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The fear of the Swine Flu is spreading around rapidly. Today The New York Times reported that students at a Queens high school are likely to have contracted the human swine flu virus that has struck Mexico. Is there more to this epidemic outbreak?
In a very short article, Bloomberg reports: The outbreaks of swine flu in Mexico, California and Texas have the potential to cause a pandemic, World Health Organization Director-General Dr. Margaret Chan said today. The disease is “sensitive” to Roche Holding AG’s Tamiflu medication, Chan said on a conference call with journalists in Geneva.
Remarkable at least to see the claim made about Tamiflu; this virus is completely new. Doesn't it take months to years of research to make such a statement? Especially since Fox News reported: All seven U.S. victims recovered from a strain of the flu that combines pig, bird and human viruses in a way that researchers have not seen before. In another article, Bloomberg mentions: The first case was seen in Mexico on April 13. The outbreak coincided with the President Barack Obama’s trip to Mexico City on April 16. Obama was received at Mexico’s anthropology museum in Mexico City by Felipe Solis, a distinguished archeologist who died the following day from symptoms similar to flu, Reforma newspaper reported.
Layscience.net interprets this fact as: After all, who better to carry out a secret act of biological warfare on a neighbouring country than the president during a visit with his entourage of officials and journalists providing a handy cover?
Pure coincidence or not, it is very interesting to read in the Frederick News, that Army criminal investigators are looking into the possibility that disease samples are missing from biolabs at Fort Detrick. PressTV mentions that: Falling short of elaboration, Indonesian Health Minister Siti Fadilah Supari said on Tuesday that the deadly swine flu virus could have been genetically engineered. She had earlier accused Western governments of making and spreading viruses in developing countries to boost pharmaceutical companies' profits. Since 2006, Indonesia has refused to share all of its bird flu virus samples with WHO researchers, citing fears that the system is being abused by rich countries to produce profitable vaccines, which impoverished nations have to buy.
The fact that the new virus causing an avian-human-swine flu first occurred in Mexico -- where pigs and birds are rarely raised together -- has also raised suspicion that the rare combination of more than two different flu viruses could have been genetically-engineered as a form of bio-weaponry.
James Robert Kelly basically puts all of this together in his website that says that the virus is engineered. He provides strong arguments to support his statement. Whether engineered or not, here is a brilliant example of putting the entire matter in a different perspective: Israel National News: The outbreak of swine flu should be renamed "Mexican" influenza in deference to Muslim and Jewish sensitivities over pork, said an Israeli health official Monday. Speaking at a news conference at a hospital in central Israel, Deputy Health Minister Yakov Litzman said the reference to pigs is offensive to both religions.
And the latest (29/04/09) from UPI: The U.S. Food and Drug Administration says it has issued emergency orders making diagnostic tools and certain drugs available to fight the swine flu outbreak. The FDA said it initiated the emergency-use authorizations in response to requests from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for the use of certain Relenza and Tamiflu antiviral products, and for the rRT-PCR Swine Flu Panel diagnostic test.
May 13 2009, Bloomberg reports: Adrian Gibbs, 75, who collaborated on research that led to the development of Roche Holding AG’s Tamiflu drug, said in an interview that he intends to publish a report suggesting the new strain may have accidentally evolved in eggs scientists use to grow viruses and drugmakers use to make vaccines. Gibbs said he came to his conclusion as part of an effort to trace the virus’s origins by analyzing its genetic blueprint.
See also: Swine Flu Status
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