companies do see (IMO) school age children as a demographic. The funding for purchasing vaccines is available from the government, so the payment is good. The opportunity to sell the product in bulk - in the school system - is a huge monetary advantage.

School buses. Symbolically, there may be a lot there :shocked:

[no caste]

Good news :thumb_yello:

................................................

Health agency to test link between flu, vitamin D
By screening infected blood, researchers hoping to find new ways to fight the virus
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/agency-to-test-link-between-flu-vitamin-d/article1231852/

In an effort to discover new ways to fight the swine flu, the Public Health Agency of Canada intends to test the blood of people contracting the ailment to check their vitamin D levels.

The agency is taking the unconventional action to try to find out whether those with mild cases of the flu have more of the sunshine vitamin circulating in their bodies than those who develop severe or even deadly reactions to the H1N1 virus...

A finding of a link to the vitamin would mean that people could reduce the odds of being harmed by the new flu bug by simply popping a low-cost supplement that is widely available at almost every drugstore.

Scientists have long been wondering about a possible connection between vitamin D and influenza because of the striking observations in both the northern and southern hemispheres that flu is mostly a wintertime ailment. This is the period each year when sunshine isn't intense enough to allow people to make the vitamin the natural way – in naked skin exposed to ultraviolet light – causing levels of the nutrient to plunge among those not taking supplements...

“Epidemiological evidence suggests a role for vitamin D in seasonal influenza,” the agency said, adding that the low amounts of the nutrient in the winter “appear to correlate with the occurrence of seasonal influenza.”

The annual pattern of influenza – bad in winter and rare in summer – is the reason many health experts are worried that the swine flu epidemic, now running at relatively modest infection rates, will go into overdrive starting in the fall.

The federal health agency cautioned that a causal relationship between not having a lot of vitamin D and the risks posed by the flu remains to be proved, but is said the approach may offer promise in reducing the severity of infections...

But the agency said it has adapted this continuing study to the H1N1 outbreak. As part of the research, the investigators will also look at whether a person's genetic makeup has something to do with the intensity of the flu they experience.

Although not much is known about the ability of vitamin D to mitigate the effects of the swine flu, the agency is citing one tantalizing piece of research suggesting the approach is more than a long shot and actually holds promise in combatting the new pandemic.

In the 1940s, researchers experimenting with mice found that those receiving diets low in vitamin D were more susceptible to an experimental swine-flu infection than those that received adequate amounts of the nutrient, according to the e-mail from the agency.

The reason vitamin D might be able to fight the flu isn't known, but the prevailing hypothesis is that the nutrient is able to strengthen the immune system, allowing those infected to better fight off their illness. Vitamin D has been found, for instance, to offer some protection against tuberculosis...

“The evidence is almost overwhelming that vitamin D appears to be making the immune system attack foreign entities better,” said Reinhold Vieth, a professor in the department of nutritional sciences at the University of Toronto.

He said the agency's research on H1N1 severity and vitamin D levels “bodes really well” for figuring out whether the nutrient can be used to help combat the virus.

The agency said that the way the nutrient might protect against the flu “is not fully understood,” but it said new research “suggests that vitamin D induces the production of antimicrobial substances in the body that possess neutralizing activity against a variety of infectious agents, including the influenza virus.”

[no caste]

There are many interesting comments on the article (above).

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/agency-to-test-link-between-flu-vitamin-d/article1231852/#comments

SKIN TONE -

Vitamin D level depends heavily on skin tone, and the people from rural Mexico tend to be darker. Hey, maybe that's why the native population are harder hit? They have darker skin and tend to live in more Northern regions, so are probably Vitamin D deprived. Hmm..

Even in regions with high amounts of sunshine such as in this study from southern Arizona those with darker skin had deficient levels of Vitamin D.

Blacks 56% deficient
Hispanics 38% deficient
Whites 23% deficient

http://www.ajcn.org/cgi/content/abstract/87/3/608

Our Native populations would likely have a degree of skin pigmentation similar to Hispanics, but given the fact most live at such high latitudes and do not drink much milk I suspect many if not all are Vitamin D deficient. It would be so easy to compare the vit D levels between those admitted to hospital with severe disease to those who have mild disease and see it this is a factor in disease outcome.

PNEUMONIA

What would interest me is what were the serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D levels of those who died after developing this influenza, what was the cause of death, and what underlying conditions might have led to the deaths. If I remember correctly, many of those who have died after developing the A/H1N1 influenza this year died of pneumonia, which is what happened in 1918-19.

[no caste]

Millions of Children In U.S. Found to Be Lacking Vitamin D
Links to Diabetes, Heart Disease Examined

By Rob Stein - Washington Post Staff Writer - Monday, August 3, 2009
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/08/02/AR2009080202114.html

Millions of U.S. children have disturbingly low Vitamin D levels, possibly increasing their risk for bone problems, heart disease, diabetes and other ailments, according to two new studies that provide the first national assessment of the crucial nutrient in young Americans.

