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| Topic Started: Apr 26 2009, 08:48 AM (1,050 Views) | |
| Sayf Udeen Ismaeel | Apr 26 2009, 08:48 AM Post #1 |
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Okay. I this is the kind of thing we should make a topic about as it looks like it will be a large issue in the global community. Hopefully it doesn't touch anyone from here [or their families/friends] let alone asnyone else at all. |
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| Sayf Udeen Ismaeel | Apr 26 2009, 08:50 AM Post #2 |
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Medical Director: Swine Flu Was “Cultured In A Laboratory” Paul Joseph Watson Infowars April 25, 2009  Editor’s note: On Friday, NPR reported that the deadly swine flu “combines genetic material from pigs, birds and humans in a way researchers have not seen before,” thus leading us to suspect it was cooked up in a lab. Swine flu panic is spreading in Mexico and soldiers are patrolling the streets after it was confirmed that human to human transmission is occurring and that the virus is a brand new strain which is seemingly affecting young, healthy people the worst. Questions about the source of the outbreak are also being asked after a public health official said that the virus was “cultured in a laboratory”. “This strain of swine influenza that’s been cultured in a laboratoryis something that’s not been seen anywhere actually in the United States and the world, so this is actually a new strain of influenza that’s been identified,” said Dr. John Carlo, Dallas Co. Medical Director (video clip here). Was this a slip-up or an admission that this new super-strain of swine influenza was deliberately cultured in a laboratory and released? Alarming reports are now filtering in about people catching the illness who have had no contact with pigs whatsoever. These include a man and his daughter in San Diego County, a 41-year-old woman in Imperial County and two teenagers in San Antonio, Texas. In fact, in all U.S. cases, the victims had no contact with any pigs. Dr. Wilma Wooten, San Diego County’s public health officer, told KPBS “We have had person-to-person spread with the father and the daughter,” says Wooten, “And also with the two teenagers in Texas, they were in the same school. So that also indicates person-to-person transfer.” “Dr. Wooten says it’s unclear how people were exposed to swine flu. She says none of the patients have had any contact with pigs,” according to the report. Although the situation in the U.S. looks under control, panic is spreading in Mexico, where 800 cases of pneumonia in the capital alone are suspected to be related to the swine flu and the virus has hit young and healthy people, which is very rare with an flu outbreak. Despite the danger of a pandemic, the U.S. border with Mexico remains open. “Mexico has shut schools and museums and canceled hundreds of public events in its sprawling, overcrowded capital of 20 million people to try to prevent further infections,” reports Reuters. “My level of concern is significant,” said Dr. Martin Fenstersheib, the health officer for Santa Clara County. “We have a novel virus, a brand-new strain that’s spreading human to human, and we are also seeing a virulent strain in Mexico that seems to be related. We certainly have concerns for this escalating.” The WHO insists that the outbreak has “pandemic potential” and has been stockpiling supplies of Tamiflu, known generically as oseltamivir, a pill that can both treat flu and prevent infection, according to officials. As we previously highlighted, those that have a stake in the Tamiflu vaccine include top globalists and BIlderberg members like George Shultz, Lodewijk J.R. de Vink and former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld. Indeed, Rumsfeld himself played a key role in hyping an outbreak of swine flu back in the 1976 when he urged the entire country to get vaccinated. Many batches of the vaccine were contaminated, resulting in hundreds of sick people and 52 fatalities. The fact that the properties of the strain are completely new, that the virus is spreading from people to people, and that the young and healthy are being hit worst, has disturbing parallels to the deadly 1918 pandemic that killed millions. It is unclear as to why, if the virus is a brand new strain, that public health officials are so confident programs of mass vaccination, which are already being prepared, would necessarily be effective. It certainly wouldn’t be the first time that deadly flu viruses have been concocted in labs and then dispatched with the intention of creating a pandemic. When the story first broke last month, Czech newspapers questioned if the shocking discovery of vaccines contaminated with the deadly avian flu virus which were distributed to 18 countries by the American company Baxter were part of a conspiracy to provoke a pandemic. Since the probability of mixing a live virus biological weapon with vaccine material by accident is virtually impossible, this leaves no other explanation than that the contamination was a deliberate attempt to weaponize the H5N1 virus to its most potent extreme and distribute it via conventional flu vaccines to the population who would then infect others to a devastating degree as the disease went airborne. However, this is not the first time that vaccine companies have been caught distributing vaccines contaminated with deadly viruses. In 2006 it was revealed that Bayer Corporation had discovered that their injection drug, which was used by hemophiliacs, was contaminated with the HIV virus. Internal documents prove that after they positively knew that the drug was contaminated, they took it off the U.S. market only to dump it on the European, Asian and Latin American markets, knowingly exposing thousands, most of them children, to the live HIV virus. Government officials in France went to prison for allowing the drug to be distributed. The documents show that the FDA colluded with Bayer to cover-up the scandal and allowed the deadly drug to be distributed globally. No Bayer executives ever faced arrest or prosecution in the United States. In the UK, a 2007 outbreak of foot and mouth disease that put Britain on high alert has been originated from a government laboratory which is shared with an American pharmaceutical company, mirroring the deadly outbreak of 2001, which was also deliberately released. As we reported yesterday, last time there was a significant outbreak of a new form of swine flu in the U.S. it originated at the army base at Fort Dix, New Jersey. http://www.infowars.com/medical-director-swine-flu-was-cultured-in-a-laboratory/ |
