Swine Flu Info Blog

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matador8 said...

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This question comes up on a fairly regular basis in this forum and this is part of an answer that I gave to a similar question recently, There is no doubt that influenza was not “Manufactured.” There is a possibility that it might be used as a “biological weapon,” but this is doubtful. A biological weapon would need to have a “known” destruction area/rate. Influenza can not be guaranteed to affect a specific number of victims. The term, influenza, from the Italian word meaning "influence", was coined 1357 AD. Popular belief at that time blamed the development of flu on the influence of the stars. In 412 BC Hippocrates, the father of medicine, described a flu-like disease for the first time at Perinthus in North Greece. Diodorus Siculus recorded an epidemic that swept through the Athenian army in Sicily. Some historians have speculated that influenza may have contributed to the demise of Athens in 404 BC. Pandemics occur when an entirely new subtype of influenza A virus emerges (antigenic shift) through recombination of human and animal antigens (swine or avian). Not all antigenic shifts cause a pandemic, but if a novel subtype is virulent and easily transmitted, a pandemic is probable.
Influenza viruses are divided into three types, designated A, B, and C. Influenza types A and B are responsible for epidemics of respiratory illness that occur almost every winter and are often associated with increased rates of hospitalization and death. Influenza type C differs from types A and B in some important ways. Type C infection usually causes either a very mild respiratory illness or no symptoms at all; it does not cause epidemics and does not have the severe public health impact of influenza types A and B. Subtypes of influenza A that are currently circulating among people worldwide include H1N1, H1N2, and H3N2 viruses.
Avian influenza A viruses of the subtypes H5 and H7,including H5N1, H7N7, and H7N3 viruses, have been associated with HPAI, - HPAI was first identified in the late 19th century and probably occurred earlier, - and human infection with these viruses have ranged from mild (H7N3, H7N7) to severe and fatal disease (H7N7, H5N1). Wild aquatic birds have been proposed as the most likely source of LPAI viruses that converted to HPAI viruses in many HPAI outbreaks. Human illness due to infection with LPAI viruses has been documented, including very mild symptoms (e.g., conjunctivitis) to influenza-like illness. Examples of LPAI viruses that have infected humans include H7N7, H9N2, and H7N2. Typically, wild birds do not become sick when they are infected with avian influenza A viruses. However, domestic poultry, such as turkeys and chickens, can become very sick and die from avian influenza, and some avian influenza A viruses also can cause serious disease and death in wild birds.
Swine influenza viruses circulate among pigs throughout the year, but most outbreaks occur during the late fall and winter, just like with outbreaks in humans. Like humans, pigs get the flu. They develop a sudden fever, a barking cough, sneezing, lethargy and typically lose their appetite. Pigs usually don't die from swine flu; their flu viruses cause high levels of illness but low death rates. Most swine flu viruses belong to the Influenza A H1N1 and H3N2 subtypes.
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Hope this helps
matador 89

June 12, 2009 at 4:04 AM

matador8… said...

It boils down to ham, ham, and more ham. Hasn't the Bible said plenty about pigs? Even NT has demons in pig killed, seems it was a warning on dealing with gluttony?
The virus is basically man made, made in the sense that we commercialize pigs into a fat, lazy, baby rib factories into huge farms that rather supply the hunger for hams rather than clean water, clean wells, and end up with miles of feces lakes that bacteria thrive on. And to boot, their raise ducks, chickens and geese that easily transfer their colds or such to pigs (animal to animal). It would be fine if it stayed this way, but the greedy pig factories jam the animals into such horrible living conditions, they cannot contains the viruses and colds that incubate in the pigs. Then workers with colds and virsus of their own share it with the pigs. Pigs not being selfish, mix their cold or virus with the one they got from the bird and the human and make a whole new brand of threat, H1N1 or H2N1, "the other white meat" virsus as WHO would rather have us say to not insult the hog farmers. Good reason why my early Cherokee relatives never went near anyone that ate pork.
So, the workers get a virus from the pig and already having had a cold, they sneeze and spread it to other people and back and forth to pigs in a circle of who has what---between the birds, pigs and humans.
See WHO website, they have had this problem with pigs for generations, and with the wild boar population around the globe, running loose for those "brave" hunters looking for a thrill in USA, have spread these boar from GA to CA. So these glorified big game hunters wanting a thrill, they might be setting off a global problem if the vicious, huge boar that has breed with giant hogs and become 400 lbs or more of a virus container, what will happen? And if the pigs and humans raising them, get the bird flu, it will wipe out huge populations, for what? Easter hams, BBQ ribs or weekend hunters?
You can go into the science of it all forever, but the fact will remain, greed over health has plagued us for thousands of years and it just might happen again in a virus worse than WWI. We only have ourselves to blame.

June 12, 2009 at 5:14 AM

Yusofa's Tribes said...

Well, not exactly. It's a hybrid on pig flu and bird flu, mutated, but you can only get it from humans.

June 12, 2009 at 6:20 AM

Stevie Nicks said...

Rumor.

June 12, 2009 at 7:30 AM

Jessica said...

romer

June 12, 2009 at 1:38 PM

Nilesh said...

yes it is from the government

June 12, 2009 at 3:54 PM