[mondosapore] mondosapore: Swine flu & wine's healing role:  But I would recommend something high in alcohol, such as a late-harvest Zinfandel or Sherry. Another effective use of wine would be to carry wine-soaked hankies and use them to open doors and hold onto railings as you climb up and down subway steps.

[Alex Jones' Prison Planet.com] Previous Swine Flu Outbreak Originated At Fort Dix: GOP/Cheney/Bush war crimes accusations, with Cheney on air saying we are soon to be hit again, and now mysterious bio-engineered pandemic flu? No mere coincidence here, to much of a coincidence for me, since Cheney seems to have disappeared off the news cycle, guess he has retreated to his bio-proof bunker in Montana while his bio-warefare team/assissination teams do their dirty work, and he can emerge when all the body bags have been removed and him and the GOP can reclaim their former power!

[Daily Astrology & Adventure by Eric Francis] It's that distinct scent of”¦Mercury square Neptune | Daily ...: I’d venture that more people died of cholera, dysentery and/or malnutrition in one day last week than the whole tally from the flu so far. It’s a big, complex story/problem having to do with Harvard-trained technocrats, American capital, Mexican oligarchs and the feckless working&peasant classes.

[Tweet Swine Flu] Swine Flu Tweets at May 2nd 6:01pm: Don’t know if it’s ”˜Ham-thrax’, since there are no swine related fevered visions. Just cover head & start again Mon.

[Dangerous Intersection] The Hawk: Urban pest control | Dangerous Intersection: I had heard that the West Nile virus had decimated the crow population in the St. Louis area and more than 99% of the birds had died.

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[ScienceBlogs : News] Swine flu: a virus by any other name . . . : Effect Measure: No matter how much we insist that the "Mexican" flu isn't the fault of the average Mexican citizen, hearing "Mexican flu" over and over is just going to reinforce the idea that Mexicans are dirty. (And adding "Tex" or "North American" to the name would just spread the blame to another equally blameless group.) Can some biologists or doctors here provide reasons why we shouldn't just make up neutral names for illnesses?

[grain.org RSS (English)] GRAIN | Seedling | 2009 | Indonesia fights to change WHO: While it has been claimed that extending the WHO agreement into animal viruses conflicts with the domain of other intergovernmental organisations (FAO and OIE), in fact, this does not appear to be a major concern. That is because a distinction can be drawn between use of samples for human vaccine development and pandemic risk assessment, versus similar uses directed toward animal health.

[FAO Media Partnership's Weblog] From our Radioman : Ki Pitutur Jati, Learning From Turtledove (Ki ...: In Javanese culture, to achieve a perfect stage of a life, a Javanese man should have Wismo or a house, Garwo or a wife, Kukilo or turtledove, Curiga or Kris (traditional Javanese knife) and Turonggo or horse. This understanding is part of his parents’ heritage, not only in the form of teaching but also the heritage of turtledove.

[Medical News and Health News Blog] Bird Flu Continues To Threaten Humans, FAO Director-General Warns: Avian influenza could still cause a global pandemic and requires continued vigilance and control efforts particularly in animals, the Director-General of the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), Dr. Jacques Diouf, told the New Delhi International Ministerial Conference on Avian and Pandemic Influenza.

[AgriFeeds - Aggregated news and events on agriculture] Vigilance needed to protect public against avian influenza | AgriFeeds: WHO and FAO continue to offer assistance to the Ministry of Health and the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development. They are working with officials on responding to the avian influenza threat and on strengthening national capacity and influenza pandemic preparedness plans.

[Answers.com: Word of the Day] Bird Flu: Information from Answers.com: Health experts are concerned that the co-existence of human flu viruses and avian flu viruses (especially H5N1) will provide an opportunity for genetic material to be exchanged between species-specific viruses, possibly creating a new virulent influenza strain that is easily transmissible and lethal to humans.

[Phamthai.info] FAO recommends cost-sharing to deliver bird flu vaccinations: Le Thanh Binh, a farmer in Vinh Phuc Province, said if she had to pay for vaccinations, she would only vaccinate her family’s small chicken flock in case there was an outbreak in her area. Some believe the new mechanism might discourage .

[Scientist Live RSS Feed] Swine Flu Outbreak Threatens Pandemic - Medical - an eLab Article ...: Prior to the outbreak, the Northern Hemisphere winter of 2008-2009 had been a comparatively mild season for flu infections, which typically cause 250,000-500,000 deaths yearly, mostly in the elderly, the very young, and persons with chronic illness.[26] Up to April 8, 2009, the CDC had reported the deaths of 43 children from seasonal flu, compared to 68 in the previous flu season.[27] The improvement was attributed in part to an improved Northern Hemisphere winter of 2008-2009 seasonal flu vaccine, for which a rare decision had been made to update all three strains (H1, H3, and B) simultaneously, which ultimately yielded a very good match to the strains of H1N1 and H3N2 which eventually circulated. (This followed the poor performance of the 2007-2008 vaccine, which offered only 2-20% protection rather than the 70-90% achieved in some years.) The improvement was also attributed to new recommendations including the vaccination of 5-18 year olds, who potentially act as "super-spreaders"

[The Primate Diaries] Priming the Pump of a Swine Flu Pandemic - The Primate Diaries ...: In studies of CAFOs, CDC has shown that chemical and infectious compounds from swine and poultry waste are able to migrate into soil and water near CAFOs. Pollutants possibly associated with manure-related discharges at CAFOs include: Antibiotics, which may contribute to the development of antibiotic-resistant pathogens [and] Pathogens, such as parasites, bacteria, and viruses, which can cause disease in animals and humans.

[Hawaii's Wild Rooster Blog] Bird Flu: This January a WHO report entitled “Avian influenza: assessing the pandemic threat” concluded that “all prerequisites for the start of a pandemic had been met save one, namely the onset of efficient human-to-human transmission. Should the virus improve its transmissibility, everyone in the world would be vulnerable to infection by pathogen””passed along by a cough or a sneeze””entirely foreign to the human immune system.” According to WHO estimates, the virus is now endemic in bird populations in parts of Asia and is becoming more pathogenic in mammals.

[Pandemic Influenza Information] Pandemic Influenza Information Feb 25, 2009: The attention of veterinarians, doctors and rescue workers to the problem of bird flu is not by accident - Nikolaevschina is one of the areas at risk of outbreaks of this dangerous not only for birds but for the human disease. And although we have no bird flu cases were registered, experts advise not to relax.

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[Sheepdrove's Weblog] H1N1 flu virus link to USA pig industry « Sheepdrove's Weblog: With massive concentrations of farm animals within whom to mutate, these new swine flu viruses in North America seem to be on an evolutionary fast track, jumping and reassorting between species at an unprecedented rate.[32] This reassorting, Webster’s team concludes, makes the 65 million strong U.S. pig population an “increasingly important reservoir of viruses with human pandemic potential.”[33] “We used to think that the only important source of genetic change in swine influenza was in Southeast Asia,” said Christopher Olsen, a molecular virologist at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.

[Biosurveillance 2.0] Tracking A(H1N1) using Evolve: We have to be true to ourselves and remember that, with all the information, new tools, open networks of collaborators, etc., we still missed the early indication(s) of the A(H1N1) outbreak. I remember when I was in the trenches of SARS back in 2003, we didn't have the breadth and depth of the information nor the tools we currently have.

[InSTEDD Technology Blogs] Tracking A(H1N1) using Evolve: Eric Rasmussen, blogged about the Evolve workspace we stood up earlier to further aid experts and responders collaborating around emerging reports related to the 2009 A(H1N1) pandemic influenza. To-date, there's been massive news .

[Hear Ye! Hear Ye!] Hear Ye! Hear Ye! » Blog Archive » Clarification from A*Star over ...: The Crane on 02 Apr 2007 at 8:09 am. http://www.a-bio.com was spun out from BTI. Science, Nature, Nature Immunology, Nature Biotechnology, Nature Medicine, New England Journal of Medicine, JAMA, Lancet, Blood. Expensive! ... However, research in emerging fields like stem cells and viruses could hold the answer to cures for diseases like Aids and avian influenza, she stressed. And for Singapore, the added benefits of the growth of the industry here lie in creating new ...