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| Sayf Udeen Ismaeel | Apr 26 2009, 09:06 AM Post #3 |
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No reason to panic over swine flu, says nation's top medico The nation's top doctor has urged people to be vigilant but not alarmed in response to news a deadly swine flu that appeared in Mexico may have have reached Australia's doorstep. The new influenza strain, feared to have killed 81 people in Mexico and infected 10 in the US, has "pandemic potential", the World Health Organisation (WHO) has warned. A New Zealand school group has been quarantined after returning from Mexico City with flu-like symptoms. Three teachers and 22 senior students from Rangitoto College in Auckland arrived back in NZ on Saturday after a three-week Spanish language trip. The Rudd government has come under fire from the Australian Greens for being too slow to respond after learning of the situation on Saturday. Chief medical officer Jim Bishop said emergency departments were alerted late yesterday, while GPs were notified on today. The World Health Organisation has not changed its warning level on pandemics and Australian officials had taken that into account, he said. "We don't think we should be very worried at the moment," he told AAP. "We're not aware of any cases (in Australia). We have a good surveillance system in this country, we have got plenty of the anti-viral medicines. "We're in a good state of preparedness and then obviously it will become clear (in) the next, I guess, few days, week or so, whether more steps need to be taken." Australian Greens leader Bob Brown said the government should have done more, sooner. "It should have been on the front foot on this yesterday," he told AAP. "Every day in dealing with a pandemic is absolutely crucial." Doctors have been told to alert their local public health authority if they see patients with flu-like symptoms who have travelled overseas in the last fortnight, particularly to Mexico or the US, Professor Bishop said. They have been advised to take swabs and tell travellers with flu-like symptoms to avoid public places until they are well. Airports are not on official alert but are aware of the situation. Prof Bishop said the health department has been consulting with border agencies and reviewing their preparedness. "There has been no change in the current arrangements (at airports) at this time, but that's under constant review so that could be upgraded based on information that we might get from overseas," he said. "All the cases in the United States are mild. We don't have good information out of Mexico." The virus, which has infected about 1,100 people in Mexico, seems to be a hybrid form of human, bird and pig flu, Prof Bishop said. "We're concerned it would produce a new type of flu that might be less predictable," he said. "It does seem to be (transmitted from) human to human." Anti-viral drugs that could be sensitive to the virus are available through pharmacies and are also in the national stockpile in case of emergency. The health protection committee, of which Professor Bishop is a member, is liaising with the WHO as well as health authorities in New Zealand and the US. The latest information on Australia's response to swine flu will be posted on the internet at www.health.gov.au. http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/national/no-reason-to-panic-over-swine-flu-says-nations-top-medico-20090426-aj9w.html |
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| Bunny | Apr 26 2009, 09:19 AM Post #4 |
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I just had dinner with the head of MAF, so I just got a bit of a talking about that. Apparently, tamiflu is gonna be back in demand soon, because it's one of the few drugs for the other bird flu that will work for this. |
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| Sayf Udeen Ismaeel | Apr 26 2009, 09:29 AM Post #5 |
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Did Tamiflu even work with Bird Flu though? Wasn't the reason Birdflu didn't spread because it never mutated so as to be able to jump from human to human? Also thought I'd add this:  10 New Zealand students likely have swine flu » |
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| Sayf Udeen Ismaeel | Apr 27 2009, 06:13 AM Post #6 |