About 9 percent of those ages 1 through 21 -- about 7.6 million children, adolescents and young adults -- have Vitamin D levels so low they could be considered deficient, while an additional 61 percent -- 50.8 million -- have higher levels, but still low enough to be insufficient, according to the analysis of federal data being released Monday...

http://media3.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/graphic/2009/08/03/GR2009080300327.gif

[no caste]

Interesting details about the history of synthetic H1N1 :nono: - makes me wonder if it's at all related to the apparent vulnerabilities of aboriginal (especially Inuit) populations.
---------------------

After an unsuccessful 1951 mission, that involved U.S. biological warfare specialists, to extract 1918 Spanish flu genetic material in 1951 from a cemetery in the Inupiat Eskimo village of Brevig Mission, Alaska, scientists made another attempt, a successful one it turns out, in 1997...

Once the Spanish flu genetic material was obtained from the lungs, spleen, liver, and heart of the Eskimo woman’s corpse, scientists, in a scene reminiscent of the fictional movie “Jurassic Park,” in which genetic material from extinct dinosaurs is used to bring the creatures back to life, recreated the long-since dead 1918 Spanish flu in a U.S. government-funded laboratory. The woman’s organs were cut into one-inch cubes and shipped to the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology in Rockville, Maryland, where the virus’s genetic RNA material was identified and the 1918 Spanish flu was successfully brought back to life.
http://www.mathaba.net/0_index.shtml?x=620425

[sunflower]

I have been experiencing flu-like symptoms for the past nine days: lethargy, sore throat,headache, fever, congestion etc. Fortunately the symptoms have been relatively mild but I certainly did not appreciate reading the news below:

WHO Admits to Releasing Pandemic Virus into Population via 'Mock-Up' Vaccines

" The document on the WHO website linked below states that it is common procedure to release pandemic viruses into the population in order to get a jump ahead of the real pandemic, so as to fast track the vaccine for when it is needed.
In Europe, some manufacturers have conducted advance studies using a so-called "mock-up" vaccine. Mock-up vaccines contain an active ingredient for an influenza virus that has not circulated recently in human populations and thus mimics the novelty of a pandemic virus.
According to the website, “Such advance studies can greatly expedite regulatory approval.”

Sources:

World Health Organization
http://www.who.int/csr/disease/swineflu/notes/h1n1_safety_vaccines_20090805/en/index.html


Read Dr. Mercola’s comments below:

http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2009/09/03/WHO-Admits-to-Releasing-Pandemic-Virus-into-Population-via-MockUp-

[lucrum]

Link to Dr. Mercola's comments seems to be broken, is it missing the last part? :)

[sunflower]

Hi Lucrum, try this link.



http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2009/09/03/WHO-Admits-to-Releasing-Pandemic-Virus-into-Population-via-MockUp-Vaccines.aspx

[THE eXchanger]

xxx

[no caste]

eXchanger - Thank you for posting 'dead guys' here. Very important! {I forgot} (DG is the name of my own file)

[no caste]

Cloned ferrets

Did you know ferrets are the most recent animals to be cloned? The researchers say that the domestic ferret is an ideal animal model to study human diseases such as influenza and cystic fibrosis. The ferrets were cloned in 2006.
http://www.biotechnologyonline.gov.au/biotec/cloneanimal.html

http://current.com/http://www.opednews.com/articles/Still-Think-They-re-Not-Tr-by-Mr-M-090305-202.html
"Baxter, an International pharmaceutical company based in America, has just been caught mixing live Avian Flu virus (H5N1) with common flu virus, in a flu vaccine. Baxter International’s research facility in Orth-Donau Austria was the facility that shipped the contaminated flu vaccine to other facilities in the Czech Republic, Slovenia and Germany. The incident was discovered by a technician in a facility in the Czech Republic, who injected ferrets with the vaccine as a normal test procedure. The ferrets died.
http://current.com/items/89869142_baxter-pharmaceutical-mixed-avian-flu-with-flu-vaccine.htm

http://www.ferret-universe.com/assets/banner.jpg

[no caste]

Probiotics

Prophylactic Probiotics for Cold and Flu Symptoms

Probiotics reduced the incidence of cold symptoms and antibiotic use.

— Howard Bauchner, MD

Published in Journal Watch Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine August 26, 2009
http://pediatrics.jwatch.org/cgi/content/citation/2009/826/1

Probiotics may reduce cold and 'flu symptoms for children
By Stephen Daniells, 30-Jul-2009
A daily supplement of Lactobacillus and Bifidobacterium strains may reduce the incidence of cold and 'flu-like symptoms in children by 50 per cent, says a new study from Danisco.
http://www.foodnavigator.com/Science-Nutrition/Probiotics-may-reduce-cold-and-flu-symptoms-for-children

Sources of probiotics beyond yogurt
Posted by Colette January 26, 2008 18:48PM
http://blog.pennlive.com/naturalliving/2008/01/probiotic_sources.html

Aged cheese
Beer (microbrews)
Cottage cheese (look for bacterial strains in ingredient list)
Kefir
Kimchi
Miso
Pickled ginger
Pickles (brine-cured, without vinegar)
Sauerkraut
Shoyu
Tamari
Tempeh
Wine