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[New to Farm Management] Snowdon Lecture: Avian Influenza, where do we stand in 2007 (Video): On 11 July, Dr Bernard Vallat, Director General of the Paris-based World Organisation for Animal Health - Office Internationale des Epizooties (OIE) delivered the 2007 Snowdon Lecture in Geelong, Victoria. Watch his presentation in the video below (56:59) or download the PowerPoint slides.

[The PhilSouth Angle] Zambo remains avian-flu free | The PhilSouth Angle: The samples were collected by the Avian Influenza Surveillance Team of the Office of the City Veterinarian headed by Dr. Roie-Lee Cataluna, the officer-in-charge of the Animal Health Division in barangays Manicahan, Victoria and Mercedes and submitted to the DA for serological testing.

[Journal of Biology - Latest Articles] Journal of Biology | Full text | Q&A: What do we know about ...: There is ample evidence that the H1N1 and H3N2 viruses have gone back and forth between humans and pigs, with the current 'swine' H1N1 being, perhaps, a descendant of the 1918 'human' virus. Some 12 cases of human infection with H1N1 viruses that have 'human', 'swine' and 'avian' genetic elements have been recognized in the USA since 1998, with 5,123 US cases identified to May 19 in the present outbreak (the world total of confirmed cases in 40 countries to that date being 9,830) [2].

[New to Farm Management] 2007 Snowdon Lecture video transcript (Publication - General): The 2007 Snowdon Lecture was presented by Dr Bernard Vallat, Director General of the Office Internationale des Epizooties (OIE) on 11 July at Geelong, Victoria. Read the full transcript of Dr Vallat’s presentation on the current avian influenza situation.

[Official Documents] Animal Health Annual Report 2007-08 HC 765: Taunton Animal Health Divisional Office. In January 2008, the H5N1 avian influenza virus was found in dead mute swans in the.

[GreenMuze : Get Your Green On!] Animals Suffer In Pandemics: Trevor Williams is a University of Victoria Mechanical Engineering PhD candidate specialising in renewable energy, power grid modelling and plug-in hybrid electric vehicles. He has a bachelors in Aeronautical Engineering, a Masters in Management Science and over 23 years international experience in the space industry, having worked on Earth observation and telecommunications satellites. 

[Farooha35's Blog] Swine influenza: Experts agree that hand-washing can help prevent viral infections, including ordinary influenza and the swine flu virus. Influenza can spread in coughs or sneezes, but an increasing body of evidence shows small droplets containing the virus can linger on tabletops, telephones and other surfaces and be transferred via the fingers to the mouth, nose or eyes.

[Stories From A Country Girl] Raising Chickens in the City? « Stories From A Country Girl: I don’t know if I would ever have the patience to grow chickens in my own back yard- I get enough local supply of eggs from our neighbour back at home- but good job to those people who do this everyday within the city. I mean, if you have the space, the patience to look over a few chickens, don’t mind the noise and the stench (just a little of each I might add) and your neighbours are totally fine with your chickens, then this would be a feasible idea!

[Jin and Juice Investments] HEB = STRONG BUY for Monday June 8, 2009 « Jin and Juice Investments: “The highest level of the Japanese government and public medical community is now focused exclusively on our product,” says Carter. “They stopped working on all other adjuvants (boosters) and are only working with this one because they’ve found that it enhances the vaccines by 100 fold.”

[sasthamcotta.com] Swine Flu | Guide to Swine Flu Prevention and Facts « sasthamcotta.com: If a swine virus establishes efficient human-to human transmission, it can cause an influenza pandemic. The impact of a pandemic caused by such a virus is difficult to predict: it depends on virulence of the virus, existing immunity among people, cross protection by antibodies acquired from seasonal influenza infection and host factors.

[SANS Technology Institute - Leadership Laboratory] SANS Technology Institute: Pandemic Watch June 2009: The virus contains genetic pieces from four different flu viruses -- North American swine influenza, North American avian influenza, human influenza viruses and swine influenza viruses found in Asia and Europe, she said.

[Anderson Cooper 360] Anderson Cooper 360: Blog Archive - Live Blog from the Anchor Desk ...: Having worked contagion hospital units and licensed as a pubilic health nurse, I question the judgment of the supposed professionals who assert that we have cases of swine flu in this country there is no purpose in implementing border interventions such as thermal scanning to complete travel prohibitions. If this is a serious illness there is always good sense in limiting the number of active cases that can spread disease.

[Living the Scientific Life (Scientist, Interrupted)] Birds in the News 170 : Living the Scientific Life (Scientist ...: The fact that Mexico did not halt all incoming and outgoing flights is irresponsible. For the CDC and the WHO to think it is okay for international flights and border crossings to continue as usual during a pandemic regardless if it is "just the flu" or something else is irresponsible and not very bright.

[Loving Hut - Vegan News] Loving Hut - Singapore confirms first local case of H1N1 influenza: Director-General of Health Tan Sri Dr Mohd Ismail Merican said out of the 14 new cases, 11 were Malaysians while the other three were foreigners - an Australian, a New .

[Untitled] Urban Chickens addendum «: All outbreaks of highly pathogenic avian influenza in western countries have been in commercial flocks of highly inbred strains of poultry with relatively weak immune systems.  All birds are susceptible to the avian influenza virus, but in small flocks there is an extremely small opportunity for the virus to mutate into a pathogenic form (pathogenicity refers to the ability of the virus to produce disease).  Backyard flocks have much stronger natural immune systems which tend to fight off any infections naturally.

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[Health Service Journal - All HSJ stories] Swine flu but still no flu plan! Is this World Class planning ...: Locally, Tamiflu will be supplied by designated pharmacies on production of a voucher from the GP. The index case wasn’t on their list - but my patient needed Tamiflu, so I could write a voucher - which, unfortunately, we had not been sent”¦

[ScienceBlogs Channel : Medicine & Health] Swine flu: to every thing there is a season : Effect Measure: Since then we've seen mixtures of H3N2 and H1N1 each flu season, with sometimes one subtype much more prevalent, sometimes the other (a hybrid H1N2 made a sporadic appearance in 2002 but never gained a foothold and didn't represent a novel appearing virus to the population). Sometimes H1N1 and H3N2 would switch places at some point in the flu season, but those two, along with influenza B have made up seasonal influenza since 1977.

[openUReyes - >> Free Movies, Free Thinking, Free Dom.] Updates On The “Swine Flu Pandemic” From Dr Len Horowitz Available ...: Dr Len Horowitz, who is the author of Emerging Viruses: AIDS And Ebola: Nature, Accident or Intentional?, has a proven track record in this type of research, so the claims he makes can not be readily dismissed. The following is in his newsletter from HealthyWorldMessage.com, dated the 26th of June, 2009:

[Top Canadian Health News] Infections - Signs, Symptoms, Causes & Treatment - Medbroadcast: Some people worry the constant refrain that swine flu is mild may be keeping people who are becoming severely ill from seeking care as soon as they should. They also worry young people - the demographic least likely to get a shot for seasonal flu - may decide they don't need to bother when H1N1 vaccine is ready.

[genlisae.com] genlisae.com » Is Michael Jackson Covering up a Darker Plot?: In her case against the W.H.O., U.N., two major Pharmaceutical Companies and even President Obama among others, investigative journalist Jane Burgermeister makes some very serious allegations. Allegations that initially leave the reader in a state of shocked disbelief.

[Emerald Hills] H1N1 - Local Cases Reached 599! « Emerald Hills: Can a tiny island like Singapore, with indecision being the rule of the day in this Swine Flu episode (upgrading alert state from yellow to orange and then reverting to yellow again, while the infections continue to rise speedily by the hours), with serious lack of communication between and amongst medical and health care-givers, and with the severe shortage of good and truly professional medical supporting staff, seriously believe it is able to stamp the tide of the spread of this relatively unknown, mischievous and illusive virus?