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/talking_point/8018428.stm I work as a resident doctor in one of the biggest hospitals in Mexico City and sadly, the situation is far from "under control". As a doctor, I realise that the media does not report the truth. Authorities distributed vaccines among all the medical personnel with no results, because two of my partners who worked in this hospital (interns) were killed by this new virus in less than six days even though they were vaccinated as all of us were. The official number of deaths is 20, nevertheless, the true number of victims are more than 200. I understand that we must avoid to panic, but telling the truth it might be better now to prevent and avoid more deaths. Yeny Gregorio Dávila, Mexico City I'm a specialist doctor in respiratory diseases and intensive care at the Mexican National Institute of Health. There is a severe emergency over the swine flu here. More and more patients are being admitted to the intensive care unit. Despite the heroic efforts of all staff (doctors, nurses, specialists, etc) patients continue to inevitably die. The truth is that anti-viral treatments and vaccines are not expected to have any effect, even at high doses. It is a great fear among the staff. The infection risk is very high among the doctors and health staff. There is a sense of chaos in the other hospitals and we do not know what to do. Staff are starting to leave and many are opting to retire or apply for holidays. The truth is that mortality is even higher than what is being reported by the authorities, at least in the hospital where I work it. It is killing three to four patients daily, and it has been going on for more than three weeks. It is a shame and there is great fear here. Increasingly younger patients aged 20 to 30 years are dying before our helpless eyes and there is great sadness among health professionals here. Antonio Chavez, Mexico City |
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| Sayf Udeen Ismaeel | Apr 27 2009, 11:16 AM Post #7 |
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Five being tested for swine flu in NSW Five people with suspected swine flu are being tested in NSW but state health authorities are confident they are well prepared to deal with any outbreak. NSW Health could not give a breakdown of the ages or genders of the five, but said four of them live in Sydney, one on the Central Coast and a "couple" of them were children. All have mild cases of a flu-like illness, have returned from the United States, Mexico or Canada in the past five days, and presented to either emergency departments or their local GP on Monday. NSW chief health officer Kerry Chant said 17 people with influenza-like illnesses had initially been followed up by NSW public health units on Monday. However, 12 had been ruled out as swine flu sufferers, while the results of tests on the remaining five would likely be known by the end of the week. Those with suspected cases of swine flu have been told to stay at home. "We're saying that they are suspected cases at this stage," Dr Chant told reporters at Sydney Hospital. "It will take us a little while but, obviously, we are acting in a precautionary way and advising them to remain isolated." A caller to Macquarie Radio, identified only as Steve, said his daughter, aged in her early 20s, had recently returned from Mexico and was one of the five suspected swine flu cases. "My daughter has come back and she's had a very, very prolonged flu," he said. "She's been pretty good actually. And when I heard it, I mean she's an adult, I suggested she get herself down to the doctors and they've immediately got her to the hospital." Anyone who has visited an affected country and returned with a flu-like illness has been urged to contact their local public health unit, their GP or an emergency department. Mexican authorities say the number of suspected swine flu cases has risen to 1,614, with 103 deaths so far. On Sunday, the New Zealand government announced 10 local students who recently returned from Mexico had tested positive for influenza A and were believed "likely" to have contracted swine flu. There are also six reported cases in Canada. World Health Organisation officials have warned the new strain could further mutate. All flights into Australia from North or South America will have to report any passengers with flu-like symptoms before the aircraft is allowed to land. NSW Health Minister John Della Bosca said the state government was working with the commonwealth to devise the best response to the swine flu outbreak. NSW Health director of communicable diseases Jeremy McAnulty said lessons learnt from previous outbreaks of SARS and avian influenza overseas meant Australia was well prepared for a similar outbreak. http://news.ninemsn.com.au/health/806478/nsw-taking-threat-of-swine-flu-seriously |
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| gingerwitch28 | Apr 27 2009, 01:38 PM Post #8 |
twenty-first century ennui
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Eeeee not cool. |
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| Sayf Udeen Ismaeel | Apr 28 2009, 08:24 AM Post #9 |
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12 suspected swine flu cases quarantined in South Australia HEALTH specialists have quarantined 12 people in South Australia, fearing they have been exposed to the swine flu virus causing increasing alarm around the world. AdelaideNow reports SA Health chief medical officer Paddy Phillips said preliminary tests had already cleared two of the 14 people originally identified as being at risk of having the flu. The other dozen people - ranging in age from 11 to 62 - are being quarantined in their own homes until tests can determine whether they have the virus. Professor Phillips said he expected more people to exhibit symptoms consistent with swine flu but urged South Australians not to be alarmed. "All our hospitals are implementing procedures to triage possible swine flu cases and we have alerted all GPs to be on the lookout for potential cases," he said. Prof Phillips said some of those in quarantine were from rural areas while others live in Adelaide. He said some had taken themselves to hospital and others had been identified as potential carriers by their GPs. Several dozen other people with suspected swine flu are being tested in Australia, with authorities searching for 300 others who could have come into contact with the disease. http://www.news.com.au/story/0,27574,25399126-29277,00.html |
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| Sayf Udeen Ismaeel | Apr 28 2009, 08:27 AM Post #10 |
