Swine Flu Info Blog

12 comments:

raprunr said...

honestly, I don't really care. I'm just having fun pretending we are going to be zombies :D

May 8, 2009 at 1:57 AM

Will said...

Actually I believe it comes from pigs. Yes, this is big

May 8, 2009 at 1:57 AM

cosmetwi said...

Media is overhyping the flu. Is not that bad. I could care less!!

May 8, 2009 at 1:57 AM

Kenny said...

Obviously it was brought on us by the Conficker virus worm

May 8, 2009 at 1:57 AM

Alex C said...

My view - Media hyped bollocks

May 8, 2009 at 1:57 AM

Boobies! said...

I think its weird that it just popped out of nowhere...Why now? This just reminds me of Resident Evil!

May 8, 2009 at 1:57 AM

Jym said...

can't be bioterrorism, if it was it would kill more.
this site is updated regularly

May 8, 2009 at 1:57 AM

Lola said...

"Perhaps due to the genetic makeup of the fast-spreading H1N1 strain of influenza -- which includes genetic elements from bird flu, swine flu and human flu spanning three continents -- there is considerable speculation that the origins of this virus are man-made.
It's not an unreasonable question to ask: Could world governments, spooked by the prospect of radical climate change caused by over-population of the planet, have assembled a super-secret task force to engineer and distribute a super virulent strain of influenza designed to "correct" the human population (and institute global Martial Law)?
Technically, it's possible. The U.S. military, all by itself, has the know-how to engineer and unleash such a virus. That doesn't mean they've done so, however. It would be an astonishing leap into crimes against humanity to intentionally unleash such a biological weapon into the wild.
Then again, governments of the world have routinely engaged in crimes against humanity, haven't they? The U.S., for example, dropped nuclear bombs on civilian populations in Japan. Israel rained white phosphorous on Palestinians, Hitler exterminated countless Jews, and Americans fired millions of rounds of depleted uranium rounds into targets in Iraq and Afghanistan. Unleashing a viral biological weapon in Mexico City is no great leap beyond what governments have already done to achieve their goals.
Throughout human history, virtually all the great crimes against humanity have been carried out by governments -- mostly in the name of peace, prosperity and security, by the way. So let's be clear about one thing: Governments are certainly capable of doing this if properly motivated. Let there be no question about that.
I am not a medical specialist in the area of infectious disease, but I have studied microbiology, genetics and a considerable amount of material on pandemics. What seems suspicious to me is the hybrid origin of the viral fragments found in H1N1 influenza. According to reports in the mainstream media (which has no reason to lie about this particular detail), this strain of influenza contains viral code fragments from:
• Human influenza
• Bird Flu from North America
• Swine flu from Europe
• Swine flu from Asia
This is rather astonishing to realize, because for this to have been a natural combination of viral fragments, it means an infected bird from North America would have had to infect pigs in Europe, then be re-infected by those some pigs with an unlikely cross-species mutation that allowed the bird to carry it again, then that bird would have had to fly to Asia and infected pigs there, and those Asian pigs then mutated the virus once again (while preserving the European swine and bird flu elements) to become human transmittable, and then a human would have had to catch that virus from the Asian pigs -- in Mexico! -- and spread it to others. (This isn't the only explanation of how it could have happened, but it is one scenario that gives you an idea of the complexity of such a thing happening)."
I just came across this video today..http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSV7jVOjI...
And you should read this:
"A U.S. based pharmaceutical company that just weeks ago was involved in a scandal involving vaccines tainted with deadly avian flu virus has been chosen to head up efforts to produce a vaccine for the Mexican swine flu that has seemingly migrated into the U.S. and Europe."
here's the whole thing:http://inthesenewtimes.com/2009/04/28/ba...
In a world of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
-George Orwell

May 8, 2009 at 1:57 AM

sanhorn9 said...

hopefully it doesn't get worse??
My district closed down this week because of it, and, now, my prom may be canceled, along with banquets I wanted to go to
And, I have to make up the TAKS test (Texas state test) somehow between my IB tests and Finals
Also, I probably have to stay in school an extra week, which is lame.
Another lame thing is that they are starting to id places and kicking kids from my district out of places. Like one of my friend got kicked out of her volleyball tournament and a kid from the other high school got kicked out of a park (in her town) BY THE POLICE!
and my view: It's China taking over the world!! jk jk... lol
I don't know, but I heard it started with a riot and a little kid contracted the disease from a pig? lol. I read that on yahoo news
It's not media-hyped, it's the government, and we don't know how it will grow or how deadly it will be after mutation

May 8, 2009 at 1:57 AM

Singularity of Good Fortune said...