[Ambrose Evans-Pritchard's blog listings.] Telegraph Blogs » Finance » Swine flu deflation: This is more serious than the avian flu which had so much publicity a few years back, with cases of migratory swans and other fowl in the Uk being affected, because the transmission to people of that virus was almost always fowl - human, hardly ever human - human.

[Bird Flu Monitor] AVIAN FLU!!!! « The Vintage Poster Blog: The evolving Swine Flu story : Effect Measure: What I want to know is whether, should this swine flu (or any other similar virus) become the new pandemic, there is any reason to believe H5N1 ...

[Nutralegacy blog - how to live and maintain a healthy, successful and productive lifestyle] 5 Different Versions of The Current Swine Flu Origins: One of the most frequently named origins for the current swine flu scare is the country of Mexico, because this is where the first flu infections were reported, and where most of the deaths from this flu has occurred. This origin is also commonly believed because of the number of deaths and the severity of the infection in this country is worse than in other places.

[BBC NEWS | Fergus On Flu] BBC - Fergus On Flu: What's happening in the United States ?: I heard with interest that the post-mortem on the woman that died of swine flue in Scotland was organ failure, and I was wondering if she had been using a cordless comuter keyboard. I had a nasty experience with one, when I had a touch of flue in April this year I found some of my organs was failing I felt that only one of my lungs was wrking and for 3 days I did not eat or sleep I actually thought I was going to die, and it was the thoughtfullness of my wife that brought me round.

[James Delingpole's blog listings.] Telegraph Blogs » News » Journalist dies, oinking horribly, after ...: Can you imagine the secret delight with which this swine flu threat is being greeted by embattled, increasingly unpopular leaders like Gordon Brown and Barack Obama? Besides distracting from their economic ineptitude, it enables them to pose as nurturing, caring father-figures-cum-men-of-action who are doing everything in their power to protect the health of their beloved people from this sinister viral threat.

[Life Sciences Blog] Swine Flu Disease : Companies Invoved in Devloping Treatments for ...: I don’t know if the government or medical experts are doing their very best to have this swine flu problem be solved. People who are expert at this should be the one to do the tasks because this is not a trial and error situation.

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[Top Canadian Health News] Infections - Signs, Symptoms, Causes & Treatment - Medbroadcast: Some people worry the constant refrain that swine flu is mild may be keeping people who are becoming severely ill from seeking care as soon as they should. They also worry young people - the demographic least likely to get a shot for seasonal flu - may decide they don't need to bother when H1N1 vaccine is ready.

[Toronto Mike's Blog] Don't Tell My Wife About the Swine Flu | Toronto Mike's Blog: Hospitals tested patients with flu symptoms for the never-before-seen virus, which has also infected eight people in the United States. No further deaths had come to light since Friday afternoon, but officials warned the person-to-person infections meant there was a risk of a major outbreak.

[Marvel News] Move over, Captain Trips””meet six deadly diseases that shook the ...: THE OUTBREAK: First spotted in a schoolteacher in Yambuku, Zaîre in 1976, Ebola seized the public imagination due to the gruesomeness of its symptoms and its astonishingly high fatality rate—up to 90% in some outbreaks of the most lethal strain, Ebola-Zaîre. Fortunately, that level of lethality, and the fact that there is only one reported case of airborne transmission of the virus (among lab monkeys in Reston, Virginia), have kept the disease from reaching pandemic proportions.

[Tits and Bits] Swine flu conspiracy theory on the go - Tits and Bits: Much of the concern over the swine flu – at least as it pertains to stock markets – comes from a World Bank report last year, which said that a H1N1 flu pandemic could (repeat: could) kill 71 million people worldwide and knock $3-trillion from the world's gross domestic product, or 4.8 per cent. In 1918, the Spanish flu killed 50 million people worldwide.

[The Stranger: Slog] What To Do with Swine Flu | Slog | The Stranger: An effort to recreate the 1918 flu strain (a subtype of avian strain H1N1) was a collaboration among the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, Southeast Poultry Research Laboratory and Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York; the effort resulted in the announcement (on October 5, 2005) that the group had successfully determined the virus's genetic sequence, using historic tissue samples recovered from a female flu victim buried in the Alaskan permafrost and samples preserved from American soldiers.[38]

[MBN:The Monte Bubbles Network, soon to be your source for news on the net] UNITED NATIONS NEWS: Laboratory results show that a recent wave of bird flu in poultry in Thailand and Laos was the result of both old and new strains of the H5N1 virus, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization said today, calling for vigorous implementation of control measures to prevent further spread of the disease. The FAO says last month’s outbreak in Thailand’s Pichit province was caused by the same strain that has been circulating in the area since 2003, meaning the virus has become endemic to the region.

[Schneier on Security] Schneier on Security: Fourth Annual Movie-Plot Threat Contest: Victoria state police said in a statement Monday that following extensive examinations they believe the fires are "an obvious byproduct of Al-Qaeda encampments" and that "as Al-Qaeda brings more forces in to the outback" that we can expect to see more of these occurrences. The police have said that they don't believe the fires were intentionally started, but were the result of "live fire training and improper fire safety."

[Palashbiswaskl's Weblog] CARBON BUSINESS BUSINESS CARBON « Palashbiswaskl's Weblog: According to the World Health Organisation, H5N1 bird flu has infected more than 390 people in 15 countries and killed at least 247 of them since the virus resurfaced in Asia in 2003. (Reporting by Sujoy Dhar, Editing by Krittivas Mukherjee/Tony Austin)

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[Flu News Network] Canada: MB: Chiefs ask for state of emergency over flu « Flu News ...: “With the H1N1 virus spreading rapidly through the communities and supplies taking nearly a month to be delivered, the First Nations people are at too much risk for this situation to continue any longer,” says AMC Grand Chief Ron Evans.

[The Standard] Treasury on swine flu at The Standard: This has been attributed to the circumstances of the first World War. The Chinese pig herd (and probably others as well) is also thoroughly infected with avian flu and the worst-case scenario is a virus with both different critter flu characteristics: the ready contagion of swine flu and the high mortality rate of avian flu.

[Not Another CONspiracy] Not Another CONspiracy: Swine Flu Deaths outpacing Bird Flu Deaths: Swine Flu statistics (current as of 22 June 2009) are from 24 April 2009 to 22 June 2009, or 2 months. What does matter are the plans in place to stop the spread of the H1N1 swine flu and its Mutations, which I have mentioned here before.

[bunnie's blog] On Influenza A (H1N1) « bunnie's blog: the Nature article indicates that perhaps certain human mutants have lungs that do not listen on the H5 port. So, those of us with the mutation that causes lungs to ignore the H5 port would have a better chance of surviving an Avian flu infection, whereas as those of us that open port H5 on the lungs have no chance to survive make your time / all your base pairs are belong to H5N1.

[news | HT | http://www.blueridgenow.com] How a Mild Virus Might Turn Vicious | BlueRidgeNow.com | Times ...: But flu viruses are highly mutable, and anything could happen in the next two years, the time a new strain normally takes to circle the globe. After all, Spanish influenza began as a mild strain, then turned horrifically virulent, killing 20 million to 100 million people in 1918-19.

[Flu Wiki | Science / Recent Changes] Flu Wiki - Science - H 5 N 1 Hemagglutinin Sequences: While those viruses that do not have Ds, asparates, in both locations can of course infect humans occasionally, as can be seen here, these are not the H1N1(A) sequences that were sampled from the 1918 pandemic and the yearly flu seasons thereafter. Those that have other amino acids in both locations, especially a G, glycine, at position 43, are generally samples from swine.

[Bird Flu Monitor] Bird Flu Monitor: Avian Flu (Deadly Diseases and Epidemics) » Free ...: They have begun comparing the genetic mutations in the 1918 flu to those being seen in the H5N1 avian flu virus, which is killing tens of millions of poultry and some people in Asia, .No, Really, Swine Flu Is Not A Threat - Nick's .

