Swine Flu Accidentally Resurrected From the Dead?
| Mon Jun. 29, 2009 4:35 PM PDT
Amid an unsettling report today of Tamiflu resistance in a Danish A(H1N1) patient, comes a study in The New England Journal of Medicine tracing the swine flu's 90-year evolution.
The current flu strain has genetic roots in an illness that sickened pigs at a swine show in 1918 in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. A near-century of development since then may include this flu's accidental resurrection from an extinct strain.
Here's what likely went down. At the same time the 1918 flu pandemic was spreading among humans, pigs were hit with a similar respiratory illness. Early experiments confirmed the 1918 swine virus and a human strain emerged about the same time.
According to the authors of the new paper, there was a temporary "extinction" of this strain of virus from humans in 1957. But then it reemerged 20 years later in a small 230-person outbreak in 1976 among soldiers in Fort Dix, New Jersey. That outbreak did not extend beyond the military base.
However the next year H1N1 reemerged in people in the Soviet Union, Hong Kong, and northeastern China. The genetic origin of that 1977 strain turns out not to be the 1976 Fort Dix strain. Instead, it was closely related to a 1950 human strain.
Which means that given the genetic similarity of the two strains, reemergence was likely due to an accidental release during laboratory studies of the 1950 strain that had been preserved as a "freezer" virus.
Ouch. Hate it when that happens.
The authors hypothesize that concerns about the Fort Dix outbreak stimulated a flurry of research on H1N1 viruses in 1976, which led to an accidental release and reemergence of the previously extinct virus a year later. The reemerged 1977 H1N1 strain has been circulating in various seasonal influenzas ever since—including today's.
Or maybe it wasn't such an accidental a release? Conspiracists, restart your engines.
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Just a correction: Danish,
Submitted by Page van der Linden (not verified) on Mon Jun. 29, 2009 6:47 PM PDT.
Just a correction: Danish, not Dutch. Two very different countries.
Absolutely different
Submitted by Julia Whitty on Tue Jun. 30, 2009 12:36 PM PDT.
Absolutely different countries--but the correction?
Julia Whitty, Environmental Correspondent, Mother Jones
The Swine Flu Pandemic – Fact or Fiction?
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Critical Alert: The Swine Flu Pandemic – Fact or Fiction?
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SWINE FLU MAY BE A SERIOUS
Submitted by ALOHA (not verified) on Tue Jun. 30, 2009 6:20 PM PDT.
SWINE FLU MAY BE A SERIOUS PROBLEM.
SWINE FLU SHOULD BE CAREFULLY INVESTIGATED.
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The media is literally trying to scare you to death, again
Submitted by gstp on Wed Jul. 1, 2009 3:51 AM PDT.
Critical Alert: The Swine Flu Pandemic – Fact or Fiction?
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2009/04/29/Swine-Flu....
This swine flu article was the 7th most viewed article on the entire Internet on April 29th. It has been viewed by over one million people on this site and far more than that on the tens of thousands of sites it has been posted on across the Internet.
The media is literally trying to scare you to death and your actions, spreading this article across the world helps provide an antidote to their nonsense.
Important Swine Flu Update
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2009/05/05/Swine-Flu-...
I want to know why there is
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Fri Jul. 10, 2009 12:39 AM PDT.
I want to know why there is so much bullshit on the internet about NECROPHILES.
Necrophile - a person who can use their own breath to revive another from the dead. Also known as the kiss of life.
The immaturity of certain people who use and create web sites and so called research points is highly alarming. I am refering to an online dictionary which I am led to beleive was created by the KHAN family also known as Al Quaeda.
It makes me wonder if the person who created these websites is actually the offspring of a person who really did engage in sexual activity with a dead corpse.
It is truly disturbing when a person who can have the freedom to create information available to the public for research and learning purposes would lie and create public hype in an area that is truly the most intimate and personal point of a human beings life.
There is nothing that a person can do about what is done to their dead body after their sole has left their body. So why would people want to destroy probably the most sacred job on the planet.
I am aware that there are certain individuals that have been under investigation for eating and engaging in sexual activity with the dead but the truth is this IT ALL COMES FULL CIRCLE IN THE END.
Reality is a very hard thing for some people to cope with.
I have recently come to learn of the horrors of the world of the dead "How much is your dead body worth" a documentary about the illegal goings on of the kidnapping and illlegal sale of body parts and dead corpses of many people.
Come on guys. Is anybody safe out there ??
Its funny you know its all relative.
One good
One bad
One live
One die
One Keep
One sell
One honest
One lie
The human race has become a very hard thing to understand.
BUT WE ALL MEET BOTH THE MAKER AND THE DESTROYER IN THE END DONT WE !!
Because pigs are growing
Submitted by estetik cerrah (not verified) on Sat Sep. 12, 2009 4:45 AM PDT.
Because pigs are growing under a polarized evolution of neglecting their natural immunity now, pigs in general are dangerous vectors when they come to the mutual host’s condition with human. Swine flu virus and MRSA perhaps have reflected the extremely unstable reservoir as vectors in pigs.
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