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47 Australians tested for swine flu
FORTY-SEVEN people with suspected swine flu are being tested in Australia, with authorities searching for 300 others who could have come into contact with the disease. Health specialists have quarantined 12 people in South Australia, fearing they have been exposed to virus. SA Health chief medical officer Professor Paddy Phillips said preliminary tests had already cleared two of the 14 people originally identified as being at risk of having the flu. Five people in the ACT have been told to stay at home while they await test results, while three people are being tested in Western Australia. Ten people in New South Wales, mostly in Sydney, are currently being tested for the disease. The number of suspected cases doubled this in New South Wales morning after five more people presented to hospitals and GPs across Sydney Five of these people have come through the first stage of testing and have been found to have contracted an unidentifiable type A virus, federal Health Minister Nicola Roxon said. They will now need further tests to see if they have swine flu. NSW chief health officer Dr Kerry Chant said the cases were serious enough to be concerned. "We are focusing on people who have got sick within seven days of travelling to countries affected and have developed flu-like symptoms," she said. "We are obviously acting in a precautionary manner." Fourteen others were being tested in Queensland , including two women detained on a Qantas flight from Los Angeles to Brisbane this morning. "Both of those people fell ill with flu-like symptoms," Queensland’s chief health officer Jeanette Young said. "They've been ill in the last 24 hours and they've had contact with people in Mexico." Health authorities were still awaiting the results of the two women after swabs were taken. It is not known how long the results will take to be process. Three people in Tasmania are also in isolation after presenting with flu-like symptoms following the swine flu outbreak. The state's health minister Lara Giddings one had returned from the United States and the other from Mexico in the last six to eight days. The 300 others authorities were searching for may have come into contact with the flu after sharing an Air New Zealand flight with a group of Auckland school children suspected as being infected with the disease, health experts said. Nine students and a teacher aboard the flight have tested positive for influenza A and New Zealand officials say test results later this week are expected to show they're suffering from swine flu. A further 56 people who've recently returned from America or Mexico with flu-like symptoms are being tested in New Zealand. Pandemic plans activated Early this morning the World Health Organisation (WHO) raised its flu pandemic alert level from three to four, signalling a "significant increase in risk of a pandemic." Acting WHO assistant-general for health, security and the environment Keiji Fukuda said experts agreed the virus is currently too "widespread to make containment a feasible". As a result, "focusing on mitigation is really an important focus" for countries dealing with the disease, he said. Mr Fukuda also stressed that experts did not recommend closing borders or restricting travel. "With the virus being widespread... closing borders or restricting travel really has very little effects in stopping the movement of this virus," he said. As the number of potential Australian cases grows, Queensland has become the first state to officially activate its pandemic plan alert. "The Queensland Health pandemic plan has been activated," Premier Anna Bligh said. "We are in the standby phase, making sure we have all the resources available across government if we do have an outbreak." Airport thermal screening yet to be introduced Australian airports are now on full alert for any passengers travelling from Mexico, US or Canada who appear sick. From midnight all pilots flying to Australia from affected countries were ordered to screen passengers and report suspect cases to quarantine officers. With the virus spreading rapidly, governments around the world are frantically activating influenza pandemic controls. But 30 thermal scanners which could help identify sick passengers are idle. The Federal Health Department bought about 30 thermal scanners in 2006 to combat any bird flu epidemic. Japan, Vietnam, Thailand and Indonesia are employing them to identify potential flu victims crossing their borders. A Department of Health and Ageing spokeswoman said "the thermal imaging machines are not being deployed at this stage but this is being considered by our medical experts". The scanners, the size of a small hand-held video camera, can detect a patient with a fever from a metre away. More than $165,000 was spent testing the devices in 2006. In Mexico, where the disease originated, there have been 152 suspected swine flu deaths. Four hundred people are in hospital out of a total of 1600 suspected cases. At least 40 cases have now been confirmed in the U.S, six in Canada, two in Scotland and one in Spain. Swabs from 10 Auckland high school students, believed to have contracted the virus on a Spanish language trip to Mexico City, are due to arrive in Melbourne today for testing at a World Health Organisation (WHO) accredited laboratory. A further 56 people who have recently returned from America or Mexico to New Zealand and have flu-like symptoms are being tested. Symptoms of swine flu are similar to regular human flu and include fever, cough, sore throat, body aches, headache, chills and fatigue. In some cases people can experience diarrhoea and vomiting. Pneumonia and respiratory failure have been reported with swine flu infection in people. http://www.news.com.au/story/0,27574,25397457-401,00.html |
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