[Life Sciences Blog] Swine Flu Disease : Companies Invoved in Devloping Treatments for ...: The table below lists the various subtypes of the Type A .This virus originated in birds and mutated itself enough to acquire the ability to infect humans”¦.In the early months of 1918 (the final year of World War I), a wave of flu appeared in the military camps all over U.

[Featured Blog Posts - 12.160Mhz] Seasonal flu viruses contained live bird flu virus - live H5N1 ...: Our best intelligence estimate is that pandemic Avian Flu has already been created through genetic engineering in the United States, fusing the deadly genome of the 1918 Pandemic, misnamed the ”˜Spanish Flu’, with the DNA of the innocuous H5N1 virus in a growth medium of human kidney cells, according to the National Institutes of Health and the vaccine’s manufacturer. Some virologists believe that this would insure that the man-made mutant virus recognizes human cells and knows how to invade them.

[Sleep News Blog] Swine Flu is a Very Real Threat to the World - Only Urgent ...: The test performance of rapid antigen tests and immunofluorescence tests for detection of swine-origin influenza A (H1N1) virus is unknown. Persons who are suspected of having swine-origin influenza A (H1N1) virus and who test positive for the same using one of these tests should then have confirmatory RT-PCR or viral culture testing to confirm the presence of swine-origin influenza A (H1N1) virus.

[BBC NEWS | Fergus On Flu] BBC - Fergus On Flu: What's happening in the United States ?: I heard with interest that the post-mortem on the woman that died of swine flue in Scotland was organ failure, and I was wondering if she had been using a cordless comuter keyboard. I had a nasty experience with one, when I had a touch of flue in April this year I found some of my organs was failing I felt that only one of my lungs was wrking and for 3 days I did not eat or sleep I actually thought I was going to die, and it was the thoughtfullness of my wife that brought me round.

[Flu Wiki | Consequences / Recent Changes] Flu Wiki - Consequences - Declan Butler's Scenario: At the overcrowded hospital, I saw victims collapsing, suffocating in their own lung fluid, blood streaming from their noses and gums. Others had longer ordeals, tortured by encephalitis as the virus ate into their brains, or overwhelmed by multiple organ failure.

[Thailand Land of Smiles] The Great Swine Flu Hoax Hits Thailand | Thailand Land of Smiles: like the 1918 Spanish flu due to the many lives it seemed to take, and given the way it spreads now that’d be a reason to worry. But now this new flu even looks less strong than a normal flu, most of casualties in Mexico were from a “normal”

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[On the Farm] The Lesson of Swine Flu - The Atlantic Food Channel: Local residents, who say they've suffered from rampant respiratory ailments for years, believe that the flu virus originated at the Smithfield facility, which continually ventilates its air to the community and stores hundreds of millions of gallons of liquefied pig manure. There has been no definitive evidence of that link, however, and pork trade associations vociferously assert that there is neither a connection to the Smithfield operation nor to hog production generally.

[GlobalResearch.ca] The A H1N1 Pandemic: Pig to Human Transmission of the Swine Flu?: If the Mexican carpenter is not the source of the infection, this suggests that the H1N1 swine flu was already prevalent in the Alberta hog farm and had noting to do with the outbreak in Mexico. This in turn raises the broader issue of H1N1 swine flu infection in similar Canadian and US hog farms as well as the issue of pig-human transmission of the virus. 

[The Ethicurean: Chew the right thing. » Digest] Aporkalypse now! Essential H1N1 “don't call it swine flu” reading ...: The U.S. Government and United Nations World Health Organization cooked this flu up in a lab for their sinister New World Order purposes.  Just two weeks before this flu started spreading, there were reports on YouTube of the Department of Homeland Security hiring truck drivers to transport bird flue and vaccinating them so they wouldn’t catch it.  Baxter International (Chicago…Obama…cough) was also caught red handed not too long ago sending out vaccines contaminated with live avian flue to 18 labs.  This pandemic is on purpose.  It is either population control or a synthetic crisis meant to futher the NWO’s agenda.  When they come out with the “vaccine” for this thing, do not take it.  The headline in the paper years from now may very well be “Vaccine causes sterility.”

[Living on HuffingtonPost.com] Nicolette Hahn Niman: Reaping What We Sow: How Industrial Animal ...: One in five US pig workers now shows antibodies to H1N1, showing they have been exposed to the virus. This is to be expected.

[Blog for Iowa] Blog for Iowa :: H1N1 Virus: Wrongful Death Suit Filed Against ...: A recent study by the Pew Charitable Trusts and the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health found that such operations could increase the risk for transmission of new viruses, including swine and avian flu.

[The Swedish Jedi] Gabriel Cousens on H1N1 “Swine Flu Virus” « The Swedish Jedi: The previous protocol for protecting against the viral flu that the Tree of Life has put out in the past is very effective against this human bird swine flu and for protecting the immune system combined with adequate sleep, live food, good hydration, and a loving attitude. This protocol applies to building the immune system against all flus.

[Bird Flu Monitor] Bird Flu Monitor: High protection against avian flu or swine flu ...: But, according to Andrew Pekosz, Ph.D, associate professor of microbiology and immunology at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, it doesn't look like H1N1 swine flu is causing cytokine storms in its victims. ... Swine Flu - Type A Influenza Virus Present in Pigs | Health Blog ...: Forget avian influenza, it is swine flu that could ravage the world as Mexicans are warned not to shake hands in ...

[N45 Dr Halimah Ali] HUSBAND SUES PIG FARM USD 1 BILLION OVER WIFE'S H1N1 RELATED DEATH ...: . Local villagers had been complaining about the smell and the vast amounts of manure created by the Smithfield pig farms for some time, and H1N1 infection rates in the community were high. The idea that factory farming ”” where pigs are packed together closely ”” could provide a breeding ground for new viruses also has some scientific backing. A recent study by the Pew Charitable Trusts and the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health found that such operations could increase the risk for transmission of new viruses, including swine and avian flu.

[H1N1 Virus Blog] Flying Pigs, Tamiflu and Factory Farms H1N1: A research compilation by Ed Harris reported, ”˜According to residents, the company denied responsibility for the outbreak and attributed the cases to ”˜flu.’ However, a municipal health official stated that preliminary investigations indicated that the disease vector was a type of fly that reproduces in pig waste and that the outbreak was linked to the pig farms.’9 That would imply that the entire Swine Flu scare might have originated from the PR spin doctors of the world’s largest industrial pig factory farm operation, Smithfield Foods.

[Blue Sky Sunshine's Blog] Blue Sky Sunshine's Blog » WHO chief warns H1N1 swine flu likely ...: 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 of drugs and vaccines that is on hold in case of a pandemic of influenza. 

[Nature Network Blog Posts] Capitalist Pigs and the "NAFTA Flu" - The Primate Diaries - Eric ...: Pigs actually serve as a wonderful mixing vessel for influenza viruses to reassort," the CDC's Nancy Cox told The Washington Post. Epidemiologist Ellen Silbergeld was even more to the point: "It's my opinion that these kinds of events go on all the time because we have so little regulation of industrial agriculture.

[Consults] More Readers' Questions About Swine Flu - Consults Blog - NYTimes.com: It might not help the US so much since they share a border with Mexico, but for non-border countries such as in Europe where the disease has been spread mainly by returning air travellers from Mexico City, an immediate home quarantine for travellers returning from Mexico City instead of saying it was ok for them to go straight back to school or work could have helped to seriously curb the spread of the new flu virus to school children, work colleagues, and others in the wider community.

[Civil Eats] Civil Eats » Blog Archive » Swine Flu Possibly Linked to ...: The CDC, not known for employing idiots, conducted research suggesting that the avian flu virus mutated into its deadly form when it reached CAFOs (where the close proximity of animals allowed the virus to move from bird to bird, mutating rapidly). Cite: Webster, Robert G.

