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[RBO] Pundita: H1N1/swine flu: CDC and WHO help unleash a pandemic « RBO: But as Alpuche explains, InDRE had a confusing situation because the virus surfaced in the middle of flu season–and it may not have originated in Mexico anyway. Alpuche also sets the record straight about why it took several weeks to link the outbreak to the first case with symptoms, a 4-year-old boy from La Gloria in Veracruz state.

[the burbank digest -] 4/27 Swine Flu Background and Possibilities | the burbank digest: One theory behind that calamity is that waterfowl cross-infected U.S. pigs with a new type of avian-swine super-virus that was quickly transmitted to farm workers, possibly in Iowa, who went off to military training camps for WWI, and then spread the pathogen worldwide "One very big concern was that swine flu mixed with wild bird flu, or bird flu in a chicken CAFO, tended to be ripe for incubating new types of viral infections, especially since the animals are so densely packed together," Bob Martin said.

[America.gov-Middle East and North Africa] Public Health Officials Brief at Foreign Press Center on H1N1 Flu: When we said that influenza was unpredictable, part of the reason it’s unpredictable is because it has this really phenomenal ability to change genetically. And it’s not just that it can have individual mutations, but if you have an animal who becomes infected with two different viruses - let’s say you have a pig that gets infected with a virus from another pig and a virus from a human - that can result in the making of a virus that contains genetic parts of the virus that came from the pig and the virus that came from the humans.

[NaturalNews.com] Swine Flu Smoking Gun? CDC was Combining Flu Viruses in 2004: The CIDRAP News folks did a great job covering this important issue, which was apparently mostly ignored by the MSM back in 2004, and CIDRAP News wrote to the CDC for information. This e-mail produced an answer from CDC spokesman David Daigle who admitted the CDC was working on the project in two ways.

[America.gov-The Americas] Egypt Meeting Increases Total Avian Flu Assistance: “Global health issues are intertwined,” said Ambassador John Lange, special representative for avian and pandemic influenza at the State Department. “Our multidisciplinary efforts against pandemic influenza must also enhance the global management of other potentially fatal diseases that will continue to take a high toll during a pandemic.”

[@ Supply Chain Management] @ Supply Chain Management » Blog Archives » Swine flu and Preparedness: Penny Turnbull, PhD, senior director for crisis management and business continuity planning for Marriott International, Inc., said she was surprised and perplexed by Panasonic’s decision, given that there has been no significant change in the number, location, or transmission of avian flu infections in humans. She said the implications for other companies aren’t clear.

[Science-Based Medicine] Science-Based Medicine » Swine Flu Update and Overview: The most accurate statement would be that this new outbreak strain came about by co-infection of a single pig with two different strains of influenza A, both of which were swine flu strains. The evolutionary history of the new strain includes human and avian viruses, but most experts agree that a recent co-infection event with 3 or 4 strains is not a likely scenario.

[The Free Speech Zone - Front Page] The Free Speech Zone:: CDC playing god with designer "flu" mix:: CDC playing god with designer "flu" mix: | 12 comments

[JustOneMinute] JustOneMinute: Swine Flu: Approved by the Food and Drug Administration, oseltamivir (Tamiflu®) is the leading prescription medicine approved for the prevention and treatment of influenza in adults and children. Datamonitor, the world's leading provider of online data, analytic and forecasting platforms for key vertical sectors, forecasts that global market demand for influenza treatments will expand to 370 million doses and a market value of approximately $3.7 billion by 2010.

[Discovery News: Born Animal] Discovery News: Born Animal: Health Experts Answer Swine Flu Questions: Influenza is most easily spread by droplets that come into contact with our mucus membranes such as when someone coughs or sneezes in our faces. If we shake hands with an infected person who has just wiped their nose and then we rather quickly rub our nose or eyes with our own hand, then we could get the flu.

[SimpsonScarborough Blog] Pandemic Flu Resources - SimpsonScarborough Blog: This week's hot topic is pandemicflu, so I dusted off my resource list and sent it to some of my friends thismorning... thought I should share it on our blog, too

[Blog] factbat.com - Blog - Weaponized Influenza and Swine Flu Implications: It appears to have been turned into a massive viral threat through bioengineering by the United States, fusing the deadly genome of the 1918 Pandemic, mis-named the “Spanish Flu”, with the DNA of the H5N1 virus in a growth medium of human kidney cells to make sure that the virus recognizes human cells and knows how to invade them.

[CollegeStock] List of Potential Swine Flu Stock Plays on The Dean's List, Monday ...: XOMA is currently engaged in more than 16 active development projects across multiple therapeutic areas including autoimmune and infectious disease. The company has ongoing contracts with the National Institutes of Health (NIH), National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease (NIAID) to develop monoclonal antibody products.

[Macleans.ca » Canada] Maclean's Interview: Philip Alcabes - The Interview - Macleans.ca: A: I’m not going to impute that agenda to scientists, but I do think there were scientists claiming that another 1918 could happen any minute, which is why they needed more funding for flu research, and they were suddenly heeded. What happens in the ’70s is that there are advances in laboratory methods and techniques that allow people to study viruses a lot better, which is a good thing, and there’s also an expansion of funding for benchtop research.

[Campaign For Liberty Blog] Campaign For Liberty ”” Swine Flu Smoking Gun? CDC was Combining ...: In fact, Klaus Stohr, head of the WHO's global flu program at the time, told the CP that if the experiments were successful in producing highly transmissible and pathogenic viruses, the agency would be even more worried -- but if labs couldn't create these mixed flu viruses, then the agency might have to ratchet down its level of concern.

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