Influenza evolves by recombining with other types all the time. It infects every mammal on earth, so there are thousands of types. There is no conspiracy to make a more virulent form.
It is the A form of influenza, specifically H1 N1. It could be as serious as the Spanish flu, but because our health care is better now (vaccines and anti-flu drugs), it probably won't be as bad. So far about 8% of cases die, about the same as Spanish flu. If the health system becomes overloaded with cases, the rate will go higher.
An unusual aspect of this flu is that its origin is the Americas, not Asia where all others have emerged.

May 8, 2009 at 1:57 AM

E. F. Hutton said...

The only thing odd about this current strain of swine flu is it's origin. Flu continually evolves and mixes with other strains. There's nothing else particularly unusual about it.
36,000 people die each year in the United States from complications resulting from flu. Not from the flu itself but complications such as pneumonia. And that's from all varieties of flu, not only this swine flu. Between 5% and 20% of the US population gets the flu every year. Over 200,000 are hospitalized from complications. So far in the US deaths from swine flu complications total ... zero. Relax.
20 infections, hardly an outbreak.
Mexico, 1000 people sick in a country of 110,000,000 with a high population density, hardly an outbreak.

May 8, 2009 at 1:57 AM

mack.mer said...

It does raise serious questions about where this brand new, never before seen virus came from, especially since it cannot be contracted from eating pork products, and has never before been seen in pigs, and contains traits from the bird flu and which so far only seems to respond to Tamiflu.
According to the Associated Press at least one financial analyst estimates up to $388 million worth of Tamiflu sales in the near future. That's without a pandemic outbreak.
More than half a dozen pharmaceutical companies, including Gilead Sciences Inc., Roche, GlaxoSmithKline and other companies with a stake in flu treatments and detection, have seen a rise in their shares in a matter of days, and will likely see revenue boosts if the swine flu outbreak continues to spread.
In February 2009, American pharmaceutical company Baxter was under investigation for distributing the deadly avian flu virus to 18 different countries as part of a seasonal flu vaccine shipment. Czech reporters were probing to see if it may have been part of a deliberate attempt to start a pandemic; as such a "mistake" would be virtually impossible under the security protocols of that virus.
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 contaminated product, which Baxter calls “experimental virus material,” was made at the Orth-Donau research facility. Baxter makes its flu vaccine, including a human H5N1 vaccine (for which a licence is expected shortly) at a facility in the Czech Republic. People familiar with biosecurity rules are dismayed by evidence that human H3N2 and avian H5N1 viruses somehow co-mingled in the Orth-Donau facility. That is a dangerous practice that should not be allowed to happen, a number of experts insisted.
While H5N1 doesn’t easily infect people, H3N2 viruses do. If someone exposed to a mixture of the two had been simultaneously infected with both strains, he or she could have served as an incubator for a hybrid virus able to transmit easily to and among people. That mixing process, called “reassortment”, is one of two ways pandemic viruses are created in the lab.
Reassortment is the mixing of the genetic material of two similar viruses that are infecting the same cell. In particular, reassortment occurs among influenza viruses, whose genomes consist of eight distinct segments of RNA. These segments act like mini-chromosomes, and each time a flu virus is assembled, it requires one copy of each segment.
The H5N1 virus on its own is not very airborne. However, when combined with seasonal flu viruses, which are more easily spread, the effect could be a potent, airborne, deadly, biological weapon. If this batch of live bird flu and seasonal flu viruses had reached the public, it could have resulted in terrible consequences. Some scientists say the most recent global outbreak (the 1977 Russian flu) was started by a virus created and leaked from a laboratory.
A top scientist for the United Nations, who has examined the outbreak of the deadly Ebola virus in Africa, as well as HIV/AIDS victims, has concluded that the current swine flu virus possesses certain transmission "vectors" that suggest the new strain has been genetically-manufactured. The UN expert believes that Ebola, HIV/AIDS, and the current A-H1N1 swine flu virus are biological warfare agents.
Another example of the less sterling integrity of Big Pharma is the case of Bayer, who sold millions of dollars worth of an injectable blood-clotting medicine to Asian, Latin American, and some European countries in the mid-1980s, even though they knew it was tainted with the AIDS virus.

May 8, 2009 at 1:57 AM