[Blue Sky Sunshine's Blog] Blue Sky Sunshine's Blog » The WHO Plays with Pandemic Fire - The ...: And the relatively small number of deaths alleged tied to swine flu as it originally was named, appear in no way definitely tied to to H1N1 causes. In a May 28 CDC press briefing, the CDC reported, ”˜When we look at our deaths, we have information on 11 of the 12 deaths that have been reported to us so far.  And it appears that 10 of those fatalities occurred in people who had an underlying condition that put them at greater risk for severe complications of influenza.’  That is what epidemiologists call correlation not causality or ”˜opportunistic infection’ deaths.

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[Flu Wiki | Main / All Recent Changes] Flu Wiki - Main - Flu Wiki: No one, in any health department or government agency, knows all the things needed to cope with an influenza pandemic. But it is likely someone knows something about some aspect of each of them and if we can pool and share our knowledge we can advance preparation for and the ability to cope with events.

[Thinking Made Easy] Thinking Made Easy: BIRD FLU ON HONGKONG'S TOURISM: (1998), what makes the bird flu so worrisome is that the virus responsible for the Hong Kong deaths and chicken slaughter contains a unique combination of proteins on its outer shell that renders it unrecognizable to the human immune system and therefore able to wreak its destruction before the body even a previously young and healthy body. This is what makes it alarming notwithstanding the few fatality count. 

[Baristanet] First Swine Flu Death Hits Home (Baristanet): UPDATE: SORRY I DIDN'T INCLUDE THIS IN THE LAST ONE BUT ONE OF THE SEVENTH GRADE TEACHERS IS SICK WITH FLU THAT MIGHT BE SWINE AND WAS HERE YESTURDAY AND THE MAJORITY OF KIDS STILL IN SCHOOL AREN'T FEELING WELL. THEY NEED TO CLOSE THE SCHOOL!!!

[Avian Flu Talk] General Discussion : Pandemic Survival Book-Making It before 2nd Wave: I lost my second family member last night. I was told I was crazy and delusional and there is no flu pandemic.

[Midwest Voices -] Alarming swine flu news continues spreading | Midwest Voices: A few inconvenient truths that Yael is again too lazy to note - also, this reminds me of the doomsday articles the Star was grinding out a few years back about the avian flu. Anyhow, according to WHO, about 30,000 cases in 74 countries have been confirmed, with 144 deaths - wow!

[You Love Thatsh!] You Love Thatsh! » Blog Archive » Never mind the Avian, Here's the ...: Now, without a word of a lie, the posters for Avian Flu haven’t even been taken down from the gates at Dublin Airport and on comes the next new disease - where are they coming from? Seriously, this stuff is driving me mad - it’s like somebody’s just making this stuff roughly about every 2 years just to put people off travelling - is it the aviation-is-bad crowd?

[Gay Thailand] Swine flu in Pattaya : Gay Thailand: "The difference is that the Health Protection Agency has learnt a lot about approaching this question of antiviral prophylaxis and they are going to be treating the closer contacts of the cases, rather than the more far-flung contacts, because they feel that that is supported by what they know so far about how the disease is transmitting.

[Holy Hormones, Honey!] I helped my son beat autism by making him give up Weetabix ”” Holy ...: I replaced cow's milk with rice milk and began baking gluten-free biscuits, which I gave him instead of Weetabix. Billy starved himself for a few days then began eating the .

[1913 Intel] Past suggests that worst of [Swine] flu may be yet to come | 1913 ...: www.who.int How can I protect myself from getting swine influenza from infected people? In the past, human infection with swine influenza was generally mild but is known to have caused severe illness such as pneumonia For the current outbreaks in the United States and Mexico however, the clinical pictures have .

[NeuroLogica Blog] NeuroLogica Blog » Swine Flu - Science, Pseudoscience, And Panic: Obviously theres a lot of other variables, especially relating to how healthy the individual is and access to good medical care, but I think it is not only reasonable to assume that there is something specific going on with Mexico, but thats actually what the experts are starting to say as well.

[Journal] Dr. Margaret Chan -- swine flu ain't her first pandemic rodeo ...: In neighboring Guangdong province on the mainland, and an area under direct Communist control, people were getting sick and dropping dead of a strange and deadly virus that moved far more quickly than influenza. Initially, she was unable to even inquire into the affairs of a neighboring province. 

[MoJo Blog Posts: mojo] Swine Flu: Bringing Home the Bacon | Mother Jones: You guys do backflips to concoct some floopy conspiracy theory to denounce Rumsfeld's profit motives behind the Swine Flu outbreak....yet, you go ballistic when someone points out that Al Gore has invested $35 million of his own money (when he left office, his net worth was only $2 million by the way...so, he's been quite a profiteer the past 8 years!!!!)

[ScienceBlogs Channel : Medicine & Health] The evolving Swine Flu story : Effect Measure: What I want to know is whether, should this swine flu (or any other similar virus) become the new pandemic, there is any reason to believe H5N1 will necessarily NOT go pandemic as well? Isn't it possible if a milder flu goes pandemic that it could co-infect one or more people in Egypt or Indo or China that happened to have H5N1 at the same time, and then have another reassortment event that conferred some of the H5N1's lethality onto the swine flu's transmissability??

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[Assata Shakur Speaks - Hands Off Assata - Let's Get Free - Revolutionary - Pan-Africanism - Black On Purpose - Liberation - Forum] Interesting Flu Facts - Assata Shakur Speaks - Hands Off Assata ...: As fate would have it Tamiflu is the only medicine supposedly able to reduce the symptoms of the Avian or “Bird Flu”. Remember when the corporate media was warning us of a possible Bird Flu outbreak several years ago.

[the burbank digest -] 4/27 Swine Flu Background and Possibilities | the burbank digest: The indications of more direct US military involvement follow a growing chorus of official as well as media reports portraying Mexico as a potential "failed state" and a mounting threat to US national security. n its annual report assessing global security threats, the Pentagon's Joint Forces Command lumped Mexico together with Pakistan as countries that "bear consideration for a rapid and sudden collapse." The document added a warning: "Any descent by Mexico into chaos would demand an American response, based on the serious implications for homeland security as well." This was followed by a report released at the US Military Academy in January by retired Gen.

[Safe Zone LLC] Safe Zone News Volume 1, Issue 21: 29) - Topps Meat Company, LLC, an Elizabeth, NJ, establishment, is voluntarily expanding its Sept. 25 recall to include a total of approximately 21.7 million pounds of frozen ground beef products because they may be contaminated with E.

[Public STINET RSS Feeds] CIVIL-MILITARY MEDICINE: On Dangerous Ground: Another civil-military medicine role for DoD is disaster relief; particularly the public health aspects of disaster relief.

[The Pump Handle] Public Health: starting the conversation « The Pump Handle: This study examined a series of waves of H5N1, a highly pathogenic avian influenza, in Thailand and Vietnam between early 2004 and late 2005. Through the use of satellite mapping, researchers looked at several different factors, including the numbers of ducks, geese and chickens, human population size, rice cultivation and geography, and found a strong link between duck grazing patterns and rice cropping intensity.

[Cambridge Forecast Group Blog] SOUTH BULLETIN NO. 132: SOUTH CENTRE GENEVA: and tele-medicine projects. We would be prepared to work together with other interested NAM countries on elaborating the NAM Initiative on Africa.

[Burning Babylon] Seeds Of Destruction By F. William Engdahl: It was only the beginning as the family expanded into “education of youth, medicine and psychology,” US foreign policy, and “the very science of life itself, biology, and its applications”

[Hillary Is 44] Hillary Is 44 » Blog Archive » Obama Plants Seeds Of Destruction: The news media today needs to sell papers and magazines and keep eyes glued to their cable news drivel ”” and, so, isn’t it interesting that a MASSIVE DEADLY FLU EPIDEMIC OF GIGANTIC PROPORTIONS! happens to coincide perfectly with the May network sweeps period ”” just when MSNBC, CNN, and the other Orwellian propaganda machines need to attract as many viewers as possible to keep their ad-revenues the highest.”

[Cao's Blog] Cao's Blog » Blog Archive » Discussion on evolution, i.d. ...: Darwin’s theory said something dramatically different: That man was not created by God, but evolved from ape-like ancestors, and that life itself was not created by God, but happened because the right chemicals came together by chance in the ancient ocean. After publication of the Origin of the Species in 1859, Darwinian ideas began replacing religious ideas until evolution itself became the prevailing view.

[Damn Interesting Comments] Damn Interesting » The Heroes of SARS: While these few hundred fatalities pale in comparison to the millions of deaths caused every year by familiar killers such as malaria and HIV, the importance of the SARS story goes far beyond a simple body count. Many troubling scientific questions remain unanswered, such as why and how the SARS virus triggered Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome in many patients.

[Science Guardian/Global Health Review/New AIDS Review] Science Guardian/Global Health Review/New AIDS Review » Blog ...: In fact, whenever you hear an “expert”, be it SARS, avian flu, obesity, HIV-AIDS or any other discipline say “and that is just a conservative estimate”, take it as code that “we made it up on our X-boxes”. ...

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[Socio-Economics History Blog] CDC: 'Something different” Happening With New Flu « Socio ...: “The United States will likely continue to see influenza activity through the summer, and at this point we’re anticipating that we will see the novel H1N1 continue with activity probably all the way into our flu season in the fall and winter. The amount of activity we expect to be low, and then pick up later.”

[Bird Flu Monitor] Bird Flu Monitor: H1N1- Ultimate News on influenza A - bird flu ...: However, the programs in these other countries also grossly underestimates the number of cases, because the case definition includes travel from an H1N1 infected .And we're seeing that kind of pattern, that the more severe complications, hospitalizations or deaths, tend to be disproportionately in people with underlying conditions.

[ScienceBlogs Channel : Medicine & Health] Swine flu: are we there, yet? : Effect Measure: I've got about 9 windows open now and am fatigued, but if I had to guess, I'd say Spanish Flu has a linear epitope that is very similiar or identical to the amino acid sequence of part our lung tissue or some other post-infection lung surface located substrate. Our immune systems come in and start attacking these virii, and soon begin attacking our own lungs.

[Planet Nature] The Great Beyond: Inuit hit harder by swine flu?: Two main news items today from the World Health Organization's weekly media briefing on the H1N1 swine flu. First, the agency is receiving reports that infections in Inuit communities in Canada are showing "disproportionate numbers of serious cases occurring,” said Keiji Fukuda, WHO's interim assistant director-general for health security and environment.

[UPSCPORTAL - UPSC, IAS, IFS, PCS, Civil Services India Community Portal. UPSC Syllabus, Exam, Toppers, Results, Books, Chat] (Hot-Topics) Swine Flu | Attack Of New Virus H1N1 | UPSCPORTAL ...: New cases of the deadly swine flu virus have been confirmed in April 2009 as far afield as New Zealand and Israel, as the UN warned it can not be contained.The US, Canada, Spain and Britain confirmed cases earlier but no deaths have been reported outside Mexico, where the virus was first reported. Mexico has raised the number of probable deaths to 152, with 1,614 suspected sufferers under observation.

[Department of Health - Republic of the Philippines] Update N0. 33 -Duque Reports 7 New Cases of Iinfluenza A (H1N1 ...: “We do not want a disproportionately destructive global scare from a virus that has thus far only shown mild symptoms in most of the cases that we are seeing in affected countries.   We do not need at this at a time of great economic crisis and uncertainty.  But at the same time, we should not also underestimate the potential of the virus to become more severe in the future,” Duque said.

[TropIKA RSS Feed] TropIKA: Swine flu: where is the epidemic heading?: Human cases of influenza caused by the A/H1N1 strain of swine flu have now been confirmed in seven countries. The unpredictability of flu viruses prevents experts from answering the questions that people across the entire world are now asking: how serious a condition is “swine flu”, how can I protect myself against it, will there be a pandemic, how many cases and deaths is it likely to cause?

[News-Miner stories] newsminer.com • Fairbanks woman is Alaska's first swine flu case: And it appears that 10 of those fatalities occurred in people who had an underlying condition that put them at greater risk for severe complications of influenza. And we're seeing that kind of pattern, that the more severe complications, hospitalizations or deaths, tend to be disproportionately in people with underlying conditions.

[Computerworld Blogs - Mobile & Wireless] We're in a pandemic, but there's still time to plan ...: If swine H1 is effectively dissipated by seasonal influenza, we may see an early end to the pandemic.  However, if swine H1 continues to gain a foothold and actually displace the seasonal flus, then we have no earthly idea what the virus will eventually look like once it has circled the globe and come back for a second wave.  Recall that pandemics come in waves, and no one knows how long a wave lasts in this age of quick intercontinental air travel and mass rapid transit.

[Cafe Talk Aggregator] Why Is It Important To Be Cautious With the H1N1 Flu? | Rowan ...: The water entering Lake Mead is loaded up with a multitude of all sorts of chemicals: residential fertilizers and insecticides, pharmaceuticals that were flushed or peed, toxic waste generated from clandestine illegal drug manufacturing, unlawfully dumped toxic solutions from commercial ventures, etc. The patchwork development in the Valley has caused some natural storm drains to get diverted down roadways, instead of dirt channels.

[My Very Infrequently Updated Lib Dem Blog] Aporkalypse Now « My Very Infrequently Updated Lib Dem Blog: It is worth pointing out, however, that ordinary, regular flu is a leading cause of death among the elderly even in the UK. So before we get worked up about a new disease for which we’re remarkably well prepared, perhaps we should make sure that older people get their flu vaccinations before the winter.

[About Middle East Issues] Swine Flu Unleashes Epidemic of Prejudice: I read your blog and i want to clarify that the case of swine flu now is not about muslims and christians it is about national security.Also I want to add that there are great number of muslims raise pigs.raising pigs in our country is for poor people because they feed them rubbish- they don’t follow ISO standard thing- so it was a chance to get rid of the random raising for pigs.

[SURESHKUMAR.NET FORUMS] What is swine flu?: General infection control practices and good hygiene can help to reduce transmission of all viruses, including the human swine influenza. This includes covering your nose and mouth when coughing or sneezing, using a tissue when possible and disposing of it promptly.

[BBC NEWS | The Editors] BBC - The Editors: Swine flu coverage: Francis Ohanyido the President of the International Public Health Forum (IPHF) has warned the media and public officials to be careful about the way they portray the H1N1 virus aka swine flu. Answering questions on the evolving pandemic in Abuja yesterday, the IPHF boss admonished against unnecessary sensationalism of the issue by the media and advised journalists to give the public accurate information that can assist in mitigating the spread.

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[Flu Wiki | Main / All Recent Changes] Flu Wiki - About - About FluWiki: Flu Wiki is not meant to be a substitute for planning, preparation and implementation by civil authorities, but instead is a parallel effort that complements, supports and extends those efforts. And while there are a small group of editors who will continue to administer and maintain the Wiki, it is the users of Flu Wiki who will shape its utility and relevance based on the contributions they make.

[Bird Flu Monitor] Altered Effect of Avian Flu? | Homeland Security Watch: Changing Climate Could Alter Biology of Infectious Diseases: For avian flu, a warming climate could change the traditional flyways of migratory birds that are suspected of infecting domestic fowl around the world with .

[ScienceBlogs Channel : Medicine & Health] Swine flu: are we there, yet? : Effect Measure: I've got about 9 windows open now and am fatigued, but if I had to guess, I'd say Spanish Flu has a linear epitope that is very similiar or identical to the amino acid sequence of part our lung tissue or some other post-infection lung surface located substrate. Our immune systems come in and start attacking these virii, and soon begin attacking our own lungs.

[The Business Insider] Swine Flu Is Way Worse Than Expected: Unfortunately, since both types are AH1N1 viruses, they tend to swap off genetic components very readily - it is almost a certainty that the swine flu will acquire resistance by the fall. And, regardless of the optimistic prognostications of the various agencies and companies (all of which are vying for research dollars), a vaccine will NOT be ready by the time the next wave begins.

[WikiIndex - Recent changes [en]] Flu Wiki: The purpose of the Flu Wiki is to help local communities prepare for and perhaps cope with a possible influenza pandemic. This is a task previously ceded to local, state and national governmental public health agencies.

