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[Fumento Weblog] Michael Fumento.com - Weblog - Washington Post Back to Pushing ...: While writer David Oshinsky states humans have been contracting avian flu H5N1 for a decade without it becoming readily transmissible between humans, according to the World Health Organization it was first detected in Scottish poultry in 1959. Hence it's been making contact with humans for at least half a century.

[MoJo Blogs and Articles] The Swine Flu Screwup | Mother Jones: My confidence in the government was undermined when they never addressed the root cause of swine flu's emergence in the first place. There was strong evidence that ground zero for the strain may very well have originated in a hog factory farm (CAFO) in La Gloria, Mexico, half-owned by Smithfield.

[Cogent Nirvana] H1N1: “Super Flu” Plague In Ukraine Spark Concern, Conspiracy ...: (NaturalNews) Here’s what we know with some degree of certainty about the H1N1 virus in Ukraine right now: nearly 300 people have died from the viral strain, and over 65,000 people have been hospitalized (the actual numbers are increasing by the hour). The virus appears to be either a highly aggressive mutation of the globally-circulating H1N1 strain, or a combination of three different influenza strains now circulating in Ukraine.

[Personal Liberty Digest] The Great Swine Flu Boondoggle | Personal Liberty Digest: Jack Abramoff, Tom Ney, Scooter libby, Thomas Scully,Dick Armey, Tom Delay, Mark Foley, Newt Gingrich, Paul Crouch, Jimmy Swagart, Jim Bakker, JOhn Ashcroft, Donald Keyser, Karl Rove, Bob Barr, Chip Pickering, Robert Bob Allen, Larry Craig, Joshua Bolten, Daid Safavian, Roger Stillwell, Steven Griles, Mark Zachares, Robert Coughlin, Kenneth Lay, Christopher Ward, Adam Kidon, Neil Valz, John Doolittle, Duke Cunningham, Kyle Foggo, Robert Torricelli, Jim Traficant, Walter YuckerIII, Lurita Doan, Harriet Miers, Lester Crawford, Bernard Kerik, Rick Renzi, Adam Kidon, Monica Goodling, Jeffery Ray Nielsen, Don Sherwood, Richard Dasen, Jeff Gannon, Mike Hintz, Jack Ryan, Parker Bena, Donald Lukens, John david roy Atchinson, Mathew Joseph Elliott, David Hager, and the list goes on and on, but I am tired, you can research these names yourself, but I doubt you will. You really shouldn’t throw stones as the Repubs have had many, many problems in the past couple of years.

[Brave New Traveler] Culture Of Fear: How The Media Killed The H1N1 Flu Shot: Plenty of Vitamins C and D, Zinc, Fish Oil and homeopathic remedies at the first sign of illness have helped me to not have the flu in at least 7 years (and I fight off colds mostly in a day–and I don’t use hand sanitizers). There is also something to be said for letting your body get sick every once in a while too–because your body builds it’s own immunity to that illness or disease (that’s why it’s good to let kids get the chicken pox;

[Spokesman.com: Features stories] Experts offer advice for keeping germs at bay during cold-and-flu ...: Mike Coston, a retired paramedic who lives near Tampa, Fla., started a blog, the Avian Flu Diary, when that virus threatened in 2005. He now posts articles and scientific research on swine flu.

[CNN Political Ticker] CNN Political Ticker: All politics, all the time Blog Archive ...: Working for a biotech company supplying hardware for the vaccine production, I found it interesting to learn from a customer that they had an innovative capability to produce H1N1 vaccine and our fed government has been sitting on this application since they submitted it last February. They feel there was no need for a vaccine shortage.

[MoJo Blog Posts: mojo] Swine Flu: Bringing Home the Bacon | Mother Jones: Kimberly-Clark’s Chinese subsidiary is already ramping up manufacture of new lines of medical masks, wipes, and hand-washing liquids, according to Business Week, with consulting firms Kroll and Booz Allen Hamilton selling flu preparedness advice to companies and governments. “Crisis is an opportunity as long as you see it first,”

[In The Roo Forum] Beware the swine flu. - Playa del Carmen & Riviera Maya Forum by ...: The U.S. Embassy in Mexico advises that as a precaution, Mexican authorities closed all schools in the Federal District and in the State of Mexico on April 24, 2009 as the Mexican Secretariat of Health announced hundreds of cases of flu in the country, some of which may be the H1N1 strain of “swine flu”. Some other public institutions, such as museums and government offices, are also closed.

[CNN Newsroom] CNN Newsroom: Blog Archive - Scared about swine flu? « - Blogs ...: Its a flu virus and we have been through this before.We will get through this season as we have before.With as few of deaths as possible.To take the flu shot or not.Getting the flu shot doesnt guarantee that it will prevent you form catching the flu. Is the flu shot/vaccine guaranteed not to be safe to take by the FDA?If the flu vaccine isnt guaranteed to be safe to take why risk it?It would be a shame to end up dieing form the flu vaccine, maybe you would of made it throuth on your own immune system defenses and survived it.Some one is making money on the vaccines I wonder who it is.Perhaps some big drug company that is out there spreading the flu around to make sure they will make alot of money on all the flu medicines and the vaccines.

[Chen Qi -The World of Micro-Organism Virus | Swine flu | H5N1 | NOVEL H1N1 INFLUENZA] Chen Qi -The World of Micro-Organism Virus | Swine flu | H5N1 ...: The bad news, says Alan Sipress in his superb and sobering book about the shadowy progression of a virulent avian flu now moving across Asia, is that the worst is yet to come. Sipress, a deputy business editor at The Washington Post, .

[NO LIES RADIO] SWINE FLU BREAKING NEWS | NO LIES RADIO: . The six-month series of experiments seeks to simulate the mixing and matching of genes from the H5N1 avian flu virus that has plagued Asia and a common human flu virus that public-health experts fear could turn avian flu into a pandemic, the Wall Street Journal reported Thursday. CDC scientists inside an ultra-secure laboratory [?!?] have started swapping the genes of the H5N1 avian virus with the genes of an H3N2 virus, the strain behind most recent human flu outbreaks.

[BBC NEWS | Fergus On Flu] BBC - Fergus On Flu: The current situation and the next peak: New-borns 'inheret' some immunity against flu strains from their mother (maternal immunity) but this quickly fades away and as children they are susceptible to all flu strains, and other infections, as I'm sure parents can testify to. For a pandemic strain to come back, a good proportion of the world's population needs to be susceptible to the strain: this is basically dictated by how long it's been since the previous pandemic and how many births (new susceptibles) and deaths (of people who experienced the first pandemic) have occured.

[The Bovine] Swine flu is more lethal for fat people « The Bovine: Baxter/Bayer is still being investigated by the World Health Organization and the European Center for Disease Control as to why, and how, they mixed live avian flu (H5H1) viruses with a human flu (H3N2) viruses, which, had they been administered, could have set of a global pandemic earlier this year. According to authorities, this contamination could not have been a mistake due to industry and government enforced lab safety protocols designed to prevent such contamination.”

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