[SEO Press Releasesâ™] Immune Defense - the Earlier, the Better: Expert Cites Supplement ...: Viruses infect all forms of life, are found in almost every ecosystem on Earth, and are among the most abundant types of pathologic entities on the planet, according to Wikipedia.org. Recently, scientists discovered that the 2009 H1N1 swine flu virus is more like the H5N1 avian flu than the historic 1918 pandemic H1N1 Spanish flu strain, and that current mutations of the virus have rendered previous flu vaccines less effective.

[Innovation Toronto] How a Mild Virus Might Turn Vicious | Innovation Toronto: Image via Wikipedia. The swine flu virus is rapidly making its way around the world, but it has been relatively mild so far, causing only 139 confirmed deaths.

[statism watch] statism watch » Blog Archive » 'Accidental' Contamination Of ...: As explained on Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biosaf”¦): “Laboratory personnel have specific training in handling pathogenic and potentially lethal agents, and are supervised by competent scientists who are experienced in working ... Under the BSL3 code of conduct, it is impossible for live avian flu viruses to contaminate production vaccine materials that are shipped out to vendors around the world. This leaves only two possibilities that explain these events: ...

[Commendatori's Blog] 'Accidental' Contamination Of Vaccine With Live Avian Flu Virus ...: Possibility #2: A rogue employee (or an evil plot from the top management) is present at Baxter, whereby live avian flu viruses were intentionally placed into the vaccine materials in the hope that such materials might be injected into humans and set off a global bird flu pandemic.

[Your Say] The Age Blogs: Your Say: And there’s no need to compare it to Ebola…look at Spanish flu - the global mortality rate from the 1918/1919 pandemic is not known, but it is estimated that 10% to 20% of those who were infected died. With about a third of the world population infected, this case-fatality ratio means that 3% to 6% of the entire global population died.” Would that be enough to jolt the complacents out of their apathy?

[Alex Jones' Prison Planet.com] Swine Flu Attack Likely A Beta Test: Realize that we already have thousands of people in America infected and no one is dieing yet………..and yet they are in Mexico….seems like it might be a different strain there, or the same which encounter another strain and mutated even further. I strongly suspect we are dealing with more than one strain of flu and the one we have here in America at the moment is probably giving us an immunity to this form of flu which will protect us even if it does turn more lethal in the latter waves of a pandemic……if a pandemic even happens………

[BBC NEWS | The Editors] BBC - The Editors: Swine flu coverage: Francis Ohanyido the President of the International Public Health Forum (IPHF) has warned the media and public officials to be careful about the way they portray the H1N1 virus aka swine flu. Answering questions on the evolving pandemic in Abuja yesterday, the IPHF boss admonished against unnecessary sensationalism of the issue by the media and advised journalists to give the public accurate information that can assist in mitigating the spread.

[a sibilant intake of breath] The origin of swine flu: The past week, the Netiverse has erupted with stories linking the Granjas Carroll confined animal feeding operations (CAFOs) near La Gloria, Vera Cruz, Mexico, with the outbreak of a strain of H1N1 influenza, commonly called “swine flu,” that has triggered concerns about possible flu pandemic reminiscent of the one that claimed tens of millions of lives between 1918 and 1920. Outlets such as Grist, Huffington Post, and Daily Kos have contributed to the eruption, as have some members of the old-line print and broadcast media, but I find much of the reportage at this point troubling.

[Dprogram.net] Video: Truckers Unwittingly Used to Transport Dangerous Avian Flu ...: Healthfreedomusa.org is a web site of the former”¦ MAJ General Stubblebine who states that George Bush has been artificially moving us toward a fake H5N1 Avian Bird Flu Pandemic-Government created for population control similar to the 1918 Spanish Flu pandemic. It is no coincidence that the first case of the Spanish Flu was from Fort Dietrich Maryland and one of our disposable troops.

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[Thinking Made Easy] Thinking Made Easy: BIRD FLU ON HONGKONG'S TOURISM: (1998), what makes the bird flu so worrisome is that the virus responsible for the Hong Kong deaths and chicken slaughter contains a unique combination of proteins on its outer shell that renders it unrecognizable to the human immune system and therefore able to wreak its destruction before the body even a previously young and healthy body. This is what makes it alarming notwithstanding the few fatality count. 

[Chen Qi |The World of Micro-Organism | Virus | Swine flu | H5N1 | H1N1 |Bird flu| Pandemic] Chen Qi |The World of Micro-Organism | Virus | Swine flu | H5N1 ...: The Department of Health has come out with guidelines that should help avoid catching the flu, as well as steps to take if one manifests flu symptoms like a fever, sore throat, cough, etc. It has also strongly suggested that travelers upon arrival here should do some form of self-quarantine by sticking to their abodes for a term of days so as to be certain they have not come back with the flu.

[Trinidad Guardian - Main RSS Feed] These are the real pandemics | The Trinidad Guardian: The World Health Organisation (WHO), an arm of the United Nations, has pressed its panic button on the swine flu problem...oh pardon me, swine flu pandemic. Swine flu is classified a pandemic because of its wide global spread into some 74 countries, not due to the number of people infected or who have succumbed to the disease.

[Pricey Ink Stinks] Prevention of Spread of Swine Flu | Pricey Ink Stinks: In Mexico in April this year, a never-before heard strain of swine flu emerge, turning ill more than a thousand Mexicans and causing the death of 68. Swine flu has spread to other parts of the world such as the US and New Zealand when affected individuals (Mexicans or tourists to Mexico), traveled to those places.

[MedicineNet Senior Health General] Bird Flu Virus Can Survive Two Years in Landfill - Medical and ...: For example, the carcasses of more than 4 million poultry that were culled or died during a 2002 outbreak in Virginia were placed in municipal landfills, according to a news release from the American Chemical Society.

[credit-card-merchant.biz] credit-card-merchant.biz » Blog Archive » Swine Flu, What ...: Tamiflu is not guaranteed to stop flu, but when someone has been exposed to another individual who has the swine flu virus, it can help to stop the virus making a person ill. If Tamiflu is taken within 2 days of contracting the flu virus, it can help stop the virus spreading throughout the body, thereby reducing the symptoms and risk associated.

[Life Sciences Blog] Swine Flu Disease : Companies Invoved in Devloping Treatments for ...: When a swine flu infected person coughs or sneezes without covering his/her mouth and nose, the virus containing bodily fluid in the form of respiratory droplets (drops of moisture expelled from the nasal passages, .Some animals, like pigs, catch the bird flu virus (the Type A influenza virus that normally affects birds), the human flu virus (the Type A influenza virus that normally affects humans) and the pig flu virus (the Type A influenza virus that normally affects .

[Bird Flu Monitor] Bird Flu Monitor: Pandemic Information News: Egypt: 8 suspected ...: Pandemic Information News: A pneumonia and the avian influenza virus: Protein 'tubules' free avian flu virus from immune recognition: Adrien Collins's homepage: Just another blog.dspot.si weblog: stretches of .

[Life Sciences Blog] Slashdot Science Story | Swine Flu Vaccine In Production | Life ...: The following, however I dont agree with:- look at all the fear mongering over bird flu and apocalyptic scenarios they told us to expect then, how a bird flu pandemic was inevitable etc. within just a few months atWhy is it people have to .

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[Free Range Humans] Free Range Humans: Bird Flu Distributed by Dept of Homeland Security: The build up of the Avian Flu scare and preparation (See healthfreedomusa.org and type in "Avian Flu" or "H5N1,") they state is inevitable and believed by those who do not know better is a farce. Millions world wide are aware of this and proof ignored.

[Featured Blog Posts - 12.160Mhz] Seasonal flu viruses contained live bird flu virus - live H5N1 ...: Our best intelligence estimate is that pandemic Avian Flu has already been created through genetic engineering in the United States, fusing the deadly genome of the 1918 Pandemic, misnamed the ”˜Spanish Flu’, with the DNA of the innocuous H5N1 virus in a growth medium of human kidney cells, according to the National Institutes of Health and the vaccine’s manufacturer. Some virologists believe that this would insure that the man-made mutant virus recognizes human cells and knows how to invade them.

[911oz Forum - Australian 9/11 Truth Movement] Australian scientist suggests Swine flu an accident in the lab ...: Dr. Gibbs is a retired plant virologist from the Australian National University, who previously published work in the journal Science which questioned the now accepted idea, that the 1918 pandemic started as a bird flu.

[Sentinel Radio] Deadly Bird Flu/Human Flu Mixture Sent To Other Labs By Accident ...: The big unanswered question is how in the world human H3N2 and avian H5N1 viruses somehow became co-mingled. Investigators are so far baffled as to how the company could have been so incredibly negligent as to have allowed human flu and bird flu to have gotten mixed together like that.

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[InjuryBoard Local Blogs] Zicam Warning Issued by FDA | InjuryBoard Orlando: Hensley recently received a warning letter from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) about the sale over the Internet of an unapproved drug his company makes to treat bird flu. Hensley previously developed a weight-loss remedy that .

[Crooks and Liars] WHO Declares 'Swine Flu' Officially a Pandemic | Crooks and Liars: On Wednesday, WHO said 74 countries had reported nearly 27,737 cases of swine flu, including 141 deaths. The agency has stressed that most cases require no treatment in well-off countries, but the fear is that a rash of new infections could overwhelm hospitals and health authorities ”” especially in less developed nations.

[Family Anatomy] Swine Flu, the New Great Depression, Bird Flu, Terrorism and the ...: A year and a half later, a handful of terrorists attacked New York and Washington in dramatic fashion. In 2005, the bird flu dominated the news.

[911awakening.com] Toronto Sun Baxter: Product contained live bird flu virus ...: 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.   “At this juncture we are confident in saying that public health and occupational risk is minimal at present,” medical officer Roberta Andraghetti said from Copenhagen, Denmark.  “But what remains unanswered are the circumstances surrounding the incident in the Baxter facility in Orth-Donau.”  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.   The contamination incident, which is being investigated by the four European countries, came to light when the subcontractor in the Czech Republic inoculated ferrets with the product and they died.

[Peer Review on Science Blogs] Swine flu comes home : Effect Measure: Pigs are two degrees warmer than humans which probably makes them a more suitable Avian Flu vessel. Maybe our immune system's fever response (healthy immune systems would have higher fevers?) actually helps these novel pathogens infect us (high temps also raise some immune activity so a suitable host temp might not be too important), maybe even raises temp of our lungs, I dunno.

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[The Preparedness Blog] Pandemic Flu Not Over Yet: This current Swine Flu turned out to be a very weak strain of flu, at least so far.  While that sounds good, you should keep in mind that, viruses can mutate and though it may start off as weak, it can mutate into a much deadlier strain and wreak havoc on populations.

[Bird Flu Monitor] Bird Flu Monitor: Live Avian Flu Virus Placed in Baxter Vaccine ...: WE Blog | Wichita Eagle Blogs: Virus mix-up by lab could have resulted in pandemic 06 Mar 2009 It's emerged that virulent H5N1 bird flu was sent out by accident from an Austrian lab HIV, AVIAN, AND NOW WE'RE GIVEN SWINE FLU”¦.Dismantling the Old ...: But the most convincing argument for a planned future biological warfare is the order of about 100 million doses of H5N1 vaccine - a specific ...

[Centurean2's Weblog] Flu Virus”¦.Prison Planet”¦ « Centurean2's Weblog: The Canadian Press article states, “That mixing process, called reassortment, is one of two ways pandemic viruses are created,” but then claims that there is no evidence that this is what Baxter were doing, despite there being no clear explanation as to why Baxter has samples of the live avian flu virus on its premises in the first place.

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[Bangladesh Economic News] Beximco to export swine flu preventive: Beximco Pharmaceuticals Ltd on Tuesday announced that it would supply Oseltamivir capsule Oseflu to Latin and Central American countries, the regions most affected by the recent H1N1 swine flu outbreak, a news release said.

[Fire Earth] Swine Flu Mystery Deepens « Fire Earth: The new strain contains DNA from avian, swine and human viruses and appears to have evolved the ability to pass easily from one person to another, unlike most swine H1N1 viruses. It is not caught from eating pig meat products but several countries, led by Russia and China, have banned U.S. pork imports.

[Islam is War] Gates of Vienna News Feed 5/5/2009: No cases of the so-called “swine flu” have been reported in Egypt, but the government last week ordered the slaughter of the country’s pigs as a precautionary measure, which Copts saw as an attack on the minority Christian population.

[GlobalSecurity.org] BANGLADESH: Heightened concerns over bird flu: According the South Asia Enterprise Development Facility, a multi-donor facility managed by the International Finance Corporation of the World Bank Group (with US$810 million in total investment till mid-December 2007), the poultry sector supports five million people directly or indirectly through 150,000 poultry farms, constituting 1.6 percent of Bangladesh’s gross domestic product (GDP).

[The Northeast India Clipings] Tripura Political, January 2008: Tripura, after violence broke out in remote Sarbangcherra yesterday.Reportedly, the entire area turned tense with the death of 17-year-old Dhananjay

[Latest Articles at Food and herbal nutritional products] Biohazards are the greatest threat to humankind - Food and herbal ...: Biohazard outbreaks from pathogens and infectious diseases occur every day in the U.S. and throughout the world from Avian Influenza virus, HIV/AIDS, Hepatitis viruses, Norovirus (Norwalk virus), Salmonella bacteria, Mycobacterim tuberculosis bacteria, Vibrio cholerae bacteria (cholera), MRSA superbugs, Plasmodium parasites (malaria) and hundreds of other microorganisms. Bacteria, viruses and parasites are responsible for the bulk of the 18.4 million deaths worldwide from communicable diseases in 2004 estimated by the World Health Organization plus additional deaths from non-communicable diseases and cancers.

[Onnesha.TK] Bangladesh reports first human case of H5N1 bird flu. « Onnesha.TK: With 47 of Bangladesh’s 64 districts affected, the poultry industry, introduced two decades ago to help this impoverished country, is now facing its biggest ever challenge. Affected are more than 1.5 million people employed in one of the world’s largest poultry industries that produces producing 220 million chickens and 37 million ducks annually.

[Tomjones888's Blog] MAIN CHALLENGE OF 2009: WHITHER INDUSTRY LEADERSHIP ...: tourism is being hugely influenced by these trends, it is totally in the dark about how to influence it in a positive way. The key to gaining respect as an important industry sector in the new world order lies in clearly establishing and identifying this role - influencing change, rather than being influenced by it.

[Everyone's Blog Posts - Climate Healers] Philip Wollen Lecture - Climate Healers: If Walmart was a country it would have a GDP in the Top 20 in the world. Oprah wouldn't have to negotiate with the Chinese government.

[Dot Earth] From 'Bot Herders' to Nuclear Waste - Pick Your Emergency - Dot ...: This situation is perfect for the spread of infectious diseases and the outbreak of epidemics. Breakdowns in water supplies, large numbers of climate refugees, and violent conflicts over diminishing resources could easily create a repeat of the 1918 flu epidemic or something similar - an outbreak of drug-resistant TB or a drug-resistant human strain of avian bird flu.

[Ideas 4 development] Ideas 4 development » Fighting climate change for the sake of the poor: Mais la Démocratie a perdu (la guerre ou une bataille seule l’avenir nous le dira) laissant place à une Gouvernance mondiale qui nous impose une vision du monde qui est celle d’une minorité de capitalistes prêt a tout pour maximiser leurs profits.

[BBC NEWS | NEWSNIGHT | Idle Scrawl: Paul Mason's blog] BBC - Newsnight: Paul Mason: After the death of high wages and ...: At least US workers are a bit more savvy about cheap labour entry and, via their representatives, who they seem to be able to influence a bit more than we can ours, are NOT allowing their Govt to make 'movement of natural persons' commitments under WTO, or other, trade